Sunday, December 29, 2013

Ctrl Alt WoW Episode 351 - Greench to the left, Greench to the right!


Aprillian, Leeta, Rogueslayer and Tedrah discuss another week of playing World of Warcraft, Blizzard's great MMORPG. With segments by Grand Nagus and Donnie of Clan of Darkness. Contest Ongoing send an email to ctrlaltwow@gmail.com telling us how you play WoW, either as an altaholic or dealing with it in your family life to being placed in a drawing for a WoW Pet or an Authenticator.


Juuno and Pixie Girl!


Hi Aprillian, Leeta, Rogueslayer and Tedrah and all of our awesome guildies & friends!
  Hope everyone is having a awesome week, in an out
game!

Wow did we have fun last night (Friday night) and you'll hear more about that on our submission,
hopefully Juuno got it edited and sent in. But we wound up with a awesome group and in Rokwyn's own
words: Yoggy down... Grats to CoD who now has Glory of the Lich King Raider! Woot!! Yep Grats guys,
awesome job, we had a couple of new guild mates join us this time Wing, Golcan and Deathstdyer hope
they had fun and will be back for more.

If it hadn't been for Clogalis we wouldn't have gotten the ach., he had to leave and left his poor toon with us.
Thank you Clogalis I salute you for sacrificing your toon for the guild achievements :)

It was a little hard getting a big group together last night, so I thought about it and will start posting in game
again plus on facebook by Monday. This I feel was my fault for not getting the word out sooner and in more ways.
also I think on twitter like I use to do. By the time we got around to doing the main raids it was late, everyone was
tired,
poor Grand Nagus had to work in a few hours. But still all in all it was fun and it worked out thanks again too all
of you! And we missed Donnie & Lisa last night, Donnie is sick so hope he gets to feeling better again soon.
But
as we've said in the past if you would like to join us on these raid please just pop in and say invite :)

Okay that's it for me this week, haven't gotten the little dirty helper pet hope you have Leeta.

Hugs & Kisses
Pixie
For the horde & Clan of Darkness


What We've Been Doing:

Aprillian

Crafted Leggings of the Night Sky, ilevel 553 for Aprillian, 28 days of cooldowns, bam gone. Aprillian’s ilevel went from 481 to 485

Changed Astara to transmute, proced two living steel Sat morning.

Leeta

1/ Clan of Darkness - Moved my Death Knight across to CoD and started levelling her
* Been questing and pet battling on her - trying to figure how to play a DK again!
** Macros - is there any good ones for Frost DK for DPSing?
*Ran Ulduar for guild achievements - Grats to everyone & great job!
2/ TNAK - My Mage hit Lvl70
* Had to turn exp off! Must remember to turn it back on! lol Feels weird going into dungeons and not getting any exp but yay for rep :)
We ran quite a few dungeons this week - Sethekk Halls, Mana Tombs, Escape from Durnholde and Utgarde Keep


Christmas Party - We went to Winterspring and had a little Christmas Party
* Played World of Warcraft Trivial Pursuit and was alot of fun
3/ Warlocks - Warlock hit Lvl23
* Ran Blackfathom Deeps - had our first wipe but was abit more challenging with only 4 of us


4/ Winter’s Veil - Been running 6 toons everyday - from my Lvl90’s down to my Rogue Lvl83
Finally last night I got the Rotten Little Helper :D
5/ Ran Firelands and got the last of the Eternal Embers for the legendary Staff quest - may get myself a legendary after all :)
* Now up to Delegation - http://www.wowhead.com/quest=29234

Rogueslayer

What’s everyone’s stance on game sounds/music? Julie doesn’t like hearing the music.
Had to take Everrose out of her fishing gear to battle the Greench - 13 eligible toons
  • Totals
    • Landed/done - 30
    • Fight - 5
    • Wait to fight - 25

Died 6 times
Clockwork Rocket Bot, 3 Rotten Little Helpers, Lumpy, Miniature Winter Veil Tree (epic dagger)

7124g for Rotten Little Helper!
Sent Julie some of my duplicate pets, to entice her into battling
speaking of, opened Rogueslayer (CoD) email from Duvesee this morning, after listening to ep 345 sent pets I needed! Ashstone Core, Harbinger of Flame, Mechanical Pandaren Dragonling, Personal World Destroyer. Now 321 unique pets

Thursday morning, read 10:00 pm email that a pw change request had been made, and at 3:19 am my password had been changed!! Didn’t follow link (in case phishing), went to battle.net, couldn’t login. Used account recovery page, success. Nothing missing - thank you, battle.net authenticator!!!






Emails

In Game from Duvessae:
Jade Owl Pattern
Listening to Ep 346. You may already have the answer, but the jewelcrafting patterns drop from doing the Serpents’ Eye Daily


CAW Crew,

As you just read (and now I'm repeating myself) Merry Christmas/Happy Winter Veil/Happy Anniversary!

Thanks for helping create a sense of fun and family in game. I'm glad to be part of the CoD family. Though I rarely get to visit Earthen Ring, I enjoy keeping up with several of you (somewhat sporadically) on Twitter.

In the meantime, what little time I've had to play of late has been used creating several new alts with my kids on a PVP server (shudder). I will say it has been nice reconnecting with some ok guild friends who made the leap to the server over a year ago.

Props to the high level Tauren Druid who pulled one of the four crocolisks off my lowbie rogue and saved me from a corpse run. Boo to his Pandaren Monk friend who killed me almost as soon as I stepped off the boat. Boo to the level 90 undead Mage/Orc hunter team griefing lowbies in Loch Modan. Thanks(?) to the level 90 undead paladin who noticed I was stealthed AFK in Wetlands (I was about level 24) and patiently for me to return and stand up before killing me. I guess he didn't want me to miss the fun!

Well, Dec 24 is here, so I guess I should go do some shopping!

For the Alliance! (Sometimes) for the Horde! For getting ganked repeatedly?!? Why? For the family! And for Ctrl Alt Wow!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Liteharted and his many (and increasing) alts

Sent from my iPhone



A long lost friend

Good Morning CAW crew,
            It has been an awful long time since I have written in and wanted to drop a note and let you know how things have been going. I also was a bit surprised to find out you have an entirely new cast. The last time I was enjoying your podcast you had 3 stellar gentlemen, whom will always be fondly thought of, but in catching up with an abundance of missed episodes, I must say you ladies are totally awesome and could not be more pleased with the new lineup.
            Well, I certainly have been busy in game despite my lack of communication. I am happy to say I have gotten all of my Alliance toons to 90 (11) and have 3 of my Horde toons as well. My goal is to have all 22 characters to 90 before the next expansion, which may be a bit optimistic, but will try nonetheless. They are all LFR geared (90’s) and the remaining toons have their Timeless Isle gear sitting in their banks waiting on them. I am also very happy so say that I finally completed, and received, my Legendary cloak. It took a while but is well worth it. It is the first time I have gone after a legendary item and stuck with it. I highly recommend the journey. As you can see, my altoholic tendencies have never wavered, LOL.
            I want to thank you all for the wonderful job you do and wish you all the best, an extremely Happy New Year, and the most success in the coming year. Keep up the excellent work and look forward to hearing you each and every week.
P.S. It would be awesome to join COD again with one of my alts if you would have me.
Regards,
Segwick
“For the Horde, for the Alliance, and for the Legendary



Ha ppt belated anniversary

I wanted to be in time for your 7th birthday, but holidays and family have kept me away from some of my favorite things!

The point is that I tip , that to the best long-term show out there! Congrats on 7 years Ctrlaltwow -

And happy New Year to you all!

MWAH MWAH MWAH!!!
Strumpet


goodnight raggedy man

It’s been a work filled week this week so here’s my audio and the last three days have been fun split shifts. Plus Nikki broke up with her new guy after 2 weeks just when I think I have her all put back together she go’s and shatters herself again. Lastly watch the Dr who Christmas special I had tears.




Addon Spotlight:

with Grand Nagus


Shout Outs & Thank You



Clan of Darkness

Hey gang!! Well what have I done in game this week?....NOTHING!!!!! I've been flat on my back with the nastiest flu bug!!! But as Santa has many little helpers, I have one big awesome helper in Big Steve!!! He will be filling in for me this week and you know he's gonna do an awesome job!
Take care everyone!
Donnie

Sent from my iPhone



Hello Ctrlaltwow Crew
It has never happened that I write to you 2 weeks in a row but I come bearing a gift.
I won the top 25 in Guild activity competition we had last week in the game. I won an Armored Bloodwing and I thank Donnie for the gift. I already have this mount so I thought I would give it to you Ladies to give away.
You might be able to have a competition of your own and get somebody to make you a new Email bumper.
Anyway I love the new line up. You Ladies are awesome. Have a great week.
Sincerely Matahorn
Ps I must thank Donnie for letting me give away my prize.

Thursday, December 26, 2013

CAW Winter’s Veil 2013 Special


With Aprillian, Leeta, Pixiegirl and Grand Nagus


Recorded Thursday, December 26, 2013

Great fun was had as Pixiegirl gave away gifts, special guest and in game screenshots



From Juuno

Hello Ctrl Alt Wow darlings!

I'm heading out of the house right now for a lunch with some of Ogre's family, but I wanted to send you a quick message to tell you Merry Christmas, Happy Winter's Veil, Happy Holidays and Happy New Year!  I hope everyone got extra presents from Greatfather Winter this year!  

/great big hugs & kisses!!!


Juuno

p.s. I finally dinged 90 on my Ally DK and got Double Agent... hehehee... love you!!

Happy Winter’s Veil from Ctrl Alt WoW and Clan of Darkness


and PixieGirl, We love her!!!

Sunday, December 22, 2013

Ctrl Alt WoW Episode 350 - Happy Birthday Dear CAW



Recorded on December 22, 2013


Aprillian, Leeta, Rogueslayer and Tedrah discuss another week of playing World of Warcraft, Blizzard's great MMORPG. With segments by Grand Nagus and Donnie of Clan of Darkness. Contest Ongoing send an email to ctrlaltwow@gmail.com telling us how you play WoW, either as an altaholic or dealing with it in your family life to being placed in a drawing for a WoW Pet or an Authenticator.

RECORD PROMO FOR RM CHRISTMAS EPISODE

Hi I’m Aprillian, I’m Leeta, I’m Rogueslayer, I’m Tedrah and
Aprillian We’re wishing
Leeta  you a Happy
Roguelayer Winter’s Veil
Tedrah from Ctrl Alt WoW

Juuno and Pixie Girl!


Hi Aprillian, Leeta, Rogueslayer and Tedrah and all of our awesome guildies & friends!
  Hope everyone is having a awesome week, in an out of
game!

Thought I'd better get started on this early, since we have bad weather coming in and might lose power tonight!

Anyway didn't do a lot in wow this past week, yep it's my hibernation time, but did work on leveling pets. And almost
ready I think for the Celestial Tournament,
Kittyfox has been a great help on this. Would have never known which pets I
needed and yes had to go back and level up a few. Well really quite a few plus capture some I didn't have but it's been fun.
And as I level the pets I need for the tournament, also level some for Donnie as I go, works out
wonderfully.

Speaking of pets, I wasn't going to log on last night got a sinus thing going on thanks to the weather. But Big G sent me a
message on twitter said log in got to see this, so I logged on just in time to see him turn 90! Woot!! And yes I wouldn't be
telling you that he is a level 90, only I know he has posted it all over the web lol  Proud of you Big G great job :)

 But while I was on Deathstryder said Big G was telling him about Juuno & I in mumble, so I logged on mumble and next thing
I know Willopelt is on then Grand Nagus, Big Steve joined too. And my not logging on to play
turned out playing, Willopelt wouldn't
let me out of it, he said not this time no backing out.
 But it turned out to be a fun night, Grand Nagus bribed me into staying after our first normal runs, which
Deathstryder got the mount this time :) Grand Nagus said pet runs, I can caged those and give them to our guildie's, yep
I'm in for that!
 So we did Naxxrama and one other, only got one pet but Big Steve donated three for Donnie's and my cause.
And I mentioned that the pet runs would be awesome since all of my girls are broke from buying pets to level, next thing I know
I've got mail from
Willopelt and Big Steve. Really made tears come to my eye's they sent me gold!! And not just a little either
but quite a bit so now I can afford my repair bill. So yes all in all it was a great night I had fun got pets for our guildes, and my awesome
guildies just proved to me once again how wonderful they
are!
 Thank you Willopelt & Big Steve for the gold, thank you Grand Nagus for the pet runs, thank you Deathstryder for coming with us & grats
Big G for level 90, again I'm really proud of you! And thank you Big Steve for the pets :)

Love & Hugs
Pixie
For the horde & Earthen Ring

PS I woke this morning in a good mood not a sad one thanks to last night, thanks guys.


Hello Ctrl Alt Wow darlings!!!  

Just want to send you a great big giant Winter Veil hello, as well as huge 350 huggles!!!  We're wishing everyone a very safe and happy holiday season, and thank you sooooooooo very much, Aprillian, from the bottom of our hearts, for creating this wonderful, safe and happy place for all of us to play!  We love you!!!

/great big hugs & kisses!

Juuno & Pixie

What We've Been Doing:

Aprillian

My Paladin Astara, who dinged 89 last week, reminded me of the many levels of playing wow. Even though she doesn’t really know how to play her role, her abilities have allowed me to experience Azeroth. Even though she may never be a raider, she’s a damn fine pet battler.

Refeshing at ah

needed to send enchant to Aprillian from Astara, went to Enchanting vendor and found recipe for Enchanted Lantern. Made 3




Leeta

1/ TNAK - Mage hit Lvl 66 and 2 bars from 67
Did Auchenai Crypts run and Ring of Blood in Nagrand
2/ Warlocks - Hit Lvl 20
We 3 manned Deadmines - was fun :)
3/ Rep grinding ShaoHao - half a bar off exalted :D 20505/21000
Timeless Coins - over 180k
***Exalted***
4/ Winter’s Veil - no luck on the Rotten Little Helper
Taking 6 toons thru nearly everyday - Lvl 83 - 90’s

Rogueslayer

Blingtron in the house on Sunsong Ranch!
Fishing hat search
“I like killing things”
Tundra mount for the win and domestic harmony!
Blackfathom Deep - tried Voltmetra with Coolchick (lvl 27), then brought Spyka (52), then she requested “the big guns,” Voltandra! Already did quests, so went with Everthorn - resurrect!
/follow for domestic tranquility
Battlegrounds?

Emails



Where is the snow?

G'day Aprillian, Leeta, Rogueslayer & Tedra,

I hope you're all well. I'm doing fine myself.  Trying to stay cool, today is Thursday 19th December and here in little old Adelaide the temperature is 43 Celsius.  Yesterday wasn't too bad being 38 but the look on the poor koalas faces that I saw during my regular 6km hike told another story. Just once I would love to see the snow.
In game my Orc Warrior Igohaerias has reached level 90! This brings my total characters at level 90 to 7. I'm not sure why but melee classes seem to be where I shine.
My rogue Clogalis has reached exalted with the Dominance Offensive bringing his total exalted reputations to 53.
He's been over on the timeless ilse, farming rep and farming leather. The other day I was on the shore killing some elder turtles for their skins when I noticed an alliance hunter really struggling to kill the turtles. He wasn't skinning his kills so I helped myself to them. Then the strangest thing occurred, I had a streak of generosity wash over me. I /waved at the Dwarf Hunter, then /pointed to the nearest Elder Turtle. I  did this a few times and eventually he understood my intention. I waited for him to tag the turtle so he could loot his quest items, then I proceeded to destroy the poor creature in just a few seconds. He looted, I skinned. He looted, I skinned. We were from opposing factions but we worked together with the occasional /cheer and /thank thrown in from time to time from each of us. Eventually my bags became full with almost 250 leather skins so I said /goodbye and returned home. I logged on to a level 5 alliance alt and whispered my short lived companion. I thanked him for the skins, to which he replied "thanks for helping me get my tokens". So, here's proof opposing factions can work together and here's a shout out to Bruehaha, a level 90 Alliance Dwarf Hunter.

Hope to see you all in game soon.

Bye for now,
Clogalis

Sent from my melting Sony Xperia smart phone


xmas song!

There is no amount or quality of text that can describe how wrong this audio is or why my brain works the way it does.....

Love
Big Steve


Listening to podcast archives

Hi CAW Gang!
The other day I decided to dig deep into the CAW archives and see how the

podcast sounded back in the beginning. I went  to

http://ctrlaltwow.podbean.com/2006/12/ and listened  to the  first  3

episodes. Aprillian was flying solo and  doing a fine job.Her delivery was

slow and  deliberate as she gave out her information. She had definate

plans for what features she wanted to include. There was What I am doing

this week in WOW, then Wow News, Server reports from listeners who

contribute what's going on over on their  server.

"In the House"  is a

segment I found most relatable. I brief discussion on how playing WOW can

impact other people in the home. And how home life affects your game play.I

found  some interesting topics and quotes along the way.

December 23, 2006
"I now have 20 alts!"

" I have 2 accounts.That should be enough."

"I am very big on Hunters. "

The newlywed Aprillian " Thank God we don't have kids! I don't know how I

could even  balance this game with kids."

Some conflict with a non player partner.
" I loved him more than my game. I totally deleted WOW  from both

computers." Later after things cooled  down, she was able to reinstall.

I mention these quotes to illustrate how  times have changed. We have all

had life changes and the one constant is our enjoyment of this game called

WOW!


December 29, 2006
Good advice  to take all your alts  to Orgimar or Ironforge  to take the

most advantage of the Winter Veil quests.

The running time was very limited. She tried to keep it  to 10 min. In the

end Aprillian felt rushed and decided on a change to longer podcasts.

Alt naming tip: When you name them, give them different names and not

similar names. This will come in handy when you have to mail items across

characters. Most mail add ons have "name-complete" and if the names start

out with similar letters, you still have to find the name in the drop down

menu. This will slow down the process.



December 31,2006

Aprillian gets a beta key for Burning Crusade!

Female Blood elves  sound like Buffy the vampire Slayer. Hehe She liked

the newbie area and enjoyed question there.

Favorite places in WOW  segment.

Favorite area for quests and  atmosphere is Un'goro Crater. Enjoyed the

dinosaurs and walking flowers the most.
Lots of things to skin too!



On a personal note, I want to say that I think Aprillian did a fine job

from the very first episode. You can feel the energy she has for the game

and how much  she wants  to share what she has learned.Keeping podcast

content fresh takes tremendous effort. I was enjoying the first podcast as

much as the current offerings. "Good Job!"  :))


For the Horde! For the Guild! For Earthen Ring!

Wishing all  Happy Holidays!

Kara and her many alts



A strange thing happened on the way to the raid

Well it’s official I have a lvl 90 now to work on all those other things that lvl 90’s do can’t wait to die and die and die on the bridge.
Big G















Addon Spotlight:

with Grand Nagus


Shout Outs & Thank You



Clan of Darkness

Hello Ctrlaltwow Crew
It has never happened that I write to you 2 weeks in a row but I come bearing a gift.
I won the top 25 in Guild activity competition we had last week in the game. I won an Armored Bloodwing and I thank Donnie for the gift. I already have this mount so I thought I would give it to you Ladies to give away.
You might be able to have a competition of your own and get somebody to make you a new Email bumper.
Anyway I love the new line up. You Ladies are awesome. Have a great week.
Sincerely Matahorn
Ps I must thank Donnie for letting me give away my prize.