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We're back after a little hiatus. Aprillian and Glanthur discuss Hallow's Eve and what they've been doing. Glanthur is interested in putting some more RP in the RP Server they are on.   Hollow's Eve is here and there's so much to do.  But sometimes RL intrudes. Sorry for the Hiatus.  Timing and colds prevented us from recording.   Hallow's Eve = good fun   Aprillian:   I felt like doing some triple boxing.  I had been dual boxing here and there, including some double dual boxing with Ashayo in the Hinterlands.  It's nice because we both understand the intricacies of operating two characters at a time.  This week I took Aprillian my Level 33 Belf Warlock, Rilfire my Level 51 Orc Hunter and Auntrillia my level 60 Troll Hunter to Felwood.  It's very tricky because at level 33, in an area where the mobs are 49 to 52, Aprillian aggros everything in a very large area.  But the beauty of bringing her with the higher level hunters is that while standing back and offer auxillary assistance with one of her demon pets,

Now What is the Question. More Brewfest Brouhaha and other deep World of Warcraft discussions with Aprillian and Glanthur. Grind or not to Grind, is that the question?  Episode 42 - The Answer What is the question? Welcome to listeners who found us via Podcast Alley. Aprillian: Got a little big hung up on the Brewfest. I want the Ram for Rilfire, level 51 Tauren so she can't leave the Kodos behind. She and Auntrillia went back to the Hinterlands. Tons of Quests there Quea rode the Barker Ram almost all the way to Crossroads. Then road it back to Senjin Village. Making cool videos using the built in video capture for the mac. Glanthur: Didn't have a lot of time to play. But, I did manage to level Palanor, Mortlente, and Arlaerus. Arlaerus is now level 44. Only 26 more levels to go. Ugh. Why does grinding have to be so tedious some times? Subjects to talk about Grinding vs not Grinding

Brewfest http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/events/brewfest/ Ram Racing     Lots of fun, takes some finesse. Barkers Wanted Mystery Hunts Aprillian:  New Hunter Twink Orc Quea, now 7. Dual boxed with Rilfire, level 51 Tauren Hunter and Auntrillia along with Ashayo who had Jekle and Hiide.  We went to Jentha A'Lor for [50+] Separation Anxiety - from Huntsman Markhor in Revantusk Village [51+] Wanted: Vile Priestess Hexx and Her Minions - from wanted poster in Revantusk Village [51+] Job Opening: Guard Captain of Revantusk Village - from wanted poster in Revantusk Village Hearthstones - good to use in Starting areas. Mac Video Recording - Having lots of fun with it. The quality is great Glanthur: Yeah Brewfest!  I had a lot of fun doing these activities with Arlaerus.  I also found a potentially cool new guild.  I won't name them until I'm sure they're up-and-running, but it things are looking up.  I got Palanor to level 13 and Arlaerus to lever 43.  One more level until the next skill buying spr

First we would like to apologize for the poor sound quality in the previous 3 or 4 episodes. We were experimenting with internet recording and obviously we haven't worked out the kinks yet. So we are back to recording together in Aprillian's "studio". Second, someone asked if we had message boards. Well we aren't really geared for that. But, if you would post a comment in this blog, we will respond to it. In fact, I think we will be commenting on thing from the podcast in the blog, so check out the comment section. What we've been doing: Glanthur - I leveled up my BE mage (Palanor) and I am really digging a mage. He's extra squishy. I think that even my warlock and my priest are more resilient to damage. To compare and contrast, my paladin absorbs around 60% off all damage. My mage absorbs about 15%. Yeah. I also decided on herbalism and alchemy for my professions with Palanor. I'm excited to get to 20 since then I'll be able to start going into instances. It's going to be a lot of fun since my mage is alr

What We've Been Doing This Week Glanthur: My goal for this week is to start getting all of my lower-level alts up to at least level 10 (and that all-important, first skill point). I figure that doing that will help me get out of the frustration I'm feeling by not having a nice Alliance guild for Glanthur and Arlaerus to join on the Earthen Ring server. Also, finally got the PTR Test Realm up and running. Created a pre-made hunter, paladin, and druid. It was cool, but after only a few minutes I was overwhelmed. It's like winning $300 million in a lottery drawing. All of a sudden you have all of this stuff, and you're not sure how to use it properly. You think you know what you want, but you feel empty, like nothing of it was actually earned. I feel like rolling a mage - a BE mage. I'm stuck on the Alliance side without a nice guild for Glanthur and Arlaerus. However, on Horde side, I have Ashayo and Aprillian. So, hopefully I'll be able to level Palanor up quickly. I'm thinking Frost Mage. =) Aprillian:

Aprillian got mad at an AH Profiteer. Glanthur is back and we've got emails.   Glanthur is back. What We've Been Doing I'm a little angry about this situation.  I make a little gold selling Dragonhawk Hatchlings from Eversong Woods on the Alliance AH. Emails: From TomiBoy  and Marco   http://ctrlaltwow.com for more notes.

Glanthur is out of town, and Ashayo graciously steps in to cohost. Casual vs Hardcore? Fun vs. Method? Just what constitutes a casual player? Are there different layers of casualness? Aprillian plays around 40 hours a week. But still plays in a casual manner. How does a casual casual player play. What we've been doing this week. All of my alts have been sending greens to Aprillian and Veyle to DE. Have also moved some alts around to use for storage. Bought Enchanter's Satchels in Thrallmar, 20 slot enchanting supply bags for several storage alts. They are BOE but worth it for the extra room. I've re-specced Jekle to resto. He was feral, but he hardly ever gets into actual battle, and in tough battles I was running out of mana too quickly to heal efficiently. I tried it out in Stromgarde last week. We went in there to knock over all the quests with Albinobull, who is a mighty fine warrior in the guild, and Jekle was cruising with healing. Even though Ashayo is exalted with the Netherwing, Ogri'la and S

The show's subject was prompted by an email from a listener on how to deal with guild drama. What we've been doing. Ardrion, Level 28 was attempting to complete some quests in 1k Needle but ends up dying too much, so he brings in Aprillian. Used Auntrillia to go to Winterspring and Moonglade to get enchant recipes for Veyle Speaking of Veyle, she's my level 37 Rogue and for the first time in a long time, I played her. And I solved a problem that had been plaguing me. How to get her lockpicking skills up. I had done the boxes on the boat in Ratchet and the ones in Stonealon Mountains, but looking for them took time. Then I heard all this talk about picking pockets and it wasn't until Rilfire took Veyle to RFD and she started pickpocketing the Quillboar there and getting a bunch of worn lockboxes, that it all clicked. Ashayo's two characters Hiide, a hunter, and Jekle, a druid have dinged 40 this week. Email no. 1 Hey Aprillian and Glanthur, I was wondering if in your next podcast you could talk about

What we've been doing Auntrillia in Outland Rilfire in WC with Relaq - Relaq is now unrested and tried to take her to SFK to level. I now think this is the wrong aproach Veyle made some Green Iron Hauberek - blue chest mail - I need money for all of my characters. Sometimes you go for the loot and the levelling and of course the fun, but then sometimes you just need gold to train. With many alts, sometimes resources are plentiful and sometimes you find yourself a little short. As we've said before, there are so many ways to play this game. Arlaerus on his Mount Remodeling, what fun. I have to admit to being a little lax when putting up the show. The show takes about 5 to 7 hours of time outside of the game. Once the podcast is recorded, I am anxious to get it up and going. But now that this has been brought to my attention, I will try to put a little more effort into the processing part. I listened to this episode and did what I could to adjust the volume, I hope it is better. Glanthur and I discuss what we

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 mea

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 sa

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

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

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 P

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 Auntrill

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

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

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.

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 w

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