Raid Warning Episode 77: Hasselplay

Music:

Criss Cross by Aphrodite

Beer:
Scuttlebutt’s 7

http://www.scuttlebuttbrewing.com

ABV: 9%
Beer Advocate:
Seven:

 

David: Random beer found at the grocery store.

Joe:  Newest Mixed drink, The 8-bit bomb. Shot of cherry vodka, Shot of orange vodka and two shots of Jager served over ice.

Christina:

NEWS:
Encounter Journal Preview
Encounter Journal Preview

Heroic Ragnaros Preview
Encounter Journal Preview

(dibs – joe)Tier 12 Stuff……

• Druid Tier 12 druidtier12.jpg
• Shaman and Warlock Tier 12 Tier 12 Shaman and Warlock Armor Sets Preview
• Bonuses: Updated Tier 12 Set Bonuses, Dance in Combat Hotfix, Blue Posts, Comics

Dancing in combat returns!

http://blue.mmo-champion.com/topic/175245/dont-worry-folks-we-got-this

Blizzard to Accelerate Expansions To Drive Subscription Base
http://games.on.net/article/12482/Massive_Attack_The_Future_of_World_of_Warcraft

Lord Rhyolith and Baleroc [The Gatekeeper] to our patch 4.2 preview of the Firelands
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/2682944

Thes – New Quest Hub to Prep Players For Raiding?
http://blue.mmo-champion.com/topic/174153/blizzard-are-you-seeing-the-trend
While the goal isn’t specifically to prepare players for dungeons and raids — rather, just to make content that’s fun and cool — the quests themselves and some their related achievements encourage the use of tactics that you’d might see in dungeon and raid encounters.

• “Burn Victims” is a “heal the wounded NPCs in the field” type of quest, which will give players a salve to use on burn victims in the Molten Front. Healers will be able to use their healing spells, however, and complete the quest much more easily (since most heals are ranged).
• “Strike at the Heart” is a quest with randomized bosses, all of which have raid-style environmental damage. There’s even an achievement (currently named “Ready for Raiding II”) for killing all five of those random bosses without taking damage from their avoidable environmental effects.
• Some other achievements in the areas promote more skilled, “raid-style” play, too. “Flawless Victory,” for example, asks players to solo kill a Molten Behemoth (found in the Molten Front) without taking any damage from two its abilities: Molten Stop and Fiery Boulder. And “Master of the Molten Front” requires players to kill a variety of flamewakers in arguably non-standard ways (e.g. pwning a Flamewaker Shaman with his own Flamewave).

4.2 Patch Notes
C-Classes: General

• All healing critical strikes now heal for 2 times a normal heal (+100%), up from 1.5 times a normal heal (+50%).

Thes- Buffs

• All class abilities which place a buff on friendly targets no longer generate any threat. This goes for raid-wide buffs like Mark of the Wild and Power Word: Fortitude, as well as triggered effects such as Blessed Resilience or Fingers of Frost, and single-target buffs like Dark Intent and Hysteria. The exception is buffs which directly cause healing or damage, such as Thorns or Renew. Abilities such as these still generate normal threat.

Joe-Pets

• The Aggressive pet stance has been removed and replaced with the Assist stance. This stance will cause the player’s pet to attack the player’s target. The pet will not change targets unless the master attacks a new target for a few seconds.

7-Spell Interrupts

• When interrupted while casting a single-school spell such as Mind Flay or Frostbolt, players will now be able to cast dual-school spells such as Mind Spike (Frost and Shadow schools) or Frostfire Bolt (Frost and Fire schools). However, being interrupted while casting a dual-school spell will still interrupt all respective schools as intended.

thes-Guilds

• The daily guild experience cap has been increased by 25%.
• The weekly guild reputation cap has been increased by 25%.
• The guild experience cap is now removed at level 20, down from level 23.

Random Maid Card Game Mentioned by Seven: http://www.tantocuore.com

C- TCG Plug:

Just letting your followers know about the upcoming event would be awesome.
Things that are cool:
·      It’s in Vegas.
·      The Championship is open to everyone! But, there are lots of Side Events for players who might not feel comfortable playing in a more competitive event, or players that don’t have a Core constructed deck.
·      We’re giving out over $50,000 in prizes.
·      The hotel block gifts are awesome:
o   Two Landro’s Gifts Loot™ cards
o   Two Portal Stone Loot cards
o   Two Grim Campfire Loot cards
o   48 packs of Worldbreaker
o   Six World of Warcraft TCG Archives® Packs
o   Four different series 1 class deck boxes
o   One exclusive Cryptozoic playmat
o   Two Cryptozoic T-shirts (while supplies last)
·      EpicCon will have lots of games for people to play including M:tG, lots of table top games, and hopefully miniatures and RPGS.
These pages have all the info:
www.epiccon.com
http://www.wowtcg.com/tournaments/continental-championships
http://www.wowtcg.com/tournaments/continental-championships/2011-north-american-continental-championship

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