PREPARED: Your Weekly Classic TBC Breakdown

We cover the story of Zirene, from his serious health conditions to leaving Riot Games finding his happiness after dropping from the spotlight

Sno explains why he's quitting the podcast and hardcore WoW (and also some catch up on Blizzard drama).

Are Blizzard's latest announced wotlk changes good or bad? And we brought in Josh Corbett from Countdown to Classic to discuss his thoughts on dev behaviour, TBC on a whole and his thoughts going forward into WoTLK.

We rank Blizzard's best top 5 changes in classic WoW up till now + discuss the upcoming fresh WoTLK servers being launched.

We compare week 1 and 2 class performance in Sunwell and break down the recent interview of Brian Birmingham, Classic WoW current lead developer.

Blizzard gave only 1 week notice for P5, let's talk about it. Also world record speed leveller Tactics joins us to tell us about levelling and his new gold guide.

Breaking down the WoTLK announcement details, P5 PTR and we talk about hunters being the most untrustworthy class in WoW.

We go over what we think are the 5 biggest mistakes Blizzard made in classic WoW up until now.

C9 Chanimal sits down to discuss the issues with WoW pvp, what he'd like to see changed and what makes top pvpers better than you (and me).

WoTLK was leaked and ZA is on PTR! We also talk about the recent log editing and cheating drama and what might happen next.

Zirene and Tetsu both guild quit this week - we talk about why top guilds fail/have friction and also Zirene's insane week 3 warglaives set.

Covering the P3 launch events, the high amount of glaives so far and the big PvP changes that went live.

We talk how the $68 billion dollars buyout might affect WoW and go into a deeper talk on Why WoW content performs so poorly on YouTube.

Going over what's good vs. bad in the P3 announcement, dates, changes and the pvp end of season shenanigans

We look over the p2 raid nerfs and discuss community council and why the current council is a mess.

We cover some points from Blizzard's classic dev interview and talk about the big PvP arena issue in TBC right now.

Blizzard messed up, then took their mistake back. Here's what they should have done instead (and we also talk about Riot's Arcane and the potential mmorpg implications)

Will Blizzard community council help fix WoW or too little too late? And Zirene also makes the ultimate rogue copium raid comp this week.

We discuss the New World vs. WoW player numbers, Season of Mastery updates and what our ideal TBC timeline would look like in a perfect Blizzard world.

Zirene and Sno's guide to running a WoW guild that doesn't suck (raidleading, loot system, guild structure and more!)

Discussing new Blizzard Classic Fresh server announcement and why we think it will fail + looking at the aftermath of the giant pvp ban waves.

We cover the gladiator boosts and r1 cheaters, oceania gladiator cheating drama, and the world 1st TBC clear by .

Looking over Blizzard's p2 announcement timing, t5 loot prio and a lookback and p1 class dps rankings from start to finish.

We cover the recent p2 launch date leak (that was proven false), why TBC PvP is failing & how to fix it. Also we finally get to talk 'how to succeed in WoW content creation'.

We talk Blizzard recent communication issues and go over Asmongold's classic fresh wishlist to see where we agree/disagree and why.

We discuss more warglaives prio (should pvp be factored in), hilarious dazzling longsword rogue tricks for pvp, engineering becoming the best profession in the game and arcane mages doing nutty dps.

Final segment on Blizzard lawsuit, why they're failing WoW and why so many content creators are quitting. Also a bit of talk on Mir's 1 year ban and TK/SSC.

Breaking down the Blizzard lawsuit, their response, the internal company letters and the fallout with Sno & Zirene. We also speedrun through rogue hemo talk & the new bg queue rewards.

We go over the recent Blizzard 'insider leak', WoW's massive decline to Final Fantasy and the recent hunter auto bug insanity.

Is FFXIV a WoW competitor, should streamers get special treatment and what is actually a WoW killer?

We discuss Blizzard's new horde vs horde BG change and how it affects the servers/faction balance. We also go into the TBC grouping issue and why some guilds fail/disband.

We talk top pvp classes in arena stats, how sno got a DST & more loot prio discussion, why raiding with streamers is hard & how the honor problem is killing some servers.

We cover world boss strategies, the OTK Cdew drama, how broken is the honor system right now and is P2 world pvp grief meta back?

We recap TBC launch week, have a look at which classes are performing best in week 1 and we have Tetsu from joining us to talk about their world first clear and explain the strategy behind the win.

We re-visit DST prio talk with more rogue and hunter trinket dps numbers, discuss how to run effective loot councils and why some loot systems suck, then we go over all the things broken with TBC (including mages having infinite mana)

Blizzard launched the worst update we've ever experienced, so let's talk about it. Also, apparently hunters might not be getting DST prio.

This week we talk TBC layering, the Asmongold PvP tourney, the ongoing Blizzard vs. Mage slave pens nerf war & why the final classic speedruns sucked!

Blizzard's worst ever TBC announcement this week, arena gear rating requirements, Karazhan pre-nerf boss strat breakdowns & more!

We talk TBC PvP arena, what makes a good pvper, pvp twitch chat drama , what makes a good WoW streamer (and why WoW isn't the best stream game) & more!

We talk Magtheridon raid testing, why pvp is broken in beta, Progress vs. Nota world record Naxx runs & our new Chronoboon life in classic.

We go over our impressions of Karazhan & Gruul raid testing in TBC beta difficulty, early melee performance vs. hunters/locks, and a quick rundown of every boss in Karazhan.

Why is TBC hype low, Zirene runs us through his updated TBC melee raid comp & we talk TBC beta changes & why we think putting raids in is a mistake.

We talk no Blizzard's world buffs announcement for TBC, new world buff item, $40 character copy, and Josh Corbett (Countdown to Classic) + Ayle join Sno in the second half to discuss why they're anti-boosting.

Breaking down the insanity of the latest TBC leatherworking drum changes, Blizzard's new potential cash shop mount & discussing the pros and cons of Madseason's anti boosting video.

We cover TBC pre-patch leaks, why we think WoW lost subscribers, TBC prep, should wow have faction changes, speedrun drama and Zirene breaks down the new Noobs world record Naxx speedrun.

We cover new TBC closed beta leaks, Faerlina GM abuse drama, Blizzard's new classic+ survey talks and the Raidmasters speed running event (and why Progress and some other top guilds aren't participating).

In this episode of Prepared: TBC Podcast, we talk gold caps going into TBC, why level 58 boosts might actually be good for the game, who gets warglaives pro, how Zirene's shaman got banned, pvp in tbc and more!