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This episode, we discuss how busted new legend Vantage is, and the absolute litany of changes in Apex Season 14: Hunted! We discuss a ton of changes, our experience with the new and improved King's Canyon, what they did to our poor girl, Valkyrie, and much more!

As we wait for the pre-6.2 live letter with all the juiciest gossip we've found time to discover and discuss the rampant ... let's not say cheating, but tool-assisted running of the game. Yep, this discussion again! TL;DR: don't stream your ToS violations, kids! We also watched some of the new "learn to play FFXIV!" videos that Square Enix just dropped and we have some thoughts about character models and content.

It's the post EVO episode of Double Tap! StaticGorilla and Mezza are back after much travel while Crashtag watched comfortably from home and we have a lot of news to get to. In the Fighter's Corner, Melty Blood announced new system changes, Guilty Gear Strive then reveals Bridget, their next season, and celebrating 1 million units sold. Then, Tekken 7 world tour is announced with a new unknown Tekken title being teased, Multiversus reveals their roadmap, DBFZ is getting rollback netcode, and Skullgirls announces Marie. Finally, KOFXV is getting new characters coming from Samurai Shoodown and other DLC plus Crossplay, and Kimberly and Juri make their way to SFV. And finally Mezza and Static talk about their experiences at EVO 2022 as world warriors.

Nick, Rei, Eric and Harv are back to talk about what’s been going on in World of Warcraft! This week, Rei talks about her guild pushing to get alts leveled using the 50% experience buff that was up prior to Season 4. She also talks about working to get an achievement on Xy’Mox, and mentions some guildies who were focusing on leveling 1 to 60 and then fighting the Jailer. She also talks about getting Herald of the Titans. Nick talks about getting stuck in a bugged version of Gilneas.

Eric talks about testing the Evoker and Dracthyr in the Dragonflight Alpha. He mentions how he is enjoying the class. Nick brings up the customization features and talks about the restrictions on creating new characters in the alpha.

Harv mentions his interest in Burning Crusade Classic, and they mention that Wrath of the Lich King Classic will be out on September 26th.

Nick talks about how the Slime Kitty, Jigglesworth Sr., will be available by completing the fated raids on Normal difficulty or higher. They talk about how the community was hoping there wouldn’t be a difficulty requirement, and Nick talks about his plans to raid to get the mount. He talks about completing quests in Zereth Mortis so he could be raid ready. They mention some sources to get raid videos.

They mention the news from the latest Activision Blizzard earnings call, and how World of Warcraft numbers are down, but Hearthstone numbers are up.

Finally, they look back at episode #117 when Harv hated pirates and patch 8.1 had just been announced.

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We start off the episode hearing from the community through reviews! We get some great conversations sparked by the community!

Bob catches up with SalvDali & Rugs on what they have been doing lately in WOW. The News covers the abrupt ending of the Arena season and thoughts around the investigation and fix. The crew goes on to discuss Cold Weather flying in Northrend and the change to allow it from days 1. The news wraps up with a discussion on the Wrath Classic Beta including talent preview mode, Northrend stork capper quests, level 60 Onyxia available again, and speculation about Brewfest.

In the Discussion, Bob, SalvDali, and Rugs discuss the Wrath Beta. They touch on differences between Beta and private servers, things that are not working correctly in Beta, fun boss strategies and more!

Time Stamps

0:00:00 - Intro

0:07:00 - Reviews

0:08:50 - What have we been doing in WoW Classic, TBC Classic and Wrath of the Lich King beta

0:23:50 - Burning Crusade Classic Arena Season 4 Ends Abruptly, Blizzard Investigating - Bug Fixed

https://tbc.wowhead.com/news/burning-crusade-classic-arena-season-4-ends-abruptly-blizzard-investigating-bug-328117

0:26:40 - Activision Blizzard Second Quarter 2022 Financial Results - Diablo 4 on Track, Immortal Spike, 25% More Developers

https://www.wowhead.com/wotlk/news/activision-blizzard-second-quarter-2022-financial-results-diablo-4-on-track-328098

0:44:40 - Flying in Northrend Wrath of the Lich King Classic

https://www.wowhead.com/wotlk/news/flying-in-northrend-wrath-of-the-lich-king-classic-328155

0:54:10 - Wrath Classic Beta Development Notes - Updated August 3

https://www.wowhead.com/wotlk/news/wrath-classic-beta-development-notes-updated-august-3-328158

https://www.wowhead.com/blue-tracker/topic/us/wrath-classic-beta-development-notes-updated-august-3-1267790

1:28:00 - Classic Public Test Realm Updated to Wrath Classic Pre-Patch

https://www.wowhead.com/wotlk/news/classic-public-test-realm-updated-to-wrath-classic-pre-patch-328178

https://www.wowhead.com/blue-tracker/topic/us/pre-expansion-patch-testing-notes-1298822

1:52:40 - Wrath of the Lich King Beta discussions

We back track a bit and head to Cauldron MU, our first optional Cauldron. After that we head back to the dishes and find out that a new member of the Chorus has gone missing. Aloy puts on her detective hat to get to the bottom of it.

In This Episode:

- Completing Cauldron MU

- Discussing HEPHAESTUS' security upgrades

- Learning more about Utaru history

- Discussing how the Utaru's history connects to the other tribes

This episode, we start off by congratulating the winners of the Dropping Spicy Hot Drop Summer Tournament! Afterwards, we get down to business discussing the return of a completely overhauled Kings Canyon to ranked play, with new POI's, adjustments to rotations and choke points, new loot distribution, and more! Not only that, we talk about some highly interesting changes to weapon meta, including the new laser sight attachment, and care package weapons!

We kick off with a recap of the Midseason Madness tournament bracket as the league's best battle for Supremacy. We go game by game through the whole bracket, covering major upsets, star performances and more. There's a ton to talk about, from crazy loser's bracket runs to surprise upsets against league heavyweights.

We follow up with more coverage of both ABK and wider Overwatch League news.

Welcome to the Pre EVO episode of Double Tap! The whole team is here to give you a preview of what's to go down and more. First in the Fighter's Corner, we have two new characters in Melty Blood, Neco-Arc, who Mezza has a lot to say about, and Mash Kyrielight. Next, KOF revealed gameplay for Team Awakened Orochi, Project L made an announcement that they are going with a free to play model, and Multiversus gets a twitch extension. In the Randoms of the FGC, EVO schedule has been released, Black Dhalia gets some gameplay revealed, and SkullGirls gets an EVO stage. Finally, we go over your answers to the community question and give you some expectations from EVO.

We start off the episode hearing from the community through voicemails and reviews! We get some great conversations sparked by the community!

We then review what we have been doing lately in WOW. We get to hear from Duranasaur on how Season of Mastery is going, Winky fills us in on his plan for Wrath and Joyous Journeys, and Bob & Mel discuss their new characters. We finish off this section with a quick raid progress, because the raid was so quick this week!

In the news this week we cover the Naxxaramas unlock in Season of Mastery, the realm consolidation, Wrath of the Lich King announcement, and Arena in classic wow. We wrap up the show with a discussion on the new anti-boosting mechanics and how we feel it will or will not impact the game.

Time Stamps

0:00:00 - Intro

0:04:30 - Voicemails and Reviews

0:30:00 - What have we been doing this week in WoW Classic, TBC Classic and wotlk beta

1:23:30 - Raid Progress

1:40:50 - Season of Mastery Naxxramas Unlocks at 3 PM on July 28

https://classic.wowhead.com/news/season-of-mastery-naxxramas-unlocks-at-3-pm-on-july-28-328015

Burning Crusade Classic Realm Consolidation Coming August 9

https://tbc.wowhead.com/blue-tracker/topic/us/burning-crusade-classic-realm-consolidation-coming-august-9-1258446

Joyous Journeys Experience Buff Now Live on Eastern NA Realms

https://www.wowhead.com/wotlk/news/joyous-journeys-experience-buff-now-live-on-eastern-na-realms-327968

Wrath of the Lich King Classic Arrives September 26

https://www.wowhead.com/wotlk/news/wrath-of-the-lich-king-classic-arrives-september-26-327972

Bringing Arena PvP to Wrath Classic

https://www.wowhead.com/wotlk/news/bringing-arena-pvp-to-wrath-classic-328035

1:59:00 - New Anti-Boosting Mechanics from Enemies inside Dungeons on Burning Crusade Classic

https://www.wowhead.com/wotlk/news/new-anti-boosting-mechanics-from-enemies-inside-dungeons-on-burning-crusade-327973

2:19:20 - Closing