Ctrl Alt WoW Episode 362 - Boost 2.0 Warlords Style

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!

Good afternoon Aprillian, Leeta, Beth, Tedra & Grand Nagus :)

 Hope everyone is kicking butt on the game and is life!

Had a great week in-game, boasted my Panda Monk too 90 went right too the farm and messed up big time! Excepted the first quest from Farmer Yoon, planted the two cabbage and this is where all went wrong! I didn't go back to him the second quest, instead crabbed the watering can & watered. Then saw I had another quest from him picked it up and well, dug, replanted, dug replanted this went on for about another 40 cabbage seeds. Which by the way my Panda couldn't buy yet, after the 3ld day of trying for the dry cabbage gave up opened a ticket and a day later all was good :)

Then took her out to the Timeless Isle, got some coins, bought kites and flew up Ordon's and got her first Burden. But while I was out there Huolon came up so I fought and died lol Then took her back to the farm and logged out, later that night I logged back in and started cleaning her bags out. Saw something that looked kind of funny and too my surprise she got the mount! Of course she can't ride it yet but did get to learn it so my other girls can :)

I wasn't going to boast anything for a while but thanks too the support I got from are awesome guildies and Rokwyn saying well you know that's what the web is for and guild mates to help you learn, I'm really liking my Panda. Thanks guys :)

Just in case our sweet Leeta forgets to tell you who the pets are from this week, you know she, as a few others have really helped me with pets to level and donate. And I want to send out a great big thank you for doing that, I've now been able to pay for my repairs lol   Anyway this weeks pets are Sinister Squashling from Leeta & Skunky Alemental from Willopelt :)

And I also want to say hi & welcome too all of our new guildies, and old ones too :) Glad to have you with us, please do not forget to ask if you need anything that's what were here for :)

Big Hugs & Kisses

Pixiegirl & Juuno

PS don't forget tonight's raid starting at 10 pm eastern time :) Oh also got my Hearthsteed only cause two quit so I won those games Woot!

What We've Been Doing:

Aprillian

Leeta

1/ Warlocks

Ran Razorfen Downs - went from Lvl42 - 44

We started with 4 warlocks

Drain Life Screenshots

Then there was 3 - Mata had to leave so we finished the rest of Razorfen Downs!

Then we headed over to Dire Maul - last section. Here we are looking very Warlocky on our Steeds

And then there was 3!!

2/ HoT - Druid

Wingy ran me through some Wrath dungeons. Went from Lvl74 - 76.

Plus did some more quests and herbing in Sholazar Basin - hit Lvl78!

Then last I was able to get the quest to go to The Frozen Halls dungeons (ICC 5 mans)

So off we went - ran The Forge of Souls, The Pit of Saron and Halls of Reflection.

**When running through dungeons you can only do 5 dungeons per hour PER ACCOUNT!!**

Here I am helping Sylvanas!!

So because we could run no more dungeons until the dungeon lock had reset we went a questing in Storm Peaks!

Then finally… DING!!!! Level 80!!

Rogueslayer

Jolantru (troll rogue in CoD) still has 47 minutes of pirate costume

At end of last week’s show, Dual Specialization (Deronia). Pre-purchased Digatal upgrade.

Before:

After:

Don’t forget to re-do your glyphs.

Gives Pandaria flying, but only two flight points. Got double-dose of dread mount and pet.

Told Julie about it - lvl 90 blood elf hunter. Tamed her first wild pet!

Took Deronia right to the farm

Phase difference in Jade Forest - brought over Zelre from Robot House, the old fashioned 85 way, caught up for Lorewalker Cho line.

Lvl 600 mining, but no smelting recipes. Off to the trainer

Brewmaster Darkbrew of guild Brew Boys

Rogueslayer - Old Man Thistle’s Treasure (Ain’t Lost No More achiev)

Magelicious - Level 25, Arathi Highlands. Feelin’ the mage now

Sommerlin -

• 29 Worgen Feral Druid in Tree Huggerz on Garona - Druid EEEEEEEK
• Set hearthstone. Meant Fort Livingston, got Darnassus… did dailies while there
• Now lvl 31, feeling more comfy than before

Emails

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My WoW Life

Hey Control Alt WoW! Been a while since I emailed you so figured I would send one in and tell you how I play wow :-). I have played WoW since vanilla and when I first started I was just a casual player. Just enjoyed the leveling and running around. It wasn't until BC that I started raiding. Even then it was just some casual raiding but I still have wonderful memories of Kara! When Wrath came or I rolled my current main. A prot warrior. From there I was hooked on tanking. I got into a not consistent raiding guild and even tanked the GDKP runs for my server. In Cataclysm I became a hardcore raider. Went for progression and lead a team to 5 on server for Firelands and then was tank for first alliance heroic Deathwing kill. When MoP hit I went casual and did some pvp. ATM I still raid casually but have grown fond of alts. Of seeing the game from different perspectives. I just Boosted druid and run resto/balance and I am having a great time with it. Will soon be giving my shaman a bit more attention in the near future as well. Wow is a casual thing for me now. Something to just get on and enjoy. Not stress about time and things that must be done. That's my wow life :-)

Thank you girls very much for your podcast and keep up the good work.

For The Horde!

Ludoshock

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It's Bemmo!

Hello all,

Hoping that you are all well and sending positive energy your way.

Take care

Bemmo

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<Yawn>

<grumblegrumble>Morning <muttering about how it can't be morning with no sleep>

I thought I'd be kind and write my priest's name out phonetically for you this time:  In-tar-zha.  Rogueslayer was close!  :D

Anyhow.  I boosted her to 90 last week - obvy.  I thought since I know the class it would be the best option, and then I can start leveling a new class.  I've got all but three of her boost gear changed out for drops from the Timeless Isle.  And I took a chance at the casino - Bonkers on the first try!  Now I'm scared to try again....  >.>

Speaking of new class - I'm leveling a Warlock now: Goblinbabe.  (You remind me of the babe!) And I think I may have had a lapse in sanity because I signed up for the last Herald of the Titans slot with her.  I promptly asked how to 'lock on the guild fb page!  Whoops!  But she's at level 20 as of this morning and all is going well.  I'm doing demonology until level 30, and then I'll dual spec her into destro and start learning how to dungeon. But!  I have a felsteed!  I'm so excited!  It's so firey and pretty!  

My daughter has been on spring break this week but I still have to work.  Is it bad to be jealous of your kid?  She's been playing an MMO of her own lately - the How to Train Your Dragon one.  I'm going to set her up a WoW starter account next month to see if she likes it (I promised her that she could try when she was 8.)  I can't wait to start playing with her!  

On a slightly more serious note (and because of all the confessions lately and the lack of crying on the last two podcasts.  :)  )  I love the community in this group.  It's amazing.  It does seem that quite a few of us are a little "broken," but I believe that if a person has truly *lived*, they are going to be a little broken.  It's what life does to us.  The true measure is whether we keep going, and what we become from our experiences.  I am a single mom - no easy feat in the best of circumstances - and went through a nasty divorce that dragged through the courts for over three years.  The marriage was unhappy and I was glad to be out of it as soon as I got over the suddenness of the life change, but it did scar me pretty badly.  Unfortunately, it did not have a minimal impact on my girl either, but she's strong.  I've had employment problems and money problems and a ton of other issues, and there was one time when I sent a letter to my best friend to give to my girl when she was older...thankfully he talked me down from that.Now, when things feel like they're getting too rough to handle I remind myself that I have friends and a spunky kidlet to keep me going.  And it has.

Now.  NO MORE CRYING.  It's time to go level a warlock, battle my allergies, and see if I can overcome insomnia.

-Rain

For the Horde, and for the felsteeds!

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This Is The Big G are you happy now Aprillian

Well its been another week and here’s my audio

Big G

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Addon Spotlight:

with Grand Nagus

Clan of Darkness Guild Updates

3/16-3/20

The guild hit Guild Gankers - get 250,000 honorable kills. Next up - Creepjackers (1 million hk)

The guild hit Pandaren Angler on Saturday, 3/15.  25,000 fish from Pandaren pools!

Currently at 45,096 / 50,000 (a couple of hours before recording) from fishing pools (any) for Like Shooting Fish in a Barrel!

10	Flogalis Lorenabobbit Trelane Hongkongfu Breeshna Vreeshna Dreeshna	60	Lorenabobbit Hongkongfu Xama
20	Lorenabobbit Hongkongfu Trelane	70	Lorenabobbit Hongkongfu Xama
30	Lorenabobbit Hongkongfu Trelane	80	Dotty Weasl Lorenabobbit Hongkongfu Drood Xama
40	Lorenabobbit Hongkongfu Ravnthor	85	Lorenabobbit Hongkongfu Dotty Drood Weasl Xama
50	Xama Lorenabobbit Hongkongfu Ravnthor	90	Matahornne Lorenabobbit Hongkongfu Xama

Time Flies When You’re Having Fun:

• Drood
• Ravnthor

CoD Weekly Activity

• From last week’s prize-winners:
• Rain (Intarsya - Living Steel Belt Buckle): “Oh wow! Thanks so much to you and Duvessae! (And Aprillian, without whom this guild would not exist!).  Followed by: “So, I went to equip my belt buckle and realized you sent me 10!!!! I certainly don’t need 10, so maybe you can use the rest for future prizes?”
• Weasl (Royal Satchel): “Wow. Thank you. I have never in all my years playing had a bag over 20 slots. Usually I only have 16 slot bags.

• Okay, I f’d up again. Looks like iPhone reminders keep losing their date/time settings - tried repeatedly. Switched to calendar appointments.   Instead, here are the first 10 to score guild points after they reset this week:

And here’s who’s top ten RIGHT NOW: (get live standings from WoW)

• Gifts:
• Intarsya (Rain) and Duvessae: 9 Living Steel Belt Buckle (Jolantru mail)

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.

Ctrl Alt WoW Episode 361 - On The Wings of a Hearthsteed - Boosted 90’s Everywhere!

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!

No Juuno/Pixie Girl :(!

What We've Been Doing:

Aprillian

Leeta

1/ Jeremy Feasel is STILL a weasel! No luck on the pet! Oh well I guess bring on April DMF!

Mail from Duvessae with a surprise mail containing “The Eye”

2/ Warlocks - Early on during the week we ran Dire Maul - East & West - Lvl39-41

**Here is the ragtag bunch of Warlocks getting ready for our journey into the Maul… Dire Maul that is!!**

Just A Few Drain Life Screenshots!

**Then we ventured into Scholomance and what a “fun” start we had! The first few pulls we had some truly epic wipes! Was hilarious however it made us go “old school” and do some major Crowd Control!!**

Scholo - went from Lvl41-42 (about 4 bubbles to go)!

3/ TNAK Guild - Mage - We ran Throne of the Tides, The Stonecore and Vortex Pinnacle! My Mage went from Lvl81 - 83!

4/ Herald of the Titans Toon - Druid Lvl67 - 74

Spent  time questing in Nagrand until 69 then headed over to Borean Tundra.

Then both Wingy and Ravn ran my Druid through some Dungeons - so big thank you to them both! <3

5/ “Middle” Warlock Leeta on Aerie Peak

The Digital Preorder was released and it took me a few days to figure out which toon I would “Boost” to 90!

Decided on my AP Human Warlock - Leeta - who started at Lvl52 - figured I would level her through to 60 then Boost her.

A few interesting facts

* No heirlooms - mostly because I was tired of sending them back and forth between toons

* ilvl43 when I started at Lvl52

* Got a World Drop - Bow called Hurricane http://www.wowhead.com/item=2824#dropped-by

* Hit Lvl60  - ilvl54 - Picture of her right before the “Boost”

I left her in Stormwind when I logged out!

Did the “Boost”

And here she is Lvl90 - ilvl382 in Shrine of the Seven Stars.

* Got Double Agent Achievement!

* Professions - Tailoring, Enchanting and First Aid all maxed to 600!

6/ Hearthstone Released

So not only did we get the Preorder released but we got Hearthstone released!

Get your Hearthsteed - win 3 games in Play or Arena Mode

Info - http://us.battle.net/hearthstone/en/blog/13154922/ride-into-action-on-your-hearthsteed-3-11-2014

* I used a Lvl1 Druid deck*

7/  Clan of Darkness - Ulduar - Friday night run

Had a great time with Juuno, Pixie and the ‘gang’

8/ Just in case there is no email from Pixie - she messaged me asking if I could relay this message - Love you all!

Rogueslayer

Wednesday morning - “Your playtime expires in 30 minutes.”  Bomb shelter flirting

Crowds and dueling in Falconwing Square!

Halfhill

• Moved Everthorn and Voltantrum onto Sunsong Ranch. Took Voltantrum 0 - 300 in cooking, Everthorn to “The Way” quests
• Brillig, 90 orc rogue in Robot House. Repeated death by vermin

Ironman

• Ironlocked 1 - BE warlock - died lvl 10 (almost 11) - stupid Bloodsail shortcut
• Ironlocked 2 - BE warlock - died 14.5. Anok’suten group, but green…
• Ironlocked 3 - BE warlock - died 8.5 death on The Spire. Usually put off, but didn’t...mana wyrms…
• Ironlocked 4 - BE warlock - died just over 15 at Underlight Mines with a bunch of quest turn-in’s. Gang of Gnolls.
• Ironlocked 5 - UD warlock -

Mages

• Magelicious - new Dwarf arcane mage (needs CAW invite) - lvl 18
• Deronia - 61 fire mage, now 62

Julie

• Stayed up 2.5 hours me, questing
• All this time, hadn’t seen the identity box bottom right when hover. Ooooohhhhhh!
• Did a Proudmoore-Winterhoof group. Worked well, but couldn’t summon
• While soloing, got herself into the middle of Grom’gol. Taught the fine art of corpse-hopping
• WoWmatrix - arkinventory, postal - auctionator?

Emails

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Hi CAW!

Yes, the "Vader" bit at the end of my email is an automatic signature.  Thanks for reminding me it's time to change it up a bit.  

I did make a toon in the guild: Intarsya.  It's a knitting term : a technique I hate but love the *sound* of!  And someone used it to design a knitted tabard.  If anyone wants to see, here's a link.  For the horde!

I realized I didn't say much about my play style in my first email.  I'm and extreme casual player.  What does that mean?  I play whenever I can, and I understand the basic mechanics and do occasionally have player-rage (mostly in dungeons when I'm healing, and it's generally on behalf of the tank!  Don't give the tank a hard time if you attack first and he doesn't get a chance to get the aggro!  ;)  )

I've been listening back and I've got to say:  Leeta is to 'locks as I am to priests.  I have one I created with my RL arty friends who is sitting somewhere in the 80s, Intarsya in CoD, and my attempts at playing Ally have all been priests.  My only 90 is a priest that had over a year of role-play behind her to make her almost a real person to me.  However, she went through so much drama and hardship that I got to where I couldn't play her anymore.(Mostly when I was going through mine.  I've got weird theories on that, but tl;dr  is that it helps to get my mind off my own icky situations when I can cause them to a fictional character!)  ANYWHO! She was named Mordrain, which is where my "Rain" comes from.  About two weeks ago I transferred her server and her name wasn't available.  So when people in mumble were calling me "Melsy"...well, that's why I wasn't answering!  I kept forgetting that was me!  

Speaking of Melsy and Mumble - thanks so much to the Friday night group for taking me along to prance about with them!  It was my first time doing end-game content.  Yes, first.  I *love* healing, but haven't done anything other than 5-man mostly randoms.  And thanks to Pixie for chatting with me afterward.  She's such a sweetheart! I can tell that this group is EXACTLY what I have been looking for: kind, silly, friendly, supportive, and engaging.

In game (to get back on track) I love healing.  LOVE IT.  But I only heal Holy.  Every time I try for disco, I wind up setting it up as dps and questing with it.  I've tried other healers...well, sort of.  I wish I could trust HoTs, but maybe it's just my nature.  I want to re-act, not pro-act!  A friend coached me through tanking and I loved it too - I got to see both sides of the equation and I think it helped me become better at each that I did.  DPS, though?  Well,  I respect anyone that can do it, cause I can't.  I do have a mage at 85, but she's exclusively questing. (She was created to be an RP toon.  She has a personality I modeled off Amelia Peabody and is a blast to tool around with in character!)  

Because of listening to past episodes, I decided to start transmogging again.  I'm attaching a screenshot of the gear I'm going for on Edythe my 80-ish priest, and the mage Enid Cobblesmythe's "working costume", which considering she is an archaeologist goes beautifully with the fossilized raptor mount!

This has gotten too long, so I'm going to end it short.  So, bye and thanks for letting me in the family!

For the Horde, and for the transmogging!

Rain

I aim to misbehave. - Cap'n Tightpants

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Greetings from Brew Dawg. I'm still around just not in Azeroth.

Most of my gaming time is spent in a galaxy far far away in SW:ToR and beta testing a new MMO.  The beta is closed and has an NDA so I cannot discuss it.  When the NDA lifts I'll send an email with my review. I will say it is not Elder Scrolls Online or Everquest Next.

I've been un-subscribed from WoW for quite some time.  Many of the people I used to raid with transferred to Aerie Peak when the Covert to Raid guys left Earthen Ring.  I tried to put together a new team early last year but unfortunately I couldn't get a stable group of 10 to show up on a consistent basis.

Blizzard decided not to add any 5 mans after the launch of MoP.  So no content besides raiding for Tanks.  The introduction of Flex has reduced the number of tanks needed further by increasing the typical raid size from 10 to 15-20 players with only 2 needed to be tanks.  As a casual player who likes to tank there wasn't any reason for me to log in.

I have been subbed to SWToR since launch.  I had been running raids (operations) one night a week with a casual group of AIE folks.  That team decided to get a bit more serious, partially because of my increased availability.  <Lords of Light> (also known as lol) now run two nights a week. We have completed all the current raids on normal and are progressing through hard mode content.

The Old Republic has improved greatly since launch and unlike WoW continues to support small group PVE content.  My Altoholic ways have continued in ToR.  I have one toon of each class on each faction at level cap.  Each class story is like playing different Star Wars RPG.

The Sith Inquisitor, Imperial Agent and Jedi Knight stories were my favorite.  The Sith Inquisitor story would make a great dark Star Wars movie.  In the Imperial Agent story there are decision points that literally made me get up from my computer and think about which to pick for a day or two.

I may be back for Warlords but it's doubtful.  The game I'm beta testing will be out this summer and I'll probably be hitting level cap and ready to start raiding about the time WoD is released.  But never say never.

Brew Dawg

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Bemmo’s audio

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Sleeping pills for the win

Got a lot done this week not much in game but been plenty busy outside of work.

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Jeppy Size Audio

I suspect you had to fish this out of the spam but no worries.

Here is the link to the interview I mention

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8P4xSFOj0M

Big Hugs!!

Jeppy

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Addon Spotlight:

with Grand Nagus

This is the link to Auditor on curse:

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

CoD Achievements in Leveling

3/7-15

10	Gypsymoon Divinegypsy Tiegrax	60	Mithradates Jepski Pepski Divinegypsy Aagnes Yodie Intarsya Bemmo Sumduud
20	Intarsya Divinegypsy Gypsymoon Duplecat	70	Weasl Shaggy Soleil Leettah Pepski Jepski Majarara Divinegypsy Troughton Aagnes Dotty Yodie Intarsya Bemmo Loonah
30	Jepski Pepski Intarsya Ravnthor Divinegypsy Aagnes	80	Segwick Majarara Divinegypsy Troughton Aagnes Yodie Intarsya Tirisfel Bemmo
40	Jepski Pepski Divinegypsy Aagnes Intarsya	85	Majarara Divinegypsy Troughton Matahornne Aagnes Yodie Intarsya Bemmo
50	Sumdud Jepski Pepski Divinegypsy Aagnes Bemmo Intarsya	90	Majarara Divinegypsy Troughton Matarena Aagnes Yodie Intarsya Bemmo

Time Flies When You’re Having Fun:

• Jepski
• Pepski
• Intarsya

Special Note: Pandaren Ambassador - Mirrax (Golden Lotus, Shado-Pan, Lorewalkers, Tillers, Huojin Pandaren, August Celestials, Klaxxi, Anglers, Order of the Cloud Serpent) - WOW

CoD Weekly Activity (late Monday, 3/10)

• Gifts:
• Duvessae sent: Royal Satchel - Weasl, Living Steel Belt Buckle  -Intarsya (Jolantru mail)

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.