Saturday, April 11, 2015

Ctrl Alt WoW Episode 416 - It’s a Noble Darkmoon Token Kind of Day


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!




What We've Been Doing:

Aprillian


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Couldn’t buy tokens on Tiiaa.

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Juuno

Not broadcasting from the Garrison today because it’s still infested with SPIDERS! hehe
Super excited to be on the show!!! Thank you for having me! =D
This week started out being all about the usual…garrison missions and raiding...still working on collecting all my Abrogator Stones (and Clusters) from Highmaul...almost there!  Should have been done ages ago. Love doing LFR again.
Then switched to Noblegarden! Daisy hadn’t done it last year & it was WAY easier/faster than I remember it being in the past - got 600 chocolates in 2 ½ hrs - got the Mystical Spring Bouquet, Swift Springstrider mount & the Black and the Pink Spring Circlets. No camping required. Somehow I have not completed the Shake Your Bunny-Maker achieve… O.o  
Had fun with the S.E.L.F.I.E. Camera! The above picture is before Noblegarden and below is after!
(Sorry! I don’t know how to insert these pics right… ack! Sorry!)



Rogueslayer

DMF week is always good for cross- and intercontinental rapid transit!

Hellacia, compassionate NE rogue
  • 61 -
  • Cooking dailies
  • Accidentally killed a Shadowforge Tunneler at a Badlands digsite :(
  • My kind of digsite map:
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  • At 63, back to Outlands for digs and quests
  • Goldshire and Dolanaar eggs
  • Finally 65 and Archy training - solved 13 artifacts, maxed out until 75
  • Buggy exploration flight quest (As the Crow Flies):
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  • More quests in Zangarmarsh, Terokkar, Bladespire
  • Now 65, finding eggs

Ironbalance, Tauren hunter
  • 40 -
  • Raventusk, Hiri’watha
  • Hinterlands Quests, 500 Quests Completed  - back to Desolace
  • DMF first aid
  • Bloodhoof Village eggs
  • Southern Barrens, Dustwallow Marsh, Western Plaguelands
  • Now 46, wrapping up Dustwallow Marsh

Ironicide, dwarf hunter
  • 31 -
  • Wetlands, Duskwood, Northern Stranglethorn, Arathi Basin
  • DMF, bags
  • Kharanos eggs
  • Westfall and Duskwood Quests
  • After one-hour maintenance - These eggs are mine, I tell you! All mine!
  • Now level 35

Ironrokrgirl, BE paladin
  • 24 -
  • Falconwing Square, Brill eggs
  • DMF, bags
  • Northern Barrens, Ghostland, Hillsbrad Foothills, Ashenvale
  • Spring Rabbit Dating Service
  • Lvl 30 in Hillsbrad Foothills - Blessing of Kings!
  • Hillsbrad Foothill Quests
  • Now level 31

Emails



Contest Submission and Guild Application Submission: Long time listener 1st time submission
Hi Aprillian, Leeta, Rogueslayer and Tedrah,

Grellic here :)I hope you are all doing well, first of all I would like to say my 1st live stream experience was really fun, the chat room were brilliant along with all our wonderful hosts. technical issues aside and adverts interrupting I really enjoyed the experience. Although it was rather strange to not hear the intros and all the bumpers for the different sections. I also felt I knew most people in the chat room from all the stories over the many episodes and all of you was very welcoming :D

Been listening to the show since I heard that very wicked laugh of Aprillian's on Inside Azeroth with Steve and David, they were my first foray into to wow podcasts as only started playing about 6/7 months into BC, and thanks to them I discovered CAW and also BoE as you all had been guests on there shows very early on in their run. Over the 7/8 yrs I have been playing I have taken breaks from the game now and then for one reason or another (mainly real life stuff or lack of job) however during these periods of time I have always continued to listen to my regular dose of CAW and BoE that has kept me up to date with what is going on and also sharing your journeys through the game. Which has often made me wish I was back in game as you all sound like your having soooo much fun. Over the years I have made a number of friends who have either stuck at the game or stopped playing. My sister is also a long time player of the game and we use it to chat on a regular basis via battle net which is great and have found the our shared interest in the game has brought us closer over the years

Up until now I've mainly played on the EU servers being based in the uk but after chatting with Fallen Angelz in the chat room decided to check out the us servers using a starter addition on my account. I've rolled a Tauren Druid by the name Grellic to see how it fares and I have been very impressed the results far surpassed EU servers, little to no lag also my average frames per second on an EU server is about 35fps, on Earthen Ring I'm getting a minimum of 55fps with a max I've seen of 92fps :) So after concluding my research I've decided to make Earthen Ring my home and hopefully Clan of Darkness at Fallens recommendation as I'm in the process of upgrading my account as I'm typing this e-mail, CoD sounds like its a very fun and welcoming guild very social :). One of my long time WoW friends might also be switching over to the US servers as she is relishing the challenge of a fresh/clean slate start with WoW so no achievements linked to an account until earned again.

I think I've rambled on long enough and hope to see you all in game soon and look forward to joining you all for many more live streams.

As they say in Wales Da Bo Chi ( see you later, rough translation)

Grellic of Earthen Ring US Servers :D


Email from Setnuh
Hi everyone I hope you are all doing well. I thought that I would answer the challenge put forth by Wingy. I have been spending  a lot of time pet battling and collecting. I realized that I was pretty close to getting most of the Safari achievements so I thought I would do those but that has not gone so well. Most of the ones I need are weather or season dependent unfortunately. I managed to get my level 3 menagerie and have been enjoying that. The daily quests are very rewarding indeed.

My main character is an alliance shaman on another server that I wish I could play in CoD. Since I don't want to pay for a faction/server change I did the next best thing and made a Tauren Shaman on Earthen Ring. He is level 20 at the moment but probably much higher by time this is read. Other then that I have done a few pet runs with nothing to show for it and kept up with my garrisons.

I have recently discovered how much gold can be made through follower missions by having multiple followers with the treasure hunter trait. Sometimes bringing back as much as 900gold for a single mission.

Well thats about it so thanks for the great podcast and keep up the amazing work. Until next time this is Setnuh for the pets, and for the shamans

                                                                


need help resurrecting a WoW site
Hello,

I'm reaching out with the hope I can solicit some help from the WoW podcast community about the status of the WoW Iron Man Challenge website.

Basically the site died, I bought it the domain, restored the code, rebranded it as WoW Challenges and am trying to resurrect the community.  There are a handful of us still around from when the Iron Man challenge was "big" although I am a relative newcomer compared to some of our veterans.

The new WoWChallenges.com site features the Iron Man challenge as well as two new challenges: The Pacifist and The Grinder (not to be confused with Grindr lol).

I've personally dropped a buttload of money on buying the wowironman.com website so that it didn't sit there getting squatted on so advertising is a little dicey for me at present, however, I am willing to talk about buying ads if you have an ad spec sheet for me to see.  

I'm really hoping you can help me out more by word of mouth. Your voice reaches a LOT of people. Even a simple mention that the Iron Man challenge lives on at wowchallenges.com(or even wowironman.com since that will direct to the new site) would be a tremendous boost for our community.

I am available most of the time if you'd like to talk more, although I have two children and a wife to manage as well (heh).

Thank you in advance for any help or support you can give.

Sincerely,

James Young
WoW Challenges - http://wowchallenges.com
Ultimate Hockey Simulator - http://uhs.hockeysim.ca


For The Garrison Guards
Hi Juuno and hope everyone is going well here's my audio
Big G


Clan of Darkness
Dear Control Alt Wow,

My name is Tyfani and I've never written in before but I've been listening for the past year.  I love that you ladies do so much in the World of Warcraft and have so much fun.  I have only been playing the game for about a year and a half and I do not play a bunch of different characters like you do, and I have only played on the Alliance side.  I just made a little Horde character on Earthen Ring server and am hoping to join the Clan of Darkness!  She is a Forsaken hunter and I named her Tynkr.  I promise she is nice.  My Alliance character is a human warlock and I have a lot of fun playing with her, though I have never had the nerve to do any PVP or raiding yet.  She isn't even in a guild.  But I want to try the Horde side and thought it would be fun to play with COD.  I hope you have a really good show today!

Tyfani





Addon Spotlight:

with Grand Nagus
No segment this week :-(

Clan of Darkness Guild Updates


4/3 - 4/9
  • Note - Sent Mata’s two weeks ago to Matahorne
  • Chatroom giveaway:
    • From Leeta: Teroclaw Hatchling - Grellic
    • From Fallanengelz: Grotesque  - Grellic

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Kukukachu
Crazik
Nextime
Nexverto
Last week’s 100’s: Matarena, Nexbardus

Time Flies When You’re Having Fun:


Shout Outs & Thank You


Hey Grand Nagus

Sunday, April 5, 2015

Ctrl Alt WoW Episode 415 - All Of My Favorite Pranks!


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!


Running late!  Hope I made it in time!  Love ya!
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What We've Been Doing:

Aprillian

Realized Epril had a slew of herbs and Deepril is a inscriptionist. She had Raise Ally glyph so i made it and Epril traded bubbles circle extended for raise ally.

Prillian

Garrison work order True iron ore!! Have over 1k!
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Leeta

1/ Leitarr - DK
Went from Lvl92 - 95
Pet Battles mostly although have been doing a few quests as DK’s are awesome on mulling through mobs even in tank spec!
Obsessed with Pet Battles… OBSESSED!
Point in case - 3 and half hours hunting for a Rare Devouring Maggot
Having fun competition with Ashayo, Wingy and Eljeppy regarding Realm Leaderboards for Pet Collecting! :D
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Here Piggy Piggy!
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Mount No.238! \o/
2/ Leeta - Aerie Peak
Dinged Lvl92 - Garrison missions FTW!
3/ Leeta
Exalted with Arakkoa Outcasts
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Mount No.239! \o/
And FINALLY…
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Hello Yellow Eyed Warbringer!
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Mount No. 240! \o/
Then…
Firelands
Exalted with Avengers of Hyjal
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Exalted! Of yay!
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Mount No.241! \o/
And Kel’Thuzard finally gave me…
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Music Roll!
And as we were reading the emails I went to visit Skadi in Utgarde Pinnacle…
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BOOYAH!!!
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Mount No. 242! \o/



Rogueslayer

Ironbalance, Tauren hunter
  • 37 -
  • Cape of Stranglethorn, Desolace, Hinterlands
  • 40 in Raventusk Village
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  • Still there

Ironicide, Dwarf hunter
  • 27 -
  • Duskwood, Wetlands (grey -> green)
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  • 30 at Menethil Harbor
  • Loch Modan and Wetlands Quests
  • 31 in Wetlands

Ironrokrgirl, blood elf paladin
  • 21 -
  • Ghostlands, Ratchet
  • Northern Barrens Quests and Lvl 24 at Nozzlepot’s Outpost
  • Explore Northern Barrens
  • 24, ready to run the caravan from Crossroads

Hellacia, compassionate NE rogue
  • 61 -
  • Back to old world digging - 6 -11% XP per site, no dying
  • Diggerer (50 common), Explore Blasted Lands
  • Fossilized Raptor mount!
  • Still 61, hanging out by cooking dailies


Emails

Rigarmorty audio


An Update
Oh My God I Am Not Having A Good Night
I also listen to Convert to raid and forgot to shamelessly name drop Juuno for she is awesome. Sorry for the poor audio but I was told to do a audio via voice memo so you get it raw.
Big G



Hello Ctrl Alt Wow ladies Fallenangelz here,

Been a long time since I emailed you last, I hope you all having fun out of game and in game! Since my last email I've managed to get 3 level 100's and I'm working on my 4th who is at 93 at the moment. I'm really enjoying warlords more so than any expansion in a long time,there is just so much to do I can't fit it all in!

I've been working on Raiding with Leashes 3 I only need 2 more pets for that hopefully they will drop soon. Hearing the epic edge of your seat drama  saga that is rogueslayer and her Iron mans, I've decided to start my own! I'm still on my first toon who is called IronSniper so no deaths yet *phew* she is sitting at level 14 I started with a hunter because this is the class I feel most comfortable with.
With the announcement of the wow token I've also been working a bit more on gold making so I can buy some tokens, I'm on 110k so far the highest I've been in the game for a long time. I've also been mount farming but RNG is not a very kind god as I'm sure Leeta knows!


Thanks for the podcast, I think I speak for everyone when I say we greatly appreciate all the work you Ladies put into the show.

Talk to you again all soon
Fallenangelz :D


(from Tiber)

Hello Control Alt Wow,
This is my first attempt at a solo audio submission.  I didn't leave myself much time to polish it up, so it may be a little rough.  Hopefully, I at least made it in a useable form for the show.

Tiber
Who hates Garrisons?  


My Update
Greetings Lovely Ladies,

Its always a pleasure hearing from you every week.

Here are a few things and achievements i have got lately.

Pro pet - 75 level 25 pets. Its all about pets baby. I'm sure Leeta will bring this up but last night we worked out that Blizzard have drastically reduced exp on Kura and Timmy from Timeless Isle EXP. Pretty disappointing at this one, but it is their game. Im currently sitting on 63 on earthen ring on Warcraft Pets. The Fragment of anger DOES NOT EXISIT!!!!!! . Its the only one i need for raiding with leashes 3.

I have 198 mounts in game. Only 2 to go until i get the special 200 mount. Working on getting more bones for the White Primal raptor on Dragon isle. Im Still running raids and instances for the other elusive mounts with no luck.

I have 9 more things to go to get for my bigger bag achievement on Timeless Isle. I always start off positive but by the time i leave I'm about ready to hurt someone. :D

MY deathknight Huik in COD is currently level 97 and I'm planning to get him to 100 this extra long weekend.

I still run LFR on Wingclip my main, hunter. Im over half way to get the last bits for the legendary ring.

Still having fun which is the main thing and i always love a chat in vent every night.

Big shout out to the regular crew.

Wingy the Wingstar the Legend Wingstar. Love that guy Wingy.

Peace out.


ps: I challenge everyone that listens to this podcast to write in weekly if not fortnightly to let us all know what you have been up to in game.

Pss: Ok i know ive been slack, but ill try to do it on a more regular timetable.

Psss: Love that Wingy chap









Addon Spotlight:

with Grand Nagus
Not today

Clan of Darkness Guild Updates


3/27 - 4/3
  • Chatroom giveaway:
    • From Sideburnz/Kzeah/Ron - Sun Sproutling - Tiber
    • From Leeta - Harmonious Porcupette - Big G

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Nexbardus
Last week’s 100’s: Tumek

Time Flies When You’re Having Fun:



Shout Outs & Thank You



We missed you Grand Nagus