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The discussion starts with WoW news, especially the three-kids-in-a-trenchcoat that is Classic, and how it's once again time to respect your Elders with the Lunar Festival returning this week. They turned to Diablo's seasonal scheduling, and how it may or may not be under the influence. Who's to judge.Then, the crew hit on Overwatch 2, and how a whole lot of the new stuff introduced this midseason banks on that "uphill both ways" style nostalgia. We'd say it was also "in the snow" but Joe rather vociferously nixed that topic during the preshow.
The Q&A portion of the show was supplied mostly by staff member Cory. There's just no denying fashion, we suppose.
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hello and welcome to the Blizzard watch podcast hi everybody I'm Matt I hosting this you cannot stop me you cannot even
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hope to contain me wait you probably can I'm not that strong I'm easily tired
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yeah never mind I shouldn't have said that also with me are three fantastic co-hosts as we've already said in the
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pre-show and now I have to come up with different things to do so right now I'm kind of comparing you guys to like the
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various trinities from Marvel and DC Comics like I'm thinking Liz P you would
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be Captain America um oh God Liz H you would be
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Batman and okay Joe you would be Spider-Man even though he's not actually part of a Trilogy he's sort of his own
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thing that's like you know but but is very big I just know you like Spider-Man I thought you would have went with uh Kirby ditco and uh and
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uh excelsor yeah Lee I no no because that's like two people who were really
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talented and gifted artists and one crazy person who somehow got in the door
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and they never knew what to do with him that's me I'm that person well at least
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you get to make a lot of cameos in the future so congratulations anyway we're gonna talk about various games including
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a lot of Blizzard stuff because I mean that's what we do every
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you you've listened to this before this what it is man it it's blizzard watch it's right there in the name I mean I
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guess we could talk about the weather but uh I have had enough I have had enough of Blizzard weather for this
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season I am done it's like six degrees Celsius here today which is so weird
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because it was negative 36 at one point like within this month but that's not
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important uh Liz is literally writing as we're talking the weather thing I I I am
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I am writing notes for future podcast descriptions I just get distracted when I see it happening I'm like ah things
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are happening what's talk about stuff uh I'm gonna go straight into Warcraft because this this one I saw I was
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reading the notes and I'm like o uh there's G to be major plus changes to Mythic plus which is coming in patch
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11.1 and they're apparently they're aiming to make progression smoother and more rewarding and we it says here that
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Joe should talk about this so I'm looking at Joe now like talk about it Joe I actually am behind on this one so uh
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but I will say that anything they're doing to try to make mythics a little more
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accessible um or at least smoother and more rewarding is interesting I was having to talk with I'm going to go into
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an anecdote here so uh I was having to talk with one of my uh co-workers one of my employees um who was asking me have
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you done a 12 or higher key yet Joe and I'm like no I haven't um and his exact
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response was it's so much better because you do not have to worry about any of the fxs everything just hits harder and
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takes longer to kill like and I'm sitting there I'm like huh that's really interesting because there are some that
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on tens are absolute nightmares that are just absolutely atrocious to deal with
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and progressing into them is really really rough so like if you try to pug
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let's say a ston vault 10 it is really difficult one to find a group uh two to
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not have what's been happening recently uh which is people just like if there's
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a bad pull even if the timer can be saved we'll just leave the group and it's been happening a lot lately so I
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noticed it uh myself with a couple couple times I was trying to pug over the the weekend where we had a bad pull
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because the tank or one of the DPS over pulled um we would still be able to make the
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timer if we you know just pushed ahead uh and then you know one person drops
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and the minute somebody drops you're you're cooked like there's nothing you can do about it um so with these changes
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I'm hoping that they're looking to one make the progression into like 2K and
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and 2500 and then pushing your way into higher Keys a little bit smoother
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because there is sort of like a wall there's a plateau you hit where it just depending on what class you are and what
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you do it's just it's very very difficult um yeah so I don't know I I like they're
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they're also talking about like in here like Lower Keys and this is one I've also noticed since I've been doing keys on my my Paladin my Paladin is like 603
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ey level nothing special but like that's more than enough to do like some lower level keys right and that's one of my
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paths to gearing that character up and trying to like get it going the pool of candidates and people willing to do like
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lower lower Keys like 2 to six it it's it's Barren it is absolutely
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like they they call it a shallow pool I don't even call that you know the splash pads that you used to go to a kid that were just basically like here's concrete
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with some water on it that's what it feels like no no I know what it is it's that thing that you would slide on the
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slip and slide the SL yeah the slip and slide just just enough water on it so if you keep if you go and fast enough you
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just Glide down but once you stop it's like the plastic sticks to you it's
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that's that's that's like or like the old the old slides of the the old water parks that were made out of metal yeah
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kind of like that that squeaking sound yes that squeaking sound that was your flesh anyway yeah I I unfortunately for
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me I actually did lose some like butto skin to one of those well things that you won't lose are are you know your
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cares as you see these new changes that are coming in and I want to kind of go through them just real quick just a few of
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them go ahead I I do think blizzard is making an interesting point here on what
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they're trying to address you were just talking about the shallow pool of players here and blizzard talks about
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that as well and what their point is is that gearing in the war within
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particularly with the introduction of delves it's kind of easier to get to that base level to get like champion
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level gear and be sort of ready to go but lowlevel Mythic keys are kind of
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worse than highl delve gear so where
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people and require more people and more effort and more coordination so people are maybe gearing
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up in delves which they can do by themselves maybe they just enjoy delves and then they come to Mythic plus
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and it's like why would I do a Mythic 2 it's this is giving gear downgrades
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it's really hard to get upgrade I have to go to seven or higher y but seven or higher those are actually difficult I
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mean that's you aren't joking around once you get into those higher level keys but because of that you have that
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shallow pool at the low level fewer people want to do those keys but it also
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makes the higher level worse because players progressing into it well but not
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just that but because you know players looking for upgrades they may not have done the low key because there are no
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rewards there but they jump into 7 plus because that's where they're going to get upgrades except they don't have the
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dungeon experience they don't have the Mythic plus experience to successfully do a seven or higher so it's go you're
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also talking about folks who like you have two very distinct groups where you have the folks that were champing
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champing like ready to dive in to Mythic Plus at the start of season one and so they use those first two weeks to gear
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up through delves through through every activity they possibly could and then they started blasting Mythic plus and um
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then you have the folks who are soloing their way through delves and like you said they they don't necessarily have
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the dungeon experience from the get-go so when they're pugging two months later in a Mythic you know seven and up um
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everybody else is like excuse me Noob tank do you not know the path and they're like no this is the
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first time I've been in here and done this or or you and then the group falls apart immediately yeah or or knowing
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when to blood lust like that's another thing too like knowing what bosses to use it on and where to apply it to you
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learn that in lower level keys and it doesn't necessarily shift but if you don't have that experience like again my
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employee told me that they were doing uh they were doing a 12 uh Siege last night
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and the shaman healer had never done Siege before um apparently and just
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didn't tell anybody and they didn't care to look they just took him cuz he was available um and you in Siege you lost
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at the sea giant that's where you lust cuz that's where you get the most effect out of it but if you've never done that
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dungeon before you don't know to hit it and so he didn't hit it and they didn't notice and then he used it on the first
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tentacle on the last balls and it's like you don't get the maximum effect out of it but again he didn't do it before so
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he had no idea but going back to some of the changes they're moving sorry go ahead Liz I heard
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you just at the same time you were finding groups at that top end because
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you have so many inexperienced players coming in players that can't get through the dungeon you're finding groups being
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pickier and more demanding on what they want and I think I think that results in things like oh we had one wipe I'm
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leaving and giving up but it also means that when someone without experience comes in they don't say they don't have
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experience because they know they're going to get kicked or they're not going to get a group so yeah it just creates a
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toxic environment all around that it's problem on top of problem so to combat
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that which what they're doing here is they're trying to move some things around so uh your Baseline Mythic zeros
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are now going to award Champion track gear from each boss uh with a weekly instance lockout uh the damage from
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those are going to increase the health is going to increase to reflect that change uh Mythic 2 through 10 uh each
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new level now increase the health and damage of enemies by 7% down from 10% which is actually really really cool um
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per level scaling will still remain at 10% for Mythic 11 onwards zal has bargain which is the rotating FX between
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like whether it's the Z palali or the balls or or the debuff uh will move up
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from Mythic 2 to Mythic 4 uh leaving no affixes other than the existence of a
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timer at the two entry levels to the Mythic system which I think is actually a really huge and positive change like
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that that is that is good um tyrannical and fortified will move up from four to
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replace Challengers Peril at 7 uh Challengers Peril is the time that every death gives you 15 seconds off your
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timer um and with the challengers Peril moving up to 10 and then Mythic 12
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instead of the additional 10% increased enemy Health uh zelas gu will now include the increased timer penalty for
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deaths that was formerly part of channers peril as a replacement for the rotating are going to fix is uh so like
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this seems like a lot but it's kind of like just moving the sliding scale up a
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little bit and making room at the bottom for people to actually jump on the roller coaster so it's overall a
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positive thing and some gear updates all around to make that kind of gearing up curve
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make more sense because that feels like that's kind of the start of the problem
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here because people are getting gear that is better than lowlevel mythics outside of lowl mythics so they're
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jumping too high too fast you're not wrong that's my favorite way to be okay
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I think at this point we've talked about mythics enough that we can move on to the profession changes because yay more
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profession changes but I actually do think this is a decent one um profession knowledge
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Point respects they are coming in 11.1 and as as is pointed out in this
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post with some significant limitations so H yeah there's always there's always
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a catch there's always a catch um so the thing is you can reset your
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talent points you can only reset them once this is a onetime doover it is you
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can't do this forever this is not something that's going to let you you know oh this week I want to be good at
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this because this is selling well on the auction house oh next week I want to be good at this because this is selling better so I need to put all my points
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over there this will not let you do this this will let you Respec each of your
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professions one time so like if you started and you went into something you
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realized oh man I spent all these points and this is just a really bad idea I really wanted to specialize in something
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else then you can reset and move your points to where you want to but it won't
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let you flip around and flip back and forth yeah this is not like when dual spec came came out or whatever it's it's
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basically just a you know we notice that you you're terrible at what you're doing
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you you can change if you would like but then then you're stuck so get it right this time it reminds me a lot of the
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Diablo I respecing when they added it the game I was just thinking that yeah and that it is you know somewhat
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punitive and definitely feels like it's looking at you like are you for real are you did you really did you really do
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that did you honestly take leather working and then just go hole in on on
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making leather with it not not dragon scale any no no chain just just just
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okay I can't I can't even with but fine but fine you get a re spe go ahead and try something else at that point embrace
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the D2 model and like okay you get one if you goof this up again you've got to
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farm farm farm all these ridiculous PE like go get a tooth from a child of
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anxia that spawned during this phase like yeah that would actually be
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neat or if it was like you know you you need to like do like 17 steps to get to
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like you know the secret cow level and find like you know drop he drops a bezoar and you're like what is a bezar
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it's kind of like a a you know a thing in your abdomen you used to like use stones to Crunch your food it's kind of
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like that so get one of those um so yeah that kind of thing because because
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Diablo I in a way Diablo any Diablo game is Just got a absolute gift for making you just hate the thing you're doing as
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you're doing it in terms of this kind of thing like for resps or you know what have you I I would actually kind of like
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to see it just because Diablo I geez it's like the alar of Rights all over again except before it oh also we
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should mention that you lose um all of the skills and recipes that you
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unlocked when you reset which makes sense I would expect that yeah because some the recipes are
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tied to having certain levels of skill and something so I I would expect that that sounds normal you're leaving those
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those skill points behind you're moving them into somewhere else so you're going to lose the skills that were unlocked by having those points but you'll get you
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know whatever other skills from specking into something new yeah just be be aware that you know if you've got a bunch of
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stuff like recipes that you got via that thing they're not going to still be there so you can't game the system or at
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least they're trying to make it so can't game the system there's there's always going to be something some player will
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figure out but they're at least grabbing the edge cases that they should be able to
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grab like it's when in the future people are not going to be going why didn't they realize that you could keep these
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recipes because you can that that at least is not going to be an issue uh lunar Festival begins on the January
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28th which uh is the day I currently speaking Yeah it's live so if you're
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listening to us live there you go if you're listening to record recording it's been a few days but it's going till
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February 11th which means you'll have a couple of weeks to get it done um and I
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don't think they've added anything new like it's it's the same as it's been for at least the past four years it exists
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yeah but I mean one thing you that's in the the note here is that it's a great way to start leveling your lobby alts
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which is true you run around you get coins you get big a big chunk of XP boom you're done uh go ahead list it's not
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it's like it's not an efficient way to level alts but it's a very brainless way
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to level alts just jump from flight path to flight path well it's the kind of thing where for low-level characters a
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lot of the time you know you hit plateaus where you're getting murdered yeah yeah even even to this day I and
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and it used to be much worse like I still remember spending like three horrible sweaty hours in elen Forest to
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try to kill murlocs before I heard that oh ran over
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you know just I remember at one point I seriously as was a level eight character who ended up level 12 at the end of the
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poll because they just kept AG growing more murlocs so this is one of those
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things where you can just go click a thing get a chunk of XP get on another flight Mount go click a thing get some
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XP it's and there are I I will point out there is a new Mount so if you've been
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hoarding those uh lunar Festival coins for for the past you know 10 or 20 years
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you you might be able to get a reward out of this yes finally something to do with lunar Festival card the tokens
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right what are they I don't remember anymore I remember us to get the little envelope thing coin and there's there's
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Elders in um the aisle of Dorne now that's cool I don't know why I was
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just I was suddenly sent off into like a Ry I was sitting here thinking about it like you ever seen the video of the guy
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who's just he's floating Us in the closet you just start screaming really loudly like never mind I'm I'm
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remembering a lot of videos today I'm sorry but yeah Luna Festival up till the
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11th you go talk to some Elders it's it's good it's it's a good way to get XP without having to put a lot of thought
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into it um it is not as Liz pointed out it's not efficient you want efficient there's efficient ways but this is not
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one of those the efficient way would probably be turbulent time ways which is
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cons continuing for I think we got another month of it and I believe it's
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classic time walking this week so uh you know you go in you do your dungeons you get an XP buff with every dungeon you do
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that's just it gets kind of crazy it's a little a little itty bitty tiny bit
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crazy just a smidge a smidge of crazy a smidge a smidge of crazy especially
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since we just finished classic in the anniversary window oh God it's classic again we're we're going back we're going
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back fine going back in time um wild classic season of Discovery phase seven
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is now live we you know basically gonna mention the thing the really thing to mention here is a ramas is on next week
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I think the 6th of February I think is next week um there's also that new
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Empower mechanic where you can go click on there's like each there's like each
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of the Wings has a power thing and you can like have all all of them up or you can have just one of them up we we still
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don't know everything about it until we get to see it in action because it was tested a little bit on the PTR it
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reminds me of that uh that tablet thing they did with the Dungeons and cataclysm yeah it's not it's not that
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dissimilar to it uh but there's also the new Caron's Crypt dungeon which I yeah
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who knows this this the one about this one that kind of gets me is I know this one's going to be a nightmare for me
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because it has like there's you know it's gonna be a nightmare for all of us what's the Darkness mechanic we have to
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go run off to a like a light source somewhere it it's kind of like that end of of the dungeon with the uh death
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Knights and the you're also don't forget to mention that this does require an Attunement yeah it's it requires an
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Attunement which is like yikes I'm not not looking forward to another tun a short tun yes yeah but the darkness one
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makes me think of the the dungeon with the demon Hunters Vault of the wardens yeah that's what immediately when when I
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read this I was like Vault of the wardens no I I think we all have kind of terrible memories of Vault of the
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wardens and wandering around in the dark and uh trying to find you know the right thing of what's it so you could end the
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darkness um I mean this is this is very interesting this goes along with everything season of Discovery has been
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doing which is taking familiar things and adding new twists to them like I I
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think a lot of us have been to Kazan CRI Crips you know kind of snuck in down there or at least we know about them
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we've seen screenshots of them and now in season of discovery it's there it's a
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dungeon so that is super neat and also
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it sounds like it might be full of secrets yeah that's great yes um what blizzard
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has said about it is in order to fully explore kerazon CPS players will need to keep their eyes peeled for details
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within the environment that can lead not only to advantages that can be exploited to more safely Traverse the dungeon but
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also expose new dangers that may need to be overcome in order to claim powerful rewards multiple visits may be required
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to discover all of the secrets of kerazon CPS so this sounds like this sounds like a lot of fun absolutely um
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but now we can move on to the the the redheaded you know I don't like this to any reference because I kind of have red
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hair naturally uh but the less loved of the classics namely cataclysm classic
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proving it's just it is truly cataclysm because cataclysm itself became the Le like possibly the least popular WoW
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expansion uh I don't know Warlords is up there Let Them Fight Let them fight but
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uh we just figured out that it's not going to be in January like we thought because the PVP season is going to be
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ending on February 10th which means possibly that phase four will be in
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February I mean if it's gonna be January you've got a couple days now guys and it's I mean it's at this point it's not
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going to be January it's too late in January they'd have to announce it so uh based on the road map we had thought
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that cataclysm classic phase 4 would start in January and now that uh that time window has kind of passed but we
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have just found out that the PVP season is ending February 10th so maybe that
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suggests phase 4 starting on February 18th the week after but uh blizzard
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still has not announced that and uh yeah I mean I think it's way it's almost the
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ver similitude here is fascinating cuz it's very much a cataclysm thing to do to just not tell us when it's coming out
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and everyone sitting around going when are we getting this nothing crickets like wow this really is
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cataclysm but yeah it's that's happening uh who knows when it'll finally get to see it but now we're going to move on to
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some Diablo news um Diablo I does not know when it Seasons end like we have
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we've been having this problem season 33 had problems and now season 34 is coming
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com in having problems uh we talked about it last week that it was interesting that Diablo was going to
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have like both its Diablo 4 and Diablo 3 Seasons coming in the same week apparently listen to that podcast and
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we're like what what we we talked about that quite a bit and
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actually between the time we recorded and between the time the podcast was released publicly blizzard decided to
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push back the release date of Diablo II season 34 so we we kind of got caught in
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like a No Man's Land they're right in the middle um but yeah they push season 34
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out a week it is now starting on January 31st Friday uh that is this Friday yes
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as we're recording this probably the day you listeners are hearing this for the first time so Diablo II season 3 34 is
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probably live and uh it's it's a little confusing because the big reason they
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explained to push this back was because it was launching at the same time as Diablo 4 season 7 which is a date we
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knew in advance and probably the Diablo team knew even further in advance than
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we did I think what happened was the Diablo team certainly had the capacity to know it before we did but obviously
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somebody forgot I I don't know I'm just I'm a I'm I'm confused my head is
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spinning around in circles it's first we ended Diablo II season 33 early then we
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started Diablo II season 33 back back up again because it wasn't supposed to end and then it did actually end and then
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season 34 was supposed to start but then it wasn't supposed to start and now it's supposed to start what am I even
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supposed to think Diablo I help me out here I don't know what's going on Diablo 3 you're drunk come
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on go home Diablo 3 you're drunk and they actually Dia 3 this is an RB go ahead Wendy's sir uh I will say
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they pitched it as a good thing because it gave them an a bigger window of opportunity to resolve any gotas
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following the the seasonal character snafu restoration for season
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33 and you know it just the this is
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actually this was really funny because when I was talking to Liz about this week's podcast I said I I have feelings
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I want to come on um and I just I think the reason why I have so many thoughts
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around it is because from the get-go and this is this is something that um I I
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I've been writing out for at least a year now maybe longer and Matt I know
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you did them before I did where we do predictions oh yeah of the season start
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and end date and I get like the the board thing in my head and going just
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yeah you know yeah seriously yeah yes you're doing you're doing the Pepe Silva
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uh meme in real life and then you're putting it in words in R CMS so I had I
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had gone through that process and said okay so they're obviously not going to
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want to bump two seasons together again they dodged this when they released the expansion so we're probably going to see
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another 13 we season 33 and lo and behold you know first it ended early and
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then and then they brought it back and it ended on time and now they've delayed season 34 and I want I wish I could hit
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the way back machine and check what my original prediction was because I would
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not be surprised if it was close to this date at this point I feel like we're
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doing the two steps forward one step back let's do the time warp again yeah I
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know absolutely and I I feel I feel Adam Fletcher if you happen to listen to this
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show can I send you like a Starbucks gift card or something man as as just an
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empathy because some muffins are always good dude you can get some muffins muffin cookies I you you need um
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pre-workout because I think you're doing all the lifting over there for keeping
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this going you've had to go to the Forum so many times and say hey okay thanks for reporting this we're looking into it
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hey okay so people gave us feedback we're pushing this back like you have a hard job and I feel for you
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yeah I it is interesting to see this uh we I mean we were all pretty incredulous about them doing two seasons like within
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the same week yeah it's a busy week so we were I I won't I don't think any of
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us like thought they were gonna do this I don't think any of us thought they were gonna push it back but we did comment on that's odd and now here we
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are um I think this is the the first time in a while that they've literally
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gone online within a couple days of season start and gone JK were pushing it
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back yeah not since not since the PTR days when they had like P Diablo 3 would have its PTR and they would do it really
29:06
fast and then they would suddenly be like oh no we have to push this back because we still don't know how that power works so haven't seen that in a
29:12
while go ahead it wasn't just that they were oh we're going to push this back it was that they were they announced that
29:19
like a day before it was supposed to start in the same month that they
29:25
already accidentally started the end of season and had to unended so yeah it's
29:31
been it's been interesting it it's been a it's been a roller coaster of the last few weeks for Diablo I but now uh we're
29:38
gonna do this thing about Diablo 4 season 7 because I need to know who wrote this Liz P or Liz H it was me I
29:46
knew it Diablo 4 season 7 leveling exp experience has gone to plad it is
29:53
extremely fast I I I I I salute your Spaceballs reference I thank you of my
29:59
horrible dead heart um basically the Witchcraft powers are kind of like you
30:04
get the power to have a gigantic rotating chainsaw of angry fish or frogs
30:10
or whatever they are admittedly it's really it's pretty difficult to get the
30:15
the chainsaw of piranha to follow you around it's they have really that is one
30:21
of the things that they have made difficult but it's one of a very few things that is difficult right now yeah
30:26
I mean also um it just Diablo I had already gotten pretty fast on leveling
30:33
yeah like the past couple of Seasons it's it's been routinely amping up the speed of leveling so I remember back
30:40
when Diablo 4 came out we did multiple posts on how slow leveling was because it was and it was It was supposed to be
30:48
aund what was it Liz 160 hours something like that yeah something some it was way
30:54
up there maybe 120 maybe not quite 160 but it was way up there and now it it
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you can honestly level a character very quickly um I I feel like you could get a character to to like max level like not
31:07
Paragon but max level in like a day the speed levelers out there are doing it in
31:12
like three hours yeah but I'm no I'm no speed level I'm I me neither but in the
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first week the season was out I did get to level 60 Paragon 100 which that is
31:23
really that is really high for me I do not I do not Zoom through the levels but
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I've already we're just a week in and I met Paragon 100 that's just that is so
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much Paragon I don't know why I was about to say we heard you like Paragon so
31:41
more work exhibits the end boss like three people got that joke I'm sorry
31:47
yeah I got it but also um I do like to point out which hex of Whispers is back
31:54
by the way that's that's cool um I mean go ahead listen some some of the Witchcraft Powers have been a a tiny
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itty bitty bit buggy and hex of Whispers uh Liz correct me if I'm wrong is this
32:06
the one that could crash the servers by constantly like self-replicating yeah do do do we
32:13
actually know how that worked self-replicating Pi up vram that's how it worked I can guarantee it I can
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absolutely guarantee it I I don't think they released the exact flow that would
32:26
cause the but it was bad enough that they globally
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disabled this power for not one not two but three hot fixes in the first week
32:42
that this was disabled and now um they've they've taken out it's not a
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power but there's a different feature that should be back up and running this
32:53
is the cleansing PES and head hunt areas they should be back up and running in uh another day or two they're they're
33:01
making the patch bigger by the time you listen to this they should be available but we can't be sure probably probably
33:09
they'll be available it's a good it's it's a good possibility but yes it is the future and the future is mysterious
33:16
but so that's our Diablo news um I I've got to say I hope that people don't think I am ragging on Diablo I for its
33:23
its interesting stuff because man I remember playing Diablo I back when like Seasons first started getting themes and
33:30
they would have to like literally hot fix the theme like four times before it worked this is not yeah these are
33:36
complicated things that they are doing with these games I mean there there was a period where it was notable if you got
33:42
into the season and this was you know up to like season 20 or 22 uh if it started
33:48
the we told you yeah abely which on that note actually season 7 was a really
33:55
clean roll out for Diablo I Diablo 4 has had sluggish buggy launches in the past
34:03
that have not gone as anticipated The Vessel of hatred launch went live a
34:08
number a large number of hours after it was supposed to launch and I Diablo 4
34:14
season 7 it was a very small smooth roll out the patch went live the season went
34:19
live and it just it all work it happened supposed to it's it was just imagine
34:25
Todd Howard saying that I I'm gonna rep the memes
34:30
yeah it was it was a bit of a surprise but you know a little over a year later we've had a season roll out that was
34:37
totally smooth great season yeah and I only having to disable one power uh for
34:43
a brief period and then only hly I'm not arguing with it only cleansing fire PES and they might even be up soon uh but
34:50
OverWatch for a bit here um apparently we've got Joe have you been playing OverWatch at all are you still playing
34:55
Marvel Rivals all all the time no I have been playing OverWatch it's just called Marvel Rivals okay then you you can't
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actually answer these these things I've got here so I sorry unfortunately I cannot but if you've seen the the latest
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carbon animation yes so Joe did you did you order that Jeff the shark t-shirt
35:13
that's my question not yet however I get paid in four
35:20
hours see there I think the the shark would be better as a hoodie you can get it as a hoodie for people out there who
35:26
have no idea what talking about carbot released a new animation that is Marvel Rivals and features an adorable Jeff the
35:34
land shark looking a little a tiny bit like a Zergling cuz that's the carbot
35:40
style and you can buy it on a t-shirt or hoodie that says MVP on it yeah I just
35:45
want I want a hoodie yeah I want a hoodie that's literally just so I can look like Jeff the shark like I
35:51
seriously those those ex those existed for a while you can get a shark no problem midseason OverWatch patch which
35:58
is landing with a lot of content coming soon uh apparently there's the moth meta mode that's hit on it's going to hit on
36:06
February 4th my my apologies I couldn't say that for some reason which is going to be bringing back the uh OverWatch ERA
36:12
with Mercy as a res bot and the article also mentions symmetra so yay symmetra's
36:19
got Shields DPS doomfist nostalgic fun blah blah what what's interesting to me about this is that they keep doing these
36:25
kind of like weird call backs to the original OverWatch and this is another
36:30
one they just didn't they just do one yeah they did the the classic 66 not too long ago uh I want to say less than a
36:37
month about a month ago I believe so last mon6 last month they did that and now they're doing this another kind of
36:44
call back they they are continuing they're planning to continue to do 6v6
36:49
testing so uh they closed down the 6v6 and they closed down the classic but
36:56
they're going to keep testing different variations of 6v6 in order with a plan
37:01
to eventually bring it back as some kind of game mode but it's still kind of testing come and go and I think I think
37:08
right now it's gone or no it's about to come back with this patch do you know why if
37:14
I had to Hazard a guess you know why I this is going to be a guess but I think it's a pretty good educated guess is
37:21
that their engagement probably tripled or doubled uh somewhere in that range
37:26
when 6v6 was was was back and then immediately tailed off as soon as 6v6
37:31
was gone and they're probably trying to see if they do another 6v6 if it'll
37:37
chart back up um well plus we should we should actually talk about what this this next trial is going to be because
37:43
it's not standard 6v6 it's Max 3 min1 mode so you could go 222 as it says here
37:51
or you could go three one yeah yeah so this is so you can have like one DPS and three tanks if
37:58
you wanted to this is a throwback actually to when OverWatch was first in beta because that was one of the
38:05
original modes that OverWatch one had and then when it released that's why
38:10
they like before they made any changes you could have a million tanks then they made some changes but this goes back to
38:16
one of the modes they tested in beta of OverWatch one which I think is very fascinating I will speak I will speak in
38:23
overwatch's defense here which is that it was planned announced that they would
38:28
test different 6v6 modes and that it would you know they would test one and they would test another with the
38:34
intention of bringing back some kind of 6v6 mode so I I am not surprised that the last test ended and now there's a
38:42
new test starting with this patch and uh classic kind of feels like a no-brainer
38:47
to have just kept classic around but classic was a separate thing from the 6v6 testing that was its own thing which
38:54
started and had it had an announced in date when it started which like I said
39:00
seems crazy why not just keep it around people are going to love it but the fact
39:05
that they're cycling through 6v6 testing I think that is expected that was announced and they're trying to find the
39:12
right formula here to bring back and keep around and I'm saying I say it right now I want them to do like max
39:19
four minimum none or you could just like have four tanks to support or like you
39:25
know like six DPS like four DPS one tank One support um this sounds like an oops
39:32
Al Druids Raiders comp yeah or that one raid I did oh it was like there were
39:39
like 40 fighter 40 Warriors and wow just 40 Warriors trying to get through uh the
39:44
swirly water boss uh in Mr Pandaria last in Siege of orar yeah we had we had like
39:51
not 40 25 uh 25 Warriors it I do I do have one thing to say not not about the
39:59
The Nostalgia mode so to speak but about the seasonal events because they've got the Lunar New Year and Valentine's
40:06
coming up uh Cupid Hanzo Tangled called and they want their smolder
40:13
back uh Zachary Levi all right uh site news we have site news then question
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look at me and my sad puppy dog eyes look at them unfortunately mat this is an audio podcast only yeah yeah imagine
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know your support is what keeps this site going and I did want to give you a
40:49
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41:09
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42:38
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questions I'm gonna throw back to you Matt I'm gonna catch him caught good yeah I did it um I'm gonna read this one
43:20
first because it's from Corey Corey has some questions could could you perhaps tell people how to S that yeah I could I
43:29
I haven't Mis slaving much I'm sorry uh first off if you have email and you'd like to use email you can email us at
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43:54
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money and then for us to give you something in return uh we do like to to give people value uh so yeah those are
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the ways I can think of top my head I mean I guess theoretically you could like put a note on a passenger pigeon and just sort of hope that it gets to me
44:48
although I don't know where you got a passenger pigeon They're All Dead you know that right don't don't do necromancy to ask question or Matt's
44:54
address please don't look up Matt's address just to send him an undead pigeon well that's fair that's fair
45:00
although I mean I wouldn't mind having my own Undead pigeon but only if it was like you know actually Cory Frankl
45:06
pigeons are really weird and aggressive never mind uh speed Lancer no no we're going with Corey first because Cory ask
45:11
us a question here um Corey asked us a pile of questions yes but the one I want to read first is what's the weirdest
45:18
food or drink you've eaten or drunk uh this question brought to you by the ham and pineapple pizza beer I drank on the
45:25
weekend uh who wants to answer this one first Joe
45:31
okay I mean everybody's going to know the answer to this and I think it's going to
45:37
be very much my personality uh so it was come to no surprise if I had all of the
45:43
uh the money in closet space were no issue I would have all of the bowling shirts that have ever existed and I
45:49
would basically look like a kid still straight out of a 90 SCA video because I
45:55
miss that I miss having comfortable wide jeans you you're answering the bottom
46:00
question yeah we talk we're on the top one oh sorry wonderling shirt I
46:07
disassociated I'm sorry oh man I I do hope you are not eating any bowling
46:14
shirts aely thought I ski healing me
46:19
that's me I am so sorry this is what happens when I haven't had caffeine wow I'm leaving that in I'm not editing that
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out at all um weirdest food or drink I've ever eaten or drink I can't I don't
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think I can answer on the podcast um dirty no I've eaten some weird things so when I was traveling the world as like a
46:37
a teenager and a young adult I had a rule if something was offered to me I
46:42
wouldn't say no unless it was like drugs or something that would probably get me killed so I ate a lot of weird
46:49
concoctions or like bits of animals that you probably shouldn't eat over the years and I'll leave it at that um yeah
46:57
either Liz do you either of you have one I I actually have two answers because and one is going to Delight uh some some
47:06
of our Guild members because and and our Discord members because they heard it mentioned recently so the most I'll say
47:13
not the weirdest but the most interesting good food or drink that I recently had was baked zi pizza and this
47:22
sparked amazing conversation in the Discord and it's so so good it's so good
47:29
but like one slice is literally a whole meal yeah cuz it's covered in C exactly
47:36
were you on Discord when we were rating and I told everybody about Macy's place pizza I think so I think so because I
47:42
looked up their pizzas on Instagram and oh those look good yeah I so it's it's a
47:48
well-known fact that eventually one day I will finally get up to the land of Joe
47:54
and his partner because I've known them both forever and we will just go on a
48:00
grand food tour and I'll go home like two sizes larger because it's going to
48:05
be spectacular but the the weirdest food I've ever had period uh is another
48:13
cultural thing and it's quite cool um to me I would never eat it again but uh
48:19
there's I I went to an Alaskan native cultural event as part of a company that
48:27
I worked for and they were one of the the North Slope tribes that are still
48:34
licensed to go after native Wildlife which include whales and seals this is
48:42
very deeply INR in their culture and they had foods that they preserve using
48:48
methods that they've been following for hundreds of years at that event and
48:54
people were allowed to try it and um I don't know if I would ever eat it again
49:00
but it was it they they were fascinating things and they're they're very designed for your living inside the Arctic tundra
49:10
you need to take in lots of fats lots of proteins to survive those Winters those
49:18
same fats that were also used for heating Cooking Light because they r r the oil down it's I I oddly enough I
49:25
just went on a into it deep dive like two nights ago and learned all about
49:30
that stuff so it it it was incredibly cool I don't know if I would ever want to eat something like blubber again well
49:38
okay be picky then geez uh I know other Liz main Liz original Liz I'm I'm not an
49:44
adventurous person you know if I could spend the rest of my life living on chicken nuggets and tater tots I would
49:50
do that and be very happy uh you know we going on the pizza theme I did want to
49:56
have a salad pizza which does not sound nearly as delicious as a baked ZD pizza
50:03
but it was one of those it was one of those combinations that's so weird you
50:08
had to try it you know it it worked in a weird way it worked it was a like a
50:13
pizza shell a pizza crust covered in lettuce and dressing and it's like I did
50:19
not expect this but I'm not I'm not unhappy though if IID known baked CD piz pizza was an option I would have
50:25
preferred that uh and one thing uh at at Disneyland one
50:31
of the things they serve is a peanut butter and jelly pizza which is in fact delicious it's it's
50:39
like it's a it's kind of like a whole wheat pizza crust and it's covered in swirls of peanut butter and jelly that
50:45
is that is also really great so yeah I'm I'm I'm just listing adventurous pizzas
50:51
now and not even that adventurous that's that's all I got that's all I got for this one well I'm not not going to talk
50:56
about Easter pie because Easter pie is not that weird it's basically just a kiche it's a big dense kiche but um I
51:04
will talk about cila fish cotton candy what I used to live in San Francisco and
51:12
San Francisco has a lot of what you'd call joke food available there's lots of small independent companies like there's
51:19
dirt soda that you can get um you say eh but dirt soda they has bugs in it like
51:27
it's literally yeah that's even more that's even more it you know it's just but for me the it was the Gila fish
51:33
cotton candy which was only even challenged by the Sardine uh candy corns because they it
51:42
has all the chalkiness of candy corn and all the Sardine of Sardine if you if you like sardines I do uh then you like the
51:49
saltiness and so forth but if you're like other people who don't like sardines these things are a terrible gut
51:54
punch to the mouth that is the most questionable food I might have ever heard of Sardine cotton candy sard candy
52:03
corn candy corn The Gila fish cotton candy is a they're they're differently
52:09
bad but also I liked them but they were they were both not good but it was like it was a distinctive when you eat
52:15
something sweet you do not expect that blast of umami you know just it's just
52:21
like whoa what the heck is that so yeah uh but I guess now we should try to ask the if money closet space where No
52:27
Object how would you choose to dress each day because Joe basically put us there welcome from the land of tomorrow
52:35
okay yeah Joe's already answered his so um Liz H you know I would just I would
52:42
just have a collection of like soft fuzzy sweatshirts and I would just
52:47
rotate through them I that I would be I would be very content as long as it was
52:53
Fuzzy this is an important an Factor fuzzy and soft and cozy it's all I need
53:00
uh Liz P so this this is going to sound incredibly uh wishy-washy but I kind of
53:07
already do because I I I love wearing
53:12
like the kind of loose flowy cotton pants and like graphic or slogan printed
53:19
T-shirts uh today's shirt says uh sarcasm it's how I hug and I like that's
53:28
my happy play I I throw on my blizzard watch hoodie and even did a thumbs up
53:33
when I said that and I'm just I'm so comfy and cozy and I'm a happy camper I
53:39
you know I've got slippers and I'm good to go x01 power armor from Fallout saw
53:46
that coming yep and whenever I play Fallout 4 because you know how Fallout 4
53:51
has the building thing whenever I play Fallout 4 I the the Minute Men no no
53:57
progress is made uh the Brotherhood of Steel I join just just long enough to
54:02
get my own power armor and then I never see those guys again I just go around collecting all the power armor and
54:09
putting it in my base that I built just to display power and I have like the
54:15
last time I played Fallout I I literally had every single set of power armor that
54:22
can be collected in the game like there were no more nobody body else had any at this point I mean they did because you
54:29
know NPCs are wearing it so forth but I had every single piece that was available to be collected and didn't
54:35
immediately throw a you know you be you're a thief you're stealing this all of it every type but the XO one is my
54:42
favorite because the lights and you know how the other on say like you've seen Fallout the show you know how the helmet
54:48
basically has a light that you turn on and off on it like a minor l or something the x01 doesn't do that the
54:53
x01 has big lenses and they light up so you're walking around with light beams
54:59
shooting out of your face and I just love it I love it to death so yeah the x01 power armor since money is No Object
55:05
I'll just spend billions upon billions until this suit actually exists and then I will walk around in it all the time
55:12
runner up is naked but you don't need closet space for that yeah yeah also my
55:17
favorite tip or trick you've learned recently in your game with do we have time no we don't really have time I think we're we're gonna have to be done
55:23
Corey has finished us off yeah this is what this is what happens when Corey just asks three questions in one in one
55:31
go yeah that's Corey three questions in one trench C for next week it is but um
55:38
yeah I guess that's it um is you you guys already did everything Liz did the thing yeah Joe's Joe doesn't have to do
55:44
his thing anymore so it's basically just me okay uh thank you guys for listening to the Blizzard watch podcast uh thank
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you to Joe Liz and Alterna Liz um I still think antimatter Liz might have
55:57
been my best one it was a good one I liked it a lot it's it's tough when
56:02
we're both in the same place at the same time I don't I don't like the Liz one and Liz 2 thing because it implies a
56:08
superior ordering of lizes which is untrue Dr Seuss I think we could go with
56:14
barion true bionic and nonionic Liz because you've got Dark Matter Liz and
56:20
and you know regular matter Liz but then that applies one of you is unusual and one of you is normal and that's not true
56:26
you're both than usual well there was Matt Matt the two-headed ogre now there's Liz Liz the two-headed Hydra it's fine we're we're good that's
56:32
actually not bad okay think about I like it originally we just had Liz the Hydra with only one head but then someone cut
56:38
the head off and now two boom uh but yeah okay thank you guys so much for being here with us uh this has
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been the blizzard watch podcast and we will be back next week [Music]
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woohoo
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