In the sixteenth World of Warcraft podcast episode, we discuss raiding in MoP, but also going back to Ulduar. We learn how to switch talents on the fly and what to do with guild bank tabs. We are relieved to be making gold without stress by buying transmog gear and crafting belt buckles, and we finally determine that we’re just a couple of tillering noobs.

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

Raiding Update

  • Sláinte is 3/6 MV!!1 How did this happen?
  • What changes were made to Holy spec?
    • Reforging Links go here
  • Sláinte Raid Pet Peeeeeve
    • Not paying attention to your surroundings
  • Making Herald of the Titans team

Talent Switching on the Fly

  • Sláinte to explain

Altoholicism

  • Sláinte’s third level 90 character
  • He still won’t make 11 90s by Blizzcon 2013
  • Call from Strumpet
    • Scenario achievements with (can’t pronounce) Cincin and some jerk named Molsan

Yak Mount

Guild Bank Tabs

  • What are they? Why bother with them?
  • What should we do with our 8th tab?

Gold-Making Contest Continues!

  • Not really, but no pressure and no stress = MOAR GOLD
  • Sláinte is out of the Transmog business… Molsan loves it

Transmog

Crafting Profession Consolidation

  • Cooking
    • Sláinte’s Tillering Pro Tip: How to Destroy a Growing Crop
  • Blacksmith
    • Living Steel Belt Buckle
      • Requires Honored with Klaxxi
      • Takes 1 LS bar to make one belt buckle
      • LS is about 350 gold… buckle is around 400
        • Options: crafting from GIO or just buy LS directly

 Mount Giveaway

  • Email from Mars Filander who asked, “Hey Guys, Love your show, just listened to #15 after hearing you on Real Maint. BTW, when are you giving away the TCG codes?”
  • We promise this time! Watch our Twitter feed @bitterandsalty

Mentions

  • Call from SoCalWoWGal
  • @funkyfugu server says bandwidth exceeded wow!
  • @AttwoodEMR Excellent podcast, looking forward to many more. Also ding!!! 89 on my monk Dalaislama -Azuremyst Horde
  • @Grozlok Çhip just dinged 90. That makes 90 number 4.
  • @_Winkee I have a solid income with profs but was curious… What are some home run strategies? A few gold surges to mix in? Thx
  • @Grozlok Dark Soil is a lie! I went to the temple and the addon showed the nearest dark soil was 1500 yards away.
  • @GrimmAIE Forgot to get this in for last show, but I am now best friendlies with all the Tillers!
  • @BruDog  <Heroes of Canton> an AIE raid team is 4/6 in Mogu’shan Vaults after only two weeks together.

iTunes Reviews

  • Synnthetic/Eclypes
    • “I enjoy fishing and have been gone from the game for [too] long so your discussions [helped] get me up to speed. I joined the [B&S] guild with a couple of toons I [transferred], but still need to do some more moving of main toons. Hope to be enjoying the game with both of you very soon.”
  • Trofie
    • “Fantastic podcast, great hosts, and funny banter. Keep up the good work, guys!”
  • coorslights
    • “5/5 stars… would listen again”

Music

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

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In the eleventh World of Warcraft podcast episode, we ask if it’s worth it to achieve max level cooking, the impact to the change to Redbelly Mandarin pools with patch 5.1, the Potion of Luck and is it worth crafting and using, synchronizing addons for multiple computers, and the week 3 update to our gold-making challenge.

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

Pandaria Cooking

  • Why train, when its cheaper to buy in AH.
  • Is there a need for Non-Raiders?

Fishing

  • Change to Redbelly Mandarin pools in Jade Forest
    • https://theunderminejournal.com/item.php?item=74860
    • Patch 5.1 removed pools of Redbelly Mandarin from the Jade Forest
    • Overall, price spiked to about 14g each after the patch, now down to about 11-13g (range higher on EU realms: 12g-23g ea avg price)
    • Patch was released on 11/27, and quantity took a dive and keeps falling
    • Can now be found only in Townlong Steppes (Inland, and not many locations) or in Vale of Eternal Blossoms (but pools are shared with two other types)
    • Find one of the spawn locations and fish in open water (1/3 drop rate for RBM)

Alchemy
@Grozlok@bitterandsalty @Molsan What happened to Potion of Luck? It’s gone missing from the Undermine Journal.

@walkstweets@SaltySlainte @bitterandsalty No, not really. Cost of mats is not equal to the return.

Are Potions of Luck worth using?

  • Greater Potion of luck changed to Potion of Luck in 5.1
  • Crafted with one Golden Lotus (down from three)

Multiboxing

Gold-Making Challenge – Week 3

  • Molsan
    • How I spy on Sláinte and check for undercuts remotely
    • I screwed up and am losing
  • Salty
    • AH camping

Why I Like and Dislike the T-Mog Market

Bitter and Salty Guild

  • Join us!

Mentions
@aquagorillabear@bitterandsalty Am pretty proud of my recent achieve, Pro Pet Group – 15 pets to Lvl 25!wowhead.com/achievement=65… Cinder Kitten should be mine!!

@Wowhonen@bitterandsalty Honen level 90 priest on the nazgrel realm. I just hit exaulted with the anglers and with it guild got pandaren embassy!

@Wowhonen@bitterandsalty wow! Thanks a ton for this and the great podcast you put out. It has quickly become one of my favorite in my rotation

@strumpet101: Catching up with laundry, other housework, and stuff while listening to @bitterandsalty … tired easily but still good!

@JetrixAdune@bitterandsalty considering nominating a certain podcast for most “so…” in the show.#JustJoking

iTunes Reviews

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Welcome to Episode 2 of the World of Warcraft podcast, Bitter and Salty! In this episode we discuss changes to rep grinding, farming in the game, and, love them or hate them, pet battles!

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

Rep Grinds

  • How they actually make the game better. (Salty) Mention Grimm
    • Any single character earns Revered reputation with a faction
    • All other characters on the Battle.net account begin to earn double reputation for that one same faction
    • The Revered character earns double reputation as he or she works toward Exalted
    • ???
    • Profit
  • What changed in MoP and/or how they’ve changed since Vanilla

Nat Pagle and the Anglers

Professions – Cooking/Farming

  • What is “farming” and how to get started

Pet Battles

  • Why they suck! (Salty)
    • Don’t like pet battles? Don’t Battle your pets – Jean
  • I love pet battles!!! (Molsan)
    • My current favorite pets to use and the rotation I use them in

Professions – Engineering

  • Hey, Engineers! What is the Blingtron 4000?
    • Someone else dropped it and it started a “daily” quest where I was able to loot a “Blingtron 4000 Gift Package” http://www.wowhead.com/item=86623 and inside was a Fire Spirit that increased Herbalism and Enchanting when I released.

Professions – Jewelcrafting

  • Ore Shuffling
    • Progress on my experiments

What’s Going on in WoW?

  • News item
  • Ink Trader Exchange Change Still Not Live (http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/6794712085?page=1)
    • “Update” the Blackfallow Ink-to-low-level-ink trading to instead use Ink of Dreams and Starlight Ink
    • Warned us that “time to trade (ink) in is running short,” and then delayed the change
    • This was supposed to happen first thing Tuesday morning after weekly maintenance
    • In a panic, I traded all my ink in for 40-60 stacks of each of the lower level inks
    • Glyph market still down so I’m just holding all of my inks for now

Voicemails and Texts

Shout Outs / Thank Yous

  • Lots of Twitter love… We even got an in-game mail

Music

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

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