Raid Warning: A World of Warcraft Podcast

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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Intro Song:
DJ Cutman

http://www.djcutman.com/
Bit Generation 7
Link Chops 2
Run to Japan

Punch in the Faceout 

Beer:
2XIPA from Southern Tier Brewing Company
http://www.southertierbrewing.com
ABV: 8.2%
Beer Advocate: A-

Triskaidekaphobia 13th Anniversary Tripel Ale by Snoqualmie Falls Brewing

http://www.fallsbrew.com

ABV: 8.6%
Beer Advocate: B+
Seven:

Wolaver’s Oatmeal Stout
Otter Creek Brewing / Wolaver’s in vermont.
ABV: 5.90%
Beer Advocate B+
Joe: A, smooth solid taste with just a hint of a medium malt. Has a sweet kick in the middle and a very minimal bitterness on the finish. Best served in chilled glass.

NEWS:
Ghostcrawler on Raid Progress
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/2452061#blog

New Valor Point Awards

• Right now, you receive 70 VP for the first random Cataclysm Heroic dungeon you complete each day.
• In 4.1, you’ll receive 70 VP for the first seven random Cataclysm Heroic dungeons you complete each week.
• You’ll receive 140 VP for the first seven random Rise of the Zandalari Heroic dungeons (the new Zul’Aman and Zul’Gurub instances) you complete in the week, too.
• Collectively, you’ll be able to earn up to 980 VP exclusively from Heroic dungeons, which in turn will count towards your weekly 1250 VP cap.
• 7 total heroics, not 7 heroic and 7 ZG/ZA

RSA Vulnerability and Blizzard Authenticators
The Blizzard Authenticators are based off modified Vasco tokens. I’m sorry to hear about RSA’s troubles, but it will not affect the Blizzard Authenticator. (Source)

People blocking mailboxes with flying mounts
You may have noticed that a number of mailboxes were added to the capital cities so that, if you happen to find one blocked, it should be relatively easy to walk a few steps and find another one that remains unobstructed. Most vendors are located inside buildings where mounts aren’t allowed too.

Having the option to use one’s flying mounts within the capital cities is ultimately more convenient than removing them to ensure access to services which should be reasonably accessible to begin with. (Source)

Target position on Minimap in Patch 4.1
Patch 4.1 adds a very useful feature to the game, anything you target will now have its position displayed on the minimap! It’s obviously very useful when you’re looking for a NPC after using the /target command and I’m sure it will make a couple of rare elite hunters happy

Optional Bosses/Heroic Halls of Origination
We’ll need to weigh the value of optional dungeon and raid bosses further before we make any changes. There’s good arguments on both sides. On the one hand, optional bosses can be great for keeping dungeons and raids from feeling too linear or formulaic — and, when done right, they can also give groups a meaningful choice between getting extra loot and completing a run faster. On the other, optional bosses can sometimes create social tension, especially in Dungeon Finder groups, if players disagree whether they should invest the time to fight them.

Winged Lion Mount
http://www.mmo-champion.com/content/2211-Winged-Lion-Mount-Patch-4.1-PTR-Notes-March-15-Update-Blue-Posts

Blizzard vs The Bots
We’re in the process of stepping up our detection and tracking to log and action players that are botting, or habitually AFKing in the Battlegrounds. We’ll be taking aggressive action and removing earned items, Honor Points, and ultimately suspending or even banning accounts of those that are found to be botting or habitually AFKing. It’s a sophisticated level of monitoring we’re undertaking. No one actively playing in the Battlegrounds normally should be concerned that they’ll be actioned.

Dev Q&A: Thoughts?
http://blue.mmo-champion.com/topic/163596/ask-the-devs-qa-1-answers

25 World of Warcraft Tattoos
http://www.holytaco.com/25-world-of-warcraft-tattoos/

Reviews:
5 Star iTunes by: Alt420
The last show at PAX East by far your best show ever, keep up the good work

5 Start itunes by: Ridinius
The show is great. It’s nice to have a laid back podcast to listen to rather than all the others that are so serious all the time. Everyone on there is hilarious and I’ve added a lot of great beer to my collection thanks to the drinkers at Raid Warning.
Keep up the great work.
Wafflebolt!

Great use of your time
I have recently started listening to podcasts and this one is one of the main ones that I wish was released even faster. I get a good laugh and hear good information. Information that I even relay to others. Well worth your time.

Emails:
Shoutout to The Beefy Scotsman for creating some sort of weird endgame raid scenario where I dual wield IPAs and Thespius manscapes those in melee range.

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Intro Song:
Chase & Status – No Problem

Beer:
“Double Rainbow” by Iron Horse Brewery

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ABV: 7%
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Seven:

NEWS:
Dungeon Finder Hotfix Changes
Patch 4.0.6 February 18 Hotfixes, Blue Posts
Dungeon Finder

• If a party member remains outside of a dungeon for more than 3 minutes, they become eligible for removal, regardless of other Vote Kick restrictions.
• When players queue as a group with a tank or a healer, and the tank or healer drops group (or is kicked) within the first 5 minutes, all of the other players who queued with them are removed from the group as well.
• If there is a group of 3 or more friends and someone in that group initiates a Vote Kick of a random party member, it now requires 4 votes to kick the player, instead of the standard 3 votes.
• The penalty for using the Vote Kick feature too often is not issued to a player who kicks someone with whom they queued for a dungeon (i.e. the party member being selected for removal is not a player randomly selected via the Dungeon Finder).
• The penalty for using the Vote Kick feature too often will be issued much more quickly to players who join as a party of 4 and kick the randomly selected 5th player.
• The penalty for using the Vote Kick feature too often will now not allow the player to initiate a Vote Kick for 2 hours, up from 45 minutes.
• These changes will require realm restarts to take effect. More information can be found here.

Dungeons & Raids

• When switching a normal raid dungeon over to Heroic difficulty, players were instantly becoming saved without warning. There is now a warning dialog box which will appear before the difficulty is changed.

Blue Post: Bashiok on Hotfixes
We actually spent a bit of time talking to the designers about this very topic, and it’s something they’re well aware of and realize isn’t always ideal. A few really great points came out of that meeting, though:

• Some changes in 4.0.6 and/or 4.0.6a were just wrong. For a myriad of reasons the changes made in 4.0.6/4.0.6a either did not pan out as expected, or were simply mis-calculations/interpretations. Which is the reason for a number of the quick reversions and changes in hotfixes shortly after the patch.

• While there was feedback from the PTR on what is broken, overpowered, underpowered, etc. there simply wasn’t enough data and real world proof for us to make changes. Forum posts always make a lot of noise. It’s difficult to separate the seed from the chaff. Yes, it turned out a number of reports proved to be accurate once the 4.0.6′s hit the masses and we were able to get a sample size that showed us what needed adjusting.

• The third point discussed was that we have an obligation to deploy hotfixes when we feel we’re making quality of life-improvements, fixing errors, or simply making good balance changes. Good balance is very much debatable among who you ask, of course.

• Fourth point really struck home with all of the designers, and that’s that they also have an obligation to not use the live realms as a balancing laboratory. That while the changes being made have seemed very quick and sporadic at times, that there is thought and planning going in to them, and they are consciously avoiding throwing out changes and seeing what happens. While some changes have been implemented and then reverted, it’s not because a lot of thought and effort didn’t go into them, but that simply they didn’t work as intended.

I know a lot of us remember the old days where classes would sit without changes for months, in some cases years for specific mechanics. A class would dominate for 6 months, and that’s just how the game was. There’s an agreement that 4.0.6 and 4.0.6a have been pretty chaotic with hotfixes, and that’s due to a number of issues that we don’t consider to be ‘usual’. We fully expect them to slow down substantially from this point, and we really appreciate everyone who stays on top of the hotfix blog, and relates the changes as they’re made to their guildies and friends.

Twitter Topic: Should WoW have a Vanilla Realm?
furiey

No. I don’t see the point in wasting server space like that – move forward, don’t get stuck in the past.

Samodean
I’m all about moving forward, not looking back. A lot of people who call for a return to the “old days” seem to forget how broken much of the gameplay/balance/itemization was.

Achloryn
I don’t think so, no. Old world things are still pretty damn trivialized by the way things are scaled nowadays. Besides, it would get old really quick for those who think they want it, imo.

Velidra
Everyone rerolls to the vanilla realm, rose tinted glasses would get shattered… and then it would be a ghost town. It would be like ToC, everyone thinks they want a trashless raid, then when we get it… yeaaah

Leaders of the Horde and Alliance Part 3. Gallywix: Trade Secrets of a Trade Prince:
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/game/lore/leader-story/gallywix/1

NPC Equalization Incoming: Bashiok
http://blue.mmo-champion.com/topic/159047/we-need-more-than-one-major-city-please
We’re doing a full NPC equalization in the next major patch to ensure each capital city has the same tradeskill, trainer, and supply resources. Hopefully to ensure that any city can be visited for the majority of uses.

We don’t have any plans though to extend the dailies and portals in Stormwind and Orgrimmar to the other cities. They were specifically chosen as the main capital hubs for Cataclysm, and as such a lot of work went into updating and improving them knowing they would be the primary hubs, including new and redesigned areas for the dailies and portal hub.

In the same way that Dalaran or Shattrath were the main cities for their expansions, and housed unique quests and services, Stormwind and Orgrimmar are the main cities for Cataclysm.

Bashiok: Epilepsy and elementals flashing death effect
http://blue.mmo-champion.com/topic/158478/dear-blizepileptics-vs-elementals
We’ve actually seen a number of forum posts, and received a few letters on the elemental death effects. We have a task set to remove the flashes from the death effect, although as the work hasn’t begun I couldn’t accurately state when the change might make it in.

In any case, we agree and we’re going to be changing them.

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