World Of Warcast: A World Of Warcraft Podcast

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/starmike Ali (@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

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/starmike Ali (@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.

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/starmike Ali (@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 mixer What do you do in your downtime? This Week in WoW Darkmoon Faire starts Sunday Wrath timewalking Tuesday News Tides of Vengeance will be released Dec. 11. We have what's new. Naked and Afraid update

Discord: http://discord.worldofwarcast.com Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv Mount Up Add-on: https://wow.curseforge.com/projects/mount-up Renata- 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 110s Mike 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 Tuesday News Warcraft turns 14! Now through November 30th The rest of the Blizzcon Q&A questions are up and answered Forum upgrades Segment: Remembering vanilla

Discord: http://discord.worldofwarcast.com Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv Mount Up Add-on: https://wow.curseforge.com/projects/mount-up Renata - Exalted with all BfA factions Hordeside 2 level 30s in Naked and Afraid - one doing MUCH better than the other 120 #5 - Orc destruction warlock This Week in WoW Darkmoon Faire until Saturday Pet Battles this week (Squirt is coming November 10!) Monday 12th: Moonkin Festival Tuesday: Burning Crusade timewalking News 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

Discord: http://discord.worldofwarcast.com Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv Mount Up Add-on: https://wow.curseforge.com/projects/mount-up All about Blizzcon 2018

Discord: http://discord.worldofwarcast.com Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv Mount Up Add-on: https://wow.curseforge.com/projects/mount-up Ren: 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 Trea

Discord: http://discord.worldofwarcast.com Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv Mount Up Add-on: https://wow.curseforge.com/projects/mount-up Ren: 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

Discord: http://discord.worldofwarcast.com Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv Mount Up Add-on: https://wow.curseforge.com/projects/mount-up Thorn and Thyst from Lagging Balls, and Eric Van Skyhawk come by to shoot the breeze about WoW. @thornbrow @thyst03 @laggingballs http://www.laggingballs.com @hawkito

Discord: http://discord.worldofwarcast.com Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv Mount Up Add-on: https://wow.curseforge.com/projects/mount-up Ren: 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 Nightborne Mike: 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 Tuesday News: WoW Diar

Discord: http://discord.worldofwarcast.com Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv Mount Up Add-on: https://wow.curseforge.com/projects/mount-up Ren: Finished 120 on my Alliance rogue - still haven’t set foot in Drustvar Starting to hit Revered with various factions on Horde rogue Did warfronts on Horde rogue and paladin First warfront (rogue) - lots of fun, very quiet, felt epic - got a 355 cloak 370 bracers Second warfront (pally) - ended up tanking a lot of the bosses, including the last one - self-appointed “general” who would not shut up - got a 340 BP and 370 cloak Had issue when tried to take pally in - 320 minimum iLevel but was 309 Made some purchases to shore up worst items Tried to upgrade items through WQs but wasn’t getting much luck with availability - only azerite item still 310 was hat, and I got 3 breastplates in a row from azerite caches Thanks to Thecowking for tipping me off to a cheap level 355 Darkmoon trinket that took me from 316 to 320 Mike: Got a mythic +2 chest! Oh, but it has a les

Discord: http://discord.worldofwarcast.com Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv Mount Up Add-on: https://wow.curseforge.com/projects/mount-up Ren: “Fixed” my problem with subtlety rogue Working rep with rogue - finishing all quests in each zone 114 worgen rogue working through Tirisgarde - “the zone that never ends” Major rant about the differences between layouts of Dazar’alor and Boralus Harbor, including a major physics problem for the Horde Found another way archaeology is different = Darkmoon Faire War Campaign on Horde on hold until Revered with Honorbound Mike: i339 Mythics with Ali Finished the whole Kul Tiras storyline Oh, but you have to be revered with 7th Legion to continue with Z Working hard on rep because ^^ Arathi was amazing. Lag on night one So many epics and toys One more heroic for the achievement Working on Pathfinder This Week in WoW: Darkmoon Faire until Sunday Warfronts open (more in news) Uldir opens Next Tuesday: BfA Dungeon Event begins News Notable hotfixes of the week Uninte

Discord: http://discord.worldofwarcast.com Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv Mount Up Add-on: https://wow.curseforge.com/projects/mount-up Ren - Now have two 120s and two 111s, gotten most of my characters into the city Still working on effective AOE for subtlety rogue Still have not resolved missing XP bar but have a workaround (Experiencer) Started archaeology Archaeology progress still showing old number system (current level 825), but shows as “Zandalari Archaeology” Restored Artifacts - no new vendor, not showing up for Legion era fragments (usually current through previous expansion) Mike - i328 Want to do mythics this weekend. Trying to get 330+ Revered with Order of Embers. - yummy 335 gear. It’s been all rep and rep and rep and gear. Stalled professions because I can’t make anything decent until I do mythics. I plan on finishing the other zones over the next few days. Need more followers Dills This Week in WoW Trial of Style started - free transmogs! Darkmoon Faire starts Sunday News BfA sold

Discord: http://discord.worldofwarcast.com Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv Mount Up Add-on: https://wow.curseforge.com/projects/mount-up Ren Have 1 level 117 prot paladin and 1 level 114 subtlety rogue Disappointed by pickpocketing Noticed small amount of voice recycling - some of the voices/sayings of the Vulpera are identical to those of pandaren children Navigating the ziggurat: 8 level changes and 327 stairs between the main level and the profession trainers Fossilized Raptor mount now has apparent hip problems Technical issue: keep having problem where my xp bars aren’t showing xp -- just showing rep and artifact power %. Temporary fix: open Rep pane, toggle one of the reps “show as experience bar” on/off. Problem seems unrelated to mods, as it does it even when all mods are off Mike Burning the horde in the Clearcut was fun :D Dinged 120 on Sunday - it was faster than expected. Marie Davenport is the best grandma in WoW WITCHES! Drustvar is amazing Trying to get geared up for heroics - currently 3

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Discord: http://discord.worldofwarcast.com Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv Mount Up Add-on: https://wow.curseforge.com/projects/mount-up This Week in WoW: Pet battle bonus event Darkmoon Faire starts Sunday News: Lots of hotfixes to classes, creatures, professions, raids, dungeons and quests - almost daily since prepatch Hotfix to experience: experience required to level has been lowered for all levels 40-100. Reduction averages 14% between 60-80, with smaller reductions at other levels. Quest log bug - “Due to an issue, during a short time between 1st of August, 09:30 pm and 2nd of August 01:45 am players would get all their quest log abandoned when using a teleportation ability, such as hearthstone or mage portal. This issue is fixed by now, and we will try to assist you with recovering your quest progress. If you lost a progress of a quest, that can be completed during single play session, please, proceed by restarting this quest. If you were impacted by this issue and you lost a progress of a m

Discord: http://discord.worldofwarcast.com Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv Mount Up Add-on: https://wow.curseforge.com/projects/mount-up Ren: Mocktail of the Cast: Juniper and Tonic Shoulder surgery on June 9; haven’t been able to do much in game since Shoulder surgery turned out to be a little more involved than anticipated; spending 2 weeks in cast. Now have leave to spend small amounts of time out so I can type, but WoW doesn’t work Playing turn based strategy games instead Tried a multi button gaming mouse and the compact keypad and neither worked well Figured out the art of mouse flying but fighting is nearly impossible Finished home renovation projects Only real post-patch activity is logging onto characters and resetting talents Mike: Tried to get in on Tuesday. Nope. This Week in WoW: Who knows -- it’s been damn near impossible to play This week: Battleground Bonus Event - next week, Legion Dungeon Event News: CALL THE ORKIN MAN became OMG the bugs Drivers Some people reporting their drivers a

Discord: http://discord.worldofwarcast.com Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv Mount Up Add-on: https://wow.curseforge.com/projects/mount-up Happy 13th! Ren Cocktail of the Cast: Julep Zecca Italiana About 80% through the “Home Flooring Renovation” achievement Completed the new pre-expansion quest line on paladin - upgraded artifact from 75 to 126 Purchased a small one-handed gaming keyboard from DeLux - $30. Taking some time to get used to but may be easier to use than full sized keyboard when I’m one handed. Only real problem is maneuvering while flying Other issue: no English instructions came with it Mike I made a thing. I thought I needed things from Midsummer - nope. Did the artifact thing Poop quest :P Still need to do the mage tower This Week in WoW Midsummer Fire Festival continues through July 5 (Thursday) This Week: Arena Skirmishes; next week, World Quest Bonus Event Darkmoon Faire starts Sunday, July 1 News Pre-expansion artifact quest in Silithus went live this week Achievement: Crucible’s

Discord: http://discord.worldofwarcast.com Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv Episode 289 Ren Finished Fisherfriend of the Isles ALMOST finished Lucid Nightmare Got into Beta, but no time to do anything about it On Sylvanus server, copied my Horde paladin Krystoff onto it and created a Warcast channel Mike Nothing Well, did some beta w/Ali but basically covered the same ground as pre-reset. Guild moving to horde This Week in WoW Pet Battle Bonus Event Next week: Cataclysm Timewalking Midsummer Fire Festival starts Thursday, June 21 New from 2017: Set of Matches toy (500 Burning Blossoms), Igneous Flameling pet (350 Burning Blossoms), Illusion: Deathfrost from Ahune (Slave Pens) News BfA news 8.0 prepatch live on the PTR Players gain access to a multitude of features and system updates in the pre-patch, including Communities, War Mode, the new Honor System, overhauled Professions, and Legion's final storyline leading up to Burning of Teldrassil and the Battle for Lordaeron. Artifacts will be disabled

Discord: http://discord.worldofwarcast.com Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv Mike: Lucid Nightmare Map tips Finally upgraded to BfA Void Elf Even if you did all the prerequisites, you still have to do a short scenario to unlock each race (thanks Discord) Played the void elf for a few mins. Nothing special. More dungeons with Ali. Horde side BIG FONT BUG Killed Patreon Ren Also Lucid Nightmare (and considering Riddler’s Mindworm next) Still haven’t finished Fisherfriends Call for tips on how to play WoW one handed This Week in WoW Darkmoon Faire Legion Dungeon Event Thousand Boat Bash News Million Dollar Pet in BfA: Francois the Faberge Egg Pet - near the 15th Annual Norwington Equestrian and Hunt Festival in Tiragarde Sound (hint: you only have to have it, not spend it!) New BFA items: new Vrykul helms, a candle helm, and a fish shaped mace Gale Rider glider, similar to Goblin Glider, that only works in Kul Tiras Discussion: Given the direction of the upcoming expansion (war between the factions),