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The gang recap their weekend outside of the Blizzcon festivities, including broken ribs, toxic dinners, and meeting Holly Longdale!Chapters:00:00 Intro04:42 Wednesday Meet Up35:07 Thursday Travel Day53:01 Friday Registration1:10:08 Saturday BC Day 11:44:50 Sunday BC Day 2/PodDay

The gang recap Blizzcon, including the announcement of 12.2: Eclipse, The Last Titan, and the worst-kept secret, World of Warcraft Forever.

Chapters:

00:00 Intro

01:51 Our Experience at Blizzcon

10:11 Make-a-Wish Charity Dinner/Holly

16:07 12.2 Eclipse

32:16 Housing Stuff

38:06 ToxiDinner and Other Experiences

51:03 Back to Housing

52:41 Season 3 M+

1:08:11 Wrath Remix

1:12:12 Last Titan Teaser

1:16:10 Talebound

1:20:36 WoWF

2:06:55 Last Thoughts/Outro

The gang get Tekniq back together just in time for Blizzcon!  And lucky for us, 12.1.5 is also announced,and with it more Auction House mount drama! Next week: Blizzcon!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tr4I2mAbCEo– Tali/Evi Bingo Board

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBsaxYdrIVA– Aust’s Housing Video

Chapters:

00:00 Intro

03:57 Race To World Finale

26:47 Community Q: Is Raid Being Hard Good?

38:11 Blizzcon Schedule Released

45:43 Blizzcon Bingo Board

1:02:38 12.1.5 Announced!

1:19:39 New AH Mount

1:24:18 1% Mount Drama

1:27:47 New Housing = New Remix?

1:35:54 Tekniq’s Return to WoW

1:44:27 Community Comments

2:08:19 Blizzcon Logistics & Outro

The gang watch from afar as RWF deals with more and more headaches, they talk about the ending cinematic and story, and they start hyping themselves up for BlizzCon with some spoilers!mythicdungeonleague.com

Chapters:

00:00 Intro

03:26 What Has Our Week Looked Like

06:49 Posi Jar is Sassy

09:56 More Tek Slander

12:03 RWF Chaos

15:59 Bonus Rolls Finally 'Fixed'?

28:08 Blizzcon Leaks (SPOILERS?)

43:32 Class Tuning for 9/1

48:51 Delve Boss Was En Fuego

54:38 Ending Cinematics

1:12:46 Interviews This Week

1:29:18 Jimothy

1:32:42 Murder Row Tech

1:41:33 Community Comments

2:05:30 Outro Rambling

The gang get hyped for Blizzcon, but have some time toreflect on how their first week of pushing and raiding has gone.  Is the game as buggy as some might beclaiming it is?  Should Blizzardapologize to Evokers?!  Is Frank a robot?!?!

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Bogs Adventure Follow Up Vid - https://youtu.be/4izZhu__Aa0?si=3UPmpMp2KqspSsfN

Chapters:

00:00 Intro

02:23 M+ Has Started!

21:20 The Wheel is Dead?!

24:14 Round 2 of Balancing

35:37 ?? Delve Boss

40:20 Valeera Power Leveling

50:41 Venomous Abyss Raid

1:04:43 Is This Patch Buggy?

1:22:07 BlizzCon Excitement!

1:34:05 WoW D&D Crossover

1:39:20 Ellesmere Interview

1:46:54 Bogs Adventure Update

1:55:14 Community Comments

2:09:56 Lythian Cares & Outro

The gang finally get to sink their teeth into 12.1, but are people really learning anything from these dungeons and how easy they are? Also, does boosting really matter?https://mythicdungeonleague.com - Come Join Us!https://youtu.be/okgO0EBUPno?si=NvDwXx6eBpwloktq - Bog's Boosting Videohttps://youtu.be/4izZhu__Aa0?si=BnvVyHnx-W-A5a6j - Bog does a follow up video!Chapters:00:00 Intro03:44 Is Tekniq Back!?08:11 12.1 First Impressions32:54 Favorite S2 Dungeon?43:31 12.1 Story1:02:52 Valeera Power Leveling & Delves1:14:08 8/18 Class Tuning1:30:07 Bog's Boosting Research1:53:09 Community Comments2:06:28 Lythian Cares & Outro

The gang are back on the final stretch to Blizzcon, with yaps about tier lists, the new raid, the new dungeons, the new everything!

Chapters:00:00 Intro

06:04 12.1 Tomorrow!

15:33 1% Cutoff Convo

30:39 Season 1 Final Grade

38:43 **** Quits The Wheel!

49:22 Tier List Predictions

1:00:51 Rogues Down Bad?

1:08:58 Some Housing Yap

1:11:32 12.1 Addon Changes (Kinda)

1:20:54 Random Things

1:23:32 Update to GM Firing/Ban

1:25:46 Excitement Check for S2

1:31:12 Raider.io Recaps

1:36:51 Community Comments

1:55:33 Lythian Cares & Outro

The gang get a chance to react to the cheating scandal that bred out of Reddit this past week, as well as peek at some Spoilers that were written by some Zoomers.

Chapters:

00:00 Intro

05:38 The Biggest Scandal Ever?!

53:18 BlizzCon Bundle

56:25 SPOILERS

1:22:06 PTR Changes

1:32:14 Housing Updates/Decor Duels Ending

1:36:06 New Delve Boss Shown

1:40:16 Changed to Dungeons on PTR

1:46:02 Community Comments

2:00:36 Lythian Doesn't Care & Outro

The gang unravel the web of Resilient piggy-backers, and question what could possibly go wrong for players to turn on a developer?

Chapters:00:00 Intro05:07 Meta Appearing on the PTR14:36 Websites in Circulation20:58 Anyone Want to Talk About Resilient Keys?37:03 Unhalted Halting50:31 More Addon Yap58:41 Ion Q&A1:21:39 PTR Housing Surprises1:24:42 Frank Doesn't Understand the AH1:30:58 The Final Wave of S2 Dungeons in PTR1:50:42 Lythian Cares + Community Comments2:07:51 IMAX Rant (Outro)

The gang recap the Psybear interview with Ion where he givessome uncommon insight into decisions and reasoning behind this season of WoW.  They also discuss how Wow Dads can get to the top of their game in just 2 hours a week.

The gang get to dive deep into the dungeon changes coming in Season 2 before being permanently banned for being parents!

The gang marvel at the 12.1 reveal, even while Frank tries to cobble together an episode from the beach.  Is there enough to get everyone excited?

You asked, we answer! We also take a look at the MDI finals, and prepare for 12.0.7 launching this week!

After many of you told us we need therapy, we got theUnofficial WoW Therapist, SpareyStreams, to join us for an episode about toxic gaming and why Frank is always wrong!

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The gang just decide to yap about anything and everything,including needing a therapist, how FOTM isn’t unethical, and Frank continues tobe toxic and fat. 

The gang somehow make their longest episode yet withpractically no news to talk about!  Classic+ speculation, 12.0.7 News, and they tier list out the raidbosses from season 1.  Also: Is Scrap’s dog a Husky?!

The gang earn their “Rest Of Us” title this week, reactingto The Bench’s recent episode featuring THD and all his hot takes. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E55I2MuXNRU&pp=ygUJdGhlIGJlbmNo

The gang dive into their new tools for The Wheel and theupcoming Traitors raid, and then get on their soap box about Tank tuning and Loot.

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The gang talk about the last potential tuning for the season, and all the goodies and features coming in 12.0.7

The gang swat away all the bugs that came with 12.0.5, andtry to decode what exactly caused them—and how can we avoid them going forward?  Also, Tier list for S1 Dungeons!

The gang “compete” in MDI, and then go over all the things you want to know that comes with 12.0.5 on Tuesday!

The gang discover that 12.0.5 is releasing faster than wethought, while Frank crashes out about all the bad things happening to him,including the conclusion of the Vibe Building Saga!

The gang come back from an Easter feeling re-energized as L’ura rises from the grave and shows off a surprise Secret Phase.  We also talk about the Ending cinematic, andwhat M+ is looking like in week 2 of the season.

The gang chew on how raid is turning out with Race to World First, and why everyone is timing their Mythic Keys with ease. What are the factors that are making everything so damn easy?

The gang come back from hiatus to talk about the new raid, new season of dungeons, and what Turbo Boost might look like in 12.0.5

The gang finish up talking about Midnight's launch, get side track with Housing's 'road map', and talk about the absurdity of the new Hearthsteel choices.

Scrap rejoins the crew as they talk their early first impressions of leveling in Midnight, and how things feel with the addons and vibe building of it all!

Megasett joins us to fill the spot left open by Scrap, and we cover all the topics you could possibly want: Guides, Meta, Vibe Building, Healer DPS, Devs, Housing, Resilient...

It's all here on a special episode of Around the Mage Table!

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The gang jump around all the contemptuous topics, including Player Power in Player Housing, Hearthsteel, Gold replacing Valorstones, and how addons are even WORSE than they were before the Addon Apocalypses.

The gang talk about the state of class design and how bad it is 3 weeks to go, and then jump into Holly throwing Chris Metzan under the bus, and what happened to the War in Warcraft!

The gang talk about the State of Azeroth and more UI headaches. They discuss Labyrinths, and is this enough to hold us over until Blizzcon?

The gang discuss all the problems their facing with addons, but none of that even compares to the terrible, awful, no-good week Quazii had.

The gang provide everything you might want to know for Pre-Patch of the Midnight expansion, plus talk the new Affix in M+, and a survey for a new spec combo possibly coming.

The gang tried a No-Addon run as DPS to see how they'd fair, Zorithas' Resilient Key data dump, and then 'quickly' run through all of what happened in The War Within to figure out how good of an expansion it really was.Zor thas' Resilient Video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34JCXGqKvoY

The gang talk at length about being able to figure out the new changes to spells and talents, while recapping what really was the point of the UI changes coming in Midnight.

The gang finally sink their teeth into the launch of Player Housing, and discuss the story going into 11.2.7, and catch up on changes in Midnight's Beta.

Aust's Housing Channel : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zF5KvQ0241c

T&E's Review of Blood Ties : https://youtu.be/9YA70cn_oUY?si=48M-S_t1TYL1Xzer

The gang sift through all the discourse with coming changes in UI to Midnight and World of Warcraft and discuss whether Blizzard has their backs against the wall for the 12.0 launch.

The gang recap a successful Extra Life charity event (Thank you everyone who participated!) and jump into the Beta, what's coming in this week's build, and the dawn of Player Housing coming soon.www.wowaudit.com

The gang get excited for Blizzcon, prepare for Beta launching this week, and continue to argue about whether the Devs are really in control of what is going on.

The gang react to WoW "coming" to Console, review the Healer pruning, and talk about how Furries run the world.Support Around the Mage Table for Extra Life 2025 - https://tinyurl.com/MDLExtra2025

The gang talk about the Player Housing surprise test, Healers losing their kicks, and we review the communities feedback on Ranged players.

The gang are disappointed by the delayed Player Housing test, review how Melee are feeling about their Midnight changes, and dive in deeper with Addon Drama, discussing Nameplates and how Ion and team didn't realize they need to adapt around no more addons.SoulSoBreezy Housing Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAPKwUaOWd4Preheat's Devourer Preview - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=En3QLfKaqf8&t=316sTaliesin & Evitel Weekly Reset (12.1) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sruOOF0lguY&t=1211sSha's Nameplate Review - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvvrLvu_QokWoW Housing DB - https://housing.wowdb.com/

The gang review the onslaught of Midnight Alpha news, including new Tier Sets, mounts, and the evolution of Addons that has brought the end of Weak Auras. We also begin reviewing the class changes, starting with Tanks.

The tablers discuss all the information from the Midnight Deep Dive, including the new season's dungeons, addons getting killed off, and where Manaforge Omega lands on the all-timer list of raids

The gang talk about the hellscape that is +11 and +12 Keys, compare how the Meta is forming against pre-season expectations, and talk Legion Remix and Fellowship!

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The gang rank how the dungeons are turning out for Season 3 in TWW, and Frank discusses the struggles he faces bringing himself to play WoW despite how great a season it feels like...

The gang go back and talk about how Season 3 of the War Within is progressing, talk about how Gamescon was a mess for the Midnight reveal, and talk about how we should all boycott Ret Paladins.

The gang bench Season 3 talk to discuss all the things revealed at GamesCon and the Midnight reveal event, including new zones and dungeons, and the progression of the World Soul Saga's main plotline.

The gang throw together an episode for everyone to listen to while they wait for 11.2 Maintenance. Was Talent Trees a bad idea? Is Tank damage enough? And what are all the tier lists telling you to play!

The gang talk about more upcoming changes in Season 3, discuss what mains they're considering playing, and discuss what is actually happening in the World Soul Saga's story.