Episode 261, "Gating vs. Waiting"
World of Warcast: A World of Warcraft Podcast
Michael Gaines
4.2 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 5 October 2017
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Discord: https://discord.gg/0igWZxupFC0N8mH4
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Ren -
All shaman challenge!
Mike
Lots of mog stuff in AQ this week
Shaman challenge - got to 15 pretty fast. Was going to play more on Wed. but got sidetracked.
This Week -
Brewfest ends Friday - Harvest Festival mini holiday on Friday
Darkmoon Faire ends Friday
Next week: Pet Bonus Experience - 300% pet xp
News
Legion Q&A
No word on artifact appearances yet, but they’d like them to be mogs
Exception - the shit you gotta work for :D
Same with druid forms
You can upgrade to 1000 the same way you did with 970
No new legendaries being added to the loot table
More MDI in the future.
Wants to give more classes more utility
Maxed followers needed for Antorus raid missions
Argus whistle will be unlocked on all characters shortly
Krokurun and Mac’aree world quests will NOT be account wide - story dependent
AK goes up until 55
Spider boss will be back
Thinks that not everyone having everything is OK. But it’s not.
problem - in vanilla you can work for it.
There will be Sylvanas/Greymane story progression
People still bitch about RNG (news at 11) - GATING OVER WAITING
There will be better server connections
No flying in Argus. Ever.
PvP more character-specific.
Shaman Challenge
New names proposed (Xandara): Transcendental Elementals, Developmental Elementals, Nonjudgmental Elementals
Naked & Afraid - “No Guild. No Gear. No Gold.”
Will run a Naked & Afraid Challenge after the holidays
Several Naked & Afraid Rules clarifications (posted on Discord #shamanchallenge channel)
Tips from Ren and members of the Discord channel
And Ren’s “do as I say not as I do” tips (how not to f**k up)
Prize for completing the Shaman Challenge!
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The Sisters are complicated, especially the undead ones. World Warcast episode number 261. I am Michael Gaines. And I am Renata. |
| 0:24.9 | Hi Renata, how are you? Well, better than you're doing. |
| 0:28.0 | Yeah, I am my dead Mac. Well, it's not dead. The video card is dead. I ordered a new one today. So I'll have a new one in |
| 0:36.4 | seven to ten days because I had to order an I-7. |
| 0:39.2 | Yes, but you are suffering through a major problem with your video. |
| 0:45.0 | Yeah, the video card has to run an external monitor, so it's running it in 16-bit color. |
| 0:50.0 | It's just great. |
| 0:56.0 | Can you even do much with that? I mean... |
| 0:57.0 | It's fine. |
| 0:58.0 | It's just that some of the colors are a little whacked. |
| 1:02.0 | You know know instead of |
| 1:02.7 | instead of getting like that 32 bit gradations you just get like 16 bit flat oh yeah |
| 1:08.5 | so it's it's fine it's fine like that comic book with the dog in the in the room that's on fire it's |
| 1:16.2 | fine so anyway we have a lot to talk about. Yes, well, I'm going to be talking more about what I did. |
| 1:26.8 | When we talk in our news section, we talk about the The Shaman |
| 1:30.1 | Challenge, because that's what I've been doing this week. |
| 1:33.0 | That's what I wanted to do this week and I wind up getting like really, really sidetracked with a bunch of stuff. |
| 1:40.0 | We've been doing a lot, so I'll sort of explain this about 20 yeah was 22 years ago I remember |
| 1:49.8 | is 95 no it was earlier than that. I had gotten this 35 millimeter projector from a guy in Queens. |
| 1:58.1 | And it just got to the point where it broke. |
| 2:01.8 | So I had to put it, put it out for garbage, but the problem is that you can't |
| 2:05.2 | put out a quarter ton thing for garbage, right? So I had to dismantle it piece by piece so that I can put it in little bite-sized chunks so that they can |
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