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#337 - For Azeroth!: "Won't You Be My Neighbor?" · For Azeroth!: A World of Warcraft Podcast

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I don't think Manny's going to edit this.
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I think one of us has to, which means no editing.
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You're ultimate if you're hearing this, listeners, it
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means I was right and Manny chose not to edit this episode,
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which. Is frankly his rights victory
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for the Forsaken? For Lord Iran.
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For the Karen tour for. Pandaria.
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For calendar. To the burning region for
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Gilnaeus but have not died, for the Lich King, for the Sindora,
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for the Alliance, for the Horn for Azeroth.
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Hello and welcome to the latest episode of Four Azeroth.
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You may notice that I am not the true Villa Manny.
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He is on sabbatical this week. Manny is taking a vacation and
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he was traveling to the deep north in Ontario, which is the
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province he lives in. I'm probably not supposed to be
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doxing my Co star. Co host.
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Co star sounds really pretentious.
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He is a star. He is the star.
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On a note, I would like to introduce the other those star
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I'm calling I'm calling you star.
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It is Lex Rance. Lex, how has the World of
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Warcraft been treating you? It's been.
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Treating me very well. I my primary interaction with
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World Warcraft is that I'm currently reading the Illidan
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novel because I refuse to read any of these novels in any sort
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of order. And I will say I'm feeling a
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little bit embarrassed for the number of times I called this
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man my husband because I hadn't really been paying attention in
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BC and I kind of did not realize how terrible and horrible and
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curl he was. So, you know, we're not sure how
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that one's going to go, but it's fun.
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It's a good I, I, I am actually really enjoying this novel.
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And as I have proven on this podcast, I can be kind of picky
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with my kind of, I can be very picky with my fantasy writing.
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So I'm having a good time. I'm, I'm, I've been right along.
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How's the World of Warcraft treating?
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You been treating me great. In fairness to you, Ilidan is
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kind of the model relationship for my parents as I was growing
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up. So it makes sense that you would
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be calling him your husband because it is the model of
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husbandry that I have seen. My father is a lovely man now
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Warcraft though has been treating me great.
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He doesn't listen. He's been treating me great.
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We are deep in preparation for the upcoming season.
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I wrote my raid tank swap guide for my EU and NA guilds today
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actually, and did some PTR testing of some of the new
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dungeons and have just really been like hard shifting full
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force into dancing at the pink palette club in season 3 for my
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hitting my protection pilot and ready to go.
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Yeah, I'm pretty excited, pretty excited.
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That's so exciting my I As you can probably tell, I've not been
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playing a lot of World of Warcraft recently, but tomorrow
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I'm supposed to be getting my floor couch and I already have
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my nice little coffee table, so I should be soon playing on the
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floor, which means that I will allegedly be playing
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significantly more. The flip side is that it's now
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beautiful. And the other thing that I got
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this week is a nice little patio set so I can go eat, you know,
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meals and read my illinant novel outside and it's, you know, in
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the 80s and I can't walk because it's hot.
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I refuse to walk when it's above 80°, but so I get to go sit
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outside with my dog. So we'll see.
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We'll see. But that setup should be coming
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and assuming everything goes well, I will be at a very
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different angle at the next for Azeroth.
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And if you're not watching the for Azeroth live, you can always
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go to bit dot LY slash fast discord and then you can get
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notifications when we're going live for for our.
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Yeah, Manny set up events for everybody that you can like
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click if you're interested in watching the live show and he's
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not here, so I have no idea if those ping anybody.
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So I just sent a ping to the whole Discord so there's a
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chance you could join. You're going to get random pings
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from me. I apologize.
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But like you gave us an excellent segue.
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You're talking about your new home that you've just recently
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moved into. You're setting things up,
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getting your furniture arranged, buying a floor sofa.
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I'm going to ask you later what that is.
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I won't sidetrack as entirely on this episode, but that is in
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line with Blizzard who on July by 10th gave us a Wow housing.
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It's only neighborly article. Lex, can you break down what's
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coming? Yeah.
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So they have been giving us kind of this slow drip feet fed
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information about what player housing is going to look like.
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And this time they're telling us a lot more about neighborhoods,
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which is I think something that my team has been talking about a
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lot. Because that for a lot of us is
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going to be the bake or break for how much we engage with the
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player housing system, right? Most of us are not super
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designer like, oh, we're super excited about putting things.
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We've been fighting for player housing forever.
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And so player housing for us is going to be exciting as a way to
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hang out with each other and engage with the Guild and less
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as a an individual thing. So let's talk about how we're
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going to hang out and and engage with the Guild.
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This is a ton of information. I definitely recommend checking
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out the article, especially if you are particularly interested
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in player housing, because I'm probably going to skip over the
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things that are feeling very important to you.
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But essentially they explained that there's going to be the two
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different zones, right? There's Founders Point, which is
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Alliance, and there's Razor Wind shorts, which is Horde.
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And these zones are going to have different biomes, basically
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different areas from my perspective.
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And it does seem like they're focusing a lot on giving us
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information from Founders point, which as the alliance one is I,
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you know, I primarily played alliance when I was playing
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through the intro quest. So I know those areas a lot
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better. And it's feeling very familiar.
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So they're saying things like, you know, there's some that are
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going to be the creepy forest, which feels very dusk wood or
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the, you know, rolling, rolling farmland, which, you know, is
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the Westfall. I can't believe I almost forgot
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that name. So but but in these
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neighborhoods, you're going to get these flavors of the
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different potential like vibes of the core Horden Alliance.
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And I will admit now that it's it's more the the humans than
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the orcs, but that's OK, whatever in these neighborhoods.
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So like I said, you get these biomes and everyone is going to
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be able to get a plot. And the plots are meant to be
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big because the point is the UI, you and your neighbors aren't
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kind of running into each other, right?
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So if one person has a beautiful, the example they give
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is if somebody has a beautiful hedge, hedge mates, they don't
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want that to be running into somebody elses old growth trees,
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right? They want you to be able to feel
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like your space is unique and you're not fighting with your
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friends about like, Oh no, but this isn't the vibe that I
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wanted for my house. This is ruining the energy.
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You also can choose whether you're going to be in the centre
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of the city, right? Like right in the action, or in
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like a small little neighborhood or in a hermit place my my
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entire Guild within 3 minutes. Like we want the hermit spaces,
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so we might fight over that a little more than you'd expect.
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But you will have the central hub, it'll have NPCS, it'll have
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fun opportunities to engage with the neighborhood as a whole,
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which they get to at the bottom. So I'll try to stick kind of
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with the way that the the article flows itself, but I'm
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very excited about that while still getting to maintain the
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energy that you have, right? What you're looking to do with
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these plots if you move or if you get evicted.
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So for example, you can either be in a public neighborhood or
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you're in a private neighborhood, which is a Guild
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or like a a group that that picks together.
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And if you, for example, get kicked out of the Guild, you
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leave, right? You're no longer in the Guild
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neighborhood. Basically your plot like packs
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up and like goes with you. So it's not like if you decide
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that you hate your public neighborhood or you and your
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Guild stop vibing and you have to move.
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You have to start all over, right?
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Your house is kind of going to hoop and then you go and you
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find a new place and it's back down.
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OK, I like that. I like that.
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I don't know that. I love that the thing from real
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world homeowning that we chose to keep in Warcraft is
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evictions. But I do do like that I just my
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house just tell. I feel like I'm that garbage
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lady from Labyrinth and my house is just on my back and it just
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goes where I go. I don't know if my Labyrinth
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might be too old for you. Too old.
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And also I'm just boring. Like you could name one of the
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most like famous movies of this decade and I'd be like.
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Is that the one? With Liam Neeson.
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All right, well, the other boomers that listen to the show,
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they'll get that reference. And now they're all singing Babe
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with the power in their heads as we go through some more housing
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stuff. You're welcome, everybody.
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Yeah, no, it's, I do know that. I do know that from the memes
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that was on Tech Talk so I know it.
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Oh, good, good. I'm glad I nailed the tick tock.
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Yeah. Yeah, all the the youths get it.
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The youths get it. You, you, you're communicating
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well to them. OK, all right, so we can get
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evicted if we get kicked out of the Guild.
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Yes, or if you. Piss off your.
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Your charter neighborhood, right?
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So I kind of threw this in without a ton of background
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information, but you do have either the public neighborhoods
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which are just anyone buys a house, you just kind of randomly
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got assigned. They said there's not going to
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be a risk of running out every time a neighborhood fills up,
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which is going to be about 50 people.
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It'll just start a new neighborhood.
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So you don't have to worry about, for example, I know in
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Final Fantasy there's a lot of difficulty get like it's kind of
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complicated to get a house. So in world work, if you don't
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have to deal with that, if you want a house to get a house.
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And it seems they haven't mentioned anything about unless
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I'm missing something, they I don't think they mentioned
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anything about buying it. So I think you just get it.
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You just walk in house. Congratulations, player housing.
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You're a player. You have housing.
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God, if only the world ran like that.
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Yeah, you're a human. You get a house.
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Yeah. That doesn't sound very
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deserving. You imagine.
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Yeah, everyone gets. Out just to live.
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In like, come on, that's not going to yeah.
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So they also have private neighborhoods that's either a
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Guild, which is kind of self-explanatory.
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If you're in a Guild, you get to be in the Guild neighborhood or
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a charter neighborhood, which is basically when you as a group,
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just like you, you set up a group of people that aren't
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necessarily a Guild. So for example, our raid team
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actually runs with a lot of people that aren't in our Guild
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either because they have secondary raid team since we're
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only A1 raid night a week team. Or if like they'd have groups of
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friends they wanted to stick with, but they realized that we
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were a really good community for rating.
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So we're not certain if you're in the Timberma Tavern.
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This is not me making an announcement, but we're probably
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going to go charter right? Just so that we can loop people
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in. How do we apply for the
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confirmed Timberma Tavern charter neighborhood?
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Well, you can go to bit dot LY slash fast discord and then you
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can find me and then we can chat about whether or not, you know
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you'd be a good fit for the team and whether we want to hang out
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and how you'd have you'd have played with Guild.
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Perfect, perfect. Are you the recruiting officer?
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We all kind of do everything together except for Luke does
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like all of the strats. That's that's the man man.
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Actually, Luke does most of the things.
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Luke, if you're listening like he, we all do hard work, but we
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had a. Little.
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Yeah, we had a little panic moment when he was having a
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baby. We're like, oh geez, but we're
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all good. All right, Luke's having a baby.
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We're going to What if we did every boss blind to this tear?
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That's. Actually faces me.
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What happened? I think that would be fun.
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Does anybody else think that would be fun?
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In my defense, in our defense, it is fun.
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It's very fun. And I really cannot stress
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enough that if you want to do blind normal, it's the best time
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you're going to have in your life.
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I strongly recommend it, but so in the the one major difference
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between the Guild and the charter neighborhoods is that
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Guild neighborhoods everyone gets a house.
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So if you had a Guild of like 50,000 people, I think there
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actually might be Guild maxes. But let's say hypothetically you
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had a Guild of 50,000 people. Hypothetically there would be
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50,000 houses in your neighborhood.
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Would be instances of 50, like groups of 50.
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So let's say our Guild is 100. Is there a server?
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Is there a Guild instance of 50 and then a second Guild instance
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of 50? And do we have to choose who
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lives in town A and town B? And what if there's only?
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What if there's only 52 people in the Guild?
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Is there a fifty person zone and then two person zone?
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These are all really good questions.
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And I actually was about to say that it was actually I didn't
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even think that through and for in in my head, I thought that it
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was there was one big neighborhood, but it's not.
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You're actually right. It's going to be instanced.
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So it'll they'll be multiple different attached groups.
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They did say that these are plots of roughly 50 the, the
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neighborhoods of roughly 50 plots.
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So I think they have some degree of control over how like, like
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they they for example, I bet that there's a trigger number of
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like if you have 51 people in your Guild, for example, it's
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going to just expand to 51. But if you have like 56 then
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it'll go to oh God I have to do mental math really quickly. 2 of
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2627? Yeah. 2 of 2828 it'll be 28.
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That bad? We counted.
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There one at. A.
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Time. Yeah, chat definitely didn't
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give us the answer. How rude I I can do mental math
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it's not what I'm actually talking.
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Also that's that was a lie. I just lied to you guys on for
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as well. I'm sorry.
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They know you lied, but they just heard us count from 26 to
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28 to figure what was half of 56.
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They know you lied, Lex. Okay, I'd like to believe I
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could have done that mental math if I was not actively speaking
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at the moment, but I'm also famously stupid.
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We do language here. We're languagers.
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Yeah, that's our thing. That's true.
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That's why. That's why Manny has to edit it
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out every episode. That's right.
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That's right. My mom's a librarian.
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Lex's parents are all copywriters.
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It's like this is how it works. This.
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Is a professor. Yeah, whatever.
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Yeah, that's basically, honestly, basically the same.
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Yeah. So charters do just have a
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maximum number of plots. So you can't just expand your
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charter at nauseam, nauseam. We're moving on.
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Yeah. OK, so we don't know.
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Some of you may have to live alone.
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Yeah, you might just have to, which, frankly, if you wanted
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the hermit house, you got to pick any house.
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You want that like nobody's going to fight over it.
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You could just get every single house.
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You can move every week. It doesn't matter if you don't
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have to rebuild anything. It's just, I actually don't
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think that's true. I don't think you can move
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within a neighborhood. You can move between
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neighborhoods, but you can't just pop around a.
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Lot every day. Yeah, alas.
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Can I just live in a somebody else's house?
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Can I squat? So that's a really good
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question. You can actually set for your
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own houses rules for who can and cannot enter which spaces and
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when they can and cannot enter spaces.
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So you could like if, for example, I didn't set any rules
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on my house and anyone could come in, Yeah, you could totally
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squat in my house, no worries, no fuss.
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And frankly, Sean, you're well, if you need, if you need a place
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to squat, you're always welcome. You know that.
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Well I'm going to be Airbnb being my house so I'm going to
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need somewhere to stay while I while I Airbnb my house.
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Oh Lord, my little Vermont heart heart is crying right now.
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We're already ruining the economy.
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I just thought of, I just thought of a banger tweet I'm
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going to send after the show I'm so excited for.
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You well, and if you but if you want to go on a trip, you just
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up with me. Yeah, exactly.
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You just, you know you Baba Baba Yaga.
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Have you played the a closed alpha version of housing?
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Is that the actual sound when you lift your house up?
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No, but I, I think it should be FAS Dev, this is I, I never ask
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you for anything. The others ask you for things,
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but I don't ask you for anything.
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When I pick up my house, I wanted to go and then when I put
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it down, I want to go. Boo.
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If there's one thing you can do, I.
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Know you? There's one person.
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Yeah, yeah. Let's make this happen, OK?
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So I can limit who can come in and when they can come in.
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So it's nice I can set it up for public for people to come in
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when they want. OK, I did this.
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So far we haven't hit the part where I have my big question
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yet. I'm waiting to see.
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I don't think it's going to come up though, but let's keep going.
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OK, so this is. Really a big question.
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Super excited about it. So one thing that they've said
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is that they want, they don't want to replicate the garrisons,
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right? They want the neighborhood to
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feel alive and energetic and exciting.
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So they're putting in this system called endeavours.
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These are activities that the entire neighborhood contributes
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to. They're going to occur
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approximately once a month and it's it's not just one thing,
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right. So they say this could be
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crafting, gathering, questing, dungeons and raids.
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These are things that you are going to be completing and and
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completing tasks to build your neighborhood and also to build
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your own wealth basically. So endeavors are going to be
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seen. If you're in a private
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neighborhood, you get to pick which endeavour it is unless
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there's a an event going on in the world as a whole that kind
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of forces in an endeavour. So my guess is, for example, the
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major holidays are going to have specific endeavours and things
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like that in public neighborhoods.
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The game picks for you and then you do these things that it's
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going to change the way that the neighborhood as a whole looks.
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And it's also going to give you currency that you can buy
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endeavour specific decor from the the, the there's going to be
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an endeavor vendor. Basically, she can go in and use
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your endeavor money to buy endeavor decor and be like, Oh,
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I really, I like the fire thing. So I'm buying the fire curtains
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or whatever. One thing, I don't know that
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they meant to slide this. I mean, they probably didn't
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mean to slide this in. They gave us a screen grab of
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the house dash because the other thing is it makes us you can
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level up your house, right? And you can change different
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things. So they gave us a screen grab of
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the house dashboard in while talking about endeavors to show
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you like, oh, the ways that the different endeavors.
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It looks very much like a renowned track, right?
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And contributing to the endeavour helps that.
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One thing that I noticed is that it looks like you're renowned.
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Basically like your house level determines how much decor you
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can have. Oh, increased decor limit.
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Yeah. I don't know if that's set in
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stone or if that's something they threw in as a like here's
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something we might think, but that was very interesting to me,
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that if you don't have a leveled up enough house, you might not
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be able to put in as many pieces as you wanted to.
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And you need to grind up your house basically to be able to
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decorate it the way you wanted. To so we will immediately know
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who the renowned Pavos are. Yeah, well, and that's also, as
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I'm saying this, I'm thinking that's also very interesting
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because they were talking about things like the people making
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fancy spice racks by taking little, you know, bottles and
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shrinking them down. And I don't know how they're
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going to count decor. So like.
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For example. That might be impossible and I
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want to be so clear. We're making high speculations
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on a screen grab in a like intro to like making things up sort of
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situation. So TBD, if this is actually how
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this is going to work, who knows how they're going to calculate
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anything. Maybe child staff is going to be
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hearing this and it's like, Oh no, you're so right.
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That's a terrible idea. But it is.
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I think I do think that'll be fun though, right?
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Like the more you contribute to your neighborhood and the
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endeavors and the house in general, the cooler your house
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is. So you walk into somebody's
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house and you're like, oh, this person you know, is helping out
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their team. They're doing the good work.
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I I would like if my house just has to exist in the neighborhood
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for me to get credit. I don't want to have to actually
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do the endeavour. You, that's very you.
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So you get more favour based on how much work you do.
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But my understanding is that you will be getting like everyone.
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Everyone gets some rewards and the people who contribute a lot
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get more rewards is how I'm reading this article.
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And I'm also realizing that I misspoke because I misread this
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article. At first I was saying that
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endeavours are specific to like crafting, gathering, questing,
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but that's not correct. The tasks within the endeavours
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run all the gameplay. So if you are for example a big
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dungeon runner, you could do the dungeon tasks and help out
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there. If you're more of a gatherer,
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you can do the gathering tasks. So everyone should be able to
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contribute in the to the endeavour in a way that's
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exciting and fun to them without feeling kind of strong armed
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into doing a certain type type of content.
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OK, I feel less concerned that I will be the house on the block
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that everybody goes, oh, that's Sean's house.
20:49
He doesn't do the endeavors. No, no, no, it'll yeah, it it
20:53
should be easy to contribute or like exciting to contribute to
20:58
and this the amount like the difficulty of the endeavour
21:01
basically will scale based on activity.
21:03
So if your Guild is really not super active and doesn't really
21:08
engage with the endeavors a lot, there will be fewer tasks.
21:10
So it'll be easier to complete an endeavour versus the Guild
21:13
that's constantly on it and like grinding and ready to go.
21:16
You don't have to worry about like, oh, I log in day two of
21:18
the endeavour and there's no tasks left because we ran out.
21:20
Like that will also scale it. It'll be harder and the more
21:23
things for you to do to complete the endeavour.
21:26
I like that there sounds like they're putting a lot of thought
21:28
into this. I haven't heard any addressing
21:30
yet of my main concern. Go crazy.
21:34
Lex, yes, I we obviously play NA and EU, but we'll specifically
21:39
focus on my NA accounts or account.
21:42
I'm in a Guild of full of people that I adore.
21:45
I have a friend group of people who are not in my Guild who I
21:48
adore and then I have for Azeroth who is also people that
21:51
I adore and that I spend time with.
21:54
Am I allowed to be part of three neighborhoods or do I have to
21:56
choose my favorite? Am I now and is Sophie's Choice
21:59
of where I live for reference? I've never seen that movie so I
22:02
don't know if this is what it's about.
22:04
I assume it's about a woman named Sophie who has to purchase
22:06
a home. Yeah, I I also haven't.
22:08
So that really tracks. And she has a baby, so she it's
22:10
for like the homes for the baby is my understanding.
22:12
Right. You got to make sure you're in a
22:13
good neighborhood. The schools are good.
22:15
Yeah, yeah. It's tough.
22:16
There's so many stats you need to read on Zillow.
22:18
It's tricky. So my understanding, and don't
22:23
quote me on this, but this is how it's been explained to me,
22:25
is that you will get one house. So you do have one in one
22:30
neighborhood. And they say something about
22:32
like your neighbors are permanently like how these yeah,
22:38
neighborhoods are supposed to exist basically forever.
22:41
So who you live with will be your neighbor until you either
22:45
move, get kicked out, or die. Am I allowed to have a Horde
22:52
house and an Alliance house or do I just get one?
22:55
I get one house my. Understanding is you get one
22:57
because it's war bound. It's war band bound is the one I
23:02
was looking for. So that I know has been a lot of
23:06
people's frustration And I, I think it's sort of the the win
23:10
and the loss of everyone who logs in gets a house, right, is
23:17
that they are based on like you can't, you can't.
23:26
Like, for example, if if you buy houses, it's easier for the game
23:28
to say, well, there's a limited number of houses, but as much
23:30
money as you have. I'm also being told by our chat
23:35
that I might be wrong about that and it might actually be
23:37
factioned and you might be able to have one Alliance, one Horde.
23:40
I don't. I thought that wasn't.
23:45
We'll find out. Nobody knows.
23:47
Nobody knows I'm Somebody just knows somebody's going to like
23:49
post a Blue Post and be like, Lex, why did you talk about this
23:52
if you didn't even know the very basic information we've had for
23:54
months? Yeah.
23:56
So they're going to come into the Discord and be like, first
23:58
of all, yeah, that is not what Sophie's Choice is about.
24:00
Second of all, Lex, that is not how Housing Works.
24:03
Yeah, yeah. And third of all, I'm not
24:06
pointing too much however, and you guys don't read your damn
24:09
you. Really turned me off the
24:12
opportunity to blind frog all of these bosses on normal.
24:17
OK, housing sounds exciting. Lex, are you?
24:20
I'm not. I say it's I say it sounds
24:22
exciting because I'm certain there are people for whom it
24:24
sounds exciting. I am not one of them.
24:26
I put housing on the level of approximately delves for my
24:30
excitement is it'll be a thing I engage with when I need to and
24:33
that's about it. Alexa, are you are you excited
24:36
for housing? I am I'm excited for housing now
24:39
that I know that how the neighborhood is going to work.
24:42
My so as some of you know, I play Final Fantasy with my
24:45
parents as a way to just hang out and chat because Final
24:48
Fantasy online specifically, not just, you know, the Final
24:51
Fantasy 1 specifically because they didn't want to play World
24:58
of Warcraft for me because I thought I was too good.
24:59
And I was like even the youngest my whole life.
25:01
Why don't I get to be good at something?
25:03
But whatever. But basically all of this is to
25:06
say my family just bought a house and they're having, my
25:08
parents are having so much fun with this, like decorating the
25:10
house. Every time I log in, they're
25:12
like, oh, Lex, you gotta go check it out.
25:13
You gotta go check it out. Like we put in a bed, we put in
25:16
a spice rack, we put in this, we put in that.
25:19
So first of all, I've kind of seen first hand that it actually
25:22
can be more fun than I was initially expecting.
25:25
But frankly, I'm more excited about the fact this will be a
25:29
fun thing to do with the Guild, right?
25:30
And also it feels, it seems like it's probably going to be
25:32
relatively low pressure. I'm a little bit nervous that
25:34
endeavours, depending on how they scale, I can't imagine a
25:38
world where they're like, when we were playing Rumble as a
25:40
team, sometimes there would be a little bit of like, hey guys,
25:45
nobody's logging in and this sucks a little bit.
25:49
We should hope we should cancel Rumble.
25:52
Yeah, Can you imagine? We got it kicked out entirely.
25:56
Way to go. Timbermont Tavern.
25:58
Yeah, yeah. Way to go.
25:59
Blame us so you can join bit dot LY fast discord and log.
26:04
And just to tell me, because Timbermont Tavern independently
26:07
determined that Rumble would be cancelled?
26:10
Not really we. Sunset it.
26:13
It's put in maintenance mode. That's what they call it.
26:15
They put it in maintenance mode. Yeah, they're putting it in.
26:17
If you fire all the devs, you can't continue to make the game
26:20
mode. Yeah.
26:22
I don't know what you thought you were going to do when you
26:24
were struggling with bugs and you laid off 2/3 the team mode.
26:29
Crazy that that didn't work out for them.
26:31
I don't know what's going on there.
26:34
OK, So Lex is excited for housing, Sean is somewhere in
26:37
the middle. We're going to assume man is
26:39
excited for it because no reason.
26:44
I just assume Manny's. I think there's Manny's going to
26:47
be great at this because he's a collector, so he's going to have
26:50
the coolest little house and he's going to have all the
26:51
little things. Manny used to get mad at me for
26:55
AFK ING the weekly events like the Super bloom.
26:58
He's going to hate when I roll into my 4 level house because I
27:04
refuse to dealt with the endeavor I needed so much.
27:09
Lex, Speaking of things that I don't do very well, great segue.
27:13
We're going to go with Delves Delves in season 3.
27:14
I have some exciting news for you as a delver.
27:17
I think you're going to like this a lot.
27:19
So it's one known fact that a lot of classes, not a lot, but a
27:21
few classes, few specs particular, where delve trinkets
27:26
were considered their best to slot Delve trinkets really
27:28
strong and there was no deterministic way to get a delve
27:32
drink it. You couldn't even really farm
27:34
them, like target farm them because delves themselves are
27:37
capped or bountifuls are capped. And not only that, everything in
27:40
the delve loot table can drop in a delve.
27:42
So it's a huge, huge list. But in season 3 as of right now
27:46
on the PTR, when you get to the third stage of your delve
27:49
version journey, a character named Zalran will appear.
27:53
And this is for Tier 9 delves and above.
27:55
At the end of the delve, he appears and he said he's a
27:57
vendor who sells all available Delve trinkets at Champion Track
28:03
one of a champion for 2000 under coins.
28:07
Lex, how hyped are you to be able to purchase your Delve
28:10
trinkets? That's so.
28:11
Fun. I love this.
28:12
I love that the gearing through delves is going to be a little
28:15
bit easier. I am curious about the decision
28:20
to make it trinket only because it does feel like like the gear
28:28
that's the most desired is kind of seasonal, right?
28:31
So like this season, the gear that was most desired was
28:34
necklaces. But I guess I'm I'm guessing is
28:37
that the logic is that trinkets are Bis in a really exciting
28:42
way. Like everything else is mostly
28:43
just numbers are getting higher and trinkets are like do fancy
28:47
cool little things that change your gameplay pretty
28:48
fundamentally. So while you might not be losing
28:52
your whole mind if you don't get your Bis weapon, not getting
28:54
your Bis trinket is a bigger deal.
28:56
So I kind of talked myself into why it's going to stay trenches
28:59
by the end of this conversation. Yeah, I think this is cool.
29:02
I think that making Delves a little bit easier to gear
29:06
through is always going to be a win.
29:08
Since I think one of the things that I've heard a lot of people
29:10
say is Delves kind of like are like mostly mostly the
29:15
excitement from them is that it's an easy way to gear, right?
29:18
Like it's a way to get gear that doesn't require the work of
29:22
building a team and having that mythic plus team or getting, you
29:25
know, beefed in pugs. So I think this is really cool.
29:30
And frankly, I, I kind of feel like I should, OK, actually this
29:35
is maybe 1/2 baked take. So talk me out of this.
29:37
Probably. I sort of feel like I should be
29:39
able to in any run be like, like whether I'm doing dungeons or
29:45
raids or or a delves, I should be able to kind of pick and
29:49
choose what I get. I'd kind of rather be getting a
29:53
flat currency. Have we talked about this a
29:55
million times? And every time we kind of land
29:57
on different I, I can imagine a world where it would be fun to
29:59
be getting a flat currency per run that I used to buy certain
30:02
gear based on what I need versus random drops.
30:06
Does that make sense? It does to me, So what you're
30:12
suggesting makes sense, but I think it it it calls for a
30:15
fundamental shift in how they handle gear.
30:18
I think if you're giving currency to purchase items, you
30:21
can't also have the random drop in the dungeon and then now
30:26
you're negatively punishing people who don't have as much
30:28
time. So anybody who can't just grind
30:33
out Max currency because you would have to have a cap on the
30:35
currency per week so that you can't buy 2 like this would
30:38
significantly slow down the gearing curve.
30:40
You wouldn't be able to just firm out Max gear, I don't think
30:43
if they capped the currency and I think they have to cap the
30:46
currency because otherwise you're just going to farm out
30:49
and buy Max gear in a week. It's going to create some
30:52
degenerate, really degenerate gameplay.
30:54
I was actually thinking as you were reacting about the, the
30:57
delve trinkets. I was thinking, would I want
30:59
this from Mythic plus trinkets? And I think because you can sort
31:03
of target farm mythic plus and like, OK, I need this trinket
31:06
from this dungeon and the, the, the loot list is generally
31:09
smaller than a delve. I think having I love
31:14
deterministic ways to get loot. I think that's great, But I
31:18
think just straight up having a currency for everything takes
31:22
away some of that dopamine of getting the thing, you know the.
31:26
Other thing that I was thinking of, as you were saying that is
31:28
especially in Mythic Plus, I think it would drastically
31:32
reduce the diversity of dungeons that are run because it would
31:37
kind of remove the desire to do more like how multiple people
31:41
have multiple different businesses and multiple
31:43
different dungeons. So it's not going to be that
31:44
hard to find people interested in running your dungeons.
31:48
We would just spam run the easiest to build up our bank
31:51
account and then go buy what we needed.
31:53
Yeah, right. Yeah, I think it's a bad idea
31:55
for dungeons. I take it back.
31:56
That makes sense for Delves because nobody's playing those.
32:00
Yeah, yeah, yeah. And you do have to get all the
32:02
way up to Dover's Journey Rank 3.
32:06
So it's not like you just log in and you get this.
32:07
You do have to work for it. And once you've proven you've
32:09
put in the work, then it's like, OK, we'll give you a couple
32:12
trinkets. You want a couple trinkets.
32:15
Yeah, is rank 3 hard to get to? I honestly have not paid
32:20
attention to my developers journey, I just do them for fun
32:23
and gear so I don't know off the top of my head.
32:25
I feel like it's not very free of anything.
32:28
It's not usually that. Super easy, barely an
32:30
inconvenience. I will say, and maybe this is
32:33
less exciting to you and I'm, I'm really focusing on the
32:35
visual elements that our viewers can't see, but if you look at
32:40
the screen grab of the ran, he's a very different looking
32:44
ethereal than I'm used to. Oh, have you not you?
32:48
Have you not spent much time on the PTR?
32:50
Zero time on the PTR. This is a super common look.
32:53
They've like sort of redone all the ethereals and they look
32:56
awesome. So if you want to see this
32:58
tweet, this is in our Discord, but it's also on Twitter.
33:01
It was tweeted out by Lazy at PATF 0RD at Patford, but it was
33:08
retweeted by Mr. GM, which is somebody you're probably already
33:11
following. I think he's Mr. GM YT.
33:15
So it's definitely they look super cool.
33:20
The ethereals this patch look really, really nice.
33:22
It is different from what we're used to.
33:24
And yeah, that visual is is really nice.
33:28
Yeah, no, OK, this is exciting and I'm very, I'm very excited
33:30
about this next patch, especially since I've been
33:32
playing it on my floor couch. Yeah.
33:35
You're going to have a great time on the floor with Raya in
33:37
this patch. Oh yeah.
33:39
Speaking of places you can have a great time on the floor, Lex,
33:44
have you heard about China? Now this isn't in our show
33:48
notes, so Lex is giving you. For those of you at home, Lex is
33:50
giving me a confused look because we have a very strict
33:54
set of items we're supposed to talk about on this show where
33:57
that Manny isn't here for, and I'm mixing it up.
34:00
Nobody could have seen coming. You put Lex and Sean alone
34:04
without Manny to keep them directed like and we think that
34:08
they're going to anyway. Yes, I've I've heard of China.
34:12
You've heard of China? I believe it's.
34:14
About China, I don't I, I don't think it is.
34:18
OK, they are getting. So because of the they didn't
34:23
have the deal when Wow's 20th anniversary happened, their deal
34:26
with Eddie's was still not yet restarted.
34:28
They didn't get the 20th anniversary the rest of us got.
34:31
So now to celebrate Wow's China's 20th anniversary, I'm
34:36
going to send you a link to this tweet so that you know what I'm
34:38
talking about. Yeah, it turns out.
34:41
If you search, yeah, sorry, continue.
34:43
If you just just search China and anniversary, it'll come up
34:47
for legal reasons. That was a joke.
34:49
Do not search that. So coming this November, they're
34:52
getting a brand new Classic experience and they're getting a
34:55
Titan Forged Realm called Time. Coming this November.
34:59
Titan Forged Realms combine all the contents from Classic, The
35:02
Burning Crusade and Wrath of the Listing expansions, but with A
35:06
twist. All the raids from the three.
35:08
Those 3 expansions are reworked into level 80 end game content
35:14
released in a shuffled order. As a player, you can face the
35:17
Lich King wielding Thunder Fury or Crip warglades to fight
35:20
Kelvin Azad and Max Ramis. Key features include permanent
35:24
level 80 progression, unified raid sizes across all tiers,
35:29
adjusted gear stats for older and lower tier raids, T3 sets
35:33
restructured by spec, and Season of Discovery style, item design
35:39
and tuning. Consider this as China's own
35:42
Wrath Era Plus server. The Titan Reforge server will be
35:46
China exclusive and Blizzard may want to test the waters in China
35:50
1st and consider a global roll out depending on the community
35:53
feedback. How awesome does this sound?
35:56
Yeah, so I'm selling my house because I'm moving to China if
36:01
anyone wants a house. Anyone wants a house?
36:06
This is really cool and this sounds really fun and I'm OK.
36:10
This is not a gameplay that I engage in, so I'm probably going
36:13
to torture what I'm about to explain.
36:17
But I know my friends who are really into time walking were
36:21
feeling really disappointed recently because Blizzard is
36:23
kind of, it used to be that one of the joys of time walking was
36:26
sort of smashing together pieces of gear from different
36:29
expansions and doing broken things because you can have your
36:32
Heart of Azeroth with your back and you're all this crazy stuff
36:35
going on. And Blizzard recently kind of
36:40
killed that. And then so that you couldn't
36:41
really play crazy like that. And that was really
36:44
disappointing to my friends who did time walking because that
36:46
was a lot of the joy, right? Was like building together a
36:48
ridiculous little set of pieces from a billion eras and having
36:52
it be cool. And it sounds to me like they're
36:56
potentially playing with bringing that back, right?
36:58
Is that how you would also read the adjusted gear stats?
37:02
Yeah, it sounds like that they're they're creating.
37:07
I don't, I don't know if they're bringing back time walk, but it
37:09
sounds like they're creating their own like perfect version
37:12
of classic where all of the best parts of Wow, cause Wow peaked
37:16
up in Wow of the Lich King, both in viewers and in storytelling.
37:20
That is completely subject. Didn't dragonfly surpass?
37:27
We haven't been given actual player numbers since like I
37:32
think Cataclysm was when they stopped giving actual player
37:34
numbers. Dragonflight was the coolest.
37:39
They did show a graph and it did have Dragonflight on it.
37:43
I don't know but we can look it up.
37:46
Also I'm a I'm a boomer Lex who has far too much of his
37:49
personality tied to the Frozen throne and the characters from
37:52
that story. So please let me have this.
37:54
Oh yeah, It's like, listen, I still, I was like a child and I
37:58
still get heavy nostalgia whenever anything comes around.
38:02
Right, but it sounds like super awesome Lex right now is looking
38:07
up how well Dragonflight it was wad when we stopped getting
38:11
actual numbers. Special shout out to Johnny in
38:13
the chat hitting us with that nug, that nugget of knowledge.
38:18
I'm excited. I hope this does well in China.
38:21
China has a huge player base and I think they love Wrath of the
38:23
Lich King over there. So my hope is that it does well,
38:27
they enjoy it, and it makes a roll out to NA.
38:30
I've not really done much classic so I don't know for sure
38:36
that I would play it, but I would be much more likely to
38:39
attempt a classic version that rolled the three my three
38:43
favorite expansions together than I would be to to try the
38:47
piece meal samples we've had so far.
38:49
Yeah, I am not a classic girly and I will like I've tried it
38:53
enough times to know that I'm far too lazy to to do classic.
38:59
Sorry. I'm trying to find these numbers
39:00
and the. Page, I was worried that when
39:03
you moved to the new house that we would have lost Lex in the
39:07
sun. Moments like we have right now.
39:10
For those of you in the live chat, you can see that Lex is
39:12
staring directly into the sun well as she tries to get the
39:17
numbers from Dragonflight to see if they're on power with Rachel
39:20
Ishkin. Wow, Lex does that.
39:23
Let me tell you about the next item that's coming down the pipe
39:27
that may or may not be very exciting for you.
39:31
Have I stalled long enough for numbers?
39:33
Oh. Yeah, the the the slides that
39:35
they showed us were only Legion onward.
39:39
Well, we'll just have to assume you were right, like I am often.
39:44
Wrong. No, I like The thing is, and to
39:46
be fair as a child, but I remember, I remember playing
39:48
during Wrath and like just everything was alive in a way
39:50
that it isn't right now. Like which is not to say that
39:53
there isn't a part of that is because everything is planned on
39:55
discord and things like that. But I just, I, I.
39:58
It is hard for me to believe that there are as many players
40:00
in World of Warcraft right now as there were during Wrath, just
40:04
having played both of them. But I'm sorry, I don't think
40:07
there is. It's OK.
40:08
I'm going to throw this next one to you, Lex.
40:10
What's happening to my bank? Yeah, it's different.
40:14
And Manny can if Manny was here, Manny could speak to the fact
40:18
that I probably was not the person to toss this to because I
40:22
if you look at my bags and you look at my bank, I open that
40:25
thing maybe once every five years.
40:27
Like I do not remember the last time I put anything into my
40:31
bank. And it was it was good with with
40:33
stream because occasionally people would yell at me because
40:36
I would open my bags and they'd be like, why do you only have 5
40:39
slots? Oh, right.
40:39
It's because you're still holding on to things from three
40:41
expansions ago. Go put that in your banks.
40:44
And they bully me enough to actually do that.
40:46
But yeah, so basically they're they're changing the banks so
40:50
that your character's bank is going to use the same setup as
40:54
the war band bank. So you're going to have
40:58
different tabs. Each of the tab has has
41:01
different settings that you can set.
41:02
You can purchase them for money, for gold, actually, I mean, or
41:06
human money that you transfer to gold, but whatever.
41:09
Each tab is going to have 98 slots.
41:11
We're no longer doing the reagent bank.
41:13
They say that any bank tab can now serve as a reagent tab,
41:16
which is I think, stressful because wasn't the reagent tab
41:19
like big or something? Do you use the reagent tab,
41:23
Sean? Oh yes, yes, I'm familiar with
41:28
the reagent tab where my reagents go in my bank, and I
41:35
too am concerned now that my reagents will be spread Willy
41:39
nilly throughout all of my tabs. So it does, but I think you can.
41:42
Categorize the tabs to only hold certain things.
41:45
That is what they it sounds like that the tabs are going to have
41:47
different settings and you can make one of them a reagent tab.
41:50
It's just the no, you no longer get a free reagent tab that
41:53
everyone which it's free, right Sean?
41:57
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Do you think anybody believed
42:01
that? I was familiar with the reagent
42:03
tab? Oh.
42:03
Were you not I also never. I also never got words.
42:07
I, I, I, I see. OK.
42:08
I thought I was being mocked. I thought that was going on here
42:12
was, you were like, yeah, Lex, like, which I guess is probably
42:14
the point. So you did a great job.
42:16
You, you really, you really pulled it off until this moment.
42:20
I nailed. It, dude, so they're also doing
42:22
that with void storage, which do you know what void storage is,
42:25
Sean? So I didn't play.
42:27
I, I, I honestly wouldn't have known, but somebody explained it
42:30
to me talking about this article.
42:32
I guess there was like a weird void bank that you could use.
42:35
You could store things and it was like up to 100 items and it
42:40
existed outside of your bank and could only be accessed by going
42:44
to visit an ethereal and then going into your void storage to
42:48
get the stuff out of there. Is what I understood as
42:54
apparently everybody who played when void storage was introduced
42:59
jammed it full of things immediately because the Internet
43:04
is a tizzy at the thought that they're losing their void
43:08
storage. But so void storage range a
43:11
bank? This sounds like a bank.
43:14
I don't know. And I don't use the bank because
43:16
it sucks. I like to think of it as an
43:18
offshore bank. So it's like, right.
43:19
It's where I put the things that I don't want the Bank of
43:22
Stormwind to know about that I have, like my bootleg copy of
43:26
Thunder Fury, Blessed Blade of the Windsicker.
43:30
OK, OK. OK.
43:31
That actually does make sense. So it's like, does it like
43:34
shrink things or something? I don't know.
43:36
I have no idea, our chat is going nuts right now that I
43:38
refuse to look because I'm having way more fun getting this
43:40
wrong. I learned something many many
43:42
years ago in when doing videos is that if you intentionally get
43:46
something wrong, people will race to their keyboards to
43:49
correct you. But if you get everything right,
43:52
nobody writes a single word. This is legitimately one of the
43:55
things that like made TikTok before I stopped really going on
43:59
it. Enraging to me is once you
44:01
realize that you can tell how often people will very obviously
44:06
purposely put errors in their videos or in their captions or
44:10
like like the most obvious errors I can think of and the
44:14
comments they're blowing up and they're viral because comments
44:18
they're just like, hey, you put a blue one with the black one
44:20
there's a blue bead over there. Hey, there's a blue bead in here
44:23
to see who saw the blue bead like it's absurd.
44:26
You you can game that system and many people have figured that
44:29
out and it is it is burning content online, but.
44:32
That's what I'm not going to check the chat to get any
44:34
corrections. We're just going to keep
44:35
assuming we're right. So the void storage is going
44:37
away, The reagent bank is going away.
44:39
Community manager Kyvax in his blue post says, hey, don't worry
44:41
about it. We're going to transition
44:43
everything from both of those spots into your regular bank.
44:47
I adore Kyvax, he is one of my favorite human beings.
44:53
Take anything that you are concerned about losing from your
44:56
void storage bank or your reagent bank and put it in your
45:00
bags because there will 100% be items lost in this transfer.
45:04
It happened when they flew, when they turned on, they changed the
45:08
Guild banks or something, or they turn on the war band
45:09
system. People lost things forever.
45:12
And that's why I keep all of my stuff in my bags.
45:15
It's not because I forget that the bank exists except for once
45:17
every five years. It's because I don't want to
45:20
lose any of it. It's very important.
45:21
Like my Heart of Azeroth. I can't leave that.
45:23
That's literally the Heart of Azeroth.
45:25
You need that you got to they need they need these baskets
45:28
back. That being said, that's a
45:30
Canadian reference. Only Canadians are going to get
45:32
that reference. I just made your welcome.
45:34
James Naismith OK, so Manny would have laughed at that.
45:38
The the bank storage, everybody, if you're worried about oh man,
45:42
they're taking away my sweet void storage and my reagent
45:45
bank. There was a user who who ran the
45:48
numbers for US. Current Max bag size is 36.
45:52
The default bank size is 28. The number of bag slots for a
45:56
bank is 7. So your current Max storage size
46:00
is 280 for your bank, 98 for reagents, and 160 for the void.
46:06
Oh man, they're correcting me. Which gives us 538 total.
46:09
The new Max bank size is 588 slots.
46:15
Here's my question. Oh, it does say that they're
46:18
going to be unlocked. I don't have a question.
46:20
The six tabs can be purchased costing 1 gold.
46:23
For the first tab, 100 gold for the second tab, 500 gold, then
46:27
1000 gold, then 2500 gold, then 5000 gold.
46:30
So for what is that 10,000 ish gold?
46:36
You'll be able to. We're good at math here.
46:38
You'll be able to have all the slots unlocked which is way
46:41
cheaper than the war band slots where the last one cost 2.5 mil
46:45
so that's not too bad. Lex, is there anything in your?
46:48
I don't even think there's anything in my void storage.
46:49
Is there anything you're going to be like?
46:50
I need to take this out of my void storage and make sure it
46:52
stays safe. I will 1st, I'm going to go
46:54
figure out what void storage is. I actually probably, I probably
46:59
really should go through my bags because once every five years I
47:02
put the things that I most feel most important that I hold on to
47:06
in those bags. And so there probably actually
47:08
is something cool in there, or I'm gonna open it up and be
47:11
like, why did I think this is cool?
47:16
OK. All right.
47:17
OK dude, I I back in my RP days before I really understood
47:20
mogging because I'm very stupid and bad at everything and also
47:25
because I was playing a hunter but I wanted like pretty dresses
47:27
and stuff. I would put a ton of clothes in
47:29
there. So there actually probably is a
47:31
lot of clothes in there. Nice.
47:35
Chad is kind of on fire, on fire tonight.
47:39
One of the most like, I don't even think he knows what we
47:41
agents are. And I is that is that not?
47:44
Is that not correct? No, it's not.
47:46
No, it's not correct. And it's so void storage was
47:48
only for unique soul bound items and multi says that you would
47:53
keep your transmog in there before they made transmog.
47:59
Yeah, so or Johnny JTP basically.
48:01
What I do with my current, what I did with my current bags
48:04
because nobody told me to go find the trans mog person.
48:08
And everyone was talking about the trans mog and I don't know
48:10
what that meant. I thought that meant they had
48:11
cool little outfits. And my best friend at the time
48:15
just did archaic things for fun because he thought it was fun.
48:18
And so I was like, I just collect my outfits in my bank.
48:21
And he was like, I do that too. And I was like sick.
48:23
I guess this is what we all do. That's where we keep outfits
48:28
now. So your voice storage is going
48:31
away. Get your stuff out.
48:32
You've been warned. This episode is airing long
48:35
before it happens, Dan. Mr. GM said on the stream today
48:38
that it actually looked like the bank change was supposed to
48:42
happen in 12.0, and it seems like they've pushed it up to 11
48:46
point 1.7, which I think it's really good, right?
48:50
It means they're ahead, they're ahead of schedule and things.
48:54
I'd like to believe that that's that sounds good.
48:58
My the the panic in me is like, or they're low on content and
49:03
they're doing the easier ones to fix early.
49:05
But I love to be a hater. Also, yeah, I'm I'm interrupting
49:10
in the middle of a conversation where this isn't relevant, but I
49:12
finally found the answer. I was wrong.
49:14
You do get a horde house and a Lion's house.
49:16
Meaning if you want to like drop this and put this in the part
49:18
where I'm talking about the houses or even in the cold open,
49:21
just be like open with Lexi. Raiders are going to be running
51:40
dungeons, probably the new one equal to Maldoni at the at the
51:44
games.com event. Maybe it'll be like a land
51:46
style. That'd be cool to have them on
51:48
on location running those dungeons.
51:50
I'm very excited for it. And then they're going to have
51:52
hands on player housing and we're getting all kinds of stuff
51:55
like a live weekly reset with Teleus and Never tell.
51:57
Mister GM is doing a fireside chat on stage with Ian has
52:01
Acosta very excited. Lex, what's in the sky?
52:04
And that image, you tell me what is give me your Lex, your Lex
52:08
prediction on what that is in this guy.
52:10
I I think we're pretty sat on it being Silver Moon.
52:13
Like everything is lining up It We, it was very cute because in
52:17
the Discord we were like analyzing the shape of the thing
52:20
in the background. And then a Wowhead article came
52:23
out and they were like, and you can tell it's Silver Moon
52:25
because if you look at the bottom, it's Silver Moon.
52:27
And I'm like, oh, yeah, OK, yeah, that's true.
52:30
We were looking at this fire and that was actually not the
52:33
biggest hit. Yeah, I saw one tweet that I
52:37
thought was the best and it was a crab and it was like a purple
52:41
crab dancing on the beach. And it was like, it's obviously
52:44
this, I think. It should be that.
52:45
I think it should be that. Are we allowed to share our
52:49
guesses for how Midnights is going to go, or is that too
52:52
spoilery? I don't think that's too
52:54
spoiler. What do you like?
52:55
Are we talking about spoiling the end of the raid?
52:57
Because I think I know how the end of the raid.
52:59
In the end of the raid. OK, you predict because I have
53:02
read synopsis of what happens at the end of the ring 0.
53:06
Sick. Well, then you can tell me.
53:07
You probably can't tell me if I'm wrong.
53:08
No, I guess I. Won't tell you on the air.
53:10
I won't. I'll make a facial expression so
53:12
that the viewers watching know whether or not you nailed it and
53:15
if you're listening, I won't say anything.
53:17
And you're. Feeling disappointed that you
53:18
can't see Sean's face facial expression.
53:19
What you can do is you can go to bit dot LY slash fast discord.
53:22
Clearly I feel like we don't wrap the discord enough on this
53:24
show. So my guess is that we're going
53:28
to go fight Demensius. And as we are seeking to destroy
53:33
Demensius, Valtath is going to swing out and be like, you fool,
53:38
you fell into my trap. And she's going to kind of latch
53:41
on to whatever spell Demensius was using to take over and
53:45
consume Azeroth, and she's going to instead become the one who
53:50
fixed up Azeroth. I realize that we're probably
53:52
not going to swears edit out and that's going to plunge us into
53:56
midnight because she kind of knew and and was the evil woman
54:03
we were expecting her to be. That is a prediction.
54:12
Why don't you, why don't you let us know what you think happens
54:16
at the end of the ring? I don't want to say I don't want
54:18
to be like, oh, Lex, you almost nailed it.
54:20
But you know, like that's a flex made a protection.
54:26
That was a protection. Yeah.
54:31
I don't want to say anything because I've read things that
54:35
I'm pretty sure are confirmed spoilers and I don't want to
54:38
ruin it for other people who Devin who go to the way to avoid
54:41
that. But I think that would be really
54:43
cool if we lost against the Mencius in that last fight.
54:47
I think that will be awesome. Have like sort of an Empire
54:50
Strikes Back feel to the end of the War Within.
54:53
Yeah, we we fail. We're failing.
54:56
Yeah, well, but see, my, my prediction specifically is that
54:59
we don't fail against Menci as we fail against Zali.
55:02
I think Zali can take over Zali Taff.
55:05
Yeah, I still have the same issue.
55:11
I don't know if we talked to bro in the air last week, We talked
55:14
about the story on the air last week.
55:16
Yeah, My player, my concern, my issue with the player agency.
55:19
Yeah, yeah, yeah. And there's still definitely,
55:20
yeah, I still have that issue. And that bothers me.
55:24
I, I, I, I think Zalitath betraying us, quote UN quote,
55:28
betraying us and proving to be everything that Alaria and all
55:31
of the players know she is makes it even more jarring that I
55:38
can't make the choice to not work with her.
55:41
It's like you when the leopard face eating leopard party.
55:48
I don't know how that quote goes, but it's something bad and
55:50
people believe it and your face is eaten.
55:51
Yeah, that's the woman. Who voted for the Leopards
55:55
eating my face party? I didn't expect the leopards
55:56
would eat my face. Right.
55:59
Yeah, that's right. I feel like I'm at with zeal at
56:01
that. Anyway, I can't wait.
56:02
I'm excited for the end of the raid.
56:04
I'm really excited for Midnight. I can't wait for everybody who
56:08
is so pumped to go back to Silver Moon to have it be
56:11
destroyed in the opening Act 12.0.
56:15
Yeah, they're just completely decimated again.
56:19
We're going to see like rebuilt Silver Moon.
56:21
It's going to be gorgeous. The sky is going to tear open,
56:24
Void Ones are going to attack and Silver Moon will be
56:26
destroyed a second time and everyone will be like.
56:29
They'll be like you. You frickers thought that you
56:31
were going to get flying. You wanted flying in Silver
56:34
Moon. We've held off on flying in
56:36
Silver Moon for ages. You get Void Silver Moon and
56:39
that's the best you're going to get.
56:43
Yeah, it's going to be great. OK.
56:46
I think that's the show, Lex. I think we're going to wrap it
56:47
up. We're at the hour mark.
56:48
We got to try and keep these at around an hour.
56:50
People start losing focus, the hosts especially the longer
56:53
these go after. Especially you and I, there's a
56:57
problem. It is a problem.
56:58
Manny really has to rain us, and he's not here to do that this
57:01
week. Next week, big show.
57:03
I don't know what we're going to talk about yet, but it's going
57:05
to be a big show. Probably, probably.
57:08
Maybe we'll get a theory crafter on to tell us why.
57:11
Why Death Knights are not suddenly not upset they don't
57:14
have a raid buff, and why it's because their damage is through
57:17
the roof. Anyway, until next time, may all
57:22
your hits be crits.