Countdown To Classic

Welcome to the WoW Classic podcast where it's not my opinion that counts - but yours! Listen in each episode as Josh sits down for lengthy chats with passionate gamers, devs and listeners. Today, we discuss the recent mention of potential racial ability changes in WOTLK Classic with long time Countdown favourites Fahq and Hunk, as well as competing at the highest level in raid content with Calamit...

Welcome to the WoW Classic podcast where it's not my opinion that counts - but yours! Listen in each episode as Josh sits down for lengthy chats with passionate gamers, devs and listeners. Today, we speak once again with Caranthir, from the guild Welcome, all about Sunwell Plateau.  Listen in as we go through the ins and outs of the raid encounters and how the community might handle the step up in...

Welcome to the gaming podcast where it's not my opinion that counts - but yours! Listen in each episode as Josh sits down for lengthy chats with passionate people about the things we love. Today, I gather 12 members of the Countdown listener base to go back and forth on the big issue of LFD in Wrath Classic.  Two teams, six speakers each, and many, many questions presented in Presidential Debate f...

Welcome to the gaming podcast where it's not my opinion that counts - but yours! Listen in each episode as Josh sits down for lengthy chats with passionate people about the things we love. Today, Josh is lucky enough to sit down with two MMO lead devs, as we kick off with WoW Classic's Brian Birmingham to talk about the announcement of Wrath Classic, followed by Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen's Chri...

Welcome to the gaming podcast where it's not my opinion that counts - but yours! Listen in each episode as Josh sits down for lengthy chats with passionate people about the things we love. Today, The Starting Zone's Jason Lucas returns to regale us with all the retail talk you could ever want about the speculation surrounding the next expansion reveal on April 19.  Listen in and the two J's dive i...

Welcome to the gaming podcast where it's not my opinion that counts - but yours! Listen in each episode as Josh sits down for lengthy chats with passionate people about the things we love. Today, it's part two of the epic chat I had with North about the state of Classic, as we rip into a huge back and forth on GDKP's, and how they've changed the landscape of WoW and, potentially, future MMORPG's....

Welcome to the gaming podcast where it's not my opinion that counts - but yours! Listen in each episode as Josh sits down for lengthy chats with passionate people about the things we love. Today, I sit down with North for part one of an epic four hour chat we had about the state of affairs with Classic at the moment, covering everything from guilds and logs, to Wrath and the April 19 event. Be sur...

Welcome to the gaming podcast where it's not my opinion that counts - but yours! Listen in each episode as Josh sits down for lengthy chats with passionate people about the things we love. Today, I fanboy out with a new content creator who I've been watching a bunch lately as Subtle joins me to chat all about ZA.  Listen in as we go over the raid in general, covering bosses and trash, while also g...

Welcome to the gaming podcast where it's not my opinion that counts - but yours! Listen in each episode as Josh sits down for lengthy chats with passionate people about the things we love. Today, Ayle and I sit down for a chat amongst mates about the state of play in TBC.  I brought 15 topics to the table and we zip through them in 5 minutes each, lightning round style, in an homage to Pardon The...

Welcome to the gaming podcast where it's not my opinion that counts - but yours! Listen in each episode as Josh sits down for lengthy chats with passionate people about the things we love. Today, we have the pleasure of being joined once again by the amazing Shawn Carnes, who holds court in a gaming history lesson and talks us through the early days of Wizards of the Coast, and along the path to t...

Welcome to the gaming podcast where it's not my opinion that counts - but yours! Listen in each episode as Josh sits down for lengthy chats with passionate people about the things we love. Today, I grab Hunk to have a casual chat about all this Lost Ark madness and yell like an old man about paying for free games.  We also pull in the former GM of accomplished Classic Oceanic guild Bunnings Wareho...

Welcome to the gaming podcast where it's not my opinion that counts - but yours! Listen in each episode as Josh sits down for lengthy chats with passionate people about the things we love. Today, we go back through the Dark Portal - again! I've come crawling back to TBC like the cheap sack of shit that I am, and what a time to do so! Listen in as Ayle, Axtel, Bawlsosteel, & Naismith join me to dis...

Welcome to the gaming podcast where it's not my opinion that counts - but yours! Listen in each episode as Josh sits down for lengthy chats with passionate people about the things we love. Today, I bring you a pod that was eight months in the making, as we bring back the amazing Chimly, to break down the musical nuts and bolts of TBC.  Listen in as we conduct the deepest of dives on the fantastic...

Welcome to the gaming podcast where it's not my opinion that counts - but yours! Listen in each episode as Josh sits down for lengthy chats with passionate people about the things we love. Today, I track down someone who camped me in Classic and hash out a great PvP misunderstanding.  We also talk Mage BiS in SoM! People behind the PvP - 2:05 Mage BiS - 58:00 Support Josh & Countdown today over at...

Welcome to the gaming podcast where it's not my opinion that counts - but yours! Listen in each episode as Josh sits down for lengthy chats with passionate people about the things we love. Today, I monologue for an hour on my initial thoughts and experiences with Season of Mastery, touching on the population as well as the news.  Then, we turn to a couple of BiS list chats re: Resto Druids and Hol...

Welcome to the gaming podcast where it's not my opinion that counts - but yours! Listen in each episode as Josh sits down for lengthy chats with passionate people about the things we love. Today, we sit down for an interview with none other than the head of Classic himself, Brian Birmingham.  Listen in as Josh puts all the important questions we've had for Blizzard to Brian. 0:00 - Important Intro...

Welcome to the gaming podcast where it's not my opinion that counts - but yours! Listen in each episode as Josh sits down for lengthy chats with passionate people about the things we love. Today, we chat about a variety of questions surrounding the anticipation behind launch day of WoW Classic Season of Mastery. Listen in as we discuss on Countdown To Classic with guests Nano, NoHitJerome, and Nor...

Welcome to the gaming podcast where it's not my opinion that counts - but yours! Listen in each episode as Josh sits down for lengthy chats with passionate people about the things we love. Today, we go in depth on the onslaught of SoM news we got on Friday with Ayle, Defcamp, Melderon, Duranasaur, and Geordyn, as well as having a bit of fun with Roo and Hunk and chatting about the kinds of people...

Welcome to the gaming podcast where it's not my opinion that counts - but yours! Listen in each episode as Josh sits down for lengthy chats with passionate people about the things we love. Today, listen in as Whats, Hunk and I go over the changes that we were seeing on the fly as people were tearing through the revamped version of Molten Core we're getting for Season of Mastery. Molten Changes w/...

Welcome to the gaming podcast where it's not my opinion that counts - but yours! Listen in each episode as Josh sits down for lengthy chats with passionate people about the things we love. Today, we discuss the huge mage/dungeon changes incoming for Season of Mastery and whether or not Blizzard has gone far enough, or too far, in attempting to kill off mage boosting/farming. Wanna Root? w/ Markyma...

Welcome to the gaming podcast where it's not my opinion that counts - but yours! Listen in each episode as Josh sits down for lengthy chats with passionate people about the things we love. Today, we make a delayed check in on how things are going with Phase 2 of TBC thus far with the raiding scene and more with previous guest of the show, Yolo. After that, the show goes down a brave, new path by n...

Welcome to the gaming podcast where it's not my opinion that counts - but yours! Listen in each episode as Josh sits down for lengthy chats with passionate people about the things we love. Today, we dive deeper on the Classic Fresh news as we get a new blue post covering the design philosophies behind the Season of Mastery and an announcement on how loot will be handled.  Will this lead to a diffe...

Welcome to the gaming podcast where it's not my opinion that counts - but yours! Listen in each episode as Josh sits down for lengthy chats with passionate people about the things we love. Today, we got some huge news about WoW Classic Fresh servers, or should I say the 'WoW Classic Season of Mastery'.  Listen in as myself, North, Duranasaur, and some guest callers break down the news and discuss...

Welcome to the gaming podcast where it's not my opinion that counts - but yours! Listen in each episode as Josh sits down for lengthy chats with passionate people about the things we love. Today, I sit down with some musically inclined guests and compose the TBC playlist to end all TBC playlists.  Need some tunes to melt faces to in SSC? Need some bangers to mash with in the Arena? We've got you c...

Welcome to the gaming podcast where it's not my opinion that counts - but yours! Listen in each episode as Josh sits down for lengthy chats with passionate people about the things we love. Today,  Madseason & Chill - 2:10 Making JRPG's & Quartet w/ Something Classic Games - 1:22:25 Support the Quartet Kickstarter campaign here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/somethingclassic/quartet-0 Follow...