Titanforge WoW Podcast

This week we have three smaller topics - the first is the upcoming MDI Global Finals this Friday, Saturday, and Sunday over at https://www.youtube.com/warcraft - we have thoughts on the power levels of the teams based on the rules changes from last MDI! Our second topic is the Shadowlands Update put out yesterday, summarized here: https://www.wowhead.com/news=316765/shadowlands-developer-update-wi...

There are tremendously serious things going on in WoW this week and we're going to take this entire episode to discuss the specific situations that have come to light in the past week, and the general discrimination and enabling of horrific behavior that has run rampant in the gaming community forever. Come join our Discord: https://discord.gg/6BcJ3Tu Music: Take a Chance by Kevin MacLeod (incompe...

This week we have Complexity Limit's Xyronic on to discuss casting WoW events, such as the MDI or the Race to World First. Trell is busy moving, he'll be back next week! We also cover new datamining about Shadowlands Legendaries - check it out here: https://www.wowhead.com/news=316519/shadowlands-legendaries-possible-runeforged-powers-from-datamining Check out our Patreon at https://www.patreon.co...

Our hosts have recently created some videos about the future of mythic plus - Dratnos' on the Method channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxNCnH8bi34 and Tettles' on his own channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaitQbxFzN0 This week we're discussing those videos and some of the ideas we have for the future of Mythic Plus, as well as the future of Tyrannical and Fortified. Check out our Pat...

This week we have BDG's Sham AKA Naesem on the show to discuss his YouTube series, "Pugging my Way Up", where he takes a fresh character and pushes RaiderIO score in the group finder without any outside help. Here's a link to his channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTItcuMQBkgVI590y5J74ww Sham is an accomplished US 2nd raider and MDI veteran, and we also discuss the general state of Mythic P...

This week we're discussing how to push keys with a group of players, as that's something that we often take for granted! Here are some of the WeakAuras mentioned in the show - Morning's Dungeon Timers: https://wago.io/mphdDLXNp | BFA Targeted Spells: https://wago.io/BFADungeonTargetedSpells | Nnoggie's Party CDs: https://wago.io/PartyCDs Check out our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/titanforge...

This week's guest is Growl - find his stream here: https://www.twitch.tv/yumytv and his YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwxbtziyebIaVN2XS0wVITQ He's currently ranked #1 for Healers on RaiderIO in the US and has a bunch of insight for players seeking to improve and climb the leaderboards. We also cover the new corruption vendor briefly - something I'm sure we'll discuss more...

Here's the Wowhead post for Preach's interview with Morgan Day: https://www.wowhead.com/news=316016/gcd-covenant-utility-castle-nathria-shadowlands-interview-with-morgan-day-and-pr Our main theory topic this week is planning out your cooldowns for Mythic plus (it starts about 40 minutes in) - we cover Bloodlust, offensive cooldowns, and defensives! Check out our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/...

This week's show is all about optimizing your strategies against Awakened. Learn how best to handle each enemy when fighting them at their obelisk, what common mistakes to avoid, which enemies you can fight with which end bosses, and how to best manage those augmented boss fights. Check out our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/titanforge Come join our Discord: https://discord.gg/6BcJ3Tu Music: T...

Halls of Atonement is out on the beta now - hear about our thoughts and check out the Wowhead preview here: https://www.wowhead.com/news=312293/halls-of-atonement-shadowlands-alpha-dungeon-preview?webhook We also cover the MDI developments, the state of the tournament right now, some cool new pulls, and how you can use what people do in the MDI for your own purposes! Finally, we cover Zoltan's int...

The MDI is now well underway, with both regions having had their first cups in the past two weekends. We discuss those tournaments, the rules changes that have been made, the twitter poll deciding affixes for one of the maps, and the new metagame we're seeing compared to previous seasons. Mythic Ny'alotha has also seen significant nerfs to most bosses, although some of the changes have been a litt...

This week Trell (and Tettles' Webcam) are absent - hopefully they'll return soon! Here's the Torghast Preview posted by Blizzard recently - we're excited to have more to say about it after testing it on Alpha soon: https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-gb/news/23389553 Here's Tettles' Feedback post about the Necrotic Wake: https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/feedback-the-necrotic-wake-dungeon/490736/...

We're joined by Squishei of Wowhead (and Tettles' guild, Might) to discuss the huge dump of new information we've received about Shadowlands. We'd love to hear what you're excited about and if you share our concerns with the Covenant Abilities system. Trell is taking a few weeks off of the show due to the MDI, and that's also going to affect our timing (which is why this is coming out on a differe...

Main topic begins around 28 minutes in - before that, we cover MDI updates, and discuss the differences in the push week vs. bad week dynamic this season compared to previous seasons. This week we're covering how to best make use of your group's composition. If you have some off-meta specs in your group, we've covered some of the changes you can make to routes to play to their strengths, and some...

The site we used on this show to analyze the Mythic Plus Metagame was https://mplus.subcreation.net/all-affixes.html - it's a fantastic resource to look at mythic plus statistics, including to figure out what essences or talents are most popular for any given spec. We looked at those statistics and discussed which specs are performing well and why. In future episodes we'll take more of a look at t...

Essences have gone effectively Account Wide through a new currency, and the rules have been updated for which Essences are available for purchase: https://www.wowhead.com/news=311698/restrictions-removed-from-purchasing-role-specific-azerite-essences-with-echoes- Last weekend, Tettles casted and Dratnos and Trell competed in the Keystone Masters tournament. Find out our thoughts about the tourname...

This week we're joined by GM of poptart corndoG Jason to discuss BFA as a whole - the good, the bad, and the islands! Everything we could think of in PvE, both dungeons and raids, as well as character progression and itemization, is included - although we left out PvP as that's not the focus of our show. If you're a listener of our show, we'd love to hear from you so we can figure out what kind of...

This week we have AutomaticJak, healer in the guild Future and MDI Caster, on the show to talk about the playstyles of the six different healing specs in PvE right now. Next weekend there's the Keystone Masters tournament at twitch.tv/keystonemasters, which Jak and Tettles will be casting and Dratnos (on team Account Wide Essences) and Trell (on team Inertia) will be competing in! We will still be...

We're joined by special guest Versify, a Rogue player who is currently near the top of the RaiderIO Mythic Plus leaderboards, to talk all about advanced Awakened strategies. Learn about specific strategies to save time pathing through the dungeon, and when you can fight certain Awakened minibosses with end bosses of dungeons. Check out our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/titanforge Come join ou...

Class balance changes have been announced (and we discuss them in the show): https://www.wowhead.com/news=311305/upcoming-patch-8-3-class-balance-changes-for-february-25th We've also learned about some Horrific Vision changes: https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/horrific-visions-updates-coming-with-weekly-maintenance/449849 Our main topic this week is the playstyles of the six different Tank s...

Ion Hazzikostas recently gave an interview to Warcraft Radio, focused on the Race to World First and the issues surrounding it. You can check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5X48WSPCi2I We also saw a set of Awakened and Dungeon nerfs - here are the Awakened nerfs: https://www.wowhead.com/news=311176/patch-8-3-hotfixes-for-february-13th-awakened-obelisk-creature-nerfs Finally, the new...

Ion Hazzikostas recently gave an interview to Warcraft Radio, focused on the Race to World First and the issues surrounding it. You can check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5X48WSPCi2I We also saw a set of Awakened and Dungeon nerfs - here are the Awakened nerfs: https://www.wowhead.com/news=311176/patch-8-3-hotfixes-for-february-13th-awakened-obelisk-creature-nerfs Finally, the new...

A few days ago, Complexity Limit won World First in Mythic Ny'alotha, returning the title to North America for the first time in eight years. Two of their raiders, Preheat and Xyronic, join us this week to tell the story of the guild starting from its humble beginnings as a 2 day guild in Warlords of Draenor. This week's show was recorded with a different setup than usual, we'll be back next week...

We're reviewing the Mythic mechanics of the first 10 bosses of Ny'alotha this week, in anticipation of the Race to World First, which both Tettles and Dratnos will be casting over at twitch.tv/complexity starting with the weekly reset until N'Zoth dies. Because of that, we will be taking probably 2 weeks off before returning with Episode 35 once the Race is over. Be sure to check out last week's s...

This week, special guest Squishei from Wowhead joins us to help preview the upcoming Ny'alotha raid (with a focus on Normal and Heroic difficulties). We've also covered our general thoughts on Patch 8.3 so far, and next week we'll be back with a show about the upcoming Mythic race (before taking a week or two off so that Tettles and Dratnos can cast it!) If you want to see any of the fight videos...