World Of Warcast: A World Of Warcraft Podcast

Discord: http://discord.worldofwarcast.com Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/starmike Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv Ren: Started an orc death knight - level 69 in Northrend Fisherfriends of the Isles - all but Akule Riverhorn Sort of in a holding pattern - finishing zones with paladin, rep, that sort of thing Most “finished” characters are druid and rogue in terms, but not sure going to start with those in BfA Mike: Horde side scenario is epic. Alliance will have one later, I’m sure. Alani Underrot This Week in WoW: Lich King Timewalking Glowcap Festival Mini-Event Drugon the Frostblood Mage Tower active on North American realms News Mythic +15 appearances obtainable in Battle for Azeroth Can either complete it before August 13, or wait a few weeks for Mythic difficulty to open back up after BfA launch Confirmed only artifact appearance that will be obtainable after BfA launches are the Mage Tower base appearance. BfA will have 18 character slots per realm News BfA BETA Environmental changes after t

Discord: http://discord.worldofwarcast.com Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/starmike Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv BfA Alpha Dungeons Waycrest Manor Freehold Temple of Sethraliss Had to start over Was able to go through the initial scenario, but the key cutscenes are placeholders. “Cool cutscene” Ali went through horde starting scenario, followed by amazing Escape from Stockades scenario. Both Horde and Alliance zones are gorgeous! Professions are sort of in You can train, but no vendor for BfA tradeskill mats. Old school tradeskill mats vendor is there. Fishing trainer added this week, only trains up to Pandaria fishing (Ali fished up Midnight Salmon) Herbalism: herbs are not just in the ground. Star Moss grows on walls, Siren’s song grows out of trees...refreshing change Mike Making up the money I spent on the T3 chestpiece. Problem - Vial of the Sands sells for garbage on my server (69,000g) No mounts this week Started going through ALL my screenshots. 103GB of them. Sorted by expansion May spli

Discord: http://discord.worldofwarcast.com Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/starmike Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv Ren: Success on BunofSteel and “the wolf in sheep’s clothing” Fisherfriends fun - though if you have a choice, don’t do melee Soloing normal dungeons Mike: T3 chest! BfA beta walkthrough Green proto-drake Primal Fire i1000 chest This Week in WoW Pet Battles Children's Week starts Monday 30th - through Monday 7th Volunteer Guard Day Mini-event Saturday the 28th Next week: Burning Crusade Timewalking Q&A Ion spent a lot of time covering the change to GCD They still want feedback wrt how the class feels Some abilities such as Charge, Infernal Strike and Heroic Leap for warriors and DIsengage for hunters being taken off GCD In Final Fantasy XIV, everything is on GCD, but the GCD is 2.5s, but can be reduced with gear. They want people to make decisions - A or B instead of A and B. Azerite Power being renamed Artifact Power There will be a way to respec traits. Talking about adding in tha

Discord: http://discord.worldofwarcast.com Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/starmike Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv Ren: Not played much in past couple weeks Next projects: mechanical pets for hunter, Field Medic, Fisherfriends Mike: Started working on Field Medic. No bueno cjracer20 in Discord suggested premades. Will do that soon™ Did not get into alpha this week yet. Ali couldn’t Monday, and then Wednesday turned into hell. Been doing follower missions. Mount and mog runs. Tailoring/enchanting finally at 800. Went through old pics. This Week in WoW Mage Tower currently active on North American realms Legion Timewalking this week. Pet Battle event next week General News Blizzard Balance can now be gifted - send a friend an electronic gift card with a personalized message Remote Auction House: Blizzard confirmed in a blue message that the reason they closed the RAH is that a "tiny fraction of one percent" of their user base was actually using the RAH and it was not worth their time and effort anymore

Discord: http://discord.worldofwarcast.com Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/starmike Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv Ren: Have a new Highmountain Tauren - enhancement shaman Got the noblegarden bunny Working on the four hatchling pet quests -- haven’t finished any of them Mike Exalted with Army of the Light. 8000 from exalted with Argussian Reach Tol Dagar BfA dungeon Odd thing about BfA - some people have quests, I don’t. Finally finishing up getting followers to 950 Noblegarden fun Field Medic This Week in WoW Pandaria Timewalking this week, Battleground Bonus event next week Darkmoon Faire Noblegarden (ends Monday) March of the Tadpoles (Borean Tundra - ends tonight at midnight) News: General and Current April Fool’s patch notes Remote Auction House is retiring on April 18th. Realm connections New round of realm connections is “on the way” to help with low pop servers. Family Guy: a 30 second Leeroy Jenkins reference. News: Battle for Azeroth 8 - 14 - 18 Ren’s Ridiculous Fun Facts about the Histo

Discord: http://discord.worldofwarcast.com Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/starmike Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv Ren: Finishing zones, changing to Beastmaster on hunter The handy parts about thinking about alt priority Mike: Island Expeditions Antorus Rep This Week in WoW World Quest Event - bonus reputation Darkmoon Faire starts on April 1 - rep bonuses from carousel and top hat stack with World Quest Event Noblegarden - April 2 Reminders: 2 pets and 1 mount - spring rabbit, noblegarden bunny (added 2017), springstrider mount News: New Naked & Afraid Finisher: Settlersrule, Alliance panda windwalker monk, with 5 days 23 hours and 28 minutes, and 24,483 gold. Next highest in progress: Norgreyclub, dwarf retribution paladin, level 92, closely followed by Alcina, a night elf arcane mage at 91 and Buffysummers, a human windwalker monk at level 90 Pax East - Apr 5-8 at Boston Convention Center - Demo stations for new Island Expedition feature Family Guy episode April 1 - Warcraft references Player

Discord: http://discord.worldofwarcast.com Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/starmike Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv Ren - Life invasions of all life invasions - Had to update laptop to make WoW run - Game goals: - get Field Medic done - get toons left behind caught up on Argus and professions - running up a void elf warlock for the hell of it - Question to self: do I have too many alts? - 12 110s with two duplicates (rogue and mage on Alli/Horde) - no DK or DH - Question: Is Blizzard both encouraging more alts AND not paying enough attention to making game alt-friendly? - If I had to pare down my alts, who would make the cut? Mike So close to finishing up this rep from Hell. Thanks to Ali for filling in last week about alpha Infinite Timereaver mount dropped while doing timewalking. That was fun. Alpha is still fun, but obviously limited in scope at the moment. There was a 1GB patch. Maybe I’ll try tanking again. I have a ton of quests I need to finish up. The Argus version of the fligh

Discord: http://discord.worldofwarcast.com Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/starmike Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv Special guest host Ali (@aliandrasK) joins us to talk about Battle for Azeroth alpha. This week is Cataclysm Timewalking. Tuesday the 20th Arena bonus week. Un'Goro Madness starts Sat goes through Mon.

Discord: http://discord.worldofwarcast.com Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/starmike Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv Ren MAJOR life invasions, may be more interruptions in weeks ahead Dinged 110 in Naked and Afraid challenge - final money total about 62,000 gold, time 4 days 22 hours 1 minute BUT ... forgot to take a screenshot (took one later; time finished can be calculated from the played time minus the time played at level, which was about 14 hours at the time) Also moved the toon to Whisperwind and did a race change to undead BUT ... plans to run up a void elf warlock to fulfill promise to Silvermoon gang Odds and ends - getting things tidied up in prep for expansion Advancing neglected professions Finished paladin mount quest and working on monk Getting all the class hall followers - Maximilian of Northshire is totally worth it Mike Interviews all day, every day. Wrath timewalking was fun. 700 badges from my next mount. This Week in WoW Legion Dungeon event until next Tuesday - additional loot Lu

Discord: http://discord.worldofwarcast.com Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/starmike Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv Ren Life invasions: thank you Cara - did not touch Love is in the Air Naked & Afraid monk: level 95, 3 days 22 hours, 46k gold Northrend: Leveling time slow, money amazing Pandaria: Leveling time medium-fast, money good Draenor: Leveling time medium-fast, money bad Mike Life invasion This Week in WoW Lunar Festival starts 2/17, runs to 3/3 Love is In the Air ends tomorrow Battleground bonus event starts Tuesday Ulduar Timewalking News Dungeon XP hotfix to bug introduced in 7.3.5 https://www.wowhead.com/news=281885/dungeon-experience-hotfixes Side effect to creature scaling broke awarded XP in some situations Significantly increased XP awarded for queuing for random Normal dungeons, Classic through Draenor Mobile Auction House has been restored New mount: Shu-zen, The Divine Sentinel - $25 in Blizz store (6 months game time for Chinese servers) - and fixed a scaling bug http://www

Discord: http://discord.worldofwarcast.com Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/starmike Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv Special guest host Cara(clysm) (@xandara) fills in for Ren. Mike Rep grinding is making me bored. Even if I did this when it was new, I find it dull because it’s too repetitive. 50% boost in rep from Sign of the Emissary, so go do it! I also haven’t upgraded yet. When I get to exalted in all 4, then I’ll do it. No rush now. Farming for the Love Rocket. No drops. Achievement runs Cara Heroic Antorus 2/11, first bosses aren’t too different Haven’t upgraded to BfA yet because I still feel like I have plenty to do without it right now, curious to see how long that will last But also I don’t really care about things as much as I used to? Like it’s still super fun! But I don’t feel like I NEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEED it. I.e. Love Rocket runs, I do them when I can but I don’t frustrate myself trying to fit them into my day I did claim my character names I want for my BfA allied race alts though. Seems th

Discord: http://discord.worldofwarcast.com Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/starmike Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv Ren: N/A monk now level 74 with 2 days 18 hours played and over 20k gold Boosted my 62 paladin to 110 Mike: Rep grinding This Week in WoW Kirin Tor Tavern Crawl yesterday and today Arena Bonus Event til Tuesday Love Is In the Air Feb 2-16 (see news) Darkmoon Faire starts Sunday Next Tuesday: World Quest Bonus Event and PvP Brawl: Southshore vs. Tarren Mill News Hofixes: All accounts have 16 character slots per realm Preorder for Battle of Azeroth No official release date Server issues Perk: quests to unlock allied races Nightborne: Exalted with the The Nightfallen and completion of Insurrection Void Elf: Exalted with Argussian Reach and completion of You Are Now Prepared! Lightforged Draenei: Exalted with Army of the Light and completion of You Are Now Prepared! Highmountain Tauren: Exalted with Highmountain Tribe and completion of Ain't No Mountain High Enough Remember: DMF hat/carouse

Discord: http://discord.worldofwarcast.com Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/starmike Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv Ren: N&A monk now level 62 with 1 day 20 hours /played and almost 15k gold Utilized the one-switch rule to respec from brewmaster to windwalker around level 45 Went “in order” until about level 40, and then went out of order doing zones where I had no transmogs (Burning Steppes, Stonetalon, and Southern Barrens) - thank you All The Things. Finished to 60 in Winterspring to level up mining Went straight to Northrend (Howling Fjord), skipped Outland entirely Mike: Working on rep and mounts. Still working on that Nerf Scrapbots achievement. Is it bugged? This Week in WoW Burning Crusade Timewalking Call of the Scarab ended Tuesday Arena Skirmishes start Tuesday Kirin Tor Tavern Crawl mini event Wednesday News Battle of Azeroth Collectors’ Edition perks datamined - https://www.wowhead.com/news=281070/battle-for-azeroth-collectors-edition-rewards-seabraid-stallion-gilded-ravasaur-?webhoo

Discord: http://discord.worldofwarcast.com Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/starmike Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv Ren - Did transmog count, found out only had 17% of mail transmogs Kind of Argussed out Running WoW off new SSD .. makes an enormous difference Mike - Still having problems with XT achievement. One day we get to 18, the next, 0 I got a pony! I lost 700 achievement points, probably due to rearranging the achivements. Mournful Moan of Murmur is now up and running after TWO YEARS of being broken. I have not yet tried to level a toon yet. The price of Celendras dropped like a rock. From 750k to 50k. When you go into Ulduar, it’s now 10-man no matter what you set raid to. It took forever to kill Galleon and Sha of Anger. Zone quests are now gauged by chapters, not numbers of quests completed. I was mailed all the new mats. This Week in WoW Pet Battle Event Call of the Scarab - Jan 21-23 Patch 7.3.5 Patch notes: https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/news/21365423 Undocumented patch notes Known is

Discord: http://discord.worldofwarcast.com Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/starmike Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv Ren Going for the drake achievement -- sort of Got 3 fel eggs this week: 1 Felglow Mana Ray mount, 1 Fel-Afflicted Skyfin pet, and Now “the Exalted” … “the Beloved” next?? Slowly getting everyone completed with the Argus campaign New toon: male blood elf protection paladin (going to go brewmaster monk for N&A) - almost level 40 Discussion: What makes you keep an alt? (@Cattarina and the “nursery of alts”) Mike More Ulduar achievements Still can’t do XT. Tried on alts. Just bad luck. Going to finish up Argus because I’ve neglected it too long. This Week in WoW Third wing of Antorus is open Battleground bonus event Darkmoon Faire opens Sunday Did we all watch Jeff Kaplan by the fire? News Legion Attunement Tracker on Wowhead now tracks Allied race unlock requirements Nightborne unlocks with completing Suramar (Good Suramaritan) Highmountain unlocks with completing High mountain (Aint

Discord: http://discord.worldofwarcast.com Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/starmike Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv Ren: Thanks to Cara for filling in for me last week - also thanks for the tips on how to speed up load screen times Hit Revered with Argussian Reach, Exalted with Scryers and Shado-pan Finished 6 out of 7 class mount quests for my 110s (druid, mage, rogue, hunter, warlock, and priest) - only warrior to go thoughts on class mount quests and how class mounts are treated differently Finished 150 mounts usable on 1 character for the Jade Pandaren Kite (currently at 164) Got 3 Shado-pan mounts and a couple “unsolicited” mounts - Wild Dreamrunner and Crimson Slavermaw Finished Argus campaign on 3 characters (druid, warlock, and rogue) One stupid three star Crispy Bacon recipe short of finished with cooking with warrior Mike: Nothing this week. Too busy. This Week in WoW Continuation of Winter Veil Mists of Pandaria Timewalking Shaman Challenge: 2 new finishers = Rokica and Settlersr

Discord: https://discord.worldofwarcast.com Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/starmike Special Guest Cara (@xanadara) joins us! Mike: Achievements continue More from Ulduar Still having problems with XT May be my fault - timing of the bots/heart https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZX8JuIoOY30 Got “Maybe He’ll Get Dizzy” Got my mount Are we at that point in the game where we finally take our time and slack off a bit? Cara: Warcraft news lately is all about the future: patch 7.3.5 datamining, Battle for Azeroth speculation… focus on the here and now? Lean in to your community for keeping the game fresh while waiting for new content *Cara news* Campfire Chronicles @CampfireChronic on Twitter and CCOfficialStories@gmail.com RCC at 7/11 Normal Antorus SALE! ~ 50% off most pets, mounts, and transmog helms https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/news/11944163 Seasonal Event! ~ Winter Veil is up til January 2nd HazelNuttyGames’ video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wpk9FKQrSc Globe Yeti wild battle pet spawns in the snow

Discord: https://discord.worldofwarcast.com Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/starmike Ren: Life Invasion continuation - won’t be here next week Yes, I was making a mountain out of a molehill, or YES DAMNIT I CAN FLY NOW How the raid really works for getting Good Suramaritan The overwhelmed WoW person’s quick and dirty guide to getting flying Stupid flight bugs -- Murky, stop dismounting me!! Working on getting my neglected toons un-neglected Pro tip: If you’re two manning dungeons in WoW, pay attention to dungeon difficulty setting Mike: Yes, you can even screw up 25-man achievements. Add-ons Still no new mounts. This Week in WoW: Method has finished mythic Argus 320 pulls Winter Veil starts this week (Dec 16-Jan 2) New stuff Hearthstation toy - sets out an “improved” Hearthstone table to play. No confirmation where this is from but possibly from Gently Shaken Gift Winter Veil Gift is a Toy Weapon Set, which lets you spar with other players. Gives achievement Don’t Play Wi th That In The House New pet: Gl

Discord: https://discord.worldofwarcast.com Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/starmike Ren: McAdoo fired (and so was Jerry Reese) … Geno Smith didn’t win the day and Eli is back Life invasions, but managed to do some gaming Mod of the Cast: MaxDPS (for remembering how to play forgotten toons) Mike: More achievement hunting. XT seems to be problematic. Staying buffed all winter may be buggy Forgot to do Algalon Next week - all 25-man Still need that 5-man Scholo one. I started working on addons. Finally. This Week in WoW Darkmoon Faire ends Sunday PvP week next week - Arena Skirmish and PvP brawl weekly events Feast of Winter Veil starts on the 16th Kobolds and Catacombs has an epic trailer. I still won’t play it. https://youtu.be/Q0blneW2fTo News Shaman Challenge: No new finishers, but Rokica and Settlersrule both reached 100 From last week: Artifact Knowledge 55 cap reached 7.3.5 hit the PTR Zone levels: While the continent zones all have the same upper limit, the lower limit varies, more or less matching

Discord: https://discord.worldofwarcast.com Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/starmike Our talk about WoW Classic. This week: Ren: WHO BENCHES ELI? Accidental discovery: how accidentally three-manning heroic Eye of Azshara turned into two-manning normal dungeons (EoA, Black Rook, Vault of the Wardens, Violet Hold, Darkheart Thicket, Maw of Souls), mage and warlock style Epic troll druid progress: Resurrected October 26 -- in 30 days, leveled 101-110, finished 2 druid weapons, class hall, Broken Shore campaign, Argus campaign, iLevel 913 Worgen mage finished class hall, almost finished Argus, iLevel 911 - first level 1000 legendary Mike: Achievement hunting w/Ali Mount farming - nothing this week dropped :( This Week in WoW Antorus opened Antorus Mythic opens next week End of Pilgrim’s Progress, 13th Anniversary Pet XP event ends Tuesday Cataclysm Timewalking next Tuesday News and Discussion Shaman Challenge - new finishers and a new record! New secret mount discovered http://www.wowhead.com/item=152814/ma