WoW Insider Show Episode 85: Appeasing the Ret Monkey
by Mike Schramm 
Apr 13th 2009 at 11:30AM
A good time was had as always on last weekend's WoW Insider Show -- Adam Holisky kindly stepped into the broadcasting booth with Turpster and I, and we answered some emails (including whether it's OK to give cloth drops to leather wearers, as long as it's an upgrade, and more on which tanking class is the best to take with you), and talked turkey on the biggest stories in the World of Warcraft. We chatted about what might be in store for the next content patch and expansion, what's up with WoW's numbers still going up, and what's new with Wintergrasp in 3.1. We also had a straight-from-the-scene report about the PETA event -- stay tuned for more about that later today.And we got some interesting Ret Monkey pictures -- the one to the right is by Hydralol of EU Magtheridon, and the other one in the gallery below is by Abbort from Hellscream. Both of these, and any other pictures that you can come up with of the Ret Monkey or any of us who work on the show can be eligible for our Fan Art contest, so enter that if you'd like.
Finally, we have rounded 6,000 followers on our Twitter account, and we're headed to 9,000 -- as we say on the show, it would be great if we could hit that by our 100th show, and combine everything into one big party-down spectacular. So tell your twitterfriends, especially those interested in WoW, to give us a follow. They (and you) won't regret it.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Faz Apr 13th 2009 11:40AM
It looks like the monkey has a girthy hammer there..
Duceman Apr 13th 2009 12:23PM
Best picture ever
Woolwort Apr 13th 2009 12:12PM
It's Spanky the happy Ret monkey.
leoff Apr 13th 2009 2:07PM
That hammer could be considered NSFW.
Greg Padilla Apr 13th 2009 2:27PM
So, why does this monkey's thingy look like the bottom end of a hammer?
OnlySupernova Apr 13th 2009 2:37PM
Because there are so few characters which can use leather caster gear, Blizzard has made less of it. For moonkin, there are slots where most of the bis gear is cloth (most notably endgame legs). An arbitrary rule denying moonkin cloth will only gimp your group dps. I'm not saying moonkin should just go crazy with cloth, but if they're asking to roll on stuff that are true upgrades, don't hurt their play because of technical armor class. (Since armor is a useless stat for moonkin, and that's the only real change for leather over cloth.)
RetPallyJil Apr 13th 2009 2:59PM
Keep calling us monkeys, and the only art you'll see is the art of a proper beatdown :P
Triptothane Apr 13th 2009 3:09PM
monkey tail FAIL
elstor Apr 13th 2009 3:54PM
Turpster don't be so funny! I was listening to the show, while at work, while mining, while drinking water, when I heard the part at the very end about the Turpster's Tit--er, Tips 'into' and shot snot flying into my glass, died laughing, and had coworkers staring at me.
thatguy Apr 13th 2009 4:23PM
DING DONG! Hello!
jake Apr 13th 2009 8:15PM
WOW that's a huge hammer.
JustSomeGuy Apr 13th 2009 6:17PM
Ret Monkey says "Don't Do Drugs, but Do check out my schlong".
dotorion Apr 15th 2009 3:07AM
Mike. A note on new people entering WoW ...
They're not in Northrend.
It's not because Northrend is so big that you magicly miss people new to WoW, it's because they start in the old world.