Scott Johnson

I mean, not necessarily, can't necessarily wear everything from everyone, but I've got, if I find a piece of mail out somewhere and I wear plate, If I get it, it gets thrown into the bucket. And anytime I have a male wearing character that wants to go out there and change and have that look that I unlocked with a whole different character, they can. It's all in there. I love that.

Absolutely freaking love that.

Right. Yeah, I think it's a really smart thing to do. I think it's a long time coming. A lot of these features, I just sort of go, could have really used this one about 12 years back. Yeah, no kidding. But I can't get wound up in that or else there's a million things Blizzard should do and maybe they will eventually do. Like, I wouldn't be surprised if one day...

Stuff they've been asking for since vanilla suddenly shows up. That's just the way these projects go. If it's the right time, you do it. If it makes sense, you do it. You throw the resources behind it and you do it. And I'm excited for them to do it. What else is there to mention about that? Let's talk about the Earthen, the new race.

There's so many things. We're just going to touch on a few of these. But this is the new playable race with the War Within, the Earthen. You unlock the Earthen characters after completing their quests in the overall level-up campaign. You enlist this Titanforged race made of living stone by aiding them in their endeavors. I mean, let's be honest.

They're basically underground doors made out of dirt. That's pretty much it. And that's okay. I'm not saying it's bad. Yeah. But that's what they are. You can go Horde or Alliance. And they have, let's see, starting at level 10 in their capital city of Domagol or Domagol. Dornagol? Dornagol. Yeah. I always get that R-M-N mixed up as an M, especially in italics. But anyway, yeah, that's exciting.

Why are you so excited about them? Because I see them and I go, oh, cool. Another one to add to the list. Great. I'll make an alt. This will be fun. But you seem a little more enamored than I am.

They're just amazing. What's your current race for your paladin right now?

They look so good, you guys. I mean, I don't know. I wasn't much of a troll guy before this, but after that expansion, which was already a controversial expansion, my favorite thing that came out of it were those Zandalari trolls. They are awesome. And it's fine, you Alliance, you got your like beer drinking humanoids. It's fine. Whatever those were.

Yeah. They're fine. I'm not complaining. You guys got a thing, but I'm telling you, those Zandalari trolls. Woo. Such badasses. Anyway, we'll see. The Earthen look cool, though. I'm excited about it. Me too. And also anytime... We're old enough to remember a game where paladins were strictly an alliance choice, right? Yeah. And what was the equivalent on Horde? It was... The shaman. Shaman, right.

And they're not... Really not equivalent at all. They never were, but... You know, it just never felt right.

I saw YouTube short or on TikTok or something that was showing off some early concept work for an initial class. They were going to do something along the lines of a bard that did a lot of buffing and kind of had a guitar and, you know, this sort of thing. And they ended up scrapping the whole thing. But I always wonder what that would have been like, you know, a mostly buff class.

There's other buff classes, but... That's a little hard. I'm not really a bard guy like in any kind of game, even D&D, even though John, for example, is always telling me that bards are the greatest characters or the greatest classes in D&D ever made. And therefore are great in everything. But I'm just not big on the whole. I played a guitar for a second and you guys all have more hit points.

I don't know why. I don't know why. It just annoys me. So I'm not into it. But anyway.

Oh, that's right. So wait, there's the Voker that does the direct damage caster stuff. And then what's the other one? The other one's a healer.

Trust me. 16 years of me forgetting stuff when I needed it the most. It's just fine. This is, this wouldn't be the instance without that. Um,

That is very bard-like. Yeah. I like that fantasy a little better than bards. Bards and the music and stuff. It's just silly to me. I'm going to get hate for this. It's just never been my favorite thing. And also, if you're going to call them the – what did you call them? What's the spec? Augmentation. Augmentation. They should give you like Botox treatments and stuff like that.

High cheek – like cheekbone lifts and boob reductions in my case. Yeah. Let's move on to some hero talents. This is exciting.

Yeah, because I mean, look, I'll admit this. The game is old enough, long enough in the tooth that the old days of when you get a new expansion, it meant a whole new leveling path of brand new abilities. That's gone. We don't do that anymore. If anything, it's just talent unlocks. I think the talent system is really in a good place right now, so I'm not complaining. But I do miss that.

Like every other level, bing, I got something awesome to try out. And you don't have that with your old characters. So I feel like this is an olive leaf in that direction. It includes hero talents for all the World of Warcraft classes. Don't know why I had to say that. I could have said, wow.