Episode 355, "5 billion Drizzts"

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

4.2 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Ren
Wowhead keeping me busy - three new guides this week, two for classic Silithus and the main news aggregator for Shadowlands beta, which requires updates 2-3 times a day. Lots of updates to existing Covenant and leveling overview guides
Playing Hardcore in Diablo III now
Congrats to WNN for downing N’zoth (dotted to death)

Ren
Still more Wowhead work
Still mostly playing D3
Still not in Alpha

Mike
Chilling in Classic
More about old characters and professions

This Week in WoW
Pet Battle Bonus Week - and it’s Super Squirt Trainer Day on Sunday May 3 for NA realms!
Children’s Week - May 1-7
New from 2019: four new pets, Scaley, Mr. Crabs, Beakbert, Froglet - from Kul’Tiran and Zandalari Orphan quests (a good combine with Super Squirt Day)
Darkmoon Faire setup starts Fri, May 1 in Classic and starts Sunday, May 3 in Retail. Starts Monday, May 4 in Classic.
Tuesday: Pandaria Timewalking starts

Discussion Points:
Michael Morhaime on accessibility and the waning of social interaction in MMORPGS
Ian Hazzikostas liveblog includes:
Expansion still set for 2020 release
Planning about 2 expansions ahead
Leaving a Covenant is not difficult; rejoining one you’ve left is
You can only equip one legendary at a time
Values for leveling rate are not yet tuned for Alpha
Demon Hunters: restriction on only 1 per server being relaxed for Shadowlands
Pathfinder will no longer be required for flying in Draenor and Legion zones with Shadowlands

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0:00.0	So my boyfriend gives me World of Warcraft for my birthday and I'm like I said diamonds Warkas episode number 355.
0:23.0	And I'm Renata.
0:25.0	Hi Renata, how are you?
0:27.0	Well, still super busy.
0:30.0	I was going to say, are you busy?
0:32.0	Oh, God, yeah, wowhead stuff.
0:34.0	I mean, they keep coming out with new alpha releases every like, you know,
0:40.0	week or so and every time there's that there's news there's guides that have to be
0:43.1	edited and all this other stuff and I've been doing a lot of formatting and that sort of
0:48.0	work for them. Yeah. Um, still mostly playing Diablo three these days because I mean when you spend all day writing about wow you feel like you got to get a break.
0:58.0	Yeah, yeah. And I'm still not in Alpha.
1:02.0	Yeah, I mean, either.
1:04.0	I've put out a few more feelers to a couple of contacts to say, look, it's getting hard to do my job.
1:11.0	If I don't get alpha.
1:13.0	Yeah, I checked about an hour or two ago and still no alpha.
1:18.0	Well, I checked about, I guess it was about three hours ago and I wasn't in so I'm not expecting that these three
1:24.2	hours will make that huge difference but it'll be the warcast alpha check yes well are
1:31.1	we in are we in alpha? No.
1:34.0	Um, are we using the this week in trek thing and I'm showing up as Kara. Oh, yeah, you are.
1:44.0	Sorry.
1:45.0	Let me get rid of that.
1:47.0	Sorry.
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