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- Episode 307, "It's nobody's fault"
Discord: http://discord.worldofwarcast.com
Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv
Mount Up Add-on: https://wow.curseforge.com/projects/mount-up
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/starmikeAli (@aliandrask) from Dungeon Fables steps in as co-host this week!
We ditch the show notes again, but we have specific things to talk about with patch 8.1
53 min - Episode 306, "Everything is Ali's fault"
Discord: http://discord.worldofwarcast.com
Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv
Mount Up Add-on: https://wow.curseforge.com/projects/mount-up
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/starmikeAli (@aliandrask) from Dungeon Fables steps in as co-host this week!
We ditch the show notes this week, and do shots. Freeform show just chatting about the World...of Warcraft.
58 min - Episode 305, "Everything is Mike's fault"
Discord: http://discord.worldofwarcast.com
Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv
Mount Up Add-on: https://wow.curseforge.com/projects/mount-up
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/starmikeAli (@aliandrask) from Dungeon Fables steps in as co-host this week!
Ali
Tides of War road trip, WQ, dark iron up to 41 (/played 13 hrs)
Mike
Didn’t play much because of the holidays
Oh, I got a new mixerWhat do you do in your downtime?
This Week in WoW
Darkmoon Faire starts Sunday
Wrath timewalking TuesdayNews
Tides of Vengeance will be released Dec. 11. We have what's new.Naked and Afraid update
59 min - Episode 304, "We're smart"
Discord: http://discord.worldofwarcast.com
Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv
Mount Up Add-on: https://wow.curseforge.com/projects/mount-upRenata-
Finished zones and war campaign on Alliance
Working on zone achievements - got the Wicker Pup doing the Drustvar treasure achievement
Decided to shelves Naked and Afraid characters until December 10th - using the Celebration buff to run up 110sMike
Exalted with Storm’s wake
Just Champions of Azeroth and Turtles left
Got two pieces of gear from anniversary
New 355 headpiece - i352 now
I now have two pieces with compasses on them. Neither are in sync.This Week in WoW
Pilgrim’s Bounty - Nov 19 through 26
Arena Skirmishes start TuesdayNews
Warcraft turns 14! Now through November 30th
The rest of the Blizzcon Q&A questions are up and answered
Forum upgrades
Segment: Remembering vanilla56 min - Episode 303, "Hither and yon"
Discord: http://discord.worldofwarcast.com
Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv
Mount Up Add-on: https://wow.curseforge.com/projects/mount-upRenata -
Exalted with all BfA factions Hordeside
2 level 30s in Naked and Afraid - one doing MUCH better than the other
120 #5 - Orc destruction warlockThis Week in WoW
Darkmoon Faire until Saturday
Pet Battles this week (Squirt is coming November 10!)
Monday 12th: Moonkin Festival
Tuesday: Burning Crusade timewalkingNews
Naked & Afraid is well underway! And with that ….
Experience Reduced in upcoming 8.1
Experienced required to level from 20 to 120 has been reduced - biggest reductions
In the level 20-32 ramps up from 2.5% to 20% drop
33-58 ramps up from 20% to 39% drop, about a half percent increase per level
59-66 40% drop
67-80% 39-26% drop, reducing 1% per level
81-111 25% drop
Minimal drop 111-120 (less than 1%)
Allied race issue: Classes misreported at Blizzcon
Zandalar trolls cannot be warlocks, and Kul Tirans can be mages.
Classic Demo extended to November 12th
Diablo Immortal: Conflicting info on whether Blizzard was planning to present D4 information at Blizzcon but then decided against it.
Blizzard has said they did not make such plans
Blizzard has said they are working on several mobile projects across multiple titles, some with NetEase, others internallySegment: Making WoW friendly for people that are dyslexic
1 hr - Episode 302, "Welcome to Classic Park"
Discord: http://discord.worldofwarcast.com
Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv
Mount Up Add-on: https://wow.curseforge.com/projects/mount-upAll about Blizzcon 2018
1 hr 35 min - Episode 301, "Camp taco"
Discord: http://discord.worldofwarcast.com
Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv
Mount Up Add-on: https://wow.curseforge.com/projects/mount-upRen:
First BFA reps maxxed: Exalted with Honorbound and Zandalari (we need paragon rep!)
Finished 5 island campaigns on main - questioning whether will do it on other characters
Attempted 2 man of Atal’Dazar - almost but not quite there. High 340s not quite enough.
Mag’har racial opening quest is the WORST -- and a new justification/motivation for leveling another toon
Mag’har hunter: running zones using All The Things to identify areas where I haven’t gotten mail transmogs from questing there
Bonus: got the Hyacinth Macaw as a random drop
The Great UI Experiment - initial impressions and why I’m not going to go through with it after all
Random question of the week: who’s taking care of the poor carnies?Mike:
Rep. That’s it.This Week in WoW:
Hallows’ End starts today - goes through Thursday, November 1
Headless Horseman: levels 23-120
Things to buy with Tricky Treats: pets, costumes, masks, wands, Magic Broom
New toy: Headless Horseman’s Hearthstone for 150 Tricky Treats
“Return home in the spookiest way” -- creates a circle of flames around you and puts a Hallowed Helm on your head, and your character laughs when the cast completes
Pandaria TimewalkingNews:
Naked & Afraid 2: Revenge of the Races is coming Thursday, October 25th!
Needed motivation for running up Allied race to 120 for achievement
Run an allied race or a non-allied race - no gold, no gear, no heirlooms.
Pick a race, class, and spec, and stick with it until 120 (one spec change allowed). Judged on /played time to 120. We encourage running a class or spec you haven’t run before but it isn’t required
Nonallied races will have time from 1-20 deducted from total, since allied races start at level 20
Two divisions: Regular and Warmode
New this time around: Guilds
US-Alliance Silvermoon: Naked & Afraid (could start the same guild Hordeside on Mok’Nathal, the connected server, forr those who want to start Horde races)
EU-Alliance Vek’nilash: Naked & Afraid
All members will have the power to invite to the guild, at least for a little while. Be careful only to invite people who are familiar with the Naked and Afraid challenge. Perhaps ask them to name the two hosts of the show as a challenge question.
@thecowking has made an EU Warcast Community and has posted a link to it on our #worldofwarcast channel on Discord
Full rules posted on the #naked-and-afraid-2 Discord channelWowhead is making a Classic WoW site - classic.wowhead.com, with all the databases, guides, etc.
Decided to use modern back-end elements but are using old-school styling such as logos and menus to reflect the retro styleBlizzard announced multiple Diablo projects are expected over the coming months
Diablo III coming to Nintendo Switch already announced for November 2
There will be a Diablo What’s Next panel shortly after the opening ceremonyPatch 8.1 - Notable changes on the PTR and from Ian Hazzikostas QA from the 11th
Lots and lots of discussion about azerite armor changes
New warfronts will run in a parallel cycle to the current one - you could be contributing to one warfront while attacking in another
No plans to make Death Knight class available for new Allied Races anytime soon
Several new battle pets associated with the new Darkshore warfront, such as the Darkshore Sentinel (Owl), Void Jelly, Everburning Treant, Detective Ray, Gust of Cyclarus
Also new mounts: a bear, nightsabers, chimera, and a kodo. Reins of the Onyx War Hyena will be a new rated PvP mount, and there are a couple frog mounts that have not yet been assigned
New pet model for baby raptorsDarkmoon Faire Favors achievement has been reduced from six to five profession based quests completed
New cooking recipe: Seasoned Steak and Potatoes (maybe something to do with those Thick Paleo Steaks other than the banquets?)
Reputation gains from Legion World Quests will be doubled
Looking at flight paths - possibly a book to buy at max level that unlocks all the flight paths on alts
War Campaign chapters not alt friendly - give almost no reputation when you complete them. They will be adding a “large amount of reputation” to these chapters56 min - Episode 300, "Backers of the beast"
Discord: http://discord.worldofwarcast.com
Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv
Mount Up Add-on: https://wow.curseforge.com/projects/mount-upRen:
Finished BfA Pathfinder part 1 on Horde rogue
Working on full quest completion with Horde rogue - using Quest Completionist mod to find quests I haven’t done
Close to finishing up my 4th 120 - Horde warrior is now 118
New experiment incoming based on two less structured experiments
Ran Alliance rogue up to 120 trying to complete all quests I could find in a zone before moving onto the next - finished 120 with 1 chapter left in Stormsong and no quests completed in Drustvar
Partway through running up Horde warrior, decided to stick ONLY to the mainline quests that give the zone achievements and do no side quests (not easy to figure out which those are) -- finished all three zones just after finishing 118
Will take up 2 more Horde toons, starting fresh with the idea that one will do all quests in a zone before leaving, and one will do just the mainline run, see where I end up by 120, including comparisons of rep
Neither will do the outpost campaigns until 120, just to keep those out of the mix
Benefit: mostly just to keep myself motivated through the process of leveling up yet another 2 toons
Another experiment incoming: Week-long tests of UI replacement mods - first test will be on ElvUI. May not happen til next week just because of other things going on IRL.Mike:
Half way through exalted on some rep
Still friendly with turtles
Started my monk up again, but didn’t have nearly enough time to play yet.
Basically checked out talents. No dungeons yet.
I hate frost outdoors
So many resources!
I wanted to do timewalking this weekend and just had zero time.This Week in WoW:
Darkmoon Faire - Oct 7th - 13th
World Quest Bonus Week starts Oct 9th - tooltip says it’s for Broken Isles WQs?
Running of the Gnomes/Great Gnomeregan Run on Scarlet Crusade, 4 PM PDT, Saturday October 13th - annual fundraiser for breast cancer research. Starts at the spawn spot of new gnomes - there is a Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/RunningofTheGnomes/News:
Update: WoW Diary Kickstarter ended September 25th with 8,379 backers pledging $598,999 - biggest nonfiction book Kickstarter in history
By far the most popular tier was the $40 backers for both the electronic book and print book with 6,661 backers (80%), followed by the $150 level for the electronic book, signed copy of the print book and companion booklet with 1,117 backers (13%)
For those who missed this Kickstarter, the book will eventually be available on Amazon for about 20% more than the Kickstarter edition and without the perks
Mike Morhaime stepping down as President of Blizzard; J. Allen Brack, Wow’s Executive Director for WoW, taking over. Morhaime will remain as a “strategic advisor” to Blizzard.
https://blizzcon.com/en-us/news/22456082/throw-your-own-epic-blizzcon-celebration-with-the-virtual-ticket-viewing-party-kit?linkId=100000003674039
Upcoming Azerite armor changes - Blizzard realizes there are problems with the current system
Make Azerite armor more available - looking to add Azerite Armor rewards from Emissary quests that scale up to 370, depending on current iLevel. Also mentioned “making further improvements to the ways Emissaries reward gear”.
When new Azerite Armor is introduced in “BfA Season 2” (Patch 8.1), armor that currently only has 2 possible traits will get a third.
Continuing to work on the individual traits themselves - balancing out those who want more generic traits for wider applicability, vs. those who want to fine-tune traits to specs or situations
The first problem - overall availability -- will be hotfixed in before 8.1. The third trait slot and the new abilities won’t come in until the patch.
8.1 news
Players beyond level 110 will be able to enter Legion era raids in LFR difficulty
Achievements:
Noblegarden: “Shake Your Bunny Maker” is being changed to place rabbit ears upon any character over level 18, not just female characters.
On the Frontlines: New achievement to complete all six Horde or Alliance assaults
Several new Battle Pet achievements, based on previous expansion achievements to defeat all 15 Master Tamers on Kul Tiras or Zandalar with teams of all one pet type (dragonkin, flying, beast, critter, etc)
New paladin spell visuals for Flash of Light and Beacon of Light
New information on Faction Incursions
Will only be for characters 110 or above (Ren: boo)
Completing 4 incursions will result in a random 370 weapon or Azerite Armor for quests. These items are from the same item pool from Warfronts (7th Legion/Honorbound items)
Will work a lot like Legion Invasions: after completing 4 incursion quests, you have to complete a short scenario to take down an airship
Doubleagent the Neutral Panda is now level 11745 min - Episode 299, "Burritos for Azeroth"
Discord: http://discord.worldofwarcast.com
Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv
Mount Up Add-on: https://wow.curseforge.com/projects/mount-upThorn and Thyst from Lagging Balls, and Eric Van Skyhawk come by to shoot the breeze about WoW.
@thornbrow
@thyst03
@laggingballs
http://www.laggingballs.com
@hawkito1 hr 10 min - Episode 298, "Which comes first - Classic or people on Mars?"
Discord: http://discord.worldofwarcast.com
Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv
Mount Up Add-on: https://wow.curseforge.com/projects/mount-upRen:
Learning curve with island expedition - Gamino joined Cryler and me for some island expedition fun
We learned there can be way, WAY too many bears
Quote of the day: “I pulled five … okay, thirty.”
Found out it was five ISLANDS, not five expeditions
Killing Azuregos when you’re a melee DPS
Finished Revered with Honorbound and am opening outposts
Exalted rep comparisons in preparation for the first major patch
Working on Insurrection line in Suramar to open NightborneMike:
King’s Rest is hard
Did no
Another 350 in my trunk
More rep
Didn’t have time for LFR
Question of the week!This Week in WoW:
Brewfest starts today
Only change this year, Coren Direbrew’s trinkets have been updated for level 120 players (iLevel 335 - may not be updating yet)
Harvest Festival - ends Tuesday
Pet Battle Bonus Event - ends Tuesday
Cataclysm Timewalking begins TuesdayNews:
WoW Diary Kickstarter Update:
As of 8 PM EST today, had raised $394,614 with 5,452 backers (trivia: was fully funded at original $10k ten minutes after launch, August 28) - up[ $6,620 from this 9 AM
Was able to add 2 upgrades:
$300k upgrade: added a gold foil end sheet with “Original Kickstarter Backer” printed on it
$350k upgrade: Gold foil title lettering on the spine and cover
Not yet funded: $400k upgrade - spot varnishing on all the pictures
Currently second highest non-fiction book ever launched through Kickstarter - has to pass $424k to do that
Google “wow diary kickstarter” or go to http://www.thewowdiary.com - now through next Thursday, September 25
New mount and pet in Blizzard store: The Dreadwake and Cap’n Crackers
Dreadwake currently tied to purchasing 180 days’ game time in advance - not sold separately
WoW Token price fall
from end of July through today, WoW token prices have fallen by half
Buying gold for real money isn’t cost effective, but cashing in gold for Blizzard Balance is at an all-time high - was talking to Wulfrictheslayer on Discord about his play to buy his virtual ticket with in-game gold (we calculated the Virtual Ticket to be about 260-270k gold)
Wowtoken.info - current US price is about 105,000 gold = $20Patch 8.1 announced: Tides of Vengeance
No release date but the patch will be hitting the PTR next week
News tip from Discord users and Weekly Research Assistants Kneemo and Hidebound: Incursions, similar to invasions in Legion
Quests with extra-potent rewards that will randomly pop up and replace a zone’s World Quest content for several hours
Purpose is for helping level alts, although it seems as though this content will only be available at level 98 and above
Heritage armor will become available for all races - starting with Dwarf and Blood Elf - will require some short quest lines to claim
New Allied Races: Kul’Tiran and Zandalari Troll - “not quite there yet” but are getting closer.
Vol’jin, Saurfang and Tyrande will have their stories expanded
New warfront: Darkshore
Focuses on war between night elves and undead
Updated Darkshore zone, new max level rares
Alliance will start this one with the contribution phase
Updates to island expeditions
Two new islands
New events, enemies, spawn rates, and interactions
Example: setting up an Azerite extractor in a location that will feed a constant small stream of azerite to the party, but can be taken over by the enemy
Two new raids
Siege of Zulduzar (name might change)
Alliance will fight to the top of the city from the sea, and Horde will start from the jungle
Bosses will be unique for each faction
Crucible of Storms - only 2 bosses, centered on old gods in Stormsong Valley
Modeled after the 3-boss Trial of Valor
Azerite traits - traits are getting an overhaul
Champions of Azeroth - Unlocking Champions of Azeroth rep on one character will unlock it on all charactersAll about the new rep changes.
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