Ok, so testing is kind of my thing at the moment. I love to test pulse and earth changes as well as other things. Over the past few days I have done a number of tests but the one it seems everyone's most curious about is the luck artefacts and if they actually do increase loot drops. Today guys, we find out. How's it going people? My name is DP Jen, I'd like to thank you for stopping by and checking out the video. If you do enjoy leaving a rating, it really helps me and my channel out and I do appreciate that support. Ok so this started with me testing the red jabber and his legendary grenade drops. I wanted to see how many I would actually get within 50 runs of running this dude. The point of that video was to basically test to see the rare spawn hunt increased legendary drops and how good they were. While within 50 runs I got 11 legendos, 9 grenade mods and 2 weapons. Now I also got during these runs, which is useful information for today's video, where 2 commons, 34 on commons, 60 runs and 22 epics. These plus those 11 legendos. So that was that and not great in my opinion. I then went on to test an artefact called the deathless, which as it states it gives you increased while plus 12.67 lock while using it. So I wanted to make another video on this artefact, so I put it on and ran this red jabber another 50 times to see the results and test them against running this thing 50 times without any luck artefact, and while the results were quite surprising. I got 2 commons, 36 on commons, 74 rares, 22 epics and again 11 legendos, 9 of which were grenade mods and other 2 were weapons just like before. So the results were pretty straight forward, the artefact which stated it increased the lock never actually did a damn thing besides reward me a few extra blues. Now within that video I posted a few days back about this artefact, many people said I used the wrong artefact and I should do another 50 runs using the loaded dice artefact which states on it, substantially increases your lock. So guys, because you asked and many were not happy with the artefact test I did, I did indeed run another 50 red jabbers using the loaded dice artefact, while I also did add an additional 6% to my overall lock within my guardian rank, taking my total lock percentage to over 10% and it was previously 5. So all 50 runs you can see in the background now so you guys know I ain't bullshitting you on my testing. So the results were as follows, I got 5 commons, 40 on commons, 82 rares, 24 epics and 10 legendaries, 8 of which were grenades and 2 were weapons. And yes guys, that's quite surprising it seems as though the loaded dice and the additional 5% lock on my guardian rank actually doesn't really do anything. If we compare the 3 runs as you can see on the screen now, the increase we do see is towards those lower tier items. And with what people are saying is the lockies artefact to use, with additional lock via my guardian ranks, sees us out of all 3 runs earning the least amount of legendaries. So the conclusion is, it seems it does not matter the lock increase you have via artefact and other means, the true effect is they only work with lower tier items. Now I know people will comment saying maybe the red jabber's loop pull is fixed due to the spawn hunt and probably his dropped items are fixed too. I mean this would make sense but the point of sometimes me getting 2 legendaries in a row then doing another 35 runs without earning anything tells you his loop pull and the drop rate is indeed random, it's based on RNG. And the point it seems increased loot artefacts and additional guardian rank lock doesn't actually seem to change anything for the better, I'm not sure they're worth using. Now guys if there's anything else you want to see me test, let me know. But after 150 runs with a red jabber and a little over 30 legendaries, all pretty damn bad, I don't think I will be coming back here. Now 150 runs in total took me a long, long time, but because you guys asked, I delivered. Now if you do appreciate that and want to see more Borderlands videos, be sure to subscribe and if you never want to miss out on any Borderlands video I post, make sure you subscribe and turn notifications on. But yeah guys, if there's any other tests you guys want to see me do, let me know down below in that comment section or you could always hit me up on discord or twitter, both links within the video description. But yeah guys, just to sum up the video, the loaded dice, the deathless artefact, increased guardian rank and additional lock doesn't seem to affect anything for the better, high tier loot wise. And on that note, we have come to the end of the video, if you guys enjoyed it, leaving a like really helps out, thanks as always for stopping by, hopefully you enjoyed the video and hopefully I will see you on that next one.


This is covering the spread part of the Fandall podcast network No matter what kind of football you like I can pretty much guarantee that week 10 has the kind of game that you want You want a potential shootout between two very efficient passing offenses. We got Texans and Bengals You want some good defensive matchups? Jags 49ers Ravens and Browns both on the schedule as well So it's a pretty fun slate no matter what flavor of football you want We're gonna break down all the top games for today break down some betting options We like over at Fandall sportsbook by talking to Dr. Ed Feng and getting his read on the Alliance this week at Fandall sportsbook This is covering the spread right here on the Fandall podcast network and Fandall research My name is Jim Sonnis I am a managing editor of digital media for a Fandall research joined here as mentioned by Dr. Ed Feng You can find his work at the power bank comm check him out on Twitter at the power bank Ed week number 10 is coming up Right now. How you do today? I'm doing great looking forward to another awesome week of NFL football and a lot of good games Yeah, we got the Bears and Panthers coming up tonight Tom Vecchio broke down that game for us here on the covering the spread podcast feed and you know Ed it may not be the most thrilling game, but oh, can I sell you on a double revenge game? For Deontay Foreman and DJ more against their old team in the Panthers You can try I like watching DJ more whether it's a revenge game or not so I'm not I'm not sure you're gonna necessarily get me there a little Tyson Bay jant and Bryce young the Who will some will say is a colossal failure so far, you know the ones that don't realize the small sample size? 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Very carefully for sure I've been looking at aid in no connell's numbers this morning. It's pretty interesting You know you add about a 39 success rate against the the chargers nfl average is about 42 percent That's not terrible You had 46 attempts and then uh 4.1 yards per pass attempt which is terrible But you know they probably broke them in with a lot of short passes and then it hit me I was like, oh, that's that's the crazy sack game too where you got sacks seven times so You know given that it got sacks seven times 39 isn't terrible Uh, I came in relief with brian horror against chicago 46 on 13 attempts 48 against the new york giants last week um I'm always cautious about small sample size obviously. I don't want to say too much about aid in no connell I would I guess I would say this is better than my expectations But definitely caution about the small sample size and I think you know like reasonable success rates small yards for pass attempt is What you would expect for a rookie quarterback, you know kind of breaking them in gently Uh, that's not at all what's going on with will levis They're just airing it out. It's insane. Um, I actually track Fraction of passes for a quarterback that go 10 air yards or more the nfl average is 33 Will levis is at 44. It's the highest in the nfl and He's been successful with that three touchdowns of over 20 yards in that first game and then seven, uh, no touchdowns but seven, uh Completed passes of 20 or more yards when you look at the success rate. He's at 30. That's worse than zack wilson Right. So that is definitely something I think is absolutely unsustainable Right, if we're a higher success rate in the lower yard, you know lower Less explosive plays. I think that's more sustainable and I'm not saying that what aid in no connell is doing necessarily is but you tend to believe that more um But what will let us is doing is uh Is not sustainable for anyone. No And like with levis, I think that the deep passes are actually like fun. So it's like It's not going to be good like that success rate is low for a reason and I don't think that's lukie I think the low success rate is kind of what he was a kentucky to where it's like He's going to take chances and if it hits it hits, but it's also going to lead you to some very bad things so like for you with your your uh interception props like Probably going to be checking out what levis at some point because they'll probably put the ball in danger pretty often So for stuff like that, it's pretty interesting. And I think that honestly When you look at the data you're looking at ed I'm I'm pretty willing to trust small samples. I've listened to rob pazilla on your podcast The the football analytics show a couple weeks ago to talk about how like he is okay with small samples More okay with small samples than a lot of people because he knows what data to look at and when I think you're looking at Success rate looking at average depth of throw Like stuff like that that's going to be stickier than like overall efficiency Like you know epa metrics and such a small sample. So like I think if we're okay Looking at if we know what metrics to look at small samples are fine We just have to know What those good metrics are and I think things like success rates definitely do fit that criteria Yeah, I mean, I'm always going to warn people to be cautious about small samples. I think um That that's just kind of my nature. I want to see more You you did mention that, you know, this this fraction of Passes that go 10 or more air yards is going to tend to be more sticky. In general, I agree with that I would also bet my house that he's not going to end the season with 44 percent of his passes Going that far As well You also mentioned the bad ball rate his bad ball rate, isn't like he's not actually putting the ball in danger too often He's actually right at nfl average about 11. I think it's let's see 11.9 percent and the nfl average over the past couple years has been 11.6 So not terrible. I do think that's small sample size I would expect that to increase that is just the natural That just naturally happens when you're chucking the ball down the field not not a surprise there And and your your probability for an interception does go up. I actually I mean, I actually haven't bet him either of the weeks yet We'll see what happens this week. We'll see what kind of prices we get um, but uh But yeah, that that's uh, we'll say more about we'll let us later for sure Okay, so let's go back to him later on and see what that says about week number 10 Let's start things off though with a pretty fun game in Cincinnati between the Texans and the Bengals But right now the Bengals are six and a half point favorites total in this game Is 47 that has come down a point uh with news that tea Higgins kind of banged up Jamar Chase practicing thursday tea Higgins doesn't sound like he is but I think the headliner here is on the opposing side. CJ Stradma Texans have played awesome football so far this year So does that make you willing to consider taking the points in this matchup? And no, I kind of want nothing to do with this game first like I want to shout out dr Eric Yager who actually talked about houston pre Season about being a team that he thought might be pretty good. So gotta give a lot a lot of props to Eric about that I wouldn't be this game 14 and a half points in the pre season and I tend to not move very fast off my pre season priors in the NFL and I'm making this eight and a half so You know that's six points. That's a lot and Most of that is reflective of what this houston team has done. They've been really good CJ Strad has been unbelievable. The defense has been, you know, not bad I mean, they did give a lot of points to Tampa Bay last week, but I would say that that unit in general has actually been Been been pretty good above what we would have expected this pre season And then since you know, I mean, it's kind of like, you know, my numbers from the currencies They're going to bring them down. I think a lot of people are just assuming they're back to five points better than NFL average and A Super Bowl contender that's probably true but So I don't know. I mean my my numbers do see value in this game since I'm making it since the 90 by eight and a half I'm not necessarily sure. I want to bet it You know, just Just with all the movement that that's kind of happened during the season. I don't quite know what to make of it Yeah, I think that's very fair and honestly like with this Bengals team like They're a hard team to figure out not just because of the injuries to chase and Higgins entering this week But also because they've just been a weird team this entire year And so do you trust the past four games with burrow looking healthier? Do you kind of just go with that sample? Do you revert to last year and their numbers there? I don't really know I will say I I'm pretty high the Bengals like I did adjust their numbers up quite a bit as a result of what they've done kind of Looking primarily at the past four games. That does make them a very good football team I do still still show a bit of value in the Texans money line at Well, not anymore, but when it was plus 270 earlier on this week Either when I was at 30.3 percent. So It is the ninth consecutive game. I have shown value in the Texans money line Which means it's all nine games so far this year. I've bet most of those I did bet this one not like a Not a ton on it because it is plus 270 for a reason you want to account for A 70 chance the Bengals win this game But they're the third ring passing offense by number fires metrics so far this year their success rate is lower Because it's been a lot of deep balls from stroud and he's been very efficient on those but like I think that like even The reason I was okay taking it here is because I know that I aggressively bumped up the Bengals It did still show value on the Texans money line the money line specifically I don't show value in the spread right now, but the money line specifically I did it's at plus 245 right now And I don't think that's a value for me anymore but like I I believe in this Texans team and I have High rating on the Bengals, but still can't quite get to this number So I I get where you're coming from Ed where you just kind of want no part of it and want to just enjoy what should be a pretty fun Yeah, really it really should be a fun game For sure Let's move on to our second game now and talk about the 49ers and the jaguars were right now 49ers are three point favorites total in this game is 45 and a half and Ed the 49ers faltered before their bi-week, but We both believe that they'll bounce back So are you willing to lay the three points with them here in in a match with another very good team in the jaguars? Right. I mean, I think this is really interesting when I first started thinking about this game I have Jacksonville three points better than NFL average in my member numbers And if you really want to make san francisco minus three in this game, you're essentially saying they're Five points better than Jacksonville on a neutral side. That means they're eight points better than than NFL average That's a hard thing for me to believe in I think san francisco is good Um, you know, if you only took the first five games of the season, maybe you can make that case But they've come back down to earth just like Baltimore is going to come back down to earth at some point this season So are there really eight points better than an NFL average? I think the answer there is no then I actually looked at my market numbers And that component of my number says Jacksonville is going one point better than NFL average And the 49ers are six points better than NFL average by my market model my market model takes closing point spreads Adjust for who you've played So, you know, I mean, this is very consistent with what has happened in the markets before that Um, I mean, I think I mean, I think the markets are too low on Jacksonville. I do think there's a little bit of value Uh, I mean, this is this is a playoff team in Jacksonville at home getting three points Uh, I think that's I I would definitely lean that way Yeah with the jaguars. I was I think with the 49ers I kind of assumed they'd be good to go but now on wednesday trampoline still isn't practiced for them and that's a concern because he's like among the best left tackles in football and He's gonna try to practice Thursday. It sounds like but it sounds like even if he does play not at full health just yet and Like I think that Brock Purdy has been a bit underrated like recently People kind of just taking the recent picks is the reason to dump on him is yards pretend to have been very good in this time Like he's played overall good quarterback, but he's had these mistakes But those mistakes are more likely to happen When Trent Williams is not healthy because you get more chaotic Stuff happening and you don't want chaotic stuff with a guy who's not Like lemar jackson or like a guy who is a creator on his own or josh allen someone like that So I think that's the the risk here if you like the 49ers is I'd want to make sure Trent Williams is good to go first because That could put Brock Purdy in a lot of odd situations and going back to the Jags ad Talking about how you thought the market may be a bit too low on them Like if you look at Lawrence's numbers so far this year, they haven't been impressive But we also like like you watch him and you can see That there's room for growth So I think that what we've seen from the Jags offense so far It's kind of I don't want to say it's their floor But it's not anywhere near their ceiling So you talk a lot about teams that have a ceiling that can be improved and like I think the Jags kind of fit that that model to a T Because they've got a very good quarterback. Calvin really is not meshed yet with this team But we know he's a good receiver as well So I think the upside is higher relative to what they've done so far upside is higher at the Jags than the 49ers Not like not saying that their ceiling is better But the there's more room for growth on Jacksonville than in San Francisco if that makes sense Yeah, for sure. And you know, I mean I have in terms of past defense Past offense, but adjusted success rate. I mean, I have Jacksonville in the top 10 on both sides of the ball Probably the offense is more sustainable You'd expect that to be more sustainable with Trevor Lawrence and you know, Doug Peterson running that offense You'll probably expect to see a little bit more Regression on defense, but still I mean that that's why they're so high in my numbers Alrighty, let's talk now about our third game for this week. That is the Browns at the Ravens. We're right now Ravens are six and a half point favorites total in this game Is 38 and a half and you said last weekend that the Ravens were the top-ranked team for you In your 2023 only numbers and they got another blot win over a quality team last week So can the Browns keep this game close enough to cover against what might be the best team in all football? Yeah, we'll see it's been really interesting to see all the tweets go on about how good Cleveland's defense is There's been a lot chatter out there about when you look at a per drive basis how elite they are they're a little bit of less elite when you look at success rate on pat passing plays, but they're still first in the NFL I mean, I think it's hard to not make this Cleveland defense first And the you know, that's going to keep them in the game No matter what Deshaun Watson does on the other side of the ball You know, I think Watson definitely has a high ceiling, but you can't really I don't think you can say that he's better than NFL average right now And so we'll see what happens going down the future Whether that shoulder gets better whether he starts playing better Maybe that all gets uh swamp Maybe that maybe we'll never see it get better because they're playing in these, you know Terrible windy conditions outside as the weather gets colder November December in Cleveland Baltimore, you know, I mean we talked about all the superlatives of this team They've clearly been playing great football. They're also clearly going to regress just like san francisco has over the last couple weeks They can't really keep that up But you know, it's interesting to kind of pick holes at baltimore, you know, they're they're Defense has been better than their offense, which always screams a little bit of regression But you know, the defense is still probably a pretty good team You could kind of pick at like well, does Lamar really have elite weapons Zay flowers is the top target. He is only at 1.6 yards per outrun, which is pretty close to the NFL average for wide receiver Mark Andrews is at 1.9 yards per outrun, which is pretty good for a tight end. I think mark Andrews is elite Zay flowers Working on getting there. So I think you can kind of question Lamar's weapons But they they really have done it. I mean, I have no interest in betting against them So I will pass on this one I do show a bit of value on the ravens money line right now that is currently minus 295 at fan dual sports book So the implied odds at minus 295 are 74.68 percent I've got them at 76.7 in large part because I show value in the over in this game So a bit more room for error when you're betting an over on a 38 and a half point total game so I show value in the over if you want to get exposure to this game the ravens money line a bit But like the spread I think is about accurate a six and a half just because like I mean in a low scoring game you should want to take the points With the the browns, but I just can't have faith into Sean Watson against this defense Like he was bad before the shoulder injury. So why should I expect him to suddenly be good now? I think that's my key hang up with them It's like I love that defense like you were saying like they're still first in when you adjust for the teams they played but like How can you have faith in him being good until he gives you a reason to have that faith? Right. Yeah, we'll see. I mean would you I mean, so you probably consider Watson being NFL average kind of a ceiling type right now short term. Yes long term I think it's higher than that but like I need died like If you're telling me like for the next three weeks His ceiling at being NFL average. I think that'd be a great outcome for them. Like that'd be a great outcome for them for sure Yeah, my numbers have Baltimore by five and a half points So not seeing a ton of value and I'm certainly not going against Baltimore Alrighty, let's open things up then Ed. Where else to see in value across week number 10 in the NFL? Yeah, let's go back to Will Levis. I think it is another week to fade Will Levis We talked before about how he's chucking the ball deep at an incredible rate his passing success rate is worse than Zach Wilson and you know, they face Tampa Bay who Who's actually remarkably healthy like cornerback Jamal Dean probably won't play in this game because he was in concussion protocol but their their injury list is remarkably Empty for this time of year in in the NFL When you're when you're talking about Levis when you're talking about this Tennessee team Uh, I'm going to go with my market model based on two games of what they've had when I look at that model It has Tampa Bay by almost four points. I definitely see some value here I do potentially think there are some interceptions coming as well some turnovers happening And I just don't think you can continue to chuck the ball deep You know Eric Eager has a new book and one of the examples that he gives in there is about how passing on deep throws tends to be pretty random and and I think it's going to be pretty random for Will Levis. Look, this is the same type of thinking that I used to fade Brock Purdy last year and that didn't go well Will Levis doesn't have as good a team around him either. So I think we're a little even it's safer uh, well more safe Fading uh, Levis than we were with Purdy last year. So I'll go with Tampa Bay. Um, I sent it out to my members at minus one looks like you guys have minus one and a half right now I'll take Tampa Bay Yeah, I've got value in Tampa Bay too. I have the spread at 3.6. So you said four I've got 3.6. We're pretty much in lock step with that one So the minus one and a half on tip bay is minus 105 muddy line minus 116 I also do like the over in this game because Tennessee's defense sucks Like Kevin Byer, they traded away. They were pretty bad before then too like they've got good pieces along the Along the defensive line, but like it doesn't translate to anything like they're past defense hideous And that might force Tampa Bay to stop running the balls and they're pretty bad at in general So I think the Tampa Bay offense should put up points. They give you like like the Tampa Bay offense Also, I'd consider their team total uh for this game since a low total pretty tight spread But like bakers played okay I don't know like how sustainable that is but like he is a competent quarterback throwing the ball to Mike Evans and Chris Godwin So I kind of like I don't mind having faith in him specifically whether be with a total the spread or the the team total just because like It's not like he's the worst quarterback in football. So I think it's fine to have a maker personally Yeah, I mean, I think Baker is an NFL starter. Yeah And that's about it and oh and speaking of Carson Wentz got signed Speaking of another conversation we we've had over uh, I don't remember who was off day air or on this pod But Carson Wentz got signed and I don't like Carson Wentz But I I truly believe he is good enough to be a backup quarterback And I mean Tommy DeVito starting this week Like Carson Wentz is good enough to be a starter like a he's good enough to like be on an NFL roster Like we can say with zero hesitation. Yeah I mean if Sean Clifford gets some snaps with Green Bay, like could he be DeVito like bad? I think he was better in college than DeVito was right. I'm not sure how that all translates I thought DeVito was like a like watching him at Syracuse because he was there when we lived there like I thought he was like a tough guy who like couldn't throw Like you could throw bombs and occasionally hit but like It seemed like he was more of like guy wanted to run. I'm like, uh, that's not an NFL quarterback and Like it's it bad that I'm hoping Matt Barkley plays from that team Like that's what we're at where I'm hoping for Matt Barkley So I can get my say qualm Barkley dynasty shares to be okay. Like that's the the bottom we've reached here already I think it's interesting because you know, I I think NFL coaches do some Weird stuff in general you know talk about the analytics in the fourth down But in general like they're pretty good at evaluating who can play football. Yeah, and somehow Tommy DeVito made it I mean, I guess he was the third stringer Which may be less befuddling than Sean Clifford being the backup in Green Bay if you think about that, right, but I don't know. I mean he he I mean must have played well enough in camp to make that roster I mean Clifford's the backup behind a guy who had never started more than one game So like that's that's that's pretty wild like they had to Rod Taylor. They had a guy in Daniel Jones Who was flawed like signed a big contract. So like I think the Clifford one is more confusing Yeah, well, we'll see if he gets on the field Green I know The stuff has been tough for Jordan Love, but Packers fans better hope that doesn't happen. Right. That's exactly That's what I would say. Also while we're talking about love. I did want to say Like you made me think of this right now like I think the way this year has played out has made the Jordan Love extension look really really good Like what they did was they had the fifth year option on the table for him this year And as opposed to picking up the fifth year option Which would have been like 20 something million for his fifth year. They signed into a one-year extension Where he's only like an eight million dollar deal next year. So like The fact that he's not playing well doesn't matter and so like I know that like The fact they went with love like it didn't work out But like I kind of respect their front office more now for the way they work that contract So it's a very weird situation But I I've weirdly gained respect for them this year So shout out to them for a unique contract with Jordan Love But I feel like you'd have more respect if they had a veteran behind them though, right? Probably like a Carson That would make sense So we can dump on them for the Clifford thing justified and respect the the contract lack of extension For Jordan Love, but yeah, the the the back of quarterback thing is is very very there That is all that we have here for today on covering the spread as mentioned the sunday night football preview of the Jets and the Raiders with Todd Vecchio talking some player props for that game That'll be up on the covering the spread podcast feed a later on today player prop show at JJ Zacharyson Coming up tomorrow all right here on the covering the spread podcast feed the regular shows On fandal tv plus and the fandal youtube page as well ed. What's going on this week over at the powering Yeah, check out my uh free sports betting email newsletter every saturday come out with five no good saturday Which is my curated list of sports betting tips and analytics if you're looking for action on any given weekend Uh, that's really the free service for you Usually 51 out of I think 51 out of 52 of the last weeks Um, so check that out at the powerink dot com Also, I think I mentioned yesterday that I had kevin coal on the football analytics show great show lots of insights on various different NFL teams kevin someone who Definitely knows the analytics and is also willing to go back and and watch all the plays as well So check that out wherever you get your podcasts the football analytics show All right, and again the newsletter is at the powerink dot com Find ed on twitter at the powerink. 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These are my top secrets that I want to share with you guys especially for people who are newcomers and you are coming to this Gulf country which is Qatar 1. One of the secrets I'll let you know is that you need to choose your circle of friends very carefully. Choose the person you are being with. Choose the person you are interacting with. Choose the person you are sharing. He's going to save you a lot in one or another. If you choose a very bad circle, then definitely or if you choose a bad friends, then definitely they are no longer going to advise you in one or another. Choose people that you can get advice from or people who are better than you that are willing to help you out because we are here to help one another at the end of it all. Don't choose someone who is going to be only talking about going to this Gulf, going to talk about dance, he's going to talk about how many girlfriends he has, he's going to talk about how he wishes to buy very many cars. Choose the person that is going to advise accordingly because we get to meet very people from different nationalities and we either pick some good values from them or we definitely go with bad values in one or another. Then also something that we need to understand that you need to think about the box, think outside the box. It's another real secret and it will make you live longer or make you be happy in Katal and such that we have exactly know that the reason that you are here. Think about the box or think beyond what is holding you on yourself or on your lap. What am I trying to say that sometimes we get these opportunities like for example I was giving an example of the cleaner, some people get to despise what we call the cleaning jobs but when you get to analyse to expand what the cleaning job is that it has a lot of opportunities outside. Let's say for example you want a person that is working as a cleaner in a hotel. Remember if you really upgrade maybe for example you take up a course you can be a team leader which is housekeeping attendant, a team leader. From a team leader you can be a team manager, from a team supervisor to a team manager and to a senior team. So senior team housekeeping team leader or manager in one world or the other. So meaning that much of these opportunities that we have are there for us. Good enough here in Katal for you to take up any course. You don't need anything.  You can take up some courses. We definitely take up some courses for that kind of matter. They are going to hope you in one world that you advance or to build more on your career in one world. Even if when you get to interview or go somewhere they will definitely ask you that what are your qualifications what proofs that you can work in there what proofs that you can be able to live in this and do that. So probably you should think about the course think about the boxes if you really have some course that you can take it and advance and advance yourself in next level. Then something also I need to share with you is that account for your money every single money or every single coin that should be accounted for for you to make sure that you can also fulfill your dreams or fulfill your aspiration or your long term plans in one or the other. For a family yes fine. We need to give the people family but make sure you give proportionally to something that you can account for to go and spend in a world because you also have aspiration and yes the families are there they will love you when you don't have and they will talk about it when you don't have and they will still talk about it when you have so it's better you plan for your family either if you have the kids you better plan for them seriously in one way or the other such that you can be able to know that my targets are being achieved in one way or the other. Then something I need to share with you is that another tip is that invest your money known invest your money not in the pockets or not in the bank because remember when we put that money in the bank it's normally the banks that benefit out of us because they will keep on learning them we call it credit creation they will be giving out credit or giving out loans to other people then they will be getting interest out of us and yet for us as any video we are not making profits out of that money and sometimes also you need to get those projects that you can invest in your money and you know my money is there at whatever take I need to get my money I just need to sell this project I will just take off this then probably I will have the money back we look at this most of the time we call this project self-recrediting projects we call them they are liquidating or self-recrediting or self-generating the simple terms they get to generate more money even if it is 2% of the money that has been created other than keeping a lot of money in the pockets remember you can keep a lot of money in the pockets you can do with it but as time keeps on moving we never have to go beyond what you call inflation we find inflation that you have your whole bulge of the money but as time you kill you the time you plan to use that money that money cannot even do a service or cannot do that value that you expected to do it becomes a little bit very tactical little in that way or in the other then the last one that I have to let you know is that for you to survive or take secrets for the newcomers that are coming here is that keep your passport safe keep your passport safe yes we cannot look at the companies the companies will take your passport the first time the company will take your passport to do your fingerprints to do your medical then to get your QID but remember when your QID is being delivered to you keep your passport safe away from you because we never have to trust anyone that is living around us or people living around us you never know who is your enemy on the next door and you may find someone may get hold of your passport do something bad to hold of your passport and you may end up creating a race of your life so those are some of the tactics that I wanted to share with you guys who are coming to Qatar and if it's your first time to come to this country please take them in custody and for us we made mistakes we made mistakes before we came we did not know such kind of things and this scenario as we get to share this one we don't want you to make the same mistakes that we did we want you to move prospa and such at every single time that this pain is being calculated for and it will give you what you call cold yields thank you so much for coming back see you again in the next video


Here we go, let's do this Let's do this right.  I have cleanses. Don't worry. They're in my side and also you can't cast a free, okay The minions might be able to but I don't intend for them to be up for long This battle is misery and pain if you haven't seen my death do this it was misery and pain absolute misery and pain the only weakness that the boss does is Obsidian colossus which is only 25 so that's fine the minions however can a free So I guess that's kind of bad, but we're gonna hope that they don't do that. Okay, it's like myth They don't earthquake if you don't want them to That's definitely how the game works. Don't look into it We have a we have that we have one one of these but we do have cleanse inside anyway, so it's fine Let's go for he's used most of his perks. We're gonna stop waiting now Whenever I come up on these battles. I just win and farm crowns from carefree games and some of the minions to help you Solo these battles Hinchmen. Yeah, they they're useful. I'm trying to I always try and do these battles once without minions And then if I need minions, I use my own first and then I'll summon Hinchman I don't really summon Hinchman much. I try not to do that Right, I don't want to put more shields on well the Well the dots are on because they're not doing too much damage, so I'm not too worried about them Not too worried about them. Yeah I'm only overpacking because I Nearly died three times on my death doing this. So Yeah The third time I finally did it This is the only reason why I'm overpacking Here's the weakness or number one weakness. We're gonna wait till one of them E freaks me to remove this or just before I hit Yeah, we're probably gonna go for a dragon first to get out the minions pretty ASAP We do however need a We're gonna discard this we are gonna faint real fast. I Do need a prism as well pretty quickly. You don't remember this battle from your life Probably because you want to block it out. This is to unlock the This is to unlock the Sun school And as take a it's pain and suffering. That's what I'm gonna say It's actually not as bad as it used to be But it's still kind of bad still kind of bad mainly because they don't have as much health as they used to have I Can't remember how much of this guy used to have Because they've changed it on the wiki since then. Oh, we have this already. This is lovely. We are going to go for one of these first Just to keep our shields on for a little bit a little bit Little bit of shields never hurt anyone just because one of them has quite a few pips If we meet you won't do it Get it out of your system. He's not a fretting me. This is so sad This is so sad champ. So sad. My day is ruined. I Ask him to eat free me and he won't even do that for me This is disappointing Disappointing we're actually nearly did as well. I need to kind of hit ASAP Need to hit pretty quick. I need to find a prism pretty quickly. Please prisms This is not present. We're gonna just cut one of these. We are going to Discard this we're gonna pull this on Gonna put this on there's all good lovely pass that's fine and This is on me. Oh No, it's a blade. That's fine. That's perfectly fine when I did this battle on your myth I went to the Bazaar and bought the best fire is this gear you can and Then did it with basically 90 fire resist.  This quest is absolutely ridiculous, right? Here's the prism we wanted We also have an E3 as well. Just good. He only has 15,000 health now I think he used to have like close to 20,000 if not more than that and it was crazy It was crazy Because he does have 80 resist to fire as well and These guys just spam fire hits like no tomorrow. It's crazy On my death. I summon Maldwee and just Maldwee carried me. You can see that it's on my YouTube channel And the death walkthrough playlist somewhere. This isn't gonna do too much, which is good. Lovely Lovely lovely lovely See told you they wouldn't eat free me guys. You guys didn't believe me But no, why would they eat free me? They ain't doing that And bring well it took them three times to defeat it on my death something like that I don't know if it was actually three, but it was definitely two It was definitely two Right. Do I Go for this. I think I do Actually now we're just gonna We're gonna do this first just to get off this they can't eat free me. So this is good I'm fine to use this now Of course I crit of course I crit. Why would I not crit? smh smh Right fizzle lovely. Luckily these guys fizzle a lot more than when I last fought these guys They're fizzling so much. I don't want to do this on my myth. It's probably gonna be easier on my myth to be honest Just spam frog easy peasy Watch me say that now and then it is not easier on my myth be hilarious, right? That's doing a little bit of damage. I don't have any heals either. So this is gonna be fun. This is gonna be interesting Right, how much is this gonna do? Hopefully obviously we're not gonna get too much benefit of the overtime because I have like no peers and Yeah, the boss has 80 resist so we ain't gonna be doing much At all but hopefully this first hit can do a decent amount Okay, 5k that's slightly less than I was expecting 137 each turn. Yeah, don't I have grandi on the myth? I do but I don't know if I would use that Don't know if I would use that. I should have put up a furnace. We don't need to now I don't want to use a That either we're gonna do blade. We're gonna do blade. I really want to get a fortify up ASAP Because we might need it. I think we're gonna die here.  Can we pull out a clutch out of nowhere? I Don't know if we can I really don't know if we can do this I need a prism What's holding me back is a prism Now we we don't use heels we're a fire was we don't need heels isn't that right Rose I Learned all I know about my fire was it from Rose.  We ain't need no healing Don't even question me healing in like not too long ago that didn't exist Yes 98 luckily I did that and he's got no pips now, which is fantastic. We don't however have a prism We're gonna enchant this I was hoping I would have a prism But we're gonna discard the fuel I think not gonna come in handy We're gonna do a faint this could probably kill me Just hit fast enough that you don't get murdered first exactly easy peasy problem solved We do no healing runs. Okay. This is wizard 101, but we don't heal ever I mean we could do this. This is what 15 15 Pierce. I kind of don't want to do that We're gonna do this instead We gonna do we're gonna discard you we're gonna discard you actually probably not the best idea to discard that We're gonna discard the trap.  Where's the fun? Okay? He's changing his aura quite a lot. He's scaring me here. He's scaring me a little bit Okay, this is good. We're gonna go for a prism real fast Prism, I'm at 600 health. We have a shield. So the next 30 does is gonna do nothing, which is good very very good It is a meteor. This is fine Also because we do have a trap on us, so it's probably best time nice Right we don't have this blade already though actually no we do have this blade already I think we could go for a trap if I want to But I think the best thing to do is I kind of want a furnace. I want a furnace or a trap. I'm gonna furnace. I think We'll keep the trap though.  He's allowed to do his thing. He's allowed to blade Man if I had an orderless, I'd just yoink that from him. I Would just absolutely yoink that luckily this is if this doesn't kill it's a minus 40 So it's not too good, but it's better. That was an email That's cool Later Right Chris lovely This could kill Easy peasy first try no heels Let's go


So I'm Josh triplet and this slightly delayed talk is a firmware transparency open all the way down So I want to start with a brief introduction So I'm Josh triplet. I have worked for Intel have for the last six years Five of those I worked on Chrome OS as Intel's Chrome OS software architect And then as of this year, I've moved on to working on open source firmware and that's what I'd like to talk to you about today So I want to give you a brief overview of what What our stack looks like today Simplistically we've got a user space stack sitting on Linux now whether you're doing an embedded system an IOT system or a full desktop system You've got a user space stack. You've got an operating system under that You've got some sort of BIOS and firmware under that and then you've got the the hardware and historically the point of open source has been roughly speaking here that we Put we have an open source operating system that we all know and love We have user space on top of that that can be as open as you want it to be and then historically the firmware has not Necessarily been quite as open. So that's something that's been improving of recent years we're starting to move that open source line down a little bit and We've been putting a lot of effort into various different areas here One of those is that there was a recent open source firmware conference just last month Intel among others had a strong presence there We were to taking a look at how we can open up more of the EFI Tiano firmware all sorts of bootloader items and similar But beyond that I want to introduce another wrinkle in the stack here, which is that we don't just have CPUs these days We have systems on chip. We have all sorts of different cores and dies All sorts of different cores on the processor die that serve many different functions many of them specialized and many of them separate from the main CPU So given that we want to introduce a new piece of the stack here Which is all of those pieces of hardware have firmware running on top of them This is separate from the existing BIOS firmware and stack This is instead Software that's often running a little event loop or a tiny embedded operating system that is in some ways underneath your BIOS or your firmware And so if we have that new complication in the stack Well, naturally we want to push open source even lower here and have open source much closer to the metal so naturally we think this is a really good idea for all sorts of reasons for Improving transparency for improving security for Ensuring that we have more control of the systems that we actually run So one example of this is that are on modern Intel systems There's actually an audio DSP on the processor die This is where all of the audio is routed through and instead of going just directly from the CPU to an audio card You actually have the capability to do things like wake on voice Process multiple microphones to do spatial audio so that you can do good echo Cancellation and remove background noise doing all sorts of output enhancement so that you can make a mid-range set of speakers sound like an amazing set of speakers and Based on that we we want to be able to drive this in a more open source way So earlier this year at embedded Linux conference not in Europe We introduced the sound open firmware and this is an open source firmware for the Intel audio DSP It's got all of the functions that I mentioned and has the ability for people to introduce their own code their own processing algorithms for Things like how do you recognize the speech for whatever agent of assistance that you're using or how you do echo processing and cancellation and And This is a more general pattern where we would like to have more open source available for Soc component firmware the audio DSP is the first in a pattern here and Based on that I want to talk a little bit about what the best practices for this are Because this is not an area that has historically been particularly open on the contrary It's something that has historically been extremely proprietary and so in the course of opening it up We'd like to talk a little bit more about what we think the best practices best Policies and the ways to make this a truly open project are So first of all that you would hope this would go without saying but part of the point is to make things open and auditable So we want to have full source code available not just for some components, but for everything running on that particular Soc chip so that means everything all the way from the initial Rom or initial boot block all the way up through any bootloader through any operating system that's running on it There are many different embedded operating systems people might use you'd want that to be open as well as well as any processing code now naturally Any vendor beyond that might choose to add their own code to it that may or may not end up being open But at least the baseline starting point should be something entirely open and something people can audit and verify for themselves Now beyond just being open source by license and practice We also it also ought to go without saying that it should be developed in the open So this means that this shouldn't just be a code drop air dropped from orbit into a repository saying snapshot as of this date It should actually be developed open source first upstream first Commits to a public repository now naturally there might be pre-release hardware That's not available yet, and then that might go in as a batch when that hardware is released or close to being released But for the most part features and requests and active development should be happening directly in the repository Now beyond that one that anybody who's done embedded development may be familiar with as a potential issue is There should be a unified code base for all platforms We shouldn't have a copy of the code for this chip and a copy for this chip and a copy for this chip That are all divergent and all different branches and so on It's important that one line of development one mainline branch cover all of those different platforms Avoid having regressions on the old platforms introduce new features for the new platforms You might choose to snapshot a stable release for the particular shipment of your hardware But that doesn't mean you should be that you should be locked to that release and unable to upgrade to a new version Because hey the new version supports the new hardware, but not the old so it's important to keep that code base unified Now here's one that has been a historical problem open source firmware needs open source tooling if you're building firmware and You can trust the open source code that's running on it But in order to build it you need a proprietary toolchain for a processor or a proprietary signing tool or some magic proprietary flash configuration utility that Doesn't give you the greatest of confidence that what you have code for is what's actually running on your system So you need full tooling available for whatever Target you're using now that also includes especially compilers if you're going to have a Cross compiler targeting whatever embedded plot processor. You're running then that should be an open source Compiler toolchain and between GCC and LLVM and Clang We've got more than enough tools to successfully do that But relying on a vendor proprietary compiler as the only option available or even the primary option for the binaries People typically ship again doesn't give you the greatest of confidence in whether what you're running is what you have code for Now beyond that you want to be able to do development for these platforms So based on that development You're going to want to test what you have before you submit patches at least hopefully So it's good to have some kind of emulation layer so that not everything has to be tested directly on the hardware with whatever debugging facilities it might have available So as an example of this the sound open firmware project I mentioned earlier has a great work some great work based on QEMU So with QEMU they have the ability to run two separate copies of a virtual machine One emulating x86 for the main system that you're booting Linux on the other emulating the the DSP processor and Running the audio firmware and it connects the two together the same way that it looks on the real hardware So you can then run the standard Linux audio driver that drives this DSP It will communicate with the other copy of QEMU and the two will Produce a result that tests that firmware as though you are running it on real hardware This is a a best practice that we'd recommend for any kind of SOC component or other device that interacts with a host system Emulating the two in parallel so that you can do this kind of test Now beyond that this kind of firmware sometimes serves a fixed function But oftentimes it's actually Dependent on what you're trying to do with your target system So it's important that this firmware be reasonably light and configurable You want something that on the one hand has a baseline that is as small and minimal and boot up and get out of the way As pop as you possibly can and on the other hand You may want many additional functions that you can add on top of that But that you're not required to you don't want something huge and heavy weight that you must use You want configurable functions for example using kconfig to configure your firmware and having a config for this particular application or usage Now beyond that and this is especially important these days You have to have security available if you're running on this embedded processor some embedded processors still have the capability of doing privilege separation of doing memory protection and These are features that you shouldn't ignore you should actually use them You should have a separation between an operating system kernel running on these devices that has direct access to the various hardware and the equivalent of user space that Moves data around but doesn't necessarily have the ability to touch everything if you're parsing some unusual format Don't do that in the same privilege domain as touching all of the sensitive hardware So as one example of a way to do this and not by any means the only but certainly a path that we'd recommend Intel does a lot of work on the Zephyr embedded OS if you have something that's too small to run Linux Which there are still such hardware out there. I'd love to get Linux running in 32k, but not so much yet but in the meantime Zephyr runs in a Space that small and is quite capable of doing privilege separation of doing security and hardening features of Locking things down so that different components of your firmware don't necessarily remain all powerful Now I mentioned earlier that I want I'd like this to be light and configurable and especially that not every function is needed on Every system so that means that the structure of our Linux drivers needs to change You're no longer driving a piece of fixed functional hardware that does one thing and has a variety of specific functions in it You're driving something that on the other end is fundamentally a piece of open-source software that can do anything that you can dream up So given that we need driver Architectures similar to the way the modern audio drivers work where you're communicating with a configurable device on the other end You have audio routing you have Additional capabilities you have a messaging layer all of these are things that allow you to Be extremely flexible with what applications you might have But that also means your drivers can't just be well I send the audio here and it comes out the speakers It has to be well here are the configurable places. I might route different kinds of audio Here's the distinction for what if I've learned to distinguish three different People speaking based on where they're positioned then I might feedback spatial audio data that says well I've identified a person here a person here and a person here with three different voices speaking into an array of four microphones That's not something the default audio drivers have but the current frameworks make that more reasonable to say Hey, let me give you a few dynamic streams of audio with some tags attached So that's the kind of infrastructure that as we're building drivers going forward We need to think about if we have open source firmware on the other end that can do so many things We can't build a rigid inflexible driver architecture Now I mentioned open and verifiable earlier, but in particular we want this to be independently verifiable and auditable So who here has heard of the reproducible builds efforts? Awesome about half the room. That's excellent So this is an amazing project that was started originally by some folks out of the Debian project and expanded outward to cover so many other parts of the industry and The large goal here is if you take the same source code and build it in the same environment You should get the same binary now that sounds really obvious in hindsight But at the same time that requires a great deal of work to make sure that you eliminate sources of non-reproducibility Everything from what order you read object files to putting time stamps into your binaries to all sorts of things that make the binary not match And if you can ensure that the same source code becomes the same binary whenever you build it You get much more confidence that if you have say a signed image from your vendor that it matches the source code You've been handed nothing up our sleeves. No magic extra pieces of your binary You just have what you built So that doesn't just mean having all of the source code available that also means nailing down Well, what is your tool chain exactly? Because you can't guarantee you'll get the same result if you build with the wildly divergent tool chain or divergent libraries are similar so again as One possible practice not necessarily the only one but something that works conveniently Intel has a Linux distribution called clear Linux That is designed to do atomic upgrades and atomic snapshots not so much install this package remove this package as Here is a snapshot of this variant of clear for this particular release number And you'll have an a binary identical result for any such system So that means that you can simply publish the release number That you built your firmware in and say well, we used version 57902 to build this firmware and then if you take that release number We recently added support in make OSI which is the tool to build a change route based on a particular Linux distribution To install a snapshot of clear without necessarily updating it Then you can change route into it build your firmware and you'll have exactly the same result every time So obviously you could do this with any number of other Linux distributions or with bundled up change routes But this gives you some confidence that you can trace back This is exactly What we built from what the history of this is and of course every clear release number has a history of this was built with The previous version was built with the previous version and so on so you can again get more confidence in what you're actually running So that's a sample of what types of things you may wish to do to have Your users have confidence in the firmware you're providing These are the practices that we intend to follow as we release more SOC firmware components where sound open firmware came from and in general Fully wearing my Intel hat on and actually speaking for Intel for a change This is something we believe very strongly in this is something where we feel that open source should be going all the Way down to the bare metal should be running directly on these various SOC components And this shouldn't be a place where proprietary software still hides. Let's make this more open So based on that I do want to thank a couple of people in particular This is the other members of my team at Intel working on open source firmware mark Herbert and Joe Kono There's also a broader team that's working on sound open firmware on several other components And hey if you're working on embedded development and interested in working in Embedded hardware that's distributed in a wide variety of x86 Intel systems, then please let me know we're hiring With that I'd like to open things up to any questions Thank you. Yes, please come on come on up to one of the mics so that it will record the question and everybody else can hear it and Please feel free to line up at the mics if you have questions So when do you expect to to ship? Open source my Intel microcode updates I mean following a specter and it was a bit frustrating to install None non-free packages understood completely So the question was when do we expect to ship open source Intel microcode updates firmly taking my Intel hat off for the moment that I would really love to see that happen myself Putting the Intel hat back on for the moment. Please watch for low-flying porcine aviation Okay, that probably will not be our first target I would love to see that happen, but there's a variety of reasons why that in particular is not wildly likely That said it's also not the type of firmware that as you would normally expect it This is that's not something where you boot and run a loop that does a variety of things That's more simply a translation layer from instructions to lower level instructions It's still obviously something transparency would be nice in but not something that I can speak for that team in any plans that they might have Next question Well, it's a sort of related question What about the memory reference code which is part of the Intel firmware support package? Are there any plans to open that up? In a reasonable time frame Sure, so What we what plans we might have to open up the memory reference code in the Intel firmware support package So a little bit of background here for anybody who doesn't know the Intel FSP is a Piece of binary that is handed out to boot up and drive specific parts of Intel hardware It's primary function these days is the Intel memory reference code Because any of the other functions that it has are also available in open source in places like Corbuth But Corbuth on modern platforms as well as things like the slim bootloader and even portions variations on Tiano and EFI use the FSP So unfortunately the FSP is currently binary and has binary memory reference code that does the initialization of DRAM That's something that we have opened up for specific platforms for example the reference for the Quark some of the quark platforms and some of the smaller atom platforms We do have available memory reference code in full source form under an appropriate open source license That's something I'd like to see for current hardware and the two things I'd say on that One is that that's not entirely under our control because there are third-party Third-party items involved there for the various DRAM vendors and similar So that's something where we would need to Collaborate and work on that with a few other Engineers across the industry that said I'd very much like to see that and that's one where you could make it significantly more likely if you Speaking for any number of OEMs explicitly asked and said we would like this to be open here Is what products we'd like to ship that would be better if that were open in which case that would make it much easier to Look at doing that in the future. Thank you Alright, thank you very much


This is a hundred percent classic plus beta. They said there's no beta or anything for this. Well, that's because this is the beta Okay, you saw scarlet monastery. Okay. I told you what I said, that's gonna be level 40 cap They're gonna do a raid.   Hey guys, we're all the great again brother. Hello Blizzcon. My name is Josh Greenfield And I'm the senior game producer on while classic I'm here to talk to you today about our new season for a classic World of Warcraft season of discovery Today I'm going to give you an introduction and an overview of what our season is at a very high level as well as Giving you an idea of what our major features are after this overview I'm gonna hand things off to a few other classic team members to dig into some specifics about what I'm gonna cover So let's go ahead and jump in So now it seems fitting to start off talking about discoveries. It's it's in the name after all so it seems pretty important to the season It's good now when you first start a character in season to discovery It'll look and feel identical to original World of Warcraft You'll slay kobolds you'll give lazy peons a bonk all the kind of normal things you do when starting fresh in World of Warcraft When you get to around level two however in the starter zone your class trainer will offer you a new quest And this is to go find your first room We'll talk about rooms in a little bit more in a minute But after that the inch after that intro quest the game simply tells you go find more and that's kind of where discoveries come in Discoveries are essentially secrets hidden throughout the game world. They usually aren't quests in the traditional sense There's nothing on your map to show them to you This is classic after all and some may be as simple as a treasure coffer deep in a kobold mine But many are small events kind of unto themselves often times record requiring more than one player a little bit of creativity Or some keen observation skills to obtain one of the things we love about Azeroth is the sense of awe and wonder it inspires It's a massive world But due to the kind of solved nature of original Wow It's in sometimes feel a lot smaller than it did when we first started our adventures Discoveries are our way to disrupt that a bit keep the world familiar Comfortable but add enough new things to find to evoke that sense of adventure and exploration We first felt when we step foot in Azeroth be on the next hill deep in the next crypt or cave Something exciting could be hidden One other thing we love about discoveries is this social and information sharing aspect for those first few weeks of each phase We hope to find secret finding communities pop up both in and out of game As players scour Azeroth to find all these little hidden things We can't wait to read general chat as players begin sharing what they found with each other in real time We think that social and info sharing aspect is super exciting and we can't wait to see how long it takes for all these little secrets to be found In order to preserve this sense of discovery we will not be holding a public beta or PTR for season of discovery Thank you We want day one a season of discovery to feel as fresh and full of surprises as we can So we're taking a chance here to keep those first few weeks as exciting as possible The last thing we'll say about discoveries now is that we wanted to craft them in a way that really felt at home and original Wow many times when play testing amongst ourselves We'd find a new NPC or an object and someone would hesitate and say like is this from 2004 Is this is new or like yeah, it's new like that's new to the season and to us That's a great success the idea here is that these things feel as like a natural part of Azeroth as it was at this point in Wow's history Next let's talk a little bit about level banded content phases and what that means in essence Level banded content phases are how we're going to approach the level up journey Season of discovery when we initially launch the level cap and season of discovery will be level 25 After a number of weeks the level cap will increase to a higher level for the next phase So why a level cap of 25 to start with well our inspiration for this actually came from the wild classic beta in 2019 We saw how much fun the game was when the level was capped at a lower level and our players would find new and exciting Talent and item combinations to optimize around and this is something we've always looked back fondly on and it's something We've wanted to sort of explore ever since We also realized how approachable an initial level cut lower level cap could be we talk a lot internally about Approachability on my classic and respecting players time There's a major goal of this level banded approach to to really give you a chance to get into it one of the things we really consistently see on forums or social media to is is it too late to start and oftentimes we'll hear this literally within a day or two of a new release and Obviously, it's never too late to start playing classic. Wow, but as we've all you know grown into additional responsibilities and found ourselves spending maybe a little less time playing games that we used to We can definitely feel that sense of kind of fear of missing out or FOMO When we log in after a long week and see our friends 10 or 20 levels ahead of us And for that this level banded approach is perfect There will be plenty to do in each new new leveling journey With from the quests and dungeons and battlegrounds We all know and love to finding all the brand new things to discover across And then later on leveling new alts to find all of their hidden discoveries as well There's lots to do But we're hoping that you won't ever feel that sense of being behind just because you couldn't play on a given day We also plan to give a very sizable experience boost to the previous level band every time we raise the level cap This is kind of similar to Joyce journeys and wrap classic if you're familiar with that So even if you miss a phase or once a level and all you'll be able to catch up to your friends in no time So the next thing we want to talk about is in game at level cap So when we decided on this level banded content approach We had to kind of sit down and ask ourselves What is in game when the level cap is 25 and first I think it makes sense to talk a little bit about about our inspiration And this is something we really kept keep coming back to a lot on classic since this is a version of original wow We wanted to start out grounded in familiar locations and put the focus for the new stuff on fresh gameplay and mechanics in those iconic dungeons and locales To that end our first raid and season of discovery will be the iconic dungeon black fathom deeps Reimagined as a 10 player rate instance Thank you Next one of our main goals is to ensure that these are fully featured deep Satisfying raids and not simply the addition of a few mechanics to existing encounters as they were in 2004 All of these encounters are a full ground-up redesign and should feel like proper raid encounters And of course with new raids comes lots of new loot In addition to raids we also really want to play up that PVP aspect and as a result We're planning to had several outdoor PVP events to the game as the level caps increase Thank you Lastly one of the things we're most excited about is where we go when we start getting to higher levels We are leaving the door open to the possibility of completely new Experiences and the prospects of exploring previously unfinished or unused locales for future raid and dungeon content We think the level 25 is going to be full of great Memorable gameplay that feels right at home in original wow, but this is just the first step and we think the best is yet to come I guarantee so next let's kind of change gears and talk about rune engraving a little bit So this is one of the most exciting new things about season of discovery One of the most consistent pieces of feedback We've gotten from previous iterations of original wow such as our season of mastery is that many players would like to try some adjustments To their favorite class respect We really wanted to take a chance with season of discovery and go kind of wild here and we did that's where rune engraving comes in Rune engraving is a new skill that all season of discovery characters know automatically on character creation Rune engraving allows you to gather learn and apply new class abilities directly to your equipment kind of like enchants in The initial one through 25 experience You'll be able to discover runes in your chest legs and glove slots And as the level cap increases additional runes for other item slots will be discoverable over time Once learned runes are permanent and can be applied and reapplied to your gear at will just out of combat One of the most exciting things about these runes is that they exist completely outside of the talent system meaning that you could very Realistically splash in you know damage abilities with a healing talent specs You can so a little bit better or you could swap maybe to tanking ability runes to round out the tank spot You're five player group if you're missing one We you may also encounter previously faction specific paladin and shaman buffs as runes Which helps bring some parody to each faction without those classes losing their unique flavor or the factions losing their unique flavor In order to also streamline the talent system to go along with runes We do plan to adjust the respect cost to be much more nominal in season of discovery particularly at low levels And that's all that's all Who knows maybe just maybe someday you won't be constrained to just one talents back in season of discovery So overall we've been playing this a ton internally we've been having so much fun with it It's everything we love about classic plus so much more at this I'd like to hand this off to over to one of our lead software engineers norvaletta to talk about some specific Abilities you may encounter on the different classes as well as to talk a bit about our PvP plans for season of discovery Take it away I'm actually turning around thanks Josh hey blizzcon my name is norvaletta and along with Anna I'm a lead software engineer on wow classic there There are over a hundred runes in the 1 to 25 leveling bracket across all classes And we'd love for you guys to go forth and discover them on your own However to give you an idea of what to expect. I have a few to share with you today First things first. I want to share some of the things we had in mind when designing runes and season of discovery One is to shake up the meta our seasonal content is a great opportunity to deliver wow classic With a twist with our non-seasonal content We try to deliver a classic experience close to the original but with seasons We have the freedom to experiment with what if scenarios such as what if roads could tank what if paladins did heaven and have a taunt On that point We wanted to introduce abilities such that each class has something special Something that other classes can point to and go dang that's so cool. I wish I could do that Many of the runes you find our greatest hits remixes of popular abilities from various wow expansion So many of them will be familiar to you that said some of these familiar abilities may actually behave a little differently than you remember Some spells and abilities you'll discover have never been introduced before in any wow expansion for these We were careful to make sure they were an appropriate fit for class fantasy Most importantly we want classic to continue to feel like classic Many of the iconic spells and abilities you've seen in various wow expansions feel fitting for that expansion or fitting for modern Wow, but would feel out of place in classics So we tried to avoid introducing anything with a to modern feel and made adjustments wherever it made sense Anyways enough of that Let's take a sneak peek at some of those abilities Druids Season of discovery you have an interrupt called skull bash which can be used in cat or bear form Fury of storm rage removes the mana cost of wrath dealing damage with wrath has a chance to make your next healing touch instant Wild growth applies a heal over time effect to your target and up to five nearby party members Hello hunters Beast mastery will increase your pets damage health and focus regen growl is now a proper taunt Explosive shot is a range damage over time ability and Lone wolf gives you a damage boost if you have no active pet Here this was dual wielding and you've got yourself a mean melee hunter Mages Ice Lance is an instant frost spell that deals triple damage to frozen targets Living flame causes flames to erupt and chase a nearby enemy leaving a burning trail in its wake and Regeneration is a heal which marks your target with a temporal beacon Another rune ability called rewind time will heal the damage taken over the previous five seconds You can heal other people with this by the way, not just yourself, so I hope you've made room on your roster for mage healers Paladins In wow classic they don't have a taunt, but here it is Season of discovery and the reckoning is your taunt Knowing this ability will also increase the threat bonus of righteous fury and cause you to gain mana when healed by other players Crusader strike is a weapon attack It's a weapon attack which costs no additional mana and instead regenerates your mana slightly with each hit and Seal of martyrdom can be activated to cause melee attacks to strike other nearby targets You'll lose health when inflicting damage with this However nearby party members will gain mana based on the damage you take priests You can channel penance to hear heal near nearby friendly targets or deal damage to enemy targets Prayer of mending heals your target the next time they take damage or receive healing Afterwards, it'll bounce to another friendly player nearby Hamunculi Animates three miniature copies of your character which will attack your target with a mace a sword and an axe Reducing their attack speed attack power and armor respectively Ro from stealth Shadow strike allows you to teleport behind your target and strike for a nice big chunk of damage and Venom is a finishing move It deals poison damage based on your deadly poison doses on the target and also increases the frequency of applying instant poison for some time afterwards Just a flesh wound is our rogue tank ability You generate way more threat you take reduced physical damage while blade dance is active You're less likely to be critically hit by melee attacks and your faint ability turns into a taunt called teas shamans Law of a lash deals offhand weapon damage Offhand in season of discovery enhancement shamans can dual wield with the help of another room not pictured here happy hunting Healing rain is a gradual AoE heal which can be placed on the ground or on a lamppost or on the ceiling Way of earth allows you to perform the coveted role of shaman tank With this you'll deal increased threat.  It will heal you for a certain percentage of your health Devastate will cause your thunder armor to deal main hand weapon damage increased for each stack of thunder armor already on the target and Raging blow is a vicious strike that deals heavy damage, but can only be used while enraged now This is just a taste of all the abilities coming to classes in season of discovery and really bottom line We want everyone to feel okay anyways Enough about runes Let's instead turn our attention to the ancient forest of Ashen Vale in northern Kalimdor Ashen Vale is known for its beauty its rich natural resources And its role as a hotly contested territory between the Horde and the Alliance in Season of discovery earning kills while in Ashen Vale will trigger a zone-wide PvP event During this event a leader will appear in the zone for each faction A farce here for the Horde and a priestess of the moon for the Alliance. Your objective is simple It's to defeat the enemy leader Now this is easier said than done These leaders are tough so you'll have to work together to take them out In addition to the main camps where those faction leaders reside various other camps will spawn across the zone for each faction The priestess of the moon and the farce here are each buffed by respective leaders in those smaller camps The more of the small camps you can take out the weaker your enemy's faction leader will become Sounds familiar. It's much like Alterac Valley This event is an awesome way to earn honor as well as reputation with Warsaw and Gulch factions Which allows you to unlock some of the best level 25 here in the game You'll also be able to earn a mount which you can actually use at level 25, but only in Ashen Vale It will increase your speed by 50% giving you the extra boost you need to seek and destroy the enemy So come kick some ash in Ashen Vale. I'll see you there I've done enough talking. It's time for me to pass things off to Tim Who's gonna talk to you about raids and the PvE endgame take it away Tim Thank You Nora Able's con My name is Tim Jones, and I'm the assistant lead designer on World of Warcraft Classic Whoo the multiplayer content is the heart of World of Warcraft whether we're questing together Running a dungeon crafting an item for a friend Or chatting in guild about where to find that new metamorphosis rune for warlock Wow offers one of the richest multiplayer experiences across all of gaming and Season of Discovery aims to deliver on providing new group content. That's both challenging and rewarding Now first I want everyone to take a moment with me and imagine Alongside the Zorm Strand on Ashen Vale's north coast lies the ruins of an ancient elven temple to the goddess saloon Evil stirs within drawing the likes of the Naga and the Twilight's hammer in search of power and anything that could hasten the coming of the old gods You know, maybe you've been here before maybe not no matter your familiarity with this place It's hard not to be drawn in by the mystique the rich art level design as well as a robust creature and spell ecology of black fathom deeps Now on the classic team we couldn't help but ask ourselves could this amazing location be more than just a five player dungeon So we're excited get your level 25 previous equip your runes find nine of your best friends and get ready The classic team is proud to announce level-up raids new instance challenges for raid groups to experience the max level for each of Season of Discovery's content fans At level 25 black fathom deeps is the first the first level up raid that you'll experience in Season of Discovery You know groups should be easy to form grab a couple tanks and healers make a party of 10 You're good to go. God knows every one of their mom can tank and heal in Season of Discovery now, so that shouldn't be a problem In content phases in Season of Discovery won't be as long as traditional classic expansion patches either And we want you to have as many opportunities to explore and plunder the riches within and as such black fathom We'll offer a three-day lockout much like the raids will group The story is the same Location and creatures may be familiar familiar to some but the challenges and rewards are brand new Seven new bosses are here to both entertain and test your skills And how could we not make red content without new loot? Existing quests and rewards have also been updated for the raid as well And you'll even be able to find secrets within the raid. Can you solve the mystery of the twilight artisan? Can you find the recipes for black fathom sharpening stones and wizard oil? And will you be the first group to access the new world buff boon of black fathom? Okay, I love your guys's enthusiasm. This is amazing Let's be behind the curtain at what challenges await players in black fathom, you know Or else we affectionately call it BFD not to be confused with BRD or BFA or BWL or BWD You guys get the idea Baron Aquinas guards the entrance no longer a simple quest NPC You must challenge his elemental lieutenants that inhabit the fathom stones and defeat him and in doing so You may face off against Aquinas himself atop the infamous jumping puzzle You know and jump you must to get in range of the Baron But beware both the boss and your teammates because there are many apparel that may knock you off In all honesty this boss is lightly tuned and there are some hidden power-ups below the water to help you return to the platform Next off you must face Against Gamura the fearsome turtle that's been swimming in the enchanted waters of the deeps for a long long time You know exposure to these energies has granted her both power and size But most importantly she's now protected by a magical barrier that protects her against almost any attack Break through this barrier and start blasting for massive damage get your orange parts You know all this commotion will bring you to the attention of Lady Saravus a Powerful and reckless Nagasi which who commands a legion of black fathom lead in Mirmidon's She's a formidable foe that will overwhelm you unless you find a way to turn her own spells against her and her minions You know these three bosses round out the prologue of black fathom deeps and in all three are available to fight in our demo in Hall D Check it out and that's not it Witness the corruption of galley haste and take on the march of the void murlocs Break past logis jets magical barriers and corrupted totems conquer your dreams as you challenge Twilight Lord Calriss and Good luck against the giant void Hydra. Seriously. You're going to need it And not to forget there will be glittering prizes awaiting you including some of these fancy items Now telling you all this is great But I think we'd rather just show you so it is my pleasure to provide a quick sneak peek video of the raid Edited by the team itself as though it was pulled straight from a community website in 2005. Please take a look Did for today guys, we're looking forward to okay, sorry, we should have that's it for today On behalf of the classic team and there's on a mention at the top Nothing that we do in WoW classic would be possible without all of your support and your voice Thank you so much for making the dream of WoW classic and all the experiences. We're working on a reality We can't wait to see what else we have in store for the future. We can't wait for you to see So please stay tuned for a hearthstone What's next coming up right after this and we hope you have enjoyed this look ahead at what's next for WoW classic I want to reiterate. This is just a taste of all that you're going to uncover in season of discovery And for those of you here at BlizzCon We hope you get to take on the first three bosses of our Black Featherm Beach raid on the show floor and for everyone else We're so excited for you to experience it when season of discovery launches worldwide in just a few short weeks This is classic plus beta. I'm so freaking hyped here. I actually think it's gonna be good man I I do actually it's gonna be good. This is classic plus beta. That's what I'm that's what I'm calling it I know it is. This is a hundred percent Classic plus beta season discovery season of discovery is a hundred percent classic plus beta They said there's no beta or anything for this last because this is the beta Okay, and you saw the sprinkles you saw scarlet monastery. Okay. I told you what I said that's gonna be level 40 cap They're gonna do a raid.