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World of Warcast: A World of Warcraft Podcast

Episode 285, "And and or edition"

World of Warcast: A World of Warcraft Podcast

Michael Gaines

Wow, Podcast, Starman, Warcraft, Michael Gaines, Renata, Starcraft, Lindyen, Eric Rice, Hobbies, Entertainment, Video Games, Leisure, Blizzard

4.21.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2018

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Discord: http://discord.worldofwarcast.com
Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/starmike
Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv

Ren:
Success on BunofSteel and “the wolf in sheep’s clothing”
Fisherfriends fun - though if you have a choice, don’t do melee
Soloing normal dungeons

Mike:
T3 chest!
BfA beta walkthrough
Green proto-drake
Primal Fire
i1000 chest

This Week in WoW
Pet Battles
Children's Week starts Monday 30th - through Monday 7th
Volunteer Guard Day Mini-event Saturday the 28th
Next week: Burning Crusade Timewalking

Q&A
Ion spent a lot of time covering the change to GCD
They still want feedback wrt how the class feels
Some abilities such as Charge, Infernal Strike and Heroic Leap for warriors and DIsengage for hunters being taken off GCD
In Final Fantasy XIV, everything is on GCD, but the GCD is 2.5s, but can be reduced with gear.
They want people to make decisions - A or B instead of A and B.
Azerite Power being renamed Artifact Power
There will be a way to respec traits.
Talking about adding in that functionality later, and a return to the old respeccing a la vanilla (paying an increasing scale for respecs, with decay)
BfA should be more alt-friendly.
Heart of Azeroth -- universal for all specs instead of having to develop AP in multiple weapons
New BGs called Epic Battlegrounds
Large battlegrounds are being split off
Removing blacklisting from Battlegrounds
Strand of the Ancients is being removed in BfA (not sure if temporary or permanent)
Ashran is being temporarily retired.
No plans to deactivate racials in rated PvP
All loot will be personal loot
Will still be flagged going into an enemy major city, whether you are in War Mode or not

More BfA stuff
Battle Pets in beta:
Some nerfs incoming:
Bone Serpent: swapped positions of Call Darkness and Lift-Off
Practical upshot: This is a huge nerf. Call of Darkness now shares the slot with Nocturnal Strike. Call of Darkness blinds all pets, and Nocturnal Strike always hits if the target is Blinded. In combination, this is huge. Having to choose between them now significantly reduces its power. (Workaround: do the Frostfur Rat with Call Darkness and Sneak Attack)
Crow and Gilnean Raven: -200 power, +200 speed
Cyclone: Damage changed from 7 to 3-7
Haunt: returns the pet at 50% health instead of 100
Teroclaw Hatchling: Dodge and Nature's Ward will now occupy the same tier as will Hawk Eye and Ravage.
Practical upshot: Slot 2 will now put Dodge (4 round cooldown) and Nature's Ward (5 round heal) on same tier, basically making you choose between damage mitigation or pet heal.
Pet Battle World Quests incoming and will scale to the highest pet on your team (NOT apply to wild pets outside world quests)
New pet battle mechanics:
Random weather effects
More heals that have increased effects on pet's health
Aura effects that heal your pet or damages enemy pet based on the last hit dealt

From the Discord:
N&A finishers: Congrats to Buffysummers - Human Windwalker Monk for finishing N&A with 23,055 gold 4/1/43
Shoutout ot Dodoobrawn-Bladefist - nice fishing with you! Hello to Mrs. Dodoobrawn as well.
Question: Why do you still need a WoD garrison? Is it worth going back if you have a character who skipped it?

Transcript

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0:00.0

D'An

0:06.0

D'N!

0:04.0

Hey, Glatsman! D'E, Glatsman! podcast is all the baziroth this is world warcast episode number

0:18.8

two hundred and eighty five i am mich games

0:21.6

this is the i am not prepared. No, we're really not. We're going to try our best, but this has been a crazy week for both of us and so we have been.

0:33.6

We were literally about 20 minutes ago, both typing up notes at the same time on the same

0:39.6

Google Doc.

0:41.7

And trying not to run over each other as we were doing it. So it's been

0:46.2

and not only that but I woke up really late because I went to see Avengers last night

0:50.0

and it ended at like 140 or something like that. So by the time I got home I was like dead.

0:55.0

I don't even remember the last time I stayed up that late.

0:58.0

Yeah, so all right let's just get to it.

1:01.0

Wren. What do you got?

1:03.0

Well, I have a bun of steel.

1:06.7

A bun of steel.

1:08.0

Yes, my little mechanical bunny pet.

1:12.1

I, this is a pet that only spawns at like six hour

1:16.7

intervals and such so I wasn't really all that optimistic about my chances of

1:22.3

getting it right away but I happen to wake up at like 4.30 in the morning.

1:25.0

Just, you know, my brain turned on and I couldn't get back to sleep.

1:31.0

So I said, well, I'll just go see if it's there sure enough I go to

1:35.6

Tinker town it's jumping around the the thing I tame it and I'm done I thought about just you there's a thing where you can with with beast master pets you can you get that other pet everyone sees a haughty with them.

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