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BIND ON EQUIP Show notes – Episode 90 24th August 2010

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Welcome
Intro
Greg

This Bind On Equip episode is brought to you in part due to the kind sponsorship of Matthew F.

Who’s doing the talking here, you might ask. Well i’m Wemb, and it gives me great personal pleasure to introduce to you my co-hosts The Wych… and the lovely Tempeste….

Call ozzy- (answers after two rings)
-Did you know that the other people running around are other people playing the game?
-have any of them talked to you?
-did you talk back?

Wembs week.

did the deb
messed up dance with princess, didn’t matter we had a laugh
took her to the after party, she was exhausted and ended up asking if we could just grab sundaes and go home.
work is buying a trailer for me to use with a prime mover on my recommendation
saw it today and took the curtains to the signwriters to get painted.
looking forward to getting back in a semi.

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Temp, Wemb & Wych,

Whilst it might not strictly be in the spirit of the PoH to take things seriously, I did want to seriously thank you for the Pants on Head guild and the BOE podcast.

As a Gamer, I suck. I’m not especially committed & I tend to get bored easily and so I have only recently had my first level 80, I don’t have a macro anywhere on my keyboard, don’t really understand gems, my talents are mostly random and … in short I am a noob that’s been playing for about 3 years

All that said, I really enjoy popping on & playing WOW from time to time and I have to say that the enjoyment I get is all the richer from the little community that revolves around BOE & PoH.

I socialise & work with a lot of serious people: things like games & WoW aren’t part of their world. Whilst I have a great group of RL friends, it doesn’t at all intersect with the online world. As a result, it took me a very long time to a group of people in game that I could ‘get to know’. It’s nice to be able to log in, say g’day and have a really cool group of people there to say g’day back. At it’s simplest, that’s why I like PoH.

I’ll never see end game content, I’ll never top the DPS charts and there’s only a fifty / fifty chance that I’ll ever figure out what Glyphs are and which ones I should have, but that doesn;t matter in PoH, I’m perfectly comfortable being a useless noob in such company. You’ve really nailed the vibe in the guild that can have a player like me feel comfortable. So ‘hats off’ to kudos to you three, to Berat for keeping me on track to hit 80, to Wing for keeping my wife happy while I play, to Teo (who accidentally took me on a couple of runs ) and everyone else who makes PoH what it is.

Next email, I promise I’ll hang shit on something, but for now,

See Ya
Ex
(Just Ex is fine,Temp)

Temps week

So we had Princess’ Deb ball, that was amazing and I have got some beautiful photos back.
Angy went to camp and survived the rain and cold.
Deddy went off to camp yesterday and arrives back tomorrow, Angy is missing him badly!
We went to see Inception with Wych, Sharon, and Ashayo. Great movie and sorry again for jumping and making you jump Wemb.
As a result of last weeks discussion regarding circumcision I have had to prove how good I am, no one has told me I am wrong so far and I did our raid last night, and Nym and Canyin …
Now I am exhausted and it is only Tuesday.

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from Tim C,
with your latest podcast i heard that u had a hunter song playing after reds report and i was wondering where u got that little clip of the song cause i was thinking of getting the whole song for it to put onto my ipod so i can listen to it as i am raiding with my guild.

Wych’s week

Busy week 2.5 days on the road for work so no wow there. It was nice to have a hotel room over looking the beach.
Picked up a WD live HD media player which is awesome! It’s great to watch stuff on the big screen that I’ve only been able to watch on the laptop.
Really enjoyed seeing Inception with the lovely Sharon, Wemb Temp & Ashayo – not sure why people seem to think it’s so complicated.
Busy week in the wych house – Worgen B’day, Ms.B B’day & yes, The Wych’s B’day.

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Hi comrades,

The prodigal hunter Rhorann here.

Jumped over on to my long abandoned ali toon to catch up with some friends and got dragged into the Nexus for some frosties. The party was 1xMage, 1xHunter and 3xDroods.

Remebering the desire of Brygwyn from the Hunting Lodge when the droods all decided to ‘bear all’ I couldnt help myself – I whipped out my bear pet and lined it up for a screenshot to prove you can tame druids.

btw what a great guild we have – after many months away form the game I was greated warmly by the ‘old timers’ and it feels like coming home. POH rocks

See you all in game
Rhorann

Housekeeping.

BlizzCon 2010 World of Warcraft & StarCraft II In-Game Items

The Blizzcon 2010 Pet is another Murloc to add to your collection! Will try to get a better picture when the shiny little murloc appears in my game files.

“Death will rise from the tide!” Level 80 Elite Tauren Chieftain once warned — and at BlizzCon 2010, the band’s dire musical prophecy will finally come to pass. Everyone who attends this year’s BlizzCon or purchases the BlizzCon Virtual Ticket will receive an exclusive set of murlocalyptic in-game items for World of Warcraft and StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty. World of Warcraft players will be joined by Deathy, a murloc companion decked out as Deathwing and doing his best to strike fear into the hearts of Azeroth’s crustacean population. You’ll also be able to display your tidal pride in StarCraft II with a Murloc Marine character portrait and a pair of deep-sea decals to emblazon on your units, each with a different terran, protoss, and zerg design.

BlizzCon 2010 takes place on October 22 and 23 at the Anaheim Convention Center. For further details or to order the BlizzCon Virtual Ticket, visit www.BlizzCon.com.

Volley removed – Ghost Crawler

I know I’m going to regret posting in this thread again, but I think it’s the right thing to do so I’ll take one for the team.

We think Multi-Shot is a more interesting ability and can fill the hunter AE niche (along with Explosive Trap). We’ll have to change Multi-Shot from the current version to get it there. I’m very sorry if for some unusual reason Volley was your favorite spell as a hunter. We’ve been trying to consolidate abilities and free up some bar space and having multiple AEs that competed with each other seems like a good area to hit up. The Volley and Multi-Shot niches were very similar, which resulted in the latter being dead. We wanted to pick one and we though Multi-Shot felt more huntery and less “clunky” (to use a favorite Wow forums term).

Do consider that you won’t be AE’ing yourselves through Cataclysm content the way you do currently. When you do need to AE, hunters will have the tools to do so. In situations where you do have to AE, you are probably not also trying to CC. When you’re back to the level of trivializing lower level content, nobody is going to say “Don’t bring a hunter. Their AE spam isn’t spammy enough.” We don’t consider easily breaking rogues out of stealth a good reason to keep Volley around.

I think that hits most of the reasonable concerns. I care much less about addressing the unreasonable ones.

As always, those of you whose sole contribution is to post very inane or derogatory things will be banned.

Man, have we come a long way from “AE is only for trash.”

Archaeology
Bone Gaming Dice – Dwarves love gold and dwarves love drinking, so gaming seemed like a natural fit for both. These dice appear to have been carved from sheep bones. What might be dried blood is still visible on the 5 pip.Creates Item #63112.
Ceramic Funeral Urn – Some dwarves sealed their deceased in tombs. Those with a concern for the undead might be more apt to cremate remains. This urn is chipped and cracked, its ashes long since lost. The word ‘Thunderbolt’ is visible in Dwarven printed on the underside.Creates Item #63409.
Pewter Drinking Cup – \”If there\’s one thing dwarves love, it\’s drinking. And fighting. Two things.\”This cup may have belonged to a minor noble or wealthy merchant. It\’s heavy enough to bash in someone\’s brains, and residue suggest it may have been used for just that.Creates Item #63408.
Silver Neck Torc – Dwarves are famous metalsmiths. While they produce many implements of war, they are adept at working with softer metals as well. This piece of jewelry was sized for a lady with a very thick neck.Creates Item #63411. /
Stone Gryphon – Gryphons have long been allies of the Wildhammer dwarves, who brought their noble steeds to the rest of the Alliance. This small figurine was expertly carved from alabaster. The talons are sharp enough to pierce leather.Creates Item #63410. /
Worn Hunting Knife – This weapon has a notched blade and a handle fashioned of elk or ram horn. The initials ‘W. G.’ are carved near the pommel.Creates Item #63110. /
Cloak Clasp with Antlers – This clasp is fashioned of lacquered wood carved to resemble stag antlers. On the reverse is engraved the name ‘Pyramond’ in Darnassian.Creates Item #63407. /
Feathered Gold Earring – The feathers are probably from scarlet and green macaws, though they have been well preserved. The gold is twisted to appear like thorns or veins. The pin used to pierce the ear looks particularly painful.Creates Item #63413. /
Fossilized Hatchling – When you finished assembling this tiny skeleton through some eldritch magic, the little critter sprang back to life. He’s a pretty good pet. Since he’s a skeleton he doesn’t eat much.Creates Item #60955. /
Jade Asp with Ruby Eyes – This tiny figurine could possibly be a representation of High Priest Venoxis, though snakes of all types are venerated throughout troll culture. The delicate jaws on this figurine can be closed, presumably to draw blood from a finger.Creates Item #63412. /
Moltenfist’s Jeweled Goblet – Even among dark iron dwarf kings, Moltenfist’s avarice was legendary. This goblet, while once of high craftsmanship, has seen better days. It has been partially melted by exposure to lava or dragon fire.Creates Item #63414. /
Belt Buckle with Anvilmar Crest – Modimus Anvilmar was the high king of the dwarves before the War of the Three Hammers and is depicted by the great statue at the gates of Ironforge. This brass buckle might have belonged to a member of his house guard or a servant.Creates Item #63113. /
Black Trilobite – Trilobites are exctinct crustaceans that apparently were once quite diverse and numerous across Azeroth. Myths persist of living trilobites of supposedly epic proportions.Creates Item #63109. /
Fetish of Hir’eek – Hir’eek is one of the animal spirits worshipped by southern trolls. Hir’eek’s totemic animal is the bat. Jeklik, a high priestss of Zul’Gurub was one of Hir’eek’s most famous followers.Creates Item #63120. /
Highborne Pyxis – This is a small box of delicate ceramic, probably used to store cosmetics, jewelry or other small items belonging to a Highborne lady. The clasp is of silver and fashioned to look like two acorns and a holly leaf.Creates Item #63129. /
Inlaid Ivory Comb – While the most valuable jewels have gone missing, this cosmetic item must have been worth a small fortune back in its day. A series of tiny nautilus shells decorate one side, while the inscription ‘Lament for lost Zanara’ is visible on the other.Creates Item #63130. /
Lizard Foot Charm – This is a small, mummified foot of a jungle lizard. Any magic it once contained has long since been drained.Creates Item #63118. /
Preserved Fern – Ferns are primitive plants that have stems, leaves and roots but no seeds or flowers. They reproduce via spores, much like mushrooms. In ancient times, ferns occupied the niche that flowering plants do today.Creates Item #63121. /
Scrap of a Silk Dressing Gown – This mesh is finely woven, possibly of spider silk. The scrap is a silvery white that subtly shifts color in the light. It’s a wonder that it has endured years of being buried in the earth.Creates Item #63131. /
Voodoo Doll – Little is known about the emergence of voodoo among the trolls. The troll belief system is complex, full of dark spirits and primal often animalistic gods, known as loa.Creates Item #63115. /
Wooden Whistle – A small whistle carved from oak. It might have been used to summon a pet or mount or possibly used as a child’s toy. It appears to have been chewed on by an animal or young dwarf.Creates Item #63111. /

General.

Crazy Train.
We finally downed Putricide again! It took us a few goes but we knew we could do it and it was frustrating that we could get all the way to 2% and then it all went wrong. On our final attempt we had a perfect attempt with no deaths and it felt easy … I am not sure if that made me feel better or worse about our previous attempts…. but it felt bloody good to move onto Sindragosa again. We have made good progress on Sindy. We can now make the enrage timer with most people alive so we are learning the mechanics of the fight, and mastering those so hopefully it won’t be long before we can spend more time on dps Sindy, we got her down to 18% twice last night and this was our best effort so far.
Wemb- we found some success with me quarterbacking the fight, i just spam attack sindy and keep an eye on the ice tombs and who she targets and direct them where to go, and call who we need to burn.

Other Raids.
PoH did ICC25 on Saturday (Friday night for our US folk). We managed to down the first 6 bosses for the first time and we had an amazing experience on Rotface where we had lost ALL of our healers and people were slowly dying but dps’ing hard to try to get the last few thousand k of health … we were all holding our breath and counting down how much health was left as the final two members fought valiantly Nym (our tank) and Sweetvyv (a dk) … suddenly Nym could not stay up any longer and fell to the floor with Rotface holding onto a sliver of health and as he turned to take a final life ending swipe at Vyv, Vyv (and the dots) took their toll and Rotface fell at Vyv’s feet to a loud cheer! Thanks once again to Teo for organising a fantastic run, it is lots of hard work and can be very unrewarding. Grats also to everyone who took home some phat lewtz.

Heroics
Temp: Still working on at least one heroic a day for my priest, she now has 80 frost badges so getting close to her t10 chest. I do the occasional heroic on my mage, but am concentrating on getting gear for my lower toons that need it now.

Pugs.

Pants On Head Guild.
Stats: 381 toons, 172 accounts.
Grats to Vanticar on 80!
Temp: Will be scheduling a For The Horde soon as my mage and priest have only done half of it each.

Noob of the week nomination:
Picture this: the Paranoid raid team, gathered at the end of the
bridge just outside the entrance to the Crimson Halls. We’re in the
process of re-buffing, after a few unsuccessful attempts on Professor
P, with only half an hour left in today’s scheduled raid time.

Actually, the group isn’t quite complete, as we’re missing Oni, who is
on his enhancement shaman, Onihate.

Oh, here he is, running towards us… and past the group… and
straight into the first trash pack on the way to the Blood Prince
Council. No hesitation, no holding back; such bravery could be
considered admirable.

Unfortunately, the mobs weren’t impressed with his sudden solo
appearance in their midst. They quickly expressed their displeasure,
first with him, then with the rest of us.

The explanation for this unexpected display of bravado on his toon’s
part had something to do with auto-run, and getting there quicker than
expected. Just earlier he’d been expressing his admirable of the
Tuskar’s Vitality boot enchant, with its speed boost. Looks like that,
at least, was working just fine.

On behalf of the Paranoid raid team, I nominate Oni as a contender for
noob of the week.

- Teo

Mains.
Temp: I have been working my way through factions to complete the Arg Tourn champions … I am now champions for Silvermoon and Undercity and halfway to Orgrimmar and I already have the rep. My mage also managed to get a nice pair of bracers out of the PoH25 man ICC run on Saturday, so I was well pleased with that. Unfortunately it was revealed the reason I was beating Ashayo from last week, and not only has he fixed that, but he also got an upgrade and is now sitting quite high in the guild rankings on wow heroes.
Wemb- my main now has 8 lev264 pieces and the 277 ring.

Alts.
Temp: My Team Johnson priest hit 45 today and I realised I had 3 unspent talent points, and still no glyphs, I think I am going to resort to buying them from the AH!

World events.

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Beta.
Temp: I noticed a couple of things while Angy and I were playing on the beta load screens today, the female worgen button is there, but you can’t choose it yet, the worgen faces are back but there seems to be only one. Goblins are all still offline. When you choose gnomes, instead of having the same back drop as the dwarves they are now standing outside Gnomer … we could not enter the world as a gnome but I am excited to think the gnomes will have their own start zone.

Still glitchy, lots of dc’s on load screens when zoning, parties getting unpartied and getting kicked out of custom channels.

Wemb and I played premade rogues and started questing through Vashjr, this is LOADS more fun than I remember Mt Hyjal quest zone.

It was great fun.

Nomination of the most arrogant beta participant I have come across thus far: Skiibane! Someone asks in trade/general for people to sign their guild charter, Skiibane’s response “I think we have enough guilds, need to join an existing one” My question… who the fuck are you to decide how many guilds there are?

Goblin Mount – Goblin Trikes
As far as we know, the Goblin racial mount will be a Trike and just like any racial mount, the Goblin Trike Key and Goblin Turbo-Trike will be usable by all races.

http://media.mmo-champion.com/images/news/2010/august/normal_nomotor2.jpg

Nothing about the Worgen mount for the moment. (I know you’re going to ask)

Camels
Last but not least, camels! Absolutely no idea where they are from, but they will most likely be linked to Uldum. No animations yet = No video needed.

http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2010/august/ridingcamels.jpg

STOP THE PRESSES: WE HAVE 2 BETA KEYS TO GIVE AWAY!

We have a competition: “The stupidest thing I have done in WoW” – SHORT, SHARP & TO THE POINT! [Think Twitter]
Winners to be announced on BoE #92 – Next week!
entries close monday the 6th of september.
we will each award 3, 2 and 1 points to our own top three and read out all the submissions that got points.
the 2 with the highest points will receive beta keys. If more than 2 figure in the top scores winners will be agreed upon by us (this is code for wych and i saying “you decide Temp”)

——–SEALED SECTION———-
Gear.
Badges.
Rep.
Professions.
PvP.
Achievements.

We have 10 tickets for you guys to giveaway for “The Raid” Pre-Screening http://www.jointheraid.com coupled with that, thanks to our awesome sponsor Typefrag we are arranging an interview with the writer/director/creator of the movie Kevin Michael Johnson on the show before Blizzcon to talk about the project.
I’m going to Blizzcon & “I want to meet the Wych because….” and you can win 1 of these exclusive tickets…we will read the best 10! Winner to be announced on BoE #95

Shouts
Happy Birthday Vyv (for Monday)
Canyin.
Hyp for filling in for me last week

Goodbye.

The First cut is the deepest
Baby I know, the first cut is the deepest

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