Saturday, August 29, 2015

Ctrl Alt WoW Episode 436 - Flying in T Minus 4 days!!

Aprillian, Leeta and Rogueslayer discuss another week of playing World of Warcraft, Blizzard's greatest MMORPG. The show features audio segments and email submissions from our lovely listeners.
If you want to join the conversations on the show, we have a live chatroom with in-game giveaways moderated by chatroom-chick Marzana. We record every Friday at 6 p.m. EST / 8 a.m. (Sat. Australia’s time), on our Ustream page!
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.


Juuno’s delightful adventures


Hello CAW darlings!! I had a pretty much WoW-less week...*gasp* Sucks, I know, but I've been working on Garrison, moving some stuff out there, killing bugs (as usual), and also getting ready for October! I have at least 4 Halloween costumes to make so have been working on that, hehe. So yeah...it's my first week in a long time that I didn't get any gaming done. 😟 BUT no worries, I plan on getting some raiding done this week, I don't want to get behind! So that's all from me this week, but I hope you're all doing lots of WoWing and having a blast!!

/great big hugs & kisses! *muah!*
For the Horde, for the Alliance, & for IRL getting in the darn way,

This is Juuno of Earthen Ring & Korialstrasz!

Love you!!! 💕💕😃😃

What We've Been Doing:

Leeta

1/ Iron Leitta - Horde Hunter Lvl29 - Lvl34
Questing in Ashenvale, Stonetalon Mountains and Northern Stranglethorn
Nesingwary quests - just not the same, I do miss the old days and collecting all the millions of pages!
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Ding Lvl34!

2/ Bloodleeta - Alliance Druid Lvl16 - Lvl19
Running up and down Darkshore - staying well away from the Stags!!

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Killer Stag!!

Journeyed across to Stormwind on boat, ran through Elwynn Forest to Redridge - now killing spiders, boars and Redridge brutes.
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Ding Lvl19!

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Smexy outfit!

3/ Ironleeta - Horde Warlock in CAW - Lvl13-Lvl15
Questing in Durotar then across to Northern Barrens.
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Ding Lvl15!

4/ Iron Leitah - Alliance Warlock Lvl18-Lvl20
Questing in Loch Modan - feels weird as I have not quested here in a long time though have had 2 Blood Thirsty toons running around here killing!

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I’m a tree!

Then moved questing to Redridge!

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Ding Lvl20! I can ride!

5/ Blood Thirsty Leetaa - Human Warlock Lvl9 - Lvl11

Killing and looting wolves, murlocs and wizards around Stone Cairn Lake.

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Ding Lvl11!

6/ Isle of Madness!!!
Most of my week has been hunting Jakur and killing Spineclaws!
Spent over 15 hours…
Managed to get Monstrous Spineclaw to spawn 3 times!
Once was I logged in and OMG IT'S RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME!!!!
Hunter pet! *insert curse word here*

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Damn you Monstrous Spineclaw!

Ancient Spineclaw kills - 3650
Monstrous Spineclaw kills - 30
Jakur kills - 109

7/ Random Screenshot

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Moonlight in Uldum!

8/ Trivia Geeks Podcast
Guested on Trivia Geeks Podcast - had alot of fun! Learnt alot of trivia lol
They are on iTunes

9/ The WoW Challenges Podcast
We go LIVE 29th Aug 7pm EST (9am Leeta’s time on 30th) at http://connectcast.tv/Stone
We will be talking all things WoW Challenges!

Aprillian




Aprillian & Vrishna




Rogueslayer

In this corner - the Challengers! (and Infidelia)(and Voltandra)

My high tech exergaming setup:
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Voltandra, BE pal
  • Naval Siege Specialist (10 siege missions)
  • Finally 3 followers to 375
  • On a Metric Ton of Missions (1000 garrison missions)
  • Savagely Epic (epic item every slot minimum 640)

Infidelia, BE pal
  • garrison resources: 470 -
  • apexis crystals: 894 -
  • Was working the Pillars of Fate daily, another BE pally there, so I invited to group. Slammed through it, win-win! (poor Vivianne died though…)
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  • Loving my Watch Commander Branson’s Lapel:
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  • WoW moment - standing cozy and warm in my Town Hall watching the snow outside, while “Let It Go” happened to be on the iPod:
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  • Definitely need to do cabin camping this winter (with wood burning stove…)
  • 100 Fish! Journeyman Fisherman (150 pts)
  • Salvage Yard 2
  • Yay - Weather-Beaten Journal - I can find fishies!
  • Thursday morning - 1999 garrison resources… Topped up a couple of hours later (also 5232 apexis)
  • Tier 3 Garrison! Shipyard! Volmar!
  • Now I need more garrison resources…
  • Apex: 13,809 GR: 1026

Bloodrager, human warrior blood thirsty
  • 15 -
  • Westfall - Along the river, Saldean’s Farm, scoured the beach -> 16
  • Stopped in Stormwind for a new weapon and shield
  • 16 - Sentinel Hill area

Ironcaw, Tauren hunter iron
  • 23 -
  • Northern Barrens - Nozzlepot’s, Dry Hills harpies - Northern Barrens Quests -> 24

Spatters, tauren druid blood thirsty
  • 15 -
  • Crossroads, 16

Paxoneficent, undead monk pacifist
  • Level 9 -> delete, I couldn’t take it anymore!

Gorecrazed, NE hunter blood thirsty
  • 18 -
  • Grove of the Ancients working north, 19

Ironclobber, dwarf hunter blood thirsty
  • 25 -
  • Whelgar’s Retreat - 26

Ironcrazed, NE hunter ironman
  • 36 -
  • Southern Barrens, 37

Ironpalaver, BE paladin ironman
  • 18 -
  • Ghostlands, 19

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ADD submission
Curly audio


Death to the damm blood knight
So shocking I played some WoW this week around my hearthstone games and here is my Audio Big G


A new feature!
Hail and well-met!
I bring you greetings from my Garrison, and news of a newly discovered feature!
I thought I should share that recently I’ve learned that our Guild Page, while not a pet who can do battle, has other talents and skills!  Leeta, I’ve discovered that these pages are capable of transcribing letters for us!  As a result, I’ve begun to dictate a number of my missives, letting him transcribe them and forward them as necessary for me.  This has created so much more time for me to work on other things.
Attached should be the transcription of my most recent missive.
“Be well…”
Wolfbrother / Eranth / Wolfheal
AIE & Clan of Darkness
Earthen-Ring


Rigarmorty Email
Hi CAW Crew,

Sorry for a lack of an audio this week. It's been a hectic busy one and with it being my last day before a week's holiday, i didn't have a spare minute to record anything.

So what I've been upto. Shalavyr my Lock Ironman died just before level 16 to one of those big dudes with the chains in the Scar out in Ghostlands. My Shaman Ironman Vuzelloa is level 7 now and going slowly. I started a new alt, Amayadorra who's a troll shaman and she's only level 5.

That's about it for this week, just been busy with work though i had some other playtime yesterday.

For the Horde,

Cheers,

Rigarmorty









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Hey Grand Nagus! Hey Kithore!



Saturday, August 22, 2015

Ctrl Alt WoW Episode 435 - I Believe I Can Fly… In 2 Weeks!!


Aprillian, Leeta and Rogueslayer discuss another week of playing World of Warcraft, Blizzard's greatest MMORPG. The show features audio segments and email submissions from our lovely listeners.
If you want to join the conversations on the show, we have a live chatroom with in-game giveaways moderated by chatroom-chick Marzana. We record every Friday at 6 p.m. EST / 8 a.m. (Sat. Australia’s time), on our Ustream page!
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.

Hello Aprillian,


I have to take it slow this week as well because I am not allowed to sit for to many hours at the desk, but I have prepared an audio for the show and I'll be back online next week for streaming!


Below are the pictures which go along with the stories from the audio



Kisses to all,


Marz.


Murloc Egg Backpack for my niece

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GamesCom statues

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MILF Orchestra Conductor
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Juuno’s delightful adventures


Hello Ctrl Alt Wow darlings!!! Aprillian, Rogueslayer, Marzana, Leeta & Vrishna! And hello Chat Room! First off...I hope we found Marzana!! Hehe! Also, I am so sorry...I got home super late last night & had to come to work today so didn't have any time to record! I know, poor planning on my part, but then again...after last week's submission, you might need a break from my voice anyway! Hehehe 😉 I agree with Wil Zambrano on Twitter, by the way...it's totally time for a musical episode!!!!! *giggling* (I know Rogueslayer is ready for it!) And speaking of twitter, I wanted to give a shout out to CAW listener, Caitrin! She's a super nice person & a big fan of the show...😃 OK....Aprillian & Vrishna....Vegas CAW in January?!?! Huh?? Huh??? Are we gonna have a meetup one of the days with our CAW peeps, maybe?? 😀😀😀
I can't wait to hear more!! Oh shoot, but right now I really have to get back to work before I get in trouble...hehehe!

/great big hugs & kisses!! *muah!*
For the Horde, for the Alliance, & for the Alts (cause that's all I did in game this past week, lol)

This is Juuno of Earthen Ring & Korialstrasz

Love you!!!!

What We've Been Doing:

Leeta

1/ Iron Leitah - Alliance Warlock - Lvl16 - Lvl17
Left Westfall and headed over to Redridge to see what quests were there.
Then did the long run from Ironforge to Dun Morogh as had no flight paths opened!

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Ding Lvl17!

2/ Bloodleeta - Alliance Druid - Lvl15 - Lvl16
Still over in Darkshore grinding through anything but stags!
Mostly naga and water elementals.

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Ding Lvl16!

3/ Iron Leitta - Horde Hunter - Lvl28 - Lvl29

Spent most of my time questing in Hillsbrad!
Lots of quests to keep myself occupied however did not do Yeti one… was worried that might be a ‘kill me’ type quest!

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Ding Lvl29!

4/ Timeless Isle… Or now affectionately called Isle of Madness!!!

SPINECLAWS! SPINECLAWS! SPINECLAWS!
*shakes fist madly in the air*

Grinding Report
2 hours - not once did Monstrous Spineclaw spawn!
1 hour - again not no spawn of MS!
2 hours and 40 mins - no show of MS!
Then went back later before shutdown - spent nearly an hour… with 1min 30s to shutdown guess who showed up!! I was logging out on the beach when NPC Scan went off!!

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GIVE ME MY PET YOU BUGGER!!!

And… nope!
1 hour and 30mins - nope not once!
1 hour and 45mins - OMG IT SPAWNED!!!! And… nope!

Ancient Spineclaw kills - 2895
Monstrous Spineclaw kills - 25

However last night Osu was kind…

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2 to go now!! \o/


5/ Thank you Followers!

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Mount #264 \o/


6/ Random Screenshot

Did the emote - target Savage Cub then /sit
He walked over and jumped in my lap :)
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Cuddles with Savage Cub!

Aprillian




Aprillian & Vrishna




Rogueslayer

Blizzcon Virtual Ticket Secured!! And… Wil Wheaton!!!!!

Make Way for Warriors!

Malrona, Nelkall, Neutrina, Voltessa, Winterlo, Zelre

Bloodforall, orc blood thirsty
  • 1 -
  • Durotar, Northern Barrens
  • 11, got too impatient with the quillboars, 3 ganged up on me

Created a starter account for challenge toons, will upgrade when one reaches 20

Bloodrager, human blood thirsty
  • 1 -
  • Upgraded account at lvl 5 so could join CAW on Winterhoof. Aiming to fund with tokens. Waiting for it to kick in (up to 72 hrs)...
  • Sunday morning clear - in the guild!
  • Trying to stay “up level” from the start, so impatience won’t kick in
  • At 9, close call with a pack of lvl 5-7 kobolds
  • Auctions kicked in, Netherweave Bags!
  • Explore Elwynn Forest
  • Thursday morning, waifs gathered in Goldshire:
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Infidelia, new boost char on WoW2, be Pally
  • 90 -
  • For collecting gold from other toons for tokens
  • Welcome to Draenor
  • Friggin’ created her on Winterhoof instead of Earthen Ring!! 72 hour after creation wait for transfer
  • 94 More Plots (Tier 2 garrison), Mine, Fishing Shack, Storehouse, Trading Post, Herb Garden, Salvage Yard
  • Put in the transfer to Earthen Ring Wednesday evening, Thursday morning all set, in Clan of Darkness
  • Barracks 2 - Vivianne bodyguard!
  • Friday morning:
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Okay, so we didn’t really make way for warriors this week. But it was fun anyway!

Death Knight Hijinx:
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Mark Audio


Wow graphics
From Alisaunder
I've always enjoyed the Blizzard art style but lately, since Draenor caused me to spend so much time in the old world, I've started to notice the old textures and lower polygon counts.
How do you feel about the older art?
Do you not play that much in older content so don't care, or care enough that Blizzard should sacrifice newer content to go back and redo older pieces?
And would it bother you to see a 2015 building planted beside a grove of 2004 trees and squirrels?


Kristen's audio
Hi CaW crew!
Here’s my audio!
Lots of hugs,
Kristen
P.S. Sorry for the baby crying in the background. I forgot to turn off the tv and a baby was crying on it.


Rigarmorty CAW Audio 21 Aug 2015
Greatings CAW crew,

Attached is my audio for this week. It's been a busy one with at least one close call with my ironmans and a new alt I started yesterday. Below is pictures of my two level 15 Ironmen Wondavyre (Wonda-vere) and Shalavyre (Shall-a-vere) as well as my new mage alt Rilyannon (Ril-annon).

For the Horde,
For the Alliance,
For many alts!

Cheers,

Rigaramorty
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Call me Big G breaker of podcasts
Sorry no audio this week as I had TAFE and work and everything else really cut my game time down. Plus I sent a audio to girls gone WoW last week and it broke there podcast so I decided not to temp fate and didn't do a audio. Shout out to virishna who was awesome on leeta's show.

for the horde

For the alliance

For the sandgrophers

And for havering some game time next week  
BigG


Oh look they got Wrath in my Burning Crusade
Heya folks! Been a couple months, so I figured it was time for one of my increasingly sporadic email updates.

So what have I been up to? Well like most of you I spent tons of time in Tanaan Jungle prepping for flight, and while i was really excited at first, it quickly became Timeless Isle 2.0. I'm so tired of the place that I can't even force myself to send any alts there. I'm at the point where I just go there and kill the big four elites and maybe Kazzak to hopefully get one of the mounts to drop. I honestly expected to be flying around Draenor by now. We'll see if Blizz's "matter of weeks, not months" promise comes true.

You would think my being a bit unhappy with the current content of WoW would be limiting my play time but it hasn't. In fact it's allowed me to focus on the aspects of the game that I really like even more. I've finished up Glory of the Dragon Soul Raider in my many attempts farming for the Blazing Drake. I'm also on the last stage of the quest to obtain Dragonwrath. It's been fun coming up with creative ways to solo quests that are meant to be completed as a group and I can't wait to finally be able to purchase a Lil' Tarecgosa of my own. Running old raids and dungeons for achievements has quickly become my favorite thing to do in game. In fact my Alliance guild has set aside Thursday nights just for running old school stuff and we are now working on the Pandaria raids. It was during one of these nights that I had my first foray into the Terrace of Endless Spring to kill the Sha of Fear and finally earn my Tranquil Master title.

OK it's been months... there's got to be more right? Oh yeah my personal grudge match with Leeta on the Warcraftpets.com realm leader boards still continues even though she probably didn't even know about it till now. I swear every time I nudge ahead of her she logs on and does like eleventy seventy pet battles and blows by me. I'm almost ashamed of the amount of gold I've spent in the AH on new pets but its nice to know I finally have all the TCG pets with my purchase of both the Dragon Kite and Tuskarr Kite a couple weeks ago. I also bought Hatespark the Tiny which is good news for the people who didn't get one from the 10th anniversary event because, with my luck, Blizz will mail one to everyone just for logging on next year. Oh well it's only gold right?

Now for a couple things I just learned that is probably common knowledge, but some others may have overlooked. You can send your followers to do a little archaeology by purchasing explorers notebooks. It's a good way to make the profession a little more tolerable until flying happens in Draenor. Also did you guys know that the Timewalking dungeons are considered max level heroics and thus can be used for the "Looking for... "achievements. I didn't until I got the Looking for Many achievement after kicking butt in the Black Morass last week. Mebbe the Perky Pug will finally be mine.

OK I'm going to go back to looking at the Legion announcement stuff for the 53rd time and buy my Virtual Ticket. So have a good show and I'll work on being more coherent in my next email.

Later folks,
Alztraj





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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

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