I apologize for the short show as it was last minute, but I figured something is better than nothing. We weren’t able to get into any of the user questions (blame JP) but we’ll make up for it on next week’s show. There will be plenty to talk about as we take an in-depth look at MLG’s first WoW event of the year.

If you have questions for us, e-mail them to questions@arenacast.net and we’ll be sure to answer them. Also remember to idle #arenacast on irc.gamesurge.net

Podcast is up for download below.

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We cover topics such as The Elite Eight TR Council, 3.1, and new comps in Season 6. Thanks for listening and Saturday is now our regular show date.

Also, a reminder that our in-browser player is shit so you’re forced to download it. I’m sorry.

UPDATE: As of 6:20 CST we decided to call it as the great Phuox could not be found. Igoaf and I agreed that we should try to wait and see if he comes around tomorrow (perhaps adjusting to European schedule already or something?) so we’re going to shoot for an early recording in the day time. If he isn’t around, as the Wing King Kintt said, “THE SHOW MUST GO ON,” channeling his inner Freddie. We’ll pull something together tomorrow if he isn’t and have it up for you guys (hopefully) by 4 p.m. CST. Sorry for the delay in show coming up yet again. Till tomorrow~

We’re going to be recording (yes, recording, again) this Saturday around 6 CST. We’re recording again because my laptop battery died and because Dell is such a piece of shit I can’t go buy a 130w battery here in town and have to order one… I digress. We’ll start doing live shows again whenever I get the battery (probably the next week).

So, Kintt, Igoaf, Serennia, and possibly some other WoW players (I might join in, we’ll see) on Arenacast this week. Expect show to be up around 7:30 p.m. CST or 8. Till then, have fun slaying dragons.

In the show we discussed the tournament realm, 3.1’s impending changes, rogues from zyZ’s perspective, the rating changes to season six and as always plenty of drama about a fox, wolf and wings.

We were able to cover a lot of the questions that you’ve all been sending in so keep them coming!

Also in the show we discussed moving the show to Saturday evenings. Tell us what you think of the idea via the poll below. Thanks!

In the show we discuss the the ArenaCast Graphic Contest, Tournament Realm, the ever popular WPD comp, the latest on the Jonas Brothers and Miley Cyrus, and also the new PTR build that was posted during the show.

Next week on the show we have Minor from eMg (OMG A GURL WOT) and the rest of the cast should return. If you guys haven’t checked out LiveOn3 yet please do so if you are at all interested in e-sports. They’re website can be found HERE along with past shows. Thanks and see you guys next week.

There is also some great talk about the ESL tournament, Patch 3.1, and of course user questions! Yay! That reminds me: all questions can be sent to questions@arenacast.net and we will get them next week. So thanks for listening, lets go for a record download again. Share this to all your friends, etc.

Sorry for the late upload, technical (idiocy) problems delayed it. See you all next week.

Temporary Alt Download Link, only up for a little bit: HERE

On a side note the past two weeks we’ve been really close to hitting a landmark number of downloads. Lets try for it this week. If we hit it, we might be able to give something away to our listeners! Spread the love!

The rest of the show we discuss the ramifications of 3.1 (in detail), talk about eMg’s new WoW team, a little insight to the tournament realm, and then of course user questions. We’ll see you guys next week for our ESL Preview show. Thanks for listening!

We also talk with the Phuox about his new nickname. Make sure not to miss that as some great lines that most assuredly will be up on our soundboard (once I get a couple minutes of free time for once). Show’s below. Oh and remember, questions@arenacast.net, #arenacast on irc.gamesurge.net, and next week a huge announcement that you wont want to miss. Thanks for listening!

Link: Acherus Runes – Addons – Curse

Upcoming features to Overhead
- Aura tracking ON the nameplates probably like Gladius’ style.
- SpellAlerter type alerts over the nameplate
- Compact mode. Basically I’ll add a toggle to remove the border art (takes up the most space), remove level text, and relocate the name inside the bar.

I don’t intend to make Overhead into a giant super customizable nameplate mod such as Aloft.

Here’s a rough outline of what the arenacast macro addon will look like. Ten class icons and a general icon on the top edge. Clicking one of them will load the names and descriptions into the table below. Clicking on one of the entries int he table will load the text into a text box which you can copy paste from. If you want more in the macro addon post in the comments.

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Luckily we picked it up rather quickly and the Ustream listeners didn’t have a clue. Lucky for you people who download the show you can hear absolute lunacy when shit goes awry.

Oh, and our guests, Celex and Mahiko, were great and I thank them for coming on. I should really start doing proper podcasts but I usually try hard to rush after getting this stuff recorded live that I don’t like to write, and I end up rambling like I have for the past 150 words. So here’s the show. Thanks. Serennia joins us below.

Sorry for the short show notes but it has been a really long day. I might change this tomorrow but lets be honest, you guys don’t read this. And if you do. You wont post it about how bad the text in the post was. Called. Period. Also, remember the play thing in the podcast thing below wont work. So you have to download it. Sorry. Changes coming, I promise!

Unpredictability will be the theme for the first tournament of 2009, the ESL Finals in Hannover (Thanks Till, I’m stupid), Germany, which to remind you is a month away, also to remind you that only two of these teams will be in the tournament (figure out which two and you win a prize! OK, not really). The only team that has actually played at a tournament with their current roster will be CompLexity, formerly GotGame.East. But will their pre-WotLK composition of Rogue, Mage, Druid be as strong as it once was? Kintt said it best last week with “the best team right now is Rogue, Mage, and any healer” so perhaps the synergy between Venruki and Happy will be enough to take a tournament win.

Or maybe the team with the biggest ego SK-Gaming will simply stomp them, that is if they don’t verbally harass each other on Ventrilo before the big tournament comes around, showing up and grinding their teeth having to play with each other. It’s a funny thing when the biggest worry about your team isn’t whether you can play the game, it isn’t whether your composition is strong enough to beat the others, and it isn’t if you have the tournament experience or previous tournament wins (edit: Serennia doesn’t fall into the winning category, it’s nice to remind him about it). It is whether the three players can sit together at a tournament in a foreign land and deal with each other for three days. This is the number one thing that people are questioning with this team.

They just might be able to do it though. I’m not going to go out and call tournament winners but between the two veterans, Sck and Serennia, and rookie all-star Realz, you’ve got quite a team. Granted we haven’t really seen Realz on a hunter in the tournament scene (explosive shot tuff yeah?) and Serennia on a death knight either, but Sck has enough play time on paladin to hold up his side of things. But enough about this team, they’ve had their press already.

Nick. The Hammer. Can you handle the tournament pressure? I should be writing about Hamchookz really since he is well known. But I like Nick, only because people call him the Hammer. How do you earn that name? You impress people on the PTR. He’s got quite a history between some of the professional players. Zyz (Rogue, Team EG… yeah, that gangsta wannabe) said he was one of the hardest people to beat in a duel before AR/Prep was patched in.

Then you’ve got Hamchookz. What to say about this player that hasn’t already been said? Is he the U.S.’s Cherez? Is he better then Cherez? Both debatable, but one thing is for damn sure: he’s good. Kintt watched how he plays when Nick was streaming on Xfire and couldn’t say a bad thing about him, mentioning he played the game at an extremely slow pace, something he had never seen before. Oplaid even has a Hamchookz shrine (he’ll deny it if you ask) and practices the Hamchook call on a daily basis. In a way these guys are the underdogs, but I think that is discrediting them too much. This team might be a fan favorite going into their first tournament and they might even end up winning the whole thing. We’ll have to see as no tournaments besides ESL have been announced for 2009.

And all this talk about level 80 arena tournaments? Yeah, that just might all be bullshit too. Blizzard isn’t going to give ESL a tournament server at level 80 until they launch their own tournament server. Maybe we’ll see one launch in February and they are just keeping their mouth shut. Or maybe the ESL final will be at level 70 and throw everyone for a loop. We’ll just have to wait and see.

Maybe the first half of 2009 should be called “Wait To See” time, since that’s all we’ve been doing, and will continue to until a tournament. Oh and I apologize for a giant wall of text. Still working / learning WordPress stuff.