Alea Iacta Est

On this episode of The AIE Podcast…

Mkallah: Need an adventure fix between games- we have you covered!

Mewkow: Lots of Final Fantasy updates!

Tetsemi: Make time to include the Pirate Inclusion

Mkallah: Early fun with Elswyer is happening

Mewkow: And we have Crazy Uncle Lanc and and not so crazy cousin Lars here to talk Space Shenanigans

All that and more coming up right now…

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

AIE News

Community

Where the fun is mandatory but the attendance is not.

Monday – GW2 9:30 pm Eastern

Streaming and Podcast News

This week @AIESema, @MaxTheGrey and Astromech EPC-293 remind ourselves of everything we’ve forgotten about Strongholds and talk about what we might want to see in the future.

SWTOR ESCAPE POD CAST 294: HK-55 RETURNS?

This week @AIESema, @MaxTheGrey and Astromech EPC-294 talk about the possibility of the HK-55 chapter being made available again and walk through the fun details of the content.

Working Class Nerds

After having a lovely conversation with Bactrian Games’ Nick Iorfino and not being able to use any of their audio, Nick and Marcus rally together and preview SWTOR’s Game Update 5.10.3.

NOMADS

Also, if it’s still on your radar, Anthem the Game had a live stream on Thursday highlighting the upcoming Cataclysm event which will have 2 weeks of pre-launch events and 6 weeks of launch content.

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/432174289##

WoW

SWTOR

The livestream promised for 5/30 went off without a single power outage or cut fiber. Eric, Keith, and Charles talked in great detail about how gearing is going to work in Onslaught (the expansion coming in October). For anyone interested in the details, Eric made a post with all the nuts and bolts. You can find it in the SWTOR Dev Tracker here – http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?p=9732656#edit9732656

Guild:

June MEGA is coming up! June 14th. Marcus will lead us to victory against the Ancient Threat–a mysterious and powerful entity hidden away on Yavin IV.

FFXIV

TL;DR/L:

6 New Zones

Long Version:

Side Quests

Crafting and Gathering Quests

Cross-world Linkshells

Housing items can now be previewed!(FC Housing Manager position still open!)

New Interrupt system

MP and TP Systems.

Pet System Redo

Tank Roles-Biggest change is changing tank stance to an threat generating only stance.

Healer Roles-Healers will be refocused back on a more pure healing role, rather than the hybrid DPS they are now.

DPS Roles-Most DPS roles will have a similar feel, but Machinist is almost like a new job.

Tetsemi- ESO

MFN happens at 9pm est every Friday night, depending on attendance we do dungeon runs, zone clears, and now possibly dragon hunting.

STO

EVE

And with that, let’s get back to Lanctharus and Lars and find out what’s going on in AIE in EVE.

GAME NEWS

OMG! The Invasion is coming! THE INVASION IS COMING!

More PvE baddies The Triglavians are comings to blow up your stuff

Shmexy New Ships

Ikitursa – Heavy Assault Cruiser

Draugur – Command Destroyer

Nergal – Assault Frigate

All new tech 2 ships

Tech 2 ammo usable in all faction, Storyline and Officer weapon types

Tech 2 Trglavian industrial buildy stuff

New Agency – Redesign

64 bit client in open beta

War Dec revamp is less dumb

Even more Chinese players are coming – Introducing the Army of Mango Alliance

It’s BRISC Baby! The allegory of Brisc Rubal

Link to Youtube video

Why you should never mix your RL with your EVE life especially if you are serving in the Fake Space Congressperson

https://www.gameinformer.com/2019/04/09/us-politician-banned-from-eve-online-after-corruption-scandal

And then it got weird

CCP relooking at charges submitted by fellow CSM members

Reinstated!

https://www.polygon.com/2019/4/29/18522869/eve-online-brisc-rubal-ban-retraction-statement

Oh and it’s official! AIEU is dumb and built a titan

AIEU meetup in LA

So everybody living in Mordor

Lars Ganger will be in Los Angeles for SIGGRPH

July 26th, 2019

https://goo.gl/maps/1XHJMWpc1Qhzhcod6

I would recommend car pooling, Uber or taking the train in

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@Lanctharus

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…

Ask Buxley – @Ask Buxley

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

– This is Tetsemi

And this has been… The AIE Podcast.

On this episode of The AIE Podcast…

Tetsemi: Discord changes are coming

Mkallah: Dark Hours are upon us

Mewkow: Anyone have a Beta invite?

Tetsemi: The War Eternal rages on

Mkallah: And, we have Corley and Dent here to talk to us about AIE in STO!

All that and more coming up right now…

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

AIE News

Community

Where the fun is mandatory but the attendance is not.

Monday – GW2 9:30 pm Eastern

Streaming and Guild Podcast News

This week @AIESema, @MaxTheGrey and Astromech EPC-291 talk about a juicy bit of dev tracker news and then tell the story, lore and mechanics of Dread Fortress

SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 292: Don’t Trust The Gree

This week @AIESema, @MaxTheGrey and Astromech EPC-292 walk through the news and then talk about the Gree, the recurring event on Ilum and the Xeonanalyst.

Working Class Nerds – Episode 44: Avengers Endgame Breakdown!

Marcus and Nick are joined by Ariel and Dent to share their thoughts on Marvel’s Avengers: Endgame. They share what they’ve been up to in real life, talk a little SWTOR (of course) and then dive into Endgame.

SPOILER ALERT for Avengers: Endgame! If you haven’t seen the film, listen to this after you already have.

Just a reminder- Phoenix Fan Fusion starts Thursday, May 23rd- and all three of the hosts will be there! There is also a meetup at Chino Bandito on Wednesday at 7pm and likely a second one at Mother Bunch on Sunday after con wraps up. Come by the “booth” at AA501 to say hi, I will be there all weekend!

NOMADS

Diablo 3’s Season 17 has begun. It brings the usual fare of seasonal cosmetic rewards and additional stash tabs. Some new quality of life changes include a search feature in the stash and the addition of 3 more Torment levels: 14, 15, and 16. This season’s theme is “The Season of Nightmares.” Every character will receive the bonus “Legacy of Nightmare (LoN). “This means that everyone will enjoy the powerful benefits of the “no Set” Set and any and every Ancient Legendary you find is that much more valuable.”

If you’re a Diablo 3 player and want to hop in for a power level this season or run rifts with AIE members, make sure to hop into Discord’s #nomads channel and say hello. We have a community available for you to join as well.

WoW

WoW Classic Beta started invites, with an AIE presence on PvE Horde mostly (from what I could read, as I refresh my email hourly, hoping for the invite).

Friday Night Alliance Raid team still recruiting. An unnamed discord has been just created to help facilitate the new Alliance raid team! The link is posted in #raidteam-recruitment

Raid team updates

SWTOR

More news: Our MFN leads have come up with a new idea for our MFN schedule. We’ll be running a series of operations as part of MFN, but since it’s hard to complete the operation in a single night, whatever we don’t finish we will schedule for a following week. The trick there is that a handful of heroes will go in early, before MFN, and clear some of the bosses to get the MFN group a progressed lockout. Should be fun and should get more people a chance to see end bosses.

The launch date for 5.10.3 “The Dantooine Incursion” is set for 5/28/19. Pirates, pets, mounts, new armor looks, decos and even an Ugnaught companion! Ok, one pet. But lots of pirates.

ESO

EVE

GW2

They also released a new legendary weapon, the great sword Exordium. This is the final legendary weapon that was promised us for Heart of Thorns, and was worth the wait, having many custom animation and transformations.

FFXIV

LOTRO

And with that, let’s get back to Corley and Dent and find out what’s going on in Star Trek Online.

GAME NEWS

Fleet Updates

Major Game Updates

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

https://twitch.tv/TheCorley

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://bit.ly/AIEPodcastDiscord . 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

Next time, we’ll be talking to Someone about some game that AIE plays in- contracts are in negotiation right now!. So until then, AIE…

– This is Mewkow

And this has been… The AIE Podcast.

On this episode of The AIE Podcast…

Mewkow: Meetup is…… no more

Tetsemi: But, there will be shenanigans at Blizzcon

Mkallah: There is so much to Discover….. Discovery in STO

Mewkow: FFXIV has a huge callback!

Tetsemi: And, we are doing a host show!

All that and more coming up right now…

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We will be chatting about what we have been up to, but first, the news!

AIE News

We are also working on some minor updates around the guild websites and other communication tools, so keep an eye out for that.

The various streams and podcasts for AIE are a really great way to see what’s going on and engage. We are always looking for more AIE streams, blogs, etc to get posted to the content creators channel and really like seeing that stuff there.

Just a note, the AIE Meetup is no longer active. The sites wasn’t being utilized and as a group our size required a monthly fee, it has been shut down. Please feel free to utilize the events channel in discord for real life gatherings.

Community

Where the fun is mandatory but the attendance is not.

Monday – GW2 9:30 pm Eastern

Saturday – Noob Raid (WoW) 11 pm Eastern

Streaming and Podcast News

This week @AIESema, @MaxTheGrey and Astromech EPC-289 talk about the latest game news and then finish up our Star Wars Celebration review with a second half of the discussion we started last week.

SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 290: Dantooine Preview

This week @AIESema, @MaxTheGrey and Astromech EPC-290 review Daniel Steed’s web content plan and then spend some time walking through Dantooine and the missions, areas, and secrets we’ve found so far.

Working Class Nerds

After struggling to set up their new mixer, Marcus and Nick sit down to talk about how much they’re loving Mortal Kombat 11, as well as share their thoughts on the new Dantooine content on SWTOR’s PTS server.

NOMADS

Diablo 3’s Season 16 is winding down; ending on 12 May.

Growing interest in CoH and that we’ll be holding off on getting too involved until the details around servers, services and the position of the IP holders settles down.

WoW

In-game: Syreyne will be starting an Alliance raid team towards the end of May and anyone interested should ping her in the raid recruitment channel on discord.

SWTOR

The Wednesday night Imperial ops team is looking for a permanent DPS addition to the team. Anyone interested should contact Maellung in the SWTOR Discord channel.

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The fleet spire is constructing tier 2 upgrade and will complete in just over 6 days. This will unlock the fleet variants of the veteran ships.

Also, Star Trek Online is free to play and we have MFNs most Sunday nights at 8:30 PM Eastern. In an upcoming week, for MFN, we will focus on low level characters to help new players go through missions and story. You just need to finish the tutorial missions

There are also close to releasing a new rep, Discovery Legends.

Introducing the Discovery Legends Reputation | Star Trek Online

And there’s more, new story arc focusing on Discovery era story.

Rise of Discovery brings Jason Isaacs (Capt. Lorca) and Rehka Sharma(Cmdr. Ellen Landry) to STO.

Star Trek Online: Rise of Discovery | Star Trek Online

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EVE

GW2

FFXIV

The invited player must have an expired sub for 90 days and still have their account in good standing (i.e. not be banned).

The invited player will get 7 days of free game time, 99 Aetheryte tickets (free teleports, 1 per ticket), and 10 silver chocobo feathers which can be turned in for gear to get caught back up.

The FFXIV x FFXV crossover event is still going until May 27th.

Various ways of getting MGP have been discussed in the #ffxiv channel in discord, so drop on by if you want some ideas on farming them up. With the current rewards and the buff, many players have been able to get enough MGP in 1-2 weeks of time.

If you are on the starter edition, including the Twitch Prime promotion, Square Enix is providing Heavenward for free until June 27th. Once this is added to your account, you get to keep it permanently. This includes the PC version, MacOS, and PS4 editions.

https://store.na.square-enix-games.com/en_US/ffxiv_heavensward_free

Heavensward is the continuing story of the game to the kingdom of Ishgard, where the Warrior of Light is thrusted into the Dragonsong War and awesome music. This will include all content in the expansion, including patch 3.5, The Far End of Fate which sets the stage for Stormblood.

Shadowbringers is still slated for release on July 2nd, with pre-order getting a head start starting on June 28th. If you pre-order this expansion, you get access to all previous expansions on the head start date.

The FC vault still has some goodies. If you need something from there, grab it! We are trying to populate it with some cosmetics and some other helpful items. Feel free to grab something that strikes your fancy! The Vault is available in all major cities and the FC house.

The Shadowbringers Media Tour will be hitting mid May. We are expecting to get some details on the new classes of Gunbreaker and Dancer classes at this time.

Drop on down to the FFXIV channel and we can help you get started in your Final Fantasy adventure (not to be confused with Final Fantasy Adventure, the old Game Boy Final Fantasy. Totally different things).

LOTRO

And with that, let’s find out what we have been doing, what we looking forward to, and what is cooking in the guild kitchen!

GAME NEWS

Mkallah- Boston update, One shot with FERT, Con Prep, announce Fan Fusion meetups,

Mewkow

Tetsemi – Downed Jaina in WoW with FERT Raid, hit 50 on my necklace, played a really fun Rogue in our FERT one shot D&D, playing a lot of FFXIV.

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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://bit.ly/AIEPodcastDiscord . 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 the folder is empty, but if you’d like to send in a segment, send it to [email protected]

Mkallahi: We will be back in two week, guest to be announced. So until then, AIE…

– This is Mkallah

And this has been… The AIE Podcast.

On this episode of The AIE Podcast…

Mewkow: So many streams!

Tetsemi: We upped the WQ gear score, so up yours!

Mewkow: Final Fantasy XIV or XV, I’m so confused

Tetsemi: You get a tier 6 ship and you get a tier 6 ship!

Mewkow: When EvE politics become real, very real…

All that and more coming up right now…

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Ok, we’ll be digging into Star Wars Celebration and AIE in SWTOR shortly, but first, let’s cover this week’s news…

AIE News

Community

Where the fun is mandatory but the attendance is not.

Monday – GW2 9:30 pm Eastern

Saturday – Noob Raid (WoW) 11 pm Eastern

Streaming and guild podcast news

SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 287: 5.10.2 And SWC

This week @AIESema, @MaxTheGrey and Astromech EPC-287 check out the 5.10.2 updates live in game and also talk some about SWTOR at Star Wars Celebration and what’s happening this weekend.

SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 288: Swc And Onslaught

This week @AIESema, @MaxTheGrey and Astromech EPC-288 talk about what happened at Star Wars Celebration including the SWTOR Cantina event, Onslaught expansion announcement, SWTOR Fan Community and AIE Guild meetup action.

Working Class Nerds – Episode 42: Star Wars News Overload LIVE!!!

Marcus and Nick sit down in front of the mic and camera to talk about the tirade of new Star Wars content! They discuss the new Jedi: Fallen Order trailer, the Livestream for SWTOR’s 10.5.3 update, and of course SWTOR’s 6.0 Expansion announcement.

Working Class Nerds – Bonus Episode: Star Wars Celebration LIVE with Kogass!

Marcus and Nick are living vicariously through Kogass as he takes them through his epic experience at Star Wars Celebration, and his transition into the AIE Guild Meetup. Swtorista and Max (from The Escape Podcast) also made guest appearances!

Working Class Nerds – Episode 41: Does 100 Million Credits Buy Us New Mics?!?!

Marcus and Nick break down their trip to Boston for PAX EAST!!! They talk about all of their favorite games that they played, and you can listen to their new audio quality via their brand new microphones!

Dankinia hosts both ESO MFN and WoW Noob Raid, check out her streams on https://www.twitch.tv/dankiniaplays

ESO – Mandatory Fun NIght Stream – Friday, April 19

WoW Noob Raid Stream – Saturday, April 13

NOMADS

The Division 2 is very active right now, join in the discussion in game and in #thedivision2 channel in AIE Discord.

WoW

We are one troll class and two panda class from the horde Slayer achievement to unlock Guild Page

Syreyne is looking to see if we have enough interest to start a fun orientated raid team for WoW in the Alliance guild. She’s looking at Friday night as a possible day.

(MEWKOW?) Update on teams that got aotc in the past week.

Raid Finder (and Mythic) difficulty for Crucible of Storms will open next week, April 23. Similar to Battle of Dazar’alor, you will need an average item level of 350 to queue for it. To help ensure players get raid ready, we are increasing the maximum item level for certain World Quests rewards. This will include the following:

World Quest rewards will go up to ilvl 370 (from 360)

Once the update is live it will affect active rewards like the Emissaries, so you may want to plan for when you will turn those in.

SWTOR

ESO

FFXIV

Join Noctis, as he and his car, the Regalia, (and maybe some Em-Tees) end up on Eorzea! Go with Noct for another adventure!

As you progress, you will unlock more cosmetic gear to give you the Noct look, and it is dyeable as well.

Completing the little story will unlock the Regalia, for 200,000 MGP (Manderville Gold Saucer Points), along with a Noctis hairstyle and Noctis Triple Triad card.

Need some help with grinding out the MGP? The AIE Discord channel for FFXIV has been hopping with ideas and assistance in getting the MGP needed. Fashion Evaluations, Chocobo racing, challenge logs are just a few ideas. To assist, the FC will be running the Jackpot buff this weekend, to give you a bonus to all gained MGP.

For the FFXV music lovers, you will also be able to acquire some of the tunes from FFXV to play in your personal room, inn, or house if you have it. There are 6 orchestral rolls, and they can be purchased after you complete the event story. They cost 1 of the special fate drops in Central Thanalan.

The FC house added a couple of them to the house playlist and we’ll rotate them over time.

Speaking of Orchestral Rolls, Abovan got tired of having so many of the faded rolls in his own inventory. As such, he’s been crafting them into useable rolls and putting them into tab 2 in the FC vault. When he makes others, I’ll keep putting them in there. If you need another orchestral unlock, go ahead and grab one.

Remember the Twitch Prime Loot for FFXIV Starter Edition is still good until May 3rd. Until then, you will be able to get the full license of the base game, levels 1-50, and get 30 days of game time. (Would run you 20 bucks if you wanted to buy it yourself.)

Of course, anyone is welcome to join us. PS4? No problem. Mac? No problem. All editions of the game are on the same servers and can interact with each other. So, don’t have that super-powered PC anymore? A PS4 (even the normal, non-pro) plays the game just fine.

STO

Command Tier 6 Ships at Any Level!

Beginning very soon, players of Star Trek Online will have the opportunity to fly any Tier 6 Starship that they own, regardless of their characters’ levels!

https://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/11138023

Execute Operation: Riposte!

Operation Riposte is the first major Federation offensive of the Klingon-Federation War of 2256-57. After nearly a month of crushing defeats, the Federation initiates a bold new plan to regain initiative in the war. The planet of Priors World has recently been conquered by the Klingons, but the Federation counter-attack aims to not only wrestle control of that world back into Federation hands, but also to deliver the first major defeat to the Klingons and thereby inject a much needed morale boost back into the ranks of Starfleet.

This event will last for 3 weeks starting on April 18th for PC players, and on Xbox One and PlayStation 4 in mid 2019. All players level 10 and above will be able to participate, and can earn a TFO Commendation once every 20 hours.

This event will also debut a brand new system for Star Trek Online. Earn progress toward a Free Ship by participating each day in the Featured TFO Events that will be running from now until Fall of 2019. By playing these three Events, you can earn Coupon Progress Tokens each day, allowing you to eventually claim a ‘100% Discount Coupon: Tier 6 Ship’ that will allow you claim a free Tier 6 Starship of your choice from the Zen Store.

EVE

Then our beloved CCP comes out and releases a statement that admits they didn’t really do a full investigation around the alleged NDA leaks and banning him in the first place.

LOTRO

The Weekly Coupon gets you Tome of Compressed Experience with coupon code COMPRESSEDXP now through April 25th!

And with that, let’s get back to Max & Corley and find out what’s going on with Star Wars Celebration and AIE in SWTOR.

GAME NEWS

Game Update 6.0 has been announced with a release date of September 2019! It’s called Onslaught! There will be five new levels, a new operation, a new flashpoint, 2 new planets and a new zone in an original planet (Corellia), new itemization, new set bonuses, and a new tactical item that will have a special effect to customize your gameplay. Bioware is looking for ideas for tactical items, so go to the forums and suggest your ideal item. No idea is too crazy they said! Challenge accepted!

Guild News

April MEGA – Ossus Takeover! Marcus led a combined group of AIEers and community members to victory over two World Ossus Bosses and the Hive of the Mountain Queen. Fun and crystals were had by all!

MFN continues on Tuesday nights, alternating week by week between Imperial and Republic sides

Broad overview of SWC, AIE presence, the SWTOR Cantina. Max has many photos on hand in a slide deck to walk through to illustrate.

Heraldry mention?

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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://bit.ly/AIEPodcastDiscord . 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…

Welp, no segments were received this week, but hopefully next time we’ll resume our normal segment shenanigans.

Next time, we’ll be talking to someone in some game AIE is in. So until then, AIE…

– This is Tetsemi

And this has been… The AIE Podcast.

On this episode of The AIE Podcast…

Mewkow: the AIE DIvision is Strong

Tetsemi: AIE and Celebration are coming to Chicago

Mkallah: The cake is… not a lie?

Mewkow: We have an update from the Warfront

Tetsemi: and Abovan is here to talk about AIE in FFXIV

All that and more coming up right now…

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Mkallah: – Welcome to episode #317 of the the podcast celebrating you, the Alea Iacta Est gaming community, the die has been podcast. This is Mkallah: To my left is Mewkow: – (catch phrase here). And to my right is Tetsemi: (catch phrase here). This week we are joined by special guests Abovan who is here to talk to us about AIE in FFXIV. Welcome!

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

AIE News

Community

Where the fun is mandatory but the attendance is not.

Monday – GW2 9:30 pm Eastern

Saturday – Noob Raid (WoW) 11 pm Eastern

Streaming and guild podcast newsi

SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 285: Oricon Trail

This week @AIESema, @MaxTheGrey and Astromech EPC-285 take a look at guild heraldry on the PTS and get back to some Dread Master lore with a discussion of Oricon

SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 286: Something Dreadful This Way Comes

This week @AIESema, @MaxTheGrey and Astromech EPC-286 walk through the Dreadful Entity fight… because we, along with an awesome cross guild group, did it this week!

NOMADS

The first post-launch content update was released this past Friday and unlocks the new World Tier 5 that features the latest Stronghold: Tidal Basin. Also, the first “Apparel Event” titled “Invasion” is running until May 2nd. During this time you can earn up to 30 apparel items. Should you earn them all during the event you’ll be awarded a special apparel item: The Black Tusk uniform. These 30 items will be available in the usual apparel caches and store after the event, but you can only earn the special Black Tusk uniform during the event. Apparel items include clothing, weapon skins, and emotes.

The first raid, an 8 player activity, will go live on April 25th, later this month and our clan members are eagerly awaiting it. Get in and gear up now. Ask about the game in AIE Discord’s #thedivision2 text channel. Receiving an invite is as simple as asking for one there for your UPlay ID. You can also look up the clan, “AIE Nomads”, and request an invite that way.

WoW

We are still having issue with gmail accounts, so check the LFO channel for acceptance, as the officers will announce when they’ve accepted those applications.

In game news, the Artifact Knowledge ramp up will continue for the next 4 weeks to make sure everyone is ready for the 8.2 content. A number of players have reached level 50 on their necklace and currently you do not get anything for completing WQ’s that award just azerite.

Patch 8.2 is soon to be on the PTR (encrypted currently) and several outlets have had interviews with Ion Hazzikostas on what’s to come, mostly around systems, flying and very little on content spoilers.

WoWHead and MMO-Champion both have good write-ups and links to the originals, though, be warned, some are in languages other than English and no, not Nerglish.

https://www.wowhead.com/news=291012/pc-gamer-interview-with-ion-hazzikostas-on-bfas-development

https://www.wowhead.com/news=291015/buffed-de-8-2-interview-with-ion-hazzikostas-azshara-plot-twist-class-diversity-

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SWTOR

If you, like us, know every word of A New Hope, then you will remember that Dantooine is the planet that Princess Leia told Grand Moff Tarkin was the location of the rebellion’s secret base. She was trying to keep him from blowing up Alderaan. This was a lie, of course, as the rebel base had been moved by then. The action in SWTOR takes place long before any of this, though.

We only know a little bit about this update, but we do know that it will include a new recurring event.

Also, we will be getting a double rewards week coming April 16th-23rd.

SWTOR Guild News

Star Wars Celebration!

A cross-guild event that Marcus has been working on tirelessly for several weeks came to fruition this month. Members of AIE and two other guilds downed the secret boss in Terror from Beyond called the Dreadful Entity. This was a major effort because it involved getting more people together than any of the guilds had, getting them all a particular drop from a particular boss, getting an item to summon the boss, and clearing part of the Operation ahead of time. Credit goes to guildie Medullah for betting Marcus a million credits that he could not do it.

April MEGA will April 19th and is called “Ossus Takeover”.

MFN continues on Tuesday nights at 9PM Eastern, alternating weekly between the Imperial and Republic sides. If you are ever wondering which side we are on, there is always dated message posted in the Guild Message of the Day. There is no gear level requirement!

STO

EVE

Test attempted a “crafty” spai technique of seeding Cyno Inhibs through a FRT spy and then transfering them to TEST just before a big fight in range of their own staging

ELO Knight (greatest of FRT FCs) bombed them into MEME category

Goon fleet got caught between two balls and a lance of power and in one reporters words “thems dudes eating the shit there”

https://clips.twitch.tv/FunGiftedHorseTTours

FRT won “first” Dino fight of this war many more to come

FRT = Fratnerity (the lead alliance in the Winter Coalition)

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

GAME NEWS

Shadowbringers hype!

Warning! Light spoilers, but we will try our hardest to avoid when we can.

After months of speculation, 3 Fan Fests, and tons of rumors, we have a pretty good take on what we will be doing in FFXIV on July 2nd, with a headstart for pre-orders on June 28th.

Where are we going? The First! A parallel universe that has some other problems. As the Warrior of Light, we fought back the darkness on Eorzea. The First has its own problems. Too much light energy, frying the world like a tater tot left in the deep fryer waaaay to long. So, as the hero, we will be sent to the First and to save Eorzea, we will need to save the First from the light, we so we will need to become the Warrior of Darkness to make things awesome again!

In terms of what it looks like, we are looking at a more “high fantasy” artstyle in Shadowbreakers. Lots of bright colors (going with the light theme), nature zones (again, 24-hour sunlight), and large, over the top cities.

What will be doing?

Questing! Saving the First! And running dungeons, which there will be 9 at launch. By comparison, Heavenward and Stormblood at 8 at launch.

New classes? You bet.

Gunbreaker! Gun wielding tank! Remember Final Fantasy 8, with Squall with his gunblade?

Just announced, Dancer! Ranged DPS class! Throwing weapons at range, as well as dances to debuff the bad guys and buff the good guys.

The new classes will tentatively start at level 60.

New Races? Two of them!

The Viera!

The bunny-like race that lives in the trees. But where are the boy bunnies? Well, they are rare, so rare that players will not be able to be male Viera.

A beast-like race will be playable as a male only race.

Combat changes? You betcha!

The resource TP (tech points, technicals, toilet paper, ect) will be gone!

Actions are also being reviewed and some actions will be removed, some actions gained.

Level cap will be 80, so another 10 levels to acquire in Shadowbringers.

Dwarves!

Small folk, beards, and almost never without their helmet.

What do they look like without a helmet?

They look like a Lalafel! In fact, they are lalafels, as in the first each race will have their own name, since it is a similar, but not exact world.

End game!

High end 8-player content, Eden!

This will tell us the story of how we can restore the other elements to the light ravaged world. It will also resolve around a new character, Gaia.

These encounters, story, and character are all designed by guest designer, Tetsuya Nomura. His previous work was the Director, designer, and character artist for the Kingdom Hearts series. So if his previous work is any indication, we are in for a treat of for the 8-player raids.

For the 24-man raids, it will be called YoRHa Apocalypse. This raid will feel like a spiritual sequel to NieR Automata. These raids also have guest designers, Yosuke Saito and Yoko Taro, game designers of the NieR series.

The Reconstruction of Ishgard!

So, Ishgard is pretty messed up. 1000 years of war with dragons will do that to your town. Now that the city had about an expansion to rest up after their war, we are going to be helping with the repairs in the city. This will provide some end-game content for the crafters and gatherers of the world. Rumor has it that after a while, it will also open up a new housing area in Ishgard!

Trust System!

You will be able to have certain NPCs follow you along in your adventures. Details are scarce still, but the overall gist is that you can hire notable NPCs to fight alongside you.

Server Redistributions

The Twitch Prime deal that will get you the starter edition is still going on until May 3rd. This will get you the base game, which is up to level 50, all A Realm Reborn content, including patch content up to the start of the 1st Expansion, and 30 days of game time. This is not a demo but the same level of content as if you shelled out the 20 bucks for the game. If you end up continuing, there are a few different subscription types, including a single character subscription if you so choose.

If you purchase the current expansion, you will get access to both Heavensward and Stormblood with a single purchase of Stormblood. Shadowbringers can be pre-ordered for the pre-order bonuses which are available today. If you do not have the expansions, getting Shadowbringers will not unlock the previous expansions until June 28th, the start of the headstart of Shadowbringers.

We’d love to have you in FFXIV with us. We have housing with stables, crafting stations, mini-games, workshops, and other items in the house to help you with your adventures. The #FFXIV channel in discord is very active and since the visual quality of the game is crazy, our folks do populate the screenshots channel in Discord frequently. If you are looking to join us, just roll up a character on Goblin, tell us the name in the Discord channel (#FFXIV) and we’ll get you in.

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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://bit.ly/AIEPodcastDiscord . 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…

Ask Buxley – @AskBuxley

Next time, we’ll be talking to Max and Guest in SWTOR. And, just a shownote- it will be a Saturday the 20th due to Easter. So until then, AIE…

– This is Mkallah

And this has been… The AIE Podcast.

On this episode of The AIE Podcast…

Tetsemi: We’re dividing, no that’s heading into The Division 2

Mewkow: Well if we’re not dividing, then we’re multiplying WoW Guilds

Tetsemi: Celebrating Star Wars, it’s the Chicago Way

Mewkow: Speaking of celebrations, let’s have a festival in ESO

Tetsemi: And a new TFO has been released in STO

All that and more coming up right now…

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We’ll be digging into that shortly, but first, let’s cover this week’s news…

AIE News

Streaming and guild podcast news

SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 284: Dev Behind The Curtain

This week @AIESema, @MaxTheGrey and Astromech EPC-284 stop by the PTS to check out the new preview window and talk about the “behind the curtain” developer blog post.

SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 283: Dread Masters From Section X To Oricon

This week @AIESema, @MaxTheGrey and Astromech EPC-283 ride the Dread Master lore train from Section X to Oricon.

Working Class Nerds

Episode 40: Is John Redden Really the Night King?!?!

Marcus and Nick are joined by Dr. John Redden, Professor in the Physiology and Neurobiology department at the University of Connecticut to talk old-school MMO’s, their upcoming journey to Pax East and what they’re looking forward to in the FINAL SEASON of Game of Thrones.

Episode 39: Captain Marvel & Avengers: Endgame Trailer #2

Nick and Marcus are joined by WCN’s resident comic book expert, Ariel in a discussion about Captain Marvel AND the new trailer for Avengers: Endgame.

Mandatory Fun Nights

Where the fun is mandatory but the attendance is not.

Monday – GW2 9:30 pm Eastern

Saturday – Noob Raid (WoW) 11 pm Eastern

NOMADS

WoW

Play *Max’s segment here*

Alliance Races are now available in Umami. Please select your Alliance race/class combo when submitting an application for your new character. (Yes, character level is still limited to 100. We don’t mind what level you enter here!)

AIE WoW Alliance Guild!

WoW Q&A

Discussion of level squish, transmog (hide all slots except pants), removal of portals (adding a CoT Portal)

SWTOR

We are looking forward to news in April during Star Wars Celebration!

SWTOR Guild News

Star Wars Celebration – April 11th-15th in Chicago, There will be an AIE meetup coming as well as the SWTOR Cantina, which will be April 13th at 7:00pm CDT Marriot Marquis Chicago in the Grand Ballroom.

March MEGA was an awesome, possibly even EPIC night of guild pvp. April MEGA details to come.

MFN continues on Tuesday nights at 9PM Eastern, alternating weekly between the Imperial side and the Republic side. There is no gear requirement–literally. For some activities you may have to be level 50, though.

ESO

There is a jester located outside of Ebonheart, Vulkhel Guard, and Daggerfall. You can do one quest for them each day that will give a reward box. Also the first one you do each day has a chance for some unique style pages and mementos (plus 2 event ticket)s. Sadly, once again you can only earn the event ticket on one character per account per day.

Some of the achievements related to this event involves throwing 10 pies at people Thank you Looci for standing still and letting all of us AD folks toss pies at you for the first part of our MFN so we could get one of the achievements without needed to pelt strangers.

FFXIV

For the races, we now have the female only Viera, and the male only Hrothgar, a race inspired by the Ronso of FF10. On top of that, after reaching level 60 in any other job, you’ll be able to take up the mantle of a Gunbreaker (a tank inspired by the gunblade wielders of FF8) and Dancer, a ranged dps using chakrams as their weapon to deal damage from afar while supporting their party with powerful dances

March 26 (that’s Tuesday!) Is patch 4.26, Requiem for Heroes – Part 2. MSQ will be wrapping up Stormblood and setting the stage for Shadowbringers.

April 23rd is the North American Data Center expansion and the start of the World Visit system. Free transfer will be available will lessened restrictions, from April 23rd to May 6.

AIE is on Goblin, our server will be moved to the new Crystal Data center. AIE will not be moving servers so that means grouping with AIE members will need you to be on the Crystal Data center.

Although, we’d love to see you on Goblin and with the AIE FC, we do realize that some of you have other commitments, communities, as well. As such, we do also run a cross world linkshell. AIE FC members, AIE community members and friends of AIE are welcome to join. Please drop in the discord or an officer to get an invite.

But most importantly, more Hildabrand on patch 4.56.

STO

And with that, let’s find out what we’ve been up to lately.

GAME NEWS

Tetsemi

Anthem – Got to level 30 and have been poking into GM1 Strongholds and Missions and finally ticked over to Masterwork Colossus. The only piece that’s not Masterwork is my Z Shield, can’t seem to get anything to drop for it. I’ve got 2 of the 3 reputations through level 3 and working on the Sentinel reputation, ½ way to level 3. Also started equipping the other mechs with universal gear from the Colossus runs so they’re all rare/epic level right now, but still have slots with white quality in them because it’s javelin specific drops.

Role Playing D&D – We solved the murder on the flying boat, it was a gnome who finally snapped after one too many people ran over him and/or didn’t notice he was there and would cut in front of him, steal his food, etc. The last person to trip over him, was a druid, and he snapped, grabbed a ceremonial vine she had on her wrist and strangled her with it. He would have got away with it too, if he hadn’t kept the vine on him.

WoW – FERT Raiding, finally got King Rastakhan down and Mekatorque and tried Blockade which lived up to it’s name so we’ve reset for the week.

I have all the allied races unlocked and currently am focused on my Mah’gar Orc Shaman who just hit Northrend. Once she’s done, I’ll focus on my Zandalari Paladin for her armor and then hopefully they’re done with allied races for this expansion so I can flip over to AIE Alliance and level up my Void Elf Hunter, Dark Iron Paladin, Kul Tiran Druid (of course), Light Forged Dranaei Paladin, and Dwarf Hunter (for the heritage armor). I really love the idea of the allied races and their heritage armor, but c’mon, 90 to 100 levels is just … getting … old. I realize the leveling has been sped up, but mentally, it’s just such a daunting number.

Level squish / Paragon levels (discussion)

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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://bit.ly/AIEPodcastDiscord . 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…

Ask Buxley – @AskBuxley

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

– This is Mewkow

And this has been… The AIE Podcast.

On this episode of The AIE Podcast…

Mkallah: We have your community updates

Mewkow: Noob is on FIRE!

Tetsemi: Our free company is prime company

Mkallah: Reasonable Reasons are redacted

Mewkow: And, we have Sema and Max who are here to talk about AIE in SWTOR

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AIE News

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

Streaming and guild podcast news

Nick and Marcus are joined by Sith Talk host Sam to discuss and analyze how Star Wars got so big, where it is now, and where it could be going.

SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 281: Member The Dread Masters?

This week, in addition to hot takes on the dev tracker, @AIESema, @MaxTheGrey and Astromech EPC-281 open up the archives and start a mini-series talking about the Dread Masters

SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 282: Dread Masters From Ec To Tfb

Imperium Ludi

Mandatory Fun Nights

Monday – GW2 9:30 pm Eastern

Saturday – Noob Raid (WoW) 11 pm Eastern

WoW

1. This month’s Community Event: Trial of Style – March 20-24

ESO

In guild related news, MFN is still Friday night at 9pm est.

FFXIV

But what about those that do not have Twitch Prime? Or maybe your desktop or laptop may need a refresh so most of your modern gaming is done on the PS4? (sorry, no xbox1 or switch version yet) Well, there is a free trial that you can download that will let you play the game up to level 35. You can not join a Free Company with this type of account, but you will be able to join a cross world linkshell, which is FFXIV speak for a chat channel that spans over multiple servers. You will be able to talk with AIE folk there, as well as talk with people in the AIE community that may have characters on other servers. Of course, you can always talk to us in Discord as well.

The Shadowbringers pre-order bonus items, the little baby Gremlin and the Aetheryte Earrings, an item that scales with you, modifies its stats for your job, and provides a 30% boost in XP gained while level 70 and below are available now for preorders.

Quick tip for pre-orders. To get the bonus do the following. Get the code from your retailer, SE Store will have the code from their store, Amazon will email you a code. Take the code and follow the web link in the email or store page. This will take you to the pre-order bonus page. Pick your platform and then enter the code you were given. This will output a code that you can put into the mog station to get your pre-order bonuses.

DC redistribution is happening soon! Goblin, AIE’s server, will be moved to the new Crystal data center. At this time, AIE will be riding the Goblin wave and remaining on the server as it is migrated over to Goblin. When the redistribution happens, there will be free transfer provided with relaxed item and Gil limits. If you have other characters elsewhere, transferring to Goblin may be an option for you.

Fun nights are still Wednesday. Other options (nights and times) are being considered, but let us know in Discord on your suggestions! However, we do have a sizeable crew on every night! You don’t need to wait for a fun night to have fun with AIE! Talk in FC chat, join voice and dive into your adventures together

The Seasonal event, Little Ladies’ Day, will be wrapping up on March 13th. Don’t forget to get your change to get the seasonal items, such as the Flower Crown and the housing items Festive Chirashi-zushi (your guess is as good as mine), Festive Sushi Balls, and Magicked Prism Daisies before they go up on the Mog Station.

The final pre-expansion fan fest will be held on March 23-24 over in Japan (A little under 2 weeks away!) What will be announced? What weird costume will Yoshi-P come out as? Will we get the full trailer for the expansion? Will the time zone difference mess with our sleep schedules? We’ll find out then!

Also a reminder, the Twitch Prime deal is for PC only. Not Mac, not Steam, not PS4.

STO

Game news front, on April 11th, they will be shutting down the Foundry system. The Foundry was a tool used for players to create content for the game.

LOTRO

The Skirmish Event has been extended until March 18th at 3:00 AM Eastern (-4 GMT)

Legendary Story XP has been reduced from 60% of normal to 80% of normal through Wednesday, March 13th.

Last week’s LOTRO Store sale has expired. This week’s planned LOTRO Store sale is now live, and will be extended to last for the regular sales duration. Meanwhile, next week’s sales will begin on Thursday as normal.

The current sale:

Make Your Piece of Middle-earth Shine!

Additionally, Bombur’s Bounty is now available through March 17th.

Finally, we wanted to let you know that we are working to put together a package of things to say thank you for being patient with us as we’ve worked through various data center-related issues in recent days. NOTE: None of the following Coupon Codes, LOTRO Points, or VIP time extensions have yet been granted or made. We will provide more information in the coming days, probably early next week.

All players will receive:

A Coupon Code for a free Appreciation Box containing: 5 100% XP Boosts, 5 Enhanced XP Supply, 5 Tomes of Defence, 2000 Figments of Splendour, 3 Rapid Crafting Boosts, and an assortment of seasonal dyes. (1/Account). Expiration end of April.

Additionally, VIP players will receive:

A VIP subscription time extension.

Premium players who have logged in during the previous 30 days will receive:

250 LOTRO Points

EVE

We are also building capital ships, at the request of members at reasonable prices.

War is on the horizon, come back and fulfil your bloodlust, our Non Invasion Pact with Test Alliance ends on the 22nd of March.

For current AIEU members, all personnel must be registered in AIEU Seat, Blades of Grass Seat, Winter Coalition Seat, and Winter Coalition services by March 15th. Purge to follow.

Lanc has a Eve Meetup in LA in like 24 hours.

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

GAME NEWS

Ossus is home to the ruins of a truly ancient Jedi Temple and is currently the site of a power struggle between the Galactic Republic and the Sith Empire. It is not a welcoming planet and is covered in rocky hills and sand (it gets everywhere). Even so, the Jedi who chose this place to lay low have been successful with carving out a life, mainly through some innovative farming methods. Old characters reappear and interesting new ones emerge in the introductory story to the area. There is a lair boss here, daily missions, two new tier gears, new rep to grind, two world bosses, two new datacrons, and new companions.

End of PvP Season 10

PvP Season 10 ended and Season 11 pre-season began. Top 96 rewards were distributed. Normal Season 10 rewards will go out when Season 11 begins, which will be RSN.

Double XP Week was Feb 19 – Feb 26. Much command points and many levelings were to be had!

New Guild Features

Bioware has added guild leveling and guild perks to the game. The perks last for a period of weeks and are purchased by the guild. The perks you can purchase depend on which parts of the guild flagship you have opened. Perks come in a wide variety and include things like increased gathering and crafting efficiency, increased experience gain, increased reputation gain, increased mounted speed, increased gains in Warzones (pvp), increased drop rates in Operations, increased stats in certain situations, and many more versions of all those and some that I’m sure I’ve left out.

All Conquest activity by guild members contributes to guild leveling and we are leveling nicely on both the Imperial side and the Republic side. Each time a guild levels, it receives Guild Commendations which can then be used to purchase guild perks.

There are some new voices on the SWTOR Official Forums these days including a new member of the Community Team – Dan Steed and Mike Bradley, who is a Live Producer. Mike has been paying attention to PvP threads.

Guild News

MFN continues to alternate weekly. If you are ever curious about which week is which, it’ll always be posted in the GMOTD.

Star Wars Celebration

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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://bit.ly/AIEPodcastDiscord . 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

Next time, we’ll be talking to someone about some game! So until then, AIE…

– This is Tetsemi

And this has been… The AIE Podcast.

On this episode of The AIE Podcast…

Mewkow: Anthem is the new hotness

Mkallah: SWTOR is Swarming the Hive of the Mountain Queen

Mewkow: Become a warrior of the Light, or maybe darkness?

Mkallah: Congratu-condolences to Huck in EVE

Mewkow: And, Dankinia is here to talk to us about AIE in ESO

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Tetsemi’s week (since he has no voice) – Got in FFXIV, playing an archer, at level 24 with various professions as well, very fun so far, good story and entertaining combat.

Bought Anthem and playing the heck out of it while recovering from the flu (would not recommend, the flu. Anthem is great). Level 14 playing the Colossus (tank mech, go figure) and did my first Stronghold. Was super fun and helped me figure out what all my key bindings actually do.

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

AIE News

Streaming and Podcast News

This week @AIESema, @MaxTheGrey and Astromech EPC-279 break down the good, the bad and the ugly of 5.10.1

SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 280: Killer Queen

This week @AIESema, @MaxTheGrey and Astromech EPC-280 break down the Queen of the Wretched of the Hive of the Mountain of the Queen lair boss fight.

Working Class Nerds Episode 37 “Soft Taco Talk” featuring Lady Rann and Kogass.

We discussed Twitch streaming as well as Nightmare Ops in Swtor.

Mandatory Fun Nights

Monday – GW2 9:30 pm Eastern

Saturday – Noob Raid (WoW) 11 pm Eastern

Imperium Ludi

WoW

Mini-Raid Wrap-up:

– Kini, any NOOB raid updates for us?

Kini- Noob Raid one shot Zul and Mythrax last night, after clearing the previous bosses. It was awesome.

SWTOR

Speaking of MEGA, February’s MEGA was this past Friday and killing the Hive Queen is not the only thing we did. We went to Ossus and got the two latest datacrons. Both of them were essentially jumping puzzles with one of them being in such close quarters that at certain camera angles you could see the inside of your own head. Thankfully, our good jumpers got to the target and were able to summon the rest of us.

In podcast news, both Working Class Nerds and The Escape Podcast are still going strong with WCN hitting their 37th episode and EPC their 280th.

In guild news

– BCavanagh wrote and compiled responses for a survey regarding people’s preferences for MFN. We will be using that info to help us decide from week to week what activities we do in MFN.

– Look for a survey in the near future from Marcus about what your preferences are for MEGA going forward.

Reminder that MFN is on the Republic side this week.

SoL (Soldiers of Light) beat the Mutated Geonosian Queen and got the hidden achievement

FFXIV

Activity is high, thanks Amazon and Twitch in particular!

Shadowbringers pre-orders are live with pre order bonuses available on 3/1, including a special leveling earrings to help us get to 70 a bit faster.

Confused with the class system? Check out this video from Abovan on that very subject: https://youtu.be/AFyGFn2R7pk

Plenty of room for new warriors of light. Drop on by the FFXIV channel is discord and we can help you get started. Plenty of people around to offer referrals or even codes for the game.

STO

EVE

Welcome back Space Trucker Extraordinaire Erick Nolen @redrum. He enjoys his time back by instantly losing a 1.4Billion Isk Carrier. Welcome back

The Russco-Imperial-Legacy is flailing on the bongos of war. The 6 month peace treaty that almost all of Eve is under expires on March 22nd. At least moderate to large scale warfare is expected

The Annual Burn Jita Player event is currently taking place. This is where hundreds of players converge on the largest market and in the game and kill Hundreds of Billions of isk worth of shipping traffic every day. Traffic advisory is recommended at least through Tuesday.

GW2

On Tuesday the new Warclaw WvW mount becomes available! It is useable in PvE as well. We don’t know yet how it will be claimed, but it will almost certainly involve WvW playing, so if you want to know how to WvW, come talk to us in the gw2 discord channel.

LOTRO

https://www.lotro.com/en/game/articles/producer%E2%80%99s-letter-%E2%80%93-february-2019-%E2%80%93-look-ahead

First, our most important goal for the year is to continue to tell your ongoing story. We are excited to continue the Black Book of Mordor as it winds through Middle-earth and leads players to our next expansion. The tale will take us to the Vale of Anduin, where we will explore the history, important events, and secrets of that area. As the year continues, we will unveil more tales in the Vale, and then follow the story back towards Mordor to Minas Morgul itself. Among the many dangers you’ll face will be Shelob herself as you learn what she has been up to, and how she is influencing the future of Middle-earth.

And in ongoing event news, the Skirmish Event continues through March 11th!

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

GAME NEWS

Update 21 arrives February 25th for PC players. It contains a new Battlegrounds map for PVP called Eld Angar that has several different game types available such as Capture the Relic, Domination, and Chaosball using one area of the version of the map and Crazy King and Deathmatch using another. (don’t ask me what any of this means, I don’t pvp)

There will also be new PvP rewards for people who compete in both the Alliance War and Battlegrounds.

Also the first part of the Season Of the Dragon adventure starts on the 25th as well. with the release of the Wrathstone DLC. A four person dungeon called the Dwarven Vault of Mhuvnak will open which has new Dwarven automations, deadly traps and goblins to get in the way of reaching the objective. Rewards that can drop from this dungeon included 3 new armor/weapon sets and a new Monster Mask.

This new DLC is available for all ESO plus members and in the crown store.

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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://bit.ly/AIEPodcastDiscord . 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…

Mkallah: Next time, we’ll be talking to Someone about something!. So until then, AIE…

– This is Mkallah

And this has been… The AIE Podcast.

On this episode of The AIE Podcast…

Tetsemi: Get ready for a most amazing race

Mkallah: AIE takes over Working Class Nerds

Mewkow: Celebrate Valentine’s Day Morrowind style

Tetsemi: Greetings from Outer space

Mkallah: And, we have Abovan who is here to talk to us about AIE in Final Fantasy XIV

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

Ralff’s Amazing Race Sunday, February 17th, 2019

Streaming and guild podcast news

https://www.buzzsprout.com/143519/949463

Marcus and Nick have a WCN record FOUR guests on the show! They’re joined by Max, Sema, Tetsemi, and Dankinia to talk about anything and everything involving our beloved AIE Guild.

SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 277: Ossus Daily Mission Tips

This week @AIESema, @MaxTheGrey and Astromech EPC-277 walk through the Ossus daily and weekly missions in some detail and review tips and tricks for how, why and where to do them.

SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 278: How Is Babby Formed On Ord Mantell

This week @AIESema, @MaxTheGrey and Astromech EPC-278 take our Jedi class story on to Ord Mantell and search out some of the babies we keep hearing about.

Mandatory Fun Nights

Where the fun is mandatory but the attendance is not.

Monday – GW2 9:30 pm Eastern

NOMADS

WoW

It looks like BLTN (Salus) and DoA (Libertas) ranked in top 10 as All-Stars on Execution for Uldir

And Get Your Crit Together (Audacia) and BLTN (Salus) ranked in the top 10 as All-Stars on Execution for Uldir on Herioc Difficulty on Earthen Ring.

SWTOR

We are taking a look at MFN schedules and might be adding in some variety and less common activities in the near term.

MEGA is February 22nd (Friday) and should be an awesome event!

FFXIV

STO

For guild structures: we are focusing on upgrading the Spire.

Next Sunday 2/17, we are going to be running an MFN. 8:30PM EST. Details are still being worked on.

There is a competition for a chance at the new ships for mirror of Discovery: Win a new starship that really brings the pain in Star Trek Online: Mirror of Discovery!.https://www.pcgamesn.com/star-trek-online/star-trek-online-mirror-of-discovery-giveaway

ESO

EVE

We have a series of events that I’m planning for all of February

For the First weekly event we’re going to celebrate the Lucky Pig!!! Everyone who logs on over the next 7 days will have the chance to Receive Luck . Some activities may help sway the luck gods so go on those fleets! And join in on Space Communism, Space Capitalism, and Space…idk Jainism…

I’m going to be filling up Minmatar ships (rusty red colored ships) and filling them with goodies to contract out to people randomly

Week 2 will be a Fitfleet fitness “Challenge of the skinny pig!” Just document your road to better health (whatever is medicinally advisable for all of us in different stages of life) in our fitfleet channel and receive something at the end of the week

Week 3 is….going to be something….idk yet probably participation based. Thinking Exploding Pig. Probably a Red Envelope fleet

But week 4 will be a Chili Recipe Cookoff I think….Pork based

LOTRO

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

GAME NEWS

Pre-orders are now available. Preorder now and get early access, goodies. Early access will start on June 28th.

New Classes

Gunbreaker – New, Gun-sword, Gunblade tank class!

Blue Mage, available now!

New 24-player raid with guest designers Yosuke Saito and Yoko Taro.

Yoko Taro picture, because we need this.

New Race, The Viera!

Very similar to the Viera in FF Tactics and 12.

The Restoration of the Holy See of Ishgard

New Game+

Trusts!

And more to be revealed at the Tokyo Fan Fest

The End of Stormblood!

Patches! New Content, new stories!

Patch 4.55 is slated for next Tuesday.

More Eureka, Rival Wings Update.

Doman mahjong was added. This is more similar to Japanese Mahjong and not solitaire Mahjong you may be familiar with. This plays like a combination of poker and gin rummy in a 4 player setting.

Future patch

Data Center Reshuffle. Today, Goblin, our server is on the Aether Data Center, which is our grouping of servers that allows for party finder groups, party matching and so forth. Coming soon, Goblin will be reshuffled into a new datacenter, Crystal.

At this time, we as a Free Company will remain on Goblin with no plans on moving, and therefore will eventually end up on the Crystal datacenter. We do have a Cross-World linkshell setup that anyone is welcome to join, if you are on another server but still wish to talk to AIE folk. Ask in the #FFXIV channel in discord for details.

You will be able to freely visit any other server on your datacenter!

Since last time we were on, Alphascape, 4 Lords, and the end of the Return to Ivalice 24-player raid story in the Orbonne Monastery!

Got Twitch Prime? How about Amazon Prime? Well, play the starter edition now, for FREE!

FC Post Valentine’s Day Calamity. Get your toons refreshed in the FC or else they will removed if they are over 180 days offline. Officers, this includes you. February 15th is the deadline.

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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://bit.ly/AIEPodcastDiscord . 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…

Ask Buxley – @AskBuxley

Next time, well hopefully be talking to Dankinia and possibly friends in ESO. So until then, AIE…

– This is Mewkow

On this episode of The AIE Podcast…

Tetsemi: We have your community calendar

Mewkow: and streaming and podcast news

Mkallah: It’s time to gear up your alts

Tetsemi: The season of the Dragon is almost here

Mewkow: And, we have Syreyne here to chat about AIE in World of Warcraft

All that and more coming up right now…

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

AIE News

Community

Next month’s Community Event across a number of games:

Streaming and guild podcast news

This week @AIESema, @MaxTheGrey and Astromech EPC-275 continue the Jedi adventure on Coruscant and talk about the PTS and patch notes.

SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 276: Fighter Weapons School

http://www.newoverlords.com/swtor-escape-pod-cast-276-fighter-weapons-school/

Working Class Nerds (NSFW) – Episode 35: Nezzir Again!

https://www.buzzsprout.com/143519/932124

Upcoming streams

Mandatory Fun Nights

Monday – GW2 9:30 pm Eastern

Imperium Ludi

Nomads

WOW

We now have 7 raid team participating the guild bank / raid bank program. If your raid team would like to participate, please contact Syreyne in game or in Discord and/or post in the #raidteam-news channel in AIE Discord. Also see the pinned message in #raidteam-news for more information on this project.

See show notes below for more!

SWTOR

We flew around planets and were learning how to do GSF. Max was the instructor.

The guild hit Level 10 in our guild level. Thats a lot of work and we’re proud of the team.

Deathstar Troopers The sunday night ops team beat the second boss in Dread Fortress in HardMode. They were working on it for 3 weeks. This is a big accomplishment for the team.

ESO

FFXIV

FFXIV European fanfest also starts on February 2nd at 10am central european time. Expected annoucements include a new race and a new class https://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/topics/detail/3cfa291260acfacc545bb2958df00ec64fb1926d

Our server, Goblin will be transitioning to the new data center, Crystal. At this time, no plans of moving.

We don’t have plans of moving at this time, and transfers to and from the server have been announced as “affected players will be offered transfers”. Nothing beyond that.

So, if you play with AIE on a different server that will remain in Aether, transfers might be available. More info passed along when we get it.

House needs to be redecorated. Any aspiring interior designers that want to help out, reach out in the discord channel.

As for in game news, the new class Blue Mage is now live. If you are looking for a unique experience in FF14, this new class is like no other. With a permanent open world monster experience boost, this class levels quickly, and you’ll be busy collecting all manner of game breaking abilities, which is why you won’t see these classes in any normal group content.

We also have Valentione’s day coming up very soon, so please look forward to it.

STO

Anniversary event for STO. Omega particle collection, and a daily quest that ends in a free ship.

And with that, let’s get back to Syreyne and find out what’s going on in World of Warcraft.

GAME NEWS

Raid team progress:

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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://bit.ly/AIEPodcastDiscord . 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…

Ask Buxley – @AskBuxley

Just a programing note- our next show will be on Saturday, February 9th at regular show time. Guest to be announced!. So until then, AIE…

– This is Mkallah

And this has been… The AIE Podcast.