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This week's show kicks off MMO month for 2024, where we talk about World of Warcraft's most popular expansion. Andi, Robert, Ryan, and Pascal all hop aboard the airship to Northrend to re-experience the downfall of the Lich King. The post RPG Backtrack 311 – Renaissance Festival in Arthas’s Backyard appeared first on RPGamer.

Episode 6 - The Just Barely Not March March Episode Welcome to episode: Odd time in WoW for me, vacation, time away, busy, end of expansion Back to some basics.  We are in one of my favorite Horde starting zones, Mulgore What did I accomplish in WoW last month? Vacation stuff No SoD Did rip out the Hearthstone event Did my March Trading Post and 1000 tenders To do so, started leveling a 17 Tauren Paladin Started into the Plunderfest stuff, that gets us to news News updates 2.6 – let's talk about the Plunderverse SoD ramps up again April 4 Nobelgarden - April 1 to 8 My opinion on holidays - meh Special Location with description: You must do the Ahab Wheathoof quest in Bloodhoof Village once in your life to honor a young WoW player who was taken too early by cancer. https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/Ezra_Chatterton  Popping in to a tavern or inn for a local drink: Not any alcohol, but there is cheese! Location #2:  Thunder Bluff tavern music rest of way out Walking around Thunder Bluff - unique capital city Had a brief role in BfA - some Nzoth nightmare vision thing? Otherwise unused, like so many of them Layout is different, bit confusing - 3 lobe, double-ring Central spiral to all 3 inner locations, but can walk outside to access all 3 Then each lobe has a separate mesa called a rise.  Some interesting little places to find Main topic:  Back to what to do during WoW slowdowns Take a vacation, literally take time away from the game Read WoW novels and books and comics.  Chronicles 1-3, 4 on the way. Also, the warcraft website https://worldofwarcraft.blizzard.com/en-us/story  Lots of short stories and cinematics.  Not up for reading?  Check out some of the many content creators who focus on the history and lore of Azeroth.  One of the more popular is the YouTube channel of Nobbel87.  RIP Warcraft Less Traveled (2010 to 2015 Play Warcraft I, II, and III Collect all the grey, basic racial weapon appearances and armor appearances.  Get a water mount; the one I recommend is the Subdued Seahorse, available from killing the rare spawn Poseidus in the underwater zone of Vashj'ir.  Others like the Sea Turtle from Northrend fishing. Outro: Thanks to Blizzard and OGRE for audio, my lovely wife, and you for listening. If you want to support the show, SoloQueueWoW at Patreon.com Thank you to current patrons, Andrew, Righteous Bandy, and ThatSkyGuy!  Subscribe to the podcast at your podcast feed of choice, Apple, Spotify, and all the rest.  You can contact me at soloqueuewow at gmail.com, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Threads. "Good luck with getting to Renown 40 on the Plunderbus. I'll see you out there."  

Welcome to Casually Casual Cast!  This is the Warcraft Podcast for those who are Hardcore about NOT BEING hardcore! Hardcore can be described as “Having an extreme dedication to a certain activity.” and that just doesn't jive with this shows casual vibe. I enjoy all the things in Azeroth too much to be hardcore about one thing!   I am your host , Harainna Swift! In Each Classic WOW Episode I cover WOW Classic Era, Season of Discovery Classic, and Wrath Classic News! SometimesI cruise the Forums and even share community feedback! I share some adventures in Azeroth and I finish by sharing In and out of game events by taking a trip through Tradechat! Todays Date is:    12/26/23 Episode: 29 You can have your thoughts , tips,  opinions, stories, recruitment needs, event advertisements and adventures  shared on the show too! You can tweet the show at @WarcraftCasual  You can follow me on twitter @Harainna You can email the show at CasuallyCasualCast@Gmail.com You can find past episodes, leave a quick Voicemail, and the show-notes for Casually Casual Cast at https://casuallycasualcast.crd.co/   You can join me and other fine Azerothians in many versions of WOW at https://murlocs.crd.co ! That will tell you more about our vibe and allow you to join our discord server! World of Warcraft in 2024 —The Road Ahead https://worldofwarcraft.blizzard.com/en-us/news/24046540/world-of-warcraft-in-2024-the-road-ahead  Warcraft Classic News: https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/c/community/wow-community-council/261  WRATH CLASSIC Wrath Classic: Enter the Ruby Sanctum on January 11 Journey into Northrend to the Wyrmrest Temple and face Halion and his minions within the Ruby Sanctum on January 11 at 3:00 p.m. PST (23:00 GMT). Gather your allies and make plans to heed the call of the red dragonflight in their time of need.  Cata Classic Sign Up for the Cataclysm Classic Beta https://worldofwarcraft.blizzard.com/en-us/news/24043600/sign-up-for-the-cataclysm-classic-beta  Season of Discovery WoW Season of Discovery DPS Tier List https://www.wowhead.com/classic/guide/season-of-discovery/dps-rankings-tier-list-phase-1  Another Round of Ashenvale Fixes for Season of Discovery https://www.warcrafttavern.com/wow-classic/news/another-round-of-ashenvale-fixes-for-season-of-discovery/     Where to farm Iridescent Pearls? Season of Discovery Classic https://www.warcrafttavern.com/wow-classic/guides/where-to-farm-iridescent-pearls-season-of-discovery-classic/  https://gameishard.gg/news/its-crazy-how-this-is-happening-asmongold-slams-blizzard-as-clip-of-hacker-in-wow-classic-season-of-discovery-goes-viral/747343/#gsc.tab=0  Season of Discovery Weekly Class Tuning and New Recipes https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/season-of-discovery-class-tuning-december-19/1745880  Update on the Battle for Ashenvale and Layers - 12/14/2023 https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/update-on-the-battle-for-ashenvale-and-layers-12142023/1742396/337  WOW COMMUNITY COUNCIL IN POSTS: https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/news/23743182/introducing-the-world-of-warcraft-community-council  https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/c/community/wow-community-council/261  Classic Era https://www.dexerto.com/world-of-warcraft/wow-classic-server-populations-1591600/  Seasons of Discovery https://x.com/AggrendWoW/status/1728191866565460158?s=20  Cruising the Forums! Blizzard, you can have my $ or have layering on ERA, not both SoD is gonna spiral out of control fast I shouldn't be forced to PvP Why I just canceled my sub Adventures in Azeroth! My time in-game. Trade Chat  In Game Events! https://www.wowhead.com/events  --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/casuallycasualcast/message

In Episode 2 Josh Al and Sam discuss actually talk about playing World of Warcraft in Northrend and the start of their adventure in Wrath of the Lich King.

In this episode, Berzerker is celebrating the release of Wrath of the Lich King Classic! From the lore, to the music, to all the feels, journey once again to Northrend to battle the scourge, and hear why it is still the best expansion of all time. Subscribe and listen now!

Liv is ready for Northrend and Wrath Classic while Manny continues to watch Dragonflight develop on the beta. Join the two as they go over all the news in the World of Warcraft that happened this week.

Episode #249 of the Max Level Podcast. On today's show, Bryan and Kyle from rpgera.com are waiting in queue to actually play Wrath of the Lich King Classic... there's plenty of time to talk since these queues are 4+ hours long! From there, Ubisoft Forward is this weekend, so the guys touch on some recent leaks regarding Assassin's Creed and what they expect to see at the showcase! Plus, Armed Fantasia & Penny Blood on Kickstarter for Kickstart My Heart! Email the show at ldgpodcast@leveldowngames.com with questions, feedback, suggestions, or whatever else you want! Thanks to the following Executive Producers: Jexak & Xancu. Timestamps for this episode are as follows: 00:00:34 - Introductions 00:05:48 - World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King Classic 00:30:38 - The Sean Waltman Lightning Round (News Roundup) 00:48:02 - New Release Roulette (Week of 9/5/22) 00:54:32 - Ubisoft Forward and Assassin's Creed Leaks 01:02:14 - Kickstart My Heart (Armed Fantasia & Penny Blood) 01:04:43 - Final Words SUPPORT US Patreon: https://patreon.com/rpgera CONTACT US Website: https://rpgera.com Discord: https://discord.gg/cC73Heu Twitch: https://twitch.tv/therpgera Twitter: https://twitter.com/OriginalLDG Instagram: https://instagram.com/bryan.ldg/ Facebook: https://facebook.com/leveldowngaming MUSIC CREDIT Music produced by Occams Laser and used with permission Kickstart My Heart: "Kickstart My Heart -Eurobeat Remix-" by Turbo Ad Read: "Song of Elune" from World of Warcraft, copyright by Blizzard MISC INFORMATION This episode's Sean Waltman Lightning Round consists of the following being discussed: Sony Interactive Entertainment, Savage Game Studios, PlayStation Studios Mobile Division, FromSoftware, Horizon Chase 2, Mafia 4, Voice of Cards: The Beasts of Burden, Katana ZERO, Trinity Trigger, Xbox Live Games With Gold, PlayStation Plus Free Games, and NIS America Showcase 2022 --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/maxlevel/message

Welcome to Casually Casual Cast! I am your host , Harainna Swift! This is the Warcraft Podcast for those who are Hardcore about NOT BEING hardcore! In Each Episode I cover Warcraft Retail and WOW Classic news in and out of Azeroth, I cruise the Forums and share community feedback! I share some adventures in Azeroth and I finish by taking a trip through Tradechat! Todays Date is: Episode: You can have your thoughts , opinions, stories and adventures shared on the show too! You can tweet the show at @WarcraftCasual You can follow me on twitter @Harainna You can email the show at CasuallyCasualCast@Gmail.com You can find past episodes, the show-notes for Casually Casual Cast , and the rest of the podcasts I host at www.cozypodcastnetwork.com ! INTRODUCING TWO NEW EVENTS: XY'MOX'S CHARITY CACHE AND SOLO SHUFFLE SHOWDOWN! https://news.blizzard.com/en-us/world-of-warcraft/23848935/introducing-two-new-events-xy-mox-s-charity-cache-and-solo-shuffle-showdown In World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King, MrGM's Death Knight Leveling Advice is recommended. https://www.ign.com/videos/mrgms-death-knight-leveling-tips-for-world-of-warcraft-wrath-of-the-lich-king-classic THE LICH KING RETURNS 09.26.22. Americas (PDT): September 26 at 3:00 PM · Europe (CEST): September 27 at 12:00 AM · Korea (KST): September 27 at 7:00 AM · ANZ (AEST): September 27 at 8:00 AM Players may now build Death Knights and get ready to go back to Northrend thanks to World of Warcraft's recently released pre-patch for Wrath of the Lich King Classic. World of Warcraft also unveiled the Wrath of the Lich King Classic Upgrades, which come with special benefits for both Classic and Retail. https://news.blizzard.com/en-us/world-of-warcraft/23846694/get-a-northrend-upgrade-before-your-journey-to-icecrown Apple https://tinyurl.com/CCCApplePod Google https://tinyurl.com/CCCPodGoogle iHeartRadio https://tinyurl.com/CCCiHeartRadio Player FM https://tinyurl.com/CCCPlayerFm Castbox https://tinyurl.com/CCCCastbox Pocket Cast https://tinyurl.com/CCCPocketCast --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/casuallycasualcast/message

Join us on a tour of Northrend and a discussion of some of the events of the Wrath of the Lich King expansion.   Be sure to join the discussion on Discord and Twitter! discord.gg/YxPKxdKqRW @dalaranb Sources for this episode are: https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/Northrend https://www.wowhead.com/zones/northrend https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/World_of_Warcraft:_Wrath_of_the_Lich_King

WX: jessica66001,获得卡卡老师的英语学习干货分享英文诗-不要站在我的墓前为我哭泣此段话作者名字 及写作时间已经不详，但最有根据的是在1932年，在美国马里兰州巴尔的摩市，一位名为Mary Elizabeth Frye (1905-2004) 的主妇，为了同居友人Margaret Schwarzkopf的母亲过世而写的作品。诗本身并无名字，一般人就以其第一句「Do not stand at my grave and weep」来命名。诗的原意是纪念逝去的近亲，在1995年，英国一名青年在爱尔兰共和军袭击下牺牲，临死前把一封信交给父母，请他们在他离世后打开，信 内就是这一首诗，经过传媒的报导后，得到广泛的回响。而到了2001年，美国的911恐怖袭击事件后，在一个追悼仪式中，1名11岁的少女在会中读出此 诗，以表达她对在911事件中丧生的父亲的追思，使此诗再一次成为话题。Do not stand at my grave and weep,I am not there, I do not sleep.不要站在我的墓前为我哭泣，我不在那里，我不曾睡去。I am in a thousand winds that blow,across Northrend' s bright and shining snow.我是万千呼啸的风，飞过白雪皑皑的诺森德。 I am the gentle showers of rain,on Westfall' s fields of golden grain.我是柔和细腻的雨，洒在西部荒野的金色稻田。I am in the morning hush, of Stranglethorn' s jungle,green and lush.我是清幽安静的晨，弥漫在绿色茂盛的荆棘谷。I am in the drums loud and grand,the thunderous hooves across Nagrand.我是威武雄壮的鼓，踏过无限草原纳格兰。I am the stars warmly gleaming,over Darnassus softly dreaming.我是温暖闪耀的星，照耀达纳苏斯的静寞长眠。I am the birds that sing,I am in each lovely thing.我是歌唱的鸟，我存在于一切的美好。Do not stand at my grave and cry,I am not there. I do not die.不要站在我的墓前为我哭泣，我不在那里，我从未离去。

WX: jessica66001,获得卡卡老师的英语学习干货分享英文诗-不要站在我的墓前为我哭泣此段话作者名字 及写作时间已经不详，但最有根据的是在1932年，在美国马里兰州巴尔的摩市，一位名为Mary Elizabeth Frye (1905-2004) 的主妇，为了同居友人Margaret Schwarzkopf的母亲过世而写的作品。诗本身并无名字，一般人就以其第一句「Do not stand at my grave and weep」来命名。诗的原意是纪念逝去的近亲，在1995年，英国一名青年在爱尔兰共和军袭击下牺牲，临死前把一封信交给父母，请他们在他离世后打开，信 内就是这一首诗，经过传媒的报导后，得到广泛的回响。而到了2001年，美国的911恐怖袭击事件后，在一个追悼仪式中，1名11岁的少女在会中读出此 诗，以表达她对在911事件中丧生的父亲的追思，使此诗再一次成为话题。Do not stand at my grave and weep,I am not there, I do not sleep.不要站在我的墓前为我哭泣，我不在那里，我不曾睡去。I am in a thousand winds that blow,across Northrend' s bright and shining snow.我是万千呼啸的风，飞过白雪皑皑的诺森德。 I am the gentle showers of rain,on Westfall' s fields of golden grain.我是柔和细腻的雨，洒在西部荒野的金色稻田。I am in the morning hush, of Stranglethorn' s jungle,green and lush.我是清幽安静的晨，弥漫在绿色茂盛的荆棘谷。I am in the drums loud and grand,the thunderous hooves across Nagrand.我是威武雄壮的鼓，踏过无限草原纳格兰。I am the stars warmly gleaming,over Darnassus softly dreaming.我是温暖闪耀的星，照耀达纳苏斯的静寞长眠。I am the birds that sing,I am in each lovely thing.我是歌唱的鸟，我存在于一切的美好。Do not stand at my grave and cry,I am not there. I do not die.不要站在我的墓前为我哭泣，我不在那里，我从未离去。

WX: jessica66001,获得卡卡老师的英语学习干货分享英文诗-不要站在我的墓前为我哭泣此段话作者名字 及写作时间已经不详，但最有根据的是在1932年，在美国马里兰州巴尔的摩市，一位名为Mary Elizabeth Frye (1905-2004) 的主妇，为了同居友人Margaret Schwarzkopf的母亲过世而写的作品。诗本身并无名字，一般人就以其第一句「Do not stand at my grave and weep」来命名。诗的原意是纪念逝去的近亲，在1995年，英国一名青年在爱尔兰共和军袭击下牺牲，临死前把一封信交给父母，请他们在他离世后打开，信 内就是这一首诗，经过传媒的报导后，得到广泛的回响。而到了2001年，美国的911恐怖袭击事件后，在一个追悼仪式中，1名11岁的少女在会中读出此 诗，以表达她对在911事件中丧生的父亲的追思，使此诗再一次成为话题。Do not stand at my grave and weep,I am not there, I do not sleep.不要站在我的墓前为我哭泣，我不在那里，我不曾睡去。I am in a thousand winds that blow,across Northrend' s bright and shining snow.我是万千呼啸的风，飞过白雪皑皑的诺森德。 I am the gentle showers of rain,on Westfall' s fields of golden grain.我是柔和细腻的雨，洒在西部荒野的金色稻田。I am in the morning hush, of Stranglethorn' s jungle,green and lush.我是清幽安静的晨，弥漫在绿色茂盛的荆棘谷。I am in the drums loud and grand,the thunderous hooves across Nagrand.我是威武雄壮的鼓，踏过无限草原纳格兰。I am the stars warmly gleaming,over Darnassus softly dreaming.我是温暖闪耀的星，照耀达纳苏斯的静寞长眠。I am the birds that sing,I am in each lovely thing.我是歌唱的鸟，我存在于一切的美好。Do not stand at my grave and cry,I am not there. I do not die.不要站在我的墓前为我哭泣，我不在那里，我从未离去。

Join us as we delve into Icecrown Citadel, high in the icy mountains of Northrend.  We will be taking a look at the bosses and some of the memorable encounters from arguably one of the best raids ever created in World of Warcraft.   Join our Discord server and follow us on Twitter! https://discord.gg/YxPKxdKqRW @DalaranB Sources used for this episode: https://wow.gamepedia.com/Icecrown_Citadel https://www.wowhead.com/icecrown-citadel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ch4rc5W4dKY

Thanks for listening everyone! If you wanna come talk to use and hang out please feel free to join our Discord, Email us, or follow us on Twitter! We love to hear from everyone what you think of the show!Have a wonderful day everyone, and remember be friendly out there! Patreon: Patreon.com/ThoseMeddlingAzerothiansDiscord: https://discord.gg/6V7TVpxTwitter: @azerothianspodEmail: ThoseMeddlingAzerothians@gmail.com

Brian and Kevin are back to discuss the Road to Northrend and Lunar Blessings Tavern Brawls, new heroes and minions for the Battlegrounds, the first chapter of Galakrond's Awakening, and much more! Follow the show on Twitter @Hearthcasual. Hearthcasual is now a part of Warcraft Radio! Find our show site at warcraftradio.com. Special thanks to Helynt on Youtube for use of the synthwave League of Explorers music that is the new theme for the show! Find Helynt's channel at https://www.youtube.com/user/helynt1.

One more week with the undead nerubians before we climb out of Azjol-Nerub. Listen in as we learn more about the fate of this empire as well as experience the effects of the Old Gods. A big CONGRATULATIONS to Halfhill Report for 100 episodes!! I was honored to celebrate with them! Please give it a listen! https://tinyurl.com/Halfhill100 Don't forget to check out the other great shows that are a part of the Dragon Powered Studios! http://www.dragonpoweredstudio.com/

This week we travel further up the keep and enter Utgarde Pinnacle! Listen in as we discover why the king of the Vrykul in Northrend actually has a very important role in Warcraft lore! Come join the Dragon Powered Studios discord! You can check out the other awesome shows on the network and chat with us! https://discordapp.com/invite/vDxFPGX

Joined by RetPallyJil! We talked about their music career history, some of the bar fights they’ve been involved in, making music for WoW, even played two of their latest songs and then gushed about the patch 8.2 infodump with things like MECHAGON and mount equipment AND MORE! LET'S START THE GNOME TRAIN! Links Discussed: Good Girls Dark Shadows It’s on US Hulu Titanic: Adventure of Time U.S. Navy Fighters No One Lives Forever and Sequel available as free download Spy Fox in “Dry Cereal” Humble Humongous Entertainment Bundle (Affiliate Link) ReBoot Firewall Mount & Blade Subnautica Orc vs Wild: Moonguard/Goldshire RP Server (WoW Machinima) | WoWcrendor A Letter from Northrend (demo) The 7 O’Clock News Tick Tock Polka Benny Hill - Yakety Sax Hope Diamond The Hope Diamond The Ballad of the Noob Darrowshire Theramore Crusader Automatic, Electro-Static, Sheer Magnetic Love (demo) Liveblog of the Patch 8.2 Rise of Azshara Content Preview Stream Patch 8.2 Content Preview Rise of Azshara Content Preview Live Stream WoW TCG Loot: Center of Attention What you need to know about patches, datamining, and the PTR Clarification by WarcraftDevs on the Mount Gear Hinalover on Water Walking Equipment Discount Heart of Azeroth System in Rise of Azshara Spiral Zone Wowhead’s Community Information Roundup MMOChampion’s Information Roundup from Content Creators Autism Awareness Month, Charity Events with the support of r/WoW and Raider.io for the Month of April Track Your Mount and Battle Pet Collection Progress - New Wowhead Site Feature Announcing the Blizzard Entertainment Student Art Contest 2018-2019 Winners! Vote for The Story Behind Podcast in the Webby Awards Check out their awesome podcast too for the extraordinary history of the ordinary regarding everyday objects. Check out my friends Berzerker & Navox’s podcast Unshackled Fury! Our website is FrazlCast.com. Email the show at show@frazlcast.com, tweet us @FrazlCast or leave a voicemail (you can also call 1-440-536-3711). Gnome Train Intro by Ali. Opening music by Brandon T. Blaylock. Around the Table bumper made by Epicinsanity. Frazley's avatar made by BozPotatoz. FrazlCast is part of Dragon Powered Studio. Join the Sparkspans Community for discussion during the week at Sparkspan.com. Please consider supporting FrazlCast with Twitch bits and/or a Twitch sub.

A new band of adventurers, a new game system, and a familiar world.Welcome to DunDer's first Monthly Dump! We are playing Dungeon World in the highly acclaimed "Northrend" from Blizzard Entertainment's World of Warcraft.

The party is tasked with a new mission, by some people that make Gregor... Itchy.Welcome to DunDer's first Monthly Dump! We are playing Dungeon World in the highly acclaimed "Northrend" from Blizzard Entertainment's World of Warcraft.

As they learn more about the deadly continent and combat it, an ancient relic is near.Welcome to DunDer's first Monthly Dump! We are playing Dungeon World in the highly acclaimed "Northrend" from Blizzard Entertainment's World of Warcraft.

The party comes together to fend off an attack in a place world's away from their home.Welcome to DunDer's first Monthly Dump! We are playing Dungeon World in the highly acclaimed "Northrend" from Blizzard Entertainment's World of Warcraft.

Husband and wife discuss some thematic decks for the month of October! We are talking about all those spooky, scary, heroes that come out of Northrend and attempt to build some decks around them! Website - randomsthoughts.wordpress.com Twitter - @@TheHouseORandom Facebook- @TheHouseORandom Email- thehouserandom@gmail.com

Discord: https://discord.thisweekintrek.com Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/starmike Ren Shaman challenge Level 69 at 1d 6h - got through Outland, now in Northrend - 60-68 seemed very slow A funny thing happened on the way to the Alliance: Restored a previously deleted 110 horde mage, took her to Alliance and weirdness happened Mike Shaman challenge 15 to 38 in one night. Lots of dungeons and dungeon quests. Could get 2-3 levels in a run Rested XP was a waste because you blow right through it. Problem - Maraudon puts you in the dungeon, but no quests for two more levels. So, either quest or repeat dungeons. Problem with that is now you’re moving further and further away from Stormwind (Stranglethorn or Plaguelands) Had to run to Wetlands between dungeon runs. Waste of time. Not sure what else to do. Toy is 10k gold, and only gives faction flight points, not neutral. BTW: I still love Maraudon This Week in WoW Pet Xp event - 200% not 300% as originally advertised Hallow’s End starts Wednesday the 18th at 10:00 AM PST Running of the Gnomes - Saturday October 14th, to benefit the Cleveland Clinic and the creators of the Tuohy Vaccine, a proposed vaccine against breast cancer that’s showing great promise Run from Gnomer to Booty Bay - clear 34 gates Starts at 7 PM EST, purchase a pink tabard in Ironforge This started on Scarlet Crusade and there are raids on Scarlet Crusade http://runningofthegnomes.tumblr.com/post/164609327832/gnome-run-2017-faqs News Blizzcon 2017 All virtual ticket rewards Flying mounts in WoW - two seaters (we knew this) Other games - Overwatch Winston skin, Starcraft III Junker SCV, Probe and Drone Skins; Heroes of the Storm Nexus Razorback mount, Diablo III Murkromancer Pet, and a “mystery goodie” for Hearthstone. Blizzcon Merch New plushes: Pirate Pepe Plush, Raptor Plushie, Elekk Plushie Jaina Key Art Poster Ugly Holiday Greench Sweater Sylvanus Short Sleeved Hoodie Sargeras Shirt New pins and new patches for the goody bag - trying to encourage badge trading Shaman challenge Proposed change to 2018 Naked & Afraid Challenge: any class, any spec (but choose once!) and on your honor to pick a class you’ve never successfully leveled to 110 Scryer/Aldor Demon hunter speed runs Shriekrunner - uses demon hunter’s mastery scaling at level 101 to get a minimum speed of 230% base speed - speed going up to 350-410%. Uses tricks, potions, and shortcuts - showed video of clearing old world dungeons in a total of 18 minutes, not counting travel time between dungeons (Gundrak clear took 13 seconds) Posts build and tricks in a linked Reddit thread

Discord: https://discord.thisweekintrek.com Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/starmike Ren Shaman challenge Level 69 at 1d 6h - got through Outland, now in Northrend - 60-68 seemed very slow A funny thing happened on the way to the Alliance: Restored a previously deleted 110 horde mage, took her to Alliance and weirdness happened Mike Shaman challenge 15 to 38 in one night. Lots of dungeons and dungeon quests. Could get 2-3 levels in a run Rested XP was a waste because you blow right through it. Problem - Maraudon puts you in the dungeon, but no quests for two more levels. So, either quest or repeat dungeons. Problem with that is now you’re moving further and further away from Stormwind (Stranglethorn or Plaguelands) Had to run to Wetlands between dungeon runs. Waste of time. Not sure what else to do. Toy is 10k gold, and only gives faction flight points, not neutral. BTW: I still love Maraudon This Week in WoW Pet Xp event - 200% not 300% as originally advertised Hallow’s End starts Wednesday the 18th at 10:00 AM PST Running of the Gnomes - Saturday October 14th, to benefit the Cleveland Clinic and the creators of the Tuohy Vaccine, a proposed vaccine against breast cancer that’s showing great promise Run from Gnomer to Booty Bay - clear 34 gates Starts at 7 PM EST, purchase a pink tabard in Ironforge This started on Scarlet Crusade and there are raids on Scarlet Crusade http://runningofthegnomes.tumblr.com/post/164609327832/gnome-run-2017-faqs News Blizzcon 2017 All virtual ticket rewards Flying mounts in WoW - two seaters (we knew this) Other games - Overwatch Winston skin, Starcraft III Junker SCV, Probe and Drone Skins; Heroes of the Storm Nexus Razorback mount, Diablo III Murkromancer Pet, and a “mystery goodie” for Hearthstone. Blizzcon Merch New plushes: Pirate Pepe Plush, Raptor Plushie, Elekk Plushie Jaina Key Art Poster Ugly Holiday Greench Sweater Sylvanus Short Sleeved Hoodie Sargeras Shirt New pins and new patches for the goody bag - trying to encourage badge trading Shaman challenge Proposed change to 2018 Naked & Afraid Challenge: any class, any spec (but choose once!) and on your honor to pick a class you’ve never successfully leveled to 110 Scryer/Aldor Demon hunter speed runs Shriekrunner - uses demon hunter’s mastery scaling at level 101 to get a minimum speed of 230% base speed - speed going up to 350-410%. Uses tricks, potions, and shortcuts - showed video of clearing old world dungeons in a total of 18 minutes, not counting travel time between dungeons (Gundrak clear took 13 seconds) Posts build and tricks in a linked Reddit thread

Hearthstone announced their latest expansion - Knights of the Frozen Throne! We're off to Northrend!

News: Iron Skyreaver mount is out. $25 Blizzard looking to expand microtransactions? You can now opt-in for Heroes of the Storm Seems like everyone has Hearthstone access now. Accounts are given access. Warlords of Draenor: PvP Power's proposed re-design Free character transfers opening next week for select NA realms Warcraft movie got a mention at the Golden Globes on Sunday night. http://us.blizzard.com/en-us/company/about/b20/interviews.html Eric: Mechano Hog - 100 Mounts achieve Farming Rep in Northrend for motorcycle recipe Attack of the buffet tables Black Temple farming Mike: Finally got past the hump in the Cata legendary quest. Now working on cinders. Need 1000. Hit a wall with my hunter - the same wall at level 71 I hit with my rogue. Warcast question of the week: Should players be able to group with RealID friends that play on the opposite faction?

News: 50% off Swift Windsteed for one week only Patch 5.4 will not bring epic gems to Mists Blizzard releases more information on Connected Realms Blizzard introduces The Burdens of Shaohao Prelude: The Vision Blizzard music now available on Pandora http://exilic.com/m/articles/view/The-Faces-Behind-WoW-s-New-Community-Tribute-Items WoW Insider is looking for hunter and mage columnists Mike: Priest to 82 Can no longer get Benediction. Boo :( Soloed MC up to Gehennas Got two pieces of Darkmoon gear for her Found that the level 85 heirlooms don’t scale AT ALL Eric: What did I miss? Oh, everything. I went to Northrend and Grizzly Hills and looked at Jewelcrafting and Skinning and LW IN REAL LIFEZ

A handy item for nabbing those pesky ingredients from Outland and Northrend. The Zapthrottle Mote extractor!

Twizz (Twizzcast) jumps on board to join Kevin and Apsana in the iceberg-filled waters of Northrend.

Aprillian, Ashayo, El Jeppy and Vrishna discuss another week of playing World of Warcraft, Blizzard's great MMORPG. Contest Ongoing send an email to ctrlaltwow@gmail.com telling us how you play WoW, either as an altaholic or dealing with it in your family life to being placed in a drawing for a month free of WoW or a $10 iTunes Gift Card or an Authenticator, they are back in the store. See full show notes at http://ctrlaltwow.com New Contest for a Plushie! Write us at ctrlaltwow@gmail.com

Freckleface gives some encouragement and tips on the daily grind.

Aprillian, Glanthur and Ashayo discuss another week of playing World of Warcraft, Blizzard's great MMORPG. Actually no Ashayo this week. But he'll be back next week. Write us at ctrlaltwow@gmail.com Contest for WoW Mini's Contest for emails What We've Been Doing: Aprillian Quad boxed in Nagrand, it was quite the experience.  Epril, Elyte, Auruk and Aprillian.  Finished the Crone quest and then hearthed to Dalaran and did some maintainance and prof training.  Epril got her JC up over 325 and headed back to Nagrand where she ran into that chick with the many hides quest.  Aprillian needed training, hadn't been to a Warlock Trainer in ages, spent over 50 g and finally figured out how to socket her boots. Sometimes you have to take the time to read.  Elyte made some glyph, turned out she had some open spaces Went to do the mana cell daily with Aprillian, fell off of the Landing, had to run around to get back to the town and find a Spirit Healer Took Auruk and the twins back to Nagrand.  Did the War on Warmual quest, freeing those guys out of the cage.  Auruk had done the quests but he managed to ding 66, so that was cool.  I have to remember to take him back to train.  There was some tricky stuff, for instance Elyte needed Obsidian beads so she needed to do the looting but Epril needed the powder. New transfers off of ER.  I transfered the Death Knight that wasn't one of the twins, started a DK gnome, her blade goes through the ground.  Then I panicked because Thejasper was my high level DE'er and now I didn't have any.  So I decided to get out Veyle, my level 40 rogue enchanter BS and Tiiaa my mage enchanter skinner.  Veyle has Enchanting maxed at 300 because she needs to get to 50.  I brought my level 39 Mage along, she was 3 bubbles from 40.  I want her to get portals.  I took the 3 out to the Badlands where Tiiaa got those two gathering quests Glanthur Transferred from Earthen Ring on my Alliance alts (Glanthur and Arlaerus) to Wyrmrest Accord, a RPPvE realm.  I was so new I actually got a realm first for 450 in cooking achievement.  There were only 20-something 80s on the whole server the first day, so I joined a great guild called Lost Chapter (a raid guild) and we ran Obsidian Sanctum.  Since we were the first, we got another Realm First, and I'm now officially Obsidian Slayer Glanthur.  So cool! Also been leveling Arlaerus, since the guild needs more healers.  It's tough though finding good plate spell-casting gear. Great Ventrillo client for Mac is Ventrilo (also has a PC and Linux client). The Bladed Edge Now... this week's been busy in real life, so Ol' Blade doesn't have a lot of news to report... my little project is coming along... hit a few snags here and there... but I hope by next week to be back in Northrend hammering my way up to 80... Got things to do, you know... gotta level my Engineering skill, too! That said, if you need any tinkering or sudden miraculous inventions to be made... Ol' Blade's not half-bad... but I *did* come across someone who totally bests me in the 'miraculous invention' department... McGoyver... Ya... seriously... he's in Howling Fjord... admittedly, it's a bit of a lunch-bag let-down that he's a Gnome... but regardless... he's on the beach at Volgarde... he's even got a tag under his name... very apt for one of the best inventors of miraculous stuff... Moving on. From the 'Dirty Little Tricks' Department: For the Hunters... a two in one... 'cause... if you're like me on Wolftusk... not the *best* Hunter in the world... but not so clueless as to be called a 'Huntard' (those are the ones that let their pet Growl the aggro off the Tank... you know who you are...) The rest of us get tarred with a nasty brush every time one of you jokers goofs up in a dungeon... so hopefully this two-shot of macros will help that from happening a little less often... Two-shot... see what I did there?  I made a punny! Step one: /Focus Target Manually select your target (player, pet, or even a mob) you want as a focus, and hit the macro.  They now have a shiny glow around their character picture, showing them as your focus... and yes, your focus can also be an enemy mob; you may be on CC (crowd control) duty and assigned to chain trap a particular mob. This macro does its part by making the mob your focus... making it easier to keep track of your enemy. Now... step 2... /Target Focus /Assist Target /Cast Auto Shot (or whatever... some folks like to have an instant-cast shot like Arcane Shot in here... it's personal preference, really... some prefer a slower-acting shot like Serpent Sting to allow the tank to generate a little Threat before the damage starts...) Assuming that you used the macro we just mentioned to choose the Tank as your Focus, this macro will allow you to /assist your focus (the tank) and let fly with one of your attacks. If you *remove* the third line and don't have an attack launched at the tank's target as soon as you hit this macro, then you select the tank's target as your own (that's what /assist does) and you wait... this might be a wise thing to do depending on the situation... it lets the tank generate the threat they need to keep the mobs from focussing on you! But then... there's something to be said about waiting a few seconds while the tank does their thing... Whatever you do... don't use Aimed Shot... if you do, I'll track you down and call you a Huntard myself... From Ol' Blade's Easter Egg Basket: As everyone knows by now, Ol' Blade's been doing some exploring... and some of the more out-of-the-reach places have hidden things to find if you look hard enough... For example... when flying between Elwynn Forest and Burning Steppes, if you look down, you can see some campsites along the banks of a small river or stream that eventually feeds the waterfall in Northshire... you can't get to this place from Elwynn FZorest, but there's a path that leads right up the mountains to it from the Burning Steppes... I recommend being high enough level to not drawn aggro from the level 50+ monsters in this zone... From up here, there's some pretty spectacular views of Elwynn Forest... and another little curiosity... near the banks of the stream, there's a school of fish you can fish from... but you don't catch fish... you catch peaceblooms... Also... if you swim south from Menethil Harbor in the Wetlands (or technically north from Stormwind Harbor) you will come to a spot on the coastline called 'Newman's Landing'. Now... I know what you're thinking... who goes THERE? Apparently not many people... it *does* seem to be a pun of the phrase "No Man's Land" after all... Not a friendly place... there's skeletons all over the place... it looks like the last time I pvp'd against the Alliance... there's even a signpost with a skull balanced on an axe embedded in the post. From what I hear, this place used to be completely abandoned... maybe a long-forgotten pirate treasure-burial site?  Who knows? High Admiral "Shelly" Jorrik might. He's the goblin that - with a few guards - has recently come to the area... maybe to dig for pirate gold? As always, an awesome podcast guys! Blade Emails Email #1 From Patrick Bye bye to Earthin Ring for me Hello guys For the past few weeks, when I have tried to sign onto the Earthin Ring, 95% of the time I am stuck in a queue. Unfortunately I encountered the last straw a few days ago and that was it, I took the free character move and moved Bruurk, my lvl 35 hunter and my other alt, to the Garrosh server.  Unfortunately this does mean I have left AIG which did disappoint me quit a bit, but the fact that there is no more queue time now means I can play for bloody change !! So sorry Ashayo, as it was you who added me to AIE guild. LOL, So Aprillian you no longer have to worry about my alt lurking in the AH to intercept your cross faction auctions.  By the way, in listening to the last few pod casts, I think I figured out the name of your alliance toon that you use in your AH laundering scams.  Not to worry you secret is safe since I am no long on Earthin Ring !!!! Well that is all for now !! Go Arsenal FC !! Patrick Email #2 from Brenry - Boulderfist Name: Brenry - Boulderfist | Date: January 17, 2009 When he comments on his dread about Pinnacle gauntlet… there is a way to EASY mode it. Here's how ! Party waits in room before gauntlet. Someone aggros boss so he'll fly up starting event. That person runs back. He and all the mobs will despawn. Then the party runs all the way down the hall to the room at the other end. This will avoid ALL frost issues on ground. Just aoe the mob waves that spawn on top of you. Right before the 5th or 6th (i forget which) wave when the boss lands, everyone leave room so they avoid cleave of boss and tank picks it up. Enjoy free epics XD Email #3 from Dreamweaver I have just finished listening to Ctrlaltwow and was quite shocked to hear my e-mail on the show as looking back it was quite long, and was even more shocked to found out i won. Email #3a from Dreamweaver Dreamweaver back again, after listening to the podcast and being suprised that i won the roll (see other e-mail) i would like to say sorry for missing out Glanthur from the very start, BUT i did say something about all three of you in the Itunes review i did before i wrote the e-mail to Ctrlaltwow Also a little update from my fuzzball druid, after quite some time working on all the rep with the home cities i finaly got the Title reward of Ambassador :D i was so pleased with myself i was runing round all over the place showing off my title, and about 30 mins later i got a wisper from a friend asking to tank malygos 10 man, so ofc i went, i have been before so i knew what to do in phase one and two but i hadnt been able to down him as of then. untill i got into this group... the damage that all of these people were doing was amazing so getting malygos to 50% in quite a short time came the next phase, this is where mobs come flying down on hover disc's (think back to the future) so the ones that were on the ground i picked up while they were nuked down, then the ones in the air were taken down aswell. in this phase when one of the mobs die they drop the hover disc's and melee can jump onto them and dps down the ones flying in the air, once they are all dead the platform that you are on just crumbles away and all 10 of us just fall into space to our deaths...... but just when i think OOOOHHHH NNOOEEESSSS while falling 10 drakes from the dragonflight come sweeping up and we land on the backs of them, the drakes have abilitys all of there own so we use the drakes spells to kill malygos. 1% left on him and the second he dies KABOOM  **Dreamweaver has earned Champion of the Frozen Wastes** So now i am shown as 'Dreamweaver Champion of the Frozen Wastes' I didnt even know i would get the title so was a bit shocked and getting it only an hour after getting the title of Ambassador. My druid has a funny a in its name so will link his armory page http://eu.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Draenor&n=Dre%C3%A1mweaver

Aprillian, Glanthur and Ashayo discuss another week of playing World of Warcraft, Blizzard's great MMORPG. Actually no Ashayo this week. But he'll be back in a couple of weeks.  Also, we did have some sound issues with this episode, so we apologize in adavance. Write us at ctrlaltwow@gmail.com Contest Reminder:  Submit an email and be placed in a drawing. iTunes Reviews - please! What We've Been Doing: Aprillian Levelling Enchanting on The Jasper  [Large Radiant Shard] [Greater Nether Essence] [Lesser Eternal Essence] Saw a level 11 in Stormwind yelling for 4g to buy him some boots. Spent Friday morning transferring over pets to the alliance side.  Aprillian went out on the Mana cells daily. Thinking of transferring some toons to the new realm.  Playing WoW while eating breakfast in Denny's. Did the Bring me the Egg Quest in the Nagrand with the two DK's Epril and Elyte.  It was hard getting the trampoline just right.  But one egg worked for both, so that was cool. On the train back, wasn't too sure about the signal.  Took Epril to get the Tortured Stone quest.  Try to do quest that require individual looting when I can only play one. Also transferred over Pets for my alliance toon to sell.  Doing a brisk business.  My horde toon at the NAH in BB is a level 39 mage.  Comes in handy.  I set her hearth to BB, she can teleport to UC and TB for cockroaches and prairie dogs respectively and then hearth back to BB.  I still have a toon on that account in Eversong Woods to buy dragonhawk hatchlings. Sunday night queue queue on ER so went to Lethon.  I had Belover in WC grinding leather.  She was at 60 this pass week, I'm getting her to 150 in WC and then she'll move on.  She summoned Aprillian, a level 13 Rogue and Aprillian is getting nice drops including the Gloves of Fang. Monday night I was stuck in Chicago, I was put up in a room and played WoW.  I took Aprillian out to do a daily. Monday evening queues on ER, logged into Lethon and took my DK's there out skinning and herb picking in WC.  Why are the herbs in WC 100 Kingsblood and 125 Bruiseweed Logged  into ER a little later on.  Fought Bangar, one of the Nessinwary Elite with the two DK's, a piece of cake.  Went over to the consortium and turned in some crystals and became friendly.  Epril, the miner, bought some JC patterns she can't use yet.  Nothing for inscripters, poor Elyte Did some more Consortium quests, but then some horde were attacking Haala.  I was going from DC to Providence and thought I had a good connection One small problem, find herb and find minerals resetting at log in, a pain if I forget to turn it on. Decided to check on my AH alt, almost sold out of everything. Also decided to Glanthur Respeced Arlaerus from Protection to Holy and leveled him from 70-73 Doing Heroics with Glanthur and collecting Badges of Heroism Lots of Icecrown dailies Dwarven Alliance is a good guild! The Bladed Edge So there I was... wandering through Grizzly Hills on my way to snapping up my Northrend Explorer achievement... while listening to Episode 96 (specifically the emails section)... when I came across some critters in the pvp area of Venture Bay. As Forlornelf said... four deer and four mice! So... to answer the question: yes, I did know about them (about fifteen minutes before I heard it mentioned in Episode 96)... but Ol' Blade's not so egotistical to not be able to admit when he doesn't know something about something... WHY those critters are there, specifically... and why they're in the configuration they're in - four deer and four mice... and why they have multiple groups of them all climbing the hill every thirty seconds or so from 20,77 to 20,72 (I saw two distinct paths of them)... I have NO idea. But yeah... good find, Forlornelf... not many people travel out that way. I debated and debated as to whether I wanted to do the world pvp in the area... the quests being worth xp and all... and decided to continue my solo project... the results of which I hope to be able to provide soon... As mentioned, Ol' Blade's been travelling hither and yon across the world of Azeroth (and Outland) striving towards a few achievements - partly because the best way to experience the game is by going there. So I went. To Stormwind. And took the tram to Ironforge... but not before jumping off midway to catch a look at Nessy the Sea Serpent! Also... what's the deal with the gnomes in the Deeprun Tram tunnel?  One's named Haggle... he seems to be a /nod to the movie Labyrinth and the character 'Hoggle'... he was short and ugly too... but there's a second gnome... Monty... and he's got three boxes behind him... perhaps a 'Let's Make a Deal' Monty Haul reference... the problem is... each of those boxes is full of rats... and as this Monty fellow is a 'Rat Extermination Specialist'... I somehow doubt there's a wad of cash in Box Number Three. Onward... to Ironforge... fished up my Fishing Diplomat achievement while I was there... and nearly ran afoul of some over-eager Alliance players that thought I would be easy-pickings as a PVP target. Needless to say... I remained unscathed. Took a few screenies of the Dwarf bankers I mentioned before... just so I can say I did it... And by the time this episode airs, I'll have gone back at least once more to try to fish up Old Ironjaw one more time. That is... unless the randomly wandering, stealth-detecting level 80elites in Stormwind and Ironforge don't catch me first. ('Cause you Alliance players don't seem to be able to... ZING!) But yeah... I haven't moused over the patrolling NPCs in Orgrimmar or Thunder Bluff in a while... but last I knew WE didn't have level 80 goons all over OUR major cities... For all I know, we do... but even if we do... somehow I doubt we have anywhere near as many. Ah well... those super-elites are probably a good thing... they're probably the only thing stopping ol' Blade from setting up in Stormwind as my hometown... that and the lack of a friendly innkeeper. Moving on. From the 'Dirty Little Tricks' Department: Back to Rogues again... this time we're being extra-especially sneaky. As you may all suspect, Ol' Blade doesn't make ALL of his money by questing or even playing the Auction House Stock Market... a respectable chunk of Ol' Blade's finances are gotten via the "five-finger discount"... for those not already aware... I pickpocket every chance I get. Some of the higher level mobs in Northrend are netting me upwards of 50-75 silver per pickpocket. Go through a couple dozen of them at a time... especially if you can find a host of (non-aggressive) Neutral ones. Here's another macro fit for saving space on the hotbar: /cast Sap /cast Pick Pocket The benefits of this little combo are obvious. If, for some reason your pick pocket was to fail, you pop out of stealth. Tapping this combo lets you at least have a sap on the mob allowing you a decent chunk of time to simply run out of aggro range long before the sap wears off. Quick and dirty. From Ol' Blade's Easter Egg Basket: For all you Lore Buffs out there... it's fairly common knowledge that the Thandol Span Bridge (between Arathi and the Wetlands) was destroyed by the Dark Iron Dwarves. There is a corpse underwater beneath the bridge that starts a (so far as I know) Alliance-only quest called 'Sully Balloo's Letter' (You deliver the letter to Sara Balloo in Ironforge) Now... here's where things get interesting... Sullivan Ballou was a soldier during the U.S. Civil War who sent a letter to his wife Sara on July 14, 1861. The in-game letter is a reference to the real-life letter written by Sully (Sullivan) to Sara. As another interesting parallel, the dwarves of Ironforge and the Dark Iron dwarves have been at each others throats since THEIR civil war... approximately 200 years ago, gametime. And for something a little more light-hearted? A little-known quest in the Barrens. Just outside Crossroads along the road to Ratchet, there will be a hut on the north side of the road... outside you will find a Tauren vendor of bread (Tarban Hearthgrain) and a small Orc boy named Gruk. Inside, though, are two individuals - Duhng, a Cooking Trainer, Guard Taruc (feasting on a bench at the back) and Grub, who gives you a quest called "Dig Rat Stew". It's not a very difficult quest, but the fun part is Grub's comment at the end. "You can't call yourself a seasoned adventurer until you've spent some time killing rats! Haw!" Most MMOs (WoW included) are known to force starting players to kill trivial creatures like rats or insects during the first few levels of play. With this little tongue-in-cheek homage, Blizzard makes reference to this little factoid and also provides a recipe to COOK the rats! Yum! - Show quoted text - Email #1 The Ruk said... Wow, congrats to Aprillian hitting 70! I bumped into her a few days ago while dragging myself through the Outlands, Nagrand I think it was. We were both standing at a flight point. I was so stunned when I noticed the big 7-0 that by the time I came to my senses, she had flown away before I could offer my "grats" in person. So a big /salute on your accomplishment! As someone who has been listening to the podcast for quite some time, I know this has been a long time coming. Keep up the great work everybody, Rukgut December 30, 2008 10:51 AM Email #2 MO shares this link with us: http://www.wired.com/gaming/gamingreviews/magazine/17-01/pl_games and writes: Hello again, as always thank you for your work and we are patiently waiting for your first '09 podcast. I finally shelled out the gold for my mains epic flyer, but now im sad that he is down to double digit gold now!:( I wanted to ask you all about quest helper and see if it is operator error on me or it is what it is. I have loved quest helper and yes it is a cheat button or easy mode whatever people may call it, it does make things a lot quicker, for questing that is of course. But it has always used lots of mb, for me as much as 35 up to 50 mb! My system can handle it but when I turn off QH the game does run smoother and my mb usage goes down to only 30 mb in total. What do you suggest or recommend? I have a laptop so I really cant get more ram but 2 gig's is enough, and if there is a setting i can change that will help that please let me know. Thank you and hope everyone had a great new years. And a shout out to all my friends on wow, and if I can plug my guild, Uptown Tavern, on the Balanzaar server, we have been around from the beginning and have always been a great leveling guild. Please pst Mo for invite or any help; we have many old guildies we group up from time to time for fun events and gatherings. Thank you -- Mo Email #3 from Ponfarr Message subject:      Ctl Alt WoW From:     Ponfarr Sent:     Thu Jan 08, 2009 4:41 pm To:     Aprillian Message Question 1 - You mentioned getting WiFi connectivity in the train station to play WoW, but how did you get stable connectivity while moving on the train and what was your latency then? Question 2 - Could you cover how you and your cohosts came to know each other, and how you formed your podcast together? and: To your question about a dailies mod......I use this one quite successfully. http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/dailies-quest-tracker.aspx Another good one (different subject) that I recently started using is Factionizer. It breaks down all the factions on your rep tab and gives you the quests or other events used to raise the faction, and tracks your progression. http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/factionizer.aspx -- Tyberiuss (BM Hunter) - Earthen Ring (AIE) Bacchus (MM Hunter) - Runetotem (ToG) http://tales-from-tyberiuss.blogspot.com/ Email #4 from Dreamweaver I just wanted to start out by saying hi to you all. I have been listening to your show for some months now and have been enjoying it very much, i love how mostly Aprillian and Ashayo are so different in there play styles and there thinking of the game and it brings so much back to us listeners. Its great lol. Well myself, i'm from england so i'm on the EU, server draenor or also better known as Drama EU with the amount that goes on here lol. i have been playing this game on and off for quite some time now (almost from the begining but not quite) my main that i play is a fuzzy Druid tank called Dreamweaver and i am LOVING playing him, tonight i have just come out of Naxx 25 after clearing just over 3 wings of it. One thing i wanted to say is about people saying how easy it is, yes i do agree it is easy (ish) but still its only an opening raid, and how many people have cleared it so far? ofc all the good guilds have cleared it, and why is that? because they are good.... a LOT of people are still having problems with it and cant finish it, have more guilds cleared it than would of before say Pre BC?, Yes.. and why is that? because that's what blizz wanted it to be like. Just wait and see is all i will say about that. Dreamweaver isnt my only toon i play on, infact he wasn't my first. as i have been on and off the game i have QUITE a few toons lol. My first toon was a priest called Aramite and he was my 1st lvl 60 i ever had (if people can remember 60 being the max lvl) i had him and used to raid in the good ole days of Molten Core/BlackWing Lair, didn't get a chance to down Neffy before BC came :(.  Just before BC came upon us i was lvling a hunter called Nightweaver and got him to lvl 60, i was having SOO much fun playing him that i decided that he would be my 1st lvl 70 when BC came about as it was comming out very soon, so thats what i did, he got to lvl 70 but i had to get back to my priest as i didn't feel right leaving him to gather dust Stood in a dark damp corner of Ironforge crying :( sooo i managed to get him up to lvl 70 as well and after a while went back to healing with him. But being an altoholic i just had to have more as i loved playing around and being able to learn about an new toon and what they could do, i already had a Healer in epics and also a ranged damage dealer in very good gear so i went to pick out one of my low lvl toons that would be up there close to the action, so what better then a rogue to slice and dice with, being all dark and stabby stabby i had mine called Night (fitting in with my hunter) i enjoyed lvling with him but for some reason i didn't like it as much as my hunter or priest but i stook with him and got him to lvl 70 yet at lvl 70 i still didnt enjoy him as much :( SOOO with blizz bringing out Shamens and paladins to the oppisit factions i didn't jump on the bandwagon until now, i lvled a shammy, it took me quite a while to lvl so i swapped out now and again to lvl a warlock (called nightfall, see how after my 1st toon i started to tie all my toons names together) i got my shammy to 70 (yet another 70 i know) i left them alone and started to enjoy my priest and hunter..... Until things started to look bleak in the guild, things got worse and worse so needed somewhere to get away seeing as all these toons were in the same guild. I had a very low unlooked after mangy druid that i said to myself why not, so after some time he was the only one i was playing and joined up with a very nice guild called Angelic Knights, time passed by and he was lvl 70, even more time passed by and he was in raids passing all my other toons gear lvl. and then it came up to another expansion Wrath and yet another choice to make on who to get upto lvl 80? my priest who was my first toon? my hunter who i had so much fun with? another toon that i had got up? you guessed it, i went with my beloved fuzzball Dreamweaver my one and only cute ball of fur druid and to this day i knew i made a right choice. I'm babbling on a bit here and didn't see the time, its 40 mins past midnight here and i need to be up at 6 :( but ohwell its friday and only half a day so thats not bad. I just want to say thanks to all three of you and keep bringing out a smashing pod cast. Hugs and kisses from a smelly druid that just wants some /hugs (Sorry for this being a total mess, its quite late and i need sleep, hope you can read it ok >.< ) Email # 5 from Ginsue Hey Guys, Love the show. I have been listening now for about 6 weeks or so. On a past episode you talked about your play style of leveling alts instead of playing end game. You questioned that fact that you may be missing something about Wow. The truth is you are missing a large aspect of Wow that is very enjoyable for a large number of folks. This does not by any stretch mean that "you are doing it wrong." You missed some fun raiding in BC that I guess you could go back later and see but I don't think it would be the same. From listening to your podcast I can tell that you enjoy the smaller parts of the game that a lot of the rest of us don't catch or ignore. So though you miss some things it sounds like you are having a hoot doing it your way. I am guilty of running like a mad fool to the end to see the end game content instead of taking my time and seeing everything that there is to see. This play style has its ups and downs like anything else. Have any of you noticed the gal you buy jewel patterns from in Dalaran is named Tiffany Cartier. I thought it was neat. Keep up the good work!! Ginsue 80 Blood Elf Rogue iTunes Review from Ginsue, thanks! Email #6 from Xandarr Question for you that I would like to bring up:  How can I get my wife to understand that my WoW play is not an addiction but a way to releive stress at the end of the day.  I only play a couple hours a night while we watch TV together.  Or on Friday nights I stay up late after my wife goes to bed or I wake up early on the weekends to play while she is still sleeping.  How can I get her to think differently about the game?  How could I show her the social aspect or the way I play?  Does that make sense? Xandarr the Ambassador Protectorate Paladin of theTwiizted Blackened Roses Trollbane Server Email #7 from Mimdalf I cant believe you guys picked me!  Thank You so very much.  I would like the free month, incidentally it will be my last month playing World of Warcraft as I am being deployed the first week of March with my Calvary unit. (Iraq). aka  Mimdalf Blood Elf Hunter Alea Iacta Est Earthen Ring

Aprillian, Glanthur and Ashayo discuss another week of playing World of Warcraft, Blizzard's great MMORPG. Actually no Glanthur this week. But he'll be here next week. Write us at ctrlaltwow@gmail.com Visit us at http://ctrlaltwow.com If you get a chance, review us in iTunes and we'd be ever so grateful. What We've been Doing Aprillian Doing a couple of dailies a day on Aprillian. Mostly trying to get my DK's up so they can play with her. Friday Morning, grinding in Nagrand with theprimall. Didn't realize it was possible for a zombie to loot. Theprimall dinged 63 at 7:11am on Friday and I've been playing her straight through on the train to Washington. She's grinding in the Spirit field, there are mobs galore. Got to 63.5 by BWI Airport at 12:30p In the Train station grinding the Vir'Ani and killed an Arcanist, a Four of Lunacy dropped In Chicago playing in the First Class Lounge, Theprimall dinged 64. She went to the Consortium's camp and turned in over a 100 [Oshu'gun Crystal Fragment]. Then I logged off and went to the website so I can change her name and appearance and I'm thinking of doing a Figure print with her. Then I pulled out Epril to do get her to 64. I'm doing it mostly because at 64 they can get the quests in Nagrand, especially the nessingwary, I love those Renamed ThePrimall to Elyte. I was surprised that was available. I had them grinding in Oshu'Gun because once they hit 64, they can turn in the following quest: Stealing from theives A Head full of ivory Epril dinged 64, then went to Garadand and picked up a mess of quests. Then I decided I want to level a Priest with RAF. I made a Troll Priest and teamed her with my level 6 Orc Shaman who hadn't done the starting are quest there because I took her to Eversong Woods to farm eggs with a BE Hunter. I do not want a way to start at a certain level on any race/class like the DK. This is a horrible idea and would make it impossible for new people to ever get into WoW. Took the twins Epril and Elyte to Ebon Hold for Training. DK training is expensive. Good thing they made money grinding. I don't know what the time limit is but I am sure glad that when you dc, you don't get put back in queue if you log back in right away Lost internet for a while. But when it came back the queue was way too long, went to Lethon server. Got back on later Sunday night, short queue, everybody must be going back to work/school tomorrow. Was actually on a 3G network for a while and able to Dual Box Epril and Elyte. Doing the Nessingwary quest, too bad I don't have a skinner. Got this [Crystalblade of the Draenei] in Nagrand. Crystalblade of the Draenei Binds when equipped One-Hand Sword 70 - 131 Damage Speed 1.60 (62.8 damage per second) 195 Armor +18 Stamina Durability 90 / 90 Requires Level 66Equip: Increases defense rating by 13 (6.76 @ L66). Elyte turned in the osh powder and got her first Halla token. I am thinking of trying the whole pvp aspect in Nagrand this week Ashayo Gobu invited to raid for Vault of Archavon - an instance you can run when you own Wintersgrasp Very quick instance - about 10 minutes, and the boss drops tier 7 loot. Unfortunately you can only run once a week. Tried to run the 25 man variant with 10 players ; cleared the trash fine, but not enough DPS for the boss. Then headed to The Obsidium Sanctum underneath Wyrmrest. Jekle and Hiide started questing in Howling Fjord. Probably only done a dozen or so thus far, but quite enjoyable! Hiide even ran an instance! Dills tanked on his DK and Cairubel healed on her druid. Jekle has healed Utgarde Keep - with Aprillian! Asheal is now fully Holy Tried healing oculus - failed on last boss (while mounted) Heal Heroic Utgarge Keep Try to heal Culling of Strat ; wipeage NYE Alliance Boss raid - Ashayo now has a [Black War Bear] Starting Knights of the Ebon Blade quest lines in Icecrown Death Knight is levelling waaay fast - currently 65 just by running some instances. Levelling Engineering to 300. Jumper Cables. Quest for mote extractor schematic Achievement Day! Heroic Halls of Lightning Timely Death - kill in under 2 mins Halls of Lightning Northrend Dungeonmaster Timear Foresees - 4 x daily dungeon quests AQ40 achievement Exalted with Wyrmrest Accord - Sandals of the Crimson Fury, Reins of the Red Drake Cracked Egg - White Tickbird Hatchling, Cobra Hatchling Chef disappointment - Got Captain Rumsey's Lager from daily fishing - Did the Dinner Impossible by presenting Great Feast in each Battleground - Did "The Northrend Gourmet" to cook 30 Northrend recipes... and didn't get Chef. - Chef says "The Northrend Gour..." - but it refers to the 45 version, and there arn't even that many in the game at 3.0.3 :( Blade's Edge Ugh... hey guys... Blade here... With the Winter Veil festivities all week long in real life, ol' Blade hasn't spent a lot of time in Azeroth... so nothing's really changed... I DO have a Dwarf Guardian character in Lord of the Rings Online, though... a result of someone's valiant effort to show ol' Blade that there are other games out there... other than WoW... ... but Ol' Blade wasn't fooled for a second... What with presents-giving, nog-drinking and visiting of little-sprog relatives... Ol' Blade hasn't had a lot of extra time to throw together a long narrative-style email like I usually do... So here's the nitty-gritty... From the 'Dirty Little Tricks' Department: Following the macro thread I started before... something for Warriors... specifically the Protection-specc'd tanks out there... with the Night of the Living Deathknights (aka Wrath of the Lich King) having spawned all kinds of new and OP tanks, plus Paladins have been spoon-fed their tanking greatness for a while now (wait for it... there's more coming for them in the 3.0.8 patch... a ranged taunt!) Ridiculous, I say. Warriors seem to be being left in the proverbial dust. We / they did get a little bit of a pat on the back with the Protection talent tree revamp in 3.0... quite a few warriors are now leveling as Protection-spec tanks now... but how to make it just THAT much more /awesome? Ol' Blade's got your back, he does... So here's some love for the First-Among-Tanks... the Original and (in Blade's not-so-humble opinion) Best... The Warriors. It's a simple macro... more for saving space on your hot-key bar... and it's great now that Charge can be used in combat... no more stance dancing! /Charge /Taunt Yep. That's it. Again... they're on different timers, so you end up Charging in guns a-blazing, and drop a taunt pretty much the moment you hit the mob. Nifty! Spam it again in six seconds... you can't charge (cause you're too close) but Taunt works just fine! Let's add to it... just to spice things up... Toss in a /cast Thunder Clap as a third line... it won't cast it the first time (when you initiate combat), but any successive times you cast your Charge/Taunt macro, it will Thunder Clap all the nearby mobs... this one's a bit tricky... as TC is on a separate timer, it will Thunder Clap WHEN you hit the macro... if you're too low on Rage to have TC go off, it's fine... all other times, you'll look like you just got blasted away from your Thunder Clap... good for dropping a large chunk of threat on the mobs surrounding you as you speed off to intercept the aggro off the healer... Voila. You're now a Paladin (get it? aoe attack spam?)... without all that mamby-pamby healing 'Oh noes! I'm getting attacked! /bubble /hearth' nonsense. And from Ol' Blade's Easter Egg basket: Ol' Blade and Mrs. Blade have been watching some older movies of late... and one sorta stuck in my head... because it reminded me of the Arcane Protectors in the starting lowbie-Blood Elf zone... it seems both they and Robocop have the same Prime Directives... "Serve the Public Trust"... "Protect the Innocent"... and "Uphold the Law"... Also... the Alliance zone of Elwood Forest is home to many things... Hogger, the level 11elite Gnoll that is the bane of all Alliance players over level 10... as you will inevitably get at least one /tell asking you to 'Hlp kill Hoger plz' as you pass through the zone... ... but did you know there's a Lumberjack in Elwood Forest? One that 'is ok' and 'works all day'...? As a Horde, I don't think I can get him to talk without sticking a shiv between his ribs... but I'm sure you Alliance types could get a few words out of him... he's at the Eastvale Logging Camp. He's named Terry Palin... after Terry Jones and Michael Palin, the Monty Python members and writers of the 'Lumberjack Song'... That's all for this week... next week, I'll share some of my (mis) adventures in Ironforge! As always, an awesome podcast guys... Blade Email Email #1 from Mimdalf Just a note from a fellow guildee, Mimdalf to say Hello, and your doing a great job. Such good chemistry on your show. -- In Fraternitas Email #2 from Mo Hello all at Ctrl alt wow, and listerns, and i guess the Alliance, :) I dinged 80 finally, on my main main, that is the first character i ever made, oh some 3+years ago; Motauren on Balanzzar, yes he is a tauren warrior if you did not guess from the name :) I think you have covered dailies for northrend but would you please suggest any good pointers, possible addons as im an addonholic as well ;/, I have just started doing dailies for some factions and even started the cooking. I was sad that i can only do one perday, what is the deal with that? well thank you as always and another quick point, following up an email from last week, about leveling your weapon skills; depending on what level you are, i usually try to level weapons as i level, but if you are 80 and trying to get the achievements, i find low instances the best places to skill them up. Especially if you need the instance achievements anyways. As a warrior, i am also a weaponholic, i like using all weapons, well I would like to but only my axe is a real weapon for big boy land. Hope you all have/had a great new year and enjoy wowing, -- Mo Email #3 First, wanted to let you know that the Collector's Edition arrived right on time and I gave Frosty to my husband for Christmas, so now he won't feel so left out when my daughter and I have our Frosty pets out :-) Our two guilds of real life friends and family try to run instances, but since we're all pretty casual players and most of us are altoholics, it can be a little challenging. Getting 5 people together with the same 3 hour block of time to play is one thing (and I could write a whole other email about that), figuring out what instance to do and who to bring can take on a life of its own as well. We wind up with a some memorable instance runs, like when we went through Deadmines with 4 draenai shaman and one crazy, gnome warlock. There were so many totems that you couldn't see the gnome at all, though you knew she was there, because all the mobs were attacking her. Thank goodness shaman can resurrect. Or the all female, Night Elf Druid runs, punctuated with yells of 'Going Bear!' as the designated healer pulls aggro and then everyone else switches to their backup roll. We designate two teams of druids: the tank team (one would bear, one cat) and the healing team (one casting, one cat) and switch as needed either because of a terrible pull or when running out of mana. Not to leave the horde out of it, our horde guild is named Hunters'R'Us, so you can guess what kind of groups we put together there. Five hunters and their pets rampaging through an instance makes for much chaotic fun. We also have to be very flexible in our play styles. Depending on who else is on the run, I may be tanking with my gorilla or off-tanking or pulling out my core hound for dps. We also run lower level toons through with some high level help (makes it easier when we can only get three people together). Those runs are fun for the high level toon, since you get to decimate an instance that probably killed you a few times before, and it's good practice for the low level toons: we use the time to try out different shot or spell rotations without worrying too much about wiping the party. Our only problem is the lack of healers. We're working hard to level some paladins and priests to help with healing. So, any tips for leveling healers would be great. Your podcast just keeps getting better. It's fun when Glanthur can join you (to bring a third viewpoint and a little Alliance love) and Blade's letters are awesome. I especially liked his tip about Aspect of the Beast. Keep up the great work! For the Horde and Glory to the Alliance! Karen (I have too many alts and they are all so different, I'm going to stick with my RL identity) Horde on Arathor Alliance on Uther Email #4 from Chad Hi, Long time follower of the show, first time player considering trying my hand at recruit-a-friend/dual boxing. First of all I must say that I love my alts and and sorry that I didn't beat a certain someone to 70. I've been playing for a year and love to try as many characters and classes. I have many tunes near or at lvl 30. I only have one tune that I've stayed with past 30 (Thingoll lve 64 hunter on the Sentinal server) and only did so in order to be able to play a Death Knight. I'm going to be taking part in the recruit a friend program this weekend and was wondering what do you think should be the classes that I should consider running first. thanks, Chad Hi Aprillian, I heard that I won again. I feel a little guilty, so I have decided to send my winnings to another guildie who could use it. Please send an authenticator to: Address Removed He is a friend of mine and plays Asterien in the guild. PS - please reply with all of your show email addresses. Thanks _________________ Email # 5 from Forlornelf Subject: Hi From Forlornelf lv 80 DK on Khaz'goroth Message: Congrats to Aprillian on 70 ! Question for Blade, have you seen the little pack of critters, four deer and four mice, that wander about together up by the Refurbished Shredders in the Venture Bay PVP area?

Aprillian, Glanthur and Ashayo discuss another week of playing World of Warcraft, Blizzard's great MMORPG. What We've Been Doing Aprillian: This has been my best week ever. 12/22/08 @ 2141 server time, Aprillian dinged 68. At the advice of Glanthur and Ashayo, she headed to Northrend.  It was great and overwelming at the same time.  I enjoyed Howling Fjord, the quest were different and fun and I read the quest text.  Only got a little confused by the two quest you have to fly to.  The first time I did the bombing ship quest, I didn't realize I was suppose to drop the bombs from the air, so I flew out and back and had to go again.  Each quest were intricate and not the normal kill and loot and return.  I loved fighting side by side with our own NPC's. Plenty of herbs in NR. I loved the dudes in Baleheim, they were suppose to be these nordic giants but their hair looked like dreadlocks.  I hope we get that hair style in the game the next exp. Joined a level 70 for the quest and she immediately popped up Free for all and so I left the group.  Plays with her boyfriend, ended up being pretty cool. I continued to play just Aprillian.  It was very hard to do, I kept wanting to have my skinner with me or a miner. Summoning Felguard when current one loses health. And on Christmas eve she dinged 69.  I loved the New Agammand and the gathering of the body quest.  The one where you went into the plagued village and made one of those UC guard things and then exploded on the plagued Valkri guys was fun. I am loving the feel of Northrend.  Got to the Tusky people, the icebergy look is cool Pumped to get to 70. Christmas day, grinding so hard in NR, it's crazy.  Aprillian dinged 70 on Christmas even on her lunch hour Starting to have Space management issues. Bought another Guild Bank tab for We Live to serve Did my first Daily.  I suppose I need to go to that island now.  And no, I am no hurry to get to 80.  Went to put on my first gem and it didn't work. I am loving flying. Aprillian bought the Mythic Spellthread from Scryer, and made one Encountered Queues on Sunday night. Monday I pulled both Epril and ThePrimall and Auruk down to Nagrand.  Epril is 63 and Theprimall is 62, so they can't do any quests, but they just followed Auruk and helped him when needed Making money on the AH Talked with nieces and nephews about WoW at Family gathering, way cool Glanthur Ashayo Full week! A second 80 - Asheal dings! Topped and tailed by instance runs on Death Knights. Looks like I'll be levelling just by running instances. Running them with 3 DK's, 1 Hunter, and Jekle for heals. Ramparts, Blood Furnace, Slave Pens, Underbog. Already 63. Tried keyclone with two DK's but because they are both melee, it is hard to position them Professions: - Stopped 'learning' from daily inscription research. There are only 60 minor glyphs - 6 per class. You just stop learning ; it doesn't say anything useful like "you know them all" - Levelled inscription to 425 so I can use the epic offhand. (Ponfarr PM'ed me to say that restriction is being removed in the next patch. YAY) - Cooking achievements to get over 3000 - Sous Chef - 100 recipes ; good money making in AH by looks of it Daily quests: - "Aces High!" Wyrmrest quest opens up at 80. Fairly tricky vehicle quest (flying dragon). Much easier in a party - or dual boxing with key clones - Started doing Oracle dailies - three, but varies each day, and an achievement to do them all. Egg that hatches into things including pet or mount... waiting! Respec! - Changed Ashayo from affliction for 1st time ever. Now a hybrid Destruction/Demonology. DPS much improved. Increased from around 800 dps to 1500. Started running some Heroics with Ashayo, and the difference a strong group makeup makes is significant. Missing: Siphon Life CoExhaustion Dark Pact Unstable Affliction Haunt Gained soul link Fel Domination Demonic Empowerment Summon felguard Heroics - Azjol'Nerub ; trash on first boss tough without cleansing - humbling - Utgarde Keep - easy - Drak Tharon keep - achievements - Better off Dred, Oh Novos! (Palatinus mad tank, Onassi mad healer) Random note of the week: Can fly onto Zepp while leaving Borean Tundra enroute to Org Asheal has managed to heal some more instances: Ran Halls of Stone in Storm Peaks.  It includes very "Indiana Jones" type event, followed by a long lore discussion. Quite interesting! Tried helping out with healing in Riversky's Naxx group on Asheal Managed to down 4 Horsemen, Patchwerk, and Grobbulus (first time kill) Winter's Veil Presents! Love having so many alts - got all the presents easily, including jingling bell and both red and green winter helpers. Had decided the jingling bell was most rare, then logged onto alliance and got four of them! Emails and PM From Blade Hey guys... "Professor" Blade here... In my quest to optimize my characters with well-put together macros, I hit a stumbling block. Also... there's a bit of a snag coming up for hunters in patch 3.0.8... we / they are losing a fair chunk of dps. Yeah yeah... I know there arer some hunters out there that are saying 'It's not THAT bad'... but I will counter this naivete with 'It's bad enough when they're buffing a class like Deathknights... making it even easier to /roll your face across your keyboard to win. But I digress... Ol' Blade's not here to rant about silly things out of his control... I'm here to give an edge to the players that still like a little bit of challenge to their game. Those of you that have interracted with me in game will probably know that I vastly prefer to play my Hunter over my Deathknight... because I find the Hunter more challenging. (Seriously! There's are two two-handed tanking swords out there!) That said... of late I was playing around with some macros in anticipation of the upcoming nerf... attempting to figure out how to keep my hunter's dps in the acceptable range... Aspect of the Beast.  Have you noticed the new changes to it? It used to be a pretty useless Aspect... only making you untrackable... useful in PVP, I suppose... but not anywhere else. NOW, however... it's got an extra little boost.  +10% to pet damage. THIS changes everything. I have that little treasure up almost all the time now. I've also jury-rigged some macros together to cast different Aspects when I used different attacks or items... For example... whenever I mount up on a land mount or my flier, I cast Aspect of the Viper... I won't be in combat ANYway, why not get a big mana regeneration boost while I'm moving from Point A to Point B? The problem came when I linked the macros to the spells I wanted to cast... I'd cast the spell once, and all was good, then I'd cast ot again and the Aspect would turn off! What to do? I searched and searched and finally found my answer deep in the archives of some long-forgotten tome in Ironforge... (Not really, but it sounded good, didn't it?) An Exclamation Point.  ! Put an exclamation point in front of your macro text... what this does is makes the command 'sticky' and will cast it only if it's not on/active already. For example... here's the one I've put together for pet attacks: /cast Hunter's Mark /cast !Aspect of the Beast /PetAttack The exclamation point in the second line keeps the Aspect going no matter how many targets you send your pet after... and as Aspects cost no mana, all you'll see is the Aspect popping again and again as you switch targets. If you leave out the exclamation point, you will toggle the aspect on and off each time you switch targets. Here's another one in the event you're hopping on and off your mount, but not in combat... /cast !Aspect of the Viper /cast Swift Green Wind Rider This will keep your Aspect on whether you hop on or off your particular mount of choice. Oh... as a final tip for hunters?  To get used to the upcoming nerf, play almost 100% with Aspect of the viper on... the huge damage reduction will make the 3.0.8 patch seem not so bad. Hope that helps! And now a little something from Ol' Blade's Easter Egg Basket... With everyone doing achievements and running hither-and-yon across the old world doing the old-world dungeons, you will inevitably find yourself in Gnomeregan. As an Alliance, it's easy to get there... get yourself to Ironforge, exit the main entrance and run west. As a Horde, you've either got one heckuva run ahead of you, or you can do a small quest chain starting at the Engineer shop in Orgrimmar. First you have to take the quest 'Rig Wars' from Nogg, then Sovik (the goblin engineer) offers a second quest that sends you to Booty Bay to talk to another engineer there (Scooty)... from Scooty you get a little device (Goblin Transponder) that will 'port you to Gnomeregan. Getting back is an entirely different matter, though. While killing mobs in Gnomeregan, you will eventually happen across a White Punch Card. These are used to access different areas in Gnomeregan based upon their colors. You can change the colors of the cards by using special machines called 'Matrix Punchographs'... but that's not the secret. Each color of card has a different string of binary code on it. I'm not going to type them all out here... but I *will* give you the translations... White Punch Card: Thrall and Jaina sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G Yellow Punch Card: If you can read this, you're standing too close. Blue Punch Card: The gnome king wears night elf underwear. Red Punch Card: Help! I'm trapped in a binary punch card factory! Prismatic Punch Card: Message to Castpipe: your laundry's ready for pickup. Second... I know Ol' Blade's been a little hard on the Alliance of late... so I found this little goodie to follow the theme of last week's bank NPCs... All you Hordies out there will have to roll lowbie Alliance toons or sneak into Ironforge like I did... There's three bankers... all of the Stonemantle Clan... nothing noteworthy about the name Stonemantle... but wait... it's a first-name thing again, isn't it! Very astute, my young apprentice... their names are Barnum, Bailey and Soleil. Barnam and Bailey are probably the more commonly known... from Barnam and Bailey's Circus, naturally... Soleil is from the Cirque du Soleil - an acrobatic circus. This gets me thinking, though... how much respect can I truly give the Alliance faction... when they have former circus clowns as bankers? As always, an awesome podcast guys! Blade PM Previous PM | Next PM Message subject: Weapon Leveling From: Ponfarr Sent at: Tue Dec 23, 2008 7:44 am To: Ashayo Message Heard your last podcast. I leveled my polearm skill against one of those heroes in Blasted Lands (you said Netherstorm or Shadowmoon I think....dont know about those guys), but last night I tried again on my gun and found out (like you) that they changed that for those guys too. However, I did read about another method which I have not tried yet. Go fight the healers (monk or something) in Scarlet Monestary. They will continually heal themselves during the fight. You should use a low level weapon with low damage. Email 2 'ello! Marrly, on the Eonar realm, here writing again. Randomly I got to the big eight-zero within a few days of getting the expansion but that is random info. Sadly I never got my artisan Flying training but by my odd luck I got myself the epic engineering plane (A monetary setback) and the bronze drake from the Cavern of Time Culling of Stratholme Time run. Fun... But onto My real question: I myself Can only barely run WOW application once on my computer at the lowest settings. How do you manage to run two or more Wow apps at once? I am frankly confounded about it

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Aprillian and Ashayo discuss another week of playing World of Warcraft, Blizzard's great MMORPG. Write us at ctrlaltwow@gmail.com Visit our website http://ctrlaltwow.com Contest entries are rolling in.  Prizes WotLK Collector's Edition. Second Prize CE minus key code. Third Prize Blizzard Authenticator.  Discuss entries on next week's episode. What We Are Doing: Aprillian Got my Death Knights ThePrimall and TheArdrion out to Silvermoon to train herbalism/inscription and mining/jc.   We ran up and down the scar collection nodes of ore and herbs. I also spent some money buying stuff for my herbalist/inscripter By Friday morning TheArdrion was up to 126 in JC and 161 in mining and ThePrimall was 104 herb and 160 inscribe. When I left for work TheArdrion was 129 in JC and 204 in mining. ThePrimall was 147 in herbs. All from running around Hillsbrad and up in the caves of Alterac Mountains. Friday I decided to get Rilfire my level 63 Tauren hunter skinner/LW trained in Skinning after 375, for 35g and took her first out to Falcon Watch to kill boars, she picked up a purple ravager. Sat morning quad boxing.  ThePrimall in Hilsbrad picking flowers, came across an elite dragon Narillasanz, got a nice green piece for one of my enchanters to de.  TheArdrion was in the cave in Alterac Mountains.  Had spent the early morning getting JC to 200.  Sent Rilfire to Nagrand to grind Skinning and had Aprillian in Terrakor forest grinding netherweave. Also doing exploration on Theprimall, she fully explored Arathi Highlands and Hillsbrad foothills Saturday, decided Veyle, my rogue, should be levelled so she can pick lockboxes.  Took her to tanaris at first with The Ardrion, but the DK was too high.  So I got Primall, level 55 hunter and Pulled out the Jasper to level Enchanting and was going to bring Velye home to make a silver rod but one of my bank alts Ashayo Hours cleaning out mail before it was deleted. I really should housekeep that stuff more often! Glaciuss disenchanted a bunch of level 68 gear, and got Northrend mats from them! Tanked Utgarde Keep on Ashield Completed the Wrathgate quest line on Ashayo and Asheal - Hint: Wait for Thrall at UC if event in progress. Tuskarr dailies - Should be exalted by Wednesday! Levelling mining - Need to get to 75 on Jekle and do JC dailies for tokens. Need to research new profession traits like that. Group quests in Dragonblight - Three of them that then open up a 5-man with a nice blue reward. (Don't start the event again by talking to quest giver!) The Old Kingdom. Tanked by a DK. Last boss is cool - Phase out and fight each other pvp style Quests are becoming more immersive. A quest in Dragonblight has "future me" turn up to help. Future me.. level 80. "keep us alive and get some better equipment" "look at you, no wonder I turned to drinking" Discovering more dailes - Daily flying fight in Wyrmrest Temple in Dragonblight (can't /follow when on these quest type mounts) Shaman Hinterlands - old school stuff! Re-specced my Priest from full Shadow to Holy/Shadow, with aim of being able to heal instances. Yet to try to determine success! Emails Hey guys... Blade here... I confess... I have tried dual boxing... See... the thing was... I bought my copy of Wrath like everyone else did... hung out in a lineup and everything... but what I had forgotten was that I super-jumped the gun last year... the DAY they released word that Blizzard was working on an expansion... I went to my local store and tossed them a down-payment for the Collector's Edition. Totally forgot about it, though... and bought my non-Collector's copy from ANOTHER store.... The local store didn't do 'refunds', only 'in-store credits'... and I didn't really plan to purchase any other games... mainly 'cause ol' Blade has barely enough time to play WoW let alone dumping time into console games... So I had two copies of Wrath. What to do? Totally stumbled my way through the sign-up process... and still haven't figured out the RAF thing... (a little help?) ... but I made a few new toons and have been toying around with them... I took Wolf all the way back to Orc Kindergarten to start helping another Hunter... and I'm quickly realizing that it may be a very long slog. Rolled a warlock team... and they're kinda fun... I'm looking forward to the huge gobs of dps they'll be unleashing in the higher levels... the new hunter, too... but I have to figure out a way to level him faster... And now for something I like to call... Blade's 'Sneaky Trick of the Week'... Tricks of the Trade... A Rogue skill you get at level 75... reads as follows: "The current party or raid member becomes the target of your Tricks of the Trade. The threat caused by your next attack and all actions taken for 6 sec afterwards will be transferred to the target. In addition, all damage caused by the target is increased by 15% during that instance." That's pretty nifty... naturally... you all can clearly see the benefit in a raid... the more uber-dps you are as a rogue... pop all of your damage boosting trinkets and skills... build up the charge, then pop this on your tank... shaboom... you literally FEED your tank a ton of threat! But... here's one to ponder about... does anyone know if this works on SPELLS? Like the majority of Paladin threat? Or other spells... specifically healing spells?  Hmm... well... yeah... that puts an awful lot of potential threat on your healer... but who says you even have to attack during that 6 seconds of time?  Drop that on your caster, and stop attacking for 6 seconds... they, in turn get 30 seconds of +15% healing?  Hmmmm! Got one of those super-damage glass-cannons known as Mages?  Heck... anything that is insta-cast (or fast enough to cast a few times within the 30-second window) should benefit from this buff... Or... if you have a darn-good tank, who's to say you can't use this on yourself?  Or on another dps who might be a little lower on the damage list than you, my fellow 'shankers from the darkness'... The possibilities are endless... From the Easter Egg Basket... A hit... Bambi... sorta... here's a couple of screen shots... of Bambi(na), Bambina's Mom, Bambina's rabbit pal, Thudder... and their skunk pal Flora... Oh... the 5th screenshot?  Uh... that's just one from my private collection... I don't know HOW that got in there... A quick little FYI for you all though... clearly those characters are a not-so-subtle reference to the characters Bambi, Thumper and Flower (and of course Bambi's mom)... but here's something you may not have known... a fellow by the name of Felix Salten wrote the book Bambi in 1923... Disney eventually made it into a movie in 1942. Which... is a long time ago... 66 years to be exact. And a miss... This is one you'll have to take ol' Blade's word for everybody... this is apparently no longer in the game... (Ol' Blade hasn't talked turkey with a troll in some time...) If you played Horde... (if you haven't you should... if you don't... well... let's just say there's a special place for you...) anyway... If you played Horde previous to Wrath of the Lich King... we're talking a while ago now... you will have toyed around with the races and their emotes... to see which ones you like or prefer... and you will probably know about the male troll's predisposition to sound not a little - let's call it - "rastafarian". Typing a slash-silly command, you might have heard the following: "I kill two dwarfs in the morning. I kill two dwarfs at night. I kill two dwarfs in the afternoon, And 'den I feel all right. I kill two dwarfs in time of peace and two in time of war. I kill two dwarfs before I kill two dwarfs. And 'den I kill two more." If you look hard enough, I'm sure the interweb will provide you with that very quote... This a reference to the Toyes' song "Smoke Two Joints"... it was apparently removed owing to "legal reasons" presumably related to copyright, although it is also possible that Blizzard was pressured to cut the joke because of the content that referenced a song that made reference to drugs... That's enough for this week... gonna respec Blade and see if I can't catch up a few more levels... As always, an awesome podcast guys! Blade

Aprillian and Ashayo discuss another week of playing World of Warcraft, Blizzard's great MMORPG. A full week of WotLK, how are we doing guys? Contest is posted on the blog and we've received some entries. We want more. Aprillian Aprillian dinged 65 and went to train at the Landing.  Wow, expensive! I've decided to move to a new server.  I can't take the queues on ER.  I already have limited play time and having to wait even 10 mins to get in, much less 45 mins is hard.  Plus I play at work and sometimes I have to do something and I'm idle for more than 15 mins or I need to move my laptop from the office to the break room and I'm having to log back in.  I'm in the process of moving 3 characters to Lethon.  I already had a guild there named Ctrl Alt WoW.  So I'm transferring over Iwari, Auntrillia and a new Dranei DK.  Oh and I'm doing another RAF. I have Trez, level 14 Shaman in Eversong woods killing dragonhawks for their eggs.  It's that time of the year again. Monday was a busy busy day.  Transferring a character is a lot like moving. You need to pack up all the stuff you want to take and make sure you got everything you need because you can't come back.  I also had to get stuff off of my "referred account" because I was going to let that one sit unrenewed for a while. Free server transfers.  I sent some toons to Dawnbringer. Wed night, took off.  Hubby is at work.  Going to dual box 2 dk's RAF from start to finish.  The Sweets Blood Elf and Belover Orc.  So far no RAF exp.  Nevermind we weren't grouped.  There we go, yep RAF exp.  They were 59 after turning in the quest to kill the villagers and crusaders and the skulls.  Belover gave Thesweets a level, so now we're doing the persuader quest with the sweets at 60 and Belover at 59.  Doing the horse quest was neat.  I had Moved two DK to Dawnbringer for free.  Had to get one up to the mail box because she had the pet in the mailbox. Unholy tree gives an extra speed when mounted and makes the one following break follow. The ghoul pets have strange names like the warlock pet. Pebbleravager Doing the flying thing with two is cool.  Didn't realize I had to to start the battle at the end, I guess the last two times someone else started it. Did one last transfer to my new RAF account. Didn't have a level 55 on the referred because I transfered her to another account.  So I decided to transfer a level 50 over to it.  But then I wanted the pets and I had them but not the actual pet for the Netherwelp.  I checked the account page and that account only had the Wrath CE, so I searched each toon and found the actual pet thing.  I sent it to the level 50 I was transferring and then realized I had transferred a dk off at the account on to Dawnbringer and didn't give it the pet, so I made one real quick and now am getting it to the mailbox.  Had the DK learn it and Friday morning, got chores done, did some exercises and now have an hour and a half to play.  Goal today: Play the two RAF on ER Primall 50  and Ardrion 44 both Hunters to get them to 55, I got them to 55. At the same time I am running two DK's on the other two clients.  TheJasper, a Tauren DK and Celeen a Dranei DK.  I'm playing on ER during the day while there are no queues. There's some kid in the DK starting zone who says he has no more quest and he's 55 By the end of the morning, before I had to go to work, I had completed up to the Harvester quest on the DK and the Tauren dinged while the Dranei didn't.  Hmm. I took them both back to Ebon Hold.  Thejasper so he can train and Celeen and Thejasper so they could get rested exp.  Every little bit helps. And I completed two quest on Ardrion and Primal.  Well 1 and half, Ardrion finished the Ornament quest.  I didn't take the time to let them both collect 30.  I think I'll take them to Booty Bay after this.  And Ardrion dinged 45, yeah. Friday night on my lunch and break at work, Ardrion and Primall did the Dew thingy and Thristleshrub quest.  They eached dinged a level. Later Friday night, Belover and Thesweets are in Durator levelling skinning and herbalism.  Kind of like the thought of the Mighty Death Knights having to level their skills so humbly. I love the way the citizens feared themselves and cowered. Saturday evening, did some AH stuff.  Had pulled Ardrion out of Felwood to Tanaris for the neutral ah but Primall summoned him back. We flew to Moonglade earlier to get to the Furblogs up north.  I was worried about going through the tunnel.  Primall hadn't gotten hostile with them by accidentally killing one in Azhara.  But I guess she had gotten to unfriendly by doing the southern furblog quest and now she was able to run through the tunnel.  Noticed Primall wasn't getting the RAF rep and also that she had a level to give Ardrion.  After she gave it to Ardrion and he got to 48, she got RAF rep but not exp.  Hmm.  Then they finished the quest and Ardrion dinged, cool.  He's 49 and she's 51.  Hopefully I'll get them to 55 this weekend. Decided to seed some realms to get the 4 year anniversary bear on characters I might want down the road. Be funny if it wasn't worth the effort.  So they turned out to be account bound, but that only means passing to another toon on the same server on the same account, so it's good that I seeded some extra realms.  Now I just have to visit every toon I have within the next 30 days to get the bear, so it doesn't get deleted.  Even new accounts made today got the bear.  I wonder if it will be for everyone who makes a new account who had an active account today. I also took some time Sun morning to use RAF to summon some new characters to places where there is a mailbox. Ally alt on ER making a fortune on horde pets. Buying herb stuff for DK levelling, could killy Jokey for selling peacebloom and silverleaf 1 at a time. Sunday night hubby had an office meeting.  I was determined to get the RAF pair to 55, but it's not always as easy as it seems.  Had them in Winterspring and finshed the Furblog quest but Ardrion still needed to get to 50 to do the totem one.  So I flew them to Badlands while levelling the Jasper in enchanting. Monday morning I took Primall and Ardrion back to Felwood.  Ardrion reached 50 so he could take the totem quest from the Furblogs in the tunnel.  Did the moonwell quests and the saber quest and the escort quest in Shadow Hold. Got to 55 and 54 and Primall gave Ardrion a level and I made my DK's The Ardrion and The Primall.  Got them to 58 after the ghoul harvesting. Ashayo Email Email 1 Hey guys... Blade here... What can I say... but Northrend is an awesome sight to behold... here's a couple of screen shots from Wolftusk to show you Coldarra... and a really REALLY big tower. And Malygos. I'm feeling disproportionately inconsequential... despite the fact that I'm starting to get recognition for my contributions to the podcast from guildies! (Woot! Minor celebrity status ftw!) What else can I say? Northrend is awesome... the zones are huge - they will seem even moreso when the majority of people gain levels and spread out a little... it seems more balanced, though... so you don't truly appreciate JUST how many people are in the zone with you... as you only ever see maybe a dozen at a time in specific areas due to how well spread out the quest-areas and quest-givers are. But gaining the levels between 70 and 80? For the "average, casual gamer", it's gonna take a while... 1.5 MILLION experience points to get to level 71. And with 'complete' quests averaging 20 thousand... it's a bit of a slog... but with determined focus, some are hammering away at the levels... I've seen some Death Knights in their 73s and 74s... and I've heard of a few 80s already in guild and outside... The best I've managed is level 71 on Bladetusk,  most of the way through 70 on Skullblade... and 74 on Wolftusk... the reason for which I will hopefully be able to share next week... I admit, I rolled a Death Knight... and it's an interesting take on things to start as a Scourge and then break free of the Lich King's grip and start down a purported 'path of redemption'... oops... was that a spoiler? First impression? DKs are WAY too overpowered. Seriously.  I've said it before... I started playing on the DK and decided to come back to playing Wolftusk (the hunter) to give myself a challenge.  (Note to all those that missed the irony: hunters are considered - as Ashayo and Aprillian have mentioned a few times on the podcast - as the 'easy button' class...) I had NO idea what I was doing in one of the first quests with the DK... I had to fight another guy (I won't spoil it by saying WHY) but all I was doing was literally button-mashing... so I'm betting I didn't even have all the tricks at my disposal... hm... come to think of it... I haven't spent any of his talent points, either... I still pasted my opponent into the ground and curb-stomped him three-ways from sunday... (I got to fight a Gnome... maybe it was pent-up aggression...) Come the next time I play, I'll do a bit of reading about the skills and put the Death Knight together properly... so I can have some REAL tanking-dps goodness! Oh... and for the record?  My opinion?  The term 'hero class' is not (I repeat NOT) because it's supposed to be bigger, badder, rougher and tougher than the other classes... it's a 'hero' class due to the story arcs and lore that surround it. So... expect a nerf as soon as enough DKs hit the battlegrounds and enough non-DK players QQ about how OP the "hero" class is. As far as lore is concerned... the Death Knight story arc feels very 'lore-intensive'... so it's something I will not be doing unless I have the time to sit back and appreciate the hard-work that went into it. Speaking of story-arcs and spoilers... there is a large quest chain in Dragonblight that you will be doing when you are around level 72-73... and though I wasn't entirely clear what was going on at the time (I sent a few queries through /gchat with mixed results) once things started HAPPENING (emphasis there... big happening) I clammed up. This is something you truly have to experience. No... I'm not gonna spill the beans and spoil it for anybody... if anyone WANTS to know about it, I'll tell them or direct them to websites (like the AIE forums for example) that have the cutscene link for anyone to see... I just don't want anyone QQing all over the place... I left my rain-gear in Zangarmarsh. All I will say about it is... THIS questline, story arc and resultant cutscene is the reason I have supported Blizzard to the exclusion of all other MMORPGs over the time I've been playing WoW. I was awe-struck for a good half-hour... and as a fellow guildie says in the forums about the scene "I forgot how to blink". Absolutely amazing. So... Oh... speaking of Q's (queues)... anyone else notice that they're gone? Last week?  I was #979 and had a huge waiting time... I felt very insignificant... this week? Not a queue to be found... it let me right in... I felt like I was on the 'A' list... A bit more... for those hunters who are lv69 and haven't yet done so... find a hunter pal that HAS tamed a rhino or tame one yourself... if only JUST to see the knockback slam talent it has... It's absolutely hilarious!  Especially when it gets a half-dozen mobs on it! Some more from Ol' Blade's Easter Egg Basket... ~ I've read somewhere that if you pickpocket a naga... there's a chance to loot 'A Shiny Dinglehopper'... though... I have to say... none of those Nagas look anything like Disney's Little Mermaid... ~ Oh... because it's an interesting quest in Stranglethorn Vale (and worth a fair chunk of xp)... and then a second set of quests in Nagrand (of course I'm referring to the Nesingwary quest chains... Ol' Nesingwary is also the target of the D.E.H.T.A quests in the Borean Tundra... and more hunting quests in Sholazar Basin (in Northrend)... this guy (and his family of hunters and friends) really gets around! Here's a little tidbit about them you may or may not have known: 'Hemet Nesingwary' is a a sort of anagram of 'Ernest Hemmingway' (there's one more 'm' in Hemmingway... but it's close enough) Hemmingway (like our pal Nesingwary in Stranglethorn Vale) was also a hunter and a writer - and one of Hemmingway's more-famous works was a book entitled 'The Green Hills of Africa'. ~ Hrm... the Blizzard employees must really like Ernest Hemmingway... there's ANOTHER reference to him... this time in Booty Bay. The fishing vendor is named 'Old Man Hemming' - a probable reference to Ernest Hemmingway and his book 'The Old Man and the Sea'. ~ And speaking of the sea... here's a bit of a mystery for you: Nat Pagle... not only does he appear in Dustwallow Marsh as the Artisan Fishing trainer... (and the questgiver that lets you eventually fish up Gahz'Ranka in Zul'Gurub)... but he ALSO appears in the credits of the game! Whoa. Is he a real person?  Hm... he must love fishing... Email 2 Hello, as always thank you for a great podcast. i was wondering if you are able to suggest or state what video settings you and/or the audience uses. i have been trying to tweak my system video card settings and also in game settings but it seems like i still only max at 30 fps, with a nvidia 8800 x2 dell xps m1730 system, i have the sli disabled and i have tried every settings. i do have some addons, the usual major ones, which some of my friends suggest that is the problem, i dont want to believe that so please prove them wrong. if you can please list all the settings that a system such as mine can be set for maximum wow enjoyment. and yes i love to hate blizzard as i love their work and hate that they pull me back in everytime!!! wrath is impressive or more, than burning crusade. i am slowly leveling and enjoying every pixel, well when im not annoyed about my low fps. thank you for any assistance. happy wowing people MO Email 3 Hey Guys, I just have to say the last show was great! It was so nice having Glanthur back even if it was for one show. I don't know if this is even possible but I think it would be great if CAW went to a three host format. I know i am probably asking the imposable but it would just be really fun. I guess if i am going to to enter your contest I should mention my alts huh, lol. Well since wrath came out I have only played two of my characters. My priest who is currently 73 whenever my fiancee is at work and can't play. And my 71 druid with her her 71 hunter when she can. Most of our time is just spent running around exploring (looking for ore since she is a miner/engineering) and working on our professions. That has been our experience so far with the expansion and I am loving every minute of it. Thanks and talk to you later Auho, Deathwing PVP

Aprillian and Ashayo discuss another week of playing World of Warcraft, Blizzard's great MMORPG. Glanthur joins us. Issues to Discuss: Mail was returned and timer reset, good job. I was amazed at how smooth things went. Yes there were queues, but hey. What We've Been Doing Aprillian Spent time levelling Iwari to 55, so my new account could get a DK. Stood in line at Gamestop, got my c I love my Orc DeathKnight, Then I ran my level 30 mage out to Vengeance Landing via the zep So much to write, hope I remember it all. After the Wrath I am loving my Death Knight. I want an alliance DK, just because I love the way the Dranei DK looks, but I also want four Horde. I don't have any level 55's on any other server. I decided to see if I could transfer a DK to another server on another account, and it worked. Found out from Shat the quickest way to the Zep was through Silvermoon portal If you are grouped when you dual, each win counts for the both. Saw a Rhino in SW, ,way cool Still funny Ashayo In Outland and Northrend and on a Dark Knight Email Email 1 That last quest Ashayo was having such a tough time finding is an insanely random NPC spawn. I've only been able to catch it once leveling 4 toons through Nagrand even though I'm always looking for her to get the easy XP. He was very lucky to catch her. If you look up the quest on "Wowhead" you'll find out that the npc is named after one of the blizzard developers. *One more thing* Since you once recommended the podcast "Yet another world of warcraft" podcast, and eventually got tired of the abusive language, (just like I did.) I thought I'd recommend a wow podcast to you. Here's a podcast that's tagged "Explicit", but the show is very entertaining to listen to and the podcasters are a lot more mature than the YaWoW kids. Tryout "Outlandish: A World of Warcraft Podcast". Each episode starts with a song parody with WoW references. My favorite was "I had to leave Trade Chat" sung to the tune of the Billy Joel song "We didn't start the fire". It's hilarious. Plus, the guys dual-boxed a lot of alts up to level 60 using the Refer-a-Friend bonus, so they also (as you say) "love playing many Alts". Xannguyen-Khadgar Realm Email 2 Hello guys I don't have much to say. I just wanted to let you know that I prefer the mp3 version of the show because my mp3 player (Sansa SanDisk) does not play mp4's. Thank you Aprillian for taking the time and expense to host the show. And thank you both for doing it. Auho