This is an unofficial fan archive of the Realm Maintenance blog, a weekly roundup of World of Warcraft and Blizzard podcasts (2012-2019). It is not run by the original hosts. Episode audio is no longer available; show notes have been preserved and edited for readability.

Realm Maintenance: Ep. #33 – 500 WoW Things

Posted on by Rho

Yes, Monday's episode was a prank, and now back to normal! In this week's real show the 5 WoW Things podcast hits 100 episodes, patch 5.3 datamining keeps going, and a listener is looking for some podcast-style PvP.

Rolling Restart: tri-spec data files are just an experiment. Rho wonders whether the experiment goes further than Ghostcrawler lets on.

As usual the show takes you Around the World of Warcraft in 80 Seconds, researched from news on Battle.net, MMO-Champion, WoW Insider and Wowhead.

Note: raid progression is tracked on wowprogress.com, and the standings mentioned on the show were only accurate at recording time. Congratulations to Blood Legion on their Heroic Lei Shen kill right after we recorded.

Patch 5.3 PvP blog: http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/9331806/PvP_Gear_in_Patch_53-3_25_2013

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Podcast of the Week: 5 WoW Things

website: http://www.5wowthings.com/

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Livestream: http://www.twitch.tv/5wowthings
Find this show on Stitcher and iTunes!

The full version of the interview was published later that week.

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Podcast News: Leetsauced, The Instance, All Things Azeroth, Warcraft Trolls, Arcanum of Azeroth, Azeroth Roundtable (NEW), The Converted, Call to Auction, GroupQuest, Epic Podcast, Out of Mana, 30 Minute Cooldown, A Question of Gluttony, Sheep Moon, Stopcast, The Sundering.

The show also pointed listeners to the WoW podcast community on Reddit, r/wowpodcasts.

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Extra segment: a listener's voicemail asking where to find podcasts about PvP.

The show's goal was to spread the word about other WoW podcasts, their news and their special events.

Rho was also a regular co-host on All Things Azeroth.


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  • Tri-spec sounds more interesting now than it used to, mostly because the newer, simpler and more meaningful talent system should make it easier to build.

    Gearing a third spec shouldn't be hard. Plenty of guilds end up disenchanting a lot of loot once a raid is on farm, and many specs can share gear anyway, such as healers with caster DPS, or feral with guardian. Tier sets might cause some trouble, though.

    Keeping it up wouldn't cost much either, since gems and reforging are cheap. The expensive part may be the better enchants, especially those that need several Sha Crystals, or crystals of any kind if tri-spec misses this expansion. With less gear being disenchanted, crystals could get pricey.

    My guess is that most players would run two PvE specs and one PvP spec, rather than one spec from each tree.

    ~Elamari

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