Episode 39 – BlizzCon Banter!

Episode 39 shows up (a little late in the day) and discusses the happenings of BlizzCon 2011! No, Kurn and Majik weren’t there, but that doesn’t mean there’s not a lot to say about the weekend’s events!

 
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MMO-Champion has everything you need to know about the upcoming WoW expansion and BlizzCon coverage.

MMO Melting Pot has a great breakdown of all the new talents for each class.

Vote for Kurn as Loudest Voice on Twitter for the Stopies! (And vote for MegaCode as Most Dedicated Listener!) Definitely tweet Kurn if you vote, and use the #votekurn hashtag!

 

Call for Submissions!

If you went to BlizzCon, we’d love to have your audio submissions (by midnight ET on Monday night/Tuesday morning) sent to us at podcast@blessingoffrost.com!

In a ~3-5 minute segment, we want to hear your quick (!) thoughts about BlizzCon and such. It would be great to get the following info in the wav or mp3 file:

1) Toon name/server name
2) Where you travelled from to get to the convention
3) Your favourite part of Blizzcon
4) Quick (!) thoughts about the new expansion — love it, hate it, what you’re looking forward to, if anything.

Even recording on a smartphone and sending it to us ought to work, so submit ASAP and we’ll get it in Episode 39 of Blessing of Frost!

(Please, only those who went to the con, others who want to chime in on Mists of Pandaria will have their chance!)

Episode 38 – Happy Hallow’s End!

Another holiday is upon us and, yet again, Kurn and Majik tackle the various achievements related to the holidays. Of course, shortly after recording the episode, Wowhead came out with a guide that shows that the holiday has changed to remove the majority of the randomness from it!

But we still cover the holiday fairly well anyway. 😉

 
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Some links and images:

From October 18th, 2007 (!), Toga, Tia (as Tweetybird) and Kurn (as Madrana) take down the Headless Horseman!

And afterwards, in Shattrath, with Toga on his fancy new broom, Tia as a leper gnome and all of us with pumpkinheads:

Some awesome people who shared their Hallow’s End stories:

@SturgarHawkwind: Just before WotLK hit, during Hallow’s End, I tried transferring my main. Got stuck in limbo for two weeks; missed most of the event as well as all of the end of the Scourge Invasion. I still curse myself for not getting a Vampiric Batling.

@Seraph1337: I killed that bastard 400+ times when the mount was a drop. Never saw it until bag loot, and then everyone had one. 🙁

@FFPMMarc: We getting any epic loot from it this year”Hallows End”??

@TiaofET: Isn’t that when you me and toga three manned the boss for our pumpkin heads and CANDYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!

@SerrinneWoW: Here’s my Hallow’s End story: I have 3 headless horseman mounts.

@TikariOfET: One time I was minding my own business in Stormwind, and Kurnmogh pumpkin-headed me.

And here’s the Shade of Aran Chant from YTMND:

http://shadeofaranchant.ytmnd.com/

Still pretty awesome after all these years.

We want to hear what you have to say! We want to include your stuff in our brand-new MOLL-E segment! Send us your thoughts, mp3s, bumpers, tips, whatever! Our address is:

podcast [at] blessingoffrost.com

Follow us (and tweet us!) on Twitter:

@kurnmogh and @Majjity for us and then @ApotheosisET for our guild.

Also, please rate us up on iTunes and  leave us a review!

And, finally, Kurn got nominated for a Stopie Award! While Blessing of Frost did not, sadly, get enough nominations for best podcast or anything of the sort, Kurn got nominated for “Loudest Voice on Twitter“! Please head over to vote in the Stopies and vote for Kurn! We also recommend Convert To Raid in the categories they’re nominated in — Zhug, Koltrane and the others put together a great show every week. 🙂

Until next time, stay frosty!

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Episode 37 – Triple M Edition: Mylana, Majik and Madrana

Episode 37 is here, complete with obscure references to the movie Clerks, as well as some talk about burnout as it pertains to WoW. Our special guest this week is Mylana, a combat rogue from Choice of Skywall (currently 3/7 25-man HM, looking for DPS and healers!).

 
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Pliers (@pliers1) from Edge of Garona (also home of @Derevka and @MelOfEdge) had some really interesting things to say about burnout on Twitter:

“(Burnout is) caused by a lack of tangible goals, and not meeting your expectations.”

“You need something to work towards, and something to reward your effort, or the lack of purpose starts to weigh heavily.”

Causes of his own personal burnout: “1) Guild taking a break 2) Being in a leadership position and dealing with all the problems 3) WotLK release and only Naxx to raid. 4) Mid-tier content repeatedly being dailies and heroics, when you don’t care about dailies, and don’t do heroics. 5) Feeling burnout, but also feeling like you’re committed to helping a group of people, so you keep going, and burnout gets worse. I’ve experienced all of those over the years, and probably more. But I’m still here, and not feeling too shabby at the moment.”

We also had a bunch of other people chime in:

@Holynightt: “honestly 4.1 was my burnout phase.  I took thr troll heroic tier off.  Came back 2 weeks before 4.2 and my guild was totally different cause a lot of raiders left after 2 tiers of bwd and bot.  I got my taking spot handed right back to me but some of members still grudge me that I had my spot handed back.”

@walkstweets: “Burnout: placing far too much emphasis one activity as a method of interaction, personal fulfillment, or mask for deeper troubles.” And later, “I had to switch guilds when I was raiding with a PST-based guild (while living on the East Coast). It was awful.”

@_vidyala: “I avoid burnout by delegating, taking occasional short (3-4) day breaks, and playing non wow games when it starts to be a chore.”

@e_man41: “see: profile pic. Any physical activity is good for stress/burnout relief.” (Pic is him playing hockey.)

@rhyane: “I take at least one, maybe two days off during the week to do crafty stuff or play non-WoW games.”

@stellery: “biggest cause of my burnout is the fact that I didn’t communicate what I was feeling to my officers. and that of course snowballed into a bigger monster and led to my eventual disconnect from the game!”

@Sense_Andrew: “For me, it is only being interested in one facet of the game. I raid. Everything else is a grind to me and burns me out.”

@Technophobia: “I burned out mid-BC from raiding on an EST server while living in PST. Also I was in a guild with delusions of being way more hardcore than they were. I quit raiding, been much happier since.”

@MiniMorvel: “The lack of motivation. I had no goal. It all felt pointless. So I quit but my friends kept dragging me back. Aaaand repeat. I feel like Blizz is trying to make every player have this long-term goal but it’s failed with every expansion.”

@FFPMMarc: “My burnout is controlled with PVP.”

And don’t forget to nominate Blessing of Frost over at The Stopies! You can nominate us for Best Podcast! Nominations close on Sunday, October 16th, so definitely submit us over there. 🙂

Thanks again to Mylana from Choice for coming on the show. You can find his DeviantArt site here:

http://mathias-schnell.deviantart.com/

We would love to hear what you have to say! Email us at podcast [at] blessingoffrost.com with your thoughts, tips of the week or bumpers for the show or audio comments. And of course, you can follow us (and tweet us!) on Twitter:

@kurnmogh and @Majjity for us and then @ApotheosisET for our guild.

Finally, please rate us up on iTunes and  leave us a review! We are sad pandas without reviews and ratings. Please prevent our sad pandaness by giving us a quick review!

Until next time, stay frosty!

Episode 36 – Nassi Natters

Today’s episode of Blessing of Frost has a special guest from the guild Choice on the US Skywall server. Nassi, the recruitment officer from Choice, joins us to chat about different sorts of personalities being drawn to different types of roles in the game. (Choice, 2/7 on 25-man heroic Firelands, by the way, is seeking a hunter, an elemental shaman, a mage, a moonkin and a holy paladin. Check them out now at choiceguild.com!)

 
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For those of you who are as uneducated as Majik is about who Athene is (hint: The Greatest Paladin in the World!), here’s his very first video. It starts out slow, but picks up around the third and especially fourth minutes and is absolutely hilarious to watch if only for the “whoosh, around the corner” thing or the “You’re pro or you’re a noob. That’s life,” sentiment Athene expresses. I’m not particularly a fan of his, but this guy can be hilarious.

http://youtu.be/cLYrFR9RT_U

Once again, we shout-out to The Daily Blink! Nassi talks about the Aggro Challenge Accepted comic, located here:

http://www.thedailyblink.com/2011/08/aggro-challenge-accepted/

And I lament the perpetual nerfing to the ground of paladins, as seen here:

http://www.thedailyblink.com/2011/09/pay-no-attention-to-the-man-behind-the-server/

Awesome job to the Daily Blink folks, keep the awesomeness going. 🙂

Thanks again to Megacode from the Knights of Tranquility over on the Scryers server for sending in his thoughts about the Firelands nerfs!

Apotheosis took down Heroic Beth’tilac this week as well as Heroic Alysrazor. Check out our kill videos!

Heroic Beth’tilac: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3ywX1W1700

Heroic Alysrazor: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGn_-MlFNQg

And don’t forget to nominate Blessing of Frost over at The Stopies! You can nominate us for Best Podcast or, you know, you could nominate Majik for Biggest Douche. ;D

Thanks again to Nassi from Choice for coming on to the show!

We would love to hear what you have to say! Email us at podcast [at] blessingoffrost.com with your thoughts, tips of the week or bumpers for the show or audio comments. And of course, you can follow us (and tweet us!) on Twitter:

@kurnmogh and @Majjity for us and then @ApotheosisET for our guild.

Finally, please rate us up on iTunes! You’ll earn yourself a shout-out from one of us (5 stars for Kurn, 4 stars for Majik) at the end of the show if you rate us up and leave us a review! We are sad pandas without reviews and ratings. Please prevent our sad pandaness by giving us a quick review!

Until next time, stay frosty!