Archive for July, 2013

Bitter and Salty – Episode 43 – Triple Monkey Monitor

Author: Bitter and Salty

Jul 31

In the forty-third World of Warcraft podcast episode, we are ready for WoW to go free-to-play and are buying the vanity helms from the Blizzard store but not really, the Isle of Thunder is new to those of us that have never been, we talk video card upgrades for multi-monitor gaming, we debate about whether or not the leveling challenge permanently changed us, we are intrigued and confused by flex raiding, we lack focus and try to get back to our normal routines in game, we throw out an idea for what to do with the generous donation to the guild bank, and we choose our one, favorite pet for our Thirty Weeks of World of Warcraft.

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

Helms of the Blizzard Store

I have lots to say about this and people will not like me or what I have to say. Love, Molsan.

Sláinte Went to Thunder Island!

How was it? Did you do Treasure Room?!?

Any chance we can have a hardware show?

New NVIDIA card: EVGA GTX650Ti

But then I found out I only need one card as the 650 has four outputs.

Audio from Mystery Man

Leveling changed us… we’re not the same

Sláinte keeping DK, Molsan are you?

Molsan: Yes and buying pets after the Foxely debacle

Flex raiding

Looks more and more intriguing the closer it gets into game.

Achievement Roulette Results

Molsan – Done! I now know more about Unga Ingoo than I wanted to know

http://www.wowhead.com/achievement=7248

Sláinte – Thank you WoWHead!

WoW A.D.D.

How to focus on one achievement/FoS/whatever and not get distracted by other shiny things

Auction House Routine

Do you cycle your auctions at the same time? Different days/times? Whenever?

The Big Guild Bank Donation

Ideas on what to do with the gold

Build new Molsan Method that looks up various pet-related achievement (i.e. Raiding with Leashes)… if incomplete, but one ore more pets are owned, we pick players at random and help acquire pets for them.

TWoWoW # 22 Favorite NCP or Hunter Pet

Sláinte – Singing Sunflower, Hunter Pet: A Druid

Molsan – Ghostcrawler

An aquatic pet, Strand Crawler with Surge. That. Is. All.

Mentions

Texts

Grimm: Ethereal Soul Trader

Email

Ashayo

Hey Guys!!

Despite having a growing menagerie of non-combat pets, I have to say that my favourite would have to be my warlock minions. Those guys have been with me through thick and thin! I think I relate to them because they came with their own names, unlike hunter and non-combat pets. I forgot what patch it was, but I was really upset when we got “upgraded” minions, and their names changed; I was quite elated when Blizzard decided to restore their old names!

Naltip my imp would have to see the most action with me, even though I know now that’s really noobish and I should be using my Felhunter.

I think my most appropriately named minion is my Succubus, Heltai. I always read it as Hentai. Deal with it!

ps. Sorry about the radio silence ; internet in the back-blocks of Texas is worse than Australia! Which is the answer for next week – 3 weeks holiday being the longest I’ve gone without playing.

pps Very quick catchup : People, people, warlock, Benediction (yes, on Ashayo v1), any where I win and don’t get constantly killed or stunlocked by a rogue (probably AV)

Audio

Juuno

Strumpet

Stelsewhere

Mystery Man

TWoWoW #23 The longest you have gone without playing.

Mentions

Blizzcon Tip #3

Eat outside the box – TRY to go away from walking distance to eat some SoCal favs.

i.e. Habit Burger (Santa Ana is closest). although Subway rulez

Molsan’s Blizzcon Eating Tip #3: ALMONDS

Music

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

Additional clips of music taken from “Daft Punk Get Lucky (Mexican Monkey Mix)” by Magic Finger

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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    • Bitter and Salty – Episode 42 – Blood Boiling Over

    Author: Bitter and Salty

    Jul 24

    In the forty-second World of Warcraft podcast episode, we double ding Double Agents and recap the greatest and worst challenge of all, our race to level 90, we examine the stress that the game can sometimes put on our in and out of game relationships, we reveal our slash played and gold made during the challenge, we explain what a monkey run is, we offer up another Blizzcon tip, and we try really, really hard to pick a favorite battleground for our Thirty Weeks of World of Warcraft.

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

    Worst challenge ever…

    It affected us negatively.

    Trying to find the positive.

    Remember, it’s just a game.

    The Negative Side of Relationships in WoW

    What negative experiences can carry over into IRL?

    Burnout on the game or the stress of maintaining real player relationships in an MMO?

    Call from Strumpet

    Blacksmithing and Whack-a-moe with Fishing pole

    Leveling Tips once 85

    In MoP you can pick herbs/mine your own ore from 1-600.

    Pre-Announcement Mini Board Bets

    Who has more gold on their person?

    Who has more/less /played?

    Call from Satyr

    Kicked Out of His Alliance Guild

    MONKEY RUNS!

    Stormstout Brewery up to first boss

    Snooter28: “I was rested when we started and was averaging 450-500k experience roughly every 3 minutes. With completing 20 runs an hour that is 10 million experience in an hour and 1 level up in a little under 2 hours.”

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NFX-nXL7q0

    Mini-Monkey Runs!!

    Blood DK is for Grind!

    Slingtail Treeleapers and Slingtail Mudseers in Jade Forest for The Path of War

    Mystery Caller

    We were doing leveling challenge wrong and unscientific like

    Molsan is wrong about comparing things to Brawler’s Guild

    Things Don’t Feel Legendary – Benediction

    Board Best Results

    Slash Played

    Gold in Bags

    Secret from Episode 40

    For the Alliance!!

    TWoWoW Week 21 – Favorite Battleground

    Molsan

    Vanilla Alterac Valley

    Sláinte

    They all suck

    Mentions

    Audio

    Juuno

    Strumpet

    Stelsewhere

    TWoWoW Week 22 – Your favorite Non-Combat or Hunter Pet

    Mentions

    Email

    Weian

    Molsan & Slainte,

    Bitter & Salty is, hands down, the most enjoyable WoW podcast out there, especially for those who play it “our way.”

    I’ve been playing since launch, most of the time in a friends & family guild, which has now dwindled to just two of us.  I miss the social aspect of a friendly, casual guild and your show has made me feel like I’m in <Bitter and Salty> even though I’m far away on Kirin Tor.  So like a few recent audience members, I’ve decided to start a character on Earthen Ring.  Looks like you need a pandaren warrior for the Stay Classy achievement, and that is a class I need to learn.  So I’ll leave my druids at home and Weian (Way-anne) would be thrilled for the opportunity.

    Also, I hate it when Mom & Dad fight about levelling challenges, so please hug a little bit in your next pre-show.

    Strumpet Makes a Best Friend

    Blizzcon Tip #2

    Drink water Always Be Drinking

    Bring water bottles… small ones

    Music

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

    Additional clips of music taken from “Daft Punk Get Lucky (Mexican Monkey Mix)” by Magic Finger

    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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    • Bitter and Salty – Episode 41 – Vampiric Blood Weekend

    Author: Bitter and Salty

    Jul 17

    In the forty-first World of Warcraft podcast episode, we share our thoughts on patch 5.4’s Proving Grounds, we explain how a weekend off can be both a good and bad thing when going for the Double Agent achievement, we still dislike cut scenes, we get double experience from cross-faction pet battles, we go over the rules for Achievement Roulette, we learn about Blood Tap for Death Knights, and we are all about our favorite loot for our Thirty Weeks of World of Warcraft.

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

    Patch 5.4: Proving Grounds

    Darren asks: What are your thoughts on the new Proving Grounds being add the game.

    Double Agent Challenge

    Call from Saytr69

    Weekend off… Did we survive?

    Leveling 80-81 with Pet Battles

    Cut Scenes

    Now I HAVE to watch them

    Twilight Highlands (Snooze) and MoP (Double Snooze)

    Achievement Roulette

    Rules coming soon!!

    TWoWoW This Week Your favorite or most sought after loot and whether you got it?

    Sláinte

    Deathcharger

    Molsan

    Quel’Serrar – http://www.wowhead.com/item=18348

    Quel’Serrar is the final quest reward from a questline that begins with <Foror’s Compendium of Dragon Slaying>, an item that can be rarely found in Dire Maul inside of Dusty Tomes and dropped from the various bosses.

    Audio

    Juuno

    Jellad

    Saintelsewhere

    MysteryMan

    Strumpet

    Ben

    Mentions


    https://twitter.com/GrimmAIE/status/356887199360356353


    TWoWoW Next Week – Your favorite Battleground.
    Mentions

    Email

    Rhett (and fiance, Sinamone)

    Hello gentleman,

    I’m writing in to report an achievement, my tauren hunter earned this weekend. He got the “Represent!” achievement for acquiring a tabard. Why is this a big deal? Because the tabard in question is the official Bitter & Salty guild tabard! Not only did I get my level 1 toon in the guild, my fiancé also joined as well. (She has a non-official achievement of her own to report as she, as a level 1 BLOOD ELF died to fire damage in Thunder Bluff, wrap your head around that one)

    Thanks to Strumpet for the invites!

    Have a great show guys!

    Guignol – B&S guild Earthen Ring US

    Here’s an explanation for Blood Tap and why its so useful for a blood DK.

    Almost all of your moves are dependent on one of three types of resource runes which gradually refresh over time.  There exists a fourth type of wildcard called a “death rune”.

    Blood Tap is used to game the resource system and give you instant death runes so you can cast the abilities you want to be casting like death strike, blood boil, or death siphon without waiting.

    Charge up the Blood Tap by casting  filler spells dependent on runic power like rune strike and death coil.  As soon as you have over 5 charges on your blood tap, smack that button and then presto you can then hit one of your nukes without waiting.

    By maximizing the amount  of times you can cast the spells which heal you, your DK can be well nigh invincible.  My lvl 80 DK has solo’d heroic 5 mans like Pit of Saron and a heavy use of blood tap to ready death strike and death siphon is my main survival tool.

    PS. also reforge everything you can to mastery once you start getting gear that can be reforged to really pimp your death strike’s absorption shield

    Blizzcon Tips

    Tip #1 of 15 : Bring your own coffee maker.

    Pet Giveaway

    Pandaren Fire Spirit – July 19th @ 10:00am

    Rules: Mention @bitterandsalty with pancakes, waffles, or french toast for an entry into the pet giveaway contest (US realms only).

    Music

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

    Additional clips of music taken from “Daft Punk Get Lucky (Mexican Monkey Mix)” by Magic Finger

    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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    • Bitter and Salty – Episode 40 – Trolling Bank Alt

    Author: Bitter and Salty

    Jul 10

    In the fortieth World of Warcraft podcast episode, we exclude ourselves from being included on getting legendary cloaks in patch 5.4, we disagree with the claim that WoW is only about end-game, we stalk, err, track each others Death Knight Double Agent leveling progress, we admit that we’re making gold to help us level but state that this is not a gold-making challenge, we use the gold we make in the race for the three-piece heirloom set, and we choose our favorite class for our Thirty Weeks of World of Warcraft.

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

    Legendary Cloaks

    Animations are cool… but interesting that they are required to defeat new world boss in 5.4

    The war to balance the including and excluding of players rages on

    Is WoW All About End-Game?

    We’re leveling and having fun but are we doing it wrong?

    Experience Tracking

    http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info14690-ArcanasExperienceBroker.html#info

    Alliance vs Horde PUGs

    Are they different or the same

    Interesting LFD stories

    Molsan’s DK kicked from Nexus group… So proud!

    N00b DK Tips

    Sláinte is still a n00b and needs tips. I just mash buttons!!

    Glyphs? What about em? Oh yeah… I guess I should buy some.

    WTH is Blood Tap

    Complaint that Leveling Challenge is Gold-Making Challenge

    Are we making gold or spending gold?

    The Heirloom Race

    Requirements and cost

    Dark Moon Faire Wheeeeeeeee… and ticket grinding?

    DMF: Use only 1 ticket and have unlimited buff…

    DMF Level 25 Pet Battle daily… getting over 30K experience per victory! Easy with SoC, Fel Flame, and Lil XT

    Call from Double Agent Strumpet

    TWoWoW Week 19 Favorite Class

    Sláinte – Was going to say Paladin, thought about it more and still says Paladin

    Molsan – Paladin… No, Death Knight. No, really, Paladin.

    Email

    Tanasttia from Earthen Ring, Alea Iactus E Pluribus Unum.

    I am woefully behind on the 30 Weeks of WoW.

    [But, I have a plan. I will start doing audio submissions this weekend, with one or two catch-ups each week as well as the current week’s question.]

    However, after finishing up Episode 39 this evening, I found I could not delay answering this newest question: Favorite Class.

    WARLOCK! without a doubt!

    First, warlocks have the coolest spell of all: Rain of Fire. Nothing is nearly as viscerally satisfying.

    I remember when my warlock Mairabelle was just a wee little nub, traversing the Barrens on foot, and a herd of gazelle, mostly fawns, came bounding by. Without a moment’s hesitation, I dropped my Rain of Fire on these innocents and immediately fell in love with my class.

    Second, warlocks are intimately connected with the lore in a way that surpasses all other classes (except maybe druids, but of course they suck). Warlocks are at the heart of the initial conflicts of Warcraft.

    Third, warlocks are an “underground class” (similar to rogues, but yeah, rogues also suck). The trainers are usually hidden away, and some of the initial class quests talk about how warlocks are despised by the Warchief yet tolerated in small numbers.

    Fourth, they’ve had some of the best class quests in the game, to get the mount, to get the minions, etc. Those have been removed, but now we’ve got the green fire quest, so Yeah!

    Fifth, well, there’s too much awesomeness to explain. Overall, they’re fascinating lore-wise and they have a huge toolbox!

    (and yes it kind of ticks me off to hear someone talk about a one-button warlock rotation… ahem.)

    Audio

    Hauster

    Strumpet

    Jerome

    Mentions

    TWoWoW Week 20  Your favorite or most sought after loot and whether you got it?

    Mentions

    Email 

    Good afternoon gentleman!

    I just wanted to say that I really thoroughly enjoy the podcast you guys produce every week. I hadn’t heard of it until a little while back Koltrane had mentioned you guys on Convert to Raid, and I’m glad he did. You guys have quickly become one of the top 3 favorite podcasts that my fiance and I listen to. I haven’t made it through all your back episodes yet, but hopefully by the end of the week I will have made it through all 39 shows. So I just wanted to say keep up the good work, I look forward to each episode, it’s definitely more enjoyable than mining my own ore.

    I did have one question. What does it take to join the fabled “Bitter & Salty” guild? Just a little backstory, my friends and I have played WoW since launch, though we did take a break for 6 months to try the new Star Wars MMO. When we came back, our old guild had pretty much died out and we decided to join the Convert to Raid guys on Aerie Peak. This was a huge change as we had all been Horde only for 7-8 years. While I love the CTR guild, I do miss all things Horde-side, and have thought about starting a new tauren up on Earthen Ring. Not to play hardcore, but just to relax and enjoy the game in a casual, friendly guild and the ways you guys talk so well of your guildmates, well, it sounds like a guild I’d love to be in. So, is there a secret handshake? Do I need references to submit forms in triplicate? Do I just need to flat out bribe you with money?

    Thanks for your time guys!

    Rhett – CTR, Aerie Peak

    For the AlliHordeAnce!

    Pet Giveaway

    Pandaren Fire Spirit – July 19th @ 10:00am

    Rules: Mention @bitterandsalty with pancakes, waffles, or french toast for an entry into the pet giveaway contest (US realms only).

    Music

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

    Additional clips of music taken from “Daft Punk Get Lucky (Mexican Monkey Mix)” by Magic Finger

    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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    • Bitter and Salty – Episode 39 – Hardcore in 5.4

    Author: Bitter and Salty

    Jul 3

    In the thirty-ninth World of Warcraft podcast episode, we care a lot about the valor-to-justice point pricing changes to epic vendor items, we assure you that making bags is still a great way to make gold, we really get into leveling and share our initial stories from our race-to-ninety leveling challenge, we wonder why it’s so easy and difficult to join a guild, we run down various ways of getting bonus and rested XP, and for our Thirty Weeks of WoW, we share our best and worst of World of Warcraft.

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

    Time to Read the Patch Notes

    Items

    • Adjustments have been made to Mists of Pandaria faction quartermasters.

      • Epic quality (purple) Valor items sold by the Shado-Pan Assault now have their reputation requirements reduced to Friendly or below, and have their Valor Point cost reduced by 34%.

      • Epic quality (purple) Valor items sold by all other Mists of Pandaria faction quartermasters no longer have reputation requirements, and will now cost Justice Points instead of Valor.

      • Rare quality (blue) items have their Justice Point cost reduced by 75%.

      • No changes for items that require an Exalted reputation.

    • The conversion rate for Justice Points to Honor Points have changed. The conversion rate is now 500 Justice per 250 Honor (up from 375 Justice per 250 Honor).

    http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/10158897/54_PTR_Now_Live-7_1_2013

    Secret Gold-Making Tip

    Netherweave Bags – STILL MAKING GOLD

    Not a lot, but gold is gold.

    Sláinte’s Guild Bank Gold Donation

    How much did we make and why did this happen?!?

    42,732g

    Warlock n00b

    Level 69 and still learning, by not knowing WTF I am doing.

    Now I will ignore her

    Leveling Challenge – Week 1

    Molsan

    Death Comes From On High Quest: made me want to quit… Arcane eye “researching” the buildings

    WoW-Pro broken for DK starting zone!!

    Got immediate level 25 guild invite within 5 minutes… They won’t know what hit them.

    Getting into a Guild

    Got invite almost right away but nobody grats’ted my dings and the guild bank was locked down so I quit.

    Tried CtR… whispered a couple people about how to join. One person responded with the Web address… the other responded suggesting I join the channel “ctrlfo.” Sounds so familiar.

    Hellfire Ramparts run… We tanked, we DPS’d, we won!! #LetMeCheck

    Alliance side is confusing

    Secret weapons are secret!

    Sláinte

    Why I chose my toon name.

    Love starting Zone! Addon wasn’t broken

    Got Guild invite before I could turn in first quest (When in Doubt)

    Not checking GB… no time.

    Got grats on achieves but otherwise pretty quiet.

    LFD where Tank = Insta Queue.. LIES!!

    How to Get Bonus Experience

    Log out in an Inn

    Dark Moon Faire’s Wheeee buff

    Fire Festival pole dancing

    Call from Mystery Guy

    LFR moot and heroic scenarios

    Hardmode Scenarios are Hard

    Three noob melee in a heroic scenario is a recipe for disaster

    #TWoWoW Week 18 — Best and worst thing about World of Warcraft

    Molsan

    People

    Sláinte

    Best : Gameplay

    Worst : Bag UI, Voice Comm, Gnomes and Cut scenes

    Audio

    Donna Suggarz

    Hasteur

    Strumpet

    Jerome

    Jean

    Mentions

    EMAIL

    Hello Bitter & Salty darlings, Molsan and Slainte!

    In reference to the latest week I wanted to chime in real quick.  I play many different mmorpg’s so I had to really think about what it is that makes WoW different and has kept me in the game (other than the amazing people who play it.)

    I decided that my favorite thing about WoW is its depth and variety of gameplay…because World of Warcraft has been around so long Blizzard has been able to enrich its game like no other, in my opinion.  With patches, expansions and time, it’s created a game that provides multiple ways to level, many things to do at end game and a plethora of things to do in between.  We have questing, dungeons, pvp, raids, battlegrounds, pet battles, crafting (including fishing, cooking, etc), archaeology, guilds, transmogrification, ranching, dailies, weeklies, LFR (and flex-raiding coming soon) and more!  They really have listened to their player base and continue to improve our game.

    Now for my least favorite thing…it’s a much simpler answer…hehe…I hate the travel system in WoW!  It’s a damn waste of time having to ride birds and whatnot to get from one place to another, and I long for the day they finally get rid of this out-dated system.  Waiting an hour to hearth is another waste of my time.  Give me a system like the one in Guild Wars 2, where I open my map and with the click of a button, I’m where the action is…that’s where I want to be, killing and looting and not finding something else to do in the RL while I wait for my tired, old bird to fly across Azeroth.  😉

    Thank you for the show!  And thanks for hanging out with us on Friday night, Slainte!  =D

    Your friend,

    Juuno of Korialstrasz

    #TWoWoW Week 19 — Favorite Class

    Call from Jean

     

    Mentions

    Pet Giveaway

    Landro’s Lil’ XT – July 5th @ 10:00am

    Rules: Mention @bitterandsalty and say hello to @SaltySlainte for an entry into the pet giveaway contest (US realms only).

    Music

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

    Additional clips of music taken from “Sabotage” by Beastie Boys

    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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