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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.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
We look at the Highmountain Tauren intro quest and deep-dive on Kobold lore!
On this episode of The AIE Podcast... Tetsemi:The Battle for Allied Races Mkalah: February means AIE Love Mewkow So much love in so many games! Tetsemi: And, we have Captain Cybyl's STO update Mkalah: And, the return of some Old Friends to talk to us about AIE in WOW All that and more coming up right now... Podcast Audio Raw Video http://youtu.be/mLJGDuXz8V8 Open Welcome to episode #292 of the the podcast celebrating the Alea Iacta Est gaming community, the die has been podcast. This is Mewkow: To my left is Tetsemi: - (catch phrase here). And to my right is Mkalah: (There is Quiche in the guild kitchen, and cinnamon rolls, and baked french toast, and blueberry croissant bake and…). This week we are joined by special guests Syreyne and Acuzod who is here to talk to us about AIE in WoW Welcome! Ok, we'll be digging into WoW shortly, but first, let's cover this week's news... AIE News Imperium Ludi Laskan has started a thread on the OrbuvVR game and is looking for other AIE Folks playing in the game, take a look at the forum thread and respond if you're playing! http://forum.myextralife.com/topic/57486-orbusvr/ WoW The Battle for Azeroth alpha is out and a number of streamers have been showing off gameplay. Are you in the alpha or have you watched any of the streams? Let us know what you think. Also, with the pre-order now released, you can gain access to 4 of the 6 allied races that were announced. Horde-side you can unlock the Highmountain Tauren and the Nightborne, and on the Alliance-side you can unlock the Void Elves and Lightforged Draenai. Have you pre-ordered and starting unlocking/playing the new allied races? SWTOR Mandatory Fun Night will be on the Imperial Side for the next two weeks, the 13 of February will be Toborro's Courtyard and Ravagers and on the 20th, Terror from Beyond. Also conquest in two weeks will be a crafting week, so start saving up your materials now. Congrats to Sith with Unlimited Power, Soldiers of Light, Deathstar Troopers and Lords of Light for all downing the new raid boss! Patch Notes - Game Update 5.7a Corrected an issue that was preventing players from triggering the shuttle cutscene in Kuat Drive Yards. Chapter 7: The Lady of Sorrows bonus Mission “Clean Up Detail” has had its rewards reduced. Corrected a texture issue for the Guerrilla Tactician's Breastplate. SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 229: Zash Clash and 5.7a News http://www.newoverlords.com/swtor-escape-pod-cast-229-zash-clash-and-5-7a-news/ This week @AIESema, @MaxTheGrey and Astromech EPC-229 get to the finale of the Sorcerer Chapter 1 story. We also talk about 5.7a, Microsoft buying EA (or not) and other news SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 230: A Ton of Thanaton http://www.newoverlords.com/swtor-escape-pod-cast-230-a-ton-of-thanaton/ This week @AIESema, @MaxTheGrey and Astromech EPC-230 deal with an introduction to Darth Thanaton in our Sorcerer play-through and spend some time talking about Strongholds and their various uses. We also cover other news FFXIV Valentine Day seasonal event: Valentione's Day -- lasting until 15 February. Letter from the Producer LIVE (42nd) was yesterday, Saturday 10 Feb -- stuff! There's a "Be My Valentine!" creative writing contest -- submit your love letter as written to a game NPC, 300 words or less by 16 Feb. FC News Friday Night Fun Nights continue. Some new members are rapidly approaching "end game" New effort for 8 man content is once more underway. Contact Durus in AIE Discord for details. The newly crafted airship "The Ralff" was constructed and sent on its maiden voyage. We are now working on creating our first submarine for fC explorer missions. Streams: Both Abovan and Durus have taken to streaming some Final Fantasy content. Look for posts in the "content-creators" channel of discord or drop them a follow on Twitch.tv: http://twitch.tv/abovan79 and http://twitch.tv/thedurus EVE The alliance that AIEU is a part of Blades of Grass is moving!
Technically PVP Show notes Episode 45 - Mist Weavers Upcoming WoW PVP Events NA Cup #1 - 7-11 Feb - https://battlefy.com/world-of-warcraft-arena-world-championship/wow-3v3-arena-na-cup-1/5a5e6be6ed2d53037bd90afe/info?infoTab=details EU Cup #2 - 14-18 Feb - https://battlefy.com/world-of-warcraft-arena-world-championship/wow-3v3-arena-eu-cup-2/5a70ba0e4b044e0370fa018c/info?infoTab=details CSTV Valentine’s Exhibition - 15-16 Feb - https://battlefy.com//valentines-exhibition/5a6c0a1be5e753034fa28c36/info?infoTab=details WOW PVP NEWS Dev Q&A Soloqueue 1 2 3 6 8 10 11 6v6 RBGs Comment on spectator ui “/invitespectatormatch” which has been baked into wow since 7.2.5 Prestige will change to add a standard reward when you level ranks (like in OW), not mounts/tabards/etc. Honour talents to move away from tree. Be like a bucket you can choose from. Keeping trinket option. Wpvp was explained (normal/rp servers), flag pvp will put you with other pvp people. Sharding to fix balancing of factions. Only RP servers will continue to not shard. Uncharted island rewarding still being worked on. Allied races (not all) are now accessible to pre-order only. Nightborne, Highmountain Tauren, Lightforged Draenei and Void Elf only. EU Cup #1 - 38 teams signed up- congrats to XRB to the moon! (Blizo, Zeepeye, Wallirik, and Baal) http://liquipedia.net/worldofwarcraft/Arena_Cup/2018/EU/1 CSTV tournament - congrats to DSG! (Ceral, Prevy, Brian, and Swacked) Class tuning happened today (PVE only, PVP counter tuned for balance)- https://us.battle.net/forums/en/wow/topic/20761746576#1 https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/news/21365424/hotfixes-february-6 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: Demon hunters were first introduced to the Warcraft Universe in which Blizzard game? Warcraft 3 Send your answer to Technicallypvp@gmail.com. First correct answer will earn a shout out on the next show Shoutouts 5 Star review by Daisemiin - “Nicest guys trying to kill me I’ve ever met” - I like this show and it has rekindled my old PvP memories and started me queuing up again. The hosts never fail to help me when I have a question no matter how flightly, and I enjoy their time on my commute and work days. Good people, not jerks at all. 5 star review by Faerondil (fair-unh-dil)- “Much needed PvP” - A great podcast in a much needed space. Love the cast and the guests. Keep it up! Finding Us Stoopzz - https://www.twitch.tv/stoopzz_tv https://twitter.com/Stoopzz_TV https://gaming.youtube.com/stoopzz_TV http://stoopzz.com/ 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: 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 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
Medros, and Toasty are joined by Rho to talk about the 7.3.5 PTR, Level Scaling, New Racials, The Elevator Boss, and more
Technically PVP Show notes Episode 39 - Talking with Rocket Esports Eclipse Upcoming WoW PVP Events None WOW PVP NEWS Sub-race racials are being reported now: Void Elves will have a short-range teleport Lightforged Draenei can call down a strike of Holy energy Highmountain Tauren will have a short (1sec) charge http://www.wowhead.com/news=275388/new-allied-races-coming-in-battle-for-azeroth-expansion-with-heritage-armor-sets http://www.wowhead.com/news=275765/more-allied-race-info-from-blizzcon-2017-unlocking-races-class-combinations-raci#racials Honorbuddy finally dies - http://www.wowhead.com/news=276001/honorbuddy-to-be-discontinued?webhook/honorbuddy-to-be-discontinued Season end announced 28 Nov - https://twitter.com/WarcraftDevs/status/928344461767163904 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: Baradin Hold is located in which zone? The answer is Tol Barad. Send your answer to Technicallypvp@gmail.com. First correct answer will earn a shout out on the next show Finding Us Jaime - twitch.tv/Jaime_ https://twitter.com/RE_Jme Lyanne - https://twitch.tv/LuuxiA https://twitter.com/RE_JLuuxiA Technically - https://www.twitch.tv/technically_pvp https://twitter.com/Technically_PvP Technicallypvp@gmail.com https://technicallypvp.wordpress.com/ Andallyn - https://twitter.com/Andallyn1244 https://www.twitch.tv/andallyn Windstead - https://twitter.com/windstead84
The World of Warcraft talk continues on latest Embrace the Spoilers. This week Garrett and Jocelyn are getting their hiking boots with +10 to moose power and heading to Highmountain. The Highmountain Tauren are in trouble, the Drogbar are wreaking havoc, the lore is thick, and the corn is HUGE! For Azeroth!...