Give me fun and I will engage with that.
Leave me busy work and I will find a way to circumvent that by
doing trap cheese or like only going as far as the highest
reward and then checking out. Victory for the Forsaken.
For Lauderon. For the Karen tour for.
Pandaria. For calendar.
To. The burning region.
For Gilnaeus, but has not died for the Lich King.
For the. Sindori for the Alliance, for
the Horde, for Azeroth Hello and welcome back to another episode
of For Azeroth. I am your host, the true
villain, Manny, and we are back to the complete trifecta of the
Triumphant First from Heart's Unknown, 'cause I can't even
remember what states I've done. We have Lex Rans.
Hello Lex, how are you? And I'm sorry that bit is now
officially over. People can tell us how.
Well, it was we, we were gonna start hitting walls and I, I do
think it's very funny that I think we got to none of the
states that I've lived in the entire time.
So I which frankly, I kind of doxed myself a little 'cause you
could process of elimination it down.
But I'm doing good, Manny. I have been out and about
traveling the world with my with my lovely family.
So, you know, not as much World of Warcraft, although I mean,
have you read the news? We ball, we ball.
I'm back and I'm ready to go. OK, I kind of want to ask about
that so. The news.
No you coming back and how ready to go can you be?
You've been away for like 2 weeks ish.
When you came back like with the stuff that had been released
with like your Guild progressing, how much did it
feel like you were really behind?
How easy was it for you to catch up?
So that's a funny question, Manny, because the real answer
to that question is every single night I've thought to myself, do
I want to try to sleep off jet lag or do I want to play World
of Warcraft? And most nights I've decided to
sleep off jet lag. And I haven't had jet lag for
like, so I'm pretty far behind to be completely honest.
And honestly, my team is the like half the officer team is
going to be out for the next couple weeks.
So we're going to have one more night of progression and then
we're going to take a little bit of a brief rating break so we
can get everyone back and then we're going to start hitting
progression again. I have been struggling a bit
with motivation, which is funny because when I started the
season I was really, really excited about everything.
And I do feel a little bit like I've capped what I can get doing
the content I want to do and I really like.
I know I need to get into mythic plots, I know I need to start
pushing there, but I'm having like going on and pugging as
ADPS just sounds like such a little nightmare.
And all of my friends go to bed like, you know, two hours.
Or like I I go to bed 2 hours out before they log on.
So I have been having a little bit of a rough time driving
myself to get on and play and I could be making this up.
To be fair, I do tend to be a little bit of a raid logger
relatively soon. I feel like I've been feeling
more of that with other people recently.
Like I, I, I feel like for this point in the season, I'm, I'm
seeing potentially a little bit more burnout just in the circles
I'm running with that I'm used to.
So I don't know if it's the cadence of the expansion.
I don't know if it's the content.
I don't, I don't know if I'm making it up, but it, it, it's
funny because I really adored midnight going into it.
I was having so much fun and I am like, I to some degree, I
think I apologize, need to get myself back on the horse, right?
But I'm hitting the wall of like, all this really cool
content is no longer really giving me anything.
And so it doesn't feel as good to do and not finding myself as
motivated to like, go do my cute little praise and stuff as
usual. So yeah, but to answer your
question Manny, I will have a very good excuse for being
bottom of the DPS meters for a hot sack.
I mean, you've got two weeks to sort of make up that gap, so
perhaps it won't matter when you get back to progress.
That's interesting. Would love to go into that more.
But before we do anything, we have to bring in the third part
of the triumphant. We have, of course, the
wonderful, the terrific, the sensational.
Sean. Hello, Sean.
How are you and how's the World of Warcraft been treating you?
Hey Manny, I'm doing good. Warcraft's been great.
I was also away. I didn't go on the same cruise
that Lex went on. I did my bird watching from
land. But I I went to LFG London 2026.
My third time going. I was operating the stream
production. This time I won't say that I ran
the production because I did not build the production and did not
test the production and we had some issues with the production
that would not we would not have had had I done either of those
things. But it was a lot of fun.
I get to hangover some folks. I get to meet Taliassin and
Evitel, which was cool. I get to meet Preach, which was
pretty cool. And more important, I get to
hang out with all of my friends. The group from Fates were
Forged, Dan, Mr. GM, all kinds of people just really enjoy
myself to meet or not that she probably doesn't listen to this
show, but if she does, she was lovely to see again.
Yes, that was a lot of fun. Then I came home.
We moved our raid days because I was gone.
We normally rate Thursday Sunday but I was gone Thursday to
Monday so we rated Tuesday. That's some good Bellerin
Prague. I think we talked about that on
Wednesday before I left last episode and then came home
Monday just knackered. That's a word I picked up in
London from the flight and we jumped right into Bellerin
Monday night and we got the kill.
So it was lucky for me. I did spend some time at LFG.
Nate was there, Nate, former Tank from BDGG, formerly from
Method and currently of this is fine.
World rank 67 on A2 on a on a 2 day a week schedule.
They only rate Saturday, Sunday and they got world rank 67.
It's pretty impressive. Relax.
Pretty impressive. Just drop.
I'm just saying just drop 2 ranks man.
Oh, so it could be 69. I get it.
Yeah. Yeah.
Anyway, spent some time talking to him.
He gave me some tips and some pointers and then we came home.
We just smashed the bird and now we're on Lura Hall of Fame is
technically still open. I think there's 100 and 91192
kills as of this recording. It'll close Tuesday.
That they it will for sure get the 200 needed before the end of
this week and will likely close on Tuesday, which hopefully
means nerves for our true Prague start.
We are going to be rating tomorrow and Sunday 2 full days
in, in what I assume is a premier of state.
But hopefully we see some Hall of Fame close and see some
nerves on Tuesday. I'm not one of those people.
There's you, you just notice that there's some people who
like get really, really horny to they're like, I want to fight
the boss in the raid state. I want to, I want to fight them
when they're the hardest as they could possibly be.
I don't want to fight any nerves bosses.
I'm I'm not one of those people. I have 0 desire to fight a boss
that I have no shot of killing. Like yeah no thanks.
So I'm I'm ready for whatever nerves they bring.
Let's let's get them so we can get our kill and move on with
the rest of our season. I have been one of those people
that has killed a boss after like directly after he got
nerfed and felt disappointed because I would have liked to
have least tested myself against the unnerved version.
And there are times where it like could rightly have done it.
There are times where I'm really just having a better impression
of myself than I have any right to have.
But either way, the questions just left up there.
We had said a couple of episodes back that maybe they should do
tuning that is there for the entirety of the Hall of Fame.
And who cares if it gets like killed super quickly by half the
guilds and then it finally fills out.
And that kind of goes back to that question like is this
progressive tuning good for some guilds, bad for other guilds?
Are you the Guild that is on the wrong side of the nerf and
therefore feel bad when it gets weaker and hey, one more week
and we would have gotten it? Are you the on the other side
and still on the bad side where it's like this boss is
impossible to prog until that was nerves come in.
So there's always going to be that question.
I think that there's many different ways of looking at it
for sure. I think if you and your team
were good enough to kill a boss pre nerf you would have.
Not you specifically, you, no. No, I mean like the general you,
I do think that some teams have learning curves and they might
reach a boss just in a point where no, no learning curve is
going to let them get to it within the time left.
But yes, it could have gone. So this is definitely one of
those times where I'm going to be like so much nuance that at
your take. Sorry guys.
Yeah, I don't forgive you. Yeah, I mean, you could factor
in, you can factor in raid days ago.
Well, we only raid two days a week, so that's why we didn't
get it post nerf, pre nerf, that kind of thing.
But I mean, it all comes down to if if you were a team that was
going to get it, you would raid more days a week.
I, I just, yeah, I'm, I, I. I, I don't, I don't think so
like personal circumstances or personal circumstances.
I'm sure that you are right about a number of groups.
What that what that looks like is some Venn diagram that I'm
not personally going to invest time into.
No, but listen, nobody's going to leave comments for us to read
if I don't say something incendiary.
Yeah. I've already covered our our
bird watchers and our antivirus enjoyers.
Now it's time. Now it's time for the the no
nerf bird. I don't believe that's how you
pronounce that virus name, but that's all right.
It's a new virus. We'll figure it out.
Is that not how it's pronounced? Yeah, I did rating this week.
One of my teams completed it. It was really sad because we
felt bad about not completing it last week.
We're like 01 more pool. We'll have done it and we walked
in this week and one shot it. Nice.
So maybe we should have done that one last pool just to say
that we had done it a week, a week prior.
And I guess that technique is within this week because we
completed that on Monday before the reset.
So blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Which is good means that now I
get to take a step back from five straight hours of rating
two nights a week and cut that down to 2 1/2 hours of rating
two nights a week. And that should help a bit, but
we have a lot of power that is coming our way with this week's
reset because they have now introduced the Ascendant Void
course. So Sean, this is the power
boost, the turbo boost like edition that we were promised.
How is it working out on servers?
Because I'm going to be flat honest.
I have not logged into Wow since I killed the boss on Monday.
I was like time for me to take a step back so I don't completely
burn out. So how is this working on
servers? As of now it is.
You log in, you get your you get another weekly quest to collect
3 tokens for the ascendant nil hammer.
You give those and you get those from doing bountiful delves,
mythic plus raid, you know that kind of stuff.
You give those to his name is Decimus, and then you get
another that unlocks the quest to gather the actual item that
you need to gather to get. You get your upgrades and it
requires five of those in order to get a single upgrade.
So because if you're a 2 handed user, congratulations, you only
need to get 15. You have to collect 15 of these
items to upgrade your two trinkets and your weapon.
You're a sword and shield or sword and offhand or one one
hand offhand or dual wielder. You need to collect 20 and these
drop now at 100% rate from mythic plus and and above.
Is there anything below 10 though?
Mythic plus 10 and above, Bountiful tier 11 delves and all
raid bosses. Those are 100% drop rate, and
it's a high drop rate from tier 5 ritual sites.
I think it might be, yeah, I don't think it's 100%, but it's
a high drop rate from tier 5 ritual sites.
And then they have lowered the drop rate because prior to like
an hour ago, these were a chance to drop in all content and the
best way to get them was to spam Tier 1 ritual sites.
You can complete those in about two to three minutes and then
your mileage will vary on on the RNG of the drop rate.
Also, I think Warcraft players are exceptionally bad at
statistics and I just don't think they know how they work
because I was seeing people who, and my Guild mentions this as
well, seeing people who were like, oh, the drop rate of this
is extremely low. I haven't gotten one in 20 runs
and other people saying no, it's extremely high.
I got eight in ten runs and it's like, guys, it's RNG and those
are extremely small sample sizes and dear God, please.
And there were like there were people who they were, they would
get a bunch running them and then they wouldn't get any for a
few in a row. And they're like guys, they
nerved ritual sites. They stealth nerfed ritual
sites. I haven't got like that's
literally how RNG works. I don't anyway they're 100% now,
but they lowered the drop rate in in Tier 1 ritual sites to go
out there get these items. It's just get it and then attach
it to your weapon and your trinkets and it bumps them up to
298 and enjoy your power spike mid season.
It's when it was a random chance in every content.
I think it was kind of awful. But now that it's guaranteed
from specific content I think it's a it's a fine bump.
You were probably going to do, you know, 15 dungeons this week
anyway on one character and if you weren't you would have like
clearing the raid once that's 9. You get 9 from clearing the
raid. So if you're doing LFR, normal,
heroic, any of those clears. I don't know.
I assume people are still clearing at this point this
season. I don't actually know.
I did. We did unfortunately.
We did our clear on Tuesday. LFR doesn't drop it, it's heroic
and mythic raid and mythic 10 and above.
LFR has a chance to drop it. That's it.
It's just not guaranteed. Yeah, they definitely did they.
Were oh OK, they they just hot fixed to make it OK I'm sorry
I'm. Yeah, it's just not one of the
100% one. This time I will say I was just
complaining about how I felt like the content that I like to
do was useless and this immediately makes the delves and
prey very useful. So it didn't.
Come back, I'm super fired up. We're gonna put number and they
also like stealth bumped nightmare prey.
Did you or prey in general? Did you?
I don't know if that's in our notes.
I'll mention it Now they stealth.
There are stealth buffed, buffed nerfed.
I don't know what direction this is for prey.
They made prey easier. You now they didn't fix
crabstone spawn again like they used to, but now you get more
points for completing a world quest, completing a a fight, the
guy thing or completing one of those little orbs.
You click and you'd no longer lose progress if you die on
Heroic Nightmare. What?
Yeah. Wow.
I mean, that's a lot of people who were really, well, I think
this is what Lex is about to say.
The the reset on deaths was something that was pushing
people out of nightmare mode. Is this something that will push
you back into nightmare mode? I OK, I mean, I was doing
nightmare mode anyway. I had learned how to be careful,
but like early on in the praise system, I like legitimately
almost cried multiple times because I would be almost there,
like almost there and then like 1 like something would go off.
This is back when I was still trying to figure out how to like
manage the little dude flying at me that I had to interrupt and
like the guy was killing me and I had to start over and I was
like, this is the and I'd already done the world quest.
I've done everything that could make it quick.
It was terrible. That is although like, OK, OK,
baby Lex who had just done this for the first time, that would
have been a game changer. Have now that I've kind of
learned how to balance everything.
My a little part of me is like, I mean, like, what's the
challenge? Right?
They who cares? Whatever, I'll just run into the
guy if I want to. Although I I I do the one that
really I think they needed to to figure out is this stupid kill
for me thing, because that can trigger when there is literally
nothing you can kill around. And I'm like, all right, kill
me. That I guess I don't know what
to tell you, man, but that those are those are those are very big
and it will make nightmare, if nothing else, very easy because
it was also feeling a little bit like I go do the entire world
Crest and I get like maybe a tiny bump like all right, sick,
whatever. I guess I want to play forever.
Yeah, yeah, they fixed all that. Use my potion.
Yeah, use your health potions. I would and it would not be
enough. It could get me from like 100
down to 0 even like and a little bit.
It was terrible. Yeah, like when you're get close
to like 0, that's when you use a pelt motion.
It does. Like I, I, I don't.
And it kills me anyway. Maybe some of us have bad.
Gear, literally fight anything and use your Leech that you have
innately as a Demon Hunter to keep yourself alive.
Hey, Sean, if I could fight anything, do you think?
That you would have killed me. Well.
Where was this? Where are you at?
Where there's no enemies around Lex.
In the Great Sea, but still within the area to trigger it.
Because if you're in the air, it doesn't go.
Talk to you as it there's one little chest that like like at
the very bottom of this stupid pit.
It's almost impossible to get out of this stupid pit.
Go find this one stupid little like thing to get out.
You're sort of stuck trying to figure out how to get out.
And then all of a sudden you went to get the stupid chest.
You went to get the chest because chest are good for prey.
They help in prey. And then you're like, I'm going
to get the chest and it's going to make it beneficial.
And you're almost there, right? You're just like you're at the
like nearly revealed. You're so excited.
You're almost done with the stupid thing and then all of a
sudden someone decides it's time to kill something and there's
nothing to kill. There's nothing to kill because
you're in the pit of death. You're in the pit of nothing.
There's not a single enemy to get and you can't get up because
it's almost impossible. It's not once I launch.
Too bad you can only loot that chest when you have an active
prey, and you can't do it after the prey has been finished.
The chest. The point of looting the chest.
It's. Worse, because looting chests
give you prey you. Know what's worse?
Sean Lex is on the only class that can spawn something to kill
with. Like that Feed the demon thing
where you spawn a demon for the buck?
That's still exists. That's gone.
Isn't. It I think it's you know what?
I I. Don't.
There's no way they still have to feed the demon.
I I'm, I don't know. You know what I don't know?
I think he's still around. I for sure don't know about it,
but that really does not speak to anything about whether or not
it exists. Really.
Yeah, yeah. Can you?
Another walk the D buff to give yourself 3 seconds of immunity
I. Don't know, Sean.
That's a really good point. I don't know that's not, but
yeah. That's OK D Demon Hunter talk,
I'm sure. I would actually love to hear
from like demon hunters. Maybe we can give Lex some help
so she doesn't have to give up on this like very very precious
chest each week that gets her killed.
I'd love I'd love to hear little tips and tricks.
I have my Demon Hunter that's like level 82 that I'm going to
like probably run around and start getting up to in 90.
So I wouldn't mind some tips either.
So Demon Hunter's out there. Let us know.
Let us know what the hell we could do with prey.
Mini tip #1 this is not about prey, but this is about Demon
Hunter. So you're going to want to get
an inertia build and you're going to want to keep that on in
Mythic Plus. And your tank is going to say
why do you keep butt pulling everything?
And you're going to say because I know how to play havoc Demon
Hunter you idiot. So say that you don't love you.
I'm not a I, I think I'm going to go with Sean on the vengeance
trip here Plus like Mythic Plus is like when I hit 90.
I'm trying to get to 90. I just need some general tips.
Oh yeah. So the general tip is you got an
inertia build and then you back OK the other egg like.
Just it's. Demon Hunter is so well made.
I love Havoc so much because you just, you backflip out and
nevermind. I'm not going to say a very
boring thing, but it's very exciting.
I think you're going to have fun, Manny.
I think the Demon Hunter is very fun.
I think you should have an inertia build though.
I think anyone who doesn't have an inertia is a coward and I'll
say that with my test. If you're not butt pulling in
mythic Plus, why are you playing Demon Hunter?
Maybe they're like remembering what's behind them and turning
the we. Exist, Manny, We exist to make
tanks do their job and clear the whole damn room.
And if you say that's not a tank's job in Mythic Plus,
you're not playing with a Demon Hunter, you're playing with a
Demon Hunter. They don't butt pull.
Anyways, we're gonna move on though.
I I think that the cords are great because they're not locked
to like one per week or something like that.
The fact that you can like, if you want to take the time, just
grind it out. If you for some reason feel your
average is doing 15 dungeons in a week per character, then the I
guess this automatically happens.
I mean yeah, but between dungeons, so even it like yeah,
between dungeons and raids, though most people are if you're
I say most people if you're not different, I don't if you I
would fill my vault every week. So that's 8 + 10 or higher that
I would do on each character just from that.
And then it's only 7 bosses. So not even a full clear of the
raid. You can just do everything.
All the easy ones, Skip the two hard ones.
Yeah, Ballad Bar and the Dragons.
I, I'm not sure if you were you have been listening to the extra
episodes, but I just flat out told Larry I'm just like
average. Means nothing on this show.
Average means nothing. You mean everybody's not average
filling their vault with eight plus 10s or better every week.
That's that's the norm, right? That's what do you.
Mean we all, we all have our own little circles and our own
little play patterns and it's great.
I'm getting kicked out of mythic philosophy because I'm an
Archibald and I'm butt plugged the entire group, in case you're
wondering why I don't feel that. But that's the average for the
average. OK, But these are just for
weapons and trinkets, as Sean said.
So that's why it is the the 20 and it's a great little push so
that you'll have like I believe it goes up to 298 once you have
the sorry. If it's a mythic.
It has to be a six out of six heroic or 6 out of 6 mythic.
The six out of six mythic will be bumped to 298, right?
If you want to use it on a heroic item because that's the
item you're getting, it will also bump that up several levels
as well. I don't.
Recall there's no reason not to like if you're like, oh man, I
don't want to waste this because I might get the mythic version.
You can just fire them more. So send that on your heroic
trinket, get the power gain, and then just go fire them some more
and. It'll make it easier to fire
more because you've threatened the other weapon.
Yeah, we're. Going to be swimming in these by
the end of the season because they're still like three months
left of the season. So every dungeon you do, every
raid bus you kill is going to drop one of these and they only
work on weapons at trinkets. You know what I am really
worried about? The bag space.
Yeah, they're not going to be able to be deleted.
They're going to be like the other stuff.
And then it's just going to be like, I guess I'm putting these
in the bottom tab of my bank to never think about again even
after Blizzard hot fixes them to actually be able to be
Vanderable or something. Yeah, this is what I'd put in my
void storage if I still had it it.
Can go right next to your cloak. You're, you know.
Which cloak Lex? I'm going to need to be more
specific the. The Nasalt Cloak.
The Battlefield trap cloak. Which is also beside my Reshi
wrap cloak. I still have a.
And my Ratheon cloak from Maha. Damn, they really do not want to
have seasons where you get cloaks.
I still have my denier from like season 2 or something that I
just never ended up spending and I can't get rid of it so I'm
annoyed by this but it's the smallest inconvenience.
Overall, I'm really glad that this is not further negated and
that we can just get that power bump and push push forward.
So next thing you need to worry about isn't coming until 12
point 0.7. Go and refer back to episode 383
if you want Sean and I to give our impressions on that.
For a super in depth upbeat impression, that's how you
should sell that episode. Manny No, no, that that I I will
definitely say that that was one of our most negative episodes
that we've had on this show. Yeah, bar the bar was definitely
set there. But I do think that that was a
product partly a product of like one, it's exactly what I've been
fearing it would be. Well, mostly what I was fearing
it would be. And two, we are now so deep into
this eight week cadence and now everybody is saying is Blizzard
putting out too too much content, specifically too much
casual content is what one article put out.
And I kind of want to talk about this as maybe the topic to end
this show. I would say that there's a lot
of stuff coming out. It's coming out at a pretty good
pace, but the problem isn't that it's too much.
It's that none of it feels worth worthy half the time.
Like they're very, it's very shallow systems.
It's very, you're going to forget about this in X amount of
weeks unless you feel like you have to go back to get whatever
prizes they've locked behind it. It's almost like going to one of
those cheap carnivals and it's like, here's all the games and
you're like, I don't feel like playing like any of these.
And then maybe you look at something like, Oh, I want to
get that transmog shield. I want to get that like mount.
And so you're like, I guess I'll whack A mole until I can get
enough coins and so forth. What are you?
What are your take on the content cadence, the content
that we've been getting at this cadence in midnight?
Let's start with you Lex, because you've been away 2 weeks
and I'd love to hear from you again.
Oh yeah, I think, I mean, I, I'm well on record saying I think
it's, it's coming too fast. And also that I do think I, I
was really confused with the .5 because it was a ton of filler.
They gave us all sorts of like actual urgent stuff to do, but
only in my like without a ton of depth to the urgent stuff that
would actually gear you and get you the, you know, stuff you
need. And then they were like, also,
in case, you know, you're bored, despite the fact that it's only
been a few weeks and you know, we have a a ton left to do.
And we also gave you some urgent hearing.
Do you want to just screw around for a few hours?
And it, it felt unfocused. It it felt like something though
I would have really loved and enjoyed like a a lot of the
content that was put out in the .5 would have been incredible in
a like season 4 right? If if we'd gotten a season 4 and
had decor duel, people would have been over the mood.
If I still don't fully understand the angler thing, but
like probably also I'd something I would have tried out if it was
a season 4, right? That is the I don't know to give
you guys right now. We don't really have the time
and energy to put into real content because we're building
you something really cool and exciting.
So here's the fun thing, right? Here's the little dinky thing
and you and your raid are going to go play around and ha ha, ha,
look, I'm a table and you're going to have so much fun at a
.5. It doesn't make sense and it
also doesn't it it it didn't make sense to me either because
it felt like I who who I again, I OK, I love the chord duel.
I I I enjoyed playing it while we were playing it, but also
like it didn't feel like it was like it won't.
It didn't feel like people were like Blizzard.
We don't have enough screw around activities in this game.
You know what I'm saying? So I am personally not super
happy with the cadence. I think it's too fast.
I think they're putting I think they're biting off way more than
they can chew pretty consistently.
Have I have. I even mean about the like
things you get at the end of the raid in housing.
I feel like they Yeah, OK, I've already been.
Mean about that because they are very low, low effort.
Right. And it just feels like one of
the consistencies with Midnight is that they have all of these
amazing, fun ideas that would be really, really cool.
And for some reason they're acting like they have, you know,
three months to put out the entire video game.
And so they're trying to shove everything in instead of like,
Oh yeah, it would be cool to do to core dual.
Let's do that, you know, in a few months.
Oh, we have this really fun idea of putting in trophies at the
end of raid, but we're trying to put out so much housing decor
that we like nobody can really sit and like, build it out.
What if that was, you know, a Titan thing that's going to be,
you know, that'll make housing feel like a continuous thing
instead of saying we, you know, put all of our resource into
midnight. I, yeah, I think that's, I, I, I
feel like they feel like anything they come up with, they
just have to immediately throw out and they have to immediately
give it to us and put it on the timeline, figure it out and just
shove it at us. And it's just too much.
And it's, it's in my opinion, very clear that people are
getting overworked and can't like things are just not being
put out of the quality or the timing or with the like strategy
that I would expect. And I think that that's not like
a hot take. I don't.
I have any. I'm not of the opinion that I'm
the first person who's come up with that idea, but that is my
biggest concern with Midnight. OK, John, what's your take?
I it's weird, I was talking to some people today and I was
like, by all of the metrics that I'd find joy in, this should be
my favorite expansion. Mythic Plus feels good for the
most part. Raid feels good for the most
part. You know class balancing is
pretty pretty good. Thanks.
Just got a nice little bump. They did the thing that people
have tried for for years and buffed the other tanks instead
of nerfing brewmaster. Although then when they buffed
then people still cried. It was weird.
People are weird but they did the thing right.
So it's like all all of my characters got stronger and on
this reset. So I was like, oh, wow, and this
cost. So the .5 content is exactly
what I would want in open world, quote UN quote more casual
content. I can ignore it means nothing.
There's if if you don't find joy in the void assaults and you're
not chasing achievement points like some people do, that's your
if that's your thing, cool. But if you don't find joy in in
in void assaults, don't do them. What do you lose when not doing
them? Absolutely nothing.
I did 1 Angel Lamont. I did 1 and never song just to
say I did them. I will never do one again.
I will lose nothing from this. That might be the perfect
example of an open world content piece that's added for me
because I don't want to be given chores that I don't want to do
that I, I don't feel I need to ritual.
Ritual sites, which are worst elves.
You could do those to farm your transmog.
It took me 4 ritual sites to get enough of the ritual site tokens
to buy all of the transmog from the random vendor.
So I did them and I've done a couple cents because I have a
friend who's a mount collector and he's like, hey, I'm going to
do this for this mount or he's going to, he's finishing up
achievements and I like playing with my friends.
So I just tag along. But I'm not there for the
rituals, but there if you want gearing, shelves are a much
better way to gear than a ritual site is and already accessible.
So if you're not chasing that transmog and you don't care
about achievements, you can do one and call it call it a day.
And that's, I mean, that's, that's exactly what I want.
Now, I would say, I don't know who these are for.
So in my mind, it's like, why are we spending development time
on the like? Why do these exist?
And somebody said, Hey, you know, you like to do dungeons.
If you could only do one dungeon over and over again, that would
get boring. This is similar to that.
You like to do delves. People like to do delves.
Well, they don't want to just do the same for delves every day.
Now you can mix in a ritual site and it's something to another.
OK, cool. I don't I guess that logic sort
of makes sense to me, but it's still a worse, it's still a
worse a worse delve as far as gearing goes.
So I mean, I'm and I have not having done Abyssal Anguish
because there's absolutely nothing I want from it.
So that purple triangle is going to stay in the corner of my as
well. I'm on map until I fucking die.
So yeah, I don't know. It's to me that's like a
perfect. Those three things are the
perfect example of a .5 patch open world content that I could
ask for because I can just ignore them and I think that
should make me happy, right? I should be like, oh great, they
are giving me exactly what I want.
But for some reason my brain is like, why did you release these
things I don't want to do? Why didn't you make this content
for me? I don't care like, but I don't
have that same hang up with housing.
They released housing. I was really excited about it.
I got really hot and heavy into housing early on.
I was watching a bunch of videos and I haven't been back to my
house since December in game and I haven't watched a housing
video in two months. So I've I've completely housing.
Might as well not even exist for me now.
It might as well be, but that doesn't bother me.
I'm not upset by that. It might as well be and it seems
like you cut out for me the. Yeah, Riverside.
Riverside censored your punchline there.
Yeah, that's weird. OK, I was, I was like, did I?
Did you actually not hear it? Did you not?
Hear it? Oh, I said it might as well be
pet battles. That's so weird.
Yeah, it literally cut out. I was like.
That's hilarious. Yeah.
So I don't know. But something is.
There's something's rotten in Denmark, basically.
I don't know. I should be as happy as I've
ever been. Playing the game right now and
I've I the only thing I can think is that my everything
about the UI still feels a little bit off losing the
information we don't have it's and I feel like that has somehow
it's like Grima worm tongued its way into my brain to make me ate
midnight because of the way the narrative flowed over this whole
thing. But as far as as far as this
content goes, like I I, I I'm I'm good for a break or whatever
because I'm not doing ritual sites.
I'm not doing assaults, void assaults, you know, and I can't
swim, so I won't do a Bissell Angler.
But yeah, I don't know. I like even the people that I
know that are collectors that do them for achievements, they're
not like, I don't know anybody who's like gagging to get into
to void assaults. Oh man, I can't wait to log on
and do a 45 minute void assault or 88 marl or whatever.
Whatever you get from it, I don't know, but yeah, it's it's
and it's crazy. It's crazy to me.
Like Blizzard, you gave me exactly what I want.
This is exactly what I should want.
So thank you. I'm not going to complain about
it. Thank.
You I really like that. That is a well that is a self
aware take. I appreciate that.
I think that when I look at this content and I want to be excited
for it, it's like Blizzard, why aren't you doing something to
make me excited? But I, I 100% agree with you.
I don't want the wow chores return of Wow chores.
Hey guys, you need to like farm six of the small things to get 3
of the medium things to get one of the thing that actually
matters. And we're going to have you do
that every week so that you can do this stuff.
I, I'm, I'm happy about that. I just dislike that the stuff
that I do need to engage in is constantly having a little more
track added to it, a little more track added to it, right?
That's the point that like, just absolutely irritates me with
this content. What I want from it isn't a lot,
isn't for it to like not exist or be good for me.
I want it to be good, period. I want it to like get the space
that it deserves. If you're going to have the
Decor duel, I think that Lex did a great analogy if that was in.
I completely forgot Decor duel when I was talking about the
things that came because it was a 2 day thing.
I was two days when I was done. You were like, oh, OK, I'm on
the decor duel next week. Now I'm done with decor duel.
It's like, oh. Literally literally took me two
days and that was it was like 2 short sessions and I had all of
the transmog and I'm out. I'll never be a plant again.
I think that they could have that come again.
I would love if the core duels got assimilated in the
neighborhoods. I think that there's a lot of
spaces in the two neighborhoods that could be areas to do decor
duels that hey, if teams want to do that and then it gives out
decor for a decor duel. Oh, wow, look at that theming.
Maybe a lot of this stuff is things that they were testing
systems and might come in later. I'm hoping that with the
general, because you're not the only person that I've heard
saying that like virtual sites are just worse delves.
So I'm hoping that like they tested it, they're like, OK,
people don't like putting affixes in delves.
We'll leave Delves alone. But so this is I, I'm so excited
about all of this. I was so excited about it.
And I like, I feel like I was the person who was supposed to
like ritual sites and the the void assaults.
And I, I mean, like, first of all, I'll go back to what I said
ages ago, which is that all of this would have been about a pre
patch. Just like even before this.
I, when I heard them talk about it, I was like, oh, that's gonna
be pre patch. But no, I think ritual sites had
so much promise. And then they gave us one and it
was like 1 at a time and it was very boring.
And like, like it did, it was I, I thought it was very funny that
Sean was saying that his friend was like, oh, well, if you only
had one mythic plus and you did it again and again and again,
wouldn't you find that boring? They gave us and I honestly kind
of like, yeah, I think they probably are going to take away
the lesson. Nobody wants affixes in delves
and I wish they wouldn't. I wish they would take away the
lesson. Nobody wants to run one scenario
over and over again until the day they die because I think
ethics is in Dallas can be really sick.
I think outdoor Dallas can be really sick right, like I think
that could have been a really cool idea and I'd love to see
them experiment with it more when I don't have to do 1
outdoor kill all the not a that are standing in the same stoop.
I clearly I did this day one and I was like, I do not want to do
this ever again. So I don't know what the other
one is because I simply do not want to do one thing a million
times. However.
I would love to find out. I would love to be a family on
the wall. When they look at like
engagement, they look at numbers and like, how do they measure?
Because if you look at the, the engagement statistics for ritual
sites, like they took a huge spike yesterday.
People were spam writing them and I guess they take, oh, look,
people like virtual sites. You were wrong.
They just needed some time to cook.
Like, well, no, obviously it's, it's for these, these things
we're trying to get the drop. That's why these we're doing.
I want to know because I'm with you.
I think the idea of affix is to add affixes to delves could be
fun give people who are delve only players or people who just
enjoy delves a challenge. But that's that needs to not be
the take away from the rituals like that.
The the challenges aren't why they are why it's worst elves.
Worst elves because you just get worse gear and worse rewards
from doing it and there's only one of them.
And Speaking of statistics, I just refreshed Twitter and the
top tweet from one hour ago is T5 ritual sites aren't good for
shards. We went O for seven.
OK, well, you know what, like a lot of Warcraft statistics and
stars, we're never going to touch them.
I would say that the that there's definitely multiple ways
that they get feedback. We've seen them put out
questionnaires. We've we know that they do focus
groups. We know that they have like all
the analytics that they have for the in game and they're reading
forms and and people tweet at them.
So I'm not, I suspect that they get a more robust thing than
they look at like a spike in it and can't see that there's like
4 Wowhead articles that are like run your run your ass into like
the voyage rituals 20 times to get your stuff.
This stuff, if it is a test bed, I think that like because like,
hey, we're not getting enough testing on the PTR because it's
so fast. So let's, let's be more free
with this experimental content. It's even more reason to let
that experimental content breathe.
Like when you have thunderstorm, thunderstorm is the highlight
and it gets its time. When you have remix, remix is
the highlight and it gets its time.
The same thing with this, we are about to go into 12 point O 7
and one thing that's coming from remix is this heroic and mythic
tier of world content. And now it's going to be
specifically for these areas that we were talking about.
But like, is that something that they're like, OK, let's do a
bigger test here And then in the next expansion or something, it
becomes more ubiquitous. I would think that that's a good
way of doing it. But they like, I just feel like
the earlier testing needs to breathe more because like abyss
anglers, you're right. It's going to be a purple
triangle in the corner of a zone for as long as I can deal with
that annoyance because I am one of those people that will like
start going like, I'm just going to clear this out, just get
through the initial thing just so that triangle's gone.
Can I make it taste so spicy? Am I going to be kicked off the
show? No, you can.
You can get spicy as long as you don't talk about wild head.
OK, Hell yeah. I think that they should bring
back Season 4. I think having a stupid little
season at the end when the doves can kind of breathe and use that
time to be prepping for, you know, the the next big thing, I
think that's great. I think it gives us an
opportunity. I think they clearly have a lot
of devs, devs who are very good and I do not mean this as an
insult, who are very good at Dick around content.
And I think, sorry, maybe I, I don't know if I can say that on
air. Yeah, it's my Coco.
I but but like I think they have a so many people who are like,
oh, this would be a fun little time waster and they're good at
it. I think.
I love decor rules. I thought it was thick and so
that would that if we had a Season 4, that it's like you
guys are all a little sleepy because we just pushed content
at you so fast. Go hang out with your Guild, go
do silly little goofy things. We have all these silly little
goofy ideas who we want to test with you guys and maybe if
they're good we'll bring them back, but if not, then who
cares? It's Season 4.
We're all having fun. I think that was good.
I think it gave people a chance to rest.
I think it gave jabs a chance to reset.
I think it was a as much as everyone whined about it, I
think it was a positive for the game.
I like having a season that doesn't matter.
I I disagree because I don't like season fours.
I felt they were the like absolute like why am I
subscribed to this kind of game sort of time?
And I would prefer that the the quote UN quote Dick around
content, the the let's just have some fun content be coming out
as we're going through stuff. What I yeah, I I just feel like
maybe the eight week cadence is making it that like I never feel
like I have the time to like explore this fun, fun content.
And I, and I also think that like I wouldn't mind if it was
like pushed to an area where it's like, OK, here is the 2 new
zones coming in 12 point O 7. And in those zones that we also
have the two, the two new levels of world content, but that's
going to be put on all world content and that'll help people
catch up to Ward's stuff, right. And so that becomes like, oh,
OK, cool. That's the invention of of 12
point 0.7. And then that can like go on.
And now I have like heroic content that I could put into
put into stuff going forward. And then the 12 point O 5 is
like, here's the housing stuff and we're doing a bunch of stuff
with housing and hey, you can go back to go back and check out
housing. And so all that stuff goes in,
like I said, decor duel and all of that.
And then in the 12 point 1.5 they're like they say we're
refreshing pet battles and pet battles are a big thing.
And so like, if I don't care about pet battles or I don't
care about housing or I don't care about world content, now I
have the time to catch up on that other thing that I may not
have had time from before X in the like point X season from
before, right? And do that.
So or I go like, OK, maybe now I've got time, time for housing.
Like what's the what's the spotlight, Blizzard?
What do you got me focused on here?
And love it or leave it like each week we have.
Do you want to do time walking? Do you want to do PvP?
Do you want to do do this? They could do a similar sort of
theme of focus with patches and I think that would at least make
me take notice of it more. So I hear that.
I think the first thing that I would say immediately is nobody
does content like does filler content.
Maybe that's OK. I do not do filler content when
it's not shiny and new. It's possible that you guys are
more like locked into the rewards of the content versus
the fun silly game of the content.
And therefore you're less concerned of like, oh, is this a
fun, exciting, shiny new thing? So maybe I'm wrong.
Maybe everyone would actually go back and do it.
But OK, I, I, I do, I will say I do think a lot of the issue is
the cadence. I really think 8 weeks is too
short. I feel constantly underwater,
which kind of makes me just want to check out like, all right,
sick. I can't keep up anyway, So best
of luck. And I think it also makes me
feel honestly, especially because I kind of like filler
content. I kind of like having silly time
that it's like, Oh yeah, I'm geared up, but now I get to go
play my silly little video game for fun and would.
You play Secrets of Azeroff back in Dragonflight.
I don't think so, no. The the like get the hat that
like sends you in a different direction.
So like you never touch that. OK, Did you ever do the I forget
what what they were called the they they were like the
archaeology group that would like dig up the place in in the
Azure Span I. Think they maybe do a little.
Bit of that. But not a ton.
OK, So maybe what we're learning is I don't actually do failure
content. OK.
Sean, did you do any of those? I did the dig site one because I
wanted the trans mob. OK, that was it.
I don't so I would rather shoot myself in the face than have
another season 4. Just I want to make sure I'm
super clear on that. I get it.
I understand why you like it, but season so I don't.
I I will never ever ever ever ever ever ever want to have to
go back and reprod bosses I've probed and that's all that
season 4 was. I I hated I this.
I had a visceral hatred for season 4.
I would rather a 10 month final season where they put this
content in to give people time to breathe than a season 4.
I cannot possibly say I want that.
I think that's actually more what I want.
I think I have no or limited interest in that being a true
new season with new like goals and stuff.
It really actually what I should say is not that I want a season
4, it's that I want a plunderstorm season.
Like like conceptually, right? Not plunderstorm exactly, but
like so a. Season where rating and mythic
plus isn't updated but it's specifically like here is the
fun marquee content outside of instance content.
Exactly, yes. Yeah, I'm OK with that.
I just, I am all about the anything that's not mythic plus
or rating, it's, it's always going to be a, both the reward
for me and once I have attained the reward, I, I don't know how
Plunderstorm I think is the closest I will have gotten to
doing something out of pure fun. But even Plunderstorm, once I
got to the end of the reward track, it was like 6 more
matches and then I, I never touched it again.
I am, I am 100% a carrot. Like it's the reward needs.
And decor duels is the same thing.
I didn't dislike decor duels. It was kind of fun.
I found myself laughing and enjoying myself in the 8 hours
of playtime that I had with it that it took me to farm enough
currency to buy the stuff. But once I had bought the stuff,
there was no I, I need a reason to do it.
I need a reason to want to do. I don't, I'm not going to just
do it for fun. If I want to do something that's
just for fun, I got to be honest, I'm playing a different
game. Yeah, and I mean like World of
Warcraft does have a little I, I, I, I don't know how like
World of Warcraft does have a little bit of a given kids
stickers for coloring problem where I also feel like I can
really, really enjoy content within the 2nd that I see that
there's no, there's nothing attached to it that I'm
interested in. I just sort of lose interest.
I'm like, Oh well then I guess it's not worth it If I I'm not
getting if I'm not getting my sticker for coloring, why would
I color? Yeah, but under that same token,
I don't, sorry, I just want to finish this under that same
token, I don't do like I never got into the platinum trophy
chasing or the achievement chasing on Xbox or PS345.
Like I, if you, and it's like there's, there's exactly 1 game
where I did ever do the extra stuff because the game was that
much fun in this breath of the wild and the 999 Clorox seeds,
which you at the end, you get a golden poop.
That's what you get a little golden poop for getting them.
I that's the only game I've ever done the extra.
Like if you're, if you're needing to inject achievements
and trophies to make your game, to have longevity in your game
and replayability. I don't, I that's not for me.
I have no interest in any of that.
So maybe it's just the way that I'm wired and that's why like
the, the filler stuff doesn't hook me.
You know, I, I don't know what they would have to do for it to,
to, to actually become something I do regularly for fun alongside
because I'm not doing mythic plus for rewards either.
I'm doing that because I like doing mythic plus.
You know they don't give you a reward for having done 700 plus
twelves. Though I think that like the
problem with Wow is that the mastery is if there is something
that's the mastery, it's infinitely scaling.
And I now I need like the only way I can show mastery is if I'm
in that top 1% right or .01% to get the glad or whatever it is.
I think that I really enjoyed mage tower.
I know people said, oh, it was easy when it got like super
nerfed and and so forth or like that sort of thing.
But like I'd love to do in challenge modes like challenge
mode. Do it beyond the.
Rewards. Sorry.
Did you do it beyond the reward once you beat mage tower on
elemental shaman? Did you keep doing it or did you
stop? I did it on enhancement because
I was playing enhancement and I did that in the same tier that
it was released. I then was like, this is really
cool. OK, I'm going to try and push
and do elemental right and on the same character.
Don't know. I had to go farm out all of the
like the stuff stuff for it, but I was also like, you know,
because you had to get all the points to put in and all of
that. But I had the knowledge and
stuff. So it wasn't that bad, but I
wasn't really touching elemental before that.
So I actually was like, OK, you know what, I really do want to
get show this mastery sort of thing.
And so I did that. I and I did those two and then
every sorry, I did resto, but I did that when like things were
like crazy, like I did it. I tried to do resto in the tier
afterwards and then I wasn't able to do it until not when
everything was maxed out when the weapons start were
completely overcharged, But when they were starting to get like
more powerful, I did it within that progress and I was like,
OK, fine. I I I didn't get to do that in
time, but at least I got the cool little flashy, flashy thing
right. But you, didn't you?
Stopped as soon as you got the reward.
You didn't keep doing it. You didn't go back in and do
anything for no for for no reason.
No, because I moved on to the next challenge to see if I could
do it in that way. If I did, I do challenge mode
after I gotten a goal and and therefore done it.
Yes, I did do that with other people.
I was a healer and it was like, oh, we need a healer.
I'm like, OK, I've done this before, let's do this again.
Right. And TN like was like taught like
it was two other people, the tank and myself and one DPS were
from the group that had done it. And we took two other people
that wanted to do it and got through and we got the challenge
modes for that One was like, miss a Pandaria warlords.
I only did it the one time because we got it done and we're
like, oh, wow, OK, we did it, man.
There's there's no content in this in this game.
Plus like Gildrom and all that sort of stuff.
ANYWAYS, So like that's I do think that like getting the
achievement and getting it done is something that Warcraft can
do where you like push for stuff.
And I've I have said I think on this show, I think that
challenge mode should come back that there should be like a your
gear is locked to this. It's not going to get any
harder, but you are going to have to fight with like this
gear level to push through this thing and I think that the game
would allow that pretty well. But like I also think that they
just are really addicted to this.
Like let's keep extending this tail.
Let's make this the the long thing that you have to like keep
on top to to actually succeed in.
And so like that eats up the all the air in the room, which means
that you don't have time for other things.
If rating is going to be done on week, whatever, what you need to
keep coming back to get all this year so that you can be ready
for next season, which is coming on in in eight weeks.
Why do you have time to like smell the roses, right?
Let completely divorce yourself from that.
And for people who are looking at that, we had that
conversation with Josh where she's like, wow, like, I can
actually enjoy this and these side stories and stuff.
Sean, you loved the War Within side stories and early access is
always it is something twice in a row now that you've said has
been a joy because you get to enjoy things that I don't think
you'd have time for otherwise. Yeah, I definitely wouldn't.
I would throw on wrested XP or Zygor's and blast through and
that would be it. I would.
I wouldn't read a single quest if we did.
Never really access. Please keep giving us early
access, Blizzard. I'll pay so much more than
you're asking me to pay now. Sorry, I guess I'm going to
leave that in. I just feel like feel bad
putting that out in the world. On the same note, note, do you
do the local stories in the successive patches?
So like, OK, so there are things that like even though they're
obviously not giving you like great rewards, there are things
that you do before the enjoyment of it that is.
Yeah, I mean myth. I do mythic plus for nothing.
Like I legitimately will do 700 plus twelves this season
probably. And like, I don't like to get
like I feel my fault at 8 a week.
You know, I don't have to keep doing them.
I do them because they're I do mythic plus because I enjoy it.
I, I legitimately I don't like pushing.
I don't, I'm never going to get point on percent.
So I don't see the value. I like, I just like running
dungeons and seeing how fast we can go.
That's it. I, I that's why the current
format of the MDI is my favorite.
I would much rather see if I can do a + 12 and 8 minutes and then
see if I can do a + 23 because spoiler alert I can't do one of
those but I might be able to do the other.
And I do the raid. I keep running the raid on
heroic even though there's nothing I need from it.
I pulled mythic Chimeris 2 weeks now.
I've pulled mythic Chimeris and there's not a single piece of
Lupin. And then it's not like I'm doing
in Guild groups. I'm, I'm literally pugging a
raid boss. I'm pugging it so it's not even
Guild clears. I'm pugging a raid boss with
strangers that doesn't have any loot that I need just because I
like raiding, just because I like that boss.
It's crazy. Yeah, so I there is lots of
stuff I do stuff I do for fun all the time.
I would love challenge modes. The way you described the
challenge modes sound great. I I missed them.
Unfortunately it was during my break.
I'm not going to say unfortunately, I enjoyed my 10
year break. It was definitely healthy for me
and it has given me the freedom to know that I can walk away at
any time. But yeah, challenge was I think
would be great. I don't know that the mage Tower
is, I think the mage tower is just another carrot.
I think it's nobody's doing. You show me if you are somebody
out there, I'm certain somebody will say that it's them.
I I won't believe you, but I don't believe anybody is like
once they've unlocked, once they've beaten the mage tower on
a spec, I don't think anybody's going back to do it again
because it was so much fun. I don't think anybody's doing
that. They're doing it to get they're
doing it. They've said that they've maybe
they've had fun frogging it, but once they've gotten the reward,
that's it. It's it is reward based content.
Nobody is. Please let me know.
Maybe I'm wrong, maybe I'm wrong, but I don't think I am
the enhancement. 1 was so random that yeah, just like I, I feel
like I got the, why would you write the layout?
And I was like, perfect, I got it.
I'm done. I'm out.
Yeah, nobody's going back there. And man, I really enjoyed that,
Maestro. I'm going to do this again for
fun, for nothing. Nobody's doing that.
Maybe a content creator recording a video?
Do you guys enjoy story elements of Warcraft?
Like if they were more like if there were more quests that came
out, there were like putting the story story forward that were a
little bit more voice acted that were more similar to the
levelling campaign. Would you like that to show up
in like .5 and .7 patches? Would that be something that
you'd be like, great, here's a little bit of content that I can
get to. Yeah, big yes for me, Yeah, Even
if it was just a new local story popped up.
Give me a breadcrumb that sends me.
You know, we have finished .7 comes out, we've stopped
Xalatas, we've renewed the sun. Well, we turned it into the
rainbow. Well, whatever it's called now,
the dawn, well, the dawn, well, sorry, it's the dawn.
Well now. And we get a pop up that says,
hey, something's going on in in forest Rider village.
We go down there and it's the aftermath.
A new local story popped up for what has changed and just how
it's affected the people. I would love that.
I that's fun, but it's not repeatable content and it's
something I'm going to do once, but I would take that for sure.
And I'm certain the Lord, well, actually, I don't know what the
Lord will want. They're the they're anyway.
I'm not going to, I'm not going to say anything incendiary Will
Delore people and how awful they've been.
We're going to move on to Lex. Lex, would you, What about you?
What condo would you like? So I'm admittedly less of a
story girl. I think I'm realizing I like the
novels, but the like the way that the World of war like in
game story is fed to me is actually really hard for me to
internalize. Like I, I, I get so into like a
clicking mode that I don't even realize that I would read
something until I'm like, wait, why am I doing this?
I really like I World of Warcraft for me is for the
people. Like I don't even think of the
rewards that come with rating. Like I when I'm logging in
people like, oh, who needs a trinket on the spas?
I'm like, oh, I forgot spas. Like that's cool.
I do delves for that. So I always like content that is
fun for the sake of fun and specifically that I can get my
guilt to do with me. That's the big one for me.
And I think that's one reason why Decor Duels was really fun
for me for a day. And I'm not anytime after that
because it's kind of like I you can't queue with people I would
like. And I think that's also honestly
why. Definitely 100% can queue with
people. You can queue with up to seven.
You can queue with up to seven people.
Oh did they change that? I used to.
You couldn't queue at all. You have to, it's always, you
have to go to the person. You can't.
Queue from the menu in a group. You have to go to the person so
that she sees that you're actually friends.
Gosh. Oh, wait, fair enough.
In that case, I guess we can all bully my raid chewing decor tool
with me. Yeah, I I and I think that's
actually one reason why I say things like I'd like a season 4
because I would love a time. I, I, I love the periods of time
when my raid team was like, well, I mean, it's long enough
that we don't want to just take a break.
So I guess we'll go do something silly together, right?
Like we'll just, everyone, we're going to do a random draw for
different roles and just, you know, see what happens.
It's going to be a crappy tea or whatever, who cares?
We'll have fun. And so I that that is the the
type of like additional content that I would like is the type of
thing that I can coerce my friends into being goofy little
idiots with me about. OK.
What about you, Manny? What do you want to see?
I think I was leading with that story.
I would love additional stories. I really love Sean's suggestion
of additional local stories. Yeah, OK.
You don't want to push the main story forward, but like being
able to like get more stuff on the Harnar because they feel
very empty. I'd love to see to get more
stuff with that. It's the reason that I do the
artifact thing that you do for them is like, OK, maybe this
will tell me more about it and it like it does give you more of
that story and I'm happy for that.
But like now that we're like a little bit further along, maybe
that's there. I would love if when you do a
endeavour in housing that they go back to that zone and there's
new local stories there. That's a great way of like
giving an update to the to the world.
Make it a living world. OK, we went, now we're back in
Mechagon. It's years after King Mechagon's
being dead. And so the resistance is doing
stuff. Maybe that maybe that's too much
work for them. But like if it wasn't a matter
of work, would I love that content?
Yes. I would love to see the world
moved forward in that, in that way that doesn't have to be some
like life threatening thing to show that the world isn't all
about like the next big bad. It's a cool thing.
Like we go to, there's one part where you're doing these stories
in the Tavern, the Argentina, and you're going to all these
different things. You go to Gilnaeus and it's
like, Oh yeah, like I'm I'm taking over here.
Well, tell me more. How are things going in Gnaeus?
Like have you have you torn down the wall?
Have you rebuilt the wall? That like what's going on?
Like I would love to explore more of that.
So all of that story sounds great, especially when Sean
mentioned like local stories and I think it ties in a lot with
stuff because like you want a reason for them to have the
decor. Sure, right.
But like it, I think that rewards aren't necessarily like
some shiny thing that I put up in that I like I wear or I have
a title or stuff. It can just be like the
adventure. So if they make the adventure
worth it, I love playing my warlock.
I I would play my play my warlock if I had the time to
like maintain it. But like maintaining it as a
raid character is a lot more effort than maintaining it as
something that can do these these sort of stories and this
sort of content. I don't know, give me fun and I
will engage with that. Leave me busy work and I will
find a way to circumvent that by doing trap cheese or like only
going as far as the highest reward and then checking out.
Yeah. Anyways, that was a bit of a
conversation. Any last thoughts just before we
wrap it up? I'll give you a chance, Sean.
No, I'm feeling better this week than I was last week.
I think being surrounded by so many people at LFG who were just
like passionate and love the game helped contribute to that.
And today I went into Speaking of things, you know, doing
things for fun. I went to her and a zone that I
still cannot stand. Music is lovely though, and did
all of the treasures and good. Found all those stupid moths and
did you know that in French there is no word for moth that
instead they call them Papillon de Nuy, which is butterfly of
the night. And that's my, that's my closing
thought. Yeah, in French they also make
you do math when they're just trying to like, say, the number
80. Yeah, that's right.
What could they be? A lot more like America, where
nobody does math? Yeah.
Well, that's our quota for political takes today, so until
next time, may all your hits be grits.