Episode 276, "Remember when getting a gold was hard?"

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Ren:

N/A monk now level 74 with 2 days 18 hours played and over 20k gold

Boosted my 62 paladin to 110

Mike:

Rep grinding

This Week in WoW

Kirin Tor Tavern Crawl yesterday and today

Arena Bonus Event til Tuesday

Love Is In the Air Feb 2-16 (see news)

Darkmoon Faire starts Sunday

Next Tuesday: World Quest Bonus Event and PvP Brawl: Southshore vs. Tarren Mill

News

Hofixes:

All accounts have 16 character slots per realm

Preorder for Battle of Azeroth

No official release date

Server issues

Perk: quests to unlock allied races

Nightborne: Exalted with the The Nightfallen and completion of Insurrection

Void Elf: Exalted with Argussian Reach and completion of You Are Now Prepared!

Lightforged Draenei: Exalted with Army of the Light and completion of You Are Now Prepared!

Highmountain Tauren: Exalted with Highmountain Tribe and completion of Ain't No Mountain High Enough

Remember: DMF hat/carousel give rep bonuses, and next week is the world quest event which gives rep bonuses as well.

Walking into Light’s Hope Cathedral with a void elf sparks some interesting conversation.

http://www.wowhead.com/attunement

The economic impact of allied races over the next few weeks

Void Elves Everywhere! “Void elves are alliance only because they were crying and wanted their own blood elves”. - from Joe on the forums via a YouTuber he was watching

Unlocking races on factions: you can do the requirements on either side but you need someone on that faction to do the unlock quests. (An Alliance member can have the achievements for Nightborne and Highmountain Tauren, but a 110 Horde must do the quests)

Collector’s Edition perks

Gilded Ravasaur (Horde) and Seabraid Stallion (Alliance) mounts

Tottle turtle (aquatic) pet

Overwatch voice lines, emotes, sprays and icons

Heroes of the Storm Primal Flamesaber mount

Starcraft II sprays

Hearthstone card pack, Azeroth is Burning

No Diablo perk

110 Boost details

Boosts any toon to 110

Hearthstone and Dalaran hearthstone; hearthstone reset to Dalaram inn

3 level 870 artifact relics

Level 35 artifact power and first artifact weapon (make sure you’re in the right spec!)

Flight Master’s Whistle

Kirin Tor supply bag, which contains basic food, water, starter ancient mana, ancient potions, mana diving stone, a tome of the tranquil mind

If you are 60 or over, boosts primary professions to 700 and first aid to 700

Suramar is open to the extent that Thalyrissa is there and will give you the first few quests -- no longer have to do the opening scenario of finding her and escorting her in

Does NOT come with a level 3 WOD garrison - reports if you boost a “Character Trial to 100” toon to permanent 110 that you will get the garrison

Battle for Azeroth System Requirements

Windows machines will need 64-bit systems

Minimum processor: Intel Core i5-760 or AMD FX 8100 or higher, recommended i7 4770 or AMD FX 8310 - basically need at least a quad core machine now

Video cards: 2GB minimum on video board, GeForce GT 560, AMD Radeon 7850 or Intel 530 - recommended GeForce GTX 960 or AMD Radeon R9 280 (up from 1GB cards)

Memory: Minimum 4GB, recommends 8 GB (up from 2)

Storage: 70 GB, recommends SSD, up from 45

No changes to minimum resolution/display

Love Is In The Air - Feb 2-16

Speculation that the new flower crowns datamined earlier will be perks for this year’s Love Is In the Air

Classic interview

Old code no longer compiles

Old database no longer works

New graphics are on the table, wants to hear from the community

My guess - not until 2019

Forum people are SO IMPATIENT.

Naked & Afraid

51 unique participants

Rule change: Allied Race Division

Current highest level: 74

Three characters at 60

Mod of the Cast: Memoria (Tororosso) - https://wow.curseforge.com/projects/memoria

Joe posted a screenshot macro on the Naked and Afraid discussion board that displays played time and takes a screenshot 0.2 seconds after

Tororosso posted about Memoria, an addon that takes a screenshot automatically for different milestones, such as leveling, achievements, reputation levels, or when a battleground or arena ends.

Only issue with Memoria is that it doesn’t put in the /played time, unless you’ve put it in right before you ding