Alea Iacta Est

On this episode of The AIE Podcast…

Mkallah: THIS is what happened to all of those Left Sharks!

Tetsemi: Mega May is on the way!

Mewkow: Reflections in Crystal is slightly refracted

Mkallah: Hailing frequency are open

Tetsemi: And, we have Abovan and Kelseer 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

Mandatory Fun Nights- no changes to the MFN schedule, but just a reminder, STO is starting in about a half an hour!

Where the fun is mandatory but the attendance is not.

Sunday – STO 8:30 pm Eastern

Streaming and guild podcast news

SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 338: Gotta Keep ‘em Decorated

We had a fun guild event on Tuesday that included playing with some of the more interesting decorations for Strongholds and Guildships.

SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 339: Swoop Test Drive

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

Working Class Nerds

This week’s show Marcus is joined by 2 nightmare raiders. Kogass and Glitch. They discuss Nightmare crystals! Good,Badd, or Ugly. Find your opinion once you have listened to the show!

NOMADS

Destiny 2

The Clan does have openings, and make sure you mention in the #destiny2 channel of discord that you’ve applied and make sure you’re not currently in a clan when submitting an application. Apps can be approved but you will need to drop your current clan to accept the invite.

WoW

Noob Raid is still doing amazing and running two groups.

@Koochikoo-Gustytail and Syreyne are hosting a new event for WoW, both Horde and Alliance.

AIE Adopt-A-Pet Day

Sunday June 7th from 12pm to 5pm ET/Server

Help us! We are being overrun by Void Beetles and Left Sharks, and all the other pets in our menagerie are going crazy! So we have decided to hold an Emergency Pet Adoption Day!

Details will be in the blog. Please help share this across WoW on both sides. We will also be creating guild event posts on the in-game calendar as well.

SWTOR

Friday the 15th was the first meeting of Flashpoint Fun. It’s an opportunity to run the Master Mode Flashpoints needed to achieve the Aratech Ice speeder. Maellung will be running it roughly every two weeks and will continue until everyone has their speeder. It started on the Imperial side, but depending on interest, may run on the Republic side as well.

May’s MEGA is coming up on the 22nd. Marcus is going to lead us in a datacron crawl. He has gotten people stationed at some of the trickier ones so that we can use the flagship to summon people. If you don’t have all your datacrons yet, this will be a great opportunity to fill is some gaps.

Guildie Spicolee has started a new Ops team. They are going to meet on Monday nights (8:30PM to 10:30PM Eastern) on the Republic side. They need one more DPS and then they are ready to roll! The team’s name is WtC-? (Where’s the Cantina?)

The collections unlock sale ends tomorrow!

ESO

For MFN on May 29th we will be going into the new area together. If you plan on joining the fun, and you should, please hold off on doing the starting quests on at least one of your characters.

FFXIV

The old MSQ, the game’s primary quest line that takes you from level 1 to max level and beyond, is being streamlined in the early game, removing about 13% of the game’s fluff quests. The MSQ experience is being revamped to provide all of the experience you need to level from 1-50 on its own. Another big change is to add the mounts to the MSQ (previously a side quest), adding the Crystal Tower Raids (Very Important to the story of Shadowbringers), and arguably the biggest change, flying in the original game lands!

For the FFXIV Vets out there, patch 5.3 will have the next installment of the highly anticipated Dark Apocalypse raid series, The Puppet’s Bunker. This will be a 24-player alliance raid. The next step of the Resistance Weapon upgrade will also be available on this patch. If you are a crafter and have your Skysteel Tool crafting relic, that will also have upgrades available as of this patch as well. A new beast tribe for the dwarves will be available for the crafters of the realm as well. In addition, a mystery trial is also available as part of the MSQ, which is FFXIV speak for “Spoilers, sweetie.”

We have a lot of community news today, which we will go over in a few!

STO

EVE

LOTRO

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

GAME NEWS

Thursday, not an AIE event, but our first raid team is off the ground running, Noobs on Demand (NoD). Look for updates in the raid updates channel.

Saturday night map nights! Very popular event where we run maps!

Late Night Fish Club. Most nights, we have a handful of us doing the ocean fishing events at 2am EST.

The FC Crafting Projects are underway to create Airships and Submarines for run missions for the FC. Some of the potential rewards are tier 3 buffs for the FC, pets, and mounts that are only acquirable via the exploration missions. The crafting logs are posted to the website periodically for interested parties.

One of the rewards that the airships and subs bring back often are crafting shards, crystals, and clusters. These items can be provided to AIE membership at 10% under the market value. See an AIE officer for details.

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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 Someone about Something! So until then, AIE…

– This is Mewkow

And this has been… The AIE Podcast.

On this episode of The AIE Podcast…

Mewkow: The Shadow Tide marches on

Tetsemi: Impromptu Volunteer Guard Day was a success, with a few casualties

Mkallah: Oh boy, do we have some Conquest Points

Mewkow: Noobs, now on demand

Tetsemi: And speaking of Noobs, the Floor Tank herself, Dankinia, is here to talk to us about AIE in ESO!

All that and more coming up right now…

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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 – STO 8:30 pm Eastern

Streaming and guild podcast news

6.1.1 is live and it’s a game changer, for conquest at least. We’ve brought on our resident conquest leader and expert, Bcavanagh, to walk us through it.

SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 337: Life In 6.1.1

This episode we talk all about life in the new 6.1.1 reality, along with news, guild activity highlights more this week from @AIESema, @MaxTheGrey and Astromech EPC-337

Working Class Nerds

Episode 72: Jackie Cao of Gearbox Software

Marcus and Nick chat with a friend of the show and game developer at Gearbox Software, Jackie Cao! They chat about what it’s like having to develop games

NOMADS

Title Update 9 went live last week, and to celebrate: anyone who logs in before May 5 will receive a backpack trophy “Soda” and 3 Apparel Cache keys. This update features the exotic items reconfiguration that will allow you to “level up” your old exotics to current gear levels, and many bug fixes. Full notes are available at https://forums.ubisoft.com/showthread.php/2218056-Title-Update-9-Patch-Notes

There is also a free trial for the Division 2, playable for 8 hours up to level 8. Any progress made during the trial will be carried forward if the full game is purchased. Reach out to anyone in the AIE clan for friend referrals as well.

Clan activity has been low. I encourage members to reach out in the community discord’s #thedivision2 chat channel to arrange nights for play or ask for help.

Diablo 3

Much of the news with Diablo is centered on the franchise’s heavily anticipated Diablo IV. In February, Blizzard began quarterly updates on this title. The first is available at https://news.blizzard.com/en-us/diablo4/23308274/diablo-iv-quarterly-update-february-2020

Destiny 2

Bungie is partnering with Direct Relief once more in the Guardian Heart’s campaign to aid in the fight against COVID-19. For those who would like more information about this campaign: https://www.bungie.net/en/Explore/Detail/News/48946

Remember you can also play much of Destiny 2 for free with Destiny 2: New Light. Access to much of the game and all its first 2 year pass campaigns and activities are available for free with some restrictions on content in the latest Shadowkeep expansion. Join for free and receive more information on this program at https://www.bungie.net/7/en/Destiny/NewLight

There are a few AIE members carrying on the fight in Destiny 2. Reach out to them to arrange playtimes and ask for help in the community discord’s #destiny2 channel. You may submit an application to join the clan at https://www.bungie.net/en/ClanV2?groupid=2122972

Officers are always available and paying attention in the #lfo channel. Don’t hesitate to shout out there for app approvals in any AIE game.

WoW

Invictus is the new co-guild for invites on the Horde side. Just use the in game guild finder to search for Alea Iacta Est and apply. Just a reminder, once your application is approved, you won’t get an in game notification, so make sure you go back to the Communities panel (J) and accept your invite.

Fezgig is the new officer. Come learn more about the newest AIE Officer here https://aie-guild.org/blog/2020/04/new-aie-officer-fezgig/ and make sure you listen to Episode 341 as well.

Officer spotlight article on Syreyne https://aie-guild.org/blog/2020/05/meet-an-aie-officer-syreyne-edition/ keep an eye out on the blog as more interviews are on the way!

Alliance guild is over 300 members!

Dankinia – Noob Raid has had 45-50 people attending the last few weeks so we have been running two groups with myself leading one, Syrene leading the other, and Gijora jumping back and forth as needed. It’s been a lot of fun and we tend to get 4-5 bosses down every Saturday night. If you would like to join us, there is no item level requirement. Just be in guild chat a little before 11pm est and watch for me to announce that invites are going out.

SWTOR

The public test server is currently up, so people can work on testing the new Master Mode version of the current Operation, The Nature of Progress.

MFN still meets on Tuesdays at 9PM Eastern. This week we will be celebrating and opening the remaining rooms on both flagships. Also, BC has some fun things planned for the future. May’s MEGA will be a datacron crawl and will be on the 22nd. Now is a good time to jump into the game because we have a double XP event going on until mid June.

And last, but not least, May the 4th is Looci’s birthday as well as the birthday of guildie Racevan’s son! May the force be with us all.

STO

There is currently a double XP event going on.

Next week they will be running another event for a few weeks to work towards either a tier 6 ship or 1000 lobi crystals.

FFXIV

Tuesday night casual raid nights have been getting a lot of traction, with older raids being requested and fulfilled. Special Extreme mounts are also common activities, getting cool and unique mounts for all attendees.

Thursday night “Noobs on Demand” (NoD) is looking to start up this week. Look for updates on their successes in the raid activity channel.

Goblin, the server that AIE plays on is once again a Preferred Server. Many new players are starting up on our server, so plenty of new folks to adventure alongside with, since new characters will get the “road to 70 buff” giving you a MASSIVE xp bonus on all jobs under 70. So now is a great time to start up FFXIV with AIE. Drop by the #ffxiv channel for any questions or to meet the many AIE players of Final Fantasy XIV.

EVE

LOTRO

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

GAME NEWS

One of the new systems that will be launched alongside Greymoor is the antiquities system. You join the Antiquarians Circle in the city of Solitude in Western Skyrim which will walk you through a tutorial quest explaining how the system works. The system will have two mini games and skill lines to go with them. There will be a variety of items you can get such as Mythic equipment, treasure to sell, motifs, furnishings, and a mount.

As usual, the Friday after the new chapter launches our MFN will be spent exploring the new zone together and maybe checking out the new Antiquities system. Our recent MFN activities have been random dungeon runs and public dungeon clears. Also one of our members, Thuggs, has created a course he calls “Golden Lessons” to provide tips and tricks to gold making in game.

Also ask Mew and Kini about Fallout 76

Wastelanders is here.

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I can be found on Twitter at Dankinia and if you want to check out the Mandatory Fun in ESO, or see Noob Raid kill boss bosses, I live stream both events on my twitch channel. https://twitch.tv/dankinia

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…

Mkallah: 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: Does anyone have good turnip prices?

Mewkow: Greymore is on the horizons

Tetsemi: Thursdays are getting extreme

Mkallah: Fleet Night is ready, set, go

Mewkow: And Syreyne and Fezgig are here to talk about AIE in World of Warcraft

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

Mandatory Fun Nights

Where the fun is mandatory but the attendance is not.

Sunday – STO 8:30 pm Eastern

Streaming and guild podcast news

SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 334: Scoundrel? I Like The Sound Of That

Last week we decided there aren’t enough scoundrels in our lives so we’ve decided to roll a couple.

SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 335: Amazing Race

This week we deliver an event walk-through and behind the scenes planning breakdown of our recent Amazing Race guild event.

Working Class Nerds

Episode 70: Nick Danger!

While Nick is on the front lines fighting Covid-19. Marcus is joined by a good friend to Co-Host the show!

Episode 71: “Sith Lord Britt Take 2!”

Nick is Back! Sith Lord Britt is back! Marcus well…. He didn’t go anywhere. Working Class Nerds is ready to dive into Swtor’s big dev post and discuss some other fun things.

NOMADS

Check out the Animal Crossing channel in Discord where we chat about turnip prices, who’s island has what stock in their shops, and social gathering in game on our various islands.

Lanc did a ACNH happy hour last night and was in channel along with Dankinia. Keep an eye out for future events, the #animal-crossing channel is hopping with ACNH questions and discussion.

Wasterlanders launched this week, and is a dramatic improvement on the game. We have actual Human NPCs finally, storylines, dialog choices, and just a general feeling of ‘Hey, this is a Fallout game’.

Division 2

Diablo 3

There’s more than a handful of folks who love to dive into each season and are willing to help you get started and knock off the season’s achievements and help you earn rewards. Seek them out in the nomad’s channel in discord.

Destiny 2

The new season in Destiny 2 is called “Season of the Worthy” and lasts through June 9th.

Speaking of Steam, we do have an AIE Steam Group. It doesn’t get a lot of use given the community’s discord. However, if you’re more Steamy than Discordy, check it out.

WoW

https://www.wowhead.com/news=312138/exalt-in-the-impressive-influence-100-bonus-reputation-buff-april-20-may-18

WoW Classic

Zul Gurub (20 man, resets every 3 days, gear is raid-ish with a new reputation and a lot of class items to get) is out, and Silithus is being retaken by Cenarion Hold (Elf/Druids, new reputation), giving quite a lot of new things to farm

SWTOR

This Tuesday, 6.1.1 will drop. It will mark the start of a double XP event that will run for a month. Time to roll up that assassin you’ve been dreaming about. What’s not to love about striking out from the shadows with your double-bladed light saber!

Along with double xp will come some Conquest quality of life changes (more ways for instant travel!), class changes, and as host of bug fixes.

Next week also brings Bounty Contract Week and MFN will be on the Republic side.

On April 10th, Corley conducted our version of The Amazing Race for our April MEGA. It was a ton of fun and very well attended. Many thanks to everyone who helped out and attended! May Mega will be a Datacron hunt.

ESO

Greymoor, the next chapter (expansion) of ESO comes out on May 18th for PC. The new area will be familiar, yet different for anyone who played Skyrim. We will be visiting Western Skyrim, but much earlier in the timeline then we saw in TES: V Skyrim game. The expansion will also take us into the depths of Blackreach. A massive underground realm that the prologue quests we recently did just touched on.

MFN is Friday night at 9pm est. Join us for an escape from reality with friends while we run dungeons, clear zones, and laugh when Kini fall off cliffs.

FFXIV

Map Nights are still a major highlight, as we are fielding 2+ full groups for maps, excitement, and pockets lined with Gil. Anyone level 80+ is welcome to join in and bringing maps is not required, but highly appreciated. Map nights are Saturday Nights, 9:30pm EST. We coordinate via Discord Voice in the AIE FFXIV channel and we form up the groups in front of the AIE FC house. See you there, treasure hunters! (And bring those Skittles!)

Tuesday Night’s Fun Night is still going as a legacy raid night. Last week we completed most of Alexander Normal, completing The Father and Son Wings (Encounters A1N [Alex 1 Normal] to A18N [Alex 8 Normal]) on Tuesday night with some spill over to Friday night finishing off the Creator Wing (A9N – A12N). Alexander was the 8 player raid of the Heavensward Expansion, level 60. It’s a great story, with some great encounters. We hope to see you at the next Fun Night on Tuesday at 9:30pm EST. We gather up in the AIE FFXIV Voice Discord. Also, don’t forget, legacy raids are a great way to farm up some poetics, which end game folks could use to get some relic weapons, just sayin’.

Thursday nights are Extreme Night, where we strive to do more challenging content. These past couple of weeks we have been going into Eden Normals to assist in gearing up and to get comfortable with some of the mechanics that may be presented to us in Savage modes. We strongly encourage signups for this event, as the Savage content is not for the faint of heart. Please speak with Abovan or Durus for details on this raid team and access to the Raid Discord.

Looking for something that can only be purchased with FC credits to really hit the spot on your apartment, house, or FC room? Well then, speak to an officer to buy it for you. For a donation to the FC vault of 10Gil per FC point, you can have the FC purchase the item on your behalf. The gil goes right back into the FC vault to finance guild events.

The FC airships and submarines are in full force, bringing back tons of items for the FC to use. To see what they are bringing back, check out the blog posts on aie-guild.org.

That’s all for now, and enjoy your adventures in AIE and in Eorzea!

STO

There is a Fleet Night tonight at 8:30 PM Eastern.

The First Contact Event is still going on. This finishes up on April 30th. The new patrol for the event has a few neat easter eggs in it.

There is a free Medical Pack giveaway going on to honor all the RL healers of the world. The pack includes a new vanity shield that gives your starship a nice white and red look, a new Admiralty card, the USS Hope and special EMH. The Klingons get a female Orion EMH, while Starfleet gets a Dr. Bashir EMH.

Finally, we are still making progress on our Spire, Embassy and K-13 projects.

LOTRO

On Sat. April 25th SNL will be at a special time. It will be 9-11 eastern or 8-10 Max time. On the 25th we will be doing PvMP. For more details check the blog post or message Maellung Arrowshield on discord.

All instances, skirmishes and quest are still Free to Play until the 30th

LotRO This Saturday, We Are The Rising Shadow

And with that, let’s get back to Syreyne and Fezgig and find out what’s going on in WoW.

GAME NEWS

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Sy: Horde side is going great! We have a lot of raid teams pushing AotC and mythic. And we’ve had some raid teams coming back! Shout out to Filthy Casuals!. Speaking of them, Gusty has teamed up with some of their leadership to come up with an idea! The XP boost is great for leveling allied races right now, so they are asking people to group up together in guild chat, call it Filthy Leveling, and get those alts to 120 before Shadowlands.

Our current co-guild is Comitas, but we’re getting close to 500 in there. Once we do, we’ll be picking a new co-guild to set up for invites. Keep an eye in discord over the next few weeks for an announcement when that change happens.

Last weekend we had a FIRST in WoW in a long time!!! Noob raid ran TWO raid groups at the same time! Team One with Kini got 4 bosses down and Team Alpha with Sy (that’s me!) got 3 bosses down. So really, Noob got 7 bosses last week. We had about 40 people. Last night we killed 8 bosses and had 42 people!

Fez: Alliance side AIE Virtus celebrated it’s 1-year anniversary in March, with over 290 characters.

Recruiting: New people/alts joining just about everyday. It’s interesting how many AIE horde side are still unaware of the Ally team.

Hell Froze Over (HFO) raid team: Full 20 on Friday night – Normal Ny’alotha. Wrathion’s RNG gave us a little grief, then we finished off strong with one-shots Prophet, Maut, Dark Inquisitor, Hivemind. Took a couple of attempts at Ra-Den – team learning strat. People are still getting gear so we are continuing fresh runs each week. We have never turned anyone wanting to join away. We just ask for a minimum ilvl 410 and rank 1 cloak. We raid Friday night at 8pm-11pm ET and have many cross-realm friends, so all are welcome.

Mention at the End by Sy: Remember you can always find the guild officers in Discord in the #lfo channel or by pinging them @officers. And you can always request WoW guild invites via the in-game system by searching “alea iacta est” on both the Horde and Alliance sides, even if there are no officers online. Just remember, you have to go back to Guilds & Communities (J) to accept the invite once an officer approves it.

And that’s our show for tonight. While the chatroom begins suggesting show titles, we want to thank Syreyne and Fezgig for joining us.

@SyreyneAIE on Twitter

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…

No segments this week, but we are always accepting submissions!

Next time, we’ll be talking to the mistress of floor tanking herself, Kini about AIE in ESO. So until then, AIE…

– This is Tetsemi:

And this has been… The AIE Podcast.

On this episode of The AIE Podcast…

Mkallah: Polarity has hit the switch in Division

Tetsemi: Get your pie throwing arms ready!

Mewkow: Join FFXIV for map nights, and fame, and riches, Oh My

Mkallah: Hobbit days are here again!

Tetsemi: And we have Sema here to talk to us about AIE in SWTOR

All that and more coming up right now…

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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 – STO 8:30 pm Eastern

Streaming and guild podcast news

Our guest, multi-billionaire Thaan, tells us how to make a billion credits!

SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 332: The Rakghoul Galacdemic

We haven’t talked about the Rakghoul event in a while but a plague we can fight with blasters sounds good right now.

Working Class Nerds

The guys are joined by ALL of the members of The Deathstar Troopers! They’re the SWTOR raid team that Marcus runs on Sunday evenings. The roster includes: Dr. Swtor, Ted, Beaux, Slayer, Katerina, Kione, and Ven! They talk about how everyone got started with running operations, and why they all love it so much!

NOMADS

Leagues consist of certain timed challenges that confer ranks for better completion times in missions. These ranks translate into rewards bestowed by claimed crates in the league menu. Collect seasonal items and even an exotic.

This global event that went live last week, “Polarity Switch,” consists of switching between active colors displayed on your character to defeat correspondingly colored mobs in the game. Reward caches are conferred after completing challenges such as “eliminating positive polarity Outcasts,” or other factions, etc.

The next manhunt target, “Venus,” goes live on the 31st, along with the next apparel event, “Urban Jungle.”

Some excitement surrounding the game has died down as it’s been struggling with many bugs and game balance issues — some directly related to the new season’s events. Despite that AIE participation is still reasonably high, averaging 18-20 people online per day.

WoW

BLTN got AoTC

Noob Raid is now 4/12 in Ny’alotha

100% XP, leveling those allied races is crazy!!! People are leveling alts at all stages and looking for people to hang out. (Mechagnomes are so OP!!!)

https://www.wowhead.com/news=311764/patch-8-3-for-alts-guide-how-to-prepare-your-level-120-alts-for-shadowlands?webhook

@Koochikoo-Gustytail trial of style and Filthy Casual Leveling groups reports incoming

Alliance guild is going strong! More and more people are joining and playing on Alliance side.

WoW Classic

* Interested in joining us in WoW Classic? Jump into the AIE Discord – LFO Channel and request an invite. And just a reminder that we do our best to keep character names family friendly. It’s greatly appreciated!

SWTOR

ESO

The Jester’s Festival runs through April 2nd. And starting on April 2nd is the Anniversary Jubilee! ESO is 6 years young this year, come out and bake a cake, enjoy double EXP, and reap the rewards from Daily crafting writs, daily Delve and world boss quests, Daily dungeon quests, and so much more. Added this year is the new Icebreath INDRIK mount and a new armor style.

FFXIV

Fun nights are Tuesday and Thursday at 9:30pm EST.

Tuesdays are casual and legacy content. It is more relaxed and gives a chance for people to see some content that may not be possible solo or something that groups do not normally form for anymore. Last week, we did some Heavensward Bismark, for pony farming!

Thursday, we do more traditional end game raiding. We are currently gearing up via Eden’s Verse. We ask that potential raiders join our raid discord. Raids do have a signup each week.

Saturday, Kelseer is running map nights for fame, riches, and overall fun! Join us at 9:30pm EST Saturday to run 8 player treasure maps. For those not aware, this is a very profitable and very fun and unique game activity.

In the crafting front, we are working on new airship and submarines in the guild workshop, that anyone in the FC can help build. See the AIE website at aie-guild.org for the latest Workshop blog post for the details.

If you are looking to get into the game, the Winter Sale is on for 40% off either just the Shadowbringers expansion or the complete edition from the Square Enix Store. A free demo is also available. If you do pick it up, remember to drop by the #ffxiv channel for a refer-a-friend code for rewards for both of you.

We can’t wait to see you in Eorzea and the First!

LOTRO

Hobnanigans returns next week! Starts on March 31st and runs through April 5th.

The Spring Festival continues through April 13th!

Double Bonus Points are now available! Get double the Bonus Points in the LOTRO Store in-game through April 5th!

Find Your Shadowfax! Get 20% off:

The Weekly Coupon gets you a free Skill and Slayer Deed Boost with the Coupon Code SKILLUPSLAYER, now through April 2nd!

STO

Regular Fleet nights on Sunday nights at 830 pm Eastern starting next week.

Come join us for all the fun and watch Picard and Discovery as CBS All Access is free for the month.

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

GAME NEWS

MFNs continue to rock and roll on Tuesdays at 9PM Eastern. Everyone is welcome. Lots of stuff is level independent, as long as you don’t mind, you know, dying and stuff. For some parts of it, your character might need to be level 50+ or 70+, but come hang out with us in voice while you level.

March MEGA was a World Boss Crawl which is always a lot of fun–good company, romping around the galaxy, and perhaps some progress on that vehicle mission that’s been in your log forever.

Mega!!!

Corley has taken over this month’s mega! He will be bringing back “The Amazing Race!”

Come join in traveling the galaxy with us!!!

Discussion Question:

Several games do or used to do a base class to a certain level (with or without story) and then you unlocked your advanced class. WoW/Classic did this around level 10, SWTOR used to do this around level 10, FFXIV does this at level 30. Do you like this type of advancement and does it make the games more interesting to have it, or do you prefer to just jump in at the start and have the same class to max level?

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

@AIESema

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 Syrene, Beefmaster, and Fezgig in World of Warcraft. So until then, AIE…

– This is Mewkow

And this has been… The AIE Podcast.

On this episode of The AIE Podcast…

Mewkow: congradudolences are in order

Mkallah: New York is filled with Warlords

Tetsemi: Bring out your mats!

Mewkow: Ishgard Restoration Part 2 is a go

Mkallah: And, we are talking with ourselves!

All that and more coming up right now…

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Let’s find out what’s going on in all of the games that AIE plays in!

AIE News

Community

New AIE Officer – Looci

Mandatory Fun Nights

Where the fun is mandatory but the attendance is not.

Sunday – STO 8:30 pm Eastern

Streaming and guild podcast news

Turns out somebody set us up the sets, so we talk all about the new sets and the rest of the 6.1.1 updates on the PTS and detailed in the dev posts this week.

SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 330: The Nature Of Progression

Since we are now Dxun experts we finally talk through all the fights. We also circle back on that discussion of the Veteran’s Edge stack change and its impact on Master Modes.

Working Class Nerds

Marcus and Nick get to hangout with friend of the podcast Kogass! They all discuss what they’ve been playing for games, make fun of Nick for not playing enough SWTOR, and look forward to the newest updates coming to SWTOR

Working Class Nerds

Marcus and Nick sit down with Clickbait’s Rut to talk about how the recent Coronavirus outbreak is affecting our gaming lives!

NOMADS

The level cap has raised to 40 and new content is live with the introduction of seasons to the game’s road map. New seasons will occur every three months and contain rewards and special manhunts for rogue agents that continue the Division story.

The AIE clan is nearly at a full 50 members with many returning players returning to regular nightly play. We’re currently seeing about an average of 20 people online per day since the launch. There is still some room in the Clan, make sure to reach out to us in the AIE public discord if you would like a clan invite or have submitted an in-game app that needs approval.

WoW

WoW Classic

AIEMounts is still running but slowed down.

A guildie in classic at level 7 made a plea for bags so Lars jumped onto his Tailor and made 4 x “Small Silk Pack” for them (lucky the AH had some heavy leather) and delivered it right to them in Mulgore. Was happy to see the request and help out.

STO

Notable in the game event is Battle of the Binary Stars. If you complete this daily 14 times before March 26th, you get a new Universal Kit for you Captain, DOT-7 Drone Fabrication. This allows your captain to create a combat pet while off on away missions to assist you in fighting whatever you encounter. This event also counts towards the new T6 Ship Event Campaign. Over the course of a few Events you earn progress towards getting a choice between:

SWTOR

Last Friday, we had our March MEGA. Marcus led us on a World Boss crawl. It’s like a pub crawl, but with a little more boss killing. Officers posted themselves all over the galaxy so that we could summon the group to each boss. It was great fun. Stay tuned for more info on the next MEGA.

FFXIV

In the next few weeks, the first step of the Shadowbringers relic weapon questline will begin. The “Return to Ivalice” quest series from Stormblood is a prerequisite, so let us know if you want to get a guild run together to get you through it!

GW2

ESO

EVE

LOTRO

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 . 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 well, someone about something! So until then, AIE…

– This is Tetsemi

And this has been… The AIE Podcast.

On this episode of The AIE Podcast…

Tetsemi: Warlords of New York, coming real soon!

Mewkow: The Trial of Style is back

Mkallah: Everything old is new again in Classic

Tetsemi: The most amazing race in the galaxy!

Mewkow: and, we are our own guests!

All that and more coming up right now…

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AIE News

Community

Where the fun is mandatory but the attendance is not.

Sunday – STO 8:30 pm Eastern

Streaming and guild podcast news

SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 326: Secret Shady Merchant

SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 327: Insert Alderaan Pun Here

SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 328: The Beat Goes On

Bioware team interview post, a new community team helper, and a dive into the latest story beat.

Working Class Nerds

Marcus and Nick sit down shortly after recording episode 65 to talk about the two new gaming consoles from Sony and Microsoft… the Playstation 5 and the Xbox Series X!

Episode 66: Project Luminous Revealed!!!

Marcus and Nick talk with friend of the podcast Intisar to talk about the new release of Star Wars content, codenamed Project Luminous. The guys explore and speculate what we might see in The High Republic era!

NOMADS

DLC trailer:

Launch details:

The clan has approached the cap of 50 members but we can always make room. We’ve reached the maximum Clan rank and all perks are available to members of the Clan. Make sure to speak up in the AIE public discord #thedivision2 channel for an invite or approval for a submitted application.

The base game is on sale right now for $3, and the standard DLC expansion costs $29.99. This sale will only last a few more days.

If you are new to the game, talk to us and receive a recruit-a-friend request. We can extend these invites for up to a week after you log in for the first time.

Also of note, the DLC expansion comes with a level 30 boost, so that you don’t have to feel like you are getting left behind as everyone hits NYC.

WoW

Noob Raid runs every Saturday night at 11pm EST and anyone with a level 120 toon is welcome to join in the fun.

Trial of Style is back 3/20-3/24. Gustytail will do guild runs Fri-Sat-Sun at times to be decided.

HFO – Alliance team is recruiting heals and dps. We have been doing current LFR for gear, hoping to move forward in the new raid in the next few weeks. Friday nights from 8pm to 11pm ER Server Time. We are accepting cross-realms!

WoW Classic

* Darkmoon Faire will be in town from March 9th-15th and Arathi Basin is announced as “upcoming”!

* If you have any ideas for in game activities or want to host an event, please contact Nevermore via Discord. She can help answer any questions you might have!

* Interested in joining us in WoW Classic? Jump into the AIE Discord – LFO Channel and request an invite. And just a reminder that we do our best to keep character names family friendly. It’s greatly appreciated!

SWTOR

For this month’s MEGA, Corley is bringing back The Amazing Race! That’s right!! It’s coming back!!! Who wants to race around the galaxy? Join us on March 13th, 9PM Eastern.

We continue to run our MFNs on Tuesday nights. We are currently switching MFN/Conquest focus weekly between Imperial and Republic sides. Because of how Bioware’s event calendar works, that means event weeks always fall on the Imperial side. We are going to introduce a slight stutter to our calendar so that both sides can share equally in the easier Conquest objectives that come with event weeks. As always, it will be posted in the Guild Message of the Day as well as in discord. And failing that, you can always just come into voice at 9PM on a Tuesday and ask!

ESO

For MFN on Friday, we split into two groups to run the new dungeons that were included in the Harrowstorm DLC. Icereach is themed around a coven of evil witches and Unhallowed Grave is themed around evil Necromancers and monsters. Unhallowed Grave also has a “secret” room that you can get to by killing a couple of optional bosses.

For MFN this coming Friday, which is at 9pm EST as usual, we will be splitting up again to run the new dungeons since we only managed to get through one of them this past week due to time constraints.

FFXIV

FFXIV’s raid team, “NoD” has slots open! We’re currently doing extreme trials on Thursdays at 9:30 eastern and more casual content on Tuesdays.

With Patch 5.2, a new raid has been released, Eden’s Verse, along with a new tier of gear from both it and dungeons. Soon, an expansion of crafting content will be released and the first step of the relic weapon for Shadowbringers. Keep an eye in our discord for upcoming events based on the new content!

STO

GW2

LOTRO

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 . 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…

Overly Dramatic News – @HuntsTheWind

Next time, we are going to wrangle Corley into coming on the show!! . So until then, AIE…

– This is Mkallah

And this has been… The AIE Podcast.

On this episode of The AIE Podcast…

Mkallah: AIE in real life- check the Discord

Tetsemi: Raid Teams are progressing

Mewkow: Happy anniversary to STO

Mkallah: Get ready for the fallen star

Tetsemi: And, we have Looci and Marcus who are here to talk to us about AIE in SWTOR

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 – STO 8:30 pm Eastern

Raid Team News/Progression

Better Late than Never is 12/12 Normal and 3/12 Heroic as of 2-8. Looking to add some more heroic kills on Monday night.

Dead on Arrival (DoA) is 8/12 Normal

Behind the Curve is 7/12 Normal

F.E.R.T. is 1/12 Normal

United Orgrimmar Horde Pagle Classic 6/10 MC

Deathstar troopers has been running HM TOS

Streaming and guild podcast news

SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 325: Greetings From Keith

6.1 almost here and we get notes from Keith and Charles on what’s next.

SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 326: Secret Shady Merchant

This week we do a live walk-through of a mission chain to unlock the somewhat secret shady merchant on Mek-Sha

Working Class Nerds

Marcus and Nick sit down with former Bioware game developer and current Gearbox game developer, Jackie Cao!! Jackie worked on Star Wars: The Old Republic for Bioware, and the guys picked his brain and had a fun time!

NOMADS

WoW

Raid finder wing 1 is open

https://www.wowhead.com/news=311073/rank-3-reputation-essences-with-uldum-accord-and-rajani-moved-to-revered

WoW Classic

Blackwing Lair (BWL) is live on Tuesday… so plenty of new content and the new rush to AnQiraj (AQ) farm

SWTOR

FFXIV

5.2, Echoes of a Fallen Star, Release date announced, 18th of Feb.

Patch site has been updated to more than a bullet list… https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/shadowbringers/patch_5_2/

There was a patch feature showing off a fishing trip. There may be some AIE fishing trips in our future.

Duty Commenced NA on Feb 12, tune in for community shenanigans.

Fan Fest announced.

ESO

At the same time the DLC is launched, Update 25 will happen for the base game that will have performance updates, an overhaul to patching, and some fixes and balance changes.

MFN for February 28th will start at 9pm EST as usual and will involve running both of the dungeons as time permits.

STO

EVE

GW2

LOTRO

And with that, let’s get back to Marcus and Looci and find out what’s going on in SWTOR.

GAME NEWS

Marcus- thann was trying to buy trash items to win sema san diego. What a great week.

Everything is awesome!

One of the Devs posted that we will be getting some “crazy stuff” in 2020, so speculation is rife. The most likely ideas are that Darth Malgus will sprout tentacles and come under the power of the Old Gods and we will get Lalafells as a playable race.

If you are a subscriber and have not logged in super recently, hop in and find the Umbaran Patrol Tauntaun in your mailbox. If you are not a subscriber yet, you have til Feb 29th to subscribe and earn this mount.

We’ve had two MFNs since the last AIE podcast including one particularly wild and wooly trip into The Terror from Beyond. We had run out of time for the last fight, but we had some people with us that had never seen it, so we decided to barge in and just take a look. It’s a multi-phase, positioning-heavy battle, so it was more of a lark than anything, but we won anyway! And that was with two healers disconnecting over 9000 times… at least.

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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://keyswithsoul.com !

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

Overly Dramatic News – @HuntsTheWind

Just a programing note, our next show will be in three weeks due to some RL scheduling conflicts. So March 1st, we’ll be talking to Someone in some game. So until then, AIE…

– This is Mewkow

And this has been… The AIE Podcast.

On this episode of The AIE Podcast…

Mewkow: Looking for a Raid Team, we got you covered!

Mkallah: Where in the World is Sema San Diego

Tetsemi: Way down in Harrowstorm

Mewkow: Eve has settled in…. Again

Mkallah: And we have Abovan and Durus

All that and more coming up right now…

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AIE News

Community

Where the fun is mandatory but the attendance is not.

Sunday – STO 8:30 pm Eastern

Streaming and guild podcast news

Class balance coming soon, Alderaan Stronghold updates on the PTS, and we talk about Amplifiers.

Working Class Nerds

Nick and Marcus look ahead to the games their most looking forward to coming out in 2020, and of course recap what they’ve been up to in their gaming lives.

WoW

The new raid opened on Tuesday and a number of raid teams are progressing through it while Blizzard hurriedly fixes in bugs with hotfixes and extended maintenance windows.

If you’re looking for a raid team, make sure you check the #raid-recruitment channel in AIE Discord and if you’re looking for a group to run Horrific visions or the Heroic version of Mechagon, make sure you check the #lfg channel for people looking for groups.

UMAMI applications are no longer a requirement for WoW Retail. We are opening up guild recruitment to the server with the in-game recruitment system. New and current members of AIE can continue to use Discord, aielfo in-game community, as well as the new Blizzard guild recruitment system to request guild invites. We want to thank Stigg for everything he has done with our UMAMI system and Greenwall, and we can’t wait to see what else he has in store for AIE.

AIE’s 13th Anniversary next month and 3rd Annual Ralff’s Amazing Race (details coming soon ™)

SWTOR

Don’t miss the Monthly Epic event!

Our operations teams are thriving. Some are working through the new operation, some are working through the whole progression of all the operations, and some are doing whichever operation they feel like doing that week!

We’ve done 3 MFNs so far this year and have been extremely happy to have had some players come with us that had never seen those operations. It’s always fun when that happens.

We are looking forward to a new Stronghold–this time on the beautiful planet of Alderaan. I know what you’re thinking, but it’s still thousands of years before THAT happens. The stronghold is currently on the PTS, so watch for times when the PTS is available if you want to hop in and stroll around in it.

The next patch is 6.1 and should be coming some time in February. It will include some class changes, the Alderaan stronghold and a “story beat”.

FFXIV

ESO

EVE

LOTRO

And with that, let’s get back to Abo and Durus and find out what’s going on in Final Fantasy 14

GAME NEWS

Remember that there’s still plenty of story content to do after you finish the MSQ! Raids in all 4 expansions, trials, 24-player stuff which is heavy on the story, plot, and intrigue, maps, crafting (yes, even the crafting classes and quests have a story!), and the legend of the world’s greatest detective, Hildabrand! This game is bursting at the seams with content and character! And we’re here to help you make sense of it all.

TALK ABOUT THE WEDDING

Live Letter Part LVII

Valentione’s Day

In the meantime, we are running a weekly map night, Saturday nights at 8pm until we run out of maps. Map nights are using the treasure maps found from mining, botaning (picking flowers or chopping trees), fishing, or just buying them from the market boards. Using a map will consume the map, but show a little piece of the map from the game with the big red X for the treasure. You then go to that location and dig for treasure. Of course, each chest is booby-trapped, so you will need to fight off a bunch of monsters to get to your treasure. Once everyone in your party gets their loot, there is a chance that a portal to a bonus zone will appear!

This bonus zone is only available thru 8-player treasure maps. Going into the zone seems to act normal. Go in, beat up on some bad guys, get loot. But then the party has to make a choice between two doors. One door leads to the next room, with cash and fabulous prizes await. The other door will set off alarms, sirens, and kick the party out of the dungeon.

The map nights are very casual, super fun, and very profitable. Anyone level 80 can join in. You don’t have to bring a map to join in, but bringing maps helps everyone out.

PATCH PATCH PATCH

FFXIV is wrapping up the current 5.1 patch cycle, and is starting up the hype machine for 5.2.

The even number patches are fun because they have a new gear tier and raid tier introduced. So, as a guild, we tend to do the story mode raids on a regular basis, as that is the difficulty that most people want to do. So, when the patch does hit, expect to have us run some fun nights thru the new Eden tier.

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@abovan

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://keyswithsoul.com !

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

Overly Dramatic News – @HuntsTheWind

Next time, we’ll return for our regularly scheduled Sunday show with SWTOR. So,i until then, AIE…

– This is Tetsemi

And this has been… The AIE Podcast.

On this episode of The AIE Podcast…

Tetsemi: It’s 2020 and we are here for the games!

Mewkow: Umami is a thing of the past

Mkallah: Have you hugged your Wookie today?

Tetsemi: SMN for all your FFXIV fun

Mewkow: And, we are our own guests!

All that and more coming up right now…

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AIE News

Community

Where the fun is mandatory but the attendance is not.

Sunday – STO 8:30 pm Eastern

Streaming and guild podcast news

SWTOR Anniversary, Star Wars for watching, and our 2019 review.

SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 323: The Mandalorian

January events schedule is up, our guild events are rolling for 2020, and we review The Mandalorian.

Working Class Nerds

https://www.buzzsprout.com/143519/2451068

Marcus and Nick sit down with Dr. SWTOR to discuss their favorite games of the decade and the final episodes from The Mandalorian.

WoW

UMAMI applications are no longer a requirement for WoW Retail. We are opening up guild recruitment to the server with the in-game recruitment system. New and current members of AIE can continue to use Discord, aielfo in-game community, as well as the new Blizzard guild recruitment system to request guild invites. We want to thank Stigg for everything he has done with our UMAMI system and Greenwall, and we can’t wait to see what else he has in store for AIE.

AIE’s 13th Anniversary next month and 3rd Annual Ralff’s Amazing Race (details coming soon ™)

NOOB Raid tried Mythic….on accident! And it went, well, just like you thought it should.

Patch 8.3 Survival Guide

The third major Battle for Azeroth content patch, Visions of N’Zoth, will be releasing on January 14th (US) / 15th (EU).

This new content patch will include N’Zoth Assaults in two zones: Uldum and Vale of Eternal Blossoms. N’Zoth has taken over and Corrupted these areas. Taking part in these Assaults will earn you reputation with the Uldum Accord and Rajani and earn you a new currency: Coalescing Visions.

Wrathion returns in this Patch, starting off with a long Introduction Questline that will act as a tutorial for the major systems of this patch. This includes his own legendary cloak Ashjra’kamas, Shroud of Resolve and a plan to enter and take down the Horrific Visions of N’zoth. Titanforging is being removed for all Patch 8.3 content and replaced by Corrupted Gear which will provide you with powerful effects, but at a cost. Participating in Horrific Visions will allow you to upgrade Wrathion’s Legendary Cloak, helping you to combat some of the negative effects of the Corrupted gear. In addition, new Essences are being added for all roles, as well as new recipes for Professions.

Two new Allied Races are being added to the game: Vulpera for the Horde and Mechagnomes for the Alliance. Allied Race Death Knights are also available this Patch for players who have pre-purchased Shadowlands. Goblin and Worgen Heritage Armor is being added this Patch as well! If you’ve been wanting to transmog Legendary weapons, Patch 8.3 will finally allow you to do so! … except for the Warglaives of Azzinoth, those are still Demon Hunter appearance only. This Patch also helps If you’ve been looking for a unique reward from Island Expeditions, as there are new Salvage Crates which can be bought with Seafarer’s Dubloon. Lastly, the Auction House is getting a much needed rework.

More content is coming later in the Patch on January 21st when Season 4 of Battle of Azeroth begins. This marks the opening of the new Ny’alotha Raid, new PvP Season and new Mythic+ Seasonal Affix, Awakened, as well as Heroic Darkshore. Season 4 will also come with an overall Item Level increase to most systems, with the cap from most systems being 475 except for the final two bosses of Ny’alotha dropping 485 gear.

Mewkow- WoW Classic

Blackwing Lair

The Blackwing Lair attunement quest, “Blackhand’s Command”, will become available on all realms tomorrow, Friday, January 10.

Level 50 Class Quests

All players, starting at level 50, can now begin class-specific questlines offered by class trainers in capital cities. These quests conclude with a choice of one of three powerful rare items.

New Reputation Rewards

The Argent Dawn, Thorium Brotherhood, Timbermaw Hold, Silverwing Sentinels, and Warsong Outriders faction vendors now offer reputation reward items that were added in patches 1.6 and 1.7 of original WoW.

Eternal Quintessence

Players who complete “Hands of the Enemy” and reach Revered reputation with Hydraxian Waterlords may now obtain Eternal Quintessence from Duke Hydraxis.

Darkmoon Faire – Coming Earlier in February

The first Darkmoon Faire in WoW Classic will get underway in early February, with barkers and the Faire setup appearing on Friday, February 7, and the festivities opening on Monday, February 10. Look for the many Darkmoon Cards that make up the beasts, elementals, portals, and warlords sets to begin dropping from enemies and bosses on Wednesday, February 5.

SWTOR

In 2020, we are looking forward to opening the rest of the rooms in both guild flagships, many Operations successes, MFNs galore, MEGAs extraordinaire, Conquest targets met, meetups, trivia, and, of course, lightning

ESO

FFXIV

Map Nights will be a regular Saturday night event going forward, just ping Kelseer on the #ffxiv channel in AIE Discord if you want to join in. Map groups hold about 8 people per team. The Gliderskin maps are more tuned for solo players, if you didn’t want to get a full group.

Raiding will be picking up again soon. Speak with @Durus or @Abovan for details. We’ll likely begin with some of the early extreme fights (Titania and Innocence) to gauge where everyone is, and help gear folks up.

Patch 5.2 is coming in February and includes

-New MSQ (beginning of the end of SHB’s story)

EVE

LOTRO

And with that, let’s get back to US and find out what’s going on in since the break.

GAME NEWS

We had our annual Yule party and our Fert and Friends Christmas eve sushi lunch. We saw Star Wars opening night, and immediately afterwards I got a text from our friend MIlls that he wants to do a Star Wars game taking place 100 years after Rise of the Skywalker and then he gave us the Force and Destiny book for Christmas! I am looking at a Twi’lek Mystic Seer, not good with people, but super connected to the Living Force.

Only one of my D&D groups was semi active this season, but we have managed to get roped into helping a clan of wood elves deal with a mythical monster that has cursed them. And, you know that feeling when you wander into the wrong zone in a video game and almost get your ass handed to you? Yeah, we had that happen.

Mewkow

After catching up in the Mandolarian, and seeing the latest saga movie, AND bravely watching the entire Star Wars special (with a little help from riff trax), we have started the clone wars viewing with the intent to complete that 6-7 season show.

Tons of time in FF14 as of late. With about 5 active ‘alts’ in a game that you don’t need to alt in, there is plenty to be done. That means I’ll have done the Shadowbringer MSQ 5 times, and yes it is that good. Also working on dragging others along for the fun when possible. Completed the Eden raids, and the Nier raid a few times, but have not touched the Eden Savage raids yet, and have no desire to go anywhere near the Alexander Ultimate. Explain that fight a bit. Touch on crafting/gathering.

Past week, taking a short break every now and then to poke around FO76. They have the Wastelanders beta coming out this month, and I wanted to be ready to go when that happens. Slowly moving forward in the Pioneer scouts challenges.

Very little time in WoW lately. Seems like the raid scene is on hiatus until the patch. Here’s hoping they solve the absence of tier sets and fix or mitigate the azerite armor.

Tetsemi

Other than logging in for guild numbers and guild clean up, pretty much took most of December and beginning of January off of WoW, but looking forward to patch 8.3 and if any of the systems will be interesting to me. Oh, I did do the Anniversary LFR with the raid team and got the World Breaker mount, but the pull of FFXIV was too strong to entice me to stay engaged in WoW to do either Korak’s revenge or level any alts.

No D&D on break, however, the group has gotten sucked into the new Force & Destiny system for Star Wars and created a Sentinel Shadow who is hunting down Dark Side force sensitive and force users. Really looking forward to learning a new system and rolling the dice again. Will be the first game our whole family will be playing in that’s not a one-shot, guest appearance, or run this character because the player is out.

Also, we watched all 8 episodes of the Mandalorian, and can’t wait for more. If the Kenobi series is going to be anything like the Mandalorian, especially the two episodes Deborah Chow directed, I can not wait. So ready for some non-Skywalker series that explore more of the Solo and Rogue One type environments and stories, bring it on!

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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://keyswithsoul.com !

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

Overly Dramatic News – @HuntsTheWind

Just a programing noite, the next show will be Saturday, January 25th, regular show time. We’ll be talking to.. Well, we will let you know as soon as WE find out. So until then, AIE…

– This is Mkallah

And this has been… The AIE Podcast.

On this episode of The AIE Podcast…

Mkallah: We have our 2019 AIE year in review

Tetsemi: Lots of News as submitted by our game directors

Mewkow: It was a summer of love and a year of fun

Mkallah: And a re emergence of a Classic!

Tetsemi: We are, of course, our own guest!

All that and more coming up right now…

Podcast Audio

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Time for the AIE news and 2019 year in review

New AIE Officers

Huck in February, Maellung in June, and Gijora in August.

Community

Where the fun is mandatory but the attendance is not.

Sunday – STO 8:30 pm Eastern

Guild Podcast News

Keith checks in with a producer letter, PvP Season 12 starts… on accident, the Mandalorian drops, and we dive into the Corellia Flashpoint.

SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 318: Trescientos Seis Club

Crafting update notes, bug fixes in progress, and Mek-Sha Heroics and Oneron Dailies.

Working Class Nerds – Episode 58: Slayer Has Spoken

Marcus and Nick are joined by Slayer this week. Nick talks about his experiences playing Star Wars: Jedi Fallen Order, and the group breaks down the first two episodes of The Mandelorian.

Highlights from WCN

Guild Highlights

In WoW we had a World Quest Party, a Kirin Tor Tavern Crawl, held our annual Remembrance day the Shrine of the Fallen Hero, COOP’ed the Alliance, and had a lot of fun at Dark Moon Faire!

In SWTOR they held a MEGA Event, a MFN event, and held their Remembrance day in Juran Mountains on Alderaan.

In FFXIV they had a special MFN and met at the Free Company house for Remembrance day.

In STO they held an event on Risa (not Rishi) and met at the Memorial at Wolf 359 for Remembrance Day.

In Eve they got together in Discord to join in Remembrance Day.

In GW2 they had a special MFN, ran dungeons with Maellung, and met at Lion’s Arch on the Field of the Fallen for Remembrance Day.

In LOTRO they met on the Hill behind the Prancing Pony in Bree for Remembrance Day and held a special MFN Edition.

Nomads

WoW Classic

WoW Classic launched just a few months ago on August 26th, 2019 and our Horde AIE Guild on the Pagle server has been thriving! :tada: We are constantly hovering close to the max guild limit of 1000 members. So occasionally we purge characters who have been offline the longest. If this happens to you, just jump back into AIELFO to request an invite again!

We got the guild set up – as soon as server issues allowed! – And were able to nickel and dime… Oh, we mean “silver & copper” our way to 10g to purchase our guild tabard within three days!

We waited a few weeks for guildies to have time to log in and create their characters and then all gathered together for our first huge AIE group photo! :heart:

Special shout out to our AIE Greeters in WoW Classic: Eagle, Kazrik, & Adande! Thank you for helping with invites when an Officer is unavailable. We appreciate you!

A main goal in WoW Classic was to bring back one of the guild’s cherished traditions… the AIE Guild Craft Faire which was held in Undercity on November 17th, 2019!

It wasn’t easy, but we did it! >.< Storage was a huge issue for us without guild banks and very limited bag space. Artisan level mats were extremely limited, mostly because our max level guildies needed them and a lot of members aren’t able to help gather them yet. But overall we had the majority of mats needed for a bunch of guildies to make progress with their professions.

Thank you to everyone that donated gold and mats especially when we only had about a month of prep time before the event!

Huge THANK YOU to the volunteers on the AIE Guild Craft Faire Professions Teams. This event would never have been able to happen again without all of you crazy, dedicated, and wonderful guildies! The amount of time and effort you put into planning and organizing behind the scenes is greatly appreciated. And it means a lot that you offered to help out! :heart:

Since our Craft Faire “test” was successful, we are already planning to host another one sometime in the spring of 2020! We could always use more volunteers… wink wink

There’s a lot going on so if you’re interested in playing with us log into WoW Classic and create a Horde character on the Pagle realm! To request an invite in game /join aielfo or ask in the Discord LFO channel because would love to have you with us in WoW Classic!

I hope you have a Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays! And I look forward to all of our adventures in 2020!

FOR THE HORDE!

Love,

AIE Guild Master in WoW Classic

WoW

We’ve had an influx of new and returning guildies to retail WoW since BlizzCon and a BIG WELCOME to them! Gustytail also really enjoyed the Search for Uuna pet event and intends to do more of these. We will be seeing more of Uuna in Shadowlands, which makes sense because she’s a ghost. Guild events are a lot of fun and we all hope more people take part in 2020.

We had a really great time remembering Ralff with Ralff’s amazing race in February of this year. And it’s an annual event, so look for detail upcoming in January for 2020’s Ralff’s Amazing Race!

Second Annual Ralff’s Amazing Race

Just a note from Kini- NoobRaid will be on holiday break for December 21, 28, and January 4th. Our adventures will resume on January 11th where bosses will die, loot will drop, and Kini will demonstrate how great she is a floor tanking.

SWTOR

Dec 10th it will be a special holiday edition of MEGA/MFN. 9pm for some fun and even a pod race around the fleet!

So far in 2019, the SWTOR division has had:

Welcome to all the new guild members, especially in the last month, and a huge thank you to the entire AIE SWTOR crew for continuing to come together to keep the fun going in 2019.

FFXIV

The Ishgard Restoration is live and phase one has been completed by our world server: Goblin. The next phase will begin “soon.” There has never been a better time to level your crafters than using this event.

Letter from the Producer Live 56 will be broadcasted on Friday, December 13, 2019 at 8:30 p.m. (PST) and will have a preview of Patch 5.2, and Special Guest: Masayoshi Soken – Sound Director

The annual 14 hour marathon will be live at From Friday, December 13 at 7:00 p.m. (PST), just prior to the Letter from the Producer Live. https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/topics/detail/fc09d40cd9169fe3be37527aa47106d6b5f1b8e4

Break out your Holiday glamours; the start of the Christmas season, expect the Starlight Festival to start in FFXIV soon.

If you’d like to join the AIE crew in FFXIV, look us up in Discord and in-game!

And just to be “Extra” … Stay tuned for the AIE special holiday season event. More information soon!

ESO

While it hasn’t been announced yet, there is usually a holiday event called the New Life festival in late December as well.

MFN is on Friday nights at 9pm EST and we take part in activities related to the scheduled events, clearing zones, and enjoying the Mandatory Fun. Throughout 2019 we’ve had dragon hunting parties, helped people obtain pets from public dungeons, done a tour of guild members homes, and of course jumped off a few cliffs.

STO

The fleet holdings have made some major progress over the year unlocking some of the best in game consoles for everyone

The game added lots of new content and more ways of making it even easier to come and play.

EVE

GW2

LOTRO

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 . Our theme was composed by the amazing Andrew Allen, follow him at @keyswithsoul! or visit his website http://keyswithsoul.com !

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

Well, we don’t have any due to the holiday weekend, however we do want to thank all our contributors over the year who have given us their awesome segments.

We will see you in the New Year! So until then, AIE…

– This is Mewkow

And this has been… The AIE Podcast.