Good morning, welcome to CMC Markets on Friday 25th of June and this quick look at the week ahead beginning the 28th of June and it's been a slightly more positive week for equity markets I think investors are slowly, slowly but surely starting to adjust ever so slightly to the shift at the end of last week by the Federal Reserve in terms of the potential or a tapering of asset purchases I think or the oil bomb buying I think one of the concerns that some people had is that potentially the US could well start to raise rates in a much more aggressive fashion than perhaps they'd originally been led to believe. Ultimately I never thought that was really likely but nonetheless I think when you get different voices calling for different things and you get a split amongst and a fairly vocal split as well not a part of FOMC members it sort of does rather beg the question as to whether or not everyone is seeing from the same hymn sheet but ultimately I think that sort of discussion is a positive thing I think you know I think central bankers would be remiss if they weren't articulating concerns about the prospect of more persistent inflationary pressure but various comments from Jay Powell to lawmakers and some more dovish commentary which helped to balance the narrative from the likes of James Bullard and Robert Kaplan I think has helped to swage a number of concerns or some concerns on the part of investors that the Fed is not about to go gung-ho when it comes to outlining a not so much a tightening path but slightly outlining a route out of emergency measures I think is probably the best way to describe that contrast that with the Bank of England this week and the narrative couldn't really be more different yes we had Andrew Heldane chief economist last meeting before he departs the passage is new there was a broad consensus that the current level of policy was suitable and certainly I think that's absolutely right but there was little or no discussion whatsoever about the risks about more persistent inflationary pressures and I would be much more encouraged to see a similar sort of discussion going on in the Bank of England no one is suggesting for one moment that we shouldn't be holding rates where they are at the moment at the current moment but that's not to say that we can't discuss a route out and I think the fact that the Bank of England was much more dovish and wasn't following the Fed in terms of its outlook for monetary policy to me was a little bit a little bit concerning but also I think it just feeds into the narrative that the Bank of England knowledges in groupthink and I think and I'm hoping that the appointment of Catherine Mann the ex-chief economist Sidi Group who starts in September and replaces Gertje and Vlega will shift the narrative in that direction because the data certainly supports a less accommodative monetary policy I thought you know Andy Heldane wasn't suggesting an interest rate rise he was talking about a 50 billion pound reduction in the bond buying program from 150 billion pounds to 100 billion pounds you know that's not a significant move in the overall scheme of things but the Bank of England is reacting as if the economy is not improving and it is and I think they need to reflect that because when they do come to move they may have to move very very quickly and that could introduce a monetary policy shock if they have to tighten too aggressively they should start to think about the timeline for a potential rate rise because certainly the markets will start thinking and start pricing that in and in fact already are so that's that's really what we've seen this week is slight stabilisation on the part of market equity markets in general European markets have lagged but US markets have hit new record highs or more specifically the S&P 500 and the NASDAQ have hit new record highs and you can see that for now in this chart here and again it's the line of release resistance very much by the dip on the S&P by the dip on the NASDAQ by when it approaches support what's notable though I think is the fact that the Dow and the Russell 2000 haven't been able to hit new record highs even if the NASDAQ and the S&P has now that's not to say that we should be concerned about that because you know ultimately eventually they tend to play catch up in any case and if you look at say for example the DAX for example we have we've also seen a rebound albeit nowhere near as solid now I think we can now start to redraw that line because it's now looking an awful lot more messy so we can now draw that so that it goes through there more or less and I think that I think it is a little bit of a concern that European markets for some reason don't appear to be anywhere near as exuberant as US markets but then again European policy makers for all the noise they're making about the new fiscal stimulus plan and the recovery package it's certainly nowhere near as comprehensive as the US one and as for the FTSE 100 well again don't get me started on that let's just get rid of that line don't don't need it anymore so just remove it but if but if we look at the way the FTSE 100 is rebounded the rebound hasn't been anywhere near significant but nonetheless we still we're still in what I would call a fairly fairly broad uptrend overall and there's certainly no sign on my part that we can't still go back to the highs that we saw earlier in June and go through them and go above them over the course of the next few sessions so what are we looking at as we come towards the end of the month the end of the and and the end of the quarter well I think my main my main focus in the coming week is non-farm payrolls because I think one of the things we can take away from the narrative of the past week or so is that while the Fed is not unduly concerned about inflation and we'll see in the PCE deflator numbers later today which are likely to come in anywhere between three and a half and four percent well over double the Fed's inflation target what we took or what I took away from this week was the fact that the Fed is much more concerned about the labor market which brings me neatly to my main focus for the upcoming week which is non-farm payrolls which is due out on Friday we also have US consumer confidence US ADP payrolls as well so obviously we'll be paying particular attention to that they'll be out on Wednesday but I think non-farm payrolls is going to be the key indicator because I think one of the things one of the takeaways that I took away from this week was that there was concern that the fact that the participation rate is not showing the same level of resilience it's not rebounding back to the levels that we saw pre-pandemic just to remind you ladies and gentlemen that pre-pandemic the participation rate was at 63.4 percent now we're nowhere near that we're still around about 61.6 61.7 percent and I think the Fed is concerned about the impact the pandemic has had on the labor force where the people have permanently left it retired early setting up their own businesses there was an awful lot of concern about that but also the fact that compared to the expectations that we had in March of adding a million jobs a month that expectation has come in quite a bit because if we look at this year's jobs numbers since January we've added 166,468,000 in February 770,000 in March that was obviously the revised down number from the 916 278,000 in April which was revised up from 266 and 559,000 in May so it's it's very patchy and I think it's likely to continue in that vein going forward and if it does continue in that vein going forward then it's going to take the US an awful lot longer to get back to sort of the levels of participation that we saw back in the early part of 2020 now the June payrolls report expectations are for a number anywhere in the region of 650,000 to 700,000 but let's not forget that was also the expectation in May and we came in well below that now the unemployment rate again is that that is also expected to fall from 5.8 percent 5.7 percent but the labor force participation rate is currently at 61.6 so what does that mean for the dollar and more importantly what does it mean for bond yields well certainly US 10-year yields have stabilized at around about 1.5 percent and I think that's probably the sweet spot as far as the Fed is concerned but when it comes to the overall picture for long-term yields I think what we need to be paying more attention to is US 2-year yields and here we've seen a significant breakout from this level of resistance that we saw in this chart here now if I take this chart a little bit further out you can get a better idea of the extent of the breakout that we've seen you know you take that peak there back in June 2020 when it was about 0.22 we're now well above that so we've broken out of the range that were in between 0.1 and 0.2 and we're now back up at 0.27 percent now you can argue in the scheme of things that's not a big move but I nonetheless it is still very significant because it marks a breakout of the range that we've been in for over the course of the past 12 months and suggests that your short-term rates are likely to continue to move higher towards long-term rates so the yield curve is flattening a little bit and that's a bit of a worry for banks more broadly but putting that to one side banks are being supported by a whole new different set of factors namely the fact that Fed is set to relax the restrictions on buybacks and dividends at the end of this month and in their Q2 numbers which are due out in mid-July we could see an awful lot of money returned to shareholders so I don't think bank US bank shares are coming off anytime soon anyway I digress basically what we've seen with respect to the CMC dollar index is it rejected that 200-day moving average and that's the area that I will pay in particular attention to more broadly because I think the debate now amongst central bankers is not so much about how long they can keep monetary policy loose it's basically how long will it be before some central banks start to tighten monetary policy and it could well be that the Bank of England and the Federal Reserve will probably be first to start articulating that type of timeline as we head into I head towards the end of the third quarter and maybe the beginning of the fourth quarter obviously variance notwithstanding so that I think that's the big debate going forward if we so essentially the main focus for me this week will be non-farm payrolls on Friday the second of July which is also Independence Day weekend for US markets so you might find volume a little bit thinner than normal we've also got US consumer confidence on the 30th of June and that is likely to remain fairly resilient it's jumped quite sharply in recent months coming in at 117.5 back in back in May and we could well see a little bit of an edging higher back to around about 119.120 but I think it's also important to remember that US fuel prices are actually rising quite sharply at the moment and that could act as a break on consumer confidence because if it costs you more to drive anyway you're going to have less money to spend when you get there we've also got manufacturing PMIs coming coming out from France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the US, the UK and China they are still expected to remain reasonably resilient we've seen the flash PMIs and they still look fairly strong even if they have softened a little bit in June nonetheless they still point to a decent recovery in economic activity then we'll have the services PMIs the week after and one notable takeaway that I've taken from these indicators is input costs they've been rising quite sharply and at some point they will need to be passed on to consumers so that'll be another area that I'll be keeping an eye out for and then we've also got first quarter GDP final first quarter GDP from the UK so let's look at cable in the round because we're back below 140 which is disappointing but nonetheless we are still in the broader uptrend that we've been in since May last year so I'm not overly concerned by the fact that we've broken down below 140 which is a nice little pivot line all the way through here keeping an eye on these lows that we saw earlier this week around about 138, 13790 and then below that you've got 136 so we're still in a broad range I'm still of the opinion that cable's probably got more upside and downside and this bullish candle here would suggest that if we can get through 140 and the 50-day moving average we can head back to 14240 obviously if we break below this trend line here that rather undermines my bullish narrative but it's ultimately wait for the wait for the price action to tell you what the story is don't try and preempt it and the story is at the moment cable looks very much by the dip type of trade it's a similar sort of story for euro-dollar though I would be slightly more cautious about buying the dip in that yes we did again see a fairly bullish candle here we struggled to make gains in the short to medium term but given the fact that this candle here is a very it's a bullish engulfing candle that I would suggest that as long as we can hold above 118, 171, 19 then we could well see a retest of 120 and potentially 120 and a half over the course of the next few days just based on what the price action is telling me we saw a similar sort of reaction take place here albeit on a slightly delayed basis if you if you blend these two candles here you've got a similarly bullish breakout there though I have to admit we did actually accelerate quite a bit much more quickly then but as we're probably as we're coming to the end of the week the end of the month and the end of the quarter you may find that it takes a while for this to play out but as long as we hold above 118, 171 then we should continue to drift back towards 120 looking at euro sterling getting a little bit of a squeeze back all the way to 86 and we have we have seen a little bit of a bullish reversal there but it's in a sideways trend so what's it reversing okay yeah we have been drifting lower but is any different to that candle there you know that candle there they're more or less the same what we do know is this decent buying interest in and around 85 30 and if we do break below that then we've obviously got the lows there at 84 80 and then you've got a series of highs all the way through 86 and then you've got a series of highs through 86 40 so euro sterling is not going anywhere albeit i do have a slight downward bias for that towards 84 80 and 84 in the short to medium term um so that's um those those are the i think really the the main the main indices and currencies that have got my eye on at the moment have a quick look at Brent crude for you because we continue to break higher on the break above that 72 50 area that i identified in various video videos over the weeks we haven't been able to get back below it and that leaves us on course for a move towards $80 a barrel um now i'll pick plus our discussing about upping production and certainly there will be other meetings with respect to that it is certainly something that i don't think they need to look at there's certainly spare capacity for them to do so given the fact that output is way below the levels that it was pre-pandemic so the capacity is there it's really just a question of whether there's the appetite to release those barrels to market certainly i think the last thing opec or opec plus one is to choke off demand through higher prices and i think that's something that russia is probably a little bit concerned about going forward the global recovery remains very fragile and the last thing opec will want to do is kill off demand so that's oil prices quick look at gold held the 61.8 for financial retracement level of this entire up move here trading between 1800 and 1760 uh it's hard to say which way this is going to break if i was to hazard a guess given the way the price action is trading at the moment we could well trade back towards the 50 day and the 200 day moving average but at the moment gold's gold looks a little bit on the south side what are the things am i paying attention to this week well there's a couple of things we've got earnings out from the likes of associated bridge foods which owns the primark chain of clothes shops we've got Dix's and Dix's car phone which is going to be rebrand to curries before by the end of the year and then we've got a main stock or what has become a main stock bird bath and beyond let's just have a quick look at associated bridge foods because UK retail should be doing an awful lot better than it actually is given the restrictions have continued to be eased and are likely to be eased further over the course of the next few weeks and i think one of the things that we can i'll be looking for with respect to associated bridge foods latest numbers is a big rebound in consumer spending at primark we saw the company announce huge losses in that division despite the fact that grocery sugar ingredients and agriculture all saw higher revenues the hope is that closed retail will see a really big bounce back in terms of pent-up demand when they release their third quarter numbers on the first of July so keep an eye on that 200 day moving average in the series of loads through there we could we'll see a decent upward surprise on those numbers Dix's car phone electronics pc world and what have you well look at that that's a nice little uptrend currently playing out so i think the bar is probably pretty low and one of the things that i have noticed with respect to Dix's car phone you can read about it on the news and analysis section of the website which is here right there under insights that's where all the commentary goes and we'll be posted there on friday evening friday afternoon we found support the 200 day moving average we've got train lines support coming in through here it you know the stars appear to be lining up as long as we don't break below here for a fairly decent rebound in the soon-to-be Curry's PLC finishing off with bed bath and beyond that's joined the meme stock it's joined the meme stock category only recently and earlier this month bank of America along with a whole number of other brokers withdrew its rating on bed bath and beyond making the admission it was no longer trading in line with its fundamentals well who knew i can think of a number of candidates that could fit that description tesla and uber being obvious examples obviously game stop amc entertainment and what have you nonetheless they're reporting their first quarter numbers on the 30th of june so sign up for the non-farm payrolls webinar on the 2nd of july you can find that in the education section of the website otherwise i'd like to thank you very much for listening this is Michael Houston talking to you from CNC markets and have a great weekend


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Live from the MGM Grand Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada, it's The Cube at splunk.conf 2014. Brought to you by headline sponsor, Splunk. Here are your hosts, John Furrier and Jeff Kelly. Okay, welcome back everyone. We are live in Las Vegas with The Cube here at the splunkconference.conference 2014. Hashtag SplunkConf, I'm John Furrier with Jeff Kelly. Our next guest is Chris Grant with Group Health Cooperative, welcome to The Cube. Thank you, good to be here. So healthcare's got a lot of data. It's in all kinds of silos with all the regulations, but really the trend is really to consumerize it and make it more insightful, more available. Still a challenge, but still everyone, that's a demand. So talk about the dynamics of data in your role on how Splunk's helping you. Sure, sure. So we have, as Group Health Cooperative, we have a lot of data obviously from a, both from a patient perspective, as well as from an insurance perspective. And so we have the best of both worlds and from a security perspective and a data management perspective, sometimes it can be the worst of both worlds. But it's empowering to the organization to be able to look at both sides of that equation. And big data and data analytics is the way to harness that and to make it a market differentiator where there's a lot of organizations that aren't able to do that. And I think as we get further down that path, we'll find a lot of opportunities and a lot of business-relevant scenarios once we get into the data more, once we see what we have. I mean, it's one of those things where you have a lot of stakeholders, right? You have the consumers who want value to just get stuff done, get health care, right? And there's also costs involved for them. But also you have other stakeholders who really have protection needs, right? They want to make sure there's some security you mentioned that.  Have you guys, have you guys done anything that you say, wow, that's been pretty amazing? So we've done, well, most recently, and I'll pivot a little bit off of that, is that in health care as a provider of care, patient privacy is of utmost concern to the organization and obviously to the patients. In this era of data breaches and data compromise and data not being where it's supposed to be or kept where it's supposed to be, patient privacy is more and more a something that consumers demand. And we've built actually a patient privacy monitoring application on top of Splunk that gives us the ability to provide a better way to see potential privacy issues and to go have conversations with folks to understand what was this access to this record about and is it for a valid business purpose? And it's something that every health care organization that has patient data struggles with. And there are solutions in the marketplace, but we decided that we were going to buy Splunk and we were going to build an application on top of it to look at that particular set of data, that particular set of access logs and derive value out of that for our patients and for the organization, creating dashboards and scoring systems that allow us to easily discern what needs to be investigated and what isn't worth the time. Because there's a lot of valid business use cases for looking at obviously patient records, but not all of them are. And so you have to get into the data, you have to look at scenarios and from log data out of that, you can really create effective processes and get answers quickly. It really, instead of creating an application or creating a report, which is sort of the traditional way to think about these things, with Splunk we can create a dashboard and we can create an interactive experience that'll let the people that are looking into these things quickly go through the scenarios, the detected accesses and quickly determine what needs to be looked into further and what doesn't, what's not worth the time and that Splunk has really brought that to the table for us. So talk a little bit more about that actual process of building that application because Splunk is an interesting company because they're both an application company, they've got applications that you can run right out of the box, but they've also got, essentially they're also a platform company providing SDKs and other tools to allow customers like yourself to actually build their own application. So how would you grade them in terms of the tools and the capabilities of actually building applications on top of Splunk? Ease of deployment, sorry, ease of development, ease of deployment and actually the developer experience. Well, so I'm not a developer and full disclosure. So I won't be able to tell you how easy it is from personal experience, but I will tell you that one resource on my team built the Splunk application we're talking about called Sentry, we went from a proof of concept to production deployment in four months and because it's the platform we can build off of it, it went very quickly and very easily. You know, I would think that there would be commercial vendors that do the same kind of thing that you wouldn't get anywhere near four months of deployment no matter how easy they say it is. It really never is and Splunk ended up being a way for us to do that. So let's take a step back and just talk about security generally. So clearly security analytics is a use case for big data analytics, but I'm curious from a healthcare perspective, security is also a barrier. You talked a little bit about obviously people have privacy concerns, the application you built is to help monitor those kind of things. Do you feel like the security and privacy challenges in the healthcare space are kind of holding back that vertical from really exploiting big data to its full advantage? You know, I think there is challenges in the healthcare vertical when it comes to harnessing new technologies and when it comes to, because it really comes down to you need to get creative, it's all about the people really. You need to find creative people that are relentless for searching out answers and then a tool like Splunk as a framework where you can dive in and build your own application on top of it using the queries you want and the design you want, gets you above the fray of basic IT implementation and development. You can do a higher level thinking at that point because you've got a foundation to work from which is what Splunk provides. Healthcare in general has been challenged from a technology and from a data perspective, I think for a long time because of larger sort of economic forces that are in that vertical. But we're seeing, I think we're seeing those things change as the healthcare industry is changing, adoption of tools is changing, the mindset is changing around how, you know, how can we be more effective and how can we be more, how can we drive toward outcomes? Rather than just independently saying how can insurance company make the most money they can? How can a hospital make the most money they can? We get down to data-driven outcomes where we look at what does the research show for patient care over the last 50 years for this particular kind of condition. Getting into that, the drives, here's actually what we need to be doing from a procedure standpoint from a care standpoint to drive to the outcomes that make the most sense based on what the data is. And since the economics are changing where it's not purely about profit anymore, you can get down to better outcomes by getting to the data and you need tools to do that. I think the entire industry is going that direction. There's lots and lots of partnerships happening between care providers and between health plans for exactly that reason. Well, that's an interesting point because part of the challenge is, of course, sharing data amongst providers and making it more interoperable. Whether you're a patient going to one hospital or one treatment and then another clinic, the systems may not talk to one another, they may not share data, they've got privacy concerns, you've got insurance companies that may hold onto their data a little tighter than others. How much of this is a technology problem and how much of it is a cultural or even some extent legal regulatory challenge? Sure, well, what's interesting is that in a healthcare space, I'm fairly new to the healthcare space, most of my background is financial services and security and financial services, but healthcare is really, it's a people-oriented business. A lot of the people are in healthcare simply because they want to help take better care of people, which means that people's hearts are in the right place, which is a great place to start. From there, you have to get people's minds in the right place and so there is, I don't necessarily know that it's a cultural issue from a pillar from people not wanting to do it. There is an entrenched need for people to help people in healthcare, so that's solid. The cultural challenge is getting out of the mindset that we have to maintain our old technologies and we have to stay with tried and true, which from a care perspective, maybe that's what you want to do because tried and true is the safest option, but from a technology perspective, there's some room there to try new ways of thinking and try new technologies and it's about getting the right minds around the right tools to be able to do that and then it becomes really powerful. The privacy concerns are real, but everybody's held the sort of the same standard. The HIPAA is there for a reason and we all have to uphold the controls that are in HIPAA and high tech and the final omnibus role that came out. So it's not necessarily that the regulations are preventing it, I don't think. I think that they're generally there to support it and the way that those regulations are written and designed, they're very flexible about how it's, what's appropriate for your organization. So it's not necessarily about that that's preventing it. It's about getting the right people with the right tools with the right sort of mission and drive and then I think we can solve a lot of problems. Chris, what do you think about the, let's just comment, I think we got some great commentary going on Twitter and crowd chat. Tim Crawford says, interesting perspective for healthcare data-driven outcomes. We can't even bring up this notion and I commented, what do you think about talking to Tim? What do you think about the big trends in health IT? It's in need of transformation in a big frenzy data way, in a big way. So obviously this change of foot. What's your take on data-driven outcomes? Is that something that's being talked about in IT? Is that, is there still more of the old guard? And what big data transformations do you see happening in healthcare in general? There is a significant movement around data-driven outcomes and my organization has thought that for a long time. We've had, we've been both a payer and a provider for a long time so that's just inherent in how we think. There's a lot of organizations that that's a new concept for. But, and actually- Like, scary or just, they're not paying attention? They haven't had incentive. I think is really what it comes down to. There's been enough profit in not dealing with each other that they haven't had to have those data-driven outcomes. And so, but the industry is changing as a whole. Data analytics is very much a part of every, I would say every board conversation that's paying attention to their organization. The, we have the ability now, it used to be that we didn't have the technology to look at all the data. Now we have the technology, we just need to set it up in a way that we can get value out of it. And actually, you'll see that data-driven outcomes has been a part of the culture of healthcare for quite a while. If you look at the organizations that have research institutes from a primary care perspective, there's a lot of organizations that have spun up research institutes for specifically that purpose. And so, there is a culture of data-driven outcomes at the primary care level in a lot of organizations, but it's fairly new to broadly have data-driven outcomes from a broad sort of industry perspective. It's either a provider and a payer and into that picture. You know, it's easy for people to point, hey, get off my lawn or hey, I need that and everyone's always kind of right, hey, I want some stuff. But the question I want to ask you is, do you see it as a platform technology challenge, like the right tech in place, or is it the user experience expectation issue, the users? Because it's pretty complicated. We hear about feed ingestion from these guys, the feed extractor, some of the analytics that Splug's doing, is very interesting because it could almost, it could almost abstract away all that wrangling and all the structure, which is an inhibitor in the sense that it's complicated. So is it a platform tech issue or is it the users that are stuck in the mud or both? I think it's probably both. Having technology that gives you the ability to get above the fray of the mechanics of data is really empowering and you can really start thinking about higher level issues and not worry so much about the plumbing and how everything is connected. And so you have to get the people into the right mindset to be able to take advantage of that and you have to get the technology in place to be able to develop and support that. And it's not a trivial problem. We know we have the capability. It's just about spending the time and energy to do it, I think. Well, it's interesting. Let's unpack that a little bit. So getting to the point where you're looking at higher level issues and not worrying about the plumbing so much, sounds like you could potentially be talking about using the cloud, whether it's public or private, to help do those kind of things. To some extent, service organizations to come in and help you, architect systems. How does Splunk specifically help you do that? And what are your thoughts on using the cloud to do some of that more infrastructure level work, particularly in the healthcare space, which again, not always the most forward looking in terms of the technology adoption? Well, so I don't know that I'll have a full answer for that, because I think it's a great question. Cloud capabilities give us more processing power and more dynamic infrastructure than we've ever had before. The part where we struggle with in healthcare is that a lot of cloud providers are challenged to actually support the regulations that we're under. So it's not necessarily that the technology is the issue. It's more so that the organizations that provide cloud services need to step up and meet the need of their customers. That's improving over time, but if an organization can get by without the overhead of doing all of those compliance things, especially a startup cloud provider, they will. They'll go to the customers that aren't regulated first, and then they will start looking at how they can support others. Yeah, it sounds like, I mean, we're moving in that direction where potentially we're going to get to almost vertically focused cloud services and cloud providers who can adapt to and provide the type of regulation and privacy and security capabilities that a healthcare organization would need versus a retail organization versus financial services. Right, we're for it. And we're seeing AWS is taking steps to do that in terms of providing HIPAA compliance and things like that. But it is, clearly we've got a little ways to go, but it sounds like that's the direction we're moving. Yeah, and it's, the technology can support all of these things that we want to do. It's a matter of being legally protected. It's always, you know, it's a contract. You always need to make sure the lawyers are happy of which I report to one, so I'm very familiar with that. And then getting the right people and the right minds and the right tools, you know, I think they're all solvable. It's just a complicated picture. Okay, Chris, we really appreciate you coming on board. We're going to kick it over to the keynotes. So we're going to flip it to the big stage here. This is the cube. We are expecting to see them from the noise. That's what we do. And we're excited to be here live in Las Vegas and Splunk Conference. We'll be right back after the keynotes. Stay tuned for more cube. But let's right now go to the keynotes live on the big stage. We'll be right back.


There's so much to talk about. I'm probably gonna talk about this over the course of the next few streams. Overall, the season of discovery announcement, when it happened, there's some degree of reading between the lines, there's some degree of like, I just straight up know from talking to people, right? Like what their sentiments are. Here's what I feel like should be done given the situation. When we first heard the announcement myself and I think of a lot of people were like, question mark, season of discovery, it sounded like some bullshit. My initial reaction to them explaining what season of discovery is. It sounded like it was on the same tier of like pristine servers. Okay, we're not trying to give you guys legacy servers. We're not trying to give you guys classic. We're giving you guys something like some kind of consolation prize. That was my initial reaction and I felt kind of confused. That's how I felt. I don't necessarily like some of the things about it. I don't necessarily like some of the decisions. I feel like they're going a little bit overboard but I can delve into that a little bit. However, after playing it, I actually thought it was a lot of fun. Got to play with the devs and stuff was just cool. They got to explain some things a little bit.  I mean, to be fair, Rhett was super strong in season of discovery, like ridiculously strong but it's kind of unfair to compare my damage to everybody else because I'm number one Rhett Paladin, baby, look, the lion of Stormwind, okay? The Persian lion, the lion of Stormwind, the Grand Marshal Scarab Lord, okay? Back to back, two-time gladiator, all right? Season three, season four. Got gladiator six days before I went to Korea. I was on vacation, okay? Sipping on Soju in South Korea while I was getting gladiator, all right? I didn't care. I was fully confident. I knew I was going to get glad. Safe glad, six days before the end of the season, all right?  It's kind of unfair to compare. Also, I had like my add-ons and my key binds all set and I brought a Razor Naga and nobody else had that. But none of that matters, okay? None of that matters, all right? None of that matters. It's the skill, okay? The raw pure unadulterated skill. That's how it's doing double damage. I think having a lot of fun doesn't necessarily mean something is good. Just because something is fun, it doesn't mean that it's going to be fun in two months, right? And that's when I think you go from being fun to being good. I think that's what the differentiation is between the two. I feel like playing it was a little bit eye-opening and I also feel like they did an incredible job during the classic panel, right? The team coming up at aggrand and I mean the whole team, right? Coming up and kind of explaining the different parts of the presentation. I think the presentation was great. And I think they hit on two key points during that presentation. The two key points during that presentation were that we wanted to stay true to classic and we wanted to maintain class fantasy. Let's go back and watch the announcement itself. Let's go watch the announcement of a season of discovery from the opening ceremony. If we can pull that up here, there's Holly. Dude, how about that jacket? Dude, she came out and I was like, damn. Like this jacket is sick. And everybody was talking about it on Twitter. Did you guys see that? Yeah, epic armor. Dude, legendary armor. You're going to discover new secrets as you scour the world and find class-altering abilities. Dude, I remember hearing this and I was like... If you'd like to be a tanking warlock. As soon as she said tanking warlock, I was like... Did you tell the role of a mage healer? I did not. This made me feel weird, dude. It's really hard to try and balance doing conventions and trying to do stream content and trying to meet people and do everything, but I really try my best because the way that I see it, we did BlizzCon four years ago. Who knows, whenever you run into somebody or whatever and it might be the only chance that you get to get a picture and just say hi and it might be the only time, right? There's a line between that and hanging around and having a long conversation or something like that because that's just really hard to do with everybody. So then it's like, that's the whole thing. But at the very least, I always try my best unless I have to go do something and I'm running late. I always try to make time to meet with people because it might be the only chance, you know? So whenever she gave this announcement, whenever Holly gave this announcement, I felt very conflicted because there are some things about this that don't feel natural to me. I naturally do not like the idea of Mage Healers. I naturally do not like the idea of Rogue Tanks and Warlock Tanks and all these different things because of a certain point of emphasis that they had in their presentation later on, which we can look at. And I'm just gonna pull up the slide, actually. But it's class fantasy. I understand how you can explain that a Mage... I get how you can explain that a Mage is healing. I understand how you can explain that. I understand how you can explain that a Warlock is tanking. I get how you're trying to do the gymnastics to figure that out. I just feel like a big point of what Classic WoW is. Let me pull up the slide real quick. You see this slide? I was talking to Tim Jones, one of the leads on Classic. I was talking to Tim Jones about this. Literally, they put this in the slide. That's why I started laughing so hard because I was like, the big thing right now, I said some Warriors are worried about is that they're gonna get nerfed because they're so strong in Classic. And he laughed. And he was like, really, it's funny. He's like, that's funny that you say that. That's like all he said. His reaction was just funny. Now, I don't think they're going to actually nerf Warriors, but the fact that they recognize that Warriors have this crazy scaling in vanilla that wasn't really apparent 15 years ago, 20 years ago, is kind of funny. The night you did the VR zombie game, you said this too. Yeah, like, interesting. Interesting that I mentioned that. Because I think he laughed because he knew what was in the presentation. And like, I said the same thing. Here's the big thing. Here's the big thing is I am focusing in on really these two key points. Focus on class fantasy and staying true to Classic. And I do think it's very important that these two are key. Because I feel like that's what you have in vanilla WoW and in Burning Crusade and it starts what your class does.   And it's when you play a paladin, you feel like a paladin. When you play a rogue, you do rogue things and you feel like a rogue. When you play a mage, you do mage things. You feel like a mage. That class fantasy is very, very, very important. That's a key element of what vanilla WoW is. And it's something that Blizzard has kind of given up over the years for the sake of balancing the game. Right, I'm talking about this bullet point right here. They want to make the game more balanced. They want to make the game more... The changes that they've made over the years, you guys know it all. The problem is as you move away from that class fantasy and you get that feeling of everybody can do everything or too many classes can do too many things, you start moving away from that class fantasy because what your class does well stops feeling special. That's why I naturally am opposed to the idea of mage healing, warlock tanking. It's when I actually, warlock tanking at first I was super opposed to. And now that I'm thinking about it, I'm like, well, maybe that one does kind of fall in the line of class fantasy, but rogue tanking doesn't really make sense to me. Mage healing doesn't really make sense to me.  Like a white mage is like a healer. But I think for staying true to classic on the next bullet point, that's kind of what solidifies those things as things that aren't really, like, super intrinsic to what Classic WoW is. Now, I could be wrong and these things could be fun and fine. I feel like the game kind of starts to unravel a little bit. You know, where all of a sudden everybody is really, really strong. Everybody is really powerful. There's too many different people that can do too many different things, which requires you to basically, like, do things with less people and to have less people or less variety in not only what classes you play with, but also less variety in who you play with. Like for a paladin, a paladin can tank heal DPS. A druid can tank heal DPS. In my opinion, a shaman should be able to, like, off tank and tank five man's heal and DPS. I think a shaman being a main tank for a raid would be sick, but I think a shaman tank should be at the same level of, like, maybe slightly better than what a prop paladin tank was or maybe at the same level of what a prop paladin tank was, but more streamlined in a season of discovery. And you can actually shaman tank, but it's really, it's really hard in vanilla. Like, you can tank five man's and stuff like that. But I feel like that's kind of the level that you should be at. I think they're referring to 60s. Here's the thing. People keep saying, we want a Classic Plus. This isn't Classic Plus. In my opinion, you're right. This is not Classic Plus. This is Classic Plus Beta. And what they're trying to do is they're trying to throw a bunch of stuff at the wall and see what sticks. They're trying to throw everything in the wall and see what people like. They're literally testing. And you know what kind of proved that? And I think it was when Agrin went up there, somebody went up there and was talking about how they drew inspiration from the Classic Beta. Yeah, inspired by WoW Classic Beta. Now, I saw this and if you guys were watching my BlizzCon stream, I talked about this in between the panels where I was like, you know what? They're talking about periodically increasing the level and there's no beta. They're like, guys, season of discovery isn't here. No beta. We're going right into it. It's coming in three weeks, four weeks, whatever it is. Right? What does that sound like? That sounds like the announcement of every beta they've ever had. Like, that's what season of discovery is. It is in the same vein as what the Classic WoW Beta was back in 2019, back in May of 2019. They want to go periodically increase the level cap and they're trying to throw everything in the wall and they're treating it as if it's its own live service game and they're going to be trying to get feedback and see what people enjoy and see what people like. And my prediction is that in about a year from now, at the next BlizzCon, we will probably hear about the release of a Classic Plus. I think what a lot of people that say this isn't Classic Plus are wanting, I think you guys are going to hear, like, hey, Classic Plus is coming or you guys are going to hear, hey, Classic Plus is coming. We've learned a lot from season of discovery. We're going to be releasing a new fresh, this and that. We've made some changes. We've learned a lot and this is the product. And the reason why I think they're doing this, I think they're doing this for multiple reasons, but the key reason is that Blizzard has one chance to do Classic Plus the right way. You can say, just look at Turtle Wow, just look at this. Just look at Ascension. I don't think the Ascension route is a good idea, personally. I do think there's some stuff that you can do to kind of, like, maybe broaden some of the kit of some of the classes and stuff like that. But I think when you get to the point where you're changing roles, like, again, I think specifically rogue tanking is kind of dumb. I think mage healing is kind of dumb. That's just to name a couple, right? But I would like, what I would like to see is, I would like to see a way that, like, a two-handed warrior spec for DPS would be made more, at my, oh, hey, to my own loss, to my own loss here, I would like to see, like, a two-handed warrior spec be a little bit stronger in PvE. And I say my own loss because right now I play a rep palette and I have no competition for two-handed weapons and raids, right? But I do think something like that is good for the game. I'm sad that Classic Plus isn't going to have that Classic feel. Well, that's the key. I feel like they do need to have that. I feel like they do need to have that. And I think, I think to have that Classic feel, you need to tighten it down a little bit. And I'm worried you're going a little bit overboard and I want to talk about something else. How many of you guys watch me do the raid? How many of you guys watch me do BFD? If you check out when I did the BFD raid, there's got to be a comment sometime soon, this one. There we go! Dude, next time I go to a convention, I'm bringing my own mic. This thing is brutal. I had all my own stuff. I was fully prepared for this thing in every way except for having a better mic setup. We did this raid and at first, I didn't really understand the mechanics of the fight, but I realized what they are. I feel like having run BFD, I realized what they are, and then I kept trying to blow the raid up. And then could you guys hear? I think you guys couldn't hear comms for like half of it. Guzu was screaming. He's like, dude, who is blowing us up? I just kept running back at the raid, trying to kill everybody. But it was just really easy. So I was like, whatever. Because I just started trying to... I tried to wipe the group and we just wouldn't wipe. I was like, okay, well... But yeah, it was great. So anyway, I'm like out here, and one of the things I notice here, I'll play it on mute, we've got Crusader Strike, we've got Seal of the Martyr, Command. Like they're focusing on things that you can see too much. And now I understand why they do that because that's what the average person looks at. I really would have liked to see an emphasis on some under the hood style of changes, rather than just throwing a bunch of abilities out at you. So as you can see here, one of the things I noticed about this fight, about the mechanics of BFD, I swear I jumped there, by the way, and it like wasn't sticking. Okay, I'm going to blame the keyboard. Okay, put the frick HyperX. Okay, that's why I use my razor here. Okay. Anyway, so I felt like the whole time, I felt like the whole time, I'm literally top damage. Yeah, I feel like I was top damage. I was fighting against the environment as opposed to fighting against the boss. And that is like a key element of what raiding and retail was. That was a key element of what raiding and retail is. Is like you're doing all kinds of mechanics to like avoid certain things. You're moving around. And like retail, well has a lot of like movement, displacement abilities, like palimps have divine steed, majors have two blinks, all that kind of stuff. But I feel like when we were doing this boss, it was kind of like, we were just chilling, you know, like all this crazy stuff is happening. We're getting ported around. And this plays more like a, this plays more like a holiday event boss to me than what would be like, okay, this is like, this is how classic raids are. You know, I don't necessarily like this. I feel like this is, they need to find ways to choose the mechanics of the boss fights to make them feel more like, more like classic. It's cool, like actually hitting my buttons felt cool, all that stuff. Like that was fun. But like I said, it just does not, it just did not feel like classic. I feel like I'm fighting the environment as opposed to fighting the boss too much. Another example of this is on, is on the, is on the turtle boss, Gamura on the turtle boss. Like they were like, okay, you have to, you have to get through his like bubble shield. Right. That's the mechanic. You get through his bubble shield, whatever. But you have to avoid the balls. Right. Again, it's, I'm fighting the, I'm fighting the, I'm fighting the environment more than I'm fighting the boss is how it feels. Now we only saw a couple of bosses. And then to be fair, I didn't really see the last boss because I just kind of like pulled everything and I died. But that was the, that was the recurring theme of this whole thing. Whenever we're doing mechanics and the mechanics of the fights is too, too much of fighting the environment and not enough of fighting the boss. And again, I've said it like a hundred times. So you guys are like, okay, that's fine, we get it. For me, having played it, but you guys watching in or just hearing how I felt, how does that make you guys feel? It's not just doing mechanics, right? Like I'm not complaining about doing mechanics. It's just the way that the mechanics are done are not in the same vein as what you would typically see in classic. Cause I do think there's a line there. But what I would have liked to see more is like, let's say instead of all these bubble spawns or something, like let's do something where it spawns ads. They should be doing something with ad spawns. You know, so that's something that you want to stay true to classic and keep that classic feel. I think there are times where you can fight against the environment. Don't get me wrong. In the little bit that we've seen, I felt like it was, I felt like I was doing a retail raid. In the little bit that we saw, I felt like I was doing a retail raid. And I'm not asking for more tank and spank. What I'm asking for is like classic like mechanic, like ad spawns coming in with turtles. I do think there are some things that like, you should avoid the environment and whatnot. I don't get me wrong, but I feel like that was like the primary emphasis as opposed to just fighting the boss. Cause yeah, there's, there's times where you're inviting the environment next. That's safety dance is a good example, right? Safety dance and next is a good example where you're fighting the environment. How do you guys get Winfury with no shaman? They gave Winfury to feral druids. That's one of their runes, which is cool. It's called a wild strikes and it's essentially Winfury. I'm not familiar with wild enough to have an opinion on this. They gave no Pally buffs to horde. Well, horde is fine. They'll get over it. Okay. Now they should probably, what they should do is, what they should probably do is give like a blessing of salvation to the horde side. Yeah. They should probably, they should probably give like blessing of salvation. That's the key thing that I think horde would need for PVE is finding like a a blessing of salvation replacement. Because what horde has in classic normally is they have like, it's the, the wind totem which you use for Winfury is also their threat increase. I killed myself with a judgment of blood right there. Didn't they confirm that shaman had a version of salve? Oh, did they? Cause they have it now but you have to trade that or Winfury. Talking about focusing on class fantasy and just giving the main shaman tool to druid. Well, it's called wild strikes. I mean, I think that's fine. I mean, you could say, you could say the same thing about, yeah, I think that's fine. I do think they're showing things that are super strong that you should find a way. I think feral druid is the class that you'd give it to. And I think having some kind of blessing of salvation type thing for horde is also important. I think that is a good idea. Doesn't giving Winfury to druids free up the shaman salve totem? It could. You're right. Was seal twisting possible? Seal twisting. So if you want to get into the palette of nitty gritty, it's not possible in the same way that it's in burning crusade with blood and command or martyrdom and command. It works in the same way that works on era which kind of isn't really good because it just burns a ton of mana. But maybe it doesn't matter that you burn so much mana because you have ways of getting mana back with crusader strike. But you also get mana back from seal of martyrdom. And I think seal of blood, martyr, martyrdom is all the same word because I'll use them all interchangeably. And I think that when it comes to that, you're going to be doing command and righteousness and you don't get the mana back from martyrdom. So maybe it's not even worth still. But long story short, and I know this might not be like the popular short of opinion because I do think it was fun. I am just worried that they are doing too much and they are going overboard with it just slightly. And you're losing that core element, class fantasy and classic and staying true to classic. And those are two bullet points. And it makes me feel good that they mentioned it because they know it. I also feel good about the people working on classic because I know so many of them personally at this point. And I know that they love vanilla wow. And they love classic wow. They love burning crusade. They love vanilla. They love wrath. I do feel confident that they're going to do their best, regardless of anything. They're going to do their best and that the line of communication is open. Right? I have a very, I feel very good about the line of communication with Blizzard right now. More so than I felt even before classic came out. And I felt very good about the line of communication with Blizzard. Like I talked to Omar constantly before classic came out.   But Omar was like a just, I'm telling you this guy was the fricking light and shining armor for the classic community, man. He really carried hard. My general consensus so far is that Blizzard is, I feel very confident. The line of communication is there. I've talked to them quite a bit. I talked to, I didn't do an interview like a content interview. But I spent a lot of time talking to multiple classic devs that we can. It's funny because I spent a lot of time on stream. I streamed like 30 hours at BlizzCon. My plan with my BlizzCon streams was I wanted to give you guys the ultimate BlizzCon experience. Whether I was, I was able to go from Warcraft Rumble to Season of Discovery to doing a panel. I felt really, really good. I feel like that was one of the best streams I've ever done from a top to bottom sort of like, I was very proud of that stream. And being able to go from playing Warcraft Rumble like starting out IRL and doing this, which I don't think anybody successfully pulled off before. Where I'm like IRL walking around to being able to do a live reaction in the crowd. Like this made me proud. And this was Guax and Pie and TT were running this on the back end. That was amazing that they were able to pull this off.  I'm looking at my phone a lot. But also I'm like talking to them and making sure everything's good. So like anytime I do this, I'm going to be looking at my phone a lot just so you guys know. It's not that I'm not paying attention. I'm just making sure that you guys have the best experience. But yeah, I felt really, really good about that. They kind of dial it back a little bit. When we did BFD, I feel like they should redo some of the mechanics a little bit in order for it to feel a little bit more like classic. Also, I'll say something else. And I haven't really seen this criticism. Probably maybe I just haven't seen it. Maybe it's there. I feel like BFD was kind of a bad choice for the first rate of season of discovery. BFD, it's too much like molten core. It feels like a wet molten core. And I feel like because molten core is what it is at level 60, like it's kind of claustrophobic. You're in the caves. You're going into water and out of water up and down. And what I think would have been a better choice would have been Shadowfang Keep. I think a Shadowfang Keep would have been amazing. I feel like Shadowfang Keep would have been absolutely outstanding. Well, you guys say it's too hard for Alliance to reach, but keep in mind, this is Classic Plus Beta. This is season of discovery. Maybe something is put in. Maybe there's a new flight path put in that makes it easier to get there. But dude, Shadowfang Keep, Aragal at the end of it. I mean, it's iconic, right? I think Shadowfang Keep would have been amazing. Unfortunately, I went with this. Now, I think there's a couple reasons they went with this over Shadowfang Keep because I talked to somebody on the team and they were saying like, yeah, like there's like a lot of different factors to when it went into which one we chose. And I understand why they would go with BFD because honestly, BFD is just not that popular of a dungeon on its own. Like people do BFD and there's some quests that you can do there. But let's be honest, the amount of people that do BFD is not that high and it's also kind of forgettable. So I think that maybe people aren't going to miss the BFD dungeon. So maybe that was part of it. I also think another part of it is the fact that it's in Ashenvale, which is essentially the endgame zone at level 25. That I think is cool. Because now it's like you're in the big PvP endgame zone and you have to like fight through PvP to get to the dungeon. Isn't that why they chose it to have more people experience a less than used dungeon? They said there's a lot of factors that went into it and I'm sure that's one of them. How did warrior look? Warrior looked like they didn't buff it as much as they buffed the other classes. I'm just, I'm sorry, I don't want to see rogue tanks. Do you guys think it makes sense to have rogue tanks? I think it makes sense to do certain things like enhanced shaman's, having some tanking abilities and I think that's fine. I think that enhanced shaman tanks are kind of cool because it helps the horde side have more people to be able to tank dungeons. I don't think they should necessarily be as strong as like a warrior tank would be. But I think that they should have enough tanking capabilities to be either slightly better than prop paladins are in vanilla currently in OG vanilla or about the same level with a little bit less like, because paladins are like, you can prop paladin tank but you have to do all kinds of crazy stupid stuff and it's fun for me as a paladin player but it's not really particularly good design, right? Like that's something I can well admit and I think that they should have maybe at least that much tanking capability but it should be easier, right? Or it should be more streamlined.  But I'm very confident in who is actually on this team and the line of communication is so strong. I'll tell you, one of the devs literally gave me his phone number and said I want to hear everything you have to say and I told him, I said, if you give me your phone number you better go to bed with do not disturb on because I will spam text you at 3 a.m. whenever I randomly get tilted whenever I think about it. I am like about to go to bed and I will, I have done this before where I'm spammed. I've done it. Okay.  Okay, let's queue. Hold on.  How come Paladins can't fly? No, all kinds of stuff like that. Right. I told him, I was like, you better go to bed with do not disturb because I will DM you. I will spam DM you at 3 a.m. right. Like I just, I am W-tiz dude. W-tiz. That's me. Okay. I feel so strongly about the line of communication and I feel so strongly about their passion that I am confident that it's going to get figured out. Season of Discovery is the Wow Classic Plus Beta and they have one chance at making Classic Plus right and I think that they are approaching it the right way by going for Season of Discovery by approaching the Season of Discovery in the same exact way that they approached the Classic Beta back in 2019. Go out, set a mid-level cap. By the way, did you notice how they, the emphasis on mid-level content? That was one of my key points of something that I wanted to see in Classic Plus that I was very happy about. I was very, very happy to see that they wanted to put an emphasis on mid-level content in Season of Discovery. That was cool because that was something that I personally, it was like, that was on my wish list. That's big time. That is what Vanilla Wow is. Vanilla Wow is about level one to level 60 and level 60. You start losing that. Really in Burning Crusade, you start to lose that. But in the later expansion, it's definitely like, you don't have that as much. I don't know if this Rune System is being utilized properly in order to be able to give you that Classic Feel while trying to do the things they want to do and kind of expand your kit and do all those things while keeping that Classic Feel. They kind of play out like glyphs in Wrath a little bit. But the fact that I could, I had them all here, right? Seal of Martyrdom, Divine Storm, Horn of Lordaeron, Aegis. Now, these are not balanced. I do want to say this because one of the devs straight up told me this. They're like, look, this is not tuned, right? Just keeping it real. This isn't really tuned right now. This is something they put out. This is what it is for like our first version or our first look, whatever, but they're not really tuned. So they probably are going to get tuned down the road. So I'm less worried about the tuning. I'm more worried about the fact that I'm going in between poles and I'm like, oh, we have an AOE pack. Let me change my chest rune to go with something else. Oh, there's a single target. I don't need this thing. Let's change this and let's do this. I'm going up from pole to pole that I'm changing. I'm like respecking my runes and changing my load out. What does that sound like? It sounds like retail. You literally do that in retail. It's a hassle. In retail, you have your talents and you go and okay, I have my level five talent or 15, whatever it is, right? You have your different level talents and you go and you change them from pole to pole. I think something like dual spec is not something in the essence of what Classic WoW is.  It does this. That's how we got to the game that everybody complained about and people begged for years that they wanted legacy servers. Years ago, people begged for Vanilla WoW, right? They begged and begged, we don't like this. It's these small little things that happened over the years that made the game easier and made the game more convenient. And I don't mean easier in the sense of difficulty. I made it easier in the sense of actually being able to change your spec and stuff like that. My point is, as soon as Karen, yes, I am going to Karen this, right? I am. Because I'm very passionate about this thing being good. Blizzard has one chance at making Classic Plus good and they gave themselves, they manufactured two chances for Classic Plus by making Season of Discovery, which is your Classic Plus beta. How is quality of life a bad thing? Quality of life can be a bad thing whenever you're putting a band-aid fix to a problem that it affects things in other ways. When I go back, when I have to re-spec, what do I do? I go back to the city. I'm walking into the city. I'm flying in. I'm herthing in. All that stuff. And I'm going back to Stormwind. I'm going back to Ironforge. I'm going back to Ogremar. I couldn't agree more, Esfand. These are very important things because especially in vanilla WoW, there's like a whole degree of like, of a social kind of like, I don't know what the word is. Is it sociology? Like, there's like, it's how the world moves and how the world evolves and how people evolve that is incredibly important. It's a waste of time. I don't talk to people when I go re-spec. You don't. And that's okay because that level five that just randomly walked into Stormwind because he was trying to do that Stormwind armor marker quest and he sees that level 60 warlock coming in with his tier five armor and he's like, oh my gosh, look at that guy. That's sick. I saw that guy. I want to be that guy. I want that to be me. I want to see that paladin and judgment armor walks in. Boom, boom, boom. He's got his hood on. Dude, what? Right click, inspect. Where did you get that? That's, it's so valuable and it's so important and despite what you think, despite how many years you've been playing this game, there's somebody else new that is starting to play that game today. There is somebody new playing that game today and they need to see people in the world. They need to see people around because that's what an MMO is. Now, here's, here's what you're saying. Here's another, here's another argument against what I'm saying. Well, I just have a warlock summon me back. I just hearth. I hearth. Mage ports me to the trainer.  I'm not in the world, right? But you know what had to happen? I have a summoning alt. I have a level 20 summoning alt somewhere in the world. I just summon myself back. I don't, I mean, I'm barely even walking around. That warlock had to level to 20, didn't he?  You had to go through Dunmero. You, you had to go through the barons and you had to get to level 20. And during that time, people saw you in the world. You, you grouped to somebody for a quest. Maybe. Maybe you didn't. Maybe, maybe you personally didn't, but somebody else who did that, they had to group for somebody with a quest. They went and did a dungeon with somebody. These things are, are, are so impactful and they snowball throughout the, the course of the game. I think it's very, very important. You guys didn't know they got boosted. Okay, relax. There's a reason why they got rid of the boosting. You know, it's because they wanted to force people out in the world.  Trust me, no one groups at all. You have been playing hardcore solo. I have seen tons of people walking around and I've seen the world alive and that is so good for the game. I can talk separately about, about hardcore. I can. That's a whole another thing. And I'll tell you why hardcore makes vanilla wow. A lot of the things about vanilla wow better. Hardcore does. It also makes some things worse, but that's a whole separate discussion. But I'm telling you, if you want to stay true to classic, if you want to keep class fantasy, you want to stay true to classic, you want to keep that classic feel, there are so many little things that you have to be very careful of to hold. You got to hold it sacred. Okay, I'm telling you, man. It's very easy for this to snowball out of control and to turn into instead of classic plus, you end up getting retail minus. And there is a very, very fine line between those two things. There is a very fine line. And I'm very confident that the classic team is so incredibly passionate about vanilla wow and classic wow that I genuinely believe they are going to be able to get it right. Maybe because I'm a moron, but I've seen the passion. I've talked to them personally. I've known several of them personally. Like I said, one of the team leads gave me his phone number and said message me anytime. He literally gave me a cell phone number, message me anytime. I want to hear everything after BlizzCon. And I said, you want to get dinner? He's like, dude, I'm married. And I'm like, oh, my bad. So my point being, he needs to see this clip. Wait, what's the clip? So I do think that I've always been somebody who's like, you have to account for the times. I made a video where I talked about having to account for the times. I talked to the devs at BlizzCon about look for world buffs, all world buffs should be undispellable. If you make all world buffs undispellable and you add Chrono Boon into the game from the beginning, you fix pretty much the entire core of what the problem is that people have with world buffs. I don't want to get my world buffs. I don't want to go. That's classic. Okay. That's classic, baby. Get over it. Okay. Join a guild that doesn't make you get world buffs. But as far as fixing the raid logging problem, fixing the griefing problem of some level 30, griefing you, no skill, being dead, arising, whatever, I genuinely believe, and I think they will fix it. I think they will make all the world buffs undispellable. Half of them are undispellable anyway. Kevin Jordan, the original class designer for vanilla wow, has said himself, he has said himself that it was, that that was not the, that was not their intention. That type of gameplay was not their intention. Now, sometimes emergent gameplay can end up being something that's very good for the game. Right? Sometimes intended gameplay isn't always what's best for the game. Sometimes emergent gameplay is best. Sometimes you have to figure it out and be like, okay, we got to, we got to fix this so the game is played as intended, as opposed to, hey, I got my world buffs Thursday at 3am, log off, and I'll see you guys on Tuesday and then the world feels dead. Having to log out and not play to keep them is the issue. Exactly. So do you think this season of discovery is just a beta for Classic Plus? I am fully confident without having being told those words exactly that season of discovery is what is essentially the beta for Classic Plus and Blizzard manufactured two chances at doing Classic Plus the right way by making season of discovery, I think from a business perspective, they did it right. And they are going to try and throw everything at the wall, see what sticks. I'm really trivializing it a little bit, but just for the sake of simplicity, they're throwing everything at the wall, see what sticks, and then in a year from now at BlizzCon we are going to hear about Classic Plus. You guys love season of discovery. We learned a lot from you guys. Now it's time. It's finally here. Boom. Classic, whatever they want to name it. They probably won't call it Classic Plus. Season of Plus. But that is my prediction. And remember that a year from now, Classic divided. Are you an OG player? I am, yeah. I kind of took a break from Classic last year because I'm not a huge wrath guy. Really wish they gave us at least one fresh. I would not be surprised to see it fresh at some point. I also wouldn't be surprised to see a TBC era. I don't know if they're going to do a Burning Crusade era, but I wouldn't be surprised to see it. With all that being said, I am very, very excited for season of discovery. Okay, November 30th, it's going to be back. I'm going to be here. Right. Classic as fan. All that stuff. Okay. We're bringing it back. Wow is back, baby. All right. Wow is back. Rhett's going to crank. It's going to be great. We're going to full send it. I'm also going to be starting a guild again. Okay. We're going to run it. I don't know what I'm going to call it, but we're going to run it back. Okay. Crusade. We're going to run it back. So it's going to be a little bit different. It's going to be a little bit different of how I used to run Crusade. So we're probably going to call it something else. I don't know what I'm going to name it yet, but we're going to run it back. Okay. Crusade is still active, by the way. Five raid teams.  There's five raid teams right now. Anyway, I hope you guys are excited as I am about the future of Wow. Even a retail has exciting stuff coming, but I'm hope you guys are excited. If you guys liked the video, hit the like button, hit the thumbs up, leave a comment, let me know what you think, and make sure to check out my Twitch channel, S-Fan TV, YouTube, Instagram, Discord, Reddit, Twitch, Twitter, everything is S-Fan TV, X threads, TikTok, whatever it is, everything is S-Fan TV. And yeah, make sure to subscribe, follow, turn on your notifications, all that stuff, because I'm always here. I do literally everything, and I love Classic Wow. And it's coming back. So hope you guys enjoyed.


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