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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.
Sunday Apr 29, 2007
Sunday Apr 29, 2007
What’s Going On Made a couple of changes in my gameplay • Did some AB o Went on Vent it was fantastic to use the Vent servers while playing AB.
Typical Day for me • Get up and get my husband’s coffee. • (more to be added later)
Emails
Email #1 I am known as Groffsnog of the Frostwolf clan. First off I love your podcast it is fun to hear about the many members of your war party (alts).
Email #2 Hello again.
I emailed you about younger player and I wanted to say thankyou for telling me your opinion. Snip...
Also, I have started my first blood elf alt, she is a hunter and I was wondering if you had seen any cool-looking beasts in the blood elf areas that would make an ace pet? I am kind of obsessed with pets.
still loving your podcasts,
http://petopia.brashendeavors.net/
Closing Thoughts:
I hope you enjoyed my day in WoW. I would love to hear about yours.
Alt tip, you can shift click on a person’s name to find out information about that person.
Children’s Day is coming, keep a look out.
http://warcraftpets.com/
Wednesday Apr 25, 2007
Wednesday Apr 25, 2007
What’s Going On • Before we head into the meat of the podcast, I’d like to address some comments about last week’s Special Video Presentation o Sorry about the sound quality, didn’t realize the battle sounds were so loud o I use an Iogear KVM switch that allows me to move back and forth between the two computers using ctrl ctrl o Combinations best suited for dual boxing • In the video Warlock and Hunter, the Warlock places DOT’s (I kept calling them buffs in the video) and the hunter can autoshoot. • Any suggestions for other combinations?
Alt Tips Retuning Alts
I spent the weekend retuning my alts. • You shouldn’t feel locked into a profession for life, especially with alts. Once an alt is in the upper 30’s or 40’s, the skills they have might not be as useful, or you might have another alt who can do the job just as well if not better. o Treshel was a miner, but I had transferred in Iwari and she was around the same level in mining. I was hardly using Treshel to mine. I wanted to use Treshel to farm the Scalding Whelplings in the badlands. They drop a lot of loot that’s sellable and they sometimes drop a rare pet Dark Whelpling. o
Emails
Email #1
Hello! I love your podcasts and hearing about your alts. I was wondering how you felt about younger players. I am only 12 but I love the game and I'm completely addicted. I was getting annoyed on the non-roleplay realms because if I told anyone my age I would never hear from them again, this caused alot of problems while looking for a guild. I would really like to know your opinions on this subject. I am a bit sad right now because WoW keeps glitching badly and shuting down my pc, but your podcast cheers me up :)
Email #2 Aprillian,
I wish I could say that I'm an alt-aholic, but I'm not. I'm a WoW podcast-aholic and have checked out pretty much every WoW podcast on iTunes. What I can say is that I really enjoy listening to your adventures with your alts. From dual-boxing to collecting 1g, it's fun to listen to your excitement while playing WoW. Your memory is much better than mine, because not only are you remembering what happened to your alts, but you're remembering the NPC and location names with great accuracy.
I know you recognize and listen to the other podcasts out there. Yours fills a niche that not many cover, since there's nothing like listening to personal WoW experiences. Spending the extra time to index your podcast and write up show notes makes it all the better.
Keep on having fun - with WoW, playing all of your alts, and creating a great podcast too.
Thanks, Blazer, 70 Gnome Mage, Wildhammer (server), unstoppable (guild)
PvP on a PvE Server
Duel Club
Went to AB and WG
I’m hooked, I really love it.
Please try it
Closing Thoughts:
You don’t have to stay in the professions you are in, be flexible to change.
Try PvP, you’ll like it.
Posted by Aprillian at 4:46 AM 0 comments
Monday, April 16, 2007
Ctrl Alt WoW Video Presentation No. 2 - Dual Boxing
Dual Boxing and RPG Outfitter
One of my guildmates on Earthern Ring made a comment on the Guild forums about people with multiple alts in the guild. The post included the statement "You can only play one at a time" to which I had to reply, "actually I dual box".
http://www.rpgoutfitter.com
I just checked out the podcasts and I apologize for the sound of my voice is drowned out by the battle sounds. But hey the beauty of the video is the video.
Friday Apr 13, 2007
Friday Apr 13, 2007
What’s Going On
I’ve decided to restructure Ctrl Alt WoW. There will now be just four sections:
What’s going on
Tips for playing with Alts
Email
Closing Thoughts
I think Alt Round up will be mentioned in each section. I am doing this because I find myself holding back on something an alt did in the ohther sections and then skipping over it in Alt Round Up as I go down the long list.
Created 2 characters on Lethon, a PvP server.
· I’ve joined Randy Deluxe’s Guild –“Phat Loot Fishers”
Also tried my hand at PvP
PvE makes me feel powerful and strong
PvP makes me feel stupid
What I did this week
Visited Shattrah – Found out in guild chat that you can get a port there with a mage. I logged on to Rilfire on the Baelgun server and did a /who 70 mage search and whispered a few mages. At first I was whispering mages in Shattrath. Then I realized I needed to find a mage near me. I found one in Undercity who was willing to port me for 1 g. Then I logged on with Aprillian on the Baelgun and had the same mage port me to Shattrath. I was in awe.
Then I logged on to ER and did the same thing with Aprillian my level 20 blood elf. I had gotten Shattrath fever. When I showed up in Shattrath, I ran right into a couple of guild mates, Ashoyo and Kalisynth, two awesome warlocks. We set about finding the inn so I could set my hearthstone to Shattrath. Once we got there, they asked in guild chat if anyone wanted to be ported. So we started pulling people to Shattrath inn and it was awesome.
The neatest thing is that there are portals in Shattrath that will take you to the 8 major cities, four for each faction and you can only go to your faction city. This is great!
Decided hunters were more my thing.
Someone in IF asked where I got my hatchlings
Newbie area tip, you can hearth
http://www.rpgoutfitter.com/
You can see what materials are available among your alts.
Let’s take a look at it.
Aprillian on Earthen Ring
· Wanted to make Spidersilk boots Gave some away
· Level 14 asked for help on killing Razormanes near Camp T
o I think that’s called Power Levelling
Veyle is holding ore
Iwari - Mining in Alterac Valley, loading up on ore.
Ardrion
Treshel on Lethon Server
· Is up to level 13 and has 3 gold
o Sold some ore and jewelry on AH
o Got her invite into Phat Loot Fishers
Email
From: stlgamergirl
I know how you feel about trying to explain WoW to non-gamers. I myself have a similar situation. I don't have a lot of friends and I spend a lot of time at work. I'm also a huge fan of anime so imagine the surprised looks I get from people when they see me reading manga or watching something on my iPod. When I tell them about WoW, they have never heard of it and give me all these funny looks. I got so sick of not knowing anyone who shares my hobby, I went to craigslist and put an ad up in the looking for friends section. Three women have responded so far and they all know about gaming and/or anime.
I love hearing from someone else that I'm not alone in this. Thanks for writing.
Closing Thoughts:
I submitted the following to The Instance. I’m hoping they will play it on their podcast. If anyone
Greetings Instance Listeners, You’ve caught me killing Ogres in Alterac Valley – I’m Aprillian, a confessed alt-aholic. And I wanted to tell you about a podcast I’ve put together To help me and other satisfy our urge to have and to help organize our many alts. It’s called Ctrl Alt WoW. There’s no end game content, because most of us alt-aholics never get that far, but there are useful tips on how to make the best of all those alts you can’t help yourself from creating. You can find us on iTunes or visit our website at Ctrlaltwow.com. Thanks Andrew, Scott and Randy for keeping the bar of WoW podcast raised high.
Tuesday Apr 03, 2007
Tuesday Apr 03, 2007
What’s Going On
My husband and I had dinner with another couple on Friday Night. I had spent all day Friday on WoW and I was rather excited about the fun things I had done. I mentioned something that happened in the game. To my surprise, the woman of the couple had never heard of WoW and after trying to explain it, she called Online games a “complete waste of time”.
What I did this week
Embracing RP
WoW News
Tinfoil Hats – possible April’s fool joke
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/items/tinfoilhat.xml
Cloth
Schematic: Tinfoil Hat
Binds when picked up
Requires Engineering (375)
Use: Teaches you how to make a Tinfoil Hat
Tinfoil Hat
Binds when equipped
Head
10 Armor
-10 Intellect
+10 Spirit
Durability: 5/5
Requires Level 10
Equip: Hides the wearer's profile from the
Armory.
Equip: Allows the wearer to see "the truth." May
lead to an incontrollable urge to share "the truth"
with others.
Use: Grants the wearer immunity to all forms of
mind control for the next 10 sec...or does it?
"On behalf of the International Gnomish
Conspiracy, I've got to inform you that we're
almost out of tinfoil."
Requires Tin Bar (99), Fused Wiring (4), Troll
Tears (8), Heavy Leather (4), Star Ruby
Aprillian spidersilk boots
Server Selection & Email
Abkani
to me
show details
Mar 29 (4 days ago)
On Azuremyst:
Bronze bar x20 = 1.5 - 2 g
Tin Ore x20 = 1.5 - 2 g
Second Email
HEY! great show and there is something you need!
I just wanted to start by saying that I love listening to your show. It is great that it comes out more frequently than most other WoW podcasts and with a "little bit of regularity" which is great for me because I listen to a lot of podacsts and I'm always looking for more stuff on WoW. I heard you mention on a recent show that you used only a few add-ons and that most of them were purely cosmetic. I found it amazing that you didn't have one of my favorite add-ons that is almost necessary for alt-freaks like yourself. It's called "Recipe Radar"
and it allows you to see all the recipes that are available for all the professions in the zone you are currently in. Better than that, once you have loaded this program and logged on to each of your toons, it will remember which recipes each toon already has and what level their profession currently is. Recipe Radar will even show you on a mini map the general location of where the NPC that can train you (or sell you) is and if you use Cartographer with it, it will place a marker on your big map as well.
There are even more features that you will find useful in this add-on too and you may wonder how you have been playing for so long without it.
Sincerely,
-Amaging (68 Gnome mage) of the guild Seven Ate Nine on the Khaz Modan server.
Closing Thoughts:
I’m enjoying the game. It’s something I like doing. I am learning new things and it’s not a waste of time.