Hi friends! Haven’t been keeping this blog updated, but you may or may not have noticed that I’ve been livestreaming on Twitch again! Woo! It’s been going pretty well, and so I thought it was time to setup an ACTUAL SCHEDULE 😱 to give viewers a reliable idea of when they can catch me live, and to give me some boundaries within my day 😂.
This stream is effective Monday, September 25th, 2023, and it’ll be considered my “trial” schedule for the foreseeable future. I’ll see how it feels, see how y’all like it, and then make changes as needed.
Also, if you haven’t swung by since the “relaunch”, I’ve made a BUNCH of updates to the stream, including the stream graphics, some behind-the-scenes tools, and added a BUNCH of interactivity to the stream through the built-in Twitch Rewards & Challenges redemptions, which are available by using “WezCred” (my points system), which you earn automatically by watching the stream. Next time you visit my stream, go to the bottom of chat and have a look at the options, and try something out! I’ve got more coming there in the near future, including a Murloc Fortune Teller minigame that I’m super excited to get fully fleshed out!
I will be streaming starting right before the launch today at 2:30pm PST, but the expansion launch and Twitch Drops event won’t officially begin until 3pm. I figure we can do a watch-through together of my latest Battle Pets Compendium video while we wait! Hope to see you there!
We’re less than A WEEK away from the launch of World of Warcraft’s latest expansion, DRAGONFLIGHT, and I’m a busy-little-bee getting everything together. What have I been busy with? Well, it’s no secret that I’ve been working on a battle pet video highlighting all the new pets coming with DRAGONFLIGHT, and with nearly 100 new pets coming, I have to admit I maybe have bitten off a little more than I can chew!
My current timeline progress for the battle pet video
My circa 2016 PC is having a helluva time dealing with all these imported files, graphic layers, and effects, and it was touch-and-go there as to whether or not I’d be able to move forward with it. But after learning how to work with proxy files and futzing with some preferences, everything’s going much more smoothly. I’m now in the final 9 minutes of what appears to be a roughly 29 minute video! I’m really hoping to be able to get it out by this Friday or Saturday at the latest. Keep your fingers crossed that my poor PC lives through the experience (and of course I’ll announce once the video is live, but go ahead and sub to me on YouTube and ring the bell and stuff to get notified automagically!)
I’ve been so caught up in this project that I haven’t even finished doing everything I want with the pre-patch event yet! Namely, getting some more alts to level 60, outfitting some of my priority alts with some fresh new 252 gear, and collecting all the armor class transmogs. Also, with all the hype surrounding the recent RNG buff given to some Pandaria & WoD world boss mounts, the desire to go roll a decent amount of my alts through those weekly drop chances is high high high! Let’s hope my RNG luck is just as high, once I get around to it! At the very minimum, I need to go and spend all the Honor and Valor I have saved up on my main so that stuff doesn’t just vanish on me next Monday!
Lastly, an important update to my previous post about Twitch Drops: While I will be streaming at launch and will have the Twitch Drops enabled for the Feldrake mount from Nov 28th through Nov 30th (my stream schedule, anyways), looks like I am not on the list of eligible streamers Blizzard has supplied for the Ichabod battle pet Twitch Drop, which also starts Nov 28th. I’m a little sad, because being involved in anything battle pet-related is always a huge deal for me, but I will still happily support some of my friends who made the list of eligible streamers. I’ll likely toss my gift subs over to DragonsAfterDark, who is someone who does just a TON of work for the battle pet community!
That single tear…
That’s all I have to update for now. Have you had any luck with the new mount drops? Didja get all your stuff from the pre-patch festivities yet? Drop a comment and let me know! In the meantime, I’ve gotta dig back into this editing project like, for real, for real!
Hey everyone! How y’all doin’? Thought I’d dust off this blog since, well, Twitter is near imminent implosion, but more importantly, there’s LOTS of cool stuff happening in World of Warcraft coming up Very Soon™.
As Shadowlands nears its end, my guild is only raiding one night a week, and that’s to blow through 10 or so mythic bosses from the various Fated raids in order to collect some mythic upgrade tokens. This weird intermediate time where we have new talents and yet legendaries and covenant powers are still around has yielded some fun results for my particular spec, Arms Warrior. We’re in that bizarre position where – combined with our available talents – our Venthyr covenant ability Condemn has achieved HUGE VALUE in basically all content. But it’s going away once Dragonflight launches, so there’s no need for Blizz to try to balance it. We’re not as ridiculous as, say, warlocks were in Season 4, but we’re sort of a meme-worthy Condemn-spam class, and I’m seeing some funny big numbers. Not usual for little old me!
The pre-patch lands FOR REAL next Tuesday (Nov 15th), when not only will we start seeing the Primal Invasions happening around Azeroth, yielding some gear upgrades for alts, new transmog, and – of course – a new PET – (and can I just break here and say, with that pet, I’ll achieve 1500 unique battle pets in the game?!? Aaaaaaah! So excited!!) – but we’ll also get access to the new race and class – Dracthyr Evokers! I have a name reserved already for my Evoker alt. I’m going to be terrible at playing “Count Dracthula”, but at least I’ll be able to get even further benefit from hitting big renown numbers for Venthyr 🙂
With the launch of this 2nd and final phase of the Dragonflight pre-patch, WoW is having a special Twitch Drops promotion where interested players can watch some hours of their favorite WoW streamers (provided they have Twitch Drops enabled!) to unlock some seriously cool in-game rewards.
First up, starting next week you’ll be able to unlock the Dragon Kite battle pet (originally from the TCG) by watching 4 hours of your favorite WoW streamer between Tuesday November 15th at 3:00pm PST through Friday November 18th at 11:59pm PST.
And then once the Dragonflight expansion officially launches on Monday, November 28th, you’ll be able to unlock the AMAZING Feldrake mount (also a rare TCG prize) for watching an eligible streamer between Monday November 28th at 3:00pm PST through Thursday December 1st at 11:59pm PST.
November 28th also launches the beginning of their “Support a Streamer” promotion on Twitch where, if you gift 2 subscriptions to an eligible WoW streamer during the time between Monday November 28th at 3:00pm PST and Monday December 12th by 11:59pm PST, you’ll unlock access to the brand new Ichabod battle pet shown below! For this promotion, “eligible streamer” means someone who’s either an Affiliate or Partner on Twitch (meaning they can accept subscriptions), and that they’re also streaming World of Warcraft while the Twitch Drops period is in effect.
The final Twitch Drop is a toy called the Perpetual Purple Firework – which was also a TCG item, I guess? This toy shoots a firework into the air that purportedly bursts into a thousand purple stars. I’m definitely going to be counting them! This reward is unlocked by watching at least two hours of an eligible WoW stream between Tuesday, December 13th at 3:00pm PST (also the beginning of Season 1 of Dragonflight!!) and Wednesday, December 28th by 11:59pm PST.
Of course, I would be remiss if I didn’t point out that I have stepped my toes back into streaming on Twitch, and I will definitely be taking part in the Twitch Drops promotion (they kept my Affiliate status active even after nearly 3 years of crickets HAHAHAHA)! For next week’s festivities, here’s my schedule:
Be sure to follow me at twitch.tv/wonderwez and turn on notifications to be reminded when I’m live those dates! Times for the Feldrake should be similar (starting around 3:00pm PST on launch day, with 8:00am PST starts the following days), and I’ll be sure to post those final schedules on my Discord and Twitter!
IMPORTANT: To receive these in-game goodies, you must have your Battle.net linked with your Twitch account. You can do that by starting at https://account.battle.net/connections, and then following the instructions to sign-in and link your Twitch account to Battle.net.
Outside of all that excitement, I’ve been working on putting together a YouTube video previewing all the new (known) battle pets coming to Dragonflight. It’s been quite an endeavor, and I’ve already probably put in A LOT of hours researching online and in the Beta, going through WoW.tools build details, running collection theories by other pet enthusiasts, and gathering footage. I’m finalizing my script by the end of this week (hopefully) and hope to record the voiceover and assemble the video for upload just before Dragonflight launches.
For those of you who took the time to come to my blog and read all this, here’s a special preview of the script, so far!
Thanks so much for reading – what are YOU excited about right now? If you’re into WoW, what class are you going to be maining in Dragonflight, and what are some of your early-expansion goals? If you’re not into WoW, what games have you been playing? Take care, y’all!
After a couple months’ absence due to illness, and some stream setup revitalization, I’m happy to announce that I’m officially relaunching my stream TODAY, Sunday April 29th, 2018, at 10am Pacific Daylight Time! And what better way to celebrate than to use this occasion to fundraise for a great organization, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital through their PLAYLIVE campaign?!?
I’ll be having special fundraising streams for St. Jude throughout the entire month of May (look out for the schedule, but primarily they’ll happen on the weekends)! If for whatever reason you can’t attend one, but still want to donate, you can donate by going to this link.
I’ve got a number of incentives and milestones I’d like to share with you as rewards for donating, listed below!
Milestones (for achieving fundraising totals):
$250 total raised – Wez will schedule a synthesizer jam stream!
$500 total raised – Wez will schedule a live drumming stream! (OMG!)
Incentives for Individual Donors (choose one when donating, limited supply):
$5 donation – Get Wez to perform “Amazing” Accents – 5 available
$10 donation – Wez will name a WoW battle pet for you, FOREVER! – 10 available
$25 donation – Wez will immediately color an Echo of Justice battle pet print for you and send you a digital copy for your personal use. – 4 available
The incentives above are quantified for today’s stream only. More incentives will be added on future dates. The milestones, however, will be for the total campaign for the season. And if we knock that $500 total goal out of the park, we’ll add more (and ideas?)!
I look forward to seeing you all at 10am PDT for the stream today! If you’re not sure where to go, it’s at Twitch.tv/WonderWez! Eeeeeee, I’m excited!
After an unexpectedly long absence due to illness, I am planning to return to streaming with a new, updated streaming setup (woo!), and what’s even better – a charity streaming goal for the month of May. Help me kick off my fundraiser for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital PLAYLIVE as I kickoff Phase 2 of the WonderWez Twitch channel THIS SUNDAY, April 29th, 2018. I’m planning to stream from 10am-4pm Pacific Daylight Time, though we may go longer depending on how much fun we’re all having.
This will be my first charity stream of several throughout the month of May. I’ll be doing these on weekend days, so hopefully if you can’t make it this Sunday, you’ll be able to hit up one of the future days (stay tuned for the future dates listing!). I’m planning to stream World of Warcraft while leveling a new character that early comers can even help me create! I’m planning some fun little incentives for donors, and when we hit certain milestones, I’m planning some epic future streams including a synth music stream for hitting $250, and a live drumming stream for hitting our $500 goal. (Seriously that drumming stream would be AWESOME!)
I’m also excited because I’ve spent some time this month investing in some new gear for the stream, including a new camera, an extended soundboard, among others. Also I’ve spent some time implementing some new features including new alerts, and customized minigames for your chatroom pleasure.
I really hope you all enjoy the upcoming streams. I love livestreaming and have really missed it, so I’m so glad to be coming back! Until Sunday, take care!
OMG! I’ve been streaming TWO WHOLE YEARS, peeps, and it’s time to celebrate!!!
Join me on Sunday, February 25th at 10am Pacific Standard Time as we party it up in celebration of me still streaming after two years. This stream is for you, Woo Crew! Without you, I would be having ZERO fun with this streaming thing. And to thank you, I figured I’d run a few giveaways during the stream featuring some of my favorite games I’ve had the opportunity to stream. Details below!
INFO:
There will be three raffles throughout the stream for the following items:
The giveaways will take place at various times during the stream on Sunday, February 25th between 10am PST and 2pm PST.
RULES:
In order to participate in the raffle, you must:
Be a follower of the channel and adhering to the channel rules (!rules for info).
Spend 50 WezCred for a ticket (up to 20 tickets allowed per person, per raffle)
Be legally allowed to win a raffle (18 years old+, not prohibited in your area, etc.)
Have access to Steam for the game gifting.
Be present in chat when the winner is announced.
If you win one of the raffled items, you may not win another one during the same stream.
Failure to adhere to any of the above rules by the winner will result in a redraw.
RAFFLE DETAILS:
The raffles will take place at random times during the stream starting on Sunday, February 25th at 10am PST through 2pm PST. We will be holding Raffle #1 at approximately 11am PST, Raffle #2 at approx. 12:30pm PST, and Raffle #3 near the end of the stream around 2pm PST (times are subject to change). The raffle will be opened about ten minutes prior to the drawing for the winner, to ensure those who enter are still around for the drawing.
To enter the raffle, type in “!ticket x” in chat during the raffle window, where x is the number of tickets you want. For example, if you want to purchase 3 raffle tickets (which costs a total of 150 WezCred), you would type “!ticket 3”. You may spend up to 1000 WezCred for 20 tickets (extra chances to win!). I’m sorry for the math, but this is really the only way my bot can run raffles!
If you’re not sure how much WezCred you currently have, type “!wezcred” in chat during the stream to check your balance.
HOW TO REDEEM YOUR PRIZE:
If you are the winner of a raffle, you must friend Wez on Steam (find her Steam account at http://steamcommunity.com/id/wonderwez) and once that is complete she will send the code. Wez is not responsible for access issues with your Steam account, so make sure your account is legit before entering the raffle!
Thanks so much for making my stream time so much fun these past two years! If you haven’t already seen my stream, go ahead and follow me at http://www.twitch.tv/wonderwez!
Who’s excited for my Subnautica release-day stream?!? I am! Come and watch me play it from the beginning on Tuesday, January 23rd 2018 at 4pm PST! Twitch link here!
OMG you guys. YOU GUYS! We hit 10 whole subs. Ten. T-E-N! That’s amazing. I can’t even. I figured it was time to have another celebration around here, and hitting 10 Twitch subscribers seems a valid excuse to have a party. I’ve been wanting to try something new on-stream for awhile now, and this here’s the perfect time I think!
I’m pleased/nervous to announce the debut of my first Creative stream series I’m calling “One-Hit WonderWez”. I could try to type out an explanation, but I figured recording video would be easier 🙂
What’s up, Woo Crew?!? I hope you all are doing spectacular. I’m feeling pretty spectacular myself (in contrast to how crummy my back has felt since early June), and in fact I’ve been doing so well I’m pleased to announce my official return to streaming on July 22nd, 2017.
Yes, on Saturday, July 22nd from 12pm to 5pm Pacific Daylight Time, I will return to Twitch to celebrate my new Affiliate Subscription availability (can we get some subscriber hype going? Who’s gonna be the first to subscribe?!?), and to introduce you all to a game called THE LONG DARK. Some of you may be already familiar with it as it’s been in pre-release on Steam and Xbox One for a while now, but the full version (with a new as-yet-unreleased Story Mode) will be launching on all platforms (including PS4) on August 1st.
THE LONG DARK is a survival game set in Northern Canada where you find yourself out in the elements after a mysterious geomagnetic storm with your character having to scavenge for food, shelter, and supplies whilst steering clear of wily animal predators and punishing weather patterns. The Story Mode promises to provide more details about the circumstances which led to this apocalypse of sorts.
On Saturday’s stream, I will be playing the Sandbox mode, whish is basically just the player alone in the world, trying to survive for as long as possible. And not just any Sandbox mode – I will be playing it on the hardest difficulty available in the game – Interloper Mode. For survival game fans, this is considered one of the most brutal and challenging survival experiences a game can offer, and I am TOTALLY UNPREPARED to experience it!
Fret not, there is a method to my madness and this choice is for your benefit! Why? Well we’re gonna be gamifying this terrible idea for you all – viewers of the stream will be able to enter their guesses for:
How many times my character dies (and I need to start completely over) during the stream.
The longest time I’m able to survive (in days, hours, and minutes)
The shortest time I’m able to survive (in days, hours, and minutes)
The viewers who have the closest guesses without going over will win prizes, including a digital copy of the game (digital copy may be region-restricted; I will update with more info soon)!
Below are the rules and stuff, so you know what to expect…
Rules for Me:
I will play on Interloper Mode with a Random Location start.
No map look-ups – if I don’t know where I’m going, I don’t know where I’m going and I’ll likely die because of it!
Rules for Viewers wishing to enter the contest:
Must be 18 years or older and must be legally able to enter contests like this.
Must be a follower of the channel.
One entry per person.Subscribers to the channel may enter twice with different guesses if they wish. Duplicate entries from non-subscribers will be forfeit.
All entry guesses must be UNIQUE. You will be prompted to alter your guess on the form if someone has already entered using that precise number (this is to prevent ties, so get your guesses in early!)
All entries must be submitted by 3pm Pacific Time. After that entries will be closed.
Due to form limitations, only the first 99 entries will be counted. A link to the form will be provided once the contest starts!
Winners must be in chat to claim prizes. If the winner is a regular (30+ hours of prior viewing time) or a subscriber, they may be absent, but will have until 3pm Pacific Daylight Time on Sunday July 23rd to claim their prize via Twitch Whisper response.
If a winner is not available to claim their prize per the terms above, the prize will be awarded to the runner up until someone claims. In case of a regular or subscriber notified and non-responsive via whisper, if the runner up fails to claim their prize by Monday July 24th at 3pm Pacific Daylight Time, the prize will be forfeited and saved for a future event.
Entrants who fail to comply with the channel rules will forfeit their entry and risk being banned.
The Prizes!
See, this is what you’re all here for, right? Okay, so here are the prizes:
Number of Deaths Prize: PC Steam Code for “THE LONG DARK”!
Longest Survival Time Prize: $10.00 USD Amazon.com Gift Card
Shortest Survival Time Prize: $10.00 USD Amazon.com Gift Card
Still with me? It looks complicated, but really it’s not. The above rules are written out just so there’s no confusion or consternation on the day of the event. We’re gonna have a blast with a new stream look, new sounds, a new game, and hopefully some new friends and the first subscribers to the channel, ever! If you’re not already following, find me on Twitch: http://www.twitch.tv/wonderwez, drop a follow, and make sure to turn notifications on so you don’t miss it!
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