World Of Warcast: A World Of Warcraft Podcast

News: New mount: Armored Bloodwing WoW Insider Poll /played (by expac) http://www.wowhead.com/news=213612/blizzard-on-titan-official-statement Mike: Shadow Dance nerfed. May go Assassin spec. What to do when you’re capped - Motes of Harmony - Trade for Justice points - get xmog gear - Gems - Mounts Pug low MMR groups Haven’t started doing LFR, but will. Played with a new opening rotation. Works...sometimes Tried OpenRaid Eric: Nal’lak the Ripper, Blackhoof, Bonobos, MAJOR NANNERS and DEGU wtf plus: lewts Back to Brawler’s Guild - Challenge Cards. Me and Mecha Bruce Brawler’s Fanfare (Triggered by First Rule achieve?) Bloodwing mount as gift! *** WE HAVE XBOX SHIRT AVATARS TO GIVE AWAY THANKS TO CM_ZARHYM *** Send us an email about your thoughts on PvP, or tweet us at @worldofwarcast, @starmike, or @ericrice and use #WARCAST Your emails and tweets

Patch 5.3! New scenarios New pets New weekly New pet Dungeon set gear Lesser charms and DS1 pieces from mobs New Battleground - Deepwind Gorge Loot specializations Massive PvP changes Everyone gets 65% resilience PvP Power gem stats cut in half iLvl 522 PvE gear makes Tyr gear irrelevant All gear scaled to 496 IN BGs Old school raid changes Voidbringers are back Mike: AV weekend meant lots of wins, at the beginning. Full HP gear, 2 pieces of Tyr gear The Hordebreaker Debating on what to do about this whole WPvP issue Eric: Darkspear Revolutionary farming in Barrens new helm 489 Heroic Scenario Tanking Finished LFR

News: 5.3 will allow you to farm low-levels in Pandaria!! Only works for miners and herbalists. 10 of a low-level item makes one ore. Should this work for tailors and skinners somehow? Ghostcrawler on the "sweet spot" in trying to keep people from unsubbing. And yes, the loss was due to MMOs in China How to survive on a PvP server Mike: Worked on getting my rogue to 90, which I did. Leatherworking up. Spent time cleaning out my bags. Lots of stuff that never sold. Eric: Running lowbies thru instances (instance lock is account wide) More tank practicing

News: WoW loses over 1M, down to 8.3w Is the game too easy? Lore sure isn’t a problem Most lost from the East Cata fallout coupled with Dailycraft? Prepping for 5.3 If you’re going to Blizzcon you have until May 14th to edit your info Patch 5.3 Tuesday? Eric: Tanking attempt again Guardian Druid & Brewmaster Tank Mike: Worked on my Rogue Did VERY well in BGs Tried level locking at 84. Didn’t work. Worked on leatherworking/skinning Level 85 BGs aren’t bad, could be worse. Emails!

Eric: Noob coaching Mike: Got my Blizzcon ticket Started taking screenshots of where players are in AB/WSG Finished up gearing up the Mage and started a Rogue Getting a rotation Dealing with cooldowns Staying alive has gotten better News: Children’s week The return of the firecat Ghostcrawler on tri-spec Exodus done w/25 man raiding Only 50 lesser charms needed now. THANK YOU!

News: Blizzcon tickets went on sale Oondasta loot roll changes from other realms 85-90 XP changes Bad Robot - only for Engineers???? Live WoW Dev Q&A tonight at 5:30 PT (8:30 ET) We talk about PvP, and compare what Alliance vs Horde PvP is like, some aspects about crowd control, and whether mages are really overpowered or if that's a myth carried over from previous expansions.

News: PTR - No gated rep! - Battlefield: Barrens - Get xmog gear - What’s going on in Valley of Eternal Blossoms? - New Battlefield: Deepwind Gorge Calendar spam Why tailoring? Mike: Gearing up the monk Getting another mage to 90 14k in a week selling xmog gear Eric: Switching realms- considerations Solid Week full 90 on monk Back to the PTR 5.3 Discovery Armor XMOG for my rogue Nalak & Oon

5.3 Patch news: Wow to get a limited in-game browser. We'll be able to xmog using items in the bank. New Brawler's Guild 5.3 features. You can pick LFR loot for a different spec. Hearthstone tied to new mounts? Why you shouldn't wait until late in the week to do LFR. Tips on raising tailoring and enchanting. How skinning and Tillers dailies are awesome together. No-kill servers and guilds. Your emails.

BlizzCon tickets go on sale April 24 and 27 Blizzard defends not having an April Fool's Joke (and we agree) More Titan rumors! Patch 5.3 PTR: Fiery new mounts ElvUI does the Harlem Shake Eric: Westminster (Scarlet Monastery, Cathedral District IRL!) Archaeology dailies and by Archaeology I mean MUSEUMING Noblegarden (Attractions in London, walkthroughs, Dungeon, Doctor Who, theme park, China knockoff and WoW stuff, could it work?) Mike: Monk to 90 iLvl 470 pretty fast. LW has given me nothing I can use in 6 days. Getting undercut every day Noblegarden: Farming for eggs Chances of getting items while farming Best place for getting eggs

(Yeah, I screwed up and said ep. 128) 5.3 Notes WHO CALLED IT? Third spec in the 5.3 PTR 65% base resilience for PvP All gear will be scaled to 496 Resilience removed from most PvP gear Can still use gems/enchants Heroic scenarios 5.3 will NOT be a new PvP season WHO CALLED IT? Blizzard announces a new online TCG game "Hearthstone" Mike: Monk to 88 Tried LUI. Bleh. Trying to get a good UI going. Battlegrounds. New LFR Oondasta Eric: Monk 85 Moar nubschool Auction House Bid or Buy Is WoW doing a good job of teaching new players how to play the game and their class? Tips on leatherworking. For the bored - things to do when you're out of things to do.

Our weekly look at the news of WoW and what we did this week: Eric: Wanderer’s Festival Achieve Galleon for the first time + amazing loot Monk @ 80 AH woes Mike: Monk to 81. Decided to slow down. Did LFR ToT last night. Will start PvP again tonight. Lack of motivation for dailies. Just like Firelands, it feels forced and I don’t like not flying. News and views: Should you be able to start at 55 if you already have a 90 of the same race? If you could align yourself with one non-main faction, what would it be? Oondasta - the grave maker - Will be spawning more often Automatic flight point discovery was not intended in 5.1

News: PvP Season 13 started There will be no more 5-man dungeons in Mists. Players visiting a different realm no longer eligible to receive loot from Oondasta or Nalak. Thunderforged dropping in LFR. Massive monk DPS bug. Starcraft II: Heart of the Swarm released Blizzard debuting something new at PAX East. Mike: Leveled a monk. Started as a test, now 54+ Still having problems with rotation. A bit of fun in the old world. Love the fast-paced play. Better thann DK/Pally Was healer, decided on tank after Dire Maul incident Enchants make a huge difference (no duh) Eric Darkmoon Faire ended (hidden cave, weird stuff, check blue histories, ghosts http://miasazeroth.blogspot.com/2011/11/ghosts-of-darmoon-island.html sea ponies, also, seahorse mount ) Treasure of the Thunder King solo scenario loot run Cross Realm IN SW/ORG now? (eldrethas) Valor of the Ancients Golden Lotus (mount!) tanking amani dragon hawk A look at leveling after not leveling for a while

Special guest: SoCalWowGal @socalwowgal / socalwowgal.com) We talk about our impressions of 5.2 so far, and have an in-depth discussion with SoCalWowGal about her blog which tackles being a WoW Life Coach.

News: Blizzard confirms no cross platform play for Diablo 3 on PS4 Thunder King trailer Heart of the Storm trailer Who's going to Nerdtacular? This Week: Mike: Formal Dangui dropped. Lots of PvP. Capped out everything I wanted to do with PvE except Operation faction. Will still do PvE, but waiting for 5.2 Trying to get as much Conquest Points before 5.2 Got full set of blue PvP gear, first epic PvP piece. Eric DK Leveling (at 89, return to the main!, former PVP main) aside: I can riff on PVP, so don’t have much to add here Changes to Mages/DK/Monk in 5.2 How to succeed in battlegrounds without really trying.

Blizzcon Nov. 8-9 Mike: Forgot to really finish Klaxxi. Working hard on VP. There has to be a better way. Ancient Portal of Dalaran for mages Rainbow trinket Soloed some of Serpentshrine Heard from Ren Eric Leveling alts Being tech support for 3 Blizzard PS4 Diablo 3 on PS3/PS4 Chris Metzen announced at Sony Event What about console MMOs anyway? Old fail article from 2009: http://www.ign.com/articles/2009/02/04/mmos-on-consoles-epic-fail PvP Season 12 ends March 5 Patch 5.2 PTR: Mac OS X 10.6 no longer supported as of 5.2 Blizzard's Wraithion poll

This Week: Mike - Exalted with Klaxxi finally. Still fiddling with DPS output. Working on getting a trinket. Ran LFR, finished the token quest. DPS up a little bit but not where I want it. Eric - Hellscream Shake Love is in the Air Scholomance - the pictures follow you. Moar Nubs and rogue News: WoW down to 9.6M subscribers Raptr rewards gives you an Alliance or Horde shirt for your Xbox avatar Love is in the Air - get your meta going 5.0 cross-realm raiding in 5.2 Cache loot buffed in 5.2 Valor in 5.2 will stay, Conquest will still convert to Honor 5.2 supposed to be here the end of Feb, says Bashiok Weekly topic - Does WoW seem too easy to vets or is this par for the course for new players that have never seen an MMO before? Mod of the Cast: sRaidFrames NugComboBar -meh

This Week: Eric - started a healer, tried out a rogue, warlock, and monk. What's the WoW experience like for new players? Mike - Worked on getting his mage DPS a little higher. Still not as high as he'd like. The search for better raid frames continues. News: All current raids will have a 10% buff when patch 5.2 lands. Blizzard says the macro system can use an overhaul. Project Blackstone unveiled - conencted to Starcraft 2: HoS. PTR: Green Fire quest for warlocks. Feat of Strength for people that finished current raids on Normal/Heroic (NOT PTR). Current conversion for 5.2 LFR is up this weekend. iLvl 480 minimum. Mod of the Cast: Mike - Auctioneer Eric - Rarity

What we did this week: Mike - New bags, checked out the PTR, what to do after you maxxed out your toon? Alts or PTR? Eric - Finished all of LFR, got fishing out of the way, played on the PTR. News: Lunar Festival is in full swing, along with flagged players. Tides of War machinima is up. Duncan Jones is tapped to be the Warcraft film's director. PTR New raid rules, new class changes, bonus rep in dungeons, and two new scenarios. Casual topic - is there a need for a guild in WoW anymore?

After eight years, we changed our theme. Warcast will be recorded every Thursday. What we did this week: Mike finished with Golden Lotus and tried soloing Naxx 10. Eric opened up the post-GL quests and worked on Brawler's Guild fights. News: Blizzard says they're not getting rid of addons (via WoWInsider). PTR 5.2 updates - we don't have any because we haven't tranferred our toons over there yet. Next show we will. Getting gear for xmog - is it fun? Is it worth it? Does it eat up your bag space? Blizzardverse - New cinematic for Starcraft 2: Heart of the Swarm. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVbeoSPqRs4&feature=player_embedded Mod of the Cast: Mike - Dominos Eric - Screengrid Support the show! http://www.thenexicon.com Our sponsors - ThinkGeek and SquareSpace Donate to the show or subscribe

Special guest host Eric Rice (@spin). All about the 5.1 Patch. New faction questline - Operation Shieldwall for the Alliance, Dominance Offensive for the Horde. New scenario - Dagger in the Dark. Gear upgrades - upgrade your rares and epics. Changes to tooltips. LFR bosses remaining counter removed. Raids no longer necessary for old school raid instances. New pets with some old school raid bosses. Get them all and you get Mr. Bigglesworth. New pets with Darkmoon Faire. Raiding in MoP.