Listen on:
Episodes
Sunday Aug 19, 2007
Sunday Aug 19, 2007
What We've been doing:
Aprillian and Server downtime - Earthern Ring was down for 48 hour maintenance. Drove me crazy. I have alts on 4 other servers, but none that mean as much as the ones I have on Earthern Ring. So I made a resolution, I'm not going to put all of my eggs in one basket.
Aprillian levelled herbalism so she can get flower for Treshel.
Glanthur:
I've been working on Arlaerus. He's half-way through level 38. Once I hit level 40, I'll put him on hold and level up some of my other alts for a bit (see "Alt Advice" below). With the 48 hours of down-time and preparations for a major life event coming up, WoW has (unfortunately) taken a little bit of a back burner. I'll soon be back in the saddle, so to speak.
Email - None so far
Dual Boxing w/Ashayo (2 episodes) - it got cut off, so we have a corrected version and a new version.
Alt Advice - Visit alts:
You can get caught up with one alt. But if you are a true altaholic, you will want to keep all your alt connections fresh. This means spending one hour a week logging into all of your alts on all realms. You might find one that catches your interest. Or learn something. And you will have some fun.
THINGS WE DID DURING SERVER DOWNTIME!
Arlaerus - did research on what gear he should use for his protection tree. Found out what the different armour suffixes are. Gorilla = Strength + Intellect. Eagle = Intellect + Stamina. Bear = Strength + Stamina. Boar = Spirit + Strength.
Friday Aug 10, 2007
Friday Aug 10, 2007
What We've Been Doing....
Arlaerus:
I found a nice bit of writing in the game. As a BE, I had to help an undead NPC create a "new plague" and one of my quests was to test this plague on a human's dog, Stanley, in Hillsbrad Foothills. Well, as I was questing with my Draenei, Arlaerus, one of the Alliance NPCs said that his friend in Hillsbrad had to recently put down his dog Stanley because it "grew to an enormous size and attacked anyone who came near". Hehehehe. Yeah, sorry 'bout that - my bad. Just shows how in-depth this game is.
Arlaerus is Level 36 now. Almost to 40. I also have maxed out the number of alts I can have on Earthen Ring. =(
Made a new alt - Troll Warrior named Zuule.
Aprillian
Auntrillia hits 60 - I don't think I made a big deal out of it last week, but this is the first level 60 character I've ever had. It just dawned on me that this would have been the level cap back in early January.
Iwari is back in Crushbridge Hold - it was suggested she could go mine mithril in Tanaris. When I said liked being in the cave and having the convenience of multiple nodes. But the next question, but won't she stop getting xp? made me laugh. It isn't always about the leveling.
Play Styles:
Death Knight - What it means for alts - but more importantly: what is it?
If it's anything like Warcraft III, it will be like a very naughty Paladin.
Emails
Hey, this is orcbreaker of the dentarg realm, you've been talking a lot about twinks on your podcast and I still dont know what the hell one is, please tell me so parts of your podcast can make sense.
Well, hope you can let me, and other people know on a later cast.
Ty
Hey guys, this is orcbreaker again, I know I emailed you once today but I was just looking on wowwiki.com and apparently in the new expansion for wow they are going to be adding a new class that starts off at over level 50 apparently, they call it deathnight.
Don't take my word for it because i'm not sure whether it's true or not but I'll keep an eye out for it again, cya
We talk about twinks and the Wrath of the Lich King
Finding the right vendor for fussy pets can be a right pain.
So what I do is buy up big - buy 6 stacks of fish for that turtle.
But you don't want to have it use up 6 slots right?
No problem, mail it to an alt. Then on your alt, just return the mail.
So then, wherever there is a mailbox, there is food! (There are alot more mailboxes than vendors or banks)
Also, treat your pet with higher level food.
For example, "Striped Yellowtail" says "requires level 35". But that's just for you!
Irkle, my turtle, is only level 33, and I can feed him those. This has the added benefit of having him gain more happiness from the feed pet effect. (You know to always keep the pet happy (green) right? That way they cause 125% of damage.)
Ash
I am khalid mahmoud, A Bahrain national I have been diagnosed with Oesophageal cancer .It has defiled all forms of medical
treatment, and right now I have only about a few months to live.I am very rich,but was never generous, I have given most of my assets to my immediate family members. I have decided to give alms to charity organizations.I cannot do this myself anymore because of my health.I once asked members of my family to give some money to charity organizations,they refused and kept the
money.I have a huge cash deposit of Eighteen Million dollars with a finance House abroad. I will want you to help me collect this
deposit and dispatch it to charity organizations.You will take out 20% of this funds for your assistance.DO REPLY ME VIA MY PRIVATE EMAIL(deleted)TO ASSIST ME.
Should we write him?
Friday Aug 03, 2007
Friday Aug 03, 2007
What Aprillian has been doing:
Twinking Pri - Networking helped, (guildies, internet)
reworking my characters for alliance selling because of mail changes. Putting alliance at Neutral AH and Alliance in Exador on same account. This way, anytime I want something from alliance AH, I can now get it at once. Ally on Exador buys it, sends it to Ally in Booty Bay, who then puts it on neutral AH and my Horde Toon in Booty Bay can buy it and send it instantly to anyone on that account or in an hour to another toon. Consider putting a toon on all accounts in Booty Bay but would take up too many valuable Alt Slots.
What Glanthur has been doing:
Leveling Morion and Arlaerus. Morion has a felhunter now! Not as sexy as the Succubus, but could be a lot of fun? I'm sad about warlocks getting nerfed in the next patch, but I do see the potential of them being really overpowered at higher levels. I'd love to see protection-based paladins have more skills to make them a little bit stronger with their single weapon. I've also been collecting large amounts of enchanting material. Any day now Morion is just going to pop and go up 20-30 levels in enchanting. That will be a good day.
Mail
Hey Aprillian and Glanther this is lilthis again, now a 70 Night Elf Warrior, after listening to your last podcast where someone mentioned lightheaded i wanted to suggest another addont hat goes great right along side lightheaded it is called TOM TOM and it does just as the GPS it shows you where to go, any time cordinates are found in ligtheaded or throughout the game you can left click and it will put a nice marking on you map it can be found at http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info7032-TomTom.html and really helps, expect to hear from me as i will probable be sending in a recorded audio file this week as well keep up the good work.
Hey Guys its Auho (Ah-ho) again.
Lately I have been playing my level 16 hunter, Jovvi, and I was wondering if you could tell me a few tips to playing a hunter. Since you have mentioned several times that you have a few of them. Also in patch 2.2 Blizzard is adding voice chat for instance and raid groups to the game, what do you think of that? I'm all for it as long as it doesn't create server lag.
Also I am a mod nut so I am going to tell you about another great mod I use called Mappy (http://downloads.curse.com/details/7917/). It takes your mini map and makes it a square. Which lets you see a lot more!! And if you use a lot of mods like I do it makes the buttons fit better around the map.
Have a great week and FOR THE ALLIANCE!!!
From Ashayo
You only learn new grimmoires every 2 levels the same as training.
So each time you train, just scroll thru the grims looking for "requires level xx" (eg 30) when you hit level 30.
Train the current minion, put it on "stay" and walk away. At some distance, it despawns and you get the shard back. Summon the next, rinse and repeat!
Ash
Date: Jul 21, 2007 8:47 PM
Subject: Fwd: 29 comments
To: ctraltwow@gmail.com
Hi, Just listened to 30. I guess I sent my email about 29 to the wrong address... I used ctrl instead of ctr I guess.... strange how my 2 earlier emails got through... oh well.
I haven't used any twinks. I'm interested in getting to 70 and seeing what's what then. Do either of you do the pvp things? Battlegrounds/arenas/etc? I never really cared for pvp stuff...
I agree with instances are fun when you find a good group. I'm doing BRD now (priest) and it is a very tough place. I've been trying to get lock the elite horse quest which has a part in Scholomance... holy cow what a tough place. Still not luck after 3 tries... I find instance interesting when using diff alts... which makes it fresher... you know the layout but you have to adjust your gameplay to you class.
Keep up the good work,
Kurt
PS: I hear the next patch, locks DOT are changing... sigh!
Date: Jul 14, 2007 10:05 PM
Subject: 29 comments
To: ctrlaltwow
Hi, just finished your latest podcast after spending 4+ hours in SM killing all the bosses there. Other than the staff in the library nothing really drops there for mages. Anyway, this mage is an enchanter. This is my first time with an enchanter. I had my other chars send the enchanter stuff they didn't need so enchanting didn't really cost me any out-of-pocket money. I'm at 225 and now I have to go to Uldman for the trainer. I'm not happy about that at all. I haven't had any lucky getting ported/summoned to BC though that would be the easiest way to go. I tried once to disenchant another's players soulbound item and was unable to. I gathered from the podcast that you can do this? I'll have to try again if that is the case. As far as disenchanting for the group, the shards sell for good money but not sure about the different dust. I guess it would be more money then vendoring the item.
With all my chars I've been in some strange group policies as far as loot. I've had some that you never need no matter what. I've had some that players say "If XZY drops I get it, O.K.?" I find these really annoying... you should need if it is better than what you are wearing, otherwise greed. Most if not all are pick-up groups and some of the players are questionable quality. I think the thought of doing the disenchanting is too complicated for the groups I've been in. I've had players whine and quit the group if they didn't get an item. For example the staff in the SM library: I needed it and so did a shaman, I won the roll and the shaman whined about it and quit the group. I don't get it.
I was in STV in a group with someone who before starting playing WoW decided not to use any outside info about the game. No custom UI, no looking at stuff on the web. I thought it was interesting idea but I would go crazy if I had to do that... I play spellcasters and the normal UI is not good enough for me. I have spells for keys 1 through =, Shift 1 through Shift, F6 - F13 and shift F6 - F13. I currently use FuBar, Auctioneer, WoWKB, Cartographer, MBB and just started using LightHead which give info about quests in a window next to the quest window (avoids having to look up stuff on web). I use MacAceUpdater to handle most of these addons.
Well, have fun playing WoW. I'm still not decided if I should transfer to another server. It took me days to find a good enough group for SM. I don't mind the money if I could be sure the server was better... maybe I'll go to Earth-Ring... lol
Oh, did you notice that with the latest patch you no longer have to wait an hour before receiving items in the mail... YIPPPEEE!!! I love it.
Later,
Kurt
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