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Wednesday Jul 25, 2007
Wednesday Jul 25, 2007
What we've been doing....
Aprillian
* Twinking out my twink Pri, level 14 Rogue Orc.
o Running her through Deadmines
+ With Aprillian, level 32 Warlock (for soulstones and summons)
+ With Rilfire, level 50 Hunter, to clear mobs
Stop your whining
Battlegrounds - the truth behind AV and AB.
Twinks are they really bad...?
misconceptions -
Complaining about the AH and that they didn't want to buy a recipe on AH, they wanted to know where to get the drop. AH is overpriced. But then the same person complained that his stuff wasn't selling on the AH.
We got a good review on iTunes! and an email from Auho
Hey guys I was listening to your latest podcast and I just wanted to mention another way to find resources about World of Warcraft. There is a mod called Lightheaded which takes the comments from wowhead and lets you read them in game from your quest log. (Here is the link http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info7017-LightHeaded.html ). Thank you for doing such a fun show keep up the good work.
Auho lvl 68 human paladin
And another email
This is Fecklarr, Phecklarr... ect. from AIE - Earthen Ring
Great Podcasts. guys.. just listened to Eps.30 and the refeance to Barrens chat made me think ... have you heard the podcast (old style radio show) The Chalice of Silvermoon. http://www.wcradio.com/shows.php?selectShow=71 . Man is it Funny. the one with Barrens chat is Eps. 29... on the floor, curled in a ball with laughter.
A little back ground... I have been playing WoW since beta.. My wife also plays.. I have 1 lvl 64 Hunter, she has 2 70's...she is not an alt person. We have been play computer games since the late 80's.. Yes we are older gamers... i just had B-day and turned 50..
I really like this guild we're in, its the best I've seen.
Feel free to ask question on stuff ... I've seen ALOT of in game stuff... and know hunter's really well, but U do luv My Shamen (lvl 54) (Windfurl) ftw...
Well keep up the great work and hope to see you and group with you in game...
Fecklarr, Phecklarr & Ohryen
p.s. your email address is incorrect, the one in the show notes
Wednesday Jul 18, 2007
Wednesday Jul 18, 2007
One thing about WoW, it does require some thought. It's not a button masher. The choices you make affect your game play. There are many levels of playing
What we've been doing:
Aprillian
Twink Fever
Pri Orc Rogue - why orc - I like the look of one of the faces and the pigtails
Got her to 6 in Durator and then ran her to UC and then Silvermoon to complete levelling, I like Silvermoon.
AH FTW - Looking for Twink gear across realms
running around having fun
Warlock Quests
Treshel took Aprillian into Desolace along with a friends two lower level alts
Treshel didn't fight or group, just there as a safety net
New Monitor Baybee!
Mods for Alts
Character Viewer - let's you see what's in your alts on the same account inventory
Revisit Last week
Why do we love instances so much
Quests
Phat Loots
EXP
Concentrated bunches of mobs
Lore/Storyline
Adrenaline rush
Podcasts mentioned the show.
The Instance - http://theinstance.net
World of Theorycraft - http://www.wcradio.com/feeds/WoT.xml
Please write, we would love to hear from you.
ctrlaltwow@gmail.com
Glanthur@gmail.com
Twink Gear is Expensive!
Friday Jul 13, 2007
Friday Jul 13, 2007
What We've Been Doing
Aprillian
Leveling crafts - there's something almost hypnotic about it. I keep thinking of that game that was played on ST TNG, the one Riker brought back from Risa that rewarded the player when they got a ball in a hole.
Treshel is leveling alchemy
Rilfire is leveling LW - She got to Thrallmar
Getting caught up on making a particular item. Veyle, the BS, is basically a tool
Ran lots of instances
BFD
SFK
RFK
Did a silly thing. After doing all the quest we had
Glanthur
- Haven't been playing my Alliance alts at all. I'm thinking about moving over Arlaerus and Glanthur to Earthen Ring so I can be on the same server. BEs are mean and nasty - very bitter. But, oh so pretty and I love the game art surrounding them.
- Currently level 23, and have a succubus (coolest minion ever!)
- Feel good about Horde now. I like double-dipping
- Not too sure if enchanting is all it's cracked up to be. I'm guessing it only really pays off at the highest levels.
Game play
Auntrillia is level 59 and she got to Outland and saw it and said, this is good. But she has all these quests in "Vanilla WoW" and she wants to finish them. There are two schools of thought on this subject:
You've been to Outland, you've seen the quests out there, they award more xp and more gold. Abandon the legacy quests you have and seek your fortune in Outland
Play all the content you can, so what if you don't get as much xp and gold. You pay to play a game, isn't it more important to have fun
Reputation...is it really that important? I've been playing for a while now, and I know you can get mounts from other factions with exalted rank, but what else is it in for you to get such a high level or reputation?
Thanks to anthonyngmonica for remindign me to put up show notes!
Tuesday Jul 03, 2007
Tuesday Jul 03, 2007
What we did this week
Auntrillia went to Stralholme and ninja's a ring (by accident)
Morion is almost level 14 - how I like Horde and BE's so far....
- Stop and Smell the Roses (or harvest them if you're an herbalist)
Best places to hang that are mob free
Is fishing all it's cracked up to be?
- In-Jokes
- Alliance vs. Horde
Starting Area Favorites
- Stupid Things Overheard
- Most of the episode could be about play styles...
PVP vs PVE?
Email:
Hi Aprillian,
Love the podcast. I've been playing for 1.5 years now and I think I'm getting burned out with the game. I have several 70s on each faction and only log on to play them once in a while. I'm not sure how long you've been playing so my question is why do you still play? What keeps the game interesting for you? If you've only been playing for a few months then the game is fairly new. I've noticed that your highest character is 59 or 60 so you still have a ton of content to explore and experience.
My problem is that once I hit 70 (several times now) I do the same basic routine: get keyed for Karazhan, run multiple instances to get better gear, etc. But what happens when you're done with Karazhan? Of course you go to the next upper tier raid content. It just seems that once you reach the level cap all you do is try to get better gear, which takes a considerable amount of time and effort. It's a long and tough grind to do it.
I really do love this game but it just seems like once I start another alt I'm basically doing the same thing over and over again. Maybe I just need a break from the game and wait for the next expansion.
If I do quit, I will continue to listen to the multiple WoW podcast I subscribe to to keep me well informed while I'm on my WoW hiatus.
Keep up the great work,
Akabeko - Kul'Tiras (US) Server.
Aprillian's Response:
I consider myself a career gamer. I've been looking for a game that could hold my attention. I've been playing WoW since October 22, 2005 and I have yet to be bored. And yes, I do not have a character higher than 59. I've been enjoying myself. Several times I've had invites to join people who were doing the fast track, and it's never appealled to me. It's a lot like eating through a cake just to say you finished. But you've already done that, so let's focus on your choices: (Hope that didn't sound harsh)
Start a Twink - I know we hate them in BG but there will always be Twinks and as the old saying goes, if you can't beat 'em join 'em
Try Dual Boxing, if you can afford it. If you can't get two computers, most will be fast enough to run two WoW Clients at once. If you can't get another account, consider alternating leveling alts and getting two or three going at the same time. Work out a balance, make two gatherers, i.e. miner/skinner herbalist/miner or enchanter; then make one or two just for producing Blacksmith/Engineer or Leatherworking/Tailor and challenge yourself to make it with your own or almost all of your own materials.
Find a really cool guild or start your own and have Events
Or you could stop playing for a while and wait for the next expansion or big patch
Or Start a podcast about WoW, oh boy!
Or you can just say you won and move on
2nd Letter
Hi again,
I thought I'd send a few comments about your last podcast. First, I'm almost 99% positive the anvil/molten station by the TM wagon/seller has not always been there. It must have been put in the last few weeks. Second, I found your guest interesting. There are lots of different ways to play WoW (not that I have to tell you). Whatever people enjoy is my opinion as it is their money.
Later,
Kurt
Wednesday Jun 27, 2007
Wednesday Jun 27, 2007
Meet Glanthur - Plays a lot of Alliance and hopefully will bring an insight into the podcasts.
We just talked freely, with no set struction.
Email
Hi Aprillian,
I just wanted to quickly send you a screenshot of the talbard I won for your contest. Have you ever seen a better dressed/looking dead guy!!! LOL Thanks much, Karbiziz
We got a good feel of speaking together. I look forward to doing more podcasts with Glanthur.
Please tell us what you think about our new combo.
ctrlaltwow@gmail.com
Glanthur@gmail.com
Tuesday Jun 19, 2007
Tuesday Jun 19, 2007
Mini Goals
Got Auntrillia to 58 and she's gone through the Dark Portal. It was very exciting. I didn't know how to get there, I felt stupid asking because everyone seeemed to know.
For those that don't know, you can fly to Swamp of Sorrows, either from Undercity or Camp Gromgol into Stonard, then go south into the Blasted Land and follow the road all the way down until it splits, take the right hand fork. After you go a little bit further, you will hear and see the thunder and lightening from the Dark Portal. Grab the quest from the guy with the gold exclamation point over his head and then charge through.
What else has been going on.
Disparity between alts and how to deal with it.
Remembering the different exp you gain when leveling characters of different level. But it's worth it for:
Completing Quests
Gaining Rep
Email
Thanks Kurt, you brought up some nice subjects to discuss.
I rambled on more than usual. I hope it's a good 'cast.
Tuesday Jun 12, 2007
Tuesday Jun 12, 2007
What's been going on:
Multiboxing Galore - Triple boxed Wailing Cavern with Ashayo dual boxing.
Me on Treshel, Aprillian and Ardrion; Ashayo on Jenkle and Hiide
Obsessed with Cooking
Levelling up Treshel to 300 and Rilfire to 333. Making choices on whether to keep cooking the items I could make and might not get skill points or passing objects on to Treshel
Auntrillia doing silly Crater quests just for fun and buffs.
Crystals
Bloodpetal Pods to get healing pots
Morrowgrain to get weird potions and rep with Thunder Bluff
Does she really want a Kodo? At least it will be relatively inexpensive.
Contest and emails
Two really good submissions
Austin
over 40 minutes have past
this is the end of this pod-cast
i love making alts, what can i say
so to all of you, i bid you GOOD DAY.
Closing with a gnome cheer, I substitued a Troll cheer
Ron who plays a character named Karbiziz
"Of all the podcasts I've ever done....this..was the most recent"
I've actually decided to go with one I created. But I thank these two submissions. I will be contacting them and sending Austin the upgrade to Burning Crusade key and Ron will get the Landro Longshot Tabard
Friends
Someone brought Taverncast After Hours #3 to my attention. http://www.taverncast.com/ The guy running the show did a trial
I want to counter his view point. He made several assumption that:
Someone being on were being irresponsible, just because he was.
No one said anything about being total divorced from the real world
Not everyone is rushing to 60
His experiment was not a reflection of real gameplay
They took a valid and interaction and focused on the worse parts
Why do we have friends?
To hang out with
have fun with
help when you need it.
How do you pick friends
When I moved from an all Black neighborhood to a mostly White on in 1976, I had to make a choice. Do I hang ... I chose to hang out with people I had something in common with
In WoW
By guild affilliation
Needs
WoW is less subjective to physical judging (is this good or bad?)
I think the hardest thing for the non WoW players to understand is the complexity of the game. The viewpoint is that it is merely a shootem up game and we as players are spending hours firing weapons and killing things. While there is a large amount of this going on, a lot of time is spent doing so many other things.
Interacting with others
AH - figuring strategies, doing research.
The dynamics change
Wednesday Jun 06, 2007
Wednesday Jun 06, 2007
Grinding Rep and Helping alts and silly transfers. Closing tag contest extended 1 more week.
Silly things I did this week
Transfer an alt from one account to another just to see if the Netherwelp from the Collector's Edition would transfer. It did
Log into my toons on the Baelgun server and take everything of value from most characters and put everything on Sherrinna the Level 14 Priest so I can transfer her to ER.
Great things I did this week
Make it to Winterspring on my level 56 Hunter Auntrillia
Grinding Rep is time consuming.
To explain Grinding Rep - Some quests require you to "make nice" with a certain group. For instance I needed to get to Winterspring. The only way to get to Winterspring is through a tunnel that is full of Timbermaw Furbolgs but if I kill of a bunch of their enemies, Deadwood and Winterfall Furbolgs they will like me and eventually I can at least run through their tunnels without them killing me. But there's another quest I need to actually be able to talk to these guys and they won't do that
It's Alt Relative - I wanted to go over the relationships between my alts
Main Alts - Ardrion and Aprillian
Aunt Rillia - Ardrion and Aprillan's Mother's Younger Sister (Rillia, a Troll, was actually adopted by the Blood Elves)
Veyle (Level 36 Troll Rogue) and Iwari (Level 44 Orc Warloc) - Used to fight with A & A's parents in the Old Days. Each were summoned on behalf of their parents to help the younger Blood Elves
Tuesday May 29, 2007
Tuesday May 29, 2007
Anyone At All?
Children’s Week
WoW as a social place
Groups – Run throughs vs even groups
New Conbination – Warrior/Priest for Dual Boxing
DuckieBank
Shattrath City – Enchanter and JC trainer
Email from:
Hi my characters name is Lilthis i am a 66 warrior on the Lothar server. I want to say how much I love your podcast, I currently have 4 different alts I play as more than banks, and I too am running around on all of them gathering for their professions. I just wanted to say thanks for the dragonhawk hatchling tip, even now I am still using it to sell them for around 4g each thanks again and good luck with your alts.
New Skype Number - ctrlaltwow – Answering machine set up, give us a call.
Tuesday May 15, 2007
Tuesday May 15, 2007
Intro
I was out sick. UAE operation. http://www.ask4ufe.com/
Transfers
• Aprillian on Baelgan transferred to ER
o Want to work on getting one alt to 70, loving ER and AIE
• Money to Lethon
o had to level one alt up to 10 first
o There’s a limit on how much you can transfer
o Got ganked a few times heading to the Neutral AH in Booty Bay
Other news:
• My husband got me a Burning Crusade Collector’s Edition
o So I upgraded one of my accounts and received a new Burning Crusade upgrade key
• I opened a pack of TCG cards and got a Lando Loot card (http://ude.com/loot)
Contest!
• Prizes:
o BC Upgrade Key
o Aforementioned Loot Card
• Create a closing line, either some kind of sound bit or something I can read.
New Skype Number - ctrlaltwow – Answering machine set up, give us a call.
What’s Going On
Went to ZF with both Treshel and Auntrillia
• Had too much fun, it was a challenge
• Treshel got [Jang'thraze the Protector][Gahz'rilla Fang]
Afterwards Treshel took her new dagger and sword
Auntrillia and Morrowgrain quest
Closing Thoughts:
It’s good to be back
Love to hear from you.