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A podcast covering the Blizzard game World of Warcraft. A discussion of the game from the player perspective. Topics include how to make gold, raiding, leveling, mastering addons, and the philosophies of game play. Molsan and Sláinte are two long-time WoW players and Blizzard game veterans that bring a unique perspective to a Warcraft podcast.

Bitter and Salty - A World of Warcraft Podcast Molsan and Sláinte

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A podcast covering the Blizzard game World of Warcraft. A discussion of the game from the player perspective. Topics include how to make gold, raiding, leveling, mastering addons, and the philosophies of game play. Molsan and Sláinte are two long-time WoW players and Blizzard game veterans that bring a unique perspective to a Warcraft podcast.

    Bitter and Salty – Episode 115 – Personal Dirty Swirly

    Bitter and Salty – Episode 115 – Personal Dirty Swirly

    In the one hundred and fifteenth World of Warcraft podcast episode, patch 7 dot 1 dot 5 is released with its sole purpose of crushing addons, rotations, macros, hopes, and dreams, we question the legitimacy of the “Salty” title as the Booty Bay Fishing Extravaganza returns in the latest patch, we determine what quests, addons, and other activities make you feel dirty in WoW, we burn our seals in heroic Emerald Nightmare to avoid tainted loot, but fall victim to the swirly boss, we realize that that it’s okay to trade Blood of Sargeras for Order Hall Resources instead of for materials to sell for gold… as long as you use those resources to run missions that reward you with gold, and we avoid farming old dungeons and faction reputations for our gold-making challenge.

    Bitter and Salty is brought to you by Molsan and Sláinte.

    The 7.1.5 Update



    Crushed addons/macros… Didn’t want to play at all



    Questions from the Community



    Salty title is further cheapened

    “OH changes made to Booty Bay s=fishing tourny makes winning very cheap and effortless now, how does he FEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEL about the cheapening of that requirement and further cheapening of Salty title?

    from ANONYMOOSE”

    https://www.reddit.com/r/wow/comments/5o3voo/stranglethorn_fishing_extravaganza_is_back/?sort=confidence



    What makes you feel dirty in WoW?



    Kirin Tor Barrels quest with addon

    Any WQ where you stand around and do nothing and get credit… like other Kirin Tor quests



    Heroic EN



    Spider boss falling/jumping

    Tainted loots



    Blood of Sargeras Vendor



    Trade for order resources with macro

    /run BuyMerchantItem(1,1)



    No Effing Gold-Making Challenge



    Molsan



    Transmuting… Essence of Earth to Essence of Water… Use EoW to craft Tome of Illusions: Azeroth

    Oh, but my xmute Shaman doesn’t have the recipe

    Because he’s not friendly with Timbermaw

    Oh and I haven’t played him since MoP

    So here we go

    Bought first EoE for 16 silver… xmuted into an EoW… market price at the time for EoW is 240g… Can do this once a day with chance to proc multiples





    Sláinte



    forgot







    Music

    Clips of intro and outro music taken from “Slainte” by Tartalo Music (on YouTube and Facebook)

    Additional clips of music taken from “Tainted Love (Instrumental)” by Soft Cell

    Contact Info

    Email: podcast@bitterandsalty.com

    Phone: 413 BIT SALT or 413 248 7258

    Molsan Method: http://molsan.me

    Twitter

    http://twitter.com/bitterandsalty

    http://twitter.com/molsan

    http://twitter.com/saltyslainte

    • 59 min
    Bitter and Salty – Episode 114 – Agile Emissary Mound

    Bitter and Salty – Episode 114 – Agile Emissary Mound

    In the one hundred and fourteenth World of Warcraft podcast episode, Winter Veil is over, but collecting all the toys, pets, and mounts from our Garrison continues, Molsan gets his second legendary item from turning in The Wardens Emissary Quest, and pretends it’s not for PvP, Sláinte… not to be outdone… gets his second legendary from the Mythic chest in his order hall, we try to run mythic dungeons together, but can’t find the dumb meeting stone, or the quest to unlock The Arcway, we determine that underwater questing bad design, but the most awesome thing ever if you have the Underlight Blessing, and we give out our unique and unsolicited advice for our new gold-making challenge.

    Bitter and Salty is brought to you by Molsan and Sláinte.

    Second Legendary



    Sephuz’s Secret

    Opening Warden’s Field Kit after completing 4 The Wardens WQs

    SALTY TOO!!!



    Can We Do a Mythic



    What Mythic questline?



    Azuregale Bay



    Suramar questing makes me want to quit WoW

    Underwater is bad design



    Nighthold is Almost Upon Us



    Just in time as this felt like a content lull

    End of Gul’dan?

    Jan 17 normal and heroic

    Jan 24 raid finder



    No Effing Gold Making Challenge



    Molsan – Blood Money – https://rodent.io/blood-money/earthen-ring

    Sláinte – Far from fishing frequently,feeling  farming failed, furthermore finding favors fortuitous, fate found fake famous formally frivolous fitting finale



    Music

    Clips of intro and outro music taken from “Slainte” by Tartalo Music (on YouTube and Facebook)

    Additional clips of music taken from “Tainted Love (Instrumental)” by Soft Cell

    Contact Info

    Email: podcast@bitterandsalty.com

    Phone: 413 BIT SALT or 413 248 7258

    Molsan Method: http://molsan.me

    Twitter

    http://twitter.com/bitterandsalty

    http://twitter.com/molsan

    http://twitter.com/saltyslainte

    • 52 min
    Bitter and Salty – Episode 113 – Doughnut Finder Disguise

    Bitter and Salty – Episode 113 – Doughnut Finder Disguise

    In the one hundred and thirteenth World of Warcraft podcast episode, we go back in time and run timewalking dungeons and fish up all the achievements in Draenor, Molsan is permanently banished to Helheim on his Holy Priest, while Sláinte is forced to run heroic Emerald Nightmare instead of Trial of Valor, we open our Bloated Threshers to loot Darkmoon Daggermaw and sell them for crazy amounts of gold, we venture out to Suramar with a full quest log, but without a disguise, we stumble on the World Quest Group Finder addon and can’t believe we’ve been playing without it, we run battlegrounds to boost artifact power, and run old raids to collect missing appearances, and we discuss the rules for our new gold-making challenge.

    Bitter and Salty is brought to you by Molsan and Sláinte.

    Holy Ding 110



    Dinged in Helheim so was banished/stuck

    The 810 dilemma… Raise professions to craft your own gear, but need dungeons… or buy 810+ so you can run heroics for profession quests

    External resources say that crafters are “giving away” 810+ gear (like Imbued Silkweave)… Min buyout is 2500g so not really



    Heroic Emerald Nightmare vs. Trial of Valor



    Salty gets salty



    Timewarping Weekly Five



    Died in every dungeon

    Party was nice enough to give me agility gear to get me over 810

    AIE Monk’s name was offensive

    I fell and didn’t click on wind



    Dark Moon FairE Fishing



    Dat Dough Nut

    Bloated Threshers OMG… Contain 5-10 Darkmoon Daggermaw when opened



    World Questing in Failamar



    You don’t have the portal?

    You don’t have the disguise?

    Shouldn’t you always try and help the weakest link get better, or do you toss them aside?

    Returned for the masquerade deal… just winking a lot

    Non-stop either “Something’s Not Quite Right…” or “Your Quest Log is Full”



    AddOns: World Quest Group Finder



    Best AddOn of all time?

    Automatically asks if you want to find a group for the WQ

    Join group, finish quest, let’s the party know you’re done, then it drops you from the group

    https://mods.curse.com/addons/wow/worldquestgroupfinder



    Legendary Cloak



    Off Nithogg… when you least expect it to happen… it happens

    Bonus rolled an 860 helm too… why not



    PvP Battlegrounds



    Oh yes… It means the end of WoW for Molsan

    Trinkets upgraded from 799 and 825 to 840 and 845



    AddOns: mOnArs WardrobeHelper



    Percentage of appearances collected by expansion, dungeon, raid, and tier

    For completionists and it will drive you crazy

    Ran The Eye… full clear… no Priest tokens

    https://mods.curse.com/addons/wow/monars-wardrobehelper



    AddOns: Adibags



    * Better than ArkInventory?

    * https://mods.curse.com/addons/wow/adibags



    No Effing Gold-Making Challenge



    Weekly event on show

    Rules to be revealed LIVE during recording



    Music

    Clips of intro and outro music taken from “Slainte” by Tartalo Music (on YouTube and Facebook)

    Additional clips of music taken from “Tainted Love (Instrumental)” by Soft Cell

    Contact Info

    Email: podcast@bitterandsalty.com

    Phone: 413 BIT SALT or 413 248 7258

    Molsan Method: http://molsan.me

    • 58 min
    Bitter and Salty – Episode 112 – Bush Chicken Bounty

    Bitter and Salty – Episode 112 – Bush Chicken Bounty

    In the one hundred and twelfth World of Warcraft podcast episode, world quest bosses drop legendary and hidden artifact weapons as long as you remember to loot them, Molsan falls in love with the Holy Priest, and running Skyreach over and over isn’t enough to break him, Sláinte’s headset and computer melts down mid-raid, and he decides to go wireless for the first time, we discuss how to properly level Cooking by avoiding your Garrison and participating in Pilgrim’s Bounty, we explain how Fishing is not painful, but relaxing, especially when using a laptop while watching TV, and we break down shoulder enchants, making gold with fishing lures, and we help copy weak aura strings into your game.

    Bitter and Salty is brought to you by Molsan and Sláinte.

    Raiding Updates



    Raid progression stuff

    Salty legendary

    Salty DK weapon things

    Nothing for Molsan on world boss… rest of party got epics… was asked if I “got credit” for the kill



    Legion Story



    Do you even care or know what’s going on at this point

    Doing the same thing… AH, world quest, leveling, etc. so there is no time for story



    In Love with Holy



    Story time… Getting reaquainted with Holy spec…

    Insta-queue dungeons

    WoD random… Skyreach

    Timewalking WotLK… much more difficult… was called “brain dead”

    Researched, added macros… WoD random… Sky Reach… AGAIN

    OMG it’s great… will now level as Holy



    Firmware Saltware



    Computer drama

    Wireless headset recommendations



    Leveling Cooking and Pilgrim’s Bounty



    The proper way to level Cooking instead of “Garrisons”

    Can level Fishing simultaneously by fishing up mats for Cooking

    Complete all PB quests for 8K experience per quest, 12K for dailies. Easy leveling!

    Pick the “Pilgrim’s Bounty” bag as reward for chance at Toy and Pet (Frightened Bush Chicken)… Sell pet for 11K-21K



    Fishing is Dumb and Painful



    Why it’s not

    It’s relaxing… low stress

    Seriously crazy amounts of gold

    Get into the Lure gold-making business

    Oh, Molsan got Underlight Angler… Now what

    How do you AFK fish while doing something else (watching TV, working, etc.)



    Shoulder Enchant



    Which one do you use?



    Email from Eelor

    Greetings Molsan and Salty,

    Thought I would take the time to write you an email after hearing how you don’t get to many of them. I can only imagine how much work goes into producing your show on a regular basis and I want you to know it’s much appreciated. I thoroughly enjoy the format, the loosely scripted back and forth that harkens back to some of the old radio shows before TV. Listening to you guys kind of makes me think of Felix Unger and Oscar Madison hiring a goblin kodo caravan to take them from Crossroads to Ratchet. ( I’ll leave it to you guys to decide who is who) 😉

    Between Molsan, who lifts up the hood of the game and dives down the rabbit holes of WoW’s unique characteristics, and Salty, the classic raider who takes the simplistic view and just has fun getting shinies, you guys have nailed it. You struck on the formula that gets me immersed in your show and in-turn gets me immersed in the game through the show, which is exactly what I want in a podcast.

    I work 70 hrs a week and game time is limited which wasn’t a problem until Legion. This expansion is just too much fun to walk away from. As a  trucker, podcasts are the best way to pass the miles and it wasn’t until Legion that I thought of WoW podcasts to somehow bring the game with me on the road. I have tried a lot of them and I do have a few that I really like a lot but I have to let you know that Bitter and Salty is definitely...

    • 1 hr 13 min
    Bitter and Salty – Episode 111 – BlizzCon Release Whistle

    Bitter and Salty – Episode 111 – BlizzCon Release Whistle

    In the one hundred and eleventh World of Warcraft podcast episode, we open up our BlizzCon goodie bags, and drink the kool-aid from our tenth anniversary steins, we rate and recap our BlizzCon experiences and predictions, we agree that quantity is quality when considering new WoW content and patch releases, we review all of the 7.1.5 and 7.2 announcements, and prepare ourselves for Garrisons in Legion, flying, more invasions, class mounts, and the continuation of our artifact quest line, and we explain our theory about the upcoming journey to where it all began: underwater questing.

    Bitter and Salty is brought to you by Molsan and Sláinte.

    BlizzCon 2016



    Goodie bag



    No new expansion



    We’re working on one, of course



    BlizzCon Predictions… How Did We Do?



    Winston from Overwatch announced as new hero for Heroes of the Storm

    I won’t let YOU ruin my fun… Khadgar

    People will wear their badges around all the time outside of the convention hall

    Some people are more exciting on Twitter than IRL

    Some people will be excited, some people will be jealous

    People will get in lines both too early and too late

    Diablo 25th anniversary video montage

    Warcraft Legion 7.2 announcement

    We will find out what Overwatch Sombrero means

    SaltySlainte will sleep in



    Patches



    Varied patch structure

    A “minor” release is not a “patch” release but okay

    Quantity is quality

    Getting content to us quicker instead of one major change holding up the whole release



    Patch 7.1.5



    Legion’s first “small” patch

    MoP Timewalking dungeons… example of “evergreen” content… content that can go in any patch but will be around forever

    Brawler’s Guild with dozens of new bosses

    Micro Holidays



    AQ Remembrance Day… Horde banner will fly for a year

    Volunteer Guard day… swap appearances with a guard

    Pepe-style hippogryphs

    Boat Day… Azeroth spring break





    PvP Changes Were Crazy



    Throwing stuff out there and see what works





    Class Updates



    Reworking talents… will they ever be able to balance?

    Secondary stats… buffing

    Traps coming back to Hunters. Great.





    REALLY SOON… Going on the PTR now



    Patch 7.2 – TOMB OF SARGERAS



    Return to the site of our greatest failure

    All 12 classes = Armies of Legionfall

    New World Quests… Love WQs!



    Class-themed WQs





    “Build a Base, Create a Foothold”



    Sounds like.. GARRISONS!!!!1

    But wait, no, it’s like Isle of Quel’danas

    Nether Disruptor, Command Center, and, wait for it… a MAGE TOWER!





    Legion Assaults



    Just like the pre-legion invasions… yay?

    WQs will be disabled in the zone… so you can participate in other WQs

    Three-player scenarios!





    Flying? There’s no flying in Legion!



    Part two of Pathfinder… Salty was wrong

    All about outdoor content to unlock flying… no dungeons or raids required

    Unlocked for your character, and all characters on your account

    See? No alts… just characters





    Class Mounts



    Warlock and Paladin are stupid… But that DK mount!





    ToS Raid



    Harvesting the Pillars of Creation

    Kil’jaeden final boss





    Patch Dungeons Return



    Do you miss them?





    Artifact Changes



    Can play catch up in 7.1.5… Is this fine?

    Relics that unlock multiple trait bonuses… Awesome

    Continuation of the Artifact questline

    Solo content to unlock an additional appearance… YES!!

    • 1 hr 15 min
    Bitter and Salty – Episode 110 – BlizzCon Exclusive Tips

    Bitter and Salty – Episode 110 – BlizzCon Exclusive Tips

    In the one hundred and tenth World of Warcraft podcast episode, we reveal all of our exclusive BlizzCon tips, and put our special guest through a rigorous Q&A to help you maximize your enjoyment of the convention, we learn that Frost Death Knights are almost as awesome as Blood, and even get their own hidden artifact weapon, we switch Mage specs and explain why it doesn’t cost you as much Artifact Power as you might think, we find out that you are supposed to use five specific order hall champions for each class, we learn about passive aggressive loot etiquette by running heroic Neltharion’s Lair, and we confirm that the Headless Horseman mount is once and for all… a lie.

    Bitter and Salty is brought to you by Molsan and Sláinte.

    BlizzCon is This Week



    No tips given on Training Dummies

    Why? We give exclusive tips



    BlizzCon Q&A



    What will be the WoW announcement?

    Will Metzen be there?

    Where does one go for dinner?

    Do Candy Corn Oreos count as dessert?

    Can you wear Blizzard or Jinx t-shirts or is that lame?

    Does anyone watch and/or care about the WoW Arena tournaments?

    Can I attend BlizzCon just for the games and news about the games?



    Kara Attunement



    How’s it going



    Ding iLevel 824



    Used seal on Flotsam for 860 gloves

    One away from raid finder!!

    What’s a Life Relic?

    Char level is stupid; why not reset everyone to level 1 at each expansion



    Double Ding Part 2



    Warrior and DK

    Frost vs. Blood



    Hidden Frost DK Artifact News



    http://us.battle.net/forums/en/wow/topic/20750594885



    Changing Specs



    Is it worth it because of the AP cost?

    Tried it with Mage…Changed from Fire to Arcane



    Specific Order Hall Champions for Each Class



    You MUST use exactly these 5 for each class

    https://www.reddit.com/r/wow/comments/519b0t/what_orderhall_champions_to_deactivate_all/



    Loot Guilt



    825 ring dropped in heroic Neltharion’s Lair… I d/e it, then DK ask for it. I felt bad

    HH rings are 835 though

    Bear tank d/c on last boss



    Hallow’s End



    HH mount yet?



    Email

    “Just wanted to say thanks for the podcast.  

    Do you guys get game time with gold?  It is only like 1200 gold per day to buy tokens which is like 60 leystone ore or 20 felslate on my realm.  I haven’t paid for game time since they made the token. How about you guys?”

    ETC

    Salty Pre-Blizzcon Tip



    Pack your suitcase



    Music

    Clips of intro and outro music taken from “Slainte” by Tartalo Music (on YouTube and Facebook)

    Additional clips of music taken from “Overwatch Soundtrack” by Blizzard Entertainment and “Digital Underground Doowutchyalike instrumental” by Scarlett Aaron.

    Contact Info

    Email: podcast@bitterandsalty.com

    Phone: 413 BIT SALT or 413 248 7258

    Molsan Method: http://molsan.me

    Twitter

    http://twitter.com/bitterandsalty

    http://twitter.com/molsan

    a href="http://twitter.

    • 1 hr 12 min

Customer Reviews

4.9 out of 5
60 Ratings

60 Ratings

dreemz1 ,

the perfect coffee break

I always look forward to hearing what these two friends have to say about their current adventures in Azeroth. Sharp wit, genuine curiosity and an "everyman" perspective make for an easy and enjoyable listen.

thenewstrumpet101 ,

Best Blizzard/WoW podcast out there

Get to know them now before they're too famous!

Birdmilk ,

Natty and Spaghetti

Still my favorite WoW podcast, so I was delighted when I saw you guys rebooted the show.
I have always liked that you guys talk about what interests you about the game and that you don't try to cover aspects of the game you're unfamiliar with. Love Slantie's blizzcon tips. Looking forward to more of Molsan's keys to success. I downloaded itunes just to five star the show.

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