Raid Warning Episode 48: The Celestial Steed

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Jun 292010
World of Warcraft Podcast Raid Warning Episode 48 Celestial Steed

This week on the Warcraft podcast that rarely has any WoW news to talk about: Seven and Brian cover the latest about the Warcraft Movie with Sam Raimi, new heirloom items, dev blue posts, and the deadliest of all Celestial Steeds. Warning: not all links are safe for work.

You’ve been warned.

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Intro Song:
“Warhead” by Zircon off the album: Antigravity

Beer:
“Loser” by Elysian Brewing Company
www.elysianbrewing.com
ABV: 7%
Beer Advocate: B

NEWS:
Rogue Solos Grobbulus 25
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtPIsUtmqCM&feature=player_embedded
Jider from Impervious (US-Stormreaver)

More About Heirlooms In Cataclysm
http://blue.mmo-champion.com/t/25626282702/2-cata-questions/

  • Items can only be purchased by a lvl 85 character
  • Will work from 1-85, not just 80-85
  • Will also include items for new slots
  • Previous Heirlooms may stop adjusting to level at 80.

Sam Raimi on WoW Movie:
From Daisemiin via email http://www.scifiwire.com

  • Script is only 40 pages along
  • Wants to incorporate “scale” into the movie
  • Raimi also plays WoW Lvl 72
  • Not fully committed to OZ over WoW

Blizzard To Start Throttling Inspect Requests
http://www.wowace.com/announcements/blizzard-to-start-throttling-inspect-requests/
Gearscore addon likely to blame

Back to the Epic Feel
http://blue.mmo-champion.com/t/13816832302/epic/
An epic item should feel epic. Trying to bring back the Heroic = Blues and Purple = Epic feel again.

Remote Mail Service?
http://blue.mmo-champion.com/t/13705622245/access-to-mail-via-wow-remote/

  • Additional App?
  • Facebook?

Icecrown 25% Buff Active

Topic: Changing Seasonal Events In Cataclysm

BREAK

REVIEWS

4 Star Review by Schmegal on iTunes
I liken listening to this podcast to be about as enjoyable as giving birth to an electric eel after downing a bottle of tobasco sauce. Stings a little at first and burns like hell coming out the rear, but you still love the little bastard because he kinda looks like you. So I love this podcast like a bastard step child! Keep it up!

Shh… (NSFW) I used it to scare Brian
http://bit.ly/9UDhOD

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Posted by Seven at 4:24 pm

Raid Warning Episode 47: The Last Starfish Fighter

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Jun 222010
Raid Warning WoW Podcast

This week we discuss the latest in World of Warcraft news (hint: there’s not that much), Cataclysm beta rumors, Patch 3.3.5, and the last starfish fighter out of the bag as Project Cuppycake is revealed (hint: it’s WoWCentric.org).

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Intro Music:
Dilemn – Cosmica (Tom Deluxx Remix)
Beer:

“Radiant Ale” by Ninkasi

Website: http://www.ninkasibrewing.com

ABV: 6%

BA: B


NEWS:

Closed Beta? No.


Patch 3.3.5 Deployed
While Warcraft is broken, tell your guildies about Raid Warning
Mid Summer Festival begins
This is the first time players get a chance to use the Looking for Dungeon system on a holiday boss. All you have to do to fight Ahune is select the boss from the drop down menu and wait for a group
Important – You only get the bag with the 2 x Emblem of Frost from the Satchet of Chilled Goods once a day, but you can kill the boss as many times as you want if you want to farm the chest.
Important #2 – The chest only drops cloaks, the bag has a chance to drop rare loot like the Frostscythe and the companion pets.
WoW Community Interview with Randy Jordan of AIE / The Instance
Grim Batol Preview
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/cataclysm/features/grimbatol.html

Grim Batol “Vehicle” combat
http://blue.mmo-champion.com/t/25482319093/cataclysm-preview-grim-batol/
Just to clarify, it’s not vehicle combat at the beginning of the dungeon. The forces of the Twilight’s Hammer within Grim Batol are massive, so you’ll start the dungeon with a bombing run through the halls to thin their ranks. It’ll be a set flight path and will not involve aerial combat. This is only to get things started. This dungeon is not vehicle-driven at all.

Lack of class changes in Patch 3.3.5
http://blue.mmo-champion.com/t/25482318925/patch-3-3-5/
Our systems team is hard at work tweaking classes, updating talent trees, and restructuring the way in which new spells and abilities are learned during the leveling process (given that spells and abilities will scale with level rather than have multiple ranks). These changes are planned to coincide with a future patch which will implement the framework for Cataclysm. No major tweaking is planned to take place beforehand unless serious class gameplay issues arise.

Leveling Curve in Cataclysm
http://blue.mmo-champion.com/t/25482138964/a-polite-question-to-blizzard/
As you mentioned, the leveling curve all the way from 1-70 was adjusted in the past. We feel those changes coupled with heirloom experience bonuses make for a reasonable leveling experience up to 70. Since we’re making major changes to the 1-60 Azeroth zones in Cataclysm, it isn’t likely we’ll be making further adjustments to the leveling curve there. The goal is to encourage new and old players alike to try out a new race or class and experience all of the new content and environment changes in the “old world.”

As it is, Cataclysm will bring about a much better quest flow, both in terms of the way quests are given in individual zones, as well as the way in which players will be directed from zone to zone. It will be completely reasonable in Cataclysm to level from 1-60 in Azeroth solely on Kalimdor, or solely on Eastern Kingdoms. In general, there will be much less need to jump from continent to continent because you hit dry spots while questing and need to find somewhere else to go in order to find level-appropriate quests. The goal is to make sure players are given the choice to go to the zones they want to while leveling, rather than force them to the other end of the world for a level or two.

Whether or not any changes are going to be made to the leveling curve in Northrend, or additional changes made to leveling in Outland, remains to be seen. We do want to ensure that the leveling experience from 1-85 isn’t too daunting. That is a lot of levels after all. Once we have the Cataclysm leveling zones from 1-60 and 78-85 fleshed out, we’ll more closely evaluate the full leveling experience during our beta test.

REVIEWS

iTunes – “Beer + WoW = 5 stars” by Jason (5 stars)

Color laser printing? They’ve got you covered.


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Posted by Seven at 6:55 pm

Raid Warning Episode 46: Those Rascals

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Jun 162010

Brian and Seven hold up in the studio with their beers, a ton of World of Warcraft: Cataclysm notes, and attempt to keep you up to speed on the latest happenings in WoW. Raid Warning is an obvious first choice in WoW news. And remember, just when you think it is safe to enjoy your cheese and wine, along comes the Cacodemon to scare the Ten Fidy out of you.

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Intro Music:
“Contra” by Xample

Beer:

“Ten Fidy” by Oskar Blues

website: http://www.oskarblues.com

ABV: 10.5%

BA: A


NEWS:

Path of the Titans Gone

  • meduim glyphs

Guild Talents Gone

  • 25 levels of extra bonuses
  • guild rewards
Archeology: Not So Cool
  • becomes a secondary profession
  • mostly cosmetic
Raids & Dungeons Split
  • Raid leaders will be able to split an ongoing 25-man raid into up to three 10-man raids. Those 10-man raids will be able to continue from that point on, with bosses already down.
  • You will be able to join any raid as long as it doesn’t have any bosses up that you have already killed.
Grim Batol Raid – Bastion of Twilight
  • Cho’gall as end boss, horrific secret on heroic
  • Entry lvl raid
  • 6 bosses, with algalon style optional boss
Skywall Raid
  • Al’akir end boss
  • Bosses will include a djinn, a storm dragon, and a lesser elemental lord
  • can use flying mounts
Deepholm
The Ogrim’s Hammer has crashed in the zone and the Skybreaker is still in the air. One of the questline will require you to find out what happened.
Heroic Deadmines / SFK
4.1
Old World Changes
  • The Park of Stormwind has been destroyed by Deathwing and the Dwarven District now hosts a Bank and an Auction House
  • Garrosh is the new Warchief and is located in the center of Orgrimmar, not in the Valley of Wisdom.
  • Goblins have their own area,
  • the Valley of Wisdom becomes a Tauren district,
  • and there is now a back gate leading directly into Azshara.

Misc things of note:

Wrath 1k quests, Cata 3k
Heirlooms to stop at 80, will be new heirlooms. Goblins/Worgen can use heirlooms
War Games Battleground Mode

Cataclysm Zone Changes Video

Talent Previews
http://www.wowtal.com
Rogue
Priest
Shaman
Druid
Why Defense Went And Hit Stayed

Defense was a different beast because it was serving as a barrier to entry. Mages and hunters can run a dungeon just fine without being hit-capped. Sure their damage will be lower, but not so low that they can’t handle the content. Defense wasn’t designed the same way — a tank not at the defense cap risked dying on a boss fight and literally couldn’t handle the content

Media Interviews:

WoWhead sits down with Ghostcrawler:
  • The redesign of Cataclysm allows them to make tweaks to classes easier
  • Cross Account Achievements
World of Raids interviews Tom Chilton:
  • Deadmines and SFK in 4.1
  • Old dungeons will get minor tweaks, nothing huge
  • Molton Core ‘may’ be on the list for an Onyxia type overhaul since Ragnaros is a player in Cataclysm
  • No new CoT, but there will be a raid “War of the Ancients”
    • will be a ways after release
    • is progression content towards the Deathwing fight
  • Mount Hyjal will have 11 or so phases
  • a lot of the new zones will take use of phasing for story purposes
  • plans for another PVP battleground with a new style of play
  • shorter raid lockouts discussed for smaller raids, but not being worked on
  • All of the zones will be for leveling. We’re going to avoid another Icecrown where people got to 80 before experiencing all of the leveling content. While Hyjal and Vahsj’ir are optional in that you can do one or the other, Uldum, Deepholm and Twilight Highlands will all be part of the leveling experience.”

GamePlanet interview with Ghostcrawler:

http://www.gameplanet.co.nz/pc/games/159702/features/135036.20100613.Blizzards-Greg-Street-on-new-systems-in-Cataclysm/

  • Paths may come around someday, but after they tried to simplify it, it pretty much boiled down to ‘make glyphs cooler’
  • medium glyphs will be more ‘situational’ in effect
  • So the new glyph UI is designed more about collecting all the glyphs for your character and storing them there. Any time you want to switch glyphs you can just use that. Glyphs are now permanent.
  • We’re going to focus inscription on more of the non-glyph aspect of the trade skill. So, Darkmoon Faire cards, trinkets, offhand items, things like that.
  • Reforging works by going to an NPC
  • Guild Levels/Achievements will be based on a set # of contributors.
  • Guild rep will reset when you change guilds
GamePlanet interview with Cory Stockton
  • Phasing can now be more player based
  • Exodar has a direct port to Stormwind
  • Darnassus is going to get a small Worgen district because Worgen are the new Druid-like race for the Alliance
  • Westfall gets a 95% overhaul. All new quests.
  • SFK and Deadmins will be lvl 85 Heroics
  • Stratholme, Scholomance and Diremaul may be revamped as patches
  • CoT may get a new instance/raid between 4.1-4.3
  • They want PVP Chaos in Tol Barad much like Isle of Quel’Danas
  • we’re looking into 3D targeting, doing outlines around characters so that you can tell how far they are from you, things like that
  • they want the last 2 or 3 days prior to launch to be chaos, the plague times 10.

REVIEWS

iTunes – “Dr Quinn, Medicine Woman?” by Jimseg (5 stars)

Nope, just Seven talking about poultices and tinctures and dirty brown water. And that was just the first 10 minutes! This is a great podcast I cant listen to at work anymore due to my laughing. Probably the only thing that would make it better would be more bass.

iTunes Aussie – “Best Episode Ever” by AetherWat (5 stars)

The best episode i have ever listened too. #45. An opinionated wow news cast with a pair of hosts that have chemistry “wink wink”. no furry porn please.
iTunes Canada – “Awesome Podcast” By McShaeve (5 stars)

Love the podcast, The Drunkeness of the hosts makes for hilarious situations. Where can I find out what songs you guys play at the beginning of the show.

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Posted by Alyssa at 4:43 pm

Raid Warning Episode 45: The Green Podcast

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Jun 102010

This Warcraft gaming podcast is now leaner and greener. Yes, you guessed it, we talk about herbalism and naturopathic medicine. You are very excited, just as we predicted. In addition to random stories this week, WoW news!

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Intro Music:

“From Rusholme With Love” by Mint Royale

Beer:

“Wilco Tango Foxtrot” by Lagunitas

website: http://www.lagunitas.c

ABV: 7.83%

BA: B


NEWS:

Blizzcon Tickets Sell Out

http://www.battle.net


Extended 24 hr Maintenance on Select Servers

http://blue.mmo-champion.com/t/25170442522/extended-maintenance-06-08-10-select-realms/

Cataclysm Beta Guild Contest

http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/contests/cataclysm-beta/index.html


Twin Peaks Battelground Preview

http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/cataclysm/features/twinpeaks.html


Scam Time: Curse Google Ads and Adobe Flash Flaw, Again.


Blizzard Survey: Paid Character Slots?


Ruby Sanctum Delayed in North America

http://blue.mmo-champion.com/t/25171669763/patch-3-3-5-ruby-sanctum-availability

Vote Kicking Changed

http://blue.mmo-champion.com/t/25172039564/patch-3-3-5-vote-kick-change/

Mandatory Talents

http://blue.mmo-champion.com/t/25172118512/mastery-design-intent/

  • There will still be mandatory talents for specs
  • They want there to be less difference in power between an optimal and sub optimal spec

Lowering the GCD

http://blue.mmo-champion.com/t/25026326560/cataclysm-fury-rotation/

Lowering the GCD is as close to anything on the never list. We will possibly do it for hunters, but that is because their resource system is going to prevent them from ever spamming multiple buttons at once (in the same way rogues have a lower GCD)


Removal of Talent Trees?

http://blue.mmo-champion.com/t/25026566623/subtletly-rogues-and-fire-mages-in-cataclysm/

It was before my time, but the talent trees were developed in response to beta feedback that all say warriors played the same and players weren’t making any decisions about how to improve their character beyond a certain point. Maybe 3 wasn’t the right number, or maybe the designers should have said that paladins and priests are healers and don’t have a damage-dealing mode.

In any case, those decisions have been made. While we aren’t afraid of making a really controversial change if it improves the game, I’m not sure sacrificing some talent trees really does improve the game. It might make PvP or even PvE balance easier to achieve, but it cuts down on the number of ways to play the game or even sheer depth. For every number-obsessed power gamer there are thousands of players who just like their BM hunter or Frost mage and don’t care if they can’t top meters or win Arena because they’re never going to do that content anyway. Those guys could very well be devastated by just taking away the class that they love.


Raid Healing in Cataclysm

http://blue.mmo-champion.com/t/25026435563/where-s-blizzard-heading/

Ghostcrawler:

Specs won’t single target heal the same way. They will have enough basic tools that nobody will have a massive hole in what they can cover. We don’t want the Disc priest to throw up her hands when asked to tank heal, or the paladin asked to sit out when on a fight with a lot of AE healing. You need to be able to run a 10-player raid with any 2 healers (ideally 2 different healers) and be okay. You need to be able to do any 5-player content with any healer (before you over-gear it as many of you do these days).


Yes, the players who already use all their spells will see the least change.


Halion Heroic Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLuVgRFXQkM&feature=player_embedded

Zalazane’s Fall Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRcwEjeuE2k&feature=player_embedded

Operation Gnomeregan Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JO0CoPpieo&feature=player_embedded

Zalazane/Op Gnome not in 3.3.5

http://blue.mmo-champion.com/t/25134703802/operation-gnomergan-echo-isles/

The events themselves are not currently scheduled to go live with patch 3.3.5. We’re simply taking the opportunity on the PTRs to test these events while they’re up and running in case we do not have another opportunity to do so before marking these events live.

The release of the events will be contingent upon the development of other features leading up to Cataclysm, but their release will likely not coincide directly with a patch. They’re events that simply need to be “turned on” when we’re ready.

Avatar Days

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9TEdGbvtnc

Murlocs in Australia

http://www.kotaku.com.au/2010/06/world-of-warcraft-creatures-prowl-the-waters-of-southern-australia/

World of Warcraft Skills Save Boy and Sister from Moose Attack

http://www.nextnature.net/2010/05/norwegian-boy-saves-sister-from-moose-attack-with-world-of-warcraft-skills/

REVIEWS

iTunes – “More Beer” by Vycarius (5 stars)

This podcast rocks. Those that dont like it have no sense of humor.

Email – Phillip
So, all this talking about Sevens voice, and how you have to increase his bass volumes so he doesn’t sound like a small child got me thinking.  What does Sevens normal voice actually sound like? i think you should go without the bass increase so we can hear :-)


Email – Bret Copely

Love the show, Love the community, WoW player since Beta, Raid Warning listener since Episode 23.

Attached is a pic the fiance wanted to send; thought it would be funny, since you guys have asked on more than one occasion for the boobs.

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