Ctrl Alt WoW Episode 683 - Will This Release Date Stand?

 Recorded Sunday, November 1, 2020 1700

Ctrl Alt WoW Episode 683 - Will This Release Date Stand?

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:

Darkmoon Faire

Day of the Dead

Battle of Azeroth Bonus Event begins

PvP Brawl: Temple of Hotmogu ends

World Quest Bonus Event ends

Pre-patch Event starts on Nov. 10th

Expansion launches on Nov. 23rd

WoW Birthday is on Nov. 23rd, so they started

WoW Birthday Event today ending it on Nov. 22nd, so you wouldn’t get

The 16% bonus when leveling in the new areas.

What We've Been Doing:

Aprillian

Constraxx

Allied Race unlock : Mechagnomes, half hazardly killed king mechagon and retrieved mechatorkk life pod, then followed a short scenario quest line to unlock the mount.

A few attempts on Arthas’s life with no anticipation for the Reins of INVINCIBLE yet.  Pets galore on runs, a few transmog. A lot of Cloth.

Massive amount of time spent on Auction House for very little profit.

PvP in Legion to get some Marks of Prey to Rep up with Talon’s Vengeance.

Long-forgotten Hippogryph attempt : Ephemeral crystal pic …

Grand Nagus

Finally got (almost) all pets to max level, so many that warcraft pets website tells me my average pet level is now 25.0.

There are some pets left to level and some can’t be leveled.

Some are still not blue quality, but combined those i can still work on, number in the single digits.

Next i’m starting on collecting the wild pets i don’t have yet, so there are still enough work to be done, 954 unique pets, according to the in-game pet journal.

Picked up the 7 items i still needed from the Day of the Dead holiday, 5 toys and 2 transmogs

Worked on some achievements:

Cursed Game Hunter Killing one of each cursed animal in Drustvar.

Drust the Facts, Ma’am Find and read all of the Drust Stele listed.

Leveling Gnome Hunter

Hunting the Ruby Droplet pet from the Timeless Isle.

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Hello everyone!

I finally have most of the patch downloaded, yay!  I log in and blizzard tells me my video card is out of date.  Boo!  I could still play and it looked fine, but I'll have to get around to updating that soon.  Most of my game time was just tinkering and doing odds and ends, basically logging into characters to tell them that I acknowledge their existence and we will play together soon as I updated their talents and action bars with the new spells and abilities.

The Blast from the Past for today is from episode 425.  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.

Addon(s) of the week: Character Achievements.

Character Achievements is an addon that modifies the display of achievements in order to easily distinguish those earned by your current character and those earned by another character on your account. A check button is added to the Achievement Frame that allows for quick and easy switching between the styles and updates your achievement points accordingly.

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

Guild Updates: XXX-XXX

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

Last week’s 120’s: Razzi

Time Flies When You’re Having Fun:

Greenskies has unlocked exalted with Clan of Darkness

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 682 - Where Have All My Levels Gone

 Recorded Sunday, October 18, 2020 1700

Ctrl Alt WoW Episode 682 - Where Have All My Levels Gone

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:

Hallow’s End starts today and runs until Nov. 1st

Pet Battle Bonus Event ends (change in calender due to SL rotation taking effect and us getting SL Dungeon Event added to the rotation.

PvP Brawl: Cooking Impossible ends

Arena Skirmish Bonus Event begins

What We've Been Doing:

Aprillian

Constraxx

Transmute mastery still alive after the patch as the screenshot demonstrates, some metals seem to be harder to acquire since the squish, Cataclysm mining can be trained for in Stormwind, prices on the Auction House vary greatly, some leveling swords sell for 5000 gold for green, some sell for 1000 depending on Stats.  Starting bid on Black market AH for longboy is 5,000,000 gold apparently, still driving an upward trend on some commodities like cataclysm volatile fires, volatile air, and elementium bars.  Wintergrasp is a max level PvP area, titanium can be abundant or rare depending how busy your server is.  Trade chat is still filled with a lot of trolls welcoming new players with a variety of poor taste gullible jokes that are not intended for any constructive or helpful advice.

Poisons have returned for my outlaw rogue, this makes me happy.  Did 2 quick invasions for 5 currency each toward the 300 currency mount for 7th legion mount wrap up, currently at 155.

Big spider in my garrison is now same level as me… longer fight to get the toy to drop (sack of spectral spiders)

Grand Nagus

Did some mods to my toons in the Barber shop.

Orc Warrior got to level 50 doing pet battles

DH reached 47 doing pet battles too.

Started to collect some transmog gear.

I got Legendary Pet Battler from doing this week’s (unexpected) SSD that came around on wednesday in the US after the calender schedule was changed, due to the new event “Shadowlands Dungeon Event” being added, supposed to be around for the first time on Dec. 15th, but has been removed with no replacement and moved to Feb. 2nd, as of this recording.

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Hello everyone!

So I guess I forgot to check for updates in WoW.  Apparently there's about 20 gigs of data to download!  I'm trying to remember to set my computer to download while sleeping or while I'm at work.  I have downloaded enough for it to be playable but I haven't jumped into it yet.  Looking forward to hearing about your experiences this past week!

Here is part 2 from episode 424 for this week's Blast from the Past.  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.

Addon(s) of the week: WoWUp Addon update app.

Overwolf takes over Curseforge next month and with that in mind, it’s time to say goodbye to Twitch, imo.

Positive aspects: WoWUp updates using Curseforge, WoWInterface and TukUI websites, as far as i know, those are the ones i found in the provider tab in the app, and not only Curseforge, so we have more supported update websites and their provided addons.

Negative aspects: WoWUp doesn’t have a feature where you can see details about the addon in the window, but rather it takes you to the respective website in your browser to show you that (same) information. That requires the browser and app to be open, rather then only the app when using the Twitch app.

Over all i like this app more then i thought i would, and again, thanks Per0tin for telling me about it. 

I switched to WoWUp and uninstalled the Twitch app.

There are other update apps out there, but this one has all i need, if you want to let me know about another one you like and that i should talk about, send in an email and tell us about it.

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

Guild Updates: Oct 11 to Oct 18

10		40	Greendarnhit (110)
20		50
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Last week’s 50’s: Daprishnah, Feklhr, Yillie, Tashelle, Constraxxele, Epril, Aprillian, Readytogogo, Wanrong, Kirila, Grandnagus, Greendarnit, Aereneth, Shadowsleep, Allasomorph, Fulgens, Tumek, Ephedra, Taenir, Zulginga, Raztini, Msmurder, Mastake, Megelodar, Bangobingo, Decomposey, Bigjobs, Soulsista, Somuchawesome, Melindraya, Stegatamad, Fortetwo, Minoke, Zulkra, Khiriel, Duvessae, Ashcawk, Matarena, Alztraj, Zuglud, Rokwyn, Marouk, Trelané.

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

We salute and are grateful for First Responders everywhere who face difficult challenges in this pandemic.