Ctrl Alt WoW Episode 728 - Would You Look at the Time

 Recorded Sunday, November 14, 2021 2000

Ctrl Alt WoW Episode 728 - Would You Look at the Time

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 :             

ENDING Tuesday (reset) : Timewalking: WoD

                                   PvP Brawl: Deepwind Dunk

BEGINS Monday: WoW’s 17th Anniversary Nov. 15th - Dec. 6th

BEGINS Tuesday (reset): Battleground Bonus Event

                                  PvP Brawl: Shado-Pan Showdown

NEWS:

9.2 - Eternity’s End:

It looks like they pulled a WoD  with Shadowlands and cut a Raid and lots of story from the original plans for the expansion, given that Steve [Danuser] said that “..., the patch serves as the end of one book of the Warcraft saga.”

That tells me that the main story culminates in the raid Sepulcher of the First Ones.

Sepulcher of the First Ones, a raid that has a staggered release, first 8 bosses in week 1 and the last 3 in week 2 of season 3.

I feel like, but this is not a thing i know, obviously, we got shafted, much like in WoD.

It remains to be seen what 9.2.5 brings, with regards to another mini raid like Ruby Dragonshrine or the Halls of Valor raid Trial of Valor  but so far, i don’t see any story aspects involving Arthas, Azshara, Garrosh (other than Garrosh blowing up in one cinematic) and if that’s going to be his “send off” i’m mad, i don’t like Garrosh, but that is not worthy of a pillar of the WoW universe.

Ion in an interview after the patch was revealed: “...You will therefore be able to wear two legendary items at a time, one from each category, at the end of your journey. " 

One standard Legendary and one Covenant Legendary item.

So you have to have more than 2 up to date legendaries if you want to switch covenants frequently since the legendary tied to covenants will only work if it’s covenant is active.

What We've Been Doing:

Aprillian

twitch.tv/aprilpvd 

Pokestop - Gone!

Population: One

Final Fantasy XIV I got my hunting log

Constraxx

Adventures in Hearthstone.

Grand Nagus

Getting a new ISP and updating my PC

175 Mbit/s and 40 Mbit/s to 1 Gbit/s and 50 Mbit/s

Updating from a Intel i7 7700 to a AMD Ryzen 9 5900X

Worked on getting all my crafting jobs to at least 41 on my Miqo’te.

 Next task is to get the gathering jobs to at least 60 and then i’m back to doing the MSQ, 

 So I'll be ready for the Endwalker expansion to hit on Dec. 7th or pre-release on Dec. 3rd.

 Crafting the Ishgardian way. Unlocking the Firmament and the Diadem to craft and level a     

 different way.

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Hello everyone!

The battle against the life raid boss continues.  I had an odd thought the other day: if you wipe against the real life raid boss does that mean you died in real life?  I suppose maybe not always, maybe if you fail a real life raid you just get into one of those special cutscenes where the raid boss shows mercy and tells you to get out and don't come back until you're stronger or something.

Anyway, today's Blast from the Past is from episode 445. 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: November 7 to November 14

10		80
20		85
30		90
40		100
50		110
60		120
	No new updates this week

Last week’s 120’s: No new updates this week

Time Flies When You’re Having Fun:

  No new updates this week

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 727 - It’s All About The Numbers

Recorded Sunday, November 7, 2021 2000

Ctrl Alt WoW Episode 727 - It’s All About The Numbers

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:

MICROHOLIDAYS : Moonkin Festival  Nov. 12th          

ENDING Monday: Torgast: Beasts of Prodigum

ENDING Tuesday (reset) : World Quest Bonus Event

                                   PvP Brawl: Comp Stomp

BEGINS Tuesday (reset): Timewalking: Warlords of Draenor

                                  PvP Brawl: Deepwind Dunk

NEWS:

Timewalking news:

Renaming of Jesse McCree to Cole Cassidy. The only issue, and i saw this in a OW video on YouTube, is that there is a wrestler that does gay wrestling, whatever that is, by the name Cole Cassidy.

I wish they had researched the name before undertaking a renaming of a character that might get slammed to the ground if the “real” Cassidy” has a ™ or R on his persona in the wrestling league he works in.

What a mess Blizzard.

JenOneal (Co-Leader of Blizzard) and Amy Dunham (Technical Director at Blizzard) are leaving Blizzard. In the wake of the Blizzard Scandal, not the best symbol of inclusion and equality.

ABK Q3 Earnings Call:

Q3’s MAUs are the same as Q2, 26 mil, even though they state that the revenue gain of the company is largely due to the launch of D2R and that being the case, where is the increase in MAUs to reflect that? Well they said that it would have been bigger, the gain in revenue, had some of it not been offset by the dip of WoW.

OV2 and D4 delayed until 2023.

But then we always have Diablo Immortal to look forward to, the only thing is, according to something I heard, it looks like it will have a ingame shop that lets you buy p2w items.

Not sure how that will go down.

But then there is the issue with Windows 11 and the advertised ability to load and use Android software into Win11.

That in turn would, possibly, make it possible to play Diablo Immortal, and other mobile games, on your Win11 PC.

So if that’s the case, I can see it being an advantage for ABK, but, like with so many other features in Windows over the versions and years, it doesn’t work yet, the last i’ve heard of it.

9.1.5 is LIVE:

We did get an indication of 9.2 being put on special encrypted Blizzard in house test servers. That might lead people to believe that 9.2 is way closer than anyone thought it would be, even as close as 2-3 weeks from PTR.

If Blizzard wants to speed up their WoW content release, they better be fast releasing 9.2, though, as we know all too well, fast isn’t always good, so i wonder if that wouldn’t backfire in the end. I guess only time will tell. Ion stated in the interview that we would see info on 9.2 soon, so there you have it, soon is really soon.

Season of Mastery:

There are a few lengthy blue posts detailing changes to the SoM version of WoW Classic vs Classic Era servers, and you can read them on the Blizzard site forums. I only want to highlight one section of the latest blue post dealing with the end of SoM and what happens then.

FFXIV’s new expansion Endwalker will be postponed from Nov. 23rd to Dec. 7th.

What We've Been Doing:

Aprillian

http://youtube.com/Aprilpvd

http://Twitch.tv/Aprilpvd

http://twitch.tv/Aprilliancaw

Dani Skin in Population: One

Constraxx

Hearthstone mercenaries is a lot like pet battle on the iPhone.  1 to 4 abilities, some have a cooldown, at max level or after a special task you can hold an item (like a blue)  you level your mercenaries to 30.  4 zones to adventure in, the barrens, felwood, winterspring and blackrock mountain, each more difficult than the previous tier.

Sold a vial of the sands this week, 2.8 million gold on my main.

Doing the garrison on a couple of characters to level followers to various specific jobs and one shipyard to yield apexis crystals to buy/sell Draenor alliance pets.

Grand Nagus

I started my Miqo’te on her Squadron journey in the Grand Company.

I got a new mount, the Draught Chocobo, a RAF 2 person mount.

Along with it came a crystal that you can use to teleport yourself to your RAF friend any time anywhere.

Also I got a Friendship Circlet, a headpiece that grants your toon +20% exp up until and including level 25.

The Miqo’te got her bomb mount too:

In FFXIV you can earn Achievement Certificates when earning achievement points. You will automatically get a 1 achievement certificate per 50 achievement points you earn and you can go to a vendor, Jonathas in Old Gridania, at coordinates (10.6, 6.2) to exchange the certificates for items, head slot glam items, minions (pets), mounts and some other items like bardings for your chocobo companion.

I bought the Wind-Up Nanamo minion that has the special feature, much like the cat pets in WoW where you can have them sit in your lap. Upon using the Beckon while targeting her, she will climb up your back and sit down on your shoulder, or on your head if your toon is a Lalafell.

 

I just wanted to highlight, if I haven't mentioned it before, the fact that each Class / Job in FFXIV has its own story.

I’m just leveling the Botanist job (currently at level 51) and I find the story kind of sad. Here is, without spoilering too much, this guild master, a pacifist, that has issues with her produce being used to feed the soldiers that have to go to war to protect Eorsea. Her conflict and ultimate resignation towards the inevitability of the situation is so touching.

My character progression overview (I love this feature):

One last point: 

I’m looking forward to the PC release of God of War in 2022.

I’ve always said that I wouldn't buy a Playstation just for one game, now I don't have to anymore. The ONE GAME I want to play that is PS exclusive, or was PS exclusive, is now being released on PC.

More on that next year when the release date, January 14 2022, gets closer.

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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: October 31 to November 7

10		80
20		85
30		90
40		100
45-50	Gharaka	110
60		120

Last week’s 120’s:

Time Flies When You’re Having Fun:

  Gharaka has earned this achievement.

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