Shieldwalled Off Cooldown, Part 2 with Jason Lucas! - Ep 43
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Shieldwalled Off Cooldown, Part 2 with Jason Lucas! - Ep 43
SOLO QUEUE DISCORD available at: https://discord.gg/nXQVqERcSU
Show Notes
Welcome to Episode 43! – 1:22 A few news updates and then back into the conversation with Jason Lucas.
News – 3:48
We got word that Décor Duals will get some feature changes, but only until it gets removed when 12.1 arrives spurring my own speculation of the fate of other possible game systems with a similar style of name. The M+ cheating scandal gives Blizzard a funny opportunity next April. “Legacy of Rage” comic has been released; check it and all sorts of other media out here at the WoW media page: https://worldofwarcraft.blizzard.com/en-us/media . Dungeons & Dragons has embraced Azeroth with a ruleset for WoW coming in November. 1 launches on Tuesday with all its new content, though Season 2 begins arriving one week later on Aug. 18.
What Have You Done Lately? – 22:18
I did earn the Spawn of Vyranoth mount for Timewalking and the Sporefall raid mount! Finally got a second character to level 90. Pandaren Heritage Armor questing completed, with a brief review here. Good story and story presentation.
SQ Development Bench – 34:05 An idea for Blizzard: characters who have something new or updated in their text dialogue box should get a visual indicator such as a yellow outline across all questing, like they did for the end of the Pandaren HA questing.
Main Topic – Part 2 with Jason Lucas – 36:30 The rest are topics and questions posed in the second half of the conversation.
10 Years Hosting TSZ – 38:11 The most consistent weekly Warcraft podcast out there, through the ups and downs.
A Solo Player Asks About Raiding – 54:25 I share my observations about raiding from a non-participant perspective and ask some whys and why nots.
Value of the Race to World First – 55:31 What is the value of the RtWF to the game? Who benefits?
Raid Difficulty Levels and Nerfing – 1:09:49 Why is there so much nerfing over the course of a season?
Social Responsibilities of a Raid Leader – 1:21:23 Leading a productive group requires some firm decisions and conversations (also known as why I don’t do group content).
Variance in Encounter Design? (He says no) – 1:29:58 Why does the boss do the same thing every time? Why not add some variance in abilities? Oh, that’s why.
Current State and Future of WoW and Azeroth – 1:37:06
Lightning Round! – 1:56:29
Closing Thoughts – 2:10:08
Outro – 2:15:11
Big thank you to Jason Lucas for joining me for a monster conversation! Thanks to you, to Blizzard for the amazing music and sound, to OGRE for intro/outro music, my lovely and supportive wife, my family, 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, Jon, Metacognition, Jeru, Raven, Greybeard, Pasta Matt, Luch, and Rak! Subscribe to the podcast at your podcast feed of choice, Apple, Spotify, and all the rest. Leave a 5-star rating and a written review to help grow Solo Queue. Find me at sweeperdave on Discord and at soloqueuewow at gmail.com, Bluesky, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Threads. Find Jason on Twitter as @shieldwalled, on Bluesky as jlucas.bluesky.social, on Twitch.tv/shieldwalled, and on Youtube.com/shieldwalled, and of course weekly on The Starting Zone podcast. Behold, the Cursed Isle arrives on Tuesday (or rather, we arrive at it).
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