Archive for February, 2018

This Week in Trek Episode 331, “Three lieutenants and a baby”
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News
My prediction for DSC S2: Burnham will have a Klingon baby.
Why didn’t Saru’s hackles go up 100 times on the Mudd Time loop episode ?
DSC: 56M, GOT: 42M, https://twitter.com/startrekmoments/status/968233291370377218/photo/1
The Nimoy doc being on iTunes in spring that I posted in Discord
Today is the 3rd anniverary of Nimoy’s death
Ten Forward:
Chris on Twitter: What commonly used Trek tech (no Technobabble) do u think has zero chances of ever becoming invented? My first choice is inertial dampers.
Star Trek in pop culture:
Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee – Jerry Seinfeld talking to comedians. Here, talking about gambling. S4, E12
00:18
Last week in Trek
Episode insight: DS9 S3: Through The Looking Glass
Character insight: Buck Bokai
Subspace communications
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This Week in Trek Episode 330, “Honey, I Shrunk the City”
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News
McFarlane Toys phaser all kinds of lights, sound, and accuracy!
Ten Forward:
Chris on Twitter: Would you put Captain Jellico from TNG in your top 10 list of best Trek captains?
Star Trek in pop culture:
Buffy the Vampire Slayer. S1, E12 Prophecy Girl
Last week in Trek
Episode insight: TAS S1: The Terratin Incident
Character insight: Koss
Subspace communications
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World Of Warcast Episode 278, “Meat II Pet”
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Ren
Life invasions: thank you Cara – did not touch Love is in the Air
Naked & Afraid monk: level 95, 3 days 22 hours, 46k gold
Northrend: Leveling time slow, money amazing
Pandaria: Leveling time medium-fast, money good
Draenor: Leveling time medium-fast, money bad
Mike
Life invasion
This Week in WoW
Lunar Festival starts 2/17, runs to 3/3
Love is In the Air ends tomorrow
Battleground bonus event starts Tuesday
Ulduar Timewalking
News
Dungeon XP hotfix to bug introduced in 7.3.5 https://www.wowhead.com/news=281885/dungeon-experience-hotfixes
Side effect to creature scaling broke awarded XP in some situations
Significantly increased XP awarded for queuing for random Normal dungeons, Classic through Draenor
Mobile Auction House has been restored
New mount: Shu-zen, The Divine Sentinel – $25 in Blizz store (6 months game time for Chinese servers) – and fixed a scaling bug
http://www.wowhead.com/news=281915/upcoming-changes-to-the-na-wow-mvp-program
Battle for Azeroth: Alpha Build News
Tons of class changes but these tend to change a lot over alpha/beta
Allied races
New allied race? Orc based – either Mag’har or Frostwolf Orcs (brown orcs)
Datamined orc armor and a Mag’har Direwolf mount
Dark Iron Dwarf racials
Dungeon Delver: 4% increased indoor speed
Fireblood: Removes all poison, disease, curse, magic and bleed effects and increases primary stat by 100 for each removed. 2 min cooldown
Forged in Flames: 1% physical damage reduction
Mass Production: 2x speed creating blacksmithed items
Mole Machine: Summons a Mole Machine that tunnels through the earth (30 min cooldown)
Non-caster damage that used to be calculated on weapon damage is now based on a combo of weapon damage and attack power to help bring better balance between classes that rely heavily on weapons vs. those who do not
Return of Pepe: New Pepe costumes include a scuba costume and a Zandalari mask
Hunter pet specialization:
All pets will have equal damage, health and armor (all can tank or DPS equally well). Old designations Ferocity, Tenacity or Cunning will continue as categories, but as categories of pet families, not as descriptions of their utility
All pets will have Growl and Dash or Swoop
Pet families now each have a special ability – one active, one passive, depending on their category (examples: the passive for Ferocity is a 3% leech, for Tenacity, 10% max health, and for Cunning, 8% movement speed buff)
Each pet family will get one of six different abilities. Examples include a healing reduction debuff, reduced damage, increased dodge, etc.
Profession changes: (just noted things that are different or interesting) Major squish: Max profession skill cap going from 800 to 200
Alchemy preview:
Tinctures – trinkets with combat buffs based on the flask you’re currently using
Usual transmutes of changing one profession material to another. Also Fish to Gems and Meat to Pet.
Blacksmithing preview:
New stirrups for speed and interacting while mounted in the new zones
Khaz’gorian Hammer – blacksmithing hammer replacement that gives a chance to give crafted armor or weapons the Indestructible property
Cooking preview: Nothing special
Enchanting preview: Nothing special
Engineering:
Portable transmogger
Portable stable master
Herbalism: Nothing special
Inscription:
Contracts: Enter a contract with a faction that allows you to gain reputation with them every time you complete a world quest in the new zones
Jewelcrafting:
+5% experience gem
Leatherworking
Scuba gear
Mining: Nothing special
Skinning: Nothing special
Tailoring:
finally getting a bag upgrade – 1 30 slot bag (same as HW), 1 32 slot bag
Hot Air Baloon pet
First Aid getting at least a revamp – may be removed entirely and folded into Tailoring
First Aid achievements will become Legacy Feats of Strength
Now listed as “legacy”. https://www.wowhead.com/news=281844/first-aid-potential-revamp-or-removal-in-battle-for-azeroth

This Week in Trek Episode 329, “The Growling Season”
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News
DSC to start shooting in April.
A certain dead person (Culber) verified to return in S2.
Discovery & Shenzou models from Anovos. $9k & $8k. 36.9” & 26.6”
Ten Forward:
Chris on Twitter: What was your initial reaction when you learned that a Klingon was going to be an officer on the bridge of the Enterprise in TNG?
Star Trek in pop culture:
This is Us, S2, E5 A class reunion is going on?
00:26
Last week in Trek
Episode insight: TNG S1: Where No One Has Gone Before
Character insight: Ensign Murphy
Subspace communications

This Week in Trek Episode 328-Discovery Edition, “Don’t cross the streams”
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Our look at Star Trek Discovery Episode 15, “Will You Take My Hand?”
Thanks to everyone who supported the Discovery Edition of This Week in Trek!

World Of Warcast Episode 277, “Caraclysm”
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Special guest host Cara(clysm) (@xandara) fills in for Ren.
Mike
Rep grinding is making me bored.
Even if I did this when it was new, I find it dull because it’s too repetitive.
50% boost in rep from Sign of the Emissary, so go do it!
I also haven’t upgraded yet. When I get to exalted in all 4, then I’ll do it. No rush now.
Farming for the Love Rocket. No drops.
Achievement runs
Cara
Heroic Antorus 2/11, first bosses aren’t too different
Haven’t upgraded to BfA yet because I still feel like I have plenty to do without it right now, curious to see how long that will last
But also I don’t really care about things as much as I used to? Like it’s still super fun! But I don’t feel like I NEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEED it. I.e. Love Rocket runs, I do them when I can but I don’t frustrate myself trying to fit them into my day
I did claim my character names I want for my BfA allied race alts though. Seems they freed up a lot of names recently so if you have a name you couldn’t get before, give it a shot now!
Me too! -MG (kek)
This week in WoW
Darkmoon Faire until the 11th
Lunar Festival starts a week from today
Ulduar
News:
BfA alpha is going out to some people. Not me 🙁
Watched a few streams. Some people need to learn how to stream (don’t be rude!)
I found the starting areas to be ok. Didn’t watch long. Wasn’t anything really impressive yet.
Hotfixes:
Nightborne faces should match what was selected
Fire mage damage increased by a whopping 3%
Hunter BM damage increased by 2.5%
From Discord:
BfA comes with a level 110 boost
Shout out to PurpleMoose in Discord who was struggling what to do and used it for a Nightborne rogue.
Utheron – bad experience with a GM. Was trying to make him switch specs.

This Week in Trek Episode 328, “Borg Patented Assimilation Procedure™”
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News
Anovos Discovery Phaser review.
Quinto to do “In Search Of” remake. 10 eps for Hist channel.
Star Trek Continues sets to be preserved where they are (Kingsland, GA). Transferred to Ray Tesi.
Ten Forward:
Chris on Twitter: Your car breaks down in the middle of nowhere. Which Trek engineer would you call first to repair it?
Star Trek in pop culture:
Madam Secretary (2016), S3 E4. This scene: Political talk
01:07
Last week in Trek
Episode insight: VOY: S6, E2. Survival Instinct
Character insight: James Horan
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This Week in Trek Episode 327-Discovery Edition, “A moon full of spores makes Discovery go ’round”
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Our look at Star Trek Discovery Episode 14, “The War Without, The War Within”

World Of Warcast Episode 276, “Remember when getting a gold was hard?”
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Ren:
N/A monk now level 74 with 2 days 18 hours played and over 20k gold
Boosted my 62 paladin to 110
Mike:
Rep grinding
This Week in WoW
Kirin Tor Tavern Crawl yesterday and today
Arena Bonus Event til Tuesday
Love Is In the Air Feb 2-16 (see news)
Darkmoon Faire starts Sunday
Next Tuesday: World Quest Bonus Event and PvP Brawl: Southshore vs. Tarren Mill
News
Hofixes:
All accounts have 16 character slots per realm
Preorder for Battle of Azeroth
No official release date
Server issues
Perk: quests to unlock allied races
Nightborne: Exalted with the The Nightfallen and completion of Insurrection
Void Elf: Exalted with Argussian Reach and completion of You Are Now Prepared!
Lightforged Draenei: Exalted with Army of the Light and completion of You Are Now Prepared!
Highmountain Tauren: Exalted with Highmountain Tribe and completion of Ain’t No Mountain High Enough
Remember: DMF hat/carousel give rep bonuses, and next week is the world quest event which gives rep bonuses as well.
Walking into Light’s Hope Cathedral with a void elf sparks some interesting conversation.
http://www.wowhead.com/attunement
The economic impact of allied races over the next few weeks
Void Elves Everywhere! “Void elves are alliance only because they were crying and wanted their own blood elves”. – from Joe on the forums via a YouTuber he was watching
Unlocking races on factions: you can do the requirements on either side but you need someone on that faction to do the unlock quests. (An Alliance member can have the achievements for Nightborne and Highmountain Tauren, but a 110 Horde must do the quests)
Collector’s Edition perks
Gilded Ravasaur (Horde) and Seabraid Stallion (Alliance) mounts
Tottle turtle (aquatic) pet
Overwatch voice lines, emotes, sprays and icons
Heroes of the Storm Primal Flamesaber mount
Starcraft II sprays
Hearthstone card pack, Azeroth is Burning
No Diablo perk
110 Boost details
Boosts any toon to 110
Hearthstone and Dalaran hearthstone; hearthstone reset to Dalaram inn
3 level 870 artifact relics
Level 35 artifact power and first artifact weapon (make sure you’re in the right spec!)
Flight Master’s Whistle
Kirin Tor supply bag, which contains basic food, water, starter ancient mana, ancient potions, mana diving stone, a tome of the tranquil mind
If you are 60 or over, boosts primary professions to 700 and first aid to 700
Suramar is open to the extent that Thalyrissa is there and will give you the first few quests — no longer have to do the opening scenario of finding her and escorting her in
Does NOT come with a level 3 WOD garrison – reports if you boost a “Character Trial to 100” toon to permanent 110 that you will get the garrison
Battle for Azeroth System Requirements
Windows machines will need 64-bit systems
Minimum processor: Intel Core i5-760 or AMD FX 8100 or higher, recommended i7 4770 or AMD FX 8310 – basically need at least a quad core machine now
Video cards: 2GB minimum on video board, GeForce GT 560, AMD Radeon 7850 or Intel 530 – recommended GeForce GTX 960 or AMD Radeon R9 280 (up from 1GB cards)
Memory: Minimum 4GB, recommends 8 GB (up from 2)
Storage: 70 GB, recommends SSD, up from 45
No changes to minimum resolution/display
Love Is In The Air – Feb 2-16
Speculation that the new flower crowns datamined earlier will be perks for this year’s Love Is In the Air
Classic interview
Old code no longer compiles
Old database no longer works
New graphics are on the table, wants to hear from the community
My guess – not until 2019
Forum people are SO IMPATIENT.
Naked & Afraid
51 unique participants
Rule change: Allied Race Division
Current highest level: 74
Three characters at 60
Mod of the Cast: Memoria (Tororosso) – https://wow.curseforge.com/projects/memoria
Joe posted a screenshot macro on the Naked and Afraid discussion board that displays played time and takes a screenshot 0.2 seconds after
Tororosso posted about Memoria, an addon that takes a screenshot automatically for different milestones, such as leveling, achievements, reputation levels, or when a battleground or arena ends.
Only issue with Memoria is that it doesn’t put in the /played time, unless you’ve put it in right before you ding
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