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#278 - For Azeroth!: “Beta Inbound” · For Azeroth!: A World of Warcraft Podcast

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This is John doing a Lex impression breaking down the
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beta hype trailer. OK besties.
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So it starts off for calendar to the burning region for Gilnaeus
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or has not died for the Lich King for the Sindori.
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For the alliance. For the horn for Azeroth.
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Hello and welcome back to another episode of For Azeroth.
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I am one of your hosts, the true villain, Manny.
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And joining me, battered bruise but triumphant, is Sean.
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Sean, how are you doing today? And I'm sore.
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It was a rough day at Pilates. It was rough.
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I had to do this exercise. I don't even know if I can do it
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sitting in my chair, but I laid on my stomach and my arms were
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up like a football. Goal posts either side of me.
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If you're watching the stream, you can see what I'm I'm doing
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it. I was laying face down and I had
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to lift my arms with my elbows couldn't go above my wrists and
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my wrists couldn't bend, but the whole arm had to lift all at
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once at the same time. And I'm saying that you're like,
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oh, yeah, that sounds easy. Try it right now at home or at
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work or wherever you're listening to this.
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You're on the subway, lay down, face down, put your arms like
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you were saying, it's good for football, for like a touchdown.
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They make your elbows make a right angle and then try to lift
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your arm off the ground without lifting your elbow first.
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Just the wrist has to come off first.
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But you can't bend your wrist. Yeah, you can do it sitting up.
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It's easy. Because.
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Like do that. OK.
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Yeah, anyway, I'm doing good though other than that.
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I got something for to do after the podcast.
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You're going to try get a little patch.
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She had a towel that she folded over a couple times for me to
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rest my forehead on. The only thing you lift is your
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arms and your, your elbows have to come up like it, ideally at
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the same time, but they can't because the instinct is going to
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be either to bend your wrists like to bend your hands to lift
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or to lift your elbows first. But you got to do the it's, it
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was nuts. Pilates is crazy.
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Bladis might be the the the best work that I've ever had in my
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life. It's just so good.
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I, I, I, I gotta stand up. Always went for the weight
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training and stuff. I hated mobility exercises and I
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hated cardio. Oh God, I hated cardio.
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But good, good for you. Sorry if this messes up your
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camera angle, but I got to stand up, I can't.
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Stick. No, that's all.
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It's OK. It's OK.
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OK. So you're, you're you're getting
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the gains in the real life, the gains in real life.
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What about in the World of Warcraft?
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How is your week in Wow being? Oh man, crazy.
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Speaking of gains, holy snikeys Manny.
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I have been playing the snot out of Mop Remix.
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I love this game mode. I am item level 476.
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That's the Max item level you can be.
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I did not frog. I am not a Frogger, but I don't
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judge froggers. I stand the froggers.
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I embrace the froggers. Froggers made it possible for a
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lot of us in the early on to get to get through stuff really
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quick. So shout out to any froggers out
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there who may or may not be listening.
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But yeah, item level 476. And now I've started dumping my
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bronze into gear. I get about 60,000 bronze a day
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and I do that in about 2 1/2 hours.
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All I do is full clear all the raids on heroic and then do a
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normal scenario heroic scenario. Normal heroic takes about 2 1/2
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hours, maybe three at the outset and then I shut her down.
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In 30 days I will have enough bronze to buy everything.
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OK, sorry. So your item level cannot go any
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higher. No maxed out.
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And we or how many days into this I.
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Don't know 18. 18 And this is a 95 day event.
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So when people were saying they could never catch the froggers,
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which orifice were they speaking out of?
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So I guess I mean technically because the cloak power
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continues to go up, you won't catch them in that regard, but
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the cloak power is so minuscule compared to your gear power
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people had. No, it's just they didn't.
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They did what people do and that is speak without having any
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education. They said they heard one person
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say we're never going to catch these people and they freaked
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out. Imagine if every race to world
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first after Liquid or Echo killed the last boss, every
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other Raider in the world when we're never going to be able to
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do this. They did it in a week, we're
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never going to be able to do this.
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Nerf them. That's essentially what
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happened. People saw people farming, they
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got strong, they got Max gear and then everyone was like oh
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we're never going to be able to catch them.
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This sucks I'm so mad. OK.
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Bottom like, and it's not just me, like there's, there's a
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group of about 12 of us that rotate through somewhere in the
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range of six to eight of us run these raids every day.
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And they're all like on par with with people.
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And we have a guy who was who did do some frogging, not a lot,
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but he did a little bit of frogging in our group and he,
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they do as much damage as he does.
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One guy does more. If you're a Demon Hunter, you
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don't even have to do anything else.
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Just be a Demon Hunter. Demon Hunters do 10 million
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damage at Max item level. OK, and so I'm seeing Technodork
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who is saying in chat that you got yelled at.
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Is this yelled at again on stream?
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Is this another person? Is the same person you talked
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about. Last month.
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OK, all right, I'm just saying random abuse every week.
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This is getting a little out of hand, but it's.
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Been great. It's one of and we've been able
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to because there's a lot of us that that went for the power
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gains. We've been able to help people
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and and not everybody plays that way.
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I get it. You play, I'm an advocate of
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play how you want to play. So I have friends who are not
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putting points into bronze and they're like, hey, I want to get
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my achievements. All right.
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Will they come with us and they get achievements and we run them
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through and it, you know, it takes no time at all.
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It's just, and there's, there's I have a specific one friend in
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particular who has two Max level characters and he runs the raids
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every day and brings people in who needs the raids for full
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clears, who can't get into groups otherwise.
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He actively looks for people with lower item level.
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He's incredible. Oh, so there are groups that are
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looking for that item level just to speed up the process at this
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point now? Probably, yeah.
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I don't again, I start, I it's hard for me to say.
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I start my own groups and even if I applied to another group I
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would get in right away because my item level so.
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Yeah, yeah, you're, you're not the, you're not the demographic
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that's being affected by this as much.
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OK. Now in regards to the cloak,
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they did do a hot fix this week where people had actually hit
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the limitation of the cloak and so then they had raised the
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limitation. So people have already hit that
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point. Are you at a point where you
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could try and solo some raids? Maybe not the heroic raids, but
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dungeons or normal maybe. I don't know how you get.
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LFR I could definitely solo dungeons.
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It takes me about a minute and a half to clear a heroic dungeon,
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unless it's the age of Nizao and then I kill the first boss and
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leave the group 'cause you only get a 15 minute desert or debuff
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if you kill the first boss, as opposed to 30 minutes.
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That dungeon's way too long, it's ridiculous.
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There's too much RP. Yeah, I could do dungeons.
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Takes about a minute and a half, Three minutes Max usually for
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dungeons and I could. I haven't tried it, but I
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suspect I could solo Mogushin Vaults and probably Terrace of
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Endless Suffering. That's not exactly what TOE
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stands for, but sure. Is this another one that has too
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much RP? No, actually they're both pretty
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quick. I just, I can never remember
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when I first saw the abbreviation.
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I didn't know what it stood for. And it's that's what came out
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the first time and now that's permanently implanted in my
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brain. But I love it.
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It's I'm having fun. I feel like I'm helping some
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people when they need it. I know for sure we got a couple
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people their titles for clearing all the heroics that wouldn't
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have gotten it otherwise, or maybe wouldn't have gotten it as
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soon, I should say. And I've been playing through
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the story of Mists and Manny. I'm going to tell you this is
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breaking news here on Fast. Mr. Pandaria is now officially
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my second favorite expansion of Warcraft ever.
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It's that good. It is that good.
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Now, I I've seen you tweeting it, so maybe not the exactly
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breaking news, but where exactly are you in terms of the story?
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Have you gone through it all? I am entering the dread waste so
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I just met Lin Lee. Lee something something she's a
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an Archer on the wall. I'm just about to start the
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dread waste, but it would have to take a massive nosedive for
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it not to end. Like I I thought Town Long Steps
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was going to be it because it starts off sort of low and there
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is a problem. The problem that I've noticed
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that is frustrating for me in that all of the content is open.
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So I have to be careful because I want to do it in order, right?
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I want to go 5 point O 5.1, whatever, whatever, but because
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it's all available and then land in the zone.
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Like I had a quest available and it was a campaign quest from
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Verisa in Town, Long Steps where she wanted me to go to the Isle
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of Thunder. But that's that's after 5.0.
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I don't know which one it is. So anyway, I I talked to her and
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I saw this. I was like, I don't think this
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is right now. This story feels like it's a
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different and it's sort of like, because it doesn't differentiate
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to tell you, Hey, this was the first expansions campaign.
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This is the first patch campaign is the second.
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You get sort of a disjointed story.
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So spoilers, there's a main character.
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Well there's a side character who is corrupted and I don't
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know when I and I think This is why the town long steps bother
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me because that character I found out that character was
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corrupted in moonlight summit when I it ends in a dungeon.
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When I went to town long steps he was there and I don't know if
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it was pre us finding out he was corrupted or post.
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Some of the conversation that he said afterwards made me feel
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like it was post like we had saved him and this was him, but
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he doesn't really specifically mention what had happened in the
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dungeon. So I was like, I feel like I'm
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playing this a bit out of and that's that bothers me because
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I'd like to be able to just go through the story.
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I wish the dungeon markers and and I can't imagine, and this is
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me coming in as an experienced player.
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I can't imagine a new player who's starting their, you know,
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second alt and showing up somewhere and like all of the
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quests are available, But that's just too much.
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It's and it's not a fun way to experience a story.
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So they should have the differentiate are there with
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like colors or something. I guess I could just look.
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Somebody maybe needs to write an ad on.
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I know I don't know anyway, but it's been great.
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I've been enjoying it. OK, OK.
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I would have thought that the one that would have confused you
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would have been probably Karasong Wilds 'cause I I could
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imagine you doing what was part of the leveling and then running
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into Invasion point and that being all over the place.
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Oh, was that not part of the main levelling?
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Yeah, then that definitely confused me.
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I had no idea. Oh yeah, 'cause like so.
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Like, is that the elves? The no, no, this is when the
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main alliance comes in. No.
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So the town that you save and the little elf thing, that's
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part of the the levelling campaign.
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Yeah, OK, I did that. And that leads into the hidden
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master and defending the wall and all that.
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OK, but there is after the levelling campaign, there is
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when the main forces of the Alliance and Horde land on
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Pandaria and they basically OK, good, good, 'cause that
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completely transforms that entire zone.
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Like it becomes a huge Alliance versus Horde stuff.
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I haven't seen that yet. I haven't seen that.
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Yet that is good. I'm giving both thumbs up for
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our audio listeners because that is actually the next point that
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comes through. Then after you do that, that's
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when you do the Thunder, the Isle of Thunder, and then you'll
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be heading towards like the, the, the finale.
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And that's what I, that's how I'm going to say it without
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giving you any spoilers because I genuinely think that Pandaria,
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yeah, you, you probably will. I generally think that Pandaria
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was good post leveling campaign more than just a leveling
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campaign. Yeah, I'm really enjoying it.
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I just like Jay said, the quests to be numbered maybe or
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something I would love. I usually I'm using the dialogue
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UI add on by Peter Yu, big shadow to Peter Yu a narcissist.
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It would be great if that like I just need some way to tell me
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hey, this is 5.1 come back and do this later.
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You know it's unfortunate that Blizzard doesn't have a solution
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for that. I I feel like especially for
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players that come to an expansion halfway through, like
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can't imagine what it's like showing up in Dragonfight now
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and just seeing. It was.
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Just that everywhere like is it, do I go to the ear hold to do
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this quest? Do I go to the animal dream to
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do this quest? Do I where the where the where
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the sweet F do I go Anyway, Miss great 10 out of 10 no notes.
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Well, one note. Just that one note.
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But that's a 9.5 out of 10 one note.
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Well, they are making a lot of adjustments as we go through it.
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They haven't stopped yet. They have made changes.
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Have you tried to get the Thermar Talbard or the tabard or
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the mana bomb? You wouldn't.
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No. So initially they're on the they
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were available for purchase and then immediately gone right away
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I think or they never made it for they were available for
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purchase on the beta, never made it to live.
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There was a workaround where if you did the Thera more scenario
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at exactly level 35, you got both.
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I'm not not an alt guy. It, it actually was a bit of a,
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a struggle for me even for me to even make the alt that I'm
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playing Pandaria in. So there was like a 0% chance I
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was gonna make an alt to get to level 35.
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Now I am a tabard fan fanatic, so I may have done it, but
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anyway, I didn't have to cause Blizzard was like, hey, yo, here
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you go. We'll put this in the store for
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you and now I can just buy it. So the Thera more tabard and the
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mana bomber in the store and they're actually way cheaper
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than they were on the PTR. They're only like, I don't know
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the number, a reasonable number. They're a very reasonable
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number. Yeah, it seems seems odd because
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those are not from Pandaria itself but from the pre patch.
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Like the scenario for the bombing of Thermar was actually
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part of the pre patch scenario and then it was included when we
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went into Pandaria. But it's like the Cataclysm pre
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expansion where you got the no Moran tabard and the Darkspare
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tabard. You never got those again even
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later in Cataclysm. So I was really not expecting
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those to show back up. But they're there limited time.
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I would definitely jump on this if you are a collector of toys
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and tabards. Yep, big fan and they keep
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making adjustments, they're making nerves to bosses, they're
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making finer adjustments here and there.
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Tweaks. They did come out and say, hey,
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we're not dropping the cost of upgrading a gear.
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There's a lot of folks who were like sitting on that waiting.
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They're like, hey, we don't know if we want to upgrade or not.
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Are they going to drop the costume?
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Blizzard was like, we're not doing it at least anytime soon.
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So bend that, Chetta. Yeah.
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I mean, that's not to say that they won't increase the rate
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that you gain bronze, which is effectively the same thing.
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But it means that the bronze that you have now and the bronze
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that you spend to sink into upgrades isn't going to be
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suddenly discounted. And you're like, oh, Blizzard,
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give me back my bronze. It's now cheaper sort of thing.
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And I think that's maybe the reason that they're like, yeah,
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we're not doing that guys. You you've invested in it,
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you've made the investment. It's always going to be.
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Yeah. So that is Pandaria, of course,
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like you said, lots of changes there.
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Check our show notes guys. I did extensive show notes for
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all the stuff that happened this week.
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One thing that I do want to point to is that the world
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bosses do not drop the mounts that they used to.
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So if you've been killing Nalik, Sha, Undansta, whatever, yeah,
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never had a chance of dropping it.
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You have to collect the bronze and buy it through through the
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vendor time it nessingway the 17th or whatever.
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Or you can go kill it on live servers where it is still
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dropping and does have that increased drop chance that
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they've had since the introduction of Dragonflight and
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that entire debacle with Evokers.
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Can you still so in in Mop remix you can't fly on Shady Nasty's
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island? Can you not fly there in in live
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as well? Or did they change that after?
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Whose island? Shady nasty Shah dynasty Shah UN
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UN dasta. Oh, no, you can't fly on UN
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Dasta's Island. Yeah, that that's that's locked
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out. Same thing with the Timeless
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Isle and the Isle of Thunder. Can't fly on any of those.
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Gotcha, gotcha. But that that's all locked out
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on live. We finally are getting some
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adjustments. So coming with the reset, which
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is literally tomorrow if you're here with us live or if you're
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listening to this on the podcast or YouTube, that is today they
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finally did some class changes. So we've seen some like buffs to
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certain classes, including my enhancement shaman got some
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targeted buffs. We saw an overall healing buff
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for evokers. So if you're a preservation
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Evoker, congratulations, just flat 6% more healing all around.
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Some of the buffs are far more targeted.
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Like there was a mana cost, huge mana cost reduction for the
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Restoration druids that want to use moon fire.
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So you won't go doing that anytime soon.
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But in general, it just feels like the classes that were
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suffering, like Survival Hunter have got got some buffs.
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And they were trying to be very specific about this because some
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of the classes got buffs to their set bonuses, so their
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baseline strength is still the same, while others got those
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baseline changes, which I guess is them being careful of what
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they're going to be doing in The War Within.
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I like it, yeah. Are you still playing season
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four? Manny?
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Is anybody, if you're listening? Hey.
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Hey Kat and listeners of the podcast, how active are you
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still in season four as we're approaching Week 7?
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Well fancy you on my end I am pretty inactive.
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I'm playing to go for like some mount hunts on resets, check to
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see if those are going. I'm playing like once a week to
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do with my like static group to do keys.
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That's about it, man. Like I I'm already in clean out
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the bank mode because everything's gonna drop it drop
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in value and has like, oh jeez, it's it's pretty crazy.
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And yeah, it it's end end expansion prep mode, I would
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say. Have you been?
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Yeah, I, I, so we're still, we're casually rating.
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We're not like hard rating. So we do a heroic sale clear on
20:32
Tuesday and then we have been doing mythic Thursday of
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whatever the awakened raid is. But that means I still need to
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cap my crests and still need to fill my vault.
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So 8 keys a week and then mythic bosses and I do the the sale
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raids on Tuesday and that's it. That's literally it.
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I have even stopped doing the profession quests which I'm
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still not caught up on because I swapped mains and there's no
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catch up mechanic for profession quests.
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You're just forever behind. Yeah.
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Anyway I would like to do a post mortem on season four as we get
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closer to the end. Maybe me, you and Lex get some
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PO VS on it. I'm curious how we feel it went
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and how it compares to the previous season 4.
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Yeah, I would definitely want to do that.
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I think maybe it is part of a larger conversation of Dragonfly
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in general, because I think part of what makes this season four
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or breaks this season 4 is how the cadence of Dragonfly was in
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general. But again, that is a story for a
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later day because we have some big things on the horizon.
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The war within just released a trailer today.
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Oh, so hype. Tell me tell me about this
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because this is the beta release trailer January 5th, which is
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going to be Thursday of this week.
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We are getting wait, I'm I screwed that up?
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Is that Thursday or is that Wednesday?
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I think that's Wednesday actually the. 5th.
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The 5th is Wednesday. Is Wednesday.
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Yeah, so this Wednesday the beta is going to be live and they
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dropped this trailer. This Thursday, when does it come
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out? It's on the 5th.
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Right. The 5th, the 5th.
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This Wednesday the 5th. Yeah, Remember, Remember the 5th
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of June, November. Listen, that's one of my
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favorite movies. Don't take that lightly.
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OK, so June 5th, Wednesday. Yeah.
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We have the beta. They've released this trailer
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today. Yeah.
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Tell me about this trailer. I'm.
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Going to do my best Lex impression.
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If Lex was here, folks, this would be where she breaks it
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down. OK, so this is John doing a Lex
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impression, breaking down the beta hype trailer.
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OK, besties. So it starts off and Zalteth is
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talking and she's like, yo, you guys think you're all that and
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I've been watching, but you don't know that I'm watching.
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I'm just sort of like creeping on you.
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And then it cuts the scenes of Thrall.
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And then it shows Jana and Jana's like all powerful and
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Thrall's like sitting and he's like trying to focus and he
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can't get his rocks up. And then he punches the ground
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because his rocks won't get up. And then Maggie's all like, what
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does it even mean? And he's just standing there in
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the heart of Azeroth and his fists are all crumbly and cakey.
23:25
And then it shows a bunch of other people.
23:27
And it ends with Zaltana. She does a super great smirk and
23:30
everybody on the planet fell in love with her.
23:32
And it's a good thing it's Pride Month because we're all by now.
23:36
That about sums it up. My best Lex impression.
23:44
Lex hopefully did you proud. Dude this trailer was
23:48
incredible. Like start to finish non-stop
23:51
thrill ride. Oh my goodness, right into my
23:56
veins. Yeah, this, this was a great
23:59
trailer for the hype. It was a great trailer to sort
24:03
of anchor people. I think what they did with this
24:06
trailer was they want to show the ominous kind of looming
24:12
threat of Zalatath. So they have her voice kind of
24:17
weaving it all together. And then they hit these like,
24:20
these are the poster characters, right?
24:22
The poster that came out last week when they announced that
24:25
hey, the beta is hitting. I forgot to handle it.
24:28
Completely forgot to handle it. He's gonna.
24:30
I got it. Yeah, right.
24:32
They. And so it is.
24:35
Oh, here's here's Illyria and she's like looking out there
24:39
into the darkness and being like, oh, I'm a little scared.
24:43
And then there's Andwin and and he looks like just like he's
24:47
been through hell and is still going through it.
24:49
And then it's like Jana who it's, I think there's kind of a
24:56
juxtaposition there because Jana looks strong, but from the words
25:01
that are said, it almost feels like a false bravado.
25:04
And that makes me really worried for poor Jada.
25:07
She doesn't need to get broken down right now, but I guess
25:10
everybody's got to go through it.
25:12
And then they get to Thrall. And I have criticisms about
25:16
Thrall doing the same storyline three times in a row, but it's a
25:21
good expression of like he's trying to connect with the
25:26
elements. And you know what?
25:28
It's great to see a relatively calm Orgamar in the background
25:34
and it all literally just falls apart.
25:37
The harmony is just not there and then the anger wells up.
25:42
Probably because he chose totamic.
25:47
We will have a different discussion about Totamic, but
25:49
that. Would frustrate both.
25:50
People. They're all upset because he
25:54
read the enhanced with shaman hero talents.
25:59
It's just such a mess, such a mess.
26:01
And so after he read those, he just, he loses his
26:05
concentration, it all falls apart and he's angry.
26:09
And then it comes back to Zalatath, like everybody is
26:12
falling into her trap. Just pawns on the board that
26:17
she's moving. And wow, what a quick way to
26:21
like sort of sum up the direction we're going, even if
26:25
you're not hitting on the exact points and just sell Zalatath as
26:31
like a big bad. Yeah, I I'm not even kidding,
26:36
100% if they give us any opportunity at all to side with
26:40
her, Azeroth be damned, I am ready to sign up the day I'm
26:46
doing my part. Would you like to know more?
26:49
Yeah. Big, big fan.
26:51
Zalotath is just there's just one scene where she does a smirk
26:54
and she like, crosses her arms over her chest.
26:56
Yeah. And I'm anyway, I'm getting that
26:58
tattooed next week because wow. So.
27:02
Good. It's great because she's she is
27:03
holding, she's holding the dark heart and she just clutches it
27:10
to her chest and you know, just she's holding her heart and she
27:14
clutches it to her chest. It's so wholesome.
27:16
And the entirety of it is just subverted by the the kind of
27:21
off, off tone orchestral music that's that comes in and then.
27:26
Did you notice that? Yeah, where they they distort
27:29
the music at the end as the logo is showing so good.
27:33
And it's just. All so unsettling and she just
27:36
doesn't smile and you're like, that is that is not a wholesome
27:40
little girl there. No, Karen Gregory and the the
27:44
cinematic team are Wizards. They are that nobody is hitting
27:49
it out of the park like they are.
27:50
It's incredible. Oh man, and I just want to say
27:53
this. So I'm really sold.
27:55
I don't know what it is. I've always been lukewarm on
27:58
Andwin and since the reveal trailer I have fallen entirely
28:04
in. Like I'm, I'm, I'm 100% Andwin
28:07
stand now. All of I have 4 monitors here,
28:10
all of them on Blizzard's website.
28:12
You can go to the Blizzard website and they have Wallpapers
28:14
there. They're all Wallpapers of Andwin
28:19
from the world within and in this hype trailer when they
28:23
showed him like walking across a desert wearing that outfit that
28:27
he has on, all I could think is the traveler from the east from
28:31
the original Diablo, from Diablo one and two like man, it's
28:35
there's a so there is an alternate timeline where Andwin
28:37
goes to oh, what is the name of that city in the second Diablo,
28:41
The second city go to the San one.
28:43
It's not Tristram, it's. No, Tristram's the starting
28:46
city. It's like Al Gharib or something
28:50
like that. Anyway, he goes there and this
28:53
it's I'm, I'm here for it. Andrew's story is great but I am
28:57
going to have to let him burn so the Zaltath he consume me.
29:01
I I'm glad that Andawin, I'm glad that Andawin is showing
29:09
more depth of character. Andawin to me feels like a
29:13
Superman character in that he has such a strong moral compass,
29:20
like he is always sure on moving towards the right thing.
29:23
And that is not the same thing as saying Anduin's a Mary Sue,
29:26
which when ridden poorly, Superman and Anduin can be that
29:31
right. But the struggle for Anduin and
29:35
the struggle for Superman as well is always when the right
29:40
thing isn't apparent, when the right thing cost so much more
29:44
and being willing to do that. And the beauty of Anduin is that
29:49
he's not Superman. He is so flawed and he is so
29:53
broken. And so if Anduin continues
29:56
forward and does the right thing, I am so behind that
29:59
'cause that is amazing. And if Anduin stumbles and he
30:04
and he falls short of that, that is so human.
30:06
So I'm like invested in either way.
30:08
And that's why like I actually like Anduin right now, whereas
30:11
before I've been like not super happy with with him before.
30:15
Yeah, I'm here for him. I'm, I'm, I'm here to help him
30:17
on his journey. I can't wait to see how it plays
30:19
out. As long as he doesn't have to
30:20
fight Void Mommy, we're good. But Manny, So the beta's coming
30:24
out June 5th. We've said this a couple of
30:26
Times Now. There's this hype trailer out
30:28
there that has me all the juices flowing, all the good brain
30:30
chemicals. How do I get into the beta
30:32
Manny? Well, as we've been saying to
30:36
our Co host Lex, we need to sign up.
30:42
We don't know. We don't have an answer on Lex.
30:45
Watch this week. We we missed it last week.
30:47
We'll have to ask, but if she did buy the epic edition
30:52
spoiler, she did not. She would immediately get in
30:56
because Blizzard has now said that anybody who has the Epic
31:01
Edition is granted instant access on June 5th.
31:06
Before I was thinking, hey, they would invite them in waves so as
31:10
to have tests, like consistent people who are enthusiastic to
31:14
get to testing throughout this beta phase.
31:16
But no, they are opening the floodgates.
31:20
It's really funny that they're doing this when we're in Mist of
31:23
Pandaria remix because they did a similar thing with the
31:26
original Mist of Pandaria. They allowed everybody who
31:30
bought Diablo 3 to get into the Mista Pandaria beta.
31:38
Very. Cool.
31:40
So we've got we've got a little bit of parallel history there.
31:46
It's AI. Just remember the choke points
31:49
were a killer because it was just a ton of people, more
31:54
people than they normally allow in.
31:56
So be ready guys. Thursday is going to be an
32:01
absolute stress test for sure not to be.
32:08
A negative Nancy or a Debbie Downer.
32:11
How come there's none of those types of names with guy name?
32:15
Guys are way more Downers than girls anyway.
32:18
Not to be a David Dean. I'm mixing it up.
32:20
Not to be wow, wow. Not to be a sullen Sean, I like
32:26
that. Not to be a we're embracing it.
32:28
Not to be a sullen Sean, I'm going to use that.
32:30
That's going to be a regular thing.
32:31
Now we're putting this in the show notes.
32:33
How long do you think it will be before there is nobody on the
32:36
beta to do dungeons with? Like there is currently nobody
32:38
in the alpha to do dungeons with.
32:42
I don't think that it will be as bad as that.
32:47
I genuinely think that there will be a huge overload, if you
32:52
will. There will be a tapering off,
32:55
but it won't get to the point that we're at right now.
32:59
Part of it is because when you have that large of a crowd, they
33:03
kind of feed on each other. Like when I'm trying to do
33:07
dungeons on alpha right now, I set up an organized group
33:10
because I have no, no hope in my mind that I'm going to be able
33:17
to just plug into it. And that causes less people to
33:21
try and plug into it. And eventually just this means
33:23
it's self fulfilling when you when you have that critical
33:26
mass, it might stay there longer is.
33:28
That what you're saying you're part of the problem.
33:30
We're all part of the problem because I'm not the first one to
33:33
do it and we're out there but. Remember, I only queue.
33:37
To to help you out even more salty Sean, we have Sean, Sean,
33:41
I don't. Want to be salty?
33:42
Sean. Sean.
33:44
Sean. Sean, Sean, OK to help you out.
33:46
Sean. Sean, The other part is that
33:48
we're likely to start getting things like Brawl with the
33:51
Blues. That's going to be when they're
33:53
testing out the battleground on a particular weekend and or a
33:57
particular day. And a lot of people will be on
34:00
for that. There's going to be, of course,
34:02
raid testings starting up and you know, people are going to be
34:06
in for that. So it's not just that they're
34:08
going to invite all of these people that are that have
34:12
purchased the Epic Edition, but they're also going to invite the
34:16
likes of Liquid just ahead of the Ray to make sure that
34:20
they've got Liquid and Echo. When all the world first people
34:23
testing that Mythic Plus is going to start start up.
34:27
And if they do it like they did before, it's going to be
34:30
particular weekends where they're going to be testing this
34:33
stuff. And that's going to create a
34:35
concentration of the people testing rather than it being
34:38
open all the time. And then maybe we'll get enough
34:41
feedback. Yeah.
34:44
Actually, on that note and something that we didn't cover
34:48
is that there are three new affixes.
34:52
I don't. Want to talk with them until we
34:53
know what they are? Yeah, they they're like, that's
34:55
why I didn't. Put them in enough.
34:56
I don't want to do that weird doomer thing that everybody
34:59
rather Oh, I don't. Want affixes?
35:04
Bell will reflect is coming to I think.
35:06
Plus we'll just wait till they announce it and then we'll then
35:09
we'll doom it, OK? What I will say is that I'm glad
35:13
to see it because I do believe that the affixes need a need a
35:17
switch up right? And I do think that despite
35:24
Sullins, Sean given given a little bit of grumbling out
35:27
there, I think that every season they should mix up the affixes a
35:32
bit. Rotate out ones that aren't
35:33
working or or getting stale. Bring in bring in new ones just
35:37
so that it gives a bit of a fresh up.
35:39
You don't need a seasonal affix but I don't want to be doing the
35:43
same rotation every week with just like new dungeons ever
35:47
again. Yeah, it's, we'll talk about
35:51
that when we get there. We talked a lot about in the
35:53
beta, we talked about Mythic Plus testing, dungeon testing,
35:56
raid testing. But even if you don't do that
35:59
stuff, if you're a pet battler, if you're an explorer, you're a
36:01
quester, even if you're done other things, it's important
36:05
that if you have access, you get in, you play whatever character
36:08
you want to play and whatever way you want to play and you
36:11
give feedback. There is, I know there's like a
36:13
lot of pressure when you first get into a beta.
36:15
You're like, oh man, I don't know what to write, if I should
36:17
write anything, what does my opinion matter?
36:19
But your opinion does matter. All data is good data.
36:23
So even if you're not a a world first Raider and you're not a
36:27
rank one world collector, it doesn't matter.
36:29
You play the way you play and there are 1,000,000 more people
36:33
like you that play the same way. But log in and give them.
36:36
Give them that feedback because it will only to help make the
36:38
game better for for everyone. 100% And honestly, like, I think
36:44
that the alpha experience is the exact right time for people to
36:51
like dive into something that they were interested in to like
36:55
dive deeper into something that they they've only dipped their
36:58
toes into this entire alpha. Like I've gotten further into
37:04
looking at specs. Sean knows that I've been like
37:07
really interested in Dells and want to see what that is like.
37:12
Now that we're we're going to be at the end game, I want to see
37:15
where that goes. I have gotten into even theory
37:21
crafting on the the shaman earth shine discord and now speaking
37:26
with theory crafters and like looking into that.
37:28
So like it's a it's a great equalizer slash jumping off
37:33
point and it's always fun to explore.
37:37
Just like if you are into professions or maybe you hated
37:41
professions, now's the time to give that feedback.
37:44
Be like, hey, like this was super complicated the last time
37:47
and you're making that same mistake again, or this worked
37:50
last time and now you've changed it and it doesn't feel as well.
37:53
All of that is feedback. The one thing I would suggest
37:57
you don't do is just go full doomer.
38:00
Don't, don't go in there and be like, oh, this isn't implemented
38:04
yet. And even if it is implemented,
38:06
if the numbers suck because we're not, no, we're nowhere
38:09
near that point yet. It really is.
38:11
How does this feel? How does this work to engage
38:15
with like, is this fun? Because like, I don't care if
38:19
it's overpowered. If it is not fun, you're going
38:21
to hate it. So like, concentrate on the fun
38:24
now. Right.
38:26
That's right. Beta Beta's coming.
38:28
We'll see you all there. It doesn't matter what region
38:30
you're on. Beta's open to everyone.
38:33
Manny can't all be good news this week.
38:36
We can't just be excited. Anything happened on Twitter,
38:40
Anything going on in the old Twitterverse.
38:43
Anybody whose mouth should remain closed, suddenly open to
38:46
spew forth ridiculousness. Well, everybody's favorite
38:52
former president. Thank you.
38:54
Bara decided that even when a broken croc clock is right,
39:02
maybe you shouldn't have been looking at it at all because
39:04
Mike Guebera decided to tweet out let.
39:07
Me read it. Can I read it?
39:08
Can I read it? OK, Yeah, let's let's have you
39:10
read it. Go ahead.
39:11
Do a pretty mean Mike Guebera impression.
39:14
Oh, I've never actually heard him speak.
39:16
I've only read his words. Let's hear it.
39:18
Here we go. Ready.
39:19
I really think Warcraft Mop Remix is a fantastic, amazing
39:24
idea. Really cool.
39:26
That said, if Blizzard does this again they need to address the
39:29
quality issues. Can't really explain some of the
39:33
bugs and issues in this. Quality has to remain job at
39:38
number one at Blizzard. And so the community did not
39:45
like this. There was a lot of comments
39:48
about it being tone deaf, a lot of people pointing to your
39:52
bearer's own history of having been the man in charge when QA
39:59
was slashed multiple times, and also the reports of him at a
40:05
meeting saying that quality insurance wasn't really a career
40:10
path in the industry at all and just devaluate.
40:15
A long term discipline. This is not a long term
40:18
discipline. Yeah.
40:21
So a lot of people claimed a lot of hypocrisy on that.
40:27
And like, you know, without looking at the messenger, I
40:33
would love for Blizzard to take this to heart, to be like, hey,
40:38
quality should be the number one thing.
40:41
And we want to make sure that we're bringing out like a really
40:44
nicely polished experience. This is like the Blizzard
40:48
quality of of old that people keep talking about their betas
40:54
feel like finished games and yadda yadda yadda, all of that.
40:57
Yeah, I would love that. But like you cannot ignore that
41:03
this is coming from like your part.
41:06
Yeah, everybody like Twitter like as a as a collective whole
41:09
Twitter was like, bro, are you for real?
41:16
You basically essentially only joined this company as a mole
41:20
for Microsoft to facilitate an acquisition that then led to
41:26
massive layoffs. Now obviously I don't think
41:29
Microsoft sent Mike Ibarra to Blizzard to work from the inside
41:34
to then be able to eventually buy the milk.
41:36
That's insane conspiracy tinfoil ad ideas.
41:38
But that doesn't mean some people don't think that.
41:43
I OK there? There's no way.
41:46
Zero chance the. Length of employment at from
41:53
like when he left Microsoft, the fact that he didn't go directly
41:56
into Activision, that he then went into ADK and was moved.
41:59
Like, no, it's just nobody does that kind of 20D chess, yeah.
42:03
He's the jailer. Obviously, that's not what.
42:06
Happens Jailer. And and, and he I like, I don't,
42:11
I don't think he's wrong. Quality Assurance should be one
42:15
of the most protected and supported teams in game
42:20
development. They do so much, they offer so
42:23
much, and they are irreplaceable.
42:26
You can tell when a game launches that had a good QA team
42:30
versus when a game launches that had poor support for their QA
42:33
team. Not necessarily that the QA team
42:36
was poor, but that the support for them was poor.
42:39
That being said, either you've never read Open Twitter and read
42:45
it since you left the company, or you are completely oblivious
42:49
to the fact that your opinions right now are always going to be
42:53
taken in the worst possible light when it comes to World of
42:57
Warcraft and anything at Blizzard to send this tweet.
43:01
He's obviously not paying APR company because there's no
43:04
chance they would have sent this, but we know he at least
43:07
tweets his own stuff. And, and everybody piled on and
43:11
everybody pointed out, you know, the layoffs and a lot of stuff
43:14
like that. And there was one I, I didn't
43:15
read the original tweet, but the individual deleted it and
43:19
apologized for writing it afterwards.
43:22
And the response that Mike wrote, I'm going to read his
43:24
response. I don't know what the tweet
43:26
said, but I imagine it was along the lines of girl, come on and
43:31
his response. And I read this like a a real
43:34
human being and not like an act. Really, guys?
43:37
In my time at Blizzard we raised wages for QA three times out of
43:40
normal cycle across four years as they've been underpaid at
43:43
Blizzard for years before I was there.
43:45
QA also wasn't impacted when I was there in reductions, but was
43:48
driven by what game team leadership said they needed to
43:51
be successful. That's the way it should be and
43:53
those teams should be accountable to deliver for
43:55
players in aggregate. Also.
43:57
My guess is you haven't shipped many games, but maybe you have.
44:00
These decisions on quality are not driven by QA.
44:03
I'm sure Blizzard QA has hundreds of bugs filed against
44:06
Mop, but it's the designers who make the decision on when to
44:09
ship and what with what bugs. My post was directed at them to
44:14
listen to their QA teams and to address the bugs they find
44:17
versus ignoring or punting them. Ask anyone in Blizzard QA how
44:21
much they're listened to on design elements and you'll
44:23
quickly see one of the core issues the teams have with that
44:26
needs to be turned around. It's often easy to criticize in
44:29
society. Move straight to that without
44:31
facts and just what everything these days.
44:32
Just like you did here. Good luck.
44:34
Tom and I saw a Blizzard dev respond to this who was like we
44:43
don't set release dates as devs. That comes from above Mike.
44:50
Anyway, he's right. Quality assurance has to be top
44:53
tier and while I have not personally encountered bugs in
44:56
Mop Remix, I have heard that there are some weird ones and
45:00
some things that happen. That being said, you would have
45:04
to be able to read the I don't know, like imagine you're a
45:08
major game publishing company now, or game developer.
45:12
He's poisoned to touch right now.
45:14
Like, and, and with every tweet like this it gets worse.
45:17
I don't understand. I've never seen he was.
45:20
He was universally, almost universally, adored by the
45:23
community and embraced when he got voted to president ship the
45:28
word president ship. When he got the president.
45:31
Yeah, presidency and I've the the fall from grace has been
45:37
meteoric. It's wild to see how quickly he
45:40
dropped. I don't know.
45:43
Good luck, Mike. Well, I, I, I don't want to turn
45:46
the conversation away from the person and more towards QA
45:52
because like it, you're right. It's just this, this splinter
45:57
here because he's not doing anything for his own personal
46:02
brand. He has done a lot to destroy
46:07
that brand since leaving, leaving the company.
46:11
But in terms of QA, and he's right, there are there are
46:17
definitely a ton of bugs that were flagged that are known and
46:23
they will get put way down in priority for a number of
46:28
reasons. It might be that it is not
46:32
considered a game critical bug because it doesn't crash the
46:35
system. It might be that it's not a game
46:37
critical bug because it is incredibly hard to replicate,
46:42
right. And you could think of something
46:44
like the lockout trick that might have been something that
46:46
they discovered and said, hey, you know what?
46:49
Like we can't afford the resources to address it because
46:54
it was too, they felt that it was too hard to replicate, that
46:58
it might not have been found. And then as soon as it was
47:01
discovered, well, they already have the documentation on how to
47:04
do it. And they were ahead of the game
47:06
a little bit. But for us players, that doesn't
47:11
feel good. And I'm sure there are a bunch
47:13
more bugs that are out there that the player base hasn't
47:17
discovered, but Blizzard is aware of.
47:19
And which one of those do you decide, hey, that's the one that
47:21
needs to be targeted while they're fixing that bug, this
47:25
other bug then gets exploited. And it's this really weird thing
47:29
of whack a mole. And like, I, I want to both
47:35
bring up the spectre of the spaghetti code of Wow because
47:39
it's such a old legacy game. And now you're going back to
47:43
systems that were in place from over a decade ago, 2012 / a
47:50
decade, yeah, 2012, right? And you're now supplanting a
47:58
bunch of new systems on top of that.
48:02
My take away from this is that maybe Blizzard needs to stop
48:09
doing the stuff in a in a black box.
48:16
Like we thought that it was going to be cool at the end of
48:19
shadow lands and such and the final boss and that, and they'd
48:23
be doing more things without testing it on PTR.
48:27
Maybe it's time for that to stop.
48:29
Maybe it's time to bring that PTR more out there.
48:34
What do you think of that? I have always been pro PTR.
48:41
You will never. And and people make the meme
48:44
like, oh, we're the testers, but yeah, we, we are.
48:47
That's what PTR is for. Because you can, you're never
48:51
going to find everything. You know what I mean?
48:53
If you put 10 people checking a game for something or you put
48:55
1000 people right? Like, and we want the game to be
48:59
good, so let us test it. I am, I am 100% against.
49:02
I don't like when they don't test it and I understand story
49:07
purists don't want to have the 1st way they experience a story
49:10
beat through a video that they see on Wowhead because it
49:12
happened on the PTRI. Get that.
49:14
And you can't just say, oh, you know, mute things to have social
49:18
media voice that that's not realistic.
49:21
But if the alternative is, you know, issues in the game that
49:26
make it unplayable for some, I'm sorry.
49:30
You can catch your story beat on YouTube.
49:32
I think it's I, I'm pro PTRI think we should.
49:34
The more we could test the better because more eyes on a
49:38
project make it easier. So I would like to see them come
49:43
back to PTI. We've been, in my opinion,
49:46
extremely lucky in the last bosses of the raids of Dragon
49:50
Flight and how they launched and were were less buggy than they
49:55
could have been. But Razzageth has an excellent
49:57
point of they launched that boss and it was unkillable.
50:02
Like there was just no they had to tune mid race to get into his
50:06
range where the players could beat it.
50:08
Like that doesn't happen if you PTR test it.
50:11
Or at least it doesn't happen as often just to.
50:15
Yeah, yeah. I also think even on the story
50:18
beats, sometimes it's good to have that on the PTRI.
50:21
Remember the Gilnayan quest and the Forsaken are helping out by
50:26
bombing them with a new strand of plague.
50:28
And it's sort of like, guys maybe don't do that like this.
50:34
And .2, we were going to help ensure that Alex Strazza was the
50:38
victim of I I don't want to say it on the street, but a, a very
50:44
bad thing. Yeah.
50:46
So like, yeah, I don't know, maybe you hide your major story
50:51
plots behind something. You don't show those.
50:56
You encrypt those. We can test all the other stuff.
50:59
There has to be. We need a happy medium.
51:01
We need PTR testing. You know what, people keep
51:04
asking what the World of Warcraft Community Council's
51:06
for? Maybe run more stuff by them.
51:09
Throw throw in a bunch of NDA to be like, hey, you get some early
51:12
testing, but you're not allowed to to talk about it before this
51:16
date. There's a bunch of engaged fans
51:19
because they signed up, right? I'm not part of the World of
51:22
Warcraft Community Council anymore.
51:24
I'm not doing this as a yeah, let me and nobody else know My
51:29
boat they they kick. You off the council, they vote
51:34
you out. Do you have to like put out your
51:35
torque? No, you have to, you have to
51:37
renew every year and I did two years in a row.
51:39
And so like, that's incredible that I managed to get two years
51:42
in a row. Maybe I'll apply next year or
51:46
something. I'm not, I'm not entirely sure
51:47
because it it it was a weird little conflict in ways where
51:50
it's like I could talk about this here or I could talk this
51:53
about this on the show and what kind of like works and like, do
51:58
I say it twice? It was just it was strange.
52:00
So I think that they could definitely use that as an added
52:04
pool if we're looking for a medium space in between.
52:09
But yeah, in general, I think just going back to the full PTR
52:13
testing would allow them to catch like not bugs, but
52:18
behavioral issues like these farms.
52:21
More people would have gotten to 70, more people would have hit
52:24
that wall and looked for stuff and then they would have gotten,
52:27
they would have seen the farming and be like, oh, this is
52:30
something we need to look at before it ever went live.
52:32
And maybe that would have caused a a whole lot less hassle for
52:35
them. So.
52:37
Maybe. Yeah, a lot of stuff.
52:39
Community Council is a good way for us to have our voice heard.
52:42
But how can you have your voice heard?
52:44
Dear listener, let me tell you very easy.
52:47
You leave a review of the show on your podcast aggregate of
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53:03
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53:19
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Thank you for the review on iTunes.
53:27
Definitely helps the show to get discovered.
53:29
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53:34
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53:36
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53:38
Thank you, Melon Squeezer. And if, if you have given a
53:42
review on the show before Manny, you always read them on the
53:44
show, 'cause I'm about to do a thing, I'm gonna do it anyway.
53:46
I'm just, we do read them, yes. Oh, OK, yeah.
53:50
If you have left them on the show before and I haven't read
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53:57
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54:02
And leave us a screenshot of the review that you've left in the
54:04
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54:09
There you go. Especially if you are from,
54:12
from, you know, non NA slash mini EU countries.
54:19
It's, it's hard for me to check all of those iTunes through
54:23
them. And I recently just came across
54:25
the the one from Spain and had to Google Translate that.
54:31
We have listeners in Mongolia. I I was like, yeah, yeah.
54:37
I was just like, Oh my goodness. So you are out there.
54:40
We do want to hear from you. Very cool, very cool.
54:44
That is some more exciting stuff coming up though.
54:47
We talked about the beta. We're all hyped for the beta.
54:49
There is another event coming up, a big event.
54:51
Man, I don't let you take this one because I need to kill.
54:55
My ABS are screaming. Well, this is EVE Ascension,
55:01
which is a tournament that involves a number of games,
55:04
including, of course, World of Warcraft.
55:07
This is a spotlight on the marginalized genders in E
55:12
sports, so it has long been part of Team Liquids tournaments that
55:17
they have been doing for many years now.
55:20
This tournament is for over $8000 in prizes and like I said,
55:27
it's a number of games in Counter Strike, in Valorant, in
55:31
League of Legends, and in Wow. You can register through till
55:37
June 10th. There are qualifiers that will
55:40
end on June 12th and then the broadcast itself is going to be
55:46
on June 29th starting at noon Eastern Daylight Time.
55:52
That's 9:00 AM in Pacific or five in the evening over in the
55:57
UK and we have links to all of the rules and qualifications in
56:02
the show notes. So do make sure you check that
56:04
out again. Show notes can always be found
56:06
on our discord at bit dot LY slash fast discord.
56:09
So this is going to be a great event.
56:11
They always put on some amazing shows and I actually like going
56:16
back through and checking out counter strike.
56:18
That is a game I used to play a lot back in the day and I just I
56:22
love watching that. I haven't actually ever tried
56:25
Valorant. I might I might give that a look
56:28
this year. I want to because it's in the
56:31
same universe as the the show Arcane and Netflix think Could
56:38
be wrong. League of Legends definitely is
56:40
and I thought Valorant was their first person shooter.
56:43
Could be wrong. I'm going to say with the
56:45
confidence of a mediocre white guy, Valorant is definitely set
56:48
in the universe that League of Legends is and for that reason,
56:52
Roon Tara. That's what it's called Roon
56:53
Tara. For that reason I would love to
56:57
be able to play it, but first person shooters make me ill.
56:59
Oh, I'm sorry to hear that. Not like, not like physically
57:03
I'll like, I don't enjoy them. Oh, OK, no, I, I, I used to go
57:09
crazy on, on Counter Strike. I like Anyways, that's a
57:14
separate thing. Do check out this tournament if
57:16
you like Counter Strike or you know the game that we actually
57:19
cover World of Warcraft, which is going to be keystone dungeons
57:22
and everything. And so that is going to be a lot
57:25
of fun. Again, registration closes
57:28
quickly. That is June 10th.
57:30
So make sure that you do register now.
57:34
I believe we have one question here.
57:37
User submitted questions. Again, do you submit your
57:40
questions? And we will try and go through
57:42
one question each week. This question is from Goblin
57:45
Graphics and so Goblin asks with a lot of systems and gear
57:50
getting up res but Guild tabards not getting touched yet, what
57:56
would you like to see with updates of tabards?
57:59
Do you want to? Do you want multiple colour
58:01
choices? New icon slash images added to
58:05
Guild symbols? Sean, what's on your wish list
58:08
for tabards? OK, so listen, Manny, bring it
58:12
in. All right?
58:13
All right, get in here. I love tabards, all right?
58:17
I'm a tabard guy. I'm a tabard collector.
58:21
I would desperately like to be able to wear a tabard I created
58:23
myself that doesn't look like dog water.
58:27
I just saved you an edit. You're welcome.
58:29
I've only got one this episode. Don't worry, I got a count.
58:32
Nice, the number one main upgrade I would like to see for
58:37
tabard's is in the tabard generator.
58:42
Give me a blown up shot of what the tabard's gonna look like.
58:46
The tiny little icon that it shows you is useless.
58:51
The best way right now to make a tabard is to turn your camera
58:56
around so you're looking at your character.
58:59
You can see it on your character and instead of trying to look at
59:02
it in the UI window. Now, once you've figured that
59:06
out and it just gives us a blown up of the tabard.
59:08
Boom, like a blown up view of the tabard.
59:11
Yeah, big fan. Let's, let's do it.
59:13
Let's update the colors, let's update the icons and update the
59:19
textures just upres all of that. It looks gild tabards look so.
59:24
Dated. Classic.
59:26
They look very classic. Yeah.
59:28
Dated upres, upres, those textures and show me a way where
59:32
I can actually look at them and they look good.
59:34
You know what I mean? I can actually see what I'm
59:36
designing as opposed to trying to guess, are these skulls or
59:39
are these tiny little happy faces?
59:40
I don't know. Yeah.
59:42
But I would love that. Especially now with the personal
59:45
tabard. I think it's time that the
59:46
Tabard creator gets an update. Liz, if you're listening, take
59:52
it over QA, get their approval on it, and then let's do this.
59:58
OK, OK. I love that you actually leaned
1:00:01
in. I appreciate that so.
1:00:05
I, I got to say that I would want like everything that you're
1:00:10
you're saying just feels like what they should be
1:00:13
concentrating on. Just get the core of it into the
1:00:17
twenty 20s please, so that even if you just upright things, it's
1:00:21
great. But part of it I want is some
1:00:25
sort of 3D textures. I want like instead of the the
1:00:31
like tail just hanging flatly, maybe have that like it's got
1:00:38
some like wrinkles and stuff. Like it actually is cloth that
1:00:42
like folds a little bit in there.
1:00:44
You can have the folds and stuff.
1:00:46
I would love if maybe they like add some tassels or or like just
1:00:52
flare onto it that is actually 3D.
1:00:55
That's that's what I would like on top of the basic upgrade
1:01:00
just. I want to I want to change my
1:01:02
answer to Xander's answer. Oh, what's Xander?
1:01:04
Make make tabards look good on robes.
1:01:08
If you're wearing a robe, a tabard just becomes a shirt.
1:01:13
Just this. The bottom half just disappears.
1:01:16
Let's fix that up. Make tabers great again.
1:01:18
Yeah, OK. I can.
1:01:20
I can agree with that. And you know what?
1:01:21
While you're like, you're adjusting that little thing that
1:01:25
works with robes and I guess would work with the 3D stuff
1:01:28
that I was asking for. Belts could use that same
1:01:31
technology too. I'm just saying sometimes belts
1:01:34
just sort of like dip right into the robe.
1:01:37
Really, guys? Well, that's an entire section
1:01:41
of this episode that's just going to get removed.
1:01:43
Oh. Yeah, that's all just gone.
1:01:44
It's all. Gone had to be here live.
1:01:47
Anyways guys, thank you so much for coming out for the episode
1:01:53
today Sean. This was a lot of fun.
1:01:56
I am really excited for the beta.
1:01:58
This is when I like really start diving into quest test testing
1:02:03
and start trying to like make sure that add-ons that I like
1:02:08
work and are compatible. So this is when I really dive in
1:02:13
and I'm kind of glad that season four is over so I don't get
1:02:16
pulled in between. My raid team just ended this
1:02:19
week and so the timing seems perfect as if it was planned and
1:02:24
I love it. Wait a second, come on, would
1:02:30
your raid team possibly know when the beta was coming?
1:02:33
I mean, like, it just makes sense.
1:02:34
We just had the rotation end, so now everything's on.
1:02:38
So they're like, OK, end of rotation, word out.
1:02:41
Yep, very cool indeed. Good show Manny.
1:02:43
It was just the race up. I did miss Lex though.
1:02:45
I felt like there was something there was some energy.
1:02:48
Not here. Hopefully she's back next week
1:02:52
to to center us, to balance us. Indeed, I'm I am looking forward
1:02:56
to the return of Lex, but until next time guys, may all your
1:03:01
hits be crits. You forgot to tell people where
1:03:04
they could find us at bit dot LY slash fast Discord.
1:03:07
We literally said it two times before, so I'm like, yeah,
1:03:10
that's fine. They'll figure it out.