The Instance #116 - More Random Pornography Inside Elevators
Posted on August 7th, 2008 by The Instance Podcast
Big News Of The Week
Blizzard Really Wants You To Multibox
Really. So much so, that they announced this week that the incentives for new multiboxers are about to go through the roof. It’s called “Refer-A-Friend”, but let’s face it, you’re your own best friend, aren’t you? What would it take to get you to open a 2nd account? How about an exclusive zebra mount? How about TRIPLE the xp gains? How about buy 2 get 1 free levels? We’ll even throw in a free 30-day credit for your original account!
Rumors And Scuttlebutt
Finally, An End To The Begging
We can only hope that Tigole was serious this week when he posted in a thread on the official forums that Blizzard had received it’s 1-Billionth request to make low-level quest-givers trackable, and intends to do just that in the next build of the Wrath beta. That’s right, only 4 years or so after the reputation system made that a highly requested item, Blizzard claims that they will take action.
Game On, Comrade!
Beginning yesterday, August 6th, Blizzard released the new Russian version of World of Warcraft and Burning Crusade, complete with a Russian-speaking support team. The game will be sold in DVD and CD versions and will include 1 month and 14 days of free play time respectively. There will also be a special Russian pricing plan starting at 399 rubles per a month for a 1-month subscription. In addition, current European account holders will have the option of playing on the new Russian servers after downloading the localization pack. There will also be free transfers to the Russian servers for a limited time, and the opportunity to convert a European account to a Russian account.
Town Cryer
Chorr from Caelstraz (Oceanic) writes:
I play a level 70 Tauren Warrior. I am grossly anti-social in the game and have a young daughter that i look after all day both of these thing really limit my ability to raid and group. i have been a part of a couple of raiding guilds but i can’t really commit to times etc because of the above reasons. To cut a long story short i’ve been trying to get the full set of warrior PvP epics from Arena Season 2 through the battleground system is it possible to successfully solo as a DPS warrior with this gear?
Fenwar of the Guild writes:
I was wondering if Blizzard has ever considered creating a spirit mount. This mount would only be usable when you die and only to help you get back to your corpse. For those few times you wipe out and don’t have anybody to resurrect you it would be nice not to have to run all the way from the graveyard.
Drop Of The Week
Warcraft Legends, Vol. 1
It’s the first of a four part graphic novel series from TokyoPop. Here’s the Amazon page where you can order it for approximately $8.79. What these books will each be is a compilation of stories from such writers as Richard Knaak and Jae Hwan-Kim, who have turned out previous works for Blizzard. It’s 192 pages long, and it’s got a mean lookin’ orc on the cover!
Additional show content provided by Patrick from France, Mean Gene and the outstanding Instance Community.
Special thanks to TypeFrag and Godaddy for sponsoring this episode.
The Instance #115 - En Español, But Not Really
Posted on July 26th, 2008 by The Instance Podcast
Big News Of The Week
Blizzard Goes To Comic-Con
Blizzard joined their partners UpperDeck, DC Unlimited, Wildstorm and TokyoPop at the San Diego Comic-Con this weekend, where their relationship with each was highlighted, the future of each line was elaborated, and attendees asked questions about topics that had nothing to do with comics, figurines or the trading card game.
Rumors And Scuttlebutt
Questions and Answers From The Comic-Con Panel
There was a Blizzard dev present at the joint panel yesterday, and the audience wanted to know about the future of World Of Warcraft. Nothing surprising was forthcoming, but a couple of the exchanges caught our attention.
World Of Warcraft: En Español
Blizzard launched the Spanish language version of WoW in Mexico, Chile and Argentina this week, complete with launch events in Mexico that included developer signings, a leveling contest and giveaways. The new Latin American realms are played in Spanish, and here’s the new Spanish WoW official site, o nuestra página oficial.
Can’t Play The Beta? Watch Someone Else Do It
The site WOTLKwiki.info has been presumably the most popular site on the net among those looking for expansion information for the last couple of months, but they’re really out-doing themselves now. Here’s a link to their new TV page, where you can go choose from one of four channels of streaming video, if they’re currently online, and watch along as one of four fairly regular beta players experience the game.
Town Cryer
Gararon writes:
I recently started a Dwarf Hunter, however it feels like an eternity of grind from level 9 to 10 in the Dwarf area seeing as I’m overpowered quite easily and I can only find one quest that’s pretty difficult in my area. I was wondering, is this normal for hunters before they get a pet and do you have any recommendations to help this process go quicker/less grind like?
Icesnake Frostfyre writes:
I’ve got simple macro that will let you choose your mount randomly from a pool of, potentially, about 20 (if you carry that many in your bags). Link to full post here.
Drop Of The Week
How To Change Your Startup Music
It’s an oldie, but a goodie. Friend of The Instance PT1994 posted a full explanation of the steps you need to take to make WoW play “Back In Black” when you start the game, rather than the usual start up music.
Additional show content provided by Patrick from France, Mean Gene and the outstanding Instance Community.
Special thanks to TypeFrag and Godaddy for sponsoring this episode.
The Instance #114: “Touch the Chinchilla!”
Posted on July 21st, 2008 by The Instance Podcast
Big News Of The Week
Wrath Of The Lich King Beta Is Underway
Blizzard announced today that Beta Invitations are going out via e-mail to randomly chosen entrants for the Beta to the 2nd expansion of World of Warcraft. Here’s the page where you can still sign up for the beta, and here’s a separate link to the official Beta FAQ, and we’re here to run down the answers to your biggest questions about the biggest beta in town.
Blizzard Launches Achievements System for WoW
According to the WoW official site, “These self-contained goals will offer new challenges, satisfy goal-oriented players, allow others to see your accomplishments in World of Warcraft — and are just plain fun.” Here’s the link to Blizzard’s mini-site for the new Achievement system, and we run down a quick assessment for the system in the show.
Rumors And Scuttlebutt
Melyanna’s Important Question, Live
Tell us about the most important item coming in the next expansion…
Check Out The Hot New Emotes
As the rumor currently goes, there are a total of 81 new commands being added to the game with the 2nd expansion. The WOTLK Wiki has a page of them, and it’s huge!
Town Cryer
Live Questions With Samantha Jane and Bronco
also,
James J. writes:
I play a orc hunter on Muradin server and i just had a question about twinks. I was wondering what your guys opion about twinks are. I have one 19 rouge twink myself and enjoy playing him but when you’re playing a non twink character it seems to take some fun out of the BG when your constantly getting owned by twinks.
Additional show content provided by Patrick from France, Mean Gene and the outstanding Instance Community.
Special thanks to TypeFrag and Godaddy for sponsoring this episode.
The Instance #113 - “There’s talent in them thar trees!”
Posted on July 12th, 2008 by The Instance Podcast
Big News Of The Week
Wowhead Says WOTLK Talent Trees Are Fair Game
This week, leading WoW database site Wowhead decided that enough time has passed since the Blizzard edict that unreleased content not be published by unofficial sources. It may have been quite recent, but there was a little get-together called the Worldwide Invitational since then, and Wowhead figured that with all the discussion of upcoming talent tree changes that took place at the WWI, the ban from Blizzard no longer has any teeth. So here you go.
Rumors And Scuttlebutt
Authenticators For Sale. Just Kidding. But Now They Are. Sold Out.
When the Blizzard keygen authenticator went on sale two weeks ago, unprecedented demand led to a fully-expected sell-out. In the original batch, authenticators were still available at the Blizzard store on the afternoon of July 1st, when Randydeluxe purchased two. Since the sold-out status of the devices took hold the next day, however, it’s been anybody’s guess as to what you can do to get one.
Northrend Flying Mount Rumors Made Official
Blizzard CM Bornakk entered a discussion this week on the WoW forums with a clarification of the current plan for your flying mount in the 2nd expansion content in WoW. And there’s the first detail - your current flying mount (or mounts) will be usable in Northrend. You’re just going to have to wait until level 77 to train skill level 425. And there’s also the matter of cost, but Blizzard hasn’t figured that out yet. Bornakk promises that it won’t be very high.
Someone Finally Listened To The Instance From Two Years Ago
It’s been that long since we began calling for a Murloc plush doll with sound, and finally, it’s coming from play.com. No, it doesn’t look very plush, and yes, at current exchange rates it’s going to run near $50.00, but that’s not the point.
Town Cryer
Baldur from Scarlet Crusade writes:
I’ve been playing for quite a while now and only recently advanced a character’s Enchanting skill up to the near 300 range. The problem I’ve found is that when BC came out, Blizzard took many items that would have (pre-expansion) DE’d into Greater Eternal Essence and Illusion Dust and made them DE into the higher skill level Greater Planar Essence and Aracane Dust. Thus I’ve been having a hard time now (even though I’m now level 67) finding a good place (even if it means solo’ing pre-expansion instances) to get consistent drops that will DE into these to advance my skill.
Drop Of The Week
The Instance Interview
Also:
The Guild DVD
And we have a CONTEST! A winner is announced, and a new contest starts next week!
Additional show content provided by Patrick from France, Mean Gene and the outstanding Instance Community.
Special thanks to TypeFrag and Godaddy for sponsoring this episode.
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Posted on July 9th, 2008 by The Instance Podcast
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