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This week we got a taste of the Blizzchat, Blizzard's Q&A over Twitter. Who loathes Twitter, raise your hand. Anyway, it was interesting and we talk about it more down below.

There's a new tutorial in the game. That and Cataclysm means that Blizzard is really pandering to the new players.

This is a funny video about Hallow's End. It pretty much sums the entire thing up.

Read on down below for more WoW news.

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Blues Clues

  • Blizzchat is our Blues Clues for this week. An entire thread of Blue Q&A.
  • Enchanters QQ "Earlier today we made a post in our Service Status forum (linked below) noting that a hotfix was being applied that would yield more materials for enchanters when disenchanting or shattering items. For those of you who may be waiting for this hotfix to disenchant some leftover items, please note that the hotfix has been delayed. We still plan to push this hotfix in the near future and will inform the community when this happens."

 

Medeor's Mishaps and Mayhem

The WoW Weekly Report is back again this week with more exciting news, PTR notes, questions, and lore. What could the Weekly Report have this week? Well, I asked it and it said I would just have to find out myself. Kind of like when you ask a teacher what does a word mean and they point to a dictionary. Except I don’t need to use a dictionary anymore. I have the Internet for that now.

Speaking of the Internet, my inbox is always open for suggestions. Tell me what you want The Overpull to do and perhaps I can convince The Overpull to listen. You can email me at [email protected], but I cannot promise that The Overpull will obey my commands; I can only promise that it will listen. Our forums are open to all, as always, for suggestions both in the suggestion box and every week’s Overpull thread. Hop on over, I promise The Overpull won’t bite.

Here’s the lineup this week


What's the Buzz

Hallow’s End has been all the rage this past week. How frustrating is it for you? Me, I almost cried multiple times over an Internet video game. By cry I mean, I told someone in a whisper that I felt like crying when in reality I was crying my eyes out like a little girl. Ok, I’m kidding, but the point is that holidays are frustrating when you’re aiming for that meta. Happily, I was able to finish it recently when a little orphan gave me a gift (wrapped rather crudely) that had the Hallowed Helm in it. I’ve been working this past week for that one item only to get it ganked in Headless Horseman runs or treat bags that give me masks. I’m close to the mask meta which I find bizarre. How are you doing on Hallow’s End? It’ll be over soon, I hope everyone gets their meta that is aiming for it.

Oh, as something interestingly cool. Did you know the hallowed helm has to be LOOTED in order for it to count? So someone can’t win it and trade it to you. You have to either win the roll or get it from a bag. Blizzard finally implemented a way to stop achievement trading off of dropped items. Isn’t that cool?

Blizzcat is fun. Blizzcast is even better, but nowhere near as meowing. Blizzchat on the other hand is our gateway to a lot of questions answered. Questions that have already been answered, it seems. Yes, I know, I’m a cynical often enough, but MOST OF THE QUESTIONS WERE ANSWERED. They were answered at Blizzcon. Urgh. Anyway, here is a quick summary: Goblins and Worgens get their own mount (duh), Goblin cities will remain neutral (duh), Mankirk’s wife isn’t funny, and people can’t help but to ask questions that are stupid.

Run in a Z sweety. If you’re like me then you may find this week’s The Guild to be funny, annoying, sad, pathetic, and awesome. It starts off with the pathetic as Codex tries to talk the Axis of Evil into not being evil. That fails, in an annoying way. Vork is sad and pathetic, as usual, and his storyline lacks any humor. Like the Borg, they’re not funny, but I guess you could say they’re amusing? What’s awesome was Codex confronting Tink and being made to run off or Zaboo getting paint ball gunned by his dominatrix of a lover. Zaboo is my favorite character in this season. Who’s yours?

Ten Ton Hammer loves to support anything gold free. Gold sellers are bad and people who buy gold are bad too. Blizzard agrees and posted this cool page. It tells a sad sad story of paying for a powerleveling service and then getting hacked down the road including Credit Card and Identity Theft. Which is why you shouldn’t do it, because identity theft is like someone ganking your character in real life.

Gunship testing was canceled this week. That means I can’t make any cool Saurfang jokes or make fun of the Alliance. I love the Alliance, but they’re good sports when it comes to being made fun of.

WoW Ratings is gaining steam. It’s a service that lets you rate anything, from encounters to characters. I find it slightly amusing that most everything is in the middle because you either hate or love everything WoW. Uther is pretty high, where he belongs. Varien, our last week’s focus in the lore department, ranks pretty low.

Do you care about the WoW comics? I don’t, but they tell a lot of the lore. They’re splitting off into Alliance and Horde versions. Because you know, when you choose a side you’re that side no matter what. Reading about anything but your side is the worst. Because it just is.

The race changing service is broken and that’s why you can’t have it yet. I believe it, do you?

Fishing Derby in Northrend. That’s the topic. The outcome? I hope nowhere near as bad as the STV fishing event. Because back in the day that was terrible to do, assuming you even bothered with fishing. Does anyone even have fishing maxed out? It takes 11 hours to go from 1 to max. Then again you can catch anything now without the skill, but you’ll still get a lot of junk.


PTR Roundup

Festergut is boring to me and I’m sure 9/10ths of you don’t care about anything but Arthas or maybe Arthas’s cool little vampire guild he made when he found Twilight laying around his throne room. Anyway Festergut spawns a lot of gas. Insert fart joke. Rotface spews a lot of slimes. I’m getting an eerie Naxxramas feel here. Maybe Kel’Thuzad will finish off Arthas and make himself the true Lich king, since he’s a lich, and we’re going to need another patch before Cataclysm.

Druid drama is going full steam ahead to the point Blizzard is posting essays about nerfing Rejuv and Gift of the Earth Mother. I’m not opening that can of worms with my opinion, but do know Blizzard is holding their ground and getting angry at the community’s more vocal whiners.

Spoiler alert! Arthas will probably kill your entire raid and trap your souls in Frostmourne where you’ll have to do something Old God like to get out. That or it’s where you go when you die. Maybe he’s got an instant kill ability to put a few members in there to weaken his weapon to keep the main tank from getting one-shotted? Who knows. I’d be happy if they gated Arthas by making him kill your healers first instead of the tank, making him an impossible encounter. You could enlist a dreadlord to trick him into thinking that tankadin is a healadin when it’s time to defeat him. Maybe that dreadlord could turn the a/c down to stop the 1% DoT since Arthas's grand plan to destroy you is to make it so cold that you're uncomfortable.


It Happened in /Trade

[3. Trade] DO NOT BUY WANDS FROM SOANDSO, THEY CHEATED AND STOLE MY CASH

People, when you buy a charge of someone's wand, be careful. There are tricksters out there who will steal your wand charge or your gold. Holiday's are prime time for scams, especially the Feast of Winter's Veil. You know, milk is sold by NPCs right?


TTH Forum Spotlight

Are you sick of hearing the HH

I have sounds off most of the time, or down really low, but I do know he's spammy and the event happens on and on. Is it an issue for you or do you avoid those areas as best as possible.


What's the Buzz

Are you a PvP or PvE person?

Here’s a fun filled question full of intrigue and curiosity. What do you like more? PvP or PvE and what type of each?

There are two types of each to me and you can include one or more in your playstyle you think:

PvP Arena: You arena like mad because you must get your arena score as high as possible for the achievements, the gear, and the respect.

PvP BG: You like to PvP because it’s something to do.

PvE Casual: You’re a casual and you like to run around doing heroics, maybe seeing a raid now and then when you can get into one, farming achievements, and other casual things.

PvE Raider: You spend a good portion of your week exploring the nose hair on Anub.

Which one are you?

Delightfully, PvP is my favorite thing but WoW’s version of it is no fun for me. PvP should punish you for losing. It shouldn’t give you a new pony to sit on. Back in the DAoC days when more than 20 people were on servers… you had to spend 20 minutes to get back into the fight each death. That taught you to not suck at it. There wasn’t any pandering to casuals. You could argue that’s why there are 12 people on the servers right now, but I’ll just account that to time.

In WoW I like everything, but PvE definitely has a better ring to it. Like I said, PvP is about hunting the most dangerous creature out there, man. Someone who doesn’t have a set pattern of actions unlike the NPCs. Someone who knows hey, this tank guy is tough to kill, why don’t I smash a few of these healers first. Of course, in TBC PvP was everything because you got some really awesome purps from the honor system.

So come on to the forums and let us know which you are and what you like doing.


What's the Buzz

Let’s talk about Kel’thuzad. He’s that hilarious guy who just keeps coming back to hand you some really good purps. He’s like Arthas’s pikachu. Every now and then Nurse Joy pops up to heal him back to full after a tear jerking scene of worry and panic and then he’s out blasting you out of Naxxramas again. Until you insert a game genie or gameshark and power up with party full of Mews.

Kel’thuzad was a Mage before the Second War and perhaps one of the more powerful Mages out there. He was part of the Council of Six which is the ruling authority over Dalaran. Well, ‘ol Ner’zhul who was in the Lich King’s mindset got Kel’thuzad to abandon Dalaran and go north. Kel’thuzad sold parts of his mass fortune to get there since there wasn’t any portals to Northrend back then. I wonder why they didn’t use portals more. Hrm. He went through the spider kingdom until he got to the Frozen Throne. There he was given some mystic Lich King kool-aid to make him really cool and went back to Lordaeron.

He formed the Cult of the Damned over a 3 year period. He preyed on people who felt bad about the disparity between the rich and the poor. He promised immorality and ponies to the people in exchange for worshiping the Lich King and they were quite cool with that. So he then got the plague barrels and jammed them into the grain with the help of his cool cult and that kicked off the Third War.

Arthas and Jaina eventually catch up to him and kill him. That doesn’t stop Kel’thuzad. Arthas, after becoming a Death Knight, went to the Sunwell and destroyed it to bring back Kel’thuzad from the dead. Think on this for a moment. You know all of those sad, sad Blood Elves? They’re sad because Arthas wanted to rez Kel’thuzad up as a Lich and jam him into Naxxramas at a later date.

Well, he goes gallivanting around with Arthas for awhile until Sylvanas breaks the curse and tries to gank Arthas. He rescues Arthas and sends him on his way back to Northrend. He sits around handling the Scourge’s taxes until patch 1.11 where Naxxramas returns.

A brave group of adventurers, who drink Mountain Dew like water and have mountains of Cheetos prepared, eventually kill him. Father Inigo Montoy picks up Kel’thuzads phylactery which then “disappears”. I mean, he’s got a name from The Princesses Bride so you have to trust him with the remains of the Lich King’s favorite Pokémon. No one knew where it went and just shrugged. Since that’s not a major concern with the raid reset bringing him back anyway. Coincidently, in Northrend you get to kill Inigo as Thel’zan the Duskbringer in an epic Wraithgate questline.

Well, in Northrend it seems that he resurrects again with his phylactery and goes to some plains and makes the Horde do a fun vehicle quest. Then you kill him AGAIN in the new floating Naxxramas the same way you did before. This time you need less Cheetos and Mountain Dew. Rumor has it he’s in Icecrown, because Arthas needs someone to read him bedtime stories about Medivh.

That’s The Overpull this week. I hope you enjoyed!

-David "Xerin" Piner

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Last Updated: Mar 13, 2016

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