World of Warcast: A World of Warcraft Podcast

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

My God, it's full of dailies! Ways we'd rather get VP without so many dailies. Gating - good or bad? Starman stars a pally. 5.1 changes. - Some class changes. - Rep changes for alts. - Brawler's Guild - No more shared lockouts

Before we started doing more structured shows about Mists of Pandaria, we thought we'd do a show about our first impressions of the expansion, and talk about some things players should know.

News: Blizzard announced they were hacked. What to do to protect your account. Lindyen gives us a little minicast on pet battles. Patch 5.0.4 coming Aug. 28. All races available in 5.0.4, not all classes. Our experiences with LFR. What changes will be coming, and how will it affect guilds in the future?

News: Blizzard announced the loss of 1.1 million subscribers. Is this really supposed to be something to worry about? Mists of Pandaria staggered raid releases. WoW movie news - what little there is. * Lots of info about Mists of Pandaria *

We're back! We talk what we've been doing in WoW, Diablo III, and how other MMOs are comparing against WoW. Lindy tells us all about how he's been doing in D3, and its effect on the guild. We cover some of the new things coming in Mists of Pandaria.

Lindyen's feelings about raiding in Cata. When is Mists coming out? Was Old Republic put out too early? Scroll of Resurrection gives you lots of goodies! How Lindy is getting to 100 mounts Excerpts from the dev water cooler - Hit and spell hit changes - How hit will be normalized - Block gets a separate combat roll - Changes to crit - How resiliance will change Your feedback

Class changes in 4.3 All about the lore-a-licious 5-mans! New raid - Dungeon Soul Transorgrification Void storage. Is it cool? Too expensive? The Darkmoon Faire is brand spankin' new!

All about Blizzcon 2011 and Mists of Pandaria!

Patch 4.3 on the PTR - Transmorgification - Void storage - New instances! - Troll instances no longer in their own section - Ghostcrawler's post on the 4.3 changes Is 25 man raiding dead? Is Blizzard really losing 900,000 subscribers? Listener feedback

Firelands!

It's Midsummer! Get your free gold and XP! Is Patch 4.2 coming on Tuesday? Authenticator changes Play cross-realm with friends! Some info on Firelands. More to come when it's released. How fast can you get to level 10? Soloing MC as a mage Blizzard giving away free copies of the game for vets' friends Listener feedback

All about role playing in WoW with Bodua from the Dark Sun Cabal guild on Lightninghoof

Blizzcon tickets went on sale Starman is going to Blizzcon! What will they announce at Blizzcon? 4.2 patch Can Blizzard cannibalize their own fanbase? Starting a rogue after playing a mage for six years How to go from 1-70 in three days /played Making money with inscription Turning a death knight farmer into a tank Making the best of PUGs Listener feedback Don't stand in the fire

Patch 4.1 ZG vs. ZA Raiding spring fever? In-game raid signups good enough? Fighting the RNG boss with a mage fire spec 5/5 4.1 Patch Children's Week What warrior wears heirloom cloth? THAT GUY! The effect of ZG/ZA on Maelstrom Crystals Wrath gear for 5-mans? Reader feedback What class for new players? Gonna miss Renata and Citizen Azeroth Mod of the Cast: ArkInventory

Lindyen loves Shadow Era on his new iPad 2 Starman and iKrissi start a guild on Emerald Dream Lindyen's warrior tales How to make money with Justice Points The current state of raiding Thoughts on Rift Twitter and reader feedback

Finding a new server home. Lindy - is the new raiding different than old? Rolling while raiding. Patch 4.0.6 comments. Listener feedback.

iKrissi joins us Cataclysm impressions Best way to gear up for heroics and beyond Money in Cataclysm A trick for getting Greater Celesial Essences Fortune Cookies vs. Mysterious Fortune Cards DPS, healing, and tanking in Cataclysm Rare spawns Reader feedback Starman's comments on the Rift beta weekend

Cataclysm! Archaeology New instances Gear level and instances Replacing Wrath gear Best places to get new gear

Blizzcon wrap-up Stompalina is a badass party planner "The Raid" Elemental invasion Is Cata's release killing raiding? Reader's emails Are you rerolling? Battle.net now has phone authentication

Special guest iKrissi! Blizzcon! Meetup! Patch 4.0.1! Exclamation points!!! Class changes! Reforging! Broken Mods! Earthquakes! Glyphs! Loremaster! Oh My!

Cataclysm - what we know that isn't going to change by the time you read this. Retro spelunking. Reasons for going through old dungeons. More ways to line your pockets with gold. Viewer feedback

We welcome Christy from Analog Hole Gaming! Errata about JC Minicasts coming Private server bitchslapped Loremaster and the Everyquest addon Thoughts on RealID now that it's been in use for a while Listener feedback and emails about shammy heal rotation and badges PvP, uh, good God, what is it good for?

We're going to Blizzcon! How easy is alchemy? Our new (possible) minicasts Starman was on Rawrcast!! Raiding - Hardest bosses in ICC - Thoughts on the 30% buff - Cataclysm raiding Listener emails

Lindyen rejoins us Our podcast feed URL is fixed! Thanks @askbuxley! Insane in the Membrane Making money using jewelcrafting Starcraft 2 is released! Future topics on Warcast Razer Naga vs. the Logitech G13

Starman does PvP. Yes, really! Fifth anniversary!

Interview with Megadan of The Megadan Chronicles Megadan Audio Sample

Alachia's raid team has stopped Alachia's prediction: Looking for raids? Beta or first day? Blizzard's new RealID Blizzcon ticket dates announced The Instance releases images of female worgen iPhone Armory app updated! How would offline tradeskilling help? Virtual spaces (housing) for pets, gear, etc.?

Our first live show! Special guest @iKrissi Celestial Mount and XT Could the WoW subscription model go away? Raiding or Emblems. Which is better? The good, the bad, and the pugging Gearscore - holes in the system Noob vs. Veteran Quest dynamics

Special guest: Lindyen Talks about our classes, our roles in groups and raids, and how things have changed for the better over the last five years.

An unedited conversation about the game, the show, and the direction we're going in.

Frustrating raid week w/Putricide What's with the raid attempt limit? Things you find out when you level a new character Encidia banned for a Lich King kill exploit LFG group exploit Outisde Auction House access coming Facebook app that connects your character Blizzard's commitment to security How to eye a phishing email Blizzard chat on Twitter Tremors update This Week Inside WoW Mod of the cast: Perfect Screenshot Photowalk PFQ: How has Blizzard made WoW better? Recruit-A-Friend with eljeppy

Our week in WoW. Man arrested for selling WoW toons and not giving up the accounts. Cataclysm friends and family out Tremors in Theramore? WoW Magazine quick review Alachia's Occulus runthrough Alachia's Hilt hell story PFQ: How do you play WoW?

"You'll shoot your eye out!" Taiwanese man "finishes" WoW Alliance/Horde mosaic Looking ahead at Final Fantasy XIV Responses about homogenization and balance Is WoW becoming too much like a console game? How do you play your class? Mod of the cast: Pet Leash Podcast featured question Photowalk

WoW's 5th anniversary Pilgrim's Bounty This Week in WoW - Raiding mentality Mod of the Cast - Kennel Podcast Featured Question Latest photowalk

Azerothunited.com Alachia vs. the RNG Boss Blizzard sells vanity pets Patch 3.3 WoW banned in China Printwarcraft.com is live Twitter podcast list This week in WoW This week's PFQ

Where has Starman gone? Trial of the Crusader's gear discrepency Flickr group Warcraft and Windows 7 WoW's astounding numbers Flickr daily challenge Warcast on Google Wave This week's PFQ

Hallow's End 2009 Minicast

Authenticator problems Apprecitating WoW by seeing other games Old Azeroth screenshot project What defines 'hardcore'? Pirate Day! Twitter responses "Daily" Challenge New Warcast Facebook group Figureprints Price Drop Print Warcraft

Brewfest 2009

Different attitude towards welfare epics? How interested are you in the Arthas questline? World Of Warcraft Magazine Ask us questions using Twitter Pre-Cataclysm Boulderfist Photo Tour Alachia's Old Azeroth flickr group Should you donate for mo