In the thirty-second World of Warcraft podcast episode, we catch up on our Loremaster progress and talk about things we like and dislike about the old zones, we wonder how we can make our weekly guild mount runs more fun and efficient, we continue to spy on each other at the auction house, we talk outfits of all kinds for our thirty weeks of World of Warcraft, and we help out a lazy, profession-less Mage.

Bitter and Salty is brought to you weekly by Molsan and Sláinte.

Loremaster Weekend
Molsan
Completed Badlands and Burning Steppes
Hated the Power Core quest!!1
Received a missing pet as a quest reward – Tiny Flamefly
Ding 60! Outland… or continue with Loremaster?
Badlands… Imperfect Draenethyst Fragment turn-in for bag of Transmog, then Flawless Draenethyst Sphere turned into Valorous Greaves and Cassandra’s Grace!

Sláinte

Mount Run Disaster
How do we make this more efficient?
Use second account with alts stationed at summoning stones and/or get a Mage
Why was Kaelthas all bugged out?

Auction House Crafting and Spying
Sold first BS-crafted item with Blood Spirits: Bloodforged Warfists
Sale was about a 55% profit using Living Steel bars and Blood Spirits
Using crafting spreadsheet, but don’t take into account Spirit of Harmony, Imperial Silk, etc.
Trying this with Tailoring next
Molsan caught flipping rare BoEs!

Call from Aleeve

Auction House Etiquette Follow-Up

#TWoWoW Week 11 – Favorite Gear Set
Molsan
Priest Tier-5 Avatar Raiment

Sláinte
Priest Tier-2 Merciless Gladiator

Audio

Hasteur
Rho
Jerome
Jean

Email

Jellad CTR Aerie Peak

Hey guys,

As far as week 11 goes. I don’t really have a favorite outfit. I like a couple of pieces that could make a cool outfit but I am generally too lazy to transmog stuff. I really like the new tier 15 pieces, but that’s pretty much all I’ve got

Twitter

@benredington Favorite gear, Tier 3 Dreadnaught’s Battlegear for a Warrior. Only obtainable via BMAH

@GrimmAIE favorite gear set? The t15 druid set. It’s a Sleepy Hollow tree with a giant spider in it! Looks like a druid ate a warlock.

#TWoWoW Week 12 – Your proudest moment/achievement?

Email

Maajind

Also, if your trying to become best friendlys with the tiller squad. Mouse over their xp tab it will tell you what item they like as well as what FOOD they like. IF you have 5 foods that they like in your bags when you talk to them, then they will give you a food turn in quest for about 2000 rep with them. But the quest is only available once a day and you need the food in your bags.

Love the show.

Audio

Call from Jean #2

Call from Jean #3

Twitter

@CSprandel My alt is a resto druid with engineering.. Aitze@aerie peak… I don’t pay attention to lore though.

Heart of Aspects Giveaway

Guess the number of mounts Molsan and Sláinte have, corrects guesses get put into drawing.
No purchase necessary. Tweet, email us with your answer. Winner to be selected 5/20.

Music

Clips of intro and outro music taken from “Urbana-Metronica (wooh-yeah mix)” by spinningmerkaba and “C’Mon” by Analog By Nature

Contact Info
Email: podcast@bitterandsalty.com
Phone: 413 BIT SALT or 413 248 7258
Molsan Method: http://molsanmethod.com

Twitter
http://twitter.com/bitterandsalty
http://twitter.com/molsan
http://twitter.com/saltyslainte

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In the thirty-first World of Warcraft podcast episode, we visit the Isle of Thunder for Lightning Steel, we realize that nobody wants healers in scenarios, we wonder about gold-making etiquette when buying an item from a guild member, we obsess over the Two of Nobles, while everyone else obsesses over mounts for the Thirty Weeks of World of Warcraft, we discuss the Loremaster achievement progress, and we work with the Tillers to dig up some Dark Soil.

Bitter and Salty is brought to you weekly by Molsan and Sláinte.

Isle of Thunder Blacksmithing

Lightning Steel Ingot (10x Ghost Iron Bar)
Making all my gold with Blacksmithing
Scenarios as a healer… No one wants me.

Gold Making Etiquette / Lore Etiquette

Guildie Aleeve returned my 30g I spent on Monocle Engineering recipe

DMF Card farming

Mount Farming Runs
Tempest Keep, Onyxia, Karazhan, Stonecore (normal), Throne of Tides, Obsidian Sanctum
List compiled by Sickbox on Wowhead
http://www.wowhead.com/item=49636#comments:id=1819832

Dings!

Magmaw dings 80! {Loremaster Grind}

Assada Dings 50!

Dark Soil Help!
Audio from Strumpet

Week 10 #TWoWoW – Favorite Mount
Sláinte: Time-Lost-Proto-Drake
Molsan: Mechano Hogg

EMail
Hey Guys,

My favorite mount is the Imperial Quilen, it looks so epic and regal. I think the wings are my favorite!

~Jellad – CTR – Aerie Peak
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Strumpet
I said in my plea for help that I would send a tweet with my week 10 answer, but then people would see it, and it would be, like: SPOILER! So email it is.

My favorite mount? Before Christmas, I would have said my Onyx Netherdrake – cause it’s cool and hot and classy, but my answers changed after Christmas.

Ground mount: Ruby Panther (I know it isn’t technically a ground mount, because it can fly, but it looks stupid when it flies, so I try to only use it for ground. Jeppy gave me this for Christmas, and I love it!

Flying mount: My Blazing Hippogryph. I saw this on the Trading Card game loot site, and put it on my wishlist JUST IN CASE. Although my family never gets me anything from my wishlist. Anyway, to my surprise, my cats (with the help of Mr. Strumpet) gave it to me for Christmas last year. I LOVE it!!!

Mwah mwah
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Grimm
Hey guys, it’s Grimm checking in to tell you about my favorite mount in WoW. I’d have to say that my favorite is the Frostwolf, partly because I’ve always liked wolves and love the look of the white wolf in particular, and in game find them to be one of the few mounts that Tauren look decent on, and partly because I worked so hard to get it. You see, back in my day, to get a Frostwolf mount you had to run an insane amount of Alterac Valley to earn the tokens to buy it. I don’t remember the exact amount, but I spent the better part of a month doing nothing but chain running AV just to get this mount. But to me it was worth it, and it continues to be one of about 3 land mounts that I still use out of the dozens I have collected.

Until next time

Grimmclaw, AIE Dinotopia, Earthen Ring us

Audio:

Ashayo
Jerome
Jean
Hasteur
Ben
Juuno

Twitter:

@IllmarHunter #TWoWoW Of those I have, Time-Lost Proto-Drake; of those I want, Astral Cloud Serpent.

@bitterandsalty #TWoWoW Of those I have, Time-Lost Proto-Drake; of those I want, Astral Cloud Serpent.

— Illmar (@IllmarHunter) May 2, 2013

@Lilulicious @Molsan is my favorite epic mount!

@bitterandsalty @molsan is my favorite epic mount!

— Lisa Andres (@Lilulicious) May 2, 2013

@stealthymatsuda definitely my headless horseman’s steed! Green fire across the sky! (oh my god)

@saltyslainte @bitterandsalty definitely my headless horseman’s steed! Green fire across the sky! (oh my god)

— Matsuda(@stealthymatsuda) May 7, 2013

@Mominatrix75 my 2012 dodge charger! Oh you mean in wow…my pretty ruby panther.

@saltyslainte my 2012 dodge charger! Oh you mean in wow…my pretty ruby panther.

— Heather Fortin (@Mominatrix75) May 7, 2013

@ladiciuswarrior toss up between rivendares charger and ashes of al’ar since I got them both on my first attempt

@Kenichan Big bird! Er I mean the one that drops in heroic Sekketh Halls xD

@saltyslainte Big bird! Er I mean the one that drops in heroic Sekketh Halls xD

— KeniChan.6129 (@Kenichan) May 7, 2013

@lucasmines the talbuk mounts from Nagrand! I always use my silver or cobalt war talbuks when stuck on the ground

@saltyslainte @bitterandsalty the talbuk mounts from Nagrand!I always use my silver or cobalt war talbuks when stuck on the ground

— Lucas J. (@lucasmines) May 7, 2013

@NevAHAddict fav ground mount-Kodo for my gnome but I use the Headless Horseman’s one most of the time, flying has to be Netherwing Drake

@bitterandsalty fav ground mount-Kodo for my gnome but I use the Headless Horseman’s one most of the time, flying has to be Netherwing Drake

— Nev (@NevAHAddict) May 7, 2013

@CSprandel My fav mount still to this day is my Netherdrake. Over a month of dailies on a PVP server. Its a testament to persistence.

@bitterandsalty My fav mount still to this day is my Netherdrake. Over a month of dailies on a PVP server. Its a testament to persistence.

— CopperBolt (@CSprandel) May 7, 2013

Farli@TheOvercut
@bitterandsalty Ghastly Charger! Love pulling it out and admiring in low level BG’s while teammates try to complete “objectives” *cackle*

@bitterandsalty Ghastly Charger! Love pulling it out and admiring in low level BG’s while teammates try to complete “objectives” *cackle*

— Farli (@TheOvercut) May 7, 2013

@wicked1281 Headless horseman mount took 3 years of 5+ toons for it to drop on an alt I don’t play. Accountwide mounts FTW!!!!!!

@bitterandsalty Headless horseman mount took 3 years of 5+ toons for it to drop on an alt I don’t play. Accountwide mounts FTW!!!!!!

— barofsoap(@wicked1281) May 7, 2013

@Austduskwing Celestial Steed. Because it was the only mount many of my alts could afford back before account shared mounts. #Sparklepony

@bitterandsalty Celestial Steed. Because it was the only mount many of my alts could afford back before account shared mounts. #Sparklepony

— Aust the Noob (@Austduskwing) May 7, 2013

@LegendOfDeepzz my blood bathed frost brood vanquisher from wrath because has the coolest /mountspecial ever

@bitterandsalty @realmpodcast my blood bathed frost brood vanquisher from wrath because has the coolest /mountspecial ever

— Brandon D. (@LegendOfDeepzz) May 7, 2013

@Moogyver Without a doubt, my Turbo-charged flying machine. At least until I one day get my Mimirons Head. Oh yes… it will be mine.

@bitterandsalty Without a doubt, my Turbo-charged flying machine. At least until I one day get my Mimirons Head. Oh yes… it will be mine.

— Moogyver-Spare Parts (@Moogyver) May 7, 2013

Heart of Aspects Giveaway
Guess the number of mounts Molsan and Sláinte have, corrects guesses get put into drawing.
No purchase necessary. Tweet, email us with your answer. Winner to be selected 5/20.

Music

Clips of intro and outro music taken from “Urbana-Metronica (wooh-yeah mix)” by spinningmerkaba and “C’Mon” by Analog By Nature

Contact Info
Email: podcast@bitterandsalty.com
Phone: 413 BIT SALT or 413 248 7258
Molsan Method: http://molsanmethod.com

Twitter
http://twitter.com/bitterandsalty
http://twitter.com/molsan
http://twitter.com/saltyslainte

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In the thirtieth World of Warcraft podcast episode, we wonder if we can play the game without the auction house, we recap our official results from the AQ20 challenge, we complete our second Herald of the Titans run for gear, we review what we’ve been putting on the board, we answer the epic question, “Horde or Alliance” for our thirty weeks of World of Warcraft, we explain what the second Molsan Method is all about, and we find out why we’ll never be able to fly in Silvermoon City.

Bitter and Salty is brought to you weekly by Molsan and Sláinte.

How We Got Our Blizzcon Tickets
We refreshed and clicked to buy the ticket

Sláinte Ah Ha at AH
Get out!
EGP #46 w/ Zero Hour… Master spreadsheet for determining which markets to be in
Mentioned one of my secret markets: Saronite Ore to Saronite Bar to Titanium Bar

Transmog Market is Dying
Prices falling, can’t stop buying/selling, reducing thresholds and fallbacks

AQ20 Results
Molsan
- Gold looted: 19
- Grey Items: 167.5
- Repairs: -2.5
- BOP Vendor: 30
- AH Sales: 114
TOTAL: ~328g

Sláinte
1271.69.15 total

Essence of Air from last episode… sold for 150g each

HoTT Gearing Run

Tiller Work Orders Update
Revered with Golden Lotus Unlocks Reps and W.O.

What We Put On the Board
Thanks, Ben!

Slainte
Do you still have the honeymoon feeling with Mist of Panderia? In episode 1 you were loving the game, was that the peak of the new smell of the xpax? What is your opinion of the xpac 6-9 months into the game.
How is the Warcraft Trading Card game going?

Molsan
Are pet battles still a time sink? (Episode 1)
Do you still feel that you are still playing WoW the way that you want to? Episode 7, 17:30. Leveling your characters, do the content that you want, are you raiding yet?

Sláinte rep/loremaster grind chat
TURN OFF REP GAIN!

#TWoWoW Week 9 – Horde or Alliance?

Sláinte
FOR THE HORDE!
Molsan
FOR THE HORDE!

Audio
Hasteur
Strumpet
Rho
Honen
Ben
Jerome

Email

Ashayo
G’day Molster and Slainto!

While most of the time I enjoy the comfort and safety of PvE realms for questing, there is a certain thrill and excitement that I sometimes miss from my days on PvP realms. I know I could flag myself as pvp, but it’s not quite the same and doesn’t produce the same effect. Alot of good times have been had in reaction to guildies getting ganked – the escalating responses from both sides can be a ton of fun. While the same thing can be done in a more organised fashion as seen in Nagrand’s Halaa, it’s not quite as epic.

So strangely, I mostly prefer and play PvE, but find myself arguing the benefits of PvP. Go figure.

Horde!
It’s scientifically proven that taller people are far superior to their height-challenged cousins.
A recent study found the IQ of alliance players to be a full 3 feet lower than their Horde counterparts.
Lastly, when it comes to the crunch, alliance players tend to pull up short.
QED

For the Horde!
Ashayo
ps I do love short bread cookies though.

Jellad – CTR – Aerie Peak
Hey Guys,

Fell behind again of course, so here are my week 7 and week 8 responses!

Week 7: Favorite Piece of Lore

My favorite piece of lore has to be the introduction to Culling of Stratholme. I think this is a turning point for Arthas’s character from thinking and feeling the evil brewing inside him to bringing it to fruition.  Seeing the change in dynamic where Jana Proudmoor essentially abandons Arthas to his whims introduces a whole new element to the relationships within the alliance.

Week 8: PVP, PVE, RP

I grew up on Eredar, I dont mind PVP, i just hate senseless ganking.  Nothing is more infuriating than trying to level your toon with a max level jerk camping you for an hour(or 4).  I moved away from Eredar because it was just killing my enjoyment of the game.  BG’s are OK, but can get a bit static and boring after a while.  My true love is lore, questing, and raiding.  I would rather spend 10 hours in queue for a raid than actively doing BGa.  As far as RP goes, as a person who frequents Ren Faires, I love me some RP, but its more for fun than anything else, and I dont think I could live on an RP server.  (Although I’ve been thinking about making some Horde on Earthen Ring)

See ya!

Mominatrix
I’m bi. Bi-factional that is. I have ally and horde toons but most of my friends play horde. Also, ding’d 11 on my ret pally Kinkerbell in the Bitter and Salty guild

Grimmclaw, AIE Diggnation, Earthen Ring US

I had a really hard time trying to think about my favorite lore in Warcraft, but what I started noticing was that I kept going back to different stories surrounding the Forsaken. So I guess my favorite lore is all the lore surrounding the Forsaken. How they broke away from the Scourge. How they have made a home where they once lived when alive, and you find them referencing their old lives from time to time in quests. How the Light pains them terribly, so any Forsaken priest feels pain when casting holy magic, or any Forsaken warrior is basically having their wounds cauterized during battle. The whole thing with Lillian Voss being a member of the Scarlet Crusade in life, hunting undead, and then becoming one and being hunted by the people she called friends and family herself. All that stuff I find really thought provoking and interesting.
As far as servers, I can’t stand the idea of trying to level while getting ganked. To me that would make the game unplayable. I am a PvE player all the way. I don’t RP, but to me an RP server is interchangeable with a PvE server. So I’m on an RP server, but I pretty much just shrug my shoulders about what that really means.
Horde or Alliance? I’m a life-long Horde player, and will likely stay that way. I wouldn’t mind seeing the quests on the Alliance side, but my time to play makes that unlikely, and I’m fine with that. I will say that I haven’t liked where the Horde has gone under Garrosh, but I’m stoked to knock him off the throne and see where the Horde goes from there.

Mentions

https://twitter.com/TrofieTheMage/status/329351703046524929

https://twitter.com/Juunoswow/status/329305998210781186

https://twitter.com/HAAchilles/status/329277434081992705

Flying in Silvermoon

https://twitter.com/Ghostcrawler/status/322392312065953793

Children’s Week – Get All the Pets
http://www.icy-veins.com/childrens-week-2013-wow

Pet	Quest Line
* Piglet’s Collar	Stormwind/Orgrimmar Quest Line
* Rat Cage	Stormwind/Orgrimmar Quest Line
* Turtle Box	Stormwind/Orgrimmar Quest Line
* Snail Shell	Stormwind/Orgrimmar Quest Line
* Elekk Training Collar	Shattrath Quest Line
* Egbert’s Egg	Shattrath Quest Line
* Sleepy Willy	Shattrath Quest Line
* Legs	Shattrath Quest Line
* Curious Oracle Hatchling	Northrend Quest Line
* Curious Wolvar Pup	Northrend Quest Line

New Molsan Method
Missing Pets

It looks like it will be easier to collect those  Sigil of Power and  Sigil of Wisdom to catch up on the legendary quest line in Patch 5.3!

https://twitter.com/Ghostcrawler/status/328973452658749440

Mentions

https://twitter.com/afrototems821/status/327249578816589825

https://twitter.com/benredington/status/327410345834577920

https://twitter.com/strumpet101/status/327603411849715712

https://twitter.com/valkyrierisen/status/328120839562219520

https://twitter.com/strumpet101/status/328944532605505536

https://twitter.com/TrofieTheMage/status/329349371969806337

https://twitter.com/TrofieTheMage/status/329350138978004992

Music

Clips of intro and outro music taken from “Urbana-Metronica (wooh-yeah mix)” by spinningmerkaba.

Contact Info
Email: podcast@bitterandsalty.com
Phone: 413 BIT SALT or 413 248 7258
Molsan Method: http://molsanmethod.com

Twitter
http://twitter.com/bitterandsalty
http://twitter.com/molsan
http://twitter.com/saltyslainte

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In the twenty-ninth World of Warcraft podcast episode, we are ready to purchase tickets to Blizzcon, we wonder what to do now that we’re exalted with the Klaxxi, we use LFR to relieve anger toward raiding progression, we preview our AQ20 gold-making challenge results, we reveal tips for Tillers and Monks, we cover week 8’s PvP/PvE/RP debate for our thirty weeks of World of Warcraft, and we hear the epic tale of the pink dress.

Bitter and Salty is brought to you weekly by Molsan and Sláinte.

Blizzcon Tickets on Sale

$175 Tickets to attend BlizzCon 2013 will go on sale in two batches on Wednesday, April 24, 2013 at 7 p.m. Pacific Time and Saturday, April 27 at 10 a.m. Pacific Time. Visit the official BlizzCon website or the online Blizzard Store on either of these dates for a chance to purchase tickets.

Tips for buying tickets

Sign in to the Blizzard Store and make sure everything is up-to-date for your account. Then sign in a few minutes before the tickets go on sale.

Big Blizzcon ticket buying tip: Setup your payment card BEFORE, like NOW!!! Add it to your Battle.net account.

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/8568989229

Blizzard Dev Live Q&A Thursday, April 25th

We’ll be hosting a live World of Warcraft developer Q&A open to the community on Thursday, April 25 from 5:30-6:30 p.m. PDT. Designers Dave Kosak, Ion Hazzikostas, Brian Holinka, Cory Stockton, and Greg Street will be available to field your questions about Mists of Pandaria gameplay and design, patch 5.2 and beyond. This will be a moderated chat on the Cover it Live platform hosted on the front page of our official site. Community managers will be there to filter your submissions for the developers.

Klaxxi Exalted

Now What?

What’s the deal with Tillers work orders?

LFR – Controlling Your Own Progression

With LFR, you can progress as fast/slow as you want and use whatever criteria (gear, iLevel, etc.) you want. A nice side-effect.

AQ20 Challenge Update

Molsan

Sláinte

Spankingbarthur

This was the result of a full clear by moomoocachoo (feral druid). Got about 750g after all items were sold/auctioned. Ran 6 other toons through. The others got about 350 – 500g depending on what pieces dropped for auction. The plate breastplates sold pretty well.

The Tale of the Pink Dress

Audio from Strumpet

flic.kr/p/ed6GFt

Monk Zen Pilgrimage Tip

Audio from Rubmahbelleh

Noob Tillers Tip

Anvil and forge up the hill between sunsong ranch and flight point.

TWoWoW Week 8 – PvP/PvE/RP

Molsan

Sláinte

Juuno

Mominatrix

I know I’m late for this weeks show but I’m sending my favorite piece of lore anyway so…  My favorite piece of lore isn’t 1 piece per se, it’s all of the books that you find throughout the game. I love when you find one that’s written by some major NPC and you get a glimpse of their life at that time. It’s pretty cool. Honorary mention goes to the coins you fish up in the fountain in Dal. They’re pretty awesome too.

My week 8 of 30 weeks of WoW answer is PvE, but I’d love to learn how to RP. I hate hate hate PvP, even as a DK I get my butt handed to me no matter what BG I’m in. It gets frustrating waiting to rez when you know you’ll be back in a minute or two. >.< grrr!

Stay classy guys! Hugs!

Rubmahbelleh (Rub Mah Belly), Bitter and Salty Guild, Earthen Ring

You guys continue to make excellent podcasting look easy. Thanks and keep it up!

My favorite playstyle continues to be PvE with some RP thrown in when it fits and happens organically. One of my lowbie pandas was finishing some quests near Ratchet and ran into the inn for a quest turn in. The quest had something to do with Garrosh and I happened to be in a mood about him and made some cutting comments about the illustrious Warchief in spatial chat. Almost immediately, I received a whisper warning me he had ears everywhere and that I should be careful talking like that. Turns out there was a group sitting at the tables in the inn and they invited me over so we could trash Garrosh and look forward to his hopefully imminent demise. I sat there with them for about a half hour, drinking with them, answering questions about Pandaria and “translating their fortune cookies.” That began when I passed along one of Koltrane’s fortune cookies from the Convert To Raid podcast and eventually I had a bunch of websites open that were filled with fortunes and was cobbling together fortunes for them on the fly. Some were hits, some flamed out but it was a ton of fun doing this stuff off-the-cuff. We eventually went our own ways and I later discovered they were regular RPers just meeting out there to do a nightly meetup and included me, thinking I was another regular RPing friend of theirs that liked to show up as different characters.

From the sounds of what I just told you, it seems RP should be my preferred style but I’ve found the fun of it really disappears quickly if I try to make it happen.

Ben

When I started playing WoW like most people I started due to some friends recruiting me into the game. So that I wasn’t alone I joined the server that they were on, US Thunderlord, a PvP server. Being new to the game I didn’t know the difference as far as an experience so I went with it. Lucky they were all at level cap (Wrath) so if I needed help they would help me out. This created some challenges when leveling but some epic memories. Running to Scarlet Monastery from Southshore as an alliance toon to get my gear around level 30. The whole shouthshore experience and the PvP element that it had naturally. Just being ganked and ganked and going into general / trade asking for help.

Once hearing about the CTR guild on Aerie Peak I moved a character over there to a PvE server. It works out much better for leveling as I was never good at PvP and I still have the option to PvP. I still feel it’s missing a little something. Maybe that’s due to other elements like CRZ, Not really having to fight over a summoning stone outside on an dungeon or a bit of the quality of life additions have taken away from the experience since I first leveled. As much as I hated the waste of time of being killed and killed during questing I still feel PvP adds a huge element of Alliance vs Horde. The problem is, most servers are heavily Alliance or Horde, not really to many 50/50 servers.

Now I’ve been leveling with the Bitter and Salty guild, Earthen Ring RP server. So far I really haven’t had much interaction with others outside of the guild. I haven’t been in a capital city for a long period of time to be around trade / general chat. When leveling and seeing others in the same zone as me, I have gone out of my way to /wave to them. Overall the guild chat has been the biggest effect on my leveling. Just having that social aspect that you don’t get in a guild with 4000 players.

So my answer would be, no matter PvP, PvE or RP as long as you are around others who you interact with, stay there. I personally do like the PvP element but I’m very happy on Earthen Ring.

Mildrid/Batibat – Earthern Ring (US)

I’ve spent most of my WoW career on a PvP server, and have gotten somewhat accustomed to the paranoia, but at the same time I’ve been long frustrated with Blizzard’s attitude that it’s perfectly accepted for max level players to maurade around and one shot defeneseless leveling toons with no repercussion.  Personally I dont think a player more than 5 levels below you should be attackable at all unless they engage in specific behavior to flag them such as invading capitol territory, capturing a resource, etc.   It’s a terrible system that encourages miscreant behavior. Rarely does low level ganking culminate in full blown open warfare in the fields that proponents seem to offer as a defense for allowing this.  The population does not police itself like it may have in previous expansions and in the pre Cross Realm environment.   I’ve kind of had enough of it, and at the same time I started covertly playing WoW more at work(!) where I can’t devote my full attention to whether I’m safe at the end of a flight path, so I recently followed the podcasts to Earthen Ring PvE/RP for the lower stress experience.

On another topic, I found another source of Herald calibre gear that isn’t as obvious as the justice point vendors.  While at first it may seem that all the PVP vendors in Dalaran peddle gear too high a level to be suitable, if you take a flight over to the WINTERGRASP vendors you will find an assortment of interesting trinkets, rings, and some other gear in the 213-226 range that can be purchased for a couple hundred honor points.  I got a +95 int lvl 213 trinket and a lvl 226 int/haste ring.  They aren’t perfect itemization, but they are better than most available gear if you are having trouble getting drops from ICC normals or getting run through raids.

@strumpet101 PvE all the way. I do not enjoy getting banked. And I suck at PvP. (no audio for TWoW since I sent a different one)

Week 09 — Horde or Alliance?

Mentions:

@GrimmAIE Pro tip: you can already transmog from your void storage with curse.com/addons/wow/voi…. Function built into WoW, just no UI

@GrimmAIE This week’s achievement: Dinged 80 on my DK

@lucasmines Thanks to @bitterandsalty for fueling my return to WoW after a 2 year break.  Episode 11 makes me want to try my own gold challenge

@_Winkee Sunwell 1 shot solo except I couldn’t take Brut with pally or warrior but hunter 1 shot. Outland raider achieved!

iTunes

lilraceangel3

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In the twenty-eighth World of Warcraft podcast episode, we talk about the patch 5.2, solo scenario quest chain on the Isle of Thunder, we wonder if the Warcraft novels can enhance World of Warcraft game play we discuss everyone’s favorite piece of lore as part of our Thirty Weeks of WoW, we now use macros for both milling and prospecting, we get back into the Transmog business, and we share more stories from LFR.

Bitter and Salty is brought to you weekly by Molsan and Sláinte.

Thunder Island

Solo Scenarios are Awesome!

Warcraft Books and the Lore

Did you enjoy them? Did they enhance your enjoyment of WoW?

#TWoWoW – Week 7 – Favorite Piece of Lore

Molsan – The Horde!

Sláinte – The Illidan story

Audio

Rho – Dragonwrath

Hasteur - Medivh in Karazhan and the Trials of Khadgar

Strumpet - Tirion Fordring something or other

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Favorite piece of lore:

As someone who generally gravitates to warlocks, my favorite lore has to be the demonology and the Burning Legion.  The Warlock green fire questline in particular is fantastic from a lore perspective.  Here’s to the hope we’ll get more insight into BL strongholds like Xoroth and Argas in an upcoming expansion.  The similiar Lovecraftian horror of the Old Gods certainly vies for my intrigue as well. but demons are where its at.

Haven’t heard much about the Herald of the Titans project on the last couple podcasts, but earlier episodes got me intrigued enough to start up a new warlock Batibat on Earthern Ring and race to 80.  Got there this week, turned off XP, and started to dutifully work on optimizing my gear for the required ilevel.  OMG queuing up for Wrath normals and heroics that drop the ilevel 219 gear is frustrating, for DPS you are looking at queue in the 90min – 2 hr mark for something like Forge of Souls or Pit of Saron, I imagine its not so bad for a healer.  Getting high levels to run you through will be less painful, so I hope B&S adds some calendar events for this.  I did luck out and talk my way into an Ulduar 25 run already and scored 226 head, legs, feet and a 232 sword, on top of the 219 neck, wrist, and gloves I’d picked up already I think I’m doing pretty good in one week and proof that it doesn’t necessarily take a prolonged gearing up grind to get where you need to be.

Mildrid (B&S – Earthen Ring US)

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Week…I forget…5-6-7??

Favorite Vanilla dungeon:  UBRS!  The reasons are a probably a little odd but here goes.

1.        Leroy Jenkins achievement (Just reminds me of the good old days)

2.       The suspenseful walk through the BRS door, down the dark and dusky hallway, and ohhhhh &^%$!  There is 40 Ally gathering for MC or BWL.  Hunter flare FTL exposing me to bone form and then taking a mind controlled leap into the lava.  Woooohooooo!

Quest Chain:  The Ony Key

Favorite Piece of Lore:  Sadly, I am ignorant to the lore.  I need to read the books.  Been playing since the night the game came out and I pushed lore to the side.  Ya..I’m that guy!

Side note:

·         Keep up the great work and nice work on the podcast art.

·         I’d like to test out the TSM-Molsan-Method-Beta-trial-under construction-make-my-life-easier pack.  Something is not clicking for me with TSM mentally and time has been slim getting through the tutorials on Youtube etc.

Thanks fellas,

Proctor (Synnthetic)

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Hey Molsan and Sláinte,

So, for week 7 and my favourite piece of lore I have it narrowed down to one thing, though admittedly, it wasn’t too hard, lol. Ever since TBC came out my favourite part of the WoW lore has been anything and everything Blood Elf related. I just find their stories, history, culture, and everything else in between fascinating.

Have an awesome show guys,

Tydanis, Blood Elf DK, Earthen Ring US

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Prospecting Macro (version of the milling macro)

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/6036116770

/run function FnO() for i=0,4 do for j=1,GetContainerNumSlots(i) do local t={GetItemInfo(GetContainerItemLink(i,j) or 0)} if t[7]==”Metal & Stone” and select(2,GetContainerItemInfo(i,j))>4 then return i..” “..j,t[1] end end end end

Use as your prospecting button, replacing “prospect2″ with the name of this macro:

/run local f,l,n=AuP or CreateFrame(“Button”,”AuP”,nil,”SecureActionButtonTemplate”) f:SetAttribute(“type”,”macro”) l,n=FnO() if l then f:SetAttribute(“macrotext”,”/cast Prospecting\n/use “..l) SetMacroItem(“prospect2″,n) end

/click AuP

Weekly Challenge

AQ20

Transmog from Void Storage in 5.3

http://www.mmo-champion.com/content/3202-Transmogrify-From-Bank-and-VS-VoidTransmog-Addon-Blue-Tweets-Setup-of-the-Month

Warrior loremaster leveling yields 5 TMogg pieces to sell… just when I thought I was out.

LFR

Death Knight dings 460… Is 7th on meters on first run. Thanks to epic glove pattern for getting DK to 460.

Exalted Reputation Grind

Ding exalted with Timbermaw – Grinding for Runecloth and Winterfall Firewater

Pet Battles

Cage mechanical or undead opponents so they don’t respawn

iTunes Reviews

Beemug- Aerie Peak US

KamosaTheLoveFool

GeorgeWoW

Phood-Thneed

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Hi Guys,

I’ve been out of Wow for a while now but really enjoy listening to your podcast. I have a few toon’s my mains are Fooch (Druid 85) in AIE and Dewy (Shaman 85) on Kargath. Thanks to listening to you guys it has inspired me to try and get backing into the game while also balancing all my RL responsibilities. I’ve been playing since release and used to be a 40 man raider in vanilla but since lost all the folks i used to play with and the fun i would have with all my RL friends. I’m hoping to get back into things and meet some new folks and have that kind of fun again and you gents are really inspiring me to give it a go. I’m only on episode 4 right now but the episodes so far I have listened to have been awesome!! Just listening to you guys talk about how your playing the game casually and not raiding (at least not yet has been reminding me of the days when i played and enjoyed myself like you guys are doing. I just wanted to say thanks very much for the work you gents do on the podcast and it’s an absolute pleasure to listen to all the episodes. I can’t wait to get caught up to the present day episodes and get back in the game.

Many thanks and keep up the great work!

Fooch

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Mentions

@benredington Hit 20 on my BE Paladin, mounting up and riding through the Ghostlands questing. Glory to the Sin’dorei! #forthehorde

@benredington Just hit lvl 40 on my paladin. I’ve played started the character a week ago. I’ve just been questing, what a blast. pic.twitter.com/almhkoTd2Q

@_Winkee Solo day going well! MC, UBRS, and BWL down so far with ret pally. Classic Raider achieved. Tempest Keep, you’re next!

@GrimmAIE Dinged 78 on DK last night

Next Week’s #TWoWoW – PvP/PvE/RP?

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