THL Podcast Episode 8 – S-I-M-P or How does this thing work?

The Hunting Lodge Podcast is a weekly World of Warcraft Podcast for the Hunter community. Hosted by Brigwyn and Daewin of The Hunting Lodge. This duo will tackle and discuss everything WoW Related from a Hunter perspective. Make sure to check out our Live Ustream Feed each Sunday at 11pm Eastern/8pm Pacific. And don’t worry if you miss it we’ll have it up on iTunes or you can download it right here at The Hunting Lodge.

Welcome to Episode 8 of The Hunting Lodge Podcast!

Daewin and I had another fun week on the live Ustream feed this week with all our friends.  As always we greatly appreciate it when you can join us Live but even if you can’t we’ll always have it available here at the Lodge as well as over on  iTunes and Zune Marketplace.

As I said it was an awesome week with lots of news and great discussion going over the following topics:

Now on with the show notes!

We began the show PSA and Contest Announcements!

Blizzard may be thinking of forcing everyone to convert to Battle.net accounts. Listen to the entire podcast for how you can win your very own US Authenticator or 2009 BlizzCon Magnet.

Discussion Topics:

• Wertez retires The Hunter DPS Spreadsheet.
  We recommend you use The Online DPS Analyzer by Zehera or RAWR as well as always Shandara’s over on Elitist Jerks.
• Brigwyn and Daewin make a bet for charity on when Cataclysm will be released.
• Zarhym hints 3.3 won’t be ready in time for Santa
  
• Ghostcrawler shows a bit on how the development handles spell/ability changes
  
• Talk about how Looking For Group is suppose to work in 3.3
  - Nethaera Hints that the LFG is changing in 3.3 but no confirmation on it being cross server
  - Bornakk gives even more hints that changes are in the works
• Pets, Scaling and more 3.3 (by Arora of The Hunting Lodge Forums)
  - Ghostcrawler gives hints of more changes to come
  - Ghostcrawler explains the Avoidance and Resilience changes in 3.3 to Pets
• Pet Stable Slots
• The PTR – Are you reporting your findings?
• New instances
  - Forge of Souls
  - Pit of Saron
• More Patch 3.3 Changes
• Bornakk gives some of the T-10 4pc updates

Podcast and Blog of the Week:

Podcast of the week:

• Twisted Nether Blogcast – Interview with Spooner of Spooncraft
• Rawrcast – Talking Tank Roundtable on October 16, 2009

Blog of the week:

• Mend Pet -  Blizzard needing to update the Character Management/Creation Interface

Name Bytor’s Spirit Beast Contest Winner:

Congratulations! Krystyl!!  Bytor chose Fenris!

Email and iTunes Reviews

Emails

• Tyberiuss <AIE Guild> on Earthen Ring (US)
• Percoset <go null yourself> on Crushridge (US)
• Bloodseekr <IP Conflict> on  Nazjatar (US)
• Kasila <Stonewall Sentinels> on Proudmoore (US)
• Tell <Knights of Turmoil> on Terenas (US)
  
• Truthsyrup <The Endless> on Khadgar (US)
• new5thpants
• Malakey <Roughnecks> on Nordassill
• Erysa <Dead Horse Society> on Malygos (US)
• Tribunalxon Whisperwind (US)

iTunes Reviews By

US iTunes Store

• Mattias.Band
• Paddy14
• Gimli on Dalaran
• Malakey
• Muskogean on Lightbringer
• Alakai on Bronzbeard
• Admon09
• Evilnomore

Australian iTunes Store

• Reynnawulf on Khaz’Goroth (Oceanic)

UK iTunes Store

• Rehbero <wildhammer spartans> Wildhammer (EU)
• Daoisth on Blades Edge (EU)
• Pilon on Blades Edge (EU)

We would like to sincerely thank the following podcasts for inviting us on their podcasts.

Brigwyn is on -

• The WoW Insider Show hosted by Mike Schramm (iTunes)
• The Elitist hosted by Tristan Johnson (Warning an Explicit Podcast!) discussing the Hunter Class and other stuff with Euripides of OutDPS. (iTunes)

Daewin is on -

• Talking Ship (Warning an Explicit Podcast!) (iTunes)

You can download this weeks The Hunting Lodge Podcast via iTunes, Zune Market Place, or our Podcast RSS Feed, or even just go and download this weeks archive directly.

Don’t forget to join us each week live on our Ustream feed at 11 pm Eastern/10pm Central/8pm Pacific!

We’d love to hear you feedback and question on our podcast so send your email to thlpodcast@brigwyn.com, leave a comment below, and especially reviews on iTunes or Zune Market Place!