Howdy Folks! Welcome to Episode 14 of The PoddyC In this episode Dratnos, Maximum & Special guest Venruki, have a talk about this weeks AWC, Liquid & Echo competing, The Current state of PVP, Classic PVP, SoD PvP and so much more! Hope you enjoy!
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0:00 – An Incredibly Awkward Intro
0:44 – GUEST ALERT!
0:51 – AWC this Weekend
5:17 – Ping issues During AWC
10:55 – Viewership kinda Popped off
12:43 – Season 3 Is Kinda just popping off?
13:30 – Venruki’s Experience with M+
14:05 – Current PvP Balancing
15:54 – PvP Solo Queue
17:45 – Solo Shuffle Promoting New Comps
19:13 – Dampening & Why It’s Hard to Balance
22:05 – Are Defensives in PvP an Issue
25:42 – New Talent Trees
30:13 – Venruki’s PvE Experience
31:24 – Doing Keys while Streaming
33:16 – Making Everything for Everybody (Mythic Tuning)
38:03 – What if Mythic Didn’t Reward Gear
41:21 – Grinding for Power vs Having it
42:22 – Skill Based Matchmaking
43:42 – Being a Casual
45:56 – When Did Venruki have the Most Fun PvPing
47:03 – Tuning in Dragonflight
47:54 – Shadowlands PvPers SLAUGHTERING PvErs
49:15 – Being Motivated to do Stuff
50:58 – Grinding The Same Dungeon Every Season
51:28 – Do the Children Long for the Mines? (AP)
53:11 – World PvP Gear in Week 1 of Season 3
54:30 – PvP Needs an Update to Rewards
55:06 – How Does PvP Gearing Work?
56:14 – Character Progression in PvP
58:50 – Venruki Swears on the Podcast
59:40 – CC’s in PvP
1:00:30 – Venruki’s Shower Thoughts
1:01:50 – Getting People into PvP
1:04:28 – WoW is in a Weird Spot Defensively
1:08:40 – PATREON QUESTION OF THE EPISODE
1:08:54 – PvP and PvE Feels like Seperate Games (How to Fix That?)
1:11:13 – Max has a Theory
1:13:30 – Classic WoW
1:15:02 – Constantly Changing vs Fixed Meta
1:15:47 – Maximum on Classic
1:16:51 – Classic CONSPIRACY Theory
1:18:49 – WoW Was the STAR of Blizzcon
1:21:07 – Outro
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Need more dratnos opinions 😢 seems like he got shut down to many times 😂
Just wanna say that I really appreciate having all the chapter's divided up so specifically, gj fronk!
Honestly as a pvper, I like it when gear doesn't matter. I want a challenge every match (not to Smurf or get Smurfed on)… Just personal preference
In the finals, there was a MASSIVE difference for the dps output of Echo. How do you know ping had nothing to do with it? Why is it that Raiku can cry about it, but if you point out the difference between the very close winners bracket games, and the overwhelming pressure in the finals, I dunno….something changed, and i don't buy that somehow Echo just "leveled up" to quote Cdew.
Venruki is the man
Can confirm that I don't play PvP because there are other games i'd rather play.
I'd rather go play Tekken 8 or any other fighting game than play wow PVP. it might be fun, but there's a barrier to learn it, and i can't be bothered when i know there's another game I like with a similar vibe.
also i'd rather play Gundam ex VS if i want teamplay pvp, which sounds similar-ish enough to pvp in wow.
There's a million more casuals than hard core raiders…well….let's cater to the sweaty community instead of YOUR ENTIRE PLAYER BASE. Let's make it so that everyone is playing a different game. RAISE THE FLOOR. All pvp gear scores should apply to both pvp and pve. 415-430 gear now in pve keeps you out of content.
For PVE gear is the end game. For pvp….rating and titles are the end game.
Am I the only one who doesn’t understand why mythic raiding needs to be accessible? There are literally three other modes to experience both the story and the fights and to collect gear. Why does the absolute pinnacle of PvE group Challenge need to be accessible for everyone/ more players?
SoloShuffle was cool enough to make me play S1&2 to get Elite sets. However, as a casual PvP player not looking to do more other than get rewards and look to have fun, the main problems I have being -Too many different CC, -Too many keybinds, -Queue times & -Getting Trained by 2 Melees as a caster were too much to keep me interested. I think Max's point where PvP Games in 2024 are better than WoW PvP to me compared to back then, if I want to PvP I'll launch League or Apex and have more fun.
I'm in this similar boat with Classic Vs Retail. I think Classic gameplay is too slow and I just can't get into it, but I also think Retail has too many abilities, dmg instances, buffs, ADDONS! etc. It's been pushed too far which in turn made me gravitate towards easier specs which I'm less ''attracted'' to from an RPG immersion standpoint. I'd love a chiller wow experience than what it is now personally, this level of complexity removes a lot of RPG immersion for me.
I would be interested in Mythic Raids going in the direction of FFXIV Ultimate. Aspirational content without power added to it almost makes it more appealing to me because I want to do it because it looks cool, but I don't HAVE to do it. I think the appeal->engagement of cool optional/horizontal content can maybe outweigh the engagement/enjoyment of ''forced'' content. I'd love to see the imaginary stats on how this would play out, because I'd be more likely to get back into mythic if gear wasn't tied to it but cool items were. Mythic Raids have been pushed too far. I think M+ is a good example of reasonable +18 for myth track and you can push for aspiration much higher, and I prefer this kind of direction
Oragemarmalade did pretty good
@1:15:20 not 100% true while I agree the game is cracked P1 and P2 Lock and Shaman are not great in both PVE and PVP it isn't until AQ (P3) that they become really good. Just my opinion as a vanilla nerd.
dratnos had some good points. venruki is pretty cool
Mythic raid isn’t too hard, it’s too inaccessible.
If you want to see how many players would participate in mythic without gear: Look at FFlogs for ultimates. It's low triple digits of groups as far as I know, at least long term. You might say nobody cares.
Loved this episode! Very insightful conversations and Venruki’s also such a great guest to have <3
All my homies love Ven
BFA is the secret GOAT
Solo shuffle has allowed me as a DPS to reach a rank that i can flaunt in regular ladder ques, helping in getting in groups.
Honestly i think they just need to add in a new diffulty, it could be called Superior for all i care, but the jest is its set up just like Heroic same scaling and everything but has the Mythic mechanics, and the Mythic Mechanic is even scaled down a little to feel more forgiving, unless it suppose to be a one shot mechain and if so, it still one shots. and the gearing starts at like 3/4 heroic and goes to 2/4 mythic cept for the super rare items that always goes up in ilvl they can be 4/4 mythic
nice shirt dratty G
Venruki's hot as fuck man. God damn
DH is just NOT op though. Literally a root is the equivalent of a Kidney Shot. you just root and run. nothing they can do.