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I got two whole emails Email #1 Hello! First, thanks so much for doing the show! I also especially appreciate your taking the extra effort to put chapters, artwork, and notes in for iTunes. :) It's extra work and I appreciate it lots! My first question is: How do you decide which alts to focus on at any one time? I only have 10 characters, all on the same server, but even that is enough to put me at sixes and sevens sometimes. When you sit down to play, how do you decide -who- to play? Second question: Do you let people know who all your alts are? I do, in that I have a traditional naming scheme for all my characters, which is that they must all begin with "Ab". The story behind that is a bit long, but anyway it lets everyone know, especially in the guild, who's an alt of mine and who's not, and that helps with any guild-related business I may have to take care of. People always know it's me so they always know how to get ahold of me. Thanks for your response! -- Abkani, guild master of Eldritch Way on Azuremyst. Eldritch Way Website: http://eldritchway.abashima.com Email #2 Hi Aprillian, First off, love the podcast. This podcast hits close to home for me because I to have many alts (mostly alliance toons). I have a 63 human warlock, 61 human warrior, and my new main a 37 troll mage on Earthen Ring. I have several questions to ask. First, you mentioned that you dual box and your current favorite combination are the hunter and rogue. What other combinations have you tried? I recently read an article where a guy multi boxed five characters at the same time (Army of Xzin if I remember correctly). Since you play many alts do you have a favorite class overall? I've played most classes up to level 10 (with the except of a shaman which I have not played at all). My favorite class was the warlock (level 63) but I got tired of him and now is retired. Currently, mages are my favorite class. Second, I'm a big fan of instances (Scarlet Monastary is my favorite pre-60 instance). Do you have a favorite instance? My highest level character is 63 so I haven't seen that many post-60 burning crusade instances. I'm really looking forward to the Old Hillsbrad instance located in the caverns of time. Lastly, I'm a big fan of mods. Do you use any mods? I use the basic mods such as titan panel, ctmod and kth threat meter. I used to use class specific mods such as necrosis for warlocks. Thanks for taking the time to read my e-mail, Munchausen - Level 37 Troll Mage - Earthen Ring - Alea Iacta Est Alt Round UpDidn’t do much on my “Main Alts”. Spent most of the time on Earthen Ring http://armory.worldofwarcraft.com/guild-info.xml?r=Baelgun&n=Ctrl+Alt+WoW&p=1 Didn’t do much on my “Main Alts”. Spent most of the time on Earthen Ring http://armory.worldofwarcraft.com/guild-info.xml?r=Baelgun&n=Ctrl+Alt+WoW&p=1Pril & Zee – Blood Elf Twins Pril = Hunter LW/Skinner Zee = Rogue JC/Miner • Nothing Creed & Ctraltwow Blood Elf Priest Tailor/Enchanter and Orc Warrior Miner/Blacksmith • Not Much – Creed bought the Hatchlings and sent them to April Aprillian Main Troll Hunter Miner/Skinner • Transferring the Dragonhawk Hatchlings Rilfire Tauren Hunter LW/Skinner • Badlands Farming Scalding Whelplings Treshel Orc Hunter Miner/JC • In Crushbridge Hold - Mining Theeo Orc • Nothing Sherinna • Nothing Bankers/Sellers • Trex – Sold over 20 • Illia – Just sold some Ogre Kickiers • o Earthen Ring • Aprillian is becoming a Great Warlock • Ran Wateva – Dark Elf Alt to Booty Bay to start the DragonHawk collection, I need some gold Favorite Places in WoWLoving Eversong Woods and Ghostlands • Full plate of quests Loving Eversong Woods and Ghostlands • Full plate of questsServer Selection Jewel Crafting supplies Bronze bars & Tin ore Closing Thoughts:WoW can be whatever you want it to be. There’s no limits, choose what makes you release the most endorphins. WoW can be whatever you want it to be. There’s no limits, choose what makes you release the most endorphins.

Alea iacta est New Phrase for us Alt Addicts – Instead of Main player, I have a Main Server Does anyone else Dual Box? Ran around Darkmoon Faire – it was fun, got the mugs of Dark Iron Ale and got JubJub for Pril Cross area Hunter training doesn’t work WoW News http://armory.worldofwarcraft.com/ I love the Armory World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade has established a new sales record for PC games, with approximately 3.5 million copies sold within its first month. Keeping pace with the expansion's sales, World of Warcraft's worldwide subscriber base now exceeds 8.5 million. You can read more about these achievements in our latest press release. We send our sincere thanks out to the players across the globe who have continued to help us bring Azeroth, and now Outland, to life, and we look forward to adding more great content to explore -- and seeing how the arena tournament plays out -- in the months ahead. Alt Round Up http://armory.worldofwarcraft.com/guild-info.xml?r=Baelgun&n=Ctrl+Alt+WoW&p=1 Pril & Zee – Blood Elf Twins Pril = Hunter LW/Skinner Zee = Rogue JC/Miner • 22/21 • Zee made [Figurine - Jade Owl] and was so excited to give it to Treshel, my level 44 Hunter who always needs a burst of mana but then after making it o Binds when picked up o Unique o Trinket o +3 Intellect o +2 Spirit o Requires Level 35 o Use: Restores 30 mana every second for 12 sec. o Cooldown: 5 min o Sells for 15 Silver to vendors Creed & Ctraltwow Blood Elf Priest Tailor/Enchanter and Orc Warrior Miner/Blacksmith • Aprillian Main Troll Hunter Miner/Skinner • Rilfire Tauren Hunter LW/Skinner Treshel Orc Hunter Miner/JC Theeo Orc Sherinna Bankers/Sellers • Trex • Illia o The Dragonhawk Hatchling Connection • Aprillian sends 4 gold pieces to Creed – costs 4 gold 30 c • Creed buys 9 Hatchlings @ 45 silver a piece and mails them back to Aprillian 45s 30c X 9 = 4 g 7s 7c • Aprillian puts them up for auction to April on the Horde/Alliance AH o Aprillian puts them up for 25s, pays a 3s 12c deposit, the AH cut is 3s75c so Aprillian receives 24s 37c . So basically that’s 3s75c x 9 = 33s 75c • Trex puts them up on Alliance AH o Favorite Places in WoW Server Selection Netherweave Bags 10g bid/ 11g BO Baelgun Horde Server Email Good week, lots to do. Lunar Festival is still going on, get those flight paths and rep point

What's Going On I spent some time "Seeding" Servers with my alts. The Lunar Festival is a great time to put alts up and get Flight Paths. Then when or if you want an alt on that server, then they already have the flight paths. I wanted a Ravager on my Blood Elf. I figured out a way to get my Horde Character into the Alliance starting area. All it took was some trial and error and some dying. WoW News Lunar Festival Feb 16 – March 8 Darkmoon Faire Mulgore March 5 – 11 http://armory.worldofwarcraft.com/ Alt Round Up Ctrl Alt WoW Armory Page Pril & Zee – Blood Elf Twins Pril = Hunter LW/Skinner Zee = Rogue JC/Miner • Level 22/21 • Grinding for Leather in Southern Barrens. Quite successful, Thunder lizards and their yummy tails, thunderhawks and hyenas. Pril got her cooking to 125 and got the book from Aprillian • And of course Pril got her Ravager from Bloodmyst Isle Creed & Ctraltwow Blood Elf Priest Tailor/Enchanter and Orc Warrior Miner/Blacksmith • Level 11/11 Aprillian Main Troll Hunter Miner/Skinner • Level 54 o Ran out to Shadowsprey o Did the trial run to Bloodmyst Isle Rilfire Tauren Hunter LW/Skinner • Level 48 • Grinding Scalding Whelplings for leather with Treshel Treshel Orc Hunter Miner/JC • Level 44, dinged in the Badlands • Grinding Scalding Whelplings for leather with Rilfire • Did some jewelcrafting, got a bunch of jewels prospecting horded iron ore. Hard to get tin for bronze Theeo Orc Rogue Alch/Herb • Level 19 • Hanging out in Silvermoon Sherinna Troll Priest Alch Ench • Level 14 • Still sitting in Ratchet Bankers/Sellers • Trex Draenei Hunter Skinner/Herbalist o Level 12 o Dax Connection in the Vault of Lights o Blood Elf Bandits Masks • Illia o Didn’t seel any moths, sold some comfortable hats and hides The Dragonhawk Hatchling Connection • Aprillian sends 4 gold pieces to Creed – costs 4 gold 30 c • Creed buys 9 Hatchlings @ 45 silver a piece and mails them back to Aprillian 45s 30c X 9 = 4 g 7s 7c • Aprillian puts them up for auction to April on the Horde/Alliance AH o Aprillian puts them up for 25s, pays a 3s 12c deposit, the AH cut is 3s75c so Aprillian receives 24s 37c . So basically that’s 3s75c x 9 = 33s 75c • Trex puts them up on Alliance AH o Favorite Places in WoW Azuremyst and Bloodmyst Isle • Server Selection Blood Elf Bandit Masks 10 – 12 gold on Baelgun Alliance AH Email [email protected]

No. 1. What’s Going On Observations • Dranei men sound like Worf’s father, is there a connection? Saw the Drainei mounts, very cool • Tip: If you are near and heading back to the inn you hearthed from and you need just one more space in your bag, you can destroy the stone and get a new one at the end House Cleaning • I took all of my alts to their banks and cleaned out their banks and bags. You probably have some stuff that you needed to get your craft up to the current level, put what you don’t need on AH. Make it a fairly reasonable price. If it sells, you’ll have some more money, if it doesn’t, it will be mailed back to you, where you can keep it in your mailbox until you find another alt who needs it or you can use it, or sell it. This does mean you won’t know when you get new mail. But for me, that’s only important on my Banker alts to see if I sold something for big money on AH. You should already be sending all of your big AH stuff to your Banker alt. • Cleared Out Quest. o Looked for Quests that were collecting quests and completed as many as I could o Deleted grey quests unless I needed the rep Vendor in Alterac Valley – Rizz Loosebolt- I like those out of the way vendors, he can’t repair but he can buy the vendor trash so you can stay out farming a little longer. He’s in the area where the little fake cave is, it’s called Slaughter Hollow, directly opposite the opening to Crushbridge Hold. Tried LOTR Stress Test • The character creation is limited because it reflects only what was in the books/movie human –mf, elf –mf, hobbit –mf, and dwarf male. No dwarf females because I guess they weren’t in the book. But how do you get dwarf males without females? I also think you should be a big fan of the game before playing. I read the first book, the Hobbit, and of course the LOTR series is set after that. I couldn’t get into the movies at all. • Some people were complaining that it looked like WoW, which is ridiculous. There’s a set formula for any MMORPG, people were probably saying WoW looked like EQ • I didn’t stay on the server very long, but it looked pretty. No. 2. WoW NewsYou Tube WoW endorsed Video contest, http://worldofwarcraft.com You Tube WoW endorsed Video contest,http://www.guildlaunch.com/ • Great for Guilds, even better for people with alts. I stumbled onto this on Digg.com. It sounded promising, so I decided to give it a try. I was really impressed. For free you get a very well put together and customizable site that includes forums, roster, a calendar and a wiki. • With a minimum amount of effort, I made a pretty nice site: http://ctrlaltwow.guildlaunch.com/ • It uses an addon on called Guild Launch Profiler http://support.guildlaunch.com/guild/library/535/GuildLaunchProfilerCURRENT.zip • There are several steps to adding characters that must be done on a regular basis or the info will be outdated. Once the addon is loaded, you have to right click your avatar pic and select Create Guild Launch Profile for each of your characters. If you want to include information from the bank, you have to take that character to the bank, likewise you have to go to the stable master to get all of your pet info. Also open all of your tradeskills, you’ll see a listing of what you can make scroll by in chat. This creates a file called GuildLaunchProfiler.lua which is located in "World of Warcraft/WTF/Account////SavedVariables/GuildLaunchProfiler.lua">. You upload this file on your Character Page and it uploads a whole lot of information up to the website about your character. Now you can easily see the skills, levels, items the character can craft even when you aren’t online. It also conveniently provides a direct link that you can later use to get No. 3. Alt Round UpPril & Zee • Zee has been helping Treshel with her JC. Pril & Zee • Zee has been helping Treshel with her JC.Creed & Ctraltwow • Creed has been disenchanting the lower level JC that Treshel has been making. He put some of the Strange Dust on AH and made some gold Aprillian • Working on cleaning out her Quest Log, picked up the Errand for Apothecary Zinge - (Step 1) quest in UC while doing the Valentine’s day quest. This quest requires a trip to Tanaris. Which was great because she had the Wastewander Justice - (Step 1) Quest undone, so she took Rilfire with her. • Also got another coin from the Elder in Un Goro Crater Rilfire • Made several Comfortable Hats with the recipe Illia sent her. Ilia paid 16 gold on AH for the recipe, but she’s already sold 2 at 3 gold so I should make my money back. Rilfire did the Errand for Apothecary Zinge - (Step 1) and Wastewander Justice - (Step 1) with Aprillian, both she and Aprillian made some serious gold just vendoring the stuff dropped and the money from the Wastewander Bandits and Thieves. Treshel • She made the change, dropped Herbalism and took up Jewel Crafting. I spent some time trying to get the gem and mining bags for her. You have to go to Outland to get them. I was in Silvermoon when a 260ish le

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 in these regions who consider themselves to be among the best in the game at player-vs.-player (PvP) combat will soon be able to prove it to the rest of the world. Will you and the rest of your team be up to the challenge? If so, gather your cohorts and begin preparing for the largest World of Warcraft competition ever held. Eight Million Players = a Country Five countries WOW is bigger than. Five countries WoW pwns Ireland - 4,062,235 New Zealand - 4,076,140 Denmark - 5,450,661 Israel - 6,352,117 Switzerland - 7,523,934 World of Warcraft - 8,000,000 Alt Round Up Pril & Zee • Pril L20 with 5 bars to go/Zee L20 and 1/3 • Zee can prospect iron, he is getting some nice gems and storing them in his 20 slot fancy gem bag • Pril is 147 on LW and 186 on skinning. Oh she was fishing in Ratchet while they were waiting for the boat to Booty Bay when an Alliance Warrior, a level so high she couldn’t see, started fishing in the same school of Blackmouth. The funny thing was there was another school right where the ship docks. But of course if I could have stolen fish from an Alliance character, I would have done the same thing. So I got three of the fish and she got the last one, then I went to the other school and the boat came, but I knew I had enough time to fish the one more time before the boat would leave and I caught one more and then Pril and Zee hopped on the boat. The Alliance chick was with a friend, two blonde human bimbos, LOL. Creed & Ctraltwow • Creed went to get the Dragon Hawk Hatchlings, BE’s get a discount. I had sent Ctraltwow to get them and they were 50s, for Creed it’s 45s, after 9, that’s a free Hatchling. • Picked up the RFC quest [15D] Testing an Enemy's Strength and [16D] Searching for the Lost Satchel while at TB Aprillian • Ran with Rilfire to get coins. It was nice because they can both ride their mounts and they have mithril spurs Rilfire • Got some Runecloth and turned it in at UC and OG Treshel • Coinage As Well Theeo • Got come coins Sherinna • Coinage Bankers/Sellers • Trex o April got 12 Dragonhawk Hatchlings to him • Actually got to Darnassus • Illia o Moths selling, spent some money on a Tuxedo Favorite places in WoW Moonglade, beautiful • Moon Circles Representing Thunder Bluff, Darnassus, Orgrimmar, Undercity, Ironforge, Stormwind

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 pressing the space bar Ask a question twice. I asked the other day how to get to the Aurestyt myst from a dranei I met in Stormwind

Email Addresses: [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] 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 – 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. 1. We both talked about how people think WoW is a foreign concept 2. But it's nice to log onto WoW and find people who think the way you do 3. Please email us your experiences and we'll read them in the show. No. 6. Favorite Places in WoW – discusses little things about WoW that anyone can share, things that normally go unnoticed. 1. Aprillian likes the new Dranie capital City – Exedor 2. Shadowhand likes the Blood Elf starting area and Ironforge No. 7. Emails, when and if I get any. No. 8. Closing thoughts about the show 1. Aprillian wonders if she should keep Shadowhand. Email us and let us know what you think.

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 New Year’s Eve. People were dancing and flirting and laughing to try out all the new emotes. D. I was able to mail items to my Burning Crusade character and invite her to the guild from a character on the non updated side. E. I don’t have an alt over 55, so no Outlands for me. I was excited about getting my 47 Hunter Leatherworker over 300. I went to the Tribal Leatherworker trainer in Strangethorn Vale and picked up some new recipes but it turns out to go over 300, she has to go to Outland and find a Grand Master Trainer in, yep you guessed it, Outland F. Burning Crusade – A success in my bookSegment II. WoW News A. Topping the 8 million mark B. nSegment III. Alt Round Up – A. Who’s Doing what No. 1. I’ve been mostly busy with the twins, Zee and Pril, brother and sister Blood Elves, same coloring and hair. Zee male rogue and Pril female hunter. They’ve been leveling mostly in Eversong Woods. One thing I like to do is sometimes grab the first profession handy. This way they can begin to make stuff and then unlearn it and learn the ones they really want. So Pril got alchemy from that alchemist at the party at Saltheril’s Haven and Zee got herbalism there as well. So he was able to pick up some bloodthistle. He had already gotten Jewelcrafting from the trainer in the inn in Falconwing Square in the Ruins of Silvermoon. I got them both up to 10 and Pril got pet taming, there’s a quest at Farstrider Retreat, not to be confused with Farstrider Square, which is in Silvermoon. No. 2. Prilfire got the guild and turned it over to Aprillian (was able to get Aprillian again on Alleria) and she designed the new tabard, an octopus representing the many alts. No. 3. Prilfire made a couple of things, ironfeather No. 4. Pryl in Westfall No. 5. Illia making money – No. 6. Sent a 3 storage alts to Silvermoon City via the Translocator in UC – Aranxcha, Miasha and Theeo (actually Theeo’s a level 17 but he also had all the cooking supplies for leveling cooking) . They were able to help better leather pants and shirts, some weapons and supplies. No. 7. Sent Rillia my level 36 Rogue Blacksmith/Enchanter to give a couple of boosts. Particularly speed to boots. But it’s kind of tricky with two accounts. Rillia is on the account with Zee so she could enchant Pril’s stuff, but not Zee. Zee’s stuff had to be traded to Pril, echanted by Rillia and then traded back to Zee. Ooh and Rillia had over 30 bars of silver so she gave a bunch to Pril to give to Zee and now Zee No. 8. So now Zee and Pril are pretty set up, nothing to special but a few enchants and nice gear and they are out questing heading towards Ghostland, a few quests in Tranquillium and then back to Silvermoon City when I decided Pril needs Ressan the Needler as a pet. So they both went through the Translocater and out into Trisfal Glades where they picked up some quests in Brill and headed into the forest. The first time Pril died trying to tame Ressan and Zee ran away so they wouldn’t have to kill him. Then when she came back, she tamed him the second time and now she’s been hunting with them doing the Brill quests. I’ve got pix on the web site http://ctrlaltwow.blogspot.com B. Ideas/Discussion No. 1. If you can’t have two accounts, just be sure to send anything you might need enchanted to your enchanter before you equipped it if it’s bind on equip No. 2. I was able to get an alt from sunstrider Isle to Fairbreeze Village at level 1 without her coming in to contact with any mobs. Of course a lot of this had to do with all of the activity. So right now might be a good time to get a bank in Silvermoon city. Also, with the translocater from UC to Silvermoon City, an undead bank might work as well. No. 3. Create follow macro and place in the same number slot for every following character. Have the following alt complete the no. of collection quest first, that way the leading one can still identify the quest drops Segment IV. Server Shout out A. Alleria No. 1. To Kokoh B. Silverhand No. 1. Server splitu

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 any. No. 8. Closing thoughts about the show C. There was a patch last Tues Jan 8th that made some changes No. 1. Ore now stackable by 20 No. 2. Add Ons need to be updated- the two main ones I use were updated 1. Titan Panel 2. SellValue 3. Found a new one while I was on Curse Gaming– List My Junk http://wow.curse-gaming.com/en/files/details/2623/list-my-junk-by-zayla/ Segment II. WoW News A. Stores will be open at midnight on Monday night/Tuesday morning to sell the Expansion pack B. I patched to 2.04 but I guess there was a 2.05 version that caused some havoc. Segment III. Alt Round Up – All Alts transferred to Baelgun except for one on each account. There were some glitches that caused delays, but the blues on the WoW forums said they were working on it. A. Who’s Doing what No. 1. Treshel No. 2. Prilfire gathering in Badlands No. 3. Pryl in Westfall No. 4. Rilfire headed to Undercity to purchase a Guild Charter from the Guild Master there. She’s going to start Ctrl Alt WoW. Aprillian was going to do it, but she’s stuck in the transfer queue. This means, for those who don’t already know, after she purchases the Guild Charter from the Guild Master for 10 silver she has to find 9 other unique accounts to sign the charter and then she’ll have a guild. By unique I mean only one alt from any account can sign, so you can’t make a guild by having you and your nine alts sign it. So, if you don’t have 9 people all ready to join your guild, it involves running around asking total strangers to sign, usually you offer them 50 silver. Some will ask for more, some will do it for free. Once you have the 9 names, you go back to the Guild Master and register your guild and then you will have a guild with guild chat and you will be the Guild leader. Most of the people you’ve asked to sign your charter will leave. Which is okay, because I just wanted the guild because I like having all of my alts in the same guild because it makes it easier to keep track of them and automatically makes their names come up in the mailbox to entry line when you start typing the first few letters. B. Ideas/Discussion No. 1. Your First Alt. An alt, by definition, is a backup to your main character. What generally happens is you make a character and run around learning how to do stuff. Then you either start running out of space in your bags and inventory, or you need something you can’t make and don’t want to pay a lot for on the Auction House, or you want to try another class. In fact, you might find one of your alts becomes your main. No. 2. The Banker Alt – some call this alt their mule Segment IV. Server Shout out A. Baelgun No. 1. From Whom No. 2. Aprillian B. Server Segment V. In The House – Discussing what is going on in our real lives that has been affected by playing World of Warcraft A. My Trip to MacWorld – laptop data plan with Cingular No. 1. Played Sims 2 when out of signal range B. Trains late – wanted to try to get back home by Monday night, drove me crazy Segment VI. Favorite Places/Things about WoW A. Stormwind No. 1. don’t like all the bridges No. 2. But maybe it’s because I’m Horde B. Burning Crusade – new places – send email Segment VII. Email – A. Still looking for some No. 1. [email protected] - email No. 2. http://ctrlaltwow.blogspot.com - website/blog No. 3. http://Ctrlaltwow.podcastspot.com - podcast site Just checked my email and Zeam from the Frostmourne server writes “hi aprillian just dropping a line to say that i enjoy listening to your showand keep it up.” Thank you Zeam for my first email. Segment VIII. Closing Thoughts A. Burning Crusade No. 1. Going to be awesome No. 2. Learned my lesson about audio quality No. 3.

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. Loved the quest. b. Arcade Games Pacman in Japan, Centipede, Missile Command, Asteroid House of the Dead II – Going through the same game trying to do better. In HOD2, I knew which monsters were coming from where and when to get ready. It was repetitious but challenging. c. A-Train, Sim City, Deus Ex, Marathon (the whole series)The Sims, Quake 3, TSO and the Second Life,. 2. I love virtual worlds. There is something very attractive about a place I can visit just by logging in on my computer. I loved playing Marathon and Quake 3. I played Quake 3 with a friend. She was in NY and I was in DC and we’d set up a server and played the game from start to finish. It was so much fun. We both had earpieces from our cell phones and we talked to each other. Being on my computer and interacting with another person was so much fun. The Sims were great because there were all the other aspects of interactivities, and this led to TSO, which was fun because of the interactions with other real people. Second Life was an awesome eyeopener because you could personalize and build. 3. But when I tried WoW and I found it had all the elements of the games I most loved. It had quests, like Quake 3 and Marathon, with the grouping aspects and virtual online like TSO and SL, along with the creative aspects and personalization. Alts brings with it the whole D&D game/Sims game iii. Played my alliance character – 2 funny things happened both in Fargodeep Mine in Elwynn Forest 1. I came upon a player just standing in one of the tunnels. He was being attacked by two Kobold Tunnelers and he was going down. I took the two mobs down and was going to keep going, Pryl was farming copper. But then I realized some more mobs would be spawning, so I stayed nearby. I sent him a whisper telling him to wake up. After about 5 minutes he was back and fighting. A few min later he whispered a thanks back to me and said he had to chase his kid. I told him I thought as much and was glad to help. 2. Later, as I was mining, another behind me and tried to mine the same one I was mining. I don’t mind sharing but I could tell on the mini-map there was another node just a few feet ahead into the tunnel and this person seemed to be trying to sneak in. When I’m questing with a party, we usually take turns to get the exp, because if I hit it once and another miner hits it once, we both will get a point of exp. But this guy almost seemed to be hitting it as I was hitting to take it from me. I just laughed to myself and he ran ahead and got the next one after killing some mobs. I went ahead and killed a bunch more and got another node. Then I got a whisper that said “don’t take all the copper, I need some”. I kind of chuckled at that and said, “we all need copper, hon” and he wrote “yeah, but don’t take it all.” Now I’m perplexed and I said “so if I see some copper, I’m suppose to run by it?” I wasn’t trying to be mean, the nodes in Fargodeep respawn fairly quickly, so there was no danger of my “taking all the copper” II WOW NEWS Check the website more often, on 1/5/07 there were Burning Crusade and the Special Edition for sale on the the website. New realms opening up with Character Transfers IV IN THE HOUSE A. Heading to MacWorld on the Train. Hoping Blizzard is there. V BURNING CRUSADE A. Bloodthistle B. Translocator in Undercity still working. I took my 8 Troll to Silvermoon City, she spoke with Defiler Emissaries and I got the message she was neutral with the Defilers. I don’t know what she was before but I’m sure that will come in handy C. Dranei tail VI FAVORITE SPOTS IN WOW Azshara – Beaches to Mountains. VII Emails please A. CtrlAltWoW.blogspot.com B. [email protected] VIII TIPS AND HINTS Rest in Inns or major cities earns you bonus points Ctrl Alt WoW http://ctrlaltwow.blogspot.com [email protected]

I WHAT’S GOING ON A. What I’ve been doing i. Redoing Podcast, didn’t like the shortness, I felt rushed, going to try to make it less “ummish”. ii. 2.0 features I’ve been trying 1. Quick Loot – you can choose to just right click to loot instead of shift right clicking. Shift right clicking has the opposite effect and opens the loot box so you can pick and choose 2. Re-doing Talent trees – this is a lot of work when you have 18 alts. I am the epitome of casual player. I know there are certain preconceived notions of which trees to pick, but I just do the kid in the candy shop method, i.e. ooh this looks neat, I’ll click on that. I know on WoW website there’s a tree tester https://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/classes/hunter/talents.html It lets you experiment with different trees and you can even print them out. iii. Holiday Quests - I don’t want to give out too much, they are fun little quests that go along with the season 1. The Alterac Mountains – Stolen Winterveil Treats 2. Rescue Metzen iv. Tried PvP in Altrac Valley v. Podcasts I’ve been listening to 1. World of Podcast.blogspot.com 2. 1-70 B. Dual Boxing i. Why ii. Equipment iii. Challenges iv. Is it for everyone? II WOW NEWS A. NY Times Games of the year http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/24/arts/24schi.html?_r=1&oref=slogin B. A WoW player loses his account due to phishing and attempts legal action against the thief - http://www.fundular.com/Blog/4300DD5A-4B4F-495D-A007-A3E11341BC48.html III SERVER SHOUT OUT A. Lightninghoof – Feted Inner Horde B. Alleria – Legion of Dread/The Determined – http://TheDetermined.net IV IN THE HOUSE A. Vacation coming up, was going to MacWorld, but I changed my mind 1. More time to prepare for Burning Crusade 2. No gym on train 3. Wouldn’t be able to upload podcast B. Turtle mount card i. WoW World of Warcraft TURTLE MOUNT Saltwater Snapjaw V BURNING CRUSADE A. Buffy in Blood Elf NPC B. Hunting in Silverpine with Trillia C. Jewelcrafting and the stone guardian VI FAVORITE SPOTS IN WOW A. Un’Goro Crater VII EMAIL A. CtrlAltWoW.blogspot.com B. [email protected] VIII TIPS AND HINTS A. Bank/Mule – great place to store stuff for later B. Check the Addon sites for an add on Called Character Viewer C. If you have an enchanter, you can mail her BOE stuff and she can enchant them and mail them back to you if you can’t dual box Ctrl Alt WoW http://ctrlaltwow.blogspot.com [email protected]

Ctrl Alt WoW Winter Veil Special

First Show, went pretty well. Covered the outline to be used in the rest of the shows. I WHAT’S GOING ON  A. Intro to CAW  B. Why so many alts  C. First Alt exp Wow II WOW NEWS  A. Accounts Closed  B. Key loggers in Addons  C. End of Weekly MaintainceI III SERVER SHOUT OUT  = Let's hear from the servers, guild, what have you. IV IN THE HOUSE  = The Real world and how it affects play V BURNING CRUSADE  = My observation of BC Beta so far VI SERVER COMPARISONS  = Request for info on similar topics across different servers VII EMAIL  = Asking for emails VIII TIPS AND HINTS  = Short tips and tricks I thought were valuable