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Big News Of The Week
There’s A New Patch In Town, And He Rode In On A Dragon
After years of lurking in her lair, battling brave adventurers who travelled from afar, Onyxia has been reborn — and she’s stronger than ever before. To commemorate the upcoming fifth anniversary of World of Warcraft, the classic Onyxia raid encounter has been updated in the newly released patch 3.2.2.
- Onyxia has been retuned!
- The luckiest adventurers will have a chance to receive the Brood of Onyxia, a very rare 310%-speed mount modeled after the Brood Mother herself.
- Armor Penetration has been nerfed
- There is now a daily battleground quest for everyone all the way down to level 11.
- Leatherworkers can now learn Blessing Of Kings, I mean drums of blessing of kings. Paladin drums or something.
- Check your glyphs! Seven glyphs have been modified.
- You can now only queue for two BGs at a time, and you have to enter the BG faster now.
Don’t Forget The Harvest Festival
It runs until Oct. 3. There’s some cool free foods and drinks just outside the major cities, and a quest for you to go pay your respect to a lost hero of your faction.
Rumors And Scuttlebutt
The Saga Of The Crawler Of Ghosts
As we reported on The Instance a few months ago, Greg “Ghostcrawler” Street decided to take a more active role as lead designer of World Of Warcraft, and add some community management cred to his job. This past Spring, Ghostcrawler suddenly became a fixture on the official WoW forums, almost daily taking on the posts and opinions of anyone and everyone who chose to go toe-to-toe with him. It was a boon for us – we got much more information about what Blizzard is thinking and doing with WoW than ever before. But as anyone who has ever spent much time in an online forum community knows, you never wrestle with a pig. You just get muddy, and the pig likes it.
Town Cryer
Dan S. writes: About the security tokens – Square Enix with Final Fantasy XI unveiled the security token recently and to get people to purchase it they made it so it granted them an additional bag. Perhaps WoW should implement something like this. Just take that first bag you get and if you link a token to your account, *bing* its a 22 slot bag now. After all what would be a quicker way to get scott to upgrade then to offer him more item slots.
Drop Of The Week
Murky And Lurky Are No Longer Lurking
They have arrived! Fresh from their debut at BlizzCon 2009, the fun and adorable murloc plush dolls, two of the hottest items for sale at the show, are now available to the general public via the Blizzard Online Store. The blue Murky plush doll and the white Lurky plush doll are only $15.00 each in the Blizzard store.
Also, check out the Jinx Brewfest Shirt!
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The Drums of Forgotten Kings only gives 8% to all stats.
Blessing of Kings gives 10% to all stats.
They are not equivalent.
Other then that, another good show.
come on guys. your reporting of ghostcrawler’s posts were a fine example of why he now feels the need to step away from the forums.
you discussed a post by a regular forum user which he merely quoted as being things he had said. you can’t just read a blue tracker or (worse) the heavily edited article on the front page of mmo-champion and expect to have a complete idea of what was going on in a full forum thread.
great show. love the banter. pedantry ftw ^_^
Wrong. A lack of pedantry FTL.
Asakawa said “you discussed a post by a regular forum user which he merely quoted as being things he (Ghostcrawler) had said.”
From the 27:05 mark in this episode, Scott said exactly:
“This led to a fantastic analysis of people who frequent forums like the WoW forums. Ghostcrawler quoted another poster…”
I agree with Asakawa when he said “you can’t just read a blue tracker or (worse) the heavily edited article on the front page of mmo-champion and expect to have a complete idea of what was going on in a full forum thread.” It’s a good thing we delve deeper. Of course, you mean to say that you don’t think we do the research to prepare for the show.
We do. Thanks for the feedback.
Is there a sponsor/referral code to use with Squarespace?
Hey guys, love the podcast…but had a quibble with the new sponsor bumpers. For so many shows, we’ve had these great bumpers you do and the flow from the into the topics, letters, the drop, etc is a big part of my enjoyment of the show.
The new bumpers were…jarring and, I feel, really interrupted the flow of the show. My vote would be to put them either at the end of the segment, or before the standard segment bumper.
It’s your show, do with it what you will, but just a thought from a loyal listener!!
Cheers!
Randy, I heart your brain. Thanks for talking about things, recording the talking and providing the opportunity for me to hear it.
Scott also.
mr deluxe sir, i doff my cap to your superiority in the esoteric arts of pedantry.
the impression i was left with from the conversation on GC’s parting blows was that you both felt that he’d been quite harsh with the forum readers, particularly mentioning that particular quoted post.
if scott did correctly establish the text as a quote then i shall, of course, withdraw to my chambers directly and commit seppuku ^_^
again, great show. keep up the good work chaps.
@Monkey: yer just not used to em.