Alea Iacta Est

On this episode of The AIE Podcast…

Mewkow: Our villagers are getting spooky!

Mkallah: Shadowlands is coming soonish…

SWOOP, there it went!

Raid the guild banks, Please!!

And, we have Maellung here to talk about AIE in LOTRO

All that and more coming up right now…

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Ok, we’ll be digging into Lord of the Rings Online shortly, but first, let’s cover this week’s news

AIE News

Community

Where the fun is mandatory but the attendance is not.

Sunday – WoW Classic 2 pm Eastern

Streaming and Guild Podcast News

Steam has everyone thinking more about achievements. We have two guests on to talk a little more about Steam as well as how to go about getting ALL the achievements.

SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 355: Pts Pinata

Much like a pinata, this week the PTS is filled with fun.

Fleet Action Report Ep 11 Social Aspects

Nickodas and Grebog cover the social aspects of the game and how to use them to group up with friends. We also go into how to find a guild and a lot of what being in a guild offers, which are some of the best equipment or officers.

Fleet Reaction Report Ep 12 Enemies pt2

This time Nikodas and Grebog kill Grebog’s internet while talking about the second group of enemies, a bit of a DS9 theme this time. We discuss Cardassians, Devidians (ghosts in space!!!!), the Dominion, and the Terran. We brought along special guest Borngyr, that is a relatively recently joiner.

Working Class Nerds

Marcus and Nick chat with The University of Coruscant’s own Dr. Ravencourt aka James, about the new Xbox Series and PS5 consoles coming out this fall!

And in other general podcast news, we are on Warcraft Radio’s Podcast Directory Listing and would love for folks to stop by and leave a review if you’re so inclined. It does use your Battle.Net for verification that you’re a real person and not a robot/spambot, much like WoWHead and other WoW related websites.

https://warcraftradio.com/directory/

Imperium Ludi

Dual Universe

This week’s upcoming mining trip will be to the distant dry rocky planet on the far edges of the solar system in search of a mysterious elusive ore.

The devs are hard at work improving the game every day while in beta. This week we got our first set of in-game emotes (Bow, Clap, Point, and Wave) and it has already opened a new level of interaction within the game’s community.

For anyone interested in checking out Dual Universe Catavarie has a couple beta invites, you can find him in the Dual Universe channel under Nomads in the Discord.

NOMADS

The Division 2

From AIE: Low activity. Continue to reach out to fellow Agents in discord to help make the streets safe

Diablo 3 and 4

WoW

Also, good news and bad news that’s really good news. We have a pre-patch date, October 13th! This will be the 9.01 patch that brings in all the changes we’ve talked about before, but none of the Shadowlands content. Keep an eye on Noob raid for events related to the pre-patch world boss.

And bad news that’s actually good news, the launch of Shadowlands has been delayed till later this year. Blizzard is back to, “We’ll release it when it’s ready.” mode, and Tetsemi, for one, is glad to see it.

WoW Classic

SWTOR

A brand new event is on the public test server now, called Feast of Prosperity. Drop in and give it a test. Bioware is asking for feedback and making changes based on it, so check it out. The event is about food and cooking and philanthropy (maybe), so what could possibly go wrong?

Friday nights in SWTOR has become our variety night. Every other week, we have Master Mode Flashpoints. On in-between weeks, we have Achievements. And then once a month we have MEGA. I mean, I might have run out of Fridays, there, but don’t count! Tuesday nights are still MFN and we still have lots of Operations teams running regularly. If you are interested in participating just drop into discord and ask about any of these activities.

Bioware is trying new things recently to try to stem toxicity, especially in pvp matches. Just hearing about it reminds me of how grateful I am for the AIE community which affords me a bubble where I don’t have to experience or even think about toxicity in gaming. Good luck to Bioware in their efforts and yay for AIE!

Double XP/Renown/Valor is ongoing until 10/13!

ESO

MFN on Friday as usual which will either be dungeons or a zone clear

Don’t forget to claim the reward we earned in the Crown store for all the digging we did. It will only be available until October 15th at 10 am EST. “Lost Treasures of Skyrim” includes pet, body/face paint, a house guest, and a house for that house guest to guest in. “Antiquarian’s Alpine Home”

Raid the guild bank for recipes, style pages, and motifs. There are plenty in there.

STO

All members should know that the Fed side will be everyone’s main priority, so it will not likely progress as quickly with fleet holdings.

As for other things in the game, Cryptic has been dropping a lot of news on new things coming, from a new TFO (dungeon) based on stuff from the Picard show, to experimental ship upgrades.

For the fleet, we have been making huge strides forward with the fleet holdings and as such have several large projects in progress. As these large projects take considerably more resources, it may appear progress has slowed, when likely it has not and the big projects are just taking most of the fleet resources

GW2

FFXIV

Map nights are on Saturday Nights at 9:30 pm Eastern

Looking forward to that, we have patch 5.35 on the horizon. This one will expand on the Resistance Weapon, upgrading our resistance weapons, similar to the relics in previous expansions that we received in the previous patch.

“Guild bank is full, everyone needs to come get some recipes!”

And with that, let’s get back to Maellung and find out what’s going on in Lord of the Rings Online.

GAME NEWS

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If you have a question or comment about our show, you can email us at [email protected]. You can also follow us on Twitter. The show is at @aiepodcast. Mew is at @themewkow, Mkallah is at @cyberwaif,and Tetsemi is at @ivorytiger. We record live with video every other Sunday at 8pm Eastern/5pm Pacific. You can join the chatroom and play along with us on our website at https://aie-guild.org/podcast-live-stream/ and our Discord server for chat at https://aie-guild.info/discord . And for past episodes, you can see them on our Youtube channel, https://www.youtube.com/c/TheAIEPodcast ! Our theme was composed by the amazing Andrew Allen, follow him at @keyswithsoul! or visit his website http://andrewallenmusic.com/

And now it’s time to play all of the great AIE member segment we received this week, including…

Next time, we’ll be talking to Abovan in FFXIV. So until then, AIE…

– This is Tetsemi

And this has been… The AIE Podcast.

On this episode of The AIE Podcast…

Warp drive ahead, Avengers, and more

It’s time for double XP and Swoop racing

Markarth starts testing on the Equinox

To Hell with honor, you say!

and, we are talking WOW and all things Shadowlands

All that and more coming up right now…

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Ok, we’ll be digging into WoW shortly, but first, let’s cover this week’s news…

AIE News

Community

Where the fun is mandatory but the attendance is not.

Sunday – WoW Classic 2 pm Eastern

Streaming and Guild Podcast News

Fleet Action Report Ep 9 Enemies of STO part 1

This week Nikodas and Grebog cover some of the classic Star Trek enemies, Klingons, Romulans, and borg. This is part 1 of an expanding coverage of the various enemies in Star Trek Online.

Fleet Action Report Ep 10 Romulan Republic

Nikodas and Grebog take you through the current TFO for the event and discuss the Romulan Republic, while on captains that are part of the Romulan Republic.

Working Class Nerds

Episode 82: Achievement Unlocked: Quarantine Complete!

Marcus and Nick have a LOT to say this episode! They talk about the new Black Ops Multiplayer reveal, the finale of The Clone Wars animated series, AND the new details about the Xbox Series X.

SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 352: Update 6.1.3 And Steam Achievements

Update 6.1.3 is now live and with it, we now have Steam Achievements

SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 353: Pvp And Conquest Changes Preview

PvP and Conquest changes are coming, so we take a look.

Imperium Ludi

AIE now has a solid guild organization in Dual Universe carving out both personal and guild territory, buildings and ships. As the beta becomes more and more stable, the economy, ship building and advanced design is really taking off. Catavarie has taken the lead and has built and tested the first warp capable guild ship. We are exploring new planets each week. Several members are claiming main planet territory and building new space capable ships. We hope to have a small fleet of planet hopping ships operational soon with fleet operations, carrier jumps, and other guild activities to come. Check out the #dual-universe Discord channel for pictures of the cool builds and tons of Q&A.

NOMADS

Destiny 2

The Beyond the Light expansion is just a few months away, make sure to continue your progress on the missions/planets that will be archived soon.

Soon the Guardians closest ally, our Ghosts, will receive an update that includes more customizability and additional mod slots. Read more about it at

Tuesday, 22 Sep, Destiny 2 will be available on XBox via the Game Pass.

If you would like to join AIE in Destiny 2, please holler in the #destiny2 AIE Discord channel or put in an application at https://www.bungie.net/en/ClanV2?groupid=2122972 . It’s been relatively quiet there though I have seen people online in voice. If you’re active, please seek each other out to accomplish your goals before the expansion arrives.

Diablo 3

Division 2

WoW

WoW Classic

Scoop out a little time from your schedule, and level up with us in WoW Classic! Whether you’re just starting out and sprinkling through starter quests, or adding the cherry on top of a max level 60… Everyone is invited to join us for an old fashioned social hour in game and Discord!

Greenwall is now active in WoW Classic! Our goal was to make communication easier with our friends in and another small guild called during raid nights and various other activities throughout the week. Make sure you download the Greenwall addon so that you see all of the combined conversation otherwise you will only see ? of what’s being said and you don’t want to miss out. Friendly reminder that the main guild chat is still considered family friendly so please be respectful to everyone!

Raid nights with the United Orgrimmar team continues to be awesome! They have cleared Molten Core and finished a full clear of AQ20! The schedule for Molten Core has moved to Saturdays so that more time can be devoted to Blackwing Lair on Sundays. If you’re interested in raiding, let us know and we will help guide you in the right direction!

If you’re interested in creating a character with AIE Guild in WoW Classic, we play Horde on the Pagle-PvE realm! Once you make a character, jump into the LFO channel in Discord and request a guild invite. Hope to see you in game soon!

SWTOR

Double XP/Renown/Valor has started and will last about a month. It’s a great time to get alts leveled up or work on the Renown or Valor achievements.

Swoop Racing is back next week and we’ll be working on finishing up our reputation for the cool swoop rewards

For guild events:

Friday nights look like they will now be rotating every other week between Flash Point nights and Achievement nights, open to everyone in the guild

This month’s MEGA (Monthly Epic Guild Activity) will be coming up in the next two weeks and Mega will be going to meet the Dread Masters. In Dread Fortress. With some other fun squeezed in.

Side note:

ESO

The prologue quest line is now active and available in the crown store and will take you on an adventure that leads you directly into the main storyline of the Markarth DLC and the end of the year long event.

In addition to the announcement for the DLC, starting next week a new in-game event called The Lost Treasures of Skyrim for players that own Greymoor will start. It is a community based event with three tiers of collectible rewards that include cosmetics, a pet, a house, and houseguests. Unlocking these rewards will be done via the new Antiquities system and the more treasures everyone digs up, the quicker the community earns the rewards. In addition, during the event there will be bonus rewards available. In the Skyrim zone, all of the resource nodes, except for fishing nodes, will provide double rewards and all of the world bosses, delve bosses, and trial bosses will have a chance to drop additional loot and all of the daily quest will give double reward boxes when completed and the first daily quest of the day will drop a reward box that can contain crafting mats, style and set items, maps, surveys, motifs, and furnishing recipes. As will all of the recent events, you will get 3 event tickets you can spend at the Impresario of feathers, berries, and other items.

For our Mandatory Fun event on Friday, we will be taking a look at the new prologue quest as well as rampaging through Skyrim doing the daily quests to earn rewards and get loot.

FFXIV

In FC events, fun nights are still fun, and fun can be had even outside the fun nights. Groups are happening for all levels, at nearly all hours of the day. Plus the #ffxiv channel is moving all throughout the day for news, discussions, questions, answers, and amusing bits. Guides, tips, and other resources can be found in the #ffxiv-guides-n-tips channel and if you are looking to discuss the twists and turns of the FFXIV story, we have the #ffxiv-spoilers channel. For those wanting to talk about the overall FFXIV MSQ, please use that channel.

As always, we are always looking forward to you joining us in FFXIV.

STO

To Hell with Honor event is ongoing, and gets you a battle pet and a vanity pet. You have until the 29th to complete your daily completions of the TFO.

It is also an upgrade weekend, where you get 100% additional tech points when applying a tech upgrade to all items.

Fleet night is on Sunday at 8:30 PM Eastern. Lately we have been running episodes that were taken out of the seasons. We finished up the Kobali storyline last week. This week we will be running around with newly upgraded ships and testing them out to see how they feel.

GW2

LOTRO

And with that, let’s talk about what’s going on in WoW.

GAME NEWS

She’ll be asking in Guild chat on Alliance and Horde if people want to group for the contest but is not setting specific dates/times.

All four Covenant shorts have been released, let the hype engine begin! Which one was your favorite?

Pre-patch speculation – Generally they give PvP 2 weeks notice before the end of season, two weeks from Tuesday the 22nd would be October 6th so this is the likely the earliest it could launch. Looking at WoWHead’s Event guide, it’s only two weeks long, so it could even launch October 13th, but that’s really pushing it close.. Neither PTR nor Beta

There is a pre-patch ‘raid’ world boss which Noob raid will be tackling when it’s available.

For the rest of the events, check out the WoWHead guide (spoilers if you don’t want to know who the World Boss is or the events coming up)

https://www.wowhead.com/guides/shadowlands-deaths-rising-prelaunch-event-scourge-invasions

Those on the PTR/Beta will only be required to download a small update, while the entire 9.0.1 patch appears to be approximately 20GB in size.

Like pre-patches for previous expansions, the Shadowlands pre-patch 9.0.1 packs core class updates, Shadowlands’ New Player experience, the limited-time Scourge Invasion, character creation/character customization, and more. WoWHead has a guide, because of course they do, for all the changes coming to 9.0.1 which are literally too long to list here.

https://www.wowhead.com/guides/shadowlands-pre-patch-content-9-0-1

Shadowlands Class Changes

Hunter Pets

But here is what’s getting removed

Ahead of the Curve and Cutting Edge achievements

Expansion Launch date – October 26 at 7 pm EDT/4pm PDT (worldwide launch).

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If you have a question or comment about our show, you can email us at [email protected]. You can also follow us on Twitter. The show is at @aiepodcast. Mew is at @themewkow, Mkallah is at @cyberwaif,and Tetsemi is at @ivorytiger. We record live with video every other Sunday at 8pm Eastern/5pm Pacific. You can join the chatroom and play along with us on our website at https://aie-guild.org/podcast-live-stream/ and our Discord server for chat at https://aie-guild.info/discord . And for past episodes, you can see them on our Youtube channel, https://www.youtube.com/c/TheAIEPodcast ! Our theme was composed by the amazing Andrew Allen, follow him at @keyswithsoul! or visit his website http://andrewallenmusic.com/

And now it’s time to play all of the great AIE member segments we received this week, including…well, nothing this week, but always looking forward to receiving segments from our AIE guild members!

Next time, we’ll be talking to Maellung in LoTRO. So until then, AIE…

– This is Mewkow

And this has been… The AIE Podcast.

On this episode of The AIE Podcast…

Tetsemi: Dual Universes and New Worlds, oh my

Scoop out some time on your Sunday for some Classic fun!

Time to stop gambling, Max!

Must be Tuesday, time for patching

And, we have Dankinia who is here to talk to us about AIE in ESO!

All that and more coming up right now…

Podcast Audio

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Ok, we’ll be digging into ESO shortly, but first, let’s cover this week’s news…

AIE News

Community

Where the fun is mandatory but the attendance is not.

Sunday – WoW Classic 2 pm Eastern

Streaming and Guild Podcast News

Nikodas and Grebog cover the various ship equipment and types. Then even cover their builds and some of the reasoning behind the builds.

Fleet Action Report Ep 8 Ground Equipment and builds

Nikodas and Grebog discuss ground equipment and builds.

SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 351: Shae Vizla

The Shae companion returns as a subscriber reward. We talk about the companion and the character history.

Working Class Nerds

Episode 81: CLASSIFIED

Marcus and Nick sit down and just catch up! They talk streaming, about the games they’re playing now, aaannd ones they’re looking forward to (INCLUDING Call of Duty Black Ops: COLD WAR!)

Imperium Ludi

The New World preview week just wrapped up. New World is looking extremely polished from a game engine perspective. A group of guild members have been in the preview beta for the past week exploring the lands and experiencing some of the latest views of the game before they shut down for an extended dev cycle targeting Spring of 2021 for release. Bhock may still have some of the many hours of streaming of the game available on his Twitch channel clips for a limited time. AIE will certainly be watching this game closely as development continues.

New World has concluded its 2 week preview, without NDA and open to all pre-orders. It was a good start, even if we’re still more than 6 months from release, as Amazon decided to push back the release, refocusing a pure PvP game into a mostly PvE-centric game: end-game still does not exist, or dungeons, and PvE progression ends 2/3 of the way… but 6+ months should help fill all this, as the engine, crafting, housing, combat and mass-test have already been completed and tested. Preview was more smooth than many releases. And bonus: it’s a Buy Once, Play Forever game, without monthly fees (and no microtransactions for now)

NOMADS

Season 2 marches on. More news at the weekly report: https://www.ubisoft.com/en-us/game/the-division/the-division-2/news-updates/5JaSfFYvd6qeSDOxZornu/this-week-in-the-division-2-september-4

Destiny 2

Bungie –

There is a link to the new subclass trailer for Stasis on the Bungie website as well as some info on what to expect with the final week of Solstice of Heroes.

This Week at Bungie news

WoW

This will be the patch that changes all the talent trees, brings back old spells/abilities that were gone, nerfs buffs, etc. The pre-patch event will be a good time to get all your addons sorted, your characters hotbars sorted, and figure out which class(es) you want to play in the expansion.

There will be a lot of discussion in guild chat (make sure you’re running Greenwall) and in the #WoW AIE DIscord channel so get ready for change!

WoW Classic

Scoop out a little time from your schedule, and level up with us in WoW Classic! Whether you’re just starting out and sprinkling through starter quests, or adding the cherry on top of a max level 60… Everyone is invited to join us for an old fashioned social hour in game and Discord!

Greenwall is now active in WoW Classic! Our goal was to make communication easier with our friends in and another small guild called during raid nights and various other activities throughout the week. Make sure you download the Greenwall addon so that you see all of the combined conversation otherwise you will only see ? of what’s being said and you don’t want to miss out. Friendly reminder that the main guild chat is still considered family friendly so please be respectful to everyone!

Raid nights with the United Orgrimmar team continues to be awesome! They have cleared Molten Core and finished a full clear of AQ20! The schedule for Molten Core has moved to Saturdays so that more time can be devoted to Blackwing Lair on Sundays. If you’re interested in raiding, let us know and we will help guide you in the right direction!

If you’re interested in creating a character with AIE Guild in WoW Classic, we play Horde on the Pagle-PvE realm! Once you make a character, jump into the LFO channel in Discord and request a guild invite. Hope to see you in game soon!

SWTOR

Swoop Racing is coming back for a week at the end of the month, which means another chance at rep and rewards. The cosmetic tacticals are particularly fun to get. These are items that your character equips that change something–usually a combat effect, but the ones that make you do a jump off your speeder with flair are fun too. Later this Fall, we will see a brand new event called Feast of Prosperity. We don’t know much about it, yet. More info to come!

BCavanagh had the brilliant idea to add achievements to the lineup of activities to do during MFN. Swtor has tons of achievements that can be accomplished in a raid group out in the world. It was a lot of fun the first time we tried it and we can’t wait for it to come up again.

MEGA last month was a datacron run, including an instanced one that we had not attempted before. People who had done it before helped guide others through the process and some folks came away with new datacrons. Marcus is almost done getting all his datacrons! MEGA next month will be on the 25th. More details to follow!

Maellung is running MM Flashpoints on Friday nights roughly every two weeks, so look for that in about two weeks.

Steam rewards are being issued right now, so log in to the get a pipeworks flair and subscribe sometime between August 28th, 2020 and October 5th, 2020 to get the iconic Shae Vizla as your companion. She is a popular companion and people have been asking for her to become available again and now she is.

ESO

FFXIV

For newcomers, the ARR revamp has been reported to chop hours off of the doldrums of the Main Story Questline. Better pacing, XP, and overall a modern questing experience. Also, the demo of the game has been expanded through Heavensward, the first expansion. So, you can jump in and play the game, with few limits, up to level 60. Although as a demo player, you won’t be able to join the Free Company with one of those limits, you can still join groups and get help from AIE by just joining the #ffxiv channel in the AIE discord. We are happy to help you out on your FFXIV journey.

The next update, patch 5.31, is scheduled for this week, Tuesday September 8th. Crafters will be interested in this patch, since it will bring forth the next phase of the Ishgardian Restoration. Join the realm’s other crafters in the rebuilding of Ishgard after the Dragonsong war. Note that this is officially Heavenward content, so if you do complete the MSQ story thru Heavensward, you can participate. This includes people on the free demo. Yes, free players on the demo get content updates too!

Looking forward to that, we have patch 5.35 on the horizon. This one will expand on the Resistance Weapon, upgrading our resistance weapons, similar to the relics in previous expansions that we received in the previous patch. Also, the housing plots will be expanded, so there may be some opportunity to purchase a home of your own at this time.

In FC events, fun nights are still fun, and fun can be had even outside the fun nights. Groups are happening for all levels, at nearly all hours of the day. Plus the #ffxiv channel is moving all throughout the day for news, discussions, questions, answers, and amusing bits. Guides, tips, and other resources can be found in the #ffxiv-guides-n-tips channel and if you are looking to discuss the twists and turns of the FFXIV story, we have the #ffxiv-spoilers channel. For those wanting to talk about the overall FFXIV MSQ, please use that channel.

As always, we are always looking forward to you joining us in FFXIV.

STO

Red Alert Event is live now and goes until September 10th. Reward is an Ultimate Tech Upgrade.

Bonus XP weekend is live and goes until September 10th

New ship is coming in as a reward for a sales promotion. The ship is the from Picard series and is the Inquiry Battlecruiser. The promotion starts September 8th and goes until September 29th. This will be another R&D pack promotion to get the ships. Within this promotion there will be a sale on R&D packs starting Sep. 8th and going until Sep 14th and they will be 20% off.

Also, there will be a brand new event called To Hell with Honor. You will need to do 14 days to get the final reward of 3 TFO reward boxes and the standard 25k dilithium. The event is set to start September 8th and go until September 29th. Also the reward for completing the event each time has a chance to give you a new Micro-Miniaturized Elachi Walker (Vanity pet)

Fleet night is on Sunday at 8:30 PM Eastern. Lately we have been running episodes that were taken out of the seasons. We are currently working on the Breen story, Cold War.

EVE

GW2

LOTRO

And with that, let’s get back to Dankinia and find out what’s going on in ESO.

GAME NEWS

Right now the Imperial City Celebration is going on and it will run until Tuesday, September 15th at 10 am EST. Just like all of the in-game events, there are loot boxes and event tickets to be earned and the event tickets can be used to purchase Indrik Feathers and Berries. This is primarily a PvP focused event, however the event tickets can also be earned buy running the Imperial City 4 person dungeons, White Gold Tower and Imperial City Prison, For MFN last week several of us tackled ICP for tickets and those that either like PvP, or were too low level for the dungeons took a quick adventure into the city to attempt to slay a boss while avoiding players of the other factions. Thank you Sky for leading that PvP group so they could get their tickets. This coming Friday will probably be a repeat where some of us do the dungeons and the rest sneak into the city and hopefully avoid enemy players. Events like this are always more fun in a guild group, so if you are looking to have someone run with you, just let us know in guild chat or discord.

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I’m @Dankinia on Twitter and Dankinia on Twitch where I live stream both MFN in ESO and Noob Raid in WoW.

If you have a question or comment about our show, you can email us at [email protected]. You can also follow us on Twitter. The show is at @aiepodcast. Mew is at @themewkow, Mkallah is at @cyberwaif,and Tetsemi is at @ivorytiger. We record live with video every other Sunday at 8pm Eastern/5pm Pacific. You can join the chatroom and play along with us on our website at https://aie-guild.org/podcast-live-stream/ and our Discord server for chat at https://aie-guild.info/discord . And for past episodes, you can see them on our Youtube channel, https://www.youtube.com/c/TheAIEPodcast ! Our theme was composed by the amazing Andrew Allen, follow him at @keyswithsoul! or visit his website http://andrewallenmusic.com/

And now it’s time to play all of the great AIE member segment we received this week, including…

Next time, we’ll be talking to Syreyne in WoW about the Prepatch Event and Expansion. So until then, AIE…

– This is Mkallah

And this has been… The AIE Podcast.

On this episode of The AIE Podcast…

Show off your style in WOW

Stonethorn approaches

We heard you like Final Fantasy news! We have you covered!

There is summer fun to be had on Risa AND Middle Earth

And, we have Max and Sema here to talk to us about AIE in SWTOR

All that and more coming up right now…

Podcast Audio

Raw Video

Open

Ok, we’ll be digging into SWTOR shortly, but first, let’s cover this week’s news…

AIE News

Community

Where the fun is mandatory but the attendance is not.

Sunday – WoW Classic 2 pm Eastern

Streaming and Guild Podcast News

Nikodas and Grebog cover a lot of what you need to know about duty officers and bridge officers. Catch them live at 9PM Eastern on Mondays on https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqEKYJPKmiiYuj7eiHy6kOg

SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 349: Live With Daniel Steed Of Bioware

We catch up live with Daniel Steed, a key part of the Bioware SWTOR Community Team, in a late night interview to learn more about what he does, what he plays, and what he wants for SWTOR.

SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 350: Master Of Disguise With Thaan

This episode we talk with Thaan, guild member and master of pop-culture character design. We get the design tips and show over a dozen of his best designs including Spiderman, Thor, Wonder Woman and others

Working Class Nerds

https://www.buzzsprout.com/143519/5056568-episode-80-we-re-going-global-with-aviriia.mp3?blob_id=20282543

The guys chat with Dutch Twitch Streamer and SWTOR Content Creator, Aviriia! They discuss the role playing community in SWTOR, what that means and how to get involved. PLUS the guys also take you through their hectic lives since the last episode.You can find Aviriia at: Twitch.tv/Aviriia

Imperium Ludi

Max is hooked real hard on Dual Universe this weekend. Quite fun getting ramped up in a new game. Combination of Landmark, No Mans Sky and Eve (simplified version of each, but complex since it has all three elements). Bugging as heck but he’s addicted.

Interested in what Max was talking about with Dual Universe? Catavarie let us know that it goes into open Beta this coming Friday August 27th and the NDA will lift that day as well. And, Kazrik tells us that a recruit a friend comes out at the same time!

NOMADS

Division 2

Appearance mods. The Division 2 joins the ranks of other games by offering customized appearance for gear without altering the stats. More information at https://www.ubisoft.com/en-us/game/the-division/the-division-2/news-updates/457wEeFBWn5tPKbqZpPhPm

Title Update 11 PTS is around the corner and so is Season 3. More information about these topics in the September 2 State of the Game stream.

Destiny 2

That’s all the talk lately. Keep checking in on your Guardian friends in Discord for completing all that content that’ll be disappearing in a few months.

WoW

BTC finished Ahead of the Curve, Where Is The Tank (WITT) a brand new team is over halfway through norm, and 2 into heroic

WoW Classic

Raid nights with the United Orgrimmar team continues to be awesome! They have cleared Molten Core and finished a full clear of AQ20! The schedule for Molten Core has moved to Saturdays so that more time can be devoted to Blackwing Lair on Sundays. If you’re interested in raiding, let us know and we will help guide you in the right direction!

Greenwall is now active in WoW Classic! Our goal was to make communication easier with our friends in and another small guild called during raid nights and various other activities throughout the week. Make sure you download the Greenwall addon so that you see all of the combined conversation otherwise you will only see ? of what’s being said and you don’t want to miss out. Friendly reminder that the main guild chat is still considered family friendly so please be respectful to everyone!

If you’re interested in creating a character with AIE Guild in WoW Classic, we play Horde on the Pagle-PvE realm! Once you make a character, jump into the LFO channel in Discord and request a guild invite. Hope to see you in game soon!

~Nevermore

ESO

Stonethorn will have two new four person dungeons that continue the stories told in the Harrowstorm DLC and Greymoor. The new dungeons are Castle Thorn, where you are assaulting a fortress to put a stop to an evil invasion, and Stone Garden, where you confront an evil genius and his experiments. Update 27, which is a base-game patch, will have performance improvements to help with stability and reduce load times and will add Homestead character pathing. Character Pathing will allow you to build paths for your pets, assistants, and mounts to follow when they are placed in your houses so they don’t just have to stand in one spot.

For MFN on Friday, August 28th we will split into groups to run the two new dungeons together.

FFXIV

The free trial to the game has also been expanded. Now, for no fincial investment, you can play though the game, levels 1 – 60, including ALL content from A Realm Reborn, which is the base or vanilla content, and ALL of the first expansion, Heavesward.

There’s also TWO seasonal events happening right now!

The Moonfire Fair. Save the Eorzean tradition of the Moonfire Fair. Start you adventure in Limsa Lominsa, upper decks. Earn summer beach Hawaiian style cosmetics, dances, and moonfire fair outdoor furnishing. This event will last until August 26th, but takes less than an hour to earn all of the rewards from the event.

The other event is the return of the Yo-kai Watch event, but it has now been expanded for Shadowbringers! Earn 17 new Yo-kai themed minions all across Eorzea. If you earn 13 of them, a yo-kai mount will be yours! But there are also legendary yo-kai medallions to be earned to be traded in for cosmetic weapons! If you earn 13 of these, you will earn another yo-kai mount. If you really work at it and earn all 17 weapons, then you will get the final mount, the Jibanyan Couch mount! This event will take time to complete in its entirety, but you have until patch 5.4 comes out before the Yo-Kai watch event goes on hiatus once again.

I hope you like more seasonal events, because on August 27th, the next seasonal event starts up, The Rising. This event will run until September 14th. This is the game’s ARR relaunching anniversary event, often paying tribute to the game, the main characters, and to the players themselves. This event will start up in Ul’dah in the Steps of Nald.

In Free Company news, patch 5.3 has brought new items that can be discovered via Map nights, so Saturday nights at 9:30pm EST is the place to be for fun, adventure, and profit! Some of these items have the potential to go for more MILLIONS of gil on the player market, so it’s highly profitable to come along, not to mention that map nights are tons of fun in AIE!

Also, there’s plenty of MFNs throughout the week. This is just times we get together to run content, either it be roulettes, legacy raids, or farming for mounts or cosmetic gear. If you are stuck on a dungeon and want to run it with AIE folk, the MFNs are a great event to ask to have those ran.

The Discord channel #ffxiv is where most of the Final Fantasy chatter happens. While we are not going to discourage any sort of in game chatter, of course, but discord has fallen down as the defacto tool for game chatter, both text and in voice. Game discussion can be found there, either if you are in the game or if you are out and about on Earth on your computers, tablets, or mobile devices.

Please note that AIE in FFXIV does employ a MSQ spoiler free policy that extends to the in-game FC chat as well as the main discord channel, #ffxiv. Please refrain from any MSQ spoilers, including in the base content in ARR as new players to the game should be surprised to the many twists and turns that the story shows to the players. If you do wish to discuss plot elements of the game, we do have a new channel set up, #ffxiv-Spoilers to discuss these items. Please keep the MSQ surprises to this channel to keep the surprises a surprise to the folks that have not consumed the surprise yet.

Also new to the FFXIV Discord channels is the #ffxiv-guides-n-tips channel. Here, we will be compiling a list of tips, guides, and other resources for FFXIV. Some of these we found on the web and other FFXIV content creators, but others are created from our own AIE members. We will be pinning (that’s the thumbtack icon in Discord) the guides and tricks in order for you to quickly find the guides you are looking for. Feel free to post stuff in there that you have found helpful or processes that you do to help you in the game.

As always, we are happy to help anyone and everyone get started or returning to their Eorzean adventures. Drop on down to #ffxiv and we’d be happy to get you started today.

STO

LOTRO

And with that, let’s get back to Max & Sema and find out what’s going on in SWTOR.

GAME NEWS

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And that’s our show for tonight. While the chatroom begins suggesting show titles, we want to thank Max & Sema for joining us. And don’t forget, after the show is the AIE podcast stream, this week they are doing:

@MaxTheGrey

If you have a question or comment about our show, you can email us at [email protected]. You can also follow us on Twitter. The show is at @aiepodcast. Mew is at @themewkow, Mkallah is at @cyberwaif,and Tetsemi is at @ivorytiger. We record live with video every other Sunday at 8pm Eastern/5pm Pacific. You can join the chatroom and play along with us on our website at https://aie-guild.org/podcast-live-stream/ and our Discord server for chat at https://aie-guild.info/discord . Our theme was composed by the amazing Andrew Allen, follow him at @keyswithsoul! or visit his website http://andrewallenmusic.com/

And now it’s time to play all of the great AIE member segment we received this week, including…

We have a new segment from Mynaras called Wondrous Tails!

Next time, we’ll be talking to Dankinia and Guest in ESO. So until then, AIE…

– This is Tetsemi

And this has been… The AIE Podcast.

On this episode of The AIE Podcast…

Mkallah: The gates are open!

Tetsemi: Check out BCavanagh’s Conquest Calculator

Mewkow: House Hunters , ESO Style

Mkallah: Life’s a beach, join STO on Risa while you listen to us!

Tetsemi: And, we have Abovan and Durus who are here to talk to us about AIE in FFXIV

All that and more coming up right now…

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Ok, we’ll be digging into FFXIV shortly, but first, let’s cover this week’s news…

AIE News

Community

Sunday – WoW Classic 2 pm Eastern

Streaming and Guild Podcast News

SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 347: Returning Players Top 10 Tips

People keep asking if you’re back. Yeah, I’m thinkin’ you’re back. So for all the returning players like you lately we have a top 10 list of stuff you should know.

SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 348: New Players Top 10 Tips

This round, we discuss the great new player resources out there and then give you OUR unique spin on top 10 tips for new players.

Working Class Nerds

Epidsode 79: SWTOR Sit-Down with Sithlord_Britt!!!

Marcus and Nick get the chance to chat with friend of the show Sithlord_Britt! They talk about the tricky gaming situations they’ve had this week with COVID and rough weather challenges. PLUS, they get to talk through their feelings on the newest SWTOR livestream road map and SWTOR’s new availability on Steam!

Fleet Action Report ep3 Alien Creator

Grebog botches the audio and so you just hear Grebog and unfortunately no Nikodas, even though he said so many things, possibly even things that may save the world.

NOMADS

Season 2 – Keener’s Legacy continues with a new Manhunt target this week with a double-XP bonus to both your season and SHD progression this first week for the first 15 levels.

State of the Game streams return this week as well.

A few folks have been getting online and running missions together. Kudos to Dethode, AlbusPuer, and Ayep70 for keeping the virtual streets of DC and NYC clean.

Diablo 3

Diablo 4’s next quarterly update is still a few months off, but if you have not caught up on the news from the June update, check out https://news.blizzard.com/en-us/diablo4/23463858/diablo-iv-quarterly-update-june-2020

There’s some Diablo Immortals news at https://us.diablo3.com/en/blog/23494812/diablo-immortal-2020-mid-year-update-8-4-2020. The internal playtest milestone is nigh.

Destiny 2

Welcome to the six new additions to the clan on both Steam and Xbox who have joined in the last few months. Make sure to reach out to one another in the public discord to arrange clan activities.

WoW Classic

The Vanilla “Sundae” Funday events in WoW Classic during the AIE Guild Summer of Love were great! We had a nice turn out both at the start and end of the event.

Raid nights with the United Orgrimmar team continues to be awesome! Yesterday they cleared Molten Core and finished a full clear of AQ20! The schedule for Molten Core has moved to Saturdays so that more time can be devoted to Blackwing Lair on Sundays. If you’re interested in raiding, let us know and we will help guide you in the right direction!

As of today Sunday, August 9th, Greenwall is now active in WoW Classic! Our goal was to make communication easier with our friends in United Orgrimmar and another small guild called For the Birds during raid nights and various other activities throughout the week. Make sure you download the Greenwall addon so that you see all of the combined conversation otherwise you will only see ? of what’s being said now and you don’t want to miss out. Friendly reminder that the main guild chat is still considered family friendly so please be respectful to everyone!

Huge thanks to Tetsemi for working behind the scenes with Nevermore and Coma from UO to get everything up and running today!

If you’re interested in creating a character with AIE Guild in WoW Classic, we play Horde on the Pagle-PvE realm! Once you make a character, jump into the LFO channel in Discord and request a guild invite. Hope to see you in game soon! ~ GM Nevermore

WoW

Guild invites keep rolling in we are at 460 members and even with beta out, we have 10-15 people on at any given time on the Alliance side..

Saturday the Gusty and Fezgig did the Summer of Love battle pet event, and started on the Alliance side and gave out a few pets and did a several hidden pet quests. They moved over to the Horde side for a few more hours and had pretty good response to pets in guild, and again were able to do some hidden quest chains to open up pet vendors.

Gustytail will surely like to share the high moment of the evening, with a pretty cool opportunity that a special someone (identity has not been revealed) allowed us to do with 1 Million Gold!!! All in all, I think a lot of pets went to good foster homes.

Hey, Syreyne- (getting called out), Fezgig now has a full team of Anacoa Chickens lvl 1 to battle your team of left sharks

SWTOR

Nar Shaddaa Nightlife is still ongoing with lots of guildies reporting having won the big prizes. Apparently it’s not impossible! The event goes on until August 25th.

During our Summer of Love MFN, we went to the Guild Stronghold on Rishi for some impromptu Huttball, then we toured the galaxy killing world bosses. We ended the evening with a mount giveaway where everyone who attended got to choose one from a special Events tab in the guild bank. Thank you to everyone who donated prizes!

On Friday, Maellung’s Flashpoint Friday event started out with a costume contest, and everyone who competed got to choose two outfits from the many that have been donated to the guild. Then we went and did some Master Mode Flashpoints that perhaps we shouldn’t have, which made it all the more fun.

Special note to let everyone know that the newest edition of BCavanagh’s Conquest Calculator is available. This is a tool you can use to plan and track your Conquest activities. Check the pins in discord to find a link!

ESO

FFXIV

STO

LOTRO

There are also the rumblings of the rumor that the band will get back together

And with that, let’s get back to Abovan and Durus and find out what’s going on in FFXIV.

GAME NEWS

Patch 5.3

Patch 5.3 Special Site: <https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/shadowbringers/patch_5_3/>

Highlights

Abovan: Laa la laa la la hee!

Map Nights

Raiding

FC “Numbers” – Maybe shelf this one. ok

Durus: New Members Notes and AIE community

Members:

Member role: everyone in the FC for over 3 months

How to get promoted. Don’t idle, 3 months.

Invite procedure.

How to get involved?

(Any last minute ‘before the patch hits tomorrow’ advice?)

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If you have a question or comment about our show, you can email us at [email protected]. You can also follow us on Twitter. The show is at @aiepodcast. Mew is at @themewkow, Mkallah is at @cyberwaif,and Tetsemi is at @ivorytiger. We record live with video every other Sunday at 8pm Eastern/5pm Pacific. You can join the chatroom and play along with us on our website at https://aie-guild.org/podcast-live-stream/ and our Discord server for chat at https://aie-guild.info/discord . Our theme was composed by the amazing Andrew Allen, follow him at @keyswithsoul! or visit his website http://andrewallenmusic.com/

Next time, we’ll be talking to Sema & Max in SWTOR. So until then, AIE…

– This is Mewkow

And this has been… The AIE Podcast.

On this episode of The AIE Podcast…

Tetsemi: We have a Fleet Action Report!

Mewkow: SWTOR gets steamy

Mkallah: Summer is the time to redecorate and drink responsibly

Tetsemi: Are you ready for the summer of love??

Mewkow: because we have Syreyne, Nawkar, and Corley to fill us in on all of the details

All that and more coming up right now…

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Ok, we’ll be digging into Summer of Love shortly, but first, let’s cover this week’s news…

AIE News

Community

Streaming and Guild Podcast News

SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 345: Pop Some Tags At The Bazaar

The Cartel Bazaar is filled with event, rep and cartel vendors with some pretty rare and unique items to be had.

SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 346: Steam Stream

Dev stream this week on what’s next and SWTOR is now live on Steam.

Working Class Nerds

Episode 78: Star Wars: Legion with Joey Fetta!!!

Marcus and Nick finally sit down with Joey Fetta to talk table top gaming with Joey Fetta! They talk about Dungeons and Dragons as well as Joey’s impressive Star Wars: Legion set up!

https://www.buzzsprout.com/143519/4602434-episode-78-star-wars-legion-with-joey-fetta.mp3?blob_id=18156389

Star Trek Online – Fleet Action Report (Grebog and Nikodas)

Episode 0 – In the Beginning

Episode 1 – Character Creation

Episode 2 – Ships

NOMADS

Highlights:

AIE Clan marches on with a few new members. Call out to the public discord channel for running together.

Diablo 3

Diablo 4

Destiny 2

Highlights:

Remember to check in on the Twitch Prime rewards for Destiny 2: https://twitch.amazon.com/tp/loot/destiny2

That expansion keeps edging ever closer, Beyond the Light drops on 10 November 2020. Preorders are available now with instant access to special shiny stuff. (Exotic Ghost Shell and Legendary Emblem).

WoW

July 31st is Kirin Tor Tavern Crawl!!! It’s that time to dress in your best bar crawling costume and get drunk* with your friends!!! Join us Discord for all the fun! Hosted by Gusty and Syreyne

*Drinking is in-game only. We have no control over anything that happens out of game. Be responsible.

WoW Classic

SWTOR

Guildies are looking forward to the return of swoop racing this coming Tuesday. Several people will be maxing out their rep too, which will enable them to play through the last installment of the swoop race story. There is rep and currency to earn from three factions, which you can then use to buy speeders, decorations, and whatnot.

BCavanan has updated the SWTOR Conquest Calculator for the latest conquest updates from patch 6.1.2. He has a post on Reddit that links to his Google Documents spreadsheet.

(I’m not completely sure what to say about SoL, so here is a placeholder) During the week of Summer of Love, MFN (or MEGA or MM Friday) will be a special SoL Version, so stay tuned!

ESO

Currently the Summerset event is underway until Tuesday, August 4th at 10am EST. During this event you will receive extra loot from all of the daily quest rewards, resources nodes and Psijic Portals, and the world and delve bosses. Also the first time you complete a Geyser, delve, or world boss daily each day you will get 3 event tickets and a Glorious Summerset coffer in addition to the regular rewards. As usual, the event tickets can only be earned once per account. The reward boxes contain set items, crafting mats, furnishing recipes, and pages for a brand new Snowhawk mage outfit style. You can only get one Glorious Summerset coffer a day, but there is no limit to the common Summerset Coffers you can earn during the event. The Indrik feathers as well as new berries are being sold in the Impresario’s shop so if you are a mount collector, the event tickets can be used to purchase those and if you are not a mount collector, there are a lot of new furniture options for sale as well.

FFXIV

The upcoming patch (Aug. 11), which will complete the story of Shadowbringers; the expansion of the free trial from up to level 35 to up to level 60, including the Heavensward expansion; and the 50% off sale on the Square Enix and Playstation stores (get the complete game, including Shadowbringers, for $30!) until August 17.

Much more on the patch and AIE activities with Abovan on the next podcast.

STO

EVE

Let’s get a quick On-The-Scene quote from our Fearless Leader Hoots – “I don’t know what’s happening, but we’re in Fountain again.”

LOTRO

And with that, let’s get back to Sy, Nawkar, and Corley and find out what’s going on in Summer of Love.

GAME NEWS

Summer of Love 2020 Tentative Schedule:

Saturday August 1

Sunday August 2

Everyone: (All Games) Remembrance Day 7pm ET, followed by Fireworks of Orgrimmar LLC fireworks display at the rear gate.

Monday August 3

Tuesday August 4

Wednesday August 5

Thursday August 6

Friday August 7

Saturday August 8

Sunday August 9

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Twitter: @SyreyneAIE and on Twitch.tv/Syreyne

If you have a question or comment about our show, you can email us at [email protected]. You can also follow us on Twitter. The show is at @aiepodcast. Mew is at @themewkow, Mkallah is at @cyberwaif,and Tetsemi is at @ivorytiger. We record live with video every other Sunday at 8pm Eastern/5pm Pacific. You can join the chatroom and play along with us on our website at https://aie-guild.org/podcast-live-stream/ and our Discord server for chat at https://aie-guild.info/discord . Our theme was composed by the amazing Andrew Allen, follow him at @keyswithsoul! or visit his website http://andrewallenmusic.com/

No segments this week, but…

Next time, we’ll be talking to Abovan in FFXIV. So until then, AIE…

– This is Mkallah

And this has been… The AIE Podcast.

On this episode of The AIE Podcast…

Mkallah: Welcome to Division

Mewkow: SHHHHHH, no spoilers

Tetsemi: August means summer of love and all sorts of fun

Mkallah: We have the need, the need for speed

Mewkow: And, we have Shojo, Kini, and the Hordeling here to talk to us about Animal Crossing

All that and more coming up right now…

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AIE News

Community

Mandatory Fun Nights

Where the fun is mandatory but the attendance is not.

Sunday – WoW Classic 2 pm Eastern

Streaming and guild podcast news

SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 344: Swoop There It Is

Swoop races are here. Three factions and three tracks. Reputation and rewards.

SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 345: Pop Some Tags At The Bazaar

The Cartel Bazaar is filled with event, rep and cartel vendors with some pretty rare and unique items to be had.

Working Class Nerds

Marcus and Nick sit down with the host and creator of The University of Coruscant podcast, James McDonald (aka Dr. Sunny Ravencourt) to talk about James’/Sunny’s podcast as well as evaluate how EA has handled their license to make Star Wars video games.

NOMADS

Some highlights include:

Alea Iacta Est membership has slowly been climbing in anticipation of the expansion launch on 22 September. The clan is at 94/100 members across platforms. You can always ask for a clan invite in the public discord channel #destiny2, and also team up with other active members there.

Division 2

* Season 2: Keener’s Legacy continues along with a new Manhunt target and event.

Diablo 3

This Season’s rewards will include items from the original Season 9.

Clan and Community invites are available via request in the public discord channel #nomads. If you need some help leveling a seasonal character or just want to grind some GRifts (that’s D3 slang for Greater Rifts!), give a holler.

WOW Classic

WoW

AIE Summer of Love will run from August 1st through August 9th, keep an eye out on https://aie-guild.org for an announcement post with dates and activities soon.

Clean your drinking mugs, the Kirin Tor Tavern Crawl is coming up. Watch for an invitation on the in game guild calendars.

Purchase A 6-month Subscription And Get A New Mount!

The fearsome Steamscale Incinerator is a spark-breathing robo-terror that rules the skies wherever it flies. Legends say a mad gnomish inventor had a deranged dream to ride a dragon, so he built this metal monstrosity powered with a trapped demon in order to create “an authentic dragon soul.”

Once you’ve purchased the 6 Month subscription from the Blizzard Shop, the Steamscale Incinerator mount will automatically be added to your in-game collection. Players on an existing 6-month recurring subscription with a future renewal date will receive the Steamscale Incinerator as a gift in their Battle.net desktop app at no additional charge prior to July 20, 2020.

https://news.blizzard.com/en-us/world-of-warcraft/23463731/purchase-a-6-month-subscription-and-get-a-new-mount

Save 50% On Select Pets, Mounts, And More During Our Summer Sale!

If you’re looking for a hot summer deal, then we’ve got you covered. You can save 50% on select pets, mounts, and more now through July 19.

SWTOR

This month marked the beginning of the All Worlds Ultimate Swoop Rally and lots of guildies got their swoop on. This is an event where you progress by doing tricks, blowing up things, and indulging your need for speed. It is going to join the recurring line up of SWTOR event weeks, but first it’s going to have an early return at the end of July. Also, the Nar Shaddaa Nightlife event will start up this week and go for just under a month. That is not as long as it has run in past summers, so don’t procrastinate!

ESO

FFXIV

Map night continues! We’ll be running level 80 maps for the remainder of July with a level 70 map night on August 8th. We’ll likely return to a full level 80 map schedule with the release of patch 5.3, as new materials should be introduced to the Lyhe Ghiah (Lee-a Gee-ya), the treasure dungeons of the pixies.

LOTRO

STO

As always, Fleet Night is Sundays at 8:30 PM Eastern/7:30 PM Central

And with that, let’s get back to Shojo, Kini, and the Hordeling and find out what’s going on in Animal Crossing.

GAME NEWS

Summer Update Wave 1:

Summer Update Wave 2: (coming early August)

Discord to coordinate turnips, shooting stars, event gatherings, etc

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Shojo: Twitter= ShojoAIE, Instagram= shojo_aie, Discord= Shojobeat

Dankinia: I can be found on twitter @Dankinia and on Twitch.tv/dankinia where I stream the ESO MFN and Noob Raid.

Hordling: You can find me on the Fert Discord as Rhi (thehordling) usually stalking for turnips and very rarely on Twitter @thehordling

If you have a question or comment about our show, you can email us at [email protected]. You can also follow us on Twitter. The show is at @aiepodcast. Mew is at @themewkow, Mkallah is at @cyberwaif,and Tetsemi is at @ivorytiger. We record live with video every other Sunday at 8pm Eastern/5pm Pacific. You can join the chatroom and play along with us on our website at https://aie-guild.org/podcast-live-stream/ and our Discord server for chat at https://aie-guild.info/discord . Our theme was composed by the amazing Andrew Allen, follow him at @keyswithsoul! or visit his website http://andrewallenmusic.com/

And now it’s time to play all of the great AIE member segment we received this week, including…

Tetsemi: Next time, we’ll be talking to Guest in Game. So until then, AIE…

– This is Tetsemi

Tetsemi: And this has been… The AIE Podcast.

On this episode of The AIE Podcast…

Mkallah: Where to start was a HUGE success!

Tetsemi: Sundae Fundae is coming your way

Mewkow: The Swoop Rally is coming our way

Mkallah: What are these strange new golems?

Tetsemi: and, we have Maellung here to talk AIE in LOTR!

All that and more coming up right now…

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Ok, we’ll be digging into LOTRO shortly, but first, let’s cover this week’s news…

AIE News

Community

Where the fun is mandatory but the attendance is not.

Sunday – WoW Classic 2 pm Eastern

AIE ‘Where to Start’ Streaming Event

And, a big AIE Thank you to Marcus and Fezgig for organizing this weekend of great content!

AIE Streaming Event Links (Will be updated with Youtube links when available)

AIE TownHall – MaxTheGrey

AIE WoW (Alliance) – Fezgig and MarcusB814

AIEGuild Wars 2 – Corley

AIE SWTOR – MarcusB814

AIE The Division 2 – TheDurus

AIE Fallout 76 – Mewkow

AIE WoW (Horde) – Syreyne

AIE LOTR – Maellung and MarcusB814

AIE FFXIV – Abovan

AIE STO – Dent

AIE Jedi Fallen Order – MarcusB814

Streaming and guild podcast news

Charles posted a bunch of timey wimey timeliney stuff this week so we cover that and more on this episode of The Escape Pod Cast for Star Wars The Old Republic with @AIESema, @MaxTheGrey and Astromech EPC-343.

Working Class Nerds

Nick and Marcus sit down and record the show LIVE on Twitch.tv/marcusb814 and talk about why they love the games and activities that they do, plus discuss what they’ve been doing in gaming for the past week or so.

NOMADS

The Iron Banner is returning and has some new rewards. It will run from June 30th to July 7th. Note that skill-based matchmaking is disabled this season. Good luck, Guardians.

The sixth straight month of Twitch rewards for the game are available. Link your Twitch and Bungie accounts to claim your rewards: https://twitch.amazon.com/prime/loot/destiny2

Other news, and highlights from the past week at Bungie can be found at https://www.bungie.net/en/Explore/Detail/News/49294

Some are choosing to focus on completing content that will be destined for the “content vault,” and may not be seen again for quite some time as the game moves into its new content model. Destinations and content contained within Io, Titan, Mercury, Mars and Leviathan will be among the first things to be archived. Now is a good time to wrap up your experiences with these locations.

Remember to check out the public discord’s #destiny2 channel for clan activity.

The Division 2

Season 2 is live and the first Manhunt target is active. Roadmap follows:

The “Where to Start” Streaming event session for Division 2 happened last night and was broadcast via the game community’s and theDurus’ twitch channels. It showcased a starting character’s experience as they first entered the DC area, explained game systems, and talked about the story.

Should you be picking up the game, there is a friend referral program. Make sure to contact a vet player of the game so you both can receive some rewards: https://www.ubisoft.com/en-us/game/the-division/the-division-2/friend-referral

If you’d like to join the Clan please contact @Durus in discord, or use the #lfo channel in the public discord. The game is discussed in the #thedivision2 channel. There is currently a general inquiry for those still playing to see if a fun night can be established to get some playtime together.

Diablo 3/4

https://us.diablo3.com/en/blog/23428368/season-21-trials-of-tempests-begins-july-3-6-4-2020

The latest Diablo 4 quarterly update is available at https://news.blizzard.com/en-us/diablo4/23463858/diablo-iv-quarterly-update-june-2020

* This is a good read and talks about the new open world of Sanctuary as well team playtesting experiences.

If you’ll be diving back into the game for the new Season, look for an invite to the clan and community in the public Discord’s #lfo channel.

WoW

Also tune in July 8th for a Shadowlands Update

WoW Classic

Scoop out a little time from your schedule, and level up with us in WoW Classic!

Whether you’re just starting out and sprinkling through starter quests, or adding the cherry on top of a max level 60… Everyone is invited to join us for an old fashioned social hour in game and Discord!

SWTOR

This month’s MEGA was extra special as Marcus and Fezgig took part in the AIE “Where to Start” Streaming Weekend. Marcus streamed SWTOR character creation and beginning play for a Nautolan marauder with tips and tricks for gameplay while Fezgig created a new character and played along. Together, Marcus and Fezgig put together a whole weekend of streaming for the guild that was truly epic.

Coming up this Friday will be Maellung’s Master Mode Flashpoints for the Aratech Ice mount. Come knock out a couple Flashpoints toward this achievement and have some fun.

In game news, the All Worlds Ultimate Swoop Rally starts this week and we will definitely be checking out this new event. There will be new reps to gain, and new mounts, titles, and achievements to earn!

ESO

As part of the antiquities system in addition to treasure you can sell for gold and furnishings, you can get the very cool looking Ebon Dwarven Wolf Mount. The mount requires 17 different pieces and the lead for each piece drops in specific locations. Throughout the last week, people have been grouping up in discord to farm the leads together so if you are after the mount, feel free to request help in discord or guild chat or watch for others to say they are going on a farming run.

FFXIV

Remember the Goblin Server, in the Crystal Data Center, is a preferred server which means you get the Road to 70 XP buff on new characters created on Goblin.

As always, please join the #ffxiv channel in AIE Discord and see the MNF list for all our in game activities.

Ongoing events in game

18-May till Patch Day 5.3 (unannounced)

02-Jul through 27-Jul

Speak with Havak Alvak of the Mythril Eye to learn where these strange new golems may be found.

* Please note that seasonal quests cannot be completed after the event has concluded.

Collect the Thug’s Mug head piece glamour, the Windup Brickman minion, and the King Slime Crown, also a head piece glamour.

STO

And with that, let’s get back to Maellung and find out what’s going on in LOTRO.

GAME NEWS

PVMP is going well; check in on Saturday evenings for Freep hunting (8 PM Eastern)! Wells of Langflood is a new level 130 region, or you can continue to Dwarf-holds quest lines

REDEEM Code – LOTROFREEQUESTS

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If you have a question or comment about our show, you can email us at [email protected]. You can also follow us on Twitter. The show is at @aiepodcast. Mew is at @themewkow, Mkallah is at @cyberwaif,and Tetsemi is at @ivorytiger. We record live with video every other Sunday at 8pm Eastern/5pm Pacific. You can join the chatroom and play along with us on our website at https://aie-guild.org/podcast-live-stream/ and our Discord server for chat at https://aie-guild.info/discord . Our theme was composed by the amazing Andrew Allen, follow him at @keyswithsoul! or visit his website http://andrewallenmusic.com/

And now it’s time to play all of the great AIE member segments we received this week, including…

Next time, we’ll be talking to Shojobeat, Dankinia, and The Hordeling in Animal Crossing. So until then, AIE…

– This is Mewkow

And this has been… The AIE Podcast.

On this episode of The AIE Podcast…

Mewkow: Get Social in WoW Classic

Tetsemi: Swoop Rally nears

Mkallah: Greymoor gives you more!

Mewkow: Things are getting ridiculous on Goblin

Tetsemi: And, we have Marcus and Fezgig here to talk about the AIE where to start event!

All that and more coming up right now…

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Ok, we’ll be digging into the Where to Start event shortly, but first, let’s cover this week’s news…

AIE News

Community

Where the fun is mandatory but the attendance is not.

Sunday – STO 8:30 pm Eastern

Streaming and guild podcast news

The Escape Pod Cast

SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 342: What Sema Does In The Shadows

This week we find out what Sema does in the shadows, which mostly consists of super-fast, stealth heroics.

SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 341: CZ The Day

This week we walk through some speed run tips to get all your weekly conquest from CZ-198 in about 10 min.

Working Class Nerds

Episode 75: AIE’s Where To Start Event!

Marcus and Nick chat with fellow AIE officer Fezgig about AIE’s Where to Start event coming up June 27th and 28th! The event’s goal is to walk new players through getting started in the guild’s favorite games. Listen in for details!

NOMADS

No Destiny 3 soon, instead devs will be transforming Destiny 2. Read more about “Building a Viable Future in Destiny 2” at https://www.bungie.net/en/Explore/Detail/News/49189

That’s the Destiny buzz to be sure. Restructure of the game content is coming to fix some progression issues and better structure the game for future expansions.

Our AIE Destiny crew is excited in general and a handful of people have jumped back in recent and are checking out gear updates, etc.

Anyone interested should jump in that Destiny channel and say hi. The Clan is still open for invites as well.

There’s over 90 accounts attached to the clan right now but we can make room as needed too.

Diablo III

Division 2

Season 2 to start 23rd June, new raid on 30th June.

WoW

WoW Classic

Whether you’re just starting out and sprinkling through starter quests,

Everyone is invited to join us for an old fashioned social hour in game and Discord!

Vanilla Sundae Fundays begin this Sunday, June 21st at 2pm Server Time, and every Sunday after!

And if you’re part of AIE in WoW Classic and are interested in raiding with our friends from United Orgrimmar on Sunday evenings, please contact Chrisi or Deadkrumpet!

They can answer any questions you might have about raiding, attunement, or gearing up in general. We have had eight AIE guildies raid with United Orgrimmar to take on Molten Core!

SWTOR

Near the end of the month, we will be getting The All Worlds Ultimate Swoop Rally. This event will take place on multiple planets and will include rewards of new mounts, outfits, titles, and pets. In this racing event, you have to impress the crowds, blow up things, and avoid snares.

We are also not-so-patiently waiting for word from Bioware about when the Nar Shaddaa Nightlife Event will return. It is likely to be in July–fingers crossed! Since we got a chance to see it on the public test server, we know that there are new missions and new rewards to achieve.

ESO

As part of the antiquities system in addition to treasure you can sell for gold and furnishings, you can get the very cool looking Ebon Dwarven Wolf Mount. The mount requires 17 different pieces and the lead for each piece drops in specific locations. Throughout the last week, people have been grouping up in discord to farm the leads together so if you are after the mount, feel free to request help in discord or guild chat or watch for others to say they are going on a farming run.

FFXIV

Goblin, the server that AIE is on, remains the only server in the Crystal Data Center in the preferred status. This means you will get the road to 70 buff, giving you a ridiculous XP bonus as you level a new character to level 70 on ANY job.

The next patch will be dropping soon, patch 5.3. We don’t have an exact date, but mid July is the current estimate. This patch will include the streamlining of the ARR questline. In the meantime, the super helpful AIE membership will be happy to help new players though the questlines and dungeons. Fun Nights are a great night to get this help, but there are helpful members online at all hours now to assist newer folks though their Main Story Questline.

In Raid news, there is a proposed schedule change to the NOD raid team. The poll is up on the raid discord. Don’t have access or want to join or even start up your own team? Ask Abovan or Durus for assistance. And remember, you do not need to be an officer in any capacity to organize your own raid team in AIE!

LOTRO

STO

And with that, let’s get back to Marcus and Fezgig and find out what’s going on with the AIE Where to Start Event!.

GAME NEWS

Come join a kick start walkthrough of the myriad of games that make up the AIE gaming community!

Join game officers as they live stream walkthroughs of the MMO games that are the core of AIE! Elder Scrolls Online, World of Warcraft, Guild Wars 2, Star Wars The Old Republic, The Division 2, Lord of The Rings Online, Final Fantasy XIV, and Star Trek Online

If you have ever found yourself wanting to try a new game but were avoiding the time commitment and possible frustration of learning the ins and outs, then this event is for you.

When: Friday June 26th, Saturday June 27th, and Sunday June 28th

Your game instructors will walk you through:

Not a member of the AIE gaming community? No problem. We welcome everyone to come hop in the discord channel and watch, listen, and ask questions about the games.

Not able to make the live event? No problem, we will be recording the sessions and posting for view on-demand.

Have kids that would like to watch? No problem. The AIE community works very hard to maintain a family friendly environment and we welcome all ages to come and participate!

Friday, Jun 26th

ESO 9pm-10pm

Saturday, June 27th

WoW- 4pm-6pm

GW2- 6pm-8pm

SWTOR 8pm-10pm

The Division 2 10pm-12am midnight

Sunday, June 28th

LOTR- 2pm-4pm sun afternoon

WoW- 4pm-6pm

FFXIV 6pm-8pm

STO- 8pm-10pm

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Fezgig on Twitter: @fezgig1

If you have a question or comment about our show, you can email us at [email protected]. You can also follow us on Twitter. The show is at @aiepodcast. Mew is at @themewkow. mkallah is at @cyberwaif,and tetsemi is at @ivorytiger. We record live with video every other Sunday at 8pm Eastern/5pm Pacific. You can join the chatroom and play along with us on our website at https://aie-guild.org/podcast-live-stream/ and our Discord server for chat at https://aie-guild.info/discord . Our theme was composed by the amazing Andrew Allen, follow him at @keyswithsoul! or visit his website http://andrewallenmusic.com/

And now it’s time to play all of the great AIE member segment we received this week, including…

Next time, we’ll be talking to Maellung in LOTR So until then, AIE…

– This is Mkallah

And this has been… The AIE Podcast.

On this episode of The AIE Podcast…

Mkallah: Where do we start?

Mewkow: June is wedding season, at least virtually

Tetsemi: Help your guildies get a cute new pet!

Mkallah: Now, that’s what I call Swoop Racing!

Mewkow: And, we are our own guests!

All that and more coming up right now…

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Ok, we’ll be digging into AIE in all the Games shortly, but first, let’s cover this week’s news…

AIE News

Community

We will be showcasing all of AIE’s games over the course of one weekend.

We will start Friday night with ESO’s MFN. Then followed by a guild town hall.

Then starting Sat June 27th at 4pm we will be streaming a game every 2 hours til Midnight. It will all be in discord live.

Then start Sunday again at the same time.

All games will be open for all to join in.

The games will all start at level 1 and help walk players through character creation and walk through the opening areas.

This event will be one for the record books. So don’t miss it!!!

Time slots will be finalized over the next week.

Mandatory Fun Nights

Where the fun is mandatory but the attendance is not.

Sunday – STO 8:30 pm Eastern

Streaming and Guild Podcast News

The Swoop Bike Racing event is in testing on the PTS so it’s time for a test drive.

SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 340: Nightlife Daily

This week we check out the latest additions to the Nightlife event on the PTS.

Working Class Nerds

Marcus and Nick are joined this week by Katerina and Venarros to chat about their newfound obsession with Call of Duty: Modern Warfare!

NOMADS

Diablo 3

* The Nomads clan and AIE community are open for anyone who would like to join. Just ask for an invite in the AIE discord’s #lfo channel.

Division 2

* News about Season 2 will be released next week during the next State of the Game stream.

* AIE activity in the game continues to be light and casual. Tune in June 27th from 10AM to midnight for the AIE Livestreaming event when Durus will be walking us through the game and its story and features.

Destiny 2

– Links to the videos on the deep dives of Season 11 including the reaction to security and cheats as well as reload perks and the world loot pool.

– Make sure to pick up the latest twitch loot for your prime membership.

– Some seasonal triumphs will no longer be available after June 9th. Get them now!

* AIE activity continues to be light, but make sure to look in the shiny new Destiny 2 text and voice channels in the AIE discord to meet up with fellow Guardians.

WoW

We are still looking for volunteers to help. They can contact either Syreyne or Gusty.

Noob Raid is still going strong and running with two groups.

WoW Virtus (Alliance) continues to welcome new members daily (392 characters). Hell Froze Over raid team is 9/12 in Ny’alotha Normal. They had 26 people in raid They have been extending lockout on the first 3 bosses, downed Il’gynoth on the second attempt, and have one-shot Ra-den. They are starting discussion of creating a second raid team . So, whatever class you play, you are welcome to come join. June raid calendar invites are out.

WoW – Virtus (alliance). June 6th, we are doing Battle of Dazar’alor (Normal) for the guild achievement at 12pm ET. As always we welcome cross-realm and no ilvl requirements for this run.

WoW Classic

Both have been welcoming to new members, offering general assistance, and are encouraging our higher level AIE guildies to get attuned and ready for raiding with our friends in United Orgrimmar.

Together Chrisi and Deadkrumpet are shining examples of what it means to be part of Alea Iacta Est!

SWTOR

Double XP continues until mid-June. If there is an extension in the works, we have not heard about it yet.

MEGA in May was a datacron crawl and Marcus managed to lead us to a ton of datacrons in one evening. June Mega will be in conjunction with “AIE’s Where to Start Event”

MFN visited Scum and Villainy this week, which is one of the game’s longest operations. We cleared 4 bosses and now have 2 left. Since we don’t have lockout extensions, BC will organize a small group to go in early on the day we plan to go back to clear a couple bosses so that the MFN group can knock out the rest and get achievements for the last two bosses.

Friday night MM runs have happened on two Friday nights so far for people to work on the Aratech Ice speeder achievement. This will continue to run every two weeks or so until people all get their speeders and will then continue on the Pub side if there is interest for that.

Grats to our newest Operations team, WtC-? (Where’s the Cantina?), which now has a full roster. They meet on Monday nights on the pub side.

ESO

For next Friday’s MFN, we plan to do a zone clear in the overland area Western Skyrim. We will grab the Skyshards, clear the delves and public dungeons, kill the world bosses, and deal with a ritual site or two as a group. The following week we will do the same in Blackreach as well as go back to the overland area to get anything we might not have had time for the following week.

FFXIV

We currently have 2 in-game events happening at this time.

The first is the Moogle Treasure Trove. This event focuses on group content, such as MSQ dungeons, 24-player raids required for the current relic weapon, and some other seldom queued events like Rival Wings. Running this content will reward you with the normal rewards plus irregular tomestones that can be used to purchase mounts, orchestral rolls, minions, and limited time cosmetic gear. Each major city has an “Itinerant Moogle” to sell you these items. This event will run until the launch of Patch 5.3.

The other event is the FFXI crossover event, The Maiden’s Rhapsody. This story based event will follow the adventures of an oddly dressed adventurer. Rewards for this event is a cosmetic set that resembles a gear set from FFXI. This event will run from now to June 22nd.

In game, we still have the many, many weekly events. The Mandatory Fun Nights are Monday at 11pm EST, Wednesday night at 9:00pm EST. The Tuesday night “Cool and Casual” raid night, which is normally an all-request legacy raid night, happens on Tuesday at 9:30pm EST. If you have a raid request to submit, please let an FFXIV officer know prior to the raid.

Thursday is our raid team’s raid night, “Noobs on Demand” or NOD. We have started to dip our toes into the savage and extreme content. There are still slots available for the raid team and interested parties can speak with a FFXIV officer for more details. Note that the raid team is separate from AIE, but it just so happens that most of the FFXIV officers are on this team.

Thank you to all of the current FFXIV players in AIE. We would not have been able to create this great community without all of you, so thank you! So, thank you, stay safe, and remember to stretch before displaying your epic /nod skills.

EVE

STO

We are currently in the middle of a Red Alert week. All the Red Alerts are available to run. If you do it 5 times, a reward of a universal upgrade token will be yours.

The next event campaign will be starting next week, The No Win Scenario. By completing this event daily, you can work towards receiving a T6 ship token or 1000 Lobi Crystals.

GW2

GW2

And with that, we have some round table questions!

GAME NEWS

Mkallah- Pamela’s Doll

Favorite Game Mechanic?

Mkallah- saturday game- changing the spell based on the character

Favorite Thematic Class or Race Idea?

Mkallah- I like the idea of the forsaken, and would totally be one, except for the cannibalism!

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If you have a question or comment about our show, you can email us at [email protected]. You can also follow us on Twitter. The show is at @aiepodcast. Mew is at @theMewkow.Mkallah is at @cyberwaif,and Tetsemi is at @ivorytiger. We record live with video every other Sunday at 8pm Eastern/5pm Pacific. You can join the chatroom and play along with us on our website at https://aie-guild.org/podcast-live-stream/ and our Discord server for chat at https://aie-guild.info/discord . Our theme was composed by the amazing Andrew Allen, follow him at @keyswithsoul! or visit his website http://andrewallenmusic.com/

And now it’s time to play all of the great AIE member segment we received this week, including…

Next time, we’ll be talking to Marcus and Fezgig about AIE’s Where To Start Event! So until then, AIE…

– This is Tetsemi

And this has been… The AIE Podcast.