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Bobby Frankenberger

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The Instance: World of Warcraft Podcast
The Instance 669: Bug Hunters

Maybe a little. There's a ton of trash in that place, too, and there's no amount of tweaking that'll change that. But there are a lot of dungeons in the past. The way mythics work is... The game launched with eight, the Mythic Plus season anyway, the game launched with eight new dungeons. New dungeons, yep. But during a Mythic Plus season, you only play four of them.

The Instance: World of Warcraft Podcast
The Instance 669: Bug Hunters

Maybe a little. There's a ton of trash in that place, too, and there's no amount of tweaking that'll change that. But there are a lot of dungeons in the past. The way mythics work is... The game launched with eight, the Mythic Plus season anyway, the game launched with eight new dungeons. New dungeons, yep. But during a Mythic Plus season, you only play four of them.

The Instance: World of Warcraft Podcast
The Instance 669: Bug Hunters

Four of them are in the rotation. And the other four, because you still have eight dungeons in the Mythic Plus season, the other four come from past expansions. Oh, okay. So in this one, we're going back to Mists of Tirnascythe from Shadowlands. We're going back to the Necrotic Wake from Shadowlands, Siege of Boralus from Battle for Azeroth. And then what's the other one?

The Instance: World of Warcraft Podcast
The Instance 669: Bug Hunters

Four of them are in the rotation. And the other four, because you still have eight dungeons in the Mythic Plus season, the other four come from past expansions. Oh, okay. So in this one, we're going back to Mists of Tirnascythe from Shadowlands. We're going back to the Necrotic Wake from Shadowlands, Siege of Boralus from Battle for Azeroth. And then what's the other one?

The Instance: World of Warcraft Podcast
The Instance 669: Bug Hunters

I can't remember off the top of my head. Oh, Grim Batol. Grim Batol, yeah. I think that was Cataclysm. Yeah. And so they... You sometimes encounter some of the old issues and ways that they designed dungeons at certain times. And at the time, during Battle for Azeroth, a lot of the dungeons had a ton of trash.

The Instance: World of Warcraft Podcast
The Instance 669: Bug Hunters

I can't remember off the top of my head. Oh, Grim Batol. Grim Batol, yeah. I think that was Cataclysm. Yeah. And so they... You sometimes encounter some of the old issues and ways that they designed dungeons at certain times. And at the time, during Battle for Azeroth, a lot of the dungeons had a ton of trash.

The Instance: World of Warcraft Podcast
The Instance 669: Bug Hunters

There might have been worse times back in Vanilla and Burning Crusade and stuff like that. Sure. But in what you might call the modern age, like the second half of all of that stuff, definitely Battle for Azeroth had a lot of trash. But it's okay. They increased the timer. So the other thing about Mythic+, for anybody who'd never played before, you go in and there's a timer.

The Instance: World of Warcraft Podcast
The Instance 669: Bug Hunters

There might have been worse times back in Vanilla and Burning Crusade and stuff like that. Sure. But in what you might call the modern age, like the second half of all of that stuff, definitely Battle for Azeroth had a lot of trash. But it's okay. They increased the timer. So the other thing about Mythic+, for anybody who'd never played before, you go in and there's a timer.

The Instance: World of Warcraft Podcast
The Instance 669: Bug Hunters

You want to beat the whole thing in a certain amount of time. If you do, then you get more rewards at the end. And the key that you use to increase the difficulty gets leveled up. And then you can go back in. and increase the difficulty a little bit higher. And the higher the difficulty, the better rewards you get. So you keep going back over and over and doing it. And that's what I love about

The Instance: World of Warcraft Podcast
The Instance 669: Bug Hunters

You want to beat the whole thing in a certain amount of time. If you do, then you get more rewards at the end. And the key that you use to increase the difficulty gets leveled up. And then you can go back in. and increase the difficulty a little bit higher. And the higher the difficulty, the better rewards you get. So you keep going back over and over and doing it. And that's what I love about

The Instance: World of Warcraft Podcast
The Instance 669: Bug Hunters

And they tweak the challenge of the experience a little bit from week to week as well. So for the first week, the boss... So they'll alternate back and forth. First week, the boss's health and damage are really, really high. And then the next week... the boss's health and damage are back to normal levels, but all the trash health and damage will be high. And so it's a different challenge.

The Instance: World of Warcraft Podcast
The Instance 669: Bug Hunters

And they tweak the challenge of the experience a little bit from week to week as well. So for the first week, the boss... So they'll alternate back and forth. First week, the boss's health and damage are really, really high. And then the next week... the boss's health and damage are back to normal levels, but all the trash health and damage will be high. And so it's a different challenge.

The Instance: World of Warcraft Podcast
The Instance 669: Bug Hunters

In the first version, when the bosses are dangerous, you can blow through all the trash really, really fast, and then you have to be really careful, and the mechanics of the bosses are super important to follow, right? And there's not a lot of wiggle room.

The Instance: World of Warcraft Podcast
The Instance 669: Bug Hunters

In the first version, when the bosses are dangerous, you can blow through all the trash really, really fast, and then you have to be really careful, and the mechanics of the bosses are super important to follow, right? And there's not a lot of wiggle room.

The Instance: World of Warcraft Podcast
The Instance 669: Bug Hunters

um but when the trash is really really high you have to go a little bit more slowly carefully you can't pull as big a pools to get to the to the bosses but when you get to the bosses it's almost like it's almost like the boss is not even the boss the trash is the boss on those weeks you know yeah um and so it's and then on top of that you have this this uh this new feature called zalatatz bargain which adds a new whole new feature to the thing so this week what it is is

The Instance: World of Warcraft Podcast
The Instance 669: Bug Hunters

um but when the trash is really really high you have to go a little bit more slowly carefully you can't pull as big a pools to get to the to the bosses but when you get to the bosses it's almost like it's almost like the boss is not even the boss the trash is the boss on those weeks you know yeah um and so it's and then on top of that you have this this uh this new feature called zalatatz bargain which adds a new whole new feature to the thing so this week what it is is

The Instance: World of Warcraft Podcast
The Instance 669: Bug Hunters

10 of these little orbs pop out and they all start casting an ability that if the orb finishes the cast, then it will buff the enemies that you're fighting. Bosses, trash, whatever. And when you interrupt the orb, the orb explodes and gives your team a buff. Oh, wow. So you have to kind of figure out, how am I going to build my...

The Instance: World of Warcraft Podcast
The Instance 669: Bug Hunters

10 of these little orbs pop out and they all start casting an ability that if the orb finishes the cast, then it will buff the enemies that you're fighting. Bosses, trash, whatever. And when you interrupt the orb, the orb explodes and gives your team a buff. Oh, wow. So you have to kind of figure out, how am I going to build my...