Episode 345, "It was a Y2020 bug"

World of Warcast: A World of Warcraft Podcast

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Ren
Wrote new addon guides for Classic - PvP, raids, leveling, and gathering
More KR fun - have 2 new 120 resto shaman - Zandalari on Horde, undeleted and race-flipped 112-now-120, Tauren-now-Draenei on Alliance - KR leveling analysis, stories, and Korrak f*ery
Pandaria timewalking on Alliance
Bought new podcasting mic setup - mic stand, shock mount, pop filter
Computer gently frying - purchased new computer, arriving Saturday. Considered and priced out comps from several companies but ended up buying Alienware Aurora Ryzen edition - Ryzen 6 3600X (6-core 32MB L3 cache/4.4 GHz), NVIDIA Geforce RTX 2060 Super (6GB), 32 GB RAM, 1TB M.2 SSD

Mike
Priest, lock, hunter, rogue, warrior in Classic

This Week in WoW
Winter Veil ended January 2
Pandaria timewalking through January 7
Darkmoon Faire on Retail starts January 5 - no word yet about its release on Classic - supposed to happen in January but apparently not this week
Battleground Bonus Event begins Tuesday, Jan 7
WoW 15th Anniversary ends Jan 7th - with it, the quests, Korrak’s Revenge, and the xp/rep buff

News

Classic
Major update to Classic threat library - changed from the ThreatClassic-1.0 library to LibThreatClassic 2 - means that players using one won’t see/be able to communicate threat between players using different libraries
Players using ClassicThreatMeter must update to new ThreatClassic2
Be sure to update DBM and Details if you are using their built in threat meters
Warsong Gulch Classic
Queueing changed - if you are grouped and in queue, adding a player to your group will reset your place in queue
Retail
Season 3 ended prematurely on Dec 31 - usually resets on patch changes, which means it should have ended Jan 14
Working on a hotfix to restore Season 3 and retroactively retain rating changes and tier updates. They don’t anticipate being able to retain season games played count or win counts during the unexpected offseason.

8.3, which will be released Jan 14
Things to do to prepare