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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 level Jewel Crafter who was upper 60’s was asking what level everyone was. I asked him about the bags, he had one but didn’t realize it was BOE. Then he mentioned he was having a time with JC because he couldn’t find gold. Using Character viewer, I found a stack of gold ore and a stack of gold bars and offered them to him if he would go to Outland and get the bags. Turned out there was only one mining bag and he didn’t realize I wanted the Jewel as well, but I got the mining bag for the two stacks of gold, which was good. • Also cleaned out some Quest stuff and managed to solo the Apothecary Zinge - (Step 1) Quest and the Into the Field - (Step 3) in Tanaris and did the timed quest Tanaris Field Sampling “Acquire acceptable samples for 8 basilisks, 8 hyenas, and 8 scorpions. Bring the testing kit back to Chief Engineer Bilgewhizzle in Gadgetzan before the power source runs out.” Which I loved.

Theeo • Didn’t do much this week

Sherinna • Level 14 Just did the Lunar Festival Quest – She got the 2 for 1 deal with the rockets I tried to do it with all my alts just in case I decide to play them down the road. She had 6 coins so she got the dress and a pack of dumplings

Bankers/Sellers • Trex o April got 10 Dragonhawk Hatchlings to him o Actually got to Darnassus and made Dolanaar his home. Did some quests there • Illia o Didn’t sell a lot of moths / the market is down. Did sell a pair of Ogre Kickers Treshel picked up from the two headed Ogre in Crushbridge Hold –d. o Sold a Comfortable Hat for 3 gold, see where that goes. Someone on I think it was Thotbott said he sold them for 1.5 gold.

No. 4. Favorite Places in WoWLeast Favorite Place Darnassus – • Can’t find a guard down in the popular areas • Mailbox is no where near AH • Too Many Bridges • Coming from Dolanaar

Least Favorite Place Darnassus – • Can’t find a guard down in the popular areas • Mailbox is no where near AH • Too Many Bridges • Coming from DolanaarNo. 5. Server Selection[Iridescent Pearl] Tonight 2/25/07 • On Baelgun on the Horde AH, they are going for 3 gold a piece • On Baelgun on the Alliance AH they are 50 to 75 silver a piece • On Lightenhoof on the Horde AH they are 1 gold to 3 gold a piece • On Alleria on the Horde AH 2 to 3 gold apiece

[Iridescent Pearl] Tonight 2/25/07 • On Baelgun on the Horde AH, they are going for 3 gold a piece • On Baelgun on the Alliance AH they are 50 to 75 silver a piece • On Lightenhoof on the Horde AH they are 1 gold to 3 gold a piece • On Alleria on the Horde AH 2 to 3 gold apieceNo. 6. EmailsHi Aprillian,

I am on the Korialstraz server and my main is a level 32 human rogue named Constant (male). My alts are: lvl 24 dwarf hunter Padar (male) w/ pets white polar bear (Snövit) & black wolf (Fenrir) lvl 17 human warrior Sweettea (female) lvl 16 human mage Renya (female) lvl 12 night elf druid Talesin (male) lvl 5 human warrior Banq (male) (my bank alt, hence the name) Created a guild just for myself and my alts called

Love your show and I gave you a postive review on iTunes.

Just wanted to say thanks for the tip on getting flight paths via the Lunar Festival celebration. Out of all the WOW podcasts you're the only one that mentioned this. I just sent out all of my lower level alts to get the flight paths they could.

Again thanks much and keep the podcasts coming!

Constant

No. 7. Closing thoughts about the showGood week, lots to do.

Good week, lots to do.Lunar Festival is still going on, get those flight paths and rep points

I am enjoying doing this podcast, even though I don’t get a whole lot of feedback. I’m almost at 2800 downloads, so someone must be listening. No matter what, it’s a great learning experience. I also want to mention something cool that happened to me a few weeks ago.

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.

would love to hear your opinions on this. Please email me at [email protected]

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

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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.