WoW Insider Show Episode 120: Dungeon Findorama
by Mike Schramm 
Dec 15th 2009 at 1:00PM
Bad news, all: we didn't win the podcast award we were up for (congrats to the 4Player Podcast, who won the award and are now our sworn enemies -- we're igniting the rivalry!). But as we say on this show, we'll still be doing the bedtime story for you all anyway, just because you're so great. And yes, above is the check I'm mailing to Turpster for guessing the patch 3.3 release date correctly -- don't let it ever be said that we here at WoW.com aren't men of our word.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
HENRY Dec 15th 2009 1:16PM
Atleast mike is a man of his word unlike matt low who didnt destory val'anyr on the live realm seen in the link http://www.wow.com/2009/12/02/valanyr-destroyed-after-lost-bet/.
Paultab Dec 15th 2009 2:47PM
Turpster, let us know if that sucker bounces! :)
nieboh Dec 15th 2009 1:16PM
Taping over your address makes sense. Taping over your routing info and account number makes perfect sense. The only thing I don't get is taping over what appears to be your middle initial in your name. But, unless I'm missing something, isn't that on your signature?
Mike Schramm Dec 15th 2009 1:29PM
Secrets...
Dere Dec 15th 2009 1:30PM
I think that is a piece of tape holding the other piece over his address, but i could be wrong.
Starsmore Dec 15th 2009 1:35PM
Mike: "Hey, Turpster, I betcha another $20 you can never guess my middle initial!"
Needless to say, that was a bet soon lost.
Stephen Dec 15th 2009 2:45PM
Thanks for giving us a copy of your legal signature.
Stephen Dec 15th 2009 2:46PM
A signature that includes your middle initial
Jen Dec 15th 2009 3:11PM
Yet the routing information is also still there. Should probably change the entire photo, this can't bring good things :(
Jon Rock Dec 15th 2009 1:17PM
I pretty much hate that they nurfed Occ. :( It was my favorite instance because you really had to think about what your doing instead of being a mindless AOE zombie. Oh well. Say-la-Vee. (My french is ultra-bad)
Krick Dec 15th 2009 1:48PM
C'est la vie
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%27est_la_vie
Abbadon Dec 15th 2009 2:53PM
Yea, Oculus was never really hard as long as at least 3 or 4 ppl understood the drakes. It was generally easy enough to explain the fight to 1 or 2 ppl and get by with minimal wipes.
I finally got the joy of running the nerfed Oc the other day. My first experience was on when the random popped on my lock. I was mounted doing the jousting daily; so it didn't automatically port me to the instance, but I was part of the group. A couple ppl dropped and my first thought was that we must have drawn Oculus! I went ahead and dismounted / ported to the instance and sure enough, it was Oc.
Later that day, I drew Oculus as the random daily on my spriest as well. Everyone stuck it out, and the tank let me ride the red drake so I could finish my Experience Drake Rider achievement. Everyone seemed to know the drakes for the most part, altough there was ZERO communication on the time stops for when the last boss does his mini-enrage (which all i know it as is "Such insolence, such arrogance"). But even with totally botching those time stops, we only lost 1 player during the fight and still one shotted it and got the 20 minute run achievement.
It truly is a joke now. If only more ppl would give it a chance and see this for themselves. As DPS, it truly sucks to have to sit in the LFG queue for another 10-15 minutes to join a new random daily because ppl are afraid of The Oculus.
On a side note, I've had a couple groups disband on me now when doing the random dungeons. I found that if you leave group, you get the 15 min debuff. However, if everyone else leaves first (automatically disbanding the group entirely), you will not get the debuff! (Now that I've said that, the last 2 ppl will sit there and argue, "You leave..." "No, you leave...")
Eyhk Dec 15th 2009 5:15PM
Sidenote @Abaddon and everybody else
Waiting it out until the group disbands might be a valid way of skipping the deserter debuff, but unless you absolutely hate the instance and refuse to run it, simply requeue. This will put you back at the FRONT of the queue for more members instead of waiting another 10~15 minutes to get a different random dungeon, which will probably be the same dungeon you just deserted, thanks to Blizzard's awesome "Random" Number Generator (I can hear riots of laughter going off at Blizz HQ and the sobs of anybody who's done gathering quests where the last item JUST WON'T DROP)
Repconsul Dec 15th 2009 1:18PM
"we're igniting the rivalry!" = It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia reference... :o
Not only do you know wow, you have good taste sir...
jfofla Dec 15th 2009 1:25PM
Does not seem to be on iTunes yet.
jfofla Dec 15th 2009 1:26PM
Whoops...(embarrassed face) nevermind...
it is.
Wrox Dec 15th 2009 1:27PM
Check #286? I remember when I was sixteen, too. Those were good days.
Egrep Dec 15th 2009 3:00PM
Or that's a check written from his seldom-used "Making good on lost bets" account.
There's no overdraft protection on that account. That's just how crazy Mike Q. Schramm is.
Adam Holisky Dec 15th 2009 11:00PM
Or...
Who writes checks anymore? In the past six years I've maybe written 10.
Leejin Dec 15th 2009 1:32PM
OMG.. would you guys pleeeeeease get your levels taken care of. Mike, you're too quiet... I do love listening to Turpster, but the rest of the company does not. (I know, weird right)
Anyways.. pleeeease turn match your levels...
Jeebus