Are you saying that you have limited information on something
and you're not going to do a snap judgment and get yourself
angry about something that you don't really know about?
Because I think you need to think deeply about this, because
if you say yes, you do have to delete your account forsaken.
For Lauderon. For the Karen tour.
For Pandaria. For calendar to the.
Burning region for Gilnaeus, for Cosmaton, for the Lich King, for
the Sindora. For the Alliance for.
The Horn for Azeroth. Hello and welcome to episode.
I don't have any idea what number this is for Azeroth.
And you may notice that I am not Manny.
I am one of the other hosts of the show.
I'm Sean, and I'm joined today by the incomparable Lex T rants.
Lex, how are you? I am doing well.
I've had a good week. I'm finally getting my gear and
my rotation up. I did finally get my seriously
circlet, which everyone had told me I should do ages ago.
And I'm like, well, it can't be that much better.
Like it really can't be that many issues and it can't.
So, you know, we're we're living our dreams and realizing that I
was on the wrong mic. But yeah, so I'm finally
actually doing real DPS and not parsing exclusively grace, which
is very exciting and makes me feel like, you know, like I know
how to play this video game. Lex, that ring's been out for a
long time. It's OK, what am I like on a
podcast about World of Warcraft or something?
No, like why would like you know, why would I need to keep
up? With I've heard I've heard
podcasts of World of Warcraft that apparently have no idea how
any functions of the game work, so we're fine I.
Mean, I mean I do keyboard turns.
So although I did have a moment, I did have a moment in raid last
week where I like I was I because I'm a Demon Hunter.
So I like zoomed ahead and I was turning around to like get back
to like fight the boss and I was like I beaming the whole time
and I was realizing how much I-beam I was wasting and I was
like. Oh, just I beaming across the
room. Yeah, like slowly inching my
wear out of place. Now I kind of get it.
Yeah, I. Get it now.
I understand listeners. You don't get to judge lack.
She is her scars. I am my scars.
I don't. Never mind.
I was going to make a joke, but it wasn't going to.
It was going to sound like an actual threat.
So we're going to. Yeah, we're not.
No real threats. No, we're going to be on our
best behavior. Maybe he's never going to last
record again. No, never.
That's right. Yeah, Manny told us we could
record, but we had to promise to limit it to three swear words
and we have to tell him when they happen.
And neither one of us is allowed to threaten Blizzard directly.
So we'll see how we do. We'll.
See, I believe it. I do too.
Manny usually asks us, asks us both how the World of Warcraft
has been treating us. I feel like you just told us how
the World of Warcraft has been treating you.
And I'm just going to say it's great.
The game is great. I'm having fun blasting keys on
EU and a I've I've picked up Discipline Priest.
I'm just dabbling. I'm just dipping my toe in and
I'm playing void Weaver. So for all the people out there
who've tracked the meta effort mythic plus they're all
screaming right now, you got to play Oracle.
Oracle's the one to play. Don't play void Weaver, but I
just I fucks with void Weaver more.
It just it's a void off character.
So I like that I turned to the void when I'm doing these
things. It's the matic and I'm not
trying to get title here. I'm just having some fun letting
pugs die. Many deaths.
Many, many deaths. That's true.
Sometimes you got to let a pug die.
I I should. Maybe that's why I how I should
go into my pugs. It's just they're going to die.
It's OK. Yeah, just we have to accept
that many of you will die, and that's the sacrifice I'm willing
to make. Yeah.
That's fun though. I started with holy for a very
long time. I tried disc a couple times, it
was too complicated for me little brain.
You should try wood Weaver. It's like super simple.
You powered radiance. So I'll so I want to be clear.
This is specifically in mythic plus.
In raid it's different because you have to use renews and
Shields more. But in mythic plus it's like I
powered radiance. The whole group's got their
stuff. I throw a shield on the tank and
then it's shadow word pain, little voidy pet guy.
My mind. No, you don't.
Wait, is that? Not a thing anymore.
Is that is that shadow? I think that I'm I'm mixing up
with shadow. Continue.
But then mind blast penance,
spam smite until you penance again and then just refresh
powered radiance. It's it's, it's actually just
like ADPS rotation, but you're healing number of health bars
are going up. I'm doing something right, Yeah.
That's true that when I did disk I my whole thing was like, I, I
can't do DPS like and I, I'm really, really bad at range.
DPSI don't I might, I don't know what it was, but like everything
people are like, oh, this is the easiest range DPS and I'd be
getting like 2 damage And I'm like, well, I don't know what
I'm doing wrong because I feel like this should be making more
sense. And I was very convinced there
was something wrong with my brain and I could not manage DPS
at all. Like for whatever reason, I
couldn't get a rotation to fit in my head until I did Demon
Hunter. And then it all started to kind
of make sense. So part of it was that I knew
that disc was very basically just ADPS healer where you just
keep things up and you go. And I was like well I can't do
GPS, that's impossible, but maybe I should try it again now
that I know that I can do GPSI say it.
So I've ever once in my life managed to maintain 2 characters
at Max level ever. Yeah, there's no there's no
chef. For those who keep it score at
home, Lex will not be playing discipline this.
Season. Oh no, certainly not.
Speaking of, this season we had some news.
But before we hit the big news, Blizzard gave us a release date
that it was the worst kept secret on the planet.
Everybody knew anyway, but we're going to talk about it and talk
about how they're staggering releases and stuff.
But I want to talk about what I think is probably the best
change Blizzard has ever made to a raid in the history of raiding
all the way back to Molten Core, and that is the skip in the
Liberation of Undermine. So previously previously on for
Hazaroth, the way that the skip worked is you would kill Vexi
and the gear grinders and then you would talk to a little
goblin out front. I don't know who it is, Gazzler
or somebody. It's a it's a goblin.
They all the same. You would talk to the goblin out
front and then they would take you to the tower of spades where
you would be able to kill mugsy and Galliwicks, which in its own
right is a, is a decent skip. But there is no way to backtrack
to 1 Iron Bandit, who has a best weapon that everybody wants and
really nice trinkets everybody wants.
So that the only way to get to 1 iron Bandit was to kill all of
the other bosses and the ridiculous amounts of trash that
are in this raid to get to them. So what they did was Blizzard
Hot fixed it and now when you activate the skip you have two
choices. Option one go to the High Roller
suite which lets you kill one armed bandit or option 2GO to
the tower of space fight mugsy so you can.
Essentially it's now the best skip of all time because you can
go to any boss in the raid in any order that you want of after
killing Vexi first and then you can only target the bosses your
raid team needs. It is so good.
It's such a nice change. Fazdev, thank you so so much.
That's very fun. Yeah.
We, we love a like choose your own adventure sort of city.
I feel like if I'm able to skip, I should be able to skip to
whatever I want to. That's my take.
Yeah I agree 100% like I've already killed his bosses
please. Or just give me a button that
turns the trash off and let me just do the.
Trash this season I know that it's because I'm an idiot and I
cannot drive in a straight line and so usually I just get in
someone else's car. But then sometimes I have to
like repair and I don't get there in time and then I have to
drive my own my own little dumb self.
But it's, it's so stressful and even when I don't pull trash,
which I usually do, but even if I, I don't pull trash, I spend
the entire time like, you know, gripping my little steering
wheel until my knuckles are white, like I'm going to pull
trash. So I, I don't, I don't like the
trash in this. And I especially since you can't
get Bo ES off of it. Like if you're going to give me
an unbelievable amount of trash that I'm going to pull
accidentally almost guaranteed, because it's just everywhere and
it's like driving around and there's stupid air balloons and
stuff. At least make it so that when I
do that I don't feel like a huge awful loser who ruined my entire
raids night. I'm going to give you some sweet
tech that you can use. So after you kill a boss, swap
to vengeance, mount your regular ground mount and run to the next
boss, and whatever you pull just let it kill you when you get to
the next boss's room and then wait to get res when your team
shows up. That's so smart.
But you can't, you can't drive the car because as soon as the
car enters combat, you get kicked out of the car.
So you got to use your OG ground mount and you're swapping A
Vengeance because Vengeance can't get stunned because it's a
tank. Yeah.
And we have another Demon Hunter tank in my group, so I can just
be like, oh, no, that must have been Kirk.
I thought, yeah, I know. I also saw that following the
Demon Hunter. Yeah, Kirk, you're going to want
to get good there. Yeah, come on, Kirk.
Yeah, man, don't pull trash and then die and then become named
Lexani. That's get it together.
Anyway, that's the play Lex that's but you said something
that I want to sidebar quickly. You mentioned how go being able
to go to any boss is like a choose your own adventure.
Did you read? Did you guys have choose your
own adventure books? I OK, so I very specifically
show like I, I, I sought them out when I was a kid because I
thought they seemed really cool and I was really bad at them.
I kept like like so I got into them when I was like middle
school ish. So it was very like girly pop
novels about like relationships and somehow I would end up like
crying on the the curb because I like killed my boyfriend or
something. So I was bad at choosing on
adventure books, but I really liked them and I and I think
they're a cute idea. I like the idea of like reading
a book and then you're jumping around and then your choices
matter. I guess I could also like play
video games. I don't want my choices to
matter, but. Did you now?
No judgement here. Did you ever keep your finger on
the page You were leaving all the time.
The choice you made was better. This is, this is, and I do this
with anything that like like when I do one of those like bar,
like yes, no, that you're following down those trees.
I'm always kind of like looking a couple steps ahead to be like,
which way do I wanna go on this one?
Especially things a little up in the air, like I'm like, I'm not
sure how I feel about this. I will 100% base it.
I spoil everything for myself. I fully believe I'm a big
proponent of spoilers. Not for other people.
I understand other people don't want them.
I want them all the time, forever.
Give them to me. Hit a girl up.
I would like to know what's going to happen in the future
and if I don't like it, I would like to be able to change it
every time. I don't mind spoilers.
I'm like, because hearing a thing is so different from
experience a thing for yourself. You know, if I, if you came to
me and said, hey, just so you know, Darth Vader is actually
Luke's father, hearing that means nothing.
But experiencing that moment when Luke finds out and seeing
his emotion and his reaction, that's where you get that feel.
So spoilers don't really bother me.
I'm not a, I'm not too fussed with them.
And if there's something that I'm like, oh, I don't want to
know how this goes. I just completely block all
chances that I would see it. Yeah.
I read something I don't, I never like Fact Check this, so I
might be making it up, but I read somewhere that people, even
if you think you don't like spoilers, you actually tend like
people enjoy media more when they get spoiled on it.
Because then you're able to kind of like look, look at all the
like, you know, the foreshadowing and like see how
things kind of go together and like you're able to watch the,
the depth and the nuance of the, the story unfold.
That said, if people say they don't want spoilers, don't give
them to them because it is like if you I'm.
I'm not saying go spoil everything for everyone and be a
jerk. I'm just saying I also think
that sometimes spoilers are fun. Yeah, so you heard her here
first, Lex says. Tell everybody everything, all
the time. Never let anything be a secret.
No secrets framework. OK, Lex speak there.
No secrets. That's a great segue.
You are a professional podcaster.
I love it. The worst kept secret on the
planet was the release date of patch 11 point 1.5.
Everybody and their dog had been saying April 22nd for, jeez,
weeks now weeks and weeks have been saying April 22nd.
And Blizzard came out and finally confirmed that yes,
April 22nd is the launch of 11 point 1.5.
But wait, it's not a normal release.
We're not getting all of the patch all at once.
They're staggering the way things are coming out and I
don't know how I feel about it, so I'm going to wait to be told
how to feel about it. So April 22nd is when we get
Nightfall, which is some campaign quests and some
collector trans mogs and stuff like that.
And we get the cooldown manager, which is sort of like Blizzard's
attempt at making weak auras, which I think is very cool.
I'm looking forward to trying it out.
And then we also get from April 22nd to May 20th, the Winds of
Mysterious Fortune, which is just an alt catch up super fast
leveling and. Maybe we'll play desk.
Yes maybe super fast leveling and faction renowned, 200% major
faction renowned in dragonfly zones and 100% in some zones in
the war within. And then we have May 20th and
this is what it starts to get. I don't want to say
controversial but it gets like people are questioning some
things. May 20th we get Horrific
Visions, which is a time limited event coming back similar to the
way they were in BFA. And with them is coming
corruption and chance for our hats, which we'll talk about
because if you remember, corruption from BFA was really
strong. Twilight Devastation for
example, was a big one that people loved.
Well, the new corruptions in their current state are less
than 1% damage across the board. They're almost not even worth
equipping. And then lastly, the dastardly
duos which people are excited about which is the dungeon boss
rush comes June 3rd to July 15th.
Lex, how do you feel about a staggered release of time
limited content in a .5 patch? I feel interested in how this is
going to go. I I think there's an argument to
be made that it's like by and large, especially with point
fives, often people really like front load it.
And so if you want people to keep playing, there's a benefit
to keep releasing new things, right?
If you're not getting anything new, especially with how like
it's really easy to kind of get bored, right?
And once you get bored, you're it, it's hard to pull people
back in at that point, especially since, you know,
people are getting AOTC already. People are moving forward, you
know, if they don't have anything to do, they're going to
play for like a week, do all the content and then move on.
I do also wonder, and this is my big unending conspiracy theory.
This is also a great way to have multiple things at 11 point 1.5
if you can't get them all done in time, right, which I kind of
appreciate, right. I do think there's I, I'm the
queen of give your employees a nap.
And so I think like if this is what they have to do to keep up
with the schedule that they've been setting for themselves, I
don't think that's the worst thing ever.
The flip side of all of that is that, you know, we I mean, first
of all, it's time limited. So things are kind of getting
pushed back. You don't have as much time to
play. Also like like the horrific
visions are really a gear catch up.
And so I don't, I mean, I guess the question is whether or not
we need a gear catch up right now.
And if we do, then pushing that back a month doesn't like like
if you if you were really excited about horrific visions
for the gear and for the catch up, that probably doesn't feel
great. Yeah, because they drop heroic
track gear, right? That's so that's going to be I
could maybe use it for an alt catch up type thing in for
somebody in my situation, but hero track gear for you might
not even be ketchup gear like that could still be gear that
would help you get AOTC right. Well.
And that's actually a really good point as you're saying that
because yes, hero track gear could help me get AOT, get AOTC
sooner on April 22nd. But you know, don't quote me on
this, but if Timberma Tavern has not gotten AOTC by May 20th,
something is going on, right? And so, yeah, why would you put
a like that's, I mean, I guess catch up mechanics usually are
late in the patch and usually the point is to really catch the
people who are like, right, like I'm about to not get him to see
all this stuff. So that's not necessarily and I
mean, you know, to be fair, this is probably a conversation we've
been official to have Manny in because you and I are both on
team. Let me go be big, powerful,
tough. So if if you're a little bit
more concerned about things moving too quickly, then that
maybe has more of an argument to push it back further so that
people aren't getting their horrific visions.
But yeah, I should be pretty close to full heroic year, one
would think, by May 20th. By May 20th for sure.
But yeah, I was thinking April 22nd when the patch launches
because that's like 2 weeks away.
I know you guys are. I think you are you on mugsy
now? I can't remember.
No, we're on bug junker and we had a.
We also had some like, there's a lot of stuff going on this, this
patch is a rough. One is is it Kirk?
No, it's not Kirk. We've just had.
We've had a lot of a lot of our players have had things that
have meant that they've had to take this patch off.
I don't know when Manny is going to drop this episode.
So I might be pre enough actually, nevermind.
I'm not going to say anything because I don't know when
Manny's going to drop this episode.
And I don't want readers to learn things by listening to the
podcast that they didn't know yet.
Anyway. It's just been the type of here
when like a lot of our really big and core players have had to
step out. And so there's been a lot of
shake UPS, which I mean, you to be fair, we've always been a
little bit slower on getting OTC because that's our goal is we're
all taking our time and we'd rather have fun together.
And but this, this season, both mostly just like real life stuff
has consistently gotten to people and that's OK.
We just want to have fun together and play together.
And we love you guys. And if you're listening and
you're one of the people who is not playing right now, we miss
you, but it's OK. You're going to be fine and
you'll come back and we'll still love you.
Do you guys raid Monday nights for Prague?
So Monday nights are our like tea like community night.
So we very specifically will not Prague on a Monday because
they're not required nights for our Raiders.
So right now, for example, we're doing normal re clears on Monday
nights to get people a little bit of catch up gear but not
touching Prague. In very, very instances we will
progress on a Monday. So for example, last year when
Thursday's kept being holidays, we eventually made a call to do
like, I think it was like one night of Monday Prague just so
that we wouldn't get so many nights of Prague off in a row.
But the point of the Guild is supposed to be like we are for
people who are only really able to make one night a week of
writing who need that, like, you know, strong commitment, but
can't guarantee anything else. And it would really, really suck
to join a team that says we're here for adults who, you know,
have a limited amount of rating time and then have to see
everyone celebrate the fact they got AOTC or they get, they
killed a big boss and they got to have that really big event on
a night that you weren't available because we told you
didn't have to be available. Yeah, I like that.
That's a good. I like that you stick to that.
That's a good ethos. Timbermont Tavern, the best AOTC
Guild NA question mark. Thank you.
I like, I like the group, obviously, I think that we're I
think we're the best group. We're, we're really just here to
have fun with our buddies and I think that that's important to
have fun with your buddies. I agree 100%.
OK, I, I still don't know where I land on this.
Then Lex I, I like the idea that they're delaying it because it's
not ready and it gives and they're not pushing the devs to
crunch to get it ready. That doesn't feel great, but it
feels better than they thought that they're dragging it out
because there's very little to do outside of these events and
so they're trying to make the patch feel more full.
I'm really only looking forward to Horrific Visions because I
have such rose tinted nostalgia glasses tied to them from BFA.
And I'll do the Nightfall campaign stuff because that
trans mug, that white Arathi trans mug is just gorgeous.
But I don't like the delay for that respect.
And I'm not super interested to actually duos.
I don't know, I guess I'm somewhere in the middle.
I'm OK with it. I think it's all right, but I'm
a little bit not upset, but I'm a little bit bummed out that
it's not all coming at once. I like actually, you know what?
I don't even know that this is true.
I'm going to say a thing about myself that might not be true.
I'm going to give you 2 examples.
I like to me the the ability to choose and and put together my
own enjoyment. I like buffets.
I go to a buffet, I get a little bit of general sauce chicken, I
get a little bit of chicken fried rice.
I get a little bit of sweet and sour chicken balls.
Big fan of chicken and I like that I can make my own meal.
But I also am this the kind of person who when I cue my key up
for a dungeon Finder and the cue fills up immediately, I get
crippled with indecision on who to take.
And a lot of times I'll just delist, delist, I'll relist, and
then I'll just invite the first 3.
So I guess maybe I don't know what I want.
Lex. I am.
I'm complex, I guess, is what I'm what I'm saying.
Yeah. I mean, I think the other thing,
and this is very personal to me and World of Warcraft should not
make decisions based on me. I mean, they should obviously
the game should be tailored to me, Fast F but they technically
have like what? Like millions of other players,
like I don't know, which I guess they have to worry about too.
So with that in mind, I'm kind of looking at this and I'm
trying to also be honest with myself about who I am as a
person. And I'm realizing that I am
excited about Horrific Visions because I like, I'm a solo
player. Especially this season, I've
really been enjoying being able to do things at my own pace, on
my own time with my own things. But come May 20th, I'm probably
going to be like raid logging at best.
And I probably am not going to care enough about horrific
Visions. Like I'm probably going to do
like 1 so I can come on the podcast and talk about it and
pretend that I'm good at podcasting.
But it's probably not going to be easy to keep me.
I mean, like, I guess, unless I do genuinely need the gear, But
if I'm geared up enough that that's not going to be super
helpful and or we're either done with AOTC or close enough to
done with AOTC that like it's hard for me to motivate myself
to gear. I'm not really going to be
getting on for horrific vision. So selfishly, I'm actually, the
more I'm looking at this, the sadder I'm getting because I
would really, I almost wish that it was switched for me
personally, I understand why this order.
Well, I mean, but again, if, if, if we're doing the horrific
vision, like heroic gear is going to be so much less on May
20th than April 22nd. So I do kind of wish it was
switched. I do kind of wish that it was
like you got the horrific visions.
You get the gear catch up when you need the gear catch up.
Then after a month of that, then you get the story quest for the
people who are really excited about story, and then you get
into your dash really duos. You get another, you know,
reason to get go in and and go with your friends and do gear
and and and fight those. I think that has gear as well.
I should know this, but like you, you get that additional
like so, so it's not like story campaign which made like if that
draws you and that draws you in, But if you're a gameplay person,
at least it feels like it's, it's, it's back loaded if you're
in it for the rewards. And so I, I, I don't know, this
is probably selfish, but I, I, I kind of wish that they'd
switched to horrific vision in nightfall.
You know what, I just realized? I agree with you.
I think that I I'm, but it's also because I want horrific
vision. So great podcasting here today,
folks. The radio is amazing.
I just realized I'm reading through this blue post.
I, I want to talk with the cooler manager a little bit
specifically because of your use of tell Me When, but there's no
mention in here of dinars. We're talking about her using
her horrific visions as a catch up mechanic.
They told us the dinars or bullions, whichever you first
experienced them, are coming back in this patch, but there's
no mention in here of when or how you get them.
So this is for the people at home.
I just want to make sure that they understand what's going on.
I certainly haven't forgotten anything.
Can you remind the people at home with the?
Yeah, no, that's a great point. I definitely want to remind the
people at home. So in previous previous patches
in Dragonflight and the war within, they are they had a an
item in the raid called it. It was called the dinar.
I think the Dragonflight. And you would be able to
specifically purchase a targeted item from the raid that you
could upgrade 12 ranks up to the Max of mythic mythic track
upgrades. And they were initially on the
renowned track this tier coming into this tier, but they removed
them from the renowned track and said they were going to put them
back in a later date. I assumed 11 point 1.5 was that
later date, but there's no mention of them here.
What are we doing? These are like there are people
who there's obviously rare items in this raid, rare drops people
want. We need these dinars.
To get some of those. Items from people.
Well, and the whole issue. In the beginning was that like
people were saying, well, it's too early first thing because
they were putting them in? It was Week 17, yeah.
We're approaching them that I mentioned.
Here, I need one SEC. I have to let Shadow out.
She's losing it. I love that for you.
One hour. Later.
OK, I'm back. Welcome back.
She was I. Almost wanted to tell you this.
We were in the middle of having a conversation.
There was one point when you were talking that she was like
rolling around behind you and I could just see her little legs
kicking. She's a very good girl.
I love it. Yeah, so they it was week 17.
They were initially on the week 17 track.
What it like this has like they have to come April 22nd, right
One word I mean. Or they've just kind of decided
not to do it. Oh man, I.
That would I feel like that's. I don't know if there's news we.
Missed listeners, if you're out there, if you if there's
something we missed and they mentioned Dina somewhere, please
jump over to bit dot LY slash faz discord and we'll let us
know because I don't think I have missed anything.
Pushing this later and. Later into this, we know this
season's only going to last six months Max.
We're already at the three month mark.
April 22nd is like the three month mark.
We're not getting the heroic catch up gear until a month
later. So that's four months in and now
I think that's right. Am I?
Am I right there? The race started March, March,
April. Wait, no, I'm way off.
How fast is Patch coming? This is 6.
Weeks, no wait. April The.
The race started the started the started the patch started the
beginning of March, right? Well.
Yeah, 'cause you've only been off.
Race world first for like because.
The. Race ended March. 15th and it
took 12 days, so the patch must have launched like March.
Third. Yeah, if it took 12 days. 4th
March. 4th was the launch of the patch, OK.
And then the race ended March 15th.
So March 4th to April 4th is one month and then 22nd is Yeah.
So we're six weeks, six weeks at in.
This is coming really fast, right?
Yeah. This this like season is so
funky for me that it's hard for me to like vibe feel how it
would vibe with other patches, like in terms of time, right.
I'm not really sure where I should be or where I I usually
would be at this point. I don't like it both feels like
the season's been going on forever and also like it just
started and the world is confusing and nothing makes
sense. So that's seven weeks.
I just. Counted it out so that the
listeners at home we're going. My God Sean is so bad at math I
can't believe he used to fix missiles. 7 weeks and we know
that the patch is not going to be any more than six months.
I actually expected the .5 at like the three month mark as
opposed to a month and 1/2 in. So we're going to get a .7.
OK, maybe I'm overreacting. Well, but.
I can I. I feel like if they had no well,
so now suddenly I'm feeling like I I'm pushing for more content
because like like faster, which usually I don't do, but I can't
imagine zero additional content for another full month, right.
Well, we're getting. Yeah.
So the yeah, what I'm, what I'm. Saying is like if they had done
the .5 at three months, at three months, yeah, another.
Yeah, an extra month of nothing new coming in would be wild.
It It does. You know how that thing happens
as you get older? I mean, you might not know this
because you're still. No.
Yeah. And.
Time, but yeah, when you get older and I'm.
Like constricted, like I'm at the point now where it's like a
year takes about an hour and a half.
It's very quick. I'm like that right now.
Where? I could use some years to pass
real quick, real fast, yeah. I'll just have a quick nap.
I wake up, it'll be great. Yeah, that's OK.
I didn't realize how. My I heard. .5 in my brain
instantly thought OK this is the patch is 3 three months old now,
but it's so I guess I guess. Then they are giving the
horrific visions at about the three month mark, so about
halfway through, which I guess is reasonable for a catch up
mechanic. And to be fair, I've usually
never really used the catch up mechanics so I don't know why I
was surprised like I was it. It would be nice for the catch
up mechanics to be sooner, but there's an argument to be said
that they have never really been for me.
So maybe it's not surprising that they're also not for me
this season. Not everything.
It's forever. This is a real roller coaster.
I'm. I'm shifting to I'm good with
this. If anything, it feels like
they're bumping the patch up earlier just to push the story
content out so that people have story to do, and I'm good with
that. I want the people who are only
mainly story players to have stuff to do more frequently, and
then they're pushing the rest of the stuff down the line a little
bit. OK, I'm OK with it.
Lex, we we got there. There we go.
I still want the. The what is wrong with me?
I still would like the horrific visions to be sooner, selfishly,
because I think it would be fun to have more heroic gear, is the
sentence that I was trying to say while my brain short
circuited for a second there. That's good.
I like I. I mean, I would get behind that.
I just want horrific visions to me.
But I mean again I. Rarely benefit from the gear
catch up mechanics because of the pace that I usually play at
and so. Congratulations, I'm once again.
Not the target audience of the gear catch up mechanics.
We're fine, No. Does that feel?
Do you get that feeling a lot like we'll be on the show
talking about stuff and I'm just like, I don't like none of this
is aimed at me. Like what a part of this game is
made for me. Like is it just Mythic plus and
rates like is? Yeah, I.
I mean. I think, well, it is it.
Is also one of the big you know. Existential questions.
That I've been asking myself as more content has come out like
more options have come out for how to play because like some
things I know for example, I know I'm not a collector, I know
I will do nothing to grind ever in my life.
Obviously I know that my my primary focus is rating, but.
It as there's. More options.
It feels like there's more ways to sort of subdivide because it
used to just be by and large that you're either doing like
you're either here for the open world collection, you're kind of
here for the story or like, or you're here for the like push,
right? And I feel like now there's so
many different ways to engage with the game, which is great
and wonderful, but does mean that we I feel like we're
constantly having this conversation on this podcast of
like, oh, well, I don't like this, but it's not because it's
not made. Maybe it's mostly me.
You and Manny know what you're good at, but like, you know, do
I dislike this because it's not for me?
Or do I dislike this because it's poorly made and I am the
target audience and they're just not giving the target audience
what they want? Which means it's a good problem
to. Have to, you know, have so many
things to do that you feel like you can define yourself in
multiple ways. But so glad I'm not.
A dev Can you imagine trying to make this game for what?
15,000,000 people play? 10 million people play?
Everybody wants something slightly different, but sort of
the same and trying to find ways to keep everyone engaged and
happy and balance at all and content for you and content for
you and this contents for you and they can't come out and say,
you know, hey, high end Raiders, this isn't for you.
So stop giving us your feedback. We don't care, I just should.
I think if the devs are going to listen to player feedback more,
they also have to be meaner to us.
They have to occasionally say I need you to shut your stupid
little mouth. It's not about you, not
everything. It's about you, you whiny little
child. Mostly to me.
They should say that to me every time I whine about Delves.
I want Fazdev to get a a, you know, a Direct Line into the
podcast with it'll like do a little voice garble so you don't
learn who Fazdev is, but so Fazdev can just say Lex, you
little idiot, this Delve thing is not about you.
Shut up and go do your stupid, right?
Yeah, we need we definitely. Need a Deep Throat and like the
facial scrambler for Fasdev. I would have Fasdev on this show
so far, like once a week. We're going to check in with
Fasdev. Fasdev, do you have any comments
like in rebuttal to things we said in last week's episode?
And then just get like a one sentence or one or two sentence
reply from Fasdev Like Sean, you really ought to touch.
The rate is wildly popular. Yeah, I think that'll be great.
And I think that happened to everybody, everybody.
I think that occasionally devs need to go on the forums when
everyone's yelling at them and be like, have you considered
that maybe like it's, it's like the the interview where the dev
was asked about doing more support classes, more bus
classes, and he was like. I don't think you guys actually
want. Them because you keep bothering
us about it, but then every time we deal with an everything with
augmentation you hate. So I think that you don't
actually want these and you just want to yell at me for not doing
them. He didn't say it like that.
He said it more professionally, but I think they should say it
like that. I think they should just tell us
when we're being idiots. Dude, we should.
Totally. Just start doing a bit where we
have a garbled man. We just get like random.
Yeah, just. Random friends to do it.
That'll be great. Manny, we're going to pitch
this. Yeah, when you're listening to
this as you edit it. So we're going to pitch this to
you right now. Yeah.
Let's make it happen or fast dev, if you're listening and you
want to just every week send a recording in we'll garble the
audio so we can't like we'll put a voice modulator on it so we
can't tell it to you No here just.
Here's what I'm thinking. Here's what I'm thinking.
We start out pulling random friends in to do the little
voice garbly thing and then be like, and so it'll become the
bit right, like, and everyone's like maybe trying to guess which
one of our friends it is. And then it can actually become
Fasdev. Like Fasdev can reach out to us
and be like, I think I'm protected enough now that I
could come in and just start and everyone be like, oh, it's that
shit again. Fasdev this week.
Like it'll be great. Fasdev.
Come on, let's do it. Yeah.
We're setting that up. We'll get like a an e-mail that
fasdev to admit this and this stuff too.
This is great. We're making this happen.
This is going to be awesome. Fascinating.
Right now is like I am not ever going to do that.
These two are so unhinged. I wanted to talk about
corruptions Lex because they're not very impressive right now,
but we got like 6 weeks before they come out so I'm going to
wait for tuning. I think right now as they stand,
corruptions are doing less than 1% damage with exception of 1
Sean. Are you saying that you have
limited information on something and you're not going to do a
snap judgement and get yourself angry about something you don't
really know about? Because I think you you need to
think deeply about this. Because if you say yes, you do
have to delete your account. Because you're not.
You can't be a World of Warcraft player.
OK, no, good point. Good point.
So instead I'm going to say Blizzard ruined corruptions.
They're a garbage enchant for garbage players.
Please fix this now. You're killing my game.
OK. Yeah, yeah.
That's what I want to. Say actually, yeah, we're going
to do that. Good.
OK, good. You can.
You you're safe. You can keep your account for
another week That was close. I almost had to delete my
Twitter. Oh no.
Oh, Lord. Well, you know, yeah.
For SO for seriousness. For reals.
And they are. Corruption in BFA was wildly
powerful twilight but it's because you could stack them so
you would run like 9 ranks of twilight devastation on a tank
and at the time twilight devastations damage was based on
your maximum HP. So on a blood death like this
was literally deleting mobs if it propped.
They've changed how it works. It no longer functions that way.
It's now just a space damage proc.
Same for all people. And that one in Infinite Stars
and all of them, which all had these fun interactions that we
had to like Min Max with the corruptions on the cloak and the
insanity. And they go, OK, you're going to
get bad things that happen to you, but you're going to get
wildly powerful, you know, infinite cosmic power, anybody
living space, these kinds of things.
But they've sort of. Normalized at.
All people are like not super happy about it.
We're going to wait. I'll wait and see how the tuning
shakes out. But as it stands right now,
corruptions are only coming back in name.
They're not coming back in the way they were in BFA.
And that's, I also want to point out everybody who voted for the
for Eric Cara for their dungeon because they think Sacre is
awesome, they're going to do the same thing to that trinket.
It's going to get nerfed, you morons.
Yeah. Anyway, we have to be angry.
About something. That's my thing.
That's my. That is my thing.
Nobody actually likes that last boss unless you're a paladin.
The only ballot is like that last.
Yeah, maybe I just. Honestly honestly based on this
list with Arakara and Operation floodgate be Oh sorry.
For those of you who don't know, we got to season 3 mythic plus
voting and the top four were Arakara in order were Arakara,
Operation floodgate, Priory of the sacred flame and dawn
breaker and Arakara and operation floodgate.
Arakara was the one that stopped me doing M plus for the first
season. Like a really bad Arakara poll
is the reason that I stopped doing with A plus, and a really
bad Operation Floodgate was the reason that I stopped doing
Mythic plus this season. So I'm glad you all are going to
have fun. I might be sitting season 3 out
of them as well. Or you'll get good.
Or maybe yeah. Anyway, I hope you enjoy your
nerf sack brood. It would be so cute of Blizzard
if they just did not bring that ticket back.
Like if they were like just for fun, if they were like, hey
guys, we're bringing that impact our car.
But we did decide not to put Sackbird in or just not tell
people and just make it like a 0%, like a .0001% drop rate.
Yeah, I think fast apps, this is the best idea I've ever had.
I think you need to bully people more.
And I think you need to put the drop rate of fat food to like,
virtually zero. Yeah.
Or nerve like. Shouldn't make it so laughably
bad that nobody would use it. Just nerve it right into the
ground so everybody can enjoy their their casserole of
nonsense. That is the last boss, and that
does. I think that would be.
The biggest way both of those work for me as as somebody who
stopped doing Mythic Plus last season because I hated Arakara
so much, for me makes fact word nothing.
That's it, Lex. I got nothing.
Else it was a quiet week I. Think so?
Maybe next week the world's going to explode.
I. Hope not the World of Warcraft.
Specifically the other worlds. I mean that I mean.
You never know, but we won't get into that.
Here it might explode or. Maybe we'll get a 90 day stay of
execution before they have explode.
Yeah, we'll, we'll. The the.
Kickback Cam. Right down the road.
Such fun but. Yeah, we'll and and next week
will be one week away from less than a week away from the fun
new story. So we'll get to I want to be a
Nerubian. OK, so my list of desired races
in order number one is Murloc. By like a by like.
A really large amount. Like there's, there's there's a
massive gap between murloc and everything else.
I'm going to say I want murloc more than I've ever wanted
anything in my life. I the day that they actually do
drop a murloc race, I will be bawling on the floor with joy
like I need you all to understand this will be the best
day of my entire life. So murloc, I think that's.
Going to happen, but OK, yeah, everyone says.
That, but they should. I don't understand why they
wouldn't because they have all of this lore and they have all.
The murloc is like the sign of World of Warcraft.
Like you have the like little dancing murloc.
That's everything I have. The murlocs are huge in World of
Warcraft and I can't even play as one.
Like and genuinely the amount of war they have and the amount of
they could just bring, they could have such a cool, they
could put so much. They could have an entire
expansion. It's like the murlocs expansion.
We get to being murlocs and everyone would want to be a
murlocs because murlocs are super cool and we'd make our
little noises and you could make so many cute little jokes off of
it. You could even do like a like a
coza cola, like a coja thing where like as they're delving
into the world, this meant that like more intelligence went to
more races and the Murlocs were one of them.
It would be so sick. It would be so sick but I
regret. Telling you that I don't think
it will happen so. Number one race that I want is
Murloc. After that I would say Nurubian
then, not a an ascended. Nurubian.
Or do you want creepy spider and Rubian?
Creepy spider? Well.
Let's say we have options if you little weirdos want your little
weird good things. But I want to be a creepy
spider. I want to be the big.
I want to be the big guy, big, like tanky guy.
That's what I want. That's exactly where I want to
play. Yeah, I don't want to.
Tell you that I don't think that will happen, but I think the
likelihood of playable Nerubians in the insect form is a boat as
high as playable murloc. OK, so.
Basically 100 and I would like to say, as I said this, I
realized, I think I, I don't even know if I thought this or
if I said this out loud, but I said Nerubian Zendaga.
That's not true at all. It's Nerubian Zen Cobalts, which
might actually happen because they do seem to be setting them
up like they could be a playable race, which is ridiculous
because Cobalts have been in the game and as beloved about to the
same degree as murlocs. Except Cobalts aren't a sign of
everything World of Warcraft. So I think that it should be
murlocs first. What are your race desires?
I would like to. See, I would, I don't know how
reasonable it is, but I would do Knowles.
That's mostly just because I want to make a dog person.
Not a would be cool. Not a would be cool and actually
I fox with the Nerubians, but I would want it to be the ascended
Nerubians. I'm not on the ethereal
bandwagon. I was like, Oh my God, I want to
be a an arcane or avoid mummy. It's going to be so great.
They look the same. No offense if you like exactly,
I like different color. Bandages and my insides glow
differently. That's it.
I have like 6 choices. Great.
Yeah, No, I would. And then you put on armor and
you don't see anything anyway. It's all just gone.
You know how you would? Absolutely.
See the customizations that you have is if you had an option to
be the giant bug nerubian like the big boy or like the like
skinny little cast or or the like.
If if you could choose the body type of your Nerubian like that,
do you have any idea how much of AW that would be?
You'd have so many trans buck options.
Yeah, OK. All right, I'm in.
Let's do never yes? After murlocs, murlocs first
fast up, I need this so bad. I need you guys to understand
like this has been my life goal for basically the entire time
I've played World of Warcraft just to play as a moral.
And I know what you guys are going to say.
I know somebody's going to get at bit dot LY slash fast discord
and tell me, oh, but there's toys, there's toys.
I don't want a toy. I want to beat a murloc forever
and ever and I never want that to change all.
Right, folks. Why don't you let us know what?
Races you would like to see his label characters in the World of
Warcraft. For the love of God nobody
coming to that discord and tell like she's not getting murlocs.
Until next time. May all your hits be grits.