Ctrl Alt WoW FFXIV Episode 22 - We Are Falling Again Guys

 

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

 

 

Honning Kage progress:

Honning is on a quest to relive her time in HW.

This quest is well worth doing for everyone. It gives you a little more, you could call it BTS of how the characters you met felt and how they have felt after the changes you and yours brought to their world. 
And you get a really great reward at the end of it.
You need to have finished MSQ patch 3.3 to accept the quest and go to Fortemps mansion to get it. It's a normal white quest, so no MSQ or blue quest.

Honning going fishing

 

No Man’s Sky

Didn't get a Salvaged Frigate Module when claiming my first freighter, can't continue, again. But i just, as i write this, realize that i might be able to get fuel for the frigates, the goal of getting the frigate module so i can make fuel, from cargo pods by destroying them. Rep is secondary.

Emails:

Good day all.. 

I have only been playing WoW for he last couple of weeks.. I have definitely got “the WoW bug”

again.. it’s been fun! 

Sadly though the ‘Mysterious Timeways’ event finished last week.. I feel like I definitely made

use of the extra boosts. Also coupling that with the Timewalking Cataclysm Dungeons, it was 

definitely a faster pace of levelling! 

I ended up levelling (mostly from 80 to 90, the old to the new max level cap), 2 Paladins, 

2 Shamans, 2 Mages, 2 Monks and a Warrior. I figured out a good levelling route, which works 

nicely! 

It’s that time of year for Brewfest, which has been fun. I managed to collect all the new 

transmog items from the ‘Brewfest Banquet’ Event. I have also been running Coren Direbrew 

on quite a few characters for the XP and a bit of loot. 

I popped over to Booty Bay for Pirates day and got myself a new eye patch transmog! 

All the WoW Forever talk is getting me looking forward to playing it. Although I am still a bit 

undecided how I am going to start? 

Anyway.. all the best! 

Kep.. FOR The Dwarfs, For The Goblins and for the Bunnies!  

 

 

 

Greetings AprilPVD, Grand Nagus and Big G!

Attached is a bit of a nonsensical ramble audio. I've not really been in any game much this 

past couple of weeks. Part of it was indecision but other things I didn't mention in the audio, 

Like having a windows issue and had to roll back to a 2 month old backup and that plus 

updating took me some 6 hours including doing a fresh backup.

Anyway, hit a wall gaming wise but creeping back in and I've got time off coming up so I'm 

sure I'll be back in the swing of things before long.

P.S. I had originally exported as .wav by mistake and then had to export that as .mp3 so 

hopefully it'll turn out okay.

Cheers,

Rigarmorty

 

Ctrl Alt WoW FFXIV Episode 21 - Same-Region Player Matching Is On The Horizon

 

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

 

 

Rolling Out Same-region Player Matching for the Japan Data Center!

As announced at Fan Festival 2026 in Berlin, starting Tuesday, 13 October 2026, following the 24 hour maintenance period on Monday, 12 October, same-region player matching will be available for the Japan data center.

Matchmaking and party recruitment have thus far been limited to players on the same logical data center. However, with the introduction of same-region player matching, the scope will expand to cover all those on the same physical data center (physical data center, in this case, is the entire region of data centers). This means that all players within the same physical data center will be eligible for matchmaking and party recruitment, regardless of their current world.

Once same-region player matching has been confirmed to operate stably on the Japan data center, it will be rolled out in turn to other data centers.

This announcement will outline the purpose and impact of same-region player matching.

Read on for details.

My thoughts on this:

It will be a great thing for off peak times, but some issues will be made worse, namely the lack of roles to fill groups. Overall, though i'm very glad this finally happened, i'm seeing more advantages than drawbacks. 

Honning Kage progress:

She is so cute, i love what they did with the facial expressions 

in the game. 

No Man’s Sky

Two space stations claimed.

Preparing to build a proper own space station in outer space.

Excited for the new expedition.

Some nice Twitch drops.

Built a designated salvaging corvette.

Looking to get designated multi-tools for salvaging and 

scanning. Also, i want to get my weapons optimized on my 

normal multi-tool.

 

 Email

 

Good day all.. 

So like the beginning of every month I have been playing WoW to complete the Trading post Travelers Log. However, due to it being BlizzCon month they reintroduced past trading post items and I bought some really nice new transmog gear and some nice mounts.


I then found myself enjoying playing WoW again, so I decided to carry on and complete the Midnight campaign, unlocking the ‘Haranir’ (the new Allied race) on the way. Which is what naturally happens as you quest through the campaign.


Then I realised they launched the ‘Winds of Mysterious Fortune’ event (bonus XP boost and gear drops to help you level faster). This was too tempting, so I carried on playing..

So far I have levelled a Paladin, Monk, Mage and Shaman to max level (90). I have also been running some World Events and Delves to unlock gear upgrades from the ‘Great Vault’.


I have also been doing some PVP along the way, but sadly the queue times seem quite long.. maybe there isn’t as many people PVPing at the moment? I know they do a lot of PVP on the Classic TBC realm, so maybe people are enjoying that more?


BlizzCon was awesome this year! A Diablo Netflix animated series which is currently being developed. Diablo 5 was announced (which looks very interesting and crazy!). WoW Forever (the new “classic” hybrid), Wrath of the Lich King Remix and the new StarCraft trailer was awesome!


I was quite surprised that they went with Wrath Remix. Don’t get me wrong, it was my favourite expansion ever, but -to me- just sort of seems like a bit of an odd choice?? Either way, I cannot wait for this to start! I loved the last Remix event!


I think WoW Forever will pull a lot of people in and could be fun? They also announced a new race, the Skyborn (basically they look like blue Blood Elves) which I can see being a popular choice?


I was hoping for Gnome and/or Undead Paladins ..or even better Pally Goblins..

I was partially right. We got Undead Paladins in Warcraft III and WoW Forever ..furthermore, they announced Forsaken, Troll and Night Elf Paladins in retail WoW.. but sadly no Gnome or Goblins!

I personally think Gnome Paladins would have been a very successful race/class combination. I am still hoping that they introduce Gnome Paladins at a later date.


Later today (which might be after you read this?) Season 15 of Diablo goes live! It looks very interesting! I am definitely starting with Barbarian again! Hell is calling! Time to crack some skulls!


Anyway.. hope you are all well and enjoying the games!

Take care 

Kep - Argent Dawn, EU - FOR THE HORDE! 

 

 

 

Greetings AprilPVD, Grand Nagus and welcome back Big G!

Attached is my audio for this week and a couple of beautiful screenshots.

 

 

Cheers

 Rigarmorty 

  

 

 

Ctrl Alt WoW FFXIV Episode 20 - Island Sanctuaries And Patch 7.56

 

 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

 

Island Sanctuaries:

I'm working on multiple Island Sanctuaries atm.

I want to get to the point where i can buy things with the currency there that i would otherwise have to spend other currencies for, that i might need for other things, Cordials (a gathering consumable to restore GP) among them, as well as dyes of the second tier.

As with so much else, it takes some time to set up, but it's worth it in the long run, if nothing else, i can sell stuff i can get there on the MB. 

Honning Kage just reached Rank 12 and got access to the cave on the island.

M'kolon Kage is at Rank 5 closing in on Rank 6

Aeble Kage is getting close to Rank 10

Both M'kolon Celah and Jaffa Cake have finished leveling their sanctuaries and are gaining currency to get the items, just the way i want to.

 

Submersible Voyages:

We are starting to make money on the first sub. Not a lot, but profit for now.

We are running "O J" missions atm, each destination on any map has a letter designation, in order of the list that is set up for each dive map. So the first is "A" the second destination is "B" and so forth. They will also have a rising Rank requirement to get to, so the first might have Rank 1, or Rank 50, or Rank 70, depending on what Rank is required to explore any new map, but each first destination on any map will be designation "A". 

That way you know that, say "Sea of Ash A"  is the first destination of the "Sea of Ash" map. And the fact that "Sea of Ash" is the second map in the progression, and requires a sub to be at least Rank 50 to go to, you can see when you can go there with your sub. 

The "O J" voyage our sub is running is a basic first map route that gives us a chance of getting special loot that we can sell as is for gil.

Just before i started writing the show notes, i debriefed another O J voyage that brought us 85k worth of loot. We did have up to 380k gil on an earlier voyage, but that is RNG, like i explained in an earlier episode, the double dipping RNG, along with the standard RNG for bonus loot.

The previous voyage didn't have any bonus loot at all, yes, that happens too.

One O J voyage, currently, takes 22h and change. But as the sub ranks up, it will get better speed stats, among the other stats, and that will shorten the voyage's duration. 

 

We lost another lottery! Another one of those insane lotteries with 260+ bids. I have to say, though, it is a really, really nice plot. I would say it's my favorite MEDIUM plot in Limsa Lominsa's Mist housing ward. 

Email

 

Good day all 

So on D4 the ‘The Grandfather’ (a 2-handed sword) finally dropped for my Barbarian. I also reconfigured some of my gear and got a new pair of Mythic gloves with more applicable stats. I was clearing Pit 90 (Torment 11) quite easily. So I thought I’d give it a try to run the Pit on Torment 12… and I smashed it! 

I also jumped back onto my Rogue and got him to Torment 12 up from T6! 

I rolled a new Paladin, got him up to level 70 pretty quickly! I was not really enjoying levelling around the 50’s mark, so I changed a few things on a “Zeal” build and he suddenly became a lot of fun to play, cutting through enemies like a hot knife through butter! So far I took him from ‘normal’ to Torment 7 within an hour or so.. I just need to sort some of his gear out, get a few nice drops and I think he will be hitting torment 10, easily! 

I am really looking forward to hearing all the news that will be coming out of Blizcon (the 12th of September). 

Anyway.. 

Hope you are all well 

Take care 

Kep 

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Greetings AprilPVD and Grand Nagus,

Attached is my audio for this week. As usual, been in FFXIV and now in the current expansion 

Dawntrail. To preserve no spoilers, sadly no screenshots but maybe I'll get some selfies in for 

next time.

Cheers,

Rigarmorty