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Anyone At All? Children’s Week WoW as a social place Groups – Run throughs vs even groups New Conbination – Warrior/Priest for Dual Boxing DuckieBank Shattrath City – Enchanter and JC trainer Email from: Hi my characters name is Lilthis i am a 66 warrior on the Lothar server. I want to say how much I love your podcast, I currently have 4 different alts I play as more than banks, and I too am running around on all of them gathering for their professions. I just wanted to say thanks for the dragonhawk hatchling tip, even now I am still using it to sell them for around 4g each thanks again and good luck with your alts. New Skype Number - ctrlaltwow – Answering machine set up, give us a call.

Intro I was out sick. UAE operation. http://www.ask4ufe.com/ Transfers • Aprillian on Baelgan transferred to ER o Want to work on getting one alt to 70, loving ER and AIE • Money to Lethon o had to level one alt up to 10 first o There’s a limit on how much you can transfer o Got ganked a few times heading to the Neutral AH in Booty Bay Other news: • My husband got me a Burning Crusade Collector’s Edition o So I upgraded one of my accounts and received a new Burning Crusade upgrade key • I opened a pack of TCG cards and got a Lando Loot card (http://ude.com/loot) Contest! • Prizes: o BC Upgrade Key o Aforementioned Loot Card • Create a closing line, either some kind of sound bit or something I can read. New Skype Number - ctrlaltwow – Answering machine set up, give us a call. What’s Going On Went to ZF with both Treshel and Auntrillia • Had too much fun, it was a challenge • Treshel got [Jang'thraze the Protector][Gahz'rilla Fang] Afterwards Treshel took her new dagger and sword Auntrillia and Morrowgrai

What’s Going On Made a couple of changes in my gameplay • Did some AB o Went on Vent it was fantastic to use the Vent servers while playing AB. Typical Day for me • Get up and get my husband’s coffee. • (more to be added later) Emails Email #1 I am known as Groffsnog of the Frostwolf clan. First off I love your podcast it is fun to hear about the many members of your war party (alts). Email #2 Hello again. I emailed you about younger player and I wanted to say thankyou for telling me your opinion. Snip... Also, I have started my first blood elf alt, she is a hunter and I was wondering if you had seen any cool-looking beasts in the blood elf areas that would make an ace pet? I am kind of obsessed with pets. still loving your podcasts, http://petopia.brashendeavors.net/ Closing Thoughts: I hope you enjoyed my day in WoW. I would love to hear about yours. Alt tip, you can shift click on a person’s name to find out information about that person. Children’s Day is coming, keep a look out. http://warc

What’s Going On • Before we head into the meat of the podcast, I’d like to address some comments about last week’s Special Video Presentation o Sorry about the sound quality, didn’t realize the battle sounds were so loud o I use an Iogear KVM switch that allows me to move back and forth between the two computers using ctrl ctrl o Combinations best suited for dual boxing • In the video Warlock and Hunter, the Warlock places DOT’s (I kept calling them buffs in the video) and the hunter can autoshoot. • Any suggestions for other combinations?   Alt Tips Retuning Alts I spent the weekend retuning my alts. • You shouldn’t feel locked into a profession for life, especially with alts. Once an alt is in the upper 30’s or 40’s, the skills they have might not be as useful, or you might have another alt who can do the job just as well if not better. o Treshel was a miner, but I had transferred in Iwari and she was around the same level in mining. I was hardly using Treshel to mine. I wanted to use Treshel to farm the

What’s Going On I’ve decided to restructure Ctrl Alt WoW. There will now be just four sections: What’s going on Tips for playing with Alts Email Closing Thoughts I think Alt Round up will be mentioned in each section. I am doing this because I find myself holding back on something an alt did in the ohther sections and then skipping over it in Alt Round Up as I go down the long list. Created 2 characters on Lethon, a PvP server. · I’ve joined Randy Deluxe’s Guild –“Phat Loot Fishers” Also tried my hand at PvP PvE makes me feel powerful and strong PvP makes me feel stupid What I did this week Visited Shattrah – Found out in guild chat that you can get a port there with a mage. I logged on to Rilfire on the Baelgun server and did a /who 70 mage search and whispered a few mages. At first I was whispering mages in Shattrath. Then I realized I needed to find a mage near me. I found one in Undercity who was willing to port me for 1 g. Then I logged on with Aprillian on the Baelgun and had the same mage port me t

What’s Going On My husband and I had dinner with another couple on Friday Night. I had spent all day Friday on WoW and I was rather excited about the fun things I had done. I mentioned something that happened in the game. To my surprise, the woman of the couple had never heard of WoW and after trying to explain it, she called Online games a “complete waste of time”. What I did this week Embracing RP WoW News Tinfoil Hats – possible April’s fool joke http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/items/tinfoilhat.xml Cloth Schematic: Tinfoil Hat Binds when picked up Requires Engineering (375) Use: Teaches you how to make a Tinfoil Hat Tinfoil Hat Binds when equipped Head 10 Armor -10 Intellect +10 Spirit Durability: 5/5 Requires Level 10 Equip: Hides the wearer's profile from the Armory. Equip: Allows the wearer to see "the truth." May lead to an incontrollable urge to share "the truth" with others. Use: Grants the wearer immunity to all forms of mind control for the next 10 sec...or does it? "On behalf of the I

What’s Going On Talk about Guilds First Guild – Everyone rushing to 60 soon fell behind – first taste of drama Second Guild – One day logged on and it didn’t exist – felt homeless and confused • Regrouped, got stronger, felt good • One day we got a message everyone was joining another guild o Felt betrayed o Decided to make a guild of one – Enjoyed it, especially with dual boxing Then came The Instance Podcast Invitation, decided to try it out. Found out what it’s like to be in a really good guild Immersed completely in alea iacta est Did what a good guild member should do, followed the instructions for the guild. This involves downloading and installing specific Add ons. These included: • http://www.rpgoutfitter.com/GuildProfiler/ • http://www.rpgoutfitter.com/CharacterProfiler/ • GEM – Guild Event Manager Being a Good Guild Member takes work and dedication. The transition from being a Guild of one to one of 1000 is amazaing. Read the forums for both what’s coming up and what’s going on. It’s also a

I got two whole emails Email #1 Hello! First, thanks so much for doing the show! I also especially appreciate your taking the extra effort to put chapters, artwork, and notes in for iTunes. :) It's extra work and I appreciate it lots! My first question is: How do you decide which alts to focus on at any one time? I only have 10 characters, all on the same server, but even that is enough to put me at sixes and sevens sometimes. When you sit down to play, how do you decide -who- to play? Second question: Do you let people know who all your alts are? I do, in that I have a traditional naming scheme for all my characters, which is that they must all begin with "Ab". The story behind that is a bit long, but anyway it lets everyone know, especially in the guild, who's an alt of mine and who's not, and that helps with any guild-related business I may have to take care of. People always know it's me so they always know how to get ahold of me. Thanks for your response! -- Abkani, guild master of Eldritch Way

Alea iacta est New Phrase for us Alt Addicts – Instead of Main player, I have a Main Server Does anyone else Dual Box? Ran around Darkmoon Faire – it was fun, got the mugs of Dark Iron Ale and got JubJub for Pril Cross area Hunter training doesn’t work WoW News http://armory.worldofwarcraft.com/ I love the Armory World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade has established a new sales record for PC games, with approximately 3.5 million copies sold within its first month. Keeping pace with the expansion's sales, World of Warcraft's worldwide subscriber base now exceeds 8.5 million. You can read more about these achievements in our latest press release. We send our sincere thanks out to the players across the globe who have continued to help us bring Azeroth, and now Outland, to life, and we look forward to adding more great content to explore -- and seeing how the arena tournament plays out -- in the months ahead. Alt Round Up http://armory.worldofwarcraft.com/guild-info.xml?r=Baelgun&n=Ctrl+Alt+WoW&

What's Going On I spent some time "Seeding" Servers with my alts. The Lunar Festival is a great time to put alts up and get Flight Paths. Then when or if you want an alt on that server, then they already have the flight paths. I wanted a Ravager on my Blood Elf. I figured out a way to get my Horde Character into the Alliance starting area. All it took was some trial and error and some dying. WoW News Lunar Festival Feb 16 – March 8 Darkmoon Faire Mulgore March 5 – 11 http://armory.worldofwarcraft.com/ Alt Round Up Ctrl Alt WoW Armory Page Pril & Zee – Blood Elf Twins Pril = Hunter LW/Skinner Zee = Rogue JC/Miner • Level 22/21 • Grinding for Leather in Southern Barrens. Quite successful, Thunder lizards and their yummy tails, thunderhawks and hyenas. Pril got her cooking to 125 and got the book from Aprillian • And of course Pril got her Ravager from Bloodmyst Isle Creed & Ctraltwow Blood Elf Priest Tailor/Enchanter and Orc Warrior Miner/Blacksmith • Level 11/11 Aprillian Main Troll Hunter Mine

No. 1. What’s Going On Observations • Dranei men sound like Worf’s father, is there a connection? Saw the Drainei mounts, very cool • Tip: If you are near and heading back to the inn you hearthed from and you need just one more space in your bag, you can destroy the stone and get a new one at the end House Cleaning • I took all of my alts to their banks and cleaned out their banks and bags. You probably have some stuff that you needed to get your craft up to the current level, put what you don’t need on AH. Make it a fairly reasonable price. If it sells, you’ll have some more money, if it doesn’t, it will be mailed back to you, where you can keep it in your mailbox until you find another alt who needs it or you can use it, or sell it. This does mean you won’t know when you get new mail. But for me, that’s only important on my Banker alts to see if I sold something for big money on AH. You should already be sending all of your big AH stuff to your Banker alt. • Cleared Out Quest. o Looked for Quests that we

What’s Going On Lunar Festival I don’t know about you, but I spent the weekend running my alts from city to city to pick up ancestry coins. While it might sound boring, it was actually quite enjoyable. Some alts got new flight paths and all the reputation points were well worth it. • Sometimes I only need 4 fireworks and 1 cluster bomb/got credit for 2 each time. • I did mostly the ones I could easily access and I tried to do it without going online. I couldn’t find the guy in the Hinterland, but I took Aprillian L57H • When opening the rest of your adoration packages, shift click to see what’s inside. The box of chocolate makes great buffs and are transferable in the package. You can hit esc and close the package back up and then mail it to an alt that can use it. Wow News World of Warcraft is pleased to announce our plans for the inaugural World of Warcraft Arena Tournament, scheduled to begin on February 16 in Europe and North America and March 3 in Korea. World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade players i

Valentine's Day has come to Azeroth • Undercity Guardians are both male and female, they respond to both perfume and cologne. • Silvermoon and Exador were bugged and you couldn't buy tokens, perfume or cologne from the innkeepers Addons I like • CharacterViewer • Auctioneer I'm still buying and selling on both Alliance and Horde servers. If you remember from a previous podcast I mentioned how I ran my level 8 Dranie • Buying alliance bags and wool cloth that I couldn't get on the Horde AH. I ran into someone with a Netherwelp and did a quick interview.

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Today’s episode is going to cover my view of Dual Boxing Mac Pro on the left, Cinema Display – leading character. Mac Book Pro on the right, following character with macro keyed to either number 7 or the hyphen Following character invites lead character to group, following character sets group loot to free for all Make sure we all have the same quest – I use FastQuestt Add on I want to do something about the game inside the game Each group has a set of goals that I want to get to next. I just try focusing on that goal. But sometimes I’ll hear about or think of something I want to try and then I’ll go try that.

Grab flight paths Pull mobs Keep repaired Greyed out items can be sold – white items maybe be sold on AH DOT need to bedone once Mobs are color coded Everything is color coded Upgrade your skills, usually at even numbers Resting – return to an inn or capital city Kill first Loot after – loot stays around After you die, you have trun on your tracking stuff You can change the keys (binding) to suit your needs. Auto run is clear Up until level 10 there’s no real punishment for accepting return to life Practice fighting unarmed against lower levels, maybe in a quest you missed – Pril and Zee did at level 14 Vanish the Betrayers it’s a level 7 but we wanted Sometimes manufactured stuff sells more than the materials – linen bandages You can outrun some mobs – they have a limited area of “patrol” All Races are not created equal, all professions are not created equal – find one that fits Keep space open in your inventory for quest items – get bags as fast as you can You can jump over some things by

Email Addresses: Shadowhand.CtrlAltWoW@gmail.com CtrlAltWoW@gmail.com Aprillian.CtrlAltWoW@gmail.com Website: http://CtrlAltWoW.blogspot.com No. 1. What’s Going On 1. Shadowhand approached me, Aprillian in an email and asked to be a cohost. I thought it might be a good idea. So here's Shadowhand. He has a good perspective on the World of Warcraft. No. 2. WoW News 1. Blizzard sells over 2.4 copies of the Burning Crusade in less than 24 hours 2. We discussed our thoughts over the first level 70 character in France. No. 3. Alt Round Up – 1. Shadowhand – level 9 Blood Elf priest 2. Aprillian’s Alts a. Treshel in Crushbridge Hold mining iron and mithril - She's sending ore to Zee, Blood Elf Jewelcrafter. Not finding any gems while mining but Zee is getting some nice good quality gems such as Moss Agate, Jade and Moonstone when prospecting Iron. b. Theoo Orc Level 17 Rogue leveling up Herbalism in Eversong Woods – East Sanctum has lots of Bloodthistle, got Theeo up to Herbalism 60 there. No. 4. Server Shoutout

Ctrl Alt WoW Episode 006 – Were you prepared January 20, 2007 Segment I.    What’s Going On A.    Can I have your attention please - B.    Installing and running Burning Crusade – success C.     My train was late into Chicago, Amtrak was nice, they put us up in a hotel, but that meant I wouldn’t be getting home on Monday night as I planned.  I would have had just enough time to get in line at Ebgames and pick up the 2 copies I had reserved.  So Sunday night I’m stuck in Chicago trying to figure out how to get my copies of BC.  I would be on the train for almost 24 hours once I left Chicago Monday night, so there would be no way to get it.  Could I ask my husband to go to Ebgames Monday night and stand in line?  I don’t think so. No. 1.    Very very painless.   The installation took went pretty fast.  Four disks, a 163 mb patch, then a 4.3 mb patch and then that opening screen No. 2.    I started a blood elf and of course the starting area was jam packed.  But there was no lag and it was like Time Square on Ne

Segment I.    What’s Going On A.    I took a trip to California for MacWorld.  Tried to do last week’s podcast in a train station, not a good idea.  Was going to do this one on the train but learned from my mistake. B.    Just to familiarize those who didn’t listen to the first couple of podcasts or who might not remember, I divide my podcast into chapters, this way you can easily move back and forward within the podcasts.  The segments are: No. 1.    What’s Going On – this one No. 2.    WoW News No. 3.    Alt Round Up – I did have the Burning Crusade Beta in the line up but now that it’s about to go Gold, any discussion about BC will just fall into the normal layout. No. 4.    Server Shoutout – Listeners can email me and mention their guilds or just say hello No. 5.    In the House – How WoW affects you at home and how your home affects your WoW. No. 6.    Favorite Places in WoW – discusses little things about WoW that anyone can share, things that normally go unnoticed. No. 7.    Emails, when and if I get a

CTRL ALT WOW  004 The Road to Burning Crusade I WHAT’S GOING ON A.    Preparing for the Burning Crusade i.Most upper level folks have been grinding I suppose but I’ve been gathering materials.  Level 41 Hunter Treshel is mining her heart out.  Level 10 Alliance is mining copper so she can send to my new Dranei, then she will be deleted.  I feel kind of guilty knowing she’s working so hard only to be “killed” off. ii.    Took my 52 into Azshara to do Hunter Quest – Very hard and challenging solo but it was worth it.  Found the limit of riding through mobs B.    After listening to some other podcasts about World of Warcraft, I realized I needed to cover the “why I play World of Warcraft” subject.  I’ve touched on how I’ve come to play it, with some friends from Second Life, but I never really elaborated on why I love it so much. 1.    My history in gaming: a.    A little Magic the Gathering.  Mostly computer games.  Hitchhiker’s Guide Text game.  Played a version of Dungeons & Dragons on a DOS computer.  L