Show Notes
Episode 12 - You Still Want to Start WoW NoW? Part 2 Show Notes Opening Bit •Official Apology letter from Solo Queue HQ for the delay of Part 2
A Few More Words on the WoW Map •The whole screen map, zooming in and out •The quest log and small map, explanation of different types of quests and all the new symbols added to the map legend
A Few More Words on Gear and Gear Upgrades •Gear is the heart of WoW, but it can be very confusing •Soulbound and Bind on Equip gear historically •Transmog and learning appearances to change your character’s look •The addition of the Warbank and Warbound gear in TWW, sharing with all your characters •End game gear and the complicated upgrade track system. A good visual and explanation of the upgrade system here: https://epiccarry.com/blogs/wow-war-within-gear-upgrade-guide/
Modification and Customization Inside the Game •Settings, suggestions ◦Use mouse for movement – 2 buttons and steer ◦Set autoloot – first thing I do on all new characters ◦Going through Menu items •UI/addons ◦WoW edit mode ◦UI replacements – I use ElvUI, one of many ◦Source for add-ons – Curseforge, other sites ◦Advice for new playera: just start with the custom UI in the game; perhaps a future episode segment on solo Add-ons •Keybinds – Setting what you keyboard keys do •Macros – Shortcut buttons that simplify tasks, but I'm not the one to ask
The Many Ways to Play WoW •Getting to current content, important or not? •Dungeons/Raids and “end game” ◦Grouping ◦Levels of content ◦What solo players can expect and missing out on content ◦Follower Dungeons now, raids next? •PvP the other end game ◦I am not the expert ◦Rankings, seasonal rewards ◦War mode ◦Podcasts for more info, Technically PVP •Great Vault from various play; will add Delves (solo play) to vault in TWW •Bnet friends, social, guilds (who am I to talk about that?) •Warbands, after talking about guilds •Solo content, including out-leveling old content •Collections ◦Types of mounts including utility mounts ◦Transmog •Lore/history ◦Loremaster path ◦Know that much of the story is not in-game ◦Books, comics, etc. outside of game ◦Content creation community for lore ◦Podcasts - Live, Laugh, Lore Ep. 101, Nobbel87 ◦Chronicle I-IV •RP – role-playing in WoW •Professions, primary and secondary, gathering and crafting, playing the auction house
Where to get help? •YouTube videos ◦Lore: Platinum WoW for quick lore; Nobbel87 for in-depth lore ◦News channels: Taliesin & Evitel among the most popular, Hazelnutty, SoulSoBreezy, Bellular •Websites: Wowhead, MMOChampion, BlizzardWatch, IcyVeins, Petopia for Hunter pets •PODCASTS ARE THE GREATEST!!! The Starting Zone a great resource; Live, Laugh, Lore; Unshackled Fury; Girls Gone WoW; Thrall’s Balls •Discord groups •Twitch streamer communities •WoW Forums
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 supporting 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 diving into TWW launch this week or next. “I'll see you out there."
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I Didn’t Know I Needed Blizzcon - Ep 45 SOLO QUEUE DISCORD available at: https://discord.gg/nXQVqERcSU Show Notes Welcome to Episode 45! – 2:03 Let’s just get to Blizzcon stuff. News – 8:03Blizzard news is dominated by Blizzcon announcements and the follow-up announcements. Here are the non-Warcraft announcements in order of how they affect me multiplied by their hype factor. Then we get into the good stuff. Overwatch Reveal – 16:54I am not an Overwatch person. They announced a new somebody after a cool cinematic. Don’t ask me the name of the hero. Heroes of the Storm Reveal – 18:22You can ask me the name of the new hero in HotS, it’s Xal’atath! With another on the horizon, HotS is back! Hearthstone Reveal – 23:30Hearthstone was my entry to Blizzard games. There is a new expansion coming soon diving back into the Black Empire. Also, I invent my second Blizzard game in back-to-back episodes—Hearthstone Classic! Who’s with me?! Diablo Reveals – 29:10Never really played Diablo, but with a Netflix show and an intriguing announcement of Diablo V, I’m open, or will be in 2029 when it arrives. Starcraft Reveal – 35:27Also not a Starcraft player, but dude…did you see that cinematic?! An open-world, story-driven shooter game just might pull me into the SC universe. Retail WoW Reveals – 49:12All of the news related to the five remaining patches coming in Midnight. 12.2 news – 49:44 12.2.5 news – 1:02:53 12.2.7 news – 1:04:57 12.1.5 news – 1:06:04 12.1.7 news – 1:06:58 Talebound Game Mode – 1:07:12New standalone game mode that is definitely not Plunderstorm. Looking forward to this as a solo player! Next Remix is…Wrath! – 1:13:33Not Shadowlands, we are heading back to Northrend to speedrun it all before the story returns to Northrend for The Last Titan. The Last Titan Teaser – 1:14:56Slightly unexpected and thin on any details, this brief cinematic definitely teases what’s on the horizon. Giant titan robots. Warcraft III…What? – 1:22:22An expansion for what now? The new campaigns added to Warcraft III give us insight into the fall of Lorderon and set up the story at the opening of the next new way to play World of Warcraft… WoW Forever! – 1:28:43Finally, we put the moniker “Classic+” to bed once and for all. WoW Forever has enchanted a large portion of the WoW player base and this is only beta. Launch is November 4. So excited for this sweet spot combination of Classic and Retail, possibly greater than the sum of its parts. So, What is the Character Limit in WoW Forever? – 1:58:40There are 52 possible combinations of race and class in WoW Forever as of the beta. Does the character limit allow you to try them all? At this moment, yes! Seems the cap is 70, just like Retail. “What have you done lately?” – 2:05:18 A little bit of my bumping around in retail and switching the main back to feral druid for the rest of Midnight and beyond. Main Topic – Highlights of My Blizzcon! – 2:13:26 Talking through my own experiences with the people I met at Blizzcon! Closing Thoughts – 2:39:21What Blizzcon meant to me. Go figure, set the announcements and the decorations and the hype aside. Blizzcon is about the community and the people you know or are about to know. I fully intend to return. And if you need to know someone at Blizzcon before you commit to going, I will be that person. And, a couple of changes coming to the show, the kind that might make it more interesting to watch on YouTube. Stay tuned. Outro – 2:24:51• Thanks to Blizzard for the amazing music and sound, to OGRE for intro/outro music, my lovely and supportive wife, Podbean for hosting the show, and YOU for listening. • Support the show at https://www.patreon.com/soloqueuewow • Thank you to contributing patrons Andrew, Righteous Bandy, ThatSkyGuy, Cyn, Snek of Voldun, Metacognition, Jeru, Raven, Greybeard, Pasta Matt, Luch, and Rak!• And thanks to free members Max, Eddie, Bear, Friends of Wumpus, Sean, Curro, AehanNahkriin, Guardian Sandy, Alice, D
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