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We start off the episode hearing from the community through e-mails and reviews!

We review what we have been doing lately in WOW and compare raid progress with Zatar who has a pretty similar journey in TBC. We discuss some of the difficult times, guild dynamics, and which bosses still seem to give us the most trouble.

In the news we cover a few Season of Mastery changes, the joy of addons being enabled in the Wrath Beta, and the Blizzard news that Heroes of the Storm is officially entering maintenance mode.

We end out the show interviewing Zatar. Which leads to many unplanned discussions with the crew! We get to know all about his WOW background, how he started playing, what he loves about it, and how his journey through classic has been different. Zatar shares some interesting insight being the main tank and guild leader for his guild. We discuss his content creation, how he got started, what type of content he produces, and what the future looks like. We end the interview with some final thoughts from Zatar on Wrath Classic, what he is excited about and what his plans are.

Time Stamps

0:00:00 - Intro

New call in voicemail - ?(816) 866-1066?

0:08:20 - Reviews and Emails

0:14:10 - What have we been doing in WoW Classic / TBC Classic / Wrath Beta

0:29:00 - Raid Progress

0:57:30 - Hotfixes Coming to Classic Season of Mastery Naxxramas PTR

https://classic.wowhead.com/news/hotfixes-coming-to-classic-season-of-mastery-naxxramas-ptr-327730

Naxxramas on Classic Season of Mastery Launches on July 28

https://classic.wowhead.com/news/naxxramas-on-classic-season-of-mastery-launches-on-july-28-327733

1:12:00 - Gehennas EU Realm Closing to Free Character Transfers Soon

https://www.wowhead.com/wotlk/news/gehennas-eu-realm-closing-to-free-character-transfers-soon-327641

1:14:20 - Addons Enabled on Wrath Classic Beta - Questie, WeakAuras, Wowhead Looter

https://www.wowhead.com/wotlk/news/addons-enabled-on-wrath-classic-beta-questie-weakauras-wowhead-looter-327667

1:22:00 - Heroes of the Storm Officially Entering Maintenance Mode

https://www.wowhead.com/wotlk/news/heroes-of-the-storm-officially-entering-maintenance-mode-327600

1:25:40 - Getting to know Zatar along with a TON of tangents

3:25:50 - Addon of the week - Plater Nameplates

https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/plater-nameplates/files

3:31:30 - Closing

Nick and Katie are back and this week they are talking about Calia Menethil and the Lordaeron story in Patch 9.2.5. Katie begins with a rant about how Calia is a Mary Sue and doesn’t feel like she’s earned the position of leadership replacing Sylvanas as head of the Forsaken. Nick agrees and points out that Calia is royalty by birth while Sylvanas had the natural qualities of a leader. They also talk about what Forsaken players are looking for in a leader, and how Calia being forced to take the players in a given direction may not work.

Nick runs through a quick overview of the Lordaeron questline, that involves Calia and Apothecary Faranell, among others, working to remove the blight from the city after Sylvanas exploded her bilght bombs at the beginning of Battle for Azeroth. Calia and the player find themselves heading to Maldraxxus as that is where all plague originated, and while there she asks Margrave Sindane a question about what type of necromancy created her, and she gets an answer that she is just like every other Forsaken. Calia and the player then return to Lordaeron and are able to clear the blight. Nick talks about how this seems like Blizzard trying to impart on the player that Calia can be taken seriously as a Forsaken leader.

They also talk about how Calia and Taelia both showing up at the same time felt like a tease that went nowhere. They admit that Calia needs to do more to earn the player’s respect as leader of the Forsaken. They compare her to Lillian Voss and what Voss has done to ingratiate herself to the players.

Thank you for listening to The Tauren & the Goblin! Please send any comments or questions to [email protected] or @taurengoblin on twitter.

With Hephaestus out of the way (for now) we can finally head deeper into the Sacred Mountain. As expected, Minerva is there, but it isn't too happy to have visitors. Once we're inside we get a glimpse of what was supposed to happen if Project Zero Dawn worked as intended, and finally, after six months of chasing dead ends, Aloy finally meets GAIA face to face.

In this episode:

- Make our way through the RAC to get to Minerva

- Reboot GAIA

- Discover the locations of more subordinate functions

- Discover the identity of the strangers from the HADES Proving Lab

Datacenter travel is upon us! It doesn't work very well! It's okay though, because all anyone was talking about were the billboards. So, naturallky, we will also talk about the billboards. Fear not, however, as we spend the vast majority of the episode talking about non-advertising things, like the latest live letter, our personal in-game wins, why Roman numerals are just the worst, and whether you can catch shiny Pokemon on your new island sanctuaries.

Fresh off some of the best Apex we've played in a long time, the boys get back together to talk the ALGS finals, some extremely interesting changes in legend pick rate, just a pinch of pro player salt, and the best viewership numbers ALGS has ever seen! Make sure to stay until the end, where Kinder gets roasted, and we tell you about the new format for our Question of the Week!

Howleir's filling in for Lobosco as we lock in Midseason Madness Seeding. We cover the past week of competition as several midtable teams struggle to maintain seeding. We go game by game, looking at scorelines, highlight performances and more. Howleir gives his thoughts on the current situations for Florida Mayhem and Washington Justice as both teams scramble to lock down a tournament seed and Ramses dishes on 4 years of inconsistency from the Houston Outlaws.

We go on to preview the coming Midseason Madness tournament as teams from both conferences finally meet for the first time all season. We cover the first round of competition featuring key matchups between Fusion and Spark and with Outlaws and Mayhem. We also make our predictions for the finals matchup as OWL's heavyweight teams shoot to win tournament gold. We wrap up with a look at some teams' frustations with the practice setup for North American teams, and discuss pros and cons of the league's approach to international tourney play.

Lots of talk around the water cooler. It seems the DoubleTap team is gearing up for Evo22k talk but before that Street Fighter VI seems to be appearing at San Diego Comic Con. DNF DUEL gets a quick run down of new issues and present issues being attended to by the developers. Guilty Gear strive seems to have hit a wall in the Developers Backyard #10 as Crashtag gets a bit confused on choice of questions answered by the Developers. In the Randoms of the FGC rare assests were discovered for a well known game. Go1 wont be attend Evo this year which means a power house player leaves a vaccum to be filled. Sonic Fox is giving up his spot and now Redbulls very own ApologyMan will be filling that gap to compete for North America. The Community question really brings up some passionate moments and nail biting thoughts on first competitive game entrys.

Pull up a stool, charge your glasses and get comfortable as Happy Hour Episode 52 is here for your listening pleasure. That’s right – Mike, Brad and Rob are back for more podcast-based shenanigans, with alcohol and banter aplenty. For this episode the lads talk about the latest news and content including Obi-Wan TV series, the new series of Stranger Things, another new Smile,Hocus Pocus 2, a terrible Robocop Game and Rise of the Ninja Turtles The Movie.

Like what you hear? Join our Discord for more behind the scenes chatter and banter at https://discord.me/bulletsandbeer.

This episode is jam-packed with new info about the upcoming ALGS Global Series 2, including some interesting rumors potentially brought about by a game-breaking bug on Valkyrie, and some good-looking ALGS team banners that may be hinting at potential team skins to come to Apex soon! We also drop some tea about the ongoing issues with input lag issues on XBox, a long overdue $5 Apex coin tier for purchase, several new sales, and finish things strong, with our very own spicy take on an heirloom tier list!!

We start off the episode with a conversation about loot systems, sparked from an e-mail a listener sent in. We go on to discuss our weeks in WOW and what we have been doing lately. We catch up with Ayle and hear how his journey in Sunwell has been progressing and then we hear from Sarthe on his experience with speed running Sunwell content.

The news starts with a fun discussion on Blizzcon returning live in 2023. Bob, Mel, and Ayle share fun stories from previous Blizzcon experiences and Sarthe is excited to get a chance to go to his first Blizzcon! We go on to discuss the changes with Season of Mastery Characters being able to transfer to Wrath servers and some Wrath Beta updates and experiences.

We end out the show interviewing Sarthe. We get to know all about his WOW background and his journey through WOW. We discuss his content creation, how he got started, what type of content he produces, and what the future looks like. We end the interview with some final thoughts from Sarthe on Wrath Classic, what he is excited about and what his plans are.

Time Stamps

0:00:00 - Intro

0:05:40 - Listener email regarding loot council

0:18:10 - What have we been doing lately in WoW Classic / TBC Classic / Wrath Beta

0:44:10 - Raid Progress

1:06:00 - Blizzard Committed to Bringing Back BlizzCon in 2023 - Los Angeles Times Interview with Mike Ybarra

https://tbc.wowhead.com/news/blizzard-committed-to-bringing-back-blizzcon-in-2023-los-angeles-times-interview-327585

1:21:30 - Season of Mastery Characters Will Have Option to Transfer to Wrath Classic

https://www.wowhead.com/wotlk/news/season-of-mastery-characters-will-have-option-to-transfer-to-wrath-classic-327574

1:28:30 - Wrath Classic Beta Update - Barbershop, Spells Renamed, Bug Fixes

https://www.wowhead.com/wotlk/news/wrath-classic-beta-update-barbershop-spells-renamed-bug-fixes-327594

1:29:50 - Getting to know Sarthe

2:15:00 - Closing