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 the battles: Alliance: After Siege of Lordaeron, Darnassian refugees in Stormwind Harbor and you can no longer take the boat to Darnassus. There is now a portal. You cannot travel to the zone because fatigue will kill you. Talk to Zidormi in Darkshore to witness Darnassus before the siege. Similar story for Horde: zep to UC no longer works, portal to Ruins of Lordaeron Entering the zone will kill you Talk to Zidormi in Tirisfal to witness Tirisfal before the Battle for Lordaeron Reputation Rewards - list of all the goodies (what to focus on depending on your interests). If you’re into: FROM THE DISCORD Naked & Afraid Challenge officially ending June 1. This is as much to give people time to finish leveling up characters without the restrictions before the expansion hits. 3 new finishers! Please let me know if I missed anyone: Boomstyx, orc Beastmaster hunter: 3 days 11 hours 47 minutes (current leader!) Gautama, panda brewmaster monk: 5 days 8 hours 30 minutes Zignea, human arms warrior: 7 days 7 hours 4 minutes (current winner of “Most Persistent”) Lots of discussion generated by the question: who are you leveling first? MOD OF THE CAST: ShutUpRhonin

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 split them between characters. Found out that I was leveling TWO mages at the same time on two servers. Apparently I was on Aggramar and don’t remember why. I also moved toons around a lot and don’t remember why. Ali Still trying for Invincible….Arthas is a bitch Raid is working on trying to get Ahead of the Curve achievement together. Heroic Coven is a struggle. Going to get lockouts-Skipping it to work on Aggramar and Argus. Halfway through Field Medic (got some repeat quest drops) Really starting to focus on my N&A toon Ren called for June 1st to official deadline. Can still work on it and complete it but after deadline, finishers won’t be announced on the show. Summer gets busy. Maybe a new challenge at some point? Never know with Ren! My N&A toon is almost 65, determined to get it done in time Ren spoke again about starting a Warcast guild on Silvermoon-US. Alliance side? We’ve been discussing different names on discord! News: Blizzcon tickets went on sale Several people helping others to get tickets. Both waves of tickets are over. Don’t buy scalped tickets. Better to see if anyone has any extras. GCD is a Big Thing™ Racials will be removed from the GCD http://www.wowhead.com/news=283908/comprehensive-list-of-abilities-added-to-the-gcd-in-battle-for-azeroth#mage Mage: Time Warp Charged Up (Arcane) Arcane power (Arcane) Spring Balloon Fest going on now until tomorrow War Mode available. Have not tested it yet I might test it just to see how it goes, but will not be a permanent change for me. Talking weapons transmog will still talk? Don’t DDoS Blizzard Romanian man extradited and sentenced to one year for DDoS in 2010 Also has to pay almost $30k

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 that functionality later, and a return to the old respeccing a la vanilla (paying an increasing scale for respecs, with decay) BfA should be more alt-friendly. Heart of Azeroth -- universal for all specs instead of having to develop AP in multiple weapons New BGs called Epic Battlegrounds Large battlegrounds are being split off Removing blacklisting from Battlegrounds Strand of the Ancients is being removed in BfA (not sure if temporary or permanent) Ashran is being temporarily retired. No plans to deactivate racials in rated PvP All loot will be personal loot Will still be flagged going into an enemy major city, whether you are in War Mode or not More BfA stuff Battle Pets in beta: Some nerfs incoming: Bone Serpent: swapped positions of Call Darkness and Lift-Off Practical upshot: This is a huge nerf. Call of Darkness now shares the slot with Nocturnal Strike. Call of Darkness blinds all pets, and Nocturnal Strike always hits if the target is Blinded. In combination, this is huge. Having to choose between them now significantly reduces its power. (Workaround: do the Frostfur Rat with Call Darkness and Sneak Attack) Crow and Gilnean Raven: -200 power, +200 speed Cyclone: Damage changed from 7 to 3-7 Haunt: returns the pet at 50% health instead of 100 Teroclaw Hatchling: Dodge and Nature's Ward will now occupy the same tier as will Hawk Eye and Ravage. Practical upshot: Slot 2 will now put Dodge (4 round cooldown) and Nature's Ward (5 round heal) on same tier, basically making you choose between damage mitigation or pet heal. Pet Battle World Quests incoming and will scale to the highest pet on your team (NOT apply to wild pets outside world quests) New pet battle mechanics: Random weather effects More heals that have increased effects on pet's health Aura effects that heal your pet or damages enemy pet based on the last hit dealt From the Discord: N&A finishers: Congrats to Buffysummers - Human Windwalker Monk for finishing N&A with 23,055 gold 4/1/43 Shoutout ot Dodoobrawn-Bladefist - nice fishing with you! Hello to Mrs. Dodoobrawn as well. Question: Why do you still need a WoD garrison? Is it worth going back if you have a character who skipped it?

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 to keep it updated Battle for Azeroth In-Game Communities: Quoting Wowhead: “This system will allow you to have broader communication options with fellow community members, including multiple text channels, text channel history, simple role management, quick join, voice integration, roster listing and calendar invites. You will be able to be part of multiple communities at the same time, in addition to your current guild.” Interview at Pax East with lead designer Daniel Stahl and lead encounter designer Morgan Dey about Island Expeditions: More intelligent AI in NPC encounters Some AI groups may be aggressive - others may be passive and require you to chase them down Weather improved and may be a factor Different mobs may appear at different times of the day "Fog of War" Blizzard has confirmed people will still be able to get class mounts after BfA has launched Tribute to last year’s BlizzCon Costume Contest winner Kazplay - when Horde invades the Stockades, they encounter a human female in a cage with a crumpled costume next to her: Text: “Look, it's just a costume! See? Feel it! Now will you tell them to let me out of here? It was just a joke! Hogger wasn't really terrorizing Stormwind!” Alpha News: Battle for Lordaeron scenario now playable on Alpha Heart of Azeroth item levels show ranges with iLevel starting at 265 and going up one point per level from there. Highest they show is at level 300 with an iLevel of 564 Mag'har and Dark Iron Dwarves now playable in Alpha. Maghar racials: Ancestral Call - Invoke the spirits of your ancestors granting you their power. Increases a random secondary stat by 102 for 12 seconds. Open Skies - Increases mounted speed by 10%. Savage Blood - Reduces the duration of Poisons, Diseases, and Curses by 10%. Sympathetic Vigor - Increases pet health by 10%. Dark Iron Dwarves: still no reports on what the Mole Machine racial does Blood Elf and Human racials seriously nerfed. From the Discord: Bucket Lists Expansion Countdown: 116 days to Expansion (3 months, 25 days / 16 weeks and 4 days / 2784 hours) Congrats to Alberthe for getting the Forgotten Hippogryph mount Mightymurloc for the new Kara mount Txcoolkid for finishing FIeld Medic Suggests joining a Field Medic premade group, as did Cjracer20 It’s not a shared drop (personal loot) but since there is a lot of competition and in some areas the respawn is fast, you have a greater chance of being able to loot more mobs

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 History of Blizzcon Expansions Collector’s Edition - box set Limited edition hardcover edition - 2 new WoW novellas by Christie Golden and Robert Brooks Horde & Alliance Double Sided Mark of Allegiance with stand Digital soundtrack Collector’s Edition box set owners will be able to unlock and create unreleased Allied Races in advance If you bought Digital Deluxe and want Collector’s Edition box, you can get a refund on Digital Deluxe to Battle.net balance Digital Deluxe edition - mounts, pet Island Expansions Expedition table in Boralus Harbor (Alliance) or Zuldazar Harbor (Horde) 3 man - Normal, Heroic, Mythic or PvP - reward of 6,000 Azurite Azurite: killing mobs, finding treasure, defeating the opposing team, or mining nodes Drawn on “lessons learned” from past content like scenarios and keystone dungeons. Replayable content. WoWhead interview with Jeremy “Muffinus” Feasel, Senior Game Designer for WoW No death knights for allied races - tied to Lich King Other possible rewards for Island Expeditions, like in the Timeless Isle When asked whether quest and profession progression will be gated behind dungeons and raids: No real discussion yet on profession progression, although he did say he thought ending final part of certain questlines end in a dungeon was “super cool, as it is the best way to tell the end of the story”. Felt that artifact weapon system was interesting in the beginning of the expansion but not at the end of it. Lots of choices in the beginning and none in the end. Discussion about making certain things accountwide -- seemed to think things were pretty OK the way they were. Too much accountwide stuff and characters lose identity, but opening areas, flying, etc., seem to be good kept accountwide. Battle for Azeroth Mag’har Orcs and Iron Dwarf allied races will be available after completing the Battle for Azeroth war campaign. Zandalari and Kul’Tiras will be unlocked later in the expansion. BFA alpha lasting longer than in the past. Beta polishes features and features are still being added to alpha. Six emissaries for each faction - 3 home continent, two neutral (Tortollan and Voice of Azeroth) and a War Faction with quests on the enemy continent. 8.0 prepatch Likely a few weeks before the expansion Will introduce the Burning of Teldrassil and Battle for Lordaeron. May be new mounts themed around Night Elves and Forsaken in conjunction with this event. New details on PvP New world PvP system called War Mode: players toggle PvP in a capitol city on any server. This will put them in a separate server shard, away from the PvE characters. War Mode gives extra rewards and Azerite, and also allows access to special world PvP events. PvP gear system revamp: conquest point system returning in the form of a bar you fill up to earn new gear each week. When you’re finished with a set, you can move up. There will be ways to skip ahead. Changes to Honor and Prestige: honor levels will be account wide. Naked and Afraid FInisher: Alcina, night elf mage -- 110

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 gets every achievement in game (3,314) - Xirev, a blood elf fire mage Need to do things like reach prestige 25, collect 300 toys and mounts, and win 5000 pvp pet battles One achievement ahead of Metatrosha, a human shadow priest (same number of points; Alliance have one extra 10 pointer) Wowhead interview with Xirev Single hardest achievement: high rated PvP ones - most others simply “tedious” Single hardest non-PvP achievement - “Going to Need a Bigger Bag” - obtain all the rare items from Timeless Isle. Involved a lot of realm hopping (56 items) Time /played: Estimated 850-900 days /played. 434 days /played on mage alone. 20,400 to 21,600 hours 8,760 hours in 1 year (not counting leap years) Done over 6 years - 6 years has about 122,400 hours (without leap years) Average of 5.5-6 hours per day, every day, or 38.5 - 42 hours per week Ren: Did my own /played calculation on all active toons - came out to 6554 hours or 273 days /played. Sounds like a lot, but when averaged over 10 years (didn’t play for 4 years out of the past 14) it comes out to less than 1 hour per day /played Alpha News Changes to quest log - looked at first like the quest log limit was going up to 50. Not true - but it seems like some quests no longer count toward the 25 limit - including account wide quests such as many battle pet quests New Alpha build includes several class talent changes Alpha Profession changes: Enchanting: many new ring and weapon enchants, glove enchants for gathering professions RETURN OF Wands (Scepters). Last available: VANILLA Engineering: some of the usuals like glasses, explosives, and scopes RETURN OF Engineered belts. Last available: WRATH OF THE LICH KING More weapons (guns, maces) Interesting bits: Slumber Bombs, Electroshock Mount Motivator (+10% mount speed for 10 seconds, stacks up to 5x, “increased motivation may cause your mount to become disoriented”), Deployable Attire Rearranger, Interdemensional Companion Repository (portable stablemaster), and an XA-100 Surface Skimmer (25 sec duration) Inscription: new codex New Darkmoon cards, Vantus runes RETURN OF Offhand tomes and stat buff scrolls.. LAST AVAILABLE: CATACLYSM New: Contracts: allows you to choose a faction with which you will gain reputation when you do world quests - requires Friendly rep with target reputation Scroll of Unlocking - unlock anything that requires 550 lockpicking skill Jewelcrafting - usual rings and stones NEW: two staffs - both listed were listed as Mage but the second one (Laribole Staff) also listed Agility as a stat Leatherworking - usual armor bits and drums NEW: create fist weapons and bows (bow/crossbow was available in Engineering, 490/525, Cataclysm) From the Discord: Seems there is a fashion in listening to our oldest episodes

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 flight whistle should have been available at honored, not revered. This Week in WoW Not much - Arena Skirmishes, then World Quest Event next Tuesday On the horizon: Noblegarden (4/2 - 4/9) (Mike - I HATE NOBLEGARDEN) News Hotfixes: Mythic Antorus now available for cross-realm groups, though not through LFR. “To join a public group for Mythic Antorus, just open Group Finder (hotkey: i), select 'Premade Groups', then 'Raids-Legion', then click on "Find A Group". That returns a list of many public groups that are available to you. Start typing 'Antorus' into the search bar at the top, and you'll be prompted to select a difficulty.” Battle for Azeroth New Alpha Build changes: Achievements to unlock Dark Iron Dwarves and Mag’har Orcs added Dark Iron racial mount: core hound Latest build tagged “beta” instead of “alpha” and new invitations out New “boop” emote Some new enchanting stuff: Swift Hearthing: bracer enchant to speed cast time of hearthstone Gale-Force Striking: weapon enchant to increase weapon attack speed First Aid confirmed going away - bandages will be under Tailoring and antivenoms/pots will be under Alchemy New customization options for Blood Elves - three new faces and glowing gold eyes Azerite bonuses datamined: Set bonuses also going away, being replaced by Azurite empowerment on armor Several class specific traits, but also several that appear to be multi-class Traits that increase primary and secondary stats by a set amount Absorption traits - traits that shield or absorb a set amount of damage DPS,heal, and tanking traits. DPS obviously increases your DPS, healing traits are self-heals, and tanking traits are damage mitigation: Examples: (DPS) Gutripper - Your damaging abilities have a chance to deal 347 Physical damage to the target. Gutripper occurs much more often against targets below 30% health. (Approximately 5 procs per minute). (DPS) Heed My Call - Your damaging abilities have a chance to deal 154 to your target, and 15 to enemies within 3 yards of that target. (HEAL) Savior - Your heals on targets below 35% health have a chance to heal for an additional 208. (Approximately 5 procs per minute). (HEAL) Self Reliance - While no enemies are within 20 yds, you heal for 70 every 3 sec. (TANK) Gemhide - When dealt damage greater than 10% of your maximum health, gain 31 Avoidance and 138 Dodge for 10 sec. (TANK) Winds of War - Taking damage grants you 14 Dodge for 3 sec, stacking up to 10 times. New detail on parrot mount: drops from Skycap'n Kragg, boss in the Freehold dungeon From the Discord Naked & Afraid Challenge has its second finisher - TheCowKing (EU) with a feral druid - 4 days 1 hour 1 minute Current highest still in progress - Settlersrule (101) windwalker monk

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 Lunar Festival ends 3/3 Darkmoon Faire starts 3/4 Trial of Style starts Monday 3/5 and runs to Friday 3/9 News Warcraft III Invitational happened Feb 27/28, with old school tournaments and various matches - major patch coming out to Warcraft III in late March Second Mythic Invitational, July 25-Aug 8th for auditions, dungeon invitational in early September Seething Shore battleground now available - currently available as a brawl, will be available as a regular battleground next week 10vs10 BG set in Silithus, to battle over Azerite "Dynamic control point gameplay similar to Arathi Basin" - new control points pop up as resources become depleted Solo run of Court of Stars Mythic +22 by Mionee, a demon hunter (iLevel 973) - took nearly 4 hours Battle of Azeroth Even more class changes - random notes that show trend changes DKs are getting an ability similar to Counterspell Demon hunters will get an ability to increase overall party/raid magical damage to targets with Chaos Brand Druids getting back Hibernate and Soothe (CC and anti-enrage) Hunters: Tranq Shot for hunters is coming back (anti-enrage) Mages: Fire: Phoenix Flames, Felo’melorn’s artifact ability, is being turned into a basic spell All: Return of Arcane Intellect (group buff) Priests: Return of Power Word: Fortitude (group buff) Rogue: Return of Expose Armor (vanilla spell) Shaman: Return of Tremor Totem (AOE ability to remove fear, charm and sleep effects) Warlock: Return of Shadow Bolt (vanilla spell) Only Destro locks can summon infernals now (boo) Warrior: Return of Battle Shout to increase STR and AGI of party or raid PARROT MOUNTS!!! No source yet There will be some kind of garrison or class hall or something similar, as there is a mission table with followers. Lot of forum hate for this. Followers include Technicians, Infiltrators, Combat Specialist and Faction Troops Zandalari Troll Druid Forms "Pterrakkoa" - "moonkin" form Armored bear form - looks like a cross between a spiky turtle and a bear Pterrodax flight form Ravasaur travel form Mag'har Orcs Ren: really like the hair styles on the females - might have to race flip one Skin colors range from pale grey-beige to reddish brown Heritage armor looks very much like Thrallmar stuff Upright posture, esp on the females No "unnatural" hair colors A couple of the new races flagged in such a way that they may become allied races Vulpera - fox people Kul Tirans - stocky humanoids From the Discord: left over from last episode: Should all classes be unlocked on all races? Or should class-race assignments follow established lore?

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.wowhead.com/news=281915/upcoming-changes-to-the-na-wow-mvp-program Battle for Azeroth: Alpha Build News Tons of class changes but these tend to change a lot over alpha/beta Allied races New allied race? Orc based - either Mag’har or Frostwolf Orcs (brown orcs) Datamined orc armor and a Mag’har Direwolf mount Dark Iron Dwarf racials Dungeon Delver: 4% increased indoor speed Fireblood: Removes all poison, disease, curse, magic and bleed effects and increases primary stat by 100 for each removed. 2 min cooldown Forged in Flames: 1% physical damage reduction Mass Production: 2x speed creating blacksmithed items Mole Machine: Summons a Mole Machine that tunnels through the earth (30 min cooldown) Non-caster damage that used to be calculated on weapon damage is now based on a combo of weapon damage and attack power to help bring better balance between classes that rely heavily on weapons vs. those who do not Return of Pepe: New Pepe costumes include a scuba costume and a Zandalari mask Hunter pet specialization: All pets will have equal damage, health and armor (all can tank or DPS equally well). Old designations Ferocity, Tenacity or Cunning will continue as categories, but as categories of pet families, not as descriptions of their utility All pets will have Growl and Dash or Swoop Pet families now each have a special ability - one active, one passive, depending on their category (examples: the passive for Ferocity is a 3% leech, for Tenacity, 10% max health, and for Cunning, 8% movement speed buff) Each pet family will get one of six different abilities. Examples include a healing reduction debuff, reduced damage, increased dodge, etc. Profession changes: (just noted things that are different or interesting) Major squish: Max profession skill cap going from 800 to 200 Alchemy preview: Tinctures - trinkets with combat buffs based on the flask you’re currently using Usual transmutes of changing one profession material to another. Also Fish to Gems and Meat to Pet. Blacksmithing preview: New stirrups for speed and interacting while mounted in the new zones Khaz’gorian Hammer - blacksmithing hammer replacement that gives a chance to give crafted armor or weapons the Indestructible property Cooking preview: Nothing special Enchanting preview: Nothing special Engineering: Portable transmogger Portable stable master Herbalism: Nothing special Inscription: Contracts: Enter a contract with a faction that allows you to gain reputation with them every time you complete a world quest in the new zones Jewelcrafting: +5% experience gem Leatherworking Scuba gear Mining: Nothing special Skinning: Nothing special Tailoring: finally getting a bag upgrade - 1 30 slot bag (same as HW), 1 32 slot bag Hot Air Baloon pet First Aid getting at least a revamp - may be removed entirely and folded into Tailoring First Aid achievements will become Legacy Feats of Strength Now listed as “legacy”. https://www.wowhead.com/news=281844/first-aid-potential-revamp-or-removal-in-battle-for-azeroth

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 they freed up a lot of names recently so if you have a name you couldn’t get before, give it a shot now! Me too! -MG (kek) This week in WoW Darkmoon Faire until the 11th Lunar Festival starts a week from today Ulduar News: BfA alpha is going out to some people. Not me :( Watched a few streams. Some people need to learn how to stream (don’t be rude!) I found the starting areas to be ok. Didn’t watch long. Wasn’t anything really impressive yet. Hotfixes: Nightborne faces should match what was selected Fire mage damage increased by a whopping 3% Hunter BM damage increased by 2.5% From Discord: BfA comes with a level 110 boost Shout out to PurpleMoose in Discord who was struggling what to do and used it for a Nightborne rogue. Utheron - bad experience with a GM. Was trying to make him switch specs.

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/carousel give rep bonuses, and next week is the world quest event which gives rep bonuses as well. Walking into Light’s Hope Cathedral with a void elf sparks some interesting conversation. http://www.wowhead.com/attunement The economic impact of allied races over the next few weeks Void Elves Everywhere! “Void elves are alliance only because they were crying and wanted their own blood elves”. - from Joe on the forums via a YouTuber he was watching Unlocking races on factions: you can do the requirements on either side but you need someone on that faction to do the unlock quests. (An Alliance member can have the achievements for Nightborne and Highmountain Tauren, but a 110 Horde must do the quests) Collector’s Edition perks Gilded Ravasaur (Horde) and Seabraid Stallion (Alliance) mounts Tottle turtle (aquatic) pet Overwatch voice lines, emotes, sprays and icons Heroes of the Storm Primal Flamesaber mount Starcraft II sprays Hearthstone card pack, Azeroth is Burning No Diablo perk 110 Boost details Boosts any toon to 110 Hearthstone and Dalaran hearthstone; hearthstone reset to Dalaram inn 3 level 870 artifact relics Level 35 artifact power and first artifact weapon (make sure you’re in the right spec!) Flight Master’s Whistle Kirin Tor supply bag, which contains basic food, water, starter ancient mana, ancient potions, mana diving stone, a tome of the tranquil mind If you are 60 or over, boosts primary professions to 700 and first aid to 700 Suramar is open to the extent that Thalyrissa is there and will give you the first few quests -- no longer have to do the opening scenario of finding her and escorting her in Does NOT come with a level 3 WOD garrison - reports if you boost a “Character Trial to 100” toon to permanent 110 that you will get the garrison Battle for Azeroth System Requirements Windows machines will need 64-bit systems Minimum processor: Intel Core i5-760 or AMD FX 8100 or higher, recommended i7 4770 or AMD FX 8310 - basically need at least a quad core machine now Video cards: 2GB minimum on video board, GeForce GT 560, AMD Radeon 7850 or Intel 530 - recommended GeForce GTX 960 or AMD Radeon R9 280 (up from 1GB cards) Memory: Minimum 4GB, recommends 8 GB (up from 2) Storage: 70 GB, recommends SSD, up from 45 No changes to minimum resolution/display Love Is In The Air - Feb 2-16 Speculation that the new flower crowns datamined earlier will be perks for this year’s Love Is In the Air Classic interview Old code no longer compiles Old database no longer works New graphics are on the table, wants to hear from the community My guess - not until 2019 Forum people are SO IMPATIENT. Naked & Afraid 51 unique participants Rule change: Allied Race Division Current highest level: 74 Three characters at 60 Mod of the Cast: Memoria (Tororosso) - https://wow.curseforge.com/projects/memoria Joe posted a screenshot macro on the Naked and Afraid discussion board that displays played time and takes a screenshot 0.2 seconds after Tororosso posted about Memoria, an addon that takes a screenshot automatically for different milestones, such as leveling, achievements, reputation levels, or when a battleground or arena ends. Only issue with Memoria is that it doesn’t put in the /played time, unless you’ve put it in right before you ding

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-?webhook/battle-for-azeroth-collectors-edition-rewards-seabraid-stallion-gilded-raptor-to - Seabraid Stallion (Alliance), Gilded Ravasaur (Horde) and Tottle (turtle pet) Shu-zen, the Divine Sentinel flying dog mount datamined - probably part of Lunar Festival (Year of the Dog) starting Feb 16 Transmog bug - people reporting not being able to transmog while wearing some items from [Satchel of Helpful Goods] Changes to Recruit a Friend: Experience gains reduced from 200 to 50%. Heirloom XP bonus no longer stacks with RAF XP bonuses Patch 7.3.5 hotfixes this week Lost Mail - now properly spawns at random Dalaran locations and Postmaster title is now account-wide. Fixed the Normal/Heroic HP pool boss switch Raiding fixes take boss HP levels BELOW previous levels Fixed the bug that made pet names disappear Boulder quest in Redridge has been fixed Patch 7.3.5 - Leveling Transitions between expansions No big gear reset until level 61, when item levels jumped from 60 to 80 Professions do transfer but not smoothly When you buy your skill for mining/herbs from 300, it now goes to 450 instead of 375 (both expansions) Experience with mining: could gather and learn to smelt both Fel Iron (Outland) and Cobalt Ore (Northrend). Started with 252 mining; could only gather Cobalt Ore Nuggets By level 325, still only collecting nuggets. Went to Outland and confirmed I could collect whole Fel Iron Ore. However, Fel Iron was gray (getting no skill). Cobalt Ore still orange (getting skill) Last level to get Cobalt Nuggets: 340. Started getting whole cobalt at 341. Cobalt Ore gathers still orange and still getting orange skill from smelting. Turned Yellow at 350. Turned Green at 362. Can get 80+ mining skill points off smelting alone (started slowing down at 355) - market has not caught up on all servers, but on Silvermoon ore is selling for 5x more than bars. Filius reported re: manufacturing professions, also skipping to Northrend: There are recipes to make things at your level, but the results may not be usable. Was making potions that he could create in low 60s that were only usable by mid-70s. Idea: how to find what’s good to sell? Naked & Afraid 2018 Cattarina is new winner of the Shaman Challenge with 2 days 1 hour Up to 41 participants, 28 of whom are now 20 or over All classes represented, with most popular being druids (9) and monks (7); least represented, shaman (1) and priest (2) 8 participants currently have more than 1000 gold. Two have 3000 or more, and one has nearly 15,000 Minor rule clarifications: Auction mules may not do anything but buy and sell -- no primary or secondary skill use (cooking, disenchanting, smelting). Some confusion over mounts and which you can use Some confusion over use of inherent class abilities such as hunter pet respeccing and use of monk daily Filius is also live streaming Lessons Learned: Lessons in the leveling experience from our Discord family Restrictions: not as bad as Ironman Challenge

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 issues: Mobile/web AH disabled Dungeon boss HP levels reversed Normal vs. Heroic Raid boss difficulty - difficulty turned up for Warlords/Pandaria raids to put in line with leveling characters but overtuned them Pet names disappearing New backpack slots not showing up right away for new authenticators Last wing of Argus LFR was bugged - if you wipe you can’t get back in Redridge quest Saving Foreman Oslow not working Patch 7.3.5: Leveling The leveling experience: uneven reviews Journey vs destination Ren’s personal experiences doing N&A and feedback from the N&A participants Professions: 1-60 profession progression still klunky Still have old gathers (copper ore, thorium ore, peacebloom, goldthorn) tied to former zones Level gains from herb/ore gathers still about the same as it was - about 1.7% of total level XP per gather for lower level gathers (reduces over time - was down slightly below 1% at level 63) Leather/cloth gathers still tied to former zones (eg. leather experiment in Azeroth, cloth in BC/WOTLK) Mobs and equipment scale to the toon, but profession drops still scale to the zone Pro: You can still do predictable lower level farming Con: Leveling might be a freedom of choice experience, but leveling professions is not -- still tied to old zone definitions Solution: Flatten mats to three tiers -- levels 1-20, 20-40 and 40-60. Enchanting squish did not go far enough, may have skipped guild banks entirely Naked & Afraid 2018 Ren is level 19 in N&A - not highest toon but has the most gold (Maxx, gnome outlaw rogue, is level 30 with 9 hours /played) Started Wednesday, 1/17 - join in anytime 3 official servers but you don’t have to join Lots of minor rule clarifications, one major change Almost 30 official participants so far Shout out to MythGamingMN for streaming his N&A. Mod of the Cast: Pawn Mod of the Cast (Mike): All The Things

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 No Mountain High Enough) Void Elf and Lightforged Draenei open with completing the Argus campaign (You Are Now Prepared!) Attunement tool at http://www.wowhead.com/attunement New hunter pets on PTR for 7.3.5 - including ones obviously meant to be starter pets for new allied races Nightborne: Manasaber Highmountain Tauren: Great Eagle Void Elf: Voidstalker Lightforged Draenei: Lightforged Talbuk Other hunter pets include beasts clearly from Argus, such as umbralfins, dustcloaks, and chitinbuks, and ones clearly associated with Silithus like silithids, flying hornets, scorpids, and spiders Allied race racials: more complete data. (Speculate on best classes?) Nightborne: Hunter, Mage, Monk, Priest, Rogue, Warlock, Warrior +15 to inscription=, increased magical damage by 1, access maili for 1.5 minutes (cooldown 10 minutes), A Force Shield that deals arcane damage and snares them by 50%, lasts 20 seconds (no info on cooldown), 1% magic resistance Highmountain Tauren: Druid, Hunter, Monk, Shaman, Warrior charge that knocks down enemies for 1.5 seconds (2 minute cooldown), +15 to mining and faster mining, +1% to versatility, overall damage reduction by 330 (scale?) and increased chance to loot additional meat and fish. Void Elf: Hunter, Mage, Monk, Priest, Rogue, Warlock, Warrior 1% reduction of shadow and arcane damage, “your abilities have a chance to empower you with the essence of the void” (?), reduces void storage and transmog costs by 50%, spell casts not delayed by taking damage, and a built-in rift teleportation similar to warlock gating (2 minute cooldown). Lightforged Draenei: Hunter, Mage, Paladin, Priest, Warrior 20% extra xp for killing demons, +10 to blacksmithing plus summoning a Forge of Light on demand, reduce holy damage by 1%, call down a strike of holy energy damaging enemies within 5 yards after 3 sec, and “erupt with light upon death, dealing holy damage to enemies and healing allies). Speculation: Allied races are not going to be introduced in 7.3.5, but there are plenty of files being pushed to the servers about four of the six races, which gives Bliz the option of releasing them before the expansion. Thoughts? Original dry run of Leeeeroy Jenkins video https://youtu.be/8hmgrHohDGM From the Discord: How to do less damage for raid achievements, without having to de-equip items or gear: From @OPH on Discord: brought up there was a toy or shirt that used to exist that would reduce damage output by 90%. This is true. Whole Body Shrinka toy, which shrinks you down to a tiny size and does reduce your damage output to about 10% -- lasts for 3 minutes but has a 30 minute cooldown. Soft Foam Sword also allows you to "mortally wound" a trivial enemy, but it isn't usable in dungeons or raids. What else could be done? Came up with a cheap engineering solution even non-engineers can use. Further discussion on queuing a Broken Shore class hall mission for Broken Shore Campaign - @settlersrule said he was forced to take a 3 day elite mission because that was all that was available. Tips on how to manage this situation. From Twitter: Going back to my report that the Murky world quest dismounts you when you fly over it, apparently it’s not just Murky, but any quest where you morph. @Frenzol informed me the wisp quest in Val’sharah does the same thing.

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 Settlersrule Discussion: 2017 In Review

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 [email protected] 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 globes! Ironforge and Org, not Dalaran - one spawns every 30min http://www.wowhead.com/news=278497/feast-of-winter-veil-2017-holiday-updates-and-guide https://www.mmo-champion.com/content/7266-Feast-of-Winter-Veil-Live-Lightsabers-Return-WoW-Alpha-Update-WoW-History Elixir of the Rapid Mind no longer drops from Savage Gift Don't forget to do the followup to You're a Mean One..., as it rewards Smokywood Pastures Special Gift, which has a small chance to contain Winter's Grasp or Flames of Ragnaros. *weapon enchantment illusions for transmog* New Winter's Veil music was added in Patch 7.1 Farm the mount from Hillsbrad Foothills with characters level 60+ Use the teleporter to Dalaran Crater in new Dalaran to get there quickly From Discord: Ali - The year is winding down. Maybe talk about favorite moments of the year? Or favorite part of/memories of Winter Veil? Raaaaaidinnnnng! ~ Antorus LFR Wing 2 opened this week. This includes the bosses Portal Keeper Hasabel, Eonar the Life-Binder, and Imonar the Soulhunter. Wing 3 opens January 2nd. Overwatch winter wonderland loot boxes up until Jan. 2

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: Globe Yeti. Probably wild, no data on where it is yet And all the usual stuff -- garrison decorations, presents, the Greench dailies Cara has a new podcast w/ Plaggy Boy called “Campfire Chronicles” - stories about WoW News: https://blizzardwatch.com/2017/12/12/get-vicious-war-fox-patch-7-3-5/ PTR Trial of Style Season 2 is up. If you buy the trial, the game banks up your XP post-cap and then gives it to you when you buy it. NOT SURE HOW I FEEL ABOUT THIS. What about all the stuff I have in my bank? Several reagents no longer exist: Greater Astral Essence, Lesser Astral Essence, Greater Mystic Essence, Lesser Mystic Essence, Greater Nether Essence, Lesser Nether Essence, Nexus Crystal, Large Glimmering Shard, Small Glimmering Shard, Soul Dust, Vision Dust, Small Glowing Shard, Large Glowing Shard, Dream Dust, Small Radiant Shard, Large Radiant Shard Illusion Dust is now Light Illusion Dust Newbie zones are now 1-20. Ren’s on the PTR on Renatta (two Ts) on Benedictus. I have a channel “worldofwarcast” if folks on Benedictus want to chat while online. Discussion (@thecowking): What should you farm or bank to prepare for the upcoming expansion? Discussions in Discord: The Profession Manifesto for Battle for Azeroth - We want professions that aren’t gated. Also, spend more time focusing on usefulness than story Cattarina’s idea of having a Discord channel for weekly achievements.

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 the lowest level needed to enter the zones today (so no going from 10-60 in Silithus) In the 1-60 Azeroth zones, once you hit 40 you can go anywhere https://blizzardwatch.com/2017/12/06/level-scaling-testers-wanted-wow-7-3-5-ptr/ How will this affect storylines? You can’t jump from Redridge to Burning Steppes, can you? Racial embassies Horde embassy in Org, Alliance in SW Seems to be where you will recruit unlocked races in the expansion Racial abilities and racial mounts datamined by Wowhead, https://www.wowhead.com/news=277415/7-3-5-ptr-allied-races-mounts-and-racial-abilities Dalaran Mailroom quest and minigame - pick up “Lost Mail” near a Dalaran mailbox to start (not sure about respawn time or frequency) Rewards: the Mailemental pet A toy to summon Katy Stampwhistle, a mail assistant who will “deliver and retrieve mail until she is called elsewhere” Discussions from Discord: How to level fishing as fast as possible Margoss + Ancient Vrykul Ring/Rusty Queenfish Brooch = Fast Leveling How many vanilla players does it take to change a lightbulb?

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/maddened-chaosrunner#comments New mount in Heroic Argus - Violet Spellwing Spoilers from the cinematic! Classic server discussion continued What happened when? An overview of vanilla patches Mod histories When did mods become available? First Mod of the Cast - SellValue, 26 March 2006 First 5 mods still available from Curse (but only one still works)

Discord: https://discord.worldofwarcast.com Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/starmike Our talk about WoW Classic. This week: Ren - Shaman now level 108 Now declaring new main: troll feral cat druid Going to finish Suramar and get flying -- I swear it will be done Jewelcrafting mounts Mike - Mount farming and a lot of toon cleanup. Achievement farming w/Ali. I still one-shot things. This week in WoW WoW Anniversary - until November 30th Mail goodies: Celebration Package: 13% XP and rep bonus - 10 second cooldown, multiple uses throughout the next 2 weeks Stupid tabard though 200 timewarped badges A letter that starts Interesting Times, first quest to visit a historian in Stormwind or Orgrimmar Daily quests: Time to Reflect - 25 timewarped badges for answering a lore question The Originals - 50 timewarped badges slay Lord Kazzak, Azuregos, and Dragon of Nightmare Respawn timer 5 minutes Lord Kazaak - Blasted Lands, north of the Tainted Forest Azuregos - Azshara, southeast of the Secret Lab Dragons of Nightmare - can be in Duskwood, Ashenvale, Hinterlands and Feralas Druids: Dreamwalk can take you to some locations for Dragons of Nightmare (different Emerald Portals) New badge loot Bronze-Tinted Sunglasses - cosmetic transmog for 200 TW badges Two celebration wands for 25 TW badges (5 charges) - Quillboar and Trogg Tranquil Mechanical Yeti Costume (3 charges) - 50 timewarped badges Can save TW badges for a variety of toys, mounts, and pets Pilgrim’s Bounty - November 20 - 27 Do daily quests and earn achievements to earn pets, transmogs, and Want to get Fine Pilgrim’s Hat, which adds the Pilgrim’s Hat transmog to all armor types - can be found in the daily quest reward Pilgrim’s Bounty Good for leveling low level cooking & collecting new cooking recipes The last (for now) thoughts on classic servers. Battle For Azeroth Q&A Heart of Azeroth will replace tier bonuses The incentive will be Heart of Azeroth upgrades and other items. 7.3.5 - Antorus Epilogue quest content, Ulduar Timewalking, preview of Silithus BG, scaling world content. Rep standing might affect allied race unlocking. Yes, you can race change to an allied race Troll posture will be covered in Zandalari allied race Not as many legendaries in BfA No plans for 10-man Mythic Blizz thinks this is an “exciting time” for World PvP. I disagree. Once that hordie hovers over you for the third time, you just tick your flag off.

Discord: https://discord.worldofwarcast.com Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/starmike Our talk about WoW Classic. This week: Ren - Shaman: level 96 Shaman challenge spreadsheet (of course it’s a spreadsheet) Resurrected old Legion baby troll druid Remembered why auction mules need to be at least level 10 Looking forward to season 12 in Diablo 3 Mike - Lots of mount runs on all toons. Only got the egg. I figure out how to solo Deathwing. Also, I tend to one-shot things. This week in WoW Darkmoon Faire ends Saturday Lich King timewalking Sunday - Moonkin Festival in Moonglade (1 day) Observe baby moonkin dancing, napping and moonfiring and get your own temporary Moonkin Companion pet for 24 hours Other quests let you increase up to 5 moonkin babies following you around for up to 5 days World boss: Ana-Mouz in Suramar. Drops Skimpy Leather Tunic for transmog.

Discord: https://discord.worldofwarcast.com Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/starmike Our talk about WoW Classic will be on Thursday's episode. Incoming for 7.3.5 - (no release date; not even up on PTR yet) Timewalking Ulduar, new battleground Event in Silithus to herald in the start of expansion Leveling Improvements (yay!!!!!) All content previous to Warlords will SCALE TO LEVEL - within ranges Classic starting zones: 1-10 All old world vanilla zones: 10-60 Burning Crusade and Wrath zones: 60-80 Cataclysm and Pandaria zones: 80-90 What this means: You can actually complete zones without leveling out of them and feeling forced to move on and you can choose where you level up Dungeons will also scale accordingly - so will loot drops (yes, run Wailing Caverns at 60 and you’ll get level 60 mobs and level 60 gear) Incoming also - no release date Accounts with an authenticator attached will get a “small increase” to the size of their standard 16 slot backpack - may be connected to WoW’s upcoming 13th anniversary event (Nov 16-30) Expansion: Battle for Azeroth (not Tides of Vengeance) - also no release date Basics: Level to 120 (one instant boost to 110) Return to faction based play areas Bye-bye Teldrassil and Undercity (but not Silvermoon and Exodar) -- hello each faction controlling their own continent Does the zone control mean no leveling zones for the opposite faction? New island zones Zandalar and Kul Tiras with three areas for each Horde: Zandalar - obviously troll focused Alliance: Kul Tiras - naval power (which we’ve never seen because apparently they’re so good they can hide the most powerful navy in the world from everyone until now) New subraces: the four we mentioned on the last show plus two more (Horde: Highland Tauren, Nightborne and Zandalari Troll. Alliance: Void Elf, Lightforged Draenei and Dark Iron Dwarves). Will get 6 new character slots on each server You have to open these subraces via quests -- once opened it’s accountwide Subraces start at level 20. You can race-switch into them using Blizzard game services, but if you run one from 20 to 120 you get an achievement plus special heritage armor transmog 3-person Island Cooperative challenge gameplay Changing mini scenarios on islands Would like to have seen this scalable to other size groups - 3 is awkward 20-person raids called Warfronts to claim strategic locations this is a PvE system, not PvP, “inspired by classic Warcraft RTS battles” (Ren: Damn good thing or the Horde on Whisperwind is screwed) Artifact amulet (Heart of Azeroth) instead of an artifact weapon - a system with a sort of mini-talent tree used to select and empower abilities - replacements for the Artifact, Artifact Power and Netherlight Crucible systems from Legion Powered by Azerite, will automatically absorb Azerite when it’s nearby Helm, chest, and shoulders will be empowered through Heart of Azeroth Probably will need an entire episode just on this - but practical upshot is the artifact weapons are going away and this is the replacement PVP/PVE server distinction is going away - now it will be selectable Internal sharding allows PVP-flagged players to see/group with only one another, and PVE-unflagged players to see/group only with one another All servers will run under same rules of engagement Only place you can flag PVP is in capital cities - can’t flag PVP on the fly No randomly flagged people running around PvP gives added bonuses in addition to added risk Item level decrease incoming Not exactly the warlords “stat squish” where numbers were reduced across the board Numbers from the Dungeon Journal in the demo at Blizzcon - 880 items were showing up as 215, 900 as 235, 1000 as 335 Basically trying to make numbers a bit more meaningful Presumably mobs and such will be scaled as well -- functionally should not change, just how it’s displayed New model changes incoming for several character races - Orcs and Trolls were demoed to choose between a hunched or upright character). Mostly focused on original races, plus blood elf and draenei. Goblins and Worgen will get makeovers later. Beta Opt-In for Expansion https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/battle-for-azeroth - scroll to the bottom of the page if you want to get into the beta

Discord: https://discord.thisweekintrek.com Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/starmike Episode 264 Ren LIfe invasions continue - but for good reasons New microphone! (and why it’s a commitment stand-in) Seeing if I can resurrect the original Renata (but not til 6 PM tonight) Level 72 shaman Diablo III Contemplating a hardcore run for new Seasons (starts Nov 9) New undead murloc necromancer pet rocks Got Naxxy, and Pepe is uncomfortable on my Gilnean form witch hat Mike Horseman’s Reins Steamwheedle rep does work in Badlands And Tanaris Can’t really find any other post-cata quests. Is there something I’m missing because killing mobs for 2 rep each is not fun. Timewalking - got a 905 chest, iLvl went down one point lol. This Week in WoW Hallows End ends (Wed Nov 1) Day of the Dead starts (Nov 1 - Nov 3) World Quest Bonus Event starts (Tues Oct 31) News Shaman Challenge First two Finishers! Filius, with troll shaman Shameena reached level 110 in 4d 5h 44m and 14s. Jemela, Draenei shaman 2 days 10 hours 45 minutes, 41 seconds Token prices on the rise again - noted by Discord user JSHMLR 190k on US servers average, 290k on European servers Patch 7.3.2 - Documented changes Includes additional tuning for Antorus, but the raid isn’t open yet Balance druid and elemental shaman changes - Shamanistic Healing trait redesigned - now heals for increasing amount per rank (was fixed) with a fixed cooldown for 30 seconds (was 30 seconds minus 2 seconds per rank) Three new class hall missions giving follower armor rewards Added a Primal Sargerite vendor to the Vindicaar Can now sell a number of legacy class set items back to vendors *SPOILERS about the next expansion?* As of today, until Oct 31, Wowhead is giving away 15 Blizzcon Virtual Tickets. Visit Wowhead for entry details. It’s next week! Possible leak of the expansion title?

Discord: https://discord.thisweekintrek.com Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/starmike Ren Too much adulting this week - only got to level 70 in shaman challenge Update on the restore/switch faction bug INCOMING: New mic Mike Shaman to 50. 200 mounts! Hallow’s End Got 150 treats in one night. Naxxy! The trick to doing the wickerman - invisibility items. Instant vs. casting time. Trying to get the headless horseman mount - how many years has it been? This week in WoW Black Temple timewalking - dropping base i900 items, NOT i930 Hallow’s End Tricky Treats - Headless Horseman, daily quests, candy buckets. Use to buy masks, costumes for you or for pets (there’s three pug costumes and one Pepe skin), consumables, pets (Naxx, Sinister Squashling, Cursed Birman, Feline Familiar or Widget the Departed), heirloom upgrades (armor casings), and toys (horse head and tail, Little Wickerman) Wickerman (Grim Visage) buffs for baby shamans (10% exp and rep for 2 hours)! XP bonus applies to mob kills only - doesn’t increase XP from quest turnins or pet battles (“Apply Aura: mod Experience Gained %(mob kills only)”). Rep bonuses: does work with Legion tokens and other commendations in the game, and does stack with human’s 10% exp racial ability New this year: Naxxy, undead companion pet (150 Tricky Treats) New costume - Xavius (200 treats) New front and back end of a horse Headless Horseman drops 880 loot Magic Broom - 25% drop rate out of Horseman’s stash mount - 0.5% 880 gear includes a sword (kind of silly for anything other than transmog), helm, and rings News Elysium shuts down because someone was taking home 2000 euros/month and someone else was running a gold selling service. Patch 8.0 made a (very) brief appearance on beta servers Mod of the Cast HandyNotes

Discord: https://discord.thisweekintrek.com Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/starmike Ren Shaman challenge Level 69 at 1d 6h - got through Outland, now in Northrend - 60-68 seemed very slow A funny thing happened on the way to the Alliance: Restored a previously deleted 110 horde mage, took her to Alliance and weirdness happened Mike Shaman challenge 15 to 38 in one night. Lots of dungeons and dungeon quests. Could get 2-3 levels in a run Rested XP was a waste because you blow right through it. Problem - Maraudon puts you in the dungeon, but no quests for two more levels. So, either quest or repeat dungeons. Problem with that is now you’re moving further and further away from Stormwind (Stranglethorn or Plaguelands) Had to run to Wetlands between dungeon runs. Waste of time. Not sure what else to do. Toy is 10k gold, and only gives faction flight points, not neutral. BTW: I still love Maraudon This Week in WoW Pet Xp event - 200% not 300% as originally advertised Hallow’s End starts Wednesday the 18th at 10:00 AM PST Running of the Gnomes - Saturday October 14th, to benefit the Cleveland Clinic and the creators of the Tuohy Vaccine, a proposed vaccine against breast cancer that’s showing great promise Run from Gnomer to Booty Bay - clear 34 gates Starts at 7 PM EST, purchase a pink tabard in Ironforge This started on Scarlet Crusade and there are raids on Scarlet Crusade http://runningofthegnomes.tumblr.com/post/164609327832/gnome-run-2017-faqs News Blizzcon 2017 All virtual ticket rewards Flying mounts in WoW - two seaters (we knew this) Other games - Overwatch Winston skin, Starcraft III Junker SCV, Probe and Drone Skins; Heroes of the Storm Nexus Razorback mount, Diablo III Murkromancer Pet, and a “mystery goodie” for Hearthstone. Blizzcon Merch New plushes: Pirate Pepe Plush, Raptor Plushie, Elekk Plushie Jaina Key Art Poster Ugly Holiday Greench Sweater Sylvanus Short Sleeved Hoodie Sargeras Shirt New pins and new patches for the goody bag - trying to encourage badge trading\ Shaman challenge Proposed change to 2018 Naked & Afraid Challenge: any class, any spec (but choose once!) and on your honor to pick a class you’ve never successfully leveled to 110 Scryer/Aldor Demon hunter speed runs Shriekrunner - uses demon hunter’s mastery scaling at level 101 to get a minimum speed of 230% base speed - speed going up to 350-410%. Uses tricks, potions, and shortcuts - showed video of clearing old world dungeons in a total of 18 minutes, not counting travel time between dungeons (Gundrak clear took 13 seconds) Posts build and tricks in a linked Reddit thread

Discord: https://discord.gg/0igWZxupFC0N8mH4 Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/starmike Ren - All shaman challenge! Mike Lots of mog stuff in AQ this week Shaman challenge - got to 15 pretty fast. Was going to play more on Wed. but got sidetracked. This Week - Brewfest ends Friday - Harvest Festival mini holiday on Friday Darkmoon Faire ends Friday Next week: Pet Bonus Experience - 300% pet xp News Legion Q&A No word on artifact appearances yet, but they’d like them to be mogs Exception - the shit you gotta work for :D Same with druid forms You can upgrade to 1000 the same way you did with 970 No new legendaries being added to the loot table More MDI in the future. Wants to give more classes more utility Maxed followers needed for Antorus raid missions Argus whistle will be unlocked on all characters shortly Krokurun and Mac’aree world quests will NOT be account wide - story dependent AK goes up until 55 Spider boss will be back Thinks that not everyone having everything is OK. But it’s not. problem - in vanilla you can work for it. There will be Sylvanas/Greymane story progression People still bitch about RNG (news at 11) - GATING OVER WAITING There will be better server connections No flying in Argus. Ever. PvP more character-specific. Shaman Challenge New names proposed (Xandara): Transcendental Elementals, Developmental Elementals, Nonjudgmental Elementals Naked & Afraid - “No Guild. No Gear. No Gold.” Will run a Naked & Afraid Challenge after the holidays Several Naked & Afraid Rules clarifications (posted on Discord #shamanchallenge channel) Tips from Ren and members of the Discord channel And Ren’s “do as I say not as I do” tips (how not to f**k up) Prize for completing the Shaman Challenge!

Discord: https://discord.gg/0igWZxupFC0N8mH4 Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/starmike Special guest Christy (@christylou) joins us! Ren: No, the Starlight Beacon does not work in Argus, but decent for Magic of Flight Mike: Siege of Orgrimmar is eternally long (w/Ali) Mount farming This week - 0 Trying to finish up achievements in old raids…..for mounts :D Did ⅘ of the MoP dungeons - forgot to do the fifth. This week in WoW Brewfest continues Tomorrow starts Harvest Festival - honor a fallen hero (NOT the Pilgrim festival) News: New Battle.net app on the Apple/Android stores. Chat with your friends! Argus unlocks on your alts!! “Appear Offline” coming “soon” Audio dramas - “1000 Years of War” Will be an expansion announcement at Blizzcon New project for Blizzard -- announcement of a job opening for Senior Client Engineer for a MMO real time strategy game on the Unity engine -- probably an iOS/Android game from the job description

Discord: https://discord.gg/0igWZxupFC0N8mH4 Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/starmike Special guest Cara (@Xanadara) joins us! Mike: Finished Argus storyline Completely forgot about the new dungeon, will have to do that tonight. Yaaarrrr! Talk like a pirate day. New item - insult book If you’re wondering how to get Steamwheedle rep back - Silk cloth turn-ins http://www.mmo-champion.com/content/6994-Celebrate-Pirate-s-Day-September-19 Spent some time this week playing Fortnite Cara: OOPS I wiped my addons map error caused by Mappy “Large gathering nodes” checkbox lost my weakauras. mogit outfits. pet battle teams. adibags custom filters 😩 remember to save your Interface and WTF folders every so often Raiding - the balance between casual and progression between beating normals and new raids coming out; hadn't had to do that yet in Legion but we did in Warlords My team got 3 heroics down! Woot! Goroth, Demonic Inquisition, and Harjatan Worked on Misstress Sass’zine for an hour, oy I'm trying to enjoy the new stuff and not rush through it, but I find myself having to be in the right mindset to focus and get really sucked in... vs just playing with audio/video on 2nd monitor - I want to learn the lore and pay attention to details but my perfectionism is sneaking up and keeping me from doing it because if it's not perfect why bother How's your digital declutter going with old bank mats? News: Mists of Pandaria timewalking is out Brewfest is out - til October 6th i880 gear from Coren Direbrew Stout Alemental Brewfest Keg Pony! (I still don’t have it….or the Headless Horseman) And who doesn’t want a sausage hat? 2hr exp buff! Level your alts! Holiday mogs http://www.wowhead.com/news=272222/brewfest-2017-holiday-updates-and-guide Hearthstone innkeeper’s tavern cookbook out Nov. 7 Massive spoilers in 7.3.2. Why isn’t it 7.3.5? PTR Datamined ilevel 1000 legendary upgrade tokens http://ptr.wowhead.com/item=154879/awoken-titan-essence CHRISTIE GOLDEN IS WRITING A NEW WOW NOVEL OMG “Book #54, a World of Warcraft novel, has been sent to the editor!” https://twitter.com/christiegolden/status/910630264606302208 Junkertown is out in Overwatch, along with the changes to heroes. Eric is excited to take out Pharah with Mercy Volskaya on the Heroes PTR Blizzcon Virtual Ticket videos before Blizzcon!

Discord: https://discord.gg/0igWZxupFC0N8mH4 Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/starmike Ren: Back to Bagnon Cheatin’ in archaeology (more on this later) Mike: Altoholic rewrite H Throne of Thunder with Ali This week in WoW World Quest Bonus Event Pick up The World Awaits for 5k bonus resources Argus Week 3: Finish Argus Campaign on Mac’Aree Unlock Netherlight Crucible and Seat of the Triumverate New Mac’Aree world quests Archaeology quest - A Beacon of Hope Starlight Beacon - draw a box around yourself and fly inside, even when you don’t have flying Apparently you can use this with a Goblin Glider Kit or Rocfeather Skyhorn Kite to do Magic of Flight if you don’t have regular flying. May also be usable in Argus?? Another reason why rogue = cheat mode Upcoming Holidays: Tuesday 19th - 20th - Pirate’s Day Corresponds with International Talk Like a Pirate Day 1 hour pirate disguise in faction cities Mostly occurs in Booty Bay Get a 12 hour pirate costume that persists through death and gives an achievement Complete quest “You’re Gonna Need a Bigger Boat” for 5 Emergency Pirate Outfits Purchase Petey for 10g from Dread Captain DeMeza, a 5-stack item that allows you to have a green woodpecker on your shoulder (I looked at it. THIS IS NOT A PARROT). You can have it sit on your shoulder AND have Pepe on your head at the same time Kill Ol’Eary, a rare elite shark off Booty Bay, get a Slightly Chewed Insult Book toy. Wednesday 20th - October 6th - Brewfest Some new things as of last year: Brewfest Prize Token items Gravel Goldbraid’s Famous Sausage Hat toy and the Synthebrew Goggles XL head item News: Blizzcon virtual ticket More coverage! That means the panels we never got to see ALL stages will be covered through Blizzcon All Access Channel Can watch on demand replays for more than a month afterward Cool mounts! Multi passenger faction flying mounts - Stormwind Skychaser and Orgrimmar Interceptor $39.99 US. Opening ceremony and all esports streams will be free to all but no convention coverage More items for other games will be coming There will be videos posted between now and Nov. on the web site. Goody bag It’s a backpack (useless to me) Velcro area for little patches - one for each Bliz game Overwatch figurine Shadow: New Charity Pet Fennec fox - color changing All proceeds are being split between American Red Cross DIsaster Relief and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) Disaster Relief Fund to assist with relief efforts around the world

Mike: Farmed for the recipe. Took about 20m. I had 72 Shadow Silk in my inventory (ha! pack rat!) Make 8 Shadoweave Masks. Farmed more silk. Total at the end of the day, over 80k gold. Finished chapter 2 of Argus Bug in a invasion point Naigtal - Spores give 1M damage/tick, kept getting it on rez. Problem - skull mobs walk around, can really hurt you. Spore bug Not a lot of room to move Very hard to do solo unless you know how to maneuver Got my Sulfuras - Hand of Ragnaros Legendary on my DK Ren: Arena Skirmish Bonus Event Darkmoon Faire r Stupid dirgible is 1000 tickets News: Argus won’t have flying (but we knew that) The Flying on Argus debate: the tl;dr version Argussian Emissary Quests should now require 3 WQs Fel lava on Argus no longer damages pets http://www.wowhead.com/news=271115/lucid-nightmare-mount-discovered-by-secret-finding-discord Invasion points Available after finishing the second chapter of Argus in Mac’aree Starts with a quest from Ilidan, “Where They Least Expect It” to enter an invasion point to kill the legion commander Followup quest: recover 15 Argus Waystones to unlock Greater Invasion Points Invasion Points repeatable - you don’t need to be in a party to enter it. Will get credit just from zoning in. Finishing grants Artifact Power tokens, Argus Waystones and Veiled Aranite. Each lasts 6 hours Include Environmental hazards (watch your feet) and one unique objective Three stages: fill a bar by killing trash, more mobs spawn, LEgion Commander spawns If you wipe on Legion Commander, health will not reset Greater Invasion Points - can do once per week - Argus world bosses drop 930 loot Bring a Seal of Broken Fate for bonus rolls EMAIL

Ren: Started on Argus campaign with rogue (as predicted) Still playing Diablo 3 but having some repetitive motion injury issues with right hand Ditched Bagnon for ArkInventory Pleased with TV appearance on THE DEAD FILES - and cancelled Sling (HDTV antenna works great - between that and Amazon Prime’s Thursday Night Football, Giants season is saved!) Caught 3rd eagle this week Mike: Argus! Wait, it’s only one chapter? Can’t do the dungeon yet What’s this cloth? Spoilers! Chests everywhere Couldn’t get enough items for the i880 gear (not that I need it) Mobs aren’t that hard to kill. What’s with the eye quest? 20% more damage in/out? Some guy’s been buying my stuff on the AH and not making a profit Uldaman Tomb of Sargeras w/Ali This Week in Wow One word: Argus Next week: Mac’Aree zone opens, unlock Invasion Points, and a questline to open Greater Invasion Points that can drop 930 gear. For those who aren’t into Argus, it’s Cataclysm Timewalking. The Archaeology reward for next 2 weeks is a toy called the Crystalline Eye of Undravius, which lets you look around and see invisible NPCs as demons or changes existing NPCs into demons for 15 seconds (apparently Khadgar is a succubus). If you’re a toy collector or are after your 8 archaeology quests for a new artifact tint, go for it. Collecting 300 toys will get you a mount, the Mechanized Lumber Extractor. 7.3 News Nightfallen reputation requirements removed from several Suramar quests, making it possible to complete the Suramar campaign without reputation gates. Undocumented changes Artifact catch-up for alts: Artifact Knowledge now starts at 41 regardless of book Removes Class Hall Campaign for third relic slot Removes Broken Shore campaign to unlock Empowered Traits Higher drop rate for artifact appearances, and you can get them for artifacts you own that you aren’t currently using (off spec) I880 Relinquished Gear no longer available to purchase with Nethershards. Completing opening Broken Shore scenario on one character is required to unlock Argus Reduced requirements for Breaching the Tomb - example, you only need 50 Mark of Sentinax instead of 100 Timewalking dungeon loot starts at 880, and Black Temple timewalking loot starts at 930. Lots of Tomb of Sargeras changes - mostly nerfs Nomi Work Orders can now yield Broken Islands Recipe Scrap (drop rate lower than Nomi Snacks). 10 scraps = one undiscovered recipe Fishing Round the Isles achievement now requires 20 world fishing quests, not all of them Levitating players can now jump Lightning Bolt and Chain Lightning updated animations were not implemented. Apparently they got bad reviews on the PTR. Two new class hall follower catch-up items added to Warmage Kathleen at Deliverance Point: Grimoire of Lost Knowledge (adds 6000 XP to follower for 2500 nethershards) and Relinquished Armor Set (sets champion iLevel to 880 for 400 nethershards) New missions for followers may be related to a new side quest, available to players after completing the An Offering of Light main quest series. These side quests unlock a new type of troop or missions that offer new follower equipment Helpful toy: Sightless Eye (not to be confused with the Sightless Eye currency) - makes you much less detectable to mobs on Argus or Broken Shore for 10 minutes, with a 5 minute cooldown. Any damage, including falling damage, breaks this. (Or just make a rogue) Diablification #1: Antaen Light-Bringer in the first part of Argus -- after the first few quests, you join Kil’jaeden and Prophet Velen to destroy a siege weapon that looks like a large green portal of some type Spoiler: it pops up and it’s a big mob Ren: Recognized this IMMEDIATELY because it looks almost exactly like a mob called the Realmwalker in the Battlefields of Eternity level in Act IV of D3, who is a giant mob who hides in the ground with a big portal eye on his head. Knew what was going to happen

Ren: Cable cutting: Sling TV, HDTV antennas, solutions for watching football Played opening scenario for Argus What is it with night elves and bottled water? Don’t see myself going through this with more than one character Mike: Another legendary (waist) Got it from the world boss on the Isle i909 Working on getting the tokens for the next legendary upgrade. No new mounts. Forgot about Trial of Style News Patch 7.3 NEXT WEEK https://www.icy-veins.com/forums/topic/32790-patch-73-official-patch-notes/ Other worlds?? Seat of the Triumverate - new dungeon 4 bosses Argus WQs (no surprise) Artifact customization New combat animations New items for mining, herbalism, skinning, tailoring, and shoulder enchants Achievements for the number of tabards you have. Class changes Broken Shore now has an emissary quest New factions: Army of Light and Argussian Reach - both advance with world quests, emissary quests, order hall missions and weekly quests Army of Light - Exalted reward: Lightforged Warframe mount for the low low price of 500k gold - looks like a gold mechanical golem Argussian Reach Exalted reputation paragon caches can include one of three Elekk mounts Other rewards Not a fan of the Hearthstone musical Not understanding the marketing behind it. Kel’Thuzad is the new hero in Heroes of the Storm What was with Jaina? lol Ali-Yesterday at 11:34 PM Oh hey everyone @here ....make sure to turn in your Legionfall Supplies before the patch. Once it drops, you'll no longer get the chests from that and the ap reward is also reduced.(edited) Email from Zak We fall down a rabbit hole about rare items from Uldaman. Discord: https://discord.gg/0igWZxupFC0N8mH4 Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/starmike

Ren: Still feel like I’m waiting around for 7.3 - marking time Love the lighting effects in Dalaran Update on The Dead Files RL achievement: Banded first bald eagle of the year, posted picture on Twitter. Mike: Yes, there’s a level 1 mount SPriest is terrible at leveling, not bad in dungeons (but could be better) Leveled up my DH and *love it* Trial of Style! This week: Legion Dungeon event Spirit of Ech’ero mount for weekly archaeology Trial of Style mini-event starts today and goes til Tuesday 5 players given 2 minutes to create a transmog based on a theme - some PTR themes have included Summer Styles, Winter Wear, Mismatched Mayhem, Fun and Flirty, Tabard Time, Faction Pride, Epic Purple, and of course, the ever popular Freestyle You can’t see what your competitors are doing as they appear to be wearing smocks to cover their transmogs until the unveiling Contestants are pulled onto a stage where people can vote on two at a time - strike a pose such as /wave, /cheer, or /dance After several rounds of voting, prizes are awarded, 1st through 3rd and Consolation. Contains Trial of Style tokens that can be traded for transmog gear in Dalaran Some complaints on forums of people getting kicked from scenario groups and getting a 30 minute deserter debuff http://www.wowhead.com/news=269877/trial-of-style-transmog-holiday-august-17th-22nd News: 7.3 - details will be announced at Gamescon via the Blizzard Reveal Ceremony on Wed 23rd Also at Gamescon - WoW European Championship Finals, and two top Euro guilds (Nova and Set Sail for Fail) will race each other in a live mythic showdown Whispers of a Frightened World scenario live as of Tuesday http://www.wowhead.com/news=268553/whispers-of-a-frightened-world-scenario-now-live Without spoilers: get a quest to go to Sholazar Basin and meet with Magni, to enter the Hall of Communion at Maker’s Overlook. Starts a scenario. Getting high reviews from people who have completed it New combat and casting animations shown Resto Druid Blood Elf Female Ranged Attack All Mage Specs Holy Priest Shadow Priest Elemental Shaman Item level changes in 7.3 Dungeon item level drops will be each going up one rung. Normal will move from 825 to 845; heroic from 845 to 865; mythic from 865 to 885. The Name Change that Didn’t Blizzard announced almost a year ago it was going to shift from “Battle.net” to “Blizzard” for its online services Branding change fail: they decided they will become “Blizzard Battle.net” Activision Blizzard Investor call - 2nd Q 2017 (April through June) Blizzard reported: All time record monthly active users, up 38% from last year All time record daily active users and Q2 record time spent Legion continues to outperform Warlords Overwatch monthly active users have increased each quarter since launch, rose to a new all time high in Q2 Net revenues of over $3.3 billion (just Blizzard) Blizaard outperforming the other divisions (Activision and King). Activision has titles such as Call of Duty, Destiny and SKylanders, and King brings you Candy Crush, Pet Rescue, Farm Heroes and Bubble Witch Discord: https://discord.gg/0igWZxupFC0N8mH4 Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/starmike

News: What’s that thing in the sky? All of ToS is available in Raid Finder. Summer Games are out on Overwatch! Sharding? Plea to Blizz to remove sharding on NA RP servers temporarily. Approved in two hours? Yes, true - because RP peeps wanted no sharding. Still no release date for 7.3 - unlikely to happen before Gamescon in Germany (August 22) Speculation it may not release until as late as October A few more bans for selling raids/progression for RL money - Blizzard clear selling them for in-game gold is absolutely not a violation Mythic Dungeon Invitational: Clears done; 7 of top 10 clears completed by Europe teams. 2 Americas and 1 APAC (and 6 out of 10 were Horde ppbbbbttt :D ) Most popular dungeons: Vault of the Wardens (8/10), Halls of Valor (7/10), Neltharion’s lair (7/10), Black Rook Hold (6/10) Court of Stars (6/10 teams) and Eye of Aszhara (6/10) Rules deliberately vague on criteria for getting in - timing is just one factor Mike: Lunch with Thorn and Thyst Lots of thoughts on playing the priest (Disc, Shadow) Ren: Switched mains in Diablo 3 Necro: lot of fun, tired of getting killed a lot Crusader: “good enough” DPS and don’t have to worry about getting blown up so much - running Blessed Hammer build with the Seeker of Light set Rep-a-palooza didn’t happen, but at least finished exalted with Darkmoon Faire

Ren: Still experiencing life invasions, still playing Diablo III (up to T11, level 50 GRifts) Haven’t had much time to do anything else Mike: Hit the 500k mark Started playing the warrior again - up to 17, but too early to tell if it’s a good fit because I can one-shot everything. Wanted to play the priest. No time. Timewalking mount This week in WoW Northrend Timewalking Dungeon Event Darkmoon Faire this weekend (8/6-13) New Darkmoon Dirigible mount coming in 7.3 for 180 tickets -- start saving now! New cat mount/pet We talk about today's Twitch Q&A session w/Ion. Other news 7.3's Blood of Sargeras: Primal Sargerite new crafting reagent Transmute: Primal Sargerite (1 Primal Sargerite from 25 Blood of Sargeras) recipe comes from Alchemist Funen in a new zone, Krokuun Argus world quest rewqrds If you are revered with Armies of Legion, can purchase a shoulder enchant that will increase drop of Light's Fortune, which contains Primal Sargerite What requires Primal Sargerite: all kinds of new recipes for armor, jewelcrafting, engineering, alchemy example: Tears of the Naaru (shows all demons on minimap for 30 minutes) Primal Obliterum: needed to advance crafted armor to 935 Why Icy Veins says to dump Defiled Augment Runes before patch 7.3 "Patch 7.3 comes adds a new faction called Army of the Light and at Exalted you can buy a new BoP rune that has the exact same stats as the old one (Lightforged Augment Rune). It seems it won't get consumed on use, so Defiled Augment Rune will be relevant only by the time players reach Exalted with the new faction. "

Ren: Life invasions > demon invasions WoW - still plugging away at exalted - finished Armies of Legionfall Diablo III -- Season 11 started 8 PM EST on July 20, running a necro - When I checked at 20 hours in, the highest season necro was level 70 and running level 86 greater rifts (GR 60= T13). I was level 8 and grateful for pants. - Necro is level 70 running T4 (GR 17) Mike: How to report a bot Related: Vial of the Sands no longer crowded on the AH This Week: - World Quest Bonus Event - rep gained with all Legion factions increased by 50% - World Awaits quest - 5k order resources for completing 20 world quests - Kirin Tor Tavern Crawl (July 31st) - find Tipsi Wobblerune outside your faction's inn in Dalaran - she will go to diffferent inns every few minutes (pay attention to chat) - each tavern will have Tavern Enthusiasts, new drinks and food - some short term items such as Tavern Finery (a hat), food or drink that changes your appearance - Hozen Pool Party on the Veiled Stair NEWS Changes to world bosses - bosses like Withered Jim - rotation is currently random but will be changed to a fixed rotation Raiding with Leashes V - The Cuteaclysm - Collect in Bastion of Twilight (3 pets), Blackwing Descent (3 pets), Throne of the Four Winds (2 pets), Firelands (4 pets), and Dragon Soul (3 pets). - 8 of the 15 pets are elemental pets. There are also 2 magic, 2 dragonkin, and 1 each of mechanical, undead, and beast. - Achievement reward is the Amalgam of Destruction, an elemental pet. - Christie Golden writing another novel. No idea what it’s about yet. - ToS Wing 3 on the PTR - No more XP or Vista support come October, except Overwatch - Russell Brower leaving Blizzard after 12 years. Aker sends us a lot of information about what it's like to be in Method.

Special guest host Thyst (@thyst03) from Lagging Balls fills in for Ren this week! Thyst: 5/9 Heroic ToS Friend’s Heroic Lockout before KJ BoE farming (10 man group can expect 5-7 drops, 25% warforge rate. i.e, 4 915s, 1-2 920s) Doing Deep Six Brawls Normal Four Piece Mike: Timewalking BT and dungeons done Timewalking Black Temple with Ali’s guild - so much fun! Key for Mana Tombs works in Timewalking Got people some xmog doing Mana Tombs twice Tried to fix sRaidFrame, but it's too far gone. Replacement - grid2? Z Perl? Did the quests for the legendary cloths. Finally i907! WoW: Method gets first Mythic Kil’Jaden kill (of course). Longest progression race since Al’Akir. https://twitter.com/Justw8/status/886725643672711168 654 wipes!!! 19 new mounts in 7.3! http://blizzardwatch.com/2017/07/18/blizzard-panels-swag-san-diego-comic-con/ HotS: What will be the new HotS hero? Tease from the Dark Portal. It’s Gary Hellscream! Overwatch: Doomfist will be available July 27 Win/Lose rates for OW: https://us.battle.net/forums/en/overwatch/topic/20757706588?page=2#post-24 https://us.battle.net/forums/en/overwatch/topic/20757527371#post-2

Support the show! http://www.patreon.com/starmike Mike: Windchanneller’s Raiment - an old secret? Tried working on ToS - long story. Got in two BT raids that fell apart before the first boss. Ren: Still mostly playing Diablo III - keeping up with Exalted, sort of Season 11 starts July 20 . deciding what my toon will be (necro or witch doctor) News: Black Temple timewalking is out! Make sure to talk to the NPC in Shatt first. You queue by having the raid leader talk to the NPC, and then you’re all ported there. “This is harder than timewalking”. No, it IS timewalking. It’s a raid, fool. Lockout has been hotfixed. Don’t forget to xmog before you go! :D “Appear Offline” coming to battle.net? http://www.wowhead.com/news=267447/appear-offline-mode-teased-in-hearthstone-update New caster animations Overwatch League is officially starting Blizz pulling back from SDCC-exclusive items - merch will premiere at SDCC and then will be sold online. It’s official as of 10:45 AM today: Kil’jaeden the longest lived mythic mob since Cataclysm - beats Archimonde (16 days). Current recordholder: Al’Akir (42 days) Mythic Invitational - PVE esports tournament - How it works: - July 25-August 8: group runs mythics and submits their 5 highest Mythic Keystone runs to Blizzard. - Blizzard chooses top 8 teams from each of the 4 regions (Americas, Europe, Asia-Pacific and China) - September Regional Playoffs - single elimination until 2 teams remain - each region gets one streaming day. Blizzard chooses the dungeon (presumably different each time so no one can prepare?) September 16: China September 17: Asia-Pacific September 23: Europe September 24: Americas - grand finale: remaining 8 teams battle it out - Prizes: 1st: $50k 2nd - $20k, 3rd/4th $10k, 5-8: $2500 Email

The woes of trying to get rep with factions that come and go. Dealing with Dubenko the Turtle. Don't forget farm rep if you're working on Pandaria rep. Vial of the Sands is returning 30k gold in a matter of hours. Is that good? This week in WoW: Pet event: 200% xp Darkmoon Faire ends Sunday am Tuesday July 11 - Tomb of Sargeras - second wing opens to raid finder July 11, Burning Crusade timewalking **BREAKING** Doomfist is up on the Overwatch PTR Ren talks at length about the Diablo III Necromancer

Warcast turns 12 on Sunday! Thanks to everyone who has listened to and supported the show all these years. Mike and Ren go off on an unexpected tangent about games and age - have you changed your gaming habits as you got older? Dinner with Thorn and Thyst in meatspace! How to NOT recruit for your guild. Mike finally gets Vial of the Sands after a week of farming. - Was it worth it? - Can you undercut the competition? - How much are the mats and how much profit would you make? Authentication issues with the Legion app (Mike had login issues with the game as well). This week: Darkmoon Faire! With the start of Blight Boar? Fireworks on the 4th. Fire Festival ends the 5th. News Patch 7.3 hitting PTR https://us.battle.net/forums/en/wow/topic/20757296503 First wing of ToS LFR opened up. Blizz taking action against accounts that advertize raid clears for money. It’s summer! http://blizzardwatch.com/2017/06/27/qiraji-guardling-summer-pet-wow/ The Necromancer arrives in D3 $15 Overwatch hoodies from Jinx Mention of class development Reddit AMA that happened last Friday - https://www.reddit.com/r/wow/comments/6j2wwk/wow_class_design_ama_june_2017/?st=j4inb11y&sh=c7617731 Discord! https://discord.gg/0igWZxupFC0N8mH4

News: Tomb of Sargeras is open. Midsummer Fire Festival Book of Matches - 500 blossoms Sets you on fire, and running screaming!! Gathered all 500 in maybe 2 hours or less Other new pets There’s a new(?) helm for 350 blossoms Candy Buckets addon helps a lot Blizzard signs two-year exclusive deal with Twitch to stream eSports More Blizzcon tickets go on sale July 5 Great, but what will that do for an already-full hotel scene? Overwatch: new map - Lunar Colony Overwatch: get a golden crate with a Twitch Prime account http://blizzardwatch.com/2017/06/16/wow-secret-finding-discord-uncovers-secret-behind-sun-darter-hatchling/ https://www.scribd.com/document/351437491/Sun-Darter-Hatchling?irgwc=1&content=27795&campaign=VigLink&ad_group=2332445&keyword=ft500noi&source=impactradius&medium=affiliate https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mrb02monDMg Mike: All you need to know about how to farm the damn Vial of the Sands recipe. Why did the price of Blood of the Mountain skyrocket last week? Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/0igWZxupFC0N8mH4

Patch 7.2.5 is out! We take a look at the documented and UNdocumented changes, including a compilation of undocumented changes found around the interwebz. Midsummer Fire Festival next week, with new items. Black Temple Timewalking is next week. Work on that Shaohao rep this week! Overwatch - Lunar Colony map June 20. Mike: Mount count is up to 189. Getting there. The Sunwell transmog set achivement is now fixed. Using a bank toon to auction things. Mike tried the Chromie scenario (tried...). Ren: The Wowhead premium subscription is worth it. The new flightpath toy for alts. Time to get the Bloodsail Admiral title?

Ren: Fun with rep grinding. Mike: Mounts up to 186. Class mounts became available Tuesday. Achievement run fun with @Xandara. News: All about 7.2.5 which Blizzard hopes to drop on Tuesday. We also talk about the live Q&A from yesterday. Mod of the cast: Ren - Reputation Bars Mike - Rarity, and Elkano's Buff Bars

Mike: Overwatch fun this weekend. Transmog - yes, you can still get new vanilla stuff after 12+ years. Renata: Reputation issues - go for 60? (hint: Mike is 67) News: Overwatch competitive season 5 started this week. Overwatch lunar colony on the PTR. Tomb of Sargeras opens June 20 We’re close to our class mounts! You can’t find a server without finding a covfefe. Good idea or was it a scheme by Blizz to get people to eventually change their name? How do people feel about Twitch? Darkmoon Faire Thousand boat bash Letter from Maxcorpious, human mage, Riders of Rohan, Argent Dawn - what are our hardware setups? Mod of the cast: Mike - Ackis Recipe List Ren - Request for a rep mod

Ren announces the winner of which headphones she picked and why. Squirt/200% pet binge - 33 pets from 2 to 25! Always listen to people when they say something could bug a boss. Abuse in Overwatch voice chat? Are DX Racer chairs really worth the money? News: Tokens went WAY up this week due to Destiny 2. Upcoming events in patch 7.2.5, both in scenarios and the Darkmoon Faire. Come join us on Discord! https://discord.gg/0igWZxupFC0N8mH4

Spring balloon festival is this week! Don't forget your Inky potions! The new armory UI! How to buy a good pair of headphones. Your letters and comments!

Ren is back! Special thanks to Cara and Thyst for filling in this month. How to play WoW without playing WoW. Dark Animus 10H is a pain in the ass. How Mike beat it as a mage. Children's week is here! Should Blizzard make a Battle Royale-type game? (H1Z1) Other goodies!

Special guest host Cara (@Xandara) joins us! We talk about the Legion Q&A, fresh off the livestream! Is AoL rep needed anymore now that you don't need exalted for your class mount? Don't sell/DE your transmog gear too soon! How to not run a bad transmog raid. Cara tested out the PTR. Get Warglaves, get a transmog set for your Demon Hunter! Dark Mirror short story is out. https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/story/short-story/dark-mirror A bit spoilery talk about the Anduin cinematic. https://youtu.be/Ck8CTBkQ0lI Laggin Balls is celebrating their 100th episode with a 24-hour stream this weekend. More hidden items in-game. http://www.wowhead.com/news=263047/lalathin-hippogryph-tame-and-garrison-dog-in-dalaran-discoveries

Special guest Thyst (@Thyst03) fills in for Renata this week. How important is flying in Legion? Thoughts on Overwatch: Uprising. All about the AP. Gravity Lapse was amazing, but buggy, but still amazing. Getting all the mounts for the green fel firehawk isn't as easy as it looks. What do we think of the new Twitch app? Did Blizzard fix Noblegarden? And other fun topics!