Podcasts about rated battlegrounds

Technically PVP Show Notes   Episode 68 - Destro RLS   16:25 - Upcoming WoW PVP Events Resurgent King of the Hollow Monday nights https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/kings-of-the-hollow-3v3-tournament-tonight/20570 The Gosu Cup 15 Dec 18 https://twitter.com/Resurgentesb/status/1067804916519964673   23:34 - Subject of Analysis Today we will discuss, Destro lock variation of RLS. Traits? Flashpoint x2/3 - destro Supremacy - destro Battlefield precision x2 - assassin Surging tides - rsham Pack spirit - rsham Turn of the Tide - rsham   1:46:39 - WOW PVP NEWS 8.1 dropped today https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/news/22824892/tides-of-vengeance-update-notes You can now target specific kinds of Azerite armor by earning Titan Residuum, which can be used to purchase Azerite armor from everyone’s favorite purveyor of exquisite furnishings: Thaumaturge Vashreen. Time to level from 1 to 110 has been reduced by approximately 25%. Troll Berserking reduced to 10% Haste for 12 seconds (was 15% Haste for 10 seconds). Blood Elf Arcane Torrent cooldown increased to 2 minutes (was 1.5 minutes). The reward bonuses from War Mode can now scale above 10% when a faction was outnumbered over the course of the preceding week, up to a maximum of 30% additional quest rewards and experience. War Mode can now be disabled in any rested area. It can still only be enabled in Stormwind or Orgrimmar. Rated Arenas and Rated Battlegrounds now grant an additional 50% conquest for all conquest reward weeks prior to week 9. But-Ton of class changes/talents/pvp talents/nerfs/buffs!!!  (except for warlocks… they got a slight adjustment) Integrated new multi-threaded performance optimizations for clients using DirectX 12 and Metal.     Hotfixes - https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/news/22824893/hotfixes-december-11-2018 PVP Season 2 start date announced!  22 Jan 19 https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/news/22820910/tides-of-vengeance-arrives-starting-december-11 Will make this season 20 weeks long More info on the GCD changes for movement abilities https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/which-spells-are-being-removed-from-gcd-in-8-1/37795/7 Dev Q&A announced for this Friday https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/news/22820911/join-us-for-a-live-developer-q-a-on-december-14   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   2:05:32 - Trivia question Previous episode question was: What is the maximum number of players you can queue with into a random BG? A: 5.  Congrats to Verlane for being the first to enter and get 2 ballots into the game time giveaway! Send your answer to Technicallypvp@gmail.com.  First correct answer will earn a shout out on the next show NOTE:  This is the last question for the contest.  Our next show will be in the New Year and we will announce the winner!   2:06:47 - Shoutouts Drexia - Destro Lock Arena Partner Resurgent Esports Broadcasting Arena Forums Vindicatum Guild Finding Us Bolt - https://www.twitch.tv/boltinqt_ https://twitter.com/Boltinqt_Vindi Discord: Bolt#6807 Podcast Cohosts Technically - https://www.twitch.tv/technically_pvp https://twitter.com/Technically_PvP https://discord.gg/w7WZ9ab https://blizzard.com/invite/3kEld72CBvz Technicallypvp@gmail.com https://technicallypvp.wordpress.com/ Andallyn - https://twitter.com/Andallyn1244 https://www.twitch.tv/andallyn Windstead - https://twitter.com/windstead84

Technically PVP Show Notes   Episode 66 - More Blizzcon News   Upcoming WoW PVP Events Resurgent ESB Monday Fight nights   WOW PVP NEWS There were a couple 1v1 tournaments on the Classic Demo server! :) https://challonge.com/StaysafeTV https://challonge.com/zao4cs8f Forums are getting a redo: https://us.battle.net/support/en/article/breaking/22764995   Subject of Analysis Blizzcon Dev Interviews There are no plans for improvements on PvP gearing, the dev team wants to see the 8.1 changes on the PvE side in action first before coming up with anything for PvP Free for All PvP Quests are scheduled to make a return in Nazjatar. Wintergrasp is coming back as an Epic Battleground! The Island Expedition's AI was improved to more likely behave like players and be used in Battlegrounds. Just like players, the AI likes to jump a lot! PvP Warfronts are currently not planned, but it is an idea the dev team discusses consistently. PvP Zone Objectives (like the PvP towers in Terokkar Forest) are scheduled to make an appearance in Nazjatar For Tides of Vengeance, the team is working on reviewing the state of abilities added to the GCD and many movement abilities will likely be removed from it. Since revamps for Arathi Basin and Warsong Gulch were announced, we were curious if Alterac Valley would receive a similar revamp. No plans at the current time. Maybe something to get around to later on. WSG and AB are more compact so you see more at once. They are also two popular battlegrounds and part of the Rated Battleground rotation. What about Ashenvale getting an update now that Warsong Gulch has one? Slippery slope! https://www.wowhead.com/news=288498/latam-content-creators-interview-with-jeremy-feasel-and-paul-watkins-flying-in-n https://www.wowhead.com/news=288433/blizzcon-2018-mamytwink-battle-for-azeroth-interview-with-jeremy-feasel-and-tina https://www.wowhead.com/news=288454/method-blizzcon-interview-with-morgan-day-and-ely-cannon-nazjatar-reaping-detail https://www.wowhead.com/news=288418/blizzcon-2018-interview-with-ion-hazzikostas-and-chris-robinson-azshara-raises-n MMO-Champion puts blogs several interviews together There is a relatively even balance of people who play Alliance or Horde. Overall win rates in random battlegrounds are "shockingly even." Epic battlegrounds tend to favor Alliance and the other battlegrounds skew a bit more in the Horde's favor. The ratio seems of win rates is about 54% Horde and 46% Alliance, not including Rated Battlegrounds. The amount of players who utilize War Mode currently skew towards Horde. In Tides of Vengeance, the team is looking into offering some kind of increased rewards for the less-represented faction in War Mode, so the risk and reward are better calibrated. Ion suspects that many Alliance players had bad experiences in War Mode in the beginning of the expansion and have turned off War Mode because of it. The purpose of increased awards is to make up for the risk of being killed by the opposite faction, but they want to keep this on equal grounds, and their hope is that increasing the rewards of the less represented faction will encourage more people to activate War Mode when their faction is at a disadvantage. Ion admits that Berserking is a bit too powerful of a racial ability for some classes and this is why it is receiving a small nerf. Historically, PvP servers have always been more Horde-favored. It might have to do with player identity in the game, such as wanting to be something battle-hardened like an orc. Blizzard is also keeping an eye on class and specialization appearance rates in PvP combat. https://www.mmo-champion.com/content/8158-Enhancement-Shaman-PTR-Changes-Forbes-Eurogamer-Interviews-Podcast-Interviews Including a Forbes interview with Ion about PVP: https://www.forbes.com/sites/hnewman/2018/11/07/blizzard-working-to-balance-warcrafts-alliance-and-horde-players-in-war-mode-raiding/#5e4361df3c18 What’s next panel https://www.wowhead.com/news=288351/blizzcon-2018-world-of-warcraft-whats-next-panel CDew streams a review of the Blizzcon games and told his secrets https://youtu.be/1TWvmhhdGAs Trivia question Previous episode question was: What is the name of the pandaren racial trait that reduces falling damage?  A: Bouncy! Congrats to Verlane for being the first to answer again!     Send your answer to Technicallypvp@gmail.com.  First correct answer will earn a shout out on the next show.   Shoutouts Quick thanks to Verlane for sending his AWC predictions and his reasoning!  He guessed it would be Gosu Crew losing to Skill Capped 4-1.   Finding Us Podcast Cohosts Technically - https://www.twitch.tv/technically_pvp https://twitter.com/Technically_PvP https://discord.gg/w7WZ9ab https://blizzard.com/invite/gPmLWK3F9e0 Technicallypvp@gmail.com https://technicallypvp.wordpress.com/ Andallyn - https://twitter.com/Andallyn1244 https://www.twitch.tv/andallyn Windstead - https://twitter.com/windstead84  

Technically PVP Show notes   Episode 59 - Battle for Azeroth   Upcoming WoW PVP Events 6v6 RBG League start announced https://us.battle.net/forums/en/wow/topic/20766086419?page=1#post-4 Starts second week of September AWC fall cup schedule was announced: EU Cup #1 - 14 Sep NA Cup #1 - 15 Sep EU Cup #2 - 28 Sep NA Cup #2 - 29 Sep EU Cup #3 - 5 Oct NA Cup #3 - 6 Oct Blizzcon Opening Week - 29 Oct   WOW PVP NEWS BfA launched.. And servers died. Hotfixes - https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/news/21973195/hotfixes-august-20-2018 Conquest points removed until season 1 starts Brewmaster nerfed a bit Arms warriors got a significant rework (mastery more significant) Miniaturized Plasma Shield and Personal Space Amplifier engineering belt enchants can no longer be used in Arenas and Rated Battlegrounds. BfA Season 1 starts 4 sep - https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/news/21964423/mark-your-calendars-the-battle-is-on A third round of Blizzcon tickets were released for sale on 18 Aug.  And sold in ?? seconds? AWC NA/EU Fall Cup was officially announced with signups available on Battlefy: https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/news/22308738/announcing-the-2018-arena-world-championship-fall-season Info on assassin buff: https://us.battle.net/forums/en/wow/topic/20766686634#post-1 https://us.battle.net/forums/en/wow/topic/20766686634#post-6 Random gear drops in BGs; if you didn’t get any it could be this bug - https://us.battle.net/forums/en/wow/topic/20767747521?page=2#post-24 Dev Q&A this Thursday! - https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/news/22308737/join-us-for-a-live-developer-q-a-thursday-august-23   Warcraft PVP Scene NA Bracket http://us.battle.net/wow/en/pvp/leaderboards/2v2 EU PVP Brackets: https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-gb/game/pvp/leaderboards/2v2   Trivia question Previous episode question was: What are players attempting to capture the fastest in the strand of the ancients bg? A:Titan Relic. Congratulations to Verlane for again being the first to answer the trivia question!     Send your answer to Technicallypvp@gmail.com.  First correct answer will earn a shout out on the next show Shoutouts Shoutout again to DMachine for his involvement with the esportpedia discord and the discussions and assets there. Also, shoutout to the authors of Azeroth Autopilot addon   Finding Us Technically - https://www.twitch.tv/technically_pvp https://twitter.com/Technically_PvP https://discord.gg/w7WZ9ab https://blizzard.com/invite/gPmLWK3F9e0 Technicallypvp@gmail.com https://technicallypvp.wordpress.com/ Andallyn - https://twitter.com/Andallyn1244 https://www.twitch.tv/andallyn Windstead - https://twitter.com/windstead84

In today's episode I talk about what to do when first starting out in PvP including the best methods to farm honor, which gear to get first, and how to maximize your effectiveness in PvP. We also cover entry into Rated Battlegrounds and effective positions and strategies!

Medros is joined by Starman, Kerrsplat, Stormi, Hasteur, and Gaz to talk Upcoming class changes, a look ahead to 4.1, Kinected WoW, and more.