The Weekly Reset by Taliesin and Evitel - Gift of N'Zoth, PvP Talent Essence, Classic Stress Testing

Posted 2019/05/27 at 9:56 AM by perculia

Taliesin and Evitel

Classic continues to gather pace with a chaotic stress test/party... but are players remembering Vanilla as being much HARDER than it actually was? Meanwhile the Gift of N'zoth has started whispering to players in BfA and more and more NPCs are converting to our tentacle overlord... does this mean 8.2 is now imminent? All this plus the new PvP essences and a look at recent interviews with J Allen Brack where where he admits there *MAY* have been some communication issues last Blizzcon.

Show Topics

Elite Damage is Not Off in Classic WoW

Classic Beta Stress Test

Conflict and Strife PvP Talent Essence

Gift of N'Zoth Whispering to Players

Venturebeat Interview with J. Allen Brack

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Comments

Comment by Incandio

Sometimes I think if certain elements in the community just took a moment to think before posting their comments, then Taliesin would have nothing to talk about.

Comment by Willblade

Blizzard: *picks people who don't want to play Classic to stress test Classic*

Stress Testers : *don't like it*

Blizzard : *surprised Pikachu face*

Comment by Cesuuun

But why any streamer had not been locked to get to the stress test?
I mean is normal they have an "advantage" for marketing, but you can't just say: "there are other players too" to mask this.

Comment by Leftkeywest

But why any streamer had not been locked to get to the stress test?
I mean is normal they have an "advantage" for marketing, but you can't just say: "there are other players too" to mask this.

Yep. I absolutely hate the people that do this.

Comment by SpringsGoat

Need more Taliesin Talks vids to be uploaded.

Comment by Drahken

Sometimes I think if certain elements in the community just took a moment to think before posting their comments, then Taliesin would have nothing to talk about.

He certainly wouldn't get to use his catchphrase/ running joke.

Comment by Furydeath

"more invites going out" oooo someone must not have told him

Comment by Zentris1

more invites going out for the streamers who don't have it yet. get OBS running on your computers boys.

honestly....when people who openly stream northdale with <100 viewers sometimes more get beta, you know Blizz is just cooked throwing darts at a board seeing who gets it.

Comment by kutana

"Classic will never be able to replicate how $%^& you used to be at WoW."

So true. It really puts to rest all the people claiming Classic (or even BC/Wrath) was somehow harder than modern WoW.

Comment by Lichdemon

The fact that Taliesin continues to throw shade at Heelvsbabyface is very entertaining to me. c:

Comment by kain78

Even if it was true or not it was hard to believe that beta folks didnt get priority when you watched them get in with low or no que and make new toons. It just sends the idea that they do. Im not talk about streamers btw.

Also all the whispers are tagged as vo_815_nzoth_01_m.ogg 1 threw 10 if you wana hear them. I think the script is
/script PlaySoundFile("Sound\\Creature\\nzoth\\vo_815_nzoth_01_m.ogg")

PS. just tested it in game and interestingly its translated to common vs just pulling the files via wow model view they are old god speak. At lest on my warlock that did the quest but got cleansed.

Edit: I had the wrong files sry there under Nzothfish mon_82_nzothfish_whispers_offset_periodic_attack_01.ogg
/script PlaySoundFile("Sound\\Creature\\nzothfish\\mon_82_nzothfish_whispers_offset_periodic_attack_01.ogg")
Guess I've been listening to the whispers too much.

Edit 2: turns out you can't play them in game. This is what happens when you post b 4 tests sry, but you can play them via pulling them out with Wow Model viewer.

Comment by lankybrit

Great stuff. Loved the stuff about Classic. Never played back then, so it will be interesting to see.

Comment by dysmal

I tried to log into the stress test and was not able to. I was not mad about it, but when all of the streamers could, it looks a bit fishy. If even one of the big names couldn't have gotten in, then I would have believed it was truly just random. Could you imagine the fallout if Asmongold or Swifty would have failed on getting access? I have yet to hear of a big name streamer having problems. It was staged, I understand why, I'm even okay with it, just don't lie about.

That said, I hope Blizzard was able to gleam valuable info with the stress test and make the actual launch go smoother. If invited, I will try again on the next stress and be happy whether I am able to get in or not.