Archive for October, 2017

This Week in Trek Episode 314, “Can’t find anything for you at the Q Mall”

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News

Unused Chris Eidelman Discovery music on Spotify.

Ten Forward:

Chris on Twitter: Do u think the most popular Trek episodes are the ones that have time travel in them? If so, why are they so popular?

Star Trek in pop culture:

From Nathan on Twitter: Sports Night S2, E3

Last week in Trek

Episode insight: TNG S4: Q-Pid as requested by Chris on Twitter

Character insight – Captain Proton

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This Week in Trek Episode 313-Discovery Edition, “Disco, in the disco, on the DISCO”

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We take a look at Episode 7, “Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad”

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World Of Warcast Episode 264, “You have to take care of Pepe’s bum”

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Episode 264

Ren

LIfe invasions continue – but for good reasons

New microphone! (and why it’s a commitment stand-in)

Seeing if I can resurrect the original Renata (but not til 6 PM tonight)

Level 72 shaman

Diablo III

Contemplating a hardcore run for new Seasons (starts Nov 9)

New undead murloc necromancer pet rocks

Got Naxxy, and Pepe is uncomfortable on my Gilnean form witch hat

Mike

Horseman’s Reins

Steamwheedle rep does work in Badlands

And Tanaris

Can’t really find any other post-cata quests.

Is there something I’m missing because killing mobs for 2 rep each is not fun.

Timewalking – got a 905 chest, iLvl went down one point lol.

This Week in WoW

Hallows End ends (Wed Nov 1)

Day of the Dead starts (Nov 1 – Nov 3)

World Quest Bonus Event starts (Tues Oct 31)

News

Shaman Challenge

First two Finishers!

Filius, with troll shaman Shameena reached level 110 in 4d 5h 44m and 14s.

Jemela, Draenei shaman 2 days 10 hours 45 minutes, 41 seconds

Token prices on the rise again – noted by Discord user JSHMLR

190k on US servers average, 290k on European servers

Patch 7.3.2 – Documented changes

Includes additional tuning for Antorus, but the raid isn’t open yet

Balance druid and elemental shaman changes –

Shamanistic Healing trait redesigned – now heals for increasing amount per rank (was fixed) with a fixed cooldown for 30 seconds (was 30 seconds minus 2 seconds per rank)

Three new class hall missions giving follower armor rewards

Added a Primal Sargerite vendor to the Vindicaar

Can now sell a number of legacy class set items back to vendors

*SPOILERS about the next expansion?*

As of today, until Oct 31, Wowhead is giving away 15 Blizzcon Virtual Tickets. Visit Wowhead for entry details.

It’s next week!

Possible leak of the expansion title?

This Week in Trek Episode 313, “So here’s my number, let’s Xindi maybe”

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News

Discovery S2 coming. Klingon war aftermath. Where they get hair implants.

Star Trek Continues

Nicola Bryant (Peri from DW)

Amy Rydell played the Romulan Commander

Her mom played the original character

Re: CBS All Access (Ray on Twitter) If you attempt to cancel they will give you a month free.

TOS & TNG adult coloring books are out now from Dark Horse Comics.

DISCO shirts

Ten Forward:

Chris on Twitter: If u can slingshot around the sun and travel into the past, would u try to correct any mistakes u made?

Star Trek in pop culture:

Futurama S2, E3 (now on Hulu). The DOOP (UFP) ships are lining up to shoot down a giant enemy ship. Fry is flying the ship, shooting at stuff.

00:15

Last week in Trek

Episode insight: ENT 306: Exile

Character insight – Discovery’s Season 2 renewal news

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This Week in Trek Episode 312-Discovery Edition, “Groovy!”

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We take a look at Discovery Episode 6, “Lethe”

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World Of Warcast Episode 263, “You can run around as a horse’s ass”

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Ren

Too much adulting this week – only got to level 70 in shaman challenge

Update on the restore/switch faction bug

INCOMING: New mic

Mike

Shaman to 50.

200 mounts!

Hallow’s End

Got 150 treats in one night.

Naxxy!

The trick to doing the wickerman – invisibility items. Instant vs. casting time.

Trying to get the headless horseman mount – how many years has it been?

This week in WoW

Black Temple timewalking – dropping base i900 items, NOT i930

Hallow’s End

Tricky Treats – Headless Horseman, daily quests, candy buckets. Use to buy masks, costumes for you or for pets (there’s three pug costumes and one Pepe skin), consumables, pets (Naxx, Sinister Squashling, Cursed Birman, Feline Familiar or Widget the Departed), heirloom upgrades (armor casings), and toys (horse head and tail, Little Wickerman)

Wickerman (Grim Visage) buffs for baby shamans (10% exp and rep for 2 hours)!

XP bonus applies to mob kills only – doesn’t increase XP from quest turnins or pet battles (“Apply Aura: mod Experience Gained %(mob kills only)”).

Rep bonuses: does work with Legion tokens and other commendations in the game, and does stack with human’s 10% exp racial ability

New this year: Naxxy, undead companion pet (150 Tricky Treats)

New costume – Xavius (200 treats)

New front and back end of a horse

Headless Horseman drops 880 loot

Magic Broom – 25% drop rate out of Horseman’s stash

mount – 0.5%

880 gear includes a sword (kind of silly for anything other than transmog), helm, and rings

News

Elysium shuts down because someone was taking home 2000 euros/month and someone else was running a gold selling service.

Patch 8.0 made a (very) brief appearance on beta servers

Mod of the Cast

HandyNotes

This Week in Trek Episode 312, “Many whelps! Handle it!”

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News

DSC Ep 6: Lethe

DSC Ep 7: Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad

DSC Ep 8: Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum

DSC Ep 9: Into the Forest I Go

Disco shirts!!

The Orville: Last episode was the best so far. Many things to think about.

Ten Forward:

Chris on Twitter: Which would u rather do: be the first person to test a transporter or the first person to test warp speed?

Star Trek in pop culture:

Book: Promises in Death by JD Robb – from the audio book

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Last week in Trek

Episode insight: TNG S4: Remember Me

Character insight – Captain Jellico

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This Week in Trek Episode 311-Discovery Edition, “USS How you doin’?”

Our thoughts on Episode 5, “Choose Your Pain”

Subspace communications

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This Week in Trek Episode 311-Discovery Edition, “USS How you doin’?”

Our thoughts on Episode 5, “Choose Your Pain”

Subspace communications

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World Of Warcast Episode 262, “It’s a bit mage-y”

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Ren

Shaman challenge

Level 69 at 1d 6h – got through Outland, now in Northrend – 60-68 seemed very slow

A funny thing happened on the way to the Alliance: Restored a previously deleted 110 horde mage, took her to Alliance and weirdness happened

Mike

Shaman challenge

15 to 38 in one night.

Lots of dungeons and dungeon quests.

Could get 2-3 levels in a run

Rested XP was a waste because you blow right through it.

Problem – Maraudon puts you in the dungeon, but no quests for two more levels. So, either quest or repeat dungeons.

Problem with that is now you’re moving further and further away from Stormwind (Stranglethorn or Plaguelands)

Had to run to Wetlands between dungeon runs. Waste of time. Not sure what else to do.

Toy is 10k gold, and only gives faction flight points, not neutral.

BTW: I still love Maraudon

This Week in WoW

Pet Xp event – 200% not 300% as originally advertised

Hallow’s End starts Wednesday the 18th at 10:00 AM PST

Running of the Gnomes – Saturday October 14th, to benefit the Cleveland Clinic and the creators of the Tuohy Vaccine, a proposed vaccine against breast cancer that’s showing great promise

Run from Gnomer to Booty Bay – clear 34 gates

Starts at 7 PM EST, purchase a pink tabard in Ironforge

This started on Scarlet Crusade and there are raids on Scarlet Crusade

http://runningofthegnomes.tumblr.com/post/164609327832/gnome-run-2017-faqs

News

Blizzcon 2017

All virtual ticket rewards

Flying mounts in WoW – two seaters (we knew this)

Other games – Overwatch Winston skin, Starcraft III Junker SCV, Probe and Drone Skins; Heroes of the Storm Nexus Razorback mount, Diablo III Murkromancer Pet, and a “mystery goodie” for Hearthstone.

Blizzcon Merch

New plushes: Pirate Pepe Plush, Raptor Plushie, Elekk Plushie

Jaina Key Art Poster

Ugly Holiday Greench Sweater

Sylvanus Short Sleeved Hoodie

Sargeras Shirt

New pins and new patches for the goody bag – trying to encourage badge trading\

Shaman challenge

Proposed change to 2018 Naked & Afraid Challenge: any class, any spec (but choose once!) and on your honor to pick a class you’ve never successfully leveled to 110

Scryer/Aldor

Demon hunter speed runs

Shriekrunner – uses demon hunter’s mastery scaling at level 101 to get a minimum speed of 230% base speed – speed going up to 350-410%. Uses tricks, potions, and shortcuts – showed video of clearing old world dungeons in a total of 18 minutes, not counting travel time between dungeons (Gundrak clear took 13 seconds)

Posts build and tricks in a linked Reddit thread

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