Mobs and Minions, this week Ana is moving so the Firelord takes a break for a community episode, inviting Darrie of OpenRaid and Nobbel "Not a Big Deal" the Noble to join Bay and step-in co-host, Brutall.

Darrie is "OpenRaid Mom" as the Operations Director for the cross-realm raiding communities. She helps maintain and moderate the community as well as organize big events like the current Learn to Raid with OpenRaid initiative. Players started the general event back in April with bronze Challenge Modes that progressed through silver and gold, and are progressing through the Mists of Pandaria raids in order without needing high item level requirements. The OpenRaid community is currently in the middle of Tier 14, moving from Normals to Heroics. Darrie agrees with Bay on the survival of OpenRaid with the new LFG in-game feature coming in Warlords: the community you get from OpenRaid can't come from the game UI component.

As part of the community grab-bag episode, Nobbel is here to answer lore questions submitted by Mobs and Minions. Brutall helps start the conversation using his well-th of Wowpedia knowledge -- but to his eternal WoE, Nobbel knows more about Queen Azshara, the Burning Legion, and the Sunwell. We'll steal into insight about the Final Boss of Draenor, whether Thrall or the Alliance should have been on trial, too, whether Theramore can be fixed sanely, and...what Azerothian race makes the best taco.

OpenRaid is opening up to more games than WoW; this mortal spies some League of Legends events going on, but we might see some WildStar soon. Nobbel will continue making the best animated & narrated "comics" about lore along with his playthroughs of WoW leveling and Zelda games. Brutall just hit 2000 subscriptions on his Youtube channel, and would like to celebrate with an upcoming taco-devouring party on Twitch.tv/BrutallStatic. He asks that the community share their terrible taco selfies on Twitter @BrutallStatic with hashtag #2000Tacos.

As always, Final Boss and its guests love to answer community questions at the end of the show. You can ask them via the website: http://finalboss.tv/askaboss/ - via Twitter: @finalbosstv #AskABoss & via Twitch Chat during the After Show!

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- Poneria

Mobs and Minions can rest assured that The Firelord and his majordomo did not need to skymirror Ana twice over to get guests for the retribution paladin episode.

This week's "retribution ride" features the world-class Morgeine of <Envy> and forum-frequenter Bear of <Ninth Order>. Bay and Ana note how there are so many EU guilds killing heroic Garrosh, as <Ninth Order> is EU 82nd where Ana's <Something Wicked> for example is US 34th.

After discussing the big IRL changes to come for each guest, we move on to talk about how retribution paladins stand apart from other DPS specs. Bear refers to himself as a paladin, not just retribution, for both guests agree that a ret pally is brought to raid not for his astounding "meter-maiding" DPS but for the plethora of raid utility that resides in the paladin class toolkit.

We know that warlocks are better, but don't think that the three-tribution paladins on this show will leave all the mobs and minions hanging when it comes to better retribution DPS. You'll hear about what 40% haste does to mastery, how a glitch like ability lag can turn an inferior stat build into viable, and that simming it really is the answer to everything.

Ana leads into talent choice discussion with the unfortunate evolution of the level 15 speed boost talent tier from cool choice to boring default. Does the level 75 talent tier have only one purposeful choice? Does Execution Sentence leave the rest of the level 90 talent tier dead for choice? What abilities should be nixed in Warlords of Draenor? Well, we mean other than Guardian of Kings, Ana.

Packed with pally pride, it's all inside Episode #32: The Wrath of Retribution.

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- Poneria

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