World Of Warcast: A World Of Warcraft Podcast

All about Blizzcon 2013 We cover everything in the new Warlords of Draenor expansion, Hearthstone, Heroes of the Storm, Diablo III, and Starcraft II. We also have two interviews. Our first is with Bodua from our role playing episode 117, and our second with iKrissi who was on episodes 101 and 105.

News: http://www.gamespot.com/articles/blink-182-playing-blizzcon-2013/1100-6415894/ More connected realms came online Blizzcon app now available Add your schedule Look at tweets, instagrams. Looks like they use #Blizzcon2013 Blizzcon next week! Virtual tickets for attendees! Don’t wait on stupidly long lines, order your gear from the store online. ** DON’T FORGET TO PRINT YOUR TICKETS ** Mike: So wrapped up in being an altaholic, I forgot about doing LFR this week. Finishing up cooking Did the Proving Grounds Warlock to 85 Started Brawler’s Guild. I’m level 1! (noob) What I’ll be doing at Blizzcon Music panel Voice actor panel What’s next for WoW Meet the Blues Q&A AIE Guild Hall Hearthstone Fireside Chat Eric: Don’t remember: first 3 parts of Downfall Brawler’s guild! From level 2 to 7 Blizzcon panel plans? Starcraft finals Voice Actor stage, game dialogue Artist stage: Burdens of Shahao & various drawing panels

News: Heroes of the Storm trademark conflict Potential new WoW feature caught on video Blizzard store now offering full Halloween costumes Hallow’s End Hallow's End 2013 Guide (October 18 - November 1) WTF SWTOR? Would Blizzard ever do that? Eric: SoO Downfall (but only Garrosh) armor drop! Hallow’s End again Mike: LFR finally - did all of SoO except last wing iLvl 510 Cooking going slowly Started playing on the isle again. Trying to find some higher purpose to it. Finished the next step in the legendary quest line. Guild doing well, people leveling up. Don’t seem to be enough on for heroics at one time for achivements. Old guild drama seems to be over. Some people left. Still no Horseman mount Haven’t played my mage in a while. AskMrRobot helped. 25k to 70k After doing what AskMrRobot said, went back, offered new things to do. Derp?

News: www.blizzcon.com http://www.wowhead.com/news=221826/heroes-of-the-storm-is-blizzards-new-moba New wave of Connected Realms announced World of Warcraft's base package now includes Cataclysm Three Hearthstone tracks up for download http://us.battle.net/hearthstone/en/media/ RAF temporarily shut down New RAF Mount Emerald Hippogryph Mike: *Still* have not yet done LFR Working on Anglers. Got the bug (pun intended) to get the Angler mount. Started working on cooking. No idea why. Farming rares on the Isle Never seem to have time to do LFR with how busy I’ve been lately (NYCC, etc.) Guild going well. We have more people under 90 so not a lot going on just yet. People working up to 90 Guild bank items not restored Nice to be social for a change and not have a “friends and family” tag like in my last guild because I didn’t raid. Eric: Underhold - Siege of Ogrimmar Emails Join Ex Astris Scientia! http://exastrisscientia.guildlaunch.com

News: Blizzcon meeting stone BlizzCon Online Sale starts on October 11 The Underhold LFR now available Downfall LFR October 22 New Refer-A-Friend system revealed Eric: Gates of Retribution - Siege of Org Hearthstone! Also cooking Mike: Getting a good number of people for the guild. Some people haven’t logged in for their invites What are we doing? Why haven’t we done it yet? Getting cooking to 600. Should you use a token for stuff you can farm? Anglers - why 3 quests/day? Rares when fishing ups your rep w/Pat Nagle http://exastrisscientia.guildlaunch.com

News: Warcraft movie has a release date - Dec. 18, 2015 Blizzcon virtual items http://us.battle.net/blizzcon/en/blog/11114480/BlizzCon_In-Game_Goodies-10_1_2013 Hotfixes for Oct. 2 http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/10932273/54_Hotfixes_October_2-10_2_2013 http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/11144749/World_of_Warcraft_The_Ultimate_Visual_Guide_Now_On_Sale-9_30_2013 Getting your Noodle Carts Hearthstone reset happened yesterday http://wow.joystiq.com/2013/10/02/hearthstone-beta-patch-notes-for-october-2nd/#continued AIE Guild Hall http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1484095571/aie-guild-hall-blizzcon-and-beyond/backers Mike: Trying to get xmog gear, still Lock still 82 All toons now on ED Priest has a few T4 pieces, can’t quite solo Kael’Thas. Void Reaver is a bitch. Did Coren Direbrew for some well-needed trinkets. The process of buying a level 25 guild Come join Ex Astris Scientia http://exastrisscientia.guildlaunch.com Going to start doing LFR again soon. How do you get rep with your guild if you’re level 90? W

News Hearthstone beta getting a reset. Everything will be wiped. You’ll be starting from scratch. 100 gold for each pack you bought, 150 gold for each arena. Data after this wipe will cross over into release. WoW Movie rumors Colin Farrell (Total Recall) and Paula Patton cast. Map of Timeless Isle chests on mmo-champion. They’re not all accurate. Conquest points vendor is back WoW Trivial Pursuit is available for sale. Brewfest! iLvl 470 trinkets Boulderfist and Bloodscalp are now the first two connected realms. Should DPS/HPS logs been added to the game? Mike Paladin to 90. Still don’t know my rotation. Still on the island, but still feels grindy. Almost ready to start going LFR again. Best thing in life right now is not having raids forced on me. Transferred all but two toons to ED Deleted my duplicate 90 mage on ED because of the name. I can get a mage to 90 in far less than three months if I needed to. The issue now is professions, and what to do with them on these toons. Eric Bad luck on the island &am

News Talk like a pirate day The big squish will still squish the mobs. Brewfest tomorrow! Conquest vendors are missing! Blizzard to shut down Diablo III auction house iOS 7 - back up your authentication ID Mike Lots of time on the island Good group Horde fighting horde Trying to get my priest geared first with cloth Still absolutely suck as a mage in pvp PVP ALL THE THINGS! Eric Timeless Isle: PVP and gearing and moar PVP Easy to gear alts

All about patch 5.4, until my computer locked up.

News: Diablo III out for consoles Announcing WoW Insider and Wowhead's Reader Meetup at BlizzCon 2013 Patch 5.4: Bashiok talks raid difficulty and unlock schedule Blizzard reveals Siege of Orgrimmar raid schedule September 10 – Patch 5.4 Release Normal Flex Wing 1 “Vale of Eternal Sorrows” September 17 Heroic (Normal Garrosh kill required) Flex Wing 2 “Gates of Retribution” Raid Finder Wing 1 “Vale of Eternal Sorrows” September 24 Raid Finder Wing 2 “Gates of Retribution” October 1 Flex Wing 3 “The Underhold” October 8 Raid Finder Wing 3 “The Underhold” October 15 Flex Wing 4 “Downfall” October 22 Raid Finder Wing 4 “Downfall” Reminder: Connected Realms will not be turned on immediately StarCraft II Art Tools Open Beta available Mike: More Hearthstone. Beta open in the EU Is this pay to win only? Can you beat people that spend hundreds of dollars on cards? I’ve been finding that it’s all about how well your cards work together. I did a live stream on Twitch. May do it again. Thanks to Zarhym for the b

News: Cinder Kitten 25% off this week only Rumor: Warcraft movie shooting in January Blizzcon barcodes coming (Eric and I got ours) Item squish likely coming in 6.0 Trading Card Game coming to an end We FINALLY talk about Hearthstone!! Mike: Priest to 90 Not sure what to do with her yet. Gathering as many conquest points as I can for next season Eric: Raid Scaling http://wow.joystiq.com/2013/08/28/low-level-dungeon-scaling-technology-completed/

Followup on Jim Cummings 5.4 Trailer out OMG You can keep your valor points in 5.4 "The Dark Below" - fake Raid testing 5/16 (today) on the PTR Season 13 will end on patch day, which should be Aug. 27th Hearthstone beta is out Mike: Priest still at 80. Leveling faster but getting “alt fatigue” Bought a guild

News: 50% off Swift Windsteed for one week only Patch 5.4 will not bring epic gems to Mists Blizzard releases more information on Connected Realms Blizzard introduces The Burdens of Shaohao Prelude: The Vision Blizzard music now available on Pandora http://exilic.com/m/articles/view/The-Faces-Behind-WoW-s-New-Community-Tribute-Items WoW Insider is looking for hunter and mage columnists Mike: Priest to 82 Can no longer get Benediction. Boo :( Soloed MC up to Gehennas Got two pieces of Darkmoon gear for her Found that the level 85 heirlooms don’t scale AT ALL Eric: What did I miss? Oh, everything. I went to Northrend and Grizzly Hills and looked at Jewelcrafting and Skinning and LW IN REAL LIFEZ

News What’s up with this Vivendi thing? http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/22/us-vivendi-activision-idUSBRE96L07E20130722 http://venturebeat.com/2013/07/22/vivendi-might-force-activision-to-pay-out-a-special-3b-dividend/ WoW Movie Teaser - not shown on the ‘net T16 rogue set - looks like ass http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=tao4ou4yUC4 Ghostcrawler, potentially, details the future of WoW at Chinajoy Hearthstone live stream scheduled for July 26 New collectables coming soon Mike Priest to 73 I was on Low Pop WoW Eric Monk on Proving Grounds Brief visit to Timeless Isle Undercity raid lols (monk pvp) Emails

News Blizzard at ComiCon Booth 115 Hall A Plush Zerg, mini Sylvanas, vinyl Shadow Illidan, papercraft, WoW Art book Funko - Shadow Illidin figure Booth 5343 Sideshow Diablo statue booth 1929 Insight Editions Art of Blizzard booth 1134 Licensing panel was today Cosmetic helms Possible hint to the next patch? From MMO-Champion You can possibly queue for more than one wing New Ticking Package for Winter Veil Possible texture from the next expansion datamined in patch 5.4 Mike: What do you do when your guild boots everyone for no reason? Hardened Shell BFF Necklace Starting to see item prices drop on the AH moonguard Eric: PTR 5.4 - Proving Grounds Emails

News Warcast turned 8 In-game store to be tested in Asia BlizzCon Talent Contest now open for entries Free character transfers for certain US realms Darkspear has a long queue Patch 5.4 PTR: PvP changes Patch 5.4 PTR: PvP Mount requirements Mike Priest to 66 Don’t forget the Ring of Blood Nerdtacular Eric Priest low-level heals The 90 conundrum Your emails

Security warning for WoW, and why the remote AH went offline. Shado-Pan Geyser Gun. Warrior and Priest T16 sets on mmo-champion. One level/hour (85->87) with @veroicone Deathfrost confirmed dropping from Ahune. 30m queues Realm Maintenance to hit episode 50 Mike: 6/16 Tyr Tried arenas for the first time in years Eric: Looked for low-level dookerdome equivs (uldum HoO) Summer’s here, economy changes

News: Flex raiding announced minutes after the last show 5.4 Updated Garrosh Model, 5.4 World Changes, Jun 10 Hotfixes, Blue Posts, GW2 Shoutcasts Massive world changes in Vale No more Golden Lotus dailies New Garrosh model Changes in Orgrimmar Flexible Raiding lockouts and queues clarified Area 52 server has a login queue of 1300! Proving grounds Virtual Realms Mike: Soloed as much as I had time for Tempest Keep was easy. Brought over my lock Eric: Streamapalooza light week because of e3 Emails

News: Flex raiding announced minutes after the last show 5.4 Updated Garrosh Model, 5.4 World Changes, Jun 10 Hotfixes, Blue Posts, GW2 Shoutcasts Massive world changes in Vale No more Golden Lotus dailies New Garrosh model Changes in Orgrimmar Flexible Raiding lockouts and queues clarified Area 52 server has a login queue of 1300! Proving grounds Virtual Realms Mike: Soloed as much as I had time for Tempest Keep was easy. Brought over my lock Eric: Streamapalooza light week because of e3 Emails

News: Character services 50% off this week WoW movie to start filming in early 2014 New Battle.net desktop client datamined Blizzard will be at San Diego Comic-Con Diablo 3 coming to the Xbox 360 (and PS3) September 3rd EverQuest Next teaser photo posted Mike: How to solo BWL PvP back on my mage Trying to finish up xmog sets for my rogue Eric: Kaelthas solo as monk Ahone - rare The arbitrary nature of world PUGs I game standing up Emails