Raid Warning: A World of Warcraft Podcast

Joe: River Horse Brewer’s Reserve Otameal-Milk Stout
Belgian Style beer, mass production available november 15th. (good to know a guy who knows a guy)

NEWS:
Love is in the air kicks off this week
http://www.wowhead.com/guide=love-is-in-the-air

Patch 4.0.6 To Go Live This Week
http://www.mmo-champion.com/content/2172-Patch-4.0.6-on-live-realms-this-week

Luck of the Draw Buff, Buffed
http://blue.mmo-champion.com/topic/156326/luck-of-the-draw-buff
In case you aren’t already aware, Luck of the Draw is the name of the buff you get for grouping with random people using Dungeon Finder. It currently provides a 5% buff to damage, healing, and health if you have at least one random player in your group. With patch 4.0.6, we are increasing this buff to 5% damage, healing, and health per random player, up to a maximum of 15%.

In the process of working on this change we actually discovered that the Luck of the Draw buff has not been working in Cataclysm at all, save for a few specific dungeons. This means that the difficulty in almost all normal and Heroic dungeons for those using the Dungeon Finder tool was higher than expected. Still, with that issue corrected in 4.0.6, we feel the bump up to 15% for three or more random players found through the Dungeon Finder is a necessary change.

Rated Battleground Weeks Now 10v10
http://blue.mmo-champion.com/topic/156327/all-rated-battleground-weeks-now-10v10
We’re in the process of developing a hotfix to push before next Tuesday that will change all 15vs15 rated battleground weeks into 10vs10 weeks.

Looking at participation, the 10vs10 rated battleground weeks have been far and away more popular than the 15vs15 weeks. The difference in organizational requirements as well as battleground map popularity have been a couple big factors that have led to the 10vs10 weeks seeing a great deal more action. By making this change and supporting the popular option we hope to encourage even more players and teams to participate, as they won’t have to wait out every other week, or struggle to beef up to 15 players to match the requirement.

We also have plans to adapt additional battleground maps in the future to work in the 10 player bracket to increase the variety of maps available.

Bashiok Beat Down
http://blue.mmo-champion.com/topic/156251/real-life-threats
Real life threats are real

Twitter Topic: Is Cataclysm Questing Too Linear?
Deadpool: Linear yes, I find it a good thing though for streamlined quest progression. My most important desire is interesting and engaging stories with rich visually appealing zones, which they provided
Ozoneic: The worst part about Cata’s quest linearity is when a quest was bugged. Basically stuck until it was hotfixed
Velidra: some zones, maybe? tbqh I think hyjal isn’t linear enough, is far to easy to miss one quest hub and to get stuck
Ohnoforresst: Are you kidding me? Suure let’s go back to the game style where we wander around lost for 80 levels with a shopping list. Yay.
Tartdarling:  I think it serves the story better to guide you through the quests so you don’t miss huge chunks of story.
eharvester: Ipersonally like the fact that it’s easy to tell where to go next, additionally it has a real story to it and that makes it more fun for me.

LFD Queue Times Too Long
http://blue.mmo-champion.com/topic/156078/looking-for-dungeon-queues
We’re still going to keep pushing to do better, to make things as balanced as possible, and to provide an epic and entertaining gaming experience. We just won’t be able to do it overnight.

The Looking For Dungeon queue times are understood to be of issue for some people. If/when we find a better way to get you in to a dungeon quicker, we’ll let you know.

Nefarian US First Kill by Blood Legion
Blood Legion (US-Illidan) was the first guild in the US to defeat Nefarian in 25-Man Heroic Mode! Congratulations to them for the kill!

World of Warcraft Helps You Do Your Homework
http://www.gamersmint.com/world-of-warcraft-helps-you-do-your-homework/

Jinx WoW Tshirt design contest going on
http://www.jinx.com/contest/warcraft

Malgayne Leaves Wowhead
http://www.wowhead.com/blog=181775/a-fond-farewell

Reviews:
5 Star iTunes review by Igthorn- <Final Final>
Keeps me coming back for a refill
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