March 31, 2014

Episode 35 - The Fury of Arms

March 31, 2014/ Adam K. aka Bay

Sarri of EU's <Ascendence> met up with the Fury of Arms and won, as evidenced by his most damage taken from Heroic Football. Archimtiros of US's <Pure> also participates in IRL PvP as a proven leader, but he will soon be wielding flesh-arms instead of weapon-arms as he writes about warriors and raiding at the new World of Warcraft resource website, SentryTotem.

These two of few theorycrafting warriors hack and slash at Bay's attempted description of warriors as "bland." Wrath of the Lich King brought button slams and spams to warriors, and recently Mists of Pandaria refined some of the rotations. The DPS specs seem to switch themes as Fury does not smash buttons as blindly as Arms. Sarri demonstrates that Arms can be played well and that fights like Ultraxion and Spine of Deathwing can be liked.

Stancedancing may make your healers go berserk about your disregard for your health bar, but Archim lets listening warriors in on how effective scumbagging it like Sarri does can help out your otherwise mediocre damage. Sarri thinks warriors have too much utility and Archim notes the removal of raidwide offensive CDs from the game in Warlords of Draenor is a good thing for more competitive DPS.

There is one ridiCRITlous stat for DPS warriors, but don't forget about how mastery synergizes well enough with crit and a certain trinket that it can overtake strength in stat priority. Talent talk shows some insights of why "spin to win" is better than even "100% crit rawr." In the end, both guests encourage taking each DPS warrior spec out for a whirl[wind].

As always, Final Boss and its guests love to answer community questions at the end of the show. You can ask them via the website: http://finalboss.tv/askaboss/ - via Twitter: @finalbosstv #AskABoss & via Twitch Chat during the After Show!

Final Boss airs on Twitch.tv/FinalBossTV every Sunday at 1pmPST/4pmEST/10pmCET.

- Poneria

March 24, 2014

Episode 34 - WoW Trivial Pursuit

March 24, 2014/ Adam K. aka Bay

Mobs and Minions, get your meta gems socketed and helm enchants on, because it's time to break out the brains. Grab your nearest friend to complete our FinalBoss raid and play along with episode 34's Trivial Pursuit event!

This week, six familiar faces pair off with Bay and Ana into four teams to trek around the board. Alex and Loz of FatBoss form the entire blue team, and Nobbel pairs with Letomi on the green team. Ana picks her class color to go with Elvine's gnomish hair -- except Elvine himself doesn't have pink hair. Last but not least bearded: Bay teams up with Brutal to complete epic team purple.

The rules are tweaked for FinalBoss: no team can go more than twice in a row and getting to the center means chat picks your category. The time limit for each question soon became to guess before chat caught up with a flood of the correct answer.

Don't be pink with embarrassment -- the only celebrity class I could remember was Ozzy the warlock, because really, who cares about mohawks and hunters. Orange'cha glad you play to defeat encounters?! Lady RNG is particularly cruel about handing a raid encounter question to a raider. Just don't let your egotistical cores get corrup-- errr, what? It's a tainted core? Aww, fffffffff.

Unfortunately watching the cinematic in your head for the chat-chosen, yellow-sliced answer just leads to Aggravation when you can't hear her say Thrall's name. Nobbel might have footnotes on every lore question, but it's on the green villainous slices that the rest of the pursuing gang overthinks. Does the question want the kal'dorei, the quel'dorei, or the sin'dorei? What's the difference between all the orc skin colors?

Don't be blue -- people mix up what's a Valley and what's a Vale all the time. It'll be OK, Horde players, we forgive you for going for the red-named isle over the blue-named draenei starting isle. Finally, killing a raid boss doesn't guarantee you'll get loot and raiding likewise doesn't guarantee you'll get the purple slice loot questions right! Even if you can't remember what your class's tier 10 was called, the Ashbringer most definitely belongs to ... we're sorry, Loz, that answer was so terribly Thunderwraang.

Final Boss airs on Twitch.tv/FinalBossTV every Sunday at 1pmPST/4pmEST/10pmCET.

- Poneria

March 17, 2014

Episode 33 - Bearly Face Tanking

March 17, 2014/ Adam K. aka Bay

Mobs and Minions may watch this episode in any shapeshifting form; double enjoyment is had if viewed as a bear. That's right; the furrier you are, the more you will Heart (of the Wild) this episode.

From the US this week, we have an inconspicuous bear who's been behind many druid contacts already on FinalBoss: Arielle of <Bear Retirement Home>. From the EU, Buraan of <Divergent> rakes in the math and optimization in and out of Azeroth, but beware: his soothing Scottish voice is a crowd control that's castable even in bear form.

Before we get down to Tanking With Your Face 101, Arielle and Buraan go over the progression of the bear tank, from the health pools and resistances or armor of The Burning Crusade and Wrath of the Lich King to the rise of the bearcat in Cataclysm. Landing at the "active mitigation" style of Mists of Pandaria gives a great segue into how to currently bear tank. While bears are seemingly sparse in the US, the EU's spectrum of tanks prove that bears can make it work in both 10-man and 25-man content.

Episode #33: Bearly Face Tanking will crit you all over with bear information. You'll find out what's useful in the level 45 and 75 talent tiers and what's the story with that "Heart of the OP" level 90 talent. While there are some definite favorites for various situations when it comes to Symbiosis as a bear, the guests point out that it will likely never become a big deal of an ability. So c'mon, bears, you know you want to try out Life Tap just once.

Final Boss airs on Twitch.tv/FinalBossTV every Sunday at 1pmPST/4pmEST/10pmCET.

- Poneria