Scott Johnson

And they are an evergreen form of character progression for each class specialization that introduces new powers and class fantasies. There are 11 nodes in a hero talent tree. First of these unlocks with the system at level 71, and you earn one talent point per level from level 71 to 80. So you get every talent in the tree by 80. So you fill it out. It's not A or B. It's everything.

You may do it in a different order because you want to, you know, I don't know, have stuff early. Not downside of this, but I hear a lot of people arguing about which class they're going to play because some of them seem epic for some of these classes. And some seem fine. You know, like the ice spec stuff for a frost mage seems awesome compared to that of a arcane mage.

And I guess to each their own, you're going to find something you're going to like. But I always worry about that a little like... are we going to see too many of a certain thing because they just go OP and then they'll balance it and they'll patch it and then they'll piss someone off because it got nerfed and it's fine.

Yeah. Like Frostfire spec as opposed to Sunfury spec, it's kind of like in between those two if you're a mage. I'm talking about mages a lot because I think I'm going to use my 70 boost for a mage. I think I've decided. Mages are very fun. I mean, I got a lot of like level 50 mages and I don't want to do them manually. So I think I'm going to boost one.

I know, I'm an idiot. Remix. I even had like a, what's the, who's the dark elf from on the Horde side? What's the name of those elves? They're void elves.

I had a void elf in there, in the Mist remix thing. And he's looking like just like the most magic badass you ever met in your life. And then I ran out of time. So he's going to be like level 45. And I'm like, I could just boost him, I suppose, now that he's in the pool, right? The other thing about that, real quick, I almost forgot to mention this earlier. I did forget.

Your warband, which is like the top five characters, you swap those in and out, whatever order you want. You can take an old character and shove them way up top if you want. It doesn't matter. But what I didn't know they did, I was like, why is this list so long? Can't figure it out. And I'm like, Roy, you're not on this server. Roy, what are you doing? Because I have this character named Roy.

Right. And I still think it's amazing I have that name. And they haven't taken it away from me. But anyway, it's because they're now giving me one single list. It's no longer a server or realm list. Character list where you jump realms and check characters. And so it's one gigantic thing. You hover over it. It'll say, oh, that character is on Suramar. That character is on whatever.

And you can just launch it from there. And they're part of your war band. Like, yeah, it's that's nuts to me.

That you've ever had. I got a guy named Wetblade. I talked about this on TMS today. His name is Wetblade. He's a level, I think maybe even nothing more than a 10 or 11 level warrior that I made back in 2008. Yeah. I think, or seven even. And he just sits at the auction house in Orgrimmar as a bank alt back when those mattered. And I haven't seen him in years. And suddenly he's in my list.

I'm like, what the F are you doing here, dude? And he's wearing blurry, shitty armor. He looks like a clown costume. It's awful. Yeah. But, you know, it's a good time. Anyway, back to the hero talents. Are there anything in this or anything as part of that that you're the most excited about?

I mean, obviously it's a big box feature, but, you know, anything here that's like, whoa, I can't wait to do that.

Yeah. I do like this. I like this crossover, though, because I can either be pack leader. I'm a beast master hunter, like, through and through. I don't want to play anything else. The whole point of that class, in my opinion, is to have tons of animals. I just love it. Give me two bears. Give me a couple of cats that come out once in a while. There's a dinosaur on a certain proc, like...

Just dump all the animals on everything. And so I'm going to stick with that. But being able to choose between Pack Leader and Dark Ranger, you know, as paths to take, I think is really smart. So that the player doesn't feel like they're locked into one little thing or another. You know what I mean?

I like the monk ones sound like places I'd want to eat their buffet. You got the Conduit of Celestials, Master of Harmony, and the Shadow Pan Buffet. Mm. Mm-mm-mm.

Oh, you just keep going back, dude.

Let me tell you something real quick. Sorry, offshoot. Again, a staple of the instance. A little tangent. That cruise to Alaska, the food, right? It's awesome. I love the food on that ship. It was really good. But I at first hated the pastries and the desserts because they seemed to have –

just a monocle of sugar compared to what they used to have or compared to what I would get somewhere else, just really low sugar. And I realized that's the devious part of it. I'll eat five of these now because they have less sugar than one back home. And that's how the, that's how the French get you, by the way, all of their stuff's like that. It's like low sugar, but you eat more of it.

We, we poo poo the whole thing's over. Right. You don't even know what that means.

uh what else we got here let's talk about season one schedule schedule oh my gosh yeah as the kids call it um they've laid this out for us pretty well you've got uh early access like i mentioned on the 22nd normal difficulty dungeons will become available on that start so ericara the city of echoes level 70 through 80 well these are dungeons sorry let me get to that first yeah