Sunday, October 27, 2013

Ctrl Alt WoW Episode 342 - Headless Horseman Mount Exists


Aprillian, Leeta, Rogueslayer and Tedrah 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

Timeless Aisle

Rares Tight wir e

Gina Mudclaw
Hallow’s End
Virtual Ticket
Video games

Leeta

1/ Got the last cooking recipe from Guo-Lai Halls - used a Potion of Luck which lasts 20mins and grinded through the mobs until I got a few keys to open the chests
2/ Hallows End - did a run with Ashayo and Kimolly - mount dropped! Woohoo \o/
3/ Side project - TNAK Guild - Mage hit Lvl35 today and guild hit Lvl15
- still struggling with herbing and inscription as outlevelling the zones and with all the experience you get from questing, herbing, daily fishing and cooking it does feel like the levelling is fast
- also hit Lvl40 on my Warlock - so much fun to level another Warlock

4/ Had fun with Aprillian on Timeless Isle - killing and looting
5/ After restart last night I logged back into WoW and Matahorn telling me the Auction House was closed. So I had to go check it out for myself! I don’t remember ever seeing this before!

Rogueslayer

Fishing
  • Rogueslayer (A) Ancient Pandaren Fishing Charm Monday morning
  • Voltessa got it Wednesday morning

Ironman
  • ironicide lvl 27 killed by shade of headless horseman in Goldshire :(
  • new Ironicide the monk saved the town
  • Lilbitironic (lvl 16 - warlock) using the penny pouches. Saved Goldshire by running down from wickerman when Horseman announced end.
  • Libitironic got to 17, then decided to do couple Redridge quests. Death by gnolls.
  • Lilbitironic now gnome monk

Farming
  • Voltessa moved onto the ranch, harvested a Terrible Turnip
  • Voltessa accidentally used portal shard to Thunder Bluff - thought was planting. So did Hallow’s End, a TB fishing daily and returned Clarice’s locket
  • Narendra made 334g on 14 yak milk (bag cleanout)

DBaD
  • “My dad works for Blizzard.”

General
  • Put new Ironicide on Winterfhoof, was going to transfer Henderscott. Lvl 26. Can only transfer 300 gold. 1000 at 31. Have 1900+. Fishing hat.
  • Book - Ready Player One (book, or audio narrated by Wil Wheaton), author Ernest Cline

Emails

Sorry not much to say this week
Big G

Addon Spotlight:

with Grand Nagus

Battle Pet BreedID

http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/battle_pet_breedid

Shout Outs & Thank You



Clan of Darkness

Hello Ctrlaltwow Crew
It has never happened that I write to you 2 weeks in a row but I come bearing a gift.
I won the top 25 in Guild activity competition we had last week in the game. I won an Armored Bloodwing and I thank Donnie for the gift. I already have this mount so I thought I would give it to you Ladies to give away.
You might be able to have a competition of your own and get somebody to make you a new Email bumper.
Anyway I love the new line up. You Ladies are awesome. Have a great week.
Sincerely Matahorn
Ps I must thank Donnie for letting me give away my prize.

Sunday, October 20, 2013

Ctrl Alt WoW Episode 341 - Trick or Treat, Smell My Feet, Give Me Some XP to Eat


Aprillian, Leeta, Rogueslayer and El 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.



Juuno & Pixie

Hello Ctrl Alt Wow darlings!

We had quite the night in the Clan of Darkness!! hehehehe  We hope you lovely ladies had a great week in & out of WoW this week. I forgot to get screenshots tonight... ermaigerd!!!  *sigh*  Oh wells.. we love you gals!

/great big hugs & kisses!!!

Juuno, Pixie & CoD!


What We've Been Doing:

Aprillian

Pet Battles and Timeless Aisle

Celestestial Cloth, making new stuff

Leeta

1/ Proving Grounds - took Leeta in and got Bronze but missed out on Silver by a fraction
2/ Hallow’s End - no mount yet however been taking the alt toons around for Candy Buckets and getting xp and guild rep
Also got another Creepy Crate - quest chain


3/ Side project - TNAK hit Lvl 11
Ran dungeons - Blackfathom Deeps, Shadowfang Keep, Wailing Caverns - got guild achievements for all
Toons are now at Lvl26
My Mage - been picking flowers, doing some questing & dungeons
Finding the levelling is going very quick and not being able to keep up with the professions as level cap keeps us all together. So had to make a few alts :)
4/ Played Hearthstone - have opened all decks except Paladin
Really enjoying it - mostly been working on practice and opening decks
Played couple games against Takemikazuch - won 1 game each
5/ Had a surprise visit from BlackXanthas - much coffee & chatting was had

Rogueslayer


Fishing
  • Voltandra “Learning from the Past” achieve = Best Friends w/Nat Pagle
  • V sent E Nat Pagle’s fishing log. Just about to use, checked skills - had less than 50 to cap, so went to trainer first.
  • Angelhair spotted E in Eastwind Rest, whispered - “You’re wearing your fishing hat, dear heart!” “Yep, goin’ fishin’”
  • E took Azure Water Strider on shore route from Marista in Krasarang Wilds up to border of TS and DW for fish of the day.
  • Ran for flight points through DW
  • Bloodmoon caught Tiny Blue Carp! He only needs white.
  • Tuesday, V caught Tiny White Carp at Shado-Pan Monestary in a Large Pool of Tiger Gourami Slush (picture). On to Blue.
  • Voltessa doesn’t even have Find Fish.
  • Voltessa - Revered with Anglers, got a Pandaren pole (only had uber-basic)
  • Voltessa back to Org for fishing dailies, finally got Weather Beaten Journal (Fish Don’t Leave Footprints achieve). whew!
  • Rogueslayer (Alliance) got there just as someone else was getting the Ancient Pandaren Fishing Charmp

Farming
  • Voltandra best friends Gina Mudclaw. Mailbox at Sunsong!
  • Best friends Farmer Fung. I got a yak. And an enigma seed.

Cooking
  • V - Nomi at the 4th level of lessons now

Leveling
  • E spent the evening in Orgrimmar, took enchanting from 15-600, took about $6000
  • E journeyed to Timeless Isle (Courtyard of Timeless Platitudes). Good DE for surplus gear

General
  • Surprise flights
  • Double-dose of Blingtron at Shrine of the Two Moons - one with thermal anvil (DBaD)
  • STOP SHOWING OFF YOUR MOUNTS (DBaD) - Shrine of the Two Moons

Hallow’s End
  • First bucket at 2:55 on Friday (holiday started at 2:00). Trick or Treat for Voltessa
  • Voltessa - sensitive tummy. Out With It achieve after 2 treats
  • Spyka - level 50 on candy buckets (from 47), finished Kalimdor



Emails




Contest 1
Greetings all. My favourite Timeless Isle activity would have the be the rope challenge, trying to get the chest. I love stuff like this ever since i started playing guild wars.
Blizzard would do we to make this more available in game.
The other favourite activity would be trying not to get killed every single night by other players. Especially my own faction.. The thing they like to do is to say that the rare is up in the cave, so people can go in and get ganked. I smile everytime i see it come up in chat.
Must dash my new Aerie Peak toon is awaiting.. Micromist.. im coming !!!!!!!
Wingy


Contest 2
Hail and well met!
I was listening to last week’s podcast and realized I had something useful to share about my experience on the Isle.  Pay attention here, take notes, print this out for future reference.  When you make your way to the Timeless Isle, there are some things you need to be ready to do:
1.)   Have the Add On Handy Notes and the Timeless Isle mix-ins for it.  This will let you know where and how to find the various chests on the isle.
2.)   Herb, Skin and Mine everything you get the chance to do.
3.)   Do your daily cool downs for cloth or leatherworking, or whatnot.
4.)   If you don’t have equipment that’s higher than iLevel 496, start upgrading as you get the various armor pieces you can upgrade.  You should get plenty of them over time.  As you get duplicates, keep 1 duplicate of each slot.  (This is important for later!)  Beyond the 1, unconverted duplicate, convert the pieces and sell them for cash if you don’t have other characters you can mail off to for use or to convert and sell.
5.)   As you collect Burden of Eternity, you will use these on the extra duplicates you are saving for another level of upgrades!  You’ll have a set of iLevel 496’s you’re wearing, then you’ll replace them with the equipment you create by using the Burden of Eternity on.  When you use a Burden of Eternity on an unconverted Timeless Armor piece, it creates an iLevel 535 armor piece! (Save your cloak for last, especially if you’re doing the epic quest for an Epic Cloak.  Otherwise, use a Burden on it as well.)
6.)   When you are equipping iLevel 535 pieces, you’ll consider spending Valor Points here to upgrade these items twice.
7.)   Do LFR looking for weapon upgrades! (Upgrade these with Valor Points as well if you’ve looked in Mr. Robot and you have the highest option you can get from LFR or Crafting, or as close as you can.)
8.)   While you’re doing your thing, opening chests, be sure to get your daily/weekly quests from around the sunken pit and work those.  As you collect Timeless coins, you can either play it safe and buy items from the vendors on either side of the Emperor, or you can buy keys and have a chance to get Burdens out of the chests in the cave that you’ve heard people talking about.
So, that’s my recommendations and experience from the Timeless Isle.  Now, get out there, run around, do your stuff, have fun, gear up! Woot!
Eranth / Wolfbrother
AIE Earthen Ring.




Kameo submission 10-19-13

Audio


Tiber's WoW October


(From Tiber)
Greetings, Aprillian, Leeta, Rogueslayer and Tedrah!

I hope everyone is healthy, and happy in, and out, of game.  I've had an extra-eventful few weeks of WoW this month I'd like to tell you about.

As soon as Donnie announced the CAW Guild activity contest a few weeks ago, I knew I wanted to chase that.  Since I've never leveled a Monk, and none of my high level characters are Forsaken I rolled Tirisfel, and then bankrupted Tiber buying Heirlooms.
The Monk is a blast to play, especially at low level, with heirlooms  (very OP).  Though it really was pained me to see that purple XP bar every day.  While leveling Tirisfel I completed the whole Forsaken Front story line for the first time, and it really is a good story.  Tirisfel also completed the zone questing achievments for Silverpine, Arathi, Western Plaguelands, Tanaris, Un'Goro, and Silithus.

Grats to Matta for first place!!  I tried to keep up, but he just kept pulling away from me, even when I was on at the same time!  Many Thanks  for the second place prize Donnie!  The Blossoming Ancient Pet is really cool,and I don't have anything else like it
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That same week, I went to Timeless Isle on Tiber, with the Juuno-Pixie Friday raid gang.  It was great fun, and sillinesss.  Running in a gang on the Isle, slaying stuff is a blast!  Sorry the guys in Tiber's party had such high repair bills.  I'd be watching the team... no damage... no damage...BAM-DEAD... wait, WHAT happened ??

That next evening, Holmes hosted the Find-Me event in Silvermoon.  That was good fun, and I think we may have stunned the players, and NPC's in Silvermoon with all our noise, and activity.  I was so busy running around searching for the hidden mage, and finding scavenger hunt items, that I didn't note who the main event winner was (not me :D).  There were many contests though, and I think everyone won something.  I won codes for a Paint Bomb, and a Grell Pet.  Thanks so much, this has been my best pet collecting week ever.

Early last week I finally dinged 90 on my mage, and got the Quintessential Quintet, and Double Agent achievements.

Lastly, and far from least, I went with the Friday Raid group into Mogu'shan Vaults.  With Grand Nagus's direction we killed the first boss The Stone Guard, on our second try.  We also came very close to killing the second boss Feng the Accursed in one try.  Unfortunately, we had to go our seperate ways before we could try again.  Before I logged for the night, I checked my game calender and saw something unfamiliar... a raid reset for Tuesday.

All-in-all October has been a huge month for me in game.  Thanks to all the CAW guildies for making the World of Warcraft game even more fun than it already is.

For the Newbie Raiders!  Tiber




Hello C.A.W crew,

Been quite a while since my last email. Its amazing how time slips away from you. Good news is the gap has left me with a bunch of stuff to update.

Might as well get all the pet battle related stuff out of the way first. Over the last few weeks I managed to get both the Raiding with Leashes II and Pro Pet Mob achievements. I know there are several pet leveling guides across the internet, but what I did was battle the aquatic pets near Mistfall Village. There are tons of level 24-25 pets and they respawn quickly. Being aquatic pets their opening attack is almost always a heal or buff so you can bring in low level pets and not have to worry about them being knocked out in the first round. Put on your safari hat and bring a couple flying pets to do the actual work and let the XP roll in.

A couple weeks back Moonfang began stalking the Darkmoon Faire and I was lucky to snag Moon Moon after only a couple fights which was much easier than i was expecting. Feeling I should press my luck I decided to resume my grudge match with Jeremy Feasel in hopes of getting something besides expired pet food or hairballs. The RNG gods must have been smiling on me that day because I found a shiny new Darkmoon Eye inside of my pet supplies bag. Now I just need that blasted rabbit to complete my pet collection on Darkmoon Isle. My pet collection now stands at 546 unique pets and I'm still not done. Honestly I hope to never finish...

As with may others, I've spent a good chunk of time on the Timeless Isle. Of course I'm still hunting for a few pets and I'm drowning in timeless gear, but at least I've got a Thundering Onyx Cloud Serpent to show off. Honestly though I am getting a bit weary of the place and the last thing the game needed was another rep grind.

Now for my non-pet related in-game goal. While digging around looking to acquire a Crawling Claw (which I finally did by the way) I noticed that I am only four artifacts away from completing The Seat of Knowledge. This achievement rewards the title "Seeker of Knowledge" which I think sounds pretty darn cool. I know the odds are kind of stacked against me as in there is know way to determine what artifacts pop up in your archaeology queue let alone the chance of them being the "pristine" version you need, but I'm a patient guy and i think the profession is actually pretty fun.

OK this email has gone on a bit longer than I planned. Hopefully I'll get in the habit of sending you guys more frequent updates (more than once a month at least). If i don't get a chance to catch the live recording, have a good show and I'll catch yall in Azeroth.


Regards,

Ularand of Eldre'thalas
Alztraj of Earthen Ring


PS - Yeah i know the two name thing is kinda confusing. I just don't want anyone to think I've abandoned the Alliance completely



For the candy buckets

Sorry not much to report this week but here’s my audio please enjoy and sorry for the coughing fit mid audio.
Big G



Hello CAW,

i don't know if my file got uploaded ok with dropbox, but if so, here is this weeks
ADDON SPOTLIGHT.

Grand Nagus







Shout Outs & Thank You



Clan of Darkness
Congrats Tigereyechi!!!

Emails


























Hello Ctrlaltwow Crew
It has never happened that I write to you 2 weeks in a row but I come bearing a gift.
I won the top 25 in Guild activity competition we had last week in the game. I won an Armored Bloodwing and I thank Donnie for the gift. I already have this mount so I thought I would give it to you Ladies to give away.
You might be able to have a competition of your own and get somebody to make you a new Email bumper.
Anyway I love the new line up. You Ladies are awesome. Have a great week.
Sincerely Matahorn
Ps I must thank Donnie for letting me give away my prize.

Sunday, October 13, 2013

Ctrl Alt WoW Episode 340 - The CAW Must Go On


Aprillian, Leeta, Rogueslayer and Tedrah 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.


Juuno’s Corner

Hello darlings!  I hope you're all doing well this week!  

This is super short, sorry for that... <=)

love ya!

Juuno (and Pixie!)


What We've Been Doing:

Aprillian

Darshi dinged 88 doing pet battling and doing some pvp

Timeless Aisle? Shopping

Timeless Leather Helm, battlenet
Dual boxing
herbing sprites

DMF hat use on

Leeta

1/ Rep - Attil - Golden Lotus went from 510/3000 Neutral to 4110/12000 Honored with
13 Relics of Guo-Lai and 4 Relic of Thunder Kings
Used DMF buff and got  600 rep and 1200 rep
2/ DMF - no luck with MoonFang for pet or mount
3/ Timeless Isle
- blew 24 keys trying to get Bonkers… still no luck
- Timeless Legends Achievement - Find all of the lost pandaren artifacts on the Timeless Isle.

5/ Darkmoon Top Hat - used for killing rep mobs on Timeless Isle Shaohao
6/ Alliance - the Aussie contingent has started Alliance toons along the same vein as the CoD
- highest roll for tank - Clogalis
- highest roll for heals - Wingy
- highest roll for ranged DPS - Leeta & Ashayo
- left last as melee DPS - Matahorn
also have Tarngarth and Kimolly have rolled toons and Jeppy on reserve bench!

Rogueslayer

General:
  • Ashayo bowed to, cheered at and hugged me - and I was AFK!
  • Logged in Monday to find a Blingtron right in front of me. Tweeted “Happiness is logging in to find a Blingtron standing directly in front of you.” Thursday, Blingtron 4000 (@Blingtron4k) replied, “I was waiting for you to log in. It was imperative that you receive your gifts.”

Farming:
  • Voltandra did Klaxxi work order for first time - 2nd half of quest stayed in log. Next day did the split thing - streamline is after 1st
  • Narendra Till the Break of Dawn (100 crops)
  • Trying to spot Ghostly Pandaren Fisherman for Ancient Pandaren Fishing Charm. Camped the spot Tuesday before server maintenance, along with a lvl 90 Troll.
  • Andrea Toyas! (screenshot)

Order of the Cloud Serpents
  • Voltandra - 5th place!

Fishing
  • Voltandra (therefore everyone) - Azure Water Strider
  • Have you ever jumped while standing still on AWS? OMG!
  • Ghostly Pandaren Fisherman (screenshot - 6:09 am) - Ancient Pandaren Fishing Charm
  • Everthorn fishing from NPC raft in Sri-La, got attacked by a shark anyway! Had to jump in water to be in reach to fight back

Leveling
  • Everthorn - 85 (87 now)!
  • Dropped skinning, picked up enchanting

Emails

Bearing gifts

Hello Ctrlaltwow Crew
It has never happened that I write to you 2 weeks in a row but I come bearing a gift.
I won the top 25 in Guild activity competition we had last week in the game. I won an Armored Bloodwing and I thank Donnie for the gift. I already have this mount so I thought I would give it to you Ladies to give away.
You might be able to have a competition of your own and get somebody to make you a new Email bumper.
Anyway I love the new line up. You Ladies are awesome. Have a great week.
Sincerely Matahorn
Ps I must thank Donnie for letting me give away my prize.



Sorry for the lack of audio this week as I have come down with the plague and it's made my already great voice to some what of a slur. Been haveing fun at the darkmoore fair and pet battling on my ally toons so hope you all have a great show.

For the horde

For the alliance

For the sandgroper

And for me getting over the plague and getting the full use of my lungs again

Sent from my iPhone
Big G