Holy Shatt Podcast

Just when we thought we had all the special news like the World of Warcraft card game Blizzard announced at Pax East hours before recording, a bunch of stuff got posted on 5.3! While we didn't get to cover a lot of the 5.3 news, we did touch on it. Also a big thanks to Rho from the Realm Maintenance podcast and All Things Azeroth for joining us as a guest. News Coverage: Race to World First: As of the recording we had several multi-way ties and Paragon leading the pack at 11/13. By the time you're reading this things might have drastically changed so we suggest you check out the wowprogress.com homepage to get the most up to date information. PVP Changes: PVP seemed to be getting beat up a lot on gear changes, and players complaining about how Blizzard's changes to even the playing field were destroying the PVP scene. To throw long time PVP players a bone Blizzard has created the "Glorious Tyranny" enchantment for players with an arena or rated battle ground rating of 2200 or higher. The visual effects are enough to make me want to get this, but it also comes with a big of enhancement. Check it out if you want something to aim for. Feeling like you never won anything on those extra loot throws in LFR or world bosses? You might get a chance to get anything from some useful profession items like cloth, all the way to rare mounts. So while that person on your team is jumping for joy at winning that tier belt you can mount up on your firehawk and ruin his moment of glory...ok well maybe you can't get a firehawk, but the drops will definitely take the hurt off a failed roll. Upgrades: Blizzard has confirmed that upgrades will return for PvE gear in 5.3. PvP gear will not be able to be upgraded. Discussion Topic: In this weeks discussion topic we talk about how Blizzard could implement a free to play system and still be profitable.

Announcement: Holy Shatt will now regularly be posted on Friday mornings at 6AM CST. Getting the recordings out the morning after a late night recording was a little too much pressure and didn't allow me the time to prepare pretty images, detailed show notes, and edit the audio to make it sound a little better. Now you can join me (Sigmandis) and Xantar to help you get through your Friday workday and into your weekend! ANOTHER ANNOUNCEMENT: We are welcoming back Rho the host of the realm-maintenance podcast and co-host of All Things Azeroth to the show next week! Join us live at 8PM CST next Wednesday to check it out. News Coverage: Race to world first on Throne of the Thunder King! At the time of the recording Blood Legion was in 1st place, but the newly formed partnership of Exodus and Team Vodka (see story two) was nipping at their heels. Check out the leader boards at WoWprogress.com to check in on the action. Also of note the first wing of LFR is now open so if you find yourself without a group to raid with que up and check out some of the amazing imagery in the new raid. Team Vodka was one of the most recognized US raiding guilds around. Many people were wondering why they weren't popping up on the leader boards as the race kicked off for this tier. Amid a lot of confusion over them forming a partnership with a new guild and going by Evodus we found out they're still raiding in this tier after merging with Exodus. The Mana Flask has an interview with the leaders of the new raid group and explain why the team is still under the Exodus name and why the merge happened. A great read to help those of you with dwindling raid groups as merging teams together is becoming a common thing as the game looses raiders. Blizard developer Rob Pardo announced with this tweet that they will have an announcement at PAX East for Blizzards new game. Since the tweet specifically mentioned new game many gamers anticipated it might be the unveiling of Titan. Pardo quickly followed up with another tweet that states it won't have anything to do with Titan so we're back to guessing exactly what's going on. Our good friend Twizz from Twizzcast got one of the biggest gifts Blizzard can bestow on a podcast by allowing the Twizzcast crew to interview Ghostcrawler! Both of us wished him well and wanted to be there, but unfortunately it was during our own show time. Check out the recording here, you can bet we are. Discussion Topic: Xantar plays tour guide for me as I try to do my first run through on the daily quest hub. We talk about stuff like Zygor guide, dying (in game), and other random nonsense.  Emails: Long time listener Dayfred calls in with a bad experience with a random group of rouges in a scenario. The two leather wearing throat slashers demanded our friend to heal instead of DPS and when he refused kicked him out of the group. A hunter later did the same and then complained about his DPS. Weatherspoon provides some feedback and says its not unusual for a balance druid to toss some heals, but it does really hurt DPS. I complain about how attitudes like the ones Dayfred had to deal with are killing the WoW community and driving away players and turning off people new to the game. Xantar gives some input form a mages point of view as well since rogues are nearly as squishy as mages. If you need some help learning your class (I look for it all the time) check out Icy-Veins.com in particular here's a link to their detailed breakdown on how to play a balanced druid.

Just a little over 24 hours old 5.2 has some new and interesting content and features for everyone. Sigmandis talks about the new dailies, Xantar worries about his inability to purchase his farm, the team take on a scenario together, and then promptly get wiped in an Eye of the Storm battle ground. Its a quick and nice show this week! If you're looking for the article on RPPM we mentioned you can find the Red-Hatted-Rogue's article here.

Sigmandis regrets taking a bet after Warcraft Less Traveled's host Skolnick informed him there actually IS a (alleged) Donkey Kong reference in the game. We played a clip from his show talking about it. We dove back into more 5.2 news, but this time it was more direct facts from Blizzard than just rumors. Xantar and Sigmandis had a back and forth on exactly how good 5.2 is going to be, and what its going to take for the patch to be considered successful. We also talk about pee-wee hockey in Canada.  For those of you who wanted to listen to the "Patch Day" music video you can find it here, for some reason You Tube didn't play nice during the show.

Just about everyone's hearts stopped when in the middle of the PS4 announcement Chris Metzen walked onto the stage. Was it Titan? Then we learned Diablo III was coming to the PS4 and we collectively fell out of our seats with disappointment  Alas its not all sorrows in this episode! We learned that the PvP season will be coming to a close on March 5th, could that mean 5.2 drops on March 12th? We think so. Also some other juicy tidbits trickled in as we learned the last heroic boss in the Throne of Thunder raid will have limited attempts every week, and other 5.2 rumor knowledge nuggets. We also want to thank all our listeners who contributed to our Facebook page post and shared their favorite memories that turned them from average WoW players into addicts. One of our listeners even won a prize! Check out our Facebook page for this weeks discussion topic and for your chance to win more cool stuff.

You might notice that the site looks a little different. Truth be told we had a major crash as we attempted to move it and the mess you see now is the result. No worries though, we’re slowly cleaning it up. For this episode we apologized for our hiatus, talked about some valor changes that arn’t changing in 5.2, some things that ARE changing in PVP for 5.2, and how WoW’s story line is possibly affecting its appeal to current subscribers. We also brought WoW 101 back to help newer players prepare for the 5.2 patch!

Have you stopped raiding by no choice of your own? Have the people you used to sit online with and laugh while slaying dragons suddenly disappeared  Are you wondering if you should move to a new guild or stay put and wait for your fellow guildies to return? We talk about all that plus some new tidbits of news on 5.2 in this podcast.

Sigmandis announces he's taking a brief vacation from World of Warcraft, Xantar talks about the new 5.2 quest area, and Ghostcrawler leaves us all wondering what the heck is the new "awesome feature" going to be for MoP?

A ghost tells us upgrades for gear might be gone for good, the capitol cities rebuild, T15 set bonus revealed and explored, and much more.

Blizzard sent us a late night gift, a video teaser trailer for the upcoming 5.2 patch. You can click the link to check it out, and then join us as we discuss what we're looking forward to in the patch. Sigmandis talks about how he hasn't really done much in WoW since the release of 5.1, Xantar shares his ambitions beyond the Brawlers Guild, and both hosts talk about what they'd like to see in 5.2. Share your thoughts with the hosts in an email or phone call. Remember every entry gets you a shot at a free 30 day WoW time card.

Special Christmas edition of Holy Shatt pre-recorded for you future folk's listening pleasure. Since Blizzard announced the day after we recorded that 5.2 was going to be released in January  along with a bevy of additional information around the patch, we felt the timing couldn't have been better for this Christmas show. The hosts talk about some additional news like some hot fixes that gave Elegon a slight nerf in normal mode, Mr. Robot getting some new functions, and then it all turns into 5.2 discussion. The hosts tear apart the 5.2 raid, discuss lore around the new patch, analyze their classes tier 15 and season 13 armor sets, look over their class changes, try to figure out Monk class changes, talk about their favorite thing coming in 5.2, and much more. If you're looking for an in-depth look at the tidbits of info we got from Blizzard for Christmas, this is the right spot. Remember to send the Holy Shatt crew some phone calls and Emails over the holiday break. Our next live show will be January 9th 2013 at 9PM eastern. We will have more WoW news, tips, tricks, and critting penguins next time for you. Thank you for an amazing 2012, we're looking forward to an awesome 2013.

Sigmandis comes down with the flu, Xantar has shoulder pains, will your hosts survive? We discuss some major, but nifty, changes that are supposed to hit with 5.2 We also have a lengthily discussion on how the way new raiders have to gear has changed. This show is a little on the light side since I felt like a truck hit me. We plan to release an episode on the day after Christmas, but it will be pre-recorded so no live show.  

Place holder for now, will update by Saturday. Work is killer with the convention. ^Sigmandis   SEO DESCRIPTION: Will the siege of Orgrimmar be as awesome as Uldar or ICC? Wondering how to play a mage since they've been nerfed into the ground?

Sigmandis breaks down the basics of the Elegon fight. Xantar talks about his love of the Darkmoon Fair and Ghostcrawler, and...snow. Both hosts share their views on how to play nice in LFR. More details to come as this holy pally posting the episode is about to pass out from lack of sleep. Again huge apology for our listeners who joined the live show. I slept in and was about 10 minutes late to log in, and then we hit some technical issues. -Sigmandis

Our first Wednesday episode! Hybuir was nice enough to send us an MoP Expansion code, and the lucky guy won our contest for a 30 day time code in return. Talk about instant karma return. In this episode Sigmandis dives into the new features of patch 5.1 as Xantar serves as his all knowing guide. We want to hear your feedback on the patch as well! Head over to our Facebook page and comment on the post for this episode. We will read it on the air next week. We also wanted to reach out to our fans and give you a few incentives to email / phone us. Sigmandis has fixed the Skype line so you can still call us at (919)521-8WoW and leave us a message. If phone calls arn't your thing email us at holyshattpodcast@gmail.com. Remember to check out the secret phrase of the week on the Facebook page and include it in your call or email for a chance to win next month's 30 day time code. Each phone call you send us gets you two entries for the time code, an email gets you one. As an additional incentive the first person to call in and leave us a voice mail, or send us an email will automatically win a cinder kitten (to be delivered once Blizzard releases it). We love to hear your feelings on the show, but to win the cinder kitten your call or email must contain something we can discuss about WoW. Also check out the episode to hear how you can win Hybuir's copy of MoP!