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#254 - For Azeroth!: “Plundering the Vskera Vaults” · For Azeroth!: A World of Warcraft Podcast

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TenPoint 0.7 is here by the time.
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You are listening to this. The servers will be down or
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already up, which means we've got a lot to get into.
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We're going to be returning to the Forbidden reach and that
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means new rares, new areas and new Treasures to discover this
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episode. We're going to be covering it
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all the new dragon riding, the scarer vaults and a number of
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questions that he and sat down and answered to us content
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creators. So stick around and let's get
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into it. For the alliance for Azeroth,
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welcome back to another episode of for as off, where we go
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beyond the headlines, this episode is another solo episode
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with me. I hope you guys are enjoying
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this. I have heard some feedback, I do
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want to hear from everybody, even those who don't have The
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best impression of this because it is going to be something that
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I'm going to be trying to make work in some way next week.
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Of course, we're going to be sitting down with a number of
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voices so won't be just me. We are going to be having The
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Fez compendium part 2. And we're going to be talking
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about the story but today, let's go into what we're seeing in
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this new patch. So for the intro wherever you
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are in the dragon Isles, you're going to get one of those
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Talking Heads and that's going to lead you to a green dragon up
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at the top of the seat of the aspects.
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There's are very cool cinematic before you head out, there is no
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flight route immediately. You're going to be dragging
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writing all the way out there. You can do it in a single go.
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Assuming you have gotten used to drag it flying by now, and when
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you get out to the Forbidden, reach, the storm has dissipated.
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And you land in a small village, which will serve as your base of
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operations. Now, you pick up those into
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request. It'll take you around the
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island, I do suggest doing that first, I, of course, on the
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beta, I needed to explore. I needed to go out there and
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there is a lot packed into this relatively small place that if
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we're going to reach is not as large as any of the other zones.
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It is not as small as some zones, but comparatively It's
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just, it's not the huge vast brawls of the Azure span or the
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Northern Plains. This is a very vertical Zone,
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kind of like, Val dresses, and I want to make that comparison
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because even if you have been to the Forbidden reach as an
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Evoque, ER, at the beginning, it's very true that you can't go
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home again. Now that we've had the time to
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really get our teeth into Dragon riding to really understand how
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to navigate like that. Is a completely different
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experience than what we did in the pre patch or in the patch.
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If that's when you decided to start your vocre and it's not
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just because of the experience that we've gained the island
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itself, has some new visitors as you get.
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These intro Quest, you're going to see new rares from Primal
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list and some iron tied Pirates. I have to say the rares blew my
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mind and how creative and fun they are there.
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Here's monkey pirates that bombards your position.
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There are ogres that were using boats as jet skis and then
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decide to use them as Weapons against you.
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There's Naga, there's such a variety pack into the small
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Zone, but these rares hurt. I specifically have stopped
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trying to say, oh, they're easy or hard because the relative
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difficulty depends on your class.
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Depends on your skill, depends on your gear, but these are
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definitely meant to be taken on in groups.
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You can solo them with a lot of persistence skill and luck, but
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don't, they're meant to be taken on a group.
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So bring some friends. All of this leads into what the
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main part of this entire Endeavor is about, you are going
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to get the quest. Those quests are going to due to
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the envoys and the envoys system is a renowned catch up system so
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that all of the factions that you were first introduced to in
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10.0, you can now catch up with them each day, you're going to
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select an Envoy and that will give you a quest on the island,
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but more importantly, it's going to give you a 10% reputation
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boost for that faction that affects all reputation gains
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without faction that means any tokens that you have in your Bag
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and extra 10%, any of the events you might do.
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Like, let's say you choose a Tusk are doing the feast.
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Every task you do gets you an extra 10% and the completion,
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gets you an extra 10%, so you can leave the island, do World
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quest, turn in whatever for that faction and get a just a passive
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10% gain on, top of that Pro tip, as we're moving into April
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sooner than we think that's going to have the Darkmoon Faire
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and you're going to be able to stack the Darkmoon Faire, bonus
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along with this, to get you even more rep.
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So I suspect that a lot of people are going to be catching
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up and maxing out their rep. Do remember that if you have at
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least one character on your account at level 10, renowned
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that gives you a bonus, level 20 or a noun, gives you an
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additional bonus and all of this tax guy so make sure you're
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using that effectively. The other main section of this
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is the scare revolt and the vault is the big system where
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we're going to get the prize that in has suggested, everybody
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is going to want to go after. And I will speak about Ian's
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comments and answers to questions a little bit later in
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this episode, but the Vault system is a weekly lockout, you
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can do it in between raid nights, it doesn't change each
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day and You will get keys to unlock different rooms within
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the Vault. Those rooms will have different
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puzzles that you will use to then get additional items
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working your way until you hopefully can unlock all of the
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rooms in the vault. If you run out of keys in the
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vault, you can get it out in the Forbidden.
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Reach Venture back out into the reach the feeding rares.
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Getting treasures and so forth to get more keys until you
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unlock all. All of that for the Take the
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beauty of the keys is that they are bind on account so you can
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funnel them all to one particular character.
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If that's what you want to do to complete your Vault.
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Now the vault is a single-player affair, you're not going to be
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in here with friends but that means that it's more puzzle
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based than it is a DPS. Check or survival check, it's
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going to be fairly laid-back activities, that won't be
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stressing you out trying to Maximize your classes potential.
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There's a number of floors in the vault and each of those
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floors has a number of different doors.
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You will be using your limited access to unlock the first few
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floors. But as you unlock those doors
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and you complete those puzzles, you will gain like different
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resources that you can use to like reach those upper floors
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and loot the chest. In those those rooms the reward
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for doing this is the Onyx and you'll edit and the primordial
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stones. That's the big system of
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10-point 0.7. The way that it works is that
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the I annual? It is a ring and that ring you
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can insert three different Primal stones into this is very
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similar and very reminiscent of the punch cards from mechag on
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in order to obtain these primordial Stones.
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You just complete an evolved storm event.
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You can kill rares, you can do this new trial of storms that
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Exists on the island and of course, as you go through the
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vaults and you loot the chest, you'll get Stones as well.
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Remember, the V is meant to be the primary way that you get
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these Stones. So, how do these Stones work
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much like the mechag on Punch Cards.
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Each of these will have a different effect based around
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something that your character will do.
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You have different versions of the stones in different schools,
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Arcane Earth, fire. All those different magic
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schools and those will often work together in the family
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based on your particular spec and your particular build.
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You might find that certain stones and certain Stone
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combinations work best for you while others are less desirable
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for you and when you switch your spec or to have a different
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class, Using on a not, you will want different Stones.
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So how do you get the stones that you want?
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Obviously you have a random chance of getting any particular
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Stone as you go around the island and into the Vault.
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But if you're after a very specific Stone, what you will
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need to do is break down the stones that you don't want into
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fragments those fragments can then be used to purchase a
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condensed Magic. Those condensed, Magics are
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again, set to the particular family of magic.
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So you can get a condensed, Arcane magic condensed, water or
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other condensed, Frost condensed nature and so on now when you
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break open this condensed magic, it'll give you a random gem from
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that family. So while you can't get the exact
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Stone, you can at least limit it to getting something from that
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family. Once you have the gems that you
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want, you're not done each of these Stones can be upgraded and
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in order to upgrade them you will once again be using the
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dormant primordial fragments that you get from breaking down
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other Stones, you will take a number of these fragments and
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use it to purchase the upgrade item, the unstable Elementium
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using the unstable Elementium, you'll push your stone up.
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Through the levels to a maximum of 424 item level.
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So it's going to take a bit to get the exact Stones you want
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and then upgrade those stones and because the way that you
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upgrade the stones is by using stones that you don't want to
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use, it's going to require a number of trips and the number
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of weeks into the Vault and around the islands in all, this
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is going to give a lot of power to people who do solo content or
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who do normal her, Awake level rating.
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But honestly, if you are not a fan of orangey and luck is not
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on your side, this make become a source of frustration, as you
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are trying to get the perfect set of gems.
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So we will see how this works out as the week's go on.
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That said my personal experience with the Vault was that it was
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actually pretty fun. Pretty lazy fair and relaxing.
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I'm glad that this is not a A push myself as hard as tour gas
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was back in shadowlands to try and hit the very highest levels.
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Nor is it even really something that I would compare with the
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visions of them as off back in battle for Azeroth?
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This is really something that I would say is a easy night off
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that will work towards my characters overall power.
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But while I'm finding myself to be lukewarm on the Vault, I
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really think that 10-point 0.7 has really hit it out of the
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park because of everything that surrounds the Vault Dragon
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riding around. The aisles is a lot of fun, and
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the addition of the two new abilities and searching for
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those glyphs is what I would recommend, everybody does on day
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one, because it is just so much fun to have spent roughly 20
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minutes, just going around. Capturing all those glyphs and
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adding that power as I was doing that, I came across so many cool
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little things that are that are on the Forbidden reach we have
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now. Again, those rares that you will
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use and farm they will be dropping 385 gear for your alts.
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They will also be dropping a new upgrade that will bring it to
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395 and for anybody who has Prime, Oh, storm gear.
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That is what these are. If you remember, the original
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value of storm gear was 359, you could get a little dorm token to
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upgrade that. 2385 these ones are starting at 385 and then now
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2395 the untapped Forbidden Knowledge token, and because it
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is Primal storm gear, all of these can be converted into
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tear. So if you have those alts and
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you want to get your tier piece, remember charges to upgrade your
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Here is account-wide. And at this point, anybody who
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has been playing through season one, you probably have all set
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are beyond the cap of six pieces, that can be converted
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over into tier, and it's going to be a huge increase.
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Now, the tokens that drop from these rares and from other
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creatures, and from chess, they do come fairly regularly.
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Those are agnostic of your class and all of your spec.
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So, when I'm running around on my Shaman, I could be getting
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multiple pieces. Pieces of leather or plate or
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cloth and that would be going to my alts.
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But the other thing that you will be getting from all of,
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this is a absolute storm of Elemental, overflow.
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When you defeat the regular enemies, they're going to be
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giving you some where around the range of 10 when you're dealing
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with the non rear Elites that's going to be dropping somewhere
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around the level of 100 and if you do take down those rare
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leads, you get over a thousand per kilogram.
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Those rarely eats, as you're going around the island, you can
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also get the small drops called The Artisan curios.
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And these go with the profession recipes that you'll get on the
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island that can trigger special encounters.
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They do require those unique drops but you get the first
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craft bonus for doing these again.
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If you want to do a little bit of catch-up, this is something
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that you can craft there and these unique encounters or
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something. That people are going to swarm
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around which will help you again.
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Increase your progression through the island.
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A number of small things before we get into the Ian questions,
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there are now mineral deposit, seems that are across the
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island. So miners.
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You will get increased yields as if beyond what you were getting
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from the rich seems or rather the rich deposits.
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Also if you are at renowned 23 or better with the dragon scale
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Expedition You can get a new way.
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Great that will teleport you directly to the more credit
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islets Quest Hub and outside of the aisles all together.
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There is of course the winter Pelt dialect Quest where you can
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learn to speak with the winter Pelt.
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Fur Borg and that will also trigger right when you start
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you'll get a little letter in your mail assuming that you have
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already done the intro quest in the Azure span and then you can
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reach out to sonova Snowden and start that grind.
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It is a bit of a grind, folks. You will be trying to get items
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that you'll turn into gain better, understanding of the
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dialect, and as you gain better, understanding you will reach new
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levels of that reputation. Until eventually, you will be
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friendly honored revered and exalted with this new
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reputation. So, that's the quick rundown.
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But Ian had a lot more to elaborate on over the week since
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the last episode there have been You sit down conversations where
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Ian got to take questions from community members, both in DNA
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and EU, and I was lucky enough to be present for both.
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So I want to go through that right now and talk about a
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little bit about what he said and my Impressions off that in
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terms of the general patch, when Ian was asked about how he felt
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about the patch Cadence, he bounced that question back
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saying that it's really defined by the reception of The content
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and that's very much true. It could be six months between
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raids, and that is good for people.
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It could be six months between, array, that has way more bosses
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and that isn't as good for people.
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In the same way, how we go through our story.
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Content is different than how we would go through a season of
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Mythic plus and people will be satisfied with those different
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types of content for different periods of time.
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I know that for me, I was starting to ask, is there
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anything? More a couple of weeks ago and
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you guys can listen back to the episodes in.
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I would say late, January, February, where I was hearing
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that from a number of people while I myself wasn't quite
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there and then I kind of got there.
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So patch 10.05 I think came at a good time but didn't actually
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add things that I was looking for to keep me invested.
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And I don't think when people get It's an appoint that they
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are raid logging that that is the best place for the game.
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I really do. Like when people are jumping in
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on their off nights for things that help them and so this scary
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V being a way of getting it getting an upgrade without
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having to particularly dive into group content.
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I think is a very needed thing to do.
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In terms of story though, this is a Prelude to patch.
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And there was a question asking if preludes were something that
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we're going to see from the team again and again.
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And so in immediately pointed to patch ten point one point seven
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saying yeah it's coming right there and said that these patch
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X .7 really allowed the team to set up what's coming next and it
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out. Loud them to set up the steaks
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and drive home, why things are happening with better pacing
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than they would have in the old patch Cadence.
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Where it's week, one or two of storyline, where it really just
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needs to get us into it because we need to start the season, and
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then he went a little bit further with that, and contrast
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that against the point, x .5, patches, which allow updates
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after the raid. And after the campaign of the
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EXO, patches kind of like a slight epilogue or the common
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between That's great for the story, Cadence for the pacing
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and I think that in general, I like that concept.
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I do think that the patch X .5 does need a little bit more just
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to keep people engaged. Moving forward in was talking
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about how the team prefers to release content as it's ready in
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these patches. But really makes the call on a
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case-by-case basis. He spoke about how the Trading
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Post would have been something to be great to launch with
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dragon flight. And in fact, we had seen the
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initial Stables sitting there in Stormwind and in Orgrimmar that
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people were wondering about. But this is a case where they
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didn't want to delay everything else just to make that fit with
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the launch. And so it was delayed then they
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got it to us as quickly as possible and if you listen to,
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on Jackal Fury, Berserker Saying that, maybe it came a little too
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fast because there were issues with its launch bugs that they
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had to fix. In general, I really do like
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that they are trying to get things as quickly as they are
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ready for us and the multiple patch is means that we're going
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to get more smaller. Things more frequently.
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Now in did Bounce That by saying that some things lend themselves
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to be released later in an expansion or later in a season,
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he didn't give any Examples, but he did say that there are some
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things that encourage you to go back to pass content.
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And that would be kind of overwhelming to deal with.
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At a time, when you're already trying to deal with the raid,
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when you're already trying to deal with all the things that
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are coming at you in a new season.
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So, in that way, I do agree having things that are saying,
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oh, go back to this old area while you're already.
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Being pulled in for other directions, isn't the best.
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And would definitely work better in a patch 10 point 0.5 or
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something like that. Next I want to talk about Ian's
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conversations about the PTR in one part.
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He spoke about the PTR participation being something
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that the team is working on and it is a somewhat expected
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downside to more frequent patches.
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I think this is literally first world problems for us.
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I really love that we're getting more stuff.
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More frequently I have spoken. In with Friends of the show
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where we've really set would you prefer to have everything
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perfect. But it takes longer for it to
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come out and there's longer gaps between content or what we saw
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in 10.0, where some things needed to be tuned as we went
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and for the most part, not in every case.
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But for the most part, I like the more frequent content that
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we've been getting our really enjoy that.
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I am discovering things as the week's go on.
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Sort of everything being already laid out for me on day, one of
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the patch. And Ian actually said this just
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in the second interview where he also wished that more players
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could experience Discovery and finding out things for
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themselves rather than looking at guides and having all of it
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explained away for them. But along those lines, the team
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has really been using encryption option to keep those secrets for
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players to discover at their own rate.
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Now, this is something that has worked to different levels.
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We have seen the story, get spoiled for people who rushed
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all the way to renowned levels before other people did, and so
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much sooner than they expected. They were seeing articles up on
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the various news sites about what happens when you hit High,
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Renown with this faction and a story that comes behind It for
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patch 10.0 .7, the storyline is very much locked.
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Even when I was testing this week, the intro Quest takes you
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to meet a character but you cannot start that Quest.
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And therefore the story that we're going to be getting is a
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complete mystery to me, and I am really excited to dig into that,
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but I have to say that it is a bit strange because the story in
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10.1 isn't encrypted. And so, I feel that if I were
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digging through all the articles that are on the various sites, I
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would be able to connect the dots, but we'll see.
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I'm really trying to keep this a surprise for myself so that I
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can enjoy day one as much as possible and then I'll spoil
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what's coming in ten point one so that I can talk about it with
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some level of intelligence when I talked with discordian Kitty
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and impervium. So moving from the Stuff that's
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encrypted. We're going to revisit this
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entire thing about participation in testing while the story
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elements and a solo parts of testing have been encrypted and
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Ian had said that the internal testing is adequate for that.
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There is the question about testing the group content and
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this lower participation one idea that the team had
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considered was doing rewards for participation.
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Like the Diablo wolf backpack, But ultimately they felt that
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was unfair because of how Wow's betas are they are closed.
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Invites they are stuff that you get, when you get a key or they
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give you a particular invite. And so they felt that that would
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be unfair for the people who didn't get lucky enough to get
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in, for whatever reason. And I do have to agree with
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that. I think that while it's nice to
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have those sort of cosmetics and You do offer them.
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I think there are a multitude of people who would then turn
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around and say that's so they can do the pre-order so that
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they can get their day one numbers up.
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And it's, it's really a situation of no winning in that
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sort of scenario. Some people managed to get in
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some questions that I didn't really think.
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We're 10.0 .7 related, but we're still interesting all the same
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in terms of Eating there were a couple of questions that were
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answered one was the question around the mouth.
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Eric's enemy of the sky, that's the invoker only weapon and it
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was asked if that would be a regular occurrence in said no,
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it's not something that they were going to systemize or put
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through that would show up every time but it was something that
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they would try and do when the time was right, when such an
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item would make sense he However cryptically point to the last
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boss of 10.1 saying that a volkers might want to see what's
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on that loot list for the final boss of the shadowed Crucible.
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Think it's very nice, that of ochres, get two of these
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weapons, but that's just me and my sour grapes further on rating
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with cross-faction guilds, now, becoming a thing, the Hall of
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Fame is going to be unified to a single 100 Guild, it's at least
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that's what the plan is for now. He said that there wasn't really
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any sense where people could get progress in that same Guild
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being from different factions and that totally makes sense.
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I think I've said that in episodes earlier the team had
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also had feedback about the length of rate.
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If you've noticed the raid coming up in 10 .1 has nine
27:44
bosses The Raid. We just finished has eight
27:47
bosses so Castle nastier was 10. Sanctum of domination was 10 and
27:53
the final raid, the SFO was 11 bosses.
27:58
They had received feedback. They had listened to that
28:01
feedback that there was a bit of fatigue because of raid lent.
28:07
I think that the, he was also right to note that not all of it
28:11
was because of the raid length and part of it was tuning.
28:14
I know that if SFO had ended at and Owen, I think it would have
28:19
been, like a Fantastic raid, but that's generally because I think
28:23
and Owen was on Amazing, raid, boss, and such a would have been
28:27
such an amazing way to cap it regardless.
28:30
I generally think that a raid with eight bosses is is great.
28:37
I don't like the raids being actually much shorter than that
28:43
because they either become difficult at such an alarming
28:47
rate. There's too much of a ramp up
28:50
for a Of teams. And also do really think that
28:55
with very small boss list, you do have issues with itemization
29:00
and making sure that there's something for everybody to chase
29:02
after. It's a different concern to have
29:05
than just, what difficulty is is there.
29:09
But I do think it is intertwined with the amount of bosses.
29:14
That's their one of the big things that determines people
29:18
going through rate is class. Ants and class balance has been
29:22
huge in terms of dragon flight. We've seen more shifts for
29:28
classes than I think any expansion at least in modern
29:31
history. So with 10.0 .7 reaching live
29:36
servers. Ian had said that you're likely
29:40
to see things slow down as we reach more towards the end of
29:46
this patch. But the class suspect balancing
29:49
that you've seen Add a more regular pace is not a
29:53
coincidence. He said that the team was really
29:56
looking to give a bump towards underperforming specs, while not
30:00
having whoever is the top spec feel safe after heroic week.
30:06
He also said that nerves would be held off later in Seasons, as
30:10
people started to stabilize in terms of item level and getting
30:14
their best in slot gear and getting that kind of investment.
30:18
But then we would start seeing that aggression pick up as the
30:22
season started again. So while this ret Paladin and
30:27
Paladin changes that have occurred in 10, .07 are quite
30:32
fundamental that is not something were likely to see
30:37
going forward. There are a number of Shadow
30:40
priest changes that are coming in 10.1 but things should
30:44
stabilize after that because such changes are very disruptive
30:48
for the players who are on Class while we're talking about
30:52
classes class race. Restrictions was also brought up
30:56
monks are part of the team, revisiting those restrictions
31:01
and wanting to be more permissive than they have been
31:04
in the past. They started out very
31:06
restrictive but they have decided that there's nothing
31:10
really preventing somebody from a particular race learning any
31:14
class with some exceptions. The picture Ian painted was That
31:21
gnomes would have difficulty breathing fire or flying without
31:25
the wings and innate magic, that Drac their half and therefore
31:30
that would restrict them from becoming a volkers.
31:33
But on the flip side that volkers really don't have that
31:37
restriction, that would prevent them from picking up a shield
31:40
and a sword and learning to tank as a warrior or a paladin.
31:46
Some of these restrictions do require more work than others,
31:50
some of that restriction is narrative.
31:53
If you have a goblin who is trying to become a druid,
31:57
there's a lot to actually explain about them becoming more
32:03
respectful for the environment and becoming one with nature in
32:08
terms of technical limitations. There are other things to
32:12
consider including art assets that would be needed like racial
32:16
Rooms for shamans, or the different forms, that Druids
32:20
would need to have as far as my own wishes for class race
32:25
combinations. I know that a lot of people are
32:30
Keen to have the various Druid forms.
32:33
I myself, would love to see what Drac fear would do in druidic
32:38
forms, and how that would differ from the dinosaurs that the
32:42
zandalari trolls use as a juridic forms.
32:46
I I would really also love to see how the team would interpret
32:51
a mecha gnome as a druid in my head.
32:55
I imagine it to be something along the lines of Transformers,
32:59
but it's not just gnomes. It's not just these Druid forms,
33:04
I genuinely would like to see some of the specs and classes
33:10
and races combined together in a unique way that isn't just I am
33:16
a priest or oh, I am a paladin. There are some races that have
33:21
Lord. That is very antithetical to
33:25
those particular classes. I scratch my head, when I see
33:30
the mag her Orcs embrace the light and become priests.
33:35
I would hope that there's going to be more explanation if they
33:38
chose to pick up that light to become paladins.
33:42
I do think that if humans Were to become shamans.
33:48
There should be some cool lore behind that.
33:52
Yes, a human can become a shaman but it's so tied with Orcs And
33:57
there's still a lot of animosity there that mending that divide
34:03
would be a cool story in and of itself.
34:06
Also, what in the world do human totems, look like that isn't
34:11
just lifting from an appropriating from a culture
34:14
that already exists. Speaking further about Crossing
34:18
divides, Ian spent a good amount of time talking about cross
34:22
faction guilds and I just want to stop for a second to speak
34:28
about one particular phrasing. That Ian gave he had said that
34:34
cross faction guilds are not so much about the guild itself
34:39
being cross faction. But rather you as the player
34:42
Crossing that faction line to join a guild of the off.
34:46
Opposite faction. Technically speaking guilds do
34:50
belong to a specific faction. Your, it's a horde Guild or an
34:54
alliance killed. And if you are a night elf, that
34:59
joins, a horde Guild, that's you operating as part of The Horde
35:04
Guild, not the guild being by factional as it were, as I had
35:09
said. In previous times, that means
35:11
you are going to see some strange things happen.
35:14
Where the Achievements are factually based you will see
35:20
your guild as that night elf. Get the achievement for slaying
35:24
tyrande. You will see your guild get the
35:29
achievement for slaying x amount of night elves and that's going
35:36
to put you in a weird spot but it is you being able to play
35:40
with your friends. That is the important part of
35:43
this. For that reason.
35:46
A lot of this cross faction stuff is meant to be opt-in.
35:51
That's why you can't Q into L afar or into a matchmaking
35:59
system as a cross faction team. Because even though I may have
36:05
decided that I'm going to hang out with my friend who is a
36:09
worgen and go ahead and queue up for something the other people
36:14
that week you into You may not be happy running around with
36:18
some troll Shaman. And so, a lot of this stuff is
36:23
set for pre-made groups, not match making stuff.
36:27
And a lot of this also runs afoul of the fact that quests
36:32
are also fashion Lee based there are Quest that are different
36:37
whether you're a hoarder Alliance or just flat-out not
36:40
available for one side or the other.
36:43
It's something that the team Team is working towards Ian.
36:46
Had said this on both occasion that the game is moving towards
36:51
that state were you can do everything with your friends but
36:56
just like I said earlier, it's not something that you want to.
36:59
Hold up until everything is ready.
37:01
The rolling out, a part of it here, the rolling out of part of
37:04
it down the line and eventually we will get there.
37:07
But because of these coding, that's there because it is going
37:11
to be step by step. You are going to still have to
37:14
see. Some strange things so come 10.0
37:17
.7. You're not merging the Guild's.
37:20
You can leave one guilt cross the fashion line and join the
37:23
other guild, but there is no plan to directly.
37:27
Merge guilt from opposite faction groups further in
37:31
systems, Ian had said that things are going to be worked on
37:36
continuously throughout the not only just through dragon fight.
37:39
But throughout the game in general, when talking about
37:43
professions that's another System that began in
37:46
dragonblight and is something that they want to continually
37:49
evolve. So while there is no catch up
37:53
systems that are in 10-point 0.74 professions, they are
37:58
looking to address that in the future, the revamp, if he could
38:04
do it all over again, there's not much that he would change
38:07
because he feels that they've already hit the major things of
38:11
people having the ability to create identity for themselves.
38:15
Themselves with crafting and also engaging with that system
38:19
or and I would agree with that. There is a balance though that
38:24
he wants to hit that's between where we are right now where
38:27
people have that specialization those expertise and where we
38:32
were, where everybody could make everything at any point.
38:36
Ian had defended the server, only markets because it allowed
38:42
players to develop that name for themselves.
38:44
Develop a Patient on their server, he spoke about that.
38:48
They had multiple conversations about work orders because one of
38:51
the things they feel is a real issue, is those times where you
38:55
want to create a work order and there is nothing available for
39:00
you on your server. So the team is trying to look at
39:02
Tech. That's going to be adding in NPC
39:06
work orders, and this would be stuff that could tie in with
39:09
Quest, but would be a guaranteed way for you to skill up, if
39:14
that's what you Wanted obviously, if a player wanted an
39:18
item done, they would offer a better commission and that would
39:22
be something that players were do.
39:24
But at least, there would be a way to interact with that.
39:27
Work order system on a guaranteed basis on the
39:31
flipside. Dragon writing has been way
39:34
better received everybody seems to love dragon riding as far as
39:39
people I've spoken with and the team is still continuing to
39:43
develop dragon I think throughout patches like I had
39:47
said before, in Ted Point 0.7 you're getting a new ability and
39:52
upgrade for that. And like I said last week in
39:54
10.1, you're getting yet again. Another new ability and an
39:58
upgrade for that and the team is continuing to push those
40:02
capabilities. But in terms of dragon writing,
40:06
it's something that they want to be organic.
40:10
He had been asked about adding in leaderboards and various
40:14
things to add Add a more competitive aspect to it but he
40:18
said that the team was concerned with pushing it to be overly
40:22
competitive that they didn't want to risk the organic fun for
40:26
the sake of Fun by moving into a world where they would have to
40:30
be tuning, special abilities, or specific things for lag in a
40:35
kind of Esports nature and as somebody who is not currently
40:42
involved in any of the Dragon race.
40:45
It's like Ion Life. I have not ever done any dragon
40:51
races and I know I'm going to get a very Stern message from
40:56
Ali being like, why haven't you done it?
40:58
It's so amazing. I think I'm saving it up.
41:01
I think I want to do them all at a later point in the expansion.
41:07
Just as a final hurrah because I am enjoying Dragon riding.
41:12
I think that the races in both both the like, you know, normal
41:16
versions, the advanced versions were first, versions will be a
41:20
ton of fun but I want to stock that away.
41:24
Save it for a rainy day when I need a pick-me-up and there's no
41:29
more challenges to deal with. In the game, that will be just a
41:34
new Avenue of content that I'll get to explore with fresh eyes.
41:38
But I got to ask you guys. Do you want leaderboards for In
41:45
racing or is that something that you're fine, just doing among
41:48
your friends and be like, oh, I completed.
41:50
This is how did you do? Did you get your gold?
41:53
Let me know. The other ongoing part is of
41:57
course, customisation the team has been looking at appearances
42:01
that have never been available or are no longer available to
42:06
put into the trading post or into professions and then
42:10
further to this old rewards from recruiter friend can also Also
42:15
go in here. I think that this is really
42:18
good. I know he didn't touch upon it
42:21
but I think that twitch drops are also a nice Avenue for this
42:26
and I don't want anything to be exclusive.
42:29
I think that's something that can show up on the trading post
42:33
and as a twitch drop and if you got the twitch drop, then you
42:36
can save your currency. And if you missed at which drop
42:40
you can spend and get it without having to wait till it comes.
42:44
And again, so I'm hoping that there's a little bit of overlap
42:47
there. They also had all those new here
42:50
customizations and people were asking when the next one was and
42:55
Ian once again to said hey like it's not something that we want
42:59
to have any kind of Rhyme or Reason to it's not like every
43:03
particular patch you can expect to see five new hairstyles and
43:06
six new pants and such it's just as they create them as they feel
43:11
that they're ready to roll out, that they're going to throw it
43:13
into patches. And I Think that's amazing,
43:16
especially considering that all the new here colors that Orcs
43:19
And humans are getting in 10-point, 0.7 are just baked
43:23
into the normal customization. You can walk to the barber soon
43:28
as the patch is installed and servers go live and change your
43:31
here to one of these new colors at the barbershop if you're one
43:34
of these new races, it's not something that they locked
43:36
behind anything. Even the trading booth and I
43:40
think that is really good along those same lines.
43:43
There was a question about Here to charmer and the requirements
43:47
for Heritage armor. And this is a point where they
43:50
went out of their way to make sure that the easiest way was
43:55
not to pay money Heritage armor for Allied races requires that
43:59
you reach a certain level with that Allied race, they put in
44:04
the Restriction that you had to level it up, naturally that
44:10
meant that they specifically distance it away from role that
44:14
care. Actor, spend x amount of bucks
44:16
to get the Boost so that you can get the heritage armor.
44:19
They specifically did this to discourage people from buying
44:23
boost, then for the OG Races, they made obviously having it at
44:29
60 or whatever level didn't make sense, because characters are
44:35
already there. So, they just made a fairly
44:38
fanatic connection that you just needed to be exalted with your
44:42
home faction. But, Even these are stuff that
44:47
they might reconsider down the line so they might remove the
44:51
instructor the restrictions entirely and I think that is
44:54
really good other than I do think that they should keep that
45:00
restriction for the Allied races because I just I like the
45:06
disincentive to just blow your money to get an extra piece of
45:11
Gear Cosmetic, you're no less. The last things that I want to
45:16
cover in this interview is basically about the vaults and
45:20
the upgrades that you can get in there.
45:22
A lot of what's coming in. Ten point 0.7 is geared towards
45:26
something that is desirable for most players.
45:30
If not all players, but is set up to be something that you
45:34
leave behind when 10.1 shows up, this means that people who are
45:39
trying to push further into progression are going to have
45:42
that option to give them. Selves, an extra gear boost
45:46
without a lot of difficulty. And it means that the people who
45:51
take the time off to season two, won't have to come back to the
45:54
Forbidden, reach to farm, this just to be competitive in 10.1.
46:00
And the number Embers of neltharion and I really like
46:03
that, they are trying to do the adjustments.
46:06
Now to make sure it's good for people now and then also without
46:10
reservation be willing to make the adjustments later if Only
46:14
nobody wants to get rings Out of The Shadow Crucible because this
46:19
ring is just too good. So in general, these were really
46:23
good clarifications that we got from Ian.
46:26
I am really glad that this has been put out ahead of 10-point
46:30
0.7 and I'm really excited to go into the aisles.
46:34
I hope to see you guys there. I know I'll be playing a lot and
46:38
make sure you join me next week because we will be sitting down
46:41
and talking all about the story. And where we think things are
46:45
going to go, you can join the Faz Discord at bit.ly slash
46:50
fastest court and become part of the conversation.
46:53
And until next time, guys, may all your hits be crits.