Podcasts about kul tiras

Sammler sind in World of Warcraft schon seit jeher gut aufgehoben und mit jedem Addon gibt es mehr Gründe in Ohnmacht zu fallen, wenn man sieht, wie viele neue Objekte eingefügt werden. Haustiere, Reittiere, Erfolge, Transmogzeug, Spielzeuge, Illusionen, Glyphen, Erbstücke und so weiter und sofort. Mehr denn je davon finden wir auf Kul Tiras und Zandalar! Eine Vielzahl von neuen Modellen, Texturen und coolen Effekten ein, die das Sammlerherz höherschlagen lassen. Doch wie sehr spornen diese Belohnungen eigentlich noch an?  Es gibt so viel und eigentlich benutzt man doch eh nur immer die gleichen Sachen. Zwar freut man sich eventuell kurz, wenn man eine Neuheit bekommt, aber diese verstaubt irgendwann im Stall, dem Kleiderschrank oder der Spielzeugkiste. Es wäre vielleicht mal an der Zeit, dass die Entwickler komplett neue Arten von Sammelsachen ins Spiel reinbringen. Und genau darum geht es auch in dieser Ausgabe des Tavern Talks. Was wäre so alles möglich?

World of Warcraft bietet uns Spielern eine riesige Welt, die erforscht werden will. Mit jeder Erweiterung übertreffen die Entwickler sich erneut und erschaffen wundervolle Zonen. Die Gebiete auf Kul Tiras und Zandalar sind einfach traumhaft und werden mit einer ebenso eindrucksvollen Musikkulisse untermalt. Doch ebenso ist es mit jedem Addon so, dass man während der Levelphase durch die Welt streift und nach dem Erreichen der Maximalstufe steht der Charakter oft nur noch in der Hauptstadt herum und wartet darauf in eine Instanz teleportiert zu werden.  Zwar versuchen die Entwickler uns durch z.B. Weltquests und auch der Kriegskampagne raus in die Spielwelt zu locken, doch das ist nur ein kleiner Tropfen auf einem riesigen heißen Stein. Es ist so viel möglich, aber viel wird nicht geboten. Und das, obwohl bereits früher diverse Konzepte umgesetzt wurden, die dann irgendwann auf einmal weg waren. Ziemlich schade, denn die Designer geben sich unglaublich viel Mühe eine atmosphärische Landschaft zu erschaffen, die wir nur selten durchstreifen. In dieser Ausgabe des Tavern Talks geht es deshalb um mögliche Ideen, um die Spielwelt wieder lebendiger zu machen!

In this episode, we take a deeper look into the island and denizens of Kul Tiras, which was introduced as a playable zone in the Battle for Azeroth expansion.    Sources for this episode are: https://wow.gamepedia.com/Kul_Tiras https://www.wowhead.com/zones/kul-tiras  

My guest this week was DragonsAfterDark! My best friend Amanda put down her controller in Mario Kart to comment in chat! We talked about their gaming history and how they got started making over 800 pet battle strategies; got to hear about how they got into writing; AND SO MUCH MORE! LET'S START THE GNOME TRAIN! Links Discussed: Xu-Fu's Pet Battle Strategies WarcraftPets.com Legends of the Wordsmiths The Tales of Quirkheart & Gotthold: The Longest Night ~~ Duskwood Chapter One Kilrogg’s Sight segment by Lady Emma From the Community: Follow @FriendshipMount for Uncorrupted Voidwing AoTC Clears Donate to the Perky Pugs RAINN Fundraising Campaign Perky Pugs Teespring Store DesMephisto Heroic N'Zoth Giveaways and Prizes for Charity in Support of the Joyful Heart Foundation Donate to DesMephisto’s Joyful Heart Foundation Fundraising Campaign Pieces and Gallywix Team Up for a EU Ny'alotha Allseer Giveaway Interview with James (BlindlyPlayingGames) on Gaming with Disabilities Streamer Tanks Mythic N'Zoth One-Handed The Tournament of Ages Karazhan (Dark Synth) The D&D Inspired Art of imaDreamwalker Broken Isles, Kul Tiras and Zandalar Detailed Topographic Maps by Sturmbart Realistic 3D Look Map Render of the Eastern Kingdoms World of warcraft Zones Fan Art Community Fan art by Amanda BleachedRainbows’ Commission for @TheHighblade Hanivha’s Fan Art of Pelagos Custom Orc Model of an Orc Shieldmaiden by Sir Thompshire Machinima Azeroth in Skyrim - Unofficial Warcraft Expansion New AddOn: Sorted Rested XP: Mental Heath, Relationships, Gamers Help get franks_hotsauceguild to Affiliate Make sure to check out HaughtyChicken Subscribe on YouTube, pushing for 100 Brie Awesome & Bee Awesome Masks Our website is FrazlCast.com. Email the show at show@frazlcast.com, tweet us @FrazlCast or leave a voicemail (you can also call 1-440-536-3711). This show contains awesome contributions from people in our community. The Gnome Train Intro is by Ali of Dungeon Fables and All Things Azeroth and the opening music is by Brandon T. Blaylock. Around the Table bumper made by Epicinsanity. The Gnome Roar is by Gin of Morally Grey Podcast! Frazzlepants bumper made by The Scruffy Druid of Viral Voice Arts! The Podcasting Frazley artwork was drawn by Sir Onion Knight. FrazlCast is part of Dragon Powered Studio. Join the Sparkspans Community for discussion during the week at Sparkspan.com. Please consider supporting FrazlCast with Twitch bits and/or a Twitch sub.

Welcome to another installment of “The Chronicles of Gadgett and Caddfael” a series of stories told to me, Toshmifune, by Brother Caddfael, a gnome monk who has retired to the Tian Monastery, about his amazing adventures with Gadgett, a gnomish engineer who has a knack for getting involved in some real mysteries around Azeroth.   This week Brother Caddfael shares one of their adventures in Kul Tiras. Recorded live at The Lazy Turnip Inn in the village of Halfhill, the Valley of the Four Winds in beautiful Pandaria! Reach us on Twitter @HalfhillReport, @PTaliep, @Toshmifune1 or by email at halfhillreport@yahoo.com Find Toshmifune and Professor Taliep on the Wyrmrest Accord server. Halfhill Report is a Proud Member of Dragon Powered Studio Find them at https://dragonpoweredstudio.eu/ Website Banner Art by  Sandra Schnell https://sanii.artstation.com   Logo Art by Toshmifune based on photo by imagesthai.com from Pexels https://www.pexels.com/photo/landscape-photography-of-cliff-with-sea-of-clouds-during-golden-hour-733172/  All place names, character names and music from World of Warcraft used in the Halfhill Report are the exclusive property of Blizzard Entertainment.  World of Warcraft is a trademark or registered trademark of Blizzard Entertainment Inc in the US and other countries. No copyright or trademark infringement is intended by The Halfhill Report.

Pues parece que ya hemos limpiado el polvo y hecho los empalmes en la estación de radio en donde nos pondremos de nuevo de vuelta a grabar en Kul Tiras hasta que marchemos a las Tierras Sombrías el verano que viene. Hemos vuelto a grabar después de 589 días. Aquí os dejamos nuestras impresiones de la Blizzcon 2019 entre WoW y Hearthstone. Nos vemos en un mes, ¿o no?

Topic: World of Warcraft   This week, we start the process of learning about one of my favorite games of the last decade, and Mom gets to come and journey with me on it.  We’re learning about World of Warcraft, and while we can’t talk about everything, we’ll certainly give you a good idea of what it’s all about!   Tutorial   MMORPG – Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game Developed and Created by Blizzard Entertainment, now Activision Blizzard Interactive. Based on previous MMOs, like Runescape, Ultima Online, Everquest, Star Wars Galaxies, and many other game. Personal Favorite were Phantasy Star Online and Ragnarok Online Blizzard knows how to distill the core, fun elements of a game, rebuild it in their own image and what is fun about it, and then paint a rich narrative over the entire game to bring it to life. Blizzard is well known for their Warcraft, Starcraft, and Diablo franchises. A good studio that puts out quality games.   History Beginning development in 1999-2000 around the same time as development on Warcraft 3. Elements from Warcraft 3 helped shape the story, character, world, and races of the upcoming World of Warcraft. Announced in 2001, released in late fall of 2004.  Immediate success based of studio’s previous work and franchise of Warcraft a few years earlier. The game was a worldwide success, and quickly became the most popular and largest game in history.  Additional expansion are released every two years to provide new mechanics, character classes and/or races, new locations to visit, and new stories/lore.   Vanilla/Classic (2004) Initial incarnation of the game.  Story takes place on Azeroth, a fictional, fantasy world with two major factions trying to bide for control over the world: The Alliance(Humans, Dwarfs, Gnomes, & Night Elves) The Horde (Orcs, Trolls, Tauren, &Undead(Forsaken)) Each control major areas of two continents and war against each other in an eternal struggle.  Original story focused on a Dragon lord trying to come to power. Blood gods of the Trolls seeking to corrupt the world. Ancient bugs awakening from their slumber. And the Undead returning to finish the job.   Classic versions of the original game were recently released in August of 2019 to allow players to play the original version of the game.     The Burning Crusade (2006) Set in the world of Outland, the former home of Orcs. Alliance recruits the Dranaei. Horde recruits the Blood Elves. Story has us fighting against the Burning Legion, the universal evil bad guys set on destroying all life. Eventually to fight a big bad named Illidan Introduction of Flying in game     Wrath of the Lich King (2008) Set on the continent of Northrend Introduced a new player class (Death Knights) for all races Story follows forcing trying to subdue the big bad Lich King from Warcraft 3 Marked what many feel is the high point of the game. 12 Million Subscribers high.     Cataclysm (2010) Revamped the 1-60 game world, drastically altering the landscape of the game to allow flying and new game effects. Alliance recruits the Worgen. Horde recruit a faction of Goblins Some class/race combinations rebalanced for more options. Story follows heroes trying to stop the dragon ‘Deathwing’ from destroying the world.  He’s the one that caused the world to sunder, otherwise known in game as ‘The Cataclysm’. New world also introduced a more dynamic story that would begin to play out over multiple expansions and lead in to the next one over time.   Mists of Pandaria (2012) Set in the land of Pandaria, a place hidden in mist until the Cataclysm revealed it. Alliance and Horde recruit Panderians, New class known as the monk introduced. Story follows the Alliance and Horde bring war to a new place that hadn’t seen it and causing a mess. Eventually capped off with the Leader of the Horde trying to start a genocide of his own faction and his eventual downturn.   Warlords of Draenor (2014) Returned to Outland before it became Outland, and even went back in time. Introduction of Garrisons as a major feature. Story followed form warchief going back in time to before the orcs were corrupted, and trying to build the Horde he always wish it would be.  We would stop the new horde from advancing in to our world and taking it over. Game quickly begins to slow down, with the game being less than well received and considered lackluster.  Entire raid content/patch was dropped.   Legion (2016) Set in the Broken Isle, a lost location where the Burning Legion has returned thanks to Gul’dan from last expansion being sent to our world. Introduced the Demon Hunters to the game. Revamp of all Classes and specs to create dynamic, individual game play, and Order Halls. Story follows us trying to stop the burning Legion of returning and putting an end to their campaign once and for all. Many people happy about this expansion and considered a new high point.   Battle for Azeroth (2018) Current expansion. Set on islands of Kul Tiras and Zandalar, forgotten lands in wow lore. We recruit new allied races to assist: Alliance gets Light Forged Dranaei, Void Elves, Dark Iron Dwarfs, Mechagon Gnomes, and Kul Tirans Horde get High Mountain Tauren, Nightborne, Mag’har Orcs, Vulpera, and Zandalari Trolls. Story initially starts as a continuation of the Horde vs Alliance, but quickly find the new WarchiefSylvanas trying to kill everyone for a secret agenda. Continued on success of Legion in story and gameplay.   Shadowlands (2020) New expansion set in the land of the dead.  Revamp of Order Halls and revamp of character abilities. Changing leveling process back to 60 cap level, making each expansion the 10-50 experience. Story revolves around Sylvanas opening up a portal/hole to the shadowlands, but for unknown reasons. Planned for 3rd quarter of 2020.     Classes:  Warriors – Heavy Plate soldiers, good at all weapons, great at tanking. Paladins – Holy Warriors, can do close combat, plus tanking, and Healing. Death Knights – Unholy knights, good at tanking, but channeling unholy skills to do damage Shamans – Nature warriors that call upon the raw elements to attack and heal. Hunters – Similar to rangers, good with all long range combat Rogues – Typical thief, can hide in stealth and strike enemies with ease. Druids – Shape-shifter that rely on nature magic to transform in to either healers,  tanks, melee or ranged damage Monks – Barehanded warriors who are drunk tanks, quick melee fighters, or mystical healers. Demon Hunters – Similar to Illidan, these are warriors infused with demonic energy that can also be tanks Mage – Typical wizard channeling the fire, ice, or arcane magic Warlocks – Dark wizards that use fel and shadow to summon demons to do their bidding. Priests – Holy wizards that excel at healing, but have an unholy damage.     Things to do in game: Leveling/Alts – Common is to level your character until max level, or start a new character and level up all over again Dungeons – 5 man groups tackling various smaller issues, usually relating/theming to current events/expansion Raids – 10-25 man groups tackling bigger dungeons, almost always related to the current events/story Player Vs Player – various areas, themed objectives, and open world fights between the Horde and Alliance.  Pet Battles – Introduced in Cataclysm, think Pokemon with your in game pets Dailies – series of objectives that can be completed daily for various rewards Transmog – Hunting Gear or looks from various sources/objectives Role Playing – Popular amongst roleplay servers, allowing character to act out stories with their characters.

I am back after a week's hiatus and I have finally done some more levelling and exploring the alliance side in Kul Tiras.  I have an interview for you with Aaron from the Do Not relent Podcast and there is another guild drama story! If you want to follow Aaron and his podcast you can do that here: @DoNotRelentPod and @TheBigaCheesey   Where to find the showwww.whispersofwar.podbean.com/ twitter: @whispers_of_war@McMonkeyzemail: whispersofwarpodcast@gmail.com

On this episode, Manny and Joce give their first impressions of 8.1, talk about the most recent Q & A, tell the story of Jaina in Kul Tiras, and go over the strategy for the Siege of Boralus dungeon.As always, don't forget to write in to fazpodcast@gmail.com, or let us know your thoughts over on Discord at bit.ly/fazdiscord . You can support the show at http://patreon.com/FAZ

Discord: http://discord.worldofwarcast.com Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv Mount Up Add-on: https://wow.curseforge.com/projects/mount-up Ren: Finished BfA Pathfinder part 1 on Horde rogue Working on full quest completion with Horde rogue - using Quest Completionist mod to find quests I haven’t done Close to finishing up my 4th 120 - Horde warrior is now 118 New experiment incoming based on two less structured experiments Ran Alliance rogue up to 120 trying to complete all quests I could find in a zone before moving onto the next - finished 120 with 1 chapter left in Stormsong and no quests completed in Drustvar Partway through running up Horde warrior, decided to stick ONLY to the mainline quests that give the zone achievements and do no side quests (not easy to figure out which those are) -- finished all three zones just after finishing 118 Will take up 2 more Horde toons, starting fresh with the idea that one will do all quests in a zone before leaving, and one will do just the mainline run, see where I end up by 120, including comparisons of rep Neither will do the outpost campaigns until 120, just to keep those out of the mix Benefit: mostly just to keep myself motivated through the process of leveling up yet another 2 toons Another experiment incoming: Week-long tests of UI replacement mods - first test will be on ElvUI. May not happen til next week just because of other things going on IRL. Mike: Half way through exalted on some rep Still friendly with turtles Started my monk up again, but didn’t have nearly enough time to play yet. Basically checked out talents. No dungeons yet. I hate frost outdoors So many resources! I wanted to do timewalking this weekend and just had zero time. This Week in WoW: Darkmoon Faire - Oct 7th - 13th World Quest Bonus Week starts Oct 9th - tooltip says it’s for Broken Isles WQs? Running of the Gnomes/Great Gnomeregan Run on Scarlet Crusade, 4 PM PDT, Saturday October 13th - annual fundraiser for breast cancer research. Starts at the spawn spot of new gnomes - there is a Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/RunningofTheGnomes/ News: Update: WoW Diary Kickstarter ended September 25th with 8,379 backers pledging $598,999 - biggest nonfiction book Kickstarter in history By far the most popular tier was the $40 backers for both the electronic book and print book with 6,661 backers (80%), followed by the $150 level for the electronic book, signed copy of the print book and companion booklet with 1,117 backers (13%) For those who missed this Kickstarter, the book will eventually be available on Amazon for about 20% more than the Kickstarter edition and without the perks Mike Morhaime stepping down as President of Blizzard; J. Allen Brack, Wow’s Executive Director for WoW, taking over. Morhaime will remain as a “strategic advisor” to Blizzard. https://blizzcon.com/en-us/news/22456082/throw-your-own-epic-blizzcon-celebration-with-the-virtual-ticket-viewing-party-kit?linkId=100000003674039 Upcoming Azerite armor changes - Blizzard realizes there are problems with the current system Make Azerite armor more available - looking to add Azerite Armor rewards from Emissary quests that scale up to 370, depending on current iLevel. Also mentioned “making further improvements to the ways Emissaries reward gear”. When new Azerite Armor is introduced in “BfA Season 2” (Patch 8.1), armor that currently only has 2 possible traits will get a third. Continuing to work on the individual traits themselves - balancing out those who want more generic traits for wider applicability, vs. those who want to fine-tune traits to specs or situations The first problem - overall availability -- will be hotfixed in before 8.1. The third trait slot and the new abilities won’t come in until the patch. 8.1 news Players beyond level 110 will be able to enter Legion era raids in LFR difficulty Achievements: Noblegarden: “Shake Your Bunny Maker” is being changed to place rabbit ears upon any character over level 18, not just female characters. On the Frontlines: New achievement to complete all six Horde or Alliance assaults Several new Battle Pet achievements, based on previous expansion achievements to defeat all 15 Master Tamers on Kul Tiras or Zandalar with teams of all one pet type (dragonkin, flying, beast, critter, etc) New paladin spell visuals for Flash of Light and Beacon of Light New information on Faction Incursions Will only be for characters 110 or above (Ren: boo) Completing 4 incursions will result in a random 370 weapon or Azerite Armor for quests. These items are from the same item pool from Warfronts (7th Legion/Honorbound items) Will work a lot like Legion Invasions: after completing 4 incursion quests, you have to complete a short scenario to take down an airship Doubleagent the Neutral Panda is now level 117

This week join the loremasters as we chat about the loa of death, discuss the history of the Admiralty of Kul Tiras, and learn that Sharku is officially the 2nd most annoying WoW podcaster on the internet!!! He's always number one in my heart, though. Come have fun with us! 

Featured Stories - We Hear from Amon, Velmic Reviews an Inn and Makes a Friend and Halfhill's Poet Laureate. Sponsors: Nesingwary Safari, Grainmaster Pei, The Lorewalkers and Stormstout Brewery. Recorded live at the Lazy Turnip Inn in the village of Halfhill, the Valley of the Four Winds in beautiful Pandaria! Reach us on Twitter @HalfhillReport, @PTaliep, @Toshmifune1 or by email at halfhillreport@yahoo.com Find Toshmifune and Professor Taliep on the Wyrmrest Accord server! Halfhill Report is a Member of The Weekly Awesome family of Podcasts - Find them at https://weeklyawesome.com/ Opening Music: China Town by Audiobbinger Productions URL: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Audiobinger/Audiobinger_-_Singles_1776/China_Town_1874 Harbor Sounds used in Dwarven Dispatch - https://freesound.org/people/deranged/sounds/208074/ (Creative Commons) World of Warcraft Exodar music -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqEtcWf3ZaM Closing Music: Innkeeper Music - Mists Of Pandaria https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9l7Zm3Mo8Q Logo Art Photo by imagesthai.com from Pexels https://www.pexels.com/photo/landscape-photography-of-cliff-with-sea-of-clouds-during-golden-hour-733172/ All place names, character names and music from World of Warcraft used in the Halfhill Report are the exclusive property of Blizzard Entertainment. World of Warcraft is a trademark or registered trademark of Blizzard Entertainment Inc in the US and other countries. No copyright or trademark infringement is intended by The Halfhill Report. Featured Stories - Toshie Makes a Deal with a Goblin and Velmic Travels to Kul Tiras.  Sponsors: Stormstout Brewery. Recorded live at the Lazy Turnip Inn in the village of Halfhill, the Valley of the Four Winds in beautiful Pandaria! Reach us on Twitter @HalfhillReport, @PTaliep, @Toshmifune1 or by email at halfhillreport@yahoo.com Find Toshmifune and Professor Taliep on the Wyrmrest Accord server! Halfhill Report is a Member of The Weekly Awesome family of Podcasts - Find them at https://weeklyawesome.com/ Opening Music: China Town by Audiobbinger Productions URL: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Audiobinger/Audiobinger_-_Singles_1776/China_Town_1874 World of Wacraft Inn Ambience used in Interview with Rizhak - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1eAD0ZyPgw&t=2358s World of Warcraft Exodar music -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqEtcWf3ZaM Closing Music: Innkeeper Music - Mists Of Pandaria https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9l7Zm3Mo8Q Logo Art Photo by imagesthai.com from Pexels https://www.pexels.com/photo/landscape-photography-of-cliff-with-sea-of-clouds-during-golden-hour-733172/ All place names, character names and music from World of Warcraft used in the Halfhill Report are the exclusive property of Blizzard Entertainment. World of Warcraft is a trademark or registered trademark of Blizzard Entertainment Inc in the US and other countries. No copyright or trademark infringement is intended by The Halfhill Report.

Featured Stories - Toshie Makes a Deal with a Goblin and Velmic Travels to Kul Tiras.  Sponsors: Stormstout Brewery. Recorded live at the Lazy Turnip Inn in the village of Halfhill, the Valley of the Four Winds in beautiful Pandaria! Reach us on Twitter @HalfhillReport, @PTaliep, @Toshmifune1 or by email at halfhillreport@yahoo.com Find Toshmifune and Professor Taliep on the Wyrmrest Accord server! Halfhill Report is a Member of The Weekly Awesome family of Podcasts - Find them at https://weeklyawesome.com/ Opening Music: China Town by Audiobbinger Productions URL: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Audiobinger/Audiobinger_-_Singles_1776/China_Town_1874 World of Wacraft Inn Ambience used in Interview with Rizhak - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1eAD0ZyPgw&t=2358s World of Warcraft Exodar music -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqEtcWf3ZaM Closing Music: Innkeeper Music - Mists Of Pandaria https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9l7Zm3Mo8Q Logo Art Photo by imagesthai.com from Pexels https://www.pexels.com/photo/landscape-photography-of-cliff-with-sea-of-clouds-during-golden-hour-733172/ All place names, character names and music from World of Warcraft used in the Halfhill Report are the exclusive property of Blizzard Entertainment. World of Warcraft is a trademark or registered trademark of Blizzard Entertainment Inc in the US and other countries. No copyright or trademark infringement is intended by The Halfhill Report.

  Show 2   I want to thank you all so much for the love and support! It really means a lot that the first show was so well received and that you all welcomed me back into the podcasting and wow-community. You guys are the best! This week I talk to Marty from The Blue Recluse podcast about all things warcraft and we talk a lot about bfa.  If you want to know more about Marty and his podcasts, go to: https://dragonpoweredstudio.eu/  And you can follow him on twitter: @unamithil How was my week in warcraft? - BFA hit; what did I do – plus topic of the week; my first impressions of bfa - levelling horde - leveling alliance - areas and my opinions on them There's also a new look to the Warcraft app! Topic of the week: First impressions of BFA   What the listeners said (Email and tweets): @knightveil: Probably missed the deadline, but the horde side questing has been enjoyable. Only bugs I've found are a weird "missing dialog" bug and mobs randomly resetting during combat. Otherwise it's been good. Darkspear Revolutionary Ligerwolf: Will only comment on Vol'dun as its the only zone i've complete so far. Here goes, the quests are just all over the place, No clear indication which is the main story and which are the side quests.. You complete 2 or 3, BAM, you get 5 more. And its like this the entire way. What I've quested in Nazmir, I am enjoying it so far. I like it more than Voldum aka side quest gallore zone. @Exclavior: I’m loving Kul Tiras. The sights and sounds around Boralus have me yearning for a trip to the coast IRL. The aesthetics are just stunning!!  Kristen @Disneygirl85: I'm having so much fun! I love how big Boralus is and how the kul tirans talk is magical. Darryl from the Training Dummies podcast: I'm loving everything about it so far. Bwonsamdi is just plain awesome. Ringmaster Kevin from the Darkmoon herald podcast: Trolls are awesome!!!!! Echoess GG: I like the story telling and questing more than legion. The dungeons were also fun, but it was primarily due to their new-ness. Ryakkan: Drustvar is gorgeous and eerie, but I love it. Put your cameras on it's farthest distance setting and just sit back for some gorgeous scenery. Cmdr Moogyver from Spare Parts: So far, only 2 hours in (had to work, and then server shutdown happened right in the middle) but so far its been amazing. the cutscenes!   Questions next time: How do you pick your main and I still want to hear what you think about bfa so far.   Any war whispers you want to share?   Where to find the show www.whispersofwar.podbean.com/   twitter: @whispers_of_war email: whispersofwarpodcast@gmail.com   We need guests, tips and positive stories and of course community highlights. If you want to be a guest, send me a pm on twitter or email me. 

Blizzard Watch Episode 174: Before the Storm, Kul Tiras Druid forms, Yrel players forlorn, and more by Blizzard Watch

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

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

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

In this episode Sharku, Shoeboots and Jared discuss the origins and history of the Order of the Silver Hand, as well debating the use of Artifact Weapons as a storytelling device in WoW. We speculate about the future of Artifacts Weapons, and WoW in general. We also discuss the 1000 Years War audio drama, followed by a brief and futile attempt by Shoeboots to convince everyone else that the Mythic Dungeon Invitational was great.