My Thoughts on Operation Floodgate Mythic+ Testing Week 1 PTR Season 2

[@D2Mephisto]

From what you said here in this video, Floodgate sounds pretty chill. I'm down with that! Can't wait for season 2, going to finally start playing my Blood DK again.

[@heythereguysitsMetro]

@@D2Mephisto ya it could be!

[@kalivann8409]

Those whirly mobs are Mechanical. Which are immune to Mind Control, blinds, and fears. Probably the reason why your blinding sleet wasn’t working

[@heythereguysitsMetro]

@@kalivann8409 oh wow didn't realize that was a thing haha

[@elchamacoduro]

Would asphyxiate still stun them?

[@slumberingpierrot2967]

bro background lookin like coffeezilla

[@heythereguysitsMetro]

@@slumberingpierrot2967 is that a good thing or what

[@Netherstrasz]

@@slumberingpierrot2967 Gotta have your coffee when testing out new goblin themed dungeons. Be prepared for the insanity and explosions

[@elchamacoduro]

@@heythereguysitsMetro it’s just another KZbinr that has a very brown background

[@heythereguysitsMetro]

@@elchamacoduro Ya, I'm confused by this, because you can't even see the background lol. Its dark out when I recorded this.

[@MrDoctorDave]

Voidzilla

[@tekkaoz]

Sounds the Dawn of the Infinite mega, which was one of my favorites. Every mechanic mattered, and you weren't overloaded with tons of them, just a few, but each needed to be dealt with.

[@heythereguysitsMetro]

@@tekkaoz hmm no it's way way more simplistic than dawn. Especially the bosses. I guess it's like if all four bosses were the first boss in there haha

[@hakkapella]

have you noticed if the 2-set proc gets related talents to the ability or is it just an unmodded version of ie IBF? san'layn have a stronger IBF for example

[@heythereguysitsMetro]

@@hakkapella hmm I didn't have any relevant things so I didn't notice. Sorry

[@kingsargonii6939]

I’ve been under the weather for awhile. I’ll be catching up by binge watching your videos. Good news 9800x3D is on the way!!

[@heythereguysitsMetro]

Hope you are feeling better!

[@dantedante8837]

have you considered ranting about people leaving keys on the ptr? leaving live keys is one thing but leaving ptr keys really is a level above

[@heythereguysitsMetro]

@@dantedante8837 it's really frustrating ya.

[@Aegea291]

I watched you play this and wasn’t blown away by it, I don’t think it will become a classic, but hopefully it will be like Dawnbreaker as in the easy one of the pool.

[@heythereguysitsMetro]

@@Aegea291 hopefully!

[@Netherstrasz]

I think the difficulty is a test because there’s a possibility Blizz might deactivate those addons like WeakAuras, DBMs, etc and this might be a precursor on how it would play out like that. Maybe but we’ll see

[@heythereguysitsMetro]

@@Netherstrasz I doubt that but ya never know!

[@Bordapatrol]

They can turn it off when they learn how display information they want players to have.

[@Netherstrasz]

@@Bordapatrol They’ll do it if they want, we don’t have a choice. Something’s going to happen eventually because they’re having to actively design encounters around players having these addons and need to come up with convoluted things sometimes

[@Netherstrasz]

@ Yeah I dunno where their mindset is in general. Lately so many decisions all over the place-addons being just one of them. I’m truly curious about how this dungeon will be at higher levels with pugs. Might be a trainwreck!

[@Bordapatrol]

@Netherstrasz except 99% of the time this isn't what addons are doing. 99% are ui changes and ways to better display information blizzard is already giving us.

[@UnknownSoldier412]

Hey Metro, I know you said you already tried to fix it, but the sound issues with your recording are still present. It doesn't happen in your livestreams and I assume you use the same software to record as you do stream. If so, maybe it's the software you are using to process/edit the recording?

[@birds-and-bones]

I am not a tech person, but if it's not on stream I wonder if this is some part of the hardware stuttering, being too slow? Like, is it being saved to a hard drive that can't quite handle all the data at once, is a CPU not fully following and there's a 0.X% loss? It doesn't sound like a typical mic problem, but it reminds me of when someone on a discord call has a lossy connection, making discord sometimes "catch them up" to us by playing the lost time in sped-up mode. One test worth trying Metro might be to record video as usual, but record audio through a separate program you don't usually use at the same time, and check if the error persists. Because I agree this is hard to listen to

[@heythereguysitsMetro]

@@UnknownSoldier412 ya something to do with rtx broadcast. Sorry, can't figure it out.

[@nevsgaming]

@@heythereguysitsMetro why not just record your videos using OBS? That Nvidia record software is junk compared imo

[@heythereguysitsMetro]

@@nevsgaming rtx broadcast is not for recording it's to remove sound and help the webcam etc.

[@nevsgaming]

@ ah, there’s another free application you can try it’s called audacity.. it lets you remove background noise or boost your voice

[@kopitarrules]

You do realize that from now until the end of time everytime I see a player take a shot in hockey the sound of it in my mind will be you saying Pa-Pow, right? lol

[@heythereguysitsMetro]

hahaha

[@kalivann8409]

I know mixed damage tank busters typically can’t be blocked by prot warrior. I think blizz is doing that to force them to press a cooldown like th others. The only tank that can block mixed dmg IIRC is prot paladin with spell block.

[@heythereguysitsMetro]

@@kalivann8409 oh interesting didn't know that.

[@eternalfoxsage7208]

Monk staggers magic damage as well.

[@onkek]

Spell reflect gives 20% magic DR whether the spell is reflectable or not.

[@Garbage315]

Yeah i was shocked at how easy it was too. 2 chested a +7 fairly easily, nearly 3 chest, but might have been because Enhance shaman is incredibly broken on the PTR and the one in our group insta nuked basically every pack,

[@heythereguysitsMetro]

No doubt. I was more talking about the actual mechanics though to be fair. I'm sure numerical stuff is in flux heavily.

[@kelinoxx3469]

i feel that the mechanics are simple yet requires some form of coordination, that means that for pugging is going to be harder and easier for premades, but at the same time (could be a thing of testing while been overgeared) the mechanics don't punish you to a point of oneshot wich i believe is good specially for pugs (i also felt that the trash was harder than the bosses, and all testing i did was on 10s) but time will tell for sure, im really looking forward to play season 2!

[@heythereguysitsMetro]

Sweet, glad you are excited!

[@Laptican]

Pow Pow!

[@heythereguysitsMetro]

@@Laptican pah powh

[@maartenneppelenbroek]

Thanks for the impression. You seemed a bit impaired, hope you're good.

[@heythereguysitsMetro]

@maartenneppelenbroek ?

[@maartenneppelenbroek]

@@heythereguysitsMetro as if you're sick or something, maybe it's just me.

[@heythereguysitsMetro]

@maartenneppelenbroek Just you! I remember having something in my eye though haha

[@beebeemw]

Pa pow!

[@heythereguysitsMetro]

@@beebeemw agreed.

[@LouDowg]

M plus might be the least fun thing in wow rn just Missouri

[@heythereguysitsMetro]

@@LouDowg what's the thing you are enjoying the most?

[@ThomasBachler01]

POW POW

[@heythereguysitsMetro]

@@ThomasBachler01 pa pow

[@ThomasBachler01]

@@heythereguysitsMetro maybe a KZbin translation issue

[@heythereguysitsMetro]

@ThomasBachler01 hahahaha

[@lesoldham1]

Pa pow…. lol.

[@heythereguysitsMetro]

my thoughts exactly.

[@lesoldham1]

You look frazzled there. Definitely overdid it on the new dungeon, for which we thank you.

[@scuttlebut]

Pa pow!

[@heythereguysitsMetro]

yup, hard to disagree