Podcasts about warsong gulch

Quissy & Pasta discuss what it's been like since the Battlegrounds Alterac Valley & Warsong Gulch have been released in WoW Classic. They also discuss the Feast of Winter Veil, now available in both Classic and BfA Retail, and more!

It's the penultimate episode of Countdown To Classic, and the show continues to bring in the big guns of MMORPG gaming, as well as a bunch of the WoW Classic community for a chat. Today, we kick off with a chat about battlegrounds with show favourite Marky Mark, and the 'new meta' that Classic players are experiencing through the Alterac Valley, and to a lesser extent, Warsong Gulch grind. After that, Josh is joined for an epic chat with MMORPG legendary designer Raph Koster, the current CEO of Playable Worlds, and former lead designer and creative director of Ultima Online and Star Wars Galaxies, respectively.  Listen in to one of the best chats the show has featured, as Raph talks everything from Richard Garriott's castle, to his thoughts on micro-transactions and their place in gaming, to his current work with Playable Worlds. Following that, Josh publishes a bunch of calls that he has held on to far too long, with apologies to the callers, as we heard about a diverse range of WoW Classic topics from DHK's to Pet Threat. Highlights Below: Calling Countdown #1 - Ranking in 2019 w/ DaRealMarkyMark - 5:20 Calling Countdown #2 - Raph Koster on MMORPG's - 37:20 Calling Countdown #3 - More Death & Taxes Memories w/ TheNidhugg - 3:08:10 Calling Countdown #4 - Feral Druid Issue w/ Quanta - 3:35:50 Calling Countdown #5 - Pet Threat w/ Sera - 3:47:15 Calling Countdown #6 - Dishonourable Kills w/ Soniti & Shahin - 4:02:30 Calling Countdown #7 - Healing w/ Effie - 4:19:10   Find Josh’s movie podcast, The Sinner Files @ https://www.sinnerfiles.com/ Follow Josh on Twitter @ https://twitter.com/count2classic?lang=en Join the Countdown To Classic Discord here: https://discord.gg/2xJAwNf Support the show with a tip at Ko-Fi @ https://ko-fi.com/Y8Y3D2TT

Quissy & Pasta discuss Elemental Invasions, Battlegrounds: Alterac Valley & Warsong Gulch, Queue times in Classic WoW, Faerlina and Grobbulus server updates as well as a few Patch 8.3 highlights, including the new charity pet, Dottie.

In Episode 8, we recap our Thanksgiving breaks, discuss more news about Classic, in particular how we've started alts on Grobbulus and more about the upcoming Battlegrounds: Alterac Valley & Warsong Gulch. We also cover the Mythic gear debate currently going on in BfA, as well as the controversy surrounding The Jailer's Identity. Enjoy!

The beta rolls on and brings with it a couple of fresh talking points for the show and its listeners to tackle this week with Josh. Warsong Gulch has been open for a couple of weeks now in the beta and Arathi Basin just opened days ago, and with those come the bloodthirsty PvP testers looking to see how things perform on the battlegrounds. After that we break down stream sniping, after some comments made by streamer Sodapoppin ignited the forums this past week on the issue. Then, we welcome back vanilla WoW level designer John Staats, for the first of a lengthy ongoing segment all about the design of vanilla WoW's instances.  Listen in to part one of this series, as John tells us all about how he built one of the most beloved dungeons in MMORPG history, Blackrock Depths. The show then rounds out with a great call with a sitting member of the state of Maine's House of Representatives, about that one time that WoW got caught up in politics, and also a follow up call from last week, for a slightly different angle on the Trollgodx issue at the dueling tournament. Highlights Below: Calling Countdown #1 - Beta BG's w/ Ayle, Fried, Khano, & Nano - 2:50 Calling Countdown #2 - Stream Sniping w/ Boosh & Gleb - 31:35 Calling Countdown #3 - The Making of Blackrock Depths w/ John Staats, Gromboli, & Vilius - 50:55 Calling Countdown #4 - When WoW Met Politics w/ Colleen Madigan, Maine - House of Representatives (D) - 1:52:35 Calling Countdown #5 - Trollgodx Part Two - Blizzard Should Consider Some Action w/ Emmortal, Sabara, & Trabadab - 2:20:25   Buy 'The WoW Diary' by John Staats on Amazon @ https://www.amazon.com/WoW-Diary-Journal-Computer-Development/dp/B07LB927QF Find John Staats on Twitter @ https://twitter.com/johnstaats_wir?lang=en Directly download here: http://traffic.libsyn.com/countdowntoclassic/C2C_Episode_108_Final.mp3 Also listen @ Spotify here (Spotify takes a couple of hours to upload after posting, check back later if not there): https://open.spotify.com/show/38mHWjscNorJr7OFeNu8X5?si=c6JKxJeSRCeLQPSIlKJL8w Or @ iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/countdown-to-classic/id1352967778 Or @ Stitcher: http://stitcher.com/s?fid=174762&refid=stpr Join the Countdown To Classic Discord here: https://discord.gg/2xJAwNf Find Ayle @ https://classicwow.live/ And on Twitch @  https://www.twitch.tv/aylegaming Find Fried on Twitch @ https://twitch.tv/fri3d_ Find Khano on Twitch @ https://twitch.tv/khanotv Find Nano on Twitch @ https://twitch.tv/nanonost And on Twitter @ https://twitter.com/nano_warcraft?lang=en Find Boosh on Twitch @ https://twitch.tv/booshies Pick up awesome Countdown To Classic show rewards @ Patreon: patreon.com/countdowntoclassic Or grab some awesome Countdown To Classic merch @ Red Bubble: https://www.redbubble.com/people/joshcorbo82?ref=artist_title_name&asc=u Or support the show with a tip @ Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/Y8Y3D2TT Or simply show your support by leaving the show a review at iTunes or by telling a friend! Write in to Josh at feedback@countdowntoclassic.com or get in touch on social media: Follow Josh on Twitter @ https://twitter.com/count2classic?lang=en And on FB @ https://www.facebook.com/countdowntoclassic/ Subscribe on YouTube @ https://www.youtube.com/countdowntoclassic Find Josh’s movie podcast, The Sinner Files @ https://www.sinnerfiles.com/

Medros and Toasty are joined by Nick to talk about interviews with J. Allen Brack, Oondasta and Horridon becoming tameable, and more

Discord: http://discord.worldofwarcast.com Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv Mount Up Add-on: https://wow.curseforge.com/projects/mount-up Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/starmike Ren - Extensive testing on Darkmoon Faire profession quests Void elf warlock now 94 - spent 60-80 entirely in two zones in Outlands, Hellfire Peninsula and Netherstorm. 80-86 spent in Vash’jr, moving to Twilight Highlands for final 4 levels Went to Draenor just short of 91, got to 94 on opening campaigns and treasures Need to get back to finishing war campaigns on both Horde and Alliance sides Mike - I was sick This Week in WoW Brawls and PvP Next Tuesday: World Quest Bonus Week News Naked & Afraid Update Warmode suggested mod from Cinnah: SPY Darkmoon Faire quests now giving points for highest expansion pack your character has unlocked 8.1.5 PTR has opened Will be testing a limited subset of features, including: Kul Tiran and Zandalari race unlocks Naga invasion World Quests New portal rooms in faction capitols Next chapter of Raiding With Leashes pet battle (Pets of Pandaria), collecting pets from Mogu’shan Vaults, Terrace of Endless Spring and Heart of Fear - 12 pets (3 magic, 3 elemental, 2 beast, 2 flying, 1 undead and 1 dragonkin) Warsong Gulch and Arathi Basin graphic improvements Announced for 8.1.5 but not available yet on PTR: New War Campaign quests new manufacturing profession quests Hati quests Magni quests Draenor timewalking new brawl Wintergrasp coming to Epic Battleground list new Brawler's Guild update new Darkmoon Faire roller coaster new microholidays and updates to Children's Week Kul Tiran and Zandalari unlocks revealed Children’s Week changes Stan Lee tribute: Reports of an Alliance-armored "Stanley" character in Stormwind Keep on 8.1.5 PTR. The NPC says "Excelsior!" Destiny 2 is leaving Activision Blizzard - publishing rights are being transferred back to Bungie, the original studio Blizzard: “Destiny 2 will still receive full support on BattleNet and we do not anticipate any disruption to our services or your gameplay experience”

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  

Warsong Gulch has just been released, what will we find in this new battleground? Find out on this episode of Digging Deep with Bradin. Visit my website at http://www.geocities.com/bradin370/dig/episode22.html. Email me at bradin370@gmail.com

Discord: http://discord.worldofwarcast.com Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv Episode 289 Ren Finished Fisherfriend of the Isles ALMOST finished Lucid Nightmare Got into Beta, but no time to do anything about it On Sylvanus server, copied my Horde paladin Krystoff onto it and created a Warcast channel Mike Nothing Well, did some beta w/Ali but basically covered the same ground as pre-reset. Guild moving to horde This Week in WoW Pet Battle Bonus Event Next week: Cataclysm Timewalking Midsummer Fire Festival starts Thursday, June 21 New from 2017: Set of Matches toy (500 Burning Blossoms), Igneous Flameling pet (350 Burning Blossoms), Illusion: Deathfrost from Ahune (Slave Pens) News BfA news 8.0 prepatch live on the PTR Players gain access to a multitude of features and system updates in the pre-patch, including Communities, War Mode, the new Honor System, overhauled Professions, and Legion's final storyline leading up to Burning of Teldrassil and the Battle for Lordaeron. Artifacts will be disabled when the pre-patch goes live. Player power will be buffed to compensate for the power loss. Class Changes A stat/item squish Legendaries won't work past level 115. Retired artifacts lose all their traits and become normal weapons, with stats scaling with relics installed in the artifact weapon. The main artifact effect of each spec's weapons is becoming a talent instead, as are several class specific legendaries. Underlight Angler was originally showing as disabled, but the latest build fixed it. WoW Classic Will start with 1.12 Drums of War: Features introduced in 1.12 included: Cross realm battlegrounds (Alterac Valley, Warsong Gulch, Arathi Basin) World PvP Some of the past things from previous patches that will be included as a result: Ruins and Temple of Ahn'Qiraj - so this will be after opening those Blackwing Lair Darkmoon Faire Raid dungeon timers, calendars and lockouts The high level class dungeon armor sets Weather Quest experience for gold at level 60 Final destination flight paths Linked auction houses Some world holidays Soul shard bags (!!!) Expected issues with the first prototype didn't recognize current video cards and was incompatible with the current login/authentication server (authenticator became available 2 Jun 2008, almost 2 years after 1.12's release on 22 August 2006) Does not support modern security and anti-cheating capabilities Second prototype: instead of going forward with old code, work backward: take the modern back-end code and use it to process Patch 1.12 game data Start with modern architecture, security and stability - catalogue any differences in behavior between the development build and the Patch 1.12 reference build Three types of game data: Table data: numbers - hit points, stats, spawn timers, etc. File data: dense data such as 3d models, textures, animations, terrain, user interface, and art models (don't use the same file formats as commercial art tools - no jpgs, tifs, etc. Lua scrips: custom behaviors for server side logic without needing engineering knowledge Engineering challenges All classic data is in original form since launch, but format has changed substantially over the year. Modern client is not compatible with old data. Master data problem: from single line on a master table to multiple linked tables catalogued by ID number much richer environment but not compatible with the single line system For example, spells could only apply up to three actions on a target in classic In current form, spells no longer limited to three effects and are formatted differently Almost all other data such as items, characters, creatures, NPCs, AI, spawning and more) have had their database formats changed

It's Way Back Wednesday and today we cover the lore of Warsong Gulch via the history of the Warsong Clan, and The Sentinels, listening to how the tension between these two groups came to be and why we fight where we do. Then we cover off on community reactions to Warsong Gulch - was it a battleground you loved or hated? How did you feel about shenanigans in battlegrounds? Did you ever come under notice from GM's over your behaviour in PvP? Highlights: A Scoop Of Vanilla - 1:20 That's What We Said - 36:00 Anger Management - 53:30 Tidbits - 56:00 Twitter giveaway of 3 x 1 month of WoW Game Time!!! Like, Follow & RT to be in the running - https://twitter.com/count2classic/status/981150870355165184  Send your Memory Lane stories, Anger Management rants or just say hello to Josh at feedback@countdowntoclassic.com or get in touch on social media: Twitter: @count2classic FB/Insta/YouTube: @countdowntoclassic Add Countdown To Classic on Twitch: @Countdown_To_Classic And join the Discord channel here: https://discord.gg/BZjDPAF

Recorded on September 12, 2012 with Brian Fife, James Fingal and Thomas Westberg. Fairness is slippery and it can be hard to find a definition that most players in a game share. Brian, Tom and Jim all agree that the perception of unfairness does tend to ruin fun in a game. It can often be hard to differentiate between lack of balance and a gap in player skill. Often what a player might call unfair is just poor game design or balance. Brian worries about players who apply arbitrary limitations or restrictions to a game in single player mode and get crushed when they try multiplayer. Tom thinks these people are crybaby losers. For multiplayer games, open communication about exploits is just as important as how fast they are resolved. We talked about what it means for a single player game to be unfair, but didn’t come to firm conclusions. If a game’s AI “cheats”, is it unfair? Links to referenced items: My First Cow Clicker, Cow Clicker, Internet [Jerk]wad Theory, World of Tanks, Backgammon, Supreme Commander Two, Halo, Military Madness, Secret World - Tom Chick, World of Warcraft, Dungeons and Dragons Minion, WoT is Rigged - Greedy Goblin, League of Legends, Street Fighter Two, Wimbledon, You Will Die Instantly! - Hypercitical, Playing to Win in Badminton - Sirlin, Sumo Wrestling Collusion - Freakonomics, Blood Doping, Warsong Gulch, Insider Trading, Red Weenie, Rock, Paper, Scissors, Lizard, Spock, Big Bang Theory, Eve Exploit Notice, Hacking Scrabble, Qwordy, Eternal Darkness, Gaslighting, Team Fortress Two, Rocket Jumping, Artemis, Killzone Three, Catherine, Dark Souls, Scroll of Resurrection, Guild Wars Two, EvE Online, Champions Online, Guild Wars, Left 4 Dead, Kill Screen, Gameological Society, Sawbuck Gamer.

If you've ever done a random Warsong Gulch....You've met this guy...a lot!

Once a week Kaziah and Belthal take you through the trials and tribulations of the Needs a Hug guild on Ravenholdt US. Weekly guild news, World of Warcraft news ,commentary and special guests bring the unique flavor and insanity of the Needs a Hug guildies to the airwaves.WEEK IN WARCRAFTWOW NEWSChildrens Week - New Pets, Leggs the fenstrider, Scooter the Snail - School of hard knocks on friPreview for 4.2 - New Armor sets. Previews for T12 armor setshttp://www.mmo-champion.com/content/2288-Tier-12-Models-Preview-Warrior - New Mountshttp://www.mmo-champion.com/content/2286-Patch-4.2-Models-Bosses-and-Mounts! - Change the location of Char on the login screenhttp://www.mmo-champion.com/content/2287-Tier-12-Sets-Bonuses-Patch-4.2-Character-Selection-Screen - Personal Progression in HyjalGUILD NEWSThis WeekGuild hits Level 22Our guild just hit level 22 earning us Chug a Lug which gives us an extra hour on our guild cauldrons... so now all we have to do is make enough flasks to get guild cauldrons. so everyone don't buy flasks on the auction house get someone in guild to make them! Children's Week EventOn Fri our guild members went out and murdered the Alliance with a reason. The school of hard knocks is one of the hardest of the yearlong achievements that make up the Meta Achievement: what a long strange trip it has been. The problem of course is that unlike the other events School of hard knocks requires you to do a set of tasks while you have your orphan with you, these are: Capture the flag in Eye of the Storm Assault a flag in Arathi BasinAssault a tower in Alterac ValleyReturn a fallen flag in Warsong GulchDoing any of these things reliably is hard at the best of times. trying to do it when 10,20 or even 40 people are all rushing to do the same thing is almost impossible. that is where the guild comes in. This fri we bundled up together and managed to get a lot of people there School of hard knocks. Looking For GuildSo this week we enabled the Looking for Guild options and wow have we had a good response we have had new people applying from all over so I wanted to give people an Idea of what it is all about. Along with all the little checkboxes that you fill out in the LFG tool there is a 255char block that we can put in a message. and this message is what diferentiate us from the other guilds.Currently our message reads:message “Why not join Needs a hug. We have 14 bank tabs, our tabard gives +400 stamina, our guild name improves our sex appeal, and our recruitment messages lie outrageously.”This message is pulling us in about 5-10 recruits per day once the apply I look at the message they have sent back. if they don’t put anything in the request window they are out. The more fun there message is better the chance we grab them. Once I or one of the other offciers contact them we fill them in on what the guild is like and if they want to join we invite them. Unfortunatly, this is never fool proof and we get a lot of chaff with the wheat. So if you think someone is awesome or you are having a problem let an officer know as soon as possible.Coming UpFriday Night Fightsthis fridayNaxx achivementsThe dread fortress Naxxramas, one of the ancient temples of the Nerubian people, torn from the ground by the Litch King and retooled by the mad architect Obrahiim, the Traveler now floats above dragonblight serving as a staging point for the tattered forces of the litch king. Fortunatly for us while we have been leveling to 85 they were still trying to figure out why the litch king isn't answering his phone. Since they aren't expecting anything its about time to beat them up and take there achivements. So sign up Fri for the 20th social event and show these dead heads what we can do.Say it Dont Spray itCLOSINGMP3RSSiTunes