Featuring: Ashgar, Belghast, Grace, Kodra, Tamrielo, and Thalen

Hey Folks! Bel was partially dead, and then holiday travel happened, and as a result, we ended up taking a few weeks off without really intending to. We are back and hopefully for more than a few weeks, but given another holiday is looming, who knows. This week we talk about how all of the various ARPGs out there seem to have a contingency of aggro fans, and discuss the reasons why, but also why we are not quite as doomer on them. Bel talks a bit about the release of the Druid and the Vaal league coming up in Path of Exile II. Tam discusses a new Chinese MMORPG called Where Winds Meet, which seems to push Gacha elements aside and produce a really wild experience. From there Grace discusses a Raid Healing Simulator if the form of Wild Growth, and Kodra, an alternate universe Donkey Kong Country in the form of Windswept. We have a revisiting of a topic we have discussed more than once, about why PVPVE fails… this time, how it ruins the otherwise joyful experience of Arc Raiders. We wrap the show up with some rapid-fire topics about various books and media we have been consuming.

Topics Discussed:

• ARPG Players Angry

• Last Epoch

• Path of Exile

• Diablo IV

• Path of Exile II

• Druid and Vaal League

• Where Winds Meet

• Wild Growth

• Windswept

• PVPVE is Bad Revisited

• Short Topics