Twisted Nether Blogcast

Shared Topic: Relationships within Azeroth

fimlys@gmail.com (Breana and Fimlys) — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 08:29:05 +0000

This week’s Blog Azeroth Shared Topic was suggested by Naithin of Tank ‘n’ Tree, and asks us to think about the different relationships that are formed within Azeroth.

And I don’t (necessarily) mean the romantic ones (although I know of a couple that have worked out). Quite a broad topic really, could take it from the angle of how friendships (or acquaintances) develop relative to those in the real world, or a list of things people do in WoW (that they probably would never do in RL.. Or maybe they would with some people?) that irk you to no end and have you sending them to the abyss of /ignore faster than trade spamming inappropriate jokes?
I’m sure we’ve all dealt with people at either extreme, those we make fast friends with, and a friendship that may endure many years and even across multiple games… Through to those that while they may’ve been within our guild or circle of game friends for some time? Are just an absolute drain to be around for any period of time.
Don’t get me wrong, I understand that the beating of dead horses is quite possibly audible from space on this one, but even if you don’t have a unique take on the matter, perhaps you have a rather unique (or at least interesting!) story of your own on the matter.

Responding to this week’s topic are the following:

Jaedia from The Lazy Sniper

Ophelie from The Bossy Pally and the Giant Spoon

Windsoar from Jaded Alt

Cybac from Raid Leader

Phyl from WoW and Me

AngryAlt of Angry Alt

Anea of Anea

Naithin of Tank ‘n’ Tree

Cassandri of Hots and Dots

If you would like to respond to a Shared Topic, or suggest your own, head on over to the Blog Azeroth Forums! Next week’s Shared Topic is RPG Nostalgia.

TNB Live Friday 11/6 8:00pm PST – It Came From The Podcast Multicast GiveAWAY

fimlys@gmail.com (Breana and Fimlys) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:48:32 +0000

Join us tonight for a SPOOKY extravaganza as we enter the funhouse and we give away FABULOUS prizes including the Grand Prize of ONE Figureprints Statue for our “It Came From The Podcast Multi-Cast Give Away”. We will be joined by the hosts from Slash2 Podcast, The Hunting Lodge Podcast, Pugcast and (of course) The Twisted Nether Blogcast

Listen in our LIVE chat room and we’ll take questions (and hopefully answer them if we can).

When is it?: This live show is scheduled for Friday November 6th at 8:00pm PST (11:00 pm EDT). Not sure what time that is for you? Use this handy-dandy time converter!
Where do I go? To participate on the live show, you will need to go to the TNB Live Show page to connect with the stream. See, totally easy. If you are having issues then go to the Ustream page.
Some general ground rules:
1. Be nice. If you say very inappropriate things be aware you will be kicked from the room. We are doing this to have a great time, come with a beer, come during a raid, come how you wish, just don’t come to cause trouble.
2. You may ask questions to the participants during the show, but we reserve the right to use them if and when we can. I will be monitoring the chat room and if I can I will use the comments during the show. We love that you are with us, but I will have to weave them in. Even if it isn’t asked, we all appreciate your questions

Outside of that, we will love to have you join us and partake in an enlightening discussion that is sure to follow! Hope to see you there!

Episode 65 – A Dae In The Life

fimlys@gmail.com (Breana and Fimlys) — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:41:08 +0000

We welcome Daewin from the Hunting Lodge Podcast this week as we talk Race change, podcasting anecdotes and the nature of ballerina warlocks!

UGT-Servers.com – UGT Servers! Ventrillo Servers for Your Guild!

General News

Reminder: must merge account onto a Battle.net account.. if you do it before 11/11 you get a penguin pet.. if you don’t do it then you can’t play afer 11/14 (until you do it).. so do it!

Race change is now available (link)
Lowered cooldown on faction change to 3 days

more info on the LFG/LFR/Daily Dungeon.. (link 1) (link 2)

Monday: special live interview with Kristin Lindsay from Child’s Play.

- Day of the Dead 11/1-11/2

From the Show

The Hunting Lodge Podcast live recordings on Sunday night at 8pm PST

Avatar Movie coming out 12/18

Hot Topics from the Nether!

(Tree of Life) Social networking meets WOW? (link)
(Mortigan the Lock) How To Raid Anything (link)
(Mortigan the Lock) “A LETTER OF RESIGNATION TO THE SONS OF HODIR” (link)
(BigHitBox) Small Points: An Icehowl Survival Guide (link)

We’d like to welcome all of the new bloggers who introduced themselves on Blog Azeroth. This week we saw posts from:
- (hunter) Piercing shots
- (balance druid) Sunfyre’s Nest
- (resto druid) Leafy Appendages
- (gaming) Kaozz
- (resto druid) Tree of Doom
- (healing) Miss Medicina
- (leveling on a PVP server) OMG Rednames!
- (druids) Sushicookie
- (raid tanking) Vigilance
- (WoW) Eviscerated
- (WoW) Raid Naked – Gaming in the Buffs
- (alts) Adventures in Altitis
- (resto druid) Leaf-head
- (RP) The Condundrum Effect
- (Raiding) Raid Leader
- (Ret Paladins) Caer Morrighan
- (Leveling druids) Noobkin
- (WoW) The Angry Gamer
- (Resto Druid) Tree Haelz

We’d like to encourage all of you to visit the TNB Wiki and be sure to be listed in the Big List of Blogs.

Shared Topic This Week
Each week on BlogAzeroth a new topic is posted for general blogging. We encourage our listeners to post about that topic on their own blog and then post a link to it in the forum.

Current Shared Topics:
Gearing For a Role You Cannot Yet Perform

and Blogging about finding WoW in unknown places

Next week…

Next week we’ll have a special guest, Kristin Lindsay, from Child’s Play on Monday and on Friday we’ll be finishing off “IT CAME FROM THE PODCAST” and giving out fabulous prizes!

(Opening song “Monster Techno Blues” is preformed Joe Sibol, additional song credits: Phonecasting – Foggy Monutain Morning, Joe Sibol – Hot Sexy Girls Instrumental, provided by podssafeaudio.com)

Resource Site Spotlight: GoldRaidManager

fimlys@gmail.com (Breana and Fimlys) — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:48:18 +0000

This week, I’ll be highlighting an addon that helps you run a GDKP raid called GoldRaidManager. In case you’re wondering, GDKP is a style of raid loot distribution popularized by people on Korean MMO servers. Essentially, the way it works is that all drops are auctioned off to the highest bidder, and all the money gained this way gets split among all raid members at the end of the instance. Here’s the thread about it on EJ.

The manual for this addon is a “convenient” mile long JPG with screenshots. Basically, this addon is used every time an epic or something of value drops. People in raid bid gold for drops by typing a number into raid chat. Note- during an auction would be a bad time to link the DPS meters. The winner trades their bid amount to the raid leader, who will divide the gold into 25 equal shares at the end of the raid:

Now GDKP itself is not for everyone, but if your server has enough players who are geared to the teeth and farming ToC while working on ToGC, some of them might well be interested in going back into Naxx or Ulduar again if they could get 2700G from it.

One FAQ I needed answered before I would even consider posting this is about ninjas with master loot- however, this blue post assuaged my fears. Basically, as long as the rules are stated in game chat (not vent), the GMs will consider any loot ninja a scammer, and make sure everyone gets their share.

The resource site spotlight (aka wiki tiki utility posts) should happen every week, but is written by Euripides from outdps.com, and endeavors to fill your favorites bar with an unmanageably large quantity of WOW resource sites. So much knowledge that it hurts. Ow. Ow. Ow. Ow.

Episode 64 – Round the Campfire

fimlys@gmail.com (Breana and Fimlys) — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 03:09:58 +0000

WARNING: SPOILERS!!

This week we have a 3.3 Round table with Matticus(World of Matticus), Stoneybaby(Big Hit Box), Graylo(Gray Matter), Honorshammer(Honor’s Code) and Saresa (Destructive Reach) .

SPONSORED BY:
UGT-Servers.com – UGT Servers! Ventrillo Servers for Your Guild!

General News

Wordpress 2.8.5 is now available for download. DO IT. (oh and btw back up your stuff)
- Hallow’s End 10/18-10/31
- Day of the Dead 11/1-11/2

The Twitter Q&A: (link)

Q: When do hunters get to tame druids?
A: Right after druids get a hunter form.

As Brigwyn tweetted: It wasn’t the answer I wanted, but the didn’t say it was impossible. So I guess we can say they have the initial requirements locked.

It’s the “It Came From the Podcast!” Mutli-Cast Halloween Giveaway! (See the post)

Round Table Fodder

Retrospective 3.1/3.2 : Did it break the game, was the wailing and gnashing of teeth well founded?
- Mounts at 20/40/60 (note also the v. inexpensive flying 225g in HH/(wherever Hordies go )
- Free badges for EVERYONE (ie, update to Heroics to drop conquest badges)
- Extended raid lockout
- Faction Change

Looking forward *** SPOILER ALERT *** 3.3 in all its glory
- Class specific changes.. who’s being buffed? who’s being nerfed?
- Low level changes. Prep for the upcoming cataclysm?
- Head/Shoulder enchants become BoA
- Faster Rep (yeah.. I’m already exalted.. err um.. …)

- UI Changes
- LFG and random dungeon daily (Dungeon Cooldown and Dungeon Deserter.. Teleport to Dungeon)
- Disenchant feature
- Uninvite feature (”You! YOU are worthless GTFO”)
- Nameplate feature

- Weekly Raid Quests – 10 Emblems of Frost!
- Tier 10 armor sets (and new method of acquisition)
From the Twitter #Blizzchat
5:24pm CDT: Q: With T10, are we going to see tokens like in Ulduar? or like CC? CC style had every class and spec rolling on same thing.
A: With T10 we’re going to see a hybrid. The tier 10 items (the ones with item levels you’d find in the 10-player raid) will be purchased with Emblems of Frost.
The tier 10.5 items (the ones with item levels you’d find in the 25-player raid) will be obtained by getting a token (one that is specific to 3 or 4 classes, much like the ulduar tokens) and using it to upgrade the tier 10 item that was purchased with emblems of frost.

- Ice Crown Citadel
- 3 new 5-mans
- New faction Ashen Verdict (upgradable rings)
- New ICC raid
- Hard modes

From the Twitter #Blizzchat
5:13pm CDT: Q: Ulduar had one kind of hard mode(triggered).. ToC had another (ToC vs TOGC).. Ony has none. What will ICC have?”
A: ICC’s hard modes will be triggered, but via in-game UI (much like how you toggle between normal and heroic modes today) rather than triggered by game mechanics (like not killing the three drakes before you attack Sartharion).

Your homework assignment is: help Saresa to come up with future topics.
Please, if you get a chance, head over to BlogAzeroth and suggest some topics for the shared topic. Thanks!

Next week…

Next week we’ll be talking with Daewin from The Hunting Lodge Podcast
(Opening song “Monster Techno Blues” is preformed Joe Sibol, additional song credits: Phonecasting – Foggy Monutain Morning, Joe Sibol – Hot Sexy Girls Instrumental, provided by podssafeaudio.com)

TNB Live Thursday 10/29 8:00pm PDT – Daewin of The Hunting Lodge Podcast

fimlys@gmail.com (Breana and Fimlys) — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:41:46 +0000

Join us for a special Thursday night recording at 8:00PM PDT as we’ll be talking with Daewin from The Hunting Lodge Podcast. We’ll be doing our whole show live!

Listen in our LIVE chat room and we’ll take questions (and hopefully answer them if we can).

When is it?: This live show is scheduled for Thursday October 29th at 8:00pm PDT (11:00 pm EDT). Not sure what time that is for you? Use this handy-dandy time converter!
Where do I go? To participate on the live show, you will need to go to the TNB Live Show page to connect with the stream. See, totally easy. If you are having issues then go to the Ustream page.
Some general ground rules:
1. Be nice. If you say very inappropriate things be aware you will be kicked from the room. We are doing this to have a great time, come with a beer, come during a raid, come how you wish, just don’t come to cause trouble.
2. You may ask questions to the participants during the show, but we reserve the right to use them if and when we can. I will be monitoring the chat room and if I can I will use the comments during the show. We love that you are with us, but I will have to weave them in. Even if it isn’t asked, we all appreciate your questions

Outside of that, we will love to have you join us and partake in an enlightening discussion that is sure to follow! Hope to see you there!

Shared Topic Bonanza!

fimlys@gmail.com (Breana and Fimlys) — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 07:53:15 +0000

This week, because I’ve been lazy, we again have 2 Shared Topics in one!

The first of these was suggested by Boize of Moonglade:

Recently I found WoW in a place that I hadn’t expected it to be in the world outside the interwebs.
I was out grocery shopping, saw someone looking at the iPhone Armory app, and struck up a conversation with them about WoW, completely out of the blue.
This was my first real out-of-game “hey, other people around me play WoW too!” kind of moment.
Have you had any of these moments? What’s the most unexpected place you’ve found something WoW-related?

Blogging about finding WoW in unknown places are the following:

Boize from Moonglade

Almaster of Lux Legis

The second Shared Topic, Gearing for a Role You Cannot Yet Perform was suggested by Naithin of Tank N Tree:

Which is to say, Tanking or Healing as the two primary culprits here. Not that I condone waltzing into a heroic as a freshly dinged 80 to ‘DPS’ without having put any effort in either, but you can do this and get through a run. To a lesser degree you can with healing as well, if the tank is suitably geared. Most difficult of all, tanking. Even if the healer is absolutely wonderful and able to keep you alive, good luck then in keeping agro off everyone else.
I haven’t yet finished my take on the topic, but will be sure to link through to it when I have. Feel free to take the idea any way you wish, be it a simple list of gear you can buy cheaply or through to methods of obtaining gear while being something else and their associated ethics (or lack thereof).
Would be very curious to see what others come up with. In this day and age in WoW, it’s probably never been easier to do, but yet, it’s still not precisely easy, and I see post after post asking how it’s done. So have at it!

Reponding to this topic are the following:

Icedragon of Druid Main

Naithin of Tank N Tree

Orc Shaman of Orc Shaman

Cybac of Raid Leader

As always, we are looking for more Shared Topic suggestions! Head on over to the Blog Azeroth Forums and suggest a Shared Topic!

Resource Site Spotlight: JMTC Gold Forum

fimlys@gmail.com (Breana and Fimlys) — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:26:34 +0000

Today, I’ll be highlighting a forum for warcraft economics. The JMTC forums are hosted by Marco, from the Just My Two Copper blog, and is a place for people to talk about making money on the WOW auction house. It’s one of the larger such communities, and as such has a wealth of information to get people started on using the auction house to make gold.

Please note- some of the ads on the site are for services that break the game’s terms of service, and I have to say that the TNB does not suggest you do anything that would break the game rules, but the info in the forums themselves are all fair game.

They have quite a few guides for different professions, so if you’re trying to figure out how to make money with, say, leatherworking and enchanting, go take a look!

TNB Live Friday 10/23 8:00pm PDT – Round Table

fimlys@gmail.com (Breana and Fimlys) — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:50:42 +0000

Join us for our Friday night recording at 8:00PM PDT as we’ll have a 3.3 Round table with Matticus(World of Matticus), Stoneybaby(Big Hit Box), Graylo(Gray Matter), Honorshammer(Honor’s Code) and (maybe) Pike(Aspect of the Hare).. We’ll be doing our whole show live!

Listen in our LIVE chat room and we’ll take questions (and hopefully answer them if we can).

When is it?: This live show is scheduled for Friday October 23rd at 8:00pm PDT (11:00 pm EDT). Not sure what time that is for you? Use this handy-dandy time converter!
Where do I go? To participate on the live show, you will need to go to the TNB Live Show page to connect with the stream. See, totally easy. If you are having issues then go to the Ustream page.
Some general ground rules:
1. Be nice. If you say very inappropriate things be aware you will be kicked from the room. We are doing this to have a great time, come with a beer, come during a raid, come how you wish, just don’t come to cause trouble.
2. You may ask questions to the participants during the show, but we reserve the right to use them if and when we can. I will be monitoring the chat room and if I can I will use the comments during the show. We love that you are with us, but I will have to weave them in. Even if it isn’t asked, we all appreciate your questions

Outside of that, we will love to have you join us and partake in an enlightening discussion that is sure to follow! Hope to see you there!

Episode 63 – Rip on Hunters

fimlys@gmail.com (Breana and Fimlys) — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 19:07:58 +0000

Welcome back for a new episode of TNB! This week we welcome Euripides from outdps.com and the Hunting Party Podcast! We talk hunters, of course, but also dig into alts, leveling and we announce our new Multi-Cast Halloween Giveaway!

SPONSORED BY:
UGT-Servers.com – UGT Servers! Ventrillo Servers for Your Guild!

General News

IAB Calls on FTC to Rescind Blogger Rules; Questions Constitutionality (link)

A new patch is up on the PTR everythign is in flux. (link)

Hallow’s End starts on Sunday 10/18-10/31

It’s the “It Came From the Podcast!” Mutli-Cast Halloween Giveaway! (See the post)

TNB will having a virtual meetup on the PTR on Monday 10/12 (and probably also on Monday 10/19). Send email to info@twistednether.net for more information.

Hot Topics from the Nether!

(Resource Site Spotlight) Epic Advice (link)
(Miss Medicina) The Problem with Theorycrafting, Redux (link)
(Popehat) Surprise Selection of Thrall for Nobel Peace Prize Draws Mixed Reaction (link)
(Wordpress) Hardening Wordpress (link)

We’d like to welcome all of the new bloggers who introduced themselves on Blog Azeroth. This week we saw posts from:
- (Warlock) Crooks and Nannies
- (hunters)The Brew Hall
- (Disc Priest)My World of Warcraft Addiction
- (healing) Casual Healin’
- (theorycrafting) That One Warcraft Blog
- (druid) Cardboard-druid
- (General) Chronicles of a Casual WoW Player
- (Paladin) The Bossy Pally and the Giant Spoon
- (Gold in WoW) One Copper
- (priest) Empowered Healing
- (UI) The Goblin Workshop
- (resto shaman/feral tanks) Twenty-five boxes
- (Comics) Dungeons and Draenei

We’d like to encourage all of you to visit the TNB Wiki and be sure to be listed in the Big List of Blogs.

The topic for this week is:
19th October 2009: Gearing For a Role You Cannot Yet Perform

Next week…

Next week we’ll have a 3.3 Round table with Matticus(World of Matticus), Stoneybaby(Big Hit Box), Graylo(Gray Matter), Honorshammer(Honor’s Code) and (maybe) Pike(Aspect of the Hare).

It Came From The Podcast Spooky Give Away

fimlys@gmail.com (Breana and Fimlys) — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:16:47 +0000

In the live recording (and in the podcast coming out soon) Nib and Fim mentioned the Halloween Give Away “It Came From The Podcast”. Rules are now posted. Listen to the podcasts, email in the spooky words and WIN!

It’s the “It Came From the Podcast!” Mutli-Cast Halloween Giveaway! Four different podcasts have banded together to bring the spirit of “GIVE ME THE LOOT” to this spooky season. Slash2 Podcast, The Hunting Lodge Podcast, Pugcast and The Twisted Nether Blogcast (that’s us!!) invite you to enter the funhouse and win lots of FABULOUS prizes including the Grand Prize of ONE Figureprints Statue! Each podcast will have a Spooky word you need to listen for. Send those words to itcamefromthepodcast@gmail.com and you will be entered to win! In addition to the awesome grand prize, the podcasts will each be giving out their own spectacular booty to those who submit their specific codeword. Entries are being collected from now until November 4th! Then, join us on November 6th for a night of Terror, a night of Surprises, a night of.. PODCASTING!!!! The four casts will come together in a stupendous blowout event where we will not only announce the winners of the 5 prizes, but also get some lucky live listeners in on the prize winning action! So, Listen, Enter, Listen again.. and WIN! Rules and more information are posted on each podcast’s homepage! Or ARE THEY… MUAHAHAHAHA….

TNB on the PTR TONIGHT 7:30pm PST Take 2

fimlys@gmail.com (Breana and Fimlys) — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:02:41 +0000

Tonight TNB will be having a virtual meetup on the PTR. Join us, we have a guild tabard and ventrilo.

To join us:
– Download the PTR client(link).
– Copy an Alliance toon or use an alliance-side pre-made on the PTR PVE server (Broxigar)
– Join the TNB chat channel. /join TNB
– Ask for an ginvite/invite and ventrilo information to whatever we’re doing

We’re hoping to go back into the new 5-mans and maybe check to see if “heroic” is all that hard.

See you there!

Resource Site Spotlight: Epic Advice

fimlys@gmail.com (Breana and Fimlys) — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:34:26 +0000

Epicadvice.com is a place to ask and answer questions. Picture the official forums, only community moderated and without blue posts. Or picture stackoverflow.com only about warcraft.

It was just launched, and they’re always working on tweaks and features, however it is already a very useful tool. If you have an openID, you can just use that to log on (yay, no more passwords!), and can get started right away. As a new user, you’ll have no reputation and not be able to do some basic things, however you will be able to ask and answer questions.

As you use the site more, assuming you’re not a mouth-breathing, key-turning, gold selling troll/spammer, you’ll start to gain reputation as people vote your answers and questions up. This gives you access to other features like adding tags and down voting. Nothing paramount to the basic usefulness of the site, but the kind of thing that you need to hang around a bit to earn.

You can also earn “badges” which are like achievements in warcraft. Fill in your profile, get a badge. Ask a question, get a badge. Etc. These are more cosmetic, in my opinion

Anyways, I’m just getting started in there and it’s all fairly new to me. Go ahead, give it a shot. Assuming this place continues to work the way it does now, the quality of the answers you get will be higher than many other Q&A places on the web.

Episode 62 – Better Spooner than Never

fimlys@gmail.com (Breana and Fimlys) — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 05:05:10 +0000

We sent out the search parties. We sent out the Marines.. We sent out Rambo! Finally, we found him! Spooner from Spooncraft is the special guest this week. Additionally we talk about a few more 3.3 things, Tier 10 Set graphics, A bunch of topics and we even read an email..

SPONSORED BY:
UGT-Servers.com – UGT Servers! Ventrillo Servers for Your Guild!

General News

Tier 10 set bonuses release. Also, for some you can see what they look like. (link)
More added to 3.3 patch notes. Seems to be something for everyone. (link)
Weekly Raid Quests!!
LFG Achievements
- Looking for More – Use the Dungeon tool to finish random heroic dungeons until you have grouped with 10 random players total.
- Looking for Many – Use the Dungeon tool to finish random heroic dungeons until you have grouped with 50 random players total.
- Looking for Multitudes – Use the Dungeon tool to finish random heroic dungeons until you have grouped with 100 random players total.
- title: the patient

Dots, Hots and Haste (link)
Nameplates changes (link)

TNB will having a virtual meetup on the PTR on Monday 10/12 (and probably also on Monday 10/19). Send email to info@twistednether.net for more information.

Hot Topics from the Nether!

(Critical QQ) A Quick Note on Casualism (link)
(Mimetir a guest poster on World of Matticus) Pass the Parcel: When Raiders Won’t Roll (link)
(Treebound) Your Favorite Patch (link)
(The Elitists) Twin Valkyrs Made easy (link)
(Dechion’s Place) Leveling Alchemy 1-450, on the cheap (link)

(Lifehacker) The beginners guide to tricking out your wordpress blog (link)
(From Twitter @lorelleonwp) Pay to blog just got harder. Non-disclosure can win in you USD$11,000 fine PER POST! (link)

We’d like to welcome all of the new bloggers who introduced themselves on Blog Azeroth. This week we saw posts from:
- (druids) The Tree Unleased
- (warlock) Feared By Most
- (Wow News) QQ is Cheap
- (druid) Chain Changes http://chainchanges.wordpress.com
- (druid) Rejuvo http://rejuvo.wordpress.com
- (Resource site) http://www.wowjackass.com/ a place to .. report.. jackasses on your server. You be the judge.. it has a very.. rubber-necking feel to it.

We’d like to encourage all of you to visit the TNB Wiki and be sure to be listed in the Big List of Blogs.

Next week…

Next week we’ll be talking with Euripides from OutDPS.

TNB on the PTR TONIGHT 7:30pm PST

fimlys@gmail.com (Breana and Fimlys) — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 20:04:03 +0000

Tonight TNB will be having a virtual meetup on the PTR.

We’re hoping to check out one of the new 5-mans.

See you there!

TNB Live Friday 10/16 8:00pm PST – Euripides of OutDPS

fimlys@gmail.com (Breana and Fimlys) — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:41:12 +0000

Join us for our Friday night recording at 8:00PM PST as we talk to Euripides of OutDPS. We’ll be doing our whole show live!

Listen in our LIVE chat room and we’ll take questions (and hopefully answer them if we can).

When is it?: This live show is scheduled for Friday October 16th at 8:00pm PST (11:00 am EST). Not sure what time that is for you? Use this handy-dandy time converter!
Where do I go? To participate on the live show, you will need to go to the TNB Live Show page to connect with the stream. See, totally easy. If you are having issues then go to the Ustream page.
Some general ground rules:
1. Be nice. If you say very inappropriate things be aware you will be kicked from the room. We are doing this to have a great time, come with a beer, come during a raid, come how you wish, just don’t come to cause trouble.
2. You may ask questions to the participants during the show, but we reserve the right to use them if and when we can. I will be monitoring the chat room and if I can I will use the comments during the show. We love that you are with us, but I will have to weave them in. Even if it isn’t asked, we all appreciate your questions

Outside of that, we will love to have you join us and partake in an enlightening discussion that is sure to follow! Hope to see you there!

Shared Topic: Penalty Systems and Player Entitlement

fimlys@gmail.com (Breana and Fimlys) — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 02:41:57 +0000

This week’s Shared Topic was suggested by Relevart of Relevart’s Druid Reliquary, and it asks us to ponder penalty systems in WoW, and player ‘entitlement’.

I know a few other bloggers have shown interest in the idea of player motivation and I absolutely love the idea of examining the concept of what makes us want to/need to/desire to play.

I thought a neat springboard for such a discussion would be that of the penalty system (or lack thereof, as you might see it) in WoW as well as the recent claims that Blizzard is caving to the casual players’ feeling of entitlement to see and subsequently conquer any and all content, regardless of capability or time.

I suggest these two because I think they are inherently linked at the core, with entitlement driving the penalty system and to a lesser degree, the inverse. However, I would not be opposed to separating out the most relevant topic in order to condense posts.

Responding to the topic this week are the following bloggers

Relevart (obviously) of Relevart’s Druid Reliquary

Syrana of Sideshow and Syrana

Saresa of Destructive Reach

Next week’s Shared Topic is WoW Where You’d Least Expect It. If you have a contribution to make to a Shared Topic, or a suggestion of your own, head on over to the Blog Azeroth Forums!

Episode 61 – Zanderfin’s Magic Emporium

fimlys@gmail.com (Breana and Fimlys) — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 04:30:10 +0000

This week a guest appeared as if by magic (and lots of stalking and nagging by Nib). Leiandra of Zanderfin’s Wow “Casual” Raiding joins us live! We talk about Blizzcon, 3.3 PTR and even throw in an email from a.. LOTRO Podcaster? We also talk a bunch about Azeroth United and our upcoming charity event! Don’t miss it!

SPONSORED BY:
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General News

Harvest Festival whoops, we missed it. Um.. Hope you didn’t.
Brewfest extended until the 5th (which will probably happen before this podcast is published) (link)
Blizz website got a face lift.

Blizz site has info about the new 5-mans coming in patch 3.3 as part of Icecrown Citadel. (link)
Blizzard has a new “official” youtube channel (link)

Blizz released preliminary 3.3 PTR patch notes. A lot of low level leveling changes.. and OMG change to misdirection.. and an PVP nerf to pets. (link)
PTR download is there!

TNB will have a virtual meetup on the PTR. Send email to info@twistednether.net and suggest when you’d like to do it.

Hot Topics from the Nether!

(Killing Em Slowly) The Fallacy of the Office Firewall (link)
(Runeforge Gossip) Review World of Logs (the newer smexy WWS) (link)
(The Shapeshifter) Are your guild officers fit to lead? (link)

We’d like to welcome all of the new bloggers who introduced themselves on Blog Azeroth. This week we saw posts from:
- (spriests) Lucky Lurky
- (Feral Druid) Barkskin
- (resto shaman) Healing Way
- (WoW) Kill the Horde!
- (WoW) Two Tents
- (Feral Druids) Feral of the Wild
- (WoW Screenshots) Epic Screens
- (Druid) Achievement: Name a Blog (50 pts)
- (Spriest & Druid) Hots & Dots
- (mmo players) “The Shapeshifter”
- (tankadin) The Misadventures of Svenn
- (RP) The Dragon Slayer Project

We’d like to encourage all of you to visit the TNB Wiki and be sure to be listed in the Big List of Blogs.

Next week…

Next week we’ll be talking with Spooner of Spooncraft.

TNB Live Thursday 10/8 8:00pm PST – Spooner of Spooncraft

fimlys@gmail.com (Breana and Fimlys) — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 22:07:27 +0000

Join us on a special Thursday night recording at 8:00PM PST as we talk to Spooner of Spooncraft and he proves to us once and for all that there IS a spoon. We’ll be doing our whole show live!

Listen in our LIVE chat room and we’ll take questions (and hopefully answer them if we can).

When is it?: This live show is scheduled for Thursday October 8th at 8:00pm PST (11:00 am EST). Not sure what time that is for you? Use this handy-dandy time converter!
Where do I go? To participate on the live show, you will need to go to the TNB Live Show page to connect with the stream. See, totally easy. If you are having issues then go to the Ustream page.
Some general ground rules:
1. Be nice. If you say very inappropriate things be aware you will be kicked from the room. We are doing this to have a great time, come with a beer, come during a raid, come how you wish, just don’t come to cause trouble.
2. You may ask questions to the participants during the show, but we reserve the right to use them if and when we can. I will be monitoring the chat room and if I can I will use the comments during the show. We love that you are with us, but I will have to weave them in. Even if it isn’t asked, we all appreciate your questions

Outside of that, we will love to have you join us and partake in an enlightening discussion that is sure to follow! Hope to see you there!

Shared Topic: Fails

fimlys@gmail.com (Breana and Fimlys) — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 21:52:09 +0000

This week’s Shared Topic is Fails, brought to us by Skraps of ShamWoW.

I am sure this topic has been covered, but among all my other fails I fail at searching.
I have noticed a string of my recent posts covered how I fail, often epically. I would like to see how others fail.
I think it is very good for newer players to see how those of us make dumb mistakes, even though we have been at this for quite a while.

Obviously, we all clearly fail at some point. Perhaps that is why we have so many responses this week!

Dertt at A Tranquil Spirit

Naithin at Tank ‘N’ Tree

Almaster at Lux Legis

Shawndra from Escapist Scrawl

Xeonio from Rez the Weak

Iriya from Heal My Life Tap

Spinks from Welcome to Spinksville

Jaedia from The Lazy Sniper

Victorie from RP Geeks – The Dragon Slayer Project

Have a Shared Topic of your own to suggest? Think that you could make an awesome contribution to a Shared Topic? Have a blog of your own to register? Head on over to the Blog Azeroth Forums.

Next week’s Shared Topic: Penalty Systems and Entitlement in WoW.

Episode 60 – There Is No Spoon

fimlys@gmail.com (Breana and Fimlys) — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 03:41:55 +0000

It is not the spoon that must bend… But YOU! .. Oh.. Our special guest is… Not here. Spooner from Spooncraft didn’t make it for the show. But.. The show must go on! So we talk about some 3.2.2 stuff , topics and a couple of your emails. We also go into some more details about Azeroth United! Check it out!

SPONSORED BY:
UGT-Servers.com – UGT Servers! Ventrillo Servers for Your Guild!

General News

Brewfest is going strong. Have fun!!
3.2.2 launches
3.2.2a launches
3.2.2 Expert riding skill is now 225 gold in HFP!.. Still 600g if you buy it in Dalaran. (link)
Grunty email sent out to DirecTV/streaming internet users. You should have it not. If not, check your spam folders.. or contact Blizzard.
Gamasutra interview with Alex Afrasiabi lead world designer for Cataclysm (link)
Azeroth United (link)

Hot Topics from the Nether!

(Too Many Annas) Abusing the Language – Using Accents in Roleplay (link)
(Rawrcast) Arenas for the New Player (link)
(Kestrel’s Aerie) Calling the Wipe: Do’s and Don’ts (link)
(Tales From Tyberiuss) My thoughts about future Undead Hunters (link)

We’d like to welcome all of the new bloggers who introduced themselves on Blog Azeroth. This week we saw posts from:
- (Wow sightseeing) Cat Tales
- (WoW) WTFCraft
- (Mages) Clearcasting
- (Wow Noob) Bang & Blame: A Knight’s Tale
- (Resto Druids)Tree Blooms
- (Paladins) Naga Nuggest
- (Rogue) A Rogue’s Diary

We’d like to encourage all of you to visit the TNB Wiki and be sure to be listed in the Big List of Blogs.

Next week…

Next week we’ll be talking with Leiandra of Zanderfin’s Wow “Casual” Raiding.

TNB Live Thursday 10/1 8:00pm PST – Leiandra of Zanderfin’s Wow “Casual” Raiding

fimlys@gmail.com (Breana and Fimlys) — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 18:16:38 +0000

Join us on a special Thursday night recording at 8:00PM PST as we talk to Leiandra of Zanderfin’s Wow “Casual” Raiding. We’ll be doing our whole show live!

Listen in our LIVE chat room and we’ll take questions (and hopefully answer them if we can).

When is it?: This live show is scheduled for Thursday October 1st at 8:00pm PST (11:00 am EST). Not sure what time that is for you? Use this handy-dandy time converter!
Where do I go? To participate on the live show, you will need to go to the TNB Live Show page to connect with the stream. See, totally easy. If you are having issues then go to the Ustream page.
Some general ground rules:
1. Be nice. If you say very inappropriate things be aware you will be kicked from the room. We are doing this to have a great time, come with a beer, come during a raid, come how you wish, just don’t come to cause trouble.
2. You may ask questions to the participants during the show, but we reserve the right to use them if and when we can. I will be monitoring the chat room and if I can I will use the comments during the show. We love that you are with us, but I will have to weave them in. Even if it isn’t asked, we all appreciate your questions

Outside of that, we will love to have you join us and partake in an enlightening discussion that is sure to follow! Hope to see you there!

Shared Topic: What If You Could Change One Talent?

fimlys@gmail.com (Breana and Fimlys) — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 01:21:10 +0000

This week’s Shared Topic was suggested by Relevart of Relevart’s Druid Reliquary, and was inspired by a post by Lissanna from Restokin.

If you could change one talent in any of the druid talent trees, what would it be? You could talk about what you want it changed to, or just talk about what makes it a weak talent that should be either changed or replaced in some way.

This came very close to being an all-Druid special, but we were lucky enough to get one fantastic non-Druid post. So, here we go!

Lissanna of Restokin

Relevart of Relevart’s Druid Reliquary

Graylo of Gray Matter

Kae of Dreambound

Elam of Shamenonramen

If you would like to contribute to a Shared Topic, or have a suggestion, feel free to post at the Blog Azeroth Forum! Next week’s topic is “Fails”

TNB is Going Inside!

fimlys@gmail.com (Breana and Fimlys) — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 15:48:15 +0000

Today (sorry for the late notice), Nibuca and Fimlys will be guests on the WoWInsider show, WoW.com’s weekly podcast! We’re going to be talking patch 3.2.2 and 3.2.2a (I think) and also take some time to talk about our newest endeavor, Azeroth United.

We’ve talked about it on a show a little (well, in the show you haven’t heard yet..) but Azeroth United is a new World of Warcraft Internet Media Community.. What is that? Well, tune in today at 3:30pm ET at the WoWInsider UStream to learn more about it! Well, either that or go to www.azerothunited.com ..

Come listen to us babble about stuff (just like normal). I’m sure it will be a fun time!

Resource Site Spotlight: Gear Wishlist

fimlys@gmail.com (Breana and Fimlys) — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 18:01:21 +0000

Today’s resource site spotlight will be going over a site that does a lot of work for raiders. Gear Wishlist is deceptively simple web app that tells you what you want. Seriously! Just give it your character and realm, and it will pull your gear and spec from the armory, and put together a list of upgrades based on the wowhead preset stat weights.

Here’s me: http://gear-wishlist.appspot.com/wishlist?character=euripides&realm=drenden®ion=us

Now since the survival hunter presets on wowhead are actually based on calculations done on my character, this is a very good tool for me. However, for everyone else, bear in mind that your situation is not always going to be typical. When in doubt, double check with your existing tools. Still, aside from minor variants where the difference between you and the wowhead presets is enough to reorder your list a bit, this is a very nice quick wish list!

Episode 59 – #IBlameSyrana

fimlys@gmail.com (Breana and Fimlys) — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 20:32:21 +0000

Another week of LIVE TNB! This week welcomes both Sideshow AND Syrana to the show. They are the husband/wife team behind the Sideshow and Syrana blog. We talk about Pirate’s Day, Raging Sheep and blame it all on Syrana. Don’t miss it!

SPONSORED BY:
UGT-Servers.com – UGT Servers! Ventrillo Servers for Your Guild!

General News

- pirate’s day! Um.. You missed it!
- Brewfest start(ed) Sunday
- Faction change now available in EU
- The guild Mediocrity is the 2nd guild to get “Earth Wind and Fire” and they fraps’d it.
- @WarcraftPets is now on Twitter!

Hot Topics from the Nether!

(Random Ravings of Warcraft) Raging sheep! (link)
(Kestrel’s Aerie) Twitter Hashtag Proposal: #WOWUI (link)
(Dalaran Inn) Hard Boiled: an in-depth look into WoW’s Easter Eggs (link)

We’d like to welcome all of the new bloggers who introduced themselves on Blog Azeroth. This week we saw posts from:
- (Shaman) Shaman on Ramen
- (WoW) Therehugo
- (Warlocks) Heal My Lifetap

We’d like to encourage all of you to visit the TNB Wiki and be sure to be listed in the Big List of Blogs.

Next week…

Next week we’ll be talking with Spooner of Spooncraft.

TNB Live Friday 9/25 8:00pm PST – Spooner

fimlys@gmail.com (Breana and Fimlys) — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 21:39:24 +0000

Join us at our new night and time on Friday evening at 8:00PM PST as we talk to Spooner of Spooncraft. We’ll be doing our whole show live!

Listen in our LIVE chat room and we’ll take questions (and hopefully answer them if we can).

When is it?: This live show is scheduled for Friday September 25th at 8:00pm PST (11:00 am EST). Not sure what time that is for you? Use this handy-dandy time converter!
Where do I go? To participate on the live show, you will need to go to the TNB Live Show page to connect with the stream. See, totally easy. If you are having issues then go to the Ustream page.
Some general ground rules:
1. Be nice. If you say very inappropriate things be aware you will be kicked from the room. We are doing this to have a great time, come with a beer, come during a raid, come how you wish, just don’t come to cause trouble.
2. You may ask questions to the participants during the show, but we reserve the right to use them if and when we can. I will be monitoring the chat room and if I can I will use the comments during the show. We love that you are with us, but I will have to weave them in. Even if it isn’t asked, we all appreciate your questions

Outside of that, we will love to have you join us and partake in an enlightening discussion that is sure to follow! Hope to see you there!

Resource Site Spotlight: Elitist Jerks

fimlys@gmail.com (Breana and Fimlys) — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 20:46:36 +0000

Today’s resource site spotlight will be going over the theory-crafting den that we all love, elitistjerks.com.

It is a few things, but publicly, and most importantly, it is a forum for theorycrafters to share and develop information about how the game works. This site is the de-facto standard for information, however it’s not for the faint of heart. The site is moderated by a group of players who have a very strict set of rules designed to prevent the place from looking too much like the official forums and keep the signal to noise ratio very high.

Every time you break a rule, someone will report your post to the mods, and they will give you an “infraction”, which prevents you from posting. If you get enough of these infraction points, you will be permanently banned.

To participate, click on the forums link on the top of the page. Find the forum that concerns you, and then get ready to read. Each forum has a wealth of information stored in threads on various topics. New accounts are not allowed to create threads until they have 10 posts that did not earn infractions (and posting something trivial to increase your post count will get you an infraction).

Generally, the first post in a thread is where all the info you need is, however if it is out of date (god knows mine need a bit of update love), you will have to piece together the information you need by reading through the thread. These are often 50+ pages. If you read the last few pages, you’ll have a pretty good idea about how things work, however if the mechanic you want to learn about is not discussed there, work backwards to ensure that you get the most recent information first.

Do not, under any circumstances, post asking a question that has been answered. Even if the answer was 3 months and 20 pages ago, you’re expected to know already. Unfortunately, their search bar is not very intelligent and limits you from searching for short terms, however you can always search a forum by going to google and searching something like “hit cap site:http://elitistjerks.com/f74/” which will give you fairly good search results for the hunter hit cap.

Do not, under any circumstances, start a post by saying “first time poster”, because even if you proceed to write the best post in the history of the site, you will get an infraction.

Once you’re comfortable with the site rules and maybe you’ve taken a look at their list of comments that got infractions to see the type of thing they don’t want, you can start participating.

They value original research more than speculation, and because of this, many of the bits of knowledge floating around the internet that we take for granted were tested on elitist jerks first. Just don’t poke the bear.

Shared Topic: 10 Changes That Will Make [_________] More Heroic

fimlys@gmail.com (Breana and Fimlys) — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 12:34:58 +0000

Once again, the Blog Azeroth Shared Topic has extended itself to over 2 weeks, thanks to a lazy administrator who couldn’t keep up with it all. However, the extra long time has meant we have some truly fantastic posts written this week by a host of bloggers.

Gryphonheart of The Lion Guard suggested a great topic for this week.

Where "___" is an old-world instance (such as Deadmines or Shadowfang Keep).
Here’s what I had to suggest for Deadmines. Feel free to be as serious or as humorous as you’d like.

Responding with some fantastic new looks at old instances are the following:

Relevart at Relevart’s Druid Reliquary on Rage Fire Chasm

Darkpurple at Druidic In Nature on Scarlet Monastery

Gryphonheart at The Lion Guard with The Stockade

Xeonio at Rez the Weak with Maraudon

Fuyuko at The Unconventional Priest with Dire Maul

Lissanna at Restokin with Sunken Temple

If you have a contribution to make to an existing discussion, or a Shared Topic of your own to suggest, don’t forget to head on over to the Blog Azeroth Forums!

Episode 58 – Restocast Unleashed!

fimlys@gmail.com (Breana and Fimlys) — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 04:34:18 +0000

This week’s episode is all live! Like a round table but without the round.. Well, and the table. We did the interview and then just launched right into the rest of the show. Lissanna from Restokin was our guest this week and she participated not only in the interview but the rest as well! We talk a bit about 3.2.2 patch notes, a few topics from the nether (including information about wordpress jormungars) and answer a few of YOUR emails! (you did send us email.. didn’t you?)

SPONSORED BY: Buff’D – Player Powered WoW News
and
UGT-Servers.com – UGT Servers! Ventrillo Servers for Your Guild!

General News

Official 3.2.2 patch notes now available (link)
- Lots of changes to lots of classes
- I found it curious that they include a change to the Shadow Fang Keep dungeon.

Bestial Wrath changes on the PTR:
http://www.maniasarcania.com/2009/09/09/catching-up-with-the-3-2-2-ptr/
http://www.maniasarcania.com/2009/09/10/more-on-bestial-wrath-changes/
The Beast Within now lasts 10 sec (Down from 18 sec) but now also increases all damage you deal by 10% at all time.
Bestial Wrath now lasts 10 sec. (Down from 18 sec) – now breaks all CC like a PvP trinket.(supposedly)

Hot Topics from the Nether!

(Phood’s Blog about World of Warcraft) From BUFFD: Novice guide to WoW graphic resources (link)
(TechSpot) New Worm Attacks Wordpress software (link) (solution: upgrade to newest version of wordpress)
(ReadWriteWeb) Wordpress.com implements RSSCloud (link)
(Destructive Reach) Raid Leaders Suck! (link)

We’d like to welcome all of the new bloggers who introduced themselves on Blog Azeroth. This week we saw posts from:
- (resto druid) Cows Love Cake
- (MMORPG) EC Tunnel
- (Priests) Duct Tape and a Prayer
- (resto druid) Trick or Tree
- (WoW) Jaded Alt

We’d like to encourage all of you to visit the TNB Wiki and be sure to be listed in the Big List of Blogs.

Next week…

Next week we’ll be talking with Sideshow and Syrana.

TNB Live Friday 9/18 8:00pm PST – Sideshow and Syrana

fimlys@gmail.com (Breana and Fimlys) — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 20:20:34 +0000

Join us at our new night and time on Friday evening at 8:00PM PST as we are joined by Sideshow and Syrana as we talk about World of Warcraft, Spouse Aggro and whatever else comes up. We’ll be doing our whole show live!

Listen in our LIVE chat room and we’ll take questions (and hopefully answer them if we can).

When is it?: This live show is scheduled for Friday September 18th at 8:00pm PST (11:00 am EST). Not sure what time that is for you? Use this handy-dandy time converter!
Where do I go? To participate on the live show, you will need to go to the TNB Live Show page to connect with the stream. See, totally easy. If you are having issues then go to the Ustream page.
Some general ground rules:
1. Be nice. If you say very inappropriate things be aware you will be kicked from the room. We are doing this to have a great time, come with a beer, come during a raid, come how you wish, just don’t come to cause trouble.
2. You may ask questions to the participants during the show, but we reserve the right to use them if and when we can. I will be monitoring the chat room and if I can I will use the comments during the show. We love that you are with us, but I will have to weave them in. Even if it isn’t asked, we all appreciate your questions

Outside of that, we will love to have you join us and partake in an enlightening discussion that is sure to follow! Hope to see you there!

TNB Live Friday 9/11 7:30pm PST – Lissanna from Restokin

fimlys@gmail.com (Breana and Fimlys) — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 04:05:50 +0000

Join us at our new night and time on Friday evening at 7:30PM PST as we are joined by Lissanna from Restokin as we chat about World of Warcraft, Resto Druids.. and whatever else comes up. We’ll be doing our whole show live!

Listen in our LIVE chat room and we’ll take questions (and hopefully answer them if we can).

When is it?: This live show is scheduled for Friday September 11th at 7:30pm PST (10:30 am EST). Not sure what time that is for you? Use this handy-dandy time converter!
Where do I go? To participate on the live show, you will need to go to the TNB Live Show page to connect with the stream. See, totally easy. If you are having issues then go to the Ustream page.
Some general ground rules:
1. Be nice. If you say very inappropriate things be aware you will be kicked from the room. We are doing this to have a great time, come with a beer, come during a raid, come how you wish, just don’t come to cause trouble.
2. You may ask questions to the participants during the show, but we reserve the right to use them if and when we can. I will be monitoring the chat room and if I can I will use the comments during the show. We love that you are with us, but I will have to weave them in. Even if it isn’t asked, we all appreciate your questions

Outside of that, we will love to have you join us and partake in an enlightening discussion that is sure to follow! Hope to see you there!

Episode 57 – Lorecasted

fimlys@gmail.com (Breana and Fimlys) — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 18:10:46 +0000

Get in touch with your “lore”self as we welcome our interview for the week, Greyseer from Lorecrafted. We also talk about the new Faction Change service and the other news and topics from around the internether. A couple of emails and another TNB is over! Check it out!

SPONSORED BY: Buff’D – Player Powered WoW News
and
UGT-Servers.com – UGT Servers! Ventrillo Servers for Your Guild!

General News

Paid faction change now live. Paid race change coming soon. (link)

Armor Pen. Nerf in 3.2.2 (link)

from wow.com : Crygil has the official word: Blizzard has completed their updates to the servers, and they are now saying performance is much better: all realms have “shown an improvement in instance performance as well as a noticeable reduction in the amount of players hitting the instance limit.” Note that they don’t say the issues have been solved (no one would say that everything was fixed, because it never is), but there should be a marked improvements in the “additional instances” bug. In the immortal words of the great Douglas Adams, “We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can’t cope with is therefore your own problem.” (link)

Hot Topics from the Nether!

From the TNTCast:
(WIRED) Q&A: Blizzard COO Says New MMO ‘Significantly Different’ From Warcraft (link)
(The Altoholic)”What Can a Discipline Priest Bring to Your Raid” (link)
(The Undercity)¡Cajones! “Kill the Cash Cow” (link)
(Mend Pet)”12 Tips to Improve Blog Usability” (link)
(The Dalaran Inn) “Account Security and Addons” (link)

We’d like to welcome all of the new bloggers who introduced themselves on Blog Azeroth. This week we saw posts from:
- (wow in Australia) Aussie Wow Cast
- (hunter) Hunter Stuff
- (hunter) The Grease Trap
- (altoholic) Misc.
- (Ethical Issues in Wow) Grey Area
- (Balancing Wow and Life) Casually Casting
- (Leveling alts) A Tale of Ten Toons
- (Instance running) Priest with a Cause
- (druids) A Tranquil Spirit
- (alts) Dual Wield
- (weird and funny wow) World of Weirdcraft
- (healers) Healer Trek
- (warlocks/casters) The Eighteenth Warlock
- (druid) The Overpowered Druid
- (Achievements) Achivement Whorez
- (Shaman) Sham Wow
- (Alts) What’s my main again?
- (Druids) Tree Burglar
- (shamans) BB&B The Birds, the Bees and the Butterflies.
- (WoW) The Cranky Old Gnome
- (Warlock) der Hexenmeister
- (priests) Mind-Blast.net
- (woW) The Broken Milk

We’d like to encourage all of you to visit the TNB Wiki and be sure to be listed in the Big List of Blogs.

Next week…

Next week we’ll be talking with Lissanna from Restokin.

New night/time for TNB recordings

fimlys@gmail.com (Breana and Fimlys) — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 20:46:40 +0000

Good news everyone!

Due to popular demand TNB will be changing our recording night and time! We’re changing our “regular”** recording nights to Fridays at 7:30 PM PST (yes, that’s also earlier for all you east coaster). Additionally, we’re going to be doing the whole show live***.

Hope to see you there!

** TNB reserves the right to occasionally have different night/time as our schedule and our guest’s schedules dictate.
*** TNB further reserves the right to interview “live”, “dead” or “undead” as the mood strikes us. Just sayin’

Shared Topic: Faction Changes!

fimlys@gmail.com (Breana and Fimlys) — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 08:34:19 +0000

With Faction Changes live surprisingly early, this Shared Topic happened to be timed just about perfectly. This topic was suggested some time ago by Nigiri of Adventures of a Priest.

After publicly stating a while ago that they would not do this, Bliz has announced in their forums they are working on Faction change mechanic for players who want to switch. Here is a link to the European WoW forums with some Q&A by a Blue.
This topic is a mine field. People who are against it seem to be very against it and people who are for it seem, for the most part, quiet on the subject. It would be interesting to read something longer than a short forum post with some well thought out discussion.

Answering with a wide variety of opinions are this week’s bloggers

Shopshopshop of Runeforge Gossip

Rubymelon of Rubymelon

Kel of Awakening in Progress

Phoenix of Azeroth Metblogs

Dertt of A Tranquil Spirit

Natarumah of Twisted Faith

Snakedriver of Bible of Dreams

Boize of Moonglade

Almaster of Lux Legis

Would you consider changing factions? What would it mean to you to do so? If you have any ideas on this week’s Shared Topic, or have one to suggest of your own, make sure you head on over to the Blog Azeroth Forums!

Resource Site Spotlight: Macroexplain.com

fimlys@gmail.com (Breana and Fimlys) — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 20:14:02 +0000

Oh my goodness, this is cool! Some frood named Fitzcairn coded an awesome site called macroexplain.com that allows you to paste a macro into it, and then it explains what it does, line by line! Here’s an example of the site at it’s finest: a link to its explanation of a hunter misdirect macro I use. I can add a title, a class, tags, comments, and attribute it to an author if I want.

The tool is dead easy to use. One warning- it doesn’t speak LUA (the wow scripting language) so if you tell it to explain a complex script you use to, say, mail all your greens to another character, it’s explanation will run something along the lines of “Run LUA” and then the code after the “/run” command. Still, for those complex non-LUA macros, this is a godsend. No more trying to parse the code in your head and remember how conditionals work (wait, will holding shift while pressing this macro shoot or feign death?).

On behalf of the internet, thank you Fitzcairn. Thank you.

TNB Live Thursday 9/3 9:30pm PST – Tharion Greyseer of Lorecrafted

fimlys@gmail.com (Breana and Fimlys) — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:18:59 +0000

Join us Thursday evening at 9:30PM PST as we are joined by Greyseer from LoreCrafted, Netherbane, and Hearthstone tavern (@greyseer) as we chat about Blizzcon (some more.. come on you knew 3 hours wouldn’t be enough), lore and more!

Listen in our LIVE chat room and we’ll take questions (and hopefully answer them if we can).

When is it?: This live show is scheduled for Thursday September 3rd at 9:30pm PST (12:30 am EST). Not sure what time that is for you? Use this handy-dandy time converter!
Where do I go? To participate on the live show, you will need to go to the TNB Live Show page to connect with the stream. See, totally easy. If you are having issues then go to the Ustream page.
Some general ground rules:
1. Be nice. If you say very inappropriate things be aware you will be kicked from the room. We are doing this to have a great time, come with a beer, come during a raid, come how you wish, just don’t come to cause trouble.
2. You may ask questions to the participants during the show, but we reserve the right to use them if and when we can. I will be monitoring the chat room and if I can I will use the comments during the show. We love that you are with us, but I will have to weave them in. Even if it isn’t asked, we all appreciate your questions

Outside of that, we will love to have you join us and partake in an enlightening discussion that is sure to follow! Hope to see you there!

Episode 56 – A 3 Hour Tour: Blizzcon ‘09

fimlys@gmail.com (Breana and Fimlys) — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 01:00:05 +0000

Catch up with our spoilerific Round table. Fim and Nib are joined by Brajana from Mend Pet, Brigwyn from WoW.Com and The Hunting Lodge and Hydrargyrum from Almost Evil in a fascinating look into Blizzcon and the news of Cataclysm.

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General News

Cataclysm Round up (link from official forum)

Next week…

We’re still recovering from Blizzcon and lining up guests. We should have someone soon

TNB Live Thursday 8/27 9:30pm PST – Blizzcon 09 Round Table

fimlys@gmail.com (Breana and Fimlys) — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:49:58 +0000

Join us Thursday evening at 9:30PM PST (yeah, I’m posting this on Thursday.. It’s tonight!) as we are joined by Brajana from Mend Pet, Brigwyn from WoW.Com and The Hunting Lodge and Hydrargyrum from Almost Evil. They all attended the event this year along with Fimlys and Nibuca. Lots of talk about what we saw, what we heard and what we did. Listen in our LIVE chat room and we’ll take questions (and hopefully answer them if we can).

When is it?: This live show is scheduled for Thursday August 27th at 9:30pm PST (12:30 am EST). Not sure what time that is for you? Use this handy-dandy time converter!
Where do I go? To participate on the live show, you will need to go to the TNB Live Show page to connect with the stream. See, totally easy. If you are having issues then go to the Ustream page.
Some general ground rules:
1. Be nice. If you say very inappropriate things be aware you will be kicked from the room. We are doing this to have a great time, come with a beer, come during a raid, come how you wish, just don’t come to cause trouble.
2. You may ask questions to the participants during the show, but we reserve the right to use them if and when we can. I will be monitoring the chat room and if I can I will use the comments during the show. We love that you are with us, but I will have to weave them in. Even if it isn’t asked, we all appreciate your questions

Outside of that, we will love to have you join us and partake in an enlightening discussion that is sure to follow! Hope to see you there!

Resource Site Spotlight: Talentchic (now called WowPopular)

fimlys@gmail.com (Breana and Fimlys) — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 15:31:43 +0000

Hi again! Today we’re going to talk about a very popular site that used to be known as Talent Chic. They have since moved their site to wowpopular.com and cover more than talents now. Basically, this site allows you to be a better sheep. Some people don’t want to have to trawl through 150 pages of guile and stupid questions on popular theorycrafting forums just to find the new “best” talent build, and figure that they will do just fine going with whatever’s popular. There’s a certain logic to this- any really popular spec must be popular for a reason, right?

The site is very easy to use- the left bar allows you to drill down to the info you want, and the right area displays the builds, enchants, gear, or gems. This info is listed by popularity, and for builds, you can even see a short description of the differences between each of them! If you want to see the whole build, just click on the wowhead or wowarmory icon which will link you to the complete spec. When I ran hunters, I was surprised to see how few marksmanship specs there were- less even than BM! For the last few months, the spec of choice has been marks. The popularity data might be because of a recent survival buff, or proof that hunters are stubborn and obstinate players who will run with they spec they like to play, regardless of whether it’s the most DPS they can get.

This segues quite nicely into my one warning about this resource- it’s awesomely accurate, but be aware that just because something’s popular doesn’t mean it’s the best for you. If you’re looking for a spec to get started with that will allow you to develop your own experience and make your own decisions, this can help.

If, however, you’re a raider or arena player who is doing well already, don’t assume that if you’re doing something differently than most players, they’re right and you’re wrong.

Back from the Con

fimlys@gmail.com (Breana and Fimlys) — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 01:21:23 +0000

Hey! Thanks to everyone that participated in our TNB liveblogs. We had a great turnout. If you haven’t gone to see it already, Twisted Nether has a Flickr stream.. Lots of Blizzcon ‘09 Pictures up. I’ve got pictures from the wow.com meetup. I have pictures from OUR TNB meetup! Go take a look! Here are a few samples

Liveblog – Blizzcon ‘09 Day 2

fimlys@gmail.com (Breana and Fimlys) — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 12:00:02 +0000

We’re Liveblogging Blizzcon ‘09 (Hopefully).. Both Nib and Fim will be there, inside all the action. This will be whatever we want to let you know about Day 2! You can also follow FimBlizzcon and NibBlizzcon to get the same information directly from Twitter!

Blizzcon Day 2

Liveblog – Blizzcon ‘09 Day 1

fimlys@gmail.com (Breana and Fimlys) — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 12:00:06 +0000

We’re Liveblogging Blizzcon ‘09 (Hopefully).. Both Nib and Fim will be there, inside all the action. This will be whatever we want to let you know about Day 1! You can also follow FimBlizzcon and NibBlizzcon to get the same information directly from Twitter!

Blizzcon Day 1

TNB Blizzcon ‘09 Flickr

fimlys@gmail.com (Breana and Fimlys) — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 19:50:22 +0000

We will be uploading the photos of our adventures at Blizzcon ‘09 to our Flickr Photostream. You can also see the images here on this post! (ok.. for now there is just that silly coke can.. )


									
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Shared Topic: Blizzcon!

fimlys@gmail.com (Breana and Fimlys) — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:00:58 +0000

This week the blogosphere brings you news of all things Blizzcon! Whether it be where to go, who to meet up with, or what to do if you can’t make it, we have it all for you!

Can’t get enough of Blizzcon? Make sure you take a look at the following!

Boize of Moonglade discusses the road to Blizzcon

Saresa of Destructive Reach offers tips on how to spot that elusive blogger

Shelbi of The Bronze Kettle helps you to put together your very own flimsy mask

Lisim of Aussie WoW Cast plans a Blizzcon Week

Wynthea of World of Matticus helps you with the hairy problem of packing your bags

Matticus of World of Matticus talks about his truly awesome t-shirts that will make it easier for you to spot the World of Matticus Crew!

Nibuca from Mystic Chicanery has some super helpful Blizzcon tips (learned from valuable experience!)

As an additional note, people not attending the ‘con can keep up with all the news and talk with like-minded Blizzard fans at TwizzCon, the Twitter/Vent/Webchat Blizzcon experience! Also remember to keep an eye on Twisted Nether Blogcast’s very own live updates.

No matter your interest in Blizzcon, whether you are going or staying at home, the bloggers of Blog Azeroth all have a wide selection of posts to offer. Enjoy your Blizzcon, and remember: head over to the Blog Azeroth Forums to contribute or suggest your own Shared Topic!

Blizzcon Coverage Reminders

fimlys@gmail.com (Breana and Fimlys) — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 14:14:11 +0000

Reminder.. We will be Liveblogging Blizzcon as much as we can this Friday and Saturday! I’ve included some reminders below. You can use those to have them send you email reminders. You can come straight here to the site also. It should be live all day long!

Liveblog Test

fimlys@gmail.com (Breana and Fimlys) — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 13:22:47 +0000

Ok.. This here is a test of the liveblogging we will be doing at Blizzcon! Feel free to play around

Test TNBTwitter

Episode 55 – Princess of Darkness

fimlys@gmail.com (Breana and Fimlys) — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 20:10:32 +0000

Join us on a special Pre-Blizzcon special! We talk getting ready for Blizzcon and about some of the 3.2 changes and we even get a visit from a special guest.. I wonder who it could be…

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General News

Blizz tells WCRadio, nogo to live-stream Blizzcon. (link)

Blizz announces Ozzy comeback raid! I mean Onyxia!. 3.2.2 (link)
- mount
- pet
- 10- and 25-man revamped raids
- EVEN MORE DEEP BREATHS!

End of Arena season 6 coming soon and 3k Honor cap lifted. So get your PVP on.

WordPress 2.8.4 is available! Another security fix. Fixes security issues missed in the 2.8.3 release. Are we done yet?

Hot Topics from the Nether!

Blizzcon FAQ (link)

My recommendations:
Carry a bag, include the following:
- wear comfortable shoes
- Bottle of water
- Source of protein (thinking meat sticks or nuts)
- Notebook and pen
- Jacket
- Gum
- Camera/camcorder (and charger for devices)
- Wear comfortable shoes

Our schedule for the con:
- Thursday night Wow.com meetup at the Tangerine
- Friday morning In line for the con, look TNB Tshirts Say HI! Watch Twitter.
- Friday night 9 @ meetup
- Saturday watch twitter! Live Blogging as @FimBlizzcon and @NibBlizzcon
- Sunday: Raid Disneyland.

Next week…

Next week we’re at Blizzcon. We may release a show from recordings made at Blizzcon. The week after we’ll review Blizzcon and may have special guests.

Shared Topic: What Would A WoW Movie Be About?

fimlys@gmail.com (Breana and Fimlys) — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 08:37:56 +0000

This week’s Blog Azeroth Shared Topic was suggested by Halopheonix of Azeroth: Here and Now.

So we’ve all heard the news by now that Sam Raimi is going to be directing the Warcraft-based movie. While the speculation runs rampant about how the movie will be compared to other movies in Raimi’s resume, I’m more curious what everyone thinks the movie will be about.
The movie could always be something entirely new, set in the World of Warcraft universe and up-to-date lore, or it could be some defining moment on Warcraft lore that’s set thousands of years before World of Warcraft or in one of the Warcraft games. At the same time, the responses I’m getting from people make the solid point that whatever it is, it has to appeal to current players and can’t require 3 previous games of story to understand.

Responding to the topic are the following:

Dertt from A Tranquil Spirit

Saresa From Destructive Reach

Next week, we have a very special, very different Shared Topic! Posting something about Blizzcon? Going to Blizzcon? Going to Twizzcon? Make sure you go to the Blog Azeroth Forums and link your post in the Shared Topics!

TNB Live Thursday 8/13 9:30pm PST – TNB’s Pre-Blizzcon Love-in

fimlys@gmail.com (Breana and Fimlys) — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:49:33 +0000

Join us Thursday evening at 9:30PM PST as we talk to ourselves.. and maybe a special guest may drop in. Join the fun in our live chat room!

When is it?: This live show is scheduled for Thursday August 13th at 9:30pm PST (12:30 am EST). Not sure what time that is for you? Use this handy-dandy time converter!
Where do I go? To participate on the live show, you will need to go to the TNB Live Show page to connect with the stream. See, totally easy. If you are having issues then go to the Ustream page.
Some general ground rules:
1. Be nice. If you say very inappropriate things be aware you will be kicked from the room. We are doing this to have a great time, come with a beer, come during a raid, come how you wish, just don’t come to cause trouble.
2. You may ask questions to the participants during the show, but we reserve the right to use them if and when we can. I will be monitoring the chat room and if I can I will use the comments during the show. We love that you are with us, but I will have to weave them in. Even if it isn’t asked, we all appreciate your questions

Outside of that, we will love to have you join us and partake in an enlightening discussion that is sure to follow! Hope to see you there!