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 Ren - Still making little leveling progress Wrote a feature article on WoW Classic Tailoring for Cheapskates - https://classic.wowhead.com/news=295400/wow-classic-tailoring-alternate-cheap-leveling-1-300-methods Published https://classic.wowhead.com/guides/wow-classic-best-food and https://classic.wowhead.com/guides/wow-classic-flight-points-zeppelins-boats-travel Starting a series about all WoW classic trainers (including pet, demon, and portal trainers) Mike - Lots of Classic stuff This Week in WoW Brewfest ends Sunday Darkmoon Faire starts Sunday Battle for Azeroth dungeon event starts Tuesday How Wowhead is being totally ripped off -- DO NOT support classicdb.ch or https://vanilla-twinhead.twinstar.cz Blizzcon Virtual Ticket now available for purchase Cost: $49.99 Access to streams of all events - replays available until March 31, 2020 In game loot: World of Warcraft - pair of faction specific Murloc pets and Wendigo Woolies transmog Overwatch - Overwatch skins look like Illidan and Tyrande Hearthstone - Golden Legendary card Heroes of the Storm - BlizzCon spray and portrait, and a Celestial Deepcrawler mount StarCraft II - 3 new skins - Classic Battlecruiser, Classic Ultralisk, and Classic Carrier. "More", including a pair of wings for Diablo III players 8.2.5 went live War Campaign finale Goblin and Worgen model updates Recruit A Friend returns Honeyback Harvester Bee Mount - work with Barry to locate the hive and court the favor of the Hivemother and earn the Honeyback Harvester mount. Both factions can earn other bee-themed toys and items. WoW 15th Anniversary - November Log in to receive the Anniversary Gift: Lil' Nefarian pet, Celebration Package that increases XP and rep during the event, a reusable firework, an item that teleports you to the Caverns of Time during the event, other goodies Defeat 3 bosses in 3 event wings to be awarded the Obsidian Worldbreaker mount Burning Crusade: Kael'thas Sunstrider, Lady Vash, Archimonde WOTLK: Heigan the Unclean, Anub'arak, The Lich King Cata: Chogall, Nefarian, Ragnoros Alabaster Mounts from in-game shop Korrak's Revenge - a throwback battleground to old Alterac Valley Party Sync - when activated, everyone in party becomes aligned to the same quest state and phase. Includes "replay quest" for players who have already completed a quest. Quests can be replayed for rewards once per day. Relaxing level restrictions: when a lower-level and higher-level character queue for instanced content, higher level players will scale down to match. They will also lose any abilities that aren't appropriate for the new lower level. New Timewalking: Firelands Changes to Lunar Festival (Jan 24 - Feb 7 2020): complete the Rite of the Moon to make flower crowns transmoggable year round. Black Market - removed Grimoire of the Four Winds, added new items Timewalking vendors now restrict their wares to those who participate in their respective Timewalking events Several items created with Kul Tiran Engineering now restrict to level 110 or higher - these include Electroshock Mount Motivator, F.R.I.E.D, Organic Discombobulation Grenade, Thermo-Accelerated Plague Spreader, Unstable Temporal Time Shifter World Quests and Missions now offer gold or war resources to players who have maxxed out their Heart of Azeroth All reputation requirements have been removed from several War Campaign quests Auction House purchases over 50k gold now require a confirming dialogue box Player characters can now be displayed in the Mount Journal preview Players can now toggle between the map of a quest's final destination and its starting point by clicking the arrow icon next to it on the map Classic News: Estimates that Classic has increased WoW subs by 223% Layering update All realms will be on a single layer by the time Phase 2 is rolled out All realms have a maximum of 2 layers - the 13 least populated realms are all permanently set to a single layer Realms that are operating on more than one layer will soon say "layered". You'll only see Full/High/Medium/Low on realms set to a single layer Will continue to offer free character moves to balance populations and manage login queues No date for Phase 2, but confirmed that there will be 2 world bosses (Azuregos and Lord Kazzak). Reports it will take more than 30 minutes to kill Azuregos -- intentional on Blizzard's part to prevent corpse running Corpse running - when you run back to your body to resurrect - but when you are killed by Azuregos you get a Mark of Frost debuff that freezes you solid for 15 minutes. Dire Maul also being reintroduced, as well as the Honor System and PvP rank rewards - Battlegrounds won't come back til phase 3 Mod of the Cast: AutoBiographer

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 Ren Advanced Adulting last week Still very slow progress: 23 rogue Finished a few more guides: Cooking Ingredients A-Z, fishing location guide, travel guide -- have two more assignments to finish next week and several more backlogged Interesting travel facts - a stray 6.0 feature and travel times Mike Fun in Classic This Week in WoW Pirate's Day (today) Brewfest: starts Friday, Sep 20 - Sun, Oct 6 Nothing new for 2019, not running on Classic 2018 update: Coren Direbrew's trinkets are iLevel 335 Timewalking starts Tuesday, 24 Sep - Warlords of Draenor New 8.2 Snapback Scuttler mount now available for completing the Undersea Usurper achievement in Nazjatar 8.2.5 upcoming patch New items coming to the Black Market Auction House NA realms: free transfers start today - only to specific realms (eg. Pagle to Windseeker). EU realms start tomorrow (Sep 20). Free transfers will be available for 11 days. New servers: New PvP Classic Spanish server Mandokir, and free PvP character moves to the new Brazilian Portuguese PvP realm Sul'thraze and Latin American Spanish PvP realm Loatheb. Other news Blizzard announced that there has been an arrest in the case of the DDOS attacks that plagued the server on September 7-8. Several things available by 1.12 are not available in Phase 1, including Thorium Brotherhood reputation rewards Classic Sunken Temple Class quests Bug #1: Buffs falling off before the 32 buff cap - most observed issue was a loss in +hit bonuses. Bug #2, part 2: Some raids have been resetting prior to the weekly lockout, likely due to the layering issue. One streamer found that Molten Core had reset since the last visit less than a week ago, and actually checked with Blizzard before proceeding. Bug #3: No Summer Bass Bug #4: Feign Death not working properly

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 Ren: Hunter now level 16; WoW writing slowing down WoW leveling Guides getting lots of good reviews Had to replace my keyboard AGAIN -- weird Corsair keyboard layouts Mike: Mage is 37. Had to take a break for a day. News: Rise in gold seller chat channel spam and what to do about it Interface Options > Social > Block Chat Channel Invites Free Character Transfers on Select EU and Na realms For one day, NEW realms will be restricted only to those players using a free character moves to ensure they get the names they want. One day after, other players can make new characters on those realms (Only actual new realms are PvP) Move restrictions: A character cannot move if the character: is a guild leader. has active auction listings or bids. has mail. You may be required to change your character’s name once you’ve reached the destination realm. This is a one-way, irreversible move. Addons - what addons are you using and why?

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 We talk about how we're feeling about Classic, now that it's finally out for a few days.

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 Prepping for classic Number of servers as of 25 Aug: 21 EU (13 PvP, 8 PvE); 20 NA (12 PvP, 8 PvE) Addons The Classic LFG debacle Where to get and how to install - brief primer What do we think are going to be the biggest surprises for people who have never played Vanilla?

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 Ren: Got UD rogue to 11 in Classic during extended stress test Made many suicide runs to take screenshots, get coordinates Still not exalted with Nazjatar 2 more Wowhead guides published: Classic Leather Farming Guide Part 2: Specialty Scales and Leathers and Classic Basics: Soloing in Classic 101. In development: farming guides for herbs and ores. All farming guides have been reclassified as Gold Making instead of Professions. Mike: Revered with Nazjatar Almost honored with Rustbolt Love Mechanar Classic Got to 15 on a priest. Again. Got six toons’ names Tried cooking This Week in WoW: Battlegrounds Bonus Event began Tuesday, Battle of Azeroth Dungeon Event starts next Tuesday Tomorrow: Free T-Shirt Day News: Retail news Classic news

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 We talk about why we've been afk for a few weeks, and ponder the "leaks" that have come out.

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 Ren Got flight on Monday - game changer Started working other characters through Continued issues with Alliance-heavy server Stealth issue with bodyguard - known issue Using TomTom with HandyNotes Secret Fish goggles - segment later Switching mount equipment Listening to a new podcast: Morally Grey - thanks to @Ali for the recommendation Mike Mythics w/Ali TWIW Pet Battle Bonus event Eternal Palace raid begins - Lady Azshara is already dead, cinematic released News Blizzard is asking people who have been unable to drop combat to bug report - they want the character name and realm, date and time, place it occurred, what pets and/or bodyguards you had active, any steps you took to get out of combat Classic WoW Classic Closed Beta is … closed. Hotfixes to 8.2 8.2 impressions Secret Fish in Mechagon Mod of the Cast: Rarescanner, https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/rarescanner Thanks to @louielegdrop for this recommendation Mod of the Cast Part 2: Minimap Range Extender, https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/minimap-range-extender

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 Ren Router choking Started Nazjatar with mage - grouping issues Divide and Conquer strat,egy for 8.2 Confirmed: Pathfinder 2 has fully credited for both Explore Mechagon/Explore Nazjatar achievements gained on two separate characters Wowhead: published first guide, Lost Recipes of Azeroth - working on topics for next guides Mike Started working on converting files to MP3 Nazjatar Sold NOTHING on the AH TWIW Starts today: BoA dungeon event 4th - Thursday: Fireworks Spectacular - fireworks every hour visible from Booty Bay, Stormwind and Orgrimmar 5th - Friday - Fireworks Spectacular ends, Midsummer Fire Festival ends 7th - Sunday - Darkmoon Faire begins 9th - Eternal Palace raid opens, Pet Battle Bonus event News New Mount Reward for 6 Month Subscription - Syverian Dreamer Battle for Azshara 8.2 Undocumented patch notes

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 Ren - Vacation leads into work-a-thon New writing gig Playing on other podcasts Playing Diablo 3 Season 17 (when I have the time) and waiting for 8.2 Mike- Timewalking with Ali Got my Midsummer hearthstone Did peeing on the horde cities change? Got my BC mount Got a tailoring recipe I never had Classic Made it to level 8 Didn’t have enough time to spend in it as much as I wanted Herbalism and Alchemy This Week in WoW Midsummer Festival started last Friday 6/21 and will run until Friday, 7/5 Battlefield Bonus week News Naked & Afraid 3 New Finishers in Fully Strapped! Zeryl, Kul Tiran Balance druid in 2 days 22 hours 12 minutes - joining Kara’s two druids in the 2 days 22 hours club (hers finished at 4 minutes and 16 minutes). Also Alberthe, Kul Tiran Guardian druid at 3 days 6 hours 34 minutes. Alberthe mentioned that this was the first Naked and Afraid challenge she had finished! New Finisher in Truly Naked! Gorrum, Kul Tiran Guardian druid finished in 4 days 1 hour 21 minutes. Classic Server Indexing old episodes European realm structure - EU realms will not be split by language, except for Russian. Stress Test servers now show as WoW Classic under Live - four realms in US, two PvP, two PvE Next stress test: Jul 18-19 and will involve EU test realms as well 8.2 on Tuesday! https://www.wowhead.com/news=292443/rise-of-azshara-official-patch-notes

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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 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/starmike Lots of discussion about Classic

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 This Week in WoW - Pet Experience Bonus Week - Super Squirt Day Friday - Glowcap Festival on Monday, May 27 - Draenor Timewalking starts Tuesday NEWS More on Azeroth Pathfinder, Pt 2 - In addition to the reps, you need to complete Explore Mechagon and Explore Nazjatar Our impressions of the Classic beta. Desert Island Mods

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 Ren DID warrior now 97 - spent nearly all of 80-90 in one zone (Jade Forest) Very little time spent in-game Stupid discovery of the week: didn’t realize mission champions could go Legendary Ren Rep grinding: Finished last couple Draenor factions (Laughing Skull and Steamwheedle Preservation Society Switched to Klaxxi, Dominance Offensive and Sunreaver Onslaught - also finishing up Avengers of Hyjal This Week in WoW BFA Dungeon Event ends Tuesday Pet Battle Bonus Event starts Tuesday 21st NA Squirt Day! Friday, May 24th News Errata Mount equipment - one slot to rule them all Safe Haven cinematic - return of Thrall Worgen and Goblins will be the next to get heritage armor Warcraft 15th Anniversary is coming up - turns 15 on November 23 8.2 News WoW Classic News

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 Ren DID warrior now 97 - spent nearly all of 80-90 in one zone (Jade Forest) Very little time spent in-game Stupid discovery of the week: didn’t realize mission champions could go Legendary Ren Got Perma-Pepe Got the Azeroth's Top Twenty Tunes achievement Dark Iron Dwarf warrior now 107 Mike Working on DH Blizzcon Mogging Greater tokens This Week in WoW Children's Week ends today Spring Balloon Festival mini event starts Friday, ends Sunday DMF ends 11:59 PM Saturday BFA Dungeon Event starts Tuesday 8.2 PTR news Clarification to Mount Equipment Slots Heart of Azeroth: Essence System New Benthic Gearing system New profession items

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 Ren DID warrior now 97 - spent nearly all of 80-90 in one zone (Jade Forest) Very little time spent in-game Stupid discovery of the week: didn’t realize mission champions could go Legendary Mike Mount farming - nothing. Crucible on normal w/Ali. So much fun Finished up more of the war campaign. Trying to get a damn belt lol. It’s 355 blue. Did NOT do Noblegarden. THIS WEEK IN WOW Noblegarden - ends tomorrow - three new bunny ear circlets in blue, brown, and yellow (50 chocolates each) for transmog and the hearthstone Noble Gardener's Hearthstone (250 chocolates). End of World Quest Bonus week - ends Tuesday Timewalking - Pandaria starts Tuesday Children's Week - starts Thursday 5/2 and ends Thursday 5/9 NEWS Naked & Afraid 3 Info about Blizzcon 2019 Suspensions went out this week Classic news 8.2 PTR news

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 Christy, Mike, and Cryler join us for a round table discussion about Battle for Azeroth.

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 Ren We bought a new dishwasher… Remembering why I hate Zul’drak Loving resto shaman life Mike BoD with Ali Still can’t get the damn staff from BoD. In fact, got a ton of stuff I already had. Got the mog toy Achievements w/Ali - aka - f’n golden egg Did people change or the game change? This Week in WoW Pet Battle Event - no confluence with Squirt day on NA realms, but Tuesday was one on Euro realms (next one will be 24 May 2019) Darkmoon Faire starts today- new things Darkmoon Faire Roller Coaster - serves same purpose as the carousel for getting the xp/rep Buff, but MUCH slower By timer: Roller coaster took 1:20 to get the buff; carousel 13 seconds; carousel is over 9x faster Getting off the coaster early doesn’t help New balloon pets - Horse, Murloc and Wolf. 90 tickets each. Companion only, not battle. Fish head hats - random fishing reward - white quality, 5 at a time Reminder: make sure to get any professions to level 75 in Vanilla to do the corresponding profession quest in DMF March of the Tadpoles micro-event: April 5th - Borean Tundra News Segment: Getting Around Azeroth

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 Ren Raiding with Leashes completed Kul Tiran druid - level 40, 11 hours 43 minutes Dark Iron Dwarf, level 70 Not much play time this week - bird banding, new genealogy reference book This Week in WoW Trial of Style ended today BoA Dungeon Event starts Tuesday - last boss drops extra loot News Naked & Afraid Update Already have 2 finishers in the Fully Strapped Division -- both Zandalari Feral Druids! - Thecowking finished with 1 day 21 hours and 1 minute, and Kara with 2 days 22 hours and 16 minutes. Current highest level in the Truly Naked Division is Morgahn, also a Zandalari Feral Druid at level 76 with 1 day 11 hours and 33 minutes. Tip: 120s KTs/Zandalari start out at Honored with home faction - buy the 320 cloak WoW’s Welcome Back Weekend - Mar 21st through 24th, ends today, reactivating all accounts without a subscription Loot Trading in Classic Temporary Bans for Leveling Exploit Q&A with Ian - highlights What we DO know about 8.2 MODS: Pretty Reps, SavedInstances

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 Ren Raiding with Leashes (8/11) - gotten the two from Terrace of Endless Spring and the five from Heart of Fear, and one from Moshugan Vaults (Comet). Missing three from Moshugan Vaults (Stoneclaw, Wayward Spirit and Baoh-Xi). Bit of a pickle with Blade Lord Tal’yak. Kul Tiran druid - not playing the race game Druid healing is not for me Bought the transmog mount (but not giving up on making money) Can’t continue War Campaign … yet Magni … Magni … Magni... Mike I guested on FrazlCast with Ali! Ulduar Timewalking ArkInventory issues i379 This Week in WoW Un’Goro Madness - today through Tuesday Tuesday: Battleground Bonus Event Wednesday: Trial of Style 3 (20-24) Four new ensembles to purchase at 60 Trial of Style tokens, all based on Cataclysm End Time dungeon sets News Naked & Afraid 2 closed Three new 120 finishers: Kara (Blood Elf Ret Paladin) 3 days 15 hours 14 minutes; SniperFrog (Dark Iron Dwarf Marksman Hunter), 3 days 5 hours, 16 minutes, and Sevy (Gnome Fire Mage) 2 days 18 hours 21 minutes. Following Honorable Mentions for getting 90 or above: Ali, Hidebound, and Alberthe Awards: Fastest Finisher: Sevy, Gnome Fire Mage, Regular Division, 2 days 18 hours 21 minutes Fastest Finisher, Warmode Edition: Thecowking, Void Elf Brewmaster Monk, 2 days 23 hours 17 minutes Most Persistent - Skwahog, Void Elf Affliction Warlock, 6 days 14 hours 28 minutes Most Gold: Kara, Blood Elf Retribution Paladin - 55,291 Naked & Afraid 3 - All Druids All Day edition, open Fully Strapped edition - 28 participants so far -- 11 Zandalari, 11 Kul Tiran, 2 Highmountain, 2 Troll, 1 Tauren, 1 Worgen Truly Naked edition - 10 participants so far - 5 Kul Tirans, 2 Worgen, 1 Zandalari, 1 Tauren, I signed up but undecided Current Leaders: (Levels and times current as of 9 AM) Fully Strapped: Thecowking (Zandalari feral) level 80 with 17 hours 45 minutes Truly Naked: Morgahnn (Zandalari feral) level 52 with 15 hours 58 minutes Issue with Discord overlay - Blue post acknowledging there is a problem with game display issues and crashes for users of Discord overlay 8.1.5 news

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 Ren Lots of advanced adulting this week (had to miss #WNN) Working on a nightborne monk as well as the dark iron dwarf warrior Also working on some rep grinds - still needs more Proudmoore Admiralty Mike DH to 119 Darkshore bosses Achievements with Ali This Week in WoW Darkmoon Faire until midnight, Sunday March 10th (Daylight Saving Time?) World Quest event runs until Tuesday, March 12 8.1.5 lands Tuesday Also starts Tuesday: Wrath of the Lich King Timewalking Ungoro Madness, March 17-19 News Naked & Afraid 2 running until March 12th Naked & Afraid 3: All Druids All Day - Clothing Optional Starts … NOW! Rule changes fleshed out - posted off our Discord N&A 3 channel 8.1.5 lands Tuesday More info on Tools of the Trade Raiding with Leashes: Pets of Pandaria New mechanical parrot quest - “Feathers”

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 Ren Was supposed to do timewalking but got caught up first in RL exciting project, and then power outages Dark Iron Dwarf warrior now level 61 Completed War Campaigns on both sides, up to the Battle of Dazar’alor Money making slowed down from lack of attention, but currently still averaging about 16k per day, mostly due to cheap monelite ore vs. expensive monel-hardened stirrups Talking to others in Discord about doing island expeditions Mike Demon Hunter to 115 Fun times with Ali doing timewalking This Week in WoW Darkmoon Faire opens Sunday, Mar 3 World Quest Bonus Week - extra 50% bonus rep plus 1000 war resources for completing 20 world quests (good for those trying to finish up for the Kul Tiran or Zandalari racial unlocks) Third and final wing of Battle of Dazar’alor opened on LFR News Naked and Afraid News 8.1.5 news: Release Date: March 12 Kul Tirans and Zandalari will launch From the Discord:

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 Ren Three down, one to go: Waycrest Manor with #WNN with Kara, Alla, Zignea and Level Discipline priest or resto shaman? Playing with healing mods The secret of the vulpine familiar Mike Fun with Ali Druid to 110 This Week in WoW Love Is In the Air - through Tuesday Feb 26th Burning Crusade timewalking Hatching of the Hippogryphs - Sun Feb 23 News Layoffs at Activision/Blizzard - 8% work force (800 out of 9600 employees), primarily in public relations, marketing, and esports Love Is In the Air: New this year: Peddlefeet's Lovely Hearthstone - 150 Love Tokens Must be 110 or higher to acquire the Big Love Rocket mount Crown Company Necklace rewards are ilevel 365 max for 120 players (????) Economy hint: Swift Lovebird, for 270 Love Tokens, can be bought and sold on the AH (on Whisperwind median price is about 125k Naked & Afraid Update No new finishers but several people in the 70-90 range This season will end: Wednesday, March 20th Naked & Afraid 3: All Druids All Day will start about 2 weeks after the launch of 8.1.5 WNN will try to help people finish the Pride of Kul Tiras/Nation Divided for folks who need that to open Kul Tiras (Zandalaris have no dungeon requirements; Kul Tirans have 4) Wednesday Night Normals 8.1.5 patch news Economy Ren: Still making around 20k/day but shifted focus from farming mats to crafting stirrups and hoofplates with cheap monelite

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 Ren Wednesday Night Normals group - Shrine of the Storm and the Battle of the Bridge Zignea, Level, Geomancer, and Alla Got 10th 120 - finished my Horde panda mage Economy talk in news Mike I have decided to start getting money Went through all my toons to see what I have My value is 2.1M gold So many things that are wasting space This Week in WoW Darkmoon Faire ends Feb 9th, 11:59 PM server time Lunar Festival ends Feb 11th Love Is In The Air starts Feb 12th (no information on updates for 2019) Pet Battle Bonus Event begins Feb 12th - no Squirt battle available for NA realms (not until May 24th), but she will be up on EU realms on Sunday, Feb 17th News Method World First - Mythic Jaina (Limit was either #2 or #3) 8.1.5 news Fun with Tradeskill Master

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 Ren Warcast group run on Tol Dagor, after making a dreadful discovery Didn't stream or record; computer equipment not up to the challenge Alliance warlock now Exalted with 7th Legion, working on all quests, "finished" War Campaign Horde warlock working through war campaign Trying TradeSkill Master - discussion later on the state of professions Mike Did not do my Void Elf Ran a dungeon w/Ren Hellfire Citadel Got everything except the belt Will be trying to make 5 million gold This Week in WoW Darkmoon Faire, Feb 3-9 Battle for Azeroth Dungeon Event News Naked & Afraid updates Newest 120s: Ketchupman, Normal Division, Void Elf Beastmaster Hunter - 2 days 19 hours 34 minutes - current leader in BOTH divisions --- Also Kara, Blood Elf Ret Pally, first Horde finisher, 3 days 15 hours, 4 minutes (adjusted) Fully Strapped divisions have received consistent enthusiasm, not just from those who plan to use it Lunar Festival - 7 new toys - Green Dragon and Blue Dragon Tail, Body, and Head Costumes, and Lunar Elder's Hearthstone sold by Fariel Starsong - similar to the Red Dragon costume pieces introduced in 2017 New complication: Because of the destruction of Lordaeron and the World Tree, if you're doing these with post-110 characters, you will need to talk to Zidormi to restore certain zones. Undercity and Tirisfal Glades - near the Ruins of Undercity Teldrassil and Darnassus - outside Lor'danel in Darkshore Silithus - near Valor's Rest Blasted Lands - north entrance of Blasted Lands Hogrus, Year of the Pig mount, introduced to Blizzard store - $25 US Battle of Dazar'alor Mythic and Raid Finder 1 unlocked Race to World First Dazar'alor Jaina kill Professions in WoW Getting serious about making coin Tradeskill Master has been a revelation Features that make a difference Prices of actual sales, not just what people post things for Integrated DE prices and prices of crafting based on real time component prices Instant information on what is profitable to make, or profitable to sell the components and buy What drove this idea: discovery that Method is using Skystep Potions in its Jaina strat The idea that consumables (potions, enchants, contracts) are the big money makers, but they are not - various information on some of the professions

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 Ren Rushing my warlock to 120 on Sunday, to iLevel 320+ and Darkshore, finished main lines of all zones, war campaign to date, current iLevel 361 Island campaigns Why Demonology Lock is becoming my new main, on both sides Mike Mog runs Finished up some things in Emerald Nightmare This Week in WoW Lunar Festival - Jan 28th - Feb 11th 31st: Kirin Tor Tavern Crawl mini event News Naked & Afraid Updates Flying Pig Mount available on Chinese servers for a 6-month subscription for the Year of the Pig Thursday Q&A with Ian Hazzikostas Discussion from Discord: Should Draenor flying be grandfathered in for all players?

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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 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 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 internally Segment: Making WoW friendly for people that are dyslexic

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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 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 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 Timewalking News: 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 channel Wowhead 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 style Blizzard 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 ceremony Patch 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 raptors Darkmoon 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 chapters

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 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 117

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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 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 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 = $20 Patch 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 characters All about the new rep changes.

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 lesser item than what I had :P Rep, rep, rep This Week in WoW: 18th-25th - Harvest Festival; Pet Battle Bonus Event 18th - 19th: Pirate Day 20th - 6th: Brewfest News: Blizzard Virtual Ticket on sale - $49.99 (same as last year) Most will be available until March 31, 2019 - Community Night and closing night guaranteed to be up for 1 month after event No details on in-game loot, except for an Overwatch skin for Sombra modeled after the Diablo III demon hunter Ian Hazzikostas will be having an AMA on /r/wow (started at 2 PM PST today) so we will go over that next week. Classic WoW AMA 0n the /classicwow subreddit - some highlights

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 Unintended gear drops - Blizzard corrections

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 3.4 million copies on its first day - franchise record Does this only count new purchases on opening day, or does it count prepurchases? Notable hotfixes for the week Auction House changes - will be discussed separately Classes Demon hunters no longer falling to their deaths gliding away from Dazar’alor. Feral druids continuing to receive upgrades to their AOE abilities Creatures and NPCs Treasure hunters around the Deadwash will no longer inadvertantly flag Horde players PvP Dungeons Freehold now has an NPC at the end that will port characters to the beginning Kings’ Rest: enemy casters now have mana bars Items Azerite armor now tradeable Faction items can now be traded back to their Quartermaster for a full refund for 2 hours Professions Inscription - Contract duration is now 7 days Cooking - Foods now provide significantly more health and mana World Quests Profession WQs will now not show up for characters who don’t have that profession Being hit by Frightened Stomps of Frightened Brutosaur during “Underfoot” will no longer flag players World Several missing Zandalar mailboxes have been returned Auction house hotfixes, plus premium 20% extra deposit for tradeskill items. But are the actual numbers going to dissuade sellers? Wide variety of deposit prices for stacks of 1 vs larger stacks Remember: only pay the deposit if the item doesn’t sell Sample items from BfA: Monelite ore, Gloom Dust, Great Sea Catfish - Deposit inflation between 1 stack of 200 and 200 stacks of 1: Great Sea Catfish - 7.5g to 47.5g - or 633% US median 24g - lose 47.5g out of 4800, 1% loss Gloom Dust - 8g to 200g - or 2500% US median 27g, so 200g out of 5400, or 3.7% loss Monelite Ore - 1s 30c to 40g - or 307,000 % US median 48g, so 9600/40, or 0.42 loss HandyNotes has new modules for BfA treasures and achievement points in zones WQ exploit - how it worked, how it has ended Warning: getting whispers from accounts that make you think it’s Blizzard saying you have to go to a website to plead your case because you’re about to be banned - recognize official Blizz communications Battle for Azeroth Pathfinder, Part One - start working on it now for increased mount speed Battle for Azeroth Explorer Explore all 6 zones on both continents Wide World of Quests Complete 100 world quests Azerothian Diplomat Earn Revered with the following factions, Champions of Azeroth and Tortollan Seekers, and the following for each side: Alliance - Proudmoore Admiralty, Storm’s Wake Order of Embers, 7th Legion Horde: Zandalari Empire, Voldunai, Talanji’s Expedition, The Honorbound Either Kul Tourist or Zandalar Forever - complete all main story lines of your side’s three zones Ready for War (faction) - complete your side’s War Campaign - starts with establishing footholds necessary to open world quests. The rest requires becoming Friendly with your side’s war rep (Honorbound or 7th Legion) No dungeon or raid requirements (yet) Mod of the Cast: The alpha release of WORLD QUEST TRACKER.

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 301 Have not finished all zones. Still four whole zones to complete New trick - group members kicking themselves to beat the timer. Got into a dungeon where three people left, no tank Next dungeon got me three pieces. Tailoring has slowed. Still have to deal with enchanting. Haven’t taken a good look at it. WQs open after two Zandalar zones are quick-finished, then one solo island expedition, THEN the third, THEN friendly rep. This Week in WoW PvP Brawl: Gravity Lapse event Seemingly not going for weekly stuff for another few weeks into the expansion at least News and BfA Do the city quests first - leads to other benefits Example: Pests in northern area of Horde city called the Zocalo - be sure to pick up “Pests” - gives you access to Jani, the Loa of Scavengers. As you’re out and about, you will sometimes get a whisper from her that you’ve found a “shiny trinket” - find her trash pile to get a treasure chest Horde - starts in the Zocalo, the northern part of the city, so do this right away. Alliance: starts in Shatterstone Harbor in Vol’dun, so you don’t get this one til later Changing and advancing professions in BfA Advantage to changing: you can start along with everyone else When you change the profession, you have to click TWICE - once to get the initial Vanilla levels, and then a second time to learn the Zandalari profession Check to make sure you pick up all your level 1 abilities and recipes - you get them automatically sometimes (cooking) and not other times (gathering professions) Worth getting your other profession alts at least started in the city - early level stuff can be useful, such as the level 1 Rubellite recipe in JC (Insightful Rubellite - +5% xp) and the Zandalari tradeskill glove enchants. Rubelite currently selling for around 70g on Whisperwind AH; Zandalari tradeskill enchants are pretty cheap also if you don’t want to DIY Developer Q&A with Ian Hazzikostas: some highlights Feral druid AOE tuning has been improved but isn’t finished yet. 120 power setback is noticeable - looking in future expansions to smooth it out so you don’t feel like hitting max level is a huge backward jump Autoaccept removed from groups: development believed autoaccept for groups and using addons for searching for groups created an imbalance between those who used addons and those who didn’t. (Ren does not approve) AH is showing its age, particularly on high pop servers. Search options too limited May introduce deposits that would reward people with bulk pricing -- higher deposits for people who post a single stack of a stackable trade good (what could go wrong?) Community moderation coming in the next patch Azerite armor will be tradeable starting after next week’s patch (“they don’t want players to abuse the system to look for the best possible class/trait combination to loot a certain piece of azerite armor”) AP needed to advance your Heart of Azeroth will be reduced New models incoming for goblins and worgen (please fix hats!) Is this expansion “alt friendly”? Takes me about 20 minutes to get from beginning of entry quests to in the first inn, bound, and basic professions upgraded. Multiply that by 13 level 110s and that’s over 4 hours just to get everyone in the game. Not even counting the 1 Horde and 1 Alliance character I needed to take through the whole thing. Are side quests a problem?

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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 multistep quest, that takes several days to complete or a quest that you are not able to pick up anymore, we will try to recover the progress. Please, note, that we do not guarantee to recover progress as it was before the loss, but we will do our best.” War of Thorns parts 1&2: thoughts

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 are fully up to date but Blizzard still flagging them for having un-updated drivers Legion App: Problems with only being able to access 3 characters Only way to change characters: log completely out of the app, sign back in, and select the starting character you want BlizzardCS confirmed in a tweet on 7/19: “Switch Character button was intentionally removed. You now switch characters by logging out, then logging in again. You'll be taken to the list of characters to select from at that point.” Cue well deserved community shit fit. Now as of 3:30 PM EST, they are saying they are “working on a fix for this issue.” Talents Icy-Veins has already updated class guides and talent suggestions for prepatch Communities Disabled on some realms, in testing on others 8.0 Undocumented features Q&A overview

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 Promise - upgrades your artifact from 75 to 126 Several of the Silithus quests are NOT REQUIRED to complete this (but you can’t skip the trips to Stormwind or Orgrimmar) Only the quests directly from Nolan Speed (Alliance) and Grol Warblade (Horde) are required to complete the quest line First Horde quest: motivate peons; first Alliance quest, collect Mysterious Ore by killing goblins. Horde quest turns in to Grol. Alliance has turn-in for Mysterious Ore going to a dwarf, but then return to Nolan Speed to pick the line back up. From this point on, the main line is identical, Horde or Alliance. Pick up “The Twilight Survivor” from Nolan or Grol. Ignore “Desert Research” because it’s just a breadcrumb to an unnecessary gnome or goblin line. Pick up “A Recent Arrival” to talk to Khadgar, and this leads to the end. You can skip ALL the gnome quests (Alliance) and goblin quests (Horde) and the outhouse quest and it does not affect progress. These extras provide color and 18g but no rep or other rewards Confirmed upgraded ALL owned weapon artifacts, whether they are on you or in the bank When you have completed this quest, if you complete any other weapon quests, these fully upgrade as soon as you shift into that specialization Underlight Angler graphics do what the regular artifacts do and it shows TRILLIONS of AP, but doesn’t actually upgrade the Angler (AP yellow bar still shows proper amount of points. Display bug) Reportedly making the Mage Tower much easier to complete and sudden uptick in new guilds finishing Mythi and Cutting Edge Argus the Unmaker achievements. Mage Tower is now live 24/7 Forbes Interviews with Ion Hazzikostas Change in BFA: Prevent players from swapping gear in high difficulty Mythic+ dungeons - make it consistent with not changing talents mid-encounter. Mythic+ now requires complete speccing (talents AND gear) for the entire dungeon, which Blizzard now views as a single encounter. New Azerite armor Can’t be warforged or titanforged Only source that can be run repeatedly is normal or heroic dungeons Can be gained as a world quest emissary reward, but not from world quests themselves Can get as a weekly PvP or conquest reward, but not at the end of a match Mythic dungeons - not from box at the end, but only from the weekly reward box Clear tiers of Azerite armor Communities Will not be cross faction (“we’re at war!”] Yay Discord! Confirmed the following are all going away in the prepatch: First Aid achievements Ahead of the Curve and Cutting Edge achievements Violet Spellwing mount quest from killing Argus. Guaranteed mount drops from mythic Argus and Gul’dan in The Nighthold will become rare drops The Chosen title (killing bosses in mythic Trial of Valor without dying) Brawler’s Guild seasonal achievements Legion Elite PvP armor sets, achievements related to the Ashran battlefield and several other Legion specific PvP achievements Mentioned Fisherfriends of the Isles isn’t going away but will be a lot easier to achieve now that there are huge groups doing it Professions Professions system is “changing dramatically” Each expansion will have its own separate skill tier level\ Analogy: Pandaria cooking If you have 800 skill in a profession, you’ll be at 100 skill level in each expansion’s profession tier, and will start BFA as level 1 for BFA crafting. If you have 650, for example, you will have 100 through Pandaria, then 50 for Warlords, and no Legion Also means is that if all you want to do is craft items for Battle of Azeroth, there’s nothing you have to do - you do not need to get your profession to 800 - there is no advantage because all 800 profession skill level means now is that you will have 100 level in all expansion tiers short of BFA. Everyone will start at level 1 for BFA crafting and gathering. Question: how is racial profession bonus going to figure into this? Also means if you want to change professions, it’s a great time to do it. Ian’s advice: professions “extremely option

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 when the pre-patch goes live. Player power will be buffed to compensate for the power loss. Class Changes A stat/item squish Legendaries won't work past level 115. Retired artifacts lose all their traits and become normal weapons, with stats scaling with relics installed in the artifact weapon. The main artifact effect of each spec's weapons is becoming a talent instead, as are several class specific legendaries. Underlight Angler was originally showing as disabled, but the latest build fixed it. WoW Classic Will start with 1.12 Drums of War: Features introduced in 1.12 included: Cross realm battlegrounds (Alterac Valley, Warsong Gulch, Arathi Basin) World PvP Some of the past things from previous patches that will be included as a result: Ruins and Temple of Ahn'Qiraj - so this will be after opening those Blackwing Lair Darkmoon Faire Raid dungeon timers, calendars and lockouts The high level class dungeon armor sets Weather Quest experience for gold at level 60 Final destination flight paths Linked auction houses Some world holidays Soul shard bags (!!!) Expected issues with the first prototype didn't recognize current video cards and was incompatible with the current login/authentication server (authenticator became available 2 Jun 2008, almost 2 years after 1.12's release on 22 August 2006) Does not support modern security and anti-cheating capabilities Second prototype: instead of going forward with old code, work backward: take the modern back-end code and use it to process Patch 1.12 game data Start with modern architecture, security and stability - catalogue any differences in behavior between the development build and the Patch 1.12 reference build Three types of game data: Table data: numbers - hit points, stats, spawn timers, etc. File data: dense data such as 3d models, textures, animations, terrain, user interface, and art models (don't use the same file formats as commercial art tools - no jpgs, tifs, etc. Lua scrips: custom behaviors for server side logic without needing engineering knowledge Engineering challenges All classic data is in original form since launch, but format has changed substantially over the year. Modern client is not compatible with old data. Master data problem: from single line on a master table to multiple linked tables catalogued by ID number much richer environment but not compatible with the single line system For example, spells could only apply up to three actions on a target in classic In current form, spells no longer limited to three effects and are formatted differently Almost all other data such as items, characters, creatures, NPCs, AI, spawning and more) have had their database formats changed

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), will this, or should this, have any bearing on deciding which toons to go forward with first? How will your characters react to the war?