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Discord: http://discord.thisweekintrek.com Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv Review spreadsheet https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1zWUJXbg-ShYgZLfBWIqCih3G_DgFdujgkZsrDsFllxA/edit?usp=drive_web#gid=1 News Harlan Ellison: “For a brief time I was here, and for a brief time, I mattered.”—HE, 1934-2018. 6/28 Star Trek Discovery, Sonequa Martin-Green Win Saturn Awards. http://www.startrek.com/article/discovery-martin-green-win-saturn-awards The president of Bell Media recently purchased Pinewood Studios where Discovery is produced. May start offering tours. CBS would have to agree. Kirk & Picard 7" figures from McFarlane Toys delayed from June to Sept. bit.ly/2t81n4W Ten Forward: Chris on Twitter: Why do you think there was no communications officer in TNG? Star Trek in pop culture: Think Like a Man. (2012) Chris Brown, Gabrielle Union. Something about a relationship being like war. 00:12 Last week in Trek Episode insight: DS9: The Emissary pt2 Character insight - Admiral Leyton and Erika Benteen Subspace communications

Discord: http://discord.thisweekintrek.com Patreon: http://patreon.com/starmike Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv News CBS All Access Expands To Canada, but without DSC. bit.ly/2qS3Lff https://trekmovie.com/2018/04/19/see-and-hear-the-2018-hallmark-star-trek-ornaments-in-action/ (there’s no music in the sulu one!) Original Series t-shirts at amzn.to/2EZVeLC pic.twitter.com/Jdv5UuIEEB Star Trek Adversaries now on Steam Ten Forward: Chris on Twitter: Being assimilated by the Borg, tortured by the Cardassians, living another life in “The Inner Light”, possessed/captured by numerous aliens; when does it become unrealistic on how much Picard or anyone can endure? Star Trek in pop culture: The Five-Year Engagement (2012) Jason Segel, Emily Blunt, Chris Pratt In this clip, he’s trying to propose to her & gets interrupted Last week in Trek Episode insight: TAS: BEM Subspace communications

Discord: http://discord.worldofwarcast.com Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/starmike Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv Ren: Not played much in past couple weeks Next projects: mechanical pets for hunter, Field Medic, Fisherfriends Mike: Started working on Field Medic. No bueno cjracer20 in Discord suggested premades. Will do that soon™ Did not get into alpha this week yet. Ali couldn’t Monday, and then Wednesday turned into hell. Been doing follower missions. Mount and mog runs. Tailoring/enchanting finally at 800. Went through old pics. This Week in WoW Mage Tower currently active on North American realms Legion Timewalking this week. Pet Battle event next week General News Blizzard Balance can now be gifted - send a friend an electronic gift card with a personalized message Remote Auction House: Blizzard confirmed in a blue message that the reason they closed the RAH is that a "tiny fraction of one percent" of their user base was actually using the RAH and it was not worth their time and effort anymore to keep it updated Battle for Azeroth In-Game Communities: Quoting Wowhead: “This system will allow you to have broader communication options with fellow community members, including multiple text channels, text channel history, simple role management, quick join, voice integration, roster listing and calendar invites. You will be able to be part of multiple communities at the same time, in addition to your current guild.” Interview at Pax East with lead designer Daniel Stahl and lead encounter designer Morgan Dey about Island Expeditions: More intelligent AI in NPC encounters Some AI groups may be aggressive - others may be passive and require you to chase them down Weather improved and may be a factor Different mobs may appear at different times of the day "Fog of War" Blizzard has confirmed people will still be able to get class mounts after BfA has launched Tribute to last year’s BlizzCon Costume Contest winner Kazplay - when Horde invades the Stockades, they encounter a human female in a cage with a crumpled costume next to her: Text: “Look, it's just a costume! See? Feel it! Now will you tell them to let me out of here? It was just a joke! Hogger wasn't really terrorizing Stormwind!” Alpha News: Battle for Lordaeron scenario now playable on Alpha Heart of Azeroth item levels show ranges with iLevel starting at 265 and going up one point per level from there. Highest they show is at level 300 with an iLevel of 564 Mag'har and Dark Iron Dwarves now playable in Alpha. Maghar racials: Ancestral Call - Invoke the spirits of your ancestors granting you their power. Increases a random secondary stat by 102 for 12 seconds. Open Skies - Increases mounted speed by 10%. Savage Blood - Reduces the duration of Poisons, Diseases, and Curses by 10%. Sympathetic Vigor - Increases pet health by 10%. Dark Iron Dwarves: still no reports on what the Mole Machine racial does Blood Elf and Human racials seriously nerfed. From the Discord: Bucket Lists Expansion Countdown: 116 days to Expansion (3 months, 25 days / 16 weeks and 4 days / 2784 hours) Congrats to Alberthe for getting the Forgotten Hippogryph mount Mightymurloc for the new Kara mount Txcoolkid for finishing FIeld Medic Suggests joining a Field Medic premade group, as did Cjracer20 It’s not a shared drop (personal loot) but since there is a lot of competition and in some areas the respawn is fast, you have a greater chance of being able to loot more mobs

Discord: http://discord.thisweekintrek.com Patreon: http://patreon.com/starmike Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv News DSC nominated for Peabody Award in the entertainment category to “honor the most powerful, enlightening and invigorating stories in television, radio and digital media. Other nominees: Better Call Saul, The Handmaid’s Tale, and Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. TNG won a Peabody award in 1988 for "The Big Goodbye" (Holodeck, Dixon Hill). DSC Season 2 began filming yesterday! Jonathan Frakes will direct ep 2 & 10. Many ask who will play Spock, but he wasn't the first officer in "The Cage", that was Number One played by Majel Barrett. Chief Engineer Denise Reno of the USS Hiawatha, played by Tig Notaro! Last week Amazon started selling exclusive DS9 shirts. They've now done the same with TNG. Ten Forward: Chris on Twitter: Which TOS character (Scotty, Uhura, Chekov or Sulu) deserved to have more screen time and backstory better told? Star Trek in pop culture: The Middleman (2008) S01E12 The Palindrome Reversal Palindrome Last week in Trek Episode insight: VOY: Bride of Chaotica Character insight - Enabran Tain

Discord: http://discord.thisweekintrek.com Patreon: http://patreon.com/starmike Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv News Anson Mount is Capt. Pike New DS9 shirts only at Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=ds9+shirts Robert Duncan McNeill (Lt Paris) and Robert Picardo (the EMH) both back working on The Orville, S2. Star Trek: Lost Scenes Hardcover – August 21, 2018. Preorder now. $39.95 @StarmikeT Ten Forward: Chris on Twitter: Do u think that Trek 2 saved the Trek movie franchise and sets the bar for all other movies? Star Trek in pop culture: From a 2012 NASA video about why it’s hard to go to Mars. https://youtu.be/fturU0u5KJo Last week in Trek Episode insight: ENT S3: The Shipment Character insight - Vice Admiral Nakamura Subspace communications

Discord: http://discord.worldofwarcast.com Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/starmike Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv Ren: Have a new Highmountain Tauren - enhancement shaman Got the noblegarden bunny Working on the four hatchling pet quests -- haven’t finished any of them Mike Exalted with Army of the Light. 8000 from exalted with Argussian Reach Tol Dagar BfA dungeon Odd thing about BfA - some people have quests, I don’t. Finally finishing up getting followers to 950 Noblegarden fun Field Medic This Week in WoW Pandaria Timewalking this week, Battleground Bonus event next week Darkmoon Faire Noblegarden (ends Monday) March of the Tadpoles (Borean Tundra - ends tonight at midnight) News: General and Current April Fool’s patch notes Remote Auction House is retiring on April 18th. Realm connections New round of realm connections is “on the way” to help with low pop servers. Family Guy: a 30 second Leeroy Jenkins reference. News: Battle for Azeroth 8 - 14 - 18 Ren’s Ridiculous Fun Facts about the History of Blizzcon Expansions Collector’s Edition - box set Limited edition hardcover edition - 2 new WoW novellas by Christie Golden and Robert Brooks Horde & Alliance Double Sided Mark of Allegiance with stand Digital soundtrack Collector’s Edition box set owners will be able to unlock and create unreleased Allied Races in advance If you bought Digital Deluxe and want Collector’s Edition box, you can get a refund on Digital Deluxe to Battle.net balance Digital Deluxe edition - mounts, pet Island Expansions Expedition table in Boralus Harbor (Alliance) or Zuldazar Harbor (Horde) 3 man - Normal, Heroic, Mythic or PvP - reward of 6,000 Azurite Azurite: killing mobs, finding treasure, defeating the opposing team, or mining nodes Drawn on “lessons learned” from past content like scenarios and keystone dungeons. Replayable content. WoWhead interview with Jeremy “Muffinus” Feasel, Senior Game Designer for WoW No death knights for allied races - tied to Lich King Other possible rewards for Island Expeditions, like in the Timeless Isle When asked whether quest and profession progression will be gated behind dungeons and raids: No real discussion yet on profession progression, although he did say he thought ending final part of certain questlines end in a dungeon was “super cool, as it is the best way to tell the end of the story”. Felt that artifact weapon system was interesting in the beginning of the expansion but not at the end of it. Lots of choices in the beginning and none in the end. Discussion about making certain things accountwide -- seemed to think things were pretty OK the way they were. Too much accountwide stuff and characters lose identity, but opening areas, flying, etc., seem to be good kept accountwide. Battle for Azeroth Mag’har Orcs and Iron Dwarf allied races will be available after completing the Battle for Azeroth war campaign. Zandalari and Kul’Tiras will be unlocked later in the expansion. BFA alpha lasting longer than in the past. Beta polishes features and features are still being added to alpha. Six emissaries for each faction - 3 home continent, two neutral (Tortollan and Voice of Azeroth) and a War Faction with quests on the enemy continent. 8.0 prepatch Likely a few weeks before the expansion Will introduce the Burning of Teldrassil and Battle for Lordaeron. May be new mounts themed around Night Elves and Forsaken in conjunction with this event. New details on PvP New world PvP system called War Mode: players toggle PvP in a capitol city on any server. This will put them in a separate server shard, away from the PvE characters. War Mode gives extra rewards and Azerite, and also allows access to special world PvP events. PvP gear system revamp: conquest point system returning in the form of a bar you fill up to earn new gear each week. When you’re finished with a set, you can move up. There will be ways to skip ahead. Changes to Honor and Prestige: honor levels will be account wide. Naked and Afraid FInisher: Alcina, night elf mage -- 110

Discord: http://discord.thisweekintrek.com Patreon: http://patreon.com/starmike Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv News Dan Curry stuff up for auction at Heritage Auctions https://entertainment.ha.com/c/search-results.zx?N=53+793+794+792+4294948259+4294967090 DSC episode Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad nominated for Hugo award in the the Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form category. DSC Vinyl soundtrack has now been revealed by Lakeshore Records, coming this summer! 2 record set, 2 per customer. $34.98. Misc. comments on Twitter about DSC S2. @StarmikeT Ten Forward: Chris on Twitter: You are in charge of your cohosts bachelor party. Which 3 Star Trek characters would you invite to it? Star Trek in pop culture: What’s My Line 1974 Last week in Trek Episode insight: TOS S2: Friday’s Child Character insight - Hugh

Discord: http://discord.worldofwarcast.com Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/starmike Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv Ren: Finishing zones, changing to Beastmaster on hunter The handy parts about thinking about alt priority Mike: Island Expeditions Antorus Rep This Week in WoW World Quest Event - bonus reputation Darkmoon Faire starts on April 1 - rep bonuses from carousel and top hat stack with World Quest Event Noblegarden - April 2 Reminders: 2 pets and 1 mount - spring rabbit, noblegarden bunny (added 2017), springstrider mount News: New Naked & Afraid Finisher: Settlersrule, Alliance panda windwalker monk, with 5 days 23 hours and 28 minutes, and 24,483 gold. Next highest in progress: Norgreyclub, dwarf retribution paladin, level 92, closely followed by Alcina, a night elf arcane mage at 91 and Buffysummers, a human windwalker monk at level 90 Pax East - Apr 5-8 at Boston Convention Center - Demo stations for new Island Expedition feature Family Guy episode April 1 - Warcraft references Player gets every achievement in game (3,314) - Xirev, a blood elf fire mage Need to do things like reach prestige 25, collect 300 toys and mounts, and win 5000 pvp pet battles One achievement ahead of Metatrosha, a human shadow priest (same number of points; Alliance have one extra 10 pointer) Wowhead interview with Xirev Single hardest achievement: high rated PvP ones - most others simply “tedious” Single hardest non-PvP achievement - “Going to Need a Bigger Bag” - obtain all the rare items from Timeless Isle. Involved a lot of realm hopping (56 items) Time /played: Estimated 850-900 days /played. 434 days /played on mage alone. 20,400 to 21,600 hours 8,760 hours in 1 year (not counting leap years) Done over 6 years - 6 years has about 122,400 hours (without leap years) Average of 5.5-6 hours per day, every day, or 38.5 - 42 hours per week Ren: Did my own /played calculation on all active toons - came out to 6554 hours or 273 days /played. Sounds like a lot, but when averaged over 10 years (didn’t play for 4 years out of the past 14) it comes out to less than 1 hour per day /played Alpha News Changes to quest log - looked at first like the quest log limit was going up to 50. Not true - but it seems like some quests no longer count toward the 25 limit - including account wide quests such as many battle pet quests New Alpha build includes several class talent changes Alpha Profession changes: Enchanting: many new ring and weapon enchants, glove enchants for gathering professions RETURN OF Wands (Scepters). Last available: VANILLA Engineering: some of the usuals like glasses, explosives, and scopes RETURN OF Engineered belts. Last available: WRATH OF THE LICH KING More weapons (guns, maces) Interesting bits: Slumber Bombs, Electroshock Mount Motivator (+10% mount speed for 10 seconds, stacks up to 5x, “increased motivation may cause your mount to become disoriented”), Deployable Attire Rearranger, Interdemensional Companion Repository (portable stablemaster), and an XA-100 Surface Skimmer (25 sec duration) Inscription: new codex New Darkmoon cards, Vantus runes RETURN OF Offhand tomes and stat buff scrolls.. LAST AVAILABLE: CATACLYSM New: Contracts: allows you to choose a faction with which you will gain reputation when you do world quests - requires Friendly rep with target reputation Scroll of Unlocking - unlock anything that requires 550 lockpicking skill Jewelcrafting - usual rings and stones NEW: two staffs - both listed were listed as Mage but the second one (Laribole Staff) also listed Agility as a stat Leatherworking - usual armor bits and drums NEW: create fist weapons and bows (bow/crossbow was available in Engineering, 490/525, Cataclysm) From the Discord: Seems there is a fashion in listening to our oldest episodes

Discord: http://discord.thisweekintrek.com Patreon: http://patreon.com/starmike Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv News https://twitter.com/startrekcbs/status/977685643689017344 From CBS on Twitter: “The backdrop of Season 1 was war. Next season will have a more exploratory and diplomatic tone.” Season 2 will be 13 episodes. Filming begins in April. Shazad Latif is confirmed to be back. Jonathan Frakes to direct an early DSC S2 episode. If CBS re-merged with Viacom (Paramount), CBS management would be in charge. Terry Farrell and Adam Nimoy got married yesterday @StarmikeT Ten Forward: Chris on Twitter: At the dentist office now. Do u think there will be a need for dentists by the 23rd century? Star Trek in pop culture: Levar Burton was on Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me last weekend. Episode insight: TNG S6: Descent part 2

Discord: http://discord.worldofwarcast.com Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/starmike Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv Ren - Life invasions of all life invasions - Had to update laptop to make WoW run - Game goals: - get Field Medic done - get toons left behind caught up on Argus and professions - running up a void elf warlock for the hell of it - Question to self: do I have too many alts? - 12 110s with two duplicates (rogue and mage on Alli/Horde) - no DK or DH - Question: Is Blizzard both encouraging more alts AND not paying enough attention to making game alt-friendly? - If I had to pare down my alts, who would make the cut? Mike So close to finishing up this rep from Hell. Thanks to Ali for filling in last week about alpha Infinite Timereaver mount dropped while doing timewalking. That was fun. Alpha is still fun, but obviously limited in scope at the moment. There was a 1GB patch. Maybe I’ll try tanking again. I have a ton of quests I need to finish up. The Argus version of the flight whistle should have been available at honored, not revered. This Week in WoW Not much - Arena Skirmishes, then World Quest Event next Tuesday On the horizon: Noblegarden (4/2 - 4/9) (Mike - I HATE NOBLEGARDEN) News Hotfixes: Mythic Antorus now available for cross-realm groups, though not through LFR. “To join a public group for Mythic Antorus, just open Group Finder (hotkey: i), select 'Premade Groups', then 'Raids-Legion', then click on "Find A Group". That returns a list of many public groups that are available to you. Start typing 'Antorus' into the search bar at the top, and you'll be prompted to select a difficulty.” Battle for Azeroth New Alpha Build changes: Achievements to unlock Dark Iron Dwarves and Mag’har Orcs added Dark Iron racial mount: core hound Latest build tagged “beta” instead of “alpha” and new invitations out New “boop” emote Some new enchanting stuff: Swift Hearthing: bracer enchant to speed cast time of hearthstone Gale-Force Striking: weapon enchant to increase weapon attack speed First Aid confirmed going away - bandages will be under Tailoring and antivenoms/pots will be under Alchemy New customization options for Blood Elves - three new faces and glowing gold eyes Azerite bonuses datamined: Set bonuses also going away, being replaced by Azurite empowerment on armor Several class specific traits, but also several that appear to be multi-class Traits that increase primary and secondary stats by a set amount Absorption traits - traits that shield or absorb a set amount of damage DPS,heal, and tanking traits. DPS obviously increases your DPS, healing traits are self-heals, and tanking traits are damage mitigation: Examples: (DPS) Gutripper - Your damaging abilities have a chance to deal 347 Physical damage to the target. Gutripper occurs much more often against targets below 30% health. (Approximately 5 procs per minute). (DPS) Heed My Call - Your damaging abilities have a chance to deal 154 to your target, and 15 to enemies within 3 yards of that target. (HEAL) Savior - Your heals on targets below 35% health have a chance to heal for an additional 208. (Approximately 5 procs per minute). (HEAL) Self Reliance - While no enemies are within 20 yds, you heal for 70 every 3 sec. (TANK) Gemhide - When dealt damage greater than 10% of your maximum health, gain 31 Avoidance and 138 Dodge for 10 sec. (TANK) Winds of War - Taking damage grants you 14 Dodge for 3 sec, stacking up to 10 times. New detail on parrot mount: drops from Skycap'n Kragg, boss in the Freehold dungeon From the Discord Naked & Afraid Challenge has its second finisher - TheCowKing (EU) with a feral druid - 4 days 1 hour 1 minute Current highest still in progress - Settlersrule (101) windwalker monk

Discord: http://discord.thisweekintrek.com Patreon: http://patreon.com/starmike Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv News Saturn Awards nominations: Best New Media Television Series Sonequa Martin-Green for Best Actress on a Television Series Jason Isaacs for Best Actor on a Television Series Doug Jones for Best Supporting Actor on a Television Series Michelle Yeoh for Best Guest-Starring Performance on a Television Series Jason Isaacs won best actor in a TV Series from Empire Magazine Simon pegg sez the Tarantino Trek would not be rated R and is an old idea. Sets now under construction for season 2. Ten Forward: Chris on Twitter: Do u think that Voyager overused the Borg in that any other potential series couldn’t use them with any effectiveness? Star Trek in pop culture: NPR’s interview of Jimmy Buffett about his new musical, Margeritaville. Last week in Trek Episode insight: TNG S6: Descent part 1 Character insight: The characters of Brock Peters

Discord: http://discord.worldofwarcast.com Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/starmike Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv Special guest host Ali (@aliandrasK) joins us to talk about Battle for Azeroth alpha. This week is Cataclysm Timewalking. Tuesday the 20th Arena bonus week. Un'Goro Madness starts Sat goes through Mon.

Discord: http://discord.thisweekintrek.com Patreon: http://patreon.com/starmike Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv News The Anovos phaser is based on an early prototype & isn't what's on-screen. It was changed from the original design for ease of show production. Creation Entertainment has canceled all its Trek cons except for STLV. @StarmikeT Ten Forward: Chris on Twitter: If you consider the Doctor on Voyager a sentient being, then would all EMH’s be considered the same? Star Trek in pop culture: Gilmore Girls. 2004. S4 E11. A character named Kirk tells of his Tinnitus. Last week in Trek Episode insight: VOY: False Profits Character insight: Timothy Lang

Discord: http://discord.thisweekintrek.com Patreon: http://patreon.com/starmike Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv News 2-foot Polar Lights K’t’inga Klingon Battlecrusier Model Kit Coming This Fall bit.ly/r2ktinga THinkGeek Ent-D speaker OVERPRICED GARBAGE @StarmikeT Ten Forward: Chris on Twitter: Do u think Discovery succeeded in bringing new fans to Star Trek? Star Trek in pop culture: 30 Rock. 2012 S7 E4. Discussing an upcoming election and a scandalous photo. Last week in Trek Episode insight: TNG: S3 The Price Character insight: Dr. Timicin

Discord: http://discord.worldofwarcast.com Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/starmike Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv Ren MAJOR life invasions, may be more interruptions in weeks ahead Dinged 110 in Naked and Afraid challenge - final money total about 62,000 gold, time 4 days 22 hours 1 minute BUT ... forgot to take a screenshot (took one later; time finished can be calculated from the played time minus the time played at level, which was about 14 hours at the time) Also moved the toon to Whisperwind and did a race change to undead BUT ... plans to run up a void elf warlock to fulfill promise to Silvermoon gang Odds and ends - getting things tidied up in prep for expansion Advancing neglected professions Finished paladin mount quest and working on monk Getting all the class hall followers - Maximilian of Northshire is totally worth it Mike Interviews all day, every day. Wrath timewalking was fun. 700 badges from my next mount. This Week in WoW Legion Dungeon event until next Tuesday - additional loot Lunar Festival ends 3/3 Darkmoon Faire starts 3/4 Trial of Style starts Monday 3/5 and runs to Friday 3/9 News Warcraft III Invitational happened Feb 27/28, with old school tournaments and various matches - major patch coming out to Warcraft III in late March Second Mythic Invitational, July 25-Aug 8th for auditions, dungeon invitational in early September Seething Shore battleground now available - currently available as a brawl, will be available as a regular battleground next week 10vs10 BG set in Silithus, to battle over Azerite "Dynamic control point gameplay similar to Arathi Basin" - new control points pop up as resources become depleted Solo run of Court of Stars Mythic +22 by Mionee, a demon hunter (iLevel 973) - took nearly 4 hours Battle of Azeroth Even more class changes - random notes that show trend changes DKs are getting an ability similar to Counterspell Demon hunters will get an ability to increase overall party/raid magical damage to targets with Chaos Brand Druids getting back Hibernate and Soothe (CC and anti-enrage) Hunters: Tranq Shot for hunters is coming back (anti-enrage) Mages: Fire: Phoenix Flames, Felo’melorn’s artifact ability, is being turned into a basic spell All: Return of Arcane Intellect (group buff) Priests: Return of Power Word: Fortitude (group buff) Rogue: Return of Expose Armor (vanilla spell) Shaman: Return of Tremor Totem (AOE ability to remove fear, charm and sleep effects) Warlock: Return of Shadow Bolt (vanilla spell) Only Destro locks can summon infernals now (boo) Warrior: Return of Battle Shout to increase STR and AGI of party or raid PARROT MOUNTS!!! No source yet There will be some kind of garrison or class hall or something similar, as there is a mission table with followers. Lot of forum hate for this. Followers include Technicians, Infiltrators, Combat Specialist and Faction Troops Zandalari Troll Druid Forms "Pterrakkoa" - "moonkin" form Armored bear form - looks like a cross between a spiky turtle and a bear Pterrodax flight form Ravasaur travel form Mag'har Orcs Ren: really like the hair styles on the females - might have to race flip one Skin colors range from pale grey-beige to reddish brown Heritage armor looks very much like Thrallmar stuff Upright posture, esp on the females No "unnatural" hair colors A couple of the new races flagged in such a way that they may become allied races Vulpera - fox people Kul Tirans - stocky humanoids From the Discord: left over from last episode: Should all classes be unlocked on all races? Or should class-race assignments follow established lore?

Discord: http://discord.thisweekintrek.com Patreon: http://patreon.com/starmike Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv News My prediction for DSC S2: Burnham will have a Klingon baby. Why didn’t Saru’s hackles go up 100 times on the Mudd Time loop episode ? DSC: 56M, GOT: 42M, https://twitter.com/startrekmoments/status/968233291370377218/photo/1 The Nimoy doc being on iTunes in spring that I posted in Discord Today is the 3rd anniverary of Nimoy’s death Ten Forward: Chris on Twitter: What commonly used Trek tech (no Technobabble) do u think has zero chances of ever becoming invented? My first choice is inertial dampers. Star Trek in pop culture: Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee - Jerry Seinfeld talking to comedians. Here, talking about gambling. S4, E12 00:18 Last week in Trek Episode insight: DS9 S3: Through The Looking Glass Character insight: Buck Bokai Subspace communications

Discord: http://discord.thisweekintrek.com Patreon: http://patreon.com/starmike Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv News McFarlane Toys phaser all kinds of lights, sound, and accuracy! Ten Forward: Chris on Twitter: Would you put Captain Jellico from TNG in your top 10 list of best Trek captains? Star Trek in pop culture: Buffy the Vampire Slayer. S1, E12 Prophecy Girl Last week in Trek Episode insight: TAS S1: The Terratin Incident Character insight: Koss Subspace communications

Discord: http://discord.worldofwarcast.com Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/starmike Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv Ren Life invasions: thank you Cara - did not touch Love is in the Air Naked & Afraid monk: level 95, 3 days 22 hours, 46k gold Northrend: Leveling time slow, money amazing Pandaria: Leveling time medium-fast, money good Draenor: Leveling time medium-fast, money bad Mike Life invasion This Week in WoW Lunar Festival starts 2/17, runs to 3/3 Love is In the Air ends tomorrow Battleground bonus event starts Tuesday Ulduar Timewalking News Dungeon XP hotfix to bug introduced in 7.3.5 https://www.wowhead.com/news=281885/dungeon-experience-hotfixes Side effect to creature scaling broke awarded XP in some situations Significantly increased XP awarded for queuing for random Normal dungeons, Classic through Draenor Mobile Auction House has been restored New mount: Shu-zen, The Divine Sentinel - $25 in Blizz store (6 months game time for Chinese servers) - and fixed a scaling bug http://www.wowhead.com/news=281915/upcoming-changes-to-the-na-wow-mvp-program Battle for Azeroth: Alpha Build News Tons of class changes but these tend to change a lot over alpha/beta Allied races New allied race? Orc based - either Mag’har or Frostwolf Orcs (brown orcs) Datamined orc armor and a Mag’har Direwolf mount Dark Iron Dwarf racials Dungeon Delver: 4% increased indoor speed Fireblood: Removes all poison, disease, curse, magic and bleed effects and increases primary stat by 100 for each removed. 2 min cooldown Forged in Flames: 1% physical damage reduction Mass Production: 2x speed creating blacksmithed items Mole Machine: Summons a Mole Machine that tunnels through the earth (30 min cooldown) Non-caster damage that used to be calculated on weapon damage is now based on a combo of weapon damage and attack power to help bring better balance between classes that rely heavily on weapons vs. those who do not Return of Pepe: New Pepe costumes include a scuba costume and a Zandalari mask Hunter pet specialization: All pets will have equal damage, health and armor (all can tank or DPS equally well). Old designations Ferocity, Tenacity or Cunning will continue as categories, but as categories of pet families, not as descriptions of their utility All pets will have Growl and Dash or Swoop Pet families now each have a special ability - one active, one passive, depending on their category (examples: the passive for Ferocity is a 3% leech, for Tenacity, 10% max health, and for Cunning, 8% movement speed buff) Each pet family will get one of six different abilities. Examples include a healing reduction debuff, reduced damage, increased dodge, etc. Profession changes: (just noted things that are different or interesting) Major squish: Max profession skill cap going from 800 to 200 Alchemy preview: Tinctures - trinkets with combat buffs based on the flask you’re currently using Usual transmutes of changing one profession material to another. Also Fish to Gems and Meat to Pet. Blacksmithing preview: New stirrups for speed and interacting while mounted in the new zones Khaz’gorian Hammer - blacksmithing hammer replacement that gives a chance to give crafted armor or weapons the Indestructible property Cooking preview: Nothing special Enchanting preview: Nothing special Engineering: Portable transmogger Portable stable master Herbalism: Nothing special Inscription: Contracts: Enter a contract with a faction that allows you to gain reputation with them every time you complete a world quest in the new zones Jewelcrafting: +5% experience gem Leatherworking Scuba gear Mining: Nothing special Skinning: Nothing special Tailoring: finally getting a bag upgrade - 1 30 slot bag (same as HW), 1 32 slot bag Hot Air Baloon pet First Aid getting at least a revamp - may be removed entirely and folded into Tailoring First Aid achievements will become Legacy Feats of Strength Now listed as “legacy”. https://www.wowhead.com/news=281844/first-aid-potential-revamp-or-removal-in-battle-for-azeroth

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Discord: http://discord.worldofwarcast.com Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/starmike Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv Special guest host Cara(clysm) (@xandara) fills in for Ren. Mike Rep grinding is making me bored. Even if I did this when it was new, I find it dull because it’s too repetitive. 50% boost in rep from Sign of the Emissary, so go do it! I also haven’t upgraded yet. When I get to exalted in all 4, then I’ll do it. No rush now. Farming for the Love Rocket. No drops. Achievement runs Cara Heroic Antorus 2/11, first bosses aren’t too different Haven’t upgraded to BfA yet because I still feel like I have plenty to do without it right now, curious to see how long that will last But also I don’t really care about things as much as I used to? Like it’s still super fun! But I don’t feel like I NEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEED it. I.e. Love Rocket runs, I do them when I can but I don’t frustrate myself trying to fit them into my day I did claim my character names I want for my BfA allied race alts though. Seems they freed up a lot of names recently so if you have a name you couldn’t get before, give it a shot now! Me too! -MG (kek) This week in WoW Darkmoon Faire until the 11th Lunar Festival starts a week from today Ulduar News: BfA alpha is going out to some people. Not me :( Watched a few streams. Some people need to learn how to stream (don’t be rude!) I found the starting areas to be ok. Didn’t watch long. Wasn’t anything really impressive yet. Hotfixes: Nightborne faces should match what was selected Fire mage damage increased by a whopping 3% Hunter BM damage increased by 2.5% From Discord: BfA comes with a level 110 boost Shout out to PurpleMoose in Discord who was struggling what to do and used it for a Nightborne rogue. Utheron - bad experience with a GM. Was trying to make him switch specs.

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Discord: http://discord.worldofwarcast.com Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/starmike Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv Ren: N/A monk now level 74 with 2 days 18 hours played and over 20k gold Boosted my 62 paladin to 110 Mike: Rep grinding This Week in WoW Kirin Tor Tavern Crawl yesterday and today Arena Bonus Event til Tuesday Love Is In the Air Feb 2-16 (see news) Darkmoon Faire starts Sunday Next Tuesday: World Quest Bonus Event and PvP Brawl: Southshore vs. Tarren Mill News Hofixes: All accounts have 16 character slots per realm Preorder for Battle of Azeroth No official release date Server issues Perk: quests to unlock allied races Nightborne: Exalted with the The Nightfallen and completion of Insurrection Void Elf: Exalted with Argussian Reach and completion of You Are Now Prepared! Lightforged Draenei: Exalted with Army of the Light and completion of You Are Now Prepared! Highmountain Tauren: Exalted with Highmountain Tribe and completion of Ain't No Mountain High Enough Remember: DMF hat/carousel give rep bonuses, and next week is the world quest event which gives rep bonuses as well. Walking into Light’s Hope Cathedral with a void elf sparks some interesting conversation. http://www.wowhead.com/attunement The economic impact of allied races over the next few weeks Void Elves Everywhere! “Void elves are alliance only because they were crying and wanted their own blood elves”. - from Joe on the forums via a YouTuber he was watching Unlocking races on factions: you can do the requirements on either side but you need someone on that faction to do the unlock quests. (An Alliance member can have the achievements for Nightborne and Highmountain Tauren, but a 110 Horde must do the quests) Collector’s Edition perks Gilded Ravasaur (Horde) and Seabraid Stallion (Alliance) mounts Tottle turtle (aquatic) pet Overwatch voice lines, emotes, sprays and icons Heroes of the Storm Primal Flamesaber mount Starcraft II sprays Hearthstone card pack, Azeroth is Burning No Diablo perk 110 Boost details Boosts any toon to 110 Hearthstone and Dalaran hearthstone; hearthstone reset to Dalaram inn 3 level 870 artifact relics Level 35 artifact power and first artifact weapon (make sure you’re in the right spec!) Flight Master’s Whistle Kirin Tor supply bag, which contains basic food, water, starter ancient mana, ancient potions, mana diving stone, a tome of the tranquil mind If you are 60 or over, boosts primary professions to 700 and first aid to 700 Suramar is open to the extent that Thalyrissa is there and will give you the first few quests -- no longer have to do the opening scenario of finding her and escorting her in Does NOT come with a level 3 WOD garrison - reports if you boost a “Character Trial to 100” toon to permanent 110 that you will get the garrison Battle for Azeroth System Requirements Windows machines will need 64-bit systems Minimum processor: Intel Core i5-760 or AMD FX 8100 or higher, recommended i7 4770 or AMD FX 8310 - basically need at least a quad core machine now Video cards: 2GB minimum on video board, GeForce GT 560, AMD Radeon 7850 or Intel 530 - recommended GeForce GTX 960 or AMD Radeon R9 280 (up from 1GB cards) Memory: Minimum 4GB, recommends 8 GB (up from 2) Storage: 70 GB, recommends SSD, up from 45 No changes to minimum resolution/display Love Is In The Air - Feb 2-16 Speculation that the new flower crowns datamined earlier will be perks for this year’s Love Is In the Air Classic interview Old code no longer compiles Old database no longer works New graphics are on the table, wants to hear from the community My guess - not until 2019 Forum people are SO IMPATIENT. Naked & Afraid 51 unique participants Rule change: Allied Race Division Current highest level: 74 Three characters at 60 Mod of the Cast: Memoria (Tororosso) - https://wow.curseforge.com/projects/memoria Joe posted a screenshot macro on the Naked and Afraid discussion board that displays played time and takes a screenshot 0.2 seconds after Tororosso posted about Memoria, an addon that takes a screenshot automatically for different milestones, such as leveling, achievements, reputation levels, or when a battleground or arena ends. Only issue with Memoria is that it doesn’t put in the /played time, unless you’ve put it in right before you ding

Discord: http://discord.worldofwarcast.com Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/starmike Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv Ren: N&A monk now level 62 with 1 day 20 hours /played and almost 15k gold Utilized the one-switch rule to respec from brewmaster to windwalker around level 45 Went “in order” until about level 40, and then went out of order doing zones where I had no transmogs (Burning Steppes, Stonetalon, and Southern Barrens) - thank you All The Things. Finished to 60 in Winterspring to level up mining Went straight to Northrend (Howling Fjord), skipped Outland entirely Mike: Working on rep and mounts. Still working on that Nerf Scrapbots achievement. Is it bugged? This Week in WoW Burning Crusade Timewalking Call of the Scarab ended Tuesday Arena Skirmishes start Tuesday Kirin Tor Tavern Crawl mini event Wednesday News Battle of Azeroth Collectors’ Edition perks datamined - https://www.wowhead.com/news=281070/battle-for-azeroth-collectors-edition-rewards-seabraid-stallion-gilded-ravasaur-?webhook/battle-for-azeroth-collectors-edition-rewards-seabraid-stallion-gilded-raptor-to - Seabraid Stallion (Alliance), Gilded Ravasaur (Horde) and Tottle (turtle pet) Shu-zen, the Divine Sentinel flying dog mount datamined - probably part of Lunar Festival (Year of the Dog) starting Feb 16 Transmog bug - people reporting not being able to transmog while wearing some items from [Satchel of Helpful Goods] Changes to Recruit a Friend: Experience gains reduced from 200 to 50%. Heirloom XP bonus no longer stacks with RAF XP bonuses Patch 7.3.5 hotfixes this week Lost Mail - now properly spawns at random Dalaran locations and Postmaster title is now account-wide. Fixed the Normal/Heroic HP pool boss switch Raiding fixes take boss HP levels BELOW previous levels Fixed the bug that made pet names disappear Boulder quest in Redridge has been fixed Patch 7.3.5 - Leveling Transitions between expansions No big gear reset until level 61, when item levels jumped from 60 to 80 Professions do transfer but not smoothly When you buy your skill for mining/herbs from 300, it now goes to 450 instead of 375 (both expansions) Experience with mining: could gather and learn to smelt both Fel Iron (Outland) and Cobalt Ore (Northrend). Started with 252 mining; could only gather Cobalt Ore Nuggets By level 325, still only collecting nuggets. Went to Outland and confirmed I could collect whole Fel Iron Ore. However, Fel Iron was gray (getting no skill). Cobalt Ore still orange (getting skill) Last level to get Cobalt Nuggets: 340. Started getting whole cobalt at 341. Cobalt Ore gathers still orange and still getting orange skill from smelting. Turned Yellow at 350. Turned Green at 362. Can get 80+ mining skill points off smelting alone (started slowing down at 355) - market has not caught up on all servers, but on Silvermoon ore is selling for 5x more than bars. Filius reported re: manufacturing professions, also skipping to Northrend: There are recipes to make things at your level, but the results may not be usable. Was making potions that he could create in low 60s that were only usable by mid-70s. Idea: how to find what’s good to sell? Naked & Afraid 2018 Cattarina is new winner of the Shaman Challenge with 2 days 1 hour Up to 41 participants, 28 of whom are now 20 or over All classes represented, with most popular being druids (9) and monks (7); least represented, shaman (1) and priest (2) 8 participants currently have more than 1000 gold. Two have 3000 or more, and one has nearly 15,000 Minor rule clarifications: Auction mules may not do anything but buy and sell -- no primary or secondary skill use (cooking, disenchanting, smelting). Some confusion over mounts and which you can use Some confusion over use of inherent class abilities such as hunter pet respeccing and use of monk daily Filius is also live streaming Lessons Learned: Lessons in the leveling experience from our Discord family Restrictions: not as bad as Ironman Challenge

Discord: http://discord.thisweekintrek.com Patreon: http://patreon.com/starmike Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv News Jason Issacs nominated for best actor - Empire Magazine awards. The Shape of Water nominated for several Oscars. New gear on the Star Trek store. Also - Charon Ten Forward: Chris on Twitter: “Watch DS9 season2 Past Tense: Part 1 and part 2. Seriuosly.” Which would you rather have: a great Trek story that breaks cannon or an average story that doesn’t break cannon? Star Trek in pop culture: Veep (2016), HBO. Julia Louis-Dreyfus. Political comedy / drama. In this season finale, there’s a close election just like the one in 2016. 00:14 Last week in Trek Episode insight: DS9, S3: Past Tense Part 1 Character insight: Sito Jaxa Subspace communications

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Discord: http://discord.worldofwarcast.com Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/starmike Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv Ren - Did transmog count, found out only had 17% of mail transmogs Kind of Argussed out Running WoW off new SSD .. makes an enormous difference Mike - Still having problems with XT achievement. One day we get to 18, the next, 0 I got a pony! I lost 700 achievement points, probably due to rearranging the achivements. Mournful Moan of Murmur is now up and running after TWO YEARS of being broken. I have not yet tried to level a toon yet. The price of Celendras dropped like a rock. From 750k to 50k. When you go into Ulduar, it’s now 10-man no matter what you set raid to. It took forever to kill Galleon and Sha of Anger. Zone quests are now gauged by chapters, not numbers of quests completed. I was mailed all the new mats. This Week in WoW Pet Battle Event Call of the Scarab - Jan 21-23 Patch 7.3.5 Patch notes: https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/news/21365423 Undocumented patch notes Known issues: Mobile/web AH disabled Dungeon boss HP levels reversed Normal vs. Heroic Raid boss difficulty - difficulty turned up for Warlords/Pandaria raids to put in line with leveling characters but overtuned them Pet names disappearing New backpack slots not showing up right away for new authenticators Last wing of Argus LFR was bugged - if you wipe you can’t get back in Redridge quest Saving Foreman Oslow not working Patch 7.3.5: Leveling The leveling experience: uneven reviews Journey vs destination Ren’s personal experiences doing N&A and feedback from the N&A participants Professions: 1-60 profession progression still klunky Still have old gathers (copper ore, thorium ore, peacebloom, goldthorn) tied to former zones Level gains from herb/ore gathers still about the same as it was - about 1.7% of total level XP per gather for lower level gathers (reduces over time - was down slightly below 1% at level 63) Leather/cloth gathers still tied to former zones (eg. leather experiment in Azeroth, cloth in BC/WOTLK) Mobs and equipment scale to the toon, but profession drops still scale to the zone Pro: You can still do predictable lower level farming Con: Leveling might be a freedom of choice experience, but leveling professions is not -- still tied to old zone definitions Solution: Flatten mats to three tiers -- levels 1-20, 20-40 and 40-60. Enchanting squish did not go far enough, may have skipped guild banks entirely Naked & Afraid 2018 Ren is level 19 in N&A - not highest toon but has the most gold (Maxx, gnome outlaw rogue, is level 30 with 9 hours /played) Started Wednesday, 1/17 - join in anytime 3 official servers but you don’t have to join Lots of minor rule clarifications, one major change Almost 30 official participants so far Shout out to MythGamingMN for streaming his N&A. Mod of the Cast: Pawn Mod of the Cast (Mike): All The Things

Discord: http://discord.thisweekintrek.com Patreon: http://patreon.com/starmike Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv News Wilson Cruz is in the credits as a ”recurring guest star” because series regulars are exclusive to that project. He can’t be exclusive because he is also recurring on another series called 13 Reasons Why. "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine -- Volume 2" soundtrack collection is now available at LaLaLandRecords.com March 6 on Netflix: ALIENS ATE MY HOMEWORK is a new film featuring William Shatner. https://trekmovie.com/2018/01/12/report-viacom-and-cbs-considering-re-merging-deal-would-bring-star-trek-under-single-company/ Cosmos S2 coming Finally, Seattle! Remembering Leonard Nimoy will air on KBTC - February 22nd at 9pm. Ten Forward: Chris on Twitter: Who do u think would have been a great guest star on TOS when it aired in the 60’s? Star Trek in pop culture: Camp Nowhere, 1994. Christopher Lloyd, Also Kate Mulgrew & Jonathan Frakes. In this scene, the kids are writing a fake letter to home cuz they’re actually not at camp. 00:13 Last week in Trek Episode insight: TNG: S5, Unification 2 Character insight: The characters of Mark Lenard

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Discord: discord.thisweekintrek.com Patreon: patreon.com/starmike Twitch: twitch.tv/starmiketv News William Shatner appointed to the Order of Canada for his contributions to pop culture. bit.ly/shatroc Get tickets for WILLIAM SHATNER at STAR TREK:ORIGINAL SERIES SET TOUR! Saturday May 5th on The Enterprise sets in Ticonderoga N.Y. 12883 Tickets are available at startrektour.com Anthony Rapp and Wilson Cruz on several magazine covers this week. https://shop.startrek.com/dept/new-arrivals Ten Forward: Chris on Twitter: Who do u think is the best singer in Trek? My vote is Jeri Ryan. Star Trek in pop culture: “Littlest Petshop” S1, E16. The owner gets a new truck & the pets explore it. Last week in Trek Episode insight: TNG: S5, Unification 1 Character insight: Ensign Tess Allenby Subspace communications

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Discord: http://discord.worldofwarcast.com Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/starmike Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv Ren Going for the drake achievement -- sort of Got 3 fel eggs this week: 1 Felglow Mana Ray mount, 1 Fel-Afflicted Skyfin pet, and Now “the Exalted” … “the Beloved” next?? Slowly getting everyone completed with the Argus campaign New toon: male blood elf protection paladin (going to go brewmaster monk for N&A) - almost level 40 Discussion: What makes you keep an alt? (@Cattarina and the “nursery of alts”) Mike More Ulduar achievements Still can’t do XT. Tried on alts. Just bad luck. Going to finish up Argus because I’ve neglected it too long. This Week in WoW Third wing of Antorus is open Battleground bonus event Darkmoon Faire opens Sunday Did we all watch Jeff Kaplan by the fire? News Legion Attunement Tracker on Wowhead now tracks Allied race unlock requirements Nightborne unlocks with completing Suramar (Good Suramaritan) Highmountain unlocks with completing High mountain (Aint No Mountain High Enough) Void Elf and Lightforged Draenei open with completing the Argus campaign (You Are Now Prepared!) Attunement tool at http://www.wowhead.com/attunement New hunter pets on PTR for 7.3.5 - including ones obviously meant to be starter pets for new allied races Nightborne: Manasaber Highmountain Tauren: Great Eagle Void Elf: Voidstalker Lightforged Draenei: Lightforged Talbuk Other hunter pets include beasts clearly from Argus, such as umbralfins, dustcloaks, and chitinbuks, and ones clearly associated with Silithus like silithids, flying hornets, scorpids, and spiders Allied race racials: more complete data. (Speculate on best classes?) Nightborne: Hunter, Mage, Monk, Priest, Rogue, Warlock, Warrior +15 to inscription=, increased magical damage by 1, access maili for 1.5 minutes (cooldown 10 minutes), A Force Shield that deals arcane damage and snares them by 50%, lasts 20 seconds (no info on cooldown), 1% magic resistance Highmountain Tauren: Druid, Hunter, Monk, Shaman, Warrior charge that knocks down enemies for 1.5 seconds (2 minute cooldown), +15 to mining and faster mining, +1% to versatility, overall damage reduction by 330 (scale?) and increased chance to loot additional meat and fish. Void Elf: Hunter, Mage, Monk, Priest, Rogue, Warlock, Warrior 1% reduction of shadow and arcane damage, “your abilities have a chance to empower you with the essence of the void” (?), reduces void storage and transmog costs by 50%, spell casts not delayed by taking damage, and a built-in rift teleportation similar to warlock gating (2 minute cooldown). Lightforged Draenei: Hunter, Mage, Paladin, Priest, Warrior 20% extra xp for killing demons, +10 to blacksmithing plus summoning a Forge of Light on demand, reduce holy damage by 1%, call down a strike of holy energy damaging enemies within 5 yards after 3 sec, and “erupt with light upon death, dealing holy damage to enemies and healing allies). Speculation: Allied races are not going to be introduced in 7.3.5, but there are plenty of files being pushed to the servers about four of the six races, which gives Bliz the option of releasing them before the expansion. Thoughts? Original dry run of Leeeeroy Jenkins video https://youtu.be/8hmgrHohDGM From the Discord: How to do less damage for raid achievements, without having to de-equip items or gear: From @OPH on Discord: brought up there was a toy or shirt that used to exist that would reduce damage output by 90%. This is true. Whole Body Shrinka toy, which shrinks you down to a tiny size and does reduce your damage output to about 10% -- lasts for 3 minutes but has a 30 minute cooldown. Soft Foam Sword also allows you to "mortally wound" a trivial enemy, but it isn't usable in dungeons or raids. What else could be done? Came up with a cheap engineering solution even non-engineers can use. Further discussion on queuing a Broken Shore class hall mission for Broken Shore Campaign - @settlersrule said he was forced to take a 3 day elite mission because that was all that was available. Tips on how to manage this situation. From Twitter: Going back to my report that the Murky world quest dismounts you when you fly over it, apparently it’s not just Murky, but any quest where you morph. @Frenzol informed me the wisp quest in Val’sharah does the same thing.

Discord: discord.thisweekintrek.com Patreon: patreon.com/starmike Twitch: twitch.tv/starmiketv News What’s with Scotty and coffee? [clip] 00:12 Free month of CBS All Access with code word “BINGE”. Black Mirror Trek Episode. Ten Forward: Chris on Twitter: If u could make a New Years resolution for the people in charge of Trek, what would it be? Star Trek in pop culture: “The Chair” a show on Starz where 2 1st-time directors make the same movie. In this clip, they’re scouting a location (refinery) that looks like a Borg ship. Also, Zachary Quinto is a series producer. Last week in Trek Episode insight: ENT: S4, Terra Prime Character insight: Peter Weller's characters in Star Trek Subspace communications

Discord: http://discord.worldofwarcast.com Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/starmike Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv Ren: Thanks to Cara for filling in for me last week - also thanks for the tips on how to speed up load screen times Hit Revered with Argussian Reach, Exalted with Scryers and Shado-pan Finished 6 out of 7 class mount quests for my 110s (druid, mage, rogue, hunter, warlock, and priest) - only warrior to go thoughts on class mount quests and how class mounts are treated differently Finished 150 mounts usable on 1 character for the Jade Pandaren Kite (currently at 164) Got 3 Shado-pan mounts and a couple “unsolicited” mounts - Wild Dreamrunner and Crimson Slavermaw Finished Argus campaign on 3 characters (druid, warlock, and rogue) One stupid three star Crispy Bacon recipe short of finished with cooking with warrior Mike: Nothing this week. Too busy. This Week in WoW Continuation of Winter Veil Mists of Pandaria Timewalking Shaman Challenge: 2 new finishers = Rokica and Settlersrule Discussion: 2017 In Review

Discord: discord.thisweekintrek.com Patreon: patreon.com/starmike News Screenwriter Mark L. Smith tapped to develop script for Tarantino Trek. Star Trek: Discovery Pinewood Toronto Studios To double in size. Friday, January 12, Hockey: the Florida Panthers vs. the Calgary Flames -- and also Star Trek Night. Each ticket includes a cool Star Trek commemorative piece. Star Trek: Bridge Crew (Ubisoft) is now playable without VR on PS4 & PC. Ten Forward: Chris on Twitter: After Trek 5, were u surprised they made a 6th film? Also, were u also surprised how good Trek 6 was compared to 5? Star Trek in pop culture: “Let’s Be Evil” 2016. Horror/Sci Fi about young adults caring for a group of gifted kids being specially trained in a VR world. Clip1: One of the caretakers comments on the glasses “I feel like Geordi LaForge - Star Trek”. 00:06 Clip2: The same person comments on a VR test being given. 00:29 Last week in Trek Episode insight: ENT: S4, Demons Character insight - Gabler from TAS Subspace communications

Discord: https://discord.worldofwarcast.com Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/starmike Special Guest Cara (@xanadara) joins us! Mike: Achievements continue More from Ulduar Still having problems with XT May be my fault - timing of the bots/heart https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZX8JuIoOY30 Got “Maybe He’ll Get Dizzy” Got my mount Are we at that point in the game where we finally take our time and slack off a bit? Cara: Warcraft news lately is all about the future: patch 7.3.5 datamining, Battle for Azeroth speculation… focus on the here and now? Lean in to your community for keeping the game fresh while waiting for new content *Cara news* Campfire Chronicles @CampfireChronic on Twitter and CCOfficialStories@gmail.com RCC at 7/11 Normal Antorus SALE! ~ 50% off most pets, mounts, and transmog helms https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/news/11944163 Seasonal Event! ~ Winter Veil is up til January 2nd HazelNuttyGames’ video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wpk9FKQrSc Globe Yeti wild battle pet spawns in the snow globes! Ironforge and Org, not Dalaran - one spawns every 30min http://www.wowhead.com/news=278497/feast-of-winter-veil-2017-holiday-updates-and-guide https://www.mmo-champion.com/content/7266-Feast-of-Winter-Veil-Live-Lightsabers-Return-WoW-Alpha-Update-WoW-History Elixir of the Rapid Mind no longer drops from Savage Gift Don't forget to do the followup to You're a Mean One..., as it rewards Smokywood Pastures Special Gift, which has a small chance to contain Winter's Grasp or Flames of Ragnaros. *weapon enchantment illusions for transmog* New Winter's Veil music was added in Patch 7.1 Farm the mount from Hillsbrad Foothills with characters level 60+ Use the teleporter to Dalaran Crater in new Dalaran to get there quickly From Discord: Ali - The year is winding down. Maybe talk about favorite moments of the year? Or favorite part of/memories of Winter Veil? Raaaaaidinnnnng! ~ Antorus LFR Wing 2 opened this week. This includes the bosses Portal Keeper Hasabel, Eonar the Life-Binder, and Imonar the Soulhunter. Wing 3 opens January 2nd. Overwatch winter wonderland loot boxes up until Jan. 2

Discord: discord.thisweekintrek.com Patreon: patreon.com/starmike News gorn_captain: NEWS: During a press conference at New York Comic Con, executive producer Akiva Goldsman confirmed that Spock will not appear on Star Trek: Discovery, despite some references to the characters already popping up in episodes of the new series. http://comicbook.com/startrek/2017/12/19/star-trek-discovery-spock/ Titles for the next six episodes of Discovery: 10. “Despite Yourself” 11. “The Wolf Inside” 12. “Vaulting Ambition.” 13. “What’s Past is Prologue” 14. “The War Without, The War Within” 15. “Will You Take My Hand?” Ten Forward: Chris on Twitter: Were u glad that there was never a cliffhanger ending to a TOS episode that left u hanging for a resolution for months? (Best of Both Worlds) Star Trek in pop culture: “Security Now” Youtube tech series. Last week in Trek Episode insight: TAS: S1E6 The Survivor Character insight - Mr. Arex

Discord: https://discord.worldofwarcast.com Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/starmike Ren: Life Invasion continuation - won’t be here next week Yes, I was making a mountain out of a molehill, or YES DAMNIT I CAN FLY NOW How the raid really works for getting Good Suramaritan The overwhelmed WoW person’s quick and dirty guide to getting flying Stupid flight bugs -- Murky, stop dismounting me!! Working on getting my neglected toons un-neglected Pro tip: If you’re two manning dungeons in WoW, pay attention to dungeon difficulty setting Mike: Yes, you can even screw up 25-man achievements. Add-ons Still no new mounts. This Week in WoW: Method has finished mythic Argus 320 pulls Winter Veil starts this week (Dec 16-Jan 2) New stuff Hearthstation toy - sets out an “improved” Hearthstone table to play. No confirmation where this is from but possibly from Gently Shaken Gift Winter Veil Gift is a Toy Weapon Set, which lets you spar with other players. Gives achievement Don’t Play Wi th That In The House New pet: Globe Yeti. Probably wild, no data on where it is yet And all the usual stuff -- garrison decorations, presents, the Greench dailies Cara has a new podcast w/ Plaggy Boy called “Campfire Chronicles” - stories about WoW News: https://blizzardwatch.com/2017/12/12/get-vicious-war-fox-patch-7-3-5/ PTR Trial of Style Season 2 is up. If you buy the trial, the game banks up your XP post-cap and then gives it to you when you buy it. NOT SURE HOW I FEEL ABOUT THIS. What about all the stuff I have in my bank? Several reagents no longer exist: Greater Astral Essence, Lesser Astral Essence, Greater Mystic Essence, Lesser Mystic Essence, Greater Nether Essence, Lesser Nether Essence, Nexus Crystal, Large Glimmering Shard, Small Glimmering Shard, Soul Dust, Vision Dust, Small Glowing Shard, Large Glowing Shard, Dream Dust, Small Radiant Shard, Large Radiant Shard Illusion Dust is now Light Illusion Dust Newbie zones are now 1-20. Ren’s on the PTR on Renatta (two Ts) on Benedictus. I have a channel “worldofwarcast” if folks on Benedictus want to chat while online. Discussion (@thecowking): What should you farm or bank to prepare for the upcoming expansion? Discussions in Discord: The Profession Manifesto for Battle for Azeroth - We want professions that aren’t gated. Also, spend more time focusing on usefulness than story Cattarina’s idea of having a Discord channel for weekly achievements.

Discord: discord.thisweekintrek.com Patreon: patreon.com/starmike News Tarantino Trek will be rated R. Anthony Rapp gets on the first IDW Discovery annual https://13thdimension.com/exclusive-first-look-idws-march-2018-star-trek-comics/ Ten Forward: Chris on Twitter: What is the best and worst Star Trek Christmas present you have received? Star Trek in pop culture: Jeopardy 00:18 Last week in Trek Episode insight: Voyager S4E24, “Demon”. Directed by Anson Williams Character insight - Crewman Nelson

Discord: https://discord.worldofwarcast.com Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/starmike Ren: McAdoo fired (and so was Jerry Reese) … Geno Smith didn’t win the day and Eli is back Life invasions, but managed to do some gaming Mod of the Cast: MaxDPS (for remembering how to play forgotten toons) Mike: More achievement hunting. XT seems to be problematic. Staying buffed all winter may be buggy Forgot to do Algalon Next week - all 25-man Still need that 5-man Scholo one. I started working on addons. Finally. This Week in WoW Darkmoon Faire ends Sunday PvP week next week - Arena Skirmish and PvP brawl weekly events Feast of Winter Veil starts on the 16th Kobolds and Catacombs has an epic trailer. I still won’t play it. https://youtu.be/Q0blneW2fTo News Shaman Challenge: No new finishers, but Rokica and Settlersrule both reached 100 From last week: Artifact Knowledge 55 cap reached 7.3.5 hit the PTR Zone levels: While the continent zones all have the same upper limit, the lower limit varies, more or less matching the lowest level needed to enter the zones today (so no going from 10-60 in Silithus) In the 1-60 Azeroth zones, once you hit 40 you can go anywhere https://blizzardwatch.com/2017/12/06/level-scaling-testers-wanted-wow-7-3-5-ptr/ How will this affect storylines? You can’t jump from Redridge to Burning Steppes, can you? Racial embassies Horde embassy in Org, Alliance in SW Seems to be where you will recruit unlocked races in the expansion Racial abilities and racial mounts datamined by Wowhead, https://www.wowhead.com/news=277415/7-3-5-ptr-allied-races-mounts-and-racial-abilities Dalaran Mailroom quest and minigame - pick up “Lost Mail” near a Dalaran mailbox to start (not sure about respawn time or frequency) Rewards: the Mailemental pet A toy to summon Katy Stampwhistle, a mail assistant who will “deliver and retrieve mail until she is called elsewhere” Discussions from Discord: How to level fishing as fast as possible Margoss + Ancient Vrykul Ring/Rusty Queenfish Brooch = Fast Leveling How many vanilla players does it take to change a lightbulb?

Discord: discord.thisweekintrek.com Patreon: patreon.com/starmike News Quinton Trekentino? The whole Shatner blocking Isaacs thing lasted 2 days. Marina Sirtis personally assured me that shatner does his own tweets. 33 days until the return of DSC. http://ew.com/movies/2017/12/04/please-stand-by-trailer-dakota-fanning http://www.startrek.com/article/discovery-soundtrack-set-for-release (Black Mirror) USS Callister https://trekmovie.com/2017/12/05/watch-preview-of-uss-callister-black-mirrors-homage-to-star-trek/ Ten Forward: Chris on Twitter: Do u think the popularity of TAS contributed to TMP being made? Star Trek in pop culture: Curb Your Enthusiasm, S9, E6. Last week in Trek Episode insight: Voyager S5E18, “Course: Oblivion”. Directed by Potsie. Character insight - Admiral Paris

Discord: https://discord.worldofwarcast.com Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/starmike Our talk about WoW Classic. This week: Ren: WHO BENCHES ELI? Accidental discovery: how accidentally three-manning heroic Eye of Azshara turned into two-manning normal dungeons (EoA, Black Rook, Vault of the Wardens, Violet Hold, Darkheart Thicket, Maw of Souls), mage and warlock style Epic troll druid progress: Resurrected October 26 -- in 30 days, leveled 101-110, finished 2 druid weapons, class hall, Broken Shore campaign, Argus campaign, iLevel 913 Worgen mage finished class hall, almost finished Argus, iLevel 911 - first level 1000 legendary Mike: Achievement hunting w/Ali Mount farming - nothing this week dropped :( This Week in WoW Antorus opened Antorus Mythic opens next week End of Pilgrim’s Progress, 13th Anniversary Pet XP event ends Tuesday Cataclysm Timewalking next Tuesday News and Discussion Shaman Challenge - new finishers and a new record! New secret mount discovered http://www.wowhead.com/item=152814/maddened-chaosrunner#comments New mount in Heroic Argus - Violet Spellwing Spoilers from the cinematic! Classic server discussion continued What happened when? An overview of vanilla patches Mod histories When did mods become available? First Mod of the Cast - SellValue, 26 March 2006 First 5 mods still available from Curse (but only one still works)

News Star Trek night at San Franscisco’s AT&T Park next August. On Sale at 10:00am on 11/20. Your Special Event ticket package includes a ticket to watch the Giants take on the Mets, & a Star Trek/Giants Starfleet Command Badge Hat. Friday, August 31, at 7:15 PM at AT&T Park. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/687399845/year-four-by-five-year-mission Shatner blocks Jason Isaacs Ten Forward: Chris on Twitter: Who would u like to share a drink with: Scotch with Scotty, Vodka with Chekov or Saurian Brandy with McCoy? Star Trek in pop culture: Almost Famous Last week in Trek Episode insight: TOS S1: Shore Leave Character insight - Commander Kelby

Discord: discord.thisweekintrek.com Patreon: patreon.com/starmike News Star Trek Continues Jason Isaacs uses a southern accent cuz he didn’t wanna sound like Picard. Ten Forward: Chris on Twitter: Rokeg Blood Pie, Gagh or Pipius claw; which Klingon delicacy would u serve for your family for Thanksgiving? None is not an answer. :) Star Trek in pop culture: Star Trek 3D Chess consultant Leroy Dubek. Suggested by Daniel on Twitter. https://youtu.be/PqoD1Xkmwro Last week in Trek Episode insight: TNG S1: The Last Outpost Subspace communications

Discord: https://discord.worldofwarcast.com Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/starmike Our talk about WoW Classic. This week: Ren - Shaman now level 108 Now declaring new main: troll feral cat druid Going to finish Suramar and get flying -- I swear it will be done Jewelcrafting mounts Mike - Mount farming and a lot of toon cleanup. Achievement farming w/Ali. I still one-shot things. This week in WoW WoW Anniversary - until November 30th Mail goodies: Celebration Package: 13% XP and rep bonus - 10 second cooldown, multiple uses throughout the next 2 weeks Stupid tabard though 200 timewarped badges A letter that starts Interesting Times, first quest to visit a historian in Stormwind or Orgrimmar Daily quests: Time to Reflect - 25 timewarped badges for answering a lore question The Originals - 50 timewarped badges slay Lord Kazzak, Azuregos, and Dragon of Nightmare Respawn timer 5 minutes Lord Kazaak - Blasted Lands, north of the Tainted Forest Azuregos - Azshara, southeast of the Secret Lab Dragons of Nightmare - can be in Duskwood, Ashenvale, Hinterlands and Feralas Druids: Dreamwalk can take you to some locations for Dragons of Nightmare (different Emerald Portals) New badge loot Bronze-Tinted Sunglasses - cosmetic transmog for 200 TW badges Two celebration wands for 25 TW badges (5 charges) - Quillboar and Trogg Tranquil Mechanical Yeti Costume (3 charges) - 50 timewarped badges Can save TW badges for a variety of toys, mounts, and pets Pilgrim’s Bounty - November 20 - 27 Do daily quests and earn achievements to earn pets, transmogs, and Want to get Fine Pilgrim’s Hat, which adds the Pilgrim’s Hat transmog to all armor types - can be found in the daily quest reward Pilgrim’s Bounty Good for leveling low level cooking & collecting new cooking recipes The last (for now) thoughts on classic servers. Battle For Azeroth Q&A Heart of Azeroth will replace tier bonuses The incentive will be Heart of Azeroth upgrades and other items. 7.3.5 - Antorus Epilogue quest content, Ulduar Timewalking, preview of Silithus BG, scaling world content. Rep standing might affect allied race unlocking. Yes, you can race change to an allied race Troll posture will be covered in Zandalari allied race Not as many legendaries in BfA No plans for 10-man Mythic Blizz thinks this is an “exciting time” for World PvP. I disagree. Once that hordie hovers over you for the third time, you just tick your flag off.

Discord: discord.thisweekintrek.com Patreon: patreon.com/starmike News Discovery returns from hiatus on Jan. 7 with the episode “Despite Yourself”. Work on S2 actually started yesterday. Leonard Nimoy album “Mr Spock’s Music From Outer Space” to be re-released on vinyl Nov 24. Limited to 1800 copies. Ten Forward: Chris on Twitter: Which Klingon actor did u like best: Christopher Plummer or Christopher Lloyd? Star Trek in pop culture: DC’s Legends of Tomorrow. S3, E3 “Zari”. In this clip there’s a superhero rescuing a ship & he’s asked how it’s going. Suggested by Jordan on Twitter. 00:11 Last week in Trek Episode insight: DS9 S6, E22: Valiant Character insight - Azan and Rebi

Discord: discord.thisweekintrek.com Patreon: patreon.com/starmike We take a look at Episode 9, "Into the Forest I Go"

Discord: https://discord.worldofwarcast.com Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/starmike Our talk about WoW Classic. This week: Ren - Shaman: level 96 Shaman challenge spreadsheet (of course it’s a spreadsheet) Resurrected old Legion baby troll druid Remembered why auction mules need to be at least level 10 Looking forward to season 12 in Diablo 3 Mike - Lots of mount runs on all toons. Only got the egg. I figure out how to solo Deathwing. Also, I tend to one-shot things. This week in WoW Darkmoon Faire ends Saturday Lich King timewalking Sunday - Moonkin Festival in Moonglade (1 day) Observe baby moonkin dancing, napping and moonfiring and get your own temporary Moonkin Companion pet for 24 hours Other quests let you increase up to 5 moonkin babies following you around for up to 5 days World boss: Ana-Mouz in Suramar. Drops Skimpy Leather Tunic for transmog.

Discord: discord.thisweekintrek.com Patreon: patreon.com/starmike News Nov 20: Work on DSC Season 2 begins. May not debut until 2019. Anovos DSC phaser prop replica: Wave one: December 2017 delivery. ANOVOS has cut off wave one on November 15 or whenever 50 units are sold, whichever comes first. Wave 1 closed - wave 2 delivery Feb 2018 DSC Engineer is now on Twitter @GeorgeAlevizo_ All of TNG Blu-ray $78.80. Orville: The latest episode had almost no laughs & I loved it. Ten Forward: Chris on Twitter: Lucille Ball practically saved Trek if I understand it correctly. Wonder why she never acted in any episodes? She just had no interest in doing so. Saving it was a business decision. Star Trek in pop culture: Here’s Lucy, 1972. Episode “Lucy’s Replacement”. She arrives at work to find a large computer that is being rented as a trial to possibly replace her. DC’s Legends of Tomorrow. S3, E3 “Zari”. In this clip there’s a superhero rescuing a ship & he’s asked how it’s going. Suggested by Jordan on Twitter. 00:11 Last week in Trek NCIS Two idiots, one keyboard clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8qgehH3kEQ Episode insight: VOY S4, E22: Unforgettable Character insight - Ishka

Discord: https://discord.worldofwarcast.com Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/starmike Our talk about WoW Classic will be on Thursday's episode. Incoming for 7.3.5 - (no release date; not even up on PTR yet) Timewalking Ulduar, new battleground Event in Silithus to herald in the start of expansion Leveling Improvements (yay!!!!!) All content previous to Warlords will SCALE TO LEVEL - within ranges Classic starting zones: 1-10 All old world vanilla zones: 10-60 Burning Crusade and Wrath zones: 60-80 Cataclysm and Pandaria zones: 80-90 What this means: You can actually complete zones without leveling out of them and feeling forced to move on and you can choose where you level up Dungeons will also scale accordingly - so will loot drops (yes, run Wailing Caverns at 60 and you’ll get level 60 mobs and level 60 gear) Incoming also - no release date Accounts with an authenticator attached will get a “small increase” to the size of their standard 16 slot backpack - may be connected to WoW’s upcoming 13th anniversary event (Nov 16-30) Expansion: Battle for Azeroth (not Tides of Vengeance) - also no release date Basics: Level to 120 (one instant boost to 110) Return to faction based play areas Bye-bye Teldrassil and Undercity (but not Silvermoon and Exodar) -- hello each faction controlling their own continent Does the zone control mean no leveling zones for the opposite faction? New island zones Zandalar and Kul Tiras with three areas for each Horde: Zandalar - obviously troll focused Alliance: Kul Tiras - naval power (which we’ve never seen because apparently they’re so good they can hide the most powerful navy in the world from everyone until now) New subraces: the four we mentioned on the last show plus two more (Horde: Highland Tauren, Nightborne and Zandalari Troll. Alliance: Void Elf, Lightforged Draenei and Dark Iron Dwarves). Will get 6 new character slots on each server You have to open these subraces via quests -- once opened it’s accountwide Subraces start at level 20. You can race-switch into them using Blizzard game services, but if you run one from 20 to 120 you get an achievement plus special heritage armor transmog 3-person Island Cooperative challenge gameplay Changing mini scenarios on islands Would like to have seen this scalable to other size groups - 3 is awkward 20-person raids called Warfronts to claim strategic locations this is a PvE system, not PvP, “inspired by classic Warcraft RTS battles” (Ren: Damn good thing or the Horde on Whisperwind is screwed) Artifact amulet (Heart of Azeroth) instead of an artifact weapon - a system with a sort of mini-talent tree used to select and empower abilities - replacements for the Artifact, Artifact Power and Netherlight Crucible systems from Legion Powered by Azerite, will automatically absorb Azerite when it’s nearby Helm, chest, and shoulders will be empowered through Heart of Azeroth Probably will need an entire episode just on this - but practical upshot is the artifact weapons are going away and this is the replacement PVP/PVE server distinction is going away - now it will be selectable Internal sharding allows PVP-flagged players to see/group with only one another, and PVE-unflagged players to see/group only with one another All servers will run under same rules of engagement Only place you can flag PVP is in capital cities - can’t flag PVP on the fly No randomly flagged people running around PvP gives added bonuses in addition to added risk Item level decrease incoming Not exactly the warlords “stat squish” where numbers were reduced across the board Numbers from the Dungeon Journal in the demo at Blizzcon - 880 items were showing up as 215, 900 as 235, 1000 as 335 Basically trying to make numbers a bit more meaningful Presumably mobs and such will be scaled as well -- functionally should not change, just how it’s displayed New model changes incoming for several character races - Orcs and Trolls were demoed to choose between a hunched or upright character). Mostly focused on original races, plus blood elf and draenei. Goblins and Worgen will get makeovers later. Beta Opt-In for Expansion https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/battle-for-azeroth - scroll to the bottom of the page if you want to get into the beta