World of Warcast: A World of Warcraft Podcast

World of Warcast: A World of Warcraft Podcast

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  • Episode 346, "Make it so"

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    Ren


    Beat my first +4 mythic, completed but did not beat +5

    Running and gearing up parallel Alliance and Horde shaman - running Alliance shaman as fast through war campaign as possible to get up to Battle of Dazar’alor

    Final alt tally after Korrak’s - 6 Alliance 120s, 12 Horde 120s (18 total)

    Looking at the holes:

    All classes but one on Horde side have a 120.

    Half the classes on Alliance side have a 120 (warrior, hunter, rogue, shaman, mage, and warlock)

    No DKs either side; plan Mag’har and Kul’Tiran when allied races become possible.

    Have lower levels on Alliance side mostly - dwarf pally, lightforged draenei priest, night elf demon hunter.

    No monk Alliance; plan Mechagnome monk.

    No druid Alliance; plan Worgen druid (maybe)

    No tauren or highmountain tauren; none planned.

    No empty slot for vulpera; will probably make Vulpera priest and retire Blood Elf priest to auction mule duty

    That will give me all races except 2 Tauren races covered, and all classes represented on both sides. No panda on Alliance.

    Mike


    Priest to almost 31

    Healed Deadmines, BFD, and Stockades (twice)

    Started N’Zoth

    Forgot to start Kun’Lai

    Got a 440 wrist

    Worked on Mechagnomes and Dark Iron Dwarves

    Still need to do Kul’Tiran

    245/250 mounts

    Comparing toons

    Mogging

    1 hr 3 min
  • Episode 345, "It was a Y2020 bug"

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    Ren


    Wrote new addon guides for Classic - PvP, raids, leveling, and gathering

    More KR fun - have 2 new 120 resto shaman - Zandalari on Horde, undeleted and race-flipped 112-now-120, Tauren-now-Draenei on Alliance - KR leveling analysis, stories, and Korrak f*ery

    Pandaria timewalking on Alliance

    Bought new podcasting mic setup - mic stand, shock mount, pop filter

    Computer gently frying - purchased new computer, arriving Saturday. Considered and priced out comps from several companies but ended up buying Alienware Aurora Ryzen edition - Ryzen 6 3600X (6-core 32MB L3 cache/4.4 GHz), NVIDIA Geforce RTX 2060 Super (6GB), 32 GB RAM, 1TB M.2 SSD

    Mike


    Priest, lock, hunter, rogue, warrior in Classic

    This Week in WoW


    Winter Veil ended January 2

    Pandaria timewalking through January 7

    Darkmoon Faire on Retail starts January 5 - no word yet about its release on Classic - supposed to happen in January but apparently not this week

    Battleground Bonus Event begins Tuesday, Jan 7

    WoW 15th Anniversary ends Jan 7th - with it, the quests, Korrak’s Revenge, and the xp/rep buff

    News

    Classic


    Major update to Classic threat library - changed from the ThreatClassic-1.0 library to LibThreatClassic 2 - means that players using one won’t see/be able to communicate threat between players using different libraries

    Players using ClassicThreatMeter must update to new ThreatClassic2

    Be sure to update DBM and Details if you are using their built in threat meters

    Warsong Gulch Classic

    Queueing changed - if you are grouped and in queue, adding a player to your group will reset your place in queue

    Retail

    Season 3 ended prematurely on Dec 31 - usually resets on patch changes, which means it should have ended Jan 14

    Working on a hotfix to restore Season 3 and retroactively retain rating changes and tier updates. They don’t anticipate being able to retain season games played count or win counts during the unexpected offseason.

    8.3, which will be released Jan 14


    Things to do to prepare

    53 min
  • Episode 344, "WoW second-wind mid-life crisis"

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    Ren


    Rewrote guides for Classic AV and WSG

    Running KRs with WNNs - shoutouts to Cryler, Zignea, Webbley, Drexl, Hidebound, Loosechanj, Zeryl, and our visitor JP

    Have leveled up 5 more toons to 120 - Alliance warrior and mage; Horde mage, priest, and demon hunter. Horde nightborne monk is now 103; starting work on Zandalari shaman.

    Started a lightforged Draenei priest - level 26. Yes, Alliance. In war mode.

    Guested on PEOPLE OF AZEROTH

    Considering buying a new computer

    Mike


    Moved to Atiesh

    Pagle started falling apart

    Now in JunoEclipse’s guild

    That means I had to start my Lock and Priest all over again.

    Eh, that’s ok

    How to level up skinning and cooking so easily in Elwynn

    Why? Because when you get to Westfall you get level 80 recipes

    Playing a rogue is SO SLOW

    Exalted with Wavecrest

    Now I have to work on the turtles

    This Week in WoW


    Ongoing: WoW Anniversary Event, Feast of Winter Veil

    Winter Veil sleigh rides

    Globe yeti spawn rates significantly increased (1 minute instead of 30 minutes)

    Greatfather Pepe costume is a no-show

    Tuesday: World Quest Bonus Event

    News


    Classic

    Warsong Gulch and Alterac Valley went live

    Paid character transfers

    Classic Winter Veil

    Retail

    Korrak’s Revenge - going until 7 January

    Learned about Korrak’s Revenge, and how Christy got us hooked

    Favorite stories from KRs - Christmas sweaters, Ren’s language issues, taking Zig through her first BG and then her owning them, Webbley’s laugh, the collective obsession with Stormpike Bowmen, Drexl’s bumming rides, and how Cryler single-handedly sabotaged an entire BG

    Why you never click anything in tunnels - or, how much fun is it to kick naughty mages

    XP and Korrak’s Revenge

    Can go in as low as level 10 when the Group Finder becomes available; have seen a level 12 in there

    Amount of XP you get increases as you go up in levels. Levels in some ways are depending on activities, but this is what I got for typical runs. In some ways, it depends on your effectiveness.

    At level 25, I got about 28% of a level for a win (1.07 % for a win)

    Level 40: 50% of a level for a win (1.2% per level)

    Level 50: 95% of a level for a win (1.9%)

    Level 62: 125% of a level for a win (2%)

    Level 103: nearly 2 levels for a win (2%)

    Lesson: doesn’t really make sense to go in until at least level 50. No epic speed land mount until 40; can’t get quests til level 60

    Korrak: DO NOT KILL HIM THERE. Go to Zul’drak.

    8.3 launch date announced: January 14

    43 min
  • Episode 343, "Who's PVPing at that hour?"

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    Ren


    Finished the 4 mythic dungeons

    Finished guide to Classic Darkmoon Faire, starting on new guides

    Running Rustbolt - revered

    Mike


    So close to exalted with Rustbolt

    Got all the rares

    Operation: Mechagon - megadungeon? More like a mini-raid

    Some people like to work it out

    Started working on Waveblade again. No need for a Kul’tiran, just cuz

    Did my 4 mythics.

    This Week in WoW


    Darkmoon Faire

    Super Squirt Day on NA servers

    Wanderer’s Festival - Saturday, D,mec 7 - “Celebrate and honor Liu Lang and Shen-zin Su at Turtle Beach in Krasarand Wilds. It is a time for contemplation and song!”

    Feast of Winter Veil coming up on Dec 16 - both Classic and Retail

    News


    Dottie the alpaca pet now available

    The Launcher has a new banner

    Classic, 8.3, Mechagnome, and BRD Pet Battle Dungeon

    54 min
  • Episode 342, "Don't pick your friend's nose"

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    Our week in WoW

    This Week in WoW


    This week - Battleground Bonus Event

    Next week - BfA Dungeon Event begins

    Monday Nov 25 - Pilgrim’s Bounty begins, goes to Monday, Dec 2 at 9:00 AM

    Bountiful Table - if you eat 5 helpings of each available food at one table, gain Spirit of Sharing - 10% rep buff increase for 1 hour

    Cooking - great way to get original WoW cooking from 1-300

    Transmogs: Pilgrim’s Hat, Attire, Dress, Robe, and Boots. Includes Fine Pilgrim’s Hat, which can be used as a transmog for any armor-type hat. Found from Pilgrim’s Bounty, a daily quest reward.

    Battle Pets: Frightened Bush chicken, from Pilgrim’s Bounty

    Toys: Silver-Plated Turkey Shooter, from Pilgrim’s Bounty

    Several achievements and the title Pilgrim

    Community


    New podcast: People of Azeroth, hosted by Juno-Eclipse

    Mike was on Frazlcast

    PTR News

    Classic News

    53 min
  • Episode 341, "Six stacks of determination"

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    Ren


    Eight Warcasters and the Six Stacks of Determination, or Secrets of Success: Kick the Warrior and Announce Last Round

    Happy 11th Anniversary, Lich King! (squish)

    Doing the Cataclysm three-boss section next Wednesday Hordeside, all are welcome

    Taking a break from Classic & taking advantage of Anniversary buff

    Returning to tanking

    Vengeance Demon Hunter 110-116

    Finishing DID warrior and BE priest - 115

    New guides live: Overview of Covenants and Overview of Leveling Changes. Indepth Covenant guides for each of the 4 covenants submitted. Currently writing articles for engineering and PvP.

    Mike


    Took a (mostly) break from WoW to put in time to Overwatch

    This Week in WoW


    WoTLK Timewalking

    News


    Shadowlands features

    Class changes

    Covenants

    Cosmetic changes

    Classic update

    1 hr 14 min
  • Episode 339, "Schrödinger's beer"

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    Our week in WoW and pre-Blizzcon chat

    51 min
  • Episode 338, "Ratchet and Clank"

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    Ren


    Starting over (again) - level 20 orc warlock

    Published 8 new guides in a 9-part series on finding class trainers (up to 31 guides) - working on last guide (rogue) and a new guide to find repair NPCs in every zone

    Mike


    60 slowness

    Rerolling a warlock because of a better name

    This Week in WoW


    Darkmoon Faire ends Sunday

    The Great Gnomeregan Run - Sunday Oct 13th

    The original Running of the Gnomes is at 7PM EST on Scarlet Crusade, 7 PM EST

    Donation link: https://thepinkfund.kindful.com/the-running-of-the-gnomes--2019

    Tuesday - Pet Battle Bonus Event

    October 21st (Monday) Super Squirt Trainer Day on NA and Oceanic realms

    8.3 datamining


    Going back to Icecrown?

    Vulpera and Mechagnomes

    Auction House changes finally coming

    Pat battle dungeons - Blackrock Depths

    Classic


    Changes to login

    Dire Maul coming next week

    Mod of the Case - Prat

    52 min

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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.