The WoW Insider Show Episode 178: We're all a bunch of mumblers on this podcast
by Adam Holisky 
Jan 25th 2011 at 3:00PM
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
prenden2 Jan 25th 2011 3:13PM
Seeing as we're approximately 6 months away from episode 200, I thought I'd make a request/suggestion for the big one:
Would it be possible to get Mike Schramm and Turpster back for number 200? It'd be a lovely blast from the past. Thanks for reading!
razion Jan 25th 2011 5:00PM
Heck, let's extend that and get BRK in on the action, too!
MusedMoose Jan 25th 2011 7:36PM
And Archmage Pants! The first WoW Insider show I ever listened to, I did so because Mr. Belt was on it. Been a fan ever since. ^_^
tmenssen Jan 26th 2011 2:40AM
He was on it? Does anyone know the episode number??
Also, much agreed with the getting Schramm and the Turpster back, as well as Mr. Belt. Also, live. The recent live podcasts were a lot of fun to be a part of.
jfofla Jan 25th 2011 3:18PM
I wonder why the iTunes link is never ready when the show article posts? Is there some kind of delay with iTunes?
Jeff (Not that one ^ ) Jan 25th 2011 7:33PM
iTunes, as a middle-man, slows things down some.
Non-iTunes podcast apps check the RSS feed directly and thus get faster responses. iTunes checks the iTunes store to see if a podcast has added an episode.
The server checks the feed, then the app checks the server, instead of directly checking the feed*.
All in all, you're only looking at maybe 1 or 2 minutes difference--if even that much. Earlier I clicked the iTunes link. When it opened in my browser, there was no new episode. When I clicked for it to open in iTunes, the new episode was there.
*Purely non-scientific "thinking' of how it works. I've never actually investigated it.
Todd Jan 25th 2011 3:35PM
Am I the only person having trouble getting the rss feed to work with Google Listen on my Andrioid phone?
Aigarius Jan 25th 2011 4:45PM
Welcome to the light! Mumble is an awesome open source protocol and clients. Grats on using something cool. Now go do it on Linux :D
Nathan Jan 25th 2011 4:50PM
Thank you for talking about classic raiding vs. raiding today. It gets me to no end when I see someone say "Classic raiding was way harder, bosses took months to take down. Today's raiding is easymode." There are several reasons bosses took months to go down, and none of them had to do the reason raiding is much harder now.
1) Broken bosses/buggy mechanics. This is the reason some of the hardest bosses took so long, C'thun was killed THE DAY after blizzard finally fixed his bug.
2) Gear issues. When resistance gear grinding was the only way to beat certain bosses, it could take weeks before everyone in the raid had enough to beat the boss.
3) Lack of understanding. True raiding was still in its infant stage, so mechanic comprehension took a lot longer. Not to mention that before server transfers, if you didn't have a good raid group, you had to reroll on another server and level that toon up just to start over.
4)Lack of addons/guides for bosses. There were a few addons and sites that explained how to do bosses, but they were nowhere near to the extent that we have today.
When you step back and look at it, every boss in vanilla WoW had 2-3 mechanics to watch out for, healing was not as intense, and you could have 3-4 d/ced players as well as 2 afkers and still drop the bosses with little problem. There are those that miss the "epicness" of 40-man raiding, but when you take off the rose-tinted glasses, you can see that if it weren't for these now fixed issues, raiding would have been much easier back in Vanilla.
kia Jan 25th 2011 11:34PM
Organizing 40 people is hard too - even if it was possible for a couple to go AFK when today that wouldn't work generally speaking 40 is just more difficult to herd.. And all the time that went into buffing, summoning and passing out mage food. The whole thing was logistically far more difficult and I think people often are really thinking of those aspects when they say it was harder.
Chokaa Jan 26th 2011 5:36AM
And don't forget raid markings. If you remember before we had skull, cross, star, etc. Having to use priests mind vision and hunter's marks to get offtanks to target the right add (here's looking at you, Garr)
Oh! And out of combat rezzers. The guys who would sit way far away from the boss with the sole job of rezzing the dudes that died... That was a fun job(sarcasm, that was the boringest job EVER)
Mygirlsguns Jan 25th 2011 10:28PM
Anyone know why when i download the show on my touch it's not in the video files and i just cant find it.
Eduardo Jan 26th 2011 6:04AM
I always thought the night elves were voiced by the late Tony Jay, who was the narrator for the original World of WarCraft starting zones. And Cam Clarke was in Metal Gear, but he was Liquid Snake. Solid Snake was (and has since been) David Hayter.
Boreddruid Jan 26th 2011 6:31AM
As far as I can tell, you kill Al'akir. When he dies he says "After every storm... comes the calm...", so that might mean that since he's dead, the rest of the entire wind element will relax their hatred against humanity.