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

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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) y