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It's actually pronounced 
Gemescalm. 

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Forsaken. 
For Lauderon. 

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For the Kirintor. 
For Pandaria. 

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For. 
Calendar to the burning region 

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for Gilnaeus, but has not died 
for the Lich King for the 

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Sindora. 
For the alliance. 

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For the horn for Azeroth. 
Hello and welcome to another 

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episode of For Azeroth. 
I am one of your hosts Manny AKA

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the true villain Manny and I am 
joined my my other two Co hosts.

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First introducing the lovely Lex
rants. 

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Hello Lex, how are you doing? 
Hello Manny, I'm doing great. 

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I am bopping right along in the 
World of Warcraft. 

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You didn't ask me how the World 
of Warcraft was treating me, but

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I'm answering anyway. 
Bopping right along. 

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I'm actually low key having fun 
with this cute little Delve 

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belt. 
I'm doing them all at once 

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because I am at the point of the
season where I don't want to do 

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work. 
I want to just go in and like 

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face roll things for 30 minutes 
and then log off, which is 

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great. 
I'm having a great time. 

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I'm face rolling things so hard.
Y'all, This is so fun. 

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Yeah, so my belt is updated. 
I got my cute little CDs to put 

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in. 
We're having a good time 

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listening to our little music. 
OK. 

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All right, all right. 
And then on the other side, 

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coming all the way from I think 
his second or maybe primary 

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residence, Sean. 
Hello, Sean. 

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How are you doing and how's the 
World of Warcraft treating you? 

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Hey Manny, we're in the main 
studio today. 

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So we're the, we're we're on the
on the on the the, the primary 

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property. 
World of Warcraft has been 

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treating me good. 
I too am wearing my Fanny pack 

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stuff for the Sony Discman like 
Lex is and it's up to date. 

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My borrowed power is all caught 
up and I'm just getting ready 

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for raid testing. 
I've been on to the Ptra little 

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bit, played through the 
campaign, played the new 

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dungeon, and yeah, I'm mostly 
maintenance mode. 

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It does look like I know, like I
like. 

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I update this every week and say
the same thing, but it looks 

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like I'll be playing Paladin 
next year. 

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Our Death Knight, although maybe
not with the thing we're going 

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to talk about years later. 
Our Death Knight did initially 

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lock in on returning to Death 
Knight when the changes went 

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live for 11.2, but then they 
read the changes and the the the

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hive mind has decided 9 Sir 9. 
We do not like these changes so 

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we'll see what happens. 
Maybe I'm back on DK, nobody 

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knows next week. 
It could be something completely

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different. 
Oh, so you might be on DK. 

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OK, we'll talk about that more 
as we get to that news. 

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But Lex, you mentioned the gosh 
darn belt. 

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So we have our first bit of 
news, which is the belt got nerf

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slash, buff slash, rearranged 
again with all of the powers 

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that were like not worth talking
about before it went live 

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getting buffed last week. 
And we were talking and we 

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didn't get a chance to talk 
about it because we had the big 

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news of 11.2 coming. 
But I'm glad we didn't because 

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all of that is worthless now 
because they have decided they 

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were going to buff, slash nerf 
it all over again. 

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And so the big offender went 
from having a big, big buff and 

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being like the only one that 
anyone would ever pick to 

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getting a 62% nerf. 
And Blizzard explained that on 

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top of the buff that they gave 
it last week, they also did a 

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bug fix to its functionality 
which caused them to overshoot 

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the mark. 
But they've made the correction 

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for that now. 
And then on top of that, they've

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buffed a lot of the other ones. 
So whatever you thought was good

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for you last week, do double, 
double check with your guides. 

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Sean, you said your belt is up 
to date. 

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So I guess that means that you 
have done the quest this week to

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give it the three item levels. 
Are are, are you enjoying this 

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bit? 
You called it borrowed power. 

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Are you enjoying the belt? 
Are you enjoying the borrowed 

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power? 
No, no, no, how can you? 

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No, what is there to enjoy? 
I log in, I pick up my quest 

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from Dagron from Not Brand, I 
pick up my quest from Not Brand 

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and I run my level 1 delve on 4 
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character and then I can ignore 
him until next week. 

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It's I, I, I'm on record as 
saying the game is much better 

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when it's accessible, and I 
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extremely accessible for a lot 
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You've seen we were seeing 
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very high Mythic plus being able
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which is good and healthy for 
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We're seeing people that 
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they had in the past, seeing 
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than they would have in the 
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All of that is good. 
I support all of that, but I do 

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feel like there's a little bit 
of boost fatigue on this our 4th

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item to power boost us with 
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So I guess it's the third item. 
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We had the horrific visions 
helmet chance and now we have 

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the belt and it's just like, oh,
I guess and the the raid 

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renowned tracks. 
So I'm locking it in his fourth.

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I'm gonna say it is 4th. 
It's just I'm getting power 

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creep fatigue and I would be I'm
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recognize that this does not 
reflect everybody, but I'm at 

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the point in the season where I 
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want. 
I just for the listeners at 

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home, I just smacked my mic. 
Manny probably was unable to 

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edit that out. 
I apologize so. 

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On top of your sentence. 
I can definitely edit that. 

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No, we're leaving it in. 
I want to apologize to the 

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people, Manny. 
I want them to know. 

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Professionals. 
That's right, and we're going to

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apologize to our one viewer. 
If you're in the discord bit dot

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LY slash fast discord, we have 
dropped a link where you will be

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able to watch us live record 
every episode starting this 

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week. 
We gave exactly 38 seconds 

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notice and Gary was like, I'm in
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I'm getting borrowed power for 
TR, getting power boost fatigue.

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I'm at the point in the season 
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winding down. 
I don't want to have a thing. 

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I have to check it. 
I don't want to have to do my 

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Korthia dailies to the bitter 
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I want to be able to dial it 
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I want to be able to slow down. 
And they just, it's like every 

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week it's like, here's a new 
thing, you're going to make sure

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you drink your Ovaltine. 
But we get turbulent time ways 

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and I do love time walking, so I
guess that's a bonus. 

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Yeah, Lex, I mean, you're saying
you're loving delves. 

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This is another reason to do 
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Are you feeling the fatigue of 
borrowed power slash upgrade? 

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That's a good question. 
I do think first of all, I don't

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love the like, not to say the 
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on it. 
I do sort of feel like, 

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especially at this point in the 
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life for no life for two hours, 
if I want to just like grind it 

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out basically, I should be 
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Like, what are we? 
What are we dragging this out 

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for? 
Why do we need to make sure I'm 

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not too powerful too quickly at,
you know, probably a month 

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before 11.2 drops? 
Can't get AOTC too fast. 

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So I don't love that aspect of 
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I'm having fun playing the 
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It is the the other thing is 
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essentially over for me. 
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I'm really just kind of here for
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I do, I like, I, I'm having fun 
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like, damn, man, if they nerf 
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this is going to be a huge waste
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So frankly, I kind of wish they 
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cosmetics, like cute little pets
or like cute little mounts. 

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Although they've been doing that
all, you know, if we're saying 

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we've been getting too much 
power creep, we've been even 

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throwing the pets at us. 
So what do I have to complain 

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about? 
So I, you know, I'm having fun 

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because it's giving me a fun 
little way to goof around, 

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right? 
What I want at this point in the

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season is a fun way to goof 
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I'm having a fun time goofing 
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I that's how I'm playing one 
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why Sean would not be having fun
with it anymore. 

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You can only goof around so long
before it becomes a goofing job.

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But I'm having a good time. 
I don't know that I need the 

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belt. 
Like I, I don't know that I'm 

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happier that it's a belt, that 
it doesn't really benefit me 

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anymore because of how late it 
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And they better not nerf it. 
This better be useful in 11.2. 

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And I know that a lot of people 
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it's stupid that we're basically
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But I will say that if I do this
and I don't get to use this 

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belt, at least through Heroic, 
I'm going to be a grumpy little 

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camper. 
What do you think, Manny? 

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I I think there's a number of 
things there goofing job sounds 

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like profanity. 
I also think that you're right, 

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there is this issue of is it 
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the next tier? 
Sean, you were talking about 

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horrific visions and the head 
enchant. 

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If you go on the PTR right now, 
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can only go on items from season
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So as soon as you replace your 
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3, no more head enchant, which 
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switching your your helm 
enchant. 

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Maybe you might get something 
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item level and it's like better 
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might push you off of it until 
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item level to offset that. 
It's a very weird thing, but the

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helmet chants in general were 
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So it's not it's not probably 
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issue. 
But you're right, the same thing

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with this belt. 
They've buffed it, they've 

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they've nerfed it. 
They've done a bunch of things 

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and I'm concerned that we're 
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get into next tier and they'll 
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sticking with people too long 
into heroic and some people are 

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taking into mythic and then the 
the nerf bats going to come in 

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and shoot. 
I guess I should have been 

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holding onto belts that we're 
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Is is it a real fear? 
So I think you hit on a couple 

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of points there that I I'm a 
little worried about. 

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Yeah. 
Like I don't want to get 

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something and then replace it 
two months down the line from 

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like quest stuff. 
I don't know. 

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Yeah, but the the other hand of 
that though is that we already 

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don't have like everyone's gonna
have the same back in 11.2, 

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right? 
Because it's the whatever thing 

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that name I've already 
forgotten. 

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Forgive me, listeners. 
Reishi wraps. 

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Yeah, the reishi wraps. 
Thank you. 

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So it does kind of suck to have 
it be like, well, two of the 

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pieces are meaningless or like 
like 2 of the like two of the 

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piece you weren't grinding for I
guess unless they do adjust 

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other drop rates. 
So like you are easily getting 

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like really nice. 
I mean, I guess they definitely 

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would for the back. 
But anyway, I, I, I don't really

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know where I fall with this to 
be completely honest. 

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The more I think about it, like 
mostly I will be cranky if this 

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work is for nothing. 
But I I can understand why they 

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might make that decision, you 
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What's really going to suck is 
when they don't remove the 

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cloaks from the dungeon pool and
you get them in your vault. 

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Oh, that'll be fun. 
That'll. 

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That'll be upsetting though. 
I think. 

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I'm hoping that they will flag 
those. 

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They had similar things where we
had dungeons coming back from 

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BFA and it's like, I'm not 
getting any necks and they're 

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like, Oh yeah, because BFA 
didn't drop any necks or you 

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would have Legion dungeons. 
It's like, I got no weapons, 

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Blizzard. 
Yeah, so, so like hopefully 

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that'll that'll come back as 
they're adding in things into 

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the mix there. 
But as long as as long as 

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they're being I, I can't 
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they're being intelligent about 
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wraps as you're doing the quest.
So that and it's needed for the 

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very first boss of the raid. 
So we're going to get it before 

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Season 1 opens up. 
I assume that we're going to 

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have some sort of upgrade track 
with that because there's no way

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they're giving us like a cloak 
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anything that drops for like 
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people are going to run into 
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story mode and with it, you know
what, I generally don't care 

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about story mode anymore. 
So I'm just going to stop 

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protecting story mode. 
And so there, there's a question

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there, the belt. 
Yeah, I'm just expecting it to 

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get nerfed. 
I I'm hoping that their timing 

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of the nerf is like literally, 
hey guys, we're going to be 

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nerfing this since we're opening
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next week. 
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of opportunity to replace stuff 
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have the raids that are, sorry, 
the dungeons that are going to 

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be open at 0 so people can farm 
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up. 
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that I'm hoping for. 
And you're right, having a bunch

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of slots locked off is doesn't 
give you the excitement of like 

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chasing down down loot. 
No, does not spark joy. 

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Yeah. 
But I guess the that brings us 

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into kind of the next part of 
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things that have been announced,
including games.com. 

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Now we we are literally just 
talking about like what's coming

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in 11.2 and all of that. 
We just had that big drop come 

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and then Blizzard decides to 
say, hey guys, we're going to 

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give you your first look at 
midnight. 

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Feels like they're killing the 
buzz. 

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Blizzard let let me just enjoy 
the moment. 

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I think at one point we're like,
oh, you know what we want to do 

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let's talk about 11 point 1.7 
because we never got a chance. 

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No, no, let's talk about 
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the big thing, Gamescon, which 
will be taking place this 

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August, August 20th to 24th in 
Cologne, Germany. 

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Now I might have mispronounced 
that. 

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Please don't come at me. 
Germany. 

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That's you pronounce that 
correctly, Germany. 

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OK, sorry. 
I know. 

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I, I thought it was Gamiscon. 
All right, good, good. 

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I didn't pronounce it right. 
And we're going to get a lot of 

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sorry, I didn't protest. 
We're going to get. 

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It's Gmescom, Gmescom. 
And so we're going to get our. 

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First look at midnight. 
I suspect that we're going to 

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start looking at maybe we'll get
a release date. 

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We'll we'll definitely get some 
sort of trailer. 

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There's no way. 
If you're in the fast discord, 

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you already got the release 
date. 

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I broke that stuff down for 
everybody. 

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That is an infallible formula. 
You know the release date? 

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Lock it in. 
I already booked vacation. 

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You can't book, well actually, 
and I guess you can book 

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vacation I. 
Feel like. 

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Your vacation blackout days are 
based on like, Nope, Warcraft's 

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doing a thing. 
No vacation for you. 

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Yeah, maybe. 
Yeah, you know. 

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You can probably play on the job
though. 1. 

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Problem probably. 
Yeah, that's true. 

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But so they they will officially
announce the release date. 

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Straw Madasu or Straw Shan 
Adasu, I don't know. 

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Nostra Shamus. 
Nostra Shamus notwithstanding, 

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everybody else will will know at
that point. 

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I suspect there will be a really
good trailer. 

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The last time they announced an 
expansion at Gamescon was I 

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believe Legion. 
And I mean, if, if that follows,

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yeah, it should be a really good
expansion. 

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But I'm, I'm looking forward to 
it because I am looking forward 

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to seeing what kind of goodies 
were getting. 

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Like, I'm not the biggest 
housing fan. 

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I know a lot of people are going
to love love housing. 

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It's going to be, it's going to 
be something that changes the 

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game for for people. 
But I'm more interested in how 

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they're going to further develop
the like character systems. 

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Like they gave us hero powers 
and that's permanent. 

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Are they going to give like each
class another option for hero 

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powers or are they going to like
further expand hero talents? 

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I want to see how like the 
classes are evolving in this 

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next expansion. 
So there's a lot to be excited 

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for. 
Well. 

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Minnie, don't put too much on 
their plate because remember 

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right now they need to be 
focused on making the third 

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Death Knights back and then they
can figure out what all you all 

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are doing. 
Demon Hunter, but yes, what did?

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I say I said Death Knight. 
No, my joke was stupid. 

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No joke works 'cause they just 
deleted one of the Death Knight 

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specs so we need them to remake 
they'll. 

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Give they'll give frost to the 
the demon hunters and the death 

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Knights can get the voity boy. 
I'm sorry I'm I'm I'm spoiler 

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alerting this one. 
I'm jumping ahead. 

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This is why we don't have show 
notes anymore. 

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We can't clip ahead if we don't 
know what man he's gonna ask us.

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I mean, I guess so, I guess so, 
but what are you actually 

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looking forward to in terms of 
midnight? 

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Like is there anything that you 
that you think they're hiding or

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is it is it going to be like 
player housing in continuation 

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of the the story from the world 
Soul Saga or in the world Soul 

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Saga? 
Cross region We are getting 

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cross region gameplay with 
Midnight, so that'll probably be

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announced. 
That feels like a games com 

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mainstage announcement so I'm 
looking forward to them 

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officially announcing cross 
region gameplay coming in 

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midnight. 
Just throwing off your batting 

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average like that, I. 
Listen I have a source. 

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You want my source Blizz? 
The last BlizzCon happened and I

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had a guildie who went because a
friend of ours lives in the UK. 

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This guildie went to one of the 
devs during AQ and A and said, 

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hey, when can we have cross 
region gameplay and that dev 

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told them, ask us again at 
midnight. 

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Now whether or not that meant 
go, come to the Blizzard mixer 

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and when the the two hands 
strike, well, then ask me again 

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or midnight. 
But I, I listen, people will say

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it's copium. 
People will say I'm huffing it 

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hard, but I am I'm locking in 
cross region gameplay in 

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midnight. 
And when it happens, everybody 

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can book February 10th off as 
the launch date for that that 

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that expansion 'cause I think 
that's the date that I predicted

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in the for Ezra this guard. 
All right, all right. 

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I think one of those is likely 
to happen and it will not be be 

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playing with my European 
friends. 

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We'll see. 
All right, Sean. 

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We've had your predictions. 
We'll turn it over to Lex. 

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Lex, what would you like just I 
guess at this point because we 

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got pie in the sky. 
Go ahead and pie in the sky. 

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This like what's, what's your 
dream of? 

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Like? 
What will happen to World of 

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Warcraft at midnight? 
Oh, no, Oh no, I don't know. 

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So basically I'll do that. 
It'll become one in the morning.

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It'll be the next day. 
They should do a midnight 

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release. 
They should totally do a 

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midnight release for like a just
stage it so that it's like it, 

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it'll be like in Europe, 
midnight release, in North 

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America, midnight release based 
on like the Pacific or 

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something. 
That would be cool. 

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DOP That's so cute. 
That's what I want. 

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That's not my I. 
I feel like I need to talk with 

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the thing I don't. 
What do I even want in the World

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of Warcraft? 
I want better cloaks. 

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I think they're gonna announce 
that I get the cool little 

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cloaks like Maya and I don't 
like, everyone's gonna be like, 

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oh, but they added the thing. 
No, I want the cute. 

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I want full body and I wanna 
wear it all the time. 

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And I want multiple trans log 
options with multiple colors. 

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Those literally exist. 
They wear. 

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I don't. 
Care. 

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I want more. 
But like what makes the trading 

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post madif cloak like unique? 
I'm I'm missing something? 

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No, no, the my F cloak the like 
the big ends on both sides and 

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it's flowy and like it moves 
with you. 

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My SO like it. 
Like it totally covers you. 

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So like, looks like a Ranger 
cloak you could sleep in. 

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Exactly, I want like a real 
cloak that feels like a cloak, 

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not like a weird tape. 
OK, OK, there's. 

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Still a little role player, 
just. 

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Wants so she can shuffle around 
her new house in that. 

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That OK, that also. 
I. 

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Do want more cute little things 
on the Blizzard gear store that 

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are like like more on in line 
with the murloc onesie, which I 

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believe is permanently just 
continued. 

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They first of all bring that 
back and second of all, I want 

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like cute little like cosplay 
stuff like the cute little 

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cloaks and cute little stuff 
that I can wear around my house 

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and feel cool and never go out 
in public. 

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I think they're announcing that 
midnight. 

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I mean, I said pie in the sky. 
So that, that's, that's my bad. 

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I should have been more 
specific. 

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Anyways, yeah, I, I think 
there's a there it is very, it's

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very hard to predict or like 
even guess at things right now, 

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because with this big thing of 
housing, like it feels like 

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that's where all the energy 
energy is. 

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But they have told us very 
surprisingly little about the 

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next expansion. 
So there's a lot still to be 

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revealed and I'm looking forward
to that at Gamescon now talked 

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about that. 
Let's talk about something a lot

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closer to release, which of 
course is 11.2, right along with

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all the things that are 
happening. 

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We are getting ray testing 
that's going to be coming up, 

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and the ray testing includes all
the bosses. 

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That's eight, sorry, 8 bosses 
with seven of them being main 

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and one of them being optional. 
We have starting tomorrow heroic

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tuning, sorry the heroic bosses.
We have Plexus Sentinel which is

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the first boss where you are 
trying to enter in through the 

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mana intake. 
We have Lumothar which is the 

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giant moth slash spider. 
I will be testing to see what 

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that looks like with 
arachnophobia mode activated. 

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We have Soul Binder Nazindri, 
which Sean, you and I have gone 

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through the campaign. 
Is that the same Soul Binder of 

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name that we saw in the 
campaign? 

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I, I think so. 
I want to say yes, but I got to 

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be honest, I found the campaign 
to be so humdrum that I didn't 

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pay much attention to the names.
Honestly, we do have to have 

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that conversation and record it 
because Sean and I had some 

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takes, some takes about the 
campaign. 

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Yeah, sorry Laura, folks. 
Sorry. 

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So those will be the heroic 
bosses, three of them tested 

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tomorrow. 
On Friday we get an additional 4

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heroic bosses, which is 
everything except for the final 

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boss. 
So that's going to be a Forge 

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Weaver Arise, the Soul Hunters, 
which is the optional encounter.

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Fractalis and Nexus King Saladar
they will also then open up 

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normal the entirety of the raid 
for testing. 

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Does that include the final boss
when they open up the? 

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No final boss will remain 
untested. 

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OK. 
And that and so that will open, 

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open up after the testing has 
been completed and go through 

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the weekend until Monday. 
Wait real quick, Lord buddies is

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the Nexus king whatever is that 
Kev as his father? 

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Is that like confirmed or does 
that just do they have different

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titles of reality? 
Wow, that's a great question. 

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I don't know. 
We're not going to give any low 

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spoilers at this. 
Point, but yeah, because we 

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don't, Yeah, it's not that we 
don't know Lex. 

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It's that we don't want to get a
little more. 

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That's such a thing. 
It's not that the campaign was 

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so. 
Sean, Sean. 

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No, no, no, no, no. 
We will. 

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We will talk about it. 
We will talk about it on a we'll

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do a bonus episode. 
We got we gotta get that out off

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here just the. 
Most campaign campaign I've ever

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done. 
The most? 

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Campaign, campaign. 
All right, John, you are on a 

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campaign. 
Then next week Thursday we begin

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Mythic testing and so it'll be 
again the 1st 3 bosses on Mythic

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difficulty for Thursday, then on
Friday the next 4 bosses on 

448
00:26:00,920 --> 00:26:05,400
Mythic difficulty for testing. 
And then after that completes, 

449
00:26:05,800 --> 00:26:09,520
Raid Finder difficulty will be 
opened up for testing and that 

450
00:26:09,520 --> 00:26:13,320
will go over the course of the 
weekend again from Friday over 

451
00:26:13,320 --> 00:26:18,840
till Monday. 
So I do need to make a slight 

452
00:26:18,840 --> 00:26:22,320
correction there because I said 
this week we're getting the 

453
00:26:22,320 --> 00:26:23,720
testing and the next week we're 
getting testing. 

454
00:26:23,720 --> 00:26:26,760
That is incorrect. 
We skip a week because we have 

455
00:26:26,760 --> 00:26:30,280
holidays next week, people who 
are celebrating Independence 

456
00:26:30,280 --> 00:26:35,280
Day, Canada Day, my birthday, 
there will be no testing during 

457
00:26:35,480 --> 00:26:38,520
that time. 
We actually come back on 

458
00:26:38,520 --> 00:26:43,280
Thursday, July 10th and go 
through the testing there and 

459
00:26:43,280 --> 00:26:47,960
then again on Friday, July 11th 
for the for the other testing. 

460
00:26:47,960 --> 00:26:54,640
So my apologies on that. 
So big, 4 hours of raid testing 

461
00:26:54,680 --> 00:27:01,680
on Fridays is painful. 
I would really, really like to 

462
00:27:01,680 --> 00:27:07,400
not have to do that. 
I would rather have two days of 

463
00:27:07,400 --> 00:27:11,800
two hours than one day of four 
hours when it comes to raid. 

464
00:27:11,800 --> 00:27:13,400
Because raid testing is 
draining. 

465
00:27:13,680 --> 00:27:15,640
Sometimes the bosses are bugged 
and don't work the way they're 

466
00:27:15,640 --> 00:27:18,080
supposed to. 
You're not really always playing

467
00:27:18,080 --> 00:27:20,680
with a group of people that you 
play out with all the time 

468
00:27:21,360 --> 00:27:25,000
unless you have a regular PTR 
test group that you run with or 

469
00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:27,960
your Guild does it. 
It's just 4 hours is a lot in 

470
00:27:27,960 --> 00:27:30,280
one sitting and it's also in the
middle of the day. 

471
00:27:30,440 --> 00:27:34,600
There's a lot to ask of people. 
That being said, if you are able

472
00:27:34,600 --> 00:27:37,120
to raid test, you should log in 
and raid test. 

473
00:27:37,440 --> 00:27:39,600
The lots of communities have 
tests happening. 

474
00:27:39,600 --> 00:27:41,840
No pressure has one sign that 
you can sign up for. 

475
00:27:42,320 --> 00:27:44,280
The dungeon Dojo has ones you 
can sign up for. 

476
00:27:44,840 --> 00:27:47,640
Get in, test the raid. 
Because your feedback matters. 

477
00:27:47,640 --> 00:27:49,840
If you don't, the only people 
who do are going to be the 

478
00:27:49,840 --> 00:27:52,280
sweats. 
Yeah, I realize I'm in that 

479
00:27:52,280 --> 00:27:54,040
category. 
But then we're going to give 

480
00:27:54,040 --> 00:27:55,600
feedback that makes it better 
for us. 

481
00:27:55,600 --> 00:27:58,760
If you're a normie, you want to 
give feedback that makes life 

482
00:27:58,760 --> 00:28:02,800
better for normies. 
I mean I I wish we had some 

483
00:28:02,800 --> 00:28:06,960
normie representation but like 
it's between you who is like 

484
00:28:06,960 --> 00:28:10,960
diving in and testing everything
on the PTR already and Lex who's

485
00:28:10,960 --> 00:28:13,640
sweating through like 2 hours of
delves or was it half an hour of

486
00:28:13,640 --> 00:28:16,040
delves? 
Lex was busy, no lifing that two

487
00:28:16,040 --> 00:28:18,400
hours of delves. 
Yeah. 

488
00:28:18,760 --> 00:28:21,240
We, we, we got to get some 
casual representation, but we'll

489
00:28:21,240 --> 00:28:27,560
we'll go forward from there. 
I yeah, I do think that it is 

490
00:28:27,560 --> 00:28:33,920
all very intense ray testing. 
It's clearly part of this trying

491
00:28:33,920 --> 00:28:36,160
to get things out as quickly as 
possible. 

492
00:28:37,560 --> 00:28:41,000
For the ones that don't work, I 
hope that they quickly disable 

493
00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:46,120
them and say, hey, we'll, we'll 
push the bosses forward and if 

494
00:28:46,120 --> 00:28:49,160
we can get it up in the last 
slot, so be it. 

495
00:28:49,160 --> 00:28:51,280
But we'll do it. 
Do it the following week. 

496
00:28:53,400 --> 00:28:57,160
Yeah, the the PTR testing is 
very quick. 

497
00:28:57,160 --> 00:29:02,640
And because Sean, you are a 
person who has very refined 

498
00:29:02,640 --> 00:29:07,200
taste on what you think is a 
good raid boss or not that I 

499
00:29:07,200 --> 00:29:11,840
think that they got to give the 
community a chance to actually 

500
00:29:11,840 --> 00:29:14,760
test these, give feedback and 
for them to be able to schedule 

501
00:29:14,760 --> 00:29:17,840
like retest. 
We don't want them to have a 

502
00:29:17,840 --> 00:29:22,320
boss that is horrible on PTR 
that they completely rework and 

503
00:29:22,320 --> 00:29:29,400
then takes like 5-4 hundred 500 
pulls to kill with a complete 

504
00:29:29,600 --> 00:29:33,120
with a completely different 
mechanics than it was on the PTR

505
00:29:33,120 --> 00:29:37,200
because geez. 
And I nobody wants that, no. 

506
00:29:38,080 --> 00:29:41,520
There is there is time for 
retesting in the schedule here, 

507
00:29:41,520 --> 00:29:46,560
with the last tests scheduled 
for July 11th and the patch 

508
00:29:46,560 --> 00:29:49,080
expected launch date being first
week of August. 

509
00:29:49,320 --> 00:29:51,600
They have about 3 weeks where 
they can put in retesting for 

510
00:29:51,600 --> 00:29:53,800
anything that was bugged or 
anything they want to change, 

511
00:29:54,440 --> 00:29:58,560
and I suspect that they will. 
They usually do, so we'll see. 

512
00:29:59,600 --> 00:30:04,000
OK. 
Beyond that, one thing that we 

513
00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:10,280
have also had a chance to test, 
at least on the base level, is 

514
00:30:10,280 --> 00:30:14,840
the new dungeon that is Echodome
Aldani. 

515
00:30:16,200 --> 00:30:19,640
Sean, I believe you have run 
this dungeon a couple of times. 

516
00:30:19,640 --> 00:30:23,160
So do you want to give us the 
lowdown on what's going on here?

517
00:30:23,600 --> 00:30:27,920
Spoiler free review of Echodome 
Aldani incoming. 

518
00:30:29,320 --> 00:30:33,600
It's great. 
It's a lot of fun. 

519
00:30:33,800 --> 00:30:38,960
It's visually really nice. 
It really feels desolate in some

520
00:30:38,960 --> 00:30:40,240
areas. 
It doesn't feel jammed with 

521
00:30:40,280 --> 00:30:42,080
enemies. 
It's very wide open. 

522
00:30:42,680 --> 00:30:45,640
And there is one boss fight in 
particular that I really, really

523
00:30:45,640 --> 00:30:51,360
enjoyed where the it's kind of 
like a Fate Scribe esque fight 

524
00:30:51,360 --> 00:30:56,400
where the boss will like knock 
your soul out of you and then 

525
00:30:56,400 --> 00:30:58,640
they're doing a targeted attack 
at your soul. 

526
00:30:58,640 --> 00:31:01,480
So everybody's soul gets knocked
out and he's targeting these 

527
00:31:01,480 --> 00:31:03,000
beams at them. 
He's going to kill them. 

528
00:31:03,560 --> 00:31:05,600
And you take big damage if you 
don't get your soul. 

529
00:31:05,600 --> 00:31:08,760
And you have to get to your soul
and touch it and then get out of

530
00:31:08,760 --> 00:31:10,640
the beam before the cast 
happens. 

531
00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:13,600
And you have to either look for 
your person. 

532
00:31:13,600 --> 00:31:15,480
Don't do that. 
There's a big purple arrow above

533
00:31:15,480 --> 00:31:17,200
your head of the head of your 
soul. 

534
00:31:17,200 --> 00:31:20,320
Just go to your purple arrow. 
That's your soul, but then 

535
00:31:20,320 --> 00:31:23,600
there's also two other mechanics
that incorporate the soul there 

536
00:31:23,840 --> 00:31:26,040
in that fight. 
And then there's another fight 

537
00:31:26,040 --> 00:31:28,200
where it has, I don't want to 
spoil it, but there's another 

538
00:31:28,200 --> 00:31:32,400
fight that has similar mechanics
to the Prototype Pantheon and 

539
00:31:32,400 --> 00:31:35,240
Sepal call the first ones where 
you would have to put the lines 

540
00:31:35,240 --> 00:31:36,480
through the Shields to break the
Shields. 

541
00:31:36,480 --> 00:31:37,840
It was a lot of fun, I really 
enjoyed it. 

542
00:31:38,840 --> 00:31:43,280
I did not see, I have seen some 
Youtubers and content creators 

543
00:31:43,280 --> 00:31:46,760
who have mentioned that there's 
like a lore thing at the end. 

544
00:31:47,320 --> 00:31:49,840
I didn't see it. 
I also didn't phase shift and 

545
00:31:49,840 --> 00:31:52,480
walk or phase dive and walk 
around, which you can do in the 

546
00:31:52,480 --> 00:31:55,560
raid dungeon but you can't do in
the dungeon. 

547
00:31:55,560 --> 00:31:56,520
You can phase dive and walk 
around. 

548
00:31:56,520 --> 00:31:58,680
I didn't do that. 
So maybe the lower things were 

549
00:31:58,680 --> 00:32:02,240
there, but I didn't see like I 
know people were worried because

550
00:32:02,240 --> 00:32:05,680
of the dungeon canonically falls
after the raid. 

551
00:32:06,120 --> 00:32:08,640
People were worried that it was 
going to spoil the story of the 

552
00:32:09,080 --> 00:32:14,720
the campaign for them. 
It it I did not. 

553
00:32:14,760 --> 00:32:18,840
Having played the campaign 
through to the to the raid and 

554
00:32:18,840 --> 00:32:24,120
then the after bit, there was 
nothing in this dungeon that 

555
00:32:24,120 --> 00:32:26,560
would have spoiled either of 
those sections. 

556
00:32:26,560 --> 00:32:30,240
So feel free to dive into the 
dungeon whenever you want on the

557
00:32:30,280 --> 00:32:32,960
the PTR or on the first week of 
the patch. 

558
00:32:32,960 --> 00:32:34,080
It was a lot of fun, I really 
enjoyed. 

559
00:32:34,080 --> 00:32:36,080
It there isn't like a stay while
and listen where you like you 

560
00:32:36,080 --> 00:32:38,160
walk in and everyone's like 
talking about how traumatized 

561
00:32:38,160 --> 00:32:40,640
they are that the the entire 
world of Avaross has been eaten,

562
00:32:40,640 --> 00:32:42,640
then we all have to go become 
ethereals. 

563
00:32:43,320 --> 00:32:45,640
Nope. 
Zealotath dies and then we sort 

564
00:32:45,640 --> 00:32:47,040
of mourner and then that's it. 
Oh yeah. 

565
00:32:49,800 --> 00:32:52,840
For for the traumatized 
listeners, that was a joke. 

566
00:32:52,840 --> 00:32:54,400
Legal reasons? 
Yeah, for legal reasons. 

567
00:32:54,400 --> 00:33:00,600
That was a joke. 
So the the dungeon has been 

568
00:33:00,600 --> 00:33:04,640
available for testing since 
Tuesday of this week and will 

569
00:33:04,640 --> 00:33:10,160
remain open for testing until 
Tuesday of next week, at which 

570
00:33:10,160 --> 00:33:15,760
point I believe there might be 
another testing period later on.

571
00:33:16,040 --> 00:33:20,920
But you if you want you can find
mythic keystones from the vendor

572
00:33:20,920 --> 00:33:23,600
just like there is on the PR 
Test that out. 

573
00:33:24,440 --> 00:33:28,840
From what I saw there, there's 
no changes to any affixes or 

574
00:33:28,840 --> 00:33:32,320
anything. 
We are basically following into 

575
00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:37,480
season from season 2 and take 
those affix into a new dungeon 

576
00:33:37,480 --> 00:33:38,880
pool. 
I was actually surprised. 

577
00:33:38,880 --> 00:33:41,920
I was expecting them to like 
switch out some of the bargains 

578
00:33:42,000 --> 00:33:49,640
or some or something, but that 
could come later, but you seem 

579
00:33:49,640 --> 00:33:52,360
pertaining. 
It it, it does seem like 

580
00:33:52,400 --> 00:33:54,880
recently they've been having a 
lot of here's the thing that 

581
00:33:54,880 --> 00:33:56,920
we're going to change out and 
then it works really well. 

582
00:33:56,920 --> 00:34:01,800
And then they're like, oh, 
actually, you guys want to just 

583
00:34:01,800 --> 00:34:04,280
keep doing that one. 
And I know I'm not faulting 

584
00:34:04,280 --> 00:34:05,600
that. 
I still have to play with God 

585
00:34:05,600 --> 00:34:13,320
damn Bran. 
I mean Bran will be back in 

586
00:34:13,679 --> 00:34:19,840
season 3 with the Delves. 
Or is the new Delve testing that

587
00:34:19,840 --> 00:34:22,960
one? 
Actually, it's nice to go back 

588
00:34:22,960 --> 00:34:26,280
to the archives. 
These are the Azure archives 

589
00:34:26,360 --> 00:34:29,040
from Dragonflight. 
Don't have to fly all the way 

590
00:34:29,040 --> 00:34:34,280
out to Dragonflight to do that. 
The entrance is actually in in 

591
00:34:34,280 --> 00:34:37,440
the new zone. 
So you go into the entrance from

592
00:34:37,440 --> 00:34:41,239
crash, that'll take you in the 
instance of the the archives. 

593
00:34:41,760 --> 00:34:45,760
They're being assaulted by 
Ethereals and you have to put a 

594
00:34:45,760 --> 00:34:48,360
stop to it. 
I haven't tested all the 

595
00:34:48,360 --> 00:34:50,080
scenarios. 
I've only tested one, but those 

596
00:34:50,080 --> 00:34:53,840
are those are available for 
testing if you so choose. 

597
00:34:54,199 --> 00:34:58,560
No sign of any kind of 
overcharged stuff going on there

598
00:34:59,160 --> 00:35:02,400
as of yet. 
But you know, it's it's Dell. 

599
00:35:02,400 --> 00:35:05,920
So we'll have to wait for Alexe 
to jump in so that we can get a 

600
00:35:05,920 --> 00:35:07,040
positive review of that. 
Yeah. 

601
00:35:07,400 --> 00:35:11,760
I'm playing on Tier 1. 
That's that's all I was doing 

602
00:35:11,760 --> 00:35:15,360
with my free time. 
I just went through side Street 

603
00:35:15,360 --> 00:35:18,640
while it was overcharged over 
and over and over again so I 

604
00:35:18,640 --> 00:35:21,600
could complete the web. 
You just side street. 

605
00:35:21,600 --> 00:35:24,240
I hate side street. 
I hate the stupid levels. 

606
00:35:24,240 --> 00:35:26,240
I get so confused about where 
I'm supposed to go for things. 

607
00:35:27,320 --> 00:35:30,960
Like on a higher difficulty, I'd
be upset because you can pull 

608
00:35:30,960 --> 00:35:34,280
things that are below you or 
above you with the with the 

609
00:35:34,280 --> 00:35:36,760
wrong stuff. 
On a level 1 where I don't care.

610
00:35:36,760 --> 00:35:38,680
It's just like, yeah, have them 
run up to me. 

611
00:35:38,680 --> 00:35:41,160
I don't have to worry about it. 
Let me let me have a little 

612
00:35:41,160 --> 00:35:44,080
drink while I'm waiting for them
to like path all the way up and 

613
00:35:44,080 --> 00:35:48,200
just keep moving on. 
So it's it's fine when it's not 

614
00:35:48,200 --> 00:35:49,960
like threatening. 
That's super I. 

615
00:35:50,760 --> 00:35:53,000
I just personally get annoyed. 
I try to like go over some place

616
00:35:53,000 --> 00:35:55,680
and I fall and I'm now 
completely turned around. 

617
00:35:56,360 --> 00:35:58,560
So I guess I could also walk on 
my feet instead of trying to 

618
00:35:59,000 --> 00:36:01,960
wings across, you know, like 
glide, I guess is the word I'm 

619
00:36:01,960 --> 00:36:03,400
looking for. 
Wings is for priests. 

620
00:36:04,160 --> 00:36:06,840
But I don't. 
I try to fly and then I fall and

621
00:36:06,840 --> 00:36:09,200
I get confused and I finally 
find my way back to where I was 

622
00:36:09,200 --> 00:36:10,720
supposed to be. 
And then I'm like, hey, you know

623
00:36:10,760 --> 00:36:13,920
how I should get over there? 
And then I'm surprised I falled.

624
00:36:14,120 --> 00:36:18,480
Then followed back in again, I 
mean, at this point, like if 

625
00:36:18,480 --> 00:36:22,720
you've got your tree upgraded, 
you like literally run around 

626
00:36:22,720 --> 00:36:25,520
into every lightning thing to 
cause the storm to get the buff 

627
00:36:25,520 --> 00:36:28,360
to all of that. 
And you you're running around so

628
00:36:28,360 --> 00:36:29,960
quickly that you don't really 
need to jump. 

629
00:36:31,040 --> 00:36:35,760
But that that's I guess the 
power fantasy that you you like.

630
00:36:37,440 --> 00:36:41,760
So that's Delves, that's 
dungeons, that is the raid. 

631
00:36:42,320 --> 00:36:46,400
There is of course other things 
that are going up on the PTR, 

632
00:36:46,400 --> 00:36:50,280
including the the zoo and such. 
I haven't had a chance to test 

633
00:36:50,280 --> 00:36:53,200
that and we can cover that in 
future episodes. 

634
00:36:53,920 --> 00:36:58,280
But I believe we did have one 
more piece of news that we 

635
00:36:58,280 --> 00:37:02,880
wanted to cover that's on the 
PTR, which is spell density. 

636
00:37:04,600 --> 00:37:08,320
I actually haven't played around
with this and I only discovered 

637
00:37:08,320 --> 00:37:10,400
this when Sean you brought this 
up. 

638
00:37:10,600 --> 00:37:13,600
So I want to ask you what what's
going on with this? 

639
00:37:14,680 --> 00:37:19,160
So Blizzard is finally this was 
from community manager Lynxy. 

640
00:37:19,160 --> 00:37:21,640
Special shout out to Lynxy, 
second favorite community 

641
00:37:21,640 --> 00:37:28,400
manager, manager of the podcast 
5X obviously #1 come on, Lynxy's

642
00:37:28,400 --> 00:37:31,720
a very cool second. 
So this this week's the Ghost of

643
00:37:32,080 --> 00:37:34,240
Gresh PTR includes changes and 
approvals to spell density 

644
00:37:34,240 --> 00:37:36,520
graphic setting. 
You're going to be able to 

645
00:37:38,760 --> 00:37:42,000
remove other players spell 
density like spell effects, 

646
00:37:42,280 --> 00:37:48,880
which is great. 
I I hope I don't know how 

647
00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:52,960
granular it's going to be 
because I want to see 

648
00:37:52,960 --> 00:37:57,080
efflorescence so I know where to
stand, but I don't want to see 

649
00:37:57,080 --> 00:38:00,640
anything else my druids cast. 
I want to see Feline Stomp, 

650
00:38:00,640 --> 00:38:03,480
which I actually can't see now, 
but I want to see Feline Stomp, 

651
00:38:03,680 --> 00:38:05,760
but I don't want to see anything
else the monk casts. 

652
00:38:06,040 --> 00:38:07,880
I want to see where Earthquake 
is. 

653
00:38:07,880 --> 00:38:10,440
Special shout out to my 
elemental shaman so that I know 

654
00:38:10,440 --> 00:38:13,120
where to tank the mobs, but I 
don't want to see anything else 

655
00:38:13,120 --> 00:38:14,960
they cast. 
So I don't think we're going to 

656
00:38:14,960 --> 00:38:17,760
get that level of granularity. 
It's going to have three. 

657
00:38:18,120 --> 00:38:20,440
It says there's three new spell 
density options. 

658
00:38:21,840 --> 00:38:25,920
These are not new options. 
These options already exist in 

659
00:38:25,920 --> 00:38:27,840
the game. 
Everything reduced and 

660
00:38:27,840 --> 00:38:30,040
essential. 
Those options are already in the

661
00:38:30,040 --> 00:38:34,640
game, but it's for I think just 
enemy spells. 

662
00:38:38,560 --> 00:38:41,640
Anyway, we're going to see 
hopefully we get or if I could 

663
00:38:41,640 --> 00:38:45,200
even like, say, I don't want to 
see this players or this class 

664
00:38:45,200 --> 00:38:49,280
of spells I need in my head. 
I'm I'm already prepared to be 

665
00:38:49,280 --> 00:38:51,280
disappointed in my head. 
I'm going to be able to like 

666
00:38:51,280 --> 00:38:53,280
pick and choose exactly what 
spells I want to see and what 

667
00:38:53,280 --> 00:38:56,320
ones I don't want to see. 
Like show me spells that help. 

668
00:38:56,440 --> 00:38:59,920
Don't show me spells that hurt. 
I'm not going to get that it's 

669
00:38:59,920 --> 00:39:00,960
it's not going to. 
Happen. 

670
00:39:00,960 --> 00:39:02,560
Somebody will build a before. 
That'll let you do it, but. 

671
00:39:02,560 --> 00:39:04,800
Next week you're going to be 
pissed about it, but this week 

672
00:39:04,880 --> 00:39:07,040
I'm just going to hope for it. 
But anyway, we're going to be 

673
00:39:07,040 --> 00:39:10,080
able to reduce which this is 
good because it reduces some of 

674
00:39:10,080 --> 00:39:11,960
that visual clutter. 
It frees up some of those brain 

675
00:39:11,960 --> 00:39:14,000
GCD, some of that cognitive 
overload that you have. 

676
00:39:14,440 --> 00:39:18,720
And if your PC isn't, you know, 
on the cutting edge, it might 

677
00:39:18,720 --> 00:39:23,400
may help with some some lag that
you experience in the raid when 

678
00:39:23,400 --> 00:39:30,640
there's, you know, 20 to 30 of 
you spam casting AOE and oven 

679
00:39:30,640 --> 00:39:32,720
axe. 
And there's also 45 eggs in the 

680
00:39:32,720 --> 00:39:36,200
room. 
Oh, and there's 35 sets of tiny 

681
00:39:36,200 --> 00:39:39,560
spiders to attack. 
So all of this should help to 

682
00:39:39,560 --> 00:39:41,760
clear up some of those those 
performance issues. 

683
00:39:41,760 --> 00:39:44,440
I'm looking forward to it. 
I really can't wait to be angry 

684
00:39:44,440 --> 00:39:47,160
next week, though, And I can't 
set it up exactly the way I want

685
00:39:47,160 --> 00:39:51,600
to set it up. 
But thank you, Lynxy, for the 

686
00:39:51,600 --> 00:39:54,200
news. 
And thank you, Blizzard, for for

687
00:39:54,200 --> 00:39:59,400
giving us what I assume is gonna
be a fine option, but just one 

688
00:39:59,400 --> 00:40:01,040
that I'm already prepared to be 
on. 

689
00:40:01,040 --> 00:40:02,720
Happy pup. 
I do. 

690
00:40:02,720 --> 00:40:04,600
I appreciate. 
If this is gonna be true for 

691
00:40:04,600 --> 00:40:07,240
World of Warcraft, I know my 
Final Fantasy friends say that. 

692
00:40:07,240 --> 00:40:09,080
Final fans, I will say World of 
Warcraft. 

693
00:40:09,080 --> 00:40:11,320
This is a very interesting thing
because for a very long time, 

694
00:40:11,320 --> 00:40:13,640
Final Fantasy Online has been 
pulling heavily from World of 

695
00:40:13,640 --> 00:40:15,320
Warcraft. 
And recently, it feels like 

696
00:40:15,320 --> 00:40:17,320
World of Warcraft is suddenly 
pulling very heavily from Final 

697
00:40:17,320 --> 00:40:18,960
Fantasy, including the player 
housing. 

698
00:40:18,960 --> 00:40:21,520
But that's a little aside. 
According to my Final Fantasy 

699
00:40:21,520 --> 00:40:24,760
friends, the turning off the 
spell density only does like 

700
00:40:24,920 --> 00:40:27,360
fancy CDPS stuff. 
It doesn't turn off healer 

701
00:40:27,360 --> 00:40:30,360
circles and things like that. 
TBD if that's how the World of 

702
00:40:30,360 --> 00:40:32,640
Warcraft one works, but that 
would make sense, right? 

703
00:40:32,640 --> 00:40:34,280
Like the things you need to 
stand in, It's gonna make your 

704
00:40:34,280 --> 00:40:36,400
life better. 
You want to see those even if 

705
00:40:36,400 --> 00:40:40,640
your stuff is down. 
OK, That would make sense 

706
00:40:40,640 --> 00:40:43,800
because like that, those sort of
healing circles like the 

707
00:40:43,800 --> 00:40:47,040
efflorescence and such, those 
would be likely deemed 

708
00:40:47,040 --> 00:40:48,520
essential. 
Like you should be still 

709
00:40:48,720 --> 00:40:51,920
standing in this don't run out 
of my healing rain sort of sort 

710
00:40:51,920 --> 00:40:52,960
of thing. 
Makes sense. 

711
00:40:53,120 --> 00:40:55,720
And without all the other stuff 
going on, it'll be easier for 

712
00:40:55,720 --> 00:40:58,960
you to see to see that. 
Yeah, I don't need to see these 

713
00:40:58,960 --> 00:41:01,000
7 consecrates. 
I have way too many paladin 

714
00:41:01,000 --> 00:41:02,320
friends. 
I I don't need any. 

715
00:41:02,320 --> 00:41:03,720
I don't need to see any 
consecrates. 

716
00:41:03,920 --> 00:41:07,280
Well, like you have paladins. 
Boy. 

717
00:41:09,560 --> 00:41:14,440
So moving right along our last 
story for the day is actually 

718
00:41:14,440 --> 00:41:18,960
something Lex you brought to our
attention, this Steam and 

719
00:41:18,960 --> 00:41:23,200
Battle.net now being on the Xbox
app, and it's not what I 

720
00:41:23,200 --> 00:41:24,600
thought. 
Like, tell me what's going on 

721
00:41:24,600 --> 00:41:25,400
here. 
Yes. 

722
00:41:25,400 --> 00:41:29,160
So there's some conversation 
about this in the for Azaroth 

723
00:41:29,200 --> 00:41:31,280
Discord bit dot LY slash fast 
discord. 

724
00:41:32,000 --> 00:41:36,320
So there was an announcement 
that the Microsoft is basically 

725
00:41:36,320 --> 00:41:40,040
adding Battle.net and Steam to 
what they were calling quote the

726
00:41:40,280 --> 00:41:44,760
Xbox app. 
If you are not in tune with the 

727
00:41:45,160 --> 00:41:47,640
Xbox world, which I will be 
clear I was not until I started 

728
00:41:47,640 --> 00:41:50,120
reading these articles. 
That makes it sound a lot like 

729
00:41:50,280 --> 00:41:52,360
Battle.net is coming to your 
Xbox console, right? 

730
00:41:53,200 --> 00:41:55,280
You are able to access things on
your Xbox. 

731
00:41:55,720 --> 00:41:59,040
To be clear, Battle.net is 
basically what Xbox is doing. 

732
00:41:59,600 --> 00:42:04,080
They already have a PC app and 
for an app for like handheld 

733
00:42:04,080 --> 00:42:08,920
devices and they are trying to 
make it into one big gaming 

734
00:42:08,920 --> 00:42:13,600
system where whatever system you
buy your PC games off of, you 

735
00:42:13,600 --> 00:42:16,520
can get to them in the Xbox app,
right? 

736
00:42:16,680 --> 00:42:19,520
So if you buy a game on Steam 
and you download it, you can go 

737
00:42:19,520 --> 00:42:21,200
into your Xbox app and open it 
there. 

738
00:42:21,200 --> 00:42:23,400
If you are playing, you know, 
World of Warcraft, you have that

739
00:42:23,400 --> 00:42:25,520
downloaded. 
You can now access that in your 

740
00:42:25,520 --> 00:42:27,280
Xbox apps. 
You don't need to both have 

741
00:42:27,280 --> 00:42:29,840
Battle.net and Xbox apps. 
It's my understanding with the 

742
00:42:29,840 --> 00:42:31,640
goal of like potentially even 
expanding it further. 

743
00:42:32,400 --> 00:42:37,480
So as of yet they are not saying
that Battle.net and World of 

744
00:42:37,480 --> 00:42:40,560
Warcraft are coming to console. 
I will say people have said that

745
00:42:40,560 --> 00:42:42,920
they're coming to console for so
long, but I'm officially pretty 

746
00:42:42,920 --> 00:42:44,480
deep and I'll believe it when I 
see it. 

747
00:42:44,600 --> 00:42:48,720
Mode, but if so, make sure 
you're reading those more 

748
00:42:48,720 --> 00:42:50,000
thoroughly. 
I think it is cool. 

749
00:42:50,160 --> 00:42:52,960
I think it is I I do feel a 
little bit like there was a 

750
00:42:52,960 --> 00:42:56,080
period of time that I had like 
epic games on my PC and I just 

751
00:42:56,560 --> 00:42:58,560
uninstalled it because I'm like 
there's like one game here that 

752
00:42:58,560 --> 00:43:01,720
I would ever play, but it's it's
annoying when everyone has their

753
00:43:01,720 --> 00:43:03,560
own little system and your own 
little thing you need to 

754
00:43:03,560 --> 00:43:08,240
download and it would be nice if
I could download the game app 

755
00:43:08,520 --> 00:43:11,960
and then I have the games that I
can play on my PC instead of 

756
00:43:11,960 --> 00:43:13,560
being like, oh shoot, is this a 
steam? 

757
00:43:13,560 --> 00:43:15,840
Is this over here? 
I have 50 pop ups every time I 

758
00:43:15,840 --> 00:43:19,800
log into my computer. 
My SSD is busted now because I 

759
00:43:19,800 --> 00:43:21,960
have so many things. 
I have two games, apps. 

760
00:43:22,120 --> 00:43:23,440
I don't know. 
I'm actually like, I'm such a 

761
00:43:23,440 --> 00:43:26,720
hardcore gamer who struggles so 
hard to find things but. 

762
00:43:27,320 --> 00:43:30,040
Is one of them Battle.net? 
Yeah, it's Battle of Steam, my 

763
00:43:30,040 --> 00:43:33,040
man. 
I feel like Steam is a pretty 

764
00:43:33,040 --> 00:43:35,400
solid one. 
If you said I've only got Steam,

765
00:43:35,400 --> 00:43:37,640
that covers so much. 
Right? 

766
00:43:37,640 --> 00:43:39,600
Like what are you gonna do? 
I only have Origin. 

767
00:43:39,600 --> 00:43:43,960
Who the hell uses Origin? 
Like come at me, I don't even 

768
00:43:43,960 --> 00:43:46,520
care if you're using Origin, get
off of it. 

769
00:43:46,720 --> 00:43:49,120
Really. 
Well, and that is interesting. 

770
00:43:49,440 --> 00:43:52,120
I was a little bit surprised 
that Xbox was the one that was 

771
00:43:52,120 --> 00:43:54,040
doing this because frankly, it 
does feel like this would be 

772
00:43:54,040 --> 00:43:57,560
more Steam's thing, right? 
Like this is close, to my 

773
00:43:57,560 --> 00:44:00,720
understanding, kind of what 
Steam was trying to be early on.

774
00:44:00,720 --> 00:44:03,760
Is the games app where you buy 
all of your games and play all 

775
00:44:03,760 --> 00:44:06,280
of your games. 
And it's pretty successfully 

776
00:44:06,280 --> 00:44:08,920
done that. 
Like it's got the Epic store 

777
00:44:08,920 --> 00:44:11,520
that's trying to compete and and
Epic store keeps throwing, 

778
00:44:11,680 --> 00:44:15,040
throwing money at stuff. 
And of course, with Xbox now 

779
00:44:15,040 --> 00:44:18,320
with the Xbox app, you're right,
they're trying to be the one 

780
00:44:18,320 --> 00:44:31,480
stop the all in It's available 
on your desktop and laptop. 

781
00:44:31,760 --> 00:44:33,640
It's not available on your Xbox,
Manny. 

782
00:44:35,360 --> 00:44:36,960
It's only on your PC and 
handhelds. 

783
00:44:36,960 --> 00:44:39,160
It might come to your Xbox in 
the future, but not on your 

784
00:44:39,160 --> 00:44:40,840
Xbox, which is very. 
Confusing. 

785
00:44:40,840 --> 00:44:42,600
The article says it's on 
console. 

786
00:44:42,600 --> 00:44:47,360
Now what? 
No, I'm kidding. 

787
00:44:48,040 --> 00:44:49,360
Kidding. 
I was like, I'm just like, I 

788
00:44:49,400 --> 00:44:52,720
haven't discovered this. 
Yeah, but this. 

789
00:44:52,760 --> 00:44:54,360
I read the title and looked at 
this picture. 

790
00:44:54,360 --> 00:44:55,080
Oh, that's true. 
Yeah, Yeah. 

791
00:44:55,800 --> 00:44:58,640
No, you're right about that. 
You're right about that, yeah. 

792
00:44:58,800 --> 00:45:02,200
And so I will say I I do like 
the idea of them all going 

793
00:45:02,200 --> 00:45:04,080
together. 
Although as I speak, as I think 

794
00:45:04,080 --> 00:45:06,680
you we're coming to learn very 
much in this podcast, I kind of 

795
00:45:06,680 --> 00:45:09,480
argue with myself in my head, 
even when you 2 aren't arguing 

796
00:45:09,480 --> 00:45:11,640
with me. 
So I do feel like I've been 

797
00:45:11,640 --> 00:45:16,520
burned by like movie and video 
streaming apps like Netflix and 

798
00:45:16,520 --> 00:45:19,040
Hulu that were trying to tell me
that they were the all in one. 

799
00:45:19,240 --> 00:45:22,600
And then what has actually 
happened is just like a crisis 

800
00:45:22,600 --> 00:45:25,680
of everyone needs me to spend 
$20.00 a month or I can't see 

801
00:45:25,680 --> 00:45:27,760
The One Show and I have to spend
$20.00 a month. 

802
00:45:27,760 --> 00:45:30,880
I want to see one thing. 
So I am, although I guess that's

803
00:45:30,880 --> 00:45:32,440
kind of where we are with games 
right now. 

804
00:45:32,440 --> 00:45:36,840
But anyway, I'm I'm suspicious 
of to make Manny's life a little

805
00:45:36,840 --> 00:45:39,120
easier for editing in 
poopification. 

806
00:45:40,400 --> 00:45:43,600
Oh no, no, it's like that's a 
technical term. 

807
00:45:43,640 --> 00:45:46,600
You can't say insitification 
that that goes through. 

808
00:45:46,880 --> 00:45:48,520
Fair enough, fair enough then 
yeah I'm scared of 

809
00:45:48,520 --> 00:45:52,360
insitification. 
But I mean it's gonna happen 

810
00:45:52,360 --> 00:45:54,280
anyway. 
Like I said, it's there's games 

811
00:45:54,280 --> 00:45:57,120
that I just will never play 
because I'm not re downloading 

812
00:45:57,120 --> 00:45:58,520
epic games like I'm not doing 
it. 

813
00:45:58,520 --> 00:46:00,680
It's stupid and dumb and I don't
want it on my computer anymore. 

814
00:46:01,080 --> 00:46:06,400
So like I do kind of hate how it
it works right now and I don't 

815
00:46:06,640 --> 00:46:08,400
knock on wood, I don't 
necessarily know that it could 

816
00:46:08,400 --> 00:46:12,640
be significantly worse. 
I think like, sorry, go ahead, 

817
00:46:12,640 --> 00:46:14,160
Shawn. 
We all everybody had cable and 

818
00:46:14,160 --> 00:46:16,080
they were like, man, this sucks.
And they go, well, what if we 

819
00:46:16,080 --> 00:46:17,320
just give you the channels you 
want? 

820
00:46:17,520 --> 00:46:19,000
Here's Netflix. 
All right, great. 

821
00:46:19,000 --> 00:46:21,080
And now like it's exactly like 
he said. 

822
00:46:21,360 --> 00:46:24,440
Now every every platform has its
own streaming and it's like, 

823
00:46:25,160 --> 00:46:26,400
maybe I should just go back to 
cable. 

824
00:46:27,960 --> 00:46:31,480
Except that they keep them 
exclusive so that you can't have

825
00:46:31,480 --> 00:46:35,560
them on cable, which is, which 
is basically them trying to get 

826
00:46:35,560 --> 00:46:39,200
a top down monopoly. 
And I think that Lex, this is 

827
00:46:39,200 --> 00:46:43,200
the exact right parallel because
you are going to have all these 

828
00:46:43,200 --> 00:46:47,680
publishers that are going to 
going to make their own 

829
00:46:48,360 --> 00:46:50,520
launcher. 
Battle.net being like the oldest

830
00:46:50,600 --> 00:46:56,480
one that I am aware of back when
I was like launching Warcraft 2 

831
00:46:56,480 --> 00:46:59,720
on it and trying to like load 
into a multiplayer game. 

832
00:47:00,800 --> 00:47:02,920
They've evolved it and they keep
adding things. 

833
00:47:02,920 --> 00:47:08,200
See if Thieves is on it, they 
they add on ABK games and 

834
00:47:08,200 --> 00:47:11,960
remember how absolutely 
clutching their their pearls 

835
00:47:11,960 --> 00:47:14,560
everybody was when like 
Activision games started coming 

836
00:47:14,560 --> 00:47:21,160
on that con on my Battle.net. 
Dear God, but they've expanded 

837
00:47:21,160 --> 00:47:22,920
it. 
They've done a lot of different 

838
00:47:23,760 --> 00:47:28,880
things with it and we have, I 
guess come to accept that Steam 

839
00:47:28,880 --> 00:47:34,360
was was always trying to be like
the Netflix of every game comes 

840
00:47:34,360 --> 00:47:39,640
on here, go go ahead. 
But like what I think has helped

841
00:47:40,360 --> 00:47:50,800
is that Xbox and and Steam have 
not had exclusives. 

842
00:47:51,000 --> 00:47:53,440
They've allowed things to be on 
all different things. 

843
00:47:53,440 --> 00:47:55,120
It's like, yeah, but it's on 
Steam too. 

844
00:47:55,120 --> 00:47:59,560
So why do you need to go over 
there where Epic has tried to do

845
00:47:59,560 --> 00:48:04,880
exclusives wherever they can and
that's that has ruffled 

846
00:48:04,880 --> 00:48:06,680
feathers. 
There was a big thing when they 

847
00:48:06,680 --> 00:48:09,760
were starting it and they were 
throwing money at devs to be 

848
00:48:09,760 --> 00:48:12,680
like, make your make an 
exclusive, you'll get more more 

849
00:48:12,680 --> 00:48:15,880
money here. 
It in that way, it kind of 

850
00:48:15,880 --> 00:48:21,320
actually reminds me of like the 
kick Twitch fight where it's 

851
00:48:21,320 --> 00:48:23,800
like you can get more money on 
here, come over to here. 

852
00:48:24,040 --> 00:48:27,680
And then Twitch was like, OK, 
you know what, we're giving up 

853
00:48:27,680 --> 00:48:32,000
the exclusive, but everybody is 
on Twitch, right? 

854
00:48:32,000 --> 00:48:35,160
Like, and so now you have 
YouTube Gaming and you've got 

855
00:48:35,160 --> 00:48:39,720
Twitch and you've got Kick and 
Periscope and stuff and a lot of

856
00:48:39,720 --> 00:48:42,480
them just sort of fail and fall 
by the wayside. 

857
00:48:42,480 --> 00:48:46,680
Yet we haven't really had the 
money reserves going into that 

858
00:48:46,680 --> 00:48:51,200
like we have with the Netflix. 
HBO used to be formerly known as

859
00:48:51,200 --> 00:48:56,920
Max issues that we've been 
having with TV. 

860
00:48:57,160 --> 00:49:00,840
Do you expect that it'll be more
like Netflix or do you expect 

861
00:49:00,840 --> 00:49:04,640
that it's going to be more like 
the entire Twitch thing where no

862
00:49:04,640 --> 00:49:10,080
company really has found the 
exact viable way of doing it and

863
00:49:10,080 --> 00:49:13,720
keeps it, you know, relatively 
customer friendly? 

864
00:49:15,480 --> 00:49:18,800
I don't trust Microsoft anymore,
so I think they're going to find

865
00:49:18,800 --> 00:49:23,160
a way to make it money. 
OK. 

866
00:49:23,360 --> 00:49:25,360
I mean, I don't trust any 
company, but yeah, yeah. 

867
00:49:27,080 --> 00:49:28,920
All right. 
Sean, you think some companies 

868
00:49:28,920 --> 00:49:31,640
are good? 
Yeah, no, I definitely think 

869
00:49:31,640 --> 00:49:33,880
Microsoft is going to do what's 
best for the consumer and try to

870
00:49:33,880 --> 00:49:38,320
save us money. 
No sarcasm. 

871
00:49:38,960 --> 00:49:40,960
Disclaimer needed. 
Imagine a situation where 

872
00:49:40,960 --> 00:49:45,160
Microsoft isn't altruistic and 
doesn't make their decisions 

873
00:49:45,440 --> 00:49:47,880
with the player in mind. 
First, it's. 

874
00:49:48,280 --> 00:49:50,360
Like how they bought World of 
Warcraft and there were no major

875
00:49:50,400 --> 00:49:52,680
changes. 
That's right, they made Warcraft

876
00:49:52,680 --> 00:49:54,680
better. 
Except they shortened the patch 

877
00:49:54,680 --> 00:49:58,240
cycles, overworked the devs, 
laid off half the team, and 

878
00:49:58,440 --> 00:50:01,120
refused to announce cross region
play until midnight. 

879
00:50:03,960 --> 00:50:08,200
OK, Yeah, it is. 
I think we're all on the same 

880
00:50:08,200 --> 00:50:09,840
page. 
It's an unfortunate reality. 

881
00:50:10,000 --> 00:50:14,280
I just hope that like, the 
company that wins is the one 

882
00:50:14,280 --> 00:50:18,800
that gives us the best features 
and so far as far as company 

883
00:50:18,800 --> 00:50:21,880
goes, Steam is doing the least 
amount of evil with it, so I'll 

884
00:50:21,880 --> 00:50:24,600
be happy with that. 
I know I would love. 

885
00:50:24,680 --> 00:50:26,840
Everybody loves Steam, I hate it
so much. 

886
00:50:27,360 --> 00:50:29,960
Interesting. 
Anything the least invasive like

887
00:50:29,960 --> 00:50:34,360
unless you want to go GOG. 
Like I would love if GOG took 

888
00:50:34,360 --> 00:50:38,320
over but like it's so. 
You say it clumsy, but I have to

889
00:50:38,400 --> 00:50:41,800
in order to play any game that I
bought on Steam, I have to load 

890
00:50:41,800 --> 00:50:44,280
Steam, find the game in my 
library, hit play. 

891
00:50:44,280 --> 00:50:45,480
Steam's running in the 
background. 

892
00:50:45,600 --> 00:50:47,440
I can't just load and play the 
game. 

893
00:50:47,680 --> 00:50:49,440
I, I hate it. 
I hate you have. 

894
00:50:49,440 --> 00:50:52,000
The direct icon to load straight
into it. 

895
00:50:53,520 --> 00:50:56,520
I've well, I guess I'm an idiot 
then because I have never been 

896
00:50:56,520 --> 00:50:59,640
able to open up a game without 
loading steam first. 

897
00:50:59,640 --> 00:51:01,600
Well, I. 
Mean I think even if you do 

898
00:51:01,840 --> 00:51:06,280
don't quote me on this because I
had to take my PC into the 

899
00:51:06,360 --> 00:51:12,480
repairs for them to tell me to 
press the power button, but but 

900
00:51:13,000 --> 00:51:16,320
I my understanding when you do 
have those extra buttons. 

901
00:51:17,280 --> 00:51:20,080
Listeners, I need you to stop 
typing right now. 

902
00:51:20,720 --> 00:51:22,440
We don't need you to write a 
comment. 

903
00:51:23,120 --> 00:51:25,520
We get it. 
She knows that that was a 

904
00:51:25,520 --> 00:51:30,040
mistake. 
Yeah, this is this is a funny 

905
00:51:30,080 --> 00:51:31,880
story because it's the most 
embarrassing thing that I've 

906
00:51:31,880 --> 00:51:33,200
ever done in my life. 
Don't worry. 

907
00:51:33,200 --> 00:51:35,240
How? 
Did you get it in without 

908
00:51:35,240 --> 00:51:37,600
turning off the? 
This is computer though. 

909
00:51:37,880 --> 00:51:40,960
That's the marvel of it. 
Like that's the like, how do you

910
00:51:40,960 --> 00:51:43,920
get it to the store without 
plugging it out and turning off 

911
00:51:43,920 --> 00:51:46,280
the power? 
So, so so which The thing is, I 

912
00:51:46,320 --> 00:51:47,680
didn't. 
Understand on the back. 

913
00:51:47,760 --> 00:51:50,040
Yes, that's exactly. 
I didn't. 

914
00:51:50,040 --> 00:51:52,640
Realize that there was that 
like, and I did OK, I will 

915
00:51:52,640 --> 00:51:54,880
actually say the I didn't bring 
it to the store. 

916
00:51:54,880 --> 00:51:57,960
I brought it to a person who 
was, you know, willing to just 

917
00:51:57,960 --> 00:52:00,360
help me out. 
So I just at this point was in 

918
00:52:00,360 --> 00:52:03,360
too deep and I, I lied and I was
like, oh I don't know why that 

919
00:52:03,360 --> 00:52:07,480
worked but I, I was I was only 
hitting the power source and I 

920
00:52:07,480 --> 00:52:09,200
was turning that on I was like 
it's not working it's not 

921
00:52:09,200 --> 00:52:12,080
working it's not working and 
then I went cuz I, I never had a

922
00:52:12,080 --> 00:52:14,200
gaming PC. 
I'd only have had laptops and 

923
00:52:14,200 --> 00:52:16,720
I'm still stupid. 
I know this is stupid, but so I 

924
00:52:16,720 --> 00:52:18,520
was doing that and I finally 
found this person to help me and

925
00:52:18,520 --> 00:52:21,800
I had my Guild leader was like 
on video calls me all the time 

926
00:52:22,080 --> 00:52:24,000
and like trying to figure out 
why nothing was working. 

927
00:52:24,240 --> 00:52:26,800
And then I pick, I finally like,
I unplug it and I pick it up and

928
00:52:26,800 --> 00:52:31,200
I see the power button on the 
front and I'm like, oh. 

929
00:52:32,280 --> 00:52:34,840
I am reminded of a tech support 
call I took once where the 

930
00:52:34,840 --> 00:52:37,120
individual couldn't get their 
computer to turn on, but there 

931
00:52:37,120 --> 00:52:38,640
was a power outage in their 
building. 

932
00:52:42,400 --> 00:52:44,800
That's not stupid, Lex, 
especially if you've only owned 

933
00:52:44,800 --> 00:52:47,560
laptops before. 
You don't know to look for that 

934
00:52:47,560 --> 00:52:50,480
power switch 'cause you never, 
probably never ever touch it. 

935
00:52:50,760 --> 00:52:53,160
So you just assume that it's on.
I'm gonna cut you. 

936
00:52:53,240 --> 00:52:55,640
I'm I, I'm gonna go on the 
record and say I'm cutting you 

937
00:52:55,640 --> 00:52:57,880
some slack on that one. 
That is not the most 

938
00:52:57,880 --> 00:52:59,160
embarrassing. 
It, it's pretty. 

939
00:52:59,680 --> 00:53:01,760
It is not the most embarrassing 
story I've. 

940
00:53:01,760 --> 00:53:04,000
Ever. 
No, no, Lex is fine. 

941
00:53:04,000 --> 00:53:05,720
That was probably like 30 years 
ago. 

942
00:53:05,720 --> 00:53:08,200
You've grown up since then. 
They're all good. 

943
00:53:09,000 --> 00:53:12,520
But but the point of this was to
say, I think that it does like 

944
00:53:12,520 --> 00:53:14,960
soft launch Steam in the 
background, even if you do use 

945
00:53:14,960 --> 00:53:17,120
that button, because when I've 
done that with Final Fantasy, 

946
00:53:17,360 --> 00:53:19,840
like if there's an issue on 
Steam side, it's still not going

947
00:53:19,840 --> 00:53:21,920
to let you load until it's gone 
through the like updating 

948
00:53:21,920 --> 00:53:24,720
steams, whatever. 
I think, don't quote me on that.

949
00:53:25,800 --> 00:53:27,680
No, it it'll launch Steam in the
background. 

950
00:53:27,680 --> 00:53:29,280
It's same thing with like the 
Epic Store. 

951
00:53:29,440 --> 00:53:32,840
You can launch a game directly, 
but it'll launch Epic Store in 

952
00:53:32,840 --> 00:53:34,800
the background. 
I think I think we should go 

953
00:53:34,800 --> 00:53:36,960
back to DIF. 
This is stupid. 

954
00:53:37,200 --> 00:53:40,040
Let me own the physical copy of 
the game and I put it in my 

955
00:53:40,040 --> 00:53:42,720
computer and then it's there. 
I. 

956
00:53:42,800 --> 00:53:44,760
Well, we put the discs in our 
belts now. 

957
00:53:45,120 --> 00:53:47,640
Yeah, sure, fine. 
That's another thing I'll forget

958
00:53:47,640 --> 00:53:48,920
the power button on. 
It's OK. 

959
00:53:49,520 --> 00:53:51,480
How? 
Backwards Are the Titans still 

960
00:53:51,480 --> 00:53:54,560
using physical media? 
This is ridiculous. 

961
00:53:54,800 --> 00:53:59,000
We'll talk about that more on 
the next episode, but until next

962
00:53:59,000 --> 00:54:02,120
time guys, may all your hits be 
crits.