Episode 9 - First Raid Clear of…Dazar’alor?

06/22/24 • 69 min

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Solo Queue - A World of Warcraft Podcast

Episode 9 – First Raid Clear of...Dazar'alor? Show Notes Welcome to Episode 9! – 3:27 •Sound issues lately - I think I have them resolved. •Goodpods listed Solo Queue was as a Top 50 video game podcast last month! •Upcoming episodes: 10 will be an HDYS interview with Gin of Live, Laugh, Lore podcast. Ep. 11 will be just the second half of the introduction to playing WoW. Sorry to leave you hanging, ThatSkyGuy! News – 8:37 1.TWW launches Aug. 26 - I was only one day off! Early access on Aug. 22, Season 1 activities on Sept. 1. 2.I broke down and went all in on the 20th anniversary collector's edition. 3.TWW beta access was June 5, with codes for collector’s edition people arriving June 12. I am holding out against spoiling the Day 1 experience for myself, so no beta coverage here. 4.Mid-Summer Fire Festival begins today, June 21! 1.You can travel from zone to zone, city to city, and lighting your factions’ bonfires and extinguishing those of the rival faction. Do this to collect Burning Blossoms, the currency for the Fire Festival. There are buffs you can get and vendors to spend your blossoms on. In addition, there are festival related quests and achievements to check out. 2.Holiday boss is Frost Lord Ahune 3.This also brings in a big change to how holidays work in general. Now, you can only get one of these premier rare drops on the first attempt of the day per Bnet account. 4.To balance out the reduced availability, Blizzard have introduced bad luck protection, with chances rising after every failed attempt. 5.Once per day per account, Ahune will drop the Satchel of Chilled Goods - chance at the new Cliffside Wylderdrake armor, along with blossoms, Ahune's staff, and other items. 6.Festival runs until July 5, so 14 attempts. 5.10.2.7 patch was released May 7 with various small story questlines, content. 1.Dranei HA 2.Troll HA 3.Harbinger questline - setting up the TWW, good stuff. 4.Sins of the sister - difficult to remember or find, is in Bel'Ameth. 5.Be Yourself Visage Day - issues with not finding the NPCs is due to you not having done the questing related to those NPCs. Frustrating, but understandable, but frustrating. 6.All DF quests previously locked behind Renown levels are now available to all level 70 characters. 6.WoW Remix - MoP of course is live! 59 days left and counting. Once 70, I hear it is quicker for any Timerunner alts that you make AFTER achieving 70. 7.BfA Raids now soloable 8.Is the first TWW raid soloable? Not quite. Blizzard announced Story Mode as a new Raid difficulty. Neru'bar Palace, first TWW raid, will feature a new difficulty called "Story”. It is not Follower Raids. Party of 1-10 for a pared down battle with only the final boss. Popping in to a tavern or inn for a local drink – 40:01 Pandaren Plum Wine at The Lazy Turnip. We are drinking the local this month. Question of the month – 40:56 After giving the news and drama of Remix, have I been paying too much attention to headlines and nerf news and not enough time just playing and enjoying? What is your opinion on MoP Remix? Do you like this different style of content in this period leading up to a new expansion? Introducing the Raid of the Month! – 42:55 One big part of many solo players game is waiting literal years for Blizzard to open up old end-game content to solo players. With the news that BfA raids are now soloable, I chose Battle of Dazaralor for my first Raid of the Month on my Night Elf Feral Druid main, ilvl 484, 499 weapon. Dazaralor is a 12-boss raid and was the second raid of BFA. It launched in January of 2019, so I waited five and a half years to be able to solo it. That is too long. I chose it because it has two rare mounts that can drop on Mythic, both are pretty cool. The GMOD is a massive robot mech suit mount, the Goblin Machine of Death. It can drop in Normal, Heroic, or Mythic difficult. The Glacial Tidestorm, a very cool elemental off Jaina, only drops on Mythic. First 9 bosses gave little trouble. A 3% wipe after 5 minutes on Mekkatorque, but second time was fine. No GMOD. Stormwall Blockade was very difficult and took some research and four deaths. Jaina was easier, but no Glacial Tidestorm. Final tally 11 new appearances, no mounts, bunch of five-year-old achievements, 2,471 in gold, minus 250 in repair costs. Profit of 2,221 gold for roughly an hour of time, maybe less. I did eat dinner in the middle. Difficulty was a satisfying level, but I want this in less than five year. #FollowerRaidsWoW Outro Thanks to Blizzard and OGRE for audio, my lovely wife, and you for listening. If you want to support the show, SoloQueueWoW at Patreon.com Thank you to current patrons, Andrew, Righteous Bandy, and ThatSkyGuy! Subscribe to the podcast at your podcast feed of choice, Apple, Spotify, and all the rest. You can contact me at soloqueuewow at gmail.com, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Threads. Good luck with your own old raid farming! “I'll see you out there."

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Episode 8 – So You Want to Start WoW NoW?

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Episode 8 – So You Want to Start WoW NoW? Show Notes The Basics of WoW •What is an MMORPG (and why is this a solo podcast?) •What is WoW? ◦Scene - Azeroth, Draenor, Argus and other planets in the universe ◦High-fantasy world of physical combat, magic, cosmic forces, politics, conflict, and the lives of various everyday characters of many races ◦Timeline of WoW ◦Predecessors RTS I, II, III •Retail vs. classics ◦Retail since 2004, expansions 2 years or so; next in late summer, trilogy, so great time to begin! ◦Classic flavors ▪Classic ▪Advancing classic flavors, now WotLK, soon Cata ▪Hardcore mode ▪SoD Into Azeroth for the First Time •Server types and populations and choosing ◦Character creation screen ◦Factions ◦Races, classes, specs, roles, armor classes ◦Customizations •Talents - points every level that enable choice of new spells, abilities •Who are you playing with and how do you want to play? •Exile’s Reach vs. starting zones – both have their benefits •How to level ◦Chromie time after first character. Will be leveling right now through BfA for first time. Can also start in WoW Remix MoP. ◦Expansion summaries and history ◦Suggestion for leveling ◦This is a good place to list all of the expansions and give a brief rundown. ◦Quests, XP, gold, reading text or not ◦Gear – levels, BoE, BoP, Soulbound, Warbound, Account-bound End of Part I of Starting WoW NoW - but more to come! Outro Thanks to Blizzard and OGRE for audio, my lovely wife, and you for listening. If you want to support the show, SoloQueueWoW at Patreon.com Thank you to current patrons, Andrew, Righteous Bandy, and ThatSkyGuy! Subscribe to the podcast at your podcast feed of choice, Apple, Spotify, and all the rest. You can contact me at soloqueuewow at gmail.com, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Threads. Good luck choosing which version of WoW to immerse yourself in. “I'll see you out there."

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Episode 10 – How Do You Solo? Interview with Gin!

Episode 10 – How Do You Solo Interview with Gin! Show Notes Welcome to Episode 10! – 3:25 Introducing...Gin! – 4:37 1.Finding WoW 2.Warcraft II music holds up https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwWh1xy6gvU 3.History as a raider and social aspects of WoW – 15:30 4.How does Gin solo? Story or single-player challenges, like Delves – 28:30 5.Delves as the evolution of WoW’s single-player experience and the Great Vault 6.Content creation, introverts, milkshakes, and a love of history/lore – 37:20 7.What it takes to buy into the lore – 46:10 8.Kyndi! By the way, Dave apologizes for the mistake. Kyndi is a gnome, not a goblin. 9.What it takes to be a successful content creator (asking for a friend...) – 54:10 10.A little love for Ali! – 56:06 11.Future of WoW podcasting and content creation and the Gin’s Joint channel – 59:45 12.The challenge of...distance running, Boston, and the marathon nerf bat – 1:07:50 https://www.baa.org/races/boston-marathon/qualify 13.Lightning Round! – 1:16:08 14.Final Thoughts: TWW outlook, WoW moving in a good story direction – 1:22:28 Outro •Thanks to Blizzard and OGRE for audio, my lovely wife, and you for listening. •If you want to support the show, SoloQueueWoW at Patreon.com •Thank you to current patrons, Andrew, Righteous Bandy, and ThatSkyGuy! And welcome free patrons Max and Eddie! •Subscribe to the podcast at your podcast feed of choice, Apple, Spotify, and all the rest. •Sounds from Blizzard and OGRE – the laughter was for me rocking the OGRE shirt on camera. #dontplaymuted •You can contact me at soloqueuewow at gmail.com, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Threads. (I know, for the first time, I misspelled “soloqueuewow” leaving out the extra “ue”. Bully for you if you caught that, super-listener.) •Follow Gin on Twitter/X @ginsjoint and check out his work on the podcast Live, Laugh, Lore or at his YouTube channel Gin’s Joint (not Rick’s Café, ifykyk) “We will see you out there." See you real soon for Episode 11, the July monthly episode!