Bitter and Salty – Episode 37 – Comic Sans Jousting
Posted by Bitter and SaltyJun 19
In the thirty-seventh World of Warcraft podcast episode, we play how we want to play and hit the buttons we want to hit (even if it’s one), Sláinte switches over to ElvUI, we fly through patch 5.4’s new raid, The Siege of Orgrimmar, we level Blacksmithing with Ghost Iron Bars until we realize that’s dumb, we convert the super-secret rare MoP gear market into a Molsan Method list for you, we speculate on how the in-game economy will be affected by Virtual Realms, we reveal our favorite Wrath of the Lich King dungeon for our Thirty Weeks of World of Warcraft, and we challenge each other to become double agents.
Bitter and Salty is brought to you weekly by Molsan and Sláinte.
DPS
Is it gear, spec/class, rotation… or is it the basic ability of hitting buttons correctly?
Warlock N00bs
What is all this?
ElvUI
Switching over to it… on a couple toons.
Bitten’s SpellFlash Addon
https://sites.google.com/site/bittensspellflash/faq
The Siege of Orgrimmar
The new raid… are you excited?
Blacksmith leveling with GIO only
Ummm yeah.
Molsan Method Update
Realm selection now available
New realms added: Draenor, Kul Tiras, Proudmoore, Terokkar… even Bladefist
Added new list for tracking MoP rare leveling equipment
Virtual Servers
Koltrane from CtR wants to know!
AH PvP
Double Agent Challenge?
Alliance Death Knight race to 90? Okay, sure.
Pet Battles
Dear Bitter and Salty,
After listening to your show the past two weeks, I finally took the time to write in about leveling Battle Pets quickly. Much like you as I was progressing through the Trainers through the various zones and needed to level up other pet families then the ones I had at level 25. I ran into the same issue in trying to identify a way to level a pet up rapidly and ran into the same suggestions of doing the dailies, but as you are aware when you are at that point you can’t use that process fully until you’ve beat the trainers you need to level pets for!
So I stumbled across one comment about taking your low level pet and putting it in a team with two other 25’s and taking it to Dragonblight in Northrend. At all of the dragon skeletons throughout the zone there are Dragonbone Hatchlings (http://www.wowhead.com/npc=62852) They are in the area in an abundant amount and hit fairly weakly and respawn fairly quickly. So if you are looking for a rather fast way to level up a low level this is one way. Keep in mind this will get fairly mind numbingly boring very quickly considering you will be facing the same pets over and and over.
With that in mind I wanted to find another way that wasn’t so grindy and so boring. So here is where I get to the “secret”. With your leveling pet in the first slot, (get it up to level 3 at least, so it isn’t one shot), go around the world and hunt all those other pets you know your OCD is telling you to collect. Let that leveling pet take a hit or make a hit, and then rotate it out. Rinse and repeat as you travel around the world trying to collect rares. So kill two birds (two dragonkins, whatever) with one stone, level a pet and collect all the things!
I found in one weekend of moderate playing, while waiting for Raid Finder queues to pop I was able to level at least one of every pet family to max level and not feel like I was fighting the same stuff over and over to the point of insanity. Meanwhile I was collecting all the pets I didn’t have and picking up the rares.
I know you also touched briefly on this but if there is a certain pet family you need, hop over to wowhead.com orwarcraftpets.com and see if there is a high level version in a Northrend/Cata/Pandaria zone you can hunt and capture a rare that you don’t have. When you capture them they will be around level 22-23 saving you a lot of leveling. I distinctly remember needing like two turtles since I had none anywhere past level 3 and was able to pick up two I still needed to capture in MoP zones saving me a ton of time.
As always great job with the show and I look forward to the next one! Good luck and good hunting!
Tyraine – Human (Hooman) Warrior – Terokkar – US
TWoWoW Week 16
Molsan — I cheated and asked Blizzard CMs Zarhym and Netherea, but I’ll go with Utgarde Pinnacle.
Sláinte — The Frozen Halls ( all 3 ) FoS, PoS, HoR
Mentions
https://twitter.com/TradeChat/status/347182494048731136
https://twitter.com/Wkbrowning1970/status/347182528400072704
@Molsan @Nethaera @CM_Zarhym @bitterandsalty The Nexus, even though that's all I ever got in LFD.
— Ben Bumhoffer (@BentheMage) June 19, 2013
@Molsan @Nethaera @CM_Zarhym @bitterandsalty enjoyed halls of lightning most
— Ally (@Allayva) June 19, 2013
@Molsan @Nethaera @CM_Zarhym @bitterandsalty Culling of Stratholme
— Lil' Transmogger (@Syngry) June 19, 2013
@Molsan @Nethaera @CM_Zarhym @bitterandsalty i always loved Utgarde keep for my random lfd
— Donnie (@Toxify_) June 19, 2013
@Molsan Halls of reflection, followed by Culling of Stratholme.
— J M Dudley (@nighttimeapp) June 19, 2013
@Molsan @Nethaera @CM_Zarhym @bitterandsalty Culling of Stratholme
— Jamie Miller (@Szefir) June 19, 2013
@Molsan @Nethaera @CM_Zarhym @bitterandsalty Halls of Refelections
— Ross Bass (@Insaneyall) June 19, 2013
@Molsan @CM_Zarhym @Nethaera @bitterandsalty Halls of Reflection!
— Phil (@stoppableforce) June 19, 2013
@Molsan @CM_Zarhym @Nethaera @bitterandsalty Azjol nerub was a lot of fun. Quick but challenging at the time.
— Lefty (@lefty1981) June 19, 2013
@joypenny
Catch up Wk 15:
Vuhdo. Oh my goodness. It started out years ago as just something to make healing easier, and now, it has morphed into my entire casting interface, no matter who I’m playing. I love that I can bind anything (spells, potions, bandages) to my mouse. And that there’s a whole area of “hostile” spell bindings for fighting. Top that off with complete customization, auto buff renewal, and profiles I can save and load throughout my acct… And you have one satisfied caster.
Wk: 16
Violet Hold
I just love it! As far as the Wrath Dungeons go, it’s totally my favorite. I like that it’s in Dalaran, it’s all in one room, and there’s that gamble on who you’ll fight. Its quick, easy, and totally different than any other Instance I’ve done.
Audio
Ben
Strumpet
Ashayo
Jerome
TWoWoW Week 17 – Your favorite profession
Audio
Call from Strumpet
Call from Random Guy
Mentions
@bitterandsalty I soloed SSC on my feral drood last week and took Lady Vash down. HATED IT! HATED IT! HATED IT! Lurker was easy though.
— Matt Burlingame (@mattburlingame) June 16, 2013
So tonight was the first go with all the new addons from @bitterandsalty and I think I need an in depth tutorial for each of them. Holy Crap
— Joy Binkley (@Joypenny) June 16, 2013
@bitterandsalty ding!! 65 on my Elemental Shammy, Vera
— Joy Binkley (@Joypenny) June 15, 2013
Just dinged L90 on my rogue, 5 toons to 90, and Double Agent (CC @bitterandsalty
— Hasteur (@Hasteur) June 14, 2013
Thanks to my guild friends Molsan and Slainte for their bday wishes for my daughter. My vote for best WoW podcast! @bitterandsalty
— Ahrag (@AhragCC) June 14, 2013
@bitterandsalty I just got this, had to share. pic.twitter.com/jrdQmwtHMi
— Benjamin Redington (@benredington) June 12, 2013
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
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http://twitter.com/molsan
http://twitter.com/saltyslainte
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2 comments
Comment by Joanna on June 20, 2013 at 5:14 am
I’m going to listen to this tonight while playing because you touch on a lot of relevant topics to me, but without listening, I’d say that dps is about spell rotation, that can end up with a lot of button hitting when the going gets tough. If it’s possible to soulstone a boss well I have possible done that, as well as hitting and equipping my fishing rod out of confusion, or perhaps building a cooking fire.
The Warlock noob. Hmm 5 years playing one and I’m an expert at questing, but put me in a raid and I’m like a toddler on a day out with the grown ups.
As for elvUI. I hated it at first and changed back to Blizzards default, but for me elvUI grows on you, until you just can’t do without it.
Looking forward to having a listen.
Comment by Katua on June 20, 2013 at 2:26 pm
Really enjoying the podcast – this is my first listen. 🙂
ElvUI and other bag modes – if you go into the configuration for elvUI (/elvUI), you can go to bags and disable the bag addon in ElvUI.
This didn’t affect my OneBag installation at all – just kept me from displaying 4 bags at the bank!