Ctrl Alt WoW FFXIV Episode 19 - Square Enix At GamesCom

AprilPvd and Grand Nagus discuss Final Fantasy XIV. Send an email to ctrlaltwow@gmail.com telling us how you play.

Discord: https://discord.gg/5dtHtHCu

Grand Nagus:

Final Fantasy XIV

Yo-Kai Colab is back from Aug. 4 to Oct.5

 

 

When

Wednesday, 26 August 2026 to Sunday, 30 August 2026

Where

Hall 8, Booth A-21
Koelnmesse
Messeplatz 1
50679 Cologne
Germany

Fan Gathering

Come join us for an intimate, special Fan Gathering at the booth!

Date and Time

Thursday, 27 August 2026 from 20:00 to 23:55 (CEST)

Location

Hall 8, Booth A-21
Koelnmesse
Messeplatz 1
50679 Cologne
Germany

 

How to Participate

We have 80 spots available for this Fan Gathering. Tickets will be available from Thursday, 20 August 2026 at 20:00 (CEST) via Eventbrite and on a first come, first served basis. Tickets will be limited to 1 per person and you will require a valid gamescom ticket to be able to enter the venue and access the booth.

To redeem your ticket following pre-registration, visit us in Hall 8, Booth A-21 before 16:00 (CEST) on Thursday, 27 August 2026 and show your Eventbrite reference to a member of staff, who will issue you with your Fan Gathering ticket!

We're aware of the high demand for German Fan Gatherings and are actively looking into hosting additional in-person events throughout the year. We'll be sharing more information on the Lodestone in the future.

You must be over 18 years of age in order to attend this Fan Gathering and must present a valid photo ID in order to gain entry to the event (driving licence, passport, national ID card etc.).

We can't wait for gamescom 2026 to start and are looking forward to welcoming you at the Square Enix booth. Get ready for an unforgettable time!

 

Honning Kage (NA Goblin/Crystal) progress:

Leveled crafter jobs to 20+, CUL to 33, so i can start desynthing 

fish i caught. Desynth is a spell you learn at lvl 30 as a crafter.

It's basically the same thing as disassemble or disenchanting.

Her Island Sanctuary has reached Rank 10 earlier today, giving players

on the island the ability to fly on the island.

The max rank of Island Sanctuary is Rank 20, so i'm half way done.

I finished unlocking the three stages of the croplands and of the pasture.

Also i finished setting up my optimal loadout of animals in the pasture. 

Housing decoration is proceeding well.

Subs are being leveled.

Lotteries are being lost. 

 

Email

 

So I ran a few more Dungeons on WoW (with my Goblin Monk, dressed like a cowboy) and got enough Timewarped Badges to get the ‘Black-furred Bakar’ a recolour of the Bakar Mount, which looks pretty cool! I have also collected badges for the ‘Nightfall Skyreaver’s Reins’ when the Warlords of Draenor Timewalking event comes back around. 

I also did the “free T-shirt event” and added some shirts to my transmog collection. 

On Diablo 4 I have been trying to get the ‘Grandfather’ a 2-Handed Sword for my Barbarian! But RNG has not been very kind so far! I have tried to craft it and ran lots of Bosses to get it to drop.. but no luck so far! Having said this, I have had some brilliant luck with RNG when it comes to tempering and affixes on my gear.. which I may have caused me to “geek out” a little! 

My Barbarian’s gear is starting to look good, I am still adjusting some of his gear and Affixes and he is doing pretty good! It can be very expensive to do certain things, so that can become a bit of an issue.. 

My goal this season was to hit Torment 10, but I have managed to hit Torment 11! I know people have got a lot further, but I’m still learning and taking my time. Season 13 and 14 have been a great learning curve and I have learned a lot on the way! It’s been tons of fun and things are really starting to click into place! I am currently Paragon 237. 

I think I am going to take advantage of the “Rebirth” function in Season 15 (where your character gets setback to level 1 with no gear etc). I think I am going to rebirth my original Rogue to start with, then maybe Paladin and Necromancer.. 

Hope you’re all enjoying your games? 

All the best and have fun! 

Kep 

 

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Greetings AprilPVD & Grand Nagus, Attached is my audio for this week. Below is just a beautiful duty I was in where your path appears as you beat groups of mobs :

 

 Cheers, Rigarmorty

 

Ctrl Alt WoW FFXIV Episode 18 - FanFest Recap And The Steam Machine

 

AprilPvd and Grand Nagus discuss Final Fantasy XIV. Send an email to ctrlaltwow@gmail.com telling us how you play.

Discord: https://discord.gg/5dtHtHCu

Grand Nagus:

Final Fantasy XIV

Yo-Kai Colab is back from Aug. 4 to Oct.5

FanFest Berlin Recap:

Generally it was a great experience. Meeting so many people from the community was amazing.

Was there stuff that wasn't so good? YES!

But i don't want to go into that here, it didn't take away from the overall experience i had personally.

I focused on the events on Day 1 and more on the community aspect on Day 2. 

The Keynote was cool with YoshiP in the Bastion cosplay armor. Bastion is the new Tank job we get in Evercold. 

I got there a little ahead of time, as you can see, if you look at the pic i made just after i sat down 2h:37m:41secs before the event started. 

I didn't take many pics on Day 1, this pic is from the day before when the staff set up the banners outside

 

The most important event for me, tbh, was the concert on Day 1.

Keiko and Amanda Achen are just the best!

 

My favorite parts of the event were the concerts. Both Keiko's piano concert and The Primals on Day 2.

And both Amanda and Jason [Charles Miller] sang new songs i hadn't heard them sing before. 

In case you do not know, aside from singing a few songs in Shadowbringers, Jason was the ARR VA for Raubahn. 

On the Day 2 i arrived a little later, 11:45am on Day 2 vs 5:45am on Day 1. I'm just not that into PvP, and that was the first point of order on Day 2.

I went and checked out all the community areas on Day 2, and since the cosplay walk was on Day 2 as well, most of the cosplayers were there too. 

When i entered the community area, i met Foxclon, the main community person, i'm not sure of his title, not that that is important, but i got a pic with him. 

I met a bunch of cosplayers and we had a great time.

I  only got a couple of pics with the the cosplayers. I tend to get pics of them rather than with them, since i really like their work.

Here are a few pics i got with a few of them, though. 

As i said, at the end, the event was amazing. Well worth the investment.

I haven't done much ingame since i came home, other than set up my Steam Machine. I got the email about it when i was still in Berlin and had to see how to buy it since i didn't have all my passwords to my accounts i needed. But i got it to work in the end, so i'm a proud owner of a Steam Machine now. 

General thoughts on the Steam Machine.

Power usage of PC vs Steam Machine.

Windows vs Linux. 

Email

Greetings AprilPVD & Grand Nagus,

Attached is my audio this week. Doesn't look like I took any screenshots as most would have contained spoilers but having lots of fun on my Ninja who in fact hit 87 today.

Cheers,

Rigarmorty

 

 

Good day all! Hope you are all doing well?


So on Diablo 4 I took my Barbarian from Torment 1 to Torment 6.. Shortly after I did unlock Torment 7 in The Pit, but I was really struggling to take down the Bosses in the open world and dungeons etc., so I dropped backdown to T5. However, I was just obliterating everything with ease!

So I did some research and with the resources I had gathered I knew I have the potential to unlock much higher Torment Tiers. So I target farmed some pieces and got my resources to a good level, reconfigured my gear (which at times was a bit confusing and I wasted some things by accident.. I guess that’s how you also learn?). Anyway.. with a few changes I started smashing Torment 8! I pretty much one-shotted the Butcher in the Pit and have now unlocked Torment 9! With some more readjustments I believe I can get to T10/T11 very soon! I am also building up my Paragon Levels (currently 207) which will also help!


I am still absolutely loving this game! There are some interesting changes coming in Season 15, which (if the rumours are true?) it should be dropping in the middle of September after Blizcon!


On WoW, I have completed the August Travellers Log, which involved me running a few of the old BC Timewalking dungeons and I also won the Trial of Style a couple of times with my Goblin Monk! The reward for this month is a cosmetic Cowboy outfit, which actually looks pretty cool!


Anyway..

Hope you’re all having fun and enjoying your games?


All the best,

Kep!