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Nick is joined by Jarret and Mike (formerly of Watchpoint Radio) to talk about the shocking Microsoft acquisition of Activision Blizzard. They talk about their initial reactions to the news and how surprised they were. Mike mentions his concerns for the Raven workers that are striking and wonders how they will be treated by incoming leadership. Nick points out that the transition is going to take time before we will truly see any change, or even for Phil Spencer to be able to weigh in on the Raven strike. They talk about how Activision Blizzard has been influenced by Bobby Kotick’s leadership and his board members, and hope that Phil Spencer will prove a better leader. Nick talks about how Phil has done a great job managing the Xbox brand the last few years, to the point that Nick is considering getting Gamepass. Jarret is worried about what could come after Phil Spencer. They talk about whether the acquisition could run afoul of anti-trust laws, and then speculate about what Sony will need to do to respond to this news. They consider other companies that might be up for acquisition and whether Sony or Microsoft would buy them. They talk about Phil Spencer’s leadership can bring hope back to the Blizzard community for the first time in several years, and how players who previously left may now feel permission to return to the game. They wonder if Blizzcon will be a thing but agree that Phil Spencer should be involved if it is. Thank you for listening to WoW! Talk! Our next live show with Rei and Harv is scheduled for 1/31/22 at 10:30 pm E at twitch.tv/mashthosebuttons. For any scheduling updates, please follow us on twitter @wowtalkmtb. Send any emails about your thoughts or feedback or to answer our question of the week to wowtalk@mash.gg. Episode URL: https://mtb.gg/2ynDiscord: http://discord.me/mashthosebuttons Hosts: Nick Zielenkievicz twitter.com/WookieeBHtwitch.tv/wookieebh Rei Liou twitter.com/BishounennoMikotwitch.tv/BishounennoMiko Eric Knutson Christopher Greer twitter.com/harvscream Thank you for listening to a Mash Those Buttons podcast! You can keep up with all of our podcasts in the following locations. Mash Those Buttons Website twitter.com/mtbsite facebook.com/mashthosebuttons

Nick and Rei and back this week while Harv is out sick to talk about what’s going on with World of Warcraft. First, Rei talks about an internet outage in the Northeast that affected raid night last week. Then, she talks about having a friend who was staying with them and assigning him the task of finding people to PUG with. They also had struggles with people not being around for the holiday week, and PUG’s coming and leaving for certain bosses. Rei also mentions how some people were not able to beat certain bosses because they weren’t putting in the time other than raid night to make sure they were ready to raid and beat the bosses. They also talk about the Mage Tower and Nick says that when it comes back, it should come back for a month at a time just so people have time to build momentum when practicing. Nick talks about his new years goals, including his goals for 2021 that he finished the Korthia campaign questlines. He mentions that his goals for 2022 include getting to renown 80 with Maldraxxus and finishing the covenant questlines. That leads to this week’s question of the week being What Are Your Goals for 2022 in World of Warcraft? In the news, The Darkmoon Faire has been delayed by a week. Also, Mythic and Raidfinder testing for the Sepulcher of the First Ones begins this week. They also talk about the A Better ABK Strike Fund that was set up as a gofundme to support the striking ABK workers who are protesting the layoffs of 20 Raven QA workers. Finally, they take a look back at episode #101 from October 2018. Thank you for listening to WoW! Talk! Our next live show is scheduled for 1/17/22 at 10:30 pm E at twitch.tv/mashthosebuttons. For any scheduling updates, please follow us on twitter @wowtalkmtb. Send any emails about your thoughts or feedback or to answer our question of the week to wowtalk@mash.gg. Episode URL: https://mtb.gg/2yeDiscord: http://discord.me/mashthosebuttons Hosts: Nick Zielenkievicz twitter.com/WookieeBHtwitch.tv/wookieebh Rei Liou twitter.com/BishounennoMikotwitch.tv/BishounennoMiko Eric Knutson Christopher Greer twitter.com/harvscream Thank you for listening to a Mash Those Buttons podcast! You can keep up with all of our podcasts in the following locations. Mash Those Buttons Website twitter.com/mtbsite facebook.com/mashthosebuttons

Nick, Rei, and Harv are joined by a returning Eric to talk about what’s been going on in the WoW community lately, and so much more. Eric talks about playing his warlock recently and Nick brings up the new Incubus model that has been added for warlock demons. They talk about how imps compare to Gremlins which leads to an off-topic discussion about Gremlins and then Keanu Reeves movies. Nick says that warlocks should be able to glyph to alternate looks for the pets without using a tame mechanic like hunters. Rei talks about running mythic+ without knowing the mechanics. She also talks about running raids on alts. She also brings up the mage tower which no one has had time to play. Harv talks about raiding and also playing some Final Fantasy XIV which lets Nick talk about how awesome Wondrous Tails is but also talk about how WoW needs to get their schedule together as far as releasing regular content. He points out that Destiny has almost regular weekly content and there’s no excuse for WoW not to. They also discuss if the Mage tower is too difficult or just difficult enough. Next, Nick brings up the WoW Community Council and how they were debating if too many black NPC’s were in Stormwind, which led to some council members being outed as racists and kicked off the council. They talk about the disappointment with Blizzard for not getting ahead of this problem as it should have been obvious. Finally, they celebrate 200 episodes by thanking the listeners for downloading and listening. Our next live show is scheduled for 1/3/22 at 10:30 pm E at twitch.tv/mashthosebuttons. For any scheduling updates, please follow us on twitter @wowtalkmtb. Send any emails about your thoughts or feedback or to answer our question of the week to wowtalk@mash.gg. Episode URL: https://mtb.gg/2xqDiscord: http://discord.me/mashthosebuttons Hosts: Nick Zielenkievicz twitter.com/WookieeBHtwitch.tv/wookieebh Rei Liou twitter.com/BishounennoMikotwitch.tv/BishounennoMiko Eric Knutson Christopher Greer twitter.com/harvscream Thank you for listening to a Mash Those Buttons podcast! You can keep up with all of our podcasts in the following locations. Mash Those Buttons Website twitter.com/mtbsite facebook.com/mashthosebuttons

Nick, Rei, and Harv are back to talk about what's been going on with Activision-Blizzard lately. Nick begins by complaining about Christie Golden getting dragged on reddit. Then, Rei talks about her experiences raiding with the other guild, and how they seem to be pulling away. She also talks about people struggling to get through phase one of a fight and getting no experience on phase three. She and Nick talk about people not doing enough outside of raid to gear up. She also talks about Eric raiding with the group again, now as a Warlock DPS instead of tanking. Also, her black dragonscale backpack has been delayed. Harv talks about buying games off steam and being too busy at work to play much WoW. He also mentions how people that he knows outside the game are asking him about what is going on with Activision-Blizzard. Nick goes on a rant about how he wants to defend Activision-Blizzard usually but even he is openly against what they are doing. He talks about the recent layoffs at Raven and also how BlizzJess quit Blizzard. He talks about how the company has been completely mishandling the situation, making it worse, and running the community off. He mentions that he's been playing Korthia after a several month break and he's been enjoying it. He also talks about how Blizzard needs to get better about telling stories in the age of datamining and how the slow and protacted telling of the story of Shadowlands has hurt the expansion. Thank you for listening to WoW! Talk! Our next live show is scheduled for 12/20/21 at 10:30 pm E at twitch.tv/mashthosebuttons. For any scheduling updates, please follow us on twitter @wowtalkmtb. Send any emails about your thoughts or feedback or to answer our question of the week to wowtalk@mash.gg. Episode URL: https://mtb.gg/2xdDiscord: http://discord.me/mashthosebuttons Hosts: Nick Zielenkievicz twitter.com/WookieeBHtwitch.tv/wookieebh Rei Liou twitter.com/BishounennoMikotwitch.tv/BishounennoMiko Christopher Greer twitter.com/harvscream Thank you for listening to a Mash Those Buttons podcast! You can keep up with all of our podcasts in the following locations. Mash Those Buttons Website twitter.com/mtbsite facebook.com/mashthosebuttons

Nick, Rei, and Harv are back to talk about World of Warcraft and Activision-Blizzard this week! First, Rei talks about raiding with the other guild and how they and Order of Corrupted Souls are getting along. They are currently working on defeating Sylvanas. She talks about the struggles as a healer when certain players die too much. There were some issues with identifying the raid markers and what order they were intended to represent. She also shares a rant about the rules for wearing shoes at her house. Harv talks about how he ran some dungeons with the other group. This leads to a discussion about carrying alts and what level of gear is appropriate, as well as determining who can bring an alt and who needs to bring a main to carry. They also talk about gearing up low ilvl characters. Harv mentions that he has cleared Soulrender. Rei tells a story about how people thought she was mad because she accidentally cut a stream short. In the news, Nick talks about the recent allegations of harassment against Bobby Kotick, CEO of Activision Blizzard. He talks about how Bobby is at his most vulnerable right now, and yet still may be able to survive this controversy. He endorses the #firebobbykotick hashtag. Also, Patch 9.2 was announced. The gang discusses some of the news about Zereth Mortis and the Sepulcher of the First Ones raid. They also talk about the Warlock tier set looking a bit racist from behind. Finally, Harv and Nick talk about episode #98 which was about a certain person who raided with OoCS and has not returned. Thank you for listening to WoW! Talk! Our next live show is scheduled for 12/6/21 at 10:30 pm E at twitch.tv/mashthosebuttons. For any scheduling updates, please follow us on twitter @wowtalkmtb. Send any emails about your thoughts or feedback or to answer our question of the week to wowtalk@mash.gg. Episode URL: https://mtb.gg/2x3Discord: http://discord.me/mashthosebuttons Hosts: Nick Zielenkievicz twitter.com/WookieeBHtwitch.tv/wookieebh Rei Liou twitter.com/BishounennoMikotwitch.tv/BishounennoMiko Eric Knutson Christopher Greer twitter.com/harvscream Thank you for listening to a Mash Those Buttons podcast! You can keep up with all of our podcasts in the following locations. Mash Those Buttons Website twitter.com/mtbsite facebook.com/mashthosebuttons

Nick, Rei, and Harv are back to talk about all the news that they haven't talked about the last few weeks. First, Harv talks about raiding and getting up to Sylvanas. Nick talks about how he got a mount as a result of the new patch. Rei talks about her experience managing the guild as they are raiding with a new group lately. Next, they get into the news that they haven't talked about lately. First, they talk about the Season of Mastery that is being implemented in Warcraft Classic. Nick compares it to the seasons in Diablo III. Then, they talk about the Sunwarmed Feline coming to retail WoW. Nick wonders what this could say about where we are headed next. He also mentions an article that was released about the Shadowlands Character Creation UI Redesign. They also talked about the World of Warcraft Community Council and how it will only work if Blizzard listens to the Community. They also talk about how the Community is suspicious of content creators. Also, Ion gave an interview with Venturebeat about the state of WoW. They also discussed the Blizzconline cancellation announcement. Nick is happy with this as it means Blizzard can take time to figure out what Blizzcon could be like in a virtual space. They also talk about Notorious Studios and how people were upset there were no women employees announced, and Nick points out that was the point. They also talked about Jen Oneal leaving Blizzard and how that's a bad look for Blizzard. Finally, they talk about Bobby Kotick's actions sacrificing his salary and the few wins that #ABetterABK earned, especially with the contractor improvements. Thank you for listening to WoW! Talk! Our next live show is scheduled for 11/22/21 at 10:30 pm E at twitch.tv/mashthosebuttons. For any scheduling updates, please follow us on twitter @wowtalkmtb. Send any emails about your thoughts or feedback or to answer our question of the week to wowtalk@mash.gg. Episode URL: https://mtb.gg/2wsDiscord: http://discord.me/mashthosebuttons Hosts: Nick Zielenkievicz twitter.com/WookieeBHtwitch.tv/wookieebh Rei Liou twitter.com/BishounennoMikotwitch.tv/BishounennoMiko Eric Knutson Christopher Greer twitter.com/harvscream Thank you for listening to a Mash Those Buttons podcast! You can keep up with all of our podcasts in the following locations. Mash Those Buttons Website twitter.com/mtbsite facebook.com/mashthosebuttons

Nick, Rei, and Harv are back to talk about their experiences playing World of Warcraft! First, Rei talks about how Order of Corrupted Souls has been struggling with its membership, and how she wound up finding another guild that was also struggling with its roster so they are working together to take on Heroic Sanctum of Domination. Rei talks about the challenges of the two guilds getting along, with how the guild leaders have different ways of sharing criticism with their members, and making sure that no one is offended by how the other guild handles their business. She also talks about how people need to be responsible for learning the raids and being a competent member of the guild. Harv talks about how he's been playing other MMO's but still enjoys WoW and even wound up fishing in WoW while watching a fishing stream from New World. Harv also talks about running mythic+ and tells a story about a teammate who once stopped a Mythic+ run so that they could eat a ham sandwich. Next, Nick starts the Patch 9.1.5 quiz. He asks about when the Mage tower will be available, switching covenants, the Maw introduction, Island Expeditions, Legacy Loot Rules, starter gear, achivements (including Mechagon which Nick is very invested in), Allied Race customization, weather effects, and Legion Timewalking. Let us know how you do taking the Patch 9.1.5 quiz! Nick also runs through episode #96 where they talked about running Antorus and broke down the mechanics of each of the fights. Thank you for listening to WoW! Talk! Our next live show is scheduled for 11/8/21 at 10:30 pm E at twitch.tv/mashthosebuttons. For any scheduling updates, please follow us on twitter @wowtalkmtb. Send any emails about your thoughts or feedback or to answer our question of the week to wowtalk@mash.gg. Episode URL: https://mtb.gg/2wkDiscord: http://discord.me/mashthosebuttons Hosts: Nick Zielenkievicz twitter.com/WookieeBHtwitch.tv/wookieebh Rei Liou twitter.com/BishounennoMikotwitch.tv/BishounennoMiko Eric Knutson Christopher Greer twitter.com/harvscream Thank you for listening to a Mash Those Buttons podcast! You can keep up with all of our podcasts in the following locations. Mash Those Buttons Website twitter.com/mtbsite facebook.com/mashthosebuttons

Nick, Rei, and Harv are back this week to talk about what's been going on in the World of Warcraft. First, they mention that Eric is taking a break from the game and will be taking a break from the the podcast too. Then Rei talks about what she's been doing outside the World of Warcraft that has been keeping her from playing the game. Harv meanwhile has been playing Classic and seeing how many people are playing that instead of playing on retail WoW. Rei talks about a video she watched that talked about the changes that have been coming to the game and how everyone is offended by something so it is hard to remove everything that is offensive to everyone. This leads Nick to talking about his idea for how Blizzard can turn things around: Hard Knocks: Blizzard. Blizzard should record a behind the scenes documentary that shows the reasons why certain changes are made but also showing the environment so we players can rate how the work environment is. Nick talks about how he'd like a behind the scenes documentary anyway and says that Blizzard needs to think about ways to win back the playerbase that no longer trusts them. In the news, Season of Mastery has been announced for WoW Classic. This leads to a discussion of Diablo II Resurrected and our memories of Diablo II. Also, Blizzard has seen some executives come and go and is also under investigation from the SEC. Blizzard settled with the EEOC but that settlement is now under investigation as well. Lastly, they discuss a recent Coke commercial that was similar to the Battle for Azeroth cinematic. FInally, they look back at episode #95 when Antorus was about to come out. They talk about how Stampede was changed and how they liked it the old way. Thank you for listening to WoW! Talk! Our next live show is scheduled for 8/30/21 at 10:30 pm E at twitch.tv/mashthosebuttons. For any scheduling updates, please follow us on twitter @wowtalkmtb. Send any emails about your thoughts or feedback or to answer our question of the week to wowtalk@mash.gg. Episode URL: https://mtb.gg/2w6Discord: http://discord.me/mashthosebuttons Hosts: Nick Zielenkievicz twitter.com/WookieeBHtwitch.tv/wookieebh Rei Liou twitter.com/BishounennoMikotwitch.tv/BishounennoMiko Eric Knutson Christopher Greer twitter.com/harvscream Thank you for listening to a Mash Those Buttons podcast! You can keep up with all of our podcasts in the following locations. Mash Those Buttons Website twitter.com/mtbsite facebook.com/mashthosebuttons

Nick, Rei, Harv, and Eric are back this week to talk about World of Warcraft! First, Rei talks about how she's been busy hiking and hasn't had the usual time to play. Eric talks about how Order of Corrupted Souls has been stuck at Soulrender in Heroic Sanctum of Domination, so they went and basically one-shot the normal raid, only dying to trash. Harv talks about some of the cinematics he gets stuck watching when he is raiding. Nick talks about the recent announcement of the WoW and Hearthstone cross promotion, with a 6-month subscription to WoW granting card packs, a tavern pass, and battleground perks in Hearthstone. Nick is excited for this as he plays enough Hearthstone to make it worth his while. He also talks about the Sarge mouse mount that will be available October 12th and can be earned by playing the new mercenaries mode in Hearthstone. Next, they talk about a recent letter from the top Alliance guilds on reddit, discussing the faction imbalance and how high-end players are increasingly going Horde. Rei talks about how, while OoCS hasn't seen any consequences of this, players can find the competetive style difficult to keep up with. Nick talks about how the Horde Hall of Fame for Sanctum of Domination has been closed for a month, and yet the Alliance Hall of Fame is only at 92. They then discuss the possibility that Blizzard could lift the faction divide in 10.0. They also talk about how Blizzard could consider adding player housing to maintain interest in the game in the next expansion. Thank you for listening to WoW! Talk! Our next live show is scheduled for 9/27/21 at 10:30 pm E at twitch.tv/mashthosebuttons. For any scheduling updates, please follow us on twitter @wowtalkmtb. Send any emails about your thoughts or feedback or to answer our question of the week to wowtalk@mash.gg. Episode URL: https://mtb.gg/2vnDiscord: http://discord.me/mashthosebuttons Hosts: Nick Zielenkievicz twitter.com/WookieeBHtwitch.tv/wookieebh Rei Liou twitter.com/BishounennoMikotwitch.tv/BishounennoMiko Eric Knutson Christopher Greer twitter.com/harvscream Thank you for listening to a Mash Those Buttons podcast! You can keep up with all of our podcasts in the following locations. Mash Those Buttons Website twitter.com/mtbsite facebook.com/mashthosebuttons

Rei, Nick, Eric, and Harv are back to talk about what's going on in World of Warcraft! But first, Rei talks about her time raiding and the experience she is getting by tanking and dps'ing that she can use to better herself as a healer. She talks about how none of the healers in LFR were dispelling properly and that leads to a discussion between Harv and Nick talking about hunter abilities. Rei also talks about running a +17 and managing to do well on that. Eric talks about their experiences in Heroic Sanctum of Domination. He talks about struggling on Soulrender. He and Harv both got their unholy domination socket bonus. They also talk about wiping on Normal Sylvanas. Nick talks about the recent drama surrounding the patch 9.1.5 news. Blizzard is introducing several quality of life changes and the community is angry because they asked for these back in beta and Blizzard is only finally delivering them now. Nick talks about the cycle of how this has gone on since the legendaries in Legion were gated until they weren't and then Azerite Armor was disliked until Blizzard reworked it in 8.1.5. Nick says that Blizzard needs to make sure they don't follow this pattern in the next expansion. He also briefly talks about the Activision-Blizzard lawsuit and how after news broke that Blizzard was shredding documents releveant to the investigation, the patch 9.1.5 announcement came out to deflect from that. He says that this was the work of the devs trying to improve the game, but then sheds some suspicions towards the PR department for the possibility to delay announcements. He also talks about the loss to the WoW Community of Epic Insanity and Rades, who both passed away this past week. Our condolences to their friends and family. Finally, they look back at episode #93, which was right before Blizzcon 2017 (when Legion was announced) and all the potential hype that entailed. Thank you for listening to WoW! Talk! Our next live show is scheduled for 8/30/21 at 10:30 pm E at twitch.tv/mashthosebuttons. For any scheduling updates, please follow us on twitter @wowtalkmtb. Send any emails about your thoughts or feedback or to answer our question of the week to wowtalk@mash.gg. Episode URL: https://mtb.gg/2vjDiscord: http://discord.me/mashthosebuttons Hosts: Nick Zielenkievicz twitter.com/WookieeBHtwitch.tv/wookieebh Rei Liou twitter.com/BishounennoMikotwitch.tv/BishounennoMiko Eric Knutson Christopher Greer twitter.com/harvscream Thank you for listening to a Mash Those Buttons podcast! You can keep up with all of our podcasts in the following locations. Mash Those Buttons Website twitter.com/mtbsite facebook.com/mashthosebuttons

Nick, Rei, Eric, and Harv are back this week to talk about all the latest goings on in the World of Warcraft community! First, Rei talks about what she's been doing in game. She talks about how she's been working on her professions, and how the tool to check guild member's professions has been fixed. This leads to a discussion of online chat and how people need to be in the chat program to respond to requests to do stuff in game. The group also goes off on a tangent talking about keyboards and typing speeds. Eric talks about how the guild has beaten Normal Sylvanas and Heroic Terragrue. Nick asks if anyone got Sylvanas' bow, and this leads to a discussion about non-hunters using the bow and letting it split into glaives like in the cinematic. Harv, meanwhile, has been enjoying the raid. He mentions that he likes the Kael'thas fight as there's alot of AOE for him to burn down. They also talk about when to cast hero\lust and talk about raid mechanics from prior raids including Jaina in the Battle of Dazar'Alor. Nick talks about the recent events surrounding Blizzard. J Allen Brack has resigned and has been replaced by Jen Oneal and Mike Ybarra. There has been no acknowledgement by Activision Blizzard of the employee's demands. Nick mentions that Luis Barriga, Jesse McCree, and Jonathan LeCraft are no longer with Blizzard. He talks about how there is currently a stalemate where the company is not acknowledging demands and that is how the company wants it as they are hoping to wait out the employees. They also discuss an article that compares the toxicity in WoW and Final Fantasy XIV and says that Square Enix did a better job of moderating their community early on to keep it clean, and it has paid off. Finally, they discuss episode #92 where murlocs seemed like they might be playable. Thank you for listening to WoW! Talk! Our next live show is scheduled for 8/30/21 at 10:30 pm E at twitch.tv/mashthosebuttons. For any scheduling updates, please follow us on twitter @wowtalkmtb. Send any emails about your thoughts or feedback or to answer our question of the week to wowtalk@mash.gg. Episode URL: https://mtb.gg/2usDiscord: http://discord.me/mashthosebuttons Hosts: Nick Zielenkievicz twitter.com/WookieeBHtwitch.tv/wookieebh Rei Liou twitter.com/BishounennoMikotwitch.tv/BishounennoMiko Eric Knutson Christopher Greer twitter.com/harvscream Thank you for listening to a Mash Those Buttons podcast! You can keep up with all of our podcasts in the following locations. Mash Those Buttons Website twitter.com/mtbsite facebook.com/mashthosebuttons

This week, Nick, Rei, Eric, and Harv are back talking about what's been going on in Blizzard news. First, Rei talks about how she is doing all the things. She talks about how she has been earning gold across all her characters. She also talks about how guild recruitment is going including getting a guild applicant through the in-game recruiting tool. Rei also talks about the strange messages she gets on her character. Eric talks about having made it up to Sylvanas in normal Sanctum of Domination. Harv also has been playing and talks about how he is finally catching up on all the 9.0 content he missed out on previously. In the news, Echo defeated Sylvanas on Mythic to get world first. This was after they wiped at 49.6% and learned that the fight goes until Sylvanas hits 45%. Yoshi P, director of Final Fantasy, gave an interview in which he talks about how he doesn't want FFXIV fans to claim that Final Fantasy has beaten WoW. Also, /spit has been removed from the Burning Crusade Classic PTR. Nick talks about the two cynical schools of thought: that this was done to protect players who buy store mounts, and that this was done to deflect from the sexual assault allegations. Nick talks about how the Blizzard employees are trying to hold management accountable. He mentions that Frances Townsend was blocking Blizzard employees on twitter. Also, the Blizzard employees staged a walkout last Wednesday. Alex Afrasiabi's characters and items have been removed or renamed in the game. Kotaku posted an article about the Cosby Suite. And Nick tries to figure out how he can help hold them accountable. Finally, we look back at episode #91. Thank you for listening to WoW! Talk! Our next live show is scheduled for 8/16/20 at 10:30 pm E at twitch.tv/mashthosebuttons. For any scheduling updates, please follow us on twitter @wowtalkmtb. Send any emails about your thoughts or feedback or to answer our question of the week to wowtalk@mash.gg. Episode URL: https://mtb.gg/2ucDiscord: http://discord.me/mashthosebuttons Hosts: Nick Zielenkievicz twitter.com/WookieeBHtwitch.tv/wookieebh Rei Liou twitter.com/BishounennoMikotwitch.tv/BishounennoMiko Eric Knutson Christopher Greer twitter.com/harvscream Thank you for listening to a Mash Those Buttons podcast! You can keep up with all of our podcasts in the following locations. Mash Those Buttons Website twitter.com/mtbsite facebook.com/mashthosebuttons

On July 21st the State of California Department of Fair Employment and Housing announced it was pursuing litigation against Activision-Blizzard due to multiple claims of harassment and discrimination against their female employees. This week, Jarret, founder of Mash Those Buttons and formerly of Watchpoint Radio and The Mash Those Buttons Show joins us to discuss the allegations against Blizzard and the community reaction. We also discuss Order of Corrupted Souls recent experiences pugging and raiding. Eric and Rei raided with another group and downed Sylvanas and Harv has been showing up to play, although struggling because he's under-geared. Thank you for listening to WoW! Talk! Please believe women and do what you can to end harassment and discrimination. Our support is with the victims and the hundreds of Blizzard employees disatisfied with their company's response. Episode URL: https://mtb.gg/2u1Discord: http://discord.me/mashthosebuttons Hosts: Nick Zielenkievicz twitter.com/WookieeBHtwitch.tv/wookieebh Rei Liou twitter.com/BishounennoMikotwitch.tv/BishounennoMiko Eric Knutson Christopher Greer twitter.com/harvscream Thank you for listening to a Mash Those Buttons podcast! You can keep up with all of our podcasts in the following locations. Mash Those Buttons Website twitter.com/mtbsite facebook.com/mashthosebuttons

Patch 9.1 is finally here and Nick, Rei, Eric, and Harv have had a chance to play it and share their thoughts! First, Rei talks about running Mythic+ and her joy at all the other people she is seeing logged into the game with the guild. Then she talks about her attempt at Torghast trying to get the Highlander bonus where you only have one of any given anima power, but she laments that sometimes you are forced to choose an anima power you already have. Then she talks about her experiencing running Tazavesh, the Broker MEGADUNGEON. She accidentally joined a group running it on hard mode, and she and Eric spent 6 hours clearing the dungeon. The good news is that they did enjoy the Infinite Pirate Dragon and they got their mounts for the experience so it was not a total waste. Eric, meanwhile, has been enjoying the new Sanctum of Domination Raid. Order of Corrupted Souls is now 5 of 10, with Painsmith being a difficult boss. Eric mentions that his current off-tank, Scott, is taking a break from the game, so he is training Matt to be his new off-tank, and Nick asks questions about how transitioning amongst off-tanks works. Eric also laughs about an item he found in Patch 9.1 - a Teleporter Repair Kit which talks about righty-tighty, lefty-loosy being universal, but Eric, as a mechanic, cites examples that are contrary. Harv hasn't had much time to play but he is at renown 42 now. Nick talks about the Sapphire Skyblazer Mount which is available with a 6-month subscription or for purchase in the store. He tries to guess what else the developers could be working on to match the mount. This week's question of the week is what did you think of Garrosh's fate in the raid? Nick looks back at episode #89 when the gang ran Siege of Orgrimmar and Nick tried to tame Thok. Thank you for listening to WoW! Talk! Our next live show is scheduled for 7/26/20 at 10:30 pm E at twitch.tv/mashthosebuttons. For any scheduling updates, please follow us on twitter @wowtalkmtb. Send any emails about your thoughts or feedback or to answer our question of the week to wowtalk@mash.gg. Episode URL: https://mtb.gg/2ttDiscord: http://discord.me/mashthosebuttons Hosts: Nick Zielenkievicz twitter.com/WookieeBHtwitch.tv/wookieebh Rei Liou twitter.com/BishounennoMikotwitch.tv/BishounennoMiko Eric Knutson Christopher Greer twitter.com/harvscream Thank you for listening to a Mash Those Buttons podcast! You can keep up with all of our podcasts in the following locations. Mash Those Buttons Website twitter.com/mtbsite facebook.com/mashthosebuttons

Nick, Rei, Eric, and Harv are back to talk about the latest in World of Warcraft news! Patch 9.1 is coming so its time for the Patch 9.1 quiz! But first, Rei talks about how Order of Corrupted Souls is picking up with more guild members looking to do stuff with other guild members in chat. Eric talks about how with Sire Denathrius down and the raid about to be over, the guild spent an evening doing PVP, which, as a Blood DK, he was able to do fairly well at. He never died once and they did several runs on Cooking Impossible and also an Alterac Valley and some Ashran. Harv, meanwhile, has not been playing Burning Crusade Classic and instead is playing retail. He was getting covenant ranks with relative ease and is already at 33. Nick said that Harv should be able to get to rank 40 pretty quickly in Patch 9.1, if not before then. Finally, its time for the Patch 9.1 Quiz. Please play along at home! After the quiz, Nick addresses two quick controversies from recent developer interviews. First, he talks about how Shards of Domination will only fit into certain gear in certain slots, and players will need to recraft some legendaries if there is competition for a certain slot. He wants to wait to see the system in place to criticize it, but it certainly sounds inefficient. Then, he talks about a comment made during an interview about story regarding that the plot for 9.1 came together earlier this year, after Shadowlands had launched. He points out that narratives are often put together on the fly but the main points are known ahead of time, and this is normal behaviour. Next week's question of the week is "How are you enjoying Patch 9.1?" Finally, we look back at WoW! Talk! Number 88, when Gamescom was coming and the keyart had a strange girl in it. Thank you for listening to WoW! Talk! Our next live show is scheduled for 7/12/20 at 10:30 pm E at twitch.tv/mashthosebuttons. For any scheduling updates, please follow us on twitter @wowtalkmtb. Send any emails about your thoughts or feedback or to answer our question of the week to wowtalk@mash.gg. Episode URL: https://mtb.gg/2thDiscord: http://discord.me/mashthosebuttons Hosts: Nick Zielenkievicz twitter.com/WookieeBHtwitch.tv/wookieebh Rei Liou twitter.com/BishounennoMikotwitch.tv/BishounennoMiko Eric Knutson Christopher Greer twitter.com/harvscream Thank you for listening to a Mash Those Buttons podcast! You can keep up with all of our podcasts in the following locations. Mash Those Buttons Website twitter.com/mtbsite facebook.com/mashthosebuttons

Nick, Rei, Eric, and Harv are back on what should be an off week to talk about the latest (or lack thereof) in WoW news! First, Eric talks about how Order of Corrupted Souls is struggling again on Sire Denathrius, as just because they beat him once doesn't mean that he is on farm yet. Rei talks about bringing some odd pugs into the group to tank dungeons who behaved weirdly. And Harv is progressing through Burning Crusade Classic, with his mage almost to 61 and his hunter almost to 62. He points out that the hunter is easier to level because he can pet tank mobs. He also talks about almost running into the Felreaver on the Path of Glory but he got away before he could be smushed in with all the other skulls. In the news, Blizzard has announced that Battle.Net is global now, and this will allow players to befriend each other across regions. This will also allow for cross-play in certain games, such as Overwatch pc players being able to play with Console gamers. This leads to a discussion of adding people to friends lists, and how Harv can never find anyone to play classic with because anyone he does friend in classic is always on retail when he checks. He talks about a player who joined a pug with him and kept hitting his polymorphed sheep, and then the player made a video and sent it to Harv, and that culminates in a story about an old lady putting a shopping cart near Harv's car. They also talk about the update to Shadowlands Flying where Blizzard clarified that you will not have to pay for Shadowlands flying. The original post was referring to how characters have to buy Expert Riding to be able to fly at all, but once that is done (which most characters should have done long ago), you will get Shadowlands flying once you complete the relevant covenant quests. This week's question of the week is "What is your favorite zone to level in?" Harv says Nagrand, but then changes to Val'sharrah. Rei just likes leveling with people. Eric likes Zangarmarsh, and Nick likes Valley of the Four Winds and Krasarang Wilds. We also look back at episode #87 when store mounts drove up the price of the WoW Token and Nick was annoyed. Thank you for listening to WoW! Talk! Our next live show is scheduled for 6/28/21 at 10:30 pm E at twitch.tv/mashthosebuttons. For any scheduling updates, please follow us on twitter @wowtalkmtb. Send any emails about your thoughts or feedback or to answer our question of the week to wowtalk@mash.gg. Episode URL: https://mtb.gg/2t3Discord: http://discord.me/mashthosebuttons Hosts: Nick Zielenkievicz twitter.com/WookieeBHtwitch.tv/wookieebh Rei Liou twitter.com/BishounennoMikotwitch.tv/BishounennoMiko Eric Knutson Christopher Greer twitter.com/harvscream Thank you for listening to a Mash Those Buttons podcast! You can keep up with all of our podcasts in the following locations. Mash Those Buttons Website twitter.com/mtbsite facebook.com/mashthosebuttons

Rei, Eric, and Harv are back and Nick joins them late to talk about the latest goings on in World of Warcraft! First, Eric talks about Order of Corrupted Souls defeating Sire Denathrius on Heroic, so congratulations to the team for getting Ahead of the Curve! Harv then talks about logging into Burning Crusade Classic now that it is live and running Hellfire Ramparts and getting to level 59 on his mage. He also talks about the struggles as a hunter once again needing to keep a supply of ammunition on hand. Rei talks again about the latest experiences with pugging and her interactions with the community. Nick returns to talk about the news that Blizzcon 2021 has been cancelled. He talks about Blizzard's poor development schedule and points out that after Blizzconline in February, there's no guarantee that Blizzard would have had any announcements to make in November. They also discuss how the pandemic has stretched out WoW's development cycle with Patch 9.1 taking forever to be released and no idea for a timetable for 9.2. Nick isn't pointing this out because people are mad, he just believes no one should have been surprised by this news. Also in the news, Rendle the dredger from Castle Nathria will be a questgiver in Patch 9.1, playing off the joke that as the repair vendor in the raid, he is raking in the gold. There has also been concerns that flight in Patch 9.1 will need to be purchased per alt. Harv complains about the complexity of all of WoW's systems. Nick talks about how easy it is to get renown. Our question of the week is What do you think about possibly paying for flying in Patch 9.1? Finally, we look back at episode #86 which was right after the first Auction House Dance Party. Thank you for listening to WoW! Talk! To find out when our next live show will be, please follow us on twitter @wowtalkmtb. Send any emails about your thoughts or feedback or to answer our question of the week to wowtalk@mash.gg. Episode URL: https://mtb.gg/2suDiscord: http://discord.me/mashthosebuttons Hosts: Nick Zielenkievicz twitter.com/WookieeBHtwitch.tv/wookieebh Rei Liou twitter.com/BishounennoMikotwitch.tv/BishounennoMiko Eric Knutson Christopher Greer twitter.com/harvscream Thank you for listening to a Mash Those Buttons podcast! You can keep up with all of our podcasts in the following locations. Mash Those Buttons Website twitter.com/mtbsite facebook.com/mashthosebuttons

Apologies for the lack of episode #184. The gang recorded an episode but there were recording issues so it was not released. We hope this episode will sound better. Nick, Rei, Eric, and Harv are back to talk about the latest goings on in World of Warcraft. Rei starts by talking about running LFR on alts and her augment rune runs. She also talks about her experience tanking and saving the healers while hunters barrage everything insight when her cooldowns are blown. She also mentions encountering a friendly Alliance player as a cashier and talks a bit about meeting WoW players in real life. Eric, meanwhile, talks about how they were pugging normal Castle Nathria with people who would leave early or not listen to mechanics. This leads to a discussion about the importance of communicating with your party/raid members and letting them know what you don't know. Harv has been playing lots of Burning Crusade Classic pre-patch! He's enjoying his frost mage and is leveling up alongside the other Draenai. Nick talks about how he purchased the Deluxe Edition for the boost and the mount and he just wants to be able to hang out in Thousand Needles without having to fight and level his way out of the Barrens. They talk about their experiences with Burning Crusade the first time around, and get confused about the Pitlord and Doomlord Kazzak. They also talk about how Harv missed all the delays when Blizzard took the servers down for maintenance on Tuesday and didn't get them up until the early hours Wednesday morning. Community reaction was mostly understanding but there were some idiots. In the news, Blizzard also mentioned they are extending the honor points buff and Darkmoon Faire for pre-patch, which makes it feel like more of an event. Nick then talks about an IGN article talking about morale at Blizzard and how the employees aren't happy with recent decisions and the lack of shipped products. Nick talks about corporate culture and how you want to install values in your employees, and this dip in morale is the result of employees having good values when management does not. He says there is hope for Blizzard if the employees can sway the company. Our question of the week is "What are your plans for Burning Crusade Classic?" Finally, we look back at episode #185 when Patch 7.3 was on the PTR. Thank you for listening to WoW! Talk! Our next live show is scheduled for 6/7/21 at 10:30 pm E at twitch.tv/mashthosebuttons. For any scheduling updates, ... Visit website for full summary. Episode URL: https://mtb.gg/2scDiscord: http://discord.me/mashthosebuttons Hosts: Nick Zielenkievicz twitter.com/WookieeBHtwitch.tv/wookieebh Rei Liou twitter.com/BishounennoMikotwitch.tv/BishounennoMiko Eric Knutson Christopher Greer twitter.com/harvscream Thank you for listening to a Mash Those Buttons podcast! You can keep up with all of our podcasts in the following locations. Mash Those Buttons Website twitter.com/mtbsite facebook.com/mashthosebuttons

Nick, Rei, Eric and Harv are back to talk about what's going on in World of Warcraft! First, Rei admits she hasn't been feeling well and that leads to Eric complaining about dishwashers. Rei also mentions that she and Eric did a mythic +11 Necrotic Wake with four seconds left on the clock and then watched some of the MDI competition. Eric also talks about pugging and struggling on Sire Denathrius. Harv has been playing little, but has been spending time in Burning Crusade classic. Nick talks about the recent Blizzard departure of Jeff Kaplan and says that as an established veteran of the company, he was due to move on so this shouldn't be a surprise. The gang then talks about The Burning Crusade Classic beta, which has had some news recently. They talk about how attunements will work with the phased roll out and then talk about how the Chronoboon Displacer will allow you to store world buffs. Then they get into a discussion about the nature of classic and how it seems that Blizzard is going to keep adding servers for each expansion and debate if Warlords of Draenor classic will be worth it. In the modern game, the gang talks about how Dungeon Score is coming as a clone of Raider.io, in a repeat of Gear Score being integrated to the game as ilvl. Also, Garrosh Hellscream himself is responsible for unlocking the pet sloth Daisy for the community as part of the Doctors without Borders charity drive. In other news, Blizzard put up a post about phishing and they announced a Sylvanas novel to be released in November. Thank you to Shantymangaming for answering last week's question of the week about anima. This week's question is how do you feel about the mission table going into patch 9.1? Finally, the gang looks back 100 episodes to when patch 7.2.5 was imminent. Thank you for listening to WoW! Talk! Our next live show is scheduled for 5/10/21 at 10:30 pm E at twitch.tv/mashthosebuttons. For any scheduling updates, please follow us on twitter @wowtalkmtb. Send any emails about your thoughts or feedback or to answer our question of the week to wowtalk@mash.gg. Episode URL: https://mtb.gg/2rhDiscord: http://discord.me/mashthosebuttons Hosts: Nick Zielenkievicz twitter.com/WookieeBHtwitch.tv/wookieebh Rei Liou twitter.com/BishounennoMikotwitch.tv/BishounennoMiko Eric Knutson Christopher Greer twitter.com/harvscream Thank you for listening to a Mash Those Buttons podcast! You can keep up with all of our podcasts in the following locations. Mash Those Buttons Website twitter.com/mtbsite facebook.com/mashthosebuttons

Nick, Rei, Eric, and Harv are back to talk about what is going on in WoW lately! First, Rei talks about buying a rank 4 cloak and then the gang goes offtopic talking about survey scores, since you can't rate auction house transactions. Rei also mentions that she likes to check who she is buying from when she does buy from the Auction House, as she likes to make sure she is supporting Alliance sellers. She talks about killing the World Boss in Ardenweald which leads to a discussion of the Death Knight ability Corpse Explode. Finally, she wonders if the Sky Golem should be made to allow for mining. Eric, meanwhile, talks about finally getting through Sludgefist and Stone Generals to get up to Sire Denathrius, where they have been hitting a wall at 30%. Eric wonders if everyone in the group knows what they have to do because they have little margin for error. Harv hasn't played much but he did get in to the Burning Crusade Classic beta and checked that out briefly. Nick brings up the struggles with people trying to get Anima. He talks about how he wants a certain transmog from the Kyrian Covenant but it requires a ton of anima to get there. Blizzard recently added some achievements to allow for quicker anima gains, which should improve the time, provided you are updating your Covenant Sanctum properly. In other news, we are still waiting on the Chains of Domination PTR any day now, Blizzard esports announced the Great Push, and Blizzard celebrated April Fool's with Patch 9.0.5.0.5 notes. Blizzard also announced they were allowing employees to get vaccinated. Blizzard Activision hired a member of the Trump administration. And finally, Blizzard updated the battle.net icon. Nick also gets off topic slightly by talking about Diablo II Remastered graphics. Thanks to Alisaunder, Mark Portman, and Alenya for answering last week's question of the week! This week's question is What do you think of the state of Anima in the game right now? Is the recent patch enough? Let us know on twitter or discord or by email! Finally, we look back at episode #82, when Rei and Eric beat Heroic Gul'dan, and Destiny 2 came to the Battle.net launcher. Thank you for listening to WoW! Talk! Our next live show is scheduled for 4/26/20 at 10:30 pm E at twitch.tv/mashthosebuttons. For any scheduling updates, please follow us on twitter @wowtalkmtb. Send any emails about your thoughts or feedback or to answer our question of the week to wowtalk@mash.gg. Episode URL: https://mtb.gg/2qyDiscord: http://discord.me/mashthosebuttons Hosts: Nick Zielenkievicz twitter.com/WookieeBHtwitch.tv/wookieebh Rei Liou twitter.com/BishounennoMikotwitch.tv/BishounennoMiko Eric Knutson Christopher Greer twitter.com/harvscream Thank you for listening to a Mash Those Buttons podcast! You can keep up with all of our podcasts in the following locations. Mash Those Buttons Website twitter.com/mtbsite facebook.com/mashthosebuttons