DM is Deadmines, Dire maul wasn't even out at launch so obviously DM stands for Deadmines nerds.

I literally had to Google the spice girls and all of these other references to understand them.

With the free-to-play game and obvious lack of intelligence, bro is 100% Eastern European.

that dad in the last story sounds like a real piece of shit

A FC with emergency based professions? I remember during MoP I signed up for a group on OpenRaid on H Galakras trying to get my warrior a trinket, turned out to be an alt group of a lesbian guild lol. They needed 3 more people including me and only ended up with one dude in the group. Oh and I just couldn't get over how the most stereotypical lesbian of the group - the gm/rl, was a feral druid. 😂 Actually saw her again a few years ago while looking at feral druid parses on WCL.

been saying this for years: there's a contingent of the playerbase that lives in Normal dungeons, treats them like they are serious content, and never learn/improve

My school (in the Deep South) didn’t have a week off for hunting season but kids could get an excused absence for opening day. We also had Hunters Education for eighth graders that, by the end, gave 14 year olds a hunting license. The gym teacher essentially taught gun safety to a group of kids after school. Sounds dangerous 😂

You have got to stop spreading this underwater fairy tale zone propaganda. It is absolutely not faster. In fact, it has substantially slower to level in that zone. How many people did you bait into going there on classic cataclysm launch. LOL?

@34:23 caught me off guard

How can he play this much wow and know this little

i'm struggling at the moment looking for a group to even do group content with :c

really hope Mike gets around to playing Warcraft 3 one of these days

That this dungeon only took 1h is kinda surprising.

had to turn off trade chat when trump got elected. have yet to turn it back on lol

A few years ago I wrote half a drama story but never finished it and sent it in. Now I can't even remember what it was going to be about.

the sexism is extremely common in EU as well, same for the racism tbh

No way this dork got Highwarlord

That dog is awesome

People are absolutely addicted to sympathy and being the victim, it's crazy.

That first story nearly killed me.

I'm an ffxiv player and I have a wow related question, but it's for people who have played both games. I was watching an older drama time today and in it, there was a group working on normal raid progression in wow. The group did make it through after a couple of days of prog, but they struggled on a couple of bosses. So what I was wondering was: which game's normal mode is harder? In ff I can pug the normal version of a new raid day one. Usually one or two or in rare cases, three shotting the bosses. I do Savage raiding so I am coming at this from the perspective of someone who is at least reasonably good at the game, but...are wow's normal raids actually somewhat hard? Or was the group just bad?

Our county high school has drive your tractor to school day, I don't think they take time off for hunting season anymore but they're big about farming still for sure

Mike doesn't run into sexism and racism in WoW because he hasn't had General chat enabled for the last 15 years

The best dramas were the old ones

Innit bruv

Ngl the PuG was bad but man would i not want to ever play with OP. Her perspective seems so victim like and looking to be hurt by anything looking for any reason to assume everyone hates her. She sounds like the person to be telling a story and then stop midway through and say "oh well you know what I have to say isn't important anyways sorry for wasting your time," and need constant validation that what you say on a daily basis isn't a call out or an insult. As well, the whole story felt emotionally manipulative, and well she bragged she is a manipulator. If you're taking offence to "gg," and compliments on side healing man, you sound emotionally exhausting to be around.

I was born and raised in Southeast Georgia in the states, and it was out in the country, small town...until this story I had NEVER EVER heard of school districts giving days off for "hunting season"...that's absolutely insane. lol

Who tf keeps trade/general chat turned on these days?

How dare he blueball the HOLLA BOLLAS like that...

as far as i know there is no forced overtime in germany, since the overtime has to be paid in vacation or extra money. so companies actually force vacation on you if you have to much accumulated overtime in a month. and they cant fire you for refusing to do overtime, i mean they can try, but you can then sue them for that and there were companies who had to shut down because they overworked their workers to much, got sued on mass and when bankrupt.

For the healers I feel like this interaction between tank and healer should be common. I haven't played WoW but we have pivoted too far in the wrong direction in FFXIV. Tanks should need healers, in group content. Pray for your WHM in Dawntrail

Preach just casually doing his podcast while the world is ending in the background. EDIT: The only MMO anxiety I ever experienced was my first few months of FF14, and that was mostly doing to reading the FF14 subreddit. My enjoyment of the game vastly increased as soon as I stopped reading reddit.

The woman is clearly not mentally well and not a reliable narrator.

The hunting season thing started iirc because if the council didn't give the week off by standard, 90% of the students would not be in class regardless. So, to save time, everyone just got a week

Dont be a degenerate Mike. Trans kids are a modern invention and youre going to blur the lines just saying gay. What kind of pervert thinks about kids sexuality that way anyways

I really miss Ghosty. Much better second commentary than Chris

The European mind cannot comprehend self reliance

I get the anxiety thing as returning player or over time without any big incidents. I healed in WoW for 17+ years, i was confident, i think i was a good healer, surely not exceptional or anything. Over the years and more breaks with the game, playing other stuff, everytime i got back i was more anxious, to a point with the switch to FF14 and testing abit dragonflight that i never healed again in any game. Cant say why, but with the years and breaks i think insecurity and more serious pressure to not get the job done and getting roasted took over. I surely wasnt as good as when i only played WoW due to the breaks and other games. It natural when u go hardcore WoW to variety casual playing all kinds of mmo's like ESO, FF14 etc. I could be wrong and didnt realise it that bad back then, but i also think the attitude in these games and content went more aggressive.

As a Turkish woman, racism and sexism are definitely a thing in the EU servers as well. Sexism is better now but it was insane back in the TBC-WotLK era. It got to a point where I started to act like I was a man just to avoid the sexism. I used a male character and did not speak on voice chat until MoP. Racism is more "casual racism", you won't hear anyone say "filthy Turk" but they will say stuff like "We have rules in Europe", "we have freedom of speech here honey" and so on in the most condescending tone because I dared to push back on their 23423424th bomb joke.

"Is racism common in the US?" Is the Pope Catholic?

To be perfectly fair, some leveling dungeons can be the worst experience ever if your tank has zero idea how to play the game.

Your tank kicks multiple healers....and you think it's your fault? Nah...that's clearly the tank.

that server would be ragnaros.

I can't believe this show is half my age.

i have a general dislike for people, so if im doing group content and one boozoo thinks they are god themselves and clearly never been a noob who made similar mistakes, i cant keep my mouth shut.. now i rather run with something similar to FFs Trust System. no complaining and moaning bitches when someone makes a mistake.

Uninstalling WoW and going back to FF14 was the right choice.

Racism and sexism is EVERYWHERE in the US WoW servers.

Let me just say Mike you are looking great! Not that you didnt look good before, but i can tell you've lost quite a bit of weight and are looking good 👍👍👍👍

With as much as Preach hates anime and weeb stuff and positivity I'm surprised he can stomach FF14.

The dog is the best healer