The Dummies welcome back Kevin from the Darkmoon Herald for another round of Shaman talk. This time the tables are turned when Hend offers his own Shaman, who has been Enhancement since Vanilla, to try his hand at one of the most fun and awesome looking caster classes in game, Elemental! The audio gnomes tried their best to wreck this episode but Hend (fortunately) didn’t have his Thunderstorm glyphed and he was able to knock them back with ease.
This week Rob and Hend dig into the face melting goodness of a holy healer gone bad, the Shadow Priest! Fellow Deathwing bro, Daniel, gives us the ins and outs of how to manage your DoTs and take advantage of your insanity! As an added bonus, the guys get into some great discussion on making the most out of your UI. Rob and Hend even talk about trying ElvUI. And of course, what would the show be without a brand new Crowd Control segment from the one and only Kym Scally!
Hend and Rob finally return after a bit of a break with a brand new show! This episode is packed full of alt-o-holic goodness as we cover the ins and outs of playing alt toons… from gearing, to raiding, to beating seasonal lulls, there are more than enough reasons for everyone to try out something new! With a brand new Crowd Control segment from the one and only Kym, you won’t want to miss this one!
This week the boys discuss the nourishing side of heals with special guest Beru. Get the good, the bad, and the ugly of resto Druids as this episode covers everything from thunder stealing monks to learning to trust your HoTs. Also, episode 5 of Crowd Control features everyone’s favourite Scot answering some listener questions about capping your Conquest points and Paladin talent choices for PvP.
The boys decide at the last minute that any show is better than no show. Listen in to this week’s mini-cast as Hendlove is slowly turning into Warlock love and Rob pulls up his soapbox to rant about LFR and gearing alts. If that doesn’t quite do it for you, there is a brand new episode of Crowd Control from the lovely Kym as she highlights some BG tactics for Temple of Kotmogu and Silvershard Mines.
How could we forget! Check out The Starting Zone for the LFR guide we talked about in episode 39!
http://thestartingzone.com/post/47045065355/episode-53-good-news-everyone
The Training Dummies have gone PVP! Yes, that’s right. Hend and Rob have finally put their big boy pants on and talked some PVP with Oliva Grace. Olivia lets us know the basics to get started plus she drops a few pro tips. All you need to know to turn your sorry PVE self into a PVP monstrosity to be feared by all! Well, maybe not, but it’s worth a listen. And if that’s not enough to make your swoon gland explode, we also have another edition of Crowd Control with Kym!
Ever wanted to try your hand at some RP? Not sure where to start? What to say? What to wear? Well grab your robe and wizard hat and listen in as the boys have an awesome time with her RP majesty, Sil from Girls Gone WoW! Whether you are a seasoned role player or someone who has no idea where to start, Rob, Hend, and Sil discuss some great tips and pointers for everyone. This episode is jam packed with international love as Kym shares some more awesome PvP info in a brand new edition of Crowd Control.
What’s great for a snack, and fits on your back? It’s log, log, log! The boys are joined by the queen of logs herself, Jasyla! Get the lowdown on logs as she goes over exactly how to get the most out of your world of logs parses. Rob and Hend even volunteer to take the beating for you as she digs into one of their recent raid logs. Finally, prepare to get your swoon on with the introduction of a brand new PvP segment “Crowd Control” featuring Kym Scally.
What’s great for a snack, and fits on your back? It’s log, log, log! The boys are joined by the queen of logs herself, Jasyla! Get the lowdown on logs as she goes over exactly how to get the most out of your world of logs parses. Rob and Hend even volunteer to take the beating for you as she digs into one of their recent raid logs. Finally, prepare to get your swoon on with the introduction of a brand new PvP segment “Crowd Control” featuring Kym Scally.
Hold on to your spell books as the boys have a blast with WoW Insiders Kristin Marshall. Join in on this epic round table discussion as they dig into Death Knight tanking, epic pet battles and BLIZZ Y U NO 5 MAN?! Stay tuned at the end of the show for an extra special treat courtesy of Rewt from Hearthcast!
Hendlove quickly turns into Annelove as the boys have an epic Q & A session with the Queen of lore herself, Anne Stickney! You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you might even get uncomfortable… From Garrosh being a jerk, to PVP, to Wrathion’s scandalous agenda, you don’t want to miss this story filled extravaganza!
If you’re like us, you want the battle pets added in 5.1 and you also want the super rare mounts that drop off old raid bosses. To help make this feat a little easier, Saz joined us tonight and gave us some great tips on accomplishing this! While discussing soloing old raid bosses, the discussion, at times, breaks into Super Shaman talk as well, but that’s okay. It really is the best class in the game! No really, it is. Just ask me!
The boys are back at it again! In this Hunteriffic episode we bring on special guest Ghemit who inspired this week’s topic. We learn how many 90s Rob actually has and that even in beautiful Mexico, Hend just can’t stay away from Azeroth. From keybinds to macros to…. warlocks? We have another great round table episode discussion digging into the class that everyone loves to hate. Special congratulations to this week’s premium Ask Mr. Robot account winner, Epicinsanity!
The filthy Alliance was hard at work tonight trying to sabotage this show. We had multiple disconnects, some weird noise skipping and not even sure what happened in the middle of the show. Kevin Old Scratch from the Darkmoon Herald talks Shaman and by the end of the show all 3 of us are re-evaluating our talents choices! Yes, even The Training Dummies learn something on this show! Be warned, after about 1 hour the sound quality deteriorates and we actually cut out a chunk of the show. If you want to hear the cut portion, it is at the end of the show.
Once again we are joined by Affinitii of Blood Legion fame! We get into a discussion on the mysterious unannounced feature and follow up on Affinitii’s world ranked progression ranking for Mists of Pandaria. In all the excitement we forgot to announce the winner of the Ask Mr. Robot premium account during the show. Congratulations Buckhunt!
We have a treat for you tonight! Training Dummy meets Robot when Zoopercat from Ask Mr. Robot joins us to discuss some of the new features on their site as well as the ever popular Gear Optimizer. Strap yourself in and get ready for a doozy!
A last minute cancellation had us scrambling but Yinxy saved the day with a great LFR healing question! We discuss some of the finer points of stepping into LFR in the Healer role including regen, cooldowns, and not forgetting to bring your Discipline Priest. Plus we share a Training Dummies mouseover macro success story! Happy Healing!
We had TWO voicemails today! TWO! Those led to discussing stuns and agro as well as Hunter macros for tricking those dirty, dirty melee. Then we get into everyone’s favourite (would I lie to you?) 5-man dungeon, the Shado-Pan Monastery.
After a short holiday break and some technical difficulties, we are back! During our break we received some questions about macro management, macro storage, and macro decisions! Does it get any better? I don’t think so!
Technical Difficulties plagued us this evening. Hoofit was out for the count and Hend had to take over recording. With a new mic and being an amateur, the quality is not where we would like it to be, so we apologize for that but hope you enjoy anyways. (It’s only 30 minutes so you can tough it out) We do announce our contest winners as well as play all of the entries we received.
Temple of the Jade Serpent filling you with doubt? We tackle this dungeon as well as some Holy Paladin Weak Auras, herb milling and using items in Macros, and standing together in a tight group.
In this episode we discuss prepping, learning, and coping strategies for LFR, and what you can do to help make LFR a friendlier environment for everyone.
/grouphug
/hendlove
In this episode we discuss some buff add-ons and revisit some past topics in relation to Patch 5.1 that include new ways to spend your valor and justice points and how to lessen the daily rep grind! There’s also a brand new macro!
What’s the best way to get Valor? There’s several ways to do it well but which way works best with your schedule?
We tackle a comment about our last show about tanking, and go into a huge discussion based on a listener question in regards to Valor and what’s the best way to get it! There’s no wrong way by any stretch, but depending on your situation, you should consider going about it one way or another and make the best of your time.
Wow, One listener’s plea for advice on how to begin tanking turns into quite the discussion! Join us as we discuss Basic, Intermediate and even a few advanced tanking behaviors and methods to help our listener, Seth, on his way to tanking greatness.
As always, comments are welcome and discussion about other great tips are encouraged. If we forgot to mention something, don’t leave poor Seth hanging, talk about it here! (P.S. Seth is a Protection Warrior specifically, though we try to discuss Tanking habits and methods that all tanks should practice)
This episode we’re joined by Affinitii, the monk healer for Blood Legion, one of the top raiding guilds in the world! Take a peak into what makes this hardcore progression raider tick.
We question him on addons/UI, glyphs and dailies and even get some advice for casual raiders. Monks, Priests, Druids and Shaman! Sorry Paladins, no love for you today, but give it a listen anyway!
Diggin’ Deep on PVP with Alludra the Mage, but not the kind of PVP you’re used to. This week’s discussion will be all about learning about Pet Battles, how to get started, what to expect, and a few other tips to help you along the way.
Alludra, THE Mage, joins us for some fun discussion and a great time, Enjoy!
Addons discussed: Pet battle Count, Pet Journal Enhance (soon to be outdated 5.1), Pet Battle Teams, Pokemon Trainer the Addon.
Reference chart for ability strengths and weaknesses: http://www.battlepet.net/2012/08/3-alludra-has-cough-keph-has-lag.html
Join us in our endeavors in Mists Preparation for raiding. We discuss heroics, getting geared up for them, some of our LFR & world boss encounters.
It’s a light discussion and friendly topic this time. Sit back and enjoy, and as always ALL feedback and additional information you would like to provide is welcome on our blog!
Gearing up for Heroics & prepping for raiding, Reputations of Interest, Profession stuff and the recently unlocked from it’s faction restriction’s Justice Point gear.
This episode talks about various things you can do to begin maximizing your game play either at Lv. 90, or how to get started even before the level cap through the Tillers at Halfhill.
There’s a little something for everyone and a little something of a lot of everything else in this episode. We welcome all questions and comments; share what you’ve learned as well!
In The Temple of Two Somethings we discuss that thing… and that other thing.
What would we have done to make the Theramore scenario more interesting, a Success story that doesn’t involve macros, as well as a lengthy round table about our 3 different experiences going into Mists of Pandaria launch
With emails O’plenty we had to dedicate an entire show to get through them all. You’ll have to listen closely to understand the show’s title… and don’t judge!
We give to you a bit of ourselves through our show, and we want to thank our community for giving back to us so that we could give back to you! We gave away two more prizes this week from Twitter and Facebook contests.
We talk about improving your game just a little bit differently this episode with guest NotAnna. “Don’t change the game, change the players”.
How to improve your game and gaming environment for yourself and others by being a positive impact to the type of community you participate in.
Congratulations to our first contest winner, SpiderKav!
Also, see comments for some additional listener submitted information.
A review of some of the more popular sites for Sources and Optimization. We also answer some emails that start a decent discussion among us before we dig in to the main topic of Source websites.
Information Sources: Community Blogs, One stop shop sites, YouTube channels
Elamari’s Feral Druid Leveling guide. Hoofit’s AskMrRobot Start Up guide.
Sites: AskMrRobot, Noxxic, Icy-Veins, Elitist Jerks, MaxDPS, WowHead
YouTube channels: Preach Gaming, FatbossTV, TGN WoW
Also, that crazy modifier “4 actions on 1 Macro” that was discussed (CTRL+Shift, CTRL, Shift, and normal):
#showtooltip
/cast [@mouseover,help,mod:ctrlshift]Healing Surge;[@mouseover,help,mod:ctrl]Healing Wave;[@mouseover,help,mod:shift]Chain Heal;[@mouseover,help]Greater Healing Wave
/cast Greater Healing Wave
Join us with Special Guest WoWMartiean as we discuss many things including Pugs and Etiquette and also answer a record amount of emails!
Hend shows us the Ultimate Horderlies Transmog on his priest, Mend.
Joe also shares some of his works with us as well, so we’ll share them with you too!
Joe’s Stuff:
Twitter: @WoWMartiean
Youtube channel: http://www.youtube.com/wowmartiean
Streaming Channel: www.twitch.tv/wowmartiean
And as discussed… The Eve of Destruction – Theramore Isle: http://youtu.be/RShVvmRTZoA
Let’s discuss some of the things you can do to prepare for expansions and pre-expansion patches. Hear what other listeners are doing and a few tips and pieces of advice from the cast from class choices, habits, inventory, to gold making tips.
Also.. Find out the real reason Hend is remodeling his kitchen!
Preparation Stuff:
– Olivia Grace’s WoW Insider confirmed MoP Addon readiness list!
– Oh, and you might want to check out Blizzard’s own Survival Guide!
That’s right, PRO(fession) TIPS and explanations.
We discuss the advantages of professions, why you should learn them and keep them leveled up, and we also explain the perks of every profession and how they’re used for making money or min/maxing.
For a quick reference to what professions will look like in Mists of Pandaria check out TheIncBear’s (Arielle/@riftmaker) blog post (Keep in mind the post is also suggesting professions to take based on being a Guardian Druid, but the numbers for what the professions provide is still accurate.)
Also one of the Profession sites we used to level up many professions fast and easily is TheNoobSchool.
Also, mentioned at the beginning were Hoofit’s Archaeology Addon preferences. If you, too, are into the pain, suffering and agony of Archaeology, here they are:
– Archaeology Helper + Gathermate2 + Gathermate2 Data
– Hoofit’s youtube video of using the Archaeology addons. (Sorry about the low resolution-it was one of my first captures, it makes it difficult to see the range zones and gathermate2 node points, but you’ll get the idea.)
No Hendlove this episode so Hoofit and Hotpox decide to answer a twitter question as well as look back on the last few episodes and try to correct or elaborate on a few things that we botched or flat out forgot to mention
User Interface modifications, also known as addons!
We polled twitter and asked for some of your favorites, and we also list some of our favorites. In addition we go over a few must have addons for Tanking Healing and DPS!
Keep in mind that everyone’s preferences are different. There’s no right answer, but if you’re unfamiliar with addons, hopefully this can help you get started on the journey and joy of addons.
Did we miss one of your favorites?
Comment here and spread the word of your own treasured addons! (Please give a brief description, too, of what it does, what role it’s for etc.)
Pwepping for Hewoics and Waiding!
After you’re geared out, your work is not yet finished! We discuss about what to do after you get that gear to better yourself, your 5m, or your raids (even your PVP). How do you do Gem, Reforge or Enchant? Why are these so expensive, are there cheaper alternatives? There sure are, and we discuss it.
Special thanks to Alludra the mage for her Mannerly Mage segment that fit into this topic so well. Alludra is so Awesome!
Discussion links mentioned:
Wow-Gem.com – Gems: complete listing/sorting of any kind of gems
WowArmory.com – Enchanting: Linked directly to the enchant search listing.
Reforginator – Reforging: Addon / In game resource.
AskMrRobot.com – Reforging/Enchanting/Gems: (website) Dynamic gear optimizer based on your current gear levels.
Noxxic.com – Reforging/Enchanting/Gems: (website) one stop shop for guides on what to do, but suggestions may not match your current level/progression.
We dive into Macros. What are they? What they aren’t! How to get started.
We’ll discuss some easy all purpose macros, some role specific macros (Even class specific by request), and then dive a little into some more advanced uses, theory and general practices.
Websites we mention:
http://wowmacros.info
http://macroexplain.com
And a link to all of the macros we discussed:
The Training Dummies Episode 4 Macro Discussion