Ever felt like Azeroth's lull could use a dash of excitement? Buckle up, brave adventurers, as we steer through World of Warcraft's tranquil spells, unearthing a chest full of activities that are anything but idle. Prepare to be the herald of your own epic tale while tackling formidable World bosses like Liskanoff and Aerostar. I'll walk you through the tactics needed to dominate this week's Mythic affixes and share why now's the perfect time to start your transmog collection before Cataclysm upheaves the familiar landscape. Join us for rollicking guild events that'll make the pre-patch wait fly by, and find out why hoarding that soon-to-be vintage PvP gear should be your newest obsession.
Remember when leveling in Azeroth was a journey of discovery through every nook and cranny of the lore-rich world? We're retracing our steps from the classic Cataclysm all the way to the echelons of the Shadowlands, savoring the stories that shaped the land we defend. Listen in as I reminisce and draw on the interconnectedness of PvP and PvE, revealing how mastering the art of kicks, defensives, and crowd control can spell victory or defeat. It's a lesson in finesse, strategy, and the undeniable thrill of besting both beast and battler alike – a must-hear for newcomers and veterans who want to keep their skills as sharp as a mage's intellect.
Hope you all enjoy and hope you relate to any of these stories. And I will speak to you all in the next episode!
Move the duck such foam. Hello and welcome to the Pig and Whistle Tales from Azeroth. As always here at the Pig and Whistle Inn in Stormwind, I go for a variety of subjects with regards to World of Warcraft. A grab a bottle or a pint, sit back and enjoy this episode. We'll be going over something that's a bit different and in this dry period of World of Warcraft, we're going to be sort of going through stuff that you could possibly do in your meantime, because we have Cataclysm coming out at the start of summer, I believe somewhere around that end of spring yes, start of summer and you have the War within around the same time, maybe a bit earlier than that. So it is kind of a dry period for World of Warcraft, to say the least, with Wrath of the Lich King having no new patches now that Ruby Sanctum is out and Dragonfly only having season four left, and not a lot is happening in season four. Well, obviously there's a bit of things happening, but nothing like game changing, like a new expansion is. So, with that said, we'll get the weekly stuff out of the way. Your World bosses for this week are Liskanoff, zacali, elders and Aerostar, all located in their respective zones, which are the Thaodrasis no, yes, thaodrasis, xarelak Caverns and Emerald Dream, cather. Timewalking is your bonus event for the week. This is where you can do Cataclysm Dungeons to earn Timewalking badges and then, in earning these badges, you can buy Mount Sirep, pets, cosmic, cosmetic items, stuff like that. Classic Ashran is your brawl for this week. Now you need 7500 Honor for the Traveller's Traderlog. If you ever wanted to do this, it's best to just do Classic Ashran, because it never ends unless you kill the final boss. And killing the final boss is very tough to do, the very tough thing to actually do and achieve in Classic Ashran, because there is no timer. People want to do the bonus objectives around the map. You know it isn't as clear cut as you just simply run in and kill the boss and that kind of deal. It's good fun, though, very good fun. Entangling, bursting and Terranicle are your mythical fixes for the week. Bursting if you stand still, some roots will grab you. Keep moving. Bursting when you kill a mob, it will apply a debuff. You don't want too many of these debuffs. You don't either kill everything at the same time and pop a defensive or kill them and don't get more than 5 stacks of bursting. It's not going to help your healer, your healer will get a healer rage and you're not going to be liked in that group and Terranicle. The bosses and the mobs that they summon have increased damage and health and make sure you bring a talent build that accommodates for that. Now, this dry period of WoW it's very awkward. It's the longest dry period in WoW that we've had since probably Shadowlands, I think, yeah, probably around Shadowlands, like Xerophant Mortis kind of deal, patch 9.2 I think it was, yeah, something like that. So all dry patches in Warcraft are not fun, but they still have added throughout the years of the game so many ways to indulge yourself in the game without having to do higher end content. So these are a few things that I can suggest that might help with this period of WoW. That isn't as exciting as when a new expansion comes out or something, or an alpha or a beta comes out, stuff like that. So guild events are the first one. This one's mainly for wrath, but there are still guilds in classic obviously no in retail. And what we've been doing as a guild on our wrath of the Lich King, like classic World of Warcraft, is we do our weekly raids but we're mixing up, we're doing a multiple multitude of other things. So we have done mug runs, we have done what is it? Mount runs. We have done like PvP after the raid, stuff like that. You have a few things that you can do and I Would suggest doing like a trans mod competition with your guilds in like retail stuff like that or like a hide-and-seek, maybe like a questionnaire. You can do many different things with regards to it and you know you could do sort of tournaments. So if you kill 50 of these mobs and then kill 50 of these, you win, or you know that kind of deal. So it allows people to get creative and to figure out what to kill like quickly, essentially Like. These are the sort of guild events. They don't have to be anything exciting. I say that not anything Like big is them. What that I meant? They, like I, can just be exciting, being very small events. They don't have to be like big. In that I'm right at all. It could be very small things, but the thing is you enjoy the time with the people that you are doing them with. So your guild members, rather than like it has to be something immaculate and bigger than you know, everyone else in the guild and all that shit. No, it can just be very small things that help you enjoy the game. So guild events are definitely one thing and, like I said, they don't have to be big. You can do stuff out of the guild or out of World of Warcraft with your guild events. That way you keep that sort of closeness with the guild at the same time, with Not everyone taking a break and then some people not coming back to wow when, like, you have to raid and stuff like that. So there's always this option. Mog runs for retail and classic now because cataclysm will bring out transmog. So, rafa, the Lich King, you want to start building up your transmog collection now. This can be done in many different ways. You run old dungeons, old raids. The PVP, the level 60 PVP gear will be going away in cataclysm. It will be locked behind a certain attribute. So the best way to do this is that by it, right now a bite by the level 60 PVP gear. The grand marshal was like gear. It doesn't cost a lot. It cost about six thousand on a per piece, something around that and and you can keep it as a transmog. These transmogs are very good. They're very, very good and, you know enjoyable to use, but saying that at the same time, you want to keep older things though greens, blues, epics as well but these are all going to be your transmog, so start saving your bank space for it. If you are a transmog heavy player like you really want to change your look up every week, because these are something that you're going to be, it's better to do now than, rather than, when the transmog it comes out, because that way you're already ahead of the game, if that makes sense. I Gold farming. Now. Gold farming is one that you think, oh, I naturally just get a little gold anyway. Yes, but in terms of gold at the beginning of an expansion, it's very, very important. And the reason it's important is because professions Everyone does professions towards the late game of the expansion. This includes, you know, every single profession, but mainly the stuff like alchemy, engineering, blacksmithing. All of these have their own unique ways of making gold, but the materials, such as the minerals, the herbs, will cost a lot more at the start of an expansion because there's less. There's less of them. There's a more demand for them, but less of the actual product. So, having the goal to buy these materials comfortably and, you know, being able to level up your professions and get to the highest profession level will help you actually make more gold in the long run. So if you make gold now, therefore, you're not going bankrupt when you are making your gold later on in cataclysm, if that makes sense. It's the same for retail World of Warcraft. You can also gold farm Now I did. It is a bit tougher in retail, wow, and purely because of how inflated everything is. But if you're looking to buy, well, tokens or anything like, that is a very good way of making gold right now, especially on Raph of the Lich King, because the tokens aren't as crazy in terms of pricing. So gold farming, you can go kill mobs, you can sell silk, you can do professions. I know people who just do professions. They log on to seven alts like once a day and they just do a transmute like a gem transmute and they put it on the auction. They make about one K from it each day and that adds up over a month you'll get 30 K. That's an easy like and they take like five minutes to do all of that. It's really not that tough at all. The only time it takes longer is if your PC can't log in fast enough. That's the, that's the downside of it, to be honest. But gold farming is a really good way to or good things to do during this dry period of Wow, because it's just, it's something that you're going to need for every expansion that comes out, for every patch that comes out. You know gold is quite important. It's not something that you have to bank your life on and throw your life away. But gold is relatively important in the game. It is the currency, helps you buy certain things and if you're lazy, sometimes buy an item or two. You know, if you're just feeling a bit lazy that day for like an alt or something like that, now this one finally goes under the radar, but people forget about it. Level your alts. Some people have loads of alts in Raffer, the Lich King, in retail that they haven't leveled. They're like, oh, maybe I'll get around to it and it's just sitting there. You know it's a poor level 14 gnome hunter. Don't level it. Like, what's the point in having it there if you're not going to level it? And if you're doing higher end PvE, you're doing higher MPVP. It's good to level these characters because you understand how they function. And if you understand how a class functions, then it's a lot easier for you to understand how they do their damage and what you can do to fuck up that damage so that you try to avoid it. You know that kind of deal Like if I cyclone someone on Arcane Majors Burst, like I don't know that Arcane Surge, is their burst damage, like why would I know that if I've never played a Mage? But I do, I've played a Mage. I understand how Arcane Majors work, I understand how Frost Majors work. I'll fire Majors work. You know all of that and pretty much every spec, apart from probably the tank specs. Apart from you know Guardian Druid because I play Druid. So like Blood Decay, no idea, is it Vengeance? They have a. I remember vengeance, demon hunter, I think is the tank spec Prop paladin. You know all of that stuff. I don't really know Um, but no, I played most of the classes and I understand how they work and it is a good thing to do If you ever look to try and get higher level in your play. It's good to understand how all of the classes work, do their damage rotations, what defensive they have, what everything they have essentially um, that they have to use against you and to counteract what you do in a PVP scenario. It's very useful. Certainly, in a PVP scenario it's very good to understand how they do their damage rotation and what they are looking for in their damage. So, are they looking for groups like split up, or are they good at AOE? Are they good at single target? You know, depending on the talents, it's very much. You can decipher all of this just by playing the class itself and getting used to it. Um, in Rafa, the Lich King, it's more useful now than ever because you might want to start finding your alt character for Cataclysm. Now. I do have to say that Cataclysm changes the dynamics of classes of fair amount, with mastery being added and with more sort of um quality of life stuff. We'll say, because you have the eclipses for boomkins, um, you have more defensive for certain tanks, you have more AOEs for certain tanks, you have a better rotation for certain tanks and DPS and healers and stuff like that. Um, you're not just spam Holy Light as a Holy Paladin or Flash of Light, as you did back in Classic. Um, you're not just a press swipe when there's loads of enemies as a uh, balanced a, a Feral Druid, tank Druid. You know that kind of deal. There's a lot more to it rather than there just spam all of that stuff. So level your alts in Rafa and try and decide what you want to alt in Cataclysm. Look it up and there is a lot of fundamental changes. So, elemental get Lava Lava as I like to call it, and that is essentially where you can throw meatballs. Your lava bursts, um, and they can overload, so you can get two meatballs, so lava burst, and then it copies the lava burst for 50% of the damage and does another lava burst, um. For Shadow Priest, you have Shadow Orbs as a currency or a currency, a utility thing. What is it? Power bar? It's not a power bar, but it's essentially like Soul Stones Um, the warlocks get in Cataclysm, where you have three and they regen with certain abilities and stuff like that. So you get that in Cataclysm. For Shadow Priest's, boomkins, like I said, get Eclipse Majors, get different spells, like Flame Orb. They get Time Walk now, which is really cool. You know there's many different things that you can do and learn about your classes before Cataclysm comes out, to give you the best shot at enjoying your classes in Cataclysm when they do come out, taking a break. Now, this one's gonna be a bit weird to hear, most likely. But you can take a break from Wow. It is a very dry period of while you do not miss out on much. You take a break if you're looking to do a rank one push or a glad push at the end of the season in retail or wrath you know just now on the dates for them. But you can take a break, is healthy to take a break and it allows you to Rediscover that enjoyment for the game. Sometimes, if you've been playing it non-stop for years and years and you feel like, oh, my god, there's such a drag, now take a break. Take a one or two week break and come back to it and you will enjoy it a lot more than what you left it as. I promise you that I really do promise you that it will be so much better Than Like just powering through it, because eventually you hit that wall and it'll be like, oh, this game's not fun anymore, and then you'll miss out on a lot of content when a new expansion comes out or something like that, and then it's. You know, that patch might have been the patch that you know gave you life back into the game or something. You know it's that kind of thing. This is another one for leveling. Actually, just going back a bit, why out expansions that you haven't? There's some people that I know starting BFA or expansion to start in, if you ask me, but it is what it is. You start when you start experience other expansion levelings. So when you're leveling an alt, start with classic, although classic is cataclysm technically, but you know you start with classic and then you go to burning crusade leveling and raffle the lich king leveling, and Then mr Pandaria, because you did classic, slash catta, and then, you know, go to warlords of drain or because all of these leveling experiences are Honestly the best thing about the expansions. If you, if you look back on every expansion, tbc leveling you went through hellfire, zhangar marsh and then gosh isn't great, but you know the leveling experience wasn't bad after the lich king. It was good, fun. You had a couple of places to choose from. You jumped from place to place, you weren't stuck in. You know one zone, like you were in burning crusade, cataclysm. It's not great, but you get to experience the world as it like is and and how it transformed essentially. And you've got your major Capital city still so you got your iron forger stormwind, your Darnassus, your all grimoire, you know all of that. Your thunder bluffs, like you get to experience leveling on the continents. That started at all. Mr Pandaria, very good leveling zone, actually probably one of the best it's got. It was the first one that kind of introduced story Cataclysm kind of did In terms of like cinematics and stuff. But mr Pandaria really honed in on that a bit more, I would say. But you know more than a drain or all the shit it gets. The leveling isn't bad. The levelling is one of the best parts of Expansion and that's saying something like in a really shit expansion it was some of the best work, to be honest, that they've done in a leveling expansion. In all honesty it isn't as bad as people remember it. And then you go to Legion. Legion was so good. You get to pick where you go. Each zone had its own like story line, all of that. And then BFA, again Not great, but a whole pirate themed with it. You know kind of witches in On the I've forgotten the place of it. You know where the way waycrest manner is I've completely forgotten the name of it. But you have Tyra's Guard. You know real pirate themed and upbeat. And then you've got for Horde the Zandalari, which are really cool, lore wise. And then you go to Shadowlands and Shadowlands wasn't great of an expansion but the leveling experience and going through the zones and figuring out the covenant abilities and getting them was amazing. You start stopping the Kyrian and you're like, oh, there's an anima drought. Why do you have to deal with the anima drought? What's happened? And then it's like, oh, okay, we'll have to go to Maldraxxus then. So like, figure out why that is. And then you figure out, oh, maldraxxus is kind of, you know, having a, not a domestic, it's a civil war. That's the word Um or words. And then it's like, oh shit, okay, so we've got to hop over to Ardenweal to figure out what's happening with all of that shit. And then you end up in Revendreff and then that's where it kick starts the end game content, where it's like, oh shits, funneling all of this anima to this certain location. You know, and you know the story in leveling is actually really good. Take some time to go like read through the quests is what I'm saying, because some of them are absolutely amazing. People put so much effort into actually doing the quests, putting the text in there, putting the storyline behind it, laying the foundations to everything, and it's very much overloaded, doing the eye overlook as well, and I'm very guilty of it and, to be honest, I want to do a bit more of that, like read the quests when I'm leveling and certain things like that. The last one that I'm going to suggest is to try something that you're not comfortable with PvP, slash, pve. So PvP wise. If you are a PvP, try some mythics, some raiding, you know. Try normal dungeons or anything like that, probably anything PvE wise that people would do, like the Farak assaults or, you know, the community, like pot in the Tuscarvillage, you know. Just experience some of that stuff. It is good, fun. Every now and again, the super bloom in the like, what is it in the Emerald Dream? You know. Absolutely anything like that. A PvE is my PvP so much fun. It's such a different experience Both ways. It goes both ways, pvp and PvE, completely different experiences, but you can pick up something from each of, like the different genre of game types. So for PvE is, if you try PvP, you understand how people react in terms of defensives, how CC is useful, how kicks are useful. I do like very low mythics, very, very low mythics. I see people who don't use a kick or a defensive and it's like, why are you not using this stuff? Because it is part of your kit, it is part of your you know character and you're just not using them when it should be used. And that infuriates me because it's like second nature to try and kick something when, like, you're playing the game and stuff like that. But you know, some PvE is just don't understand the use of it and I think that's where maybe the introduction lets them down. I don't know, but they just never saw a use for it. Essentially, what PvP is? You get used to how to do your damage rotations, like really properly. If you're doing well on CC but you can't secure a kill on a target in PvP, pve is definitely the way to go because, although you do take different talents technically to get the most out of your damage, you can take the same like in lower mythic keys and you can just practice your damage rotation, like on big packs and big pools, because you don't have to worry about CCing anything. You don't have to worry about, you know, like running away and staying alive and stuff like that. You still do to an extent, but not as much as oh my God, I've got a rogue mage chasing me down, my team are in CC and I've got to run. You know that kind of deal. So there are benefits to trying out each of them like together, but please try them out Again. All of these are stuff to do during the dry period of while. There is loads more, such as battle pets. Like I said, mog runs, but you can just do achievements. You can literally just try and figure out achievements and finish, like some achievements and achievement hunts, stuff like that. But there's so many things to do in while during dry periods it might seem like there's nothing to do, but there is a lot and I encourage you to try and look for them Is the best way to say that essentially. But that is it for this episode. Thank you all very much for listening. As always, do check out all of the socials. Stuff is constantly happening on there TikTok, youtube, twitch. Everything's happening all the time. But thank you all very much once again and go. A valour friend, organic fire, just looking at him New uwu. He said no, nice, nice.