Embark on a journey to the heart of Azeroth with us, where we tackle the latest World of Warcraft updates and unravel the deep-seated reasons that keep us returning to this captivating realm. From the strategic takedowns of weekly WoW bosses to the thrill of battleground events, we've got the lowdown to enhance your gameplay. But it's not just about the battles; it's also about the bonds formed and the personal victories, like the elusive Proudmoor music box, that become the tales we treasure.
This episode is a treasure trove for both novices and veterans seeking to refine their WoW expertise. We delve into the essence of gaming as a form of escape, revealing how WoW's expansive lore and multifarious activities offer refuge and rejuvenation. Then, as a beacon for community growth, we pledge to craft guides that light the path for newcomers, steering them clear of common blunders, and bolstering the ranks of Azeroth's adventurers. Join us for a heartfelt conversation that's part strategy session, part support group, and entirely dedicated to the love of the game.
Hope you all enjoy and hope you relate to any of these stories. And I will speak to you all in the next episode!
intended. Hello and welcome to the Pig and Whistle Tales from Azeroth. As always here at the Pig and Whistle, in Instalment I go through a variety of subjects with regards to World of Warcraft. A bottle or a pint? Sit back and enjoy this episode. We're going to be going over a few bits and bobs. There's no real title to this, so you'll probably see that when it goes live. But the main sort of part of it will be why do you play WoW? Why would you play WoW? What like is the purpose of it? And then I've got a few things added on just in case that doesn't cover the time. But yeah, so it's very much bits and bobs sort of pieces and it kind of incorporates a lot of things. So stick around to find out if there's anything that sort of entices you essentially in this episode. But we will start off with the weekly news, as always. The Srikron, the Zarkali Elders and Aerostar are your weekly WoW bosses. They are located in Waking Shore, the Zarelak Caverns and Emerald Dream. I'm getting quicker at that, I remember it. Battlegrounds is your bonus event for this week. This means that you get more honour for competing battlegrounds and this allows you to gear up ults. If you're looking to do P etc. Pact House is your brawl for the week. Now. Pact House is a 15 vs 15 in an arena, so it is a first team to kill, the other team wins and essentially it's very claustrophobic in terms of the amount of players in the small space that you want to just get in there and everything very quickly to win. These Ranged are very much more forgiving in these sort of game modes. I would say Volcanic, spiteful and fortified are your mythic fixes for the week. Volcanic there are small volcanoes that erupt underneath your character. Just simply move from them. You see them sprouting for about 5 seconds and then they erupt. You have loads of time to move out of them. Spiteful when you kill a mob, it will drop a spiteful shade. The spiteful shade will fixate on a player and move towards them. You simply kite it and it will die off in its own time. Fortified the non-boss enemies have increased health and damage, so bring a talent build that can accommodate for that. So why play wow? Now? There's a few reasons why people might play wow. They might want to have certain goals within the game. They might want to escape. They might want to have fun, play with friends Many different reasons for it. I'm going to start off with the goals, mainly so in World of Warcraft. You have a lot of things that you can achieve in wow, this being achievements, mounts, titles like Gladiator or high end mythic keys, something like that, something to show off. Essentially, now, if you set yourself a goal and you complete that goal, you get a sense of fulfilment or achievement, don't you? This is the case for anything in life, and World of Warcraft and any other game will have this. But you can set your sights on something and track it relatively well with wow and the like in-game stuff that you can look at. So, achievements wise, let's say you want I think there's about 5000 achievements in the game. Let's say you want to hit 3000 achievements. Okay, you're 1000 achievements away. What achievements are the most optimal? So each day, you'll go on and you'll be like okay, I'm going to try this achievement next, and you'll have a list of 10 achievements that you want to do and there'll be complete, 10,000 quests, 50,000, honour, that sort of thing Very simple achievements. And you'll do these 10 achievements and you'll know that you've made your progress to that 3000. And then you do your next 10 achievements the next day or you know, like the next week or whatever, and you constantly have something that you're logging on for. There is that purpose when you log on. You don't just log on, run around a major city and then log off 10 minutes later because there's nothing to do. In quotation marks, which a lot of people struggle with. A lot of people do struggle too, find a purpose within the game at the moment, and that is because in the game we are in between sort of patches. We are very much In a slow period of wow, it's coming to the end of it, but March is generally when we're gonna get season 4 for retail and then cataclysm will be later on. These new discovery did release yesterday as of this Episode coming out like phase 2. So you do have that if you want to, but generally you want to have something to do when you log on before you even log on to. Well, you want that purpose and these achievements, these mounts and stuff do have that purpose because you can go and, you know, get some cosmetic items and mounts which help you towards achievements, and these mounts might be really cool. You might find another favorite amount of yours that you didn't even know existed. You look at like the mount journal and you're like, oh my god, ashes of a la. That's really cool, that mount. Where do I get it? Temp escape Okay, I'm gonna make sure that I do that every day or every week, every reset, whenever it is, or I'm gonna do it on like a Few characters every week that. There is one item that I personally have always wanted that I can't get for the life of me is the Proudmoor music box and you get this by being exalted with Proudmoor Admiralty and you get a cache. When you Get 10,000 rep Above exalted, you get a little cache and it can be in this cache. I've got this cache 10 times, not seeing it yet, and it's something that I really, really want and that I keep an eye out. Every few days there is a Proudmoor Admiralty sort of Um, what would you say, emissary, like quest thing. You know where you do four world quests and then you turn it in for a big chunk of a reputation. I always keep an eye out for that and that's my purpose every few days to do that on my monk, and that's what my monk is mainly there for. But essentially it's like something I always want to be on the lookout for and constantly want to do, and and this is something this is good, because it gives me that purpose on my monk to go back to old zones like BFA, missa Pandaria, you know Rafa the Lich King, so Northrend, burning Crusade. It gives me these Options to go back to old expansions and, you know, do some of the content that was there. It isn't all just outdated and useless. That's the difference. Um, so, having goals in Wow is really big and it is a big reason to play World of Warcraft in these sort of down periods and even in like, well, in general, I know that there is a player who constantly collects mounts, who collects like everything. Essentially, your thing might just be collect mounts and someone I'm pretty sure is very close to collecting every single mount in the game. I'm pretty sure there's like how many mounts? I Feel like there's loads like a thousand plus and I feel like someone's at like a thousand, like fifty, like more remaining, something like that. They're very close and I think that's a really cool thing and a niche thing to do, because not everyone does it and you can lord over everyone, like, oh, my god, I have the most mounts in Wow at this time and it's like, oh, that's kind of cool. Actually Some people might think it's sad, but it's kind of cool. That's how you wanted to play the game. So that's how you played the game and that's really. If that's how you enjoy it, then by all means like it's amazing to see. And that's where I think Wow has its niche things, because you can play it However you want. You have pet battles, you have PVP, pve you have for transmog runs, you have mount runs, you have achievements. You know you have loads of different things that you can do in Wow that aren't involving just PVE and PVP content, but they're obviously the biggest things. But you know it's it's such a bigger game than just them two things. Now. The next one is playing with friends. If you don't have friends, then you. That's unfortunate, but you can't make friends in wow. It's one of them. Things like your friends might not play well, but there is that possibility to make friends in wow. I think a lot of people misunderstand how easy issue is to make friends in wow. I do some arenas from time to time with One of my like main people that I play with in terms of like threes and, and we played late-ish at night when everyone's gone to bed and we just do looking for group, when we're not doing anything too serious, we're not pushing like a certain rating yet. We just want to get back in the swing of things after taking a little break from wow, like PVP and stuff like that. And we came across this monk, this monk, in looking for group. He was very, very chill. He was very chill. He was very good as well. Monks aren't in the greatest spot at the moment, especially with our composition, but we enjoy playing with him because he's a good, like Good, player. He. You can tell that he's a good player, good healer Monks just don't bring utility for what we need as a comp. We play arcane, mage, boomie, and we need something to lock down the target, like leg sweeps, good. But the monk usually is very telling when he's going to Do that. Essentially it's not like a shaman that has grounding totem, static field totem, you know all of that stuff, but it is what it's now. The reason that we played with the monk Was we weren't going anywhere in terms of rating. We were very much win-lose, win-lose, win-lose. But he was a very nice chap and he was constantly talking to us and stuff like that and he just generally had a conversation with us. And this leads me into the point. People just don't do that in the game anymore, and that includes classic, by the way, classic is, in my honest opinion, one of the worst places like At the moment for wow, because the whole classic community where it's like, oh, you had to talk to everyone and stuff like that. Yeah, that's great and you do to some extent. But I meet more people who are dickheads in classic than I do in retail and that's the problem, because in retail no one's obligated to know in classic and retail no one's obligated to be nice to you. Everyone can be a dick like it's. It's absolutely ridiculous and that's the sound reality. Everyone will be a dick, if they can be. They just want to get their business done, whether it be you know, sell you something and then piss off, or whether it's just you know, have a conversation and like just long off, it's nothing too crazy, it's all transactional and like the actual difference of this guy, this monk, just talking and having a conversation, having a laugh with us, even after we lose games, is such a difference and We've added him and we've played with him since like a few times and that's how simple it is to make a friend in Wow. You just have to be nice for once. I I have obviously not a saint in World Warcraft. I've had my fair share of them being a dick to someone. But I don't actively try and be a dick to someone if they aren't a dick to me first, if that makes sense. So you know, you get what you give kind of thing. And I Invited someone this was a couple nights ago. We were doing looking for group on some alts or no on our mains and I put in the like thing you know be a certain experience and stuff like that, because we're looking to push and and we had a priest joint and he put 2.4k like XP or whatever it was, and he had something on his name Like a little symbol. I couldn't type it in to check him. So I invited him, copied his name, checked him and then said sorry, it's not going to work and then removed him. Now he did say why invite me in the first place? And I went on to explain and I was like no, I'm really sorry, man, I couldn't like type in your name, so I had to copy it while you were in the group and he was like, okay, make sense, it's no worries. And I did say I apologize for all of it, it is a bit misleading, but hopefully have a good night and, you know, take care. And he like what's the word? Reciprocated it, no, repeated it, repeated the energy is the best way that I'll say it and he gave me that same energy back. He was like no worries, completely understand, take care and have a good night as well. Like it doesn't have to be toxic interactions, like we probably could have made friends with that guy, to be honest, if we played with him for a bit. He he wasn't. He did lie a bit and, you know, did up his numbers in terms of what his experience was. But I mean, everyone would to try and get into a group. It's not really anything new, but yeah, if we really thought we could have probably been friends with him. So if you don't have anyone to play with, sadly and well, there are ways to make friends. The best way is just being nice. A lot of people aren't nice in the game at the moment, or for years they haven't been nice. They've always been ticks, essentially. And it's like, oh my god, why even bother talking to people and you find that one sort of shining light in the like shit show and it's like okay, I can definitely be a mate with you and play the game with you and you know, do battlegrounds, do PvE, you know all of that stuff, and this is a good way to play the game. This is a why you should play the game to try and make One friend or two friends that you play the game constantly with, and it gives your game another purpose. To log on, it gives you a social interaction to have in the game. You know that kind of deal which is really really good. The third one I want to talk about is escape. Now, any sort of game People are wanting to escape, like real life, it's a really good distraction from it, whether it be Assassin's Creed, whether it be called a duty, you know mass effect, halo, world of Warcraft, overwatch, hearthstone, diablo, any sort of game. You play that game to have fun, to disconnect from anything. You want to lose yourself in the world of the game, and the way that you can do this in WoW is quest, simply quest. Simply start playing a character. You log into your character and you can do transmog. You know, you can just sit there and dress up your character, but ours, if you really wanted to, you can go and do quests. You know it's something that people overlook, but the quests are very, very good. It is a good gold source, it is a good lore source for the game and it is a very nice and chilled like entertainment essentially. Now, these that's obviously. I would recommend reading the quest text because they do all have a story behind them. There is a reason you're doing these quests. It isn't just go kill eight boars because you know we're dickheads and we just want to kill some boars. You know it's that kind of deal. You know it isn't that simple. There are reasons to doing the quests, but the idea is to escape reality and escape the game or not the game. Escape into the game, and you can do this by embracing what the game has to offer. So, like I said, trans mock, quests, achievements, pvp, pve you know anything in the game, even pet battles. You really want to make the best pet battle like team ever. You can do that. You can spend hours theory crafting on what is the best like pet battle in the most percent chance to win. Say you've got five pets, all of them level 25, and you theory craft that these are the best three pets because the chances of you coming up Against a beast or something you know is very low or the lowest percentage chance. So you, you know, you can theory craft as much as you want. It's absolutely crazy, but, yeah, it is a means to escape. Any sort of game really is, and World of Warcraft has that in such an abundance. It's unreal. And I Think this is the main reason why people Want to play well, because they want to just chill for a bit. Everything seems like it's a shit show right now in the world. Why can't people just chill for a bit? You know it's, it's refreshing, it does Recharge. You like how you plug in your phone at night to recharge, like the battery of it. This is how you recharge. Some people might not recharge at it. They might be screaming at their, like arena team and you know, in solo, shuffle and absolutely flaming, punching their monitors. If they recharge that way, they recharge that way. You know it costs a monitor, but it is what it is. But no, it is a way to recharge for a lot of people and escape, and this is why I think wow is one of the best ones at that because, yes, you can have single player games, which is really good. They entice you into the single player story. But once you've done the story, you've done it. Like it's the same for questing in Wow. You know the Main quest throughout the zones. Once you've done it, you've done it. But wow has so many other things that you can do and other games do. Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying that single player games don't have anything else to do and there's usually side objectives and stuff like that. But wow, over the course of its 20 years now, has added so many things and it is such a great escape For a lot of people and this is why it is probably one of the best ways to. Now. These are the main sort of reasons why you would play well and these are probably without even realizing why you would play well. It doesn't make it wrong and you know want to have these reasons for logging into WoW because stuff does get a bit hectic and is very, very good to have these reasons to log on. You don't ever just want to log on, stand around for five minutes and be like I'm on board, I'm going to log off. You know there was a waste of five minutes. And if you do that for a week you've wasted what? 35 minutes. And then for two weeks you know 70 minutes, an hour and 10. And then you know so on and so forth. So you waste a lot of mint, like a lot of time just by doing these five minutes like log in, stand around, do nothing, log out, kind of thing. You want to have a purpose when you log on and these are the reasons to have a purpose. So the escape one is very much a source of why you go on to WoW. But the other sections like sort of have some goals for yourself, you know, make some friends, just have fun in general. Those are the reasons why you should be logging on to escape rather than just you know log on, zone out for five minutes, log off, you know that kind of deal. Yeah, these are the main reasons why you would play WoW in my opinion. But I'm going to move on to a small sort of forum section where there's a couple of things that I found and I kind of want to try these, maybe on a weekly basis, depending on how it feels. So we'll see. But a couple of these are well, one of these is very simple and I just have to address this because it annoyed me. And the other two are for newer players. Actually, these are the forums for newer players and kind of very simple questions that you know older people might not realize, but these questions are very difficult for a new player to understand and comprehend and I thought I would give some advice on it. So the first one is the one that I really have to just address Social contract. Not sure what's up, but I feel like I get this social contract every two weeks. Annoying. I don't speak to people unless they are our old friends or family. Get a grip. So for those that don't know, the social contract is, when you log into WoW it brings up a small page. This page is a wall of text. This text just says that you should be very nice to people, you shouldn't conduct yourself in any ill manner, you shouldn't be swearing or being racist or anything like that. You know the very simple stuff that you shouldn't be doing in real life, like be racist or anything like that, and it's just saying please don't do it in game and it is a banable offence. And this guy is complaining that that comes up every two weeks. All you have to do is scroll to the bottom and accept. You do. If you want to read it, you can, but I'll give you the very basic version. It says that if you're a dick to anyone, you can be banned. Now, obviously, if it's like I'll piss off stuff like that, like it's deemed as rude but kind of like it's a gray area, but you know, racism, sexism, anything like that, just going above and beyond and being an absolute fucker about it. Sorry, but like you're going to get banned. Like it takes two seconds to accept this letter and some people need to get it in their head that this isn't okay. Like acting this way and being you know all these things, saying these sort of things to other people. It's not okay, and I think that having it every two weeks isn't enough. Maybe every time you log in you should get it or something, because it really should like hammer home the like point that you shouldn't be saying these things and that it is a banable offence. It really is a banable offence and I don't get why people get angry. Now the next one is quite cool. So how to avoid AoE damage. New to WoW, I've been wondering how do you actively actually avoid AoE slash ground damage Because I seem to run away. But that but and by that time I'm already dead. There might, where might, I be going wrong? I know basics such as avoiding cleave slash, frontal damage etc. But AoE damage feels different, especially as it's hard to recognize and judge the effects when they're all under your character. Any advice appreciated. So obviously people have their own reasons for this, but for AoE effects there is a setting that isn't always enabled. I had this in Shadowlands. It just disabled it. For me, it is a setting on the main menu and it is an enable and disable option. You want this enabled. I think it's the only enable and disable option on that like general page when you go into your interface. But make sure this is enabled and it will allow you to see the AoE effects on the floor. This is very important. You need above low quality settings. But if you go to low quality settings in terms of like a one or two on that bar, you can go one to 10 on your quality settings. If you go to a one or two, it will disable it, I believe. But you can still enable it, like separately, essentially. So go down, find that setting and essentially enable it. It's just below that, like one to 10 bar, and it is the only enable and disable option in that sort of general section. So make sure that's enabled to clearly see AoE effects. This is very important. I can't remember exactly the name of it, but it's something like particle density, I believe. No, not particle density, actually it might be something like that. It's around the particle density setting. I'm sorry, I completely forgotten that. I want to say it's like SSOA setting, but I don't think that is it. I can't remember that exactly. But yes, this is what you want to be enabled. Secondly, aoe effects are more it's tough, depending on the content that you do Normal dungeons. You're not going to die to it, as much Heroic mythic and stuff you will be. So you want to be quick with it. Generally you want to pop a defensive. If you're in the middle of an AOE effect, you want to be moving from it. But if you're dying before you're moving out of it, then you want to be popping an AOE effect, a defensive. I should say sorry, this person who posted this was a rogue. Now for a rogue, you have a couple of options. You have a shroud, a cloak of shadow, sorry. You have faint, which is an area of effect reduced, like damage thing, by 30%, I think something like that and you have sprint to get out of it quicker. You vanish to an extent will help you with this as well. Crimson vial, if it's like not that too deadly, like this, will just give you a heal whilst you're running out. You know that kind of deal. There are ways that you can mitigate the damage whilst you are running out and if you are dying to these mechanics, then you do need to use some of these to get yourself out of the AOE. Secondly, the bosses will always follow sort of a pattern. If you are doing PvE, so you kind of know when they're going to put down an AOE, aoe effect. So you want to like rerun, if that makes sense, like constantly running, like strafing side to side, so that you're on your toes, in a manner of speaking. Another good way of doing this is to download deadly boss mods. Deadly boss mods is a add on from curse forge. We want to download curse forge and then, in curse forge, download deadly boss mods DBM it should be called in a cast forge and you can enable everything in terms of dungeons and stuff and it will show you the timers of what a boss can do. So if it has death and decay this boss, it will show a timer of when it is either going to occur or when it can occur after it's one of the two. So we either occur as soon as that timer runs out or it will occur after that timer runs out. Some point after a random point could be within the next five seconds, could be within the next 20 seconds, but generally within the next five seconds it is. So, yeah, that's probably the best advice that I can give for that one. Yeah, it's quite cool to find this like a newer player on the forums and I'll try and do one or two of these every sort of episode, because getting newer players into our was very tough and I'm looking to hope hopefully help at least some people out with some of the basics or even more experienced stuff, because some people still died to AOE now, even like after playing the game for so long. You know, hopefully it helps people out a little bit. But that is it for this episode. Thank you all very much for listening. As always. Do check out all the socials down below content stuff happening over there and please do rate share anything to do with the podcast. It really helps spread the word. And yeah, once again, thank you all very much for listening and go with valor friend, goodbye, bye.