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Currently Playing: HOW TO ACTUALLY GET GOOD AT M+ W/ AVADE | The Bench Ep. 36

We have been so graciously awarded some time with Avade. With this time, we have to ask Avade how he got so good at M+ Avade Macro: /focus [@mouseover,exists][] /run if not GetRaidTargetIndex("focus") then SetRaidTarget("focus",8) end Twitter: https://x.com/TheBenchWOW Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1O51OOcq7FwLAFCVDMxe5p Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-bench-wow-podcast/id1760085356 Hosts: https://www.twitch.tv/tettles https://www.twitch.tv/yumytv https://www.twitch.tv/squishei Show Notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/11mxZiraJgirVtluCmBCl_A08S_NxezONhykksP0xF84/edit?usp=sharing 00:00 - DORKI INTROS THE PODCAST 01:30 - Season good?? 04:00 - Resilient Keys OWN 05:15 - Voting for dungeons 10:30 - What old dungeons would you like to see? 13:15 - Squishei's Hot Take 15:15 - Shrine and King's Rest 16:50 - Corruption Returns... kind of 18:10 - What's up with the Dinar?? 21:20 - Mug'zee Nerfs 25:40 - Why OAB is hard 30:30 - Random Freezes? 35:05 - AVADE JOINS 36:05 - How did Avade start and get good 37:05 - Focused Improvement 41:00 - Get painfully addicted 45:10 - How to deal with failure 47:30 - Pressing defensives correctly 53:00 - Avade's Challenge to YOU 54:45 - How to learn a dungeon 56:00 - Shadowplay is REALLY OP 01:00:30 - Figuring out that you're making mistakes 01:05:10 - Learning a spec from 0 01:10:30 - Press your CDs on CD 01:13:50 - Playing for Overall DPS 01:16:30 - Archon Tooltip Addon 01:23:30 - Communicating with people 01:27:05 - How to get reps in dungeons 01:29:00 - Latch onto better players 01:31:00 - Abusing Resilient keys 01:33:50 - How important is a good UI? 01:37:00 - Avade VOD Reviews GROWL 01:39:00 - Information Overload 01:43:40 - Interrupt Hack 01:51:40 - Stop and interrupt changes to this season's dungeons 01:53:50 - Pugs deplete threshold is low 01:56:25 - Fortified bug 01:57:55 - DONT EGO MECHANICS 02:06:13 - W AVADE TY FOR COMING 02:09:00 - Cool floodgate tech 02:11:50 - Meld and Death Skips 02:15:00 - Myth BOEs 02:17:10 - Renown Wipe Protection in Raid 02:18:30 - Q: Is it heroic week or is it the tier sets? 02:22:30 - Q: RWF on the Tournament Realm?