Thank you to all our listeners, guests, contributors, those who rated us up on iTunes and those who sent in MOLL-E questions. We never would have made it past ten episodes without you.

Notable episodes we reference:

Episode 42: Awesome Anniversary. This is where the legend of BeruLust began. Beru, Vidyala and Stoneybaby joined us for this one.

Episode 48: Nerfs and Power Outages. Great episode where Majik loses power mid-podcast. And also says that he’s an idiot. Gina from healbot.net is our guest.

Episode 49: A Raid Retrospective. Just a short clip from this episode where Jasyla joined us to chat about past raids.

Episode 59: Babbling about Bonuses. Some amazing clips from this episode, including the entire intro, pretty much.

Episode 60: Pricey Purchases. Ice cream and complaining about my brother and Majik. An excellent few clips.

Episode 61: How-To Heroic Dragon Soul. Ladies and gentlemen, behold the tale of the weeeeeeeeezard. (Some weeeeezard clips in the episode were not included in Episode 75, so be sure to check this one out again.)

Episode 63: Diablo the WoW Killer? This is probably one of the best episodes we’ve produced in the last year. Hilarious.

And here, now, are The NPA Files. They are a series of six videos we made back in, oh, 2007. Careful, the first one has Majik being pretty yelly.

Finally, please do check out Choice at choiceguild.com and Apotheosis at apotheosis-now.com.

Thanks to you all for listening. #stayfrosty!

Majik showed me this video that takes the concept of “turducken” to the extreme. Warning, I nearly puked.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Xc5wIpUenQ

Lisa Whelchel played Blair Warner on the 80s sitcom The Facts of Life and is on Season 25 of Survivor.

Here’s a great list of all the chat commands you can use in WoW chat channels (the advanced chat channel usage section is really nifty):

http://www.wowpedia.org/Chat

Don’t forget, this is your last chance to rate us up on iTunes and get a shoutout on the podcast in return. And please do send us your questions or comments to podcast [at] blessingoffrost [dot] com!

The Cinder Kitten is actually really cute and Blizzard will take 100% of the proceeds of the sale and donate them to the American Red Cross to help those in need, such as those who were affected by Hurricane Sandy. You can donate at the Red Cross site without purchasing a Cinder Kitten at redcross.org. Even if you don’t live in the US, consider a small donation to your local Red Cross or equivalent!

Ghostcrawler tweeted with Kurn the other day, about Holy Avenger and holy paladins.

The first-ever rare Kurn and Majik camped specifically for a drop was Prince Nazjak and the item was the Tidal Charm.

The Torch of the Damned is a pretty sweet-looking 2H mace that drops of Reliquary of Souls in Black Temple.

And if you’re curious about why Kurn’s quitting (although if you’ve listened to the podcast since, like, Firelands, you shouldn’t be all that curious), you can read her related blog posts starting here.

We do apologize for the delay, but hey, definitely take this opportunity to write to us at podcast (at) blessingoffrost.com and ask your questions and send us your comments all for our MOLL-E section!

You can also check out a photo Maj sent me of a some power lines near where he’s currently staying…

As always, thanks for your patience! We hope to get Episode 73 out to you soon!

Hotfixes for October 16

If you’re wondering about the whole “have some birds”/”have some bees” thing, go watch Round 2 of the Majik vs. Kurn Magicka death match. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8H5P9VVgSEc (warning, language NSFW)

And in case you missed how lame the Theramore Scenario was, witness Maj, Kurn and Mhoe doing it at 85. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QykkU0Ph64 (warning, language NSFW)

As a correction, Apotheosis is now actually 5/6 in normal Mogu’shan Vaults, having defeated Elegon on Sunday, October 21st.

Speaking of which, the WoW dragon Elegon is likely named for Ellegon, who is the primary dragon in the Guardians of the Flame series by Joel Rosenberg. (Spoilers abound!)

Cooking sucks right now, Kurn says. (Also, eff dailies.)

Beru talks about her disappointment with world bosses.

Vidyala talks about Pandarian experiences with Golden Lotuses and Valley of the Four Winds.

As usual, Maj and I turned to El’s Professions to quickly level inscription. (And El’s Extreme Anglin’ is a great site for all sorts of fishing news and info.)

Finally, MMO Melting Pot, as usual, has some great round-up posts you should read:

Post 1, Post 2, Post 3

Thanks to all those who tweeted us about their favourite/least favourite things to do in Mists! (Apologies if I’ve missed you!) Please do give them a follow:

@Serrath_
@walkstweets
@hestiahdruid
@BeruHeals
@Fluffywumpki
@TiaOfET
@snack_road
@JoeEgo812
@Rezznul
@RhoWoW
@nevikjames
@DangDangFool
@grgordon
@HitThatWithThis

As always, please rate us up on iTunes and shower us with love in your review — and you get a shoutout on the podcast in return. And please do send us your questions or comments to podcast [at] blessingoffrost [dot] com!

Don’t forget to follow us on Twitter: @kurnmogh and @Majjity for us and then @ApotheosisET for our guild (apotheosis-now.com).

In the meantime, RATE US UP on iTunes, you slackers! And send us mail! We love mail for our MOLL-E segment. You can reach us at podcast [at] blessingoffrost [dot] com.

Kurn’s off to Italy for a couple of weeks, so we’ll be back either the week of October 8th (unlikely) or October 15th (much more likely).

In the meantime, some contextual YouTube videos:

Bridget Mary McCormack’s West Wing “reunion”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v52FLMOPSig

Rob Lowe & “litrully” on Parks and Recreation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9GVKxSiQVM

And back to WoW stuff… Our guildie Serrath borrowed some space from our guildie/GM Jasyla at her blog, Cannot Be Tamed and wrote up an awesome guide on how to stay healthy while playing for extended periods of time: http://www.cannotbetamed.com/2012/09/05/gaming-marathons-the-healthy-way/

As always, please rate us up on iTunes and shower us with love in your review — and you get a shoutout on the podcast in return. And please do send us your questions or comments to podcast [at] blessingoffrost [dot] com!

Don’t forget to follow us on Twitter: @kurnmogh and @Majjity for us and then @ApotheosisET for our guild (apotheosis-now.com – seeking a shadow priest, a hunter, a moonkin and an ele shaman for Mists of Pandaria raiding!).

Hot fixes for 5.0.5 can be found here: http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/7207170/Patch_505_Hotfixes_-9_18_2012

Here’s the Daily Blink Majik was talking about: http://www.thedailyblink.com/2012/09/when-we-merge-servers-we-really-merge-servers/

Here’s the link for the Dev Chat summary: http://www.mmo-champion.com/content/2932-Best-Buy-Developer-Q-A

Curious about AIE (the guild Rho’s a part of, with 8000 members?) on Earthen Ring US (Horde)? Check out their very own wiki here for more info: http://wiki.aie-guild.org/index.php?title=Main_Page

Finally, here’s Maj and Kurn (and Mhoe from Apotheosis) doing the Theramore scenario. Language is NOT safe for work!

As always, please rate us up on iTunes and shower us with love in your review — and you get a shoutout on the podcast in return. And please do send us your questions or comments to podcast [at] blessingoffrost [dot] com!

Don’t forget to follow us on Twitter: @kurnmogh and @Majjity for us and then @ApotheosisET for our guild (apotheosis-now.com – seeking a shadow priest, a hunter, a moonkin and an ele shaman for Mists of Pandaria raiding!).

Herald of the Titans link at Wowhead

And this is Majik’s terrible healing UI from the first time Apotheosis killed Doomwalker and Kazzak…

Kurn’s shoutout for the week is to Rho (@RhoWoW) of the Realm Maintenance podcast! Check it out at http://www.realm-maintenance.com!

Of course, check out Amowrath on Twitter as well, @AmoHeals and on his blog, Light’s Wrath!

As always, please rate us up on iTunes and shower us with love in your review — and you get a shoutout on the podcast in return.

Don’t forget to follow us on Twitter: @kurnmogh and @Majjity for us and then @ApotheosisET for our guild (apotheosis-now.com – seeking a shadow priest, a hunter, a moonkin and an ele shaman for Mists of Pandaria raiding!).

First of all, please enter our contest for a Lil’ XT pet (possibly US realms only?)! Just send us your comments or questions to podcast (at) blessingoffrost.com before 11:59pm ET (GMT-4) on Saturday, September 1st and you’re eligible to win! The best comment or question (as judged by myself and Majik) will win! In the case of two really good choices, we may also give away a Papa Hummel’s Old-Fashioned Pet Biscuit (courtesy of Jacii, ex-GM of Sometimes There is Fire of Icecrown). Hope to see your submissions!

Second of all, that guild stuff that happened can be read about at Jasyla’s blog and at my own blog.

Third, it’s patch day! Here are a variety of useful links:

MMO-Champion’s complete coverage
MMO Melting Pot’s Class coverage (will be listed on the right on their site once all are complete)
Jasyla’s Class coverage
Kurn’s Holy Paladin Guide
Jasyla’s Resto Druid Guide
Beru’s Resto Druid Guide
Tikari’s Assassination Rogue Guide

And, of course, here’s Blizzard’s 5.0.4 Survival Guide.

See you on the other side of 5.0.4!

In this episode, Maj and Kurn talk about old attunements and how a lot of people seem to be talking about attunements in the blogosphere of late.

Here are the massive attunement posts from MMO Melting Pot!

Post 1 Post 2 Post 3 Post 4

And here’s Kurn’s 4000-word post. (Not for the faint of heart.)

As always, please rate us up on iTunes and shower us with love in your review — and you get a shoutout on the podcast in return.

Don’t forget to follow us on Twitter: @kurnmogh and @Majjity for us and then @ApotheosisET for our guild (apotheosis-now.com – Mists of Pandaria recruitment coming SOON!).

Stay tuned, Apotheosis of Eldre’Thalas is going to be opening up Mists of Pandaria recruitment soon, but you should visit our website now anyhow.

Blizzard gives you Summer Challenges:

AQ 40: http://us.battle.net/wow/en-us/blog/6213569
Karazhan: http://us.battle.net/wow/en-us/blog/6385756
Outland mounts: http://us.battle.net/wow/en-us/blog/6477695
Blackrock Mountain: http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/6567660/WoW_Summer_Challenge_Blackrock_Mountain-6_28_2012
Ulduar: http://us.battle.net/wow/en-us/blog/6623037

Congratulations to Convert to Raid on their one-year anniversary!

As always, please rate us up on iTunes and shower us with love in your review — and you get a shoutout on the podcast in return.

Don’t forget to follow us on Twitter: @kurnmogh and @Majjity for us and then @ApotheosisET for our guild (apotheosis-now.com – recruiting ranged DPS!).

Civilization 5: Gods & Kings

Diablo III Auction House Info

Battle.net Balance Info

Team Fortress 2: Meet the Pyro (and also Meet the Medic)

As always, please rate us up on iTunes and shower us with love in your review — and you get a shoutout on the podcast in return.

Don’t forget to follow us on Twitter: @kurnmogh and @Majjity for us and then @ApotheosisET for our guild (apotheosis-now.com – recruiting ranged DPS!).

Blizzard’s post with some D3 stats

Do you play Team Fortress 2 and want to play with Kurn and Majik at some point? Email us and let us know! podcast [at] blessingoffrost.com!

Diablo III Auction House FAQ

Battle.net Balance

If you break your Annual Pass contract, your D3 characters may vanish… even if you buy a fresh D3 game.

Our friend Beru of Falling Leaves and Wings had a great post about Battle Tags.

We also want to see YOU apply to our guild, Apotheosis! We’re a 25-man Alliance raiding guild that’s currently 8/8 HM. We’re seeking skilled DPS of most kinds, a warlock in particular and a skilled and experienced feral tank who would go kitty for us regularly. Apply today!

http://www.apotheosis-now.com/main/

If Apotheosis isn’t your style, check out Choice of Skywall, looking for a tank, a resto shaman and more:

http://www.choiceguild.com/

Don’t forget to follow us on Twitter: @kurnmogh and @Majjity for us and then @ApotheosisET for our guild (apotheosis-now.com!). Please rate us up on iTunes and leave us a review for a shoutout!

“Don’t Stand So Close to Me” clip copyright The Police, 1980.

Dark Legacy Comic #107 – “But if I use my mouse to turn how do I click Rend?”

Various RealID/etc posts:

Kurn‘s two posts:
- RealID, BattleTags and Blizzard’s “Social Network”
- Why I Disabled RealID

MMO Melting Pot‘s round-up:
- Diabloe 3: The Unavoidable, Always-On Social Network?

Vidyala‘s post:
- Solitude and the Advent of Battle Tags

Rohan‘s post:
- Battletags and Invisibility

We also want to see YOU apply to our guild, Apotheosis! We’re a 25-man Alliance raiding guild that’s currently8/8 HM. We’re seeking skilled DPS of most kinds, a warlock in particular and a skilled and experienced feral tank who would go kitty for us regularly. Apply today!

http://www.apotheosis-now.com/main/

Don’t forget to follow us on Twitter: @kurnmogh and @Majjity for us and then @ApotheosisET for our guild (apotheosis-now.com!). Please rate us up on iTunes and leave us a review for a shoutout!

Link to the macro for the 30 Tabards achievement at Wowhead

The real reason Kurn is exalted with Cenarion Expedition – Nethercleft Leg Armor

Links about info on the old games 7th Guest and 11th Hour

Addon that is great for Heroic Spine of Deathwing: SpineCounter

Server transfer: $25
Faction change: $30
Name change: $10
Character customization (name change included): $15
Race change: $25
Non-combat pets: $10 each
Mounts: $25 each

Information on the Diablo III Auction House System

Turpster’s Songs

We also want to see YOU apply to our guild, Apotheosis! We’re a 25-man Alliance raiding guild that’s currently 7/8 HM with Heroic Madness to 5%. We’re seeking skilled DPS of most kinds, a warlock in particular and a skilled and experienced feral tank who would go kitty for us regularly. Apply today!

http://www.apotheosis-now.com/main/

Don’t forget to follow us on Twitter: @kurnmogh and @Majjity for us and then @ApotheosisET for our guild (apotheosis-now.com!). Please rate us up on iTunes and leave us a review for a shoutout!

We also mention the new Blizzard system for Item Restoration, plus we talk about Children’s Week and the fact that the Power of the Aspects buff has been increased from 15% to 20% in Dragon Soul (normal and heroic).

We also want to see YOU apply to our guild, Apotheosis! We’re a 25-man Alliance raiding guild that’s at 6/8 HM with great progress on the third plate on Heroic Spine. We’re seeking skilled DPS of most kinds, a resto shaman, a warlock in particular and a skilled and experienced feral tank who would go kitty for us regularly. Apply today!

http://www.apotheosis-now.com/main/

Don’t forget to follow us on Twitter: @kurnmogh and @Majjity for us and then @ApotheosisET for our guild (apotheosis-now.com!). Please rate us up on iTunes and leave us a review for a shoutout!

Programming note: We’ll return with a new episode on Tuesday, May 1st, after Kurn’s done with exams!

Hotfixes!

Are you a skilled ranged DPS, resto shaman or feral tank (with a strong kitty offspec)? Check out Apotheosis! Join us as we push through Heroic Spine, Heroic Madness of Deathwing and get Glory of the Dragon Soul Raider!

Don’t forget to follow us on Twitter: @kurnmogh and @Majjity for us and then @ApotheosisET for our guild (apotheosis-now.com!). Please rate us up on iTunes and leave us a review for a shoutout!

Here are a ton of links.

First, from last week:

Tikari’s Tricks of the Trade: Tikari talks about his bucket list!

Now here’s Welcome to the Deadmines.

Also, The Craft of War: BLIND.

And now, all three videos from The Guild.

Do You Wanna Date My Avatar

Game On

I’m the One That’s Cool

Now vote on which of The Guild’s three songs you like best!

And don’t forget to check out the new channel by Felicia Day, Geek And Sundry!

This means we’ll EXTEND VOTING for the name of the sad moose until 11:59pm ET on Saturday, April 7th.

Vote now!

We’ll have a new episode, number 57, up for your listening pleasure on Tuesday, April 10th.

Don’t forget to vote in the poll to name the awesome #sadmoose that Kamilla crocheted for Kurn! Voting ends at 11:59pm ET on Saturday, March 31st.

Various Bucket List posts around the blogosphere:

MMO Melting Pot’s Round-up
Cynwise’s Field Notes
Achievement’s Ahoy
Tree Heals go Whoosh
Revive and Rejuvenate

Some last-minute hotfixes came out after we’d finished recording the podcast.

Don’t forget to follow us on Twitter: @kurnmogh and @Majjity for us and then @ApotheosisET for our guild (apotheosis-now.com!). Please rate us up on iTunes and leave us a review for a shoutout!

So many links…

At MMO-Champion

Mists of Pandaria Press Tour
Other Press Tour Interviews, etc

At Wowhead

Mists of Pandaria Press Event

At MMO Melting Pot

Pandaria Reactions: Short and Sweet
Pandaria Blogger Reactions: Point by Point
Pandaria Blogger Reactions: Long and Detailed
Factions in Mists of Pandaria
Mists Reactions: Key Points

CONTEST TIME!

@Kamilla_of_ET actually made and sent me a SAD MOOSE.

We obviously need a NAME for the #sadmoose! So please email us your suggestions at: podcast [at] blessingoffrost.com! We’ll take the top 5 or so suggestions this week and then put up a poll next week. You guys get to vote on his name! If your suggested name is the eventual winner, I’ll send you a $10 Blizzard Store pet.

And don’t forget, please send us your Cataclysm Bucket List ideas (things you want to do pre-MoP!) so we actually have a show next week.

As always, please rate us up on iTunes and shower us with love in your review — and you get a shoutout on the podcast in return.

Don’t forget to follow us on Twitter: @kurnmogh and @Majjity for us and then @ApotheosisET for our guild (apotheosis-now.com!).

Next week’s topic: The Cataclysm Bucket List.

We want to hear from you! Tweets, emails and audio submissions (to podcast [at] blessingoffrost.com!) are all encouraged, letting us know what your pre-Mists of Pandaria goals are! We need to fill up General Chat with your submissions, so please do let us know what your goals are.

Tune in next week for the results!

As always, please rate us up on iTunes and shower us with love in your review — and you get a shoutout on the podcast in return.

Don’t forget to follow us on Twitter: @kurnmogh and @Majjity for us and then @ApotheosisET for our guild (apotheosis-now.com!).

The new Apotheosis recruitment video!

Warlocks are like mushrooms.

Dev Watercooler on stat changes in Mists of Pandaria.

Theck of Sacred Duty talks about the block changes. (It astounds me that we have brilliant people like Theck playing the same game as a random death knight who thinks they can best improve their character by wearing spellpower cloth.)

Mists of Pandaria Talent Calculator.

Remember, Apotheosis is recruiting! Warlocks, an enhancement shaman and a feral druid tank (must be comfortable doing kitty DPS!) especially, but we’ve recently opened up recruitment to all kinds of DPS, so please do check us out!

As always, please rate us up on iTunes and shower us with love in your review — and you get a shoutout on the podcast in return.

Don’t forget to follow us on Twitter: @kurnmogh and @Majjity for us and then @ApotheosisET for our guild (apotheosis-now.com!).

I tweeted asking people to let me know what they were most looking forward to. Thanks to all for replying, please follow them!

@_Rades: GHOUL VOMIT (Vile Spew)
@buglamp: bearhugbearhugbearhugbearhugbearhugbearhugbearhugbearhugbearhugbearhug
@Achloryn: I’M TAKING UNHOLY BLIGHT FOREVER
@walkstweets: Boundless Conviction: Holy Power gets to get different than Combo Points! Hurray! Healing-wise, cooldowns are exciting between Void Shift (Priest), Vow (Priest) Ascendancy (Shaman), Healing Tide (Shaman)
@TiaOfET: excited for the surprises as I have no idea what to expect other then what @DuridJaymz gave away!!
@JoeEgo812: Anxious for losing Auras. Holy Avenger means I can use the Angry Man for AoE healing too.

Addons suggested by @oathblade/Nightwill:

Addon Control Panel

Elephant

GTFO

Remember, Apotheosis of Eldre’Thalas is recruiting! Warlocks in particular, but we’d also look at a resto shaman, an enhancement shaman and other ranged DPS classes. We’re 4/8 HM in Dragon Soul and would love to see some apps!

As always, please rate us up on iTunes and shower us with love in your review — and you get a shoutout on the podcast in return.

Don’t forget to follow us on Twitter: @kurnmogh and @Majjity for us and then @ApotheosisET for our guild (apotheosis-now.com!).

Some helpful addons:

BattlegroundTargets – a basic enemy raid frame to show you names, roles and specs of the enemy’s team.
Healers Have to Die – an addon that points out enemy healers and also shows when your healers are in trouble.
DeadlyBossMods – an addon with many PVE functions, this will also show you timers for flag captures and the like in BGs and RBGs.

Remember, Apotheosis of Eldre’Thalas is recruiting! Warlocks in particular, but we’d also look at a resto shaman, an enhancement shaman and other ranged DPS classes. We’re 3/8 HM in Dragon Soul and would love to see some apps!

As always, please rate us up on iTunes and shower us with love in your review — and you get a shoutout on the podcast in return.

Don’t forget to follow us on Twitter: @kurnmogh and @Majjity for us and then @ApotheosisET for our guild (apotheosis-now.com!).

Send us your comments, questions, submissions and such to podcast [at] blessingoffrost [dot] com! We’ll answer your questions on the show in our MOLL-E segment and would be happy to play most any audio submissions you send us. Be part of the show!

(Don’t forget to tweet #sadmoose to @Majjity on Twitter to prove to him that SADMOOSE IS A THING.)

Boss Mods
Deadly Boss Mods: http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/deadly-boss-mods
BigWigs: http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/big-wigs
Deus Vox Encounters (DXE): http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/deus-vox-encounters

Damage Meters
Recount: http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/recount
Skada: http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/skada

Auras
Power Auras Classic:  http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/powerauras-classic
WeakAuras: http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/weakauras
Healers have to die: http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/healers-have-to-die
TidyPlates: http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/tidyplates-simpleTidy Plates (Threat Plates): http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/tidy-plates-threat-plates

Timers/Notification
Mage Nuggets: http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/mage-nuggets
Scorchio! 2: http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/scorchio2
ForteXorcist: http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/fortexorcist
DroodFocus: http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/droodfocus
Serenity: http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/serenity
Raeli’s Spell Announcer: http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/rsa
OmniCC: http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/omni-cc
Omen: http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/omen-threat-meter
ClassTimer: http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/classtimer
HearKitty: http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/hear-kitty
Mik’s Scrolling Battle Text: http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/mik-scrolling-battle-text
PhoenixStyle: http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/phoenixstyle
oRA3: http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/ora3

Castbar
Quartz: http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/quartz

Chat
WoW Instant Messenger: http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/wim-3

Combat Loggers
Loggerhead: http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/loggerhead
clsaver (works fine, just load out of date addons): http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info9368-combatlogsaverclsaver.html

Raid Frames
Healbot: http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/heal-bot-continued
Grid: http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/grid
Clique (goes with Grid): http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/clique
Vuhdo: http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/vuhdo
Decursive: http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/decursive

VoIP/Voice Communications
TeamSpeak: http://teamspeak.com/
Ventrilo: http://www.ventrilo.com/
Mumble: http://mumble.sourceforge.net/

Reforging/etc
RAWR (online version): http://elitistjerks.com/rawr.php
RAWR (download version): http://rawr.codeplex.com/
WoW Reforge (website): http://www.wowreforge.com

Thanks to everyone who tweeted! Please do follow these lovely people:

@Flufflywumpki – Serenity
@Rezznul – Grid/Clique
@TikariOfET – Power Auras, Tidy Plates
@SerrinneWoW – Raeli’s Spell Announcer
@Jasyla_ – Vuhdo
@Druidis4fite – Vuhdo, Quartz
@Roark_AR – Weak Auras, oRA, Loggerhead
@HitokuonET – ForteXorcist, castbar, Clique, DoT Timer, Decursive (RIP Vanilla version)
@grgordon – Power Auras
@LadyAnjelle – Grid
@Shadowspawnd – threat meter, back when threat mattered
@Aleanathem – Class Timer, Hear Kitty
@wowcynwise – Healers have to die
@ColinJHawkins – Tidy Plates, some kind of raid frames
@blamesquelchy – Class Timers, MSBT
@Serrath_ – ForteXorcist
@Srsbusiness_ET – WIM
@Vosskah – PhoenixStyle
@JoeEgo812 – Vuhdo
@EpicGems – Vuhdo
@DuridJaymz – DroodFocus

Remember, Apotheosis of Eldre’Thalas is desperately seeking a retribution paladin, at least 2 warlocks and more ranged, as well as an enhancement shaman and a restoration shaman! Apply today! http://www.apotheosis-now.com/main/

Don’t forget to follow us on Twitter: @kurnmogh and @Majjity for us and then @ApotheosisET for our guild (apotheosis-now.com!). Please rate us up on iTunes and leave us a review for a shoutout!

Send us your comments, questions, submissions and such to podcast [at] blessingoffrost [dot] com!

Some great holiday guides for you:

MMO-Champion’s guide: http://www.mmo-champion.com/content/2640-Love-Is-in-the-Air!-(February-5th-February-18th)

Wowhead’s guide: http://www.wowheadnews.com/blog=200204/love-is-in-the-air-february-5th-19th-guide

Hotfixes: http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/4023884/Patch_43_Hotfixes-12_2_2011#blog

Remember, Apotheosis of Eldre’Thalas is desperately seeking a retribution paladin, at least 2 warlocks and more ranged, as well as an enhancement shaman and a restoration shaman! Apply today! http://www.apotheosis-now.com/main/

Don’t forget to follow us on Twitter: @kurnmogh and @Majjity for us and then @ApotheosisET for our guild (apotheosis-now.com!). Please rate us up on iTunes and leave us a review for a shoutout!

Send us your comments, questions, submissions and such to podcast [at] blessingoffrost [dot] com!

Thanks for your patience, guys!

My Spoon is Too Big/I am a Banana video.

Scepter of the Shifting Sands quest chain.

On January 21, 2012, four-plus years AFTER the patch that removed the old quest, our buddy (and melee officer) Daey got the Hand of A’dal title on his paladin alt.

The comments here are quite interesting.

An amusing tale of Kurn, Majik and Fog zerging Sarth 3D 10-man.

A similarly amusing tale of Kurn, Majik and Fog playing with Halion.

We asked Twitter what their favourite raid instance was. Thanks to everyone who responded and please do follow them!

@Technophobia: Karazhan.  It’s just the most thematic raid zone, imo.  With Ulduar a very close second.

@Jezi_Belle: Probably ICC, though mostly for non-design reasons. It was the first raid where I really felt like I was saving the world.

@SturgarHawkwind: @Technophobia @kurnmogh You’re going to hear this one [Ulduar] a lot. I second this notion.

@zomgAro: Black Temple.  Tons of unique, interesting mechanics and environments and epic quest chains.  Ulduar is a close second, for story.

@matticus: Sunwell.

@Restoisepic: karazhan, it’s the only thing that makes me wish I had played BC. I love that instance, the different bosses, rambling old house

@azerothapple: Ulduar! basically, it’s a mixture of lorelove for all of storm peaks, the utter beauty of it, and nostalgia for the run I did w/ apoth.

@WJRez: Kara. It was my first raid, which I did with my first guild, when we were in our prime. It always brings back nice memories.

@DSatt57: BWL for me, so many memories. Made great friends. Great fights at the time.

@Serrath_: Serpentshrine Cavern.  It was amazing from the elevator all the way to Vashj.

@GottaHaveFaythe: Kara. No debate. I wish they would give us another haunted mansion raid!

@MathiasSchnell: Ulduar by far.  It just seemed to have the best mix of difficulty, atmosphere, lore, and mechanics in it.

@35yards: Karazhan, hands down

@Jasyla_: Black Temple. Atmosphere and amazing boss fights.

@Sylaurian: To be honest Kurn, Molten Core, because it got me started on raiding and it was the one I had the most fun in.

@Kadomi: Ulduar. I loved the atmosphere and the lore, and Yogg-Saron was one of my absolute highlights. Beautiful raid.

@kenakabones: of all the raids.. its extremely close for me between Karazhan and Ulduar.  Mainly because of the variety of the fights and for ulduar; the exponential growth of hard modes and the methods to unlock them.  /wanders off looking at the shiny red button

@hestiahdruid: Kara and Ulduar, though I never saw either when it was current content, they were still fun as hell.

@HoneyTrap2:  sunwell, and also BT

@MMOSprinks: Definitely SSC as my favorite raid instance. The bosses were both challenging and felt like fresh mechanics after MC, BWL & AQ40.

@sarlalian: Ulduar, and anyone who says differently is wrong.

Don’t forget to check out Jasyla’s blog, Cannot Be Tamed!

And of course, you can also follow us, @kurnmogh and @Majjity  and even @ApotheosisET for our guild (apotheosis-now.com! Recruiting a warlock, mage, enhancement shaman, resto shaman!). Please rate us up on iTunes and leave us a review for a shoutout!

Send us your comments, questions, submissions and such to podcast [at] blessingoffrost [dot] com!

That said, we did get through the whole episode, which came in at almost two hours in duration! Our General Chat topic was… the Dragon Soul nerfs that are forthcoming next week.

The official Dragon Soul nerfs announcement.

To answer DangFool‘s questions in our MOLL-E segment, check out our raw boss kill videos over on YouTube, such as Heroic Alysrazor and Heroic Beth’tilac to get an idea of how we tend to chat in Apotheosis.

Kurn’s post on the nerfs.

Gina’s post on the nerfs.

WoW Insider’s Matthew Rossi on the nerfs (includes some numbers).

Many other linked posts, from MMO Melting Pot, including Fannon‘s.

An interesting graph of WoW’s subscriptions (all based on officially released numbers and reliable sources). It’s interesting because Burning Crusade came out in January of 2007, Wrath of the Lich King came out in November of 2008 and Cataclysm came out in December of 2010. World of Warcraft got up to 10 million concurrent subscribers before Wrath ever came out. It’s been since Wrath came out that subscriptions initially peaked at 12 million and then dropped off, before a slight uptime in Cataclysm, followed by a decrease.

Keep up to date with Gina at her blog, healbot.net (no, she is not the author of that addon!) and on Twitter, @healbot!

Speaking of Twitter, I asked folks about the nerfs and if they’d use them or not and a few people had things to say. Be sure to follow them!

@Stelshadow: Sovereignty US-Turalyon. 10 man normal. We are making progress on Spine and will probably go with the buff turned off.

@piercingshots: Casual (2 nights/week) 10s guild, we’ll definitely keep the debuff on. I am hoping for a guild-1st heroic boss kill this week tho.

@fannon451: Our raid will use it as there is no point in turning them off. I reserve the right to complain bitterly, tho. http://t.co/9LMXapim

WTSHeals: Mixed bag. Some of our raid wants it off. People like me don’t really care since it’s just for personal gain and not achieves. If there was an achieve for NOT using the buff, it might motivate us to not use it, otherwise we’re likely just gimping ourselves.

@BloodyGneisha: I see no problem with turning it off and seeing how far we can go. Our issue isn’t ability, it’s timing – everyone’s schedule sucks and it’s difficult to get everyone together.

@_Rades: We’re working on Madness, so if we don’t get him in our 2 nights before the nerfs hit, maybe we’ll be glad for them. Maybe not? :\ I imagine we’ll do without until we get him, unless we’re making no headway and it’s really stressing us out.

And of course, you can also follow us, @kurnmogh and @Majjity  and even @ApotheosisET for our guild (apotheosis-now.com!). Please rate us up on iTunes and leave us a review for a shoutout!

Send us your comments, questions, submissions and such to podcast [at] blessingoffrost [dot] com!

4.3.2 notes from MMO-Champion.

The crazy baby carrots commercial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bhq_NL6jL0

The dog at my parents’ house: http://twitpic.com/858zin

Some links and thoughts from listeners who tweeted us — follow them!

@Restoisepic: LFR so far: pros: easy way to get T13 if lucky and 50% of weekly valour in 2 bosses, Cons: the overall attitude seems to stink additionally, there are not enough sad mooses in there

@xmolder: I think it’s great, but loses its sheen after you’ve seen regular mode mechanics. Not that mechanics matter.

@RandyLite: LFR I despise it wholeheartedly, I have completed it on 5 alt’s and my main goes weekly for possible upgrades. Reminds me of the trollroics grind for slightly better gear. It teaches bad habits and really brings out the loot whore in ppl. 500 valor is nice but it feels like 3 or 4 trollroics rolled into one 2 hour endeavor.

@thereadycheck: i did a short write up on LFR conflicts. lot of bloggers talking LFR i know, seems like many within the last 2 or so weeks. http://www.thereadycheck.com/?p=1500 @WoWMiri @_vidyala @matticus had a great LFR posts as well!

WoWMiri: http://wowmiri.wordpress.com/2011/12/24/pitfalls-of-lfr-and-ideas-for-improvement/

Vidyala: http://manalicious.wordpress.com/2012/01/03/looking-for-community/

Matticus: http://www.worldofmatticus.com/2011/12/12/11-raid-finder-personalities/

@Derevka: You think its undertuned to the point where it fosters poor raiding habits? Not “too easy” per say, but poor habits not assisting the tank, not DPSing the strategic target, heroism/lust timing, standing in the proverbial fire…

@e_man41: lfr is a pointless exercise in being mad at people you don’t know over gear you don’t really need

@GottaHaveFaythe: LFR has caused me to lose interest in our progression raids. I no longer get that special feeling of seeing a new encounter and then finally getting the kill. No joy or adrenaline rush. It just feels… Blah.. It’s sad! Our 25m team hasn’t been able to pull together a FULL team since it released. We’ve been doing 22-24m kills.

Don’t forget to follow us on Twitter, too: @kurnmogh and @Majjity for us and then @ApotheosisET for our guild (apotheosis-now.com!). Please rate us up on iTunes and leave us a review for a shoutout!

Send us your comments, questions, submissions and such to podcast [at] blessingoffrost [dot] com!

I haven’t had time to edit it, yet — last week was insane.

This Monday, due to a variety of things, we were unable to make our schedules work together to record Episode 48.

As such, look for Episode 47 coming out tomorrow (Tuesday, January 17th) and we’ll record Episode 48 next Mondayish for release on Tuesday, January 24th. Sorry for the delays!

In this episode, we cover Ultraxion, Warmaster Blackhorn, Spine of Deathwing and the Madness of Deathwing. It’s a pretty hefty episode, so I hope you’re ready!

Hotfixes! There were some minor hotfixes that came out over the break and we also cover the ones that came out shortly after we recorded the podcast last time.

The winner of our contest was JoeEgo812! He made us an awesome MOLL-E bumper, which you’ll hear in this very episode. He chose a Lil’ KT as his prize, courtesy of Serrath! Again, thanks to Serrath for providing the prize and thanks so much to Joe for participating in the contest. The rest of you could, you know, submit stuff!

The I Took an Arrow in the Knee meme comes from the new(ish) game Skyrim, which both myself and Maj had the opportunity to play over the holidays. (In particular, this YouTube video – which is loud and NSFW – is pretty amusing.)

Tips from Twitter folks about the back-half of Dragon Soul — follow them!

@xmolder: Please, for the love of God, kill the tendon. #brotip

@BeruHeals: Don’t fall off the dragon!

@JoeEgo812: On Blackhorn, your raid only NEEDS to soak the Twilight Onslaught (large swirly). / Regenerative Bloods are easier to burst down on later platforms if you let them stack up & regen once before starting AOE.

@thereadycheck, re: Ultraxion: noticed so many 10 mans still 3 heal it when 2 healing is simple with good crystal use.

@miss_pewpew, re: fights where you should stack: Stack tight. I see soo many ranged sitting out of healing aoe circles *pulls my hair out*

Don’t forget to follow us on Twitter, too: @kurnmogh and @Majjity for us and then @ApotheosisET for our guild (apotheosis-now.com!). Please rate us up on iTunes and leave us a review for a shoutout!

Send us your comments, questions, submissions and such to podcast [at] blessingoffrost [dot] com!

Until then, here’s an episode detailing the first four bosses in Dragon Soul (normal mode!) and also introducing you to one of our newer raiders in Apotheosis, Serrath.

First thing to link — Hotfixes! http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/4023884/Patch_43_Hotfixes-12_2_2011#blog

Please note, we recorded on December 18th, so we don’t talk about these new hotfixes. Especially noteworthy? ZA and ZG have been nerfed and Deepsea Sagefish (the fish used to cook intellect food) now have their own pools!

The biggest thing to note is that we are holding a contest that ends at 11:59pm ET on January 1, 2012. The contest is send in an audio bumper for one of the following show segments:

- Loremaster
- Hotfix
- MOLL-E (pronounced Molly)
- /Raid (pronounced “slash raid”
- Guild Tab
- Shoutouts
- Tip of the Week

The best bumper received between now and 11:59pm ET on January 1, 2012, will receive their choice of one of the $10 Blizzard pets in the Blizzard store, courtesy of Serrath! Audio bumpers should be in mp3 format and should be sent to us at:

podcast [at] blessingoffrost [dot] com

Icy-Veins is a great resource for raiders! Lots of description and detail on all the various mob/boss abilities. Of particular note, their comments on the Yor’sahj the Unsleeping encounter.

That’s about it for this week — keep tabs on us by following us on Twitter: @kurnmogh and @Majjity for us and then @ApotheosisET for our guild (apotheosis-now.com!) and, of course, @serrath_ for our guest this week, Serrath.

Please rate us up on iTunes and leave us a review for a shoutout!

Programming note: There will be NO episode of Blessing of Frost next week, but we’ll return on Tuesday, December 20th!

Kurn was on the Twisted Nether Blogcast this week! Check it out: http://www.twistednether.net/2011/12/06/episode-152-turning-the-corner/

Hotfixes: Keep up on the hotfixes affecting Patch 4.3: http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/4023884/Patch_43_Hotfixes-12_2_2011#blog

Trumpet sounds thanks to SoperSound Music Library and Sounddogs.com!

The Magicka Duel! — NOT SAFE FOR WORK! MATURE LANGUAGE! (Lots of Kurn yelling at Majik.)

Congratulations to @Kamilla_of_ET for winning a copy of Magicka!

Please do follow 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 for a shoutout!

We also did a livestream of the recording process, which meant that we got to interact with some awesome people in the chatroom while we did the show. Keep an eye on Twitter, we’ll announce if we’re livestreaming next week. If we are, here’s the URL: http://www.livestream.com/majikpugs

ACTUAL Patch 4.3 notes: http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/3964563/Hour_of_Twilight_Patch_43_Notes-11_29_2011

The Daily Blink on Symbiosis: http://www.thedailyblink.com/2011/11/the-new-abilities-symbiosis/

And now, the poll about Majik’s next character to level:

And Alfimi sent us A SAD MOOSE. BRILLIANT.

AND, a last-minute submission from Alfimi gives us our very own SAD PANDA!

Alfimi, you are amazing and we love you. Thank you so much!!

Kurn’s 4.3 blog post about holy paladin changes: http://kurn.apotheosis-now.com/?p=2129

Are you a ret paladin? Looking for a guild? Check out our guild, Apotheosis! http://www.apotheosis-now.com/main/

The old WoW Cartography maps that Kurn would spend hours gazing at:

http://wow.incgamers.com/wiki/Eastern_Kingdom_All_Flight_Paths

http://wow.incgamers.com/wiki/Kalimdor_Map_All_Flight_Paths

Kurn will be on the Twisted Nether Blogcast on Saturday, December 3rd, at 11pm ET/8pm PT: http://www.twistednether.net/

THE TWEETOFF!

Tweet either of us (@kurnmogh, @majjity) with:

#sadmooseftw

OR

#kurngoingret

Kurn will randomly pick a #sadmooseftw person and Majik will randomly pick a #kurngoingret person. The two of us will then have a Magicka duel and whoever wins the duel, will have their randomly selected person win a FREE COPY of the game Magicka.

Speaking of Twitter, thanks to the following people for chiming in about what they’re most looking forward to in 4.3:

@stoppableforce: Transmogrification, pretty much hands-down my most anticipated feature.
@mageic: looking forward to new stuff, just feeling a bit stale currently, so new things to do will be fun
@matticus: New raid content. Done with Firelands.
@psynister: The new DMF and reduced exp requirements to get through OL/NR.
@BeruHeals: MOAR BOSSES TO BLOODLUST!
@Velystia: Transmog, new dungeons, new raid… a reason to log in again.
@MathiasSchnell: The Fangs of The Father questline and rewards!
@DuridJaymz: Looking forward to… hmmm… Actual “difficulty” and “choice” in the feral rotation!!!
@hestiahdruid: Transmogging gear, and kicking Deathing’s ass.
@kenakabones: 4.3 – transmog, new 5 mans *they’re fun* and dragon soul!
@Kamilla_of_ET: my wings!!! I can’t wait to have my wings again hehee yay for T6!

Please do follow us on Twitter as well! @kurnmogh and @Majjity for us and then @ApotheosisET for our guild.

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

Episode 42 is our one-year anniversary episode and it is totally packed with awesome and clocks in over two hours in length, but it’s absolutely worth it. Why’s that? It’s because we contacted some of our guests from our most-downloaded episodes and somehow convinced three of them to make their returns to the show!

Beruthiel – You know her as the raid leader of the Horde guild Monolith (US-Llane) and the resto druid blogger behind Falling Leaves and Wings. She’s also on Twitter as @BeruHeals. She was previously on Blessing of Frost for Episode 23 – Legislation for a Legendary. (She may also now be nicknamed “Bloodlust”…)

Stoneybaby – Known primarily for being the guild master of the Horde guild Big Crits (US-Sen’jin) and the creator/producer of the Big Crits web series, Stoney was last with us on Episode 11 – Progression Pointers. He can also be found on Twitter as @stoneybaby.

Vidyala – Guild master of the Alliance guild Business Time (US-Moonrunner), Vid is also known as the Pugging Pally and the blogger behind the blog Manalicious. She was a guest with us for Episode 13 – 10s vs. 25s (and was also a guest with Kurn for Episode 13 of My Epic Heals!). Most recently, she’s been busy releasing new comics over at From Draenor With Love every Wednesday. You can find her as @_vidyala on Twitter.

Here’s a link related to Episode 40 – The Corpsegrinder Controversy, shared with us by Luke, who sent us a great email for our MOLL-E segment. This link offers a compelling (and very personal) argument as to why homophobic language should not be tolerated. Please consider yourselves warned, it may have potential triggers for some readers. http://vorpalbunnyranch.wordpress.com/

Apotheosis of Eldre’Thalas is a 25-man 6/7 HM Alliance guild and seeking a retribution paladin and a hunter, so check us out and apply now!

Monolith, a 25-man 7/7 HM Horde guild on the US-Llane server, is seeking a DPS death knight.

Business Time of Moonrunner is a 10-man 6/7 HM Alliance guild, seeking two quality players, preferably on the Conqueror token (priests, paladins, warlocks!).

#sadmoose shoutouts! A bunch of people tweeted us with the #sadmoose hashtag and got shoutouts on the show. Here they are on twitter — follow them!

@Technophobia: Why is #sadmoose sad?
@FFPMMarc (MegaCode): #sadmoose
@RandyLite: Do previously tweeted #sadmoose count?
@YAWoWB (Rooster): what kind of #sadmoose ? Any #sadmoose or a very specific #sadmoose ? Does the #sadmoose have to be WoW related or IRL?
@JoeEgo812: The sweet bleating sound of the #sadmoose
@DangDangFool: Sinuses? #SadMoose
@PotatoeWoW (extra shoutout for #craw!): Nerfs ftw. Heroics out of reach for my guild. Heroic Ragnaros? Impossible anyway, so idc how hard he is. #sadmoose #craw
@gumhead: I love the #sadmoose podcast…. errrr….. I mean the Blessing of Frost podcast.
@facemauler: just to irritate Majik even more… #sadmoose

And we also got a tweet after we recorded the show:

@badtauren: was a #sadmoose till I found BoF on stitcher. Its about time yay!

And @DSatt57 sent us a Tip of the Week! “When doing the Harvest Week quests the first day, get 25 of each main ingredient. Start in SW, go to IF, back to SW, then Darn.”

Please do follow us on Twitter as well! @kurnmogh and @Majjity for us and then @ApotheosisET for our guild.

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

Once again, thank you to all our listeners for your support, interest and interaction with us over the last year. Without you, we probably would have given up on this nutty idea back around Episode 6. We hope you’ll stick around for many more episodes to come!

Majik & Kurn
(PS: #sadmoose! #craw!)
(PPS: Warp this, bitch!)

Of course, we’re not the only ones talking about this. Last week, Lore from TankSpot addressed the issue in Episode 107 of The Weekly Marmot.

Beruthiel, of the guild Monolith on the Llane server, who was our guest here for Episode 23 of Blessing of Frost, posted her thoughts about Heroic Ragnaros in late October on her blog, in a post called “Are 400 Pull Kills Good Design? Are They Fun?“. It was talked about over at MMO Melting Pot as well (read the comments on both posts! @Pliers1 makes some great points on the MMO Melting Pot article) and Borsk (who raids with Beru) posted a response blog about it as well.

Beru’s guild got Rag down last week, so she and Borsk both had things to say.

So, what are your thoughts on Heroic Ragnaros? We’d love to hear what you have to say.

podcast [at] blessingoffrost.com

Follow us (and tweet us!) on Twitter (don’t forget to tweet with the #sadmoose hashtag for a shout-out next week!):

@kurnmogh and @Majjity for us and then @ApotheosisET for our guild. And don’t forget to check out Majik’s blog: Majik’s Missives — he’s got a few posts up already and enjoys comments.

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

First, a little background on George “Corpsegrinder” Fisher.

Next, the full video in question: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cW_Lv0r-l4c (NOT SAFE FOR WORK!) Note that the contents of this video are not condoned by Kurn and Majik. We do not approve of this kind of language and are merely linking it so that you have context.

A variety of blog posts on the subject from MMO Melting Pot: http://www.mmomeltingpot.com/2011/10/the-homophobic-corpsegrinder-rant-at-blizzcon-explodes

In particular, Pewter’s posts:

1) http://mentalshaman.com/2011/10/27/blizzcon-this-is-about-homophobia-not-horde-v-alliance/

2) http://mentalshaman.com/2011/10/28/blizzcon-a-much-better-apology/

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. And don’t forget to check out Majik’s new blog: Majik’s Missives!

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

This week, we’re not recording tonight because Majik has no voice. He caught a cold and was actually unable to talk on Mumble during our raid last night. He actually took to threatening me in raid chat because I was mocking him and he couldn’t use his voice.

That said, his voice was slowly coming back when I spoke with him on Monday. We aim to record on Tuesday afternoon and have a new episode ready for you all sometime on Wednesday (early morning or sometime in the evening).

We apologize for the lengthy delay in episodes. We miss the podcast, too! And Majik has A LOT of things he wants to talk about, so I imagine it’s particularly frustrating for him. Which only makes me chuckle.

If you’re missing your weekly doses of me and Majik, check us out on Twitter:

@kurnmogh
@Majjity

And I’ve got a blog:

Kurn’s Corner

And now so does Majik!

Majik’s Missives

We’ll keep you posted about the next episode of Blessing of Frost, coming soon to a website near you!

In the meantime, VOTE FOR KURN as Loudest Voice on Twitter at Stopcast.net!

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!

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!)

But we still cover the holiday fairly well anyway.

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!

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!

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!

At any rate, that was a new way of having a guest sort of on the show and we really appreciate Kat taking the time to record his thoughts and send them along!

Soooooooo many links…

First up, Choice of Skywall is still recruiting! A moonkin, a holy paladin, a holy priest, a mage and an elemental shaman would all be welcome additions to a fun raid team that is currently 1/7 25-man HM in Firelands. Check ‘em out!

And now… blog reactions to the Great Firelands Nerfs, which are detailed in the Blizzard Hotfix notes:

Jasyla at Cannot Be Tamed:  http://www.cannotbetamed.com/2011/09/13/to-the-ground

Marks 365: http://marks-365.morynne.com/2011/09/firelands-nerf-so-soon
http://marks-365.morynne.com/2011/09/september-20th-firelands-nerfday

I Like Bubbles: http://forthebubbles.wordpress.com/2011/09/13/welcome-the-nerf-bat-overlords/

Kurn: http://kurn.apotheosis-now.com/?p=2032 : first reaction.
http://kurn.apotheosis-now.com/?p=2054 : talking about our first night with the nerfs.

Beru: http://fallingleavesandwings.wordpress.com/2011/09/14/difficulty-and-challenge/
http://fallingleavesandwings.wordpress.com/2011/09/22/create-your-own-challenges/

Slice on Orangeslice is greater than Other Sodas sees it both ways: http://slice213.wordpress.com/2011/09/14/1145/
http://slice213.wordpress.com/2011/09/20/sept-20th-gc-applied-the-nerfbat-to-fl-4-3-please-get-here/

Adgamorix at Divine Plea titled his nerf-related post “T12 Nerfs – bring ‘em on and quit your crying”: http://paladindivineplea.blogspot.com/2011/09/t12-nefs-bring-em-on-and-quit-your.html

Vidyala at Manalicious (that’s http://manalicious.wordpress.com) called hers “How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Nerfs”: http://manalicious.wordpress.com/2011/09/15/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-nerfs/

Rohan at Blessing of Kings:
http://blessingofkings.blogspot.com/2011/09/upcoming-firelands-nerfs.html
http://blessingofkings.blogspot.com/2011/09/firelands-nerfs-and-difficulty.html

Rhidach at Righteous Defense has flashbacks to ICC:
http://rhida.ch/2011/09/21/all-i-have-to-say-about-the-firelands-nerfs

Lodur from World of Matticus was very contemplative.
http://www.worldofmatticus.com/2011/09/21/firelands-nerf-a-day-later-lodurs-thoughts

Saunder from Non-Squishy Heals argues the nerfs are simply too much:
http://nonsquishyheals.blogspot.com/2011/09/me-and-my-big-mouth-and-nerfs.html

Fannon at dwarven battle medic writes of his raiding disappointment in an open letter to Blizzard:
http://battlemedic.blogspot.com/2011/09/on-raiding-disapointment-open-letter-to.html

Zelmaru of Murloc Parliament talks about how it’s way too much and way too late:
http://murlocparliament.com/2011/09/26/from-impossible-to-roflstomp-too-much-too-late

Juvenate at WTS Heals says that their Rag kill was bitter-sweet:
http://wtsheals.wordpress.com/2011/09/26/ragnaros-down-a-bitter-sweet-kill/

And, of course, Kat from Resto Is Epic has this to say along with what he said in the episode:
http://restoisepic.wordpress.com/2011/09/23/thoughts-after-being-in-a-nerfed-firelands-and-my-wol-debrief-41/

Finally, don’t forget to check out a great podcast in Convert to Raid. They spent a chunk of Episode 12 talking about the nerfs: http://converttoraid.com/2011/09/26/12-convert-to-raid-bazoobagwabo/

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 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!

Until next time, stay frosty!

Here’s a link to Kurn’s angry blog post about the nerfs. And here’s a link to Kurn’s much more positive and helpful Holy How-To Guide!

Here’s a WoW Insider post that links a couple of other posts talking about the nerfs, which includes a link to Beru’s post. You may remember that Beru was our guest on  Episode 23 of Blessing of Frost, Legislation for a Legendary.

MMO Melting Pot had a few different round-ups of nerf-related posts. Of note is the link to Jasyla’s blog post about it. Jasyla, of course, raids with us in Apotheosis and she was a guest on Episode 28 of Blessing of Frost, Feeling Out Firelands.

And here are some handy-dandy Brewfest resources:

Wowhead’s guide to Brewfest – don’t forget that the comments on the individual achievements are almost always really helpful!

Wowpedia’s Brewfest entry – this is the one with the Alliance version of the Ram Racing image. Really great and detailed entry!

As always, we’re interested in 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 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!

And so Majik and I decided to talk about the upcoming Firelands nerfs in this week’s episode.

Here’s the original post:

With the final showdown against Deathwing approaching, we’ve been keeping a close eye on players’ progress through the current Firelands raid content. Before patch 4.3 is released, we want groups who are working on Heroic-difficulty content to be able to get as close to Ragnaros as possible, and we want players who are tackling normal progression to be able to experience as many of the encounters as they can. To achieve these goals, we’ll be toning down the difficulty of both normal and Heroic raids through hotfixes in the coming weeks. In general, we plan to reduce health and damage of all raid bosses in both normal and Heroic Firelands by around the same percentage we brought difficulty down for the original Cataclysm raids when Rage of the Firelands (patch 4.2) was released.

We’re looking forward to seeing more groups of players face off against the firelord in the weeks ahead. However, before we make these changes, we want to give everyone a final shot at the bosses at their current difficulty level — so this is a heads up that we’re planning to apply the difficulty hotfixes beginning the week of September 19.

Stay tuned to the Patch 4.2 Hotfixes blog for these and other live updates to the game as they happen.

What do you think about the nerfs? Let us know at podcast [at] blessingoffrost.com or vote in our poll:

Apotheosis is looking for a TANK, check us out at http://www.apotheosis-now.com/main/!

Choice of Skywall is looking for HEALERS and some DPS, check them out at http://www.choiceguild.com/!

Follow Majik and me on Twitter, along with our guild: @Majjity, @kurnmogh and @ApotheosisET

And please rate us up on iTunes! If you give us a review and a high rating, we’ll read your name and comment out on the show in the Shout-outs section! Four stars will get you a shout-out from Majik, five-stars gets you one from me!

Don’t forget, we’re still accepting bumpers for the show, hit us up at podcast [at] blessingoffrost.com and if we like ‘em, we’ll use them in the show!

The Dev Watercooler post with the signoff: “Greg ‘Ghostcrawler’ Street is the lead systems designer for World of Warcraft and he probably listens to your podcast.” This spawned the new segment we call “Dear Ghostcrawler…”

Apotheosis of Eldre’Thalas is seeking a tank! Prefer a warrior or a paladin, perhaps an exceptional DK or druid, but honestly, the Vanquisher token people might kill us for adding another person to their token. Apply now!

Kaleri’s blog post that started this whole thing:

But You Don’t Look Sick!

Kal’s Twitter: @Kaleri_

Sara’s Twitter: @SerrinneWoW – she especially would love to hear from you if you’re a WoW player who’s also been diagnosed with MS!

Information links for Multiple Sclerosis, including where you can make a charitable donation:

National Multiple Sclerosis Society – US link
Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada – Canada link

Information links for Crohn’s Disease, including where you can make a charitable donation:

Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of America – US link
Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of Canada – Canada link

People voted for Majik to get a Twitter, so he did! Follow him @Majjity, @kurnmogh and @ApotheosisET on Twitter and please rate us up on iTunes! If you give us a review and a high rating, we’ll read your name and comment out on the show in the Shout-outs section.

Jeopardy! “Think” music remains the property of Merv Griffin and Jeopardy Productions, Incorporated. No offense intended and no money is being made from this podcast. Please don’t sue us. We love Alex Trebek and your show!

Kurn’s episode of My Epic Heals
Convert To Raid (another snazzy podcast)

Want to make some bumpers for Blessing of Frost? Email submissions are now open at podcast [at] blessingoffrost [dot] com!

“Lukewarm” Fixes

The raw video of the Apotheosis Ragnaros kill:

Follow @kurnmogh and @ApotheosisET on Twitter and please rate us up on iTunes!

And finally, please participate in our poll or email us at podcast [at] blessingoffrost [dot] com to let us know how you feel about Majik maybe getting on Twitter!

Having said that, I live in Montreal, and the remnants of Irene are scheduled to come through HERE on Monday. I don’t anticipate many issues, but that could add to a delay in producing and releasing the next episode.

So that’s the news. Stay tuned for Episode 31 of Blessing of Frost coming… at some point this week!

On Sunday, August 21, Kurn was a guest on the My Epic Heals podcast, which is hosted by Eade and Wolf. The other guest on the holy paladin-centric episode was Vidyala from the blog Manalicious and the guild Business Time. You might remember that, back on March 17th, Vid was our guest here on Episode 13 of Blessing of Frost: 10s vs 25s.

Hotfixes from August 16.

Info about Transmogrification and Void Storage from MMO-Champion:

Transmogrification
Void Storage

Great comic about transmogrification from the ever-awesome The Daily Blink!

Jeopardy! “Think” music remains the property of Merv Griffin and Jeopardy Productions, Incorporated. No offense intended and no money is being made from this podcast. Please don’t sue us. We love Alex Trebek and your show!

Follow @kurnmogh and @ApotheosisET on Twitter and please rate us up on iTunes!

Hotfixes from August 10th

As promised, we said in the podcast that we’d update you guys on how Sunday’s raid went. Majik totally jinxed us. We spent 3 hours wiping primarily in P2 of Ragnaros. We 5-healed it the whole time, which was a great challenge and we were up to it. It was just positioning and mechanics that we need to work out.

A visual for “Code Kermit”:

Daily Blink, This Idea’s Got Legs!

Heroic Ragnaros videos (via MMO-Champion):
Paragaon – World 1st
Method – World 2nd
vodka – US 1st (YT link)

Shoutouts:

Majik wanted to shout-out to the Daily Blink, so…. here’s a link!

http://www.thedailyblink.com/

Follow @kurnmogh and @ApotheosisET on Twitter, and please rate us up on iTunes!

How will we ring in Episode 30? Stay tuned to Kurn’s Twitter or our podcast website to find out!

Today’s special topic: Feeling Out Firelands! Okay, not quite. It’s more of a run-through of Shannox, Beth’tilac, Lord Rhyolith and Alysrazor. Baleroc, Majordomo Staghelm and Ragnaros are coming next week! (We VASTLY underestimated our ability to talk, so ignore us when we say we’re covering Baleroc in this episode. We’re not! And yet, we’re still over 90 minutes on this sucker.)

Our guest this week is Jasyla, a resto druid raider in Apotheosis, who was also recently on the Twisted Nether blogcast.

Of course, immediately after recording this episode of Blessing of Frost, Blizzard decided to release a minor patch. You can find the official notes for 4.2.0A here. As well, here are some hotfixes from August 4th.

Here’s Kurn’s blog post about Ragnaros that Majik was talking about:

Ragnaros, Version 2.0

And here’s a link to the comment on Kurn’s blog that Jasyla made about female night elves!

http://kurn.apotheosis-now.com/?p=1012#comments

Here’s a link to Kurn’s video for Alysrazor tornadoes:

Kurn’s Guide to Alysrazor Tornadoes

And here’s Jasyla’s post about her trouble with the aforementioned tornadoes:

http://www.cannotbetamed.com/2011/07/18/illusory-superiority/

Jasyla’s blog can be found at:

http://www.cannotbetamed.com/

And you can find her on Twitter at:

@Jasyla_

Kurn likes to tweet, too, and will occasionally tweet questions to her followers with regards to the podcast. Want something special for Episode 30? Tweet her @kurnmogh with your ideas or leave comments here. You can also email us at podcast [at] blessingoffrost [dot] com.

Curious about our guild and our progression? Follow Apotheosis: @ApotheosisET.

And please rate us up on iTunes!

As noted in the post for last week’s podcast, Blizzard went out and immediately added Valor Points back into T11 content, shortly after we recorded the podcast. Hooray for being out of date?

More hotfixes: http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/3019413

Follow Apotheosis, Kurn and Tikari on Twitter:

@ApotheosisET

@kurnmogh

@TikariOfET

Don’t forget to rate us up on iTunes! And drop us a line at podcast [at] blessingoffrost [dot] com if you have any feedback for us.

Please note that due to Majik heading to Maine with his girlfriend and her family, there will be no podcast for August 2nd. We’ll return on August 9th, 2011! In the meantime, feel free to keep up to date with all the latest Apotheosis-related happenings at the Apotheosis website or Kurn’s blog.

Have a great couple of weeks and do try to stay frosty if you’re in the northern hemisphere.

Please bear in mind that this podcast was recorded before Blizzard announced they would put Valor Points back into Tier 11 content normal modes. More on that decision can be found here:

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/2842767555

Hotfixes for 4.2: http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/3019413

Kurn’s Valor Point blog post: World of Zandalaricraft?

Oestrus’s post: Waste Not, Want Not

Windsoar’s post: I’m Doing It Wrong, And I’m OK With That

Zelmaru chimes in: Getting the Dreaded Valor Points

There are probably more! Here are some posts that linked to my blog and others:

WoW Insider

MMO Melting Pot

Don’t forget that you can follow Apotheosis and Kurn on Twitter:

@ApotheosisET and @kurnmogh

And please rate us up on iTunes!

Blizzard’s Guide to 4.2: http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/2723732

MMO-Champion’s Guide to 4.2: http://www.mmo-champion.com/content/2361-Patch-4.2-Rage-of-the-Firelands-on-Live-Servers

Kurn’s blog posts about 4.2: Holy Paladin Mastery, Keys, T12 Holy Paladin Loot List

And finally, a programming note: Majik is headed off on vacation, so we will not have a podcast next week. Tune in the week after for another episode of Blessing of Frost!

We also take cheap shots at Pat Sajak, mock people who make Kurn rich and take an in-depth look at the Midsummer Fire Festival, which launched today!

Some notes before we give out a bunch of links:

1) The Orgrimmar Fire has moved. It is not horrible to get to. But it’s still not a good time.

2) Honoring and desecrating fires gives guild rep! As a human, wearing the Illustrious Guild Tabard, in a guild with the 10% reputation bonus, I am getting about 35 rep per fire honoured and 70 rep per fire desecrated.

3) Northrend fires are apparently NOT required for the meta, however, it’s in your best interest to do so in order to gather as many Burning Blossoms as possible. (Also, guild rep! Money! Fame — wait, no, not fame. But guild rep and money!)

4) The Ice Stone that melts is what starts the Ahune event. Ahune stops 90% of damage until he retreats into his Frozen Core. Focus adds, then switch to Ahune and pop Heroism/Bloodlust/Time Warp as soon as he “retreats”.

Okay, on to some links!

Lord Ahune’s new drop table is here at MMO-Champion.

Wowhead’s excellent Fire Festival Guide.

Fox Van Allen’s Gold Capped article. (@foxvanallen)

Kurn tweeted: What do you love/hate about the Midsummer Fire Festival?

These fine folks responded. Why not consider following them on Twitter?

@SerrinneWoW: Killing hordies who try to get into IF to put out the fire!

@mageic: all the xp you get on toons that are still leveling

@stoppableforce: The Ice Stone, melting!

@Technophobia: XP/gold conversion, and free XP for alts, assuming it hasn’t been nerfed.

@soylentverde: XP boost to my lowbies!

@ammonightfall: being one step closer to that frakin Long Strange Journey achiev!

@Osephala: Toasted Smorcs. Yum!

@SturgarHawkwind: The part where Firelands comes out.

@_Rades: AHUNE BEING IMMUNE TO FROST.

@Bindww: Used to hate it, now I’m indifferent

@yawowb: ganking campers at the fires!

@squareSquid: Everything is fun and games until you are corpse camped for a half hour in Westfall! #imawfulatpvp

@Dahrla: I hate having to go to every single flight path.  Takes ages.  Then again, I love that about Fire Festival, too. 

@whatsatotem: Torch juggling daily, omfg.

@Syrcorax: Hmm everything?

@gamerfridge: That it is only once a year. I love the festival!

And of course, you can follow Apotheosis and Kurn on Twitter:

@ApotheosisET and @kurnmogh

Don’t forget to rate us up on iTunes!

Have a great fire festival guys and we’ll see you next week with a full breakdown of Patch 4.2!

Our special guest this episode is Beruthiel, from the blog Falling Leaves and Wings. She raids as a resto druid with the Horde guild Monolith on the US-Llane server.

Kurn pimps out Apotheosis, now 6/13. We’re looking for a tank, a second moonkin, a second elemental shaman and a second retribution paladin: http://www.apotheosis-now.com/

Kurn also pimps out Choice of Skywall, aiming for 4/13. They’re looking for a DPS DK, a resto or balance druid, a ret pally, a holy or disc priest, a resto or enhancement shaman and a DPS warrior: http://www.choiceguild.com/

Vidyala‘s post about alts that was mentioned: http://manalicious.wordpress.com/2011/06/10/how-playing-my-alt-was-hurting-my-raiding/

Rate us up on iTunes if you like the show!

Follow @ApotheosisET and @kurnmogh on Twitter to keep up to date with the happenings in Apotheosis and Kurn.

Don’t forget to check out Beru’s blog and her guild site!

Majik was at Digital Overload 2011 which is why we didn’t have a podcast last week. (Check out Ctrl-Alt-Del!)

Hot fixes through to June 1: http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/2690293

oRA3, an awesome raiding addon: http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/ora3.aspx

Our special guest this week is Serrinne (aka Sara), a raiding holy priest of ours in Apotheosis.

Fortune Card that Kurn flipped: You are very fortunate!

Latest hot fixes: http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/2690293

Stoneybaby of US Sen’jin’s Big Crits Blessing of Frost appearance: http://www.blessingoffrost.com/episode-11-progression-pointers

Kurn’s Healer Evaluation blog post: http://kurn.apotheosis-now.com/?p=1639

Lovely people YOU should follow because they were awesome enough to tweet me back about how they’re going to deal with summer slowdown stuff:

@JinxedThoughts: My bfs guild did a schedule to track everyones absence to make sure they had every raid event covered with enough people. From first of june to last of august

@Vosskah: we have a similar thread for planned absences. I also send raid invites a month ahead now to help with planning.

@mageic: nothing, as we are coming into Winter here

@matticus: with even more massive recruiting!

@JoeEgo812: Fight the apathy with recruitment & gkicks.

@Shetawy: Continue the show. it must go on after all!

And speaking of following people on twitter, check out Apotheosis (@ApotheosisET) and follow Kurn (@kurnmogh). Don’t forget to rate us up on iTunes!

Finally, Sara wants all healers to go to PlusHeal.com (run by Matticus of World of Matticus) and engage in some awesome healer talk.

We cut the Hot Fix segment out this week because we rambled a bit and didn’t want to go as long as we did, but do check out the official Blizzard hotfixes:

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/2690293#blog

Switch videos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvd5hpX2dy8 – Mage
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5mD1n4v2JA – Paladin

Kurn asked Twitter:

Have you ever changed raiding mains? Tweet me the WHY, now!

Here are some lovely people you should follow because they were awesome to respond to us!

@_darista_: Mage to Resto Shaman (duh) – bored with Mage, liked to heal, didn’t want to fight anymore over cloth gear hehe

@Orithea: switched from a warlock to a paladin because I discovered I loved tanking and healing

@Bindww: I changed from Resto Druid to Prot/DPS warrior for no particular reason, but maintained raider status anyway!

@Szayel_: I went from a Resto Shaman in TBC/WotLK to Holy Paladin mainly for a change of pace.

@Arydel_AD: Several times. And always because the guild needed it. Mage to Pally and then Pally to Priest in ICC.

@SaltySlainte: Switched from Shadow Priest to Holy Paladin. BC into WotLK. My DPS sucked, that’s why.

@TheWompage: switched from a DK to a holy pally because we needed healers. Levelled from 1 to 80 just to help out

Dayden: Went from tanking in Wrath to Enhancement Shaman. Enjoyed the complexity and chaos over 969.

@LynestaWoW: I changed raiding mains during EverQuest2 because my class got nerfed into the ground and our raid needed more healers.

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The quest Kurn finally read to learn about the overall “I see dead people” in Strat Live: The Dreadlord Balnazzar

Sadly, I do NOT have a screenshot of Ludde in guild chat to include here, although I swear I thought I took one. Apologies!

Hot Fixes: http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/2690293

Welcome to Jasyla of Cannot be Tamed!

Also, we were wrong. Guild banks were introduced in 2.3, the same patch that brought us Zul’Aman back in Burning Crusade.

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In the meantime, why not catch up with previous episodes of Blessing of Frost?

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Have a great week and Canadians — get yourselves out to the polls! All the info you need is here at Elections Canada.

Episode 18 is here to help you figure out what to do now that Patch 4.1 has hit the servers! Of course, we strongly encourage you to read the actual patch notes!

Official Patch Notes: http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/2657803

Official Patch Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMaGgT8fGnU

MMO-Champion’s 4.1 Info: http://www.mmo-champion.com/content/2265-Patch-4.1-on-Live-Servers-this-Week

Kurn’s Shoutout: Canadians should go to Elections.ca if you have any questions about voting next Monday, May 2nd!

Prior to the show, Kurn asked Twitter what they were most looking forward to with the patch. Here are the responses she got. Follow them!

@Jezriyah: The ability to farm an epic ranged weapon / TROOOOOOOOLL LOOOOOOOOOORE

@SerrinneWoW: Holy Word: Sanctuary buff!

@hestiahdruid: Smart heal for Efflorescence. And Efflorescence no longer being attached to Living Seed. / Being able to do all 7 heroic runs in a single day.

@whatsatotem: Revamped Fire Nova! (No, wait, now I actually have to use it. Bugger.)

@TikariOfET: Non-hit-dependent interrupts and rogue speed buff / Doesn’t like old raid gold nerfs.

Dayden: Call to Arms! A reason to put up with PUGs when I do my daily heroic. / not-hit based interrupts!

@xmolder: Warlocks being even better than they already are.

@Shathus: interrupts no longer missing!1!!11!

@Technophobia: Tie between archaeology changes and the continuation of ZG/ZA / Oh also I WILL SAVE MY LITTLE RAPTOR BUDDY, DAMMIT. / SAVING MY LITTLE RAPTOR BUDDY. (I may have had some alcohol.)

@Hulrok: Heirloom transfers. oh! And hunter AOE is suppose to hit harder now.

@Kaleri_: Strength of Soul removing other weakened soul debuffs! It’s gonna be a debuff removing-fest! / Oh, and sinnce the majority of my characters are healers and one tank, I’m kind of excited about the Call to Arms thinger!

@EntropiaWoW: the changes to the Resto Shaman Mastery is zomgawesome. ;D

@ammonightfall: all the QQ threads!!! Lol / cheap crystals n new dungeons to heal

@matticus: Can’t wait to go trollllll hunting!

@roseofmontague: Rogue movement speed while stealthed buff and the implementation of different graphics for enemy area effects (Ring of Frost, etc.)

@MoodyDK: Raise Ally!

@Bindww: My bags overflowing with glorious maelstrom crystals. Landslide and improved enchants for all my gear!

@JRWStormy: I was a WOTLK baby, so I’m looking forward to NEW CONTENT I’ve never seen! De trolls, mon, de trolls! Also, MIND SEAR BUFF YAY.

@RoaringRogue: Interrupts that don’t miss are high up on the list.

@LunarthePriest: I’m excited for the new AoE healing graphics for druids and priests! Especially the priest, its all sparkly with fairy dust! lol

@JoshuaLive: New efflorescence look. And that’s about it xD

@Velidra: tanking heirlooms oddly enough

@Kenichan: Any indication of Ragnaros related to C’thun lore

@_darista_: New totem toys!

Merk: Frost DK buffs, tanking bribes.

Apply to Apotheosis at http://www.apotheosis-now.com/main/! Seeking a moonkin, a ret pally, a resto druid, an elemental shaman and more!

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Episode 17 arrives with Tiandrina as our guest this week! We gripe about weird heroic lockouts and talk a lot about reputation with the Queen of Rep of Apotheosis!

Remote Guild Chat Announcement

Elections.ca – Canadians, go vote on May 2nd!

Choice of Skywall – Looking for just about anything except warlocks and hunters, Choice is a great group of people who are 11/12 on 25-man (just Al’Akir up) and 12/12 on 10-man. Apply now!

Prior to the show, I asked people to tweet me with their most hated rep grinds and the ones they thought were easiest. Follow these fine people!

@DPShaw3: Earthen Ring is least favorite right now. Needs dailies!

@TikariOfET: Timbermaw and sporeggar weren’t bad – herbalist rogue made the latter easy. Hate ogrila; aether rays at 80 or 85 suck

@kenakabones: you say that implying any rep doesnt suck… but the most hated would have to be Hydraxian Waterlords just because its so limited

@Bindww: Without question the guild rep. It takes too long of a grind and the random caps it puts on rep makes it nigh impossible to hit Exalted with a new guild. Deters people from leaving their guilds and hurts recruitment as a whole.

@Hulrok: Favorite was the rep grind in Nagrand for the mount. Least favorite was Sons of Hodir, pre relics.

@SerrinneWoW: Switching from Scryer exalted to Aldor exalted was my most hated but gave me an achivement.  SOOO many dead spiders! hyjal rep was easy and fun

@Technophobia: favorites = any Bronze Dragonflight related ones.  Most-hated = Duke Wetnap and the Hydraxian Warlords.

Episode 16 is here with tips and tricks and details about the Cho’gall fight and the Nefarian fight, the two end-bosses of Bastion of Twilight and Blacking Descent, respectively.

It was @Elsen_DraenorEU who said she was going to listen to all 15 episodes of Blessing of Frost at work on Monday to keep her sane. Tweet her and let her know there are other, better options for her sanity!

Choice of Skywall – holy paladins should apply so Kurn doesn’t lose what’s left of her sanity.

Conquest of Ner’zhul – The guild run by THEEEEEE Matticus of World of Matticus.

Announcements about the Dungeon Finder Call-to-Arms:

http://www.mmo-champion.com/content/2243-Patch-4.1-Preview-Dungeon-Finder-Call-to-Arms
http://www.mmo-champion.com/content/2245-Dungeon-Finder-Call-to-Arms-Clarification

Apply to Apotheosis at http://www.apotheosis-now.com/main/!

Cho’gall tips:

@xmolder: While taking down the adds in Cho’gall’s fight is important, demo locks need to cut out that Hellfire spam. Send your felguard in, but stand back and use Rain of Fire for the bloods. Immo Aura is totally safe for the eyestalks, though.

@SturgarHawkwind: Re: Cho’Gall: Going into Phase 2, if there’s no fire on the throne, tank him there and clump up inside the skull. Gathers up the Creations in a small area (allowing for AoE). Also, if you’ve got SV hunters, Entrapment is HUGE. If you need blood help, get it.

@Shathus: have a hunter spec w/Entrapment for 2 extra slime stuns on Cho’gall

Dayden: Prot paladins can make a macro to target an enemy player, throw AS, then target back to Cho.  Works great to break worshiping!

@BeruHeals: Make a power aura for when you are puking so you don’t throw up on your friends!

@e_man41: IRL power aura needed RT “@BeruHeals: @kurnmogh Make a power aura for when you are puking so you don’t throw up on your friends!

@TikariOfET: Cho: Hotkey *all* your interrupts and determine a priority order going in so you know which to fire next.

@TikariOfET: Cho: smokebomb works wonders on tentacles. Smoke, they’ll target you, then cloak off. Lowers the raid damage.

Nefarian tips:

@Derevka: Lightwell on the Pillars for Nef. Glyph Psychic Scream on Chogal.

@walkstweets: Nefarian: despite pillar assignments, everyone on the pillar (who isn’t assigned) who can interrupt should gun for the first! / Nefarian: On the pillars, a lightwell can be placed over the lava. It floats!

@SerrinneWoW: 4Nef: click the lightwell while tail-whipped!  useable while stunned  also glyph your GS/PS if you are the p3 add tank healer

@xmolder: Bane of Havoc and Shadowburn are a destro lock’s best friends in Nefarian! Use them on Ony (or Nef, if you’re on Ony-duty) and the pillar add to help keep Improved Soul Fire rolling without hard casting it. Plus, it pads the meters.

@JoeEgo812: Glyphed Divine Protection + HoSac on a tank for a crackle works. Useful? Not sure.

@Bindww: INTERRUPT!!!!! / for Nef p2. Jump up onto the platform at an angle so you don’t get stuck on the sides

@OriginalOestrus: Body & Soul is great for helping the add tank kite adds in P3 and for your healers to keep up with them.

@TikariOfET: rogue-specific: feint at 2s left on elec. cast and cloak (if up) at .5s. That way if timing is off on cloak, feint will be up / if you’re having trouble getting out of lava, try a different spot around the pillar. Tab-target before getting out.

Shoutout Links:

Kurn: Canadians, go vote on May 2nd! elections.ca has all the info you need. Also, huge thanks to Beru from Falling Leaves and Wings for help with heroic Chimaeron and Maloriak info!

Rate us up on iTunes!

And here’s Apotheosis vs. Nefarian!

Episode 15 of Blessing of Frost — how on earth did that happen? No guest this week, just Majik and Kurn chattering away about Halfus Wyrmbreaker, Valiona & Theralion and the Ascendant Council.

And we are proven wrong once again… Hours after recording the podcast, MMO-Champion updated the ZA/ZG loot list to include: Bracers of Hidden Purpose. The purpose of which, I imagine, is so that Kurn can upgrade from 316 blue bracers relatively easily…

Vidyala’s Gemming for Fire Mages post

Blizzard’s April Fool’s Patch Notes

Thanks to Selyndia who commented over on my blog about Al’Akir

Halfus Schedule: http://www.halfus.info/ and http://www.wowpedia.org/Halfus_Wyrmbreaker#Drake_combinations

Canadians, go vote on May 2nd! http://www.elections.ca/

Rate us up on iTunes!

Tips and tricks from helpful people on Twitter (follow them!):

@Hulrok: In Council trash, be sure you can tell which circles are bad and which are good.

@walkstweets: You can sneak up the middle of the room to avoid trash between Halfus and the Drakes. / I suppose more seriously: the phase shifter trash can be LoSed and aoed down (the two packs before Halfus). / Hand of Protection is great for the stacks on Halfus, Hand of Freedom yourself after getting the grounded buff to axe the slow.

@SturgarHawkwind: Do the Portal masters last, they create much wackiness. Also, on the faceless, split em up and ice trap preemptively.

@bippy1990: be liberal with mana on the dragons as mana tide can be dropped more than once xx / my guild like blood lust to be dropped on the first drake on halfus. From a resto shammy on EU – Saurfang xx

@TikariOfET: V&T – rogues should be feinting throughout the fight, redirecting between dragons, and using cloak for blackout/meteorite. / You should send someone you’re willing to sacrifice down the long stairs to eat the elementals.

@JoeEgo812: Parachute cloak, slow fall, HoP, charge abilities, etc all prevent fall damage from Gravity Crush.

Welcome to Episode 14 of Blessing of Frost! Our special guest this week is the first repeat guest on the podcast, the tank officer of Apotheosis, Dayden. Our subject, as you may have guessed from the episode title of Back in Blackwing, is Blackwing Descent. Tune in to hear about basic Blackwing Descent boss abilities, tips, tricks and the like from the perspectives of a healer, a tank and a DPS.

Kurn’s post: Lowbie Holy Paladin Guidance
Echelon (H) of Eldre’Thalas gets the Realm First H. Nefarian Kill. Grats!
Cassandri’s post at HoTs & DoTs about BRD
Rawr: http://rawr.codeplex.com/
4.2/Dev Answers #3 at MMO-Champion
Have Group, Will Travel Hotfix at MMO-Champion
Dayden’s previous appearance on Blessing of Frost

Dayden tanking Maloriak, pre-4.0.6.

Tweets from helpful followers:

@walkstweets “Actually, @healbot‘s latest post taught me an interesting thing about Magmaw: you can BoP a tank on the mangle.”

@JRWStormy “Only been to Magmaw. Absolutely brutal on spriest mana. Smart mana cooldown usage is key.”

@jedsblog “On Tron fight, kiting the poison adds through the poison cloud increases the damage done to them. Works for trons too!”

@LadyErinia “best tip I can think of.  on ods, ctrl 1 is your friend.  make you pet attack the right target.”

@EntropiaWoW “On the Elevator boss: Wait till it’s ascending and near the top before you get on!”

@BeruHeals of Falling Leaves and Wings “Black/White listing interruptible abilities for Maloriak will save you a ton of headaches.”

Addon: Gnosis for black/whitelisting spell casting and other stuff.

@JoeEgo812 “Watch your threat meter for ph2 Chimaeron > Will be the death order > Use HoProtection on caster dps as their turn arrives.”

@walkstweets “On phase 2 of Chimaeron, Shields (PW:S and IH) still provide healing benefit. BoPing your tank also will let you top him off.”

@Kaleri_ “life grip by Kaleri on atramedes is awesome?”

@e_man41 “A rogue makes the Atramedes air phase too easy.”

Shoutouts:

Kurn: to Megs (aka @whatsatotem) for Pocket Frogs!
Dayden: to the bar staff at the Barcelo Punta Cana
Majik: to Mabs for Rawr

Episode 13 makes its long-awaited debut after being interrupted mid-recording on Monday. Our special guest this week is Vidyala of Manalicious, who you may remember as The Pugging Pally. Vid is the guild master of Business Time, an Alliance 10-man raiding guild over on the US-Moonrunner server. Our topic this week is 10s vs. 25s!

Thanks to everyone for tweeting at me with regards to our topic! Here are the various tweets I got, distilled down into the basics. Follow these people on Twitter if you’re not already.

25 issues:
- more of a chance you’ll raid with someone you don’t like – Dahrla
- harder to diagnose issues due to the larger group composition – Walks
- more paperwork – Walks
- 25s are much harder on your framerate – Fannon451
- more officers, more organization, “tends to feel more like a small country than a group of friends playing a game” – Dahrla
- some people in 25s feel like strangers – Dahrla
- not being able to find 15 more! – SaltySlainte

10 issues:
- everyone needs to perform to their best ability/less margin for error – Vosskah, Shathus
- you don’t have every class buff – _Rades, Mrhealthplan had to switch from holy priest to holy pally for the group to have might.
- there’s probably no such thing as an “ideal raid comp” given the lack of bodies – Walks, Dayden
- can feel less grandiose – Vosskah, Dahrla
- zone-heal mechanics are not as effective in a 10-man setting (Light of Dawn and Holy Radiance in particular) – Walks

Ranking sites:

- WoWProgress
- GuildOx
- WowTrack

Blessing of Frost on iTunes, rate us up!

Follow @ApotheosisET and @kurnmogh on Twitter, too!

Apologies for the delay, but when you have no power, it’s kind of hard to record a podcast! Check back on Thursday, March 17th (St. Patrick’s Day!) for a not-remotely-Irish-themed Blessing of Frost!

Episode 12 is here and we talk about the recent announcement that Blizzard intends to release more frequent, smaller patches, rather than the grandiose patches of the Wrath of the Lich King era. Our special guest this week is Apotheosis‘ own Jaymzhendo, our resident feral DPS druid.

Links mentioned in the show:

Lissana’s WoW Major Content Patch History at Restokin

Patch notes for ALL WoW Patches at Wowpedia

Patch 4.1 Features/Blue Posts at MMO-Champion

Team Waffle Podcast (Druid-centric podcast)

Apotheosis Recruitment Videos: Video 1 and Video 2

Blessing of Frost’s iTunes link: rate us up!

Apotheosis and Kurn on Twitter: @ApotheosisET and @kurnmogh

This week, we explore raiding, progression and how to figure out where to go for your next kill in this non-linear tier. Our special guest this week is Stoneybaby, the GM of Big Crits, the Horde guild from the Sen’jin (US) server.

In other news, we have a new iTunes feed! Subscribe and rate us up!

http://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/id422832793

Links mentioned in the show:

Daily Blink comic: “This Idea’s Got Legs!”

Feist The Rogue on Twitter

Feist’s guild, Midwinter of Ysera

MrVoletron on YouTube and on Twitter

Thorim, featuring Onyxia Wipe Guy by MrVoletron

Bad Girls, featuring Sindragosa by MrVoletron

Stoneybaby (@stoneybaby) on Twitter

Big Crits Website and YouTube channel

Also, here’s an informal poll for our listeners. Is Kurn really the only one who would never faction-change to Horde? What would you do?

As usual, you can follow Kurn and Apotheosis on Twitter (@kurnmogh, @ApotheosisET) and leave us comments here or send us feedback at:

podcast [at] blessingoffrost [dot] com

Tune in next week for a new episode on Tuesday, March 1st, along with a brand-new iTunes feed, since the old one seems to not want to update no matter how we try to convince it to do so.

Wrath of the Lich King is over and done with. We’ve returned to the Eastern Kingdoms and Kalimdor and similarly, have grouped up together to face content in guilds, more often than not. There are a lot more guilds this expansion, many of them smaller than back in the Burning Crusade or Vanilla days. This episode examines why, exactly, it’s good to be guilded!

Apothesois YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/apotheosisonet
Choice of Skywall — recruiting now! http://www.choiceguild.com/
Guild Advancement/Perks at Wowhead: http://www.wowhead.com/guide=cataclysm&guilds
Kurn’s blogs about the Light of Dawn nerf/unnerf: Blog 1 (nerf), Blog 2 (unnerf), Blog 3 (thoughts)
Osephala’s blog – she does our awesome episode graphics! Crispy Hands

4.0.6 is about to drop and we have a ton of info about it here in Episode 9 of Blessing of Frost! Please note that you should still read the patch notes to make sure you’re up to date on all of the changes, but hopefully our overview is helpful and/or amusing.

Links:

Patch notes at MMO-Champion: http://www.mmo-champion.com/content/2172-Patch-4.0.6-on-live-realms-this-week
Apotheosis YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/apotheosisonet
Osephala’s blog: http://crispyhands.wordpress.com/

Blessing of Frost Episode 8 has arrived and we are talking about professions this week! Find out what Kurn’s twitter followers think is the worst profession to level, listen to the banter between Kurn and Majik and get to know this week’s guest, Dahrla, a shadow priest in Apotheosis.

Links:

Celiebugs’ Raid Tips! – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBXjBRUxkz4
MC Raiders Video – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjmJCy1ksYY
All-priest Ony Raid – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAmXZPuS7L0
Shadowpriest.com – http://shadowpriest.com
Beruthiel’s blog – http://fallingleavesandwings.wordpress.com/
Osephala’s blog – http://crispyhands.wordpress.com/

Episode 8 will be released shortly! Our other episodes are also available here.

We release the podcast weekly, or close to that, and while there’s a definite slant towards our guild, Apotheosis, we do talk about a variety of WoW-related things and spend surprisingly little time chatting about guild stuff. Stay tuned, we have lots of stuff to talk about and hope you enjoy listening.

Blessing of Frost is back again with a brand-new episode, with a very special guest star!

Choice of Skywall: http://www.choiceguild.com/

Choice’s “How to Apply Correctly” post.

Choice’s Recruitment Forum which includes all the info you need in order to apply! They’re currently seeking a holy paladin, a resto druid, a balance druid, a feral kitty druid, a rogue, a DPS DK and an enhancement shaman! (Apotheosis, on the other hand, would love a restoration shaman…!) Choice is currently 3/12 after one reset of 25-man raiding. Go check them out!

Kurn’s Self-Evaluation on her blog.

Follow Apotheosis (@ApotheosisET) and Kurn (@kurnmogh) on Twitter.

That’s right, yet another episode of Blessing of Frost is out!

Links mentioned in the show:

Joust: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joust_(video_game)

Plants vs. Zombies: http://www.popcap.com/games/free/pvz?mid=pvz_pcweb_en_full

PTR 4.0.6 Patch Notes: (official PTR forum) (Wowhead) (MMO-Champion)

Dar’s shout-out: Curse.com

Darista’s Twitter (@_darista) and blog (Daritos’ Food for Thought)

Follow Apotheosis (@ApotheosisET) and Kurn (@kurnmogh) on Twitter, too!

Episode 5 of Blessing of Frost is finally here after a two-week holiday break. Majik and Kurn spend about an hour chatting about their early Cataclysm experiences, Kurn talks about money-making in-game and the General Chat topic is about preparing for raids. Fun stuff, good times, listen today!

Links mentioned in the podcast:

Mysterious Fortune Card image from TheDailyBlink.com:http://www.thedailyblink.com/2010/12/this-warning-now-required-by-law/

Nub Tales 5.2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtdZF77gc3Y

Raid info resources: TankSpot.com, Wowpedia.org, Wowhead.com

Magmaw strat at MMO-Champion.com: http://media.mmo-champion.com/images/news/2010/december/magmawww.jpg

Episode 4 of Blessing of Frost is here! Listen to Majik and Kurn, along with their special guest, Dayden, discuss their first impressions of World of Warcraft: Cataclysm. Super-long episode once again, clocking in at 95 minutes. And that’s after cutting out almost 20 minutes!

Links mentioned in the podcast:

Beru’s post on how to Set your Oven to Cataclysmic.

Wowhead’s movie on how to find the instance entrances.

El’s guide to power-levelling Inscription.

Twitters: @ApotheosisET and @kurnmogh

Email: blessingoffrost [at] apotheosis-now [dot] com

Just in time for your wait for your local store to open up to sell Cataclysm, it’s Episode 3 of Blessing of Frost! It’s a longer episode than most, designed to make sure you’re not bored while installing the game or waiting in line!

Links:

Oestrus’ blogs and Twitter: Divine Aegis - http://www.divineaegis.com/ and The Stories of O -http://thestoriesofo.wordpress.com/ and @OriginalOestrus -http://www.twitter.com/OriginalOestrus and Oestrus’ Guide to the Chakra Sutra -http://divineaegis.com/2010/10/26/oestrus-guide-to-the-chakra-sutra/ and Oestrus’ guest post at Ecclesiastical Discipline -http://ecclesiasticaldiscipline.wordpress.com/2010/12/04/cataclysm-faction-rewards-for-priests/

Codi at Moar HPS! - http://moarhps.wordpress.com/

What Wrath players need to know to not suck at Cata! - http://www.mmo-champion.com/threads/795945-What-Wrath-players-need-to-know-to-not-suck-at-Cata!

Darista’s awesome Decursive post that anyone who CAN cleanse something should read -http://daritos.apotheosis-now.com/?p=24

Rebecca Judd at MMO Melting Pot - http://www.mmomeltingpot.com/

Twitters: @ApotheosisET and @kurnmogh

Email: blessingoffrost [at] apotheosis-now [dot] com

It’s time for Episode 2 of Blessing of Frost on this extended maintenance Tuesday in North America!

Majik’s Link: Literal Cataclysm Trailer

American/Fake Thanksgiving reference: Clip from How I Met Your Mother

Choice (A) of Skywall: http://www.choiceguild.com/

Pets/Anniversary: MMO-Champion’s post

Deathwing!: Kurn’s Blog Post with useful links and video

Twitters: @ApotheosisET and @kurnmogh

Email: blessingoffrost [at] apotheosis-now [dot] com

Welcome to the first-ever episode of a new World of Warcraft podcast — Blessing of Frost. Blessing of Frost is a podcast hosted by Kurn and Majik of Apotheosis. Have a listen!

(It should be noted that about an hour after we finished recording, the race changes were confirmed to be going live, not just re-rolls.)

Links referred to during the podcast:

Loot stuff: Dark Legacy Comics #152

Majik’s shout-out to Darista, a fellow guildie and officer: Daritos’ Food for Thought / Decursive Post

Fire is bad: Root and Branch’s “Warning: Never Do This”

You can email us at blessingoffrost [at] apotheosis-now [dot] com and you can leave comments here, too.

Thanks for listening!