Slackers Studio Episode 17: BlizzCon 2018 Epic With Thorn of Lagging Balls!

Slackers Studio: A Podcast for Slackers - Games, Movies, Beer and Fun! Episode 17: BlizzCon 2018 Epic With Thorn of Lagging Balls!

Join us this week for this special post BlizzCon show with Thorn of Lagging Balls!

Well this turned into a MONSTER of a show.. We start by just hanging out at the bar and talking about our weeks before eventually moving into a wide variety of Blizzard based discussion!

Just some of the things we cover are listed below but really, you'll have to listen to it to hear the best bits.. It's a podcast after all!

This week's beer of the show is: Guinness 3/5

TOPIC NOTES

World of Warcraft
-Patch 8.1, Tides of Vengeance coming December 11th
-New Cinematics
-8.2 to be called Rise of Azshara
-New Warfront - Terror of Darkshore
- Underwater boss in Rise of Azshara raid
- Darkmoon Faire gets a Rollercoaster… It’s in first-person (patch 8.1.5)
- Tides of Vengeance
- Alliance Strikes back at Darkshore.
- Updated “outdoor” Darkshore
- Horde and Alliance assults. Like Legion assults except enemy factions
- AI in BGs - “AI Comp Stomp Brawl”
- Mega-dungeon (8 bosses)

WoW Classic
- https://www.wowhead.com/news=288408/classic-wow-will-have-staged-content-unlocks-including-gates-of-ahnqiraj

Warcraft III: Reforged
- Released sometime next year
- Pricing is $30 - 40 depending on the edition you choose.
- Lots of tweaked features and updated multiplayer
- Includes Reign of Chaos and The Frozen Throne

Overwatch
- New Animated Short - Reunion
- New Hero - Ashe
- Her ultimate is called B.O.B.
- New merch; Funkos, LEGOS and Hasbro action figures

Diablo
- Diablo Immortal - New mobile game in development
- Set in the timeline between D2 and D3

Hearthstone
- New Expansion - Rastakhan’s Brawl

Heroes of the Storm
- New hero - Orphea, Heir of the Raven Court
- Free to all virtual ticket holders and BlizzCon attendees.

Destiny 2 Free on Battle.net

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MUSIC USED:
Intro/Outro "Tempest" by RhoMusic
www.youtube.com/channel/UCm2l0TFmixfahHLxpdyV5Uw