WoW Insider Show Episode 138: Strangely alluring despite their disfigurement
by Michael Sacco 
May 4th 2010 at 6:00PM
Every week, we present you with the WoW Insider Show podcast -- an hour's worth of WoW community discussion, covering everything from the week's top stories here on WoW.com to emails from our readers to what's been going on with our particular characters in Azeroth.
Along with your hosts, WoW.com Senior Editor Michael Sacco and Contributing Editor Matthew Rossi, we also feature rotating guest hosts, whether regular WoW.com contributors or personalities from other sites.
Want to have your question answered on the air? Email theshow@wow.com!
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Today's show features:
Along with your hosts, WoW.com Senior Editor Michael Sacco and Contributing Editor Matthew Rossi, we also feature rotating guest hosts, whether regular WoW.com contributors or personalities from other sites.
Want to have your question answered on the air? Email theshow@wow.com!
Get the podcast:
[iTunes] Subscribe to the WoW Insider Show directly in iTunes.
[RSS] Add the WoW Insider Show to your RSS aggregator.
[MP3] Download the MP3 directly.
Today's show features:
- Guest hosts: WoW.com editor-in-chief Liz Harper
- Top stories:
- Reader emails:
- Why can't we make our characters look a little more gritty for Cataclysm?
- Does age affect maturity and group synergy in guilds?
- Where the heck is Sargeras?
- Doesn't the new raid progression system for Cataclysm make it more like vanilla WoW?
- And more!
Filed under: Podcasts, WoW Insider Show
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Donhorn May 4th 2010 6:21PM
Okay, just started listening and first thing I hear is the Dr Who theme. That just made my day. And that's only in the first few seconds! :D
Bvannas May 4th 2010 6:41PM
First time listening, and Rossi sounds cool, kinda feel bad about voting for him to roll an arcane spec BE mage :P
falc May 4th 2010 8:08PM
Woo! New podcast out already :)
Time to grab my weekly fix :D
SlimPickens42 May 4th 2010 10:34PM
You guys freaked me out. I listen to the podcast on my iPhone. I have the Doctor Who theme as my ring tone. I couldn't figure out why nobody was on the phone when I tried to answer it.
BuzzDX May 5th 2010 1:24AM
If Adam is whispering horrible things to Mike, it means he must be an Old God. And that Sacco will eventually go mad and we'll have to put him down. And get purples in the process. :-)
Adam Holisky May 5th 2010 1:43AM
Is it odd that I approve of this comment?
Up voted.
rayray May 5th 2010 6:20AM
http://media.photobucket.com/image/sargeras/vip_late/sargeras___destroyer_of_worlds_by_s.jpg?o=11
that picture of him stabbing a world?
Minos May 5th 2010 11:29AM
About Worgen named "Logan" or variations thereof: Blizz beat you to it. The leader of the Wolvar in Dragonblight is named "Loguhn".
Cephas May 5th 2010 11:57PM
I was a little disappointed that you used the 2005 Doctor Who theme, since I've recently fallen in love with the 2010 theme.
Feezee May 7th 2010 12:46PM
When Rossi says OS3D is the only difficult 10 man hardmode he is ignoring two significant factors: 1 gear and 2 experience.
OF COURSE 10 man content is easier to people who walk in overgearing it, that’s simple maths. If you raid 25 mans and then 10 mans you get to experience the fights more. If you do not try the 10 man raid without any 25 man gear and prior experience, you cannot accurately judge the difficulty.
Raiding with purely 10 man itemization and without twice the experience IS hard, and the fights are complicated because of this. 30 guilds have cleared all of heroic ICC on 25 man, but no guilds have done so on 10 man strict. This is because the fights are hard, not because the players are bad.
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25 is a larger number than 10, thus making 25 people do the same action properly at the same time is inherently more difficult than making 10 people do the same. Faaaantastic point! You've proved that in a glass-bubble, made up, useless real-world example, a number 2.5 times larger than another number is... well, larger! Genius!
To most people with a functioning cerebellum, this illustration would need to be altered to fit the real-world example we might see from Blizzard -- within the smaller group, 2 people must hit the button, and in the larger group, 5 people must do so. Thus in both cases, the group must elect 20% of it's members who are best at button pressing to perform the task.
Or even a step further, as is often the case, the numbers are identical, not percentages, so in the smaller group, 2 people must hit the button, and likewise in the larger group, still only 2 people (think tanking, kiting, misc. roles during many boss encounters).