Sunday, February 20, 2022

Ctrl Alt WoW Episode 741 - 9.2 Love

 Recorded Sunday, February 20, 2022 2000


Ctrl Alt WoW Episode 741 - 9.2 Love


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 : Hatching of the Hippogryphs on Wednesday Feb. 23rd.        


ENDING Monday: Love is in the Air.


ENDING Tuesday (reset) : World Quest Bonus Event.

                                   PvP Brawl: Warsong Scramble.


BEGINS Tuesday (reset): Torgast: Chorus of Dead Souls.

                                  Battleground Bonus Event.

                                  PvP Brawl: Cooking Impossible.




NEWS:

Lead Rewards Designer Russ Petersen Announces Last Day at Blizzard Entertainment - Feb. 11th was his last day.


One thing i didn’t realize is the fact that both Font of Ephemeral Power and Decanter of Untapped Potential are NOT account wide items, but rather personal BoP epic quality items, so the only item you can ship to other toons is still the base iLvl 200 item you buy in Oribos. I wonder what the range of taught conduits is.


New Blizzard Gear Store is LIVE.

Notice that the US store has a free shipping deal going on as of recording of this episode, the UK store DOESN’T.


Illidan, Jaina and Sylvanas statues have seen a price increase. Old: $400. New: $600.

EU people, old store € currency, new store £ currency, so way more expensive now.


FFXIV Online Store has a sale.


What We've Been Doing:



Aprillian




Constrax


Grand Nagus

Personal WoW points:

Renown: New patch, no new catchup level?

Pre-9.2: Catchup to Renown 40. Why no Renown 70 or 80 catchup item upgrade?

Renown is GONE! No more Renown increase, so why not “skip” it all together on alts?


A point on addons and Overwolfs purchase of Curse.

Switched to WoWUp.

Number of addons just over 200 at that time.

Now I'm down to 43 Retail WoW addons installed that are supported.

Overwolf has not cut API access for WoWUp yet.

What does that tell us about acceptance of Overwolf in the addon community of WoW?

Nothing good i’d say, guessing here.


IRL:

Finally switched to my new ISP.


FINAL FANTASY XIV:

Letter from the Developers the other day, and i can’t watch it due to spoilers.

Focussed on finishing the MSQ now so I can watch it.


Miqo’te:

Warrior job: 87;  Bard job: 87.

4 squadron members at 60 (max level). Half of the roster is done.

Finished the Pixie Beast Tribe story, and reputation and got a new mount.

Unlocked flying in the first EW zone.

Found a way to burn Grand Company seals: Mount/minion boxes. 20.000 per box with a random mount or minion in them.

Two different ones available: ARR/HW content and StB content.

Sold some more Venture loot on the Market Board today

Squadron member classes and composition. http://ffxivsquadron.com/

Really happy with the day's work. That brings my total sales on this Retainer to The first Retainer, out of two selling actively, to crack the 1 million gil mark.


Lost Ark:

Didn’t play much, other than collecting the login rewards most days.

It’s gonna be a game that I'll play when I feel like it, not now though.

  

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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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Sunday, February 13, 2022

Ctrl Alt WoW Episode 740 - 9.2 2.22.22

 Recorded Sunday, February 13, 2022 2000


Ctrl Alt WoW Episode 740 - 9.2 2.22.22


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 : Love is in the Air ending on Feb. 21st


(MICRO)HOLIDAYS :            


ENDING Tuesday (reset) : Timewalking: Cataclysm

                                   PvP Brawl: Shado-Pan Showdown


BEGINS Tuesday (reset): World Quest Bonus Event

                                  PvP Brawl: Warsong Scramble



NEWS:

World of Warcraft:


9.2 Eternity’s End will go live on Feb 22nd.

PTR build marked as Release.


RAID UNLOCK SCHEDULE:

March 1 – Normal and Heroic difficulties. Note that the last three bosses (Lords of Dread, Rygelon, and The Jailer) will NOT be available in this first week.

March 8 – The remaining three bosses unlock for Normal and Heroic. All bosses are available for Mythic. Raid Finder Wing 1: Ephemeral Plains (Vigilant Guardian, Skolex, the Insatiable Ravener, Artificer Xy'mox, Halondrus the Reclaimer) becomes available.

March 22 – Raid Finder Wing 2: Cornerstone of Creation (Dausegne, the Fallen Oracle, Prototype Pantheon, Lihuvim, Principal Architect) becomes available.

April 5 – Raid Finder Wing 3: Domination's Grasp (Anduin Wrynn, Lords of Dread, Rygelon) becomes available.

April 19 – Raid Finder Wing 4: The Grand Design (The Jailer) becomes available.


API access denial by Overwolf.

Overwolf, WoWUp and Wago.io.

Partnership of Wago.io and WoWUp and resulting denial of access.

Ads due to the partnership.

Uncertainty of execution of denial of access.


FFXIV:


What We've Been Doing:



Aprillian



Constrax


Grand Nagus

Last gathering job over 80.

Learned the Monk job. Level 16 currently.

Glammed my Squadron members that are level 50+.


Sold another item for 150k+.

GShade installed. What a difference.


Played some Lost Ark.

Fun but not the game that I'd say is my new go-to game.

A Korean game with all the items from the shop isn’t what I want.

Layers and layers of systems on top of each other.

It’s P2W, but it’s also F2P.

My definition of P2W: Ability to buy player power = P2W

Pure cosmetic shop items, even though annoying in sub games like WoW or FFXIV isn’t P2W. Both WoW and FFXIV ARE P2W, since you can buy ingame currency from both games shops.

Others might have other definitions and I'm ok with that, this one is mine. 


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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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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







Sunday, February 6, 2022

Ctrl Alt WoW Episode 739 - The Faction Wall Comes Down!

 Recorded Sunday, February 6, 2022 2000


Ctrl Alt WoW Episode 739 - The Faction Wall Comes Down!


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.

               Darkmoon Faire.


(MICRO)HOLIDAYS :  


BEGINS Monday: Love is in the Air ending on Feb. 21st.  1 week overlap with Lunar Festival.        


ENDING Tuesday (reset) : Arena Skirmish Bonus Event.

                                   PvP Brawl: Deep Wind Dunk.


BEGINS Tuesday (reset): Timewalking: Cataclysm.

                                  PvP Brawl: Shado-Pan Showdown.



NEWS:

No ABK earnings call for Q4 “due to the pending MS acquisition”. WHY??

WoW cross faction grouping coming in 9.2.5:

Real ID or BattleTag friendships needed to use this feature.

Only premade grouping will be able to use this feature.

Instanced content only.

Some content might need to be reworked due to heavy faction specific content, ICC, Battle of Dazaralor.

All legacy content will be included eventually.

Expanding this feature might be in the future, incl. “things like” cross faction guilds.



Old Gridania X:10.2 Y:9.4 Lisette de Valentione

This event rewards you a chocobo barding set and a wall mounted item for your estate.





What We've Been Doing:



Aprillian



Constraxx

  Sold 5 Vials of the Sands this week. 1 Vial donated to Duvessae’s alt via mail.  Reached friendly with Undying army on Deathknight, purchased blinky on Blizzard Store. Purchased 2 Renown pets trootie from Court of the Night, and Jiggles from Undying Army.

  

  Mrs. Constraxx in pain this week, so i’m falling asleep at the keyboard many days.  Try to do cooldowns on my 5 alchemists for the most part.  Sold 2 arcanite bars for 3600 gold profit on Winterhoof.

  

  Farming Volatile Fires in Twilight Highlands to make Truegold, using my crate of bobbers : Murloc heads, got a 20 Volatile water Proc from my transmute living Elements.


Grand Nagus

Sprout video of the week: FFXIV 1.0-1.23b Story: A Retrospective

My Miqo’te has reached 85 WAR and 84 BRD.

Chapter 3 of EW started.

Sold some really nice glam items, highest valuing 450k gil.


Reputation in FFXIV vs WoW

Reached an Honored reputation with the Pixies faction

Got the Wind-Up Pixie minion.

Next goal is the Porxie mount for max rep level.

Unlocked the first Stormblood Beast Tribe, the Ananta. What a great story there too.



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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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Last week’s 120’s:

  Epril has reached max level.


Time Flies When You’re Having Fun:

  Matarona has 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