The Feed - 20th May

So this has been an interesting week indeed! Northern Ireland seems to have a bit of a heat wave, but regardless we got quite a bit done. First, Discord! It is now all up and running over at http://www.discord.gg/bellular. The Patreon bot should automatically give you the correct permissions, but throw me a DM if it doesn't.

So the first thing is a new type of video. I'm going a primer on Argus for Patch 7.3. The idea is that it'll get everyone up to speed on what they need to know to fully enjoy the premise of the patch. It's written & I'm working on the footage capture now. Should be out next week. It has got me thinking - would a Tomb of Sargaras primer video be interesting? It dawned on me that most of the people who play WoW haven't played Warcraft 3. The Tomb is pretty significant through the RTS games, so perhaps that'd be worth doing?

I've also been working on the Cataclysm cut content video. It's a pretty fascinating topic actually, especially when you look at how much foreshadowing there is with the Path of the Titans. Both the new talent system and Artifact Power are in there. Certainly odd to think that much of what we are dealing with now was originally tested out for Cataclysm, at least in terms of the design ideas.

The class review series continues to go well. Shamans are up next, probably near the start of next week. There was a slight delay because I halted the rogue one due to the heap of PTR changes for them. Overall I've been enjoying the shaman a lot more than I expected. Elemental is pretty damn awesome actually. Not the most crazy exciting gameplay wise, but I think all it's mechanics work really well, and the general utility is very nice. Coming from a hunter, having a short CD AOE stun is quite lovely! (Binding shot is 90s, iirc.

Enhancement is also great. Lots of good talent choices too, and the theme is once again nailed with it. The one thing that does trip me up is Restoration. I've enjoyed playing it, but I just don't feel at all confident with healers. From all that I read they are a really essential raid healer, with excellent AOE utility. So I think I just need to build up my confidence with it.

Past that I'm going to be attempting more HFC soloing soon. The reset problem with Gorefiend has been patched out, IIRC, so the entire instance should be clearable by a single player. I'll likely hop onto the 7.2.5 PTR so that I can try things out with the various legendaries, trinkets and sets that are on the test vendors.

So that's most of what there is to say about content. I'll write down our fun office adventures of the last few weeks soon. Quite the story as it turns out, but the ending is pretty sweet!