It is no longer. You walk down the street and you
say, oh, I play World of Warcraft and five people turn
their head. You play World of Warcraft like
Victory for the Forsaken. For Lauderon.
For the Kieran Tour. For.
Pandaria. For.
Calendar to the burning region, for Gilneus but has not died,
for the Lich King, for the Sindora, for the Alliance, for
the Horn for Azeroth. Hello everyone, it is a rainy
day in Toronto and it is a great day.
Play some World of Warcraft. But I have dragged away my 2 Co
hosts away from their levelling, away from their gearing up, away
from their, I don't know, pet collecting, Who knows to play a
little bit of World of Warcraft. And so joining us from the
amazing Arctic circles of Alaska, we have Lexer ants.
Hello Lex, and how is the World of Warcraft treating you this
week? It is treating me very well.
I am having the absolute time of my life.
Midnight is. It might be that it's early, but
currently Midnight is feeling like a solo player's paradise.
I'm having so much fun. This is the first time in a long
time that I've really felt motivated to log on just to
play, like just to go and like do a couple delves and like,
turn on my to pray, do some world quest, get some gear, have
a good time. I am loving it.
I'm having such a good time. I am absolutely thriving.
Awesome, awesome. And of course we go to Sean who
is looking to get 6 monitors for six different alts.
Hello Sean, how are you and how is the World of Warcraft
treating you? I'm doing good.
A years ago, I saw a movie called Swordfish starring Hugh
Jackman and John Travolta. And in that, Hackman plays a a
hacker. And in that, there's a scene
where he's like standing at a computer and he's typing
furiously and he's smiling. And it's like this montage and
there's six monitors in front of him.
And my whole life I've been chasing that moment.
Warcraft treated me good. What a fun fact about the
Arctic. I'm going to tell you what
anyway, So just say yes. The Arctic was named by Norse
adventurers, and it means bears. It means there are bears here.
The Antarctic means no bears. Now, here's the fun fact.
When they named this, no one had ever been to the Antarctic.
So they just guessed that if there was an Arctic, there must
be an opposite. And those bastards were right.
They were right, and there's no bears there.
Yeah, they accidentally named them appropriately.
Man, I love the Vikings. Anyway.
That's my fun. Fact.
It is awesome. It is still awesome.
Yeah, I think that's a great fact.
Warcraft has been treating me good.
I I'm holding steady at 4 characters leveled, 4 world
tours of M0, four sets of renowned gear, four times
everything that's going to fall off when the season starts.
For sure because of a lack of monitors.
Is it? Yeah, yeah, I need more
monitors. If you're not already subscribed
to the four Ezraoth Patreon, I need you to subscribe.
I need to get another monitor. I need an Asus ZX70, I think is
the next one I need. I made that number up.
I don't know if that's a real monitor, but yeah, no, it's it's
just a time thing. When Mythic Plus opens up on the
24th, there will be it'll be spamming Mythic Plus on my main,
which means there will be very little time for any of the
others. So I'll try and keep them sort
of relevant, probably through Heroic delves and the more
likely the Prey system because I am absolutely head over heels in
love with Astolore, Bloodsworn and the Prey system.
I actually went and looked up the voice actor on Cameo to see
if I could get him to say that I Sean, you've done a good job
with. All the disdain.
That doesn't sound like Astelore.
Astelore would never tell you you've got a.
And he used to be on Cameo, but he's no longer on Cameo.
So then I went and found him on Blue Sky and followed him there.
And then at that point I was like, OK, you know what?
This might be crossing the line. I probably shouldn't stalk this
man anyway. I'm going to invite him on the
show. OK.
And then chat gave me that idea they're OK, just invite him on
for an interview. That's not creepy like, well, it
is if he finds out how we got here.
We'll, we'll delete this part from the the show or you know,
like that, like you don't never listen to this.
It'll be OK. Or maybe he does listen if you
are listening. First off, amazing job.
You have made me very excited for a game mode that I thought
would be abandoned very quickly in my midnight seasonal
rotation. And secondly, thank you.
You're, you're an amazing voice. He's also the voice of Prince
Renathal, which I thought was neat, which a lot of people are
using to connect Astelore to Kaelthos in the Shadow Lands
because Anguish is so close to Anima and maybe there's some tie
there. And I think that would also be
fun because I'm a big Chaos fan. Anyway.
Warcraft's been good, yeah. I don't have an astral or shrine
built in my office yet. Yet OK.
I think it's good when our video rooms teach us things about
ourselves, and I'm glad you're able to learn something exciting
about yourself, Sean. Thanks, Lex.
Yeah, me too. Perfect.
I'll do. OK, so this is of course we've
got past the first official reset of of midnight.
We still have one more week of the Mythic 0 world tours, one
more week of normal and hard prey, and one more week of Dells
being capped at 7:00. But there is a lot coming
because one of the big things that is coming, of course is
season 1. But this week hasn't been
without anything. There has been a lot of stories
that have come out, including an absolute deluge of things on the
Blizzard store. So this has been a set of
mounts, 4 different mounts that you can get for a tiny little
sum that came in a bundle or you can buy them individually.
Not not the first time that we've had something like that.
But this was overshadowed by, of course, the big Hearthsteel
Blitz that they did. So if you thought the
Hearthsteel store didn't have many options, well, they decided
to update that and give us a lot of things.
One of those was of course, a big source of controversy.
They had this nice little spring blossom tree which they had as
part of the Spring Blossom Decor Pack or you could buy it by
itself. The tree alone originally cost
750 half steel. Of course, based on different
currencies that that means different things.
It also came in part of a pack for 2500 or 2500, and that had a
number of different things and had one of the trees in.
People were saying that this was way too much for a piece of
Decor to be at that at that price point.
They were also saying that if somebody wants to actually use
this sort of thing, they're not going to just buy one.
You're not going to have one tree.
I mean, based on what you set up, maybe you can make it work
with one tree, but most people would be putting multiple
multiples in. And so of course, people quickly
ran and grabbed their pitchforks and took to the forms to steal
from a different show. It was a shit show that caused
Blizzard to pull both the tree and the decor pack down from the
store for a short while. And then they came back and the
store was slashed from 7:50 to 2:50 for the tree alone.
And the pack, while remaining at the same price, now includes 3
times the trees. So increased value there.
But I gotta ask you guys, what do you think of this?
Is this, is this the scary dystopian future that your
parents warned you about when her steel was first introduced?
Let's go with you, Lex. What's your your thoughts on
this? I mean, OK to be, I'm not a
collector and I understand that like FOMO and like this urgency
to collect everything can feel very overwhelming.
And I, I don't mean to like, that's not a thing that I I
understand and I don't mean to be dismissive.
Lex, you can only talk for yourself.
Sing your truth, Lex. My truth is, first of all,
unless they also change the price of hard steel, that's like
$10, right? Yeah, like $10.00 for a tree is
silly. But it's a tree, right?
Like, you also don't have to get it.
It's not power in the game, It, you know, And it's also, yeah,
every time I do anything, they throw 10 housing items at me.
So is it stupid? Yeah.
That's a stupid price for a tree, $10.00 for a tree.
Ridiculous. It's. 7:50 it's it's a dollar
for every 100 Hertz steel. OK.
Yeah. So. 750 Basically you're moving
to decimal too when you're doing hard steel conversions at this.
.0 perfect that's very easy then yeah like that that's dumb that
is a dumb amount of money for them to make a treat Is it game
breaking? I don't think so again I I I
listen I'm not a shopper right I don't really buy things on the
shop I don't really look at the shop.
I, you know, get my 6 month subscription mounts and I call
it a day. But I also as long as what they
are posting on the shop is not player power, they can post
whatever they want, right? They can post if they want to
ask people if they'll spend $20,000 on a housing decor.
I'm I'm not buying it. I don't think anyone should.
I think that's a stupid amount of money to spend on silly
little housing decor. But if you want to more power to
you manage your money, which tends to be my take with
everything on the shop like I just.
It's there and you can leave it so it doesn't bother you.
Right. OK, All right.
Yeah, that that that's pretty close to where I'm at.
John, let's go to you. What's What's your take on this
Hearthstone hoopla? I struggled to muster a single
about Hertz Steel or Decor on the shop.
I really truly do, but I have some points.
That being said, the post that came out when they 'cause they
pulled it off the shop and readjusted it.
The post that came out, it didn't say, hey, we hear you,
that you're upset. This repricing isn't fair.
They said it was an incorrect price.
So the the messaging we got from Kyvax, and I have no reason to
doubt Kyvax, is that it was never meant to go live at 7:50.
It was meant to go live at the price of 250.
It was a mistake. They fixed it.
Now is that the truth or is the truth?
It went live at 7:50 to see if people would be upset about it.
And when they were, they quickly said, hey, that wasn't the real
price. I don't know.
I'm going to, I would like to believe Kyvax because I like, I
don't because I want to believe Kyvax.
I just, I just want to believe him.
So he says it was never meant to be that price.
I believe him also because I don't care, but I, I choose to
believe him. And the second note is these
items on the shop don't give housing experience.
So there's no gain. There's like like when Lexus
player power, there is literally 0 to gain from this other than
the item in the shop. And and I, I hear you.
I hear collectors, you know, and I I get it.
I don't understand that collector mentality because I do
not have that particular. I'm not going to you don't have
that drive phrase. Yeah, that drive.
Thanks. That's way better than what I
was going to say. I, I don't feel that, but if you
are a collector and you're upset because you don't think it's
right that they're charging whatever price for her steal and
this bothers you because you want to collect everything, just
whatever part of your brain allows you to accept the stuff
that you can't ever get back in the game again.
Like let's say you're a mount collector.
I'm a mount collector, but I didn't start playing until
Cataclysm. Well, all of those mounts pre
Cataclysm that you can never get and you've accepted that and
you've moved on and are still a collector.
Just put the just put the housing decor in that same
bucket. You know what I mean?
Just just say OK, this is just like the wolf from Mr. Pandaria
AOTC that I never got from Siege of Orgrimmar.
I'll just put this in the same bucket mentally and then I don't
have to be so upset all the time.
Literally on the brink of World War three and people are losing
their minds over a / a a fake tree man.
Anyway, that's that's where I'm at.
I honestly don't care, I'm tired.
I'm actually tired of talking about it.
If you don't like the prices on the shop, don't buy stuff off
the shop. So you've had multiple
conversations. Sorry.
When you say you're tired of talking about, though, are you
talking about just generally you're tired of talking about
the shop and when people get angry at the shop or about this
particular thing? The shop as a whole, the shop as
because the next big thing was the $50 squirrels.
But nobody was mad at the $50 squirrels.
Which is great because they're. Because they're.
Yeah, because they're too busy being mad at this tree.
It's like, man, just don't buy it.
I don't. I don't get it.
And right, I I, I, I guarantee you, there's a collector
listening to this right now. Like, you don't understand.
I had everything. Like you don't.
And that they probably don't sound like that.
I imagine most of the people who listen to this show don't sound
like that. But I had to do some
differentiations. You knew it wasn't my voice.
And it was there, boy. Anyway, just don't buy it and
put it in whatever bucket mentally you've put in all of
those. But you know, wherever you have
spectral tigers sat in your brain as being OK that you don't
own, put this tree there and move on.
There's so many great things at midnight to collect.
Go collect them. You got to be doing your
abundance runs anyway. You need like a million of
those. Oh dear.
God. They can't be sending you tweets
anyway. So no, I don't care about the
tree and I don't care what Blizzard does.
They can charge what they want. I'm never going to buy anything
decor wise. I'm never going to buy hers.
Deal it. It doesn't affect me at all.
Yeah. One thing that I think about a
lot, and I don't really understand the like business
side of this, but I, it, it makes a lot of sense when people
have explained it to me is that game development has gotten
significantly more expensive over time and World of Warcraft
overall is not growing significantly in players, right?
It's like I, I, I don't know the exact numbers, but it is not
wrath, right? It is no longer you walk down
the street and you say, oh, I play World of Warcraft and five
people turn their heads. You play World of Warcraft like
we're not in those days when you can just expect, like there's so
many people joining their printing on.
Me. Where do you live that at any
point in history that happened? I had somebody like honk at me
on the street and I was like, what's going on?
And they saw my horn shirt And they're like, yeah.
Really. It's crazy to me.
I I to be fair, I like, I do still, you know, if you post
online that you play World of Warcraft, you're probably going
to find a few. But so, like, it's not the World
of Warcraft is like dying, right?
I'm not trying to doomer that, right?
I also, you know, I, there's a reason the World of Warcraft is
the Blizzard game that gets overwhelmingly the most
attention. And everyone else at BlizzCon,
you know, gets their patch notes right out.
And it's because, yeah, the subscription model makes a lot
more money than other types, but they also haven't really raised
subscription prices for a while. We all understand, you know, how
inflation is working. We all buy things and spend our
money and have bills. And so they're, they kind of do
have to find some income stream somewhere, right?
I, I can be sympathetic to why I don't like it, but I can be
sympathetic to why so many games turn pay to win because you kind
of have to make money somehow. And games do not make a lot of
money, from what I've heard. Again, I'm not in this world,
but this is what I've heard again and again and again from
many, many people to the point where I believe it now.
So if they want to make that income stream, these silly,
goofy little things, I again, I actually kind of think that's
good. I would rather they do that than
raise my sub prices. So I'm, you know, again, as long
as it's not the type of thing where I like people feel like
they have to. And again, I understand that's
complicated with collectors. I understand that's complicated
when you feel that like FOMO and that urge to collect.
But I actually do kind of think the store with what like as it
is now is sort of net positive for everyone.
It keeps all of our prices down. It means the people who want to
like love silly, goofy little amounts or who are super excited
about housing and we're like really sad they didn't get cute
little garden stuff. Like they they can get that
opportunity and Blizzard gets more money.
And again, I you also don't need to explain things to me.
Like most of that's actually going to Phil Spencer.
Like yes, I know, I know, I know, I know.
This is. Not anymore.
See ya the latest Phil Spencer. Oh, is he gone?
I wasn't. Yeah, he's stepped.
He got, he got. I was really hoping I'm gonna do
your impression of what collectors sound like so I'm not
the only reason we lose 50% of our viewers today, but I guess
not. I think they sound like Hi Lex,
I'll buy a lot of things on the shop so that you only have to
pay $15.00 a month. I hope we both have fun doing
what we're doing. That's how they sounded in my
head. Appreciate you.
OK, there you go. I mean, yeah, there's a lot of
things that that you said there, Lex.
That totally makes sense. The big famous story is that the
Sparkle Pony made more money than all of StarCraft 2 and its
expansions. So these these things are
definitely profitable for the company.
Go overhead log into the game right now, head to the crafting
district and see how many $90.00 Brutus, sorry $90.00 Brutusaurs
are running around at any given time.
The store makes money for sure. There are questions about how
predatory things may be, but obviously a pack of flying
squirrels really doesn't push that needle.
The decor is really just I don't think that it is the most
harmful of things, but of course there are ways that you can make
it just a little bit more enticing Where they had said,
hey, listen, we're going to have the prices set up so you don't
have any loose half steel that you can buy things in exact
amounts and not have to buy the next bundle higher.
And the 750 price point broke that that's a very quick for
them to to break something that they had said.
There is where they are asking for feedback and every single
content creator that was really into housing was just saying
please don't integrate that store into the game just keep it
off to itself. And it's ridiculous how
integrated that store is into the game.
So I don't think these bundles are where you need to exactly
point your finger for like what I what you should be angry at.
And I think that people voting with their wallet definitely
helps, even if what Kyvex said was not correct.
Was maybe just a nice use of incorrect to avoid a particular
framing. I think that it's good that they
took it down and adjusted the price in such a quick manner
that to me. And refunded anybody who bought
it at the full price and added two more trees to anybody who
bought the bundle. Yeah, I don't know.
Yeah, I believe Kyvax. I'm a Kyvax believer.
I, I feel like corporate communications are, are a sticky
situation that there are sometimes where when you are a
public facing person, you have to say things based on your
marching orders, not necessarily what you may believe it to be.
And I think that, yeah, Kyvax and Kyvax, Randy, all of
everybody who works there, they do a good job trying to speak
with us and get that information out to us.
But I don't think the word incorrect holds much weight with
me right now. But I'm not going to put that on
the on the guy who is printing the words.
So we'll move. They say don't kick the
messenger into the giant pit, even if it is Sparta.
Isn't that what they say this is?
Silver Moon kicks into Sun. Well, yeah.
OK, Well moving on from that, we also got a bit of tuning this
week. This is of course non class
tuning because that's all being held for heroic week.
But we got some changes to dungeons.
We got a roller coaster of a ride for the personal key to the
R Cantina. Sean, do you want to tell us
what in the world's been going on with this little item?
Yeah, so the R Cantina, once you've unlocked it and you
unlock it by doing quests and hanging out with the the Sons of
Lothar, it's this it was it started out as a key that was on
a 1.5 minute cooldown and would teleport you to the Argentina,
this magical Tavern that exists in the ether.
And then upon exiting, there's a portal in the Argentina.
Upon exiting that portal, it would take you directly to
Silver Moon because Silver Moon is the capital city of this
expansion. Well what this meant was
everybody had a direct town portal, the Silver Moon on a 1.5
minute cooldown, which felt some people felt was game breaking.
So because you had this direct port of the Silver Moon now
everybody had the same benefit as mages and you were able to
set your Hearthstone to Zolemon, which is the furthest capital of
the four new zones in midnight from Silver Moon.
So you set your heart from Zolemon, use your canteen, the
key to go to Silver Moon, Bob's your uncle, you're everybody's a
mage now because this is what mages have done for decades.
They set their portals that got changed.
Blizzard saw that people were doing that and they're like, oh,
that's not intended. We don't want that.
We're going to change the key so that now it returns you to
wherever you left from. So it would work like I think
it's Zen Meditation is the monk ability that you use and it
takes you to the peak of serenity and then when you use
it again it takes you back to where you were.
Yeah, or the Yakkers Gate that Death Knights use.
Exactly. Yeah, a death death gate for for
for death Knights. Great functionality.
And I think this is probably how the key was initially meant to
be used. But what this meant was that
through the use of the queue system into other follower
dungeons or a heroic dungeon, if you were in a full party,
everybody had free dungeon teleports because you could
queue for a follower dungeon. You appear in the dungeon, you
then use your R cantina key. You appear in the R Cantina, you
leave the instance group, so you're no longer part of that
follower dungeon, but your last known location was in the
dungeon. But if you're no longer in the
group, when you return to that location to put you outside of
the dungeon. So for our first world tours
last week, we all poured it to every dungeon.
We queued for a dungeon. We got there, we all poured it
to the Argentina. We all left the instance group.
We all walked over to the Argentina and then walked into
the dungeon on mythic difficulty.
I felt this was a great use of the key.
I had to move my. Creative use of game, yeah.
I had to move my Hearthstone back to Silver Moon, which meant
I was back to flying to Zulaman, which is not, I mean, it's not a
bad flight. It's a it's a beautiful flight
if you take a flight back. Why wouldn't you just like Den
of Nalarac jump to there. Yeah, yeah.
So yeah, I guess I could just do it anyway.
This again got so this was still in a 1.5 minute cooldown.
This then Blizzard was like, OK, we don't want that either.
We're going back to it taking you to Silver Moon, but we're
going to put it on a 15 minute cooldown, which doesn't really
change. I mean, if you think about from
the first iteration, I don't know anybody who's making trips
back to Silver Moon, you know, like I don't know the name was
like, man, I really got to get back there 3 minutes from now.
Like the 15 minutes is great. So it's still now, it's just
become a second Hearthstone directly to Silver Moon.
So if you're listening, go and set your, if you're not a mage,
go and set your Hearthstone to the innkeeper in Zulaman,
Rosulgara. Zulgara is because that is the
furthest you would ever have to fly because there's portals to
Void Storm and Herinder. So set your Hearthstone there.
Use your IKT and the key to go to Silver Moon and now you're
set up for the rest of the tier I.
I will be shocked if we don't see more iteration on this
because it still doesn't feel like this is what they want or
intend. I I don't know though, because
you always had your Dalaran Hearthstone in Legion and this
is now a Dalaran Hearthstone. Good point.
I you know what? You've just you've literally
just changed my mind. Yeah, it's going to lock in
here. Can I ask a question?
OK. Other than mages get mad because
they have one fewer use, what's the harm in letting us all fast
travel to dungeons and you? Know I am so glad you asked Lex,
because there is an unspoken victim in this entire story and
I cannot remain quiet. My conscience will not allow me
to remain quiet. This absolutely wrecks shamans
of all specs, all hero talents from both factions, both the
horde and those other guys. We have an ability which is a
second hearth that is on a 30 minute cooldown.
So we always have two hearts, but you can't set set them
independently. This is so much better than
that. And nobody thinks of the poor
shaman. They're like, hey, just go cry.
Nobody will see it out of your your reign or you're dousing
whatever anyways. And it's just, it is cruel.
But I'm glad that like, they, they, they thought of us and
they did something. I thought for sure you were
going to say warlocks because you don't need a summoning stone
if you can teleport to the dungeons.
Which is also my second my second character.
So I'm just getting screwed. Left, right, center is what's.
Happening No, I'm with you Lex. This I don't know who it
affects. I honestly haven't.
I literally have no humans are humans already have two
hearthstones, but like like or like shamans, they can't set
them independently. So it's just two trips every 7
1/2 minutes. I can go, I can use my
Hearthstone. I don't know who's doing that.
Who's out here using the Hearthstone every 7 1/2?
It's like when this key was a minute and a half.
Who's out here every minute and a half going, you know what I
got to go back to the Arcantina. I got to go back right now, but
they did do a good thing. So because because the Arcantina
sends you to you use the key, you pick up a quest, you go to a
zone, you do the quest, and people were like, well, hey, if
this reset is now 15 minutes, am I just stuck in Outland for 15
minutes? Will I pick up these axes?
Because you want to give the weirdest gift ever to Kurdran.
And the answer is no. When you complete the quest, it
resets the cooldown on your key for you.
So you don't have to. You don't have to stress that
we're getting stuck out there in Hellfire Peninsula.
When users intended, they allow you to get back.
Yeah, yeah. I don't know.
It's just super weird, man. I don't know, like the first,
the first way it was working, I was like, OK, cool, whatever.
It's a minute and a half. It's a it's basically a portal
to to the silver moon. And then when they changed it, I
actually think the new the second way was the best use of
it because you not just because of the dungeon teleport, but
that would have shaved 7 1/2 minutes off of our second M zero
runs on Sunday that we had to fly to the dungeons.
Do like suckers. I'm I'm just.
Saying who this this feels to me like the fact that like American
taxes have to be complicated because TurboTax lobbies so
heavily, but at least TurboTax is making money.
Like why are the mages lobbying so heavily for me not to be able
to teleport to whatever city I want to teleport to man, if
anything, it frees you up. You I know I'm sorry, I'm sorry
the warlocks have a harder time finding groups because they're
no longer like required for raid.
But wouldn't it be so nice if we could just like fast travel like
every other video game, and then you have video games, you can
click somewhere and you're there.
I, I hate to tell you, Lex, the dev, the developers are all
bought out by the mages, right? The Mages Association.
Big mage, big big big big big big teleport lobbying the devs.
Hey listen, I can't charge for teleports.
The Silverman if you're just giving them away for free.
And they give them a little bit of kickback.
That's right. There you go.
Tell the devs, get their horse deal.
But Oh my God. For legal reasons, that's a
joke. Anyways, there were other
changes as well. We got changes to the dungeons
that Sean was trying to teleport around to.
Big one that is good for you Lex Follower dungeons were horrible
and so they have made changes to follower dungeons.
Both the companions deal more damage in general, 10% more
damage in general. But when you're when they're up
against the trash that they pull everything, they're now dealing
25 to 30% more damage to to that trash.
So they're just did they? Did they also have a hot fix
where they're not stupid? No, they're still stupid.
They're still, they're like changing the AI is not something
they're gonna hot fix. That might be something that we
you see later on down the way, but they seem Dumber than they
were in Dragonflight. Like I didn't do any follower
engines and the war Within but like I don't know some of those
like DPS and sniffing something. I want to find person who coded
them to run away if they have agro of something like flee as
far away from you as possible and I just want to ask them why.
Like because if we're teaching people to tank and just make
them serious, still teach. People to tank?
Are you kidding? The amount of people who don't
know to run to the tank like just go like.
Yes, and if I'm learning to tank, I just want them like I
it's already hard enough man. I'm already just bad and I'm
dropping aggro even when I'm playing with actual human beings
just because stand still, that's all you have aggro.
You don't move, you don't move your little feet.
I'm not saying come to me, I'm not saying enough to run that.
I'm just saying don't run in the opposite direction When I just
cast I-beam and I can't move with I-beam and now I have
nothing to pull them off you. Just like in real life, if
you're in danger, just stand still and hope for something to
save you. That's what I.
Do I mean yes in real life, but in in the game, go to the tank.
Go to the tank. Standing still is better than
running away. If you don't move to the tank.
Standing still is better than running away.
They Lexus, they don't just run away, they run into more mobs.
They're like, Oh my God, I'm a danger.
Surely this vile axe hex spear thrower will save me.
This one must be on my side. He's like Austin Huntsworth he's
looking for. His friends over there, guys
come get. Your friend, I found him.
I found him for you. Yeah.
It's OK, because if they die, Krenn is not going to res them
anyway. So the trick is just let them
die and then solo the dungeon. Except Mary.
Listen, Mary Huntswell. Anytime I talk about the
followers. Mary, if you're listening, you
were the exception every time I zone indulgent right away mage
biscuits. I don't even have to ask for
them. You just drop them.
You hop away less you're you're a treat.
You are a treat. Austin Huxworth can get launched
into the sun and I continue to report Corona.
Corona for. Griefing OK that would be
hilarious if they do get like a bunch of reports on the on the
AI for griefing OK well in general dungeon news we also
have a couple of changes to just mechanics and such that were
happening at mythic difficulty. The big one that caught me
unawares is in Matcher's Terrace.
The boss that like divides it into like 4 pieces only divides
it into and I was like is this glitch that's staying away from
where I thought the dividing line should be just because I
was like maybe it's not showing up and I'm gonna.
Get. Myself killed, but that that's a
lot different Sean at this point you being well, we haven't had
the chance for you to prune. So you being doing your 40
different characters and so you've had the most experience
with the the mythic plus. Run us through this or sorry,
not mythic plus mythic 0. The changes, so that change that
changes I guarantee is almost explicitly because if somebody
dies, if it's broken into four and somebody dies, it's
basically a wipe because there's no way for anybody to cover that
missed spot. So that's why I suspect it's cut
into two instead of four. And it also makes more sense
because you're playing volleyball, so you're trying to
like not get over a net, not over 2 Nets.
So then my Sara Caverns, the ritual concoction duration was
increased to 30 minutes. It was 10 minutes.
This is something you can drink if you're an alchemist and if
you have to have alchemy 25 and it increases nature damage dealt
to the enemies by 40% and it persists through death.
So it stays. So just it's one of those
little, they have these little things in the dungeons
occasionally where it's like if you're this type of profession
or this specific race or class, you can do stuff.
This is just one of those in the Blinding Veil, the Light Blossom
Trinity, that's the second boss. Depending on the second boss, if
you went the correct path, first boss.
If you chose the less correct path, there's more casters that
way. Don't go left, go right.
So the light bloom mythic plus is coming in your tanks.
You need to know this. You can please don't go the
wrong way. You're going to have hunters
disengaging into packs so that like their their overgrowth
periodic damage was reduced just to cut down on that.
That fight honestly is kind of a snooze fest.
So I I don't know that this needed any kind of nerf at all.
I did. I did hear my first M 0 tour
last week. I was told before we started.
Hey people think binding bail is really really hard on Reddit and
I can only assume that those people on Reddit did no normal
runs, no heroic runs, didn't open the dungeon journal and
never and just ignored all visual indicators from all of
the enemies to have a difficult time because it is a very easy
dungeon anyway. So that was nerfed, sorry
partially nerfed periodic damage was nerfed, but the light gorge
damage was increased the buff to 50% instead of 15%.
So that's good for the players. It goes the light hunter in the
same same dungeon. Blood Thorne roots periodic
damage so the roots do less damage have.
You ever had two roots on you? Have I ever had two roots?
On you at the same time. No, I don't position myself in
such a way that that could happen.
I I have, I've been the unfortunate don't.
Don't you play with? What's that thunderous pause?
Is that the one that breaks roots when you switch it as a
ghost wolf? No, no, there is.
There is a one for your dash that allows you to remove all
sneers and so that has saved me, but that's on a 32nd cooldown
and so that that event happens more frequently than would allow
me to escape. You can damage them.
Yeah, you can hurt, you can hurt them down, but at 50%, like it
was trucking and I was like, oh man, when this starts going up
in, in difficulties, like obviously hopefully I'll be
smarter by then, but the fact that it's scaling slower is is
so much better. OK, that's probably good.
That's probably fair. All right.
And I I feel the damage less because I tank and then zeket
light spawn the lasher health reduced by 12.5%.
To the Latin, this is the last boss he summons a bunch of ads.
You got to blow them up fast so they reduce their health so
they'll die faster. And I've actually blinding veil
is is one of the faster dungeons that I've done and I enjoy it
quite a bit. That's also if you're wondering
where to find bubbles Junior. It is in the blinding veil on
your way to the last boss. There's a waterfall on the left,
if you walk near it, Bubbles Junior pops out and recognizes
you in glares. Then we had some changes to win
winner Spire Commander Frolic, which is the third boss
regardless of which path you go at the start.
They just fixed his falling rebel so it's a little bit
better. And then the territorial Dragon
hawk fire spit cool down was increased by 5 seconds.
That must be trash. I don't even know what that is.
That is OK. I was going to say that's such a
little impact. I don't even know what that is.
And then Void Sky Arena, it says portal should more reliably
deliver players to their destination.
I have no idea what this is talking about.
There are no port. The the only portal you take
takes you upstairs. Yeah, and that was failing.
Was it not taking people upstairs?
It was failing. Oh OK, well then that's a good
fix. That's a good fix.
The Dutch just feel fine. Then I've warmed up on Den of
Nalrak. It's still not great.
And I think we're going to run into problems when we start
pugging. And some pugs expect that the
tank is going to do the windy part in two poles, and some
people think that they're going to do it in more than two poles.
Yeah, but it the dungeons have felt mostly fine.
I'm shocked we got tuning this early on them.
And I guess, I mean, apparently Reddit was right.
Blinding Veil was really hard for a lot of folks, but if you
just don't get hit by the mechanics, like they're almost
all avoidable. Everything they nerved is almost
all stuff you can avoid. So I don't know.
I I wonder if it's if it's a matter of where their targets
are for damage because like some groups would probably just
absolutely have no issue with the light spawn on the last boss
in there. Some groups might not have the
burst AOE and if there are general damage targets that they
look at him and say, yeah, OK, this needs to be brought down.
Even if there are enough specs currently over performing that
we might see this might be stuff that we're seeing in advance of
maybe some nerfs, maybe some changes along there.
And I think this in general, I expect season 1 to be let's
let's be a little bit easier on people because they don't know.
We don't have our add-ons. And then we got we go our
apocalypse. So hey, yeah.
But I'll accept it. I'm pro accessibility, so if it
makes it easier for people to get in and do stuff, let's do
it. Whatever you got to do I this
just means that the the the roots, you can't avoid that
happen on the knockback. I'll just have an easier time
getting out of them maybe if I feel like getting rooted.
I still don't have no idea how you get rooted twice.
I'm so confused but. It was it was so weird.
I just, yeah, I was like, Oh my God, I got 2.
That's why it's per stack. That's why the nervous per stack
'cause you can somehow I wish I had known how I did it.
If I did no, then I wouldn't have happened to happened in the
1st place. But yes, you could have two
stacks on you and good God, it takes like mad and I had to like
do my own little sit on it AOE, try and get out selects his face
right there. OK, ANYWAYS.
And then of course, the most important change of all, that
damn sun well isn't blaring over my speakers anymore.
They have adjusted the volume and the blending of sounds in
the sun well to make voice overs more understandable or to make
anybody just, you know, generally audible over the
whatever the hell that was. That's how whining people sound
like. You got to make sure you
remember it though, Like if it's too quiet you're going to forget
it. I want to forget it.
Lex, you remember do not well. Manny.
No, I was about to invite the void right in just to shut it
up. Anyways, so that's the stuff
that's happened this week. But we do want to give you guys
a little bit of a heads up for next week because when we
return, we will be in full swing of of starting up Heroic week,
which is next week. So coming with Heroic Week, Lex,
can I get you to give us the rundown?
It's we're doing stuff again. Things are happening.
OK, so Delves T right and above is going to open up.
We're gonna get our nemesis, Delve.
That's gonna open up. Nullies.
We love him. I don't know anything about him.
I'm excited though. We're gonna kill a nemesis.
Have have you had him show up in any of your delves yet?
Have I wait? Maybe.
I don't think so, but maybe I don't.
I had him, I had him ambush me once out of all the delves and
I've done up to delve 7 just to like make sure I'm ready to go
for next week. No, no, no, show like only
showed up once, so I guess he's active but subdued.
OK. Yeah, I, I, to be fair, I just,
whatever's in front of me, I kill it.
And sometimes I think it'll be really cute for me to summon a
couple of little extra things in that.
Oh God, I can't even think of which one.
But the one where they you can pick up the little shadow
council summoning things and summon little Doomlords and then
kill them. And I like to do that when I'm
at the final boss and then die. So if you ever see my name pop
up on one of the which also, can I just say, sorry, a little
tangent. The fact that either I didn't
notice this in the war within or they have the new thing where
sometimes the name of the Dell things becomes like whatever
killer of player name is so sick.
I love it so much. That's so funny.
I love this is such a good season to be a solo player.
I'm sorry, I'm supposed to be telling you guys things that are
actually happening. Heroic and mythic dungeons.
They're going to switch to the season 1 pool, which is going to
be Magisters Terrace, Mayasaura Caverns, Nexus Point, Zenith
Wind, Wonder Runner Spire. That's all.
The midnight ones, Algothar Academy, which is Dragonflight,
Pit of Sauron, which is rather the Lich King seat of the of the
Triumvirate, which is Legion. Jesus Christ.
We're going to move right on past that one.
And Skyreach, which is Warlords and the Mythic dungeons are
going to go to a daily reset. World bosses are going to hit
their weekly rotation. World's going to get Nightmare
for Prey Sean. So we're going to have fun with
this. And we're going to get normal,
heroic and Raid Finder open for Voidspire and the Dream Rift
only Wing 1 is going to open for Voidspire in Raid Finder.
You guys content? Very excited.
I, I'm excited too. I, I'm glad that we have this
one extra week. I don't know, I just, I feel
like I'm kind of hitting my stride.
I'm running 2 characters that I'm actually going to raid with
and do Mythic plus with, which is I know like a pittance for
Sean. Well, not it's not true, Sean,
you're only doing one more that you said you're going to
actively push with, but on NA though, right?
So you're going to actually have.
I'll have 3 characters it I mean it depends on the frame of
reference. So I'll have one character that
I'm actively spamming mythic plus with on NA, one character
that I will do 8 plus 10s with or maybe plus twelves with on
EU. And then he's not rating on that
character. I'm not rating on that
character. I might do splits for a team and
just be a body And then on NAI will have there's a my prop out
and who I'm tanking with on my AOTC team will be he'll he will
do probably 4 mythic plus dungeons.
I'll probably try and get him four 10's and then my 4th
character will just the goal will be 110 a week and then fill
my vault with my my delve row with prey and delves.
I recognize that the things that I'm saying, like the character
that I've listed as my 4th throwaway character, is what
some people will strive to do for their their main goals.
My friend who listens to the show last season texted me that
was the the IT was at it was the the episode we recorded after
the first week of the raid. When I had gotten KS, I had
already gotten KSM and AOTC and he said my seasonal goals You've
completed this weekend. I was, I was going to say with
the one that you were like 10 + 8.
I was like, yeah, that's probably about what I'm aiming
for as well. And then I realized you met per
week. Yeah, yeah.
So we'll see what happens. It's just I 'cause my main is my
warrior on NA, he's who I'm mythic rating on.
So he will be the one that like hard spams mythic plus until he
has Bis mythic plus drops anyway.
So probably by the end of the second week I'll be able to swap
into another character, another tank doing that and then just
put him in maintenance mode. OK, but I'm a degenerate.
I am, I know I'm a sweat. I'm a dirty filthy sweat.
I'm I get it, I I get it. I talked about collectors
earlier the same way that they probably talk about me and the
people that play like me and I get it.
And if you told me, hey, we're going to put these three mythic
plus dungeons on the shop and you're going to pay for them and
there's 750 Hertz steel. I'd be best too, but I'd pay it.
I don't know, I don't fucking think what plus dungeons, Sorry
mounts end, but regardless. I under like I recognize the
hypocrisy people. I need you to know that if
you're still listening after earlier and you're somebody who
isn't like collectors are just they are just as hardcore as
race the world first Raiders. Like you know, Miri's is posting
the level 25 people, the 90. I guarantee you there's
collectors who do the same thing or damn well close to it or
spent, you know, 100 hours just doing lumber.
You're just as deranged. But you do have to pick a side
because as we all know, you can't be a collector and.
Specifically mounts. You can't specific mounts that
can be a mount collector. Then as a as a wannabe real
player I'm going to be running 2 characters through mythic plus.
Definitely want to fill up the vault with the whatever the cap
is that I can that I can achieve.
Currently my warlocks actually, I think basically the same gear
level as my shaman. Both of them are around
2:35-ish. And so I'm happy with it so far.
But I think it's going to be quite the effort when we get
into the main season. So that's why I was referencing
like how much you're you're going to, how many characters
you're going to hold up. Can I give you a tip?
Can Ioffer some advice? I would love a tip because I did
ask you when I was streaming and I did ask a couple of people.
I'm like, what should I do? How should I do this?
And and so like, let's hear this advice, please.
Your shaman is your main. You have a push group that you
run with your shaman I assume? Yes.
I would say only run mythic for for the first week.
For March 24th, only run mythic plus on your shaman until you
have gotten. If you can get the plus 10s,
you've got an 8 plus 10s, whatever the cap is that you can
get to in that week with your group.
If it's only eights and it's only eights, whatever the cap
is, only run your shaman until you have gotten 3 slots in your
vault of that cap on your warlock that week.
You should aim to fill your delve slots your your world
slots with either three slots of +8 delves or sleep three slot a
combination of that and nightmare prey so that he's at
least getting a hero track piece from the vault.
And it's important. And you should also do this on
your on your shaman because tier pieces matter more than anything
else in that first that first week.
So even if there's a mythic track item, you may be better
off taking a tier piece of a tier pieces in your hero slot.
And then if your mythic plus group is open to it, you should
each of you try to cycle through one key of whatever your Max
level is on your alts. So you get 7 of your eight that
you need on your shaman it with your full group.
And then the next one that you run one of your groups cycles
out their main for their alt so that their alt then gets one
track of that highest level. If the highest level you're
getting is still just giving hero track gear.
So if you're not getting plus 10s, you can drop that entirely
because hero track in the in the mythic plus vault is just as
good as hero track in the bottom bolt.
And you don't you want to avoid burnout.
That's going to be the key is to avoid burnout.
So if you can get the plus 10s, that's awesome.
If you can do 8 plus 10s to fill your track, that's better.
And then if you can get 1 + 10, if you can get your your mythic
plus group to give to it, it'll be a carry.
But to take your alt into a plus 10s that you're you're alt then
has one possible mythic track piece.
And on both of those characters, no matter what, fill that world
slot for that first week. And then whatever you get in the
raid is fine. That's going to be the best bet
for people that are not mythic rating.
And especially they're not in like the if you're not going
into the mythic raid in that first week of March 24th, if
your Guild is not doing that, you're going to get so much more
value from trying to push 2 plus 10s in mythic plus then you will
from anything else. But always target tier in those
first couple weeks because you want to get the faster you get
the four piece, the more damage you do, the better you are off
you are. Yeah, that's I mean, that's
advice for anybody, even if you're only running 1 character,
if you're just running 1 character and you're not a
mythic grader, if you're a mythic grader and you're anybody
who gets CE in the you know, the world top 500 rank, you don't
need any of this. Your GM or Ray lead has probably
already given you tons of advice and a step by step guide.
Go find the Larious Raiders guide and just follow that.
But anybody who's in a heroic rating team or lower or in a
late, very late CE mythic team or just like a team that just
does sort of a little bit of mythic, try to focus on pushing
that mythic plus level to A10 if you can get it, because every
week you can get a myth track piece out of the vault is a is a
benefit there. You go.
That is advice that I'm probably going to take the heart.
I really do want to avoid burnout because like this is
like the first time I'm actually like trying to juggle
characters. So even if it it's some piece of
that, I think that everybody should try and avoid burnout.
Like it's it's great. We're all feast in here.
We're loving it. Lex is saying this is this is
the single player haven for this little bit but like that content
is going to be there. Don't burn yourself out from
both ends of the spectrum and from non real players like me.
But until. And don't hold on, don't also
don't feel bad if you if you can't get because I, I realize
that I'm saying this and people are like, well, what if I can't?
What if I can only get a plus somebody?
If it doesn't, if whatever you can get to is good, do whatever
you can do. It's not like, Oh, I didn't get
a 10. My season's over.
Do whatever you can do. I was just sort of giving nanny
tires because I know the level Manny usually lives at.
OK, but until next time guys me all your hits we crits.