PeakCraft Podcast

This week on the show, our hosts Anomoly and emallson cover Evoker (the new class/race) and the profession revamps announced for Dragonflight. We also give the glorious Crab God a proper send-off, discuss the implications of the Blood DK nerf, and answer questions about where AToTM would fit into the (hypothetical) Monk talent tree.

This show is also available on YouTube and is streamed live every week at 1:30pm EDT over at https://twitch.tv/emallson

Timestamps

00:00 Progression Recap: Rest in Peace Crabgod

20:06 Boss Nerfs & Class Buffs

23:05 MASSIVE Blood DK Nerf

27:03 Warcraft Mobile Game: Announcement May 3rd

33:00 Patch 9.2.5: "Social Contract" Agreement

36:00 Patch 9.2.5: Earn Raid Portals for Fated Mythic Raids

38:08 Dragonflight: Profession Revamp

58:16 Dragonflight: Evoker

01:19:00 Question: AToTM Talent?!

01:23:49 Ion Hazzikostas: Master Loot, Maybe?!?!

Music: Skye Cuillin by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4371-skye-cuillin

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

The dragons are coming! This week on the podcast, our hosts Anomoly and emallson recap the announcement of WoW's 9th expansion, Dragonflight, and dive deep into the revamped talent system (its awesome!) as well as the new Dragon Riding feature.

This show is also available on YouTube and is streamed live every week at 1:30pm EDT over at https://twitch.tv/emallson

Timestamps

00:00 Introduction

01:17 Progression Recap

08:59 Peak OG Shrike on Class Design Team

13:25 Legendary Crafting Nerfs

16:50 Patch 9.2.5 Datamining

21:40 Dragonflight Expansion Announcement!

40:54 Design Philosophy Change: Focus on CORE SYSTEMS

45:27 Sign up for Beta!

49:12 Talent Revamp Deep Dive

01:11:46 Dragon Riding!

Music: Skye Cuillin by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4371-skye-cuillin

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

This week on the podcast, our hosts emallson and Anomoly speculate about all the neat things that could be coming for us in the expansion announcement tomorrow (April 19th for those of you from the future). Will we see a new class? New race? Talent Revamps? More Artifacts? Old-style Legendaries? MISTWEAVER FIXES?!?! Only time will tell!

This show is also available on YouTube and is streamed live every week at 1:30pm EDT over at https://twitch.tv/emallson

Timestamps

00:00 Introduction

02:00 Progression Recap: Giant Enemy Crab - Halondrus

10:19 Prediction Time! Release Date?

16:53 Dragonflight "Covenants"?

22:52 New Zones? New Continent? Capital City?

26:08 New CLASS?! Talent Revamp?

31:22 No AP Anywhere!

33:43 Revamping/Refreshing (More) Old Raids? Dungeons? Zones?

43:28 Legendaries? Artifacts?!

52:23 Tier Sets? Dungeon Sets?

54:42 Class Revamps? Monk Changes?

01:00:45 No New Level Cap? Campaign Changes? Class Trainers?

01:14:48 Cross Faction Guilds!

01:20:27 Story: More Classic Vibes---Not Cosmic? Rebuilding?

01:26:26 Question: Baseline Ancient Teachings for MW?

Music: Skye Cuillin by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4371-skye-cuillin

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

The Creation Catalyst arrives next reset! This week on the show, our hosts Anomoly and emallson discuss how you can use the system to finish off or optimize your tier set bonus, as well as our thoughts on its design and release schedule. But that's not all! We have some very spicy datamined items that may make loot in Season 4 quite interesting.

This show is also available on YouTube and is streamed live every week at 1:30pm EDT over at https://twitch.tv/emallson

Timestamps

00:00 Introduction

01:00 Progression Recap: Prototype Pantheon & Lihuvim

19:16 Weekly News Recap

30:39 9.2.5 Updates: Upgrading Raid Items

42:35 Raid & Class Hotfixes

52:16 Creation Catalyst: What Even Is It?

56:53 Creation Catalyst: Release Timing

Music: Skye Cuillin by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4371-skye-cuillin

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

The top 5 spots of the Race for World First: Sepulcher of the First Ones have been claimed! This week on the show, our hosts Anomoly and emallson recap the final turns of the race, the recent interview with Morgan Day, the myriad of hotfixes from the past week, and---of course---the new expansion leaks!

Warcraft Radio's Interview with Morgan Day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LklA8jOisnI (Wowhead Recap)

This show is also available on YouTube and is streamed live every week at 1:30pm EDT over at https://twitch.tv/emallson

Timestamps

00:00 Introduction

01:36 Progression Recap: Prototype Pantheon Time!

16:09 Expansion Leaks!

23:42 Mage Tower & WoD Mythic+

29:20 Hotfix Roundup: Windwalker Buffs, Halondrus Nerfs, Guardian Nerfs, Among Us WA Fix

42:02 Wrapping Up the Race to World First

52:21 Morgan Day Interview: RWF Length, Tuning, and Splits

01:10:48 Morgan Day Interview: Economy, Legendaries, and the Great Vault

01:23:43 Morgan Day Interview: New Tuning Tech and RWF Support

Music: Skye Cuillin by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4371-skye-cuillin

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

This week on the podcast, our hosts Anomoly and emallson recap the Race to World First, the recently announced Season 4 of Shadowlands, and some major "quirks" discovered in Brewmaster's tier set and Mistweaver's Fallen Order.

(We recorded this episode a few hours before Echo snagged the World First kill of the Jailer, which I believe is the worst timing we've ever had for this podcast. Simply amazing)

This show is also available on YouTube and is streamed live every week at 1:30pm EST over at https://twitch.tv/emallson

Timestamps

00:00 Introduction

02:49 How's Progression Going?

08:54 Community Manager Josh "Lore" Allen Leaving Blizzard

12:45 Legendaries: Unity Unlock, Soul Cinders for Sale, and Drop Rate Buff

22:26 Mage Tower Permanently Available from March 29th

24:13 Shadowlands Season 4 Announcement

30:45 Anduin Wrynn Nerfed (Again)

37:38 Pieces' Auto-Among Us WA for Lords of Dread

40:31 RWF Recap: The Jailer

54:12 Brewmaster: Tier 4-piece Bugs

01:08:08 Mistweaver: Haste Cliff with Fallen Order

01:18:49 Night Fae Brewmaster?!

Music: Skye Cuillin by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4371-skye-cuillin

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

The race is on! This week on the podcast, our hosts Anomoly and emallson discuss the Race to World First, its seemingly endless splits in pursuit of tier sets, and the Giant Enemy Crab (which Liquid killed today, after our podcast recording!)

This show is also available on YouTube. Our schedule is being upended for the next two weeks due to real life: there will be no episode next week, and the week after will be recorded one hour early at 12:30pm EDT over at https://twitch.tv/emallson.

Timestamps

00:00 Introduction

02:43 Legendary Patterns Now Purchaseable with Cosmic Flux

05:29 Ruined Crest of Lordaeron - Drop Disabled, New Model

07:18 Mage Tower Piloting - Blizzard Confirms Reward Removal

09:03 Tier Loot in The Great Vault

18:01 The Jailer: Thoughts?

21:44 Mythic 0 Scaling Fix

26:06 Expansion Reveal: April 19th! (and predicting how we'll look back on Shadowlands)

32:37 World First Heroic Jailer---Where Does Heroic Raiding Fit?

43:49 Mythic RWF

50:48 Giant Enemy Crab---Mythic Halondrus

01:05:22 RWF Split Mania

01:16:19 Encrypted Affix Hotfixes

Music: Skye Cuillin by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4371-skye-cuillin

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Sepulcher of the First Ones has released! Heroic and Normal difficulties of the first 8 bosses of the new raid came out on Tuesday, and our hosts emallson and Anomoly are here to talk all about it---as well as about the truly incredible amount of hotfixes, nerfs, and buffs that came out this week.

This show is also available on YouTube and is streamed live every week at 1:30pm EST over at https://twitch.tv/emallson

Timestamps

00:00 Introduction

01:09 Tier Lists 🤔

08:32 Race for World First Events & Tier Trading

11:51 Throne of Thunder Released 9 Years Ago (as of this weekend)

13:54 First Impression: Sepulcher of the First Ones

29:15 Halondrus v2

38:52 Sepulcher Boss Hotfixes

44:55 Mistweaver Buff! (and Other Class/Item Hotfixes)

01:06:21 Mythic+: Encrypted Affix & Hotfixes

01:19:53 Sepulcher Has Too Much Trash

01:25:50 A Sequence of "One Final Thing..."s

Music: Skye Cuillin by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4371-skye-cuillin

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Patch 9.2 is out! This week on the podcast, emallson and Anomoly recap their experiences with the new zone, Zereth Mortis, and how refreshing it is to not be pressured towards doing ALL THE THINGS in the zone to keep up. Oh, and more Mistweaver (and trinket) hotfixes.

(Podcast is up slightly late---I didn't forget, just been a little busy with patch release :))

This show is also available on YouTube and is streamed live every week at 1:30pm EST over at https://twitch.tv/emallson

Timestamps

00:00 Introduction

01:01 Ban Wave for Mage Tower Piloting

05:04 GamesBeat Interview w/ Ion Hazzikostas & Sara Wons

19:37 Character Transfer Bundles Released!

26:22 Patch 9.2 First Impressions

33:18 Quality of Life Update: Hearthstones Swap to New Covenant Automatically

35:27 Vault Updates: Week 1 Tier Limitations & New Vault Unlock Levels

45:20 Misc. 9.2 Hotfixes: Renown & Zereth Mortis

51:34 Trinket Nerfs, Bugfixes, & Buffs

01:05:05 Venthyr Mistweaver Anti-Hotfixes

Music: Skye Cuillin by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4371-skye-cuillin

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

This week on the show, we anticipate 9.2. It releases tomorrow. Our bodies are ready to welcome the new content directly into our veins. In the meantime, we discuss the incredible amount of hotfixing that Blizzard has done in the past week: new Health Potions, updated stats on Tier items, and numerous changes to Trinkets both new and old.

This show is also available on YouTube and is streamed live every week at 1:30pm EST over at https://twitch.tv/emallson

Timestamps

00:00 Goodbye & Good Riddance to Sanctum

05:53 Lost Ark!?

09:25 Week in Review

21:40 Socket + Conduit/Rep

29:26 Protoform Synthesis & New Healing Pots

34:19 Tier Set Stat Revamp & End-Boss ilvl Bump

46:22 PvP Off-Healing & Trinket Nerfs

01:00:49 What Mythic+ level do you need for a +15 when Season 3 starts?

01:05:14 How do you prefer to cook fish?

01:10:01 emallson's Season 2 Recap (I forgot to plan around the audio version, oops)

01:15:23 Waiting For Godot^H^H^H^H^H^H 9.2

Music: Skye Cuillin by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4371-skye-cuillin

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/