PeakCraft Podcast

Battle for Azeroth brought with it many changes from Legion dungeon design. On this week’s episode of the podcast, we are joined by Trellsky to chat about how dungeon design has shifted again in Shadowlands and where systems like the AoE cap and threat have left us. Links from the Episode: – Titanforge Podcast, where […]

The Shadowlands prepatch hit live servers this week, and emallson and Anomoly are here to talk about how the launch went! Before getting into that, however, they address criticism from a World of Warcraft designer about the role of theorycrafters and class discords in promoting numbers-focused “buff/nerf discourse” among the playerbase. You can find both […]

This week on the podcast, emallson and Anomoly are joined by Abelito75 to take a look at WoWAnalyzer, one of the sites designed to help make logs more accessible to the wider Warcraft community. In a funny coincidence, all three cast members this week are also developers for the project—and give us a peek behind […]

Good news, everyone! Shadowlands has been delayed. On this week’s episode, emallson and Anomoly are joined by Hinalover to discuss the big news and all the stuff we do to prepare for expansion launch—up to and including making large quantities of tacos. Links from the Episode: – The Two-Tank Dungeon Meta & Dungeon Nerfs – […]

At long last, prepatch has been announced! When is it? Uh….soon. This week, emallson and Anomoly take a look at the changes and content that are arriving in patch 9.0 before the full launch of Shadowlands on October 27th. Links from the Episode: – Windwalker Blue Post – Bonus Roll Blue Post – Wowhead’s Prepatch […]

On this week’s episode, emallson and Anomoly continue their recap of Battle for Azeroth with breakdowns of the (large) changes we received in patch 8.2 and 8.3. These patches introduced two of the largest patch systems ever added: Essences and Corruption. Were they successful? Well, it’s complicated. Music: Skye Cuillin by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4371-skye-cuillin […]

emallson and Anomoly are back to recap how Battle for Azeroth played out. This week, we take an in-depth look at patches 8.0 and 8.1, discussing what changes we got going into the expansion and the initial round of improvements made in BFA’s first major patch. Correction: The buff to AP from emissaries came in […]

This week, emallson and Anomoly are once again joined by Paoanii to discuss the final 4 bosses of Castle Nathria, along with changes to the first boss (Shriekwing). How do these bosses look? Is there a secret Mythic phase? Will we dance to the Blood Court’s tune? All these questions and more are answered on […]

This week, emallson and Anomoly are joined by Paoanii to discuss the first 6 bosses of Castle Nathria, the first raid tier of Shadowlands. What do the bosses do? How good are the fights? Is Mistweaver good? All these questions and more are answered on this week’s podcast. Unfortunately, due to technical issues with our […]

On this episode, emallson and Anomoly take a dive into the final major system in Shadowlands: Legendaries. After breaking down the Legendary crafting system, we review the current state of Monk Legendaries. Links from the Podcast: – State of Mistweavers from Sloot’s Stream Music: Skye Cuillin by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4371-skye-cuillin License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/