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30 Day Trial: World of Warcraft - Part 03

Dan takes tanking literally, Brad gets awkward around Voidwalkers, and Rorie exhibits extreme patience.

Aug. 11 2014

Cast: Brad, Matt, Dan

Posted by: Jason

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Just one more episode?! Noes! I love these. So much memories. And its fun to see Brad re-discover the game and learn the new stuff. This trio was great!

Keep em coming with the 3 of you :) Cheers

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Oh thank goodness Rorie is here. Dan's bumbling, while charming, nearly drove me mad.

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Jezz Dan! Big timing that poor Giantbomb guy.

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That "Giantbomb" guy seems like a creep.

Come on he could have been a complete a-hole and spam messaged him but he only said "Hey" twice and then asked him if he was enjoying his time with the game and he may not have known they were recording.

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@scrawnto said:
@rayeth said:

"I think a dire wolf is a real historical creature" - Brad Shoemaker 2014.

If only this were true. That would be so rad. I want to see Dire Bears and Dire Owls and everything Dire.

It actually was a real creature, though it's been extinct for around 10,000 years now. Canis dirus, the dire wolf, was named in 1858, so that name precedes the use of dire wolves in fantasy fiction by quite some time.

Yeah, what? Sometimes I wonder why people still say wrong stuff on the Internet that could be easily fact-checked nearly instantaneously on the same browser they are (presumably) using to write the comment. Brad is completely correct.

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i may need to get back into this once they do that graphics update.

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I really hope that they continue with these weekly check-ins. They're the one video feature right now that I immediately want to watch.

Brad is fighting really hard against the urge to play the game.

I'm probably the one who is actually considering it

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Used to love exploring Duskwood and Stranglethorn. I unfortunately played on a PvP server so I got killed by Horde players a lot in Stranglethorn.

That free Hearthstone mount seems pretty neat.

I may check this out some time next year. So much content to explore and I really like the variety of the zones. It was always cool to go from a farmer's field to Halloweentown to a jungle in a relatively short time.

I've heard from a friend that certain new players who play with friends get crazy XP bonuses that make leveling even quicker.


Duskwood and Stranglethorn had been the places to be during vanilla WoW on PvP servers, leveling trough these zones represented a really perverse challenge. Always had this scary dynamic that loved about PvP in MMO's, not every enemy player would attack, most would only be farming/questing just like oneself.

Sometimes somebody would just try start hunting people down, "gank" them when they are low from an PvE fight, usually resulting in parties forming to hunt him/them down, sometimes high level people from involved guilds joined the fight, turning a single gank into a full blown skirmish between dozens of players.

Those had been the moments i always loved about MMO's, sadly the seem to be entirely "designed away" by now :/

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I haven't played for about 7-8 years, but the ending to this video shows why paladins are still probably superior.

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Giantbomb guy is creepy. People need to stop being creepy.

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I can only imagine that the inexplicable words being yelled by Brad are Dota characters.

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I really like this series. I hope they go longer than 30 days and keep checking in with dan weekly until he stops.

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The hilarious part is that if he did that ballon quest he'd have gotten a pet

And if you're reading this Dan, auctioning all of the cloth you find is insanely lucrative. Just save a couple stacks of 20, and lowball everyone else by a couple gold and you'll be swimming in it early on.

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Oh god he vendored a full stack of wool.

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I wonder when Dan will learn about talents.

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I think Brad and Rorie did way too much explaining in this episode, I thought the point of this series was to see if Dan was figuring it out. Just let the crazy man talk his crazy thoughts and give him help if he asks.

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Please tell me you are doing more of this series, I am really interested to see how you react to all the different zones and gradually become an master of this game. :)

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The max level for a trial character is 20, right? Does this mean that Dan has subbed?

Oh, he must have been from the start. You'd think I would have picked up on that.

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I am really, really enjoying this series. I spent a lot of good time with WoW and stopped playing before I grew entirely tired of it, so I still have fond memories of my time in Azeroth. Roaming the land, grouping up with my mates, joining in the world events and just generally losing myself in another world; I don't regret any of it.

It's quite nice to see Dan experience it for the first time, even if the world he's seeing is very nerfed from the good ol' days. It takes me back. Part of me wants to somehow get in touch with those old friends and guildmates to see what they're up to.

I hope this series doesn't end after one more episode. Let's watch Dan get to 90.

[ Seriously, though: FOR THE HORDE! ]

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Oh thank mercy, Rorie is here. Save us, Rorie!

Lmao I was thinking the same thing. Someone who is actually informative for Dan's WoW journey. :p

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@hef said:

The hilarious part is that if he did that ballon quest he'd have gotten a pet

He did do the balloon quest. However, the pet the quest gives you cannot battle. (Granted, it's been over a year since I last played WoW, so maybe they've changed this. Balloon "pets" definitely could not battle when I was playing, though.)

Man, I'm so glad Rorie finally jumped in. The previous two episodes were far more stressful to watch than I'd like to admit. Bradley needs to hush his nostalgia and bow to Rorie's expertise more often, though. Get off my lawn, old man! ...or, uh, something like that.

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Awesome, glad to see that rorie is here to clear up some confusion.

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If Dan keeps playing after his trial I hope we get more check in videos.

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At least Matt was able to give you some info this time, Dan. There's so much to know in this game now that it takes a wiki to know what you need to know.

I've been playing this off and on since it came out, but I play tons of MMOs. Most of this stuff is just natural to me now.

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Dan thinking 14 silver is a lot of money. So innocent. I got a good chuckle.

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If Dan wants to keep going I'm definitely all for more episodes after the trial runs out.

Rorie's knowledge and opinions were really interesting in this one too.

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anyone know if he deleted the ballon pet he got?

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This is a fantastic feature, keep it up guys!

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Dan thinking white=grey and selling that wool stack, complete facepalm.

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Most surprising thing to me was that Rorie has not played any Horde toons! Man I loved the Undead starting area so much and I felt the Horde had the better overall zones to get started in.

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Good lord, Brad need to relax. Haha yes, this game has changed a bunch, but he seems SO offended by some of these changes that will never effect him.

Also, what was with the "BLACKHOOOOLE" and "It's enigma" comments from Brad? That thing was a Void Walker... It's been in the game since the beginning... What on earth is he talking about?

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@bumpton: DotA's Enigma was based off the Voidwalkers in Warcraft.

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@pinkcrayon32: You know they took out the old talent trees right? It's only a choice of 6 skills you pick at 15, 30, 45, 60, 75, and 90.

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Thanks Dan for ruining my life, getting me into this deep hole

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This was fun to watch but pretty frustrating as a warrior, watching him play, but I guess that's expected.

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@sixpin: because then they would at least get subscription money instead of no money? Or they could price expansions more reasonably, especially since from now on they're said to be annual.

@insertcoins what the fuck

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@mikelemmer said:

@bumpton: DotA's Enigma was based off the Voidwalkers in Warcraft.

Ugh, really? I have no problem with weird references, but if no one present understands them, the audience doesn't get it, AND you don't bother to explain yourself, it's just irritating/insulting to everyone involved.

I don't know crap about wrestling, but I can at least deal with Dan's constant references because he'll explain that stuff and I won't feel totally left in the dark.

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"Nice Skinner Box bro!"

*behavior analysis high five @brad*

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Please don't end this series anytime soon I look forward to it every week!

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Please continue this after 30 day trial with Rorie!!! Pretty please! It is super enjoyable for a WoW vet to look at the game from newbie perspective. Plus I love you guys.

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Posting just to support extending this series! <3

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@darksagus: even more frustrating with Rorie not telling the advantage of dual wilding with fury spec. Rorie seem to only use protection and nothing else tho.

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It makes me miss WoW, I really hope this becomes a NEW endurance run

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This video was made much better with Rorie on hand. Some of the information that comes from Brad is just embarrassing. Unfortunately this feature has put me in danger of relapsing on this game after that next big patch. I have to buy both Cataclysm and Pandaria I think but I'd be down to get my lvl 80 Warlock up to the cap and maybe do some battlegrounds. Thanks for the video. Looking forward to the finale.

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I remember trying to read quests a million times to find areas, until I got so frustrated that I had to use thottbot and felt like I was cheating majorly. Nowadays I hardly read quests anymore. Unless they seem interesting.

EDIT: Omfg, getting hacked... you feel so violated, even though you get everything back within days.

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@bumpton: If you don't know what Brads talking about, it's probably Dota

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I like how Rorie is immediately able to point out something that Dan has done wrong without even looking at his character sheet.

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Yeah, Rorie is like a guru compared to any of the others that have joined in on this feature earlier.

@meatsim said:

I like how Rorie is immediately able to point out something that Dan has done wrong without even looking at his character sheet.