Sunday, February 28, 2021

Ctrl Alt WoW Episode 697 - Nothing, Nada, Not A Thing

 Recorded Sunday, February 28, 2021 2000


Ctrl Alt WoW Episode 697 - Nothing, Nada, Not A Thing


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:


ONGOING :                     


ENDING Tuesday (reset) : Arena Skirmishes Bonus Event

                                      Timewalking: The Burning Crusade

BEGINS Tuesday (reset):  World Quest Bonus Event

                                      PvP Brawl: Temple of Hotmogu.

                                      DMF next week Sunday the March 7th.


What We've Been Doing:



Aprillian




Constraxx

Leveling Mission Table Champions (companions) 35 and down to 15.


Reputatioins 12K out 21k.


Spineclaw Gladechewer bug mount from Tirna Scythe looted while playing : 


Grand Nagus

I haven’t set foot inside Retail other then to do the show notes and to clean out the mail so nothing is being deleted in my absence. 

I fully intend to take a break from Retail until I know the fate of Sylvanas in 9.1.

Regardless of how i get to know of it, if she’s going to survive the Raid encounter I'll definitely return, but not in the way I have been playing earlier. I will commit more time to Classic WoW in it’s different versions from now on, since I love playing in the old pre-Cata world of Azeroth.

My focus at the moment is on 3 toons, one healer to-be, Forsaken Holy Priest; ranged DPS, Forsaken Warlock (who would have thought, right?) and a melee class dps and tank if need be, an Orc Fury Warrior. 



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 Hello everyone!


I am still ferrying people across to the world of the dead.  It is almost getting to the point of doing the Draenor opening scenario over and over again.  I wonder if there will be some sort of shortcut later.  Just brought my warlock over and made her join up with Maldraxxus.  Now I just need to figure out which alt belongs with Bastion and I will have at least one in every covenant.


Also, here are some clips from episode 432 for our Blast from the Past.  Enjoy!


--Kyle









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Guild Updates: February 21 - February 28m

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Last week’s 120’s: No new max levels in the guild this past week.


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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.


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Shout Outs & Thank You







Monday, February 22, 2021

Ctrl Alt WoW Episode 696 - BlizzConline And What We Learned From It.

 Recorded Sunday, February 21, 2021 1700


Ctrl Alt WoW Episode 696 - BlizzConline And What We Learned From It.


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:


ONGOING : Love is in the Air             


ENDING Tuesday (reset) : Timewalking: Mists of Pandaria

                                       PvP Brawl: Cooking Impossible

BEGINS Tuesday (reset): Arena Skirmishes Bonus Event

                                     Hatching of the Hippogryphs micro holiday on the 22rd all day


What We've Been Doing:

9.0.5:

Release in march.

Will give us access to the Wandering Ancient mount just by logging into Retail WoW.


9.1 Chains of Domination:

9.1 PTR should go live once 9.0.5 is up and running, kinda.

New Raid, Sanctum of Domination (10 boss Raid)

New Mythic-only (for now) Mega-Dungeon

New zone as part of the Maw. Korthia, City of Secrets (Suramar-like zone) maybe. That’s what i gather from the concept art i’ve seen with buildings and Venice like bridges.

Flying in the Covenant zones, not in the Maw and likely not in Oribos.

Flying unlocked by doing the Covenant campaign.

Cosmetic Covenant armor independent of armor type. One set fits all.

No more seperate Covenant campaigns. With 9.1 they merge into one with some special moments where the story might fit for players that have chosen one Covenant that is highlighted in one story or another. Extra dialogue or something to that effect. So we are (for the moment) back to one campaign vs multiple like the class campaign or the 9.0 Covenant campaign, more like the War Campaign from BfA, all though there where technically two there too, one for each faction.

“Reverse invasions” as an example it was stated what it would be like to take the Maldraxxi Covenant campaign necropolis into the Maw.

Soulbind / conduit changes:

Empowered conduits

New Soulbind rows

NO new soulbinds (in 9.1).

Additional changes possibly even to Covenant signature abilities. 


The Burning Crusade CLASSIC:

Patch 2.4.3 is the template build for the game.

So no pre and post Black Temple versions of Shadowmoon Valley, as sad as that is, i understand that it’s too much work for working with a old game and bring it in 2 different versions and everything that would bring with it.


Aprillian

“When I was 15, I spent a month working on an archeological dig. I was talking to one of the archeologists one day during our lunch break and he asked those kinds of ‘getting to know you’ questions you ask young people: Do you play sports? What’s your favorite subject? And I told him, no I don’t play any sports. I do theater, I’m in choir, I play the violin and piano, I used to take art classes.

“And he went wow. That’s amazing! And I said, ‘Oh no, but I’m not any good at any of them.’

“And he said something then that I will never forget and which absolutely blew my mind because no one had ever said anything like it to me before: ‘I don’t think being good at things is the point of doing them. I think you’ve got all these wonderful experiences with different skills, and that all teaches you things and makes you an interesting person, no matter how well you do them.’

“And that honestly changed my life. Because I went from a failure, someone who hadn’t been talented enough at anything to excel, to someone who did things because I enjoyed them. I had been raised in such an achievement-oriented environment, so inundated with the myth of Talent, that I thought it was only worth doing things if you could ‘win’ at them.”

  • Kurt Vonnegut



Farming Searing Welps


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Grand Nagus

I spent BlizzConline with Frazley from FrazlCast in her chat and we chatted about all the things BlizzConline.

It was really fun and i’m happy i had the chance to do that

It is all about the community and each individual part is part of the whole that is the community.

I love what the Blizzard community is. As much critique as you might have with things that happen in the games and to the games, the essential aspect, at least for me, is the community.

If my Queen finds her end i’m going to quit Retail WoW!

I’m not going to quit WoW, just not playing a WoW game that doesn’t have my Queen in it (anymore). Yes, she is in old UC and in SoO and all the places from the past, but it’s just not the same, at least not for me.

I hope they wouldn’t kill her dead, but you never know.


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still alive, just busy :)


Hello everyone!


Sorry that I have not had much time lately to make a blast from the past, school has been busy.  We just transitioned from complete online learning to hybrid (half students in building, half learning at home, switch every other day).  Now our school is thinking about going totally back in person in March.  Scary!  Somehow it is now safe for me to have 30 to 40 students in the same room?


I have not had too much exciting WoW time, mostly some leveling of my rogue through Bastion and some ferrying of alts over to Oribos.  I feel like Death ferrying my alts across the river Styx in my barge.  To play a parody of  Eddie Izzard "Come, my alts, it is your time. We go to the Land of the Dead. Come, we will travel across the Maw. Two, please. One and one OAP. What? Are you coming?"  And some of my alts go "No!  We're going to stay here and manage banks and auction houses".


Hope you are all doing well, and hopefully I'll find a moment to get another Blast from the Past and some exciting WoW time in.


--Kyle









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


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Guild Updates: XXX-XXX

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Last week’s 120’s:


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.


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Shout Outs & Thank You







Monday, February 15, 2021

Ctrl Alt WoW Episode 695 - Lunar Love Is In The Air Festival?

 Recorded Sunday, February 14, 2021 2000


Ctrl Alt WoW Episode 695 - Lunar Love Is In The Air Festival?


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:


ONGOING :  Lunar Festival ends Feb. 19th

                   Love Is In The Air ends Feb. 22nd           


ENDING Tuesday (reset) : Pet Battle Bonus Event

                                      


BEGINS Tuesday (reset): Timewalking: Pandaria 

                                     PvP Brawl: Cooking Impossible


What We've Been Doing:

The Castle Nathria LfR DOES have all 10 bosses in it after all.

The first boss is part of wing 3 in the LfR version of the Raid.

New 6 month mount: Lucky Yun

Also the BlizzConline bundles are on sale. I guess it’s a Virtual Ticket digital content thing, that you can buy something to represent the event, but you don’t have to. Kinda.

The event broadcast is FREE for EVERYONE. 

There will be dedicated channels for each IP so you can watch WoW related content all day long or totally ignore it by choosing a channel that isn’t WoW.

I like this way of focussing on the individual IPs.

We get more Anima from (some) instanced content. Mythic+ and Raids of any difficulty will drop more Anima from bosses, so if you are looking for a way to do your weekly Anima quest, you can do it faster running Mytic+ or one Raid killing all the bosses.


Aprillian




Constraxx

Sick on Wednesday, played 10 minutes of WoW and back to bed. Supervisor sick the next day, the guy never takes a day off, so it’s commendable that he takes care of himself.


Finished Covenant Campaign, earned 2 mounts one for Renown and one for the completion of the quest line.


Finished Shadowlands Safari, collected all the pets, the last one was in a shallow pool in Revendreth, really hard to spot on the map.


Revered Reputation with Undying Army in Maldraxxus, Revered Reputation with Bastion  with the Ascended. Shadowlands Diplomat achievement accomplished on my Rogue.


“Something’s not quite right…” find 8 boggart without guessing incorrectly.


Grand Nagus

Finished the Necrolords and Kyrian Covenant campaign’s chapter 9, concluding 9.0’s Covenant campaign content.

Next will be Night Fae in Ardenweald.

Once that’s done i have to finish leveling the Venthir (Revendreth) toon to max to start on that Covenant campaign. It will be a Gnome Fury Warrior.

As for WQ’s: Second week with ZERO drops from the World Boss on any of my 3 max level toons.

Multiple WQ’s up at the same time award you the same conduit.

All three max level toons are now raid ready. The gear i got from the Covenant campaign helped my Paladin, the third toon, to just get over iLvl 170, specifically iLvl 170,06

Also i ran a couple of dungeons on my Paladin, the first to get a conduit i needed and the second one to progress my Covenant campaign.

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Hello everyone!


Most of my time in WoW these past few weeks have been spent finishing up the Venthyr campaign.  I really enjoyed the story and liked to see how the different shadowlands factions interacted with each other throughout it.  I also got quite a few upgrades in gear from the campaign - I guess all I needed to do gear up for LFR was to just do the campaign.  Now I need to get another alt to 60 so that I can see another faction's campaign story and see how that turns out.


Today I have clips from episode 431 for our 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: CovenantForge



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


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Last week’s 60’s: Nincowpoop


Time Flies When You’re Having Fun:


Lithuise has earned 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.


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Shout Outs & Thank You