Ctrl Alt WoW Episode 845 - WoW Gets New Transmog System Too

Ctrl Alt WoW Episode 845 - WoW Gets New Transmog System Too

AprilPvd and Grand Nagus discuss Final Fantasy XIV, No Man’s Sky and Virtual Reality. Send an email to ctrlaltwow@gmail.com telling us how you play Virtual Reality and video games as an altoholic or dealing with it in your family life.

Discord: https://discord.gg/CmYPYXgjeS

 

Grand Nagus:

World of Warcraft:

Housing: 

Introduction of Hearthsteel with the launch of Midnight.

Hearthsteel is a virtual currency for WoW that is designed for purchasing housing items ingame.

It can be bought with real money, BattleNet Balance or bought via WoW Tokens.

Only a select few items will be available via the BattleNet Shop or the Ingame Shop using Hearthsteel.-

Transmog:

Introduction of a new transmog system with the launch of Midnight.

You can buy outfit slots to save your transmog sets. It looks like there will be 50 slots available to purchase (with gold).

You have to pay gold to save the outfit to the slot, but once saved, the application of the outfit is free of charge.

This is somewhat like FFXIVs system where you pay to add an item to the glamour dresser, and then you save the outfit to your glam plate (currently there are 20 glam plates available), for free, and the application of the plate to the gear is free too.

Final Fantasy XIV

Sale Period: Until Monday, 8 December 2025 at 7:00 (GMT) / 18:00 (AEDT)

Personally, the one I would get, if i didn’t have them yet, is the Heavensward one, since it includes a Fantasia in the bundle, so every new character you create gets a “free” Fantasia in the mail.

Date & Time

Friday, 5 December 2025 at 11:00 (GMT) / 22:00 (AEDT)

Jaffa Cake progress:

Reached max rank in the first of the three Dawntrail Allied Society stories.

Reached max rank on my Island Sanctuary (Rank 20)

Finished some more job quest storylines for crafting jobs. You unlock some very important actions/abilities doing those quests and some of the stories are really nice too.

Reached sworn reputation with a few more Allied Societies, being able to buy the respective rewards that rank unlocks.

No Man’s Sky

AprilPvd in VR:

No Man’s Sky

Finished Expedition 17 Redux on Epril

Created S class corvette for expedition and brought back 2 copies and 2 of the living ship.

Thursday 

Prepared Sebastian for expedition with S class starter ship.

Friday 

I don’t know if it’s a good thing or a bad thing but I appreciated it. Someone was in the anomaly inside the expedition giving out expansion unit. Somebody gave me 30 expansion units for my ship and 30 for my exso suit. I used the ones on my ship, but I kept 25 to take back to my main safe because this was on Sebastian who was fairly new. I did manage to finish the expedition on him, but this time I wanted to bring an S class titan tool so I opened up all my suspicious packages with me and then I hung out at the pirate station and bought some more. I got my Titan multitool to S class. And then I bought seven of the radiant S class starships from the expedition. I got three of the living ships. I put three of the radiant in my storage, but then my storage was full. Then I broke down three to get engine wing and cockpit. Then I sold one for 99 million. And then I went to a space station and created a blue one. For some reason in the expedition, the color changed and it became golden instead of the red. but I really want a blue one because that’s Sebastian’s color.

While I was going back-and-forth into the expedition and out of the expedition to swap out, which ship I could buy at the expedition console in the main save, I was on the laptop with April Pvd, who was at a outlaw station, just buying suspicious packages, arms and tech. I want her to have enough so that when she gets the Titan multitool, she can update it to us classes as well. I know it’s silly, but it’s so much fun and I enjoy trying to figure out the different ways to do things. I really enjoyed this expedition. After April Pvd, I will do Aprillian! I was gonna do aprillian first, but I think April Pvd is ready

Saturday 

AprilPvd went through the expedition 

Sunday 

Titan Redux in 90 Minutes! - Titan Expedition Redux Step by Step Guide for No Man's Sky

Monday 

I’ve been loving playing so much that sometimes my workouts on Monday Thursdays, and Saturdays seem to be getting in the way. But I tried to frame it in my head that if I do the workout, the gameplay is a reward.

Other

Angry at Meta but excited

Hyperspace

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Good day all! 

So there is only just over 50 days left for Legion, which has made me feel a bit like I’m running out of time to complete all I set out to do.. There is still a lot of things I want to achieve. It is sort of overwhelming at times, however I do feel like I am making some good progress..


I switched to Protection with my Paladin, game changer! I been farming Infinite Power and Infinite Knowledge.. my ilevel is creeping up, gradually.. I have also been completing World Quests on Heroic Mode in order to obtain the Sargerei Commanders Voidscarred transmog, but it’s a bit of a slog at my ilevel, but it is getting easier the more I gain power!


New mounts collected this week.. Felscorned Grandmaster’s Companion, Darkspore Mana Ray, Twilight Courser, Brimstone Courser, Shackled Ur’zul, Fel-scarred Mana Ray, Illidari Doonhawk, Maddened Chaosrunner and the Traders Gilded Brutosaur (the Mount with the AH and mail box).


I have also been collecting some more of the Anniversary Transmog sets. The updated Bloodfang Rogue set, the Warrior set and the Death Knight set.


Hope you are all well and enjoying your in-game time..


Until the next time.. 

Kep

Ctrl Alt WoW Episode 844 - Once More Into the Breach

AprilPvd and Grand Nagus discuss Final Fantasy XIV, No Man’s Sky and Virtual Reality. Send an email to ctrlaltwow@gmail.com telling us how you play Virtual Reality and video games as an altoholic or dealing with it in your family life.

Discord: https://discord.gg/5dtHtHCu

Grand Nagus:

Final Fantasy XIV

Event ending on Nov. 27

New Tomestone

Allagan tomestones of mnemonics will be added, which can only be obtained after reaching level 100 with at least one class or job.

Interview with YoshiP:

China and South Korea will catch up with the global release schedule with patch 7.4 and 7.5 respectively.

That means everyone playing the game, regardless of location, is on the same release schedule as of 7.5.

That will cause more work for SE, since more localizing needs to be done at the same time.

No more regional special items are supposed to be released.

Special event items have been a thing for years, as well as attire limited to specific regions.

KFC special event Emote in Japan comes to mind, or the new mount that got released on the Online Store last week, that was a Chinese region special event item until last week.

Jaffa Cake progress:

Jaffa got her nightgown as the first Moogle event reward.

Got one more Savage mount, this one from O12S.

Reached Rank 18 on the Island Sanctuary and upgraded one more building type.

Finished the GC squadron achievement and got the four emotes.

 

AprilPvd in VR:

No Man’s Sky

I came across this cool multitool while on the expedition 2 redux. it’s at the space station where Rendezvous three is located. One side of the vending area has a this multitool. The other side has a different one. It doesn’t have many slots and no supercharged slots, but it is cool looking.

So cool that I wanted it on April Pvd so I went back into the expedition went to rendezvous number three and she was able to get the multitool.

Saw this video Sunday on how to get this particular multitool.

This is the Easiest Alien or Experimental S Class Multi Tool in No Man's Sky!

Well, on the subject of multi tools, I thought that the only way to get rid of a multitude was to swap it out when you got a new one. Then I was watching something on YouTube about multi tools.

Multitool Types Explained in No Man's Sky.

When he casually mentioned about how you can scrap your multi tools. I did not know this. I don’t know how I missed this, but when you go upstairs in the anomaly where the the round pad that lets you teleport up to get to the teleporter right there on the right is a machine that lets you scrap multiple tools and if they are a high enough quality, you will get a multitool augment maybe even two. This just blew my mind.


I posted about this in the Facebook group and someone asked me about glyphs. No when I do a screenshot on VR I don’t get a really good screenshot so I don’t really take them and I kind of guess I miss out on the glyph thing. What I will do sometimes is login on my laptop and get the glyph which I did this time. And out of curiosity I took Epril to the space station. Of course April Pvd is the only one of my accounts that has all the lists and can use a portal, but it’s so easy to have them join me wherever I am. So she was able to get the multitool.

This opened up a whole new thing for me because whenever I’m in an expedition, there are things I like about certain planets I find and I thought that I couldn’t ever find them again but

Epril’s turn

Shirty posted this video on YouTube a couple of days ago and the detail on how to find it was perfect.

No Man's Sky | Ship Hunting 029

April Pvd went there and got the ship and then traded it to Epril.

Friday night I started my fourth expedition number two redux. E was all set up. I loaded her with all the things she needed. She was able to get through the first phase quickly. You get your fighter and you have to do some repairs remembering to use the repair kits for the harder things to get. Another YouTube video doing a walk-through talked about the fact that you could approach the pilots that have landed in your freighter starship Bay and buy stuff off of them.

Easily Do The Beachhead Normandy Remix - Mass Effect Full Guide?! - No Man's Sky - NMS Scottish Rod

Of course, by the time we do the podcast, the expedition will be over. But these guys are great resources for future ones.

Sunday

So I’m busy now making copies of all my ships and now that I know about the multitudes, I’m putting my multi tools in stores making copies and then breaking them down for more augment.

As I was trading in ships and moving stuff around and destroying multi tools, I have acquired a lot of modules that are only worth 16 nanites when I sell them to a vendor, and I was finding that I had a lot of duplicates or upgrades that I no longer needed. I discovered something that is really handy to know. When you hover over a technology, it will tell you what it will break down to if you destroy it.

DISMANTLE

2 Magnetic Resonator 50 Platinum 100 Tritium

Sometimes you may need the resources more than you need the 16 nanites. So when I find out that I have a duplicate of a technology in my storage. I can then remove the technology from the ship/EXO suit/multitool by dismantling it, and getting the resources and then replacing it with a duplicate that I have in my inventory.

Monday 

Spent some time making sure everybody had enough copies of the ships they bought from the expedition. Sebastian had a C class freighter so we went shopping and found an S class. I used one of his sentinel ships for his squadron. But the second time I tried to trade one it wouldn’t let me. The option to add pilot to squadron after I traded the sentinel ship wasn’t there.


April Pvd and Aprillian finally went to check on their settlements. All three of April Pvd’s were under attack. But the nicest thing was that there was stacks of resources available. I thought maybe they would stop making them if I didn’t collect them. Aprillian upgraded some buildings on her two settlements. She progressed the traces of metal quest line and now has to go destroy a sentinel pillar.

April Pvd worked on her tiny sentinel ship.

Tuesday 

Polished Stone 

Wednesday 

Created a Corvette for Epril

Weird weird problem in that I’m seeing an outline in Steam. It started with a weird box and then I went to virtual desktop to see if that would prevented. I finally was able to make the outline kind of go away by going into the steam VR settings, but in virtual desktop, there was still a smaller box on the floor. I don’t know where it came from all of a sudden, but it was weird and distracting.

⚡UPGRADE POWER⚡ ⎸ What getting your NMS corvette to S Class can do

Upcoming Expeditions 

• Titan: November 19–December 2 

• Explore new worlds with gas giants, endless oceans, and cloud-skimming mountains. 

• Relics: December 3–16 

• Recreate ancient lifeforms and uncover secrets from millennia past. 

• Corvette: December 17–30 

• Assemble a corvette-class starship, maximize its stats, and earn exclusive rewards, including the Mecha Mouse companion. 

• Breach: December 31–January 13 

• Traverse a desolate universe, scavenge modules from wrecked ships, and earn ancient Atlas-themed corvette modules

Other

Zenith cosmetic craze

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Greetings CAW Crew!

Apologies for lack of audio this week, real life has been quite hectic and I just didn't get time to visit the dungeon.


I've been continuing to play Guild Wars 2 - End of Dragons expansion though I'd gone back to Path of Fire content to farm the rest of the Hero Points which you use to unlock elite specializations. Having been playing as Engineer Scrapper Spec for the last few expansions, I had the itch to swap over to Holosmith which is different but also fun.


Quoting the GW2 Wiki "Holosmiths have learned to use zephyrite crystals to construct their Photon Forge, a device capable of turning the light of the sun into weapons of hard light to cauterize their enemies. The Photon Forge heats up with use, becoming even more effective. But reckless use will end in overheat, which damages the holosmith and prevents the usage of the Photon Forge until it cools down."


It's got some cool visuals and you go a sort of translucent blue colour when you activate your photon forge.


Anyway, slow progress gaming wise but life will settle down here before long.


Cheers,

Rigarmorty

Good day all! Hope you are all well? 

So I’ve been working on increasing my XP bonus on Legion Remix! I am approximately around 150%+ (including the Anniversary +10%). I am a little late on starting this bonus grinding, but better late than never!


At level 70 (with my first 80) I got a quest which increased my bonus XP by 250%, which is crazy! I’m not sure if it stacks, but that would now make it around 400% bonus in total!

Anyway.. this has inspired me to roll more Alts, of course! "One of us, one of us!"


The 21st Anniversary started a couple of days ago.. which made me reminisce about my first ever character, a Gnome Warrior. I started playing 2/3 months after the launch of vanilla.

So, in honour, I started a new Gnome Warrior (Khurick the Butcher). I have played him for a couple of hours and he is currently level 34!


I have also been checking out the new WoW 21st Anniversary event. So far I’ve only bought the re-vamped Paladin Judgement Armour (which is amazing!) ..and some Sunglasses!


Some new mounts I’ve collected this week, the Frostshard Infernal (a reward for collecting 350 mounts), the Cloud Wing Hippogryph, the Wild Dreamrunner and Ghastly Ur’zul [screen shots attached].


I have also bought some of the Legion transmog sets, which are very nice, especially the Paladin Raid sets!

Anyway.. 

Hope you are all well? 

Take care, 

Kep! 

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