Episode 249, "Rainstorm Renata"
World of Warcast: A World of Warcraft Podcast
Michael Gaines
4.2 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 13 July 2017
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
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Mike:
Windchanneller’s Raiment - an old secret?
Tried working on ToS - long story.
Got in two BT raids that fell apart before the first boss.
Ren:
Still mostly playing Diablo III - keeping up with Exalted, sort of
Season 11 starts July 20 . deciding what my toon will be (necro or witch doctor)
News:
Black Temple timewalking is out!
Make sure to talk to the NPC in Shatt first.
You queue by having the raid leader talk to the NPC, and then you’re all ported there.
“This is harder than timewalking”. No, it IS timewalking. It’s a raid, fool.
Lockout has been hotfixed.
Don’t forget to xmog before you go! :D
“Appear Offline” coming to battle.net?
http://www.wowhead.com/news=267447/appear-offline-mode-teased-in-hearthstone-update
New caster animations
Overwatch League is officially starting
Blizz pulling back from SDCC-exclusive items - merch will premiere at SDCC and then will be sold online.
It’s official as of 10:45 AM today: Kil’jaeden the longest lived mythic mob since Cataclysm - beats Archimonde (16 days). Current recordholder: Al’Akir (42 days)
Mythic Invitational- PVE esports tournament
- How it works:
- July 25-August 8: group runs mythics and submits their 5 highest Mythic Keystone runs to Blizzard.
- Blizzard chooses top 8 teams from each of the 4 regions (Americas, Europe, Asia-Pacific and China)
- September Regional Playoffs - single elimination until 2 teams remain - each region gets one streaming day. Blizzard chooses the dungeon (presumably different each time so no one can prepare?)
September 16: China
September 17: Asia-Pacific
September 23: Europe
September 24: Americas
- Prizes: 1st: $50k 2nd - $20k, 3rd/4th $10k, 5-8: $2500
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | If you wouldn't wear a shirt, |
| 0:06.0 | if you look like me, you wouldn't wear a shirt either. Azeroth, this is World Warcast, episode 249. I am not dead edition. I am Michael |
| 0:27.0 | Gaines. Not dead yet. No, don't say yet. |
| 0:31.0 | It might be before the end of the episode, but I'm Renata, and we've had a rough start today. |
| 0:36.7 | Yeah, we're starting 40 minutes late because I decided to bleed to death at the wrong time. |
| 1:01.0 | So, yeah, I'm not going to go into details, but I just I just stupidly cut my foot and anybody who's ever cut their foot knows that you can't you can't travel anywhere if your foot's cut without bleeding all over the place. So it was a bit of a slow start but here we are. Well and we're also starting two hours late because my |
| 1:05.8 | whole part of the state was racked by these gigantic thunderstorms that came |
| 1:11.6 | through and so the power was kind of not really |
| 1:15.0 | going out but kind of browning in and out and my internet connection was really |
| 1:18.6 | wonky. I did I got on to Diablo for all of a minute and a half at one point and I got on to |
| 1:28.4 | Warcraft for about 15 minutes before the server choked. |
| 1:32.8 | Uh-huh. Well, the server didn't joke, my connection choked. |
| 1:35.1 | So it's, we finally, like here, we're here, we're here. |
| 1:40.3 | We're here. |
| 1:41.3 | And by the way, Wrenstorm is about to hit here in about an hour. |
| 1:45.4 | So... |
| 1:46.4 | It's not my storm. I don't know. |
| 1:49.4 | No, it's your storm. We're calling it Renata. Just like the Weather Channel that's it. That's what we're going to do from now on if the weather channel can make their own storm names we can too |
| 1:58.6 | Okay, so this is this is a storm this is rainstorm runata. |
| 2:03.0 | Rainstorm. |
| 2:04.0 | There's oh my god there's our title right there. |
| 2:07.0 | Anyway, how are you? |
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