Beta Thoughts

Nick, Rei, Eric, and Kurabara are back this week to talk about their experience playing World of Warcraft, including their time in the WoW Forever beta.

Rei talks about how people aren't joining the guild in beta. She then reviews the difference between doing keys and pushing keys. She also goes over some tensions in the guild before mentioning Brewfest and some of the decor available.

Eric talks about defeating two more bosses in Heroic Curse of Ula'tek and some experiences while leveling.

Kura has been busy traveling and talks about how the graphics in Forever belie some performance issues. He also discusses how his characters are undergeared because the weapon drops he need come from the end of the raid.

Nick talks about playing a human hunter in Forever and how daggers are weak weapons.

In the news, they talk about the Forever drama over RMT transactions and a video on Bobby Kotick's methods for intimidating the media.

Finally they take a quick look back at episode 228.

Thank you for listening to WoW! Talk!  Our next live show is scheduled for October 19th 2026 at 10:30 pm E at twitch.tv/mashthosebuttons.  For any scheduling updates, please follow us on Bluesky @wowtalk.mash.gg.  Send any emails about your thoughts or feedback to wowtalk@mash.gg.

Hosts

Nick Zielenkievicz

Host of WoW! Talk! and The Tauren & The Goblin. Sometimes known as the Video Games Public Defender. Wants to play more Destiny and Marvel Heroes but WoW is all-consuming. Decent F2P Hearthstone player. Sad that he lost the Wii that had Wrecking Crew on it. Would be happy if the only game ever made was M.U.L.E. Gragtharr on Skywall-US. Garresque on Ravencrest-US.

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Rei Liou

Rei is the 1 of the 5 SEELE members and the Ops Director at MTB. She enjoys anime, baking, cooking, gaming ( fighting, puzzle, rhythm, RPGs ), and spending WAY too much time working on spreadsheets. Current Games: Tales of Crestoria, WoW

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Eric Knutson

Auto mechanic, car enthusiast, gamer, runner and almost never serious, Eric has been ditching responsibilities and gaming since age 7. His favorite genres are FPS and racing, although most of his game time is currently spent on WoW

Cory Treadway

Cory has been gaming ever since he fished an NES out of a trash can. A broad gamer who enjoys everything from FPS, Racing, RPGs, MMOS, RTS, World Building, Puzzles, Dating, Horror, Cooking, Sports. If its a game I will give it a try.

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