Let’s Talk Stats.

Discussing the stat changes
We break down and discuss the stat changes that await players in Cataclysm.

To buff or not to buff?
That is the question. The answer depends on how you feel about the new buff for players in the Icecrown Citadel Raid.

Pre-Cataclysm Gnome/Troll Quests
We discuss the news and lore regarding the Gnome and Troll events coming soon to World of Warcraft.

Icesnake’s Addon Emporium #11
Icesnake brings us an addon this week called: Free Refills

Listener Emails and Comments
We thank you all for listening and talk about what you had to say this week.

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The Podcast Gets A Mount

Holidays
We’ve got two holidays happening in game and we aren’t doing either of them. Want to be our holiday reporter?

News That Caught Our Attention
Some disturbing news of real life violence involving a WoW player. We also discuss some of the Tom Chilton interview with Game Informer

Rude Disrespectful People
I read Anea’s Blog Post and we discuss player behavior.

Evinrue’s NPC of the Week
She’s back this week to talk about Renault Mograine.

Icesnake’s Addon Emporium
Icesnake brings us a very useful addon: Advanced Trade Skill Window

Listener Emails and Comments
We talk about what you had to say this week.

More Movie Fun
Modem has some “Must Haves” and “Hell No’s” for people to cast in the WoW movie.

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On the Wings of Love

Acknowledging our fantastic listeners
As always we start out by giving love to you guys that listen to the show and reading your emails.

Buffs, Nerfs, Rumors and more.
Paladin tanks got a nerf, Death Knight tanks got a buff, and everyone might get a Deathcharger. The mobile auction house is in development and there may be more content before Cataclysm.

The Language Barrier
Are cross-continent dungeon parties having trouble understanding each other?

Spirit vs Mp5
What you want and why you want it.

Evinrue’s Fallout of the Lich King
Evinrue is back to give us her take on the Fall of the Lich King Cinematic.

Spoiler Segment: Fall of the Lich King
We discuss our thoughts on the cinematic.

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Acknowledging our fantastic listeners
As always we start out by giving love to you guys that listen to the show.

Patch 3.3.2 Discussion
Toravon the Ice Watcher is now in VoA. We discuss whether or not he is a Tier 10 loot pinata and give a brief strategy.

Deathbringer Saurfang: Buffed or Bugged?

Halls of Reflection: The Lich King is now watching his backside.

The Fall of the Lich King Cinematic
The fall of the lich king cinematic was released as a spoiler. Should we talk about it?

Icesnake’s Addon Emporium
Icesnake brings you the addon Auction Lite

Evinrue’s NPC of the Week
Evinrue is back to tell us about Rexxar

Making gold and avoiding boredom
Some things you can do to keep from getting bored and also make a lot of gold.

Raid leadership
Should it be a democracy or a dictatorship?

WoW Movie Fun
More actors that should and should not be in the WoW movie.

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Acknowledging our fantastic listeners
As always we start out by giving love to you guys that listen to the show.

Talent changes in Cataclysm
We discuss Ghostcrawler’s comments on talent changes in Cataclysm

Patch 3.3.2
A new minor content patch is coming to World of Warcraft. What should we be excited about?

Leveling in Dungeons
We talk about leveling a character using the dungeon system.

Icesnake’s Addon Emporium
Icesnake brings you two addons to take screen captures when you get achievements and ding a new level.

Evinrue’s NPC of the Week
Evinrue is back to tell us about Uther the Lightbringer

Modum’s Lament on the Idiocy of Players
Modum gets feisty..watch out.

Warcraft Armory datamining
Lots of interesting data from the WoW armory compiled at Armory Data Mining.

WoW Movie Follow Up
Comments from listeners on who they’d like to see in the World of Warcraft Movie

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The Crimson Halls
The Crimson Halls opened up and The Lich King himself is only a few weeks away. Let’s discuss.

Gearscore Revisited
We talk about the gearscore mod and an interview with the creator of Gearscore conducted by The Hunting Lodge Podcast.

Take Down Festergut
Festergut strategy or How not to die to poisonous burps and farts.

Icesnake’s Addon Emporium
Icesnake is back this week with the addon: DeclineDuel.

Who would YOU cast in the WoW movie?
With Sam Raimi leaving the Spiderman 4 project we might be looking at the WoW movie sooner than expected. Let’s talk about who should be cast in the movie. Don’t forget to comment on Modem’s Post about this.

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Call me Mr. Lifeless
Jason talks about leveling his mage and now having 4 level 80 toons.

More Heroic Nerfs
More dungeons are getting hit with the nerf bat. Check out which ones.

The WoW Armory gets even prettier
The character screen on the WoW Armory has some nice upgrades

Evinrue’s NPC of the Week
Evinrue brings us her NPC of the week: Chromie

Icesnake’s Addon Emporium
Icesnake’s addon this week is aimed at Death Knights and it’s called: Lorack’s DK Optimizer

The State of Death Knights

We discuss the current state of Death Knights and the future of Hero Classes.

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We’re back on the air and back in game
The WoWphiles podcast is back from holiday hiatus and we let you know what we’ve been up to.

The Plagueworks is open for business
New in WoW: The Plagueworks opened up in Icecrown Citadel and players are bribed to stay in Oculus

Icesnake’s Addon Emporium
Icesnake’s addons this week are Grid and Mage Fever. Enjoy!

Icecrown Raid Strategies
Strategies for fighting Lady Deathwhisper, Gunship Battle and Deathbringer Saurfang

Tanking without Defense
We discuss some blue posts from Ghostcrawler about tanking without the Defense stat in Cataclysm

Horde Vs. Alliance
We bring in Evinrue to talk lore and end up with a discussion of Horde vs Alliance

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Listener Emails and Comments
We respond to some feedback and comments we got from listeners regarding the new Random Dungeon Tool

Dear Blizzard…
Please fix the Guild Control UI. Thanks!

Min-Maxing
We talk about what is min/maxing and how to get the most out of your toon.

Icesnake’s Addon Emporium
Icesnake is back this week with his addon review of Decursive.

Lore of the Icecrown Dungeons
Evinrue joins us to talk about the lore involved in the Icecrown 5 man dungeons. We also try to talk Winter’s Veil but all we come up with is that the Greatfather Winter in Orgrimmar and Ironforge is really just a Mall-Santa.

Spread Holiday Cheer
We encourage everyone to send an email to us at podcast@wowphiles.com with and give a shout-out to someone who has been a friend, mentor, or some other positive influence on you that you have met in game. We will be reading these on the next 2 episodes of the show.

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Impression of 3.3
We talk about our first impressions of World of Warcraft patch 3.3

Stepping Foot in the Citadel
Our raid stepped foot into Icecrown Citadel and faced off with Lord Marrowgar

Putting together a raid
How to put together a raid and things to consider: gear score, armory, dps numbers. How do you judge skill?

NPC of the Week
Evinrue brings us this week’s NPC of the week: Alleria Windrunner

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Patch Notes
Lets give some love to the final major content patch of Wrath by exploring the Patch notes.

Icesnake’s Addon Emporium
Icesnake brings us this week’s addon: Carbonite

Icecrown Raid Preview and Lore
We bring back Evinrue to discuss everything you need to know about the story and lore regarding Icecrown Citadel.

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The WoWphiles Guild
We answer the question about whether or not we will start our own WoWphiles guild.

When will Patch 3.3 be released?
We talk about the possibilities of how soon patch 3.3 will come out.

Icesnake’s Addon Emporium
Icesnake brings us this week’s addon: Omen3. We also discuss another threat meter that we use.

Are you burned out?
Dealing with and avoiding burnout with WoW

Icecrown lore
This week’s lore segment with Evinrue looks at the story of The Lich King, Icecrown citadel and the bosses we will encounter.

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Night Elf Mohawk
I pity the fool that doesn’t experience the Mohawk Grenade in game.

Shadowmourne revealed
We discuss the new legendary weapon Shadowmourne and talk about why legendary items don’t scale with level.

Plight of the new tank
So you want to tank but no one will let you? We talk about the struggles of new tanks starting out.

Really??
Our own version of SNL’s Really skit, where we talk about Blizzard’s realization of class imbalance for arenas.

WoW 5th Anniversary
We take a look at where the Warcraft lore has gone over the past few years and where it will go in the future.

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Contest

We are giving your choice of either Lil K.T. or the Pandaren Monk from the Blizzard Pet Store

How to win:
Leave a comment in this post. That’s it. Leave us a comment and you get an entry into the contest.

There will be 1 Winner chosen at random on November 19, 2009 during the recording of the WoWphiles Podcast Episode 9

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Blizzcon 2010 Vegas Style
WoW.com is reporting that the Las Vegas Convention center will host the 2010 BlizzCon.

New Epic Phat Loots
MMO-Champion.com has data mined new loot coming out in patch 3.3

Playing WoW with your significant other
Should you or shouldn’t you get your significant other to play WoW with you.

Can Damage meters hurt more than help
We discuss whether the use of damage meters can be a distraction to dps.

Get your addons updated
We take a look at the Curse Client Version 4 for updating your addons

Our first contest
We gave out the Party G.R.E.N.A.D.E to 4 lucky listeners of the podcast.

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Contest

We are giving away 4 of the WoW TCG Slashdance Loot cards. These cards will give you a Party G.R.E.N.A.D.E.

How to win:
1) Anyone who has left us an iTunes review on or before November 12, 2009 will receive an entry into the contest

2) Anyone who sends a tweet out on Twitter that says: I love the @wowphiles podcast long time #warcraft
will receive an entry into the contest

There will be 2 Winners from each entry method chosen at random on November 12, 2009 during the recording of the WoWphiles Podcast Episode 8

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Acknowledging our great listeners
As always we start the show by giving thanks to the people who help make this show possible: our listening community.

Blizzard’s World of Warcraft 5 Year Giveaway
For the 5 Year anniversary of Wow, Blizzard is giving away prizes to players based on how long you have played the game.

The Pet Store is open for business
Blizzard announces the World of Warcraft pet store where you can buy in game pets for $10

Ethics in raiding
We examine some of the ways to conduct yourself in-game as it relates to raiding.

Who is the next Lich King?
Time for some fun with theorizing. Let’s look at who might take over for the Lich King if he is killed in Icecrown Citadel.

Websites worth checking out
WoW Headhunter – Finding and recruiting for guilds
WoW Jackass – Reporting the people to stay away from on your server

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Acknowledging our great listeners
As always we start the show by giving thanks to the people who help make this show possible: our listening community.

Race Changes Go Live
Players now have the ability to a character to a different race of the same faction.

New dungeon system details
Blizzard has released some more information about the new dungeon looking for group/raid system and the enhancements we will be seeing.

Using UI Mods in a new way
How you can use UI mods like Healbot, Grid, Clique, and Vuhdo to enhance your gameplay regardless of the class you play.

I can haz enchant to bow and gun?
We talk about a question received about the possibility of guns and bows being enchanted in Cataclysm.

PvP tips or How not to die as often
A few helpful tips for getting started with PvP.

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Acknowledging our great listeners
As always we start the show by giving thanks to the people who help make this show possible: our listening community.

Hallow’s End is here again
The Headless Horseman is back to taunt players this year around Azeroth. We also discuss the stress-fest of holiday achievements.

Blizzard says Don’t Buy Gold
We talk about the post that Blizzard did on their official site about buying gold and the illegal and harmful practices of gold farmers.

Tier 10 Armor Sets
Also on the official WoW site are images of the Tier 10 armor sets and we weigh in with our opinions.

General Vezax Strategy
Fresh from killing General Vezax in Ulduar, we give you some of the tips and strategy that we used to take him down.

Azeroth United Charity Drive
A reminder about the upcoming charity drive at Azeroth United to help provide toys and games to children in hospitals world wide.

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Acknowledging our great listeners
As always we start the show by giving thanks to the people who help make this show possible: our listening community.

Battle.net accounts are mandatory.
So as of November 11th you will have to convert your World of Warcraft account to a Battle.net account. Don’t worry…the sky is not falling.

Icecrown Raid and The Militant Horde
We go back and give our thoughts on the upcoming Icecrown Raid and Garrosh taking over as the Warchief of the Horde.

Life at 80 for non-raiders
We got an email from listener Hammx, who wants to know what are some things casual players can do at level 80.

Expertise and Parry Haste for tanks
Information for tanks and melee classes on being at the soft cap for Expertise so they aren’t causing burst damage to the tank from the Parry Haste mechanic.

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Patch 3.3: Some features to keep your eyes on
Patch 3.3 not only brings new regular and heroic dungeons, the Icecrown raid, and Tier 10 gear, but also a variety of other changes.

Trial of the Crusader Strategy Continued
Continuing our strategy breakdown from last week we look at the Faction Champions, Twin Val’kyr, and Anubarak encounters in Trial of the Crusader.

Taking a break from WoW to play Aion?
Really?

Listener Email: What’s the best healing class?
We answer an email from Wownoob36 on what is the best healing class to play.

Enhancement Shaman Tanking or Are you crazy?
After becoming intriged about the possibility of Shaman tanking Northrend Heroics I wrote the article, How To Tank As An Enhancement Shaman. We discuss this crazy idea.

Get United at Azeroth United
Thanks to Stompalina at Rawrcast we became formally introduced to Azeroth United and submitted WoWphiles to become United.

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Icecrown Citadel 5-Man Dungeon
We examine some of the early details that have come out about the Icecrown Citadel 5-Man Dungeon that is coming out in World of Warcraft Cataclysm.

Goblins, Worgen, and the future of the Horde
Cataclysm will bring us the new Goblin and Worgen starting areas and big changes for the leadership of the Horde.

What is Harvest Festival Anyway?
We take a look at what the Harvest Festival is and what it means for players.

Northrend Beasts and Lord Jaraxxus Tips and Strategies
For new raiders wanting to get into the Trial of the Crusader we give some tips and strategies for dealing with the Northrend Beasts and Lord Jaraxxus encounters.

Why an Undead Paladin Makes Sense
Modem gives us his take on why the Undead should have been given Paladins as a class to play with the new race/class combinations that were announced for Cataclysm.

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