In the twenty-seventh World of Warcraft podcast episode, we raid and ponder all things LFR including comparisons to heroics, why raiding makes us want to run dailies, and fixing the “not enough tanks and healers problem.” We uncover more TradeSkillMaster macros to help with crafting and build a new method for tracking transmog sets on the auction house, and we reveal everyone’s favorite questline for week 6 of our 30 weeks of World of Warcraft.

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

LFR

Easier than heroics?

Making us want to do… dailies!

The “Not Enough Tanks and Healers” Problem. How to Solve it?

https://twitter.com/Jagoex/status/320990678505095168

Our solution.

Auction House Strategies and Automation

TradeSkillMaster Macros

Queue up items to craft… you have to click the “Craft Next” button or… use a macro!

/click TSMCraftNextButton

/click TSMAuctioningPostButton

/click TSMAuctioningCancelButton

/click TSMAHTabBuyoutButton

/click TSMAHConfirmationActionButton

You can bind this macro to your mouse scroll wheel as typically these actions are on different TSM screens.

Why having hundreds and even thousands of auctions is a bad idea

Using TradeSkillMaster_Mailing addon

Molsan Methods

New set of functions that integrate with the WoW Armory and Blizzard API and connect them to various data sources

Transmog Set from a particular resource and builds item lists for importing into various consumers such as Wowuction, TSM, Chrome Bookmarks, etc.

First method is currently available in beta.

#TWoWoW – Week 6 – Favorite Questline

Sláinte

Molsan

Audio

Strumpet

Hasteur

Mominatrix – Week 6

Email

Hey guys, it’s Grimm with another double submission for the 30 weeks of WoW segment. These questions both gave me a lot of trouble, one because there were too many good choices, the other because there were too few.

My favorite Vanilla dungeon is a tough one, because I don’t particularly like any of them. They were all so long and punishing if you failed, I had a hard time getting excited to ever do them. I suppose if I have to pick one, I’ll go with Scarlet Monastery, mostly because I love the run up to it in Tirisfal Glade. The long winding path lined with decaying trees with the Scarlet Crusade’s victims hanging from the branches was so eerie, and being a low level in a world of elites at the time, I found the whole thing pretty daunting. I also liked the environment of the Monastery itself. I enjoyed the different feel of each wing, and really loved the hidden room with High Inquisitor Fairbanks. I also remember longing to know someone with the Corrupted Ashbringer, so that I could see the way the dungeon supposedly changed for a player who carried it. I thought that had to be one of the coolest Easter eggs in the game.

My favorite quest chain, on the other hand, is nearly impossible to choose. Wrathgate and Quel’Delar are both awesome, as are many of the quest chains in Icecrown. But for pure nostalgia’s sake, I can’t not cheat a little and give a tie to the original questline in Eastern Plaguelands with Tirion Fordring, and the original chain to protect Pamela Redpath in Darrowshire, also in Eastern Plaguelands. I think I love the Tirion chain because as a Horde player it was really the first time that I had participated in a long chain with a big story payoff at the end, when (spoiler) you save Tirion’s son from his brainwashing at the hands of the Scarlet Crusade, only to have him killed in battle on the way out. I think it also stuck with me because when I did it, I had just finished the Chris Metzen short story about Tirion and felt for him being exiled from his family, and never really getting another chance to be a father and husband to them. And Darrowshire just felt epic to me because it reminded me of Seven Samurai, in that you have a very small force trying to defend a village from a huge invading force. Plus you are doing all this to protect the spirits of the town, and correct a past wrong, which was a cool twist I hadn’t encountered before that.

Well, I’ve probably rambled on long enough. Thanks for the great show, and I’ll talk to you guys next time.

Grimmclaw of Alea Iacta Est Dignitas, Earthen Ring US

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Hey  Molsan and Sláinte,

For this week’s question “What is your favourite quest chain?” I immediately thought of 3 quest chains. The first one is the Greatmother Geyah quest chain in Nagrand. I think this is the single longest quest chain the game with all the quests you have to do to start it and finish it. This is my favourite one in the game, so long, epic, and lore-packed. Second: The Wrathgate; simply one of the most epic quest chains in the game. Third: the quest chain in Icecrown with the quest called “The Hunter and Prince”. In this one you get to take control of Arthas and fight Illidan! It was  one of the most fun quests I’ve done in the game to date.

Hope you guys have a great show, and I’ll see you next week!

Tydanis, Blood Elf DK, Earthen Ring US

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Hey Bit and Salt,

Kanzaki, ER, here and loved that Onyxia fight. 1-shot on my shadow priest. Brings back some memories.

For the 30 weeks of WoW, I’d like to combine question 4 and question 6. I loved Stormpeaks and the Sons of Hodir quest line. More specifically, the Thrusting the Spear quest of soloing  drake while fighting in his mouth. I also enjoyed jumping from drake to drake around thorim and finishing one of the greatest old achievement for a priest, Who needs a Knuckle Sandwich, because priests need to cap their unarmed weapon skills.

Keep it up and always look forward to the next episode.

Kanzaki

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Favourite Questline. There’s been so many, I bet I’m forgetting some great ones!

I actually really enjoyed the majority of the attunement quest lines. They were long, required effort, and had a rewarding goal that wasn’t just a bit of loot that you’ll replace tomorrow.

The oldest one I recall is the Onyxia attunement (alliance side!) Helping many (many) folks with the Blackrock Depths prison run!

Karazahn attunement is an obvious favourite – very epic, plus it brought out the best in guildies helping each other.

But the quest line that I remember most fondly that is “just” a quest line would have to be the Linken quest in Un’goro. That kind of chain that takes you all over Azeroth, and spans many levels (if you start it at level) was a ton of fun and very rewarding. I still have Linken’s Boomerang on most toons – I remember when it was one of the few ways a pally had a ranged pull ability!

-Ashayo

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Hey Guys,

So I have two favorites, one is Amberseeds!  I knew I never should have touched that damn thing.  The second one is all of the quests leading up to the destruction of the jade serpent statue in Jade Forest.  I loved learning and reading all of the pandaria lore, and I enjoyed the whole questline where you are revealing the 3 prophecies on the wall as you complete each quest series.

Catch ya laters!

~Jellad CTR Aerie Peak

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Hi guys,

I will try and keep this short but apologize if it’s not (I get verbose when typing).  I love the podcast!  You guys are the first thing I listen to in the morning and typically the last at the end of the evening.  I’m working on getting caught up on all episodes.

My main is Tazilhoff a level 90 gnome mage on Frostwolf but I’m in the process of leveling up Lowpand a pandaren warrior and Lizat a blood elf paladin on Mal’Ganis.

First things first to get caught up on the last 5 weeks of WoW and add my 6th:

1. My first character was Tazil the gnome mage.  I started playing in BC and I still have him to this day.  He’s my first and only 90 at this point.  Unfortunately I did lose the name Tazil when I realm transferred so he now goes by Tazilhoff.

2. My favorite raid is hard to come up with since the very first raid I’ve ever done was Mogu’shan Vaults.  Which was…well a little underwhelming.  I think that’s because it was using LFR and not with a group of people going the whole route.  The dragon was a fun fight though.

3. I’ve never been able to get excited about Shamans.  Not sure what it is.

4. I really liked the Hellfire Peninsula zone.  It was very epic at the time with the transition through the gate and the big war that was going on.  The sense of scale there was great.

5. My favorite vanilla dungeon would be Zul’Farrak.  That fight on the stairs of the temple was a blast!

6. I liked the quests with Tarenar Sunstrike and Gidwin Goldbraids in the Eastern Plaguelands. The friendship between the two from different factions was a lot of fun and very touching.  ”The Paladin Palls” was a good touch.

Last but not least!  I was in Warsong Gulch with my warlock and trying to capture the flag.  I was about five steps away from the flag when I was killed.  But!  I was able to use my soulstone to come back, grab the flag, and capture it for my side!  I thought that was pretty epic.

I hope you guys are having a great show and keep up the good work!

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Favorite Quest Line:

http://www.wowhead.com/quest=28096/welcome-to-the-machine

Welcome to the Machine in Hillsbrad Foothills.  I’m sure I’m not the only one who’s going to pick this, but it’s pure meta-hilarity from the first leg of the chain.  This quest is reason enough to roll horde.

“Yes, this IS horse made of STARS. “ -Johnny Awesome

 Mildrid (Earthen Ring US)

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From Tanasttia:

Hey guys,

I’ve very much wanted to participate in your 30 weeks of WoW but kept putting it off until now it’s like Week 6 already.

I thought Tweets would be a succinct way to “catch up,” but I still would hate for you to have to read all that.

Suddenly, I had an epiphany! I will do the first 5 weeks in haiku form (though some are more like haiku couplets). Here goes:

Week 1

figured the game would suck

rolled the most ugly undead

Tardmo the Warrior

like a total noob

left the starting zone too soon

infinite corpse runs

Week 2

raided only Mists

two tiers of Cataclysm

fun folks but meh raids

Week 3

sneaky stabby-stab

never leveled one past 10

BG resentments?

Week 4

I longed for Vashj’ir

since my days in Desolace

plumbing wat’ry depths

WoW under the sea!

Molsan can’t understand me

swimming 3D quests

Week 5

Healing as Shadow

from 35 to 80

before LFG

so hard to choose one…

desert trolls, sunken temples

fathoms of black depths

lost centaur kingdoms

mountain complexes of dwarves

Okay… BRD!

Week6 HaikuCouplet favorite quest chain? / I like the one with hog snouts / or flights round the world

Week6 HaikuCouplet Part Deux: no, seriously / I really don’t remember / best just say WrathGate

Mentions

@Lumpythegnome The Day Deathwing Came is the best single quest, but Wrathgate is best chain for me.

Weekly Challenge Update

Onyxia update

Audio Submissions

Satyr Dings First 90

Music

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In the twenty-sixth World of Warcraft podcast episode, we learn about gardening habits, we compare notes on our Onyxia challenge, we go through our stories about everyone’s favorite classic, vanilla dungeon as part of our thirty weeks of World of Warcraft, we spellsteal a popular Warcraft rumor, and learn the backstory about Bane the Infected Squirrel.

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

Leveling Alts and Farming
Farming vs. Farming vs. Gardening
Farmer Yoon spoilers
All of the everyday dailies

Weekly Challenge #1: Onyxia Solo
Handling the air phase
Handling the many whelps

Call from Matt / SpankingBeaArthur
Attempts with Feral Druid, Enhancement Shaman, Shadow Priest
Embersilk farming in Twilight Highlands
Request for Fire Druid spec

Review of Class Abilities
Druid
Death Knight

Origin of Bane the Infected Squirrel
First to level 25
Met in Western Plaguelands
Team Player in Pet Battles
How to Give 110%

Email from Synnthetic

Reins of the Drake of the North Wind in The Vortex Pinnacle time saving tip.

After killing Altairus you can jump off the side of the as to plummet to your death but it will zone you to the beginning of the instance so you can step out and reset. Happy hunting!

#TWoWoW – Week 5 – Favorite Classic Dungeon
Dungeons in Vanilla: Navigating to the dungeon entrance was a pain
Wailing Caverns, Shadowfang Keep, Zul’Farrak

Audio
Hasteur – Deadmines
Rho – Deadmines
Strumpet – Scarlet Monastery
Jerome – Blackfathom Deeps (a.k.a. Shadowfang Keep) and Weeks 1-4 roundup

Email from Jellad – Aerie Peak – CTR

So my favorite classic dungeon is Dead Mines… ORIGINAL deadmines. I hate the new re-work of deadmines because the story is completely different and kinda boring. It was the first dungeon I’ve ever done in any MMO. It made me LOVE dungeons, and want to do every one of them. It was also my real first interaction with other players in WoW.

Email from Tydanis, Blood Elf DK, Earthen Ring US

Hope you guys are having a great day and a great show. So week 5′s topic of my favourite classic dungeon was a bit of a difficult one for me. I had to take a bit and remember back to my classic days and all the times I ran every one of those dungeons to figure out which held the best memories for me. I narrowed it down to two: Maraudon and Dire Maul, and of those two I’d have to say that, while Dire Maul is awesome in it’s own right, Maraudon is my favourite.

It’s so large, which was awesome at the time I remember; it was like an epic adventure going through that place, especially on your first time through. More importantly, I think it’s one of the most beautiful dungeons in the game. It’s awesome how you go through different “zones” in it, huge waterfalls, moss-covered rock vistas, large pools of water, and crystals of many colours. Just awesome

Have a great show guys, and I’ll talk to you next week

Email from Mildred – Earthen Ring (US)

Another great spot to farm Embersilk is Tol Barad Pennisula on the Restless Front, very low health mobs fighting each other which drop a ton of cloth for a tailor. By the time you pull several packs and AOE them down they will respawn. These guys are higher level than Deepholm so have better drops. Popping a treasure finding potion helps as you’ll get a worthwhile amount of bonuses that contain tons of cloth, and increased green drops that you need for the enchanting mats for bags.

SpankingBeaArthur@SpankingBArthur
Made 500gold this morning thanks to tips from @bitterandsalty . Thanks guys!

@Wowhonen @Molsan @SaltySlainte @bitterandsalty can never tell if you guys are serious but there is a show on hgtv called that. Pretty good show too

Synnthetic hit exalted with the Anglers!

@HunterKamosa @Molsan @SaltySlainte Fun episode! thanks guys!

@Mominatrix75 My fave vanilla dungeon was Strat. I think because I’m such a lore nerd it really engaged me and also “Youve been Malowned!”

Third Spec
Tri-spec datamined, but Ghostcrawler says, “don’t hold your breath.”
Pointless for Rogues and not a game-changer

New Raid – Central Park
How to get attuned
Gathering the documents

Glory of the Auction House
Crafting and selling epic Leatherworking pieces
Free Leather Day – farming skinnable mobs

Summer Raid Team
Coming Soon™

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In the twenty-fifth World of Warcraft podcast episode, we farm all the Embersilk and Frostweave and setup our first weekly challenge, we go all in with easy mode Warlock castsequencing, we mention the new TradeSkillMaster addon TSM_Additions to enhance your quality of life, we share everyone’s favorite zone for our thirty weeks of WoW, we recommend the Battle.net SMS protect feature, and we reveal the ulitimate milling macro.

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

Embersilk Cloth Farming – Does this Work?

YES (Molsan)

Took Shadow Priest (Halive) to Deepholm and Mind Seared all the Troggs

Many Embersilk Cloths and BoE greens for Disenchanting into Hypnotic Dust… which were used to make Embersilk Bags

Frostweave Cloth Farming – Does this Work?

http://www.kujaswowgoldguide.com/2012/11/instant-respawn-frostweave-cloth.html

YES (Sláinte)

Weekly Challenge?

Solo Onyxia for mount

Playing Warlock on Easy Mode

Using /castsequence macro for leveling and grinding fun

#showtooltip
/petattack
/castsequence reset=15/target/combat/shift Curse of the Elements, Agony, Corruption, Seed of Corruption, Unstable Affliction, Haunt, Malefic Grasp, Drain Soul

New TSM_Additions AddOn

http://stormspire.net/official-tradeskillmaster-development-forum/10214-introducing-tsm_additions.html#post104401

Vendor Buying – This feature changes the split stack window that shows up when you shift-right-click on an item in a vendor pane to allow buying more than one stacks worth at a time of the item. For example, since [Light Parchment] stacks in quantities of 100, you usually can’t buy more than 100 at a time. With this feature, you could shift-right-click and type in 501 and it’ll buy 5 stacks of 100 and 1 stack of 1 automatically when you hit enter (or click ‘Okay’).

Auction Sales – This replaces the “A buyer has been found for your auction of ___” text with something a bit more useful. It will replace the name of the item with a link of the item, and (if possible) tell you how much the auction just sold for. The sale price will only work if all your auctions for that item are of the same stack size.

#TWoWoW Week 4 – Favorite Zone

Molsan – Nagrand

Sláinte – Dragonblight

Email

Mildrid (B&S Guild) Earthern Ring (US)

Howling Fjord because

1) epic sail into the zone/expansion on Alliance side

2) music which would make DiCaprio weep

3) skeletons with beards

4) little Wilfred Brimley walrus guys

5) a ski lift

6) Fjords

Jellad – Aerie Peak – CTR

So my favorite zone has to be Ice Crown.  It was the first zone to use phasing, and I loved the idea of changing and developing the zone.  I love the argent tournament, and the dailies for ebon blade and the skybreaker, were always fun and humorous. I also love the feel of the zone, the music, the ambiance, and everything else about the zone.

Check ya later!

Rubmahbelleh

Before anything else: thanks for the excellent and eccentric podcast! Always good stuff, always makes me grin! You guys are easily in my top three and continue to move up. Thanks for your hard work!

So…favorite zone: I love Nagrand. Tons of big animals, lots of wide open spaces, blue skies and grass! I live in North Dakota so in some way, maybe it just feels like home (except for the mountains ). It’s also possible I remember it fondly since it follows on the heels of some pretty dreary zones but to this day, I still like dropping into Nagrand to mine, pick herbs or hunt some big beasties.

If you have the time, I’d like to toss in a Week 1 – First Character response, too.

I started playing on release day and despite a little exposure to the beta, didn’t really pick up on class/spec roles in the world. That resulted in me thinking it would just be cool to play a Holy Paladin and created my human male Holy Pally, Liro and leveled him to 60…without healing anyone else expect for the occasional guildee. Sure, it took forever to drop most mobs and I leveled pretty slowly because of it, but I was very hard to kill. Liro never met the Spirit Healer until sometime in his mid-to-late 50′s. Sadly, old Liro languishes in Shatrath at lvl 63. I keep meaning to resurrect him, but now, I’m For The Horde!® and having too much fun with my panda monk, Rubmahbelleh (Rub Mah Belleh always said in a guttural voice! )

Looking forward to every episode.

Grimm from Mulgore

Hey guys, I didn’t get my tweet in for week three in time last week, so here’s another combo reply:

Least favorite class:

It’s hard for me to say I have a least favorite class, because I pretty much exclusively play a feral druid. I can say that I have had the least interest in playing a warrior. I’m not really sure why that is, but for some reason all the other classes seem to have some quality or gimmick to them that sounds cool or interesting. The warrior just seems like a guy that swings a sword and nothing else. Just does very little to capture any excitement in me. I also suck at my DK.

Favorite zone in WoW:

I think that’s the right question. Didn’t see it in the show notes or on Twitter. My favorite zone is what I imagine will be a common answer: Nagrand. I know it’s cliche, but I just love the colors and almost whimsical nature of that zone. The floating islands with waterfalls coming from no where. The colors of the planets in the sky. The round trees and buildings give everything a soft, comfortable feeling. Hell, just sitting next to Thrall’s grandmother makes me feel all peaceful. Every time I go back after being away for awhile I always just find myself looking at the sky and marveling at how pretty it is.

Tydanis, Blood Elf DK, Earthen Ring US

Hey Molsan and Sláinte, Before Burning Crusade came out, my favourite zone in WoW was Mulgore. It was so serene, beautiful, and open; I loved it (I still do). It was the first zone I quested in when I switched to Horde side and I fell in love with it. Then BC came along, and so did Nagrand. It easily became my favourite zone the second I stepped into it, and has continued to be my favourite zone to this day. It’s like a better version of Mulgore in my mind, and I love it.  Waterfalls, green everywhere, lakes, floating islands, what’s not to love? Hope you guys have a great show

Synnthetic

Hey all…Your favorite Rogue here besides all the others!  I wanted to tell you why I love my rogue!

Stealth, sap, mine the node, mount & fly away!!

Not having to kill my way to the end of a tunnel or mobs for a quest boss!  Time saver!

Popping up behind the unexpected!!!  — HI…STAB…YOU DEAD — and then knowing they are saying… YOU SON OF A…while they are mashing keys and looking for their trinket..muhahahaha!

Week 3 (Love and hate)

Dislike Mage—-never leveled over 10.  Did play a buddies mage (60) for a few days and when farming in Silithus I couldn’t stay alive.  Frost bolt, mob hits me, I die.  Sigh!

Enjoy the most:  Rogue/Pally/Shaman/Hunter

Week 4 (Zone)

My favorite Zone is….STV!!!  Loved the quest lines, the PVP aspects (before flying mounts), and the Arena set up they had where the chest pops every 3 hours and it was an all-out fight.

Mentions

@Mominatrix75 My favorite zone is Hyjal. I loved the lore and the phasing, feeling like I was making a difference doing all those dailies.

Audio

Juuno – Tirisfal Glades

Rho – Netherstorm

Strumpet – Darkshire

SpankingBeaArthur – Pre-Cata Northern Barrens

Trofie – Nagrand

Hasteur – Dragonblight

Ashayo – Nagrand, Mount Hyjal, Ungoro Crater, Sholozar Basin, Twilight Highlands, Valley of the Four Winds

Use Battle.net SMS Protect

Purchased a new phone and was able to remove mobile authenticator from account via SMS

Free service provided by Blizzard

Unlock battle.net account, remove an unwanted authenticator, recover your account name, and reset your password

Will send out alerts to you if any security-related changes are made to your account

SMS Protect FAQ: https://us.battle.net/support/en/article/battlenet-sms-protect

Ultra Milling Macro

Run a function against your inventory

Macro will mill whatever is in your bag in a stack of 5

A bit more advanced version: Run this before the start of a milling session:

/run function FnH() for i=0,4 do for j=1,GetContainerNumSlots(i) do local t={GetItemInfo(GetContainerItemLink(i,j) or 0)} if t[7]==”Herb” and select(2,GetContainerItemInfo(i,j))>=5 then return i..” “..j,t[1] end end end end

Then use this as your milling button:

/run local f,l,n=AuM or CreateFrame(“Button”,”AuM”,nil,”SecureActionButtonTemplate”) f:SetAttribute(“type”,”macro”) l,n=FnH() if l then f:SetAttribute(“macrotext”,”/cast Milling\n/use “..l) SetMacroItem(“Macro Name”,n) end
/click AuM

(change “Macro Name” to the name of the macro)

It will skip over stacks less than 5, it will also mill herbs from past expansions and it will change the macro’s icon to the current herb you’re milling and how many of that herb you have left.

Ro, Gnome Warrior, Hyjal realm

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/7709862285

A Worthy Cause

From Nev’s Auction House Addict: “It’s not often I have a little rant about something but this morning on Twitter I saw a tweet go out to help one of our own fellow WoW players regain his sight by raising funds for his treatment. His disease is so rare that the authorities in his area won’t pay for the treatment. I’m talking about @DemonicRic aka @Richard_Harlow, a young man I first heard on Hearthcast – talking about how he manages to play World of Warcraft although he is legally blind.”

http://ahaddict.blogspot.com/2013/03/donate-richard-harlow.html?spref=tw

Donate to Richard: https://fundrazr.com/campaigns/cSjda

Twitter Mentions

@Satyr69 Dammit! I forgot to call in to @bitterandsalty that Empailer dinged 89 yesterday!

@GrayzBDF Sitting on the subway and trying not to laugh @ the Ghost Iron Ore song @bitterandsalty hahahah

@SpankingBArthur OMG! Thank you for the terrible turnip tip! I have killed so many rare battle pets on accident!

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In the twenty-fourth World of Warcraft podcast episode, we try and get organized with auction house workflow, we give out a tip for capturing wild pets, we explain how Google Translate helped win Mogu’shan Palace, we debut Trofie’s “Glory of the Hero,” we get a step closer to running Ulduar at level, and we find out what everyone’s least favorite class is.

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

Auction House Etiquette/Strat

• I want out of the Transmog business for good
• How do you successfully get out of a market completely?

• Would learning a third profession be okay? What if you could learn all of the professions?

Sláinte’s a n00b Tip

• Battle Pet capturing
• Use Turnup
• Will not drop health below 1 hp

#TWoWoW Week 3 – Least Favorite / Most Challenging Class to Play

• Sláinte
  • ALL PURE DPS CLASSES
  • ROGUE CAN SUCK IT
• Molsan
  • Shaman
• Hasteur
  • Mage – as a Warlock, the Mage feels underpowered and disappointing
• Mominatrix
  • Rogue – power-leveled but still despises; bottom of the meters, hated stealthing, couldn’t stand daggers… deleted a week into MoP
• Rho
  • Warlock – green fire quest is serious business… Rogues too
• Strumpet
  • Warlock – purchasing grimoires for demons was irritating
  • Druid – Horde Druids are ugly
• Falstad Wildhammer
  • Paladin – Hammer, justice, and holy lights

@Lilulicious My least favorite class: Paladin. Hammers, seals, just too damn many buttons! Ack!

@leenovak16 Druid. Haven’t tried one in a while, but the feral forms, at least on the Horde side are so goof,y that I can’t stand it.

@TrofieTheMage I’ve never been able to level a shaman past 11. Can’t stand the class #TWoWoW

Emails

• Synnthetic from <Bitter and Salty> on Earthen Ring

It was a call from a good friend of mine that said “hey, me and the fellas are gonna run to the store at midnight and get World of Warcraft, you coming?”  I replied, “I don’t know what the hell that is but sure”.  I got the details in the car and I was told that I should be a tank because that is the easiest class to play.  I was very new to games on the PC as he let me barrow his game Horizon and I just walked around and dug stuff up.

I got home and loaded the 4 discs and a couple hours later I’m in!  I call my friend and say, “why the hell are we making alliance because the Horde look sweet”.  I didn’t win that argument so my first toon was a Male NE Warrior spec’d as a meat shield!  His name was Zofideous and holy hell did I spend waaaaaaaay to long in Darnasus getting lost in the caves.  There is nothing like spending 2 hours trying to get out of a cave, die inside, and then have to try and get back to recover your body.  After 5 server changes, a name change, and a haircut he’s now 70 and inactive.

Week 2

Favorite Raid!  Truly I only ever raided MC, BWL, and ONY-(if that counts) on a consistent basis and boy did we spend hours upon hours in MC.  My favorite out of the 3 was MC.  We had 2 tanks for MC (40), I was one and had zero clue what I was doing except saunder…saunder…saunder…taunt (repeat)!  The two giants at the beginning had my heart racing the first couple of times in and you better not pull that extra fire lord dammit or you’ll wipe us!  The teamwork that was needed for most of these fights was spectacular in my noob eyes.

There is this good feeling to have been around when Leroy Jenkins came out and the guy from the Ony fight…WHELPS…LEFT SIDE!

Keep up the good work

Oh, and for favorite raids, Ulduar. Love the challenge, the bosses, and Tier 8 Priest gear!

Well, Keep up the great work.

My least favorite class to play would probably have to be the hunter. Now before I have a bunch of present day hunters jump on me, my first toon ever was a hunter. I started her at the end of BC and had her to level 80 not long after Wrath came out. I just didn’t feel challenged enough and thought either I need to make another class, or I’m going to stop playing this game. I ended up making my priest, Medi and deleting my hunter. I tried to bring her back for Cataclysm and got her to 85, but so many things had changed (I mean really, they took away my precious Volley!) and I still could not get back into that hunter.

<3′s to Salty and Molsan

• Tydanis, Blood Elf DK on Earthen Ring US

Hey guys, hope everything is going great for you all. Here’s my submission for week number 3′s question:

Before I had a one of each class I suppose I had least favourites, but this was simply because I had not tried said class at all, and only had what I heard about them to go on. The ones that sticks out the most for me I suppose would be the warrior and rogue. I never touched either of these classes until Cataclysm actually. Simply because I either never got around to it or had heard bad things about them. But, as we all know, Cata gave us all kinds of time to pursue alts and the like, so I took advantage of it and became an altoholic I tried out the warrior and rogue and I fell in love with them, much the same as I had with every other class.

That’s all for me, have a great show guys! I’m looking forward to listening to my favourite podcast this week, and for many weeks to come!

• Jellad – Aeire Peak – CTR

So I am lame and fell behind on listening to all the wow podcasts I listen to so I had to answer week’s 1 – 3 in one email

Week 2: Hands down, Kara

Love the show!

Pet Giveaway Reminder

• Send Us Your Favorite Battle Cry
• Mention us on Twitter @bitterandsalty with your favorite battle cry for a chance to win a Soul of the Aspects in-game pet!

Dings and Achievements

@Asyluun01 just got 60 exalted reputations now i am known as “the beloved” lol

@SpankingBArthur Klaxxi rep picking up farm rep veggies: “These will have to do. The Klaxii send their thanks. Though I don’t know why.”

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In the twenty-third World of Warcraft podcast episode, we comment on the bombs Blizzard dropped on Mage bomb buffs, we discuss strategies for the Glory of the Hero achievement, we share our and your favorite raid for week two of our thirty weeks of WoW, we talk Ghost Iron Ore (again), along with professions, and a remote auction house noob tip, we get into level 80 twinking with iLevel 409 items, drink some potions of luck, and give big grats to the Bitter and Salty guild for reaching level 25.

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

Today’s Hotfixes… Mage and Tank Buffs!

• http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/8197590653#1

Glory of the Hero

• Couldn’t Solo Old Kingdom
• Zombiefest strategy

#TWoWoW – Week 2 – Favorite Raid

• Molsan
  • Karazhan
• Sláinte
  • ICC
• Audio
  • Trofie
  • Hasteur
  • Rho
  • Strumpet
• Mentions
  • @NevAHAddict that’s easy for me – ICC, never done any others at appropriate level.
  • @WoWInTheDetails BWL, loved that
• Email
  • Ashayo

My favourite raid would have to be Karazhan!

Part of it was the mechanics – they were interesting, new, and challenging.

Part of it was, strangely enough, the effort you had to go through to actually get attuned. I know raid attunement is a double-edged sword, but I did enjoy the challenge – mainly because I got to do it with friends. Which brings me to the main reason I liked Karazhan so much – the friends and guildies that I got to run it with. I always looked forward to raiding not because I might get loot or down a new boss, but because the people I ran it with made it a very enjoyable time for me!

(Although our tank had this crazy notion of doing difficult pulls of packs of undead by gathering them all up and AoEing!)

Keep up the great work guys!

• Mystek AKA Tydanis, Earthen Ring US

So for my week 2 submission for my favourite raid I had a bit of trouble deciding on one. I’ve been playing since WoW has released so I’ve experienced every raid that’s been out, so I had to take some time and think about each one and which I had the fondest memories of. After some thought, I narrowed it down to only two: Kharazhan and Sunwell. Not only do I have my fondest memories during this time in WoW (the Burning Crusade exspansion) from both content and the people I played with then, but both of these raids were long, interesting, fun, and beautiful in design. If I had to choose just one of those raids, well I can’t haha, but I would say Kharazhan for overall fun, and Sunwell for overall beauty and lore.

Keep up the awesome job guys, the show is a pleasure to listen to each week

•  Grimm

 Hello Molsan and Sláinte! It’s Grimm writing in with my 30 days of WoW. I’m gonna cheat and backdate this first email to include week one, so:

My first toon was a Tuaren feral druid named Sala (after the Indiana Jones character) on Korialstrasz. I started playing in december of 2006, right before the launce of BC, and didn’t know feral was not a viable spec. I just liked turning into a cat and stealthing past everything. I was on Korial for 3 years until all the friends I had been playing with had finally stopped playing, and I wanted to go somewhere that I know people would be on even at my late hours, so I transferred to Earthen Ring to join AIE. Sala was taken, and being terrible at selecting names the best thing I could come up with was Rowlf (like the Muppet). That lasted a few months until I got sick of it and decided to come up with something that I could work into any character to make naming easier, and thus Grimmclaw was born. So yes, original toon played since vanilla.

As to my favorite raid, although I love the design, look and feel of Ulduar, I have the best memories from ICC, when Floor Tanks made it through to defeat the Lich King. We may not have been cutting edge, but it was the first time I ever killed an end of expansion boss while it was current content, and by the end of ICC that team had a great chemistry.

Ghost Iron Ore

• What is the deal with the raw uncommon market?

Remote Auction House Noob Tip

• Manipulate the query string and bookmark your favorite searches
• Change “faction” and “search_term” in the query below
  • https://us.battle.net/wow/en/vault/character/auction/[faction]/browse?n=[search_term]&filterId=-1&minLvl=-1&maxLvl=-1&qual=1&start=0&end=20&sort=unitBuyout&reverse=false

Auction House Etiquette

• Call from Tethedra (sorry if we misspelled your name)

#HotT

• Crafted shield and BoE Gift for main tank

i409 Twinking

• GET INTO IT
• I’D TWINK THAT
  • DK 310 Item Level

Potion of Luck

• Molsan
  • Session 1 (Blood DK) – Howling Wind Caverns
    • 6 Plundered Treasure
    • 4g
    • 2g, 5 GiO, 2 MoH
    • 25g
    • 1g
    • 2g
    • 4g, 2 GiO, 3 Black Trillium Ore, 3 White Trillium Ore
    • 3 MoH
    • 21 Windwool Cloth
    • 3 Uncommons
    • Bunch of GiO (from Mining)
  • Session 2 (same)
    • 8 Plundered Treasure
    • 3g, 3 WWC, 4 BTO, 4 WTO
    • 4g
    • 4g
    • 24g, 4 BTO
    • 2g
    • 5g, 5 GIO
    • 4g
    • 2g, 1 uncommon
    • 1 MoH
    • 11 WWC
    • Bunch of GIO (from Mining)
•  Sláinte
  • Used in HoF LFR Trash
  • Thanks for tip Rho
  • Looted 6 Treasures
  • Gold and other stuff
  • Got 4 Treasures
  • Mostly Gold and White Trillium Ore

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• From @benredington
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• On Thursday, March 28th, we will select one random person who follows us and mentions us with their favorite battle cry.
• Follow us @bitterandsalty so we can DM you the code!

Bitter and Salty Guild Dings 25!

• Thank you all!!!

Calls

• Jean Dings 25 on a Pet
• Jean Dings 90 on 3rd character

Mentions

@badtauren how many palis between the two of you

@JetrixAdune by the way guys, I got the “Diplomat” Title earlier this week…would love a shout out!

@Ashayo Sorry I missed Q1! I don’t believe all those folks whose first toon wasn’t a NE Hunter. Mine was

@jeanbees My first toon was a dwarf pally. My son deleted her.#lateagain
@jeanbees My NEXT first toon was a NE druid named Saris. Now she’s a troll named Aless. STILL not max level (88).

@Wowhonen My first toon might be gone but his namesake lives on! My next toon to 90 will be my rogue Nobag

@Nick20Q @Molsan congrats to your podcast and guild! that is awesome

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
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