Ctrl Alt WoW Episode 723 - The Mage Tower Shall Open Again

 Recorded Sunday, September 26, 2021 2000

Ctrl Alt WoW Episode 723 - The Mage Tower Shall Open Again.

Aprillian, Constraxx, Grand Nagus and guest hosts discuss another week of playing World of Warcraft, Blizzard's greatest MMORPG. The show features audio segments and email submissions from our lovely listeners. Guild Round up from Constraxx.

If you want to join the conversations on the show, we have a live chat room with in-game giveaways moderated by chatroom-guru Constraxx. We record Live on our Twitch.tv page twitch.tv/ctrlaltwowpodcast

We also have an ongoing contest. Send an email to ctrlaltwow@gmail.com telling us how you play WoW, either as an altoholic or dealing with it in your family life to be placed in a drawing for a WoW Pet or an Authenticator.

This week in WoW:

ONGOING :             

Sept. 20th - Oct. 6th: Brewfest

ENDING Tuesday (reset) : Timewalking: Cataclysm

                                   PvP Brawl: Southshore vs. Tarren Mill

BEGINS Tuesday (reset): Battleground Bonus Event

                                  PvP Brawl: Classic Ashran

                                   

NEWS:

Running of the Gnomes (The Great Gnomeregan Run will be on Oct. 9th.

Diablo 2 Resurrected launches on Sept. 23rd

“Overlords of Outland”, the first content patch is LIVE in TBCC WoW.

This opens Serpentshrine Caverns and The Eye raid dungeons, as well as Arena season 2.

Ogri’la and Sha’tari Skyguard Daily Quests will be available as well as the Guild Bank feature and LFG, both of which were originally added in WotLK in current WoW.

Updated art.

Paintings and icons as well as names of items have been changed.

Listen to music from Shadowlands: Chains of Domination on YouTube.

WoW PTR news:

The Mage Tower on the Broken Shore will reopen, no info on how the unlocking mechanics will work yet.

New rewards to keep the original Legion current rewards unique to that expansion proper.

New set recolors, a mount for defeating the encounters with each available class and a new werebear for the Guardian Druids, fel infused this time.

You need to be Renown 80 to unlock the Mark we talked about last week to boost your Renown to 40 in other Covenants or on alts. I find this excessive. To unlock it, if you want a grind, the level of Renown needed should reflect the Renown given via this item. But I talked about this last week and my point from last week stands.

What We've Been Doing:

Aprillian

twitch.tv/aprilpvd

Constraxx

No New Pets or Mounts.  Sold 2 Vial of the Sands.  Trying to collect more toys.  I see a lot of Hunters at the Auction House with Loqu’nahak as their pet.

Grand Nagus

Played a couple of hours of D2R this last week. Though I haven't gotten into it that much yet with so much going on IRL, two birthdays in the family and all it’s been a busy week in and out of game.

Syntax in FFXIV is so cool. Sylphs are a plant type beast tribe race and they don’t use “I” and “We” nor “You” and “They”. They say “This one” or “That one”

Got a new car (special event mount).

Pretty sunset in Limsa Lominsa

Unlocked some Battle Jobs in the last few days.

Black Mage (BLM) Classic glass cannon mage.

Scholar (SCH) Healer with a healing pet.

Summoner (SMN) Caster dps with a pet, like a water elemental, only you have choices for what element you can have, fire, earth and wind, i think. I’ve just unlocked the job, so I don't know exactly yet.

Both SCH and SMN unlock from the Arcanist (ACN) class at level 30, like all jobs from base classes. And you level both jobs at the same time.

FFXIV: Save 50% on Collector’s Edition Digital Upgrades Until 30 Sept

Maintenance in FFXIV on Tuesday from 2 am - 7 am GMT. Maintenance is generally longer in FFXIV than in WoW.

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Hello all,

Extremely busy, hope life settles down soon.  Do not enjoy working 12 hour days just to stay afloat on what needs to get done. Blarg!

Here is a blast from the past from episode 443.  Enjoy!

--Kyle

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Each week GrandNagus takes a closer look at some of the most useful World of Warcraft addons out there.

You can find GrandNagus on Twitter @GrandNagus1, or by email at towerofcommerce@gmail.com

Guild Updates: Sept 19 to Sept 26

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	No New updates

Last week’s 120’s:

Time Flies When You’re Having Fun:

Time Flies When You’re Having Fun:

Guild Chat App - Discord 

Trying a 24/7 chat app for guildies to join and just keep in contact and have chats with during IRL :) Also has a voice channel just like vent/mumble! And very easy to use! :)

The App is Discord - https://discord.gg/0gr8ON8GpXJQrJHy 

And we have a CtrlAltWoW Server - so check out the link above for invite.

Shout Outs & Thank You

Ctrl Alt WoW Episode 722 - I Want The Mount

 Recorded Sunday, September 12, 2021 2000

Ctrl Alt WoW Episode 722 - I Want The Mount

Aprillian, Constraxx, Grand Nagus and guest hosts discuss another week of playing World of Warcraft, Blizzard's greatest MMORPG. The show features audio segments and email submissions from our lovely listeners. Guild Round up from Constraxx.

If you want to join the conversations on the show, we have a live chatroom with in-game giveaways moderated by chatroom-guru Constraxx. We record Live on our Twitch.tv page twitch.tv/ctrlaltwowpodcast

We also have an ongoing contest. Send an email to ctrlaltwow@gmail.com telling us how you play WoW, either as an altoholic or dealing with it in your family life to be placed in a drawing for a WoW Pet or an Authenticator.

This week in WoW:

ONGOING :             

INGAME HOLIDAYS:

Sept. 17th - 24th: Harvest Festival

Sept. 19th and 20th: Pirates’ Day

Sept. 20th - Oct. 6th: Brewfest

ENDING Monday: Torgast- Chorus of Dead Souls

ENDING Tuesday (reset) : Arena Skirmish Bonus Event

                                      PvP Brawl: Cooking Impossible

BEGINS Tuesday (reset): World Quest Bonus Event

                                     PvP Brawl: Temple of Hotmogu

What We've Been Doing:

I talked about the auto boost for Artifact levels and HoA levels last week and wondered if and how they will do the same or similar thing with Renown when changing covenants?H

We have the answer.

With 9.1.5 you can get an item, the “Broker mark of Distinction” for 500 gold

That will increase the Renown of your current active Covenant to 40. 

Hints a the possible return of the Mage Tower

We are starting to see new customization options for Highmountain Tauren on the PTR

The ingame settings will have a new feature: Cursor size setting

We finally get the new name for Mac’Aree: Eredath

We can now run Torgast over and over to grind Soul Ash and Soul Cinders. The weekly lockout / cap has been removed on the PTR, plus the amount of Soul Cinders for layers 8-12 has been significantly increased.

We can reclaim our Soul Ash / Soul Cinders from Legendary items we don’t want any more. Be aware, though, that the missives and base items will not be refunded, only the Soul currency.

Conduit Energy will be removed with 9.1.5, so to make it easier on the players, a hotfix has been put in that resets the spent Conduit Energy DAILY rather than weekly

Aprillian

Final Fantasy April Pvd

Population One

Archeology

Constraxx

Left for dead 2, played 2 campaigns : Hard Rain and Last Stand, 2 early deaths and one bot loss.  Both successful in the end.

Did 3 Callings while watching the end of my 2 movies I started on Netflix, Equalizer and Edge of Tomorrow.  Started collecting the stuff for my next Ember Court.  Collecting gold on slowburn at the moment, currently almost 2.4 million on my main.

2 Handed weapon off the Mission Table for the DK, higher than any gear I have looted so far for her.

Got a new adventurer for my Rogue from leveling renown to 59.  Purple color.

Received email my phone got hacked, no idea what the hacker wants, probably money, which I have very little of.

Grand Nagus

The mount is not account-wide and costs

I’m working on my Level 30 Carpenter quest and can’t make it work

I like the fact that you have an attack stance when you draw your weapon.

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Each week GrandNagus takes a closer look at some of the most useful World of Warcraft addons out there.

You can find GrandNagus on Twitter @GrandNagus1, or by email at towerofcommerce@gmail.com

Guild Updates: Sept 5 to Sept 12

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40		100
50		110
60		120

Last week’s 120’s:

Time Flies When You’re Having Fun:

Time Flies When You’re Having Fun:

Guild Chat App - Discord 

Trying a 24/7 chat app for guildies to join and just keep in contact and have chats with during IRL :) Also has a voice channel just like vent/mumble! And very easy to use! :)

The App is Discord - https://discord.gg/0gr8ON8GpXJQrJHy 

And we have a CtrlAltWoW Server - so check out the link above for invite.

Shout Outs & Thank You

Ctrl Alt WoW Episode 721 - Is Blizzard Actually Finally Listening?

 Recorded Sunday, September 5, 2021 2000

Ctrl Alt WoW Episode 721 - Is Blizzard Actually Finally Listening?

Aprillian, Constraxx, Grand Nagus and guest hosts discuss another week of playing World of Warcraft, Blizzard's greatest MMORPG. The show features audio segments and email submissions from our lovely listeners. Guild Round up from Constraxx.

If you want to join the conversations on the show, we have a live chatroom with in-game giveaways moderated by chatroom-guru Constraxx. We record Live on our Twitch.tv page twitch.tv/ctrlaltwowpodcast

We also have an ongoing contest. Send an email to ctrlaltwow@gmail.com telling us how you play WoW, either as an altoholic or dealing with it in your family life to being placed in a drawing for a WoW Pet or an Authenticator.

This week in WoW:

ONGOING : Darkmoon Faire            

ENDING Tuesday (reset) : Timewalking: WotLK

                                   PvP Brawl: Warsong Scramble

BEGINS Tuesday (reset): Torgast: Chorus of Dead Souls

                                  Arena Skirmish Bonus Event

                                  PvP Brawl: Cooking Impossible

What We've Been Doing:

• Group Finder Improvements

• Accounts now require an attached Battle.net Authenticator to post custom text when listing a group for Dungeons, Raids, or Rated PvP activities. All players may still search for and join others’ groups.

• Developers’ note: A Group Finder that’s full of advertisements bothers us as much as it does you, but a challenge we’ve faced in trying to eliminate those ads is that they are often posted by compromised accounts or other throwaway accounts, such that penalties incurred by in-game reporting have not proven to be an effective deterrent. And regardless, relying on reports still means that some number of players have their experience disrupted by the spam before it gets reported. The Battle.net Authenticator is available for mobile devices and is a simple and convenient way to secure your World of Warcraft account, but if you prefer not to use it for whatever reason, you will still be able to post groups that will have descriptions auto-populated (e.g. based on raid name and difficulty selected in UI dropdowns, or derived from the Mythic Keystone currently in your bags). Our goal is to clean up the Group Finder while trying to minimize the inconvenience to ordinary players.

Tail length on Draenai:

I was mistaken the other week.

Draenai have different tail lengths already, it’s the Lightforged Draenai that get them now.

Man Blizzard went all out with new customizations for Nightborne, Lightforged Draenai and some for Void Elves.

Aprillian

http://twitch.tv/aprilpvd

http://youtube.com/aprilpvd

Constraxx

The poke way around the garrison, and the Covenant.

Grand Nagus

With all the things Blizzard has done right regarding transmog, the entire low polygon count gear is still upsetting me.

Since I've started playing FFXIV I've been so spoiled when it comes to great looking gear.

Yes, if you look really closely it’s not what i want either, i get that, but it’s way better than WoW’s gear.

I did Palace of the Dead the first time today, FFXIV’s version (the original imo) of Torgast.

I've felt cheated by Blizzard ever since I've seen FFXIV’s version.

It looks like Torgast is a c&p of PotD and because they didn’t want to make it too obvious they just left parts out, making it less fun / challenging.

Just a few examples of things they “changed” with Torgast.

Torgast:

Up to 5 deaths

6 (originally) now 5 floors

Characters go into the tower with their talents and level from outside.

Palace of the Dead:

Hardcore death. (Team members can res others at a special pylon if you are in there with a group.) So as a group only a wipe ends the run.

200 floors with a possibility of saving after each 10 floors and come back eventually until you die or reset.

Every character goes in as level 1 with the abilities a level 1 character of that class has and builds up their toolkit with the experience they earn and level up.

You can even level your toon past your “outside” level if you survive long enough.

 

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Each week GrandNagus takes a closer look at some of the most useful World of Warcraft addons out there.

You can find GrandNagus on Twitter @GrandNagus1, or by email at towerofcommerce@gmail.com

Guild Updates: XXX-XXX

10		80
20		85
30		90
40		100
50		110
60		120

Last week’s 60’s:

Time Flies When You’re Having Fun:

Time Flies When You’re Having Fun:

Guild Chat App - Discord 

Trying a 24/7 chat app for guildies to join and just keep in contact and have chats with during IRL :) Also has a voice channel just like vent/mumble! And very easy to use! :)

The App is Discord - https://discord.gg/0gr8ON8GpXJQrJHy 

And we have a CtrlAltWoW Server - so check out the link above for invite.

Shout Outs & Thank You