Ctrl Alt WoW Episode 166 - QQ for BG's
Aprillian, Ashayo, Virshna and Jeppy discuss another week of playing World of Warcraft, Blizzard's great MMORPG. Contest Ongoing send an email to ctrlaltwow@gmail.com telling us how you play WoW, either as an altaholic or dealing with it in your family life to being placed in a drawing for a month free of WoW or a $10 iTunes Gift Card or an Authenticator, they are back in the store.
What We've Been Doing:
Aprillian
I want a rocket mount on a higher level toon. Thinking I want my level 80 hunter to have one, but can't make new toons on that account. Went through and deleted a bunch of toons.
Did TOC and got [Embrace of Madness] a 219 chest piece to replace my Ebonweave robe, a 200 chest piece. GS went to 5045.
On Tues morning, got up with Vrishna, ran Tournament dailies. After maintenance I took Tiiaa and Epril to Sporegarr to rep grind so Tiiaa could get the quest. We got to the last boss and Tiiaa died. Boss despawned before she could run back.
Wed morning, summoned Tiiaa to Coilfang while riding rocket with Epril. Epril's client crashed, when she logged back in, she was in Coilfang.
Dual boxing RAF with a hunter/rogue. Finished most quests razor hill. Upgraded RAF account to 10 day BC trial. Created Belf and summoned one then other. Questing in Falconwing square, level 4 rogue with GS of 907 wants to duel.
Aprillian & Vrishna
Ran part of 2nd coilfang, Underbog. Killed final boss but Tiiaa died. So had to go back in.
Did Underbog like 10 times, finished twice.
Vrishna
Culling of Strathholme ... 1st time pugging alone. How do you choose need when everything is going on SO fast ! Chose need on my first item and had a whisper from a party member asking me to give it to him because tanking was his main spec. He greeded it also. He was dpsing in this pug, but then realized that it WAS tank gear and I was healing so maybe I shouldn't have needed it either. So I gave it to him even tho I'm sure it would have been my first upgrade playing at 80 in a dungeon. What is the etiquette. What should I do. HELP ! But it was fun and tank only died twice and THAT was only 'cause he wouldn't wait for me to mana up before running ahead, getting to 25% health before I even got close to him ! Tried to kick a member literally right before the last boss. Thought that was a wee bit offsides.
Ashayo
Weird cursor lag on 2nd monitor
Children's week
- Started with good co-op in WSG to drop flag. But then a pre-made that farmed us for honor and wouldn't let anyone get the ach
- Got the pet from all of Org, Shatt & Northrend
- Lots of frustrating waits for failed BGs
- Queue for random and hope for one we need. Finally got into EotS and managed an easy cap.
- AV Call to Arms - so easy to finish off .
Crazy Train
- Festergut 50k wipe, then killed him
- Rotface - 22%, lost 6 and was kiting for ages before we wiped at 2%
- Marrowgar (was weekly)
- Deathwhisper (won off spec head)
- Frost Giant - ICC weekly
- Gunship
- Oneshot Saurfang
- Oneshot Festergut
DwP
- One shot Blood Princes.
- Blood Queen - trouble at the fear phase without resto druid healer. Really bad luck with fears and timing of bite/fear. Got her on last try of the night
- Putricide down ; awesome job by healers
- Sindragosa attempts ; wipe from being frozen, wipe at phase 3, phase 3 (25%), 17%, 19%
Misc
- Ashield - Argent Tournament / Oracles. Gundrak - won cloak upgrade
Thought I was smart by teleporting to dungeon immediately after killing a mob and another was running at me. HAHA, I thought. Until I finished the dungeon and teleported out and 4 mobs jumped me.
Ding 78 - can now wear the Ornate Saronite set that I'd made earlier
- Pudendal ; Continued levelling Blacksmith , got to 440. Last 10 points are hard
- Had enough of BG's and queued for heroic - got Halls of Reflection. 1000 Emblems on 1st boss in HoR
- Super fail AN as tank on laptop
- Pudendal - ICC 25 man Pants on Head. Marrowgar down, won [Bryntroll, the bone Arbiter]. Deathwhisper down. Gunship battle down with a mis-start, and 5 missing
Jeppy
Variety is the spice of life - I have therefore been RAF levelling. T-4 Days.
Emails
Email #A from Acaldraa
Hey guys,
Acaldraa here once again with my weekly ramble. First of all, I hope that by the time this is read, a raid containing myself, Aprillian and Virinya will have taken place and fun times will have been had by all. Today I wanted to talk about gearing up when you first hit 80 and method in which you can do such a thing. Please note that this is from a PVE side of things as I have no idea what the heck I am doing in PVP. (Not that my PVE knowledge is that much better ^^)
Anyways, first you want to chain run Normal TOC 5 from some iLvl 200 epics. This can be done at level 78 and beyond. Next, move on to Heroic TOC 5 and some ICC 5 normals. After you feel comfortable, move up to ICC 5 heroics and maybe a raid or two. Also, farming the dungeon finder randoms can be a great way to get fast badges. Once you hit 80, try to do the weekly no matter what your gear level as you will be with people that over gear the place. Also, doing your daily random heroic can help to bring in the frosties. For items that you might not be able to get w/ badges, look at the conquest or valor vendors, they might have what you need. Also, you can spend some honor for things like necks and cloaks. Hope that this helps those who might be gearing up.
On a more personal note, this week has been a pretty good one for myself. I have run VOA and ICC on 10 and 25 for maximum frosties, also the weekly. Also, I was lucky enough to tag along to the SIN raid group that is lead by the almighty Dills and contains the like mr extralife himself 0.o. We cleared TOGC 10 with only 44 attempts remaining. Also, in ICC 25, I got a BOE 264 cloth wrists that I am currently trying to sell on the AH. The current market price seems to be around 12-13k =0. Maybe I'll buy a hog...
Well that's all for now, thanks for reading my email,
Acaldra, Champion of the Frozen Wastes
Holy/Prot Paladin, Cohort of Alea Iacta Est
Email #1 from Eskimojoe
Re: Tiiaa
April, April, April.... /sigh :)
I thought you learned your lesson about using Attack Power items with
a caster when you got that AP trinket for Aprillian.
Poor Tiiaa.... :(
I should contact Mage Protection Services and have Tiiaa taken away
from you and sent to a good home.
List of Cruel Offenses against a Mage.
1. Casters should never, never-ever, never-ever-ever gem or enchant
attack power.
2. "Frost" Mages specialize in "Frost" damage, so use "Frost" bolt as
your primary nuke. (not Arcane Missle)
3. MP5 is a healer stat. Replace those gems with a Spellpower,Haste,
or Crit gem or even some mix of +spirit. (see #5) If you stick to
casting mostly Frost spells in your Frost spec you shouldn't have mana
problems.
4. A tanking cloak is not helping no matter how much SP you enchant it with.
5. Sure Glyph of Frost Armor seems like a good idea for a Frost mage,
but Glyph of Molten Armor is a must have for all mages to get that
sweet crit bonus.
6. Book of Clever Tricks is more of a Druid Tank off-hand item, go
with the Hellfire Book until you can find a better off-hand item.
Frost is a great spec for leveling up, pvp, and soloing. Since you're
probably not going to solo or pvp with Tiiaa, respec into the talents
that work well for muti-boxing.
(51 pts in frost and a few points in fire to help Fireball or
Frostfire bolt damage from Brainfreeze as you level. Once you hit 80
move those extra 20 pts into Arcane to get "Torment the Weak")
Remember Frostbolt is your primary nuke. Spam Frostbolt constantly
until Brainfreeze or Deepfreeze procs. Deepfreeze is priority when it
procs.
I hope you don't mind me poking fun at you. I'm just trying to help,
plus I know you'll have more fun playing the mage once you see how
much DPS you'll do with just a few changes.
Eskimojoe
http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Khadgar&cn=Eskimojoe&gn=Disciplined+Anarchy
Email #B from Matthew
i have been wanted to start Multiboxing i have one PC with two displays what software do i need and how do i set it up?
Email #C from Tedrah
Greetings to the fantastic Ctrl Alt WoW hosts.
Really love your shows. They make the work day fly. And they are always so informative. For example, I had no idea that Nessingwary got around so much. Do you suppose he has a gnome in every port? Maybe he single handedly fathered all those children running around during Children's Week.
Wanted to say grats to Vrishna for doing his first raid. It's a whole new world now. Now you have to start keeping flasks and buff food on hand. Naxx is a really good place to get your feet wet because there is such a good variety of fights with lots of different mechanics.
Wanted to briefly say, shame on you guys for not telling Aprillian about the engineering AH in Dalaran, lol. I don't have an engineer and I was helping a friend level his by farming mats. He told me to meet him at the AH in Dalaran and I had no idea what he was talking about. I'm very jealous of the engineers and their AH.
Ashayo said he was working on the Oracle quest chain and I was wondering if he, or any of you have done the Frenzyheart reputation chain? I have exalted with Oracles and have gotten all the pets and flyer from the eggs and am wondering if I should switch to do the other side.
I got a real kick out of Jeppy's Hogger griefing. Made me want to head to Elwynn Forest and give it a try. Unfortunately there is no logging in from work.
A little about my week in WoW
Sunday I ran to the orphanage and grabbed a child to take to the battlefield. It's always good to show them mayhem and carnage. For my efforts I was rewarded with my long awaited Violet Proto Drake.
Monday it occurred to me that I hadn't touched Teodora since she hit level 68. So I promptly logged on Tedrah, bought a Tome of Cold Weather Flying and mailed it off. Thank goodness those will cross faction. I spent Monday night flying around Northrend opening up the map. I got an entire level out of it and my Explorer's Tabard. So Teodora is now 69.
I did manage to get into the Unbroken progression raid Tuesday and we made a couple hours worth of attempts on Sindragosa. Each attempt was better than the previous one and we can consistently do phases one and two without losing anyone now. Phase three is a dog of the female persuasion ( does that meet the clean tag okay?) we'll get it eventually. Hopefully next week.
That's about it for my week in WoW. Again, great podcast you all. See how I didn't say 'guys' there? Wouldn't want to bring down Aprillian's wrath. But you know, if Juuno hadn't done that we wouldn't know she has such a nice singing voice.
So this is Tedrah, level 80 hunter,
Joslynn, level 73 Mage
Pettrah, level 75 DK
Teona, level 63 Shaman
Teonna, level 63 Priest
And various others saying
For the Horde!
Email #2 from Thegatorwife
Greetings to the lovely and witty Aprillian, the Aussie- licious Ashayo, the talented and humorous Vrishna, and the "maker of sweet dreams" Jeppy. I also have to admit that Ashayo's voice has inspired a few sweet dreams as well. I just got thru listening to episode 165 and as usual it was great and once again my coworker who I share a cubicle with thinks I'm a little spun, as I tend to laugh out loud sporadically for no apparent reason. On the topic concerning the length of your podcast, IMO they don't last long enough. You guys and Aprillian(notice how I acknowledged you)have such great chemistry together. Each show is better than the last and my work week is not complete until I've had my crtlaltwow fix. I haven't done a whole lot in WOW this last week or two, but I did get my Loremaster achievement and I finished my Children's Week achievement. That leaves me one more to go for the Violet Proto-Drake. I'm so happy for Vrishna and all his accomplishments this past week and kudos to you Ashayo for taking our little fledgling on his very first raid. It makes the experience a little less daunting when you're with someone you know. All I can say about Jeppy's little stunt in Lakeshire with Hogger and the pet from hell running amuck and killing all the unsuspecting lowbies in the area, PRICELESS !!! That was totally awesome in a twisted kind of way. I've got to go try that one myself now, what can I say I'm a little twisted myself, but in a good way. Well I guess I've bent your ears enough for now, keep those podcast coming. Love you guys. For the Horde(most of the time)and for the Alliance(some of the time).
Moondance on Sister's of Elune
Thegatorwife on Twitter
Sent from my iPhone
Email #D from Xanndar
RET PALLY NEEDS HELP!
Good Morning Everyone!
It has been a while since I have been in contact with you, but I am
back and have a little more time to be able to dedicate to listening
to podcasts and playing WoW again like I used to. I have recently
taken a job that takes me away from home Monday - Friday and so at
night I sit in my hotel room praying the hotel Wi-Fi doesn't kick out
and I can play WoW without interruption.
Last night I was able to go on a guild run into ICC. They made it all
the way to Sindragosa prior to last night's raid. Well to make a long
story short, my Ret Paladin main Xandarr (Lovingly referred to as
Double R, for reasons I might explain if asked) has a gear score of
just over 5100 but could not do the DPS needed to really assist the
raid. Know everyone knew this going in, and the guild said that they
would help me to gear up or do whatever to make my DPS crush all
others. But I am trying to do what I can and asking the experts what
can I do as far as spec builds and gear that could make me better for
ICC?
Here is my armory page:
http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Crushridge&cn=Xandarr
Talents , glyphs, gear... you tell me what I can do and what the guild
may be able to help me do to be better DPS for them. Also, is there a
different Spec that I might need for Raiding that my current Ret spec
I use for dailies and PUG instances?
I am putty in your very capable hands.
- Elder Xandarr (Double R) of the Crushridge US server
SHOUT OUT TO Spírítus Ímmortalís Guildies!
Email #E Telonnord
Dear Ashayo, Virshna,Jeppy, and our illustrious Aprillian.
It is I, Telonnord the rogue. I apologize I could not send this sooner, but I am in process of being deployed overseas to Iraq so there has been little time to write a response to Aprillian's commentary.
Gentlemen, I would like to apologize for creating such a stir. The undue stress I cause you was not intentional. (Heh-heh-heh.)
I did not realize that our dear Aprillian would take her lineage so seriously. I had no idea her temper would be so short. I did leave a note in Addillian's mailbox informing him of my findings. There's been no reply as of yet from the gnome warlock, but I did hear a rumor he got himself a new small, yippity pet and named it Aprillian. It has a bent pointed ear and a crooked, fanged tooth. At first, it would just ignore everyone who tried to reason with it, but eventually, he taught it to sit up and beg not to be kicked from random dungeons. I'm sure it's just a coincidence.
Well, on a brighter side I am glad to say that I have started making some gold with a small side business. Thanks to Aprillian's reaction, "Email4" t-shirts are now springing up all over Azeroth. Check them out at a local vendor near you. (I hear gnome sizes are selling like hotcakes!)
Continue with the good work everyone.
As always, disarmingly yours,
Telonnord
80 Human Rogue
Burning Blade
Email #3 from Gongrim
How I wow and feedback
Hi all at ctrlaltwow
Firstly I recently discovered your podcast along with others including your friends at BoE. Having listened through your back catalogue I would like to congratulate you on a great show.
Its great to hear your different views on aspects of the game through your own knowledge and experiences.
I plan sometime in the near future to start a RaF account for the mount and to help me level yet more alts :) I understand the basics of running 2 chars to together for the better xp bonus then passing levels back etc. But am a little unsure on how you actually set your machines up to run them ? Is there minimum requirement cpu memory graphics wise to try this ? Which ways do you guys actually do this and what would be the best resource to read up and plan how to do it.
Lastly how I WOW :) I started playing wow about 6 months before WotLK came out. When I first started I had no idea how big and engrossing the lands of azeroth could be. I started several characters trying out there starter abilities till I settled on a dwarf warrior named Gongrim ( nothing like doing it the hardway for a first char )
After fighting my way through the starter areas and moving on to the human areas I made my way to lakeshire where I met a few people and joined my first guild. We then proceeded to level making our way to outlands just as WotLK hit, working our way to 60 then 70 then on to 80.
Sadly most of the people I had levelled with drifted out of the game due to personal or family reasons. And the guild fell apart. So I was left at 80 without much clue what to do next.
So after much research and wasted time doing not really much I decided I wanted to see some of the raids I had about.
So I struggled to gear up my warrior in heroics learning all the tactics as prot or as a arms dps I started getting the itch to start more chars so I levelled a hunter priest and paladin getting them all to 30ish. Always going back to my main the warrior but he never seemed to progress much. So I started on my hunter again levelling him to 65 so I could level 2 more profs to max level.
With the advent of the new LFG I decided to try my warrior again. So I found a new guild that where recruiting to raid and geared him up using the emblems and started by doing the weekly raid and VOA. 3 months later I am now an officer and play most nights and just recently completed ToTC 10 and started in ICC and have done the first wing in there.
I have also since levelled my hunter to 80 and and am gearing him up on the nights I'm not raiding helping others out in the guild as much as I can passing on any knowledge I've got.
I have learnt so much in the last 3 months playing with my new guild so I would like to give a shout out to them.
Thanks to all in Degeneration X Dragonblight EU server.
Well that's enough of my rambling keep up the good work on the podcast
Gongrim 80 Dwarf warrior
Sent from my BlackBerry smartphone from Virgin Media
Email #F Bidkar
Hello CtrlAltWow crew,
Bidcar, level 41 human mage Winterhoof server here. This week my ally raf duo hit 41. Bidcar teleported around and picked up all the portals he could. The only old world portal missing now is Darnassus which he can get at 50. I'll pick it up just to have it, but are there any major quest chains associated with Darnassus? I have not come across any yet and have yet to see any reason to go there. It is nice to look at though. Anyway, they are now in Duskwallow Marsh, which I love, and happily questing there.
I spent my Saturday Wow time playing my death knights. The night elf dk is 61 and the dranei dk is 62. I wanted to earn enough gold to pick up the next level of riding for the ally duo. I really like how they are playing, though I still get bored with them after a bit. I think I am implementing a proper rotation but I still feel like I'm rolling my face across the keyboard.
I did my jewelcrafing dailies and cooking dailies on my Horde warlock. I finally ran out of dark jade after all this time, so she had to scrounge up some ore to prospect. Bidkar ran out to Shattrath to pick up the orphan quest. He made some portals along the way for the people who needed to go back to Shattrath. Bidkar loves to make portals and I think all mages do even if they might not care to admit it. I never charge people for a portal. It's fun for me and that's enough.
So far the ally experience has been quite nice. I'm finding the ally people to be exactly like the Horde folks, go figure. Every day the trade chat gets vile about the time school gets out, but I do not find it as offensive as the Horde trade chat. A higher class of filth I reckon. I enjoyed Elwynn Forest. Lakeshire got on my nerves a little, but it was still fun. I loved Darkshore and found it to be the best ally zone so far. I still want to impale every night elf I see though. Old habits die hard.
Aprillian, give Jayson a pat on his head for me. My sister's dog has a similar situation and he's 16 and going strong, though a bit gray now.
Have you heard from Glanthur?
I hope everyone has a great week.
For the Horde and For the Alliance!
Bidkar, Bidcar and his many alts
Shout Outs & Thank You
MoMoMoment
Hello all,
Hope everyone has has a fine week and Happy Mothers day to all mothers out there.
What a fun leveling week I have had with my RAF and Pally/Mage combo :)
They are level 31 so far and by the time the weekend is over they should be 35 at least.
I still do not know what I will level next and how I will use the level grants for the RAF on feathermoon.
Also I have been trying to figure out what other server I will create characters and get some more leveling done.
For the big kids, my 80s, just a few random LFG's, and our ICC 10 run Friday for my priest, we are trying to work on making progressions on different wings and work with everyones schedule. We shall see how that turns out.
Last week Ashayo was talking about his failed pugs and how he always gets Gund. on his randoms.
For my priest it seems as though I only get a few select dungeons as well; either HOS (at times HOL), Gund. and that is it!
Not really random if you ask me.
On my hunter is seems she only gets HOL/HOS mainly; as you can imagine I am sick of that but still need frosties on her and my warrior. Thankfully my warrior at least gets other instances than just HOL or HOS.
Going back to my pally/mage for a second, I had a blue drop (forgot the name already) and I was a second away from disenchanting it (but I did not). I check the auction house just to see if it was worth anything (I have auctioneer turned off on my low characters). You will not believe it, there were 3 other auctions there, ranging from (roughly) 90 gold to 150 gold! So of course I went below that amount and within a second of posting it someone bought my item.
Now I am trying to understand, do only twinks buy low blue items? Or people leveling might by items, low blue or purple items? And, why?! Any opinions you all have to share about this? And if you are ever undercut, well I would say I am sorry, for me I was just trying to off load it and I have to believe the person that bought that piece probably put it right back on the ah.
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Well that is all from me this week. Happy leveling or what ever you are working on in wow and have a great week.
Oh one quick note, if you have not checkout the Cataclysm screenshots on the wow site, please do. They are unbelievable and I do not think they are spoilerish :)
Bye
Sunday, May 9, 2010
Monday, May 3, 2010
Ctrl Alt WoW Episode 165 - I've Got a Rocket to ride
Aprillian, Ashayo, Virshna and Jeppy discuss another week of playing World of Warcraft, Blizzard's great MMORPG. Contest Ongoing send an email to ctrlaltwow@gmail.com telling us how you play WoW, either as an altaholic or dealing with it in your family life to being placed in a drawing for a month free of WoW or a $10 iTunes Gift Card or an Authenticator, they are back in the store.
What We've Been Doing:
Aprillian
Logged off Tiiaa, on to Mi, then back to Tiiaa and stuff she had sold was still available for buyback
Leveling a mage is fun. They aren't just taxis & food vendors. Tiiaa hit 65 and now has the portal to Shat.
Levelled Engineering on Tiiaa, got to 375 on Wed afternoon. Lo & behold there's an AH. Used Epril to do mining stuff, making [Mining: Smelt Adamantite] [Mining: Smelt Felsteel] [Mining: Smelt Hardened Adamantite]
By Friday Tiiaa was 405 in Engineering and I'm broke. made [Gyro-Balanced Khorium Destroyer] for an enormous amount of money.
Did HoR, Why the corner?
Got Don't Look Up Achievement - Clear the hallway before Scourgelord Tyrannus in The Pit of Saron on Heroic Difficulty without anyone taking icicle damage on the first try.
Heard about first on the Instance at http://theinstance.net/
http://elitistarmory.com/US/Earthen%20Ring/Aprillian
Aprillian & Vrishna
Dualed boxed with Tiiaa/Sebastian and Vrishna in Outland. Funniest thing was when we wiped, I laid there while V ran back and waited for her to rez me.
Ran beginning of Hellfire Citidal, great xp for Tiiaa. Took Elyte, level 75 DK as tank. Later took Tiiaa through Slave Pens, did pretty
Vrishna
Hellfire again. Sorry Sanman. Ashayo's invite to Naxxrammas. My first raid. WOOT WOOT !! Healbot & the understudies.
Ashayo
Crazy Train
- Saurfang down before 2nd mark.
- Two shot Festergut
- Couple of practise runs on Rotface
After reset - hit revered with Ashen Verdict.
- Marrowgar - tank neck upgrade
- One shot deathwhisper
- Gunship - lost a tank twice, two dps, still won
- One shot Saurfang after only 1 mark
- Festergut - wipe at 20k
DwP
- 2shot Dreamwalker. Asheal won off-spec staff (has hit, and 2 gem sockets)
- Blood princes down - Ashayo wins new chestpeice
- Blood Queen down - this week on Asheal
- Cleared trash to Sindragosa ; was told we could move out to reset - she came through a door to wipe us. Got her to 27% on first attempt
After reset ICC - 15% buff
- Weekly was to keep Donavan alive on Deathwhisper fight.
- 1st wing + Festergut, Rotface, Dreamwalker. Attempt at Putricide (main healer out) - Got him down to 3%
Heroics
Pud
- H ToC, OK
Ashariss
- H PoS - very fast run with Temp, Kealar, Tallon, Wing
- UK, UP, CoS, HoL, Gundrak
Other Dungeons
Ashield - Gundrak pug - lost tank and a dps before 1st boss
Other Raids
Asheal - weekly Instructor Razuvious,
Asheal - Won t-10 gloves - again (both pvp and pve this time!)
Ashayo - weekly Instructor Razuvious - with Vrishna!!
Pud & Ashariss - Noth
Noth (weekly) on Shadowthrone (to fill numbers)
Tried Sarth +1 drake ; wipage
Misc
Pud - PoS ; hate it when puggers refer to you by class "hey dk, you gunna roll on that trinket"
Ashariss - proc'ed 5 x Kings Amber transmute - woot!
Ashayo - Gear shuffle and re-spec. Bought the triumph hit trinket and had over 500 hit. Respecced back to destruction from affliction without taking 3 points in suppression.
Levelling BS on Pud - up to 400 - can make socket for hands and bracers. Nice little increase on gear score.
Doing oracle chain on Ashield - dinged 77 when I saved the injured rainspeaker Oracle
Soloed Artruis the Heartless and Zepik the Gorloc Hunter - took 8 minutes
Jeppy
T-11 Days of RAF. Levelling and griefing.
Emails
Email #1 from Vern
hey all
I was listening to the latest show and wanted to write in again. First off GRATS to Vrishna on his first 80. I think its great you healed H halls of stone. I am a healer and been running heroics since back when you got emblems of heroism for it. I have to say the fight in HoS when you fight the computer with Brann is one of love and hate. I've wiped at the last minute multiple times there. sometimes even after dying we would find we had lived long enough to complete the encounter.But I love the lore part and the fact that Brann is hacking an ancient computer, whats not to love.
I am also interested in what happens with multi player mounts in phased areas.Most of my problems with phasing right now happen when I try to summon people to ICC using the stone.I'm sure Ashayo knows what I mean. I have a mammoth mount so I am going to see what happens this week.
One more thing. some of you were discussing the crappy system in place to exchange BG marks for honor. Heres what I did. After you buy at least one token, put it on your hot bar. then you open the vendor window and buy more, but use the hotbar button to consume them.
This way you don't have to close the vendor window to use them up and its just a matter of how fast you click and button push.
Thank you for a wonderful podcast.
Vern
Verneesha -Ally priest on Runetotem
Menasor- holy pally PoH
Email #2 from Makiling
hey guys, makiling here
i just listened to your latest episode i thought i would chime in with you guys with what i've been doing int he world of warcraft. a few days ago i was listening to one of nicole spag's podcast when i heard her talk about her several lvl 80 pallies. couple that with virinya's trek to 80, i suddenly thought to myself "maybe i should try leveling a pally." before that thought came to me, i was enjoying leveling my night elf druid who is now lvl 43 (yay for epic land travel). i'm still playing her as Bear Form in random dungeons, so i decided i would play my pally as a tank too. it was a good thing i had 1 slot left in the realm where my lvl 80's were. but when it came to choosing what race my pally would be, i knew i didnt want to play another blood elf, so i had to play alliance. and among all the races i had to choose from, the draenei were the ones who caught my fancy. i made a pretty draenei pally female, and named her Kagandahan (filipino for "quite pretty").
it wasnt to say that i've been neglecting my horde toons. on the contrary, they were of great help in gearing her up with heirloom plate and a 1-handed sword (for when the time comes that she will be wielding a shield). and most importantly, i needed my mage to enchant her gear. through my research, i found that there was a +strength to weapon enchant from the thorium brotherhood, but i needed to be friendly with them. so i spent some time doing quests around searing gorge and opening up the turn ins for increasing my rep with the brotherhood. it was a good thing the mats to turn in were relatively cheap in our AH, but when i got to friendly, i found that the vendor for the enchant was in the Grim Guzzler in BRD. so i trekked down the instance, bought the recipe, and bought the mats for the weapon enchant for my baby pally.
i wasnt really not a big fan of the melee classes, and before this toon, i had never played a pally. but after playing her for 10 levels, i have to say: PALLIES ARE OVERPOWERED! mobs going down in 2 hits? i had never experienced such a thing with my mage, lock, or druid! (especially not my druid) well, it could be also due to my gear, but i finally understand vrishna's excitement with the class.
the "buffs" pallies cast are in general quite confusing at first, but i hope my excitement for them will continue as enthusiasm for learning more about the class. she is lvl 11 as of writing, and i hope to get into my first random dungeon as soon as she hits lvl 15.
thats it from me for now. i look forward to your next show as always
for the pallies!
twitter.com/makiling_mage
Email #3 from Lidaron
Hi VAAJ, (Virshna, Aprillian, Ashayo and Jeppy. sounds like Badge)
I have been listening to ctrlaltwow for a while, and remember when it was just Aprillain and Ashayo. I think Virshna and Jeppy are the icing on what could be described as a yummy cake (or the choc chips in your cookies April). The dynamic you have between the 4 of you is really fantastic. It is nice to see you have loads of fun playing wow and making the podcast. I have just listened to Episode 163 with Tempeste and would hate to see you loose your clean tag. Maybe Temp is a bad influence on you April or you just can't help yourself as it makes for loads of fun.
More Ctrlaltwow
More fun
Wazzagnome
65 Blood Elf Warlock
Lidaron
80 Undead Rogue
Jubei'Thos
Pants on Head Guild
PS here is a little sound grab I made for the Plushy comp (Yes I know its too late ; ). I tried to turn my Aussie accent up to 11. Thats 1 more than the rest.
Crikey!!!!
Email #4 from Acaldraa
Hey guys, Acaldraa here again with a few quick tips.
I took a look at Virinya armory and I have a few quick suggestions, change your glyph of Seal of Light to Glyph of Beacon of Light. When healing, always have Seal of Wisdom up. Make sure to judge a mob with seal of light every 20 seconds. This way your passive 15 percent haste buff will stay up and you will be rocking some raid healing. Also, gem 16 int in every slot. My policy is to never use epic gems if the item is below level 219. Lastly, here is a revised talent build that I suggest you use- http://www.wowhead.com/talent#sxA0gM0sVu0tgdxZVdbx:dIwczM
This will improve your healing by a good amount. On a more technical note, I took the extra crit in order to help with illumination procs.
In other news, I had a good week in game and out. In game wise, I have been doing my daily X-Mute and have gotten 16 gems in 7 days just from some lucky procs. On the raiding front, I solo healed Festergut. An extremely traumatic experience but we got through it and the 11k HPS was amazing for my ego.
A quick note to the crazy train raid group, I hear y'all keep wiping at >1%? Well here's what you need to do to get that last little boost. Make sure everyone is flasked and uses potions during the fight.
Thats all for now,
Acaldra, Champion of the Frozen Wastes
Alea Iacta Est
P.S. Keep the podcast long! I love long shows. Please however, keep 'em under 4 hours, I cannot do more than that.
P.P.S. Aprillian and Virshna, we need to go on a raid at some point, Aprillian can be the leet dps and Virinya and I can heal it. Maybe a VOA and/or TOC 10 man.
Email #5 Gamlix
Hi guys,
Grats Vrishna, first of many I don't doubt.
Thanks for reading my email a couple of weeks ago, it was great to hear that some people are making an effort to catalogue from a player perspective Azeroth pre-Cataclysm.
In answer to some of Juuno's points, I have an 80 Death Knight Tank, not great gear any more, but I ran Naxx quite a bit pre-Ulduar. I Tank in Blood and faced a lot of criticism from people who should know better that it's possible, back then everyone tanked in Frost because the original plan for the talent trees was Blood single target dps, Frost Tank, Unholy AoE dps, at least as far as the beta leaks said. This seems to have stayed in the collective unconsciousness of the wow community and you will face some prejudice based on their misguided views of the trees. You can tank in any DK tree, but each one will use different abilities. It is not necessary in this game for everyone playing to run the optimal spec as dictated by stats monkeys, play the game the way you want to.
As a sole point on that tank's side, not that he was entirely right, but Frost dps is tailored for PvP burst damage, so it is entirely possible that you pulled off an awesome combo, maximised your dps, pulled threat and the facerolling tank couldn't keep up, it's him that should L2P, not dear Juuno.
I loooooooove the dungeon finder. Having come back after a few months away a couple weeks ago I am finding levelling now to be a string of dungeons, which I love, rather than a grind, which can be a bit dull.
Thank you for your time again folks,
For the Horde!!!
Gamlix of The Sha'tar
Email #A Johnathan
Hi there again sorry for the late reply
One week of wow wow where can I biu that!!!!
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Email #B from Tedrah
Hello Ctrl-Alt-WoW,
Just wanted to drop a line to my favorite podcasters, the ever effervescent Aprillian, her Healer-in-waiting, Vrishna, the charming, El Jeppy and the awesome, Ashayo.
First and foremost-- Congratulations to Vrishna!! Yay for 80. Fantastic achievement. You'll like life as an 80 and I really enjoyed hearing about your PvP defense of Tranquillien. You did great to only die once during the skirmish.
Second, I really enjoy the audio messages from Juno and completely understand her obsession with Jeppy. You might want to add a segment at the very end where silver tongued El Jeppy could read the ladies a bed time story, lol.
Grats to Ashayo for exalted with The Ashen Verdict. You had lots of fun raiding recently. How you manage raiding on more than one toon I'll never know.
Lovely Aprillian, I am so jealous of your new rocket. Saw the twitpic and had to suppress the urge to start a new RAF account. Also, I'm enjoying your Ctrl-Alt-Trek high jinx as well. ( don't tell anyone I've strayed a little, lol )
My week in WoW has been kind of exciting. After Friday's 25 man raid with Unbroken on Sisters of Elune I had enough frost emblems to get my four piece set bonus.
I gave in and bought a Celestial Steed. I love my sparkly pony.
Going to be trying out Arena Tournament play with a couple of friends. That should be interesting.
I'm working on trying to get my alliance hunter, Teodora, to level 75 before the Gnomeregan event. She hit 68 and is now in Northrend.
Then last night I was able to fill in an empty spot in the Unbroken Tuesday night 10 man progression raid. They had locked out the raid last week so we started with trash clearing before the Blood Queen. We downed both the Blood Queen and the Dreamwalker encounters for the first time. Took three or four attempts for each. Then we took a quick look at Sindragosa. Made a couple attempts, but that one's going to take some practice. Hopefully I'll be able to ninja a spot in next week's Tuesday night raid.
Well I've gone on long enough. Thanks you guys for the great podcasts. Keep them coming.
This is Tedrah from Unbroken on Sisters of Elune signing off. For the Federation! Oops, For the Horde! (disregard first cheer)
/no need to put this email in contest, just enjoying your banter, no other incentive needed (group hug)
Sent from my iPhone
Email #6 from Riku
Dear Ctrl+Alt+Wow
I'm sure you guys get these all the time but becouse of the no money paradox my Wow account has gone inactive. I seem to think you guys might have had one of those magical one month WOW game time cards and i was cureous if there was something i could do to earn that. If one so exists. i'm a fantasy writer/poet so if you wanted something i would gladly do anything necessary whether it be writing or voicing a segment for the show or some kind of writing.
Main reason i ask is because of my date of birth is in May and i'd love to get a char to 55 before then :) Any way even if your dont have a card i'll still add my writing to the show if you wanted it. Thanks for reading the E-mail i love the show
Sitting and watching from the emerald dream
Riku
Email #7 from Alate
Hey ashayo, aprillian, jePpy, and varishna I was listening to the latest podcast. when I heard ashayo read the email of the guy who "corrected" his dk's gems. My main is a pally tank so I can lend an opinion on the subject. Ashayo dks do get mitigation stats from strength however generally gemming all stamina, or mostly all stamina is usually the way to go. In icc eh (effective health) is the way to go, its a little complicated to get into here but in short terms armor+stamina=WIN.
Sorry for any grammar mistakes I wrote this on my blackberry.
Alate, level 80 dwarf prot pally,
Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
Email #8 from Crash
Hello ctl alt wow crew, crashoveride writing in again. I head that april has a mifi from verizon, and was wondering if you could share your expireance using it for wow. Life has been crazy latly, and I would like to play on my laptop while away from home. Can you please share your thoughts on connecting to wow with the mifi, is it fast enough, do you have a data cap that you go over, and anything else that might help decideing if this is the right choice for me.
Thanx for the great show!!!!
Crash
Email #C from Bidcar
Thanks for the donations
Greeting Aprillian, Ashayo, El Jeppy and Vrishna,
Bidcar, level 20 human mage, Winterhoof server here. This week I started a mage and paladin to level with my recruit a friend. I started on Winterhoof by the suggestion of Jeppy. The toons are both level 20 and doing well. I felt like I was moving too slow, but Jeppy twittered he has the same problems on the Horde side, so that made me feel better.
I met a familiar face while passing through Goldshire. I went into the inn and I saw a gnome death knight named April. Just kidding, she was a Dranei. I thought it might be Aprillian but thought probably not, the world is too big for that. Anyway, she offered a gold to sign her guild charter so I did. Later on when I saw that I was kicked out of Ctrl Alt Wow guild I realized it was Aprillian. Aprillian said it was a small Azerothian world and apparently it is. I also started a couple of death knights so I could have back up if I needed it. I don't think I will, paladin and mage are a pretty powerful combo.
The Horde side of things went well. My recruit a friend duo of warrior and shaman are resting up in Orgrimmar after their rapid rise in power. I used the earned levels to take my hunter to 60 and gave the rest of the levels to my second mage. Probably shouldn't have gave the levels to the mage since it separates him further from the new paladin, but live and learn.
I started a blood elf paladin to pair up with my second mage. I haven't been playing them since I am concentrating on the Ally side of things. The only thing I have really been doing on the Horde side are the jewelcrafting daily and the cooking daily. I also have a slight fascination with running my low level paladin through Scarlet Monastery with my level 80 paladin. I love seeing what random loot will drop. I do the fishing daily for the same reason, I love opening the fishing bag and seeing what goodies drop out. I got a epic +30 stamina gem the other day.
A few weeks ago Bidkar, the life challenged mage, was in Thunderbluff when it was attacked by the Ally. I immediately went to the aid of Cairne as good Hordies do. The only toons that came to help Cairne were me and another mage. I didn't think it was going to go well for us, but I was willing to give it a shot. There were only about 5 ally so it wasn't a big raid or anything. They had a druid, paladin, rogue, warlock and death knight. We made plans to take out the druid first then hope for the best. They started their attack on Cairne. We blasted the druid into the next world then took out the rest of the group quite easily. I didn't see any "resist" pop up so I don't think they had much pvp gear on. When I see "resist", I know I'm done for. I thought we did quite well for two squishies. Cairne was saved and the Tauren rested easy that night.
I picked up my touring rocket like everybody else and took my warrior for a ride around Northrend. He picked up a bit of xp from discovery so it wasn't a complete waste of time. I wanted to see how the phasing would work so I took him over to the Argent place closest to Dalaran. He disappeared after a bit on Bidkar's screen, but Bidkar didn't disappear on the warrior's screen. I wonder if I could dual box with him through the phased areas now?
I really enjoyed hearing Tempeste on the show a few weeks ago. I always enjoy her on Bind on Equip and it was nice hearing her on Ctrl Alt Wow. She's the star of Bind on Equip for me, so it was a nice surprise crossover.
I really enjoy Juno's audio clips. Probably not as much as Jeppy, but close. If you could get Juno and Mo to do guest hosting, I think that would be a really fun show. Just a thought.
For the Horde and as much as it may pain me, For the Alliance!
Bidkar, Bidcar and his many alts
Email #9 from Xesu
Hey guys, Xesu of AIE here.
I was wondering; what alts are you guys planning on making for Cataclysm?
I was thinking Goblin and Worgen priests (I have a problem, I know) but, after 3 endgame priests, I can't get away!
Thanks so much for the awesome show.
Xesu
Shout Outs & Thank You
Momomoment
Hello
The fine crew of Ctrl Alt Wow and listeners.
Hope you are all doing well.
Happy May already!
And Happy RAF!!!!
Oh how fun it is :) Christmas in May until July for me :)
Yes I have started a RAF and my priest Moheal was the recipient of the fine new taxi and has started the Motaxi service. And of course the fun rid of flying straight up in the air and dismounting. That is always fun except when you hear your guildy yelling over vent when they hit the group..."splat!"
That flying mount is really fun, anyone on Feathermoon, if you are hord side, I will give you half off for motaxi ride :) (promotion only good for a limited time, must show id and NO GNOMES! thank you)
In wow, for my priest Moheal last Sunday I was able to some how win the roll for Althor's Abacus!!! It is a shiny awesome healing trinket. I was speechless and thankful :) and I was able to get Purified Lunar Dust with my frosties, it is a nice trinket as well.
Our guild had to cancel Icc10 Friday so some of of my guildies somehow talked me into doing a pug Icc 25, wow if I may say so, do not do it!
What a horrible waste of valuable leveling time!!!
For my RAF I had so much trouble creating my characters, names and class. I always like to have nice mo-creative names and wow this time around it really took me about 20 minutes to create my characters and I am still not happy. I first created a female Blood Elf Pally names Atoosa and a female Orc warrior names Geyah. A little mo-lore for you, Geyah is Thrall's grandmother. (I did say little, so I hope you did not expect more lore than that).
But I did not like the pally/warrior combo and I will be making a mage.
I am sad. Sad because i wasted several days of RAF time :( I have catching up to do and lots of it!.
I also created a pair on Winterhoof so I may bother ElJeppy and Bidcar. I created Rostam, human male warrior and Tahmineh, a human female priest. The two names are from Persian Mythology, checkout wikipedia if you are interested in learning more.
I think I have typed enough and I am sure you are tired of reading. Thank you for reading my emails and I love when Aprillians says "MOMOMOMENTS!!!"
Good times
Thank you as always for your great pod cast and I forgot one thing, the title of my email is from a few tweets I had with our old friend Xandar2112 on twitter, and also Molsan. They were chatting about podcasts and I was informed or I found out that I listen to way! to! many hours of podcasts!
Those two stated they average about 8 hours a week (or so) and I average that in a day sometimes.
So I think I need to join the PAA - podcast addicts anonymous.
So until next week and I will let you now how my treatment goes.
Take care
--
Mo
What We've Been Doing:
Aprillian
Logged off Tiiaa, on to Mi, then back to Tiiaa and stuff she had sold was still available for buyback
Leveling a mage is fun. They aren't just taxis & food vendors. Tiiaa hit 65 and now has the portal to Shat.
Levelled Engineering on Tiiaa, got to 375 on Wed afternoon. Lo & behold there's an AH. Used Epril to do mining stuff, making [Mining: Smelt Adamantite] [Mining: Smelt Felsteel] [Mining: Smelt Hardened Adamantite]
By Friday Tiiaa was 405 in Engineering and I'm broke. made [Gyro-Balanced Khorium Destroyer] for an enormous amount of money.
Did HoR, Why the corner?
Got Don't Look Up Achievement - Clear the hallway before Scourgelord Tyrannus in The Pit of Saron on Heroic Difficulty without anyone taking icicle damage on the first try.
Heard about first on the Instance at http://theinstance.net/
http://elitistarmory.com/US/Earthen%20Ring/Aprillian
Aprillian & Vrishna
Dualed boxed with Tiiaa/Sebastian and Vrishna in Outland. Funniest thing was when we wiped, I laid there while V ran back and waited for her to rez me.
Ran beginning of Hellfire Citidal, great xp for Tiiaa. Took Elyte, level 75 DK as tank. Later took Tiiaa through Slave Pens, did pretty
Vrishna
Hellfire again. Sorry Sanman. Ashayo's invite to Naxxrammas. My first raid. WOOT WOOT !! Healbot & the understudies.
Ashayo
Crazy Train
- Saurfang down before 2nd mark.
- Two shot Festergut
- Couple of practise runs on Rotface
After reset - hit revered with Ashen Verdict.
- Marrowgar - tank neck upgrade
- One shot deathwhisper
- Gunship - lost a tank twice, two dps, still won
- One shot Saurfang after only 1 mark
- Festergut - wipe at 20k
DwP
- 2shot Dreamwalker. Asheal won off-spec staff (has hit, and 2 gem sockets)
- Blood princes down - Ashayo wins new chestpeice
- Blood Queen down - this week on Asheal
- Cleared trash to Sindragosa ; was told we could move out to reset - she came through a door to wipe us. Got her to 27% on first attempt
After reset ICC - 15% buff
- Weekly was to keep Donavan alive on Deathwhisper fight.
- 1st wing + Festergut, Rotface, Dreamwalker. Attempt at Putricide (main healer out) - Got him down to 3%
Heroics
Pud
- H ToC, OK
Ashariss
- H PoS - very fast run with Temp, Kealar, Tallon, Wing
- UK, UP, CoS, HoL, Gundrak
Other Dungeons
Ashield - Gundrak pug - lost tank and a dps before 1st boss
Other Raids
Asheal - weekly Instructor Razuvious,
Asheal - Won t-10 gloves - again (both pvp and pve this time!)
Ashayo - weekly Instructor Razuvious - with Vrishna!!
Pud & Ashariss - Noth
Noth (weekly) on Shadowthrone (to fill numbers)
Tried Sarth +1 drake ; wipage
Misc
Pud - PoS ; hate it when puggers refer to you by class "hey dk, you gunna roll on that trinket"
Ashariss - proc'ed 5 x Kings Amber transmute - woot!
Ashayo - Gear shuffle and re-spec. Bought the triumph hit trinket and had over 500 hit. Respecced back to destruction from affliction without taking 3 points in suppression.
Levelling BS on Pud - up to 400 - can make socket for hands and bracers. Nice little increase on gear score.
Doing oracle chain on Ashield - dinged 77 when I saved the injured rainspeaker Oracle
Soloed Artruis the Heartless and Zepik the Gorloc Hunter - took 8 minutes
Jeppy
T-11 Days of RAF. Levelling and griefing.
Emails
Email #1 from Vern
hey all
I was listening to the latest show and wanted to write in again. First off GRATS to Vrishna on his first 80. I think its great you healed H halls of stone. I am a healer and been running heroics since back when you got emblems of heroism for it. I have to say the fight in HoS when you fight the computer with Brann is one of love and hate. I've wiped at the last minute multiple times there. sometimes even after dying we would find we had lived long enough to complete the encounter.But I love the lore part and the fact that Brann is hacking an ancient computer, whats not to love.
I am also interested in what happens with multi player mounts in phased areas.Most of my problems with phasing right now happen when I try to summon people to ICC using the stone.I'm sure Ashayo knows what I mean. I have a mammoth mount so I am going to see what happens this week.
One more thing. some of you were discussing the crappy system in place to exchange BG marks for honor. Heres what I did. After you buy at least one token, put it on your hot bar. then you open the vendor window and buy more, but use the hotbar button to consume them.
This way you don't have to close the vendor window to use them up and its just a matter of how fast you click and button push.
Thank you for a wonderful podcast.
Vern
Verneesha -Ally priest on Runetotem
Menasor- holy pally PoH
Email #2 from Makiling
hey guys, makiling here
i just listened to your latest episode i thought i would chime in with you guys with what i've been doing int he world of warcraft. a few days ago i was listening to one of nicole spag's podcast when i heard her talk about her several lvl 80 pallies. couple that with virinya's trek to 80, i suddenly thought to myself "maybe i should try leveling a pally." before that thought came to me, i was enjoying leveling my night elf druid who is now lvl 43 (yay for epic land travel). i'm still playing her as Bear Form in random dungeons, so i decided i would play my pally as a tank too. it was a good thing i had 1 slot left in the realm where my lvl 80's were. but when it came to choosing what race my pally would be, i knew i didnt want to play another blood elf, so i had to play alliance. and among all the races i had to choose from, the draenei were the ones who caught my fancy. i made a pretty draenei pally female, and named her Kagandahan (filipino for "quite pretty").
it wasnt to say that i've been neglecting my horde toons. on the contrary, they were of great help in gearing her up with heirloom plate and a 1-handed sword (for when the time comes that she will be wielding a shield). and most importantly, i needed my mage to enchant her gear. through my research, i found that there was a +strength to weapon enchant from the thorium brotherhood, but i needed to be friendly with them. so i spent some time doing quests around searing gorge and opening up the turn ins for increasing my rep with the brotherhood. it was a good thing the mats to turn in were relatively cheap in our AH, but when i got to friendly, i found that the vendor for the enchant was in the Grim Guzzler in BRD. so i trekked down the instance, bought the recipe, and bought the mats for the weapon enchant for my baby pally.
i wasnt really not a big fan of the melee classes, and before this toon, i had never played a pally. but after playing her for 10 levels, i have to say: PALLIES ARE OVERPOWERED! mobs going down in 2 hits? i had never experienced such a thing with my mage, lock, or druid! (especially not my druid) well, it could be also due to my gear, but i finally understand vrishna's excitement with the class.
the "buffs" pallies cast are in general quite confusing at first, but i hope my excitement for them will continue as enthusiasm for learning more about the class. she is lvl 11 as of writing, and i hope to get into my first random dungeon as soon as she hits lvl 15.
thats it from me for now. i look forward to your next show as always
for the pallies!
twitter.com/makiling_mage
Email #3 from Lidaron
Hi VAAJ, (Virshna, Aprillian, Ashayo and Jeppy. sounds like Badge)
I have been listening to ctrlaltwow for a while, and remember when it was just Aprillain and Ashayo. I think Virshna and Jeppy are the icing on what could be described as a yummy cake (or the choc chips in your cookies April). The dynamic you have between the 4 of you is really fantastic. It is nice to see you have loads of fun playing wow and making the podcast. I have just listened to Episode 163 with Tempeste and would hate to see you loose your clean tag. Maybe Temp is a bad influence on you April or you just can't help yourself as it makes for loads of fun.
More Ctrlaltwow
More fun
Wazzagnome
65 Blood Elf Warlock
Lidaron
80 Undead Rogue
Jubei'Thos
Pants on Head Guild
PS here is a little sound grab I made for the Plushy comp (Yes I know its too late ; ). I tried to turn my Aussie accent up to 11. Thats 1 more than the rest.
Crikey!!!!
Email #4 from Acaldraa
Hey guys, Acaldraa here again with a few quick tips.
I took a look at Virinya armory and I have a few quick suggestions, change your glyph of Seal of Light to Glyph of Beacon of Light. When healing, always have Seal of Wisdom up. Make sure to judge a mob with seal of light every 20 seconds. This way your passive 15 percent haste buff will stay up and you will be rocking some raid healing. Also, gem 16 int in every slot. My policy is to never use epic gems if the item is below level 219. Lastly, here is a revised talent build that I suggest you use- http://www.wowhead.com/talent#sxA0gM0sVu0tgdxZVdbx:dIwczM
This will improve your healing by a good amount. On a more technical note, I took the extra crit in order to help with illumination procs.
In other news, I had a good week in game and out. In game wise, I have been doing my daily X-Mute and have gotten 16 gems in 7 days just from some lucky procs. On the raiding front, I solo healed Festergut. An extremely traumatic experience but we got through it and the 11k HPS was amazing for my ego.
A quick note to the crazy train raid group, I hear y'all keep wiping at >1%? Well here's what you need to do to get that last little boost. Make sure everyone is flasked and uses potions during the fight.
Thats all for now,
Acaldra, Champion of the Frozen Wastes
Alea Iacta Est
P.S. Keep the podcast long! I love long shows. Please however, keep 'em under 4 hours, I cannot do more than that.
P.P.S. Aprillian and Virshna, we need to go on a raid at some point, Aprillian can be the leet dps and Virinya and I can heal it. Maybe a VOA and/or TOC 10 man.
Email #5 Gamlix
Hi guys,
Grats Vrishna, first of many I don't doubt.
Thanks for reading my email a couple of weeks ago, it was great to hear that some people are making an effort to catalogue from a player perspective Azeroth pre-Cataclysm.
In answer to some of Juuno's points, I have an 80 Death Knight Tank, not great gear any more, but I ran Naxx quite a bit pre-Ulduar. I Tank in Blood and faced a lot of criticism from people who should know better that it's possible, back then everyone tanked in Frost because the original plan for the talent trees was Blood single target dps, Frost Tank, Unholy AoE dps, at least as far as the beta leaks said. This seems to have stayed in the collective unconsciousness of the wow community and you will face some prejudice based on their misguided views of the trees. You can tank in any DK tree, but each one will use different abilities. It is not necessary in this game for everyone playing to run the optimal spec as dictated by stats monkeys, play the game the way you want to.
As a sole point on that tank's side, not that he was entirely right, but Frost dps is tailored for PvP burst damage, so it is entirely possible that you pulled off an awesome combo, maximised your dps, pulled threat and the facerolling tank couldn't keep up, it's him that should L2P, not dear Juuno.
I loooooooove the dungeon finder. Having come back after a few months away a couple weeks ago I am finding levelling now to be a string of dungeons, which I love, rather than a grind, which can be a bit dull.
Thank you for your time again folks,
For the Horde!!!
Gamlix of The Sha'tar
Email #A Johnathan
Hi there again sorry for the late reply
One week of wow wow where can I biu that!!!!
How about the plushie it's edible nom nom nom i'm kidding I love across from you PST Asia jk
Uh I already I have 2 month gamecard
If u hve anymore I tunes card i'd be happy but in other words.it's it urcchoicr
Sent from my iPod or my fake iPad
Email #B from Tedrah
Hello Ctrl-Alt-WoW,
Just wanted to drop a line to my favorite podcasters, the ever effervescent Aprillian, her Healer-in-waiting, Vrishna, the charming, El Jeppy and the awesome, Ashayo.
First and foremost-- Congratulations to Vrishna!! Yay for 80. Fantastic achievement. You'll like life as an 80 and I really enjoyed hearing about your PvP defense of Tranquillien. You did great to only die once during the skirmish.
Second, I really enjoy the audio messages from Juno and completely understand her obsession with Jeppy. You might want to add a segment at the very end where silver tongued El Jeppy could read the ladies a bed time story, lol.
Grats to Ashayo for exalted with The Ashen Verdict. You had lots of fun raiding recently. How you manage raiding on more than one toon I'll never know.
Lovely Aprillian, I am so jealous of your new rocket. Saw the twitpic and had to suppress the urge to start a new RAF account. Also, I'm enjoying your Ctrl-Alt-Trek high jinx as well. ( don't tell anyone I've strayed a little, lol )
My week in WoW has been kind of exciting. After Friday's 25 man raid with Unbroken on Sisters of Elune I had enough frost emblems to get my four piece set bonus.
I gave in and bought a Celestial Steed. I love my sparkly pony.
Going to be trying out Arena Tournament play with a couple of friends. That should be interesting.
I'm working on trying to get my alliance hunter, Teodora, to level 75 before the Gnomeregan event. She hit 68 and is now in Northrend.
Then last night I was able to fill in an empty spot in the Unbroken Tuesday night 10 man progression raid. They had locked out the raid last week so we started with trash clearing before the Blood Queen. We downed both the Blood Queen and the Dreamwalker encounters for the first time. Took three or four attempts for each. Then we took a quick look at Sindragosa. Made a couple attempts, but that one's going to take some practice. Hopefully I'll be able to ninja a spot in next week's Tuesday night raid.
Well I've gone on long enough. Thanks you guys for the great podcasts. Keep them coming.
This is Tedrah from Unbroken on Sisters of Elune signing off. For the Federation! Oops, For the Horde! (disregard first cheer)
/no need to put this email in contest, just enjoying your banter, no other incentive needed (group hug)
Sent from my iPhone
Email #6 from Riku
Dear Ctrl+Alt+Wow
I'm sure you guys get these all the time but becouse of the no money paradox my Wow account has gone inactive. I seem to think you guys might have had one of those magical one month WOW game time cards and i was cureous if there was something i could do to earn that. If one so exists. i'm a fantasy writer/poet so if you wanted something i would gladly do anything necessary whether it be writing or voicing a segment for the show or some kind of writing.
Main reason i ask is because of my date of birth is in May and i'd love to get a char to 55 before then :) Any way even if your dont have a card i'll still add my writing to the show if you wanted it. Thanks for reading the E-mail i love the show
Sitting and watching from the emerald dream
Riku
Email #7 from Alate
Hey ashayo, aprillian, jePpy, and varishna I was listening to the latest podcast. when I heard ashayo read the email of the guy who "corrected" his dk's gems. My main is a pally tank so I can lend an opinion on the subject. Ashayo dks do get mitigation stats from strength however generally gemming all stamina, or mostly all stamina is usually the way to go. In icc eh (effective health) is the way to go, its a little complicated to get into here but in short terms armor+stamina=WIN.
Sorry for any grammar mistakes I wrote this on my blackberry.
Alate, level 80 dwarf prot pally,
Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
Email #8 from Crash
Hello ctl alt wow crew, crashoveride writing in again. I head that april has a mifi from verizon, and was wondering if you could share your expireance using it for wow. Life has been crazy latly, and I would like to play on my laptop while away from home. Can you please share your thoughts on connecting to wow with the mifi, is it fast enough, do you have a data cap that you go over, and anything else that might help decideing if this is the right choice for me.
Thanx for the great show!!!!
Crash
Email #C from Bidcar
Thanks for the donations
Greeting Aprillian, Ashayo, El Jeppy and Vrishna,
Bidcar, level 20 human mage, Winterhoof server here. This week I started a mage and paladin to level with my recruit a friend. I started on Winterhoof by the suggestion of Jeppy. The toons are both level 20 and doing well. I felt like I was moving too slow, but Jeppy twittered he has the same problems on the Horde side, so that made me feel better.
I met a familiar face while passing through Goldshire. I went into the inn and I saw a gnome death knight named April. Just kidding, she was a Dranei. I thought it might be Aprillian but thought probably not, the world is too big for that. Anyway, she offered a gold to sign her guild charter so I did. Later on when I saw that I was kicked out of Ctrl Alt Wow guild I realized it was Aprillian. Aprillian said it was a small Azerothian world and apparently it is. I also started a couple of death knights so I could have back up if I needed it. I don't think I will, paladin and mage are a pretty powerful combo.
The Horde side of things went well. My recruit a friend duo of warrior and shaman are resting up in Orgrimmar after their rapid rise in power. I used the earned levels to take my hunter to 60 and gave the rest of the levels to my second mage. Probably shouldn't have gave the levels to the mage since it separates him further from the new paladin, but live and learn.
I started a blood elf paladin to pair up with my second mage. I haven't been playing them since I am concentrating on the Ally side of things. The only thing I have really been doing on the Horde side are the jewelcrafting daily and the cooking daily. I also have a slight fascination with running my low level paladin through Scarlet Monastery with my level 80 paladin. I love seeing what random loot will drop. I do the fishing daily for the same reason, I love opening the fishing bag and seeing what goodies drop out. I got a epic +30 stamina gem the other day.
A few weeks ago Bidkar, the life challenged mage, was in Thunderbluff when it was attacked by the Ally. I immediately went to the aid of Cairne as good Hordies do. The only toons that came to help Cairne were me and another mage. I didn't think it was going to go well for us, but I was willing to give it a shot. There were only about 5 ally so it wasn't a big raid or anything. They had a druid, paladin, rogue, warlock and death knight. We made plans to take out the druid first then hope for the best. They started their attack on Cairne. We blasted the druid into the next world then took out the rest of the group quite easily. I didn't see any "resist" pop up so I don't think they had much pvp gear on. When I see "resist", I know I'm done for. I thought we did quite well for two squishies. Cairne was saved and the Tauren rested easy that night.
I picked up my touring rocket like everybody else and took my warrior for a ride around Northrend. He picked up a bit of xp from discovery so it wasn't a complete waste of time. I wanted to see how the phasing would work so I took him over to the Argent place closest to Dalaran. He disappeared after a bit on Bidkar's screen, but Bidkar didn't disappear on the warrior's screen. I wonder if I could dual box with him through the phased areas now?
I really enjoyed hearing Tempeste on the show a few weeks ago. I always enjoy her on Bind on Equip and it was nice hearing her on Ctrl Alt Wow. She's the star of Bind on Equip for me, so it was a nice surprise crossover.
I really enjoy Juno's audio clips. Probably not as much as Jeppy, but close. If you could get Juno and Mo to do guest hosting, I think that would be a really fun show. Just a thought.
For the Horde and as much as it may pain me, For the Alliance!
Bidkar, Bidcar and his many alts
Email #9 from Xesu
Hey guys, Xesu of AIE here.
I was wondering; what alts are you guys planning on making for Cataclysm?
I was thinking Goblin and Worgen priests (I have a problem, I know) but, after 3 endgame priests, I can't get away!
Thanks so much for the awesome show.
Xesu
Shout Outs & Thank You
Momomoment
Hello
The fine crew of Ctrl Alt Wow and listeners.
Hope you are all doing well.
Happy May already!
And Happy RAF!!!!
Oh how fun it is :) Christmas in May until July for me :)
Yes I have started a RAF and my priest Moheal was the recipient of the fine new taxi and has started the Motaxi service. And of course the fun rid of flying straight up in the air and dismounting. That is always fun except when you hear your guildy yelling over vent when they hit the group..."splat!"
That flying mount is really fun, anyone on Feathermoon, if you are hord side, I will give you half off for motaxi ride :) (promotion only good for a limited time, must show id and NO GNOMES! thank you)
In wow, for my priest Moheal last Sunday I was able to some how win the roll for Althor's Abacus!!! It is a shiny awesome healing trinket. I was speechless and thankful :) and I was able to get Purified Lunar Dust with my frosties, it is a nice trinket as well.
Our guild had to cancel Icc10 Friday so some of of my guildies somehow talked me into doing a pug Icc 25, wow if I may say so, do not do it!
What a horrible waste of valuable leveling time!!!
For my RAF I had so much trouble creating my characters, names and class. I always like to have nice mo-creative names and wow this time around it really took me about 20 minutes to create my characters and I am still not happy. I first created a female Blood Elf Pally names Atoosa and a female Orc warrior names Geyah. A little mo-lore for you, Geyah is Thrall's grandmother. (I did say little, so I hope you did not expect more lore than that).
But I did not like the pally/warrior combo and I will be making a mage.
I am sad. Sad because i wasted several days of RAF time :( I have catching up to do and lots of it!.
I also created a pair on Winterhoof so I may bother ElJeppy and Bidcar. I created Rostam, human male warrior and Tahmineh, a human female priest. The two names are from Persian Mythology, checkout wikipedia if you are interested in learning more.
I think I have typed enough and I am sure you are tired of reading. Thank you for reading my emails and I love when Aprillians says "MOMOMOMENTS!!!"
Good times
Thank you as always for your great pod cast and I forgot one thing, the title of my email is from a few tweets I had with our old friend Xandar2112 on twitter, and also Molsan. They were chatting about podcasts and I was informed or I found out that I listen to way! to! many hours of podcasts!
Those two stated they average about 8 hours a week (or so) and I average that in a day sometimes.
So I think I need to join the PAA - podcast addicts anonymous.
So until next week and I will let you now how my treatment goes.
Take care
--
Mo
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