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Scott Johnson

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
2025 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

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

but it's in Hallowfall and it's that zone with all of the farms and the light things you got to toss your bits into and, you know, put three and everybody's little thing and it pops out a dude and he gives you a daily and all that. At first I thought that was chaos incarnate and I never wanted to go there again. And now I love it there. I love it with alts. I love it with my main.

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

I love it as a place to grind out some sweet faction rep. It's a great place to just go and knock things out. And I like the vibe of it. And so for me, that stuff's more organic to the world than it's ever been. And while I'm out there, I'm running into other opportunities on the way. These disturbed earth things that appear like little purple rocks from the sky.

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

I love it as a place to grind out some sweet faction rep. It's a great place to just go and knock things out. And I like the vibe of it. And so for me, that stuff's more organic to the world than it's ever been. And while I'm out there, I'm running into other opportunities on the way. These disturbed earth things that appear like little purple rocks from the sky.

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

If you're using handy notes or something, they're even more specific than that. But those things... are often just full of like globs of wax. You can sell the, what's his name? Uh, you got, you know, sometimes it's just rep. Sometimes it's gold. Sometimes it's other stuff. That's how I ended up with, uh, with that mount. I got the, um, I forgot the name of the thing, the link, something links, uh,

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

If you're using handy notes or something, they're even more specific than that. But those things... are often just full of like globs of wax. You can sell the, what's his name? Uh, you got, you know, sometimes it's just rep. Sometimes it's gold. Sometimes it's other stuff. That's how I ended up with, uh, with that mount. I got the, um, I forgot the name of the thing, the link, something links, uh,

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

Anyway, I love just finding those. And sometimes they're challenging because you've got to fight a thing. And sometimes you've got to catch wax as it flies out of the air. And then sometimes it's worse than wax. It's some kind of horrible, toxic thing, and you've got to avoid it. And there's really no reward at all. It was just a trap.

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

Anyway, I love just finding those. And sometimes they're challenging because you've got to fight a thing. And sometimes you've got to catch wax as it flies out of the air. And then sometimes it's worse than wax. It's some kind of horrible, toxic thing, and you've got to avoid it. And there's really no reward at all. It was just a trap.

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

And something about those, I know it's a small thing, but scattering those around like that in the world as you're just getting things done, Add something to this experience. Adds a kind of random treasure thing that I haven't felt since maybe Pandaria and the patch that added that island. What was that called?

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

And something about those, I know it's a small thing, but scattering those around like that in the world as you're just getting things done, Add something to this experience. Adds a kind of random treasure thing that I haven't felt since maybe Pandaria and the patch that added that island. What was that called?

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

Yeah. Yeah. And it's easy to, well, I've said this a thousand times, so apologies to everybody who's hearing me say it again, but the strength of the game for me has always been the world's the most important bit.

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

Yeah. Yeah. And it's easy to, well, I've said this a thousand times, so apologies to everybody who's hearing me say it again, but the strength of the game for me has always been the world's the most important bit.

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

And everything else from that feeds into other stuff, whether it's very specific things like I want to achieve this with mythics or I want to get real specific and down and dirty with these achievements or whatever. Like there's a vast amount of things to do, but really everything hinges on the world being as compelling as it can be. And this expansion in particular, there've been others.

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

And everything else from that feeds into other stuff, whether it's very specific things like I want to achieve this with mythics or I want to get real specific and down and dirty with these achievements or whatever. Like there's a vast amount of things to do, but really everything hinges on the world being as compelling as it can be. And this expansion in particular, there've been others.

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

Pandaria was one for me that really stuck out early Lich King. And I also think that, yeah, Legion sticks around. So does Dragonfly for that matter. I love the zones. But when the world is at its best and it's funneling me toward fun activities to do within said world, then World of Warcraft is at its best. That's when I am most engaged. And right now I'm feeling that engagement more than ever.

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

Pandaria was one for me that really stuck out early Lich King. And I also think that, yeah, Legion sticks around. So does Dragonfly for that matter. I love the zones. But when the world is at its best and it's funneling me toward fun activities to do within said world, then World of Warcraft is at its best. That's when I am most engaged. And right now I'm feeling that engagement more than ever.

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

And it comes down to so many factors. It's music in the game is some of the best ever in this game. Incredible stuff. And that's all under the tutelage of a brand new music director who just moved up for this expansion and I think absolutely killed it on overall direction and specific tracks.

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

And it comes down to so many factors. It's music in the game is some of the best ever in this game. Incredible stuff. And that's all under the tutelage of a brand new music director who just moved up for this expansion and I think absolutely killed it on overall direction and specific tracks.

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

The music in Hallowfall alone is some of the best stuff ever, some of the best tavern music in the history of the game. All of that stuff, I just don't like to minimize them because those things make my cohesive world work. It's not discordant. I don't feel like I'm being taken out of the world like I have in maybe past expansions. I never felt that cohesion, for example, in Shadow.