Episode 21 – Undermine, You Get My Drift?

Show Notes 

Welcome to Episode 21! – 8:58         

Busy world in life, in game, and in podcast.  Lots of 11.1 going on!

“What have you done lately?” – 16:17

• Love is in the Air recap


• Library in our Player Housing when?


• Barely hitting the 2000 points for the Trading Post


• An unexpected and difficult adventure to earn the Troll Heritage Armor

Main Topic:  First Laps Around Undermine and Patch 11.1 – 36:03

• First thoughts of Undermine and connections to the OG Goblin starting zone of Kezan


• First playthrough NOT on my Night Elf Druid main, Human Paladin instead on a whim


• Opening cinematic and Orweyna do tie Undermine to TWW storyline


• Missing voice lines for Renzik the Shiv? https://gamerant.com/world-of-warcraft-patch-11-1-renzik-voice-acting-missing/


• Also, run, don’t walk to check out the new audio short story, Tipping Point! https://worldofwarcraft.blizzard.com/en-us/media/audio/Warcraft%20Short%20Story


• Undermine the city – too much straight story; incredible detail; DRIVE is tricky at first but growing on me; SCRAP piles are fine; doing the jobs in DRIVE is a bit of a time sink; reached 2/6 storylines; one Delve down, one to go; skybox is hilarious; Bilge Rat Swabbie’s Brush mop transmog acquired; what is CHETT and how do I get the amazing double rocket-pack?

Drink of the Month – 1:13:30

Is this a dry town?  Went with an IRL Old Fashioned instead.

Question of the Month – 1:16:18

Results - What should the next playable race be?

15 races suggested, but the top three vote getters were Naga, Arakkoa, and, by a landslide, Sethrak!

New question:  What has you excited about WoW?  For me, it is story and story delivery.

 News – 1:24:52         

• Warband camp scenes and ability to create new camps now available


• 30th Anniversary event in London looked good; hoping to get to it in Boston AND hopefully land an dev interview of some sort


• Welcome back podcast Realm Maintenance and congrats to Ease and family on birth of their first child!


• Twitch drop is Tock the Clocker Spaniel – a must get


• WoW services and other stuff sale – might have bought some realm transfers


• Why Kalimdor Cup as 11.1 launches?


• Map adds the Events tab to track Ongoing and Timed events


• 1 introduces 2 new Delves, Dungeon


• Raid schedule and Story Mode only comes week 2 (#followerraids when?)

Raid of the Month:  Firelands (Cataclysm) – 1:39:57

One of the most loved raids in the game?  When you add raid achievements, there are three solid mounts to chase here.  I have the rare ground mount, I do not yet have the super rare flying mount, and I am one achievement away from the third one.  In this episode, I bring you along as I try to sew up that last achievement.  Do I get it?  Does Charlie Brown ever kick the football? 

Verdict on Firelands– 2:05:00

Yes.  This is a simple verdict.  Park a toon or two or many in Hyjal.

SQ Mailbox – 2:08:07

Voila and comments show up on Spotify!  Some praise and one former listener who seemed to take issue with a single sentence from a single episode.  I have a response to that.

Outro – 2:16:37

• Thanks to Blizzard and OGRE for audio, my lovely and supportive wife, and you for listening.


• Hoping OGRE will write the song “Mai'Zoth the Unkillable” for me


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