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#336 - For Azeroth!: "It Was The Jailer All Along" · For Azeroth!: A World of Warcraft Podcast

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I don't know, Alex. Jesus, we just gave everybody
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invincible, for Christ's sake. Why do we got to make it so?
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Yeah, I mean, come on, we're giving.
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We're literally handing out bags of mounts.
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It's like Oprah Winfrey. Like, you get a mount, you get a
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mount, everybody gets a shot of fear.
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Like this is ridiculous. For Lord Iran, for the Karen
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Tour, for Pandaria, for calendar to the.
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Burning region. For Gilnaeus but has not died,
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For the Lich King, for the Sindora, for the Alliance, for
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the Horde, For Azeroth. Hello and welcome to another
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episode of For Azeroth. I am one of your Co hosts, the
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Grandpa Manny and I am joined by my 2 great friends.
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First coming from parts unknown because she has moved, it is Lex
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Rance. Hello Lex, how are you and has
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you touched the World of Warcraft at all this week or has
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it all been moving? It's mostly been moving.
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I did get on to do a couple of the Delve belt quest to keep
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that up to snuff, and I was very excited that we got a couple
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like video slash audio things that I could do while doing
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other things, including moving. But mostly I have been trying to
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set up my house and it's still, I got to say, I'm still in quite
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a few boxes. For those of you who don't know,
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I just bought a house and spent this week moving in and that's
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why I wasn't here last week because I was moving.
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So yeah, yeah, still very much in the organization stage, but
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we're very excited. We're living our dreams.
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And if we're a little echoey, they'll be wall hangings
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eventually. Well the audio was coming in
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good so far but of course we will get like 20 comments about
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the audio. Make sure you send those in and
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we will try and do our best. Now coming further, further EI
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think again Lex parts unknown we have Sean.
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Hello Sean, how are you and how's the World of Warcraft been
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treating you this week? I'm doing quite well.
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I would be very impressed if Lex somehow found a way to get
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further E than I am and still be in the continental United States
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that will be that will be crazy yeah Warcraft's been great.
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We just did some raid testing today first 3 bosses on heroic
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went well everything feels good. And for those of you keeping
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track at home on the what will Sean play next year wild ride
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that we have, I am. I'm now comfortable locking in
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saying that for Ghosts of Koresh, I will be dancing at the
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pink palette club for the entire tier.
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It looks like, barring some wildly drastic change in
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circumstances. And then bear an EUI don't
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really. I always I always sort of like
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talk reference my main based on NA because EU is just always the
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bear. It's a because I'm not really a
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big fan of a kid that plays lip that was going to make a pop
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culture reference. I I'm lost too.
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Like wait, kid who plays? There's a show called The Bear,
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The main actor, his name Gabes me, but he played Lip in
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Shameless. It's like Jeremy or something.
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Jeremy Irons No. OK, alright, we're we're on,
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we're on the same page. Like when you're gonna do a
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reference like that, you have to at least put in the bare
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necessities just so we can follow it.
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I gotta land it right. I gotta stick the landing.
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I was hoping our live chat would come through with a big saviour
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for me, but we don't know this guy.
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Jeremy Pivens? No, that ain't it either.
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There's a lot of Jeremy. Jeremy Renner, No.
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He's just a guy with the faith he's got.
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A very a very specific face. It's not ugly, it's just not
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traditionally attractive, Which. Yeah, which we love.
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I didn't say ugly. I just say not not traditional.
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You know what maybe I should throw stones when I'm rich and
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could like back myself up with on that lawsuit.
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But anyways, we're. Special shout out Special shout
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out to for Azeroth's official favorite listener, Xander Jeremy
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Allen White is the name I knew it was.
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Jeremy. All right, ready to move.
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On so of course this world this week in World of Warcraft, I
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have returned to mount hunting. We have two events that are
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happening throughout July. We have of course, the Diablo
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themed event where you can go around and you can get those
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goblins and get the transmog. People have been going super
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hardcore, have already gotten every single one at this point,
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but you still have all month. So why in the world are you
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sweating so much? Come on, guys.
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Beyond that, we also have concurrently with that the
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collectors event, which again is through till the 29th in NA and
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I believe the 30th in EU. And that allows everybody who's
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not me to get so many mounts with an extra 5% chance.
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You too can get more than the one stupid mount that I've
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gotten over the course of two weeks.
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Or it could be 5% more salt, as you will soon see in this
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episode. You're very, very angry, man.
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I, you know, I gotta say this, this World of Warcraft week
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ain't vibing with me. Really.
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Is this not vibing with me? The event, I think, is actually
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quite cool. We said last week it is amazing
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to see everybody all throughout the World of Warcraft, even
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stuff that isn't affected. People are like, you know what?
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I'm hunting mounts anyways, let me go do Rockmar.
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Let me go do out outside bosses that nobody's doing.
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Conversely, reset and Undermine. I'm glad there's a lot of NPCS
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because otherwise that would be a ghost town.
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Undermine has officially expired in the eyes of the public,
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Which? No, you're wrong.
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Oh. It's not for the top of the hour
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when the goblins spawn every gun like, but outside of that, they,
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they, they, they show up, they kill the goblins and then they
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vanish. Oh, they kill all of the
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goblins. It Rex, well, they don't kill.
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He means the treasure goblins. Like he's not talking about the
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goblin residents. But but to to clarify, go ahead
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Sean, tell us how it works. For So for anybody who's who's
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doing the 3D emissary event and you're like, I just want to find
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these goblins out and you've been parking at Donegal or
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Orgermeyer or Stormwind at the top of the hour, killing your
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one goblin and then going about your day.
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You're doing it wrong. Join me fellow sweat Lords in
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the top of the hour. You had to undermine the zone
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nobody wants to be in anymore. And every single rare that
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spawns and gets killed spawns goblins, treasure goblins.
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You can get like 40 between 40 and 50 of the currency in a 2530
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minute span from the top of the hour to the bottom of the hour,
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which I found out this week is not a phrase in Europe.
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They don't say bottom of the hour for like.
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I don't think it's a phrase here either.
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Lex Chime. Well, I, I, I'm a little bit
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more concerned with you can get 40 things in in a 25 to 30
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minute span from the top of the hour to the bottom of the hour
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and I'm concerned what's happening to all the other
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minutes. Like you, you've already
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collected everything that you need in that that, but if if
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you're going. From the top of the hour to the
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bottom of the hour, yeah. Well, 'cause.
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The top of the hour is like 4:00, the bottom of the hour be
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430. But because it it only spawns.
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Those 4:00 what a random hour 'cause I'm like 4 clock's not at
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the top of the clock it's like. Well, the top, the top of the
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hour is when that's some we're, we're sort of sidetracked
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actually. 30 minutes I I assume. Yeah.
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The top of the hour is 00. The bottom of the hour is 30.
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Wait. OK, that actually doesn't make
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sense when you're thinking about a clock I.
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Where the minute hand is where the minute hand points but.
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We're not saying the top. OK, OK, OK, OK, OK.
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Yeah, clearly that's not OK. I actually did, I suppose,
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answer Sean's question, which is, have I heard of the top of
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the hour? Yeah, very quickly.
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All of my European friends were like, no one says that here.
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They don't, but they don't. They also don't say top of the
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hour, which is crazy, I swear. Like it's on all of our radio
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stations. Maybe it was just from work as
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well in the Navy. Anyway, the point is, stop
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parking at Dornegall, Stop parking at your major cities for
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your one measly portal an hour, Head to the undermine, Get
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upwards of like 15 portals in a 30 minute window.
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Get far more of that currency, Get that transmod bot so you can
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get on to doing other things like PTR testing.
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Yes, and you will need time for PTR testing because today we had
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three hours of PTR testing plus an extra half hour convenience
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fee if you wanted to even get on the stupid realms.
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They have their schedule for testing like a minute after the
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hour. I think it was like, oh, the
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hour's coming up, 50 minutes until the server restarts.
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And then it was literally quarter two rate testing.
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That's why I said four rate testing was at 4:00 mic time and
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at quarter two it said server shut down in 15 minutes.
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Yeah, and those servers were down for at least 15 minutes
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because I walked away from my computer about that time.
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That meant that people who had been there looking to jump in
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and get into the raid, they had to sit around and wait for the
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servers to come back up. Sean, because you actually
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toughed it out. How long was it before those
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servers came back? It was 28 minutes before the
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first person was able to get into the raid.
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We had to then get our group together.
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So we're looking at like 35 ish minutes from when the raid
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testing was supposed to start to when it actually started.
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Luckily the first boss is light on mechanics and it seems pretty
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well put together. There's not there wasn't a lot
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of bugs. It's a fun fight.
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It's basic, it's simple, but we enjoyed it.
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So it wasn't super heartbreaking that we lost 30 minutes at the
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front of it, but we did then game, they gave us 10 extra
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minutes at the at the back end of that, that testing, we had
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already killed it at that point, but.
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OK. And then the rest of the testing
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went on as normal, An hour for each of the other two bosses.
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You would have 10 minutes knocked into the second boss so
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that I only lost. 10 minutes from the second boss, which
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again wasn't a big deal because very light on mechanics, very
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easy to understand, good boss design overall so far and we
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also killed him long before the 50 minutes was up.
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I mean, of course, PTR organized group you, you're the group that
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Sean runs with is a lot of great people Raiders that come
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together for every every PTR test.
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This wasn't just a completely made-up pug and included, I
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believe some people from your raid team as well, Sean.
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So like these are these are mythic Raiders doing a heroic
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testing boss. Remember that when you are
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testing on Heroic, they often, I guess the term is pull the
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punches so that you get to see more of the those mechanics.
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They really just want to see that those mechanics do work and
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then when it goes live, it's usually ratcheted up from there.
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The bosses usually have more health so that they live and do
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less damage so that you live and get to see more of it.
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So what are those 3 bosses again?
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Those were the first 3 bosses right?
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Yeah, it was the first 3. Plexus Sentinel was the first
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boss, Lumothar is the second boss which is a heartbreaking
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boss that makes me really upset to fight, and then the last one
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was Soul Binder, Nazrinder, something like that.
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I I've got to ask John, when you tested this on normal, you
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didn't do this, but on heroic did you turn on arachnophobia
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mode? Oh I did not.
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It does. So I have been told it doesn't
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work. I was actually asked to do that
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by one of my writers on EU and I told her that I would and then
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didn't. So I'm going to have to find
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someone who did and send her a screenshot.
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But it does apparently work on Lumithar.
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You can turn, I think it's to him, into a crab.
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OK, I mean is. It a cute crab.
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I don't know. I didn't.
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I didn't do it like. I think that the easiest thing
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to do would be to look in the dungeon journal with
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arachnophobia mode on and see what it what it does, but I
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don't think you'll get the cause.
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The poor creature gets split in half part way through the fight,
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and I don't think you're going to get that part into the
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dungeon journal anyways. Technically, it splits itself in
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half out of pure rage. It is so furious at us that it
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tears its body in half to chase us around.
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It's it is a horrible fight, Lex.
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We go into this room, This thing is just moisturized, thriving in
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its lane, minding its own business, making the silk that
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the ethereal wrapped themselves in.
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And then we show up and start attacking it and fighting it and
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destroying its its weaves and destroying its threads.
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And it gets so angry at us, so enraged that we're because it's
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suspended from the ceiling. It gets so furious that we have
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come in and just decided to stick it and blast it and poke
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it and prod it that it tears itself in half to try.
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And because it's trying to pull us to it with webs and we keep
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breaking it like I'll just pull them towards me with these
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strands. We keep snapping the strands and
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it gets so frustrated that it can't pull us in and can't stop
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us from hurting it when it just wants to exist that it tears
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itself in half and crawls around the room while it's arcane
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essence leaks out from the back of it.
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It's actually when you, when you, when you watch this fight,
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it actually drags its back legs like if you stepped on an Ant by
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mistake and didn't kill it and you could see it like crawling
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away in its back legs didn't work.
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That's what this fight is like. It's heart wrenching.
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It's enraged mechanic is literally it's blood pouring all
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over the the arena. Yeah, it's it's a horrible
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fight. Like if you were upset at rat
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the ration on fight because we fight ration on and ration on is
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like been mind controlled by Zalitath and the black blood and
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Ansorek. And in the middle of that fight,
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Ansorek starts to regain conscious ration on starts to
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regain consciousness and says no, no, stop.
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What are you doing? Because it realizes, hey, I'm
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being mind controlled and it's just a mother trying to protect
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it's babies. We we kill ration on through
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that. If that bothered you and it
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should have, unless you're a heartless monster.
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The loom with our fight is is really rough.
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It's like that turtle in Thrown of Thunder.
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That turtle and throwing Thunder that everybody fights was a
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regular turtle that gets stuck in a wall.
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And because it kept eating and growing, it couldn't get out.
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So the other small creatures of that cave would bring it food so
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it could stay alive. And we show up and kill it to
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get through that. Really feels like a fable, like
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one of those little fables. No, Read the Dungeon Journal.
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No. No, no, no, no.
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Horrible. No, I mean the the the the the
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turtle is stuck in the wall and all the little cave animals
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bring it food so it could live happily ever after until the
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hero showed up. Yeah, that's right, Until the
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heroes showed up. Yeah.
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Anyway, Lumothir, Lex, enjoy. It's the second boss.
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Yeah, so I will be playing an 11.2.
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I'm going to be taking a little mental health mentee health
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break as they call it. Again, we won't, we won't be
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telling Lex anything more of the tears that she will be
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committing that because she likes to go into bosses blind.
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Yeah. She likes to do.
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Let's do. Her atrocity is fresh.
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No, it's good. It's good to, like, prepare
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yourself for trauma. And so I'm glad that I'm gonna
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go in aware that this will be a devastating fight and I'm gonna
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have to give my little puppy dog a hug.
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But if you want a breakdown of all of the fights, do check out
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our last episode where Sean who has gone through all of normal
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as well as like the later part of the raid in Heroic.
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We went through all of those and even did a little death grip
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counter on how many fights? Death grip is so so necessary
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and I won't spoil that. Now go ahead and watch that
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episode. Talking about DKS, we saw a lot
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of tuning come in just recently with some hot fixes.
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So we're before we were talking about DKS getting the first
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movement in free in power spell and it's back on again.
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Nope, that doesn't exist anymore.
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But we are seeing a lot of these classes get tuning and changing.
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It looks like the large changes are coming in.
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We have seen some tear sets get completely reworked or revised.
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Shaman part way through last week got a huge hit to their
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tier set again, I feel like it was warranted for enhancement
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and I feel bad for Elemental that got caught in the
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crossfire. Maybe revise that a little bit.
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So do check out those revisions. We're seeing a lot of a lot of
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changes there. I also suggest to everybody do
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take a quick glance at the PTR notes.
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Some things are going to be affected already because we're
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not getting any new buff food, right?
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So that's a that's a thing. Could that be important?
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Yeah. It meant that when I bought up
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pretty much all of the undermine clams for 60 gold, I'm sitting
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pretty while now people are paying 200 per.
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I might put some of them back on the oxygen house to make a a
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little bit of mint, but like I suggest people do check that
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because it is affecting things. And we now have the release date
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for the last major patch of the war within.
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And that means that come August 5th, only two days after my
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second birthday, we will have the new well, it won't actually
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be the new raid, but it will be the new patch, the new area.
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And then the week after, which is the 13th, again, ten days
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after my second birthday. You will then get season 3 of
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the The War Within and so this means that you should make sure
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that you are getting things done that you wanted to do.
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If you need to get your Delvis journey done, make sure you get
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that done. If you are looking to get your
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KSM or KSL, make sure you get that done.
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AOTC, Cutting Edge, all of those will be gone in just six weeks
19:16
less than, but it's because they that is Tuesday or Wednesday in
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the EU and we are running out of time.
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Now, of course, this is one week where we will not have any raids
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of the new raids open. Any of the dungeons will
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actually still give you rewards from season 2 during that time.
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So when the vault on the 13th, when you open that up, it's
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still going to be old rewards. I do want to tell people if you
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haven't gone through and done Horrific Visions and you're like
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oh I need to get this ready for season 3, don't bother.
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As soon as you get gear from season 3, and I think even
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before you get gear from season 3, the helmet chants from
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Horrific Visions will be shut off.
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At least that is what it looks like on the PTR right now.
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So save yourself some time on that.
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Focus on your Delve belt. Focus on on your gear.
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But of course, we're getting new gear.
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So first week, Sean, that includes new Ray, sorry, rather
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new dungeons, right? And yes, can you remind us what
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the dungeon pool is? Dungeon pool for season 3 is
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Ecuador Maldani, the new dungeon from The War Within.
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We then have Halls of Atonement and Taz of Esh, Streets of
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Wonder, Taz of Esh, Soleil's Gambit all returning from Shadow
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Lands. And then we have the four
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dungeons as voted for by the player base, which is
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Dawnbreaker prior to the Sacred flame, Eric Caro, the City of
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Echoes, and I'm sorry, yeah, Eric Caro, the City of Echoes
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and Operation Floodgate and those will all be available
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minus Tazewash two run in Mythic 0 in that first week.
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So starting August 5th, you can run six of those eight dungeons
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in Mythic 0 for champion track gear, which because of the fact
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that we're upgrading to a new season, is going to be an
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upgrade for everyone immediately.
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So make sure you're getting together with your armor stack
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friends and you're running a world tour of those mythic
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zeros. There's they're back to the
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weekly lockouts. You only have to do it once for
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the week and get your drops, get your champion track drops and
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get started out well for the next season.
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Or don't be a sweat Lord. And I don't know, like pets.
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I don't know what people do that are.
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I feel like OK yes if you don't want to be a sweat Lord go ahead
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enjoy the story right play through because you are going to
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need to get your your Rishi wraps which come at the end of
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chapter. Sorry you get it in chapter 1
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and I think the upgrade is chapter 3.
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All of that is available in the first week that leads up to the
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raid. But going back to the dungeons,
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I feel like it isn't too much for somebody over the course of
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the week to do the dungeons. Maybe not armor stack entirely
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right. Maybe you can't be like, oh,
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we're going to do druids and and demon hunters and be an entire
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leather leather daddy squad. That might be beyond what you're
22:23
wanting to do, but just run them.
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It's it's one, it's one dungeon, basically 1A day.
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Just fit an extra 1 in on the weekend and you're fine.
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And I think that that isn't that much to ask.
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It it's a good idea to do them as well, even if you're not like
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man, he said. If you're not doing the armor
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stack, it's a good idea to run them if you're planning on doing
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mythic plus at all. Because there are changes in
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almost all of these dungeons that you will want to see and be
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familiar with before you jump into your mythic plus and
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inevitably start doing keys that are probably above the level
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that you should be doing and then dying to something that
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you're like, oh, I didn't know this boss did this.
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It didn't do it last season. Yeah, yeah, you're right.
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There are lots of changes as well as adjustments.
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Eric Cara, the last boss that terrified so many people, has
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received substantial nerves and may not kill everybody on site
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initially that that's a good thing.
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They even fix some bugs. So like the dawn breaker.
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Congratulations, DK you're not immediately nerfed as soon as
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you step on that ship. That's another one.
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And so I'm I'm kind of glad about these changes.
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It looks it looks pretty good and it honestly, it's a new
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season. You're going to have your class
23:38
changes you're going to have with a little bit of rust from
23:43
taking some time off during the season.
23:45
It's a good way to get back in the swing of things to to run
23:49
these dungeons. Now that also leads us to the
23:53
Delves. The Delves are going to be back.
23:57
We're going to have a new nemesis, which is the Nexus
24:01
Princess returning from the raid.
24:05
And so that means new affixes that are going to be themed
24:09
around the Ethereals. This is going to be available to
24:13
people on that first week and is another good, good source for
24:18
Luke if you are looking for some upgrades.
24:21
And it does provide provide upgrades.
24:24
And considering how quickly we were tearing through season 2
24:28
and how some of those trinkets were actually quite decent, I
24:33
would suggest people of all stripes try out the delves.
24:37
Also we got a new Delve which the entrance is located in our
24:43
new zone of Koresh but takes us back to the Azure vaults in
24:49
Dragonflight. So, you know, a little I don't
24:51
wouldn't call that a blast from the past because it's literally
24:53
the last expansion, but a little fresh change of scenery isn't
24:57
isn't bad. I will say as our resident
25:01
delver, the more that we actually resident delver.
25:04
I'm, I'm probably doing fewer delves than both of you, but
25:06
whatever, It's a resident joyful delver.
25:10
But is that I, I feel like as we're getting more and more
25:12
zones, we do kind of need to consider getting something like
25:16
a, a fast travel the way that you can.
25:18
I guess I feel like I'm feeling stupid as I speak because in
25:21
mythic Oh. Sean, tell her the news.
25:25
Rex, I have good news starting at 11.2 that I believe it's in
25:29
Tazewesh. There is a portal to all of the
25:32
Delve locations in Tazewesh. Is it all the delves or is it
25:36
all the bountiful delves? Oh, is it all bountiful?
25:39
Delves, I, I, I. We'd have to double check.
25:41
Sorry. Editing Manny will come in here.
25:45
Do do do do do do do. Hey, it's editing Manny here.
25:49
The four Bountiful Delves for the day will be available in the
25:54
Portal Room at the start of Tazewesh.
25:58
It also will have a portal that will take you back to Doran
26:01
right to the Delvers headquarters as well.
26:04
So for the ports will change each day to take you to the
26:06
Bountiful Delves and you can always just take the 5th portal
26:09
to get back to the headquarters. Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo.
26:15
And editing Manny will tell you what what it actually is.
26:18
The best part is there's zero shot that editing Manny is going
26:20
to do that, and you're all just going to have listened to Manny
26:23
make that sound and then still not know the answer.
26:29
OK, well, that that was me setting that up.
26:31
I definitely didn't just forget to read the show the the note.
26:34
I didn't realize that was happening.
26:35
That's so exciting, though. That's going to be great because
26:37
I was really not looking forward to like trying to like pulling
26:40
up my map and being like, where's the glow?
26:42
And like going all the little glowies and realizing that I
26:45
have to double back and go to freaking undermine for some
26:48
unreasonable reason because one of them's glowing and I guess
26:51
we're going to go over there. So I'm very.
26:53
Happy you have that boy that teleports you to a random
26:56
bountiful delve. Wait, there's a toy?
26:57
The Tel teleport you to a random bountiful delve.
27:00
Yeah, I'm really not the resident delver, but.
27:03
I need I hate delves so much. I can't know more about delves
27:06
than you could. I have the toy.
27:09
I still have not used it because like I used.
27:12
It to know. But like I cuz like I was going
27:16
to use it and then they did this entire overloaded thing.
27:18
So I only care about the overloaded 1.
27:20
So a random 1 isn't what I want. I want the overloaded delve.
27:25
And so now I've got a 5050 chance that it actually works on
27:27
my spirit. I'm not going to bother with
27:29
that. I'm just going to run to it.
27:30
But yeah, there will be portals. And if for some reason you still
27:36
don't have all the stories, because that is an achievement,
27:39
getting all the different stories of delves in 11.2.
27:44
When you mouse over the Dell, it will tell you which story
27:49
sequence or scenario is active on that day, which is also so
27:55
welcome. I'm happy for that.
27:56
Like, you know, these small little improvements, little bit
28:00
of, of quality of life where we get to teleport to The Dells, a
28:05
little bit of additional information where I need, where
28:08
I get to find out, oh, that's that pink elephant one.
28:11
That's the only one in that stupid Dell that I actually
28:14
like. That's wonderful to me.
28:16
I love it. That's very fun.
28:19
I love that they're getting into the the quality of life upgrades
28:22
for the delves, like just the cute little things to make it a
28:24
little bit easier, a little bit more fun to jump around, make it
28:26
feel more established and less like a thing that kind of
28:28
slapped in the game. And we're like, that's good.
28:30
Which to be fair, a lot of work has gone into the delves.
28:32
That's what it means with me. But I'm I'm glad that it's
28:34
starting to feel like an integrated part of the game with
28:36
all of the different things that usually you'd expect something
28:39
like this would have. It's very fun.
28:41
Yeah, one thing that I am kind of sad about with the mythic
28:45
plus rotation is that there were particular dungeons that had
28:53
mounts. Also something you should
28:55
consider before things rotate. And if you didn't get stoned the
28:59
stone core amount in the season 1, it's not coming back in the
29:04
what I assume is the final season of this of this
29:09
expansion. So that means and it was a
29:11
mythic only mount and mythic is tied to the mythic rotation
29:16
right? Even if it was like heroic then
29:19
you could at least run in on heroic.
29:21
Or is that even true anymore? No, it it has, it has been
29:25
unavailable all season long, but we have some mount collectors in
29:28
our EU team and they have been pretty salty about it and I
29:32
don't think they're very happy about it not coming back next
29:35
season either. Yeah, yeah.
29:37
So if you still need the mount from cleft of is it cleft of
29:44
Shadows? Shadowclaff.
29:45
No, no, no, no, Stone vault's out.
29:47
If you didn't get that in season 1, you ain't getting it back
29:50
this season. It's what is it Shadowclaff?
29:54
The one with the darkness that chases you down the mind.
29:57
Dark flame cleft. Dark flame craft.
29:59
There is a mountain there. You have six weeks.
30:02
Get it? It's going to be impossible to
30:04
get next season. So yeah, do you check your do
30:09
create your checklist and check that off.
30:12
Do look forward to all this stuff coming, Sean, go ahead.
30:15
Or Fasdev, if you're listening, maybe put in some caveat that
30:19
lets those mounts drop in heroic something, because the mount
30:23
collectors shouldn't have to wait until War Within is over to
30:27
go back and find these mounts out.
30:28
I don't think that's right. Honestly don't know if heroic is
30:34
just the war within dungeons. I actually think it follows.
30:38
It's Season 1. It follows the same thing.
30:41
You can't even do it on a Rook. It has to drop on normal for it
30:43
to be Evergreen available. That's how crazy it is now.
30:47
Yeah, that is awful. I gotta say, it's possible that
30:50
I I'm sure in fact that I just wasn't paying attention and this
30:53
is normal, but I didn't actually.
30:55
Maybe I should just ask and admit that I don't know.
30:57
Has it always been this way? That if like the dungeons that
31:00
aren't part of whatever rotation are just not accessible at all.
31:04
No, you could always, Until the War Within, every dungeon was
31:11
always available on Mythic difficulty.
31:13
It was when you went to Mythic Plus that the rotation changed.
31:17
And that has only been a thing since Dragonflight season 2.
31:23
Yeah, I don't. Yeah.
31:24
Like it? Season 1. 4. 4.
31:29
Season 4 of dragon fight is when they did the squish and made
31:32
mythic 0 as difficult as a 10. Right.
31:36
Oh, right, right. Right, but like the rotation of
31:38
like mythic actually following that wasn't a that was.
31:44
That didn't start until the zeros were up until dragonfly
31:48
season 4. You could do mythic zeros
31:50
regardless of the season of the dragonfly dungeons because we
31:54
used to spam run Ruby live pools on the weeks when you had to do
31:57
4 dungeons. Right.
31:58
Yeah. So that yeah, it's an
32:01
unnecessary unexpected casualty, but like, hopefully they can do
32:06
something to address that. Yeah, it's it's weird because
32:09
it's not like I would have been running mythic zeros, so it
32:11
doesn't really matter, but there's just something about the
32:13
fact that I can't access all of the content of this season it.
32:18
Just feels you feel the money normal.
32:20
Yeah, I don't know. I can't really figure out how to
32:23
put in words. It probably is just like a weird
32:25
emotional thing. I just I don't like it.
32:27
I mean the the mounting makes more sense.
32:29
That's an actual reasonable argument that isn't just.
32:31
This feels bad in my feelings, but like, I just don't.
32:35
Like it? I don't know, Alex.
32:38
Jesus. We just gave everybody
32:39
invincible for Christ's sake. Why do we got to make it so?
32:42
Yeah. I mean, come on.
32:43
We're giving. We're literally handing out bags
32:46
of mounts. It's like Oprah Winfrey.
32:48
Like you get a mount, you get a mount.
32:50
Everybody gets a shot of fear. Like this is ridiculous.
32:53
Except. For Manny, he doesn't get mouth.
32:55
I already had shot of fear, don't worry about it.
32:58
For legal reasons, that was a joke.
33:00
I think we should all be able to get these items.
33:04
But yeah, it is. It is a strange thing.
33:09
The other thing that I thought that was like kind of unusual is
33:13
that usually you have like that season 4 where all the old
33:17
dungeons come back. At least that's what happened in
33:19
Dragon Fight when they started splitting up the current
33:22
dungeons. And without that, yeah, you're
33:26
going to have to wait until midnight when you gear up.
33:31
But like, imagine going through and like, let's say in Dragon
33:36
flight, because that's the last time it was there.
33:38
They were like mount swears, like you need this item from
33:41
like the mythic boss to then trade in or like particular
33:45
mounts would drop from the different dungeon.
33:47
So I'm a little salty about that.
33:49
But this is not just all about the mounts.
33:51
This is also about other things as well.
33:53
So Lex, I'm going to turn it to you because you love the lore
33:58
and we had a little bit of a short story that came out.
34:03
So tell us a bit about this short story, please.
34:06
Yeah, so we got to learn in the Warcraft audio novella The Doom
34:10
of Koresh, we got to learn from Locust Walker's point of view
34:14
what happened to Koresh, right? Yeah.
34:18
Is is the name of the. I literally literally listened
34:20
to this today and I just said the name, but to basically to
34:23
the planet of the Ethereals and why they are the Ethereals and
34:26
not, you know, full corporeal beings and what also what the
34:33
plan is to happen to Azeroth, right?
34:36
Like what we are aiming to do or what Dementius is aiming to do
34:39
to us. So we can kind of see what what
34:42
we're getting. And it was a three-part audio
34:44
like YouTube listen with Pretty Little pictures that come up or
34:47
you can read it, which I really should have done.
34:49
Every every like every few years people talk me into trying an
34:53
audio book again. They're like, listen to it.
34:55
It's so cool with the the voices and with the voice actor.
34:59
You've got to listen to it and I'm like, fine, fine.
35:01
You're all saying it's super cool and it's super wonderful.
35:04
I'll listen to an audio book and then I'm 30 minutes in and I'm
35:07
like, I have no clue what just happened.
35:09
I've not been paying attention to any of this.
35:12
So we if, if you're like me, read the PDF.
35:14
It's very fun. I did listen to it and having
35:17
the voice actor doing the voices and with all the fun sound
35:19
effects and seeing the pretty pictures, that was very cool.
35:22
And it's also just a very beautiful story.
35:26
And I think to be fair, since I am historically A hater when it
35:29
comes to short stories, the audio book might have helped
35:31
with that, that I was hearing more of the emotion and less
35:34
like focusing on the exact wording of the book of the
35:38
story. But I thought it was really
35:40
sweet. I thought it was really cool.
35:42
I really want to play this at some point.
35:44
Like the story that they told was very interesting and very
35:47
engrossing, I thought. And the, the ending was kind of
35:52
telegraphed, as it tends to be in World of Warcraft, but still
35:54
very sad. I, I was very, I, I was, I was
35:58
like kind of tearing up at the end of it.
36:00
I'm going to be completely honest.
36:02
OK, that I mean like the fact that it still had that emotional
36:06
resonance with you while like even if it was telegraphed, even
36:10
if you were expecting it, the fact that it still landed like
36:12
that, that's pretty good. I think that the audio book has
36:20
like a couple of things that are kind of cool.
36:23
Like as he's, as he's going back in time, as he's recollecting
36:27
and he's sort of taking you back to that moment, the voice sort
36:31
of changes a bit. It's it stops having that like
36:34
ethereal echo and then becomes a little bit more grounded as he's
36:37
talking about like how Koresh used to be.
36:40
Oh, it's never like Azeroth. It was never had the CS and
36:43
stuff. It was always this harsh world,
36:45
right? Like having somebody who's
36:50
talking about it and reminisce and reminiscing about that and
36:54
having that candor in their voice I think really does add to
36:57
it. So yeah, the audio book would be
37:00
cool. I but I feel like if it depends
37:05
on who the like, what kind of learner you are, There are
37:08
people who are very much auditory listeners.
37:12
I had a person who called me up in the middle of the night,
37:16
right? And was like saying some stuff
37:19
and stuff and it wasn't important.
37:20
So I was just like, I just want to go back to sleep.
37:23
And then like the next morning, I could recall all of that.
37:27
And I've fallen asleep trying to like read a book and I've had to
37:32
be like, I'm have to start the chapter all over again.
37:34
None of that stuck. So like I'm an auditory person.
37:37
So like it works in the auditory, but it doesn't work in
37:40
writing. Some people exact opposite.
37:43
So whatever works for you, dear listener, dear Lex.
37:46
That's that's what I would suggest for that.
37:50
But overall, the story that is told in this short story is
37:58
summarized or otherwise explained in the in the
38:06
campaign, the story campaign as you get get towards the the
38:10
raid. So if you skip this, you
38:13
actually aren't missing anything.
38:15
Like if I would, if I were to tell Sean, oh, like this is what
38:18
happened to Koresh or even ask Sean what happened to Koresh,
38:21
because Sean has played through the campaign, he would be able
38:24
to tell you. And I think that is.
38:27
Again, that's the answer. What happened to Koresh?
38:31
She's gone out of. Curiosity is the story that's
38:36
told in the campaign, is it via Locust Walker or is it a general
38:41
story of like the overall what happened?
38:44
It is. Yes.
38:48
Eventually the full, eventually the full, truth is told.
38:54
Yeah, we start with the Chronicles version, you know,
38:57
from a certain point of view, Locus Walker's point of view.
39:00
And then as things develop, we find the real version written
39:05
by. Yeah, oh, this is exciting
39:07
'cause I haven't done PTR so I don't know what the story is
39:09
yet. So turns.
39:10
Out it was the jail turns. Out it was the jailer.
39:13
No, Sean, No, I'm joking. I'm Jill quit next year in
39:16
between the the spider boss and that I will be gone like don't
39:20
even. Play with me.
39:22
Turns out it was a dealer. That's girl.
39:24
Oh man, that's. Agatha all along.
39:27
There you go, this episode, it was the Jailer all along.
39:31
God. The way that the truth comes out
39:34
is actually part of the story, so I do like that as well.
39:39
But then we got to go into this next thing that Blizzard put out
39:44
about the story, which I think is such a it's just spoilers.
39:51
It's just spoilers. So guys, if you haven't seen
39:55
Blizzard's little 2 minutes short, stay away.
40:01
Run as far as you can. If you see like a oh, teaser
40:05
trailer for for Koresh, No you didn't.
40:10
I don't think we can call it a spoiler because Blizzard.
40:12
Like if it was data mined and released by Wowhead.
40:15
Sorry. If it was data mined and
40:16
released by a community website, then yeah, we could say that it
40:19
was a spoiler. But Blizzard put it out there.
40:21
This is Canon posted by Blizzard.
40:23
They want us to know it now. It's not a spoiler.
40:28
I disagree with you, but I don't I know we, we, we already went
40:32
off into such a sidebar before. I'm just gonna agree to disagree
40:36
on the on this one. I think that the way that you
40:41
experienced it, Sean, where you play through the the campaign
40:46
and then the moment happens that I think is the proper way to
40:50
experience this, however. Blizzard disagrees with you.
40:54
Apparently Blizzard disagrees with me and Sean is such a butt
40:59
kissing lackey that he also agrees with me.
41:03
So to break the tie, we're going to turn it over to Lex.
41:09
OK. And sorry, before Lex, you tell
41:11
us. Anybody who wants to remain what
41:15
I consider spoiler free, please skip ahead 7 minutes.
41:20
I'm going to give you 7 minutes. Lex, go ahead.
41:23
There's no way it's gonna take like 7 minutes to explain that.
41:25
But we're gonna have to talk about afterwards.
41:27
You're wasting our time. Yeah.
41:28
All right. Sorry.
41:29
Basically, you hilarious chatting with with Locus Walker.
41:33
We're having a fun little day. Hilarious.
41:34
Like you told me. I I need you to introduce me to
41:36
this person who said he's gonna help me.
41:38
And all of a sudden, guess who comes out of the ground?
41:42
Basically, it was probably a portal.
41:44
I don't remember. It's Zealotath.
41:46
She's on our side now, and she's gonna help us defeat to Mencius
41:49
and Locust Walker and Larry get into a little fight in Alaris
41:52
like you're a freaking idiot. And Locust Walker is like, no,
41:55
I'm not an idiot. We have to do this and zealotas
41:58
making little snarky little comments in the background and
42:01
then they decide to end on arguably one of the most cliche
42:04
phrases in in the history of writing, which is I'm not asking
42:08
you to trust her. I'm asking you to trust me and
42:12
ruin the entire emotional moment of the the cinematic because OK,
42:19
congratulations. I'm sorry that to me, like that
42:23
specific cliche is one of my like writing sins.
42:25
Like when I see that, I'm like, oh good Lord.
42:28
So land based away like so I I got no filter go for it.
42:32
Yeah, yeah. I'm so sorry.
42:34
Occasionally writing makes me a a massive rating raging hater.
42:39
And this was another one of those times where I was just
42:41
like, all right, but it's OK. It was actually OK.
42:43
I will say, I will say because I'm going to be a hater, I need
42:46
to also be a lover. For what it is worth, when we
42:49
had the Salatath reveal, I audibly gasped.
42:52
Like that was very exciting to me.
42:55
So I think it was, well, it was. It was well done.
42:56
It was. Excluding Lexus fetish for toes,
43:00
when we actually saw Zalitaf, she guessed.
43:04
I don't think this should have been in the trailer.
43:07
Like they're like what's happened with Zalitaf?
43:10
When she going to show up, show up again.
43:13
The fact that she shows up as an unlikely ally, in my mind that
43:17
should have been like the moment of, of like whatever chapter it
43:23
lands in. And I don't know why I'm trying
43:25
to like stay away from spoilers when Blizzard is being so
43:27
blatant about like again ruining one of the biggest beats of like
43:33
leading up to the raid in my in my opinion.
43:36
As a non PTR girly I did kind of assume that this was a like.
43:40
Not like this was the beginning of the story and not really A
43:43
twist. Are you telling me this is
43:44
actually written as one of the major twists in the story?
43:48
This this like I cannot think of a like, sorry, that's not true.
43:52
I can't think of a larger like, Oh my God, this is what the
43:55
truth is moment in this campaign, but it is one of the
44:00
largest. OK, I do.
44:02
I'm kind of I'm kind of with you, Manny.
44:04
I don't I think that's silly. I think the teaser trailer
44:07
should be the first like the the first big plot device of the the
44:13
intro story. It is it It you find out.
44:16
Like you, before you finish Chapter 1, you find out.
44:21
OK. This is a big twist of chapter.
44:23
One OK I hate it 2 reasons One we last saw Xalatas in game like
44:29
what a week ago? And when she appears Alaria
44:32
doesn't. I want to clarify I love
44:34
Alaria's reaction. She appears, Alaria pulls her
44:37
bow she's like Oh my God what do you want a Xalatas she's the
44:39
enemy. And Xalatas says oh you haven't
44:41
changed a bit it's been a week. The last time we saw you, you
44:44
were turning our best friend into a Arcane Crow.
44:48
And Jim, I'm in a tiny little hole, so no, sorry, I haven't
44:51
processed that yet. You've been manipulating.
44:53
People are trying to kill us and trying to conquer the world and
44:56
trying to do all this other shit.
44:57
Nobody knows what you're doing. You're obviously violently evil
45:02
and we oppose you. So no, I'm sorry.
45:05
You're right. Valeria hasn't changed in that
45:06
week that you've been missing. Well, we fought the other guy
45:09
that was working for you, who was also trying to kill us.
45:12
That's not why I hate it though, because if they gave the player
45:16
the choice I would let Dementius burn it all before I would
45:22
believe and trust somebody who is so obviously and clearly
45:27
evil. This all we have to work
45:29
together for the great bull. Think of a real world example of
45:33
somebody this vile and they came to you and said, hey, we have to
45:36
work together for the better of everyone.
45:38
And you know that they're a lying scumbag who never does
45:43
anything and bankrupts everything they touch.
45:45
You would tell them to stick the dark heart up there.
45:49
You would not work with them. Yeah, I, I do think that it's
45:53
like also there, there there was a line in the novella that also
45:58
with like, I, I watched the the video and listened to the
46:00
novella. And I won't try to quote the
46:02
novella partially to pretend that I'm not giving spoilers.
46:05
But there was a line that it really felt like they were kind
46:09
of like hammering into your head, like, by the way,
46:13
Zalatat's going to betray us. And so I, I kind of, I kind of
46:19
agree, but like, I don't know, I think it, it's going to be fun
46:23
and up until the moment that Sala Tath very obviously.
46:26
Yeah. You know.
46:28
Manny's writing down all of the swear words.
46:31
I'm so sorry, Manny. I.
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Just this is going to be a a lot of editing.
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It just makes me so angry. It goes.
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I play like I play Warcraft. Obviously I play it because I
46:42
like the competitive side. I like to raid, I like playing
46:44
my friends. But there is still part of me
46:46
that has an attachment to my character.
46:48
And like I, I try to give my characters the moral compass
46:52
that I would have. And there I, I am telling you
46:55
right now, there is a 0% I would let the world die before I would
47:00
work with someone like that because I know what they're
47:02
about. There would have to be a better
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way. And there obviously is because
47:06
of Larry at the end of it all says we're going to find a
47:07
better way. I would, I would take Larry's
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hand. I would walk over there and I
47:12
would let Locus Walker in Zaltath have their fun little
47:14
void. OK, I I apologize for the list
47:19
of listeners for becoming was angry and incoherent.
47:23
OK. Negative, negative.
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Sean and I talked about this because we had done part of the
47:29
PTR together. I had Internet issues.
47:31
We ended up completing it separately.
47:32
And then we sat down together and we're like, what did you
47:35
think about it? And this was Sean's big, big
47:37
complaint. And I had said, you know, I was
47:42
hoard through BFA. I'm already used to being
47:44
railroaded into doing things that make zero sense.
47:48
Why the hell are we following Sylvanas after the garage thing?
47:51
Like what the hell? So this feels like Blizzard
47:55
storytelling of classic design. But yeah, I agree.
48:03
I agree with that. I don't like being railroaded.
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We have clearly gone past the seven minutes, so I'm going to
48:07
avoid talking about like exactly what happened through.
48:11
But I dislike when you undermine, so readily undermine
48:17
player agency, not only stopping them from feeling like they are,
48:22
they have a choice, but so easily putting such a
48:26
contemptible choice in front of them that is so hard to believe.
48:30
Like if it had been just, I don't know, we're fighting a
48:32
boss and like a boss at the point and we're like, oh, we're
48:36
going to lose. There's no way we can win.
48:38
And then she saves us. And in that moment is like, OK,
48:42
she's saving, she's saving us. It's like crap.
48:45
I guess we do need her for something.
48:48
It's like, and then it's like, I'm watching you like not like
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if Locust Walker turned, turned to her and said I'm I'm watching
48:58
you. We know how you operate.
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And Illyri would be like, I don't like this.
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Just tell me, just tell me the information.
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I'm not, I'm not working with her.
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I think much of what happens afterwards would still follow
49:14
the same beats. And Sean can agree or disagree
49:17
with me, but it would be more believable.
49:20
And then all I need is the ability to either go with Elyria
49:24
or be like, I'm going to stay here because I have to watch
49:27
her. And then it's not like, oh,
49:28
we're walking hand in hand. It flows into that tenuous,
49:33
untrusting alliance that had to come from this anyways.
49:37
They decided to spoil it on the Internet six weeks before the
49:41
patch even comes out. What the hell?
49:44
Like, that just doesn't seem right to me.
49:48
But yeah, it's a big bomb moment in the storyline, I guess.
49:52
Yeah, I agree it's not the choice I would have made, but
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maybe that's what happens when you outsource your entire social
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media team. We'll, we'll have that
50:05
conversation in a different episode for sure.
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I guess what I want to ask of you 2 is basically in this short
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period of time, what are you going to be doing to get ready
50:18
for 11.2? Sean, I know you are big time
50:22
Raider and such and you've been on the PTR.
50:24
I'm assuming that is to like put together strategies and such.
50:28
Can you walk us through kind of the process that you would do to
50:32
like just prepare for a new patch?
50:35
I will run PTR dungeons till my eyes bleed so that when we won
50:41
hits of the season, I'm better prepared to go in and get to
50:46
whatever the Max vault level is. If it's still 10 or if they move
50:49
it to 12, which they should, Blizzard consider moving it to
50:51
12. Whatever the Max vault slot is,
50:53
I'll push to that for that first week and I'll be able to do that
50:56
because I will have done the dungeons a lot on the beta.
50:59
I will also do the raid testing. I've done heroic, I've done
51:02
normal, so all the bosses are normal, all the bosses are
51:04
heroic. We start mythic testing
51:06
tomorrow. I'll do that again.
51:07
That's it's not so much for strategies, because the
51:09
strategies you get an idea of what works, but ultimately
51:13
everybody's going to copy those strategies that happen from the
51:15
top teams down. So while you go into PTR testing
51:18
and you may come up with, hey, this works, this works, this
51:20
works. There are bigger brains whose
51:22
job it is to come up with these strategies.
51:24
We're just going to copy those, but we will be familiar with the
51:27
fights. We'll know intricacies like can
51:30
I taunt mid cast on this tank Buster?
51:32
What happens if I do this? Can I immune this?
51:34
That kind of stuff we test for. So that's the the intro, the
51:37
smaller things you want to know going in the PTR, not
51:40
necessarily locking down a Strat that your team will use ad
51:44
nauseam. And then lastly on live, because
51:48
I'm main swapping, there's still a lot of grinding to do for
51:51
crests. I have one last piece I have to
51:53
upgrade to crafted, which will give me I'll be around 683 then
51:57
682 maybe because there's a couple of pieces that I have
52:00
there still hero track, I need to get swapped over to myth
52:02
track. So hopefully the vault is good
52:04
to me and that is something that you can do.
52:07
Everybody can do that. Like we're going into the next
52:09
season. Gilded crests are really, really
52:13
abundant right now. You can get 75 a week from tier
52:16
11 delves alone and that includes the roomed Crest
52:21
upgrade that you would do. That is is great.
52:25
Obviously, if you're doing dungeons 7 plus gives keys
52:29
everything in that 7 to 11 range is kind of the Wild West right
52:32
now. If you can do twelves to
52:33
twelves, you're safer there. That's there's more people doing
52:36
that that are familiar with dungeons.
52:38
But if you can't take your chances in that 7 to 10 range,
52:41
there you go the Crest. But you want to be crafting even
52:43
if you're wearing so you're a heroic Raider and you're wearing
52:45
all hero track all maxed out at 671.
52:48
You should be that's that's wrong.
52:51
You can you shouldn't do anything you don't want to do.
52:54
You can. Benefit from.
52:57
Yeah you can benefit from grinding old gilded crests and
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re crafting your boots. Racers cloak.
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Actually I would do the cloak last.
53:05
Don't don't bother with cloak. You're getting a new cloak,
53:07
boots, embracers, rings, neck. You can be wearing 681 crafted
53:13
items of this weapon offhand, same thing, 681 crafted and then
53:17
one piece of your tier. You can get crafted at 681 and
53:20
then go into the tier at at a much higher state, which will
53:23
help you to progress through whatever level content you're
53:26
doing early on, whether that's normal raid, heroic raid, or
53:29
mythic Plus. There is a lot of benefit to
53:35
that. It just that that that early
53:37
power boost makes life so much easier.
53:40
It does mean a little may mean a little bit more of a grind right
53:42
now for those of you who haven't been doing that and haven't been
53:44
keeping up. But it pays off in next season
53:47
because you'll be able to hit your goals faster and then you
53:49
get a longer tail to the season, which you're going to want next
53:52
year because Legion Remix is coming in the .7 patch.
53:57
So start thinking in the frame of I need to have all of my 11.2
54:02
goals done by the .7 patch because I'm going to be face
54:06
deep and Leech in a remix following that.
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So if you can give yourself a head start now, I definitely
54:11
recommend doing that if you want any of this stuff.
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Any tips on this? You have any questions come to
54:15
the FAZ discord bit dot LY slash FAZ discord.
54:18
I'm happy to walk you through this.
54:19
There will be a document that comes out with what to do when
54:21
season 2 season 3 launches. I'll share that in there as well
54:24
for anybody who wants it. If you want to get, I don't want
54:28
to say sweaty, but if you want to be more optimal.
54:33
OK. And if you want to, we'll go
54:37
with less sweaty. No, you didn't want to go with
54:39
sweaty. If you want to be more optimal
54:41
for happiness and just do some fun stuff.
54:44
Lex, do you have any pointers? I I wait, I object to that.
54:47
I'm very happy. I enjoy this stuff.
54:50
So this is not a like Lex. Yeah, Lex is happy yet, but I'm
54:53
I and I realize right now the tone that I'm using doesn't
54:55
sound like I'm happy and that about 10 minutes ago.
54:59
What are you talking about? Old man, I'm as happy as I've
55:02
ever been, I. Made some comments 10 minutes
55:05
ago that also didn't sound too happy, but I enjoy when my
55:09
characters are at that level so we can say happiness when we say
55:15
relaxed might be more relaxed. If you have an alternate route
55:20
for happiness in the World of Warcraft, what would you suggest
55:24
you do with your last couple of weeks in 11.2 ahead?
55:29
Sorry, 11.1 ahead of 11.2? What are you going to be doing
55:33
with your time? Other than, of course, setting
55:35
up your house and taking care of your dog.
55:37
Yeah, so first of all, buy a house and then spend this next
55:40
six weeks moving and prepping everything.
55:42
Very easy thing to do step one, but I I would say take stock of
55:49
how you feel and what's going to hype you up the most.
55:52
So for like this this season just for my team was a very like
55:59
emotionally challenging season just based on like things that
56:03
are going on in real life and, and, and things that were
56:05
happening within our team. And so I, that was, I think one
56:10
reason why I was not playing as much this season as I usually
56:13
do. And I think that I'm going to be
56:15
using a lot of this time to give myself space and make sure that
56:18
when I'm coming back next season, I'm genuinely excited
56:21
and happy and ready to hit the ground running and ready to have
56:24
a really good time. If you are feeling like spending
56:28
time doing other hobbies and and taking space is gonna make you
56:32
like not excited to come back. And what you want is to keep
56:35
your keep revving up. Think about the things that
56:37
would be really cool for you. I've gotten I, I did some stuff.
56:40
I, I cast a PvP pet battle last weekend, last week, last
56:46
weekend. It doesn't matter.
56:46
Nobody cares. It's in the past, which is very
56:48
fun. It was very exciting and I have
56:52
started doing a lot more pet collecting because I think
56:54
that'd be really cool to get into and then do more pet
56:56
battling because that thing I used to think was really fun.
56:58
You know, if you are like, I would love to be, you know,
57:01
feeling really excited about the things that I could get.
57:02
Go to some mount collecting. If you want to go in with your
57:05
optimal gear, go pop over and and do some music.
57:09
Plus at a time that it's going to be less stressful and that
57:11
you're probably over geared for most of the stuff you do find
57:13
the thing that's going to really make it so that when 11.2 comes
57:17
out, you are ready to go and hiked and your engine is full
57:19
and you're just raring to hit the ground again.
57:23
And and really prioritize that because it's the time that you
57:25
get to do what brings you joy without any pressure.
57:30
Worry about, you know, people you're letting down or or ways
57:35
that you could be building. If you don't want to and if you
57:38
want to build, build. OK, well there you go.
57:43
So those are two alternative means of how you could be
57:47
spending your time over the next six weeks.
57:49
Again, August 5th that is going to be the release date for
57:55
Koresh and with how quickly things are going look forward to
57:59
August, I believe it is August 22nd is Game Connors at August
58:04
30th. Starts on the 20th. 20th to 24th
58:08
is games com and there is some speculation that the big
58:12
Blizzard news will come on the 20th because that's a press only
58:15
day. Right, there we go.
58:17
That's why I was thinking so, yeah, look forward to like more
58:21
news coming forward from that. And that leads me to what I
58:25
would say if you are chasing down mounts because you already
58:28
have a bunch of mounts or you don't care about mounts or you
58:30
don't care about transmog. If you don't care about gearing
58:34
up your character and watching that number go up and hitting
58:36
those that dopamine I of that super megacrit, you might
58:41
consider dusting off your professions, going back and go
58:47
and clearing through and getting that stuff on top of all of the
58:51
extra trans mog that's dropping and better chances that mounts
58:58
with all of that stuff. You could get your professions
59:02
up, and if the rumors about housing using all these
59:06
professions from all of these different expansions is true,
59:10
now is a great time to get your professions all set up so that
59:15
you are poised to take advantage wherever the patterns and such
59:19
may drop. So food for thought for you
59:23
people at this point. We are going to call it an
59:27
episode here. Until next time guys, may all
59:31
your hits be quits.