Podcast 4: Happy New Year!

Summary: This week Eivez joins us and we cover the last two weeks worth of WoW.  We start off catching Sauce professing his love for Esta's buttery smooth voice (in a manly way).  Good times.  After introductions we jump right into it. OUR WEEK IN WOW: HOLY CRAP WE GOT AN EMAIL! HOLY CRAP WE GOT AN ITUNES REVIEW! (Fen will do dirty things for more!) We got Saurfang two weeks in a row, and we're one/two shotting all four of the current bosses We chat about what we've been doing to improve on Saurfang (yay for the achievement!) Healers talk about Marrowgar and issues regarding healing that fight It's all on farm(?) Someone is suicidal on the gunship battle every week Another player in our guild gets hacked New Dungeon Finder stories Is Occulus still the worst instance? Christmas Presents! Razer Naga mouse opinions/what mouses we use RAIDS: New raid content opens this week! Professor Putricide, Rotface & Festergut 10 attempts is kind of a lot! (For us) DUNGEONS: Occulus is indeed random, states blue posts "Randomly" getting dungeons that no one else wants What dungeons do you "randomly" get the most? What's the longest dungeon? Sachi loves to pull LOTS! PVE: Earthquakes (out of game and in!) Cataclysm starting events... How does a floating city have earthquakes? Blue post smarmy responses... Why would anyone make 900 pygmy oils? Mailbox snubbing Winterveil gift 2009 was TERRIBLE We reminisce of gifts past We talk bank space/bag space MISCELLANEOUS: We talk about World of Raid's "Biggest Surprises of 2009" article Why have we NOT hit up Blizzcon? ToC wasn't very exciting...2 rooms, 5 bosses Why get rid of multiple lockouts for normal/hard modes? Opinions on faction changes Cataclysm by this summer or people will split WoW the magazine! Collector's Editions and WoW art books Mike Schramm leaves WoW.com One authenticator will work for multiple accounts linked to one battle.net account, blue post says Latest hacking in our guild may move more of us to get authenticator DISCUSSION TOPIC: Cataclysm stat removal:  Taking the math out of being a good player or dumbing down WoW? NEXT WEEK'S DISCUSSION TOPIC: Are mods making the game too easy?  Everyone uses mods like DBM Grid, Healbot.  Do these things make the game so easy now people don't even need to think?  Should Blizzard add these mods to WoW by default like they did with Questhelper and others? MUSIC FROM THIS SHOW: La Sedia Vuota:  Talco, Combat Circus Silver Surfer:  FOOL DADAZ FIRE, CNSM SESSIONS #1 All music on the show is Creative Commons Licensed and is freely available.  If you enjoy any of the music please support the artists that created it.