Monday, July 8, 2013

Ctrl Alt WoW Episode 326 - Post Nerdtacular 13 edition!


Aprillian, Ashayo, Tedrah and Jeppy discuss another week of playing World of Warcraft, Blizzard's great MMORPG. 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.


Hello Ctrl Alt Wow Darlings!  Aprillian, Ashayo, El Jeppy and Tedra! And all our awesome guildies, contributors and listeners!  I hope you're all doing GREAT in and out of game this week...hehe.  Pixie and I are doing alright...unfortunately I don't have an audio for you this week (I'm sorry!) Mom is on "summer break" as my oldest brother and his family are up visiting her right now, so that's good.  No WoW for her for the next couple of weeks, she said... <=(  And I ended up taking last week off...didn't do any editing or playing...but I have a good reason also!  I'm working on my own little studio!  =D  Once I get it all done, I'll be able to shut the door to do my recording when I need to...yay!  It'll be fabulous!  So I hope you don't mind too much.  I know that Matahorn still carried on with our wonderful CoD Friday Night Guild Run, so that's awesome!  (thank you Mata!!!) I know Pontis was there (Hi Pontis!) but I'm not sure who else was able to join.  So...yeah....summer break has hit and messed up our schedule a little, but no worries, we'll be back soon!  Not this Friday, and possibly not even next Friday, but not too much longer.  Also, I should be able to get an episode of J&P out this week as well... <=D

Alright, off to catch some zzz's....

Great big hugs & kisses! *muah!*
We love you guys AND gals!
For the Horde, for the Alliance, and for summer break!!

Juuno & Pixiegirl of Korialstrasz and Earthen Ring



What We've Been Doing:

Aprillian

Dinged 86 doing pet battles with Prillian


Doing pet battles in Shadowmoon Valley
Staying online while away from computer by dropping in on level 69 mobs

I love the way the pets come out at the end as if they are taking a bow

XP on lower level toons

Ashayo

Got 15 pets to level 10 - [Pro Pet Group]
Immediately opened up Pro Pet Crew - 30 pets to 10! DoH!
Need Critter and Flying for [No Favorites]

Mage hit 88
Monk hit 60, still just doing dailies
Raiding - Got down Wind-Lord despite weird things happening with crowd control breaking.
Working on Amber-Shaper

Jeppy

Lots of collecting
Pet Battles Continue
Love a leaderboard
Behind the Avatar


Tedrah
This is the link for 1 to 25 in 9 fights.

Emails

Midsummer Questing

Hello to everyone at Ctrl-Alt-WoW!

Midsummer Fire Festival will have closed by the time of the podcast, and I had fun running toons of different levels through the quests. In the attached audio, the three "Volts," Voltandra, Voltessa and Voltantrum, talk about their Midsummer experiences. It's a little bit longer than Voltandra's usual submission, but I hope you'll just consider it as making up a little for missed episodes.

Enjoy yourselves, everyone - see you this week at the Darkmoon Faire!

-Voltandra's player
@rogueslayer1



Hello CaW crew!

Just wanted to write in and give a short update on things. I played a very little amount of WoW this week as my attentions were on other games I hadn't been able to play with bad internet for the past year. The Lord of Hell in particular had his claws into me. I was playing a large amount of Diablo 3 this week and even managed to make some real money doing it. D3 has a Real Money Auction House, and you can send money you sell items for to paypal, or straight to your Blizzard account balance to buy in game items, real plushies, or even game time. So i've been working on making that a "part time job" in that I can make a few dollars while having a good time, and that's working out quite well.

I did manage a bit of progress on my Panda Monk, however. I managed to get Yeiro to level 50. I will probably manage a little bit of time on him this weekend as well. Although, I am headed to the wine trail in Michigan for a few tastings and a stop into Founder's Brewery in Grand Rapids on Saturday with some friends to refill my panda brew kegs (I won't be smashing any of these!) and have a few delicious cigars with a good friend. So not too much WoW is likely to happen.

Anyway, hope you're all doing well and having good summers. I'll be sure to try to make to a live show and be in the chat sometime soon.

- Dan




Dynamic Duo FTW!!

Helloooo Sweeties,
Here's my audio :) have an awesome show!
Huggles galore
Love Leeta xoxo



Hello Aprillian, Ashayo, ElJeppy and Tedrah,

Here is my audio for the week, a little shorter then usual, i hope you can forgive me,
i promise to do better again in the future.

Grand Nagus.

P.S.: I really liked the interview Leeta did with our ElJeppy on ...... her show.
I hope this isn't a pattern to follow, all the contributers doing their own shows now,
i don't think the world is ready for a show by Big G or, god help us, ME!!!

Cya all.


Ishnu-alah

Hello once again C.A.W crew

First of all i wanna say congrats to all my fellow Zookeepers. Kinda funny that now that WoW has its own version of Pokemon nobody in my guild thinks I'm the crazy pet guy. OK maybe they still do, but they kinda see a purpose in all my pet wrangling. Now that I've acquired 520 or so unique pets I'm just glad i no longer need to fill my bank slots with critters or explain why I'm not looting anything cuz my bags are full of "lucky" pets.

Anyways enough of the pet stuff. A couple of weeks ago I decided to start up a couple of horde characters since I've never had a chance to see the WoW story unfold from the horde point of view (at least not since pre-burning crusade). Boy have I missed out on a lot of cool lore just focusing on the alliance and I think I've found a new favorite race in the Trolls. My only real complaint is that even without heirlooms I think leveling is a little too fast. It's already time for me to set out through the dark portal and i didn't even get a chance to finish questing on Kalimdor. I am starting to get a little lonely since i couldn't convince my buds to join me on the dark side, but hey it's their loss right?

OK before I head back into SSC for the umpteenth time (stupid Coilfang Stalker) I just want to say that I really look forward to C.A.W. every week and you guys are awesome. Also mad props to Juuno and Leeta for their podcasts. They are excellent additions to the WoW podcast universe =)


Stay away from da voodoo

Ularand


Clan of Darkness

Here you go gang! It was great seeing so many guildies on this 4th of July weekend.
Thanks to Pontis, Tedra, Melindraya, Matahorne. and Zikar for taking me and Lisa through AQ40 on Friday night!
It was a bit hectic for us because I didn't have a mic and Lisa couldn't hear me cause she had her headphones on with a mic. And we forgot to empty bags. Sheesh!
Lol Its all on me, I was totally unprepared. We will be next time so thanks gang for running us through!
Take Care!

Saturday, June 29, 2013

Ctrl Alt WoW Episode 325 - Please Blizzard Remove Pet Battles so I can go back to raiding


Aprillian, Ashayo, Tedrah and Jeppy discuss another week of playing World of Warcraft, Blizzard's great MMORPG. 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.


What We've Been Doing:

Aprillian

Got Prillian to 85, we just need a Troll Monk. I’m focusing on Deepril now, she’s my Orc Rogue.

Where you accept making home is where you zone in. I hate zoning in on the steps at Lazy Turnip.

Pet Battles or Fires

Looking at Ach, almost took Tiiaa to bloodmyst

Anonymous donor - Nice, feel a little guilty but I didn’t want to lie.

Understand about getting one team to 25 to catch higher

Someone stole my pet
she whispered me back Spawn of Onyxia has been added to my pet journal, get over it
I told her I'm glad I'm not like her, we are on the same side



Ashayo

Pet Battles!! Wrote my blog entry on gearing guide for new level 90’s:


Jeppy

Pet battles again!
Chaos Portal
Thanks to Mata

Tedrah

Emails

Hello CtrlAltWow all,

This is Painfulness, 90 warlock on Saurfang. I have been listening to your show for a few months now and I must say it is very entertaining. It is really different from other shows because most of them focus on end game but here we get a little bit of everything and everyone is an altoholic. I remember around the first few times I listened, Aprilian was talking about her runs in Wailing Caverns and I really enjoyed the parts of leveling with Shemaya (sorry not sure about the spelling).
I am a bit of altoholic myself, with 4 characters at 90, 2 86 one 84 and the rest are kinda low. Listening to your show really made me want to join your guild and I took advantage of the character transfer sale last week to transfer my hunter Barcahamil to Earthen Ring in the hopes of joining all of you.

Keep up your wonderful show and I look forward to seeing you in game.

Sincerely,

Painfulness




Hope this finds you all well.
I know, I don't call... I don't write... What kind of kid am I?? Well, things have been pretty crazy around here the last couple of weeks - I hope you'll forgive me. *smile*
Here's a couple of pictures to go along with my audio - and an audio!
~Maggrathea
PS - just logged off from doing the "Friday night" thing with Juuno & PixieGirl - SO. MUCH. FUN!  We had a small group, just eight of us, but it was a good time and a ton of laughs. Thanks everyone for the enjoyable evening!



Friday night's alright

Greeting to the CAW crew,

I was able to join in the Friday night group this week, as I was on day shift for training all week.  I had a blast talking with everybody, mostly listening though, as my headphones went out halfway through, and my backup headset did not have a working microphone.  I still got to hear everybody though, and had a great time.  I was the winner of the Twilight Drake this week.  And after the sign off of the group, I was the 3rd hunter to win the Tome of Dinomancy that night.  I was so happy to be able to join in with everybody, unfortunately it will not be able to happen regularly, as I work on Friday nights.  Many thanks to Pixie & Juuno, and the whole group.

For the Horde - Duvessae



Sorry for the lateness of my audio this week had to work extra hours at work as someone called in sick. Plus I would really like this for Christmas.
Big G



Midsummer but it's Winter Here!!


Helloooo Sweeties,
Here's my audio :) have an awesome show!
Huggles always
Love Leeta xoxo
PS - Big thank you for all the support for my show - Behind the Avatar :D you all rock
Have great show xoxo



My Glorious(sorta) Return!

Hey CAW crew. It's been a long 3 weeks. I had quite the eventful past few weeks. I missed the show two weekends ago due to my wife's grandfather dying in Tennessee and had to be traveling during the show. Then the following weekend I was actually finally moving into my new home and was just too busy to do anything game or even computer related.

That all being said, and being over and done, I finally get internet this weekend! They're coming to hook it up on Saturday morning between 10 and noon. I'll finally be able to come home from work (10 minutes away instead of an hour) and play some WoW. I can't tell you how exciting that is! Not only that, the internet speed is going to go from what we had out on the farm at 150kb/s to 50mb/s down. Which is like comparing dial up to cable.

I did manage to get in a good deal of playtime a few weekends ago however, and got my Panda Monk, Yeiro, to level 41, and then started a DK alt as promised, and yes, he's an Orc. Additionally, I made 1300 gold on Earthen ring finally. Which means I can afford my first BOA from the guild vendor and can get 10% more exp on Yeiro with a Stained Shadowcraft hood.

That all being said, I hope everyone is doing well, and I can't wait to see everyone in game, as well as get my voice chat set up so I can chat with all of you. Look for pictures of the house on Twitter and feel free to make requests!

Hope you all have a wonderful week,

- Dan



temporary radio silence

Hello to everyone at Ctrl-Alt-WoW!

Apologies for my recent radio silence. I've been dealing with some health issues, and haven't been able to put together a recording. Thought I'd get something done today, but I don't think you'd enjoy hearing the nagging cough!

I've been making the alt rounds, getting Voltessa to 90, then running Midsummer events with a few toons. Rogueslayer (Blood Elf mage) went from 32 to 40 on mostly flames, and Jolantru went from 52 to 60 mostly on the same. Right now I'm working Everthorn from 64, with an eye on 68 and Northrend flames. Got her to 67 on festival quests, now dig-dig-digging her way to 68.

In other news, Lilbitironic the gnome rogue met her match at level 23 in a gang of furlbogs in Darkshore, but she's back in business as a warrior.

On a staycation (aka WoWcation) next week, so I look forward to playing and recording a little something. Have fun, everyone!

-Voltandra's player
@rogueslayer1



Hello CAW crew,

i have put another audio into the dropbox to play also, so this is going to make 2 audios from me this week, thats what you get from canceling recording, a double-dose of Grand Nagus Audios, now i don't know if thats good, i'll leave it up to you guys to figure out, if you want to run that risk ever again :)

Grand Nagus


Big G (audio)
Not much to report this week and remember don’t drink and drive it’s bad plus listen to Juuno and pixie girl 12 to see how I can still shock Juuno


Shout Outs & Thank You



Clan of Darkness

Contest

Tree  from Pixiegirl
“@SaltySlainte: @CtrlAltWoW My favorite PB team is Clock Work Gnome, terrible turnip and Spirit of Competition.”


“@duvessae: @CtrlAltWoW Favorite team:  Clockwork Gnome, Dancing Water Skimmer, and whichever pet I am currently lvling.”


“@Nexbardus: @CtrlAltWoW my favorite and only pet battle team is Smolderweb Hatchling, Phoenix Hatchling & Dark Whelpling :)”