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Episodes
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.
Monday Mar 26, 2007
Monday Mar 26, 2007
What’s Going On
Talk about Guilds
First Guild – Everyone rushing to 60 soon fell behind – first taste of drama
Second Guild – One day logged on and it didn’t exist – felt homeless and confused
• Regrouped, got stronger, felt good
• One day we got a message everyone was joining another guild
o Felt betrayed
o
Decided to make a guild of one – Enjoyed it, especially with dual boxing
Then came The Instance Podcast Invitation, decided to try it out. Found out what it’s like to be in a really good guild
Immersed completely in alea iacta est
Did what a good guild member should do, followed the instructions for the guild. This involves downloading and installing specific Add ons. These included:
• http://www.rpgoutfitter.com/GuildProfiler/
• http://www.rpgoutfitter.com/CharacterProfiler/
• GEM – Guild Event Manager
Being a Good Guild Member takes work and dedication. The transition from being a Guild of one to one of 1000 is amazaing.
Read the forums for both what’s coming up and what’s going on. It’s also a good way to get to know people.
Speak up in chat, even if you don’t have a lot to say. Don’t be afraid to ask for help and to offer it.
• Aprillian is an enchanter on Earthern Ring and I love running up to people with the Guild tag, inspecting them and then offer them the enchants I can do. Ctrlaltwow is a Jewelcrafter and gives his stuff to Aprillian to give away in similar fashion.
What I did this week
Ran Instances for the first time in a long time –
RFC – Ragefire Chasm – 2 times with some great people from the guild
• I love this Instance
Wailing Cavern – another great run. Got some good loot – finished a quest
Went on a raid to Stormwood. It was so much fun. I put pix up at:
• http://web.mac.com/ctrlaltwow/
It was exhilarating. There were many of us and as we ran up through STV and through Duskwood and then getting clobbered in the first little town there I think it was Raven Hill
Alt Round up
Didn’t do much on my “Main Alts”. Spent most of the time on Earthen Ring
I’ve been playing mostly on Earthern Ring
I transferred two alts to Earthern Ring, mostly helper Alts.
• Prilfire, now known as Iwari, from Lightenhoof. She was sitting there all alone and I never use her. I had gotten her as high as level 37, she’s a Warlock and has Engineering 247 and mining 238.
• Rillia, now known as Veyle, from Baelgun, she’s a level 36 Rogue with Blacksmithing 269 and enchanting 246.
I won’t be playing them much but their skills will come in handy. It was fun to transfer them over. And yes I paid the $25 fee twice, but it was worth it.
So my new main alts are now:
Pair
• Aprillian Level 19 Warlock Enchanter and Miner
• Ctrlaltwow Level 16 Blood Elf Hunter
o Because it’s a Role playing server, these two have a story. They are brother and sister sent out into the world and they have a character blog, something that was suggested on the AIE forum to help people roleplay better, and it’s a series of letters home. You can find it at http://aprillianer.blogspot.com/
Singles mentioned above and Jajal, replacement for Ctrlaltwow because of his name. Right now I am trying to level him up to 20, so he can do JC to 225.
Banker Alts
• Trexrar, Gruzilla, Wateva
• Wateva is a Blood Elf and I got her to Dustwallow Marsh from Menethi Harbour. From there she swam to Ratchet. She died a couple of times from these things in the water, but each time she ran back to her body, she’d get a little further out and then was almost at Northwatch and she died again, and ended up at Ratchet graveyard and since she was only a level 5, I let the Angel bring her back to life and got on the boat and went to Booty Bay. So I have my dragon hatchling connection going again. Not as lucrative, I think others are catching on but still making money. I’ll have to find a new money maker.
Favorite Places in WoW
After finishing the Lady Sylvanas quest, I was sent to Sepulcher and Tarren Mills and walking along the road through Silverpine, I forgot how beautiful that area is. I will have to back there and kill stuff.
Server Comparisons
Jewel Crafting supplies
Bronze bars & Tin ore
No new email
Did get a nice comment on iTunes, thanks Priesteffer. Run over there and add your own.
Closing Thoughts:
Find a guild that fits, keep looking until you do. Don’t be afraid to /gquit and don’t hesitate to join one because you can always /gquit. If you do join one, jump in feet first.
I lost a good friend Steve Soltys, I just wanted to shout out to him the he will always look good to me and that I miss him more than words can say.
I put up a special presentation yesterday of the Lady Sylvanas’ performance. I’m going to close the show with the full uncommented version of her lovely song.
No. 1. What’s Going On
No. 2. What I did
No. 3. Alt Round Up
No. 4. Server Comparison
No. 5. Favorite Places in WoW
No. 6. Closing thoughts about the show
Sunday Mar 18, 2007
Sunday Mar 18, 2007
I got two whole emails
Email #1
Hello!
First, thanks so much for doing the show! I also especially appreciate your taking the extra effort to put chapters, artwork, and notes in for iTunes. :) It's extra work and I appreciate it lots!
My first question is: How do you decide which alts to focus on at any one time? I only have 10 characters, all on the same server, but even that is enough to put me at sixes and sevens sometimes.
When you sit down to play, how do you decide -who- to play?
Second question: Do you let people know who all your alts are?
I do, in that I have a traditional naming scheme for all my characters, which is that they must all begin with "Ab". The story behind that is a bit long, but anyway it lets everyone know, especially in the guild, who's an alt of mine and who's not, and that helps with any guild-related business I may have to take care of. People always know it's me so they always know how to get ahold of me.
Thanks for your response!
-- Abkani, guild master of Eldritch Way on Azuremyst.
Eldritch Way Website: http://eldritchway.abashima.com
Email #2
Hi Aprillian,
First off, love the podcast. This podcast hits close to home for me because I to have many alts (mostly alliance toons). I have a 63 human warlock, 61 human warrior, and my new main a 37 troll mage on Earthen Ring. I have several questions to ask. First, you mentioned that you dual box and your current favorite combination are the hunter and rogue. What other combinations have you tried? I recently read an article where a guy multi boxed five characters at the same time (Army of Xzin if I remember correctly). Since you play many alts do you have a favorite class overall? I've played most classes up to level 10 (with the except of a shaman which I have not played at all). My favorite class was the warlock (level 63) but I got tired of him and now is retired. Currently, mages are my favorite class.
Second, I'm a big fan of instances (Scarlet Monastary is my favorite pre-60 instance). Do you have a favorite instance? My highest level character is 63 so I haven't seen that many post-60 burning crusade instances. I'm really looking forward to the Old Hillsbrad instance located in the caverns of time.
Lastly, I'm a big fan of mods. Do you use any mods? I use the basic mods such as titan panel, ctmod and kth threat meter. I used to use class specific mods such as necrosis for warlocks.
Thanks for taking the time to read my e-mail,
Munchausen - Level 37 Troll Mage - Earthen Ring - Alea Iacta Est
Alt Round UpDidn’t do much on my “Main Alts”. Spent most of the time on Earthen Ring http://armory.worldofwarcraft.com/guild-info.xml?r=Baelgun&n=Ctrl+Alt+WoW&p=1
Didn’t do much on my “Main Alts”. Spent most of the time on Earthen Ring http://armory.worldofwarcraft.com/guild-info.xml?r=Baelgun&n=Ctrl+Alt+WoW&p=1Pril & Zee – Blood Elf Twins Pril = Hunter LW/Skinner Zee = Rogue JC/Miner • Nothing
Creed & Ctraltwow Blood Elf Priest Tailor/Enchanter and Orc Warrior Miner/Blacksmith • Not Much – Creed bought the Hatchlings and sent them to April
Aprillian Main Troll Hunter Miner/Skinner • Transferring the Dragonhawk Hatchlings
Rilfire Tauren Hunter LW/Skinner • Badlands Farming Scalding Whelplings
Treshel Orc Hunter Miner/JC • In Crushbridge Hold - Mining
Theeo Orc • Nothing
Sherinna • Nothing
Bankers/Sellers • Trex – Sold over 20 • Illia – Just sold some Ogre Kickiers • o Earthen Ring • Aprillian is becoming a Great Warlock • Ran Wateva – Dark Elf Alt to Booty Bay to start the DragonHawk collection, I need some gold
Favorite Places in WoWLoving Eversong Woods and Ghostlands • Full plate of quests
Loving Eversong Woods and Ghostlands • Full plate of questsServer Selection Jewel Crafting supplies Bronze bars & Tin ore
Closing Thoughts:WoW can be whatever you want it to be. There’s no limits, choose what makes you release the most endorphins.
WoW can be whatever you want it to be. There’s no limits, choose what makes you release the most endorphins.
Sunday Mar 11, 2007
Sunday Mar 11, 2007
Alea iacta est
New Phrase for us Alt Addicts – Instead of Main player, I have a Main Server
Does anyone else Dual Box?
Ran around Darkmoon Faire – it was fun, got the mugs of Dark Iron Ale and got JubJub for Pril
Cross area Hunter training doesn’t work
WoW News
http://armory.worldofwarcraft.com/
I love the Armory
World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade has established a new sales record for PC games, with approximately 3.5 million copies sold within its first month. Keeping pace with the expansion's sales, World of Warcraft's worldwide subscriber base now exceeds 8.5 million. You can read more about these achievements in our latest press release. We send our sincere thanks out to the players across the globe who have continued to help us bring Azeroth, and now Outland, to life, and we look forward to adding more great content to explore -- and seeing how the arena tournament plays out -- in the months ahead.
Alt Round Up http://armory.worldofwarcraft.com/guild-info.xml?r=Baelgun&n=Ctrl+Alt+WoW&p=1
Pril & Zee – Blood Elf Twins Pril = Hunter LW/Skinner Zee = Rogue JC/Miner • 22/21 • Zee made [Figurine - Jade Owl] and was so excited to give it to Treshel, my level 44 Hunter who always needs a burst of mana but then after making it o Binds when picked up o Unique o Trinket o +3 Intellect o +2 Spirit o Requires Level 35 o Use: Restores 30 mana every second for 12 sec. o Cooldown: 5 min o Sells for 15 Silver to vendors
Creed & Ctraltwow Blood Elf Priest Tailor/Enchanter and Orc Warrior Miner/Blacksmith • Aprillian Main Troll Hunter Miner/Skinner • Rilfire Tauren Hunter LW/Skinner
Treshel Orc Hunter Miner/JC
Theeo Orc
Sherinna
Bankers/Sellers • Trex • Illia o
The Dragonhawk Hatchling Connection • Aprillian sends 4 gold pieces to Creed – costs 4 gold 30 c • Creed buys 9 Hatchlings @ 45 silver a piece and mails them back to Aprillian 45s 30c X 9 = 4 g 7s 7c • Aprillian puts them up for auction to April on the Horde/Alliance AH o Aprillian puts them up for 25s, pays a 3s 12c deposit, the AH cut is 3s75c so Aprillian receives 24s 37c . So basically that’s 3s75c x 9 = 33s 75c • Trex puts them up on Alliance AH o
Favorite Places in WoW
Server Selection Netherweave Bags 10g bid/ 11g BO Baelgun Horde Server
Email
Good week, lots to do.
Lunar Festival is still going on, get those flight paths and rep point
Monday Mar 05, 2007
Monday Mar 05, 2007
What's Going On
I spent some time "Seeding" Servers with my alts. The Lunar Festival is a great time to put alts up and get Flight Paths. Then when or if you want an alt on that server, then they already have the flight paths.
I wanted a Ravager on my Blood Elf. I figured out a way to get my Horde Character into the Alliance starting area. All it took was some trial and error and some dying.
WoW News Lunar Festival Feb 16 – March 8 Darkmoon Faire Mulgore March 5 – 11 http://armory.worldofwarcraft.com/
Alt Round Up Ctrl Alt WoW Armory Page
Pril & Zee – Blood Elf Twins Pril = Hunter LW/Skinner Zee = Rogue JC/Miner • Level 22/21 • Grinding for Leather in Southern Barrens. Quite successful, Thunder lizards and their yummy tails, thunderhawks and hyenas. Pril got her cooking to 125 and got the book from Aprillian • And of course Pril got her Ravager from Bloodmyst Isle
Creed & Ctraltwow Blood Elf Priest Tailor/Enchanter and Orc Warrior Miner/Blacksmith • Level 11/11 Aprillian Main Troll Hunter Miner/Skinner • Level 54 o Ran out to Shadowsprey o Did the trial run to Bloodmyst Isle Rilfire Tauren Hunter LW/Skinner • Level 48 • Grinding Scalding Whelplings for leather with Treshel
Treshel Orc Hunter Miner/JC • Level 44, dinged in the Badlands • Grinding Scalding Whelplings for leather with Rilfire • Did some jewelcrafting, got a bunch of jewels prospecting horded iron ore. Hard to get tin for bronze
Theeo Orc Rogue Alch/Herb • Level 19 • Hanging out in Silvermoon
Sherinna Troll Priest Alch Ench • Level 14 • Still sitting in Ratchet
Bankers/Sellers • Trex Draenei Hunter Skinner/Herbalist o Level 12 o Dax Connection in the Vault of Lights o Blood Elf Bandits Masks
• Illia o Didn’t seel any moths, sold some comfortable hats and hides
The Dragonhawk Hatchling Connection • Aprillian sends 4 gold pieces to Creed – costs 4 gold 30 c • Creed buys 9 Hatchlings @ 45 silver a piece and mails them back to Aprillian 45s 30c X 9 = 4 g 7s 7c • Aprillian puts them up for auction to April on the Horde/Alliance AH o Aprillian puts them up for 25s, pays a 3s 12c deposit, the AH cut is 3s75c so Aprillian receives 24s 37c . So basically that’s 3s75c x 9 = 33s 75c • Trex puts them up on Alliance AH o
Favorite Places in WoW Azuremyst and Bloodmyst Isle •
Server Selection Blood Elf Bandit Masks 10 – 12 gold on Baelgun Alliance AH
Email ctrlaltwow@gmail.com
Monday Feb 26, 2007
Monday Feb 26, 2007
No. 1. What’s Going On Observations • Dranei men sound like Worf’s father, is there a connection? Saw the Drainei mounts, very cool • Tip: If you are near and heading back to the inn you hearthed from and you need just one more space in your bag, you can destroy the stone and get a new one at the end
House Cleaning • I took all of my alts to their banks and cleaned out their banks and bags. You probably have some stuff that you needed to get your craft up to the current level, put what you don’t need on AH. Make it a fairly reasonable price. If it sells, you’ll have some more money, if it doesn’t, it will be mailed back to you, where you can keep it in your mailbox until you find another alt who needs it or you can use it, or sell it. This does mean you won’t know when you get new mail. But for me, that’s only important on my Banker alts to see if I sold something for big money on AH. You should already be sending all of your big AH stuff to your Banker alt. • Cleared Out Quest. o Looked for Quests that were collecting quests and completed as many as I could o Deleted grey quests unless I needed the rep Vendor in Alterac Valley – Rizz Loosebolt- I like those out of the way vendors, he can’t repair but he can buy the vendor trash so you can stay out farming a little longer. He’s in the area where the little fake cave is, it’s called Slaughter Hollow, directly opposite the opening to Crushbridge Hold.
Tried LOTR Stress Test • The character creation is limited because it reflects only what was in the books/movie human –mf, elf –mf, hobbit –mf, and dwarf male. No dwarf females because I guess they weren’t in the book. But how do you get dwarf males without females? I also think you should be a big fan of the game before playing. I read the first book, the Hobbit, and of course the LOTR series is set after that. I couldn’t get into the movies at all. • Some people were complaining that it looked like WoW, which is ridiculous. There’s a set formula for any MMORPG, people were probably saying WoW looked like EQ • I didn’t stay on the server very long, but it looked pretty.
No. 2. WoW NewsYou Tube WoW endorsed Video contest, http://worldofwarcraft.com
You Tube WoW endorsed Video contest,http://www.guildlaunch.com/ • Great for Guilds, even better for people with alts. I stumbled onto this on Digg.com. It sounded promising, so I decided to give it a try. I was really impressed. For free you get a very well put together and customizable site that includes forums, roster, a calendar and a wiki. • With a minimum amount of effort, I made a pretty nice site: http://ctrlaltwow.guildlaunch.com/ • It uses an addon on called Guild Launch Profiler http://support.guildlaunch.com/guild/library/535/GuildLaunchProfilerCURRENT.zip
• There are several steps to adding characters that must be done on a regular basis or the info will be outdated. Once the addon is loaded, you have to right click your avatar pic and select Create Guild Launch Profile for each of your characters. If you want to include information from the bank, you have to take that character to the bank, likewise you have to go to the stable master to get all of your pet info. Also open all of your tradeskills, you’ll see a listing of what you can make scroll by in chat. This creates a file called GuildLaunchProfiler.lua which is located in "World of Warcraft/WTF/Account////SavedVariables/GuildLaunchProfiler.lua">. You upload this file on your Character Page and it uploads a whole lot of information up to the website about your character. Now you can easily see the skills, levels, items the character can craft even when you aren’t online. It also conveniently provides a direct link that you can later use to get
No. 3. Alt Round UpPril & Zee • Zee has been helping Treshel with her JC.
Pril & Zee • Zee has been helping Treshel with her JC.Creed & Ctraltwow • Creed has been disenchanting the lower level JC that Treshel has been making. He put some of the Strange Dust on AH and made some gold Aprillian • Working on cleaning out her Quest Log, picked up the Errand for Apothecary Zinge - (Step 1) quest in UC while doing the Valentine’s day quest. This quest requires a trip to Tanaris. Which was great because she had the Wastewander Justice - (Step 1) Quest undone, so she took Rilfire with her. • Also got another coin from the Elder in Un Goro Crater
Rilfire • Made several Comfortable Hats with the recipe Illia sent her. Ilia paid 16 gold on AH for the recipe, but she’s already sold 2 at 3 gold so I should make my money back. Rilfire did the Errand for Apothecary Zinge - (Step 1) and Wastewander Justice - (Step 1) with Aprillian, both she and Aprillian made some serious gold just vendoring the stuff dropped and the money from the Wastewander Bandits and Thieves.
Treshel • She made the change, dropped Herbalism and took up Jewel Crafting. I spent some time trying to get the gem and mining bags for her. You have to go to Outland to get them. I was in Silvermoon when a 260ish level Jewel Crafter who was upper 60’s was asking what level everyone was. I asked him about the bags, he had one but didn’t realize it was BOE. Then he mentioned he was having a time with JC because he couldn’t find gold. Using Character viewer, I found a stack of gold ore and a stack of gold bars and offered them to him if he would go to Outland and get the bags. Turned out there was only one mining bag and he didn’t realize I wanted the Jewel as well, but I got the mining bag for the two stacks of gold, which was good. • Also cleaned out some Quest stuff and managed to solo the Apothecary Zinge - (Step 1) Quest and the Into the Field - (Step 3) in Tanaris and did the timed quest Tanaris Field Sampling “Acquire acceptable samples for 8 basilisks, 8 hyenas, and 8 scorpions. Bring the testing kit back to Chief Engineer Bilgewhizzle in Gadgetzan before the power source runs out.” Which I loved.
Theeo • Didn’t do much this week
Sherinna • Level 14 Just did the Lunar Festival Quest – She got the 2 for 1 deal with the rockets I tried to do it with all my alts just in case I decide to play them down the road. She had 6 coins so she got the dress and a pack of dumplings
Bankers/Sellers • Trex o April got 10 Dragonhawk Hatchlings to him o Actually got to Darnassus and made Dolanaar his home. Did some quests there • Illia o Didn’t sell a lot of moths / the market is down. Did sell a pair of Ogre Kickers Treshel picked up from the two headed Ogre in Crushbridge Hold –d. o Sold a Comfortable Hat for 3 gold, see where that goes. Someone on I think it was Thotbott said he sold them for 1.5 gold.
No. 4. Favorite Places in WoWLeast Favorite Place Darnassus – • Can’t find a guard down in the popular areas • Mailbox is no where near AH • Too Many Bridges • Coming from Dolanaar
Least Favorite Place Darnassus – • Can’t find a guard down in the popular areas • Mailbox is no where near AH • Too Many Bridges • Coming from DolanaarNo. 5. Server Selection[Iridescent Pearl] Tonight 2/25/07 • On Baelgun on the Horde AH, they are going for 3 gold a piece • On Baelgun on the Alliance AH they are 50 to 75 silver a piece • On Lightenhoof on the Horde AH they are 1 gold to 3 gold a piece • On Alleria on the Horde AH 2 to 3 gold apiece
[Iridescent Pearl] Tonight 2/25/07 • On Baelgun on the Horde AH, they are going for 3 gold a piece • On Baelgun on the Alliance AH they are 50 to 75 silver a piece • On Lightenhoof on the Horde AH they are 1 gold to 3 gold a piece • On Alleria on the Horde AH 2 to 3 gold apieceNo. 6. EmailsHi Aprillian,
I am on the Korialstraz server and my main is a level 32 human rogue named Constant (male). My alts are: lvl 24 dwarf hunter Padar (male) w/ pets white polar bear (Snövit) & black wolf (Fenrir) lvl 17 human warrior Sweettea (female) lvl 16 human mage Renya (female) lvl 12 night elf druid Talesin (male) lvl 5 human warrior Banq (male) (my bank alt, hence the name) Created a guild just for myself and my alts called
Love your show and I gave you a postive review on iTunes.
Just wanted to say thanks for the tip on getting flight paths via the Lunar Festival celebration. Out of all the WOW podcasts you're the only one that mentioned this. I just sent out all of my lower level alts to get the flight paths they could.
Again thanks much and keep the podcasts coming!
Constant
No. 7. Closing thoughts about the showGood week, lots to do.
Good week, lots to do.Lunar Festival is still going on, get those flight paths and rep points
I am enjoying doing this podcast, even though I don’t get a whole lot of feedback. I’m almost at 2800 downloads, so someone must be listening. No matter what, it’s a great learning experience. I also want to mention something cool that happened to me a few weeks ago.