My WoW Family (Part 1) - Ep 31

Show Notes 

Welcome to Episode 31! – 3:13         

After playing World of Warcraft alone for many years, it turns out that I have made some listeners, supporters, and friends along the way.  This episode (and the second half to follow shortly) aims to introduce you to my WoW family, the people who fit into my somewhat unsolo solo WoW life.

 

“What Have You Done Lately?” – 7:39           

• Grateful to have guested on Lion’s Pride Tavern, episode 450!
• Roster changes, now up to 66, but still leveling through Headless Horseman and candy buckets
• Have jumped into Legion Remix, but not quite to the crazy bronze grabbing level – close
• Couple of Headless Horseman encounter stories

 

News – 27:52

• A second new podcast alert – The Journey – A World of Warcraft Podcast has launched with a couple episodes; Winkari found inspiration for his casual WoW podcast from right here in Solo Queue!
• 2.7 coming with various features
• Midnight news includes beta testing on Nov. 11, portal room changes
• New Xbox will run on Windows, which can run Battle.net, which can run WoW
• Add-on culling; will I soon have to give up my Elvui?
• My thoughts on Blizzard’s push to reduce WoW complexity, including my Three Game Analogy where I compare WoW with the board games Scrabble, Risk, and my personal favorite, The Longest Day from Avalon Hill

 

Main Topic:  My WoW Family – 54:04

• My first WoW friend Kraise
• Two partitions on a Dell Precision M6800 17” that were my first two WoW computers
• Solo from 2015 to 2023 for various reasons
• Birth of Solo Queue
• Fellow WoW podcasters begin connect with me beginning with Gershom from TB; also Gin, Ali from LLL, Ease from RM, Denathar from AU, briefly Scott Johnson, and Jason from TSZ
• Snek of Vol’dun is my far away friend!
• Running M+2 keys with CasualCoo – check him out on Twitch
• SQ patron Case runs me through some Legion Remix dungeons and raids, including getting my M+30 achievement transmog!

 

Announcement

Going to split this big topic into two halves and return shortly with a unique Raid of the Month, my profile of a special WoW player in my life, the SQ mailbag, and a big announcement!

 

Outro – 1:47:51

• Thanks to Blizzard for the amazing music and sound, to OGRE for intro/outro music, my lovely and supportive wife, my family, and YOU for listening.
• Support the show at https://www.patreon.com/soloqueuewow
• Thank you to contributing patrons, Andrew, Righteous Bandy, ThatSkyGuy, Cyn, Snek of Voldun, Jon, Scott, Jeru, Raven, and Greybeard.  And thanks to free members Max, Eddie, Bear, Friends of Wumpus, Sean, Curro, Aronaar, AedinNahkriin, Guardian Sandy, Alice, Don, Kamil, Case and welcome to Wednesday, Eric, and TJ!
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• You can contact me at soloqueuewow at gmail.com, Bluesky, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Threads.
• Solo Queue will return in My WoW Family (Part 2).

“I will see you out there."