Ctrl Alt WoW Episode 92 - The Contest Reading

Published: Dec. 7, 2008, 4:22 p.m.

b'Aprillian, Glanthur and Ashayo discuss another week of playing World of Warcraft, Blizzard\'s great MMORPG.\\n\\nWrite us at ctrlaltwow@gmail.com\\nVisit our website http://ctrlaltwow.com\\n\\n What We\'ve Been Doing\\n\\n\\nGlanthur:\\n\\nWrathgate from an alliance perspective.\\xa0 Warning, some spoilers\\n\\nAshayo Completed Dragonblight questing this week - achievement "Might of Dragonblight" (130 quests)\\n\\nAshrune, my unholy DK completed the starting zone and is out picking flowers before heading to Outlands\\n\\nAshayo dinged 77 and bought her cold weather flying ; but still riding until Asheal hits 77 also\\n\\nFactions vs gear level eg Wrymrest Accord in Dragonblight - hit Honored at 75. Great blue waist peice for honoured - but you have to be level 78\\n\\nAshayo & Asheak got Tuskarrmageddon achievement ; epic fishing pole and penguin pet, and upgrade chest peice (only needed honoured, but needed level 76)\\n\\nGrizzly hills - Four daily that flags your for PvP - Blue Sky logging grounds.\\n\\nConquest Hold - pit fighting ; very average cloth rewards. Where\'s the real replacement for Ring of Blood?\\n\\nAprillian:\\n\\nTook the twins to Outland for the outland loot, but soon scurry back to level up herbalism and mining.\\n\\nTheardrion-Glacierthief Theprimall-Ratmasher\\n\\nTuesday morning and evening running around the crater for TheArdrion and Arathi Highland for thePrimall.\\xa0 Of course Theardrion had a quicker leveling because he got points for smelting\\n\\nDreamt about farming ore and herbalistm in Arathi Highland all night Tues.\\xa0 But couldn\'t right click on nodes.\\n\\nThursday both Theardrion and Theprimall got to 300 in mining/herbalism.\\xa0 Sent them to Outland.\\xa0 Did go to Stonebreaker but then skipped to Falcon Watch\\n\\n9days left on Tuesday, so by Sun 5 or 4 days left on the mail returned from the great Mail debacle.\\n\\nFriday and Sat morning had Theprimall and Theardrion in Falcon Watch with Rilfire skinning.\\xa0\\xa0 Did the collassal and the demonic essence and freeing the hooded people.\\xa0 Using the rod to reduce\\xa0 the big Vamithrax like guy.\\xa0 Both went back to Ebon Hold to train and use a runeforge.\\xa0 Much harder to level herbalism than mining. Theardrion dinged 62.\\n\\nSat Theardrion-Grubreaver Theprimall-Dirtleaper\\n\\nAprillian got 2 shards once so far with the soul shard minor glyph\\n\\nMoved stuff to ally side, selling a lot.\\n\\nThe Contest Reading and Results\\n\\nThanks to everyone who submitted entries.\\xa0 We got a lot of good responses. Honorable Mentions \\n\\nHeya Ctrl Alt Wow folks!\\n\\nI just thought that I\'d enter the contest to win the CE for Wrath of the Lich King, \\xa0So, here is my story:\\n\\nIf I remember correctly, it is basically how do you balance WoW with home life. As a married man with a wife who does not play WoW, I sometimes find it difficult to get time in to play without getting into trouble. \\xa0However, as my wife teaches a night class on Tuesdays, I can usually play then and not have to worry about anything. \\xa0On other days, it becomes more difficult, what I have to do is play when she is watching TV shows that I dont particularly like, or when she is busy correcting exams or working on her dissertation. I try to make at least a couple of nights a week that I dont play at all so that I can spend time with her, even if it is just lying down on the couch with her watching TV while she corrects papers during commercials, and on weekends, she will usually sleep in so I can get a couple of hours in in the morning also.\\n\\nI basically just try to strike a balance between getting my addiction in and keeping my marriage intact.... I will always walk the dog with her on the weekends and we do the chores together, so I don\'t get yelled at for playing that damn game while she is doing all the work. Anyway, I hope that is sufficient, I am certainly not the best writer on the planet, but maybe that wont matter for the contest! \\xa0Keep up the good work on the show.\\n\\nNumnug (Aka Steve)\\n\\n________________\\n\\n\\nGreetings, Aprillian and Ashayo'