Sunday, April 24, 2022

Ctrl Alt WoW Episode 746 - It is DRAGONS!!

 Recorded Sunday, April 24, 2022 2000


Ctrl Alt WoW Episode 746 - It is DRAGONS!!


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 :  Volunteer Guard Day April 28         


ENDING Tuesday (reset) : Battleground Bonus Event

                                   PvP Brawl: Comp Stomp


BEGINS Tuesday (reset): Shadowlands Dungeon Event

                                  PvP Brawl: Deepwind Dunk


Classic WoW SoM: The Ahn’Qiraj War Effort is now LIVE.


This week in FFXIV:


Patch 6.11 goes live.

Dragonsong’s Reprise (Ultimate) to release with 6.11.


* Additional features will be implemented in future updates:

A new custom deliveries client, New faction tribal quests, Tataru's Grand Endeavor sidequests, and Somehow Further Hildibrand Adventures sidequests are scheduled to be released in Patch 6.15.

Data Center Travel is scheduled to be implemented in Patch 6.18


NEWS:

World of Warcraft: Dragonflight.

The team is taking a "when it's ready approach" to release and so there is no release date yet.

New Player doesn’t include Shadowlands with Dragonflight released. Even Chromietime has your toon finish 10-50 way before reaching the end of a expansion’s content. So there is still breathing room to level to 60 in one expansion before going to Dragonflight at 60 or 58 if that two level before max level system will still be there.


Bajheera Interview with Brian Holinka:

The team wants to add more battlegrounds and arenas, but nothing to announce at the moment.

Cross-faction will be available for rated PvP.

Random battlegrounds will continue to have the faction divide. (Why?)

Rated solo queue could come later on in Dragonflight, but it would likely only allow you to queue by yourself.


Dragonflight Developer Interviews - Ungeek, Gamespot, and Gamerbraves:


Ungeek Interview:

The Dragon Isles are large and so Dragon Riding was added to allow a unique and easier way to navigate this world designed for dragons.

Gamespot Interview:

Flying in the Dragon Isles will not require a Pathfinder achievement.

The Dragon Isles was chosen for this expansion because it was one of the few remaining known places on Azeroth yet to be explored.

The Evoker class came about as the team realized that the Dracthyr race was too unique to be accessed by the current classes.

A Threads of Fate leveling system for alts will be utilized in Dragonflight and Blizzard is looking into making more systems account-wide.

Blizzard also plans to provide a more in-depth open world experience going forward.

There are no borrowed power systems in Dragonflight, but instead a revamp of systems that players are familiar with.

The team saw with the release of WoW Classic that much of the strengths of the old talent system still worked today and tried to find a way to incorporate that into the modern game.

Gamerbraves Interview

You will get a new talent point for every level from 60-70 with the new talent system. (and what about the lower levels?)

The starting zone for the Dracthyr will tell the story of why they are waking up now and their place in the story.




FFXIV housing lottery situation.


What We've Been Doing:



Aprillian

Population: One

Played Squads with Rummy500 and DirtNap516 and we worked together like a well oiled machine to get this awesome win in Population: One. I'm still a Master as of right now.


Why are you calling out your kills?

Generals: Calm Down


Constraxx

 AH wonderland, 4 to 6 Vials of the Sands sold, One Donated, no pet sales yet.


 Leveled 2nd Tauren Druid to 37, Boomkin specialization, getting gear at the AH every 2 or 3 levels for the non-heirloom gear.  I try no to kick people in dungeons, I just want the exp the loot is meh.


 I need to get more pyrium on the horde server I play on, I currently have 5 vials of the sands listed on AH and this morning I blew all my gold on flasks for the raid group to supply group activities on Thursdays.  Carefully gathering mats on AH except for one moment of suck where I bought all the Volatile Earth on AH thinking it was Volatile Life.


Grand Nagus

Temper, Temper VII - Achieve blacksmith level 70.

‘Tis True without Lying VII - Achieve alchemist level 70.

I Made That: Carpenter I - Craft and record completion of 30 unique carpenter recipes.

Why recording completion of recipes in FFXIV is important: Quick Synth.

Bio-Doma II - See the Doman enclave through the second phase of reconstruction.

An Eye for Detail: Blacksmith I - Craft 100 high-quality items as a blacksmith.


Break It Down III - Successfully desynthesize (disenchant) 500 items.

Desynth works with the job that crafted or gathered the item you desynth.



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Guild Updates: XXX-XXX

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Last week’s 60’s: Raztini has reached this milestone.


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, April 17, 2022

Ctrl Alt WoW Episode 745 - 10.0, What’s Next?

 Recorded Sunday, April 17, 2022 2000


Ctrl Alt WoW Episode 745 - 10.0, What’s Next?


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:


NobleGardern Starts Monday, April 18, 2022 1000 ends Monday 25, 2022 1000


ONGOING : 


(MICRO)HOLIDAYS :            


ENDING Tuesday (reset) : PvP Brawl: Gravity Lapse

Timewalking Dungeon Event


BEGINS Tuesday (reset): Sepulcher of the First Ones

Battleground Bonus Event


This week in FFXIV:



NEWS:


What We've Been Doing:



Aprillian

http://twitch.tv/AprilPvd

http://youtube.com/AprilPvd

 http://twitch.tv/AprillianCAW during show live streaming



Constraxx

  Auction house shenanigans, leveling Tauren druid level 37 and Vulpera Rogue, level 35.


Grand Nagus

Sprout video of the week: Where to get lost Loot in FFXIV Belts, Class sets... etc | What's Calamity Salvager | Gaming Kinda How the Calamity Salvager works.

Housing lottery issue.

Buy the available gear. Scrips are your friend.

Cleared the 5.x Alliance raid (24 man content).

New Achievements:

Dragoon Age II - Complete the dragoon job quest “Dragoon’s Fate” JQ of HW.

Dream Small III - Win a cumulative total of 500,000 MGP from the Mini Cactpot game.

An Eye for Quantity: Miner II - Gather 1,500 items with the Gatherer’s Boon effect as a Miner.

An Eye for Quantity: Botanist II - Gather 1,500 items with the Gatherer’s Boon effect as a Botanist.

Satisfaction Guaranteed: Ehll Tou I and II - Achieve a satisfaction level of 1 and 2 with Ehll Tou.

Satisfaction Guaranteed: Charlemend I and II - Achieve a satisfaction level of 1 and 2 with Charlemend.

https://ffxiv.consolegameswiki.com/wiki/Custom_Deliveries

 

Tougher than Leather VII - Achieve leatherworker level 70.

Mining Your Own Business: Black Shroud I - Mine 20 times at level 1-10 mineral deposits in the Black Shroud.

Working the Bellows: Amateur - Successfully synthesize (craft) 50 items for level 1-10 smithing recipes.


Breaking Rocks in the Hot Sun IX - Achieve miner level 90.

Botanist is close to 85 so I might have it at 90 next week.


I organized my bags and then hit the SORT button by mistake, and my heart skipped a couple of beats. Then I opened the menu again and saw a UNDO SORT choice. THANK YOU, Yoshi-P!!

Ishgardian Restauration completed.

One specific girl (not going to spoil who, but everyone that has played HW knows of whom i speak) is back at the end. I’ve always wondered what became of her. Leave it to Ishikawa to tell the stories and make use of characters she introduced and complete their stories in a satisfactory way.

Squadron members another step closer to 60.

The tank is 58 and the healer and dps are both 59.


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Hello everyone,


Sometimes I wonder if I have been abducted by the Doctor and the TARDiS.  I feel like I wake up and a month or more has passed but I don't remember much of what happened in that month -.-


Work has been busy, our Robotics team had their competition, and I still had a little time for gaming.  My character is now 70ish and I have been putting off starting the next expansion Shadowbringers to do putzy stuff and level some alts.  I think you all asked a while ago what server I was on: I'm on the Exodus server of the Primal datacenter.  If I remember correctly (rare chance) the CAW free company is on spriggan server?  


Anyway today's Blast from the Past is episode 447.  Enjoy!


--Kyle


a.k.a. Xalde Ugetsu, Primal Exodus









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


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Guild Updates: April 10 to April 17

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Last week’s 60’s: Loriais has reached this milestone.


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, April 10, 2022

Ctrl Alt WoW Episode 744 - Patch 6.1 LIVE This Tuesday

 Recorded Sunday, April 10, 2022 2000


Ctrl Alt WoW Episode 744 - Patch 6.1 LIVE This Tuesday.


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) : World Quest Bonus Event

                                   PvP Brawl: Arathi Blizzard


BEGINS Tuesday (reset): Timewalking: Legion

                                  PvP Brawl: Gravity Lapse

Noblegarden - April 18th - 25th

Volunteer Guard Day - April 28th


This week in FFXIV:


ONGOING: Moogle Treasure Trove: The Hunt for Scripture - ending on April 11th.

FFXIV: Hatching-tide holiday website


Population: One


💥The Mayhem Starts Next Week! 💥

🥇Exclusive Tiered Rewards

🌆Neon Night Mode

❤️Many Bug Fixes and Improvements

Metropolis Mayhem Starts April 14 @ 12 PM Pacific


NEWS:

World Of Warcraft: 


Data mining 9.2.5 highlights:

Renown boost item for 1-60 (was 1-40)

Another vote-for-a-mount mount to come to LIVE. Slimesaber.

A potential name for the 10.0 expansion has surfaced due to datamining of the source code of the Blizzard website.


Final Fantasy:

Apparently there will be a 24h maintenance period ahead of the launch of patch 6.1.

Patch 6.1 will be released on April 12th and 6.11 will come two weeks later on April 26th.

Patch 6.18, the 3rd patch after 6.1, (6.1, 6.11, 6.15 and 6.18), will likely go live mid June.

Maintenance schedule for 6.1:

Final Fantasy XIV: Newfound Adventure - Patch 6.1:


New Main Scenario Quests.

New 24 man Alliance Raid wing 1 / 3 with 4 bosses - Myths of the Realm.

A new The Ministrel’s Ballad Extreme Trial. Not naming the fight due to spoilers.

A new Ultimate fight - Dragonsong’s Reprise (Patch 6.11).

A new Unreal fight - Ultima’s Bane.

A new dungeon.

A Realm Reborn (2.0 only) Duty Support and Updates. 

* Duty Support and updates for 2.x, Heavensward, and so forth will be progressively implemented in later patches.

A new Tribal faction (Patch 6.15).

New Residential District - Empyreum, located in Ishgard.

New Sidequests - Tataru's Grand Endeavor (Patch 6.1x).

New Custom Deliveries (Patch 6.15) Person not named due to spoilers.

New PvP system Crystalline Conflict. 

PvP talents completely reworked.

New PvP reward system.

New mounts and minions.

New Hildibrand story.

Adventurer Plates (beta version).

The Unending Codex.

4 additional glam plates totaling 20. 1 glam plate per class/job.

Data Center Travel (Patch 6.18).

Additional New Game+ chapters.

Dreamfitting (Online Store Try-on Feature).

 GARO Collaboration is back. Mounts and gear.

 And more….

 25 million FFXIV, plus 1 million since last october.

Remember the game wasn’t available for purchase for a couple of months after the new expansion launched, it was only available for upgrades of existing accounts.


The FFXIV: Endwalker OST is out.




What We've Been Doing:



Aprillian

Payment loop and refund. But Blizzard quickly fixed.

Transferred some toons from Aprillian’s account to a Tiiaa’s. I kept getting an error:

 




Constraxx


Grand Nagus


A Dr. Who fan in Square Enix?


The Binding Coil of Bahamut - A MUST for everyone interested in the story behind the Calamity.

All crafting jobs at 63+.

Started unlocking the crafting tribal quests.

Moogles in Heavensward - crafting.

Namazu in Stormblood - crafting.

Qitari in Shadowbringers - gathering.

My Grand Company Squadron is now at 5 max level members (max level is 60).

3 more to go.

Recruited new members.

All new recruits are level 57.


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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