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Ashran left Petronas and started on his tech entrepreneurship journey with web development and started on the video streaming idea even before YouTube ! Remember RealPlayer ? "Do Something Different" lead them to social content network Joota which almost went public. That journey was the best MBA school for him, which was the best preparation for MaGIC. How was that tightrope walk between government and entrepreneurs ? And now Dattel, an anlytics company that knows customers at a national level. YouTube: https://youtu.be/fCHj96PvUts

Ashran left Petronas and started on his tech entrepreneurship journey with web development and started on the video streaming idea even before YouTube ! Remember RealPlayer ? "Do Something Different" lead them to social content network Joota which almost went public. That journey was the best MBA school for him, which was the best preparation for MaGIC. How was that tightrope walk between government and entrepreneurs ? And now Dattel, an anlytics company that knows customers at a national level.YouTube: https://youtu.be/fCHj96PvUts

Technically PVP Show Notes   Episode 99 - Mythic Esports   20:21 - Need-Greed-Pass In this segment, one of the host’s will pose a scenario with three options related to WOW.  The participants need to decide which option they will Need; which they will Greed; and which they will pass!  So let the hilarity commence as we will decide what we will Need Greed & Pass!   31:36 - Upcoming WoW PVP Events https://challonge.com/games/world-of-warcraft/tournaments Dalaran Gaming hosts 5v5 1v1 duels.  So teams of 5 that 1v1 duel (pokemon style?).  Keep an eye out - https://twitter.com/dalaran_rogue Method Mayhem 3v3 Series NA Finals - 21 Mar EU Finals - 27 Mar  XP Off 39s Twink Tournament - date TBD - https://xpoff.com/threads/whitemane-3v3-rules-and-sign-up.91991/ Desmephisto is hosting an Autism Awareness campaign throughout April: Including a 40 v 40 warrior brawl on NA servers April 12th at 1:30pm PDT More events - list can be found on the Warcraft Radio Discord in the Community Creations channel https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cCILRjJPlg7A5F8XYhFUJTzDOVqoAhAd/view?usp=sharing Blizzard Official Esports MDI EU/Asia Cup 1 - 11 Apr MDI AMER Cup 1 - 18 Apr MDI EU/Asia Cup 2 - 25 Apr MDI AMER Cup 2 - 2 May MDI EU/Asia Cup 3 - 9 May MDI AMER Cup 3 - 16 May AWC EU Cup 1 - 22 May AWC NA Cup 1 - 23 May   42:00 - Subject of Analysis Today we will discuss, Mythic+ Dungeons. https://www.wowhead.com/mythic-keystones-and-dungeons-guide   1:51:00 - WOW PVP NEWS NA week 2 - 7 Mar - Congrats to The Boys for winning! - https://liquipedia.net/worldofwarcraft/Method/2020/Mayhem_Series/NA_3v3/2 EU week 2 - 13 Mar - Congrats to Wildcard Gaming - https://liquipedia.net/worldofwarcraft/Method/2020/Mayhem_Series/EU_3v3/2 Keystone Masters - M+ Tournament - 14-15 Mar - Congrats to Method EU - https://twitter.com/keystonemasters/status/1228729945788157952 Hotfixes - https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/news/23277654 Ashran raid size reduced to 25 due to performance issues (temporary) Horrific Visions will now drop a guaranteed corrupted item. Twisting Appendages can no longer gain PW:Shield or Earthen Wall Twist Appen and Inf Star can no longer proc >1 per 12 sec in PVP Account Wide Essences!!!  (Kinda) Account wide essences (kinda) - https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/coming-next-week-new-source-for-azerite-essences/468129   Shoutouts Cirra - KSM team and the KSM supporters Andallyn - Rich Campbell Windstead - Patreons who make this possible  Gerissar - Xen for the M+ carry   Finding Us Guest Cirra - https://twitter.com/KSMCirra https://twitter.com/keystonemasters Podcast Cohosts Technically - https://twitter.com/Technically_PvP https://www.twitch.tv/technically_pvp https://discord.gg/w7WZ9ab https://blizzard.com/invite/3kEld72CBvz Technicallypvp@gmail.com https://warcraftradio.com/ Andallyn - https://twitter.com/Andallyn1244 https://www.twitch.tv/andallyn Windstead - https://twitter.com/windstead84  

Technically PVP Show Notes   Episode 88 - Producing WOW Esports   19:47 - Upcoming WoW PVP Events https://challonge.com/games/world-of-warcraft/tournaments Resurgent tournaments - http://www.resurgentesb.com/(Resurgent does not have any upcoming tournaments currently) Dalaran Gaming hosts 5v5 1v1 duels.  So teams of 5 that 1v1 duel (pokemon style?).  Keep an eye out - https://twitter.com/dalaran_rogue Flark’s RBG Tournies Soon™ GCDTV - RBGs https://twitter.com/GCDTV/status/1169345156266561536 EU #2 Oct 10/11 - https://battlefy.com/gcdtv/gcdtv-6v6-eu-tournament-2/5d6d77b0aaa82e3c3e767c96/info?infoTab=details NA #2 Oct 12/13 - https://battlefy.com/gcdtv/gcdtv-6v6-na-tournament-2/5d6d798d05a011161d1e27e7/info?infoTab=details EU #3 Oct 17/18 - https://battlefy.com/gcdtv/gcdtv-6v6-eu-tournament-3/5d6fe0d0c43e5f7205fe7ae8/info?infoTab=details NA #3 Oct 19/20 - https://battlefy.com/gcdtv/gcdtv-6v6-na-tournament-3/5d6fe151226460718e8fdb9b/info?infoTab=details Tipsout and Asmongold Classic Duelers League https://twitter.com/TipsOutBaby/status/1176151876946948096?s=19 https://twitter.com/TipsOutBaby/status/1179075535307071488?s=19 Oct 17th $50,000 prize pool? Also a speed-running competition.   29:04 - Subject of Analysis Today we will discuss what it takes to produce a World of Warcraft esports broadcast!   Questions What’s your favourite: MDI or AWC? Do you guys play WOW?  What class/spec? What goes on in the control room?  Is there much talking? How many people does it take to run the AWC? How’s it feel to have the MLG stadium closing? Any favourite moments?  Any WTF moments?   WOW PVP NEWS AWC NA/EU Summer Finals happened! - Congrats to Cloud9 for their amazing performance and taking first place (again)! Cloud9 Method Black Wildcard Gaming The Gosu Crew Team Prismatic This set up the final list of teams from NA and EU going to Blizzcon: AWC APAC Finals happened - Congrats to Order for taking first place and earning their way to Blizzcon! Hotfixes - https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/news/23164374/hotfixes-october-2-2019 Arcane mages got an 8% buff. PVP Essence achievement stealth nerf - https://www.wowhead.com/news=295386/epic-battleground-honor-quests-nerfed-and-no-longer-count-towards-essence-achiev Merc mode doesn’t get bonus honour (in patch notes) Epic BG quest Honour rewards nerfed in AV and Ashran (not in patch notes) https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/honor-requirement-changes-for-specific-essences/319246 Nerfs minimized - blizzard lowers the honour required via hotfix Party-Sync is now live in 8.2.5!  Take your 120, and join friends in lower BG Brackets! Scaling seems a bit off, 120s still very powerful Take your DK or DH into

Discord: http://discord.worldofwarcast.com Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv Mount Up Add-on: https://wow.curseforge.com/projects/mount-up Happy 13th! Ren Cocktail of the Cast: Julep Zecca Italiana About 80% through the “Home Flooring Renovation” achievement Completed the new pre-expansion quest line on paladin - upgraded artifact from 75 to 126 Purchased a small one-handed gaming keyboard from DeLux - $30. Taking some time to get used to but may be easier to use than full sized keyboard when I’m one handed. Only real problem is maneuvering while flying Other issue: no English instructions came with it Mike I made a thing. I thought I needed things from Midsummer - nope. Did the artifact thing Poop quest :P Still need to do the mage tower This Week in WoW Midsummer Fire Festival continues through July 5 (Thursday) This Week: Arena Skirmishes; next week, World Quest Bonus Event Darkmoon Faire starts Sunday, July 1 News Pre-expansion artifact quest in Silithus went live this week Achievement: Crucible’s Promise - upgrades your artifact from 75 to 126 Several of the Silithus quests are NOT REQUIRED to complete this (but you can’t skip the trips to Stormwind or Orgrimmar) Only the quests directly from Nolan Speed (Alliance) and Grol Warblade (Horde) are required to complete the quest line First Horde quest: motivate peons; first Alliance quest, collect Mysterious Ore by killing goblins. Horde quest turns in to Grol. Alliance has turn-in for Mysterious Ore going to a dwarf, but then return to Nolan Speed to pick the line back up. From this point on, the main line is identical, Horde or Alliance. Pick up “The Twilight Survivor” from Nolan or Grol. Ignore “Desert Research” because it’s just a breadcrumb to an unnecessary gnome or goblin line. Pick up “A Recent Arrival” to talk to Khadgar, and this leads to the end. You can skip ALL the gnome quests (Alliance) and goblin quests (Horde) and the outhouse quest and it does not affect progress. These extras provide color and 18g but no rep or other rewards Confirmed upgraded ALL owned weapon artifacts, whether they are on you or in the bank When you have completed this quest, if you complete any other weapon quests, these fully upgrade as soon as you shift into that specialization Underlight Angler graphics do what the regular artifacts do and it shows TRILLIONS of AP, but doesn’t actually upgrade the Angler (AP yellow bar still shows proper amount of points. Display bug) Reportedly making the Mage Tower much easier to complete and sudden uptick in new guilds finishing Mythi and Cutting Edge Argus the Unmaker achievements. Mage Tower is now live 24/7 Forbes Interviews with Ion Hazzikostas Change in BFA: Prevent players from swapping gear in high difficulty Mythic+ dungeons - make it consistent with not changing talents mid-encounter. Mythic+ now requires complete speccing (talents AND gear) for the entire dungeon, which Blizzard now views as a single encounter. New Azerite armor Can’t be warforged or titanforged Only source that can be run repeatedly is normal or heroic dungeons Can be gained as a world quest emissary reward, but not from world quests themselves Can get as a weekly PvP or conquest reward, but not at the end of a match Mythic dungeons - not from box at the end, but only from the weekly reward box Clear tiers of Azerite armor Communities Will not be cross faction (“we’re at war!”] Yay Discord! Confirmed the following are all going away in the prepatch: First Aid achievements Ahead of the Curve and Cutting Edge achievements Violet Spellwing mount quest from killing Argus. Guaranteed mount drops from mythic Argus and Gul’dan in The Nighthold will become rare drops The Chosen title (killing bosses in mythic Trial of Valor without dying) Brawler’s Guild seasonal achievements Legion Elite PvP armor sets, achievements related to the Ashran battlefield and several other Legion specific PvP achievements Mentioned Fisherfriends of the Isles isn’t going away but will be a lot easier to achieve now that there are huge groups doing it Professions Professions system is “changing dramatically” Each expansion will have its own separate skill tier level Analogy: Pandaria cooking If you have 800 skill in a profession, you’ll be at 100 skill level in each expansion’s profession tier, and will start BFA as level 1 for BFA crafting. If you have 650, for example, you will have 100 through Pandaria, then 50 for Warlords, and no Legion Also means is that if all you want to do is craft items for Battle of Azeroth, there’s nothing you have to do - you do not need to get your profession to 800 - there is no advantage because all 800 profession skill level means now is that you will have 100 level in all expansion tiers short of BFA. Everyone will start at level 1 for BFA crafting and gathering. Question: how is racial profession bonus going to figure into this? Also means if you want to change professions, it’s a great time to do it. Ian’s advice: professions “extremely optional” to level up - “don’t worry about anything other than the Mage Tower”. No specific events planned for prepatch that will boost levels the way the Legion invasions did BFA kinder to alts? Only things specifically mentioned: artifact necklace will work for all specs - no having to develop separate necklaces for tanking, DPS and healing No class legendaries

Technically PVP Show notes   Episode 51 - Restoration Shaman   Upcoming WoW PVP Events ANZ Cup #1 - 11 May - https://battlefy.com/world-of-warcraft-arena-world-championship/anz-cup-1/5aceedf06f681f03934fd73e/info?infoTab=details Summer EU Cup #1 - 12 May - https://battlefy.com/world-of-warcraft-arena-world-championship/awc-summer-eu-cup-1/5ade7877fceae3038fd692c0/info?infoTab=details Summer NA Cup #1 - 19 May - https://battlefy.com/world-of-warcraft-arena-world-championship/awc-summer-na-cup-1/5adeb0576f53f70355dbbfe4/info?infoTab=details Brazil Cup - 21 Apr 20 May?- https://battlefy.com/pvplab/campeonato-brasileiro-de-arenas/5aca9838c581cd03540973a3/info?infoTab=details   WOW PVP NEWS MDI APAC Group Stage 20-21 Apr - Got resceduled to May 5th due to technology issues https://raider.io/mythic-dungeon-invitational-2018/brackets/regional-group-stage-apac Resurgent Esports Tournament - 27-28 Apr - Congratulations to “The Better Team”, Emoweeb, Roastmasterx, Thebur, and Alex! https://battlefy.com/resurgent-esports-broadcasting/resurgent-spring-tournament/5ac996986df0e2037964bd79/info?infoTab=details Method Roster Changes - https://www.method.gg/midseason-changes-samiyam-joins-method-orange BfA has gone BETA! - https://twitter.com/BlizzardCS/status/988885285256785920 Hotfixes - PVP nerfs - Feral got hit kinda hard; so were Monks https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/news/21365424/hotfixes-april-24 Dev Q&A happened 26 Apr - http://www.wowhead.com/news=283905/liveblog-of-the-april-26-battle-for-azeroth-beta-q-a-with-ion-hazzikostas GCD Changes - did you guys understand what he said? PVP Gearing - random gear loot plus conquest bar (with catch-up mechanics) BG split - Epic and normal queues.  Blacklisting removed Ashran retiring. May return, nothing definitive. Racials never going away in PVP WPVP balancing - scaling will be applied to reduce the ilvl power.  Nothing definitive (may be 10% difference instead of 50%) War mode - need to learn more - https://us.battle.net/forums/en/wow/topic/20763436154#post-2 There’s more, but not PVP centric Strand of the Ancients will retire for BfA - https://us.battle.net/forums/en/wow/topic/20762736077#5 Oh, and Prestige is going to become account wide.  All prestige levels will be combined - https://twitter.com/Aeonarial/status/991090808676896768   Warcraft PVP Scene NA Bracket http://us.battle.net/wow/en/pvp/leaderboards/2v2 EU PVP Brackets: https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-gb/game/pvp/leaderboards/2v2   Trivia question Previous episode question was: What episode did Windstalin first appear on this show? Answer: Ep25. Send your answer to Technicallypvp@gmail.com.  First correct answer will earn a shout out on the next show   Shoutouts GeorgeBaii - Has been a tremendous help with the wow liquipedia updating many historical tournaments! Congrats to the winners of our Mount/Pet give-away!  The winners were: @huntressfinoa, @FSUTJ, @Nipper1184, and @Hilge3!!   Finding Us Technically - https://www.twitch.tv/technically_pvp https://twitter.com/Technically_PvP https://discord.gg/w7WZ9ab Technicallypvp@gmail.com https://technicallypvp.wordpress.com/ Andallyn - https://twitter.com/Andallyn1244 https://www.twitch.tv/andallyn Windstead - https://twitter.com/windstead84

Discord: http://discord.worldofwarcast.com Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/starmike Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv Ren: Success on BunofSteel and “the wolf in sheep’s clothing” Fisherfriends fun - though if you have a choice, don’t do melee Soloing normal dungeons Mike: T3 chest! BfA beta walkthrough Green proto-drake Primal Fire i1000 chest This Week in WoW Pet Battles Children's Week starts Monday 30th - through Monday 7th Volunteer Guard Day Mini-event Saturday the 28th Next week: Burning Crusade Timewalking Q&A Ion spent a lot of time covering the change to GCD They still want feedback wrt how the class feels Some abilities such as Charge, Infernal Strike and Heroic Leap for warriors and DIsengage for hunters being taken off GCD In Final Fantasy XIV, everything is on GCD, but the GCD is 2.5s, but can be reduced with gear. They want people to make decisions - A or B instead of A and B. Azerite Power being renamed Artifact Power There will be a way to respec traits. Talking about adding in that functionality later, and a return to the old respeccing a la vanilla (paying an increasing scale for respecs, with decay) BfA should be more alt-friendly. Heart of Azeroth -- universal for all specs instead of having to develop AP in multiple weapons New BGs called Epic Battlegrounds Large battlegrounds are being split off Removing blacklisting from Battlegrounds Strand of the Ancients is being removed in BfA (not sure if temporary or permanent) Ashran is being temporarily retired. No plans to deactivate racials in rated PvP All loot will be personal loot Will still be flagged going into an enemy major city, whether you are in War Mode or not More BfA stuff Battle Pets in beta: Some nerfs incoming: Bone Serpent: swapped positions of Call Darkness and Lift-Off Practical upshot: This is a huge nerf. Call of Darkness now shares the slot with Nocturnal Strike. Call of Darkness blinds all pets, and Nocturnal Strike always hits if the target is Blinded. In combination, this is huge. Having to choose between them now significantly reduces its power. (Workaround: do the Frostfur Rat with Call Darkness and Sneak Attack) Crow and Gilnean Raven: -200 power, +200 speed Cyclone: Damage changed from 7 to 3-7 Haunt: returns the pet at 50% health instead of 100 Teroclaw Hatchling: Dodge and Nature's Ward will now occupy the same tier as will Hawk Eye and Ravage. Practical upshot: Slot 2 will now put Dodge (4 round cooldown) and Nature's Ward (5 round heal) on same tier, basically making you choose between damage mitigation or pet heal. Pet Battle World Quests incoming and will scale to the highest pet on your team (NOT apply to wild pets outside world quests) New pet battle mechanics: Random weather effects More heals that have increased effects on pet's health Aura effects that heal your pet or damages enemy pet based on the last hit dealt From the Discord: N&A finishers: Congrats to Buffysummers - Human Windwalker Monk for finishing N&A with 23,055 gold 4/1/43 Shoutout ot Dodoobrawn-Bladefist - nice fishing with you! Hello to Mrs. Dodoobrawn as well. Question: Why do you still need a WoD garrison? Is it worth going back if you have a character who skipped it?

Episode 141 Moose Carry   We start off this nearly 2 and one half hour show discussing the morality of the oh so popular "Moose Carry" and progress into the Tales from Ashran... we are clearly transported to another time, place and dimension as Dustin professes his love for this PvP...ish... activity. All this plus the normal discourse and rabbit holes and yet another MMO 6 pack for your listening pleasure and comments! Be sure to actually subscribe to this podcast to keep it AD FREE!     Join us in the conversation! HFL Twitter: @HFLPodcast Email the show and crew at: hordeforlifepodcast@gmail.com kristine@hordeforlife.com dustin@hordeforlife.com rich@hordeforlife.com podcast@hordeforlife.com

This weeks news in World of Warcraft including ways you can get Valor, upgrading your Legendary ring and the state of PvP in Legion and what the changes all mean.

This weeks news in World of Warcraft includes things coming in weeks patch, Horde racial trait changes, new toys, Ashran changes and Icebringer & Reaper Artifact weapon Lore and much more! pwncastdailyquest.comtwitch.tv/pwncast

This weeks news in wow includes realistic actions regarding cat pets in game, additional clarification on wow tokens, Ashran as of next Tuesday will no longer need to go into Ashran to cap out. Healing and Damage absorption decreased by 15% and Belle as a good strategy for winning in Ashran if you walk into a loosing group. pwncastdailyquest.com

This week, member of Convert to Mythic raid team and Hereos of the Storm podcaster Gizmozord (Lords of the Storm) joins the CtR crew! Method crosses the finish line first in Race to World First: HFC edition. The guys take a look at the standings overall, the number of wipes some of these teams went through, and the nerd screams after downing mythic Archimond.  Patch 6.2.1 is now up on the test realms, and flying isn’t the only BIG thing in development. Mercenary Mode is in development too, which will be a new option when queuing for Ashran and unrated battlegrounds. When players elect to be a mercenary, they are eligible to play for the opposing faction to shorten queue times. Is this a good fix for Warcraft PVP? The crew discusses how the imbalance of player factions and racials come into play, and whether or not Blizzard should try other avenues. The Warcraft movie footage from San Diego ComicCon was leaked, then suspended, then leaked and suspended again! The guys describe what they saw there and in the Warcraft movie panels now available online. Clancy Brown can speak Orc!   Also, Hearthstone will release The Grand Tournament expansion in August, Leoric swings into Heroes, and one of esports most vocal opponents gets canned. Plus your questions and more on this very fun show!

This week, member of Convert to Mythic raid team and Hereos of the Storm podcaster Gizmozord (Lords of the Storm) joins the CtR crew! Method crosses the finish line first in Race to World First: HFC edition. The guys take a look at the standings overall, the number of wipes some of these teams went through, and the nerd screams after downing mythic Archimond.  Patch 6.2.1 is now up on the test realms, and flying isn’t the only BIG thing in development. Mercenary Mode is in development too, which will be a new option when queuing for Ashran and unrated battlegrounds. When players elect to be a mercenary, they are eligible to play for the opposing faction to shorten queue times. Is this a good fix for Warcraft PVP? The crew discusses how the imbalance of player factions and racials come into play, and whether or not Blizzard should try other avenues. The Warcraft movie footage from San Diego ComicCon was leaked, then suspended, then leaked and suspended again! The guys describe what they saw there and in the Warcraft movie panels now available online. Clancy Brown can speak Orc!   Also, Hearthstone will release The Grand Tournament expansion in August, Leoric swings into Heroes, and one of esports most vocal opponents gets canned. Plus your questions and more on this very fun show!

Episode #122 of The Starting Zone: 6.2 is Kinda Good is ready for Download! The World of Warcraft Podcast for New Players and Experienced Players is back to talk about Blizzard Entertainment's MMORPG video game, you know, the one we all love! This week Mick Montgomery is joined as always by Alt from Alternative Chat! THE BREAKING WIND: This week we covered the top news stories in and around the World of Warcraft! Corey Stockton did an interview with Scott Johnson on The Instance Master Plan (the Addon Broke for a while) should it have stayed broken? Is this the end of Warlords, or just the beginning? Helping Hand: This week we provide you with a NON knee jerk reaction to Patch 6.2! Yes, real considerations on the Patch without a bunch of negativity. Who would have thunk it? The Round Table: We debated why Ashran has not met player expectations, and how PvP be fixed, it it can be fixed at all. And we read some terrific questions and comments from our listeners! The Starting Zone is produced by Spazbot Studios, Good Shows by Good People Visit them today! Also, The Starting Zone is a proud member of The Signals Media All Star Network, Check out all the Awesome Shows on the network today! It's okay to stick their shows in your ears, Really! Hey Consider supporting our Sponsors for the show! We lined up some awesome deals for you, and if you decide to make a purchase it goes a long way towards helping out the show! Jinx.com has the t-shirt, hoodie, hat, you want with the LOGO of your favorite Video Game or Show / Comic Book The Walking Dead! Use the promo code SPAZBOT at check out for 15% off your entire purchase! Razer provides some of the absolute BEST gaming rigs and peripherals on the market today! Go check them out today and start Playing like a BOSS! Dog House Systems makes elite gaming PC's for the most discriminating player! Incredible customer service that cannot be beat! Use the Promo Code STORMCAST and get a FREE 120GB SSD Drive! Static Free TV has one of the largest collection of DVD's, BluRays, and Collectibles including stuff for The Walking Dead! Use the promo code SPAZBOT at check out for 15% off your entire purchase!      

This weeks news including all things patch 6.2 since it is now live. Good lore section on Lycan. Ashran changes and raiding news. Gearing for PvP for Warlords Season 2 which is still unannounced. Highmaul and Blackrock Foundry 20% damage reduction nerf. pwncastdailyquest.comtwitch.tv/pwncast

This weeks news includes new titles coming in Warlords of Draenor Patch 6.2. World of Warcraft is inducted into the video game hall of fame. Undead pet Grave Golem can be earned by playing Heroes of the Storm and Salvage yard changes. Lore on Stalvan and how to prep your toon or new raid team for Hellfire Citadel. Also explanation on the changes coming to Ashran in the patch. pwncastdailyquest.com

On this weeks show we have : Crafting Changes Event Bonus Ashran Changes Poke takes on PVE Mages Kadgar VH1 popup video What is wrong with Dreanor Warcraft off THe [...] Source

Warcraft off The Record Ep 24 Ashran Away http://youtu.be/urTRScsF73Q Warcraft Off The Record Ep 20 Back into the Maw of Maddness https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFIIEhZBFms Warcraft Off The Record Ep24 Ashran Away iTunes [...] Source

The 5th show, where I talk about the many flaws in Ashran since 6.1, my first listener email and the 4th tier of priest talents.

On this episode of The AIE Podcast... (T) I see babies! (M) AIE Celebrates its eighth year of existence (T): Love is in the air (M) We have a question of the week! (T): Stigg and Ralff are here to talk about AIE's 8 year anniversary All that and more coming up right now... Podcast Audio Raw Video http://youtu.be/I-spqYm9OhA (M) Welcome to episode # 225 of the the podcast celebrating the Alea Iacta Est gaming community. This isMkallah- and there is some anniversary cake in the guild kitchen. And right over there, we have Tetsemi (Catch Phrase here ). This week we are joined by our amazingly special guests - Stigg and Ralff, who are here to talk to us about AIE's 8th Anniversary! Welcome! Ok, we'll be digging into our big anniversary show shortly, but first, let's cover this week's news... AIE NEWS (T)- Huge Congrats to Alachaas and Leontine on the birth of their level 1 human, Aria Rose. Daddy is a Tank, Mommy is a Hunter- word has it, sweet little Aria will be getting her account soon and will learn to heal so they can LFG as a family. Shadow Priest was mentioned, but we'll see how that works out for them. (M) - AIE is also celebrating as it's our 8 year anniversary. If you want to share your history with AIE, the is a google doc linked in the show notes and on the forums. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1mlRhV-ZZWEUHrUoBWFTiF-EYccBevfB0FJTW5N9cuVs/viewform AIE in WoW had two weekend events to honor this momentous occasion: The ever lovely Nevermore held an in game Meet and Greet event yesterday, to celebrate Valentines day and the Love of AIE! It was a massive success, and an impromptu Warcraft Trivial Pursuit game broke out. http://forum.myextralife.com/topic/55727-valentines-day-meet-greet-event/ And today, to share the love of PVP, Sparrow and crew ran an assault on Ashran with a might, fury and humor seldom seen on the field of battle. This event ran from 2-6 server time, and feedback from twitter indicates that this was an event enjoyed by all! http://forum.myextralife.com/topic/55708-bloody-valentine-event-pvp/ (T) - In February 2007, Alea Iacta Est was formed by the creators and fans of several popular podcasts (a guy you may of heard of, Scott Johnston/Gerp -guy from The Instance and ELR, Randy/ Maui from the Instance, Veronica- Winema from Buzz out Loud, and Mahalo Daily, Len from Jawbone Radio, and the crew from WoW Addons. AIE has gone through a few iterations- initially, the name of the guild was I Eat Babies, but that was quickly changed due to it not being family friendly- and Alea Iacta Est- Latin for “the Die has been Cast” was chosen as the new name. Before the start of Cataclysm, we were the largest guild in North America, though due to guild caps placed by Blizzard, we had to break into much smaller co-guilds. We are so large, we have 11 co-guilds, all bound together by the Greenwall created by our own robot and master planner, Stigg. And with that, let's get to Ralff and Stigg and talk about AIE in the past, present and future ... GAME NEWS Interiew/Discussion Mkallah- Ralff and Stigg, thanks so much for joining us. Both of you have been in AIE for a long time, and have been a huge factor in our community - what brought you to AIE originally? (Once they are done, the hosts can go around and answer the same topic) Tetsemi - Due to our sheer number, AIE tends to be forced to create our own solutions to problems that Blizzard never anticipated - in fact, there are times that we have our own trending topic on Twitter, #AIIEproblems! Can you guys give us some insight on how we go about creating new tools, especially for AIE? What sort of iterative process do you go through from problem identification to solution and creation? Mkallah- The fact that AIE is active, in and out of game, is a big part of our culture - Stigg - what was your first real life AIE event and your most memorable? Ralff - what was your first real life AIE event and your most ...

On this episode of The AIE Podcast... Mkallah: Welcome to Blackrock Foundry Alludra: AIE's 8th Anniversary is coming Tetsemi: Looking for more Nerfherders Mkallah: STO wants to give you anniversary gifts Alludra: And we are joined by Lanctharus All that and more coming up right now... Podcast Audio Raw Video http://youtu.be/s_4xLRDFG7c Welcome to episode # 224 of the the podcast celebrating the Alea Iacta Est gaming community. This is Tetsemi- and I am saying what ever Mkallah wrote for me! With me as always, is Alludra. (“Hey, AIE, I think you're awesome”). And right over there, we have Mkallah (There are chai latte cupcakes in the guild kitchen). This week we are joined by special guests Lanctharus) who us here to talk to us about AIE in World of Warcraft. Welcome! Ok, we'll be talking with Lanc shortly, but first, let's cover this week's news... AIE NEWS WoW - Mk - Blackrock Foundry Normal and Heroic and a World boss Rukhmar became available this past week. Mythic difficulty for Blackrock Foundry becomes available this Tuesday, February 10th. http://www.mmo-champion.com/content/4685-Blackrock-Foundry-Opens-this-Week WatcherDev (Blizzard) explains Blackrock Foundry tuning - Lead Game Designer Ion Hazzikostas took to the forums to better explain Blizzard's philosophy on Blackrock Foundry's difficulty tuning. If you've been raiding it this week, you probably noticed it's a little harder to progress than Highmaul was at the beginning. According to Watcher, Blackrock Foundry is not meant to make Highmaul immediately obsolete. They still expect you to fully progress through Highmaul before you can realistically tackle Blackrock Foundry. Normal mode Highmaul had an expectation of players coming in with heroic dungeon gear, but Blackrock Foundry is tuned for players in full raid gear (including the first few “easy” bosses). Later bosses are tuned with even more player item level in mind http://blizzardwatch.com/2015/02/06/watcher-explains-blackrock-foundry-tuning/ WoW Stable at 10+ Million Subscribers - Blizzard had their Q4 2014 earning call recently and announcing that WoW was still at 10+ million subscribers at the end of 2014. This is the same as the mid November announcement that listed WoW at 10+ million subscribers. http://www.mmo-champion.com/content/4694-WoW-Stable-at-10-Million-Subscribers Alludra -And, in case you haven't noticed- Love is in the Air - right now through February 16th, WOW's annual Valentine's Day event is in full swing. The Love is in the Air event offers a variety of rewards, including two mounts, two pets, and many achievements (One of which is totally impossible unless you have REALLY cool friends). Icy Veins has a great guide to you through everything you need to know to complete the event, which we have linked in the show notes. http://www.icy-veins.com/wow/love-is-in-the-air-2015 Also, If you are a craft faire staff member, or are interested in the craft faire, there is a meeting at on February 13 at 10 pm server time. And if you want to help out with craft faire, whisper the mistress of the faire, Syreyne in game or DM her on the forums. AIE Anniversary Events- Tet- AIE's official 8th anniversary is February 15, and plans are underway to celebrate the momentous occasion. Not only are we planning on having some huge guests for the show next Sunday, but the AIE officers and guildies are busy planning events for the celebration. Nevermore has a meet and greet planned for Saturday 14, from noon to 2 server. Come celebrate AIE's anniversary in mumble- learn more about the guild and your fellow guildies! Sparrow is leading a PvP Event- the plan is to assault Ashran with a might, fury and humor seldom seen on the field of battle. A raid group will be started at 2pm server (other groups can be started as needed) and we will run the road, the events, and any rares that pop up in Ashran until 6pm server. If you have ever been confused or nervous about Ashran...

Who’s good at PVP? Not us, really, so we’ve gone and found ourselves and expert to tell us all about Ashran and skirmishes in the form of Kym Scally. We do like a good accent. You can find Kym @kym_scally … Continue reading →

Notice: The first clip has a scratchy background noise cause of the mic makin’ love to my jacket. Don’t listen if you can’t stand it! PvP, Ashran, Trinket discussion, avoiding all kinds of dungeon grinds and buying gear instead because i’d rather grind gold than gear, guilds and pugging, BoE gear, more options for gearing up Itunes here Stitcher here RSS feed here Twitter: @Woworgold, @grayzbdf Blog: www.woworgold.blogspot.com

PWNcast wraps up 2014 in World of Warcraft. Raid help and Ashran tips from Spam and Frysa. Robo sexual is a thing?

We sit down with Rathamus from the world first WoW Public Vent and Rho from Realm Maintenance. Ashran help, Lore Secton on Medivh and The week in World of Warcraft news.

News: Icons, Icons, ICONS! What we learned from today's WoW Developer AMA on Reddit. All about garrisons and what we had to do to get to level 3. Mike's experiences with mages and rogues What's with the crafting bottleneck? Tales from Ashran Has trade chat gotten worse? THIS JUST IN - Crystal vials only sold in Ashran?

News: Icons, Icons, ICONS! What we learned from today's WoW Developer AMA on Reddit. All about garrisons and what we had to do to get to level 3. Mike's experiences with mages and rogues What's with the crafting bottleneck? Tales from Ashran Has trade chat gotten worse? THIS JUST IN - Crystal vials only sold in Ashran?

After getting a baseline for professions in Warlords of Draenor last week, I'm back just in the very nick of time this week to talk about what to expect in this first week of raiding in Highmaul.  I talk in depth about Enchanting, Alchemy, Cooking, Crafted Epic Gear, and Darkmoon Trinkets - all after covering the big news on the dust buffs, the mine nerfs, and the updating of wowuction to include info on all the new professions.I also give a preview of content to come later this month for the show, including a spreadsheet I've been ironing out that's pre-loaded with all the stuff we can make with professions in Warlords of Draenor.  Full show notes are, of course, available after the break - Enjoy!!Episode 31 of Late Nite With Stede - Show NotesIntroGood evening, ladies and gentlemen and welcome to Episode 31 of the Late Nite With Stede Goldmaking Podcast.  I’m your host, Stede Bonnet - and I want to thank you for listening.  Before we launch into the opening of Highmaul this week, I wanna take a minute to let you know that you can find more Late Nite With Stede on my website - www.LNWS.net - you can also find the show on Stitcher & on iTunes - so if you like the show, be sure to subscribe.   Alright, today is Monday, December 1st.===PODCAST NEWS===-  On the last episode, I spent some time talking about how WoD was shaking out so far.  It seems like it was weeks ago in terms of how much has happened since then.  I’ve had a number of folks asking me what they should be making in order to make gold.  The category pages on The Undermine Journal have yet to be updated, and given the variable nature of cooldown yields on toons - and via work orders - it’s a bit difficult to accurately calculate costs.Not that it’s a big problem at this point since most craftables that use soulbound cooldown reagents are bringing rain on the Auction House, but it’s one of those structural sticking points that may cause TUJ to take awhile in updating its information.  Not to mention that Erorus, the creator of TUJ, now works at Wowhead and is probably pretty busy.Back on topic about the preview of tonight’s topic - I’ll be talking about what you need to know about making stuff now - the first week of raids - and how I think the rest of December is going to shake out in terms of profession markets.===WoW NEWS===We had a few big changes in game this week.  Most notably the buff to disenchanting yields for dust.  It seems like 4 times out of 5, rare items - that’s blues - will now DE into a bunch of dust - like 6-10 or so.  This is causing a major correction in the dust and shard markets as shards become less common and therefore, more expensive - and dust settles down to values where it actually makes sense to start hitting your work orders.Which, a lot of you would think means cheaper crystals - since the work orders are now flowing once again.  And you’d be right on the money - there are a lot more crystals sitting under 600g on my server than there were before this change.  And that’s a market I’ll talk more about a bit later in the show.We also had a nerf to the yield rate from farming ore nodes in your garrison’s mine.  Regular nodes give 2 ore, and rich ones give 4 - sometimes 5.  The result was that - where I used to be running a surplus of ore on my toon with Blacksmithing & Jewelcrafting, using a L2 mine, I’m now running a slight deficit.It seems like a small tuning change, but imagine how that reverberates over tens of thousands of toons on a server.  This is a correction that may take a bit longer to play out.  And I think Blizzard was smart not to use the heavy hand here, because there are other factors that will be coming into play that will naturally nerf the amount of ore on the AH - which I will talk about a bit later.Last bit of news for this past week was that most all of the crafted gear got a 5 ilvl boost to the 3rd upgrade stage - which should help keep them competitive.  Remember that your raid drops have fixed secondary stats, and may not be very useful for some specs.===Goldmaking NEWS===Wowuction has updated the profession pages on its site and the CSV feeds that some of you may be using in your spreadsheets are now correctly populating the item names for the crafted gear.  This makes life so much easier for spreadsheeters and I want to give a tip of the hat to the wowuction folks on a job well done in a short amount of time.Myself, I’ve made a spreadsheet for all of the WoD crafts for every profession - because I have every profession.  It’s given me a distinct advantage.  Every single one of you has asked yourself this past week, “Okay, I have 100 soulbound cooldown mats - what do I make to get gold?”  I know I ask myself that about 10x a day.  And my SS is there to guide me.  I know not everybody has Excel or likes SS’s though - so check out wowuction if you wanna dig around without having to ascend the the spires of geekdom that is Spreadsheeting the WoW AH.  I also know that not everyone who likes using Spreadsheets is good at making them.  I wanna share this with you guys, but I want it to be stable.  And right now, it’s not.  The reason I want it stable is because I don’t enjoy the tech support aspect of releasing spreadsheets.  That’s why I built and released the Sandbox awhile back - to make it easier to make your own, so that I wasn’t answering questions instead of writing show notes :)I realize a lot of folks will be waiting on this, so my plan is to have it released by the end of the year.===AUDIOBLOG===This hands off nicely into a segment I want to start doing each show that’s more about my experience in the game.  As you may know, I do more than make gold in-game.  I lead a  casual raid, I’m an officer in my guild, I’m looking to put together a Challenge Mode group in a month or so, and I’m slowly gearing up for PvP.  I’m not a pro at any of it, but I hold my own and have fun.This week, I managed to get my core six to Garrison level 2 - that’s my main at L100, one alts at L98, and four more alts at L96, now.  The L2 Profession Buildings are a huge help, as they give me more wiggle room for maintaining my alts.Now, 2 of my alts are Blacksmiths, and 2 more have The Forge on their Garrison.  And yet somehow, none of those 4 guys had a Blacksmithing Follower.  So this week, I ran out to Frostfire Ridge real quick and snagged one for each of them after a short quest line.  I’m told it’s not that easy for you Alliance listeners, and I’ll try to follow up on that - but it’s important to be levelling your followers on your alts because once they’re at 100, they’re good for 10-12 Work Order mats a day instead of just 6.Blacksmithing is a priority for me because this week I decked out my main (which is my rogue) with a crafted cape, a Darkmoon Trinket, and a crafted Mainhand dagger - which I’d like to upgrade to max level just as soon as I can.At the same time that I’m managing all this, I’m also trying to help guildmates.  Some are Jewelcrafters who really want top notch enchants, others are Engineers who really want some plate gear.  So I’m trying to make trades when I can to help folks out there.  Then I’ve some who’ve seen just how insanely melee-heavy my raid group is shaping up to be and have voluntarily re-rolled either ranged or healing classes - and I’m trying to help them too.So crafted gear is a bit more than make it and post it for me - but it’s been fun, and I still have plenty of stuff to sell.  I started the expansion with about 275k gold liquid, after rerolling on the new server over the summer and getting my alts to L90 with maxed professions.  Now I’m sitting just over 475k - up about 200k from launch.Which is pretty good when I think about how much I’ve sunk into blueprints and upgrades and stuff - as well as the gold I’ve missed by using a handful of crafts for myself.  With raids opening this week, I expect that train to keep on rolling.A week ago, I made a guild event to hit Molten Core and we had a solid 10 folks show up and Queue, but I guess we weren’t the right classes because we sat in Q for 90 minutes before I ended up calling it.  Over the weekend, I tried again, but made us a premade group using the LFG tool and barked it in Trade and on OpenRaid - we filled in 20 minutes and the Q popped after 10 minutes - which was really not too bad.I also got assigned as the RL in there, so I spent most of my time marking targets and herding folks around while my GM handled banning the inevitable trolls from vent while Zerohour rallied the group to votekick them.  The funny part on that guy was that he got kicked from vent and the instance, but was still in the raid group for a few minutes while I fumbled through console commands to kick him while he wasn’t actually on my instance frames.Moral of the story - and this is what I told the guy - don’t troll the RL’s vent and expect to stay in group.  So after a couple hours, we cleared the raid, I got personally thanked for leading by a handful of folks, which was nice, grabbed that ridiculous helm, which was quickly mogged back to my Gold CM gear from the last expansion, and snagged the mount.  As I left the instance, I gave myself a pat on the back for navigating the Queue and the group as well as anyone could expect, and vowed never again to return to - close your ears kids - such a colossal clusterfuck just to have a chance at looting the pet.No, for that amount of time, I’ll buy it off the AH.  That’s why we make gold, ladies and gents - to spend it on grindy crap we really want but don’t have time to deal with.  Well - I have the time - but the rest of this expansion is just made so much better that I’d rather spend it doing those other things.Which brings me to Ashran - if you guys can just bear with my ranting for another minute or two.  Ashran was a steamroll at launch so Blizzard added in some kind of load-balancing.  I thought - this was gonna be like Tol Barad - where you’d just get put in a Queue for 10-15 minutes, max, until the other team got enough folks that you could get in without it being unbalanced.  No, Ashran is a train wreck where folks can sit in Queue for an hour or 2 and never get in.  I’ve no idea what the heck happened because Blizzard can do a better job than this - I know - I’ve seen them do it - ironically, in the most universally reviled expansion, the World PvP zone Q system was better than this.  And that leaves me as a sad panda - because pandas didn’t have a PvP zone - which is effectively where I’m at now.  And I loved Tol Barad, and was really excited for Ashran.  I know they’re still working on it - and I just hope they listen and get it sorted soon.  Blizzard has made a bunch of really awkward steps since launch, but I can say they’re busting their asses to get it right and make it fun.Until then - no Ashran for me.  And those are my personal stars this week - let’s get to talking about what you guys need to know about making gold this week.TOPIC: Making Gold the First Week of HighmaulLast week we talked about what was happening after launch.  This week we turn our focus to the raids that are opening.  In a lot of ways, this is like a content patch - with new raids opening up.  You want to be stockpiling consumables to get ready for the coming onslaught of demand as millions of players smelt their plowshares and mining picks into swords and charge headlong into Highmaul.  My hope is that the content will be challenging.That would help us all as goldmakers, as several professions are focused around crafting gear rather than item enhancements now.  Of course, this would mean that LFR  - which releases later - would become a relevant part of the gearing path - a fact that Blizzard explicitly stated they wanted to avoid, and a concept that I, as a raider, happen to agree with.  But I also want to see craftable epics have some legs, and I know that the first tier of every expansion is usually a doozy.Which is why I’ve to chuckle at the guilds recruiting in Trade chat for “Casual Mythic Raiding”.GearBut let’s talk some more about gear while we’re there.  While my first pieces of crafted gear flew off the shelf at 40 to 45k, we’ve fallen into a 15-30k range over the last week.  If your trade chat is as warped as mine, you’ve no doubt seen the masses crying foul over these prices and predicting with righteous indignation the coming freefall once raids open.I don’t think that’s gonna happen.  As Zerohour said to me - once raids open, folks are gonna start to lose track of their Garrisons and focus on raiding on their mains instead.  Just like the farms in MoP - eventually people get bored or find other things to spend their time on and they just - move on.I expect us to soon get to the point where the big money market shifts to the upgrade tokens - and if you’ve listened to the shows I did before launch, then you’ve heard me say this - make base-level items on your toons with the building, but not the profession - and make the tokens on your toons that have the profession.This is another reason why it’s important to get those alts up to L100 - to unlock L3 of your Garrison and be able to build that 3rd Small Building.  You’ll notice that the biggest limiting reagent for these upgrade tokens is, as I predicted, the Savage Bloods.  With a L100 follower assigned to my L3 Barn, I’m averaging just over 1 per day from trapping.  Which isn’t bad; but it isn’t great either.You’re probably gonna want to try to keep up with your alts’ garden and mine - just to build up a stock of Primal Spirits to trade for the bloods.  Of course, there’s always the AH, but you have to use your judgement there as to whether or not you can make a profit.  This is an entirely new market.In all, I think crafted gear will actually see a boost in the next few weeks - if not necessarily in pricing, then in velocity.  Raids should show folks just how unprepared they are and encourage them to seek upgrades wherever they can find them.  And no place is more convenient, and guaranteed, than the AH.EnhancementsOf course, with each new piece of gear there’s potential that it will need to be gemmed or enchanted.  Jewelcrafting seems to be in a bit of a bad way in terms of gems.  Many lesser gems are flooded because they can be crafted until max skill - and the mats are cheap, and most don’t include Taladite Crystals - the soulbound cooldown material.  So folks powerlevelling JC to boost their CD mat production on the cheap have really done a number on that market.The greater gems just don’t seem to be moving for me, but I only have the mastery cut.  And I may be pricing myself too high.  When a lesser gem goes for 50g - tops - and gives +35 to a stat versus a greater gem that give +50 - how much more can we expect folks to pay?  Don’t forget that the Sorcerous Air alone jack the cost up by 4-10x of the lessers.  On top of that, the Taladite Crystals required are just half of what it’s cost to make a piece of ilvl 640 jewelry.So the tuning on this just feels weirder than seeing Pee-Wee Herman back on TV.  And while I’m in that market and hopeful - the reality is that it’s just a way to diversify because all the leftover JCs from MoP are posting a lot of jewelry.And Jewelry is hot.  Mainly for healers who are looking for Spirit.  We haven’t heard the wailing and gnashing of gums that we had in early Cataclysm over the lack of mp5, but I’m sure Spirit is gonna be in much higher demand once we get into raids.Enchanting is red hot.  Folks are damn proud of their ilvl 680 rings and want the best enchants on em.  And what good is patiently waiting for your BiS stats to roll on a crafted piece of jewelry if you don’t spend another 20% on the enchant?  I’m seeing ring enchants sell like hellacious hotcakes on Christmas in Siberia - the dust buff was just in the nick of time to boost the supply of crystals so I could turn enchanting into my new favorite market - where the main players are the high rollers who aren’t scared to drop 20k on mats in a day and still feel like they’re not hitting it as hard as they should.I’ve yet to sell a weapon enchant, but I’m betting that it’s coming.  My advice - stock up on crystals.  They may drop in price later but for me, the margins are fat enough to eat it.  And if they work like every other enhancement market in the history of this game - the margins will only increase as the competition runs dry of supply.Speaking of supply - I want to address one question I’ve heard while we’re talking about this stuff.  What about all the crystals folks will be DE’ing out of raid?  What - you mean in like two months when they’re not climbing over each other to blow their entire billfold of DKP on it?  I think it’s gonna be awhile before we see that - even longer considering that some groups may opt to use personal loot and I don’t think epics can be DE’d at a buddy’s Garrison.  But keep your eyes open.ConsumablesOf course we can’t talk about raids launching now without talking about consumables.  Thanks to Blizzard’s tuning, we’re seeing most potions cost more than the lesser flasks.  Of course, we also have a bit of a limit on how many greater flasks we can make, but since the Alchemy cooldown material required to make them is NOT soulbound, that restriction is more of a nuisance than a real deterrent.But potions are where I think the money will be.  Because meat just isn’t in the kind of supply that’s necessary and Alchemists are used to focusing on flasks for the lion’s share of their profits.  Of course int pots take fish, not meat and those prices are in the crapper because fishbots.If you’ve been selling pots, then for Pete’s sake - stop.  Wait until raid nights (Tuesday - Thursday in the US) and then gouge all the Johnny-Come-Latelys.  Until then, you ought to treat this as any other patch - stockpile now - don’t sell for 100g now what you can sell for 200g tomorrow.And lastly there’s food.  Fish feasts are, of course, not profitable - because why?  That’s right, because fishbots.  They don’t feed a lot of people anyway and the stats are just +75.  Raiders with a L3 Garden can probably manage to use the food from their fruit tree to get by in a pinch anyhow.  Meat feasts are god-awful expensive and the mats are likely better used for pots.  But - if you can manage to find cheap leftovers of other folks levelling their cooking on the AH, and you’re a max lvl cook yourself - then it may be worth having a look at.Otherwise, cooking is dead.  The L2 Barn killed you, and exclusively produces +100 stat feasts that feed 30 ppl - the max number for a flex raid.  The good news for Goblins is that these are made only via work orders, and as such, there is a daily cap on them.  May God have mercy on the raid that hasn’t stockpiled these in advanced for the shrewd goblin will offer none.  I’d treat these like the old Cobalt Ore or Huge Emeralds - buy em to stock during off-peak times and then reset just before showtime - they’ll sell - especially once we get a couple weeks into raiding and folks burn through their initial stockpile.TrinketsLast - I wanted to take a minute or  two to talk about trinkets.  While crafted weapons start at a mere 630 ilvl, trinkets get to 640.  Many of these are BiS pre-raid barring some lucky warforged socket drop from heroics.  Plus they can be upgraded and have main stats.  For casters, who don’t rely as much on weapon damage, I’d expect that these trinkets may even take some priority over crafted weapons.  But I’m not a simulations guy, so I won’t swear to it.The base-level trinkets are good and they scale decently with their ilvl compared to others.  They’re not BiS overall by a longshot - mostly because they max out at ilvl 670, but that’s not their fault.  Of course making these trinkets is easy since we don’t have to wait for the DMF to come to town to do it - so it’s worth keeping an eye on to snatch the occasional cheap card to build decks.Whether these are more important than weapons isn’t entirely the point though - even if they’re not, they’re still gonna be the second slot that gets upgraded (if not the first) for all classes - assuming they bought a base level one.  So you scribes out there - just remember - ever DMF trinket you sell now is a potential upgrade sale later.Winding DownThat about wraps up thoughts on crafted gear and consumables going into this week.  I’d like to do some in-depth guides to each profession as we move forward, but I’m not yet decided on whether that’s something I’ll just post on the blog or if I’ll do a show on it.  The previews were helpful but I think some contemporary advice would be a lot more useful.I also wanna work on that Spreadsheet that I mentioned at the top of the show, too.  So I figure I’ve got 2 or 3 more shows left in me before Christmas and then I’ll take a break for a couple weeks and start the 2015 season of Late Nite With Stede.  Lots of cool stuff in the Queue to talk about, though - notwithstanding the regular flow of events that gives me more to yak about.===Q&A===Question & AnswerSpecial Thanks:I’d like to give a special thanks to my new listeners and followers on Twitter this week - I don’t wanna embarass you too much, but it’s always great to see fresh faces asking bottom-line questions.OuttroGood luck out there against all those bosses this week.  Don’t overdo it, and remember- if you’re not making gold - I’ve got a name for you: Customer.

Hey everyone! This week on the show we talk about World of Warcraft’s huge boost in subscribers, the 10 year Anniversary Event, and what our experiences have been in Draenor now we’ve had time to get stuck in. We’ll be covering dungeons, gearing up, Ashran, Garrisons, the story, and what’s next in our journey through Draenor. All of that, and loads more, in Geeks of Azeroth Episode 19!

Welcome to the Frozen Nerdz Podcast Episode 33 entitled The Never Ending Ashran! We are a your Blizzard Entertainment and Steam Free to Play discussion podcast. Each week we discuss anything that falls in between or outside those two glaciers. From talking about the games you love, the worlds you live in, AND maybe even a few you haven’t even heard of yet. Join Kilroy and Epicinsanity each week as we sit down and discuss the topics no one else is talking about as we bring you new points of view in a not so standard podcast format. The show was recorded on Sunday, October 12th, 2014. And was released on Tuesday, October 14th, 2014. Happy Patch 6.0.2 Day! On Today’s episode we talk shortly about our weeks inside video games then remind you about the Icebox Virtual Ticket contest that we have going on. Then we drop a basic campfire and talk about the upcoming Warlords PVP zone called Ashran. Then we head over to the Starcade to talk about this weeks Blizzard Arcade free to play game called Blood Marathon! Then we pull up a chair and quickly talk about some Hearthstone decks that were played at the American Championships! . Then we sit back and stay awhile and look at another amazing Diablo 3 community creation! Then before you know it, we move onto talking about some amazing Heroes of the Storm inspired recipes. But then we dig deep inside our Icebox and read a listeners email! Then we wrap up the show we thanking those people who supported the show this week on Twitter and then we say our weekly goodbyes. So sit back, relax and enjoy Episode 33 of the Frozen Nerdz Podcast. As a friendly reminder, we have our IceBox Virtual Ticket contest going on and it ends on Tuesday, October 21st. Also check out FrozeNerdz.com to find out all the information about the upcoming Pre-BlizzCon event World of Podcasts. Where You Can Find Us: Twitter: @FrozeNerdz E-mail: IceBox@FrozeNerdz.com Website: www.FrozeNerdz.com Partner Network: CatalystGamingMedia.com Forums: CatalystGamingMedia.com/forums Personal Twitter: @KilroyKT, @Epic_Insanity

This week, Pat Krane, Koltrane and Dairies welcome lead game designer Ion Hazzikostas and senior game designer Brian Holinka to the show! Inside, they’ll discuss the upcoming changes for support classes, Ashran and PvP, raid encounters, class balance, and more. This week Blizzard announced the raiding panel for Blizzcon. Ion Hazzikostas gives us the inside scoop on which teams will be playing in this exhibition and what encounters they’ll be facing. Also, the guys chat about garrisons and the end game, professions, crowd control changes and diminishing returns, the legendary ring for Warlords, and a ton of listener questions. It’s all inside this very full episode of Convert to Raid!

This week, pre-expansion patch 6.0.2 lands on the PTR! The guys take a look at all the PTR has to offer versus the beta. Not only will there be Mythic raiding of Siege of Orgrimmar, but there are a number of quality of life improvements, class changes, and more. The bonus roll will still be a thing in Warlords of Draenor, and our friends over at Icy Veins put together a guide on how to get them. Four ways to get your three weekly rolls are through quests from Ashran (don’t worry, only one involves PvP), and you can also get them through your garrisons. Find out how in this episode. As discussed last week, garrisons will also be able to give raiders more loot! We have clarifications from developers Tom Chilton and Ion Hazzikostas on what type of loot to expect, and how often we can expect them.   Also, we’ve got more info on the 10 year anniversary celebration of WoW, class changes on the beta (including tanks and DKs), your questions and so much more. Enjoy!

This week marked the first public raid testing in the beta, and the CtR crew was there… kind of. When Blizz tried testing Gruul and The Butcher, the servers were having some stability issues. Many raid testers were outraged that something that is being tested as a beta had failed. Down servers added to the fact that the first two bosses released for testing have been a part of Blizzard games before sent the flames to the forums and Twitter. On Friday, Blizzard was set to have more raid testing, but this came to a halt after a real life fire in Irvine shut down the power substation. While power was restored that morning, the developers postponed the test. The patch notes for Warlords of Draenor revealed that Hunters will be getting Aspect of the Fox again, this time retooled into a 6 second raid wide cooldown! Feral druids are getting a little bit a love from the devs with a level 100 talent that can transform your cat into Saberon form. Thunder Cats are go!!!!   Also, we’ll have the latest news about Ashran, transmogrification for your weapon enchants, the new female Tauren model along with all your questions and so much more!

This week Patrick, Jake and Tom discuss Mike Morhaime's apology to Blizzard fans, the new Draenai and (hopefully soon) Troll character models, and what bringing back Heart of Valorous could mean for players. Plus we kick off our new lore segment; this week we're talking about Gul'dan. Add in new Ashran achievements, random quest upgrades, and subscription numbers, and we have episode 3 of Geeks of Azeroth!

Patrick and Tom kick off episode 2 with a discussion on Warlords' much talked about pvp zone - Ashran - and pvp in general for the expansion. Plus, combined auction houses are now a thing, 25-level guilds not so much, that Hearthstone tournament debacle, the new faces in WoW, and much more!

This week, Blizzard turned the Warlords of Draenor alpha into the Warlords of Draenor betal, allowing more people access to test server stability. And the CtR crew was there to check it all out. Aside from lots of crashes and bugs, there were a bunch of changes to explore! Tanaan Jungle, the entry point in the next expansion, appeared in the latest build. Khadgar, Thrall and others will test your meddle, unless of course you’re decked out in heroic gear from Siege of Orgrimmar. The guys will give you a glimpse into the action, and tell you what awards await. Some players may be feeling left out in the cold in the beta process, however. The crew takes a look at some of the issues with the beta invite process, and takes you through the timeline as it appeared on Twitter. Another sticking point for some players this week — faction capitals. Blizzard announced at Blizzcon 2013 that the faction capitals would be at Karabor and Bloodspire. But during the development process, and with the greater development of garrisons, the devs have changed their collective mind. While these cities will still be explorable, auction houses, portals, and all normal faction capital functions will be on the island of Ashran, just outside of the PvP zone. The guys give you the lowdown and their opinions on why Blizz made the change.   Plus, the new male human model arrives, Shadowmoon Burial Grounds preview, and a bunch of your questions. It’s another jam packed show, so hang on for another fun ride through Warcraft-land!

Mick is joined by Matt Low and Josh Augustine as they break down WoD changes to Priests, cosmetic items and some new details about Ashran!