Podcasts about nightborne

Today's hosts: Gershom and Woolly Today's guest: Catbut Wwwhat's up swingaz? From the TB headquarters in the grizzly lands of Wisconsin, welcome to Thrall's Balls episode 87! On today's show, we're, slappa-dappin a new mixed drink down the hatch, and doing what I'm calling "trivia through the ages." If this is your first time listening - welcome! And thanks for listening! I want to let you know you can feel free to join us on Discord. Just go to ThrallsBalls and it'll zap you into the server. You can also feel free to send us a review. You can do this in the podcast directory on bonusroll.gg, you can hit up apple podcasts, or you can even email us at ThrallsBallsPodcast@gmail.com Mixed Drink of the Week (Gershom - Rhapsody Malt) -1 shot of coconut vodka -2 shots mikes harder mango lemonade -7 up Next week: Greater Health Potion (Woolly) Portergauge on Twitter has a VERY interesting look at how Nightborne druids could work! https://twitter.com/Portergauge/status/1647377891175579649 Question of the Week - gonna run this one another week Question was and is: What would you add to the Darkmoon Faire to spice things up? Follow us in the places! @Woolly08 @HunterGershom on twt, @HunterGerrshom on insta @Bentolas_Outlaw @ThrallsBallsPod on twt, insta, and tiktok leave a review on the podcast directory at bonusroll.gg email us thrallsballspodcast@gmail.com join discord thrallsballs.com bye we love you be good (c) 2023 copy deez nuts

The lovely Crescent joins me on the show today and we talk about dragons, mushrooms and Nightborne.  You guys... well I will tell what happened on the show and what have I been doing for two weeks in Warcraft? You can find Crescent here: https://twitter.com/VerilyaRaven Where to find the show www.whispersofwar.podbean.com/ https://www.dragonpoweredstudio.com/discord twitter: @whispers_of_war @McMonkeyz email: whispersofwarpodcast@gmail.com Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/mcmonkeyzz The amazing intro was created by @Thomtheknight

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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.

This week we had a variety show about pvp, Nightborne lore, octopus and everything else in between. Follow Asmongold Twitter - @Asmongold Twitch - Asmongold Twitter - @allcraft Follow Us on Twitch twitch.tv/pwncast Find Us Facebook facebook.com/pwncast Follow Us on Twitter @thepwncast

Hearthcast #372: Cinematics, Nightborne, and the Bravest Bat - Rewt and Freckleface chat about in-game cinematics and leveling their new Nightborne toons

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!

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

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

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

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

Blizzard Watch LoreWatch #27

Medros, Phandeth, and Toasty are back to discuss the Harbiner's video series trailer, Streets of Warcraft, and more