World of Warcast: A World of Warcraft Podcast

World of Warcast: A World of Warcraft Podcast

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  • Episode 367, "Life is to be savored"

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    Temporary guest host Ali (@aliandrask) fills in for Renata while she works at Wowhead

    Shadowlands delayed

    Class changes


    Hunter Mark no longer does 5% extra damage

    Is there a good reason for this?

    Don’t be a spreadsheet dick

    https://www.wowhead.com/news=318436/ion-hazzikostas-on-covenant-abilities-outside-of-shadowlands


    Also, he mentions there will be another expansion

    This is an odd restriction. Why does it matter?


    https://www.wowhead.com/news=318429/only-max-level-characters-can-use-the-black-market-auction-house-in-shadowlands

    9.0.1 notes


    https://www.wowhead.com/news=318426/world-of-warcraft-shadowlands-pre-expansion-patch-notes-patch-9-0-1

    Why would water regen mana slower NOW? It’s been this way for 16 years

    https://www.wowhead.com/news=318424/save-30-on-select-game-services-race-change-faction-change-and-character-transfe

    https://www.wowhead.com/news=318330/overwolf-addon-management-app-now-launching-on-oct-20th


    wowup is open source

    overwolf has had complaints about privacy

    Humble Bumble Deal


    https://www.humblebundle.com/books/world-warcrafts-legend-library-blizzard-publishing-books?hmb_source=search_bar

    59 min
  • Episode 366, "3½ mages"

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    Temporary guest host Ali (@aliandrask) fills in for Renata while she works at Wowhead

    Topics today include talk about the Revendreth cinematic, Dreamhaven, no more bonus rolls, Warcraft 2 movie rumors, Black Market Auction House returns in Shadowlands

    59 min
  • Episode 365, "There's a guide for that"

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    Temporary guest host Ali (@aliandrask) fills in for Renata while she works at Wowhead

    Topics today include druid healing, how to gear a demon hunter, the Ardenweald "Afterlives" animate short, and comments on Wednesday's blue post.

    Covenant spreadsheet

    59 min
  • Episode 364, "Stab, stab, stab"

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    Temporary guest host Ali (@aliandrask) fills in for Renata while she works at Wowhead

    Topics today include priest healing, love for Demon Hunters, what our mains will be in Shadowlands, and our thoughts on the last two Afterlives animated shorts.

    59 min
  • Episode 363, "The natural state of beta is change"

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    More guides, more news, more updates, more leveling and testing in beta

    Very little time to work on leveling toons in BfA

    Complaints inside beta - how much changes

    Thank the Blizzard gods for Torghast server!

    Mike


    Warlock leveling - finally got her to 120

    Thanks to Caselock for getting me my Glacial Tidestorm mount

    This Week in WoW


    World Quest event starts next week

    Trial of Style begins Monday, August 31

    News


    A plea for fishing help in beta

    Blizzard Companion App will support Legion, BoA and Shadowlands when it’s released for the expansion

    Ray tracing in Shadowlands

    Diminishing returns in secondary stat ratings

    After receiving 25% of a secondary stat from gear, increasingly more rating to increase another % from that gear

    Example: 25% -35%: 10% penalty, up to 49-106%, 40% penalty. Capped at 106%.

    Speed leveling in Shadowlands in under 3 hours using dungeon boosting - probably not going to stay

    Yes, Blizzard is giving away beta access keys, but not in the Americas yet.

    Observations on leveling 50-60 in beta

    The downside to unpruning

    Best to worst zones

    Spoiler: Maw is the worst

    Best story line: Revendreth

    Best atmosphere and best sense of humor: Ardenweald

    Maldraxxus: decent story, very straightforward

    Bastion: more engaging than I thought the first time around, but still not interesting by comparison

    Rogue: Assessing the Covenant abilities

    Tips for things to have from BfA and prior (Goblin Gliders, Abyssal Healing Potions, high quality stat food)

    Early impressions of gathering and professions

    57 min
  • Episode 362 "Loot the trash mobs"

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    Guides - covenant renown rewards, dungeon perks

    Beta, lots of beta - level 57 finishing Ardenweald campaign

    and why you should never train a rogue

    Even more beta

    the tl;dr descriptions of Covenants

    Cocktails of the Covenants

    But I did a goblin death knight to 63 (more on that later)

    Mike


    Rep grinding and leveling a warlock.

    This Week in WoW


    Cataclysm Timewalking

    Free T-Shirt Day today (Sunday)

    Stormwind: Dwarven District

    Orgrimmar: Valley of Honor

    Next Tuesday starts Arena Skirmishes

    News


    Naked & Afraid Winners!

    Ketchupman - Lightforged Discipline Priest, 1 day 5 hours 4 minutes (also fourth with a Troll Enhancement Shaman at 1 day 10 hours 9 minutes) - Horgus mount

    Guerrie - Void Elf Afflication Warlock with 1 day 7 hours 1 minute - Twilight pet

    Drexl - Troll Guardian Druid with 1 day 8 hours 14 minutes - Transmorpher Beacon toy

    Most Persistent: Zignea, with a Lightforged Shadow Priest at 2 days 21 hours 45 minutes.

    Also thanks to finishers Thecowking, Koloka, Louielegdrop, Kara, Loosechange, and Hank. Koloka also ran more than one character.

    Pre-patch on the PTR - what’s coming


    Character creation and customization

    New Player experience - Exile’s Reach and new leveling paths

    The level and iLevel squishes

    Limited time Scourge event

    No time frame announced, but will be “several weeks” before expansion

    Scourge event - updated gear from original WoTLK loot tables. Minimum level requirement for those items is 30 (or 80 for those who still speak BFA). Drop off bosses who spawn outside in Icecrown during the scourge event who used to be in dungeons and raids, like Patchwerk. Also zombie attacks in major cities.

    Prepping for Shadowlands Pre-Patch

    Level squish is coming to Shadowlands

    Flying issue in Shadowlands: flying starts at level 30, which is level 80 in current reckoning

    If you have any characters currently below 60, get them to 60 and teach them flying ASAP. Any characters who know flying going in will not have that skill taken away, even if they are below level 30 under the new system. (Time to make and park that Death Knight you've been wanting, or start at level 8 when the prepatch hits)

    Gearing for Shadowlands

    No real gear reset

    Gear rewards are not super common, neither are drops

    Maggie is 57 and has still not replaced 5 items - ilevel of blues is about 120, cloak is still 131 at level 4 (unimproved legendary cloak starts at 125). HoA was i489 and is now 132. No powers but still a good amulet.

    iLevel translations


    Starting characters in Beta with basic starter gear start out at iLevel 75. Some experimentation with character copy indicates this is about the same as iLevel 400-405.

    My 443 character started out with iLevel 98.

    Having gone through the Maw with a starter (75) and a better one (98), the latter is far more survivable

    Therefore, you should consider iLevel 400 as "starter level".

    Easiest way to get higher iLevels is to advance your HoA and at least get a cloak, which will be 125 out of the gate with no ranks (remember, blues around level 55-56 are 115-120).

    1 hr 23 min
  • Episode 361, "A terabyte of cats"

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    Mea culpa - 27 Guide Update Achievement

    Adventures in computer upgrades

    Running up toons for Classy achievement: cows can’t run

    Killing panda rogues gone wrong

    Pet peeve: Auction “Gotcha” prices

    Mike


    So much toon grinding

    DMF helps with rep

    Getting rep tokens on alts to alleviate the work

    The struggle to get to garrison level 3

    Mage tower legion artifact colors

    Getting followers to 950

    Crucible of storms


    Cloak questline

    This Week in WoW


    Darkmoon Faire

    Pet battle event starts next week - August 10 Squirt Trainer Day in EU

    News


    Classic

    Gates of Ahn’Qiraj opened - and was completed in 14 hours on Sulfuras, beating old record of 19 days (Medivh server, 22 January 2006).

    Scarab Lord Reputation Grinds completed in 23 hours, just waiting for BWL reset - collecting the Silithid Carapace Fragments - large layered servers with multiple guilds working together have a distinct advantage

    Which has led to griefing through abuse of the automated reporting system

    Beta


    Covenant Sanctums -- or why the Venthyr are complete bastards

    1 hr 23 min
  • Episode 360, "The OCD is real"

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    Ren

    Editing, editing, and MORE editing

    Diablo Season 21

    “Classy” achievement

    Mike


    So much time spent switching mains

    This Week in WoW


    Timewalking: Cata (next week, Pandaria)

    Luminous Luminaries tomorrow

    World Quest event - ends Tuesday

    News

    Pre-Patch


    Corruption is being removed completely in Shadowlands prepatch

    Shadowlands news


    OPT IN FOR BETA!

    Heirlooms will have XP bonus removed

    Covenants and Renown (Pathfinder)

    Covenant Sanctums

    Soulbinds Explained

    Archaeology will receive no update in Shadowlands

    Legendary Runecrafting

    51 min
  • Episode 359, "Be excellent to each other"

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    This Week in WoW

    BC Timewalking Event week

    Midsummer Fire Festival

    News


    Naked & Afraid

    21 participants, 2 finishers, with 5 still in the running who are over level 60..

    Naked & Afraid IV - we already have 2 finishers! Ketchupman (Troll Enhancement Shaman) with either 1d10h9m or 1d7h32m, and Kara (Vulpera Arms Warrior) with 1d19h15m

    New Rule Announcement: 1-20 can use heirlooms

    Timewalking

    5-week Timewalking Events - includes a 50% XP bonus for the expansion’s zones that stacks with WInds of Wisdom

    Now: Burning Crusade. June 30 - Wrath of the Lich King, July 7 - Cata, Jul 14 - Pandaria, 21 Jul Draenor, 28 Jul BoA

    Alpha news

    General Game World News

    Twitch sells Curseforge sold to Overwolf - https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2020-06-22-twitch-sells-curseforge-to-overwolf

    51 min
  • Episode 358, "The Insane Mad Cow"

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    We have a short discussion about the new Naked and Afraid challenge, which starts today.

    30 min

About World of Warcast: A World of Warcraft Podcast

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Since 2005, World Of Warcast has been bringing listeners some of the best information about World Of Warcraft. Every week we talk about the most important topics, and some not so important ones.