Turpster is away on a work assignment, but Scott and Dills are in the house, with the legendary Curt Schilling, founder of 38 Studios, and no stranger to this program. We hit the late breaking Diablo III 2012 news to start things off!
Big News of the Week
WoW Magazine calling it quits! After just five issues, the official World of Warcraft Magazine is calling it quits. Future US has posted a notice on the website, and subscribers can either get a refund for the issues they didn’t receive, or a voucher for six in-game World of Warcraft pets. Future recommends subscribers who want to keep up with the game in a dead tree format can subscribe to its PC Gamer publication, and it’s possible Blizzard may try to publish something itself, though there are apparently no plans for that yet.
The 4.3 Raid beans have been spilled! We get all up in this thing and figure what’s what. A good reference for all this can be found at this link.
Rumors & Scuttlebut
Patch 4.3: Zarhym clarifies tier 13 drop methods. One of the most intriguing non-story tidbits to come out of the recent flood of patch 4.3 news is the fact that tier 13 will not be purchasable with valor points. If you want your tier 13 set, you will have to raid for it. Zarhym has clarified how this will all work in a forum post.
Drop of the Week
38 Studios launches a new video THIS MORNING! A must see.
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I have to disagree with Curt, to a point, regarding his comment about raiding needing to be seriously challenging.
Raiding in normal mode is not the end of the game, nor is intended to have the hardest fights. Normal mode raiding is NOT the “top end stuff”.
Normal mode, in my opinion, needs to be really easy (a little easier than it is now). It needs to be easy so that a larger portion of the playerbase can actually see and enjoy the content. Really good players might run normal mode once, and then they’ll be doing heroics. Everyone else can continue to run normals, and maybe work on raid achievements (Which should be a step of difficulty between normal and heroic, and provide extra rewards).
All that said, it was great to have Curt back on the show again. I disagree with him on the previous point, but beyond that he’s a phenomenal guy. I can’t wait to see his game next year.
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