Ben posted this episode at 1am, because for some reason he was still up at 1am. I'm writing this post at a little after 1am, because for some reason I am still up a little after 1am. What follows is about the best I can manage in my exhausted state.
This week we had Remghar from Tauren Think Tank on. We had an absolute blast, some might accuse us of having too much fun and not getting down to business enough, but to them I say this. If we can't talk about the time traveling adventures of a jerky warchief, then I don't want to live on this planet anymore.
Show Info
Email: AzerothRoundTable@gmail.com
Twitter: @AzerothRT
Guest Info
Twitter: @Remghar
Website: taurenthinktank.com
Host Info
Ben:
Email: AltheMage@gmail.com
Twitter: @AltheMage
Jon:
Email: Revendawn@gmail.com
Twitter: @Revendawn
Sunday, June 30, 2013
Sunday, June 23, 2013
ART Ep. 13: In the Dungeon (feat. Matthew Rorie)
Let me give you a little behind the scenes on how Azeroth RoundTable works. Ben and I typically think of a topic and then go down the list of people we'd like to talk to in order to see if there is a really good match. That's the normal way of things. This week was a little different. This week I invited someone mostly because I thought they were an interesting person and we brought them up with no preordained topic.
The results were really good in my opinion. What started as a typical show quickly became a interesting discussion about a play style that neither Ben or myself has. Obviously WoW has a ton of fans and as a result there are going to be a lot of different opinions on what makes the game great and what we'd like to see change. Our interview with Matt really opened my eyes to a type of play I knew existed, but hadn't encountered.
I don't think this a new format for the show or anything. We'll still probably be bringing people in as subject experts, but it was a good experiment for what this show can be when people just get together and talk World of Warcraft.
Contest: Next episode a lucky winner will get their pick of the litter from the official Warcraft Pet and Mount store. How can you be this winner? Simply e-mail us your own submission for our Celebrity Murloc Theater segment and you are entered. We will pick one winner to choose one mount or pet from the pet store.
**Please note that while Ben and I will do murloc requests, requesting a murloc does not actually get you an entry. So feel free to send requests, just know we need an actual audio file from you in order to be entered.
Show Info
Email: AzerothRoundTable@gmail.com
Twitter: @AzerothRT
Guest Info
Twitter: @Frailgesture
Website: GiantBomb.com
Host Info
Ben:
Email: AltheMage@gmail.com
Twitter: @AltheMage
Jon:
Email: Revendawn@gmail.com
Twitter: @Revendawn
The results were really good in my opinion. What started as a typical show quickly became a interesting discussion about a play style that neither Ben or myself has. Obviously WoW has a ton of fans and as a result there are going to be a lot of different opinions on what makes the game great and what we'd like to see change. Our interview with Matt really opened my eyes to a type of play I knew existed, but hadn't encountered.
I don't think this a new format for the show or anything. We'll still probably be bringing people in as subject experts, but it was a good experiment for what this show can be when people just get together and talk World of Warcraft.
Contest: Next episode a lucky winner will get their pick of the litter from the official Warcraft Pet and Mount store. How can you be this winner? Simply e-mail us your own submission for our Celebrity Murloc Theater segment and you are entered. We will pick one winner to choose one mount or pet from the pet store.
**Please note that while Ben and I will do murloc requests, requesting a murloc does not actually get you an entry. So feel free to send requests, just know we need an actual audio file from you in order to be entered.
Show Info
Email: AzerothRoundTable@gmail.com
Twitter: @AzerothRT
Guest Info
Twitter: @Frailgesture
Website: GiantBomb.com
Host Info
Ben:
Email: AltheMage@gmail.com
Twitter: @AltheMage
Jon:
Email: Revendawn@gmail.com
Twitter: @Revendawn
Sunday, June 16, 2013
ART Ep. 12: Undead Monkey Babies (feat. Tetsemi and Alachaas)
AKA Tanking part 2 of 2
We finally got to the round table topic! All we had to do was drastically cut down our 5.4 talk and totally leave out what we've been playing. Seriously though, we've been having a lot of fun and hopefully you guys have been too. Personally I like to joke about our missing things here and there, but ultimately the discussions have been amazing.
Check out the new episode below as well as our guest info.
One more thing before I go. Every week Ben mentions his other show Geektopia so hopefully you've checked it out. This week we had Alachaas on and he is the other host of Geektopia, but that's not all! Literally minutes after recording this episode of Azeroth RoundTable I weaseled my way onto their E3 episode to talk XBone vs PS4 and other E3 goodness. If you want to hear me attempt to destroy all of Geektopia I recommend you check it out.
iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/om/podcast/geektopia/id597138388
Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/geektopia
PodOnatic (stream): http://geektopia.podomatic.com/
That should cover it until next week!
Show Info
E-Mail: AzerothRoundTable@gmail.com
Twitter: @AzerothRT
Hosts
Ben
E-Mail: AltheMage@gmail.com
Twitter: @AltheMage
Jon
E-Mail: Revendawn@gmail.com
Twitter: @Revendawn
Guests
Tetsemi
Twitter: @IvoryTiger
Alachaas
Twitter: @Alachaas
We finally got to the round table topic! All we had to do was drastically cut down our 5.4 talk and totally leave out what we've been playing. Seriously though, we've been having a lot of fun and hopefully you guys have been too. Personally I like to joke about our missing things here and there, but ultimately the discussions have been amazing.
Check out the new episode below as well as our guest info.
One more thing before I go. Every week Ben mentions his other show Geektopia so hopefully you've checked it out. This week we had Alachaas on and he is the other host of Geektopia, but that's not all! Literally minutes after recording this episode of Azeroth RoundTable I weaseled my way onto their E3 episode to talk XBone vs PS4 and other E3 goodness. If you want to hear me attempt to destroy all of Geektopia I recommend you check it out.
iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/om/podcast/geektopia/id597138388
Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/geektopia
PodOnatic (stream): http://geektopia.podomatic.com/
That should cover it until next week!
Show Info
E-Mail: AzerothRoundTable@gmail.com
Twitter: @AzerothRT
Hosts
Ben
E-Mail: AltheMage@gmail.com
Twitter: @AltheMage
Jon
E-Mail: Revendawn@gmail.com
Twitter: @Revendawn
Guests
Tetsemi
Twitter: @IvoryTiger
Alachaas
Twitter: @Alachaas
Sunday, June 9, 2013
ART Ep. 11: Who is the host with the most? (feat. Tetsemi)
AKA: Tanking Part 1
Another week and another RoundTable, just full of great discussion, but no actual topic in sight. I promise we are going to get to tanking next week, but for this week we hit Battlefield Barrens and Flex Raiding hard. We've been known to get passionate about our opinions here, but I think this is the first week where Ben and I couldn't be more opposed on a part of a topic. Just remember folks, it's all the spirit of fun.
That said, as the person who writes the blog I do get the opportunity to talk a bit more on topics from the show. Listening to the show before posting it here I can say I don't think I did the best job explaining what bothered me about flex raiding so please see below to see the blue post that kind of set it all off for me. Again it's not an issue with flex raiding, I think it's a good idea. However the blue post below sells it as something for the type of player I am and I just don't think it's a solution for me and I think a lot of the features they are saying will appeal to me are just not true, but you can judge for yourself.
This isn’t for LFR folks, it’s for Normal folks (ahem... you know what I mean) that were going into LFR and weren’t having an enjoyable raiding experience or that just wanted an easy way to play with friends and family without spending too much time organizing it.
These players would go to LFR only for gear, not for the experience, and that’s not really what we want to see happening.
I’m hoping that players who are looking for more challenging content, but have no time to get into the usual guild raiding schedules, will start to switch from LFR to Flexible Raids.
Highly skilled players with heavy time constraints have always felt a bit left out from MMORPGs, but maybe there are ways we can deal with that.
Ideally, skill should be equally or even better rewarded than time, but there needs to be a balance between the two, we can’t provide 30 minutes of insanely difficult content with the best rewards that only 0.001% of the player base would be able reach, but we also can’t do the opposite and make rewards exclusively and directly proportional with time spent. Skill needs to enter into the equation and needs to have a pretty strong weight.
LFR still has its own place, some players are quite content with it, some have no intention of going any further than LFR in terms of raiding and are happy with the experience it provides. We’re just trying to provide content for everyone to enjoy.
This is just a preview, 5.4 isn’t even on the PTR yet, many things can still change. This is also part of the reason why we’re sharing this information with you all; the feedback we get will help us to better shape our next major content patch. I've already seen quite a few interesting and unexpected arguments in this thread and we'll share them with the devs, so keep it up! ;)
So that to me is the real issue with flex raiding for me. I don't agree that this is a solution for players like me, but I do think it is an important feature and I do think it needed to be added to the game. However I think you all should judge if flex raiding is for you. You can read Blizzard's post about Flex Raiding here.
Enough on that, let's get to the show...
Show Info
Twitter: @AzerothRT
Twitch: twitch.tv/azerothrt (there may be some fun bonus stories post show for this episode)
E-mail: AzerothRoundTable@gmail.com
Guest Info
Twitter: @IvoryTiger
Host Info
Ben
Twitter: @AltheMage
E-mail: althemage@gmail.com
Jon
Twitter: @revendawn
E-mail: revendawn@gmail.com
Another week and another RoundTable, just full of great discussion, but no actual topic in sight. I promise we are going to get to tanking next week, but for this week we hit Battlefield Barrens and Flex Raiding hard. We've been known to get passionate about our opinions here, but I think this is the first week where Ben and I couldn't be more opposed on a part of a topic. Just remember folks, it's all the spirit of fun.
That said, as the person who writes the blog I do get the opportunity to talk a bit more on topics from the show. Listening to the show before posting it here I can say I don't think I did the best job explaining what bothered me about flex raiding so please see below to see the blue post that kind of set it all off for me. Again it's not an issue with flex raiding, I think it's a good idea. However the blue post below sells it as something for the type of player I am and I just don't think it's a solution for me and I think a lot of the features they are saying will appeal to me are just not true, but you can judge for yourself.
Posted by ValkariaWe just made tech which could made life of 25-men a lot easier. Let's give it to LFR folks. -.-
This isn’t for LFR folks, it’s for Normal folks (ahem... you know what I mean) that were going into LFR and weren’t having an enjoyable raiding experience or that just wanted an easy way to play with friends and family without spending too much time organizing it.
These players would go to LFR only for gear, not for the experience, and that’s not really what we want to see happening.
I’m hoping that players who are looking for more challenging content, but have no time to get into the usual guild raiding schedules, will start to switch from LFR to Flexible Raids.
Highly skilled players with heavy time constraints have always felt a bit left out from MMORPGs, but maybe there are ways we can deal with that.
Ideally, skill should be equally or even better rewarded than time, but there needs to be a balance between the two, we can’t provide 30 minutes of insanely difficult content with the best rewards that only 0.001% of the player base would be able reach, but we also can’t do the opposite and make rewards exclusively and directly proportional with time spent. Skill needs to enter into the equation and needs to have a pretty strong weight.
LFR still has its own place, some players are quite content with it, some have no intention of going any further than LFR in terms of raiding and are happy with the experience it provides. We’re just trying to provide content for everyone to enjoy.
This is just a preview, 5.4 isn’t even on the PTR yet, many things can still change. This is also part of the reason why we’re sharing this information with you all; the feedback we get will help us to better shape our next major content patch. I've already seen quite a few interesting and unexpected arguments in this thread and we'll share them with the devs, so keep it up! ;)
So that to me is the real issue with flex raiding for me. I don't agree that this is a solution for players like me, but I do think it is an important feature and I do think it needed to be added to the game. However I think you all should judge if flex raiding is for you. You can read Blizzard's post about Flex Raiding here.
Enough on that, let's get to the show...
Show Info
Twitter: @AzerothRT
Twitch: twitch.tv/azerothrt (there may be some fun bonus stories post show for this episode)
E-mail: AzerothRoundTable@gmail.com
Guest Info
Twitter: @IvoryTiger
Host Info
Ben
Twitter: @AltheMage
E-mail: althemage@gmail.com
Jon
Twitter: @revendawn
E-mail: revendawn@gmail.com
Sunday, June 2, 2013
ART Ep. 10: Have some Cho Juice! (feat. Amijade)
So we never really get out of the "What you've been playing" segment this week. I want to just say that while it might seem like I just took way too long talking about what I've been up to, the truth is we already knew going in that we probably would not be hitting the RoundTable this show. As a matter of fact the topic we had was only a backup topic we decided on during the pre-show as a just in case. I just want to make sure that gets out there before people start telling me to shorten my part in the what we've been playing bit.
In a lot of ways this show was somewhat experimental. We all did very similar things this week so the idea was we'd all talk about what we did if someone brought up a topic. As a result it sounds like my segment was huge and Ben's was super short, so it pry won't remain the format.
Anyway a huge thanks to our guest Amijade for guesting this week. Storms attempted to have him only partially available or on a delay, but we powered through it and had a lot of fun. We managed to talk a lot about pet battles, farming, scenarios, my anti-social MMO issues, and in what I'm sure will bother a lot of folk, MMORPG's top 5 most anticipated MMOs of 2013.
So I'll let you get to listening, check below the player for all the relevant links to things discussed on this show, including a picture of Ben as a dead Jedi, YAY!
Important Links and Pictures:
First off the link to MMORPG's top 5 MMOs of 2013 ((Wildstar!!))
http://www.mmorpg.com/showFeature.cfm/loadFeature/7462/MMORPGs-Most-Wanted-MMOs-of-2013.html
Here is Ben as a dead Jedi
Guest Info:
Amijade - Twitter: @Amijadethelock Website: http://warlockery.com/
Host Info:
Ben - Twitter: @AltheMage E-Mail: Althemage@gmail.com
Jon - Twitter: @Revendawn E-Mail: Revendawn@gmail.com
In a lot of ways this show was somewhat experimental. We all did very similar things this week so the idea was we'd all talk about what we did if someone brought up a topic. As a result it sounds like my segment was huge and Ben's was super short, so it pry won't remain the format.
Anyway a huge thanks to our guest Amijade for guesting this week. Storms attempted to have him only partially available or on a delay, but we powered through it and had a lot of fun. We managed to talk a lot about pet battles, farming, scenarios, my anti-social MMO issues, and in what I'm sure will bother a lot of folk, MMORPG's top 5 most anticipated MMOs of 2013.
So I'll let you get to listening, check below the player for all the relevant links to things discussed on this show, including a picture of Ben as a dead Jedi, YAY!
Important Links and Pictures:
First off the link to MMORPG's top 5 MMOs of 2013 ((Wildstar!!))
http://www.mmorpg.com/showFeature.cfm/loadFeature/7462/MMORPGs-Most-Wanted-MMOs-of-2013.html
Here is Ben as a dead Jedi
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| Sith - LinzyPoo Dead Jedi - Ben |
Guest Info:
Amijade - Twitter: @Amijadethelock Website: http://warlockery.com/
Host Info:
Ben - Twitter: @AltheMage E-Mail: Althemage@gmail.com
Jon - Twitter: @Revendawn E-Mail: Revendawn@gmail.com
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