Sunday, January 30, 2022

Ctrl Alt WoW Episode 738 - Zenith, Stepping Into a VR MMO

 Recorded Sunday, January 30, 2022 2000


Ctrl Alt WoW Episode 738 - Zenith, Stepping Into a VR MMO


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 chat room 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 be placed in a drawing for a WoW Pet or an Authenticator.




This week in WoW:


ONGOING : Lunar Festival ending on Feb. 13th


(MICRO)HOLIDAYS :   


ENDING Monday: Torgast: Beasts of Prodigum         


ENDING Tuesday (reset) : Pet Battle Bonus Event

                                   PvP Brawl: Comp Stomp


BEGINS Tuesday (reset): Arena Skirmish Bonus Event

                                   PvP Brawl: Deep Wind Dunk


NEWS:

Correction from last week: Bobby’s contract ends in march 2023 not july like i said.

Lunar Festival transmog quest to eliminate seasonal restrictions on transmog from Lunar Festival is called Lunar Preservation 

BattleNet Lunar New Year Sale (Through Feb. 3, 2022)

The Celebration Collection (Blizzard 30 Year Anniversary) The four packs are each 20% off.

Collection Available through February 20, 2022


Blizzard Announces New Survival Game.


New 6 month / store mount: Wen Lo, the River's Edge. Players will also receive the Goblin Gumbo Kettle toy in Burning Crusade Classic.


New item on the PTR Decanter of Untapped Potential, this item is the medium item when it comes to learning and upgrading your conduits, one I talked about last week. This item raises the iLvl to 239 and requires The Enlightened rep of Revered.


FFXIV is once more available both to buy and the FREE trial.


What We've Been Doing:



Aprillian

Picture this, you are actually casting spells using your actual “hands”. You are reaching down and picking up weapons off your hips. You are moving through the map and looking around and seeing things. You are talking to people and not typing! It’s so cool and I love it. Finally a VR MMO that works.



I am playing an Essence Mage DPS. I’ve made 3 characters all EM DPS

I learned how to do the cooking table, which is so much fun. You are actually cooking and not just pressing buttons.


Cooking Table


Aprillian has mail from the AH, but her subscription has expired



Playing very little Population: One



Constraxx

3 Vial of the Sands sold this week (56k, 65k, 114k)  and 1 Sky golem for 77k


Grand Nagus

Sprout video of the week: Lore of FFXIV 1.0 FINAL FANTASY XIV Documentary Part #1 - "One Point O"



Warrior job at 84 and Bard job at 83.

Working on Sylphs and Pixie Beast Tribe factions.

At rep level 3 with both currently.

Number of quests difference.

Limited number of allowances (12).

You can’t job hop when doing beast tribe quests.

Almost got my WAR glam finished. Only the head piece remains.

Finally about to get to the (currently) highest rank in my Grand Company, Storm Captain.

Requirements for (Grand Company) Captain rank: Complete 5 Command Missions + unlock mission: Flagged Mission: XXXXX.

Captain rank will unlock the last items at the Grand Company vendors.

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


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Guild Updates: January 23 - January 30

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Matarinna

Matadoria

Matarossa

Matachi

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50

Matalock

Matahornne

Matarossa

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60

Minoke

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Last week’s 120’s: Reaching max level is Minoke.


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







Sunday, January 23, 2022

Ctrl Alt WoW Episode 737 - Microsoft Owns Bobby Now

 Recorded Sunday, January 23, 2022 2000


Ctrl Alt WoW Episode 737 - Microsoft Owns Bobby Now


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 chat room 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 be placed in a drawing for a WoW Pet or an Authenticator.




This week in WoW:


ONGOING : 


(MICRO)HOLIDAYS :            

  

ENDING Tuesday (reset) : Timewalking Lich King  

                                     PvP Brawl Gravity Lapse  


BEGINS Tuesday (reset): Torgast: Beasts of Prodigum

                                  Pet Battle Bonus Event

                                  PvP Brawl: Comp Stomp

   

NEWS:

Microsoft bought ABK.

Great chance taken, given the problems ABK are in.

OW2 and D4 delayed because the buyout could result in a XBox only console launch?

Sources say Microsoft approached ABK in Nov ‘21 and the Q3 earnings call announcing the delay happened on Nov. 2nd

Bobby to leave if and when the deal goes through.

FY 2023 for ABK starts in July and Bobby’s contract ends then too, it would seem.


Why do you get the upgrade as a top level player?

Why don’t the other difficulties not get an equal chance to complete their conduits?


10.0 announcement soon?

Leak and encrypted content could be that.


FFXIV Patch 6.08, third patch of Endwalker implemented on Jan. 25th


What We've Been Doing:



Aprillian


https://zenithmmo.com



Constraxx

Two Battle for azeroth dungeons on Goblin Rogue Earthen Ring US, Dense sharpening stones, Heirlooms enchanted gear, topping or 2nd place on the meter during most fights, dropping to 3rd on trash pulls because range can engage from a distance to start their dots.  We wiped on 4th boss I think the healer pulled threat and the tank ignored the trash on the boss pull, in any case the healer bailed and we got a group going again in less than 5 minutes.


Exalted with Clan of Darkness doing quests at Darkmoon Faire.  Mining in Silithus to improve classic Blacksmithing with Daprishnah for a faster flight.


Sold 3 arcanite bars for 2400 gold, about 2000 gold profit since I had most of the mats already and the arcane crystals were only 60 gold each.


Sold 5 Goldthorn = 525 gold

Sold 185 Stormvine = 3145 gold


Bought 900 death blossoms (12 gold each)  to start inscription = roughly 14k spent

Spent about 4k on tranquil ink, rare drop.


Tome of Small Sins dropped from a cache, requires 80 renown with Venthyr.


Grand Nagus


Not my intention to say MS bought ABK to fix it.

Sprout video of the week: My FFXIV UI Setup | HUD Tips & Tricks + Job Change Menu!





Got a Orchestrion as a reward for a Retainer Venture, i can have my own music in my apartment now.

Started the second chapter of the Endwalker MSQ. Already love the story of it.

Yoshi-P really knows how to tell a story.

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Guild Updates: January 9 - January 23

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Matarosa (15th)

Mataroza (14th)

Mattarossa (23rd)

Matarrishna (23rd)

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50

Matarrishna

30


60

Lippizzik

40





Last week’s 60’s: Lippizik hit max level this week.


Time Flies When You’re Having Fun:

  Mataroza and Dabigscore have earned this achievement.



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







Sunday, January 9, 2022

Ctrl Alt WoW Episode 736 - Three Patches In Four Month?

Recorded Sunday, January 9, 2022 2000


Ctrl Alt WoW Episode 736 - Three Patches In Four Month?


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 chat room 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 be placed in a drawing for a WoW Pet or an Authenticator.




This week in WoW:


ONGOING : Darkmoon Faire (it was a bug that didn’t generate a new set of events for 2022 


(MICRO)HOLIDAYS :            


ENDING Tuesday (reset) : Battleground Bonus Event

                                   PvP Brawl: Deep Six


BEGINS Tuesday (reset): Shadowlands Dungeon Event

                                  PvP Brawl: Arathi Blizzard



NEWS:


Johnny Cash, Senior Game Designer for WoW, will be leaving Blizzard after 12 years. He’s been with Blizzard for almost 12 years and worked on systems like class halls pet battles and artifact weapons.



FFXIV patch 6.1 might release around march. This is the 3rd patch released for Endwalker since it released in early december.


What We've Been Doing:



Aprillian




Constraxx

Sold a Depleted Kyrarite Rocket befor the show.


Grand Nagus

You can access WoW PTR as a non-subscribed account

You can access ALL characters on the PTR, regardless of their level.


Started the Endwalker MSQ

Truer words were never written.

All DoH/DoL at 50+

The Miqo’te got a new glam set 


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Hello everyone,


Sorry this is so late, it has been a busy month.  I have had some time to play games though!  I have been hooked on FFXIV and have been loving the music, the story, the character development, and the community.  I recently finished the Heavensward campaign on my White Mage and am currently around level 64.  


It has also been so nice to run dungeons with random people and not be faced with multitudes of harassment, criticism, and hate.  Instead most of the FFXIV community is very understanding, kind, and extremely helpful.  They want you to do well and they are more than happy to teach you mechanics if needed.  It has been fantastic for my anxiety!


Today's Blast from the Past is a string of clips from episode 135 through 138 and continues the focus on the first game playing days of Vrishna.  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.


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:

Sparklight has earned the achievement 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