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On this episode of The AIE Podcast…
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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-273 kick off 2019 with our 6th annual year-end review and next year predictions show
SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 274: Catching Up On Coruscant
This week @AIESema, @MaxTheGrey and Astromech EPC-274 are back to a somewhat more normal show with check back in on our Jedi class story adventures and a first look at Coruscant.
Plus more episodes that happened over the holidays while we on break, make sure to check out http://www.newoverlords.com/ for any you might have missed.
Working Class Nerds (NSFW/C Language)
Nick and Marcus along with guests discuss our predictions for SWTOR in 2019 as well as Star Wars celebration and Episode 9.
Mandatory Fun Nights
Monday – GW2 9:30 pm Eastern
Saturday – STO 10 pm Eastern
Destiny 2
ESO
Twitch live stream planned for the 15th to talk about what is planned for 2019 which they are referring to as The Season of the Dragon. As of right now, thoughts are it will involve a new zone focused on the Khajitt, dragons, and possibly a necromancer class.
Currently the Midyer Mayhem pvp event is in progress so people can earn event tickets to buy berries to evolve the Indrik that was obtainable in 2018. They have three additional events planned for the first quarter – The Morrowind Celebration, Thieves Guild & Dark Brotherhood Celebration, and the Jester’s Festival. Depending on the dates of these events, we will focus on them for our MFN’s as they happen.
Also a reminder that MFN in ESO is still going strong. We run every Friday night at 9pm EST .
WoW
SWTOR
Speaking of Conquest, we won a planet! It’s a world of refineries and poison, but it’s ours! AIE is on the road to galaxy domination!
MFN continues to run on Tuesday nights starting at 9PM Eastern. Tuesday the 15th, we will be on the Republic side.
MEGA is coming up this Saturday (the 19th) with a night of friendly GSF. The asteroids might not be friendly, but the guildies will be.
FFXIV
Note that our world, Goblin, will be departing the Aether Data Center and become part of the migration to the new Crystal Data Center. We realize this is a game changer for many and if this will affect your ability to play with AIE please let us know now. We’ll also announce details on how AIE will be dealing with this change on the AIE website at https://aie-guild.org/ffxiv when we have all the final details.
Expansion announcement: Shadowbringers
New Patch content: 4.5 A Requiem for Heroes
Seasonal Events:
Letter from the Producer Live XLIX (49) from the Paris Fan Festival
* Preview of changes coming in Patch 4.55
GW2
GAME NEWS
Question one- what was the geekiest gift you gave?
Question two: what was the geekiest gift you got?
Question three: What is your geeky New Years resolution?
Question four: What are you looking forward to in the New Year’s around AIE?
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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 – @Acuzod
Next time, we’ll be talking to Syrene in WOW. So until then, AIE…
– This is Mewkow
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Ok, let’s just jump into news and AIE in 2018!!
AIE News
Community
From time to time AIE evaluates the roles and jobs of the officer group that oversees all our game divisions and does the back end work. In doing that recently we identified the need for a bit more help in a couple areas. In particular, SWTOR 5.10 is going to take what we’ve been doing in that division with the guild “conquest” system and crank it up to 11 (and then to level 65+). Guild leveling, conquest changes and guild perks are going to require additional focus and officer roles. As a result, two new officers have been added! They will continue to be primarily SWTOR focused but we will be calling on them for help and guidance across the community as needed as well.
BCavanagh – Bcav or BC has taken on the role of Conquest strategizer for the guild for many months with his contributions in this area extending out into the greater SWTOR gaming community as well.
Zen – Zen has been with us for a few years now and true to his chosen gamer tag, he’s cool and level headed without fail. He is one of the top “helpers” in the guild, always ready to assist with any ask and goes out of his way constantly to make himself available. Also in the conquest management role, Zen has become a tactical execution lead.
Mandatory Fun Nights
Where the fun is mandatory but the attendance is not.
Monday – GW2 9:30 pm Eastern
Saturday – STO 10 pm Eastern
Just a heads up, make sure you are checking into each game to find out what games are on hold for the holidays
Streaming and guild podcast news
This week @AIESema, @MaxTheGrey and Astromech EPC-267 are joined by two new AIE Officers, Zen and BC, to walk through the three 5.10 guild update posts and details from the recent dev live stream.
SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 268: Do You Want To Build A Saber
This week @AIESema, @MaxTheGrey and Astromech EPC-268 talk through bits of 5.10 news from Eric Musco, Charles Boyd, and Jackie Cao, and we finally get to build our lightsabers on Tython
Working Class Nerds – Episode 29: Community Chat with Eric Musco
Marcus and Nick sit down with Star Wars: The Old Republic’s Senior Community Manager Eric Musco!
(As Captain America says to Ironman – “Language!”) Rated explicit due to language from the hosts.
NOMADS
Destiny 2 – The free copy of Year One is no longer available, but the refer-a-friend is still ongoing. If you did pick up a free copy of Year One, and are thinking of purchasing the Year Two Forsaken expansion, see about having a guildie invite you so that you can both get some fun bonus goodies for the effort. This includes an experience bonus for both of you if you are below the level cap for Forsaken, which is level 50. It also opens open a number of exclusive quests to complete together to get an exotic sniper rifle, an exclusive ship, and a friendship emblem. Those that refer multiple friends will be able to earn an exclusive sparrow. If you recently bought Forsaken, and it was less than 7 days ago, you can still be ‘referred’ by another player to activate the bonuses.
WoW
So, AIE in WOW in Review!
1. 112 gnomes were killed during COOP this year, however we still have time to add to those numbers with our annual Winterveil COOP coming up in December.
What Arrives with Patch 8.1 (starting 12/11, but susceptible to time gating)
Continuation of the War Campaign
SWTOR
2018 started off with the last of 2017’s Snowballs on Nar Shaddaa, followed closely by Zen reminding people that they can get mats from the Guild Cargo Hold to do their Conquest crafting.
2018 also saw 3 new operations bosses in various difficulty modes:
The Guild came together to get all the operations teams a chance to down Izax.
We got a new Flashpoint, a new pvp map, a Conquest revamp, and the Rishi Stronghold.
We got a new podcast – Working Class Nerds – hosted by Marcus and Nick.
We had a great year for guild growth and as a result we moved our MFN and Conquest schedule from 2 week Imp/1 week Pub to 1 and 1.
We got 4 new officers – Dent, Marcus, Zen and BC!
We had fun times on the public test servers maxing out our characters and their gear, and killing bosses.
We conquered Balmorra!
Astromech EPC-268 is floating out in space broadcasting the 268th edition of the SWTOR Escape Podcast with Max and Sema.
But 2018 is not over yet! We will finish the year with update 5.10 which will include new story, a new daily area, a new guild progression system, private PVP and GSF instances for guilds, a new armor tier, and more
STO
The fleet made some big strides this year on the fleet holdings. The starbase was upgraded to Tier 4 and the Starbase Military also upgraded to tier 4. This has unlocked a large number of fleet ships.
The fleet Research lab was fully completed unlocking more trait slots, an R&D project slots on top of some gear.
The fleet spire is over halfway done in upgrading fully. Which will unlock some more awesome gear for the fleet.
As for STO, we received the Victory is Life expansion. Bringing back the Dominion and allowing us to create Jem’hadar captains and of course more story.
And of course the latest story is based on the Discovery TV series in the Age of Discovery. Ships updated in Tier 6 variants from the show and some really interesting episodes were added.
Also, as Grebog’s schedule has changed around again, I will be looking to find a time for people that will allow a fun night for the fleet to come together, chat, blow up some enemy ships and have some fun. So, Set Phasers to Fun, should be coming back soon.
FFXIV
Warrior of Light might be becoming the Warrior of Darkness. But isn’t there already a Warrior of Darkness?
As seen in the video of the fan fest, we will have this in our hands, barring any delays, summer of 2019.
New end game for crafters and gatherers! The rebuild of Ishgard has begun. Hinted at the idea of housing in Ishgard may be available. Farming may also be possible, but not as one of the new classes.
New Game+
End of 32-bit windows version of the game, 64-bit only at that point.
Blue Mage, as announced by the CEO of Square Enix, Yosuke Matsuda, sporting a blue mask, a blue cape, and a staff with a blue gemstone at the top.
Word Visiting details:
Goblin, AIE’s Home World, will be relocated to the new Crystal Data Center. Free Transfers will be available for characters affected by this move. No plans for AIE to move at this time.
Shadowbringers Trailer.
Blue Mage Reveal
ESO
Upcoming events – there are two in-game events still scheduled for this year. The Undented Celebration Event (11/29 – 12/05) which will reward Event Tickets once per day when your group kills the final boss of a dungeon. The New Life Festival (12/13 – 01/02) will award one Event Ticket the first time you complete a festival quest each day. These Event Tickets are used to buy the four Indrik Feathers needed for the new Indrik mount.
EVE
EvE is going through another donut domination phase and the crises (plural) that always follow. So prepare your buckets to harvest rivers of tears.
Will see how EvE evolves or morphs to survive a few more years
POS(Player Owned Structures) are finally retired now, after almost 11 years.
GW2
In game, the annual Winters Day holiday is coming up soon, in line with Arenanet new policy of not making events and achievements one-offs. If you are short on karma, the Winters Day orphans karma event should be able to help.
In the guild, we have reached level 23 and stalled out a bit. Hopefully we can regain progress in the new year and keep expanding the Guild hall. Monday Fun Nights are still generally scheduled, but we’ll skip around Christmas and New Year’s.
LOTRO
The guild name is Alea Iacta Est as DM +Adahrel+ granted us a rename from A I E.
GAME NEWS
Mkallah- okay, you guys, since this is our last show of the year, an it is the weekend of Thanksgiving in the US- what are you guys thankful for?
Tetsemi – What was your favorite AIE moment this year and what was your favorite moment in gaming this year?
Mewkow- What are you looking forward to next year both in real life and in gaming with AIE?
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And that’s our show for tonight. While the chatroom begins suggesting show titles, we want to thank everyone for joining us each show, we really appreciate everyone that joins the chat room, listens on the feed, and responds 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://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 you in the New Year. So until then, AIE…
– This is Tetsemi
And this has been… The AIE Podcast.
On this episode of The AIE Podcast…
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Ok, we’ll be digging into AIE and Blizzcon shortly, but first, let’s cover this week’s news…
AIE News
Streaming and guild podcast news
This week @AIESema, @MaxTheGrey and Astromech EPC-265 do a live tour of the new planet Ossus on the PTS.
SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 266: There Is Only Pieces
This week @AIESema, @MaxTheGrey and Astromech EPC-266 continue to slice Flesh Raiders and other wildlife to pieces on Tython as we get back to our Jedi story progress.
NOMADS
And if you find yourself enjoying the game, there is currently a refer a friend event where existing players of the Year 2 Forsaken expac can invite those with the free copy, or even those that haven’t bought Forsaken yet, to play with them and earn all sorts of fun rewards. These include an exotic sniper rifle, a ship, and even an exotic sparrow for those that refer multiple friends.
Mandatory Fun Nights
Monday – GW2 9:30 pm Eastern
Saturday – STO 10 pm Eastern
WoW
Kardinal, tell us your first hand experience with the chaos that is NOOB raid! (Can throw to Kardinal if you want; I was there. I can make a story of it. )
December community events: COOP for Winter Veil, no date yet;
Time After Timewalking event on Friday Dec 7th at 9pm Eastern/Server. LK Ulduar Timewalking raid. Details will be posted soon to the blog.
November Officer Play Date: Nov 30th at 10:30 pm Eastern we are having an Overwatch night. Everyone is invited. Come get to know your fellow officers outside of WoW. Let’s see how many custom games and groups we can get going.
Raid Bank Pilot Program: This program is doing really well, and we are getting a lot of positive feedback. If you are interested in applying for a raid team guild bank tab, please email us.
(Kardinal’s in BLTN, can talk about our experience and why we love it. Much more convenient. Don’t have to know who to send to. Don’t need to know what’s needed. Just throw whatever we think is useful in the guild bank. Anyone who needs, takes. Just need to trust your teammates, which we all do. Because we’re AIE.)
If you are the leader of a raid team that might be interested in this program once it is approved, or have questions or feedback about such a program, please email us with details such as:
Raid Team name
ESO
STO
Also Black Friday sales. They always have some great deals on in the c store, from bonus zen if you purchase it, to discounted ships, special packs, lots of stuff.
There is a 20% of sale on all lobi store items until tomorrow 10am PST as well.
SWTOR
Last night. We had SWTOR Unite. Which was….. All of the SWTOR podcasters united for a night and we took on the Gods from the Machine operation. AIE was well represented by Max, Sema, Marcus, and a last minute fill in was Corley. We went for about 4 hours and had a blast. In the end. Izax was still standing. But what a great night.
FFXIV
EVE
Nothing much, except more betrayals within alliances (so you end up with fights that are free for all, or where your ally helps your enemy). Even with CCP being bought out, the players are the most important resource in EvE, and Tears Do Flow Them Rivers!
Also WAR! WAR! WAR!
Onslaught Winter update is coming Nov. 13th
We just maybe, maybe making a new home for ourselves by stomping on some poor unsuspecting alliance’s neck. Oopsies!
What does that mean for AIEU? Why our specialty of course! Moving
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/221606966433153024/510315359065341952/unknown.png
LOTRO
Only VIPs / VIP Lifer can access them, and we’re effectively starting over all at once. I suspect Helegrod, the first raid back in the day, will be the ultimate goal after hitting level 40.
GAME NEWS
The themes of our talk:
1) the ability to talk to nearly anyone and know you have common interests.
2) the availability and eagerness of developers to talk to anyone and everyone who approached them.
Tetsemi – Overall thoughts are positive, lots of announcements, both expected and unexpected. Loved listening to the Before The Con panels, as well as all the panels at Blizzcon. The WoW panels (especially the Q&A) and the Warcraft III Reforged panels were amazing. The Costume/Talent contest was very well done, definitely bring back Darren DePaul for that, and the Warcraft Horde vs. Alliance voice actor panel was worth it with Laura Bailey singing Daughter of the Sea live.
Content thoughts –
Mewkow
Lanctharus
Kardinal experience with Blizzcon
“The other day, John Staats released his WoW diary. The one he wrote when he was working on Vanilla. I was reading it last night. This is very relevant to the whole conversation, I think:
“In the spirit of education, the first thing I would like to impress upon you is one of the most surprising lessons I learned: Public speculation is always wrong. Always. Blizzard operated under a blanket of scrutiny, and only after I was in the meetings could I appreciate how inaccurate public analysis was. Unless you’re in the room, you have no idea what’s going on. Unless someone knows firsthand the reasons why a company makes decisions, popular conjecture is completely off. For a company as secretive as Blizzard, the tinfoil-hat theorizing about why we did anything was severe, cynical, and reactionary. It struck me how people universally assumed corporate decisions were thoughtless or callous—like if a feature was dropped, it was done so without regard for the feelings of the fan base. When decisions were made for financial grounds, people assumed it was because developers lacked imagination. Whenever technical or gameplay decisions were made, it was assumed the company was penny-pinching. I’m not even referring to the trolls dredging the game forums for flame wars; I’m talking about the intelligent, well-substantiated, and reasonable arguments about why Blizzard did this or why Blizzard did that. But…all of it was wrong and certainly not because the fan base was stupid. People were wrong because they considered only variables that were public knowledge—which were only a fraction of the pertinent factors.”
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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://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 segments we received this week, including…
Ask Buxley – @AskBuxley
Next time, it’s our end of year wrap up episode, since we are taking December off!. So until then, AIE…
– This is Mkallah
And this has been… The AIE Podcast.
On this episode of The AIE Podcast…
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Ok, we’ll be digging into EVE shortly, but first, let’s cover this week’s news…
AIE News
Community
Lanc- when should we expect some news?
Also in AIE Discord news, we have new Emoji for our Discord! https://aie-guild.org/blog/2018/10/aie-discord-updates-and-emoji/
Streaming and guild podcast news
Last week @AIESema, @MaxTheGrey and Astromech EPC-263 continue to talk about V.X and get back to the Jedi class story on Tython.
SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 264: The Force Is Strong With This One
This week @AIESema, @MaxTheGrey and Astromech EPC-264 wrap up the story, character and companion preview talk on update 5.10 while continuing the Jedi class story on Tython.
Mandatory Fun Nights
Monday – GW2 9:30 pm Eastern
Saturday – STO 10 pm Eastern
Nomads
WoW
Running of the Beef was a success! https://www.twitch.tv/videos/325695727
And the events committee is looking for ideas for guild event in january. it can be a new event, old event, something based on the Blizzard/WoW calendar, whatever. Please submit the ideas to Syreyne.
Lots of new raid kills, including full normal clear on DoA for a Libertas guild achievement, and full clear of Uldir LFR from Noob Raid, as well as several heroic level boss kills by other teams.
SWTOR
Friday Nov 30. 9pm eastern time. Mega is back with Marcus. (Baby Break) it will be called…”Sema’s Gone to Voss” details to come.
Last Friday’s MEGA replay is up on the guild Twitch channel and now published on YouTube as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r028hxYttHA
ESO
Murkmire DLC and update 20 launched last week. There is a new zone with quests, delves, and a 4-player arena to undertake. It is free for all ESO plus members and can also be obtained from the in-game store for crowns or earned with the Daily Reward log in for November. To earn it as a daily reward, log in and claim a reward for 24 of the 30 days in November.
GW2
FFXIV
If you are a PvP’er, the Feast Season 10 will close on Oct 30th, with the results being announced on Nov 6th.
Do you like loot? Do you like carving out pumpkins for the Halloween season with a FFXIV flair? Then this contest is for you. https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/topics/detail/de5c4d261caf6670a31a2d835fd7b3f18b8d4683
Also, for the FFXIV music lovers out there, the community has voted and the top 50 FFXIV songs are now on a single Blue-Ray Album, FFXIV-The Best. Also includes a couple of chiptunes tunes as well, an in-game orchestration rolls to play in your own house or apartment.
And with that, let’s get back to our trio of guests and find out what’s going on in EVE .
GAME NEWS
Oh hai! I’m Lanc.
How the heck are you?
Hey Tabby, who are you anyways?
And what’s your favorite breakfast cereal: cinnamon toast crunch
Pearl Abyss buys CCP
EVE Vegas
Corp update.
Let’s talk about the bruhaha about Space Nerds in Sin City
EVE Online on Mobile – Alpha
Project NOVA – Alpha
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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://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 are looking to have some special guests on to talk about Blizzcon. So until then, AIE…
– This is Tetsemi
And this has been… The AIE Podcast.
On this episode of The AIE Podcast…
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
A couple of the game divisions are doing in-game meet-ups for the Town Hall.
Dent has a note up in a couple places on what SWTOR will do (Slippery Slope Cantina and then Rampage fun after), and ESO sounds like they might do one as well after their Friday MFN.
The Blizzcon channels in Discord are up and running. The post describes what’s up and the discussion on who will be there and when they might
Streaming and guild podcast news
SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 262: 5.10 Stay A While And Listen
This week @AIESema, @MaxTheGrey and Astromech EPC-262 cover Bioware’s longest dev stream with our longest podcast episode all about V.X, or at least as much of it as we could get through in the time we had.
Mandatory Fun Nights
Monday – GW2 9:30 pm Eastern
Saturday – STO 10 pm Eastern
NOMADS
In Destiny 2 news; The guild is still working towards getting the clan banner leveled to its maximum benefits, currently at level 2. For those that want to help with this goal, you will need to get to the current max level of 50 and then grab the daily clan bounties from Hawthorne at the Tower. There is normally 1 solo pve bounty, 2 solo crucible bounties, and 3 clan group bounties that are refreshed every day. Once we get to level 4, we will be able to complete the raid bounties.
WoW
SWTOR
ESO
FFXIV
STO
GAME NEWS
Sy: We know many of you are full up on Earthen Ring, so we are running on the Ravenholdt US server. Because we had sharding aka phasing issues last time, we are asking everyone to level their troll to 10 in advance so we can group up as a raid. With full heirlooms, this only takes about an hour to do. So you have one week to create and level those trolls!
Zod: We are starting with the meetup and guild invites at 1pm Eastern. The guild name for this Running of the Beef is “Bwonsamdi Forever”. We do have a guild crest, so if you are inclined to buy a guild tabard in Orgrimmar, go for it. But it will cost 1 gold from the vendor. Unfortunately, with the change that made tabards Bind on Pickup, we can no longer pre-purchase them to hand out anymore. If you really really want the tabard, the easiest way is to get the gold for it is to create a DK and do some of the starting area quests.
Sy: Make sure that after you hit level 10, you hearth back to the very first zone-in starting area, aka the beach. We are going to start there. That’s also where we will do the guild and raid invites. At 2pm Eastern, we are going to roll out. We have all kinds of fun and cool things to do, so have your S.E.L.F.I.E. cameras hot-keyed and your twitter linked up to battlenet. We’re going to use #aieguild and #RotB15 to share our “photos” with the whole community.
Zod: In the past, we’ve had bodyguards to help us through higher level zones. This time around, we are doing things a bit differently, so we won’t need the guards to follow us. Don’t worry! I’m pretty sure some of you will still die. It is tradition after all.
Sy: If you are interested in seeing the formal invitation for Running of the Beef, or the full list of previous themes, check out our blog post on the AIE website! https://aie-guild.org/blog/2018/09/running-of-the-beef-zandalar-forever/
Upcoming Events
Sy: To help with all these new events, we’ve started a new Events Committee to help out. If you have ideas for new events that we can do, whether in WoW or in other gaming divisions, please let the officers know. You can always find us in Discord in the #lfo chat channel, or you can email us at [email protected].
Zod: We’ve had some great fun over the last few months with the Hide and Forsaken, Kirin Tor Tavern Crawl, Trial of Style, and Pirate’s Day Warmode (and Sy’s pirate themed sad jokes!). We want to keep the fun and momentum going!
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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
Next time, we’ll be trying to wrangle Crazy Uncle Lanc as he tells us about EVE.. So until then, AIE…
– This is Mkallah
On this episode of The AIE Podcast…
All that and more coming up right now…
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Ok, we’ll be talking amongst ourselves shortly, but first, let’s cover this week’s news…
AIE News
Streaming and guild podcast news
SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 259: Original Trailer Reaction Show
This week @AIESema, @MaxTheGrey and Astromech EPC-259 play the three original trailers and react and comment including a dive into the Malgus origin and story arc leading up to SWTOR launch.
SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 260: True Emperor
This week @AIESema, @MaxTheGrey and Astromech EPC-260 make the Malgus circle complete by running the False Emperor flashpoint (or True Emperor, from a certain point of view).
Upcoming streams
ESO MFN and NOOB raid are both streaming this week!
NOMADS
WoW
Reminder to use raid recruitment channel in discord to find raid teams, now that more people are gearing up 120.
ESO
The Summerset event to unlock a pet, mount, and house has ended. AIE did it’s part to get the achievement completed. The ESO community hit the goal and we should be receiving an awesome house around October 10th. And they will have plenty of items created for it for people to spend their money on.
On October 8th they will be releasing 4 Summerset/High Elves style furniture packs in the Crown Store for purchase if people want to buy them to start furnishing the Grand Psijic Villa we unlocked. The sets available will be for a parlor, kitchen/dining room, bedroom, and bathroom.
STO
20% off services sale going on now until also 10/1 10 am PT
It is also Bonus XP weekend. Great time to level mains or alts.
Phoenix Prize pack also going on right now, but this goes until 10/5 10am PT. Get a free phoenix prize pack at Drozana Station each day. And you can buy more from the dilithium store. A great way to stock up on gear upgrade tokens that cost no dilithium on use. And technically the cost of the boxes from the dilithium store for the boxes converted over to these upgrade tokens ends up saving you dilithium compared to regular upgrade tokens that use dilithium in the upgrade process. (Yes, Grebog put it into a spreadsheet to check.)
The fleet can always use more personnel and resources for the fleet holdings. We are still making decent progress on the various holdings and every little bit helps.
The Spire is closing in on Tier 2 of research wing, which will unlock one of the better tactical consoles in game for everyone. The operations wing is also closing on on getting its big Tier 2 project unlocked as well. And then once we complete the Tier 2 research, we will also be able to work on the overall spire’s tier 2 project, which will unlock the fleet versions of the 1000 day veteran ships.
SWTOR
For MFN, we had a prep team start Scum and Villainy an hour before so that as a 16-person team, we could finish it. The operation has 7 bosses. The prep team got the first 5 down. Special thanks for the idea goes out to Zen.
Next week will be the Imperial side for conquest.
Patch 5.9.3 is dropping this week with a new Huttball map and the start of a week of double XP and CXP.
Thank you and welcome all new members to the guild. We have had a ton join in the last month. Just want to say we’re happy to have them!
Keep an eye on the #swtor channel in AIE DIscord for details regarding the next MEGA event which is happening towards the end of October.
FFXIV
https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/topics/detail/cc70f5b1c61174463b431d06424e6be8f2701ef6
As the patch title suggests, tt is prepping the story up for whats to come in the next expansion, which should be announced at this year’s fanfest; November 15-16-17.
Big new features include…
New story
GW2
“The Mist War is roiling at the end of this month, with enhanced bonuses for controlling the Ruins of Power in the Borderlands. Take advantage of the high stakes to earn greater rewards in WvW for a week!”
And with that, let’s chat about what we have been doing in and out of game!
GAME NEWS
Mkallah- Big fight thursday game, Ravenloft planning…… D&D Friday- learn about the battle between Artraxis and Alistar Bronzebeard- learn about the Shadowfel, find shadow dragon scale that had we taken would have put us in large amounts of danger had we made it into a shield
Tetsemi-
Team Positive moment – See # 3 above. Three DPS queued up for Siege, we got a wonderful priest healer who was fighting their addons for dispelling and went through two tanks (I play DPS on the Alliance side) before finally getting the final fight down correctly. The three DPS and the healer were steady, kept discussing what we were doing wrong, without blame, and got ourselves sorted and finally got it! No spoilers, but the final cinematic is definitely a wow moment. Very nice to put a cap on that story line.
Dear Blizzard, please add in a Ferry Master whistle!
Mobile
Starting playing a new mobile game – Dragalia Lost (think Final Fantasy + Blizzard Game on Mobile)
For Azeroth!
Shout Outs
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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 Syrene in WOW So until then, AIE…
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AIE News
Community
Streaming and guild podcast news
This week @AIESema, @MaxTheGrey and Astromech EPC-100000000 move beyond 8 bits in podcast episode numbering and complete the Sorcerer Chapter 3 story.
http://www.newoverlords.com/swtor-escape-pod-cast-256-beyond-8-bits/
SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 257: Hit The Road Map, Jack
This week @AIESema, @MaxTheGrey and Astromech EPC-257 hit the road map. We drill into what was said in the road map and live stream, what wasn’t said, and what our opinions and speculation is on the future.
http://www.newoverlords.com/swtor-escape-pod-cast-257-hit-the-road-map-jack/
Upcoming Streams
NOMADS
Rejoining or want an invite to the clan, visit https://www.bungie.net/en/ClanV2?groupid=2122972
Remember to join discord and the #destiny2 chat for setting up groups
WoW
Running of the Beef: Zandalar Forever
This year, for RotB, we are doing trolls for the race. Everyone will need to create a new troll character of whatever class they wish on Ravenholdt US server. This time around we are asking everyone to level to 10 before the event and log out in the starting area where you first port into the game.
A reminder about AIE Raid Teams and Groups –
Raid Teams and Groups
SWTOR
EVE
ESO
MFN takes place every Friday night starting about 9 EDT and running for at least 2 hours. With the event happening, next Friday’s MFN might involve another attempt to explore the Imperial City for Sky Shards.
LOTRO
Coupon code REJUVEPOT gets you a Rejuvenation Potion x5 now through September 13th
Game Events
Be sure to coordinate on Discord if you’d like to enjoy these events with fellow AIE Kinship brothers and sisters!
And with that, let’s get back to Apolas and Marcus and find out what’s going on in SWTOR.
GAME NEWS
We have been kicking butt in conquest
Big stuff coming. Story, guild stuff, and NEW OPS!
The next MEGA in swtor will be in Sat, 9/22 – Fleet Pod Racing. The whole guild will know who the winner of the pod race is! Come to find out what im talking about on the 22nd! i
The next game update is called “Jedi Under Siege” and will have separate stories for both Imp and Pub. It’s going to take place on a world that will be familiar to fans of the Tales of the Jedi comic books. Set for Fall release.
5.10 also has returning companions Doc, Nadia, and Dark Side Jaesa.
Flash Flashpoint Friday was hosted by @Dent and fun was had by all.
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@beninmtl
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…
Alt-Itis
Next time, we’ll have a surprise guest- even for us! . So until then, AIE…
– This is Tetsemi
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AIE News
Community
Streaming and guild podcast news
This week @AIESema, @MaxTheGrey and Astromech EPC-254 dip back into the Sorcerer story on Corellia while talking about a power-leveling party held by the AIE guild on Tuesday
SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 255: Core Of Corellia
This week @AIESema, @MaxTheGrey and Astromech EPC-255 continue into the core of Corellia and talk about 5.9.2a.
Upcoming streams
WoW
Do you have a style, would you like to show it off? Gustytail and Syreyne are hosting a Show off Your Mog for Trial of Style. They will be organizing guild members into groups of 6 to run the Trial of Style. This is a great time to earn your 1st Place shirt for winning, along with currency to buy the transmog sets from the vendor.
We are setting times for Friday August 31 at 8pm EST, Saturday September 1 at 2pm EST and 9pm EST, Sunday September 2 at 1pm EST, and Monday September 3 at 8pm EST.
We encourage everyone to create groups any time outside of that however! And don’t forget, you need a shirt and tabard in your bags before queuing. You can always pre-create your mog sets too!
Good luck and see you next weekend!
SWTOR
The stong hold is fully unlocked for our guild and has both a large arena that outfitted for custom huttball or team deathmatch, and a smaller arena for small group or duels.
The MEGA event on Friday was fun and well attended. We got a pretty big group in our new guild stronghold and played around with the two custom arenas and it was called Revenge of the Huts. Fun was had by all and everyone killed Max.
The next Mega event will be on September 20th with details to come. It will be announced on Working Class Nerds next episode or the next Escape Pod Cast.
STO
My guess is that it will be similar to the creation of TOS captains. They may also add in a similar system to those captains for bonus rewards that you unlock account wide.
The crystalline catastrophe event is going on for special rewards.
The fleet is still progressing on various holdings, but can always use more duty officers for the various holdings.
Other than that, I think we have had many distracted by a burning tree and fighting on the islands.
EVE
FFXIV
GW2
LOTRO
And with that, let’s get back to Dankinia and Sparrow and find out what’s going on in ESO.
GAME NEWS
The recent patch that happened when the Wolfhunter DLC went live also added in a few other changes such as a new Battlegrounds map, some Alliance War changes, a new Skill respec update, and improvements to the Werewolf Skill Line. The Skill respec improvements are the change I was most looking forward to because it makes respecing more affordable. You don’t have to remove all skills and start from scratch, you can just remove the ones you don’t want and use those points elsewhere.
MFN happens every Friday around 9pm Eastern.
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Dankinia’s twitter is @Dankinia #whereskini and her Twitch stream can be found at https://www.twitch.tv/dankiniaplays
Sparrow’s Twitter is @Sparrowhawke1
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…
The triumphant return of Ask Buxley by @AskBuxley
Next time, we Marcus and Max will be on to chat about AIE in SWTOR!! So until then, AIE…
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AIE News
Community
Thank you to all who came out and celebrated the Summer of Love, Max and Syreyne have put together a write up with links to a lot of the videos taken by the community. Check out the aie-guild.org article – https://aie-guild.org/blog/2018/08/summer-of-love-2018-wrap-up/
If you want to see how COOP went, take a look at the write-up and the videos up on the site as well – https://aie-guild.org/blog/2018/08/aie-coop-summary/
And speaking of guildies getting together – For everyone who lives in the southern New England area. There is a comic book convention at Mohegan Sun in Uncasville, CT on 17-19 August 2017. It is a local show with plenty of Comic Book creators, vendors, and some Hollywood Stars of the past few decades. If anyone is planning or thinking of attending, Corley was thinking AIE people could get together for a lunch on one of the days. There are a number of restaurants at Mohegan Sun where he could try to make some reservations. If anyone is interested, let him know and hopefully we could have some type of meetup. This is the website for the show. It is a bit hard on the eyes, but it has all the info. Tickets are still available. http://www.terrificon.com/
Streaming and guild podcast news
http://www.newoverlords.com/swtor-escape-pod-cast-252-wanna-kill-all-humans/
http://www.newoverlords.com/swtor-escape-pod-cast-253-were-all-legends/
Upcoming Streams
WoW
Let’s Launch BfA With A Bang!
If you are a raid leader and haven’t filled out the survey that Nevermore has, please contact her in game (Neverending), on Twitter (@QuotedNevermore), @Nevermore in AIE Discord, or the AIE Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/AIEguild/ as she’s putting together things to make raid team organization and recruiting a bit easier for all.
And just a infrastructure update, we will be replacing the AIELFO channel in game with the AIELFO Community. Umami bulletins and the application approved letters have been updated with the new methodology. This give us better control over the aielfo communication in game, and as always, you can also ping of an officer in the AIE Discord #lfo channel as well.
SWTOR
Mandatory Fun Night will be on the Republic side this week, and the format for which side it which week has shifted. Right now it’s going to be every other week with an occasionally free-for-all rest week thrown in. Make sure you pay close attention to AIE Discord and the #swtor channel.
And a big thank you, from MarcusB, to everyone that participated in the MEGA event to kick off the Summer of Love. Without you, events like this don’t happen.
Take a look at the SWTOR update just published – https://aie-guild.org/blog/2018/08/swtor-state-of-the-galaxy/
ESO
Skill respecs are changing so you no longer have to clear all your points and fully rebuild. You will be able to change them individually, sort of like how it works with Champion Points. Also the werewolf skill line is being updated as well.
And of course MFN is Friday Nights at 9 Eastern.
GW2
EVE
AIEU along with its alliance Blades of Grass and coalition members have successfully defended the strategic system of 16AM-3. This great military and morale victory has ensured that the our space way of life endures. – AIEU Ministry of Truth, Love and Happiness
FFXIV
And with that, let’s get back to us and find out what’s going on in AIE World of Warcraft.
GAME NEWS
Tetsemi: Class stories, all of them, some of the more unique content they’ve done and really fleshed out all the classes and made them feel special. I really like how the Priest class order hall tied into Before the Storm and seeing those characters come to life in the story. And Artifact weapons, not having to collect a separate 1h and off-hand weapons.
Mewkow:
What did we dislike?
Mewkow:
Tetsemi: Unlocking class hall armor sets on alt’s. The 8 dungeon one was bad enough, but having to get exalted with the Nightborne for the shoulders, no thank you.
What personal goals did we meet?
Tetsemi: I got to see all 12 class order hall stories, got the Protection Warrior appearance from the Mage Tower and unlocked both heritage armor sets for the Highmountain Tauren and Nightborne. Our raid team also completed all the raids, on Normal, while they were still current.
Mewkow:
What personal goals did we miss?
Mewkow: class mounts
Tetsemi: Collecting all the class order hall armor sets. Completing a Mythic 15+ for the artifact appearance. Heritage armor for Void Elves and Lightforged.
What are we not going to miss from Legion?
Tetsemi: Dalaran. We’ve had it as ‘home base’ for two expansion (Lich King and Legion) and I think I’m done with it.
Mewkow:
What are we going to miss from Legion?
Mewkow:
Tetsemi: Class order halls and class specific stories, fighting a foe that’s not the Alliance, and haste tanking. The new Protection Warrior rotation feels slow and clunky and not as fluid as it was in Legion.
BFA Look Ahead
Tetsemi: New stories and new bosses to raid, but mostly new stories.
Mewkow:
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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 someone in something, so until then, AIE…
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AIE News
Streaming and guild podcast news
This week, @AIESema, @MaxTheGrey and Astromech EPC-251 are joined by @MarcusB814 (guild member and host of the Working Class Nerds podcast) to run Red Reaper and talk about Datacrons and the monthly event Marcus is running on the 27th.
NOMADS
WoW
Regular Noob Raid resumes October 6th. Normally the only requirements to join are a max level toon and the willingness to laugh a lot while we die over and over again.
A huge thank you to Syreyne and the DOA raid team for running the Noob’ers through Normal Antorus the past two weekends.
ESO
Midyear Mayhem is happening right now until August 6th. This event gives bonus rewards and XP for PVP activities.
The DLC will be on sale for 75% off for those that do not have it and there will be bonus rewards for a variety of activities in Wrothgar.
STO
https://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/10962253-star-trek-online%3A-age-of-discovery
For a limited time, Research and Development packs will be available to Captains for 20% off!
SWTOR
Congrats to the Conquers of Balmora!
Thank you to MarcusB for the MEGA event in SWTOR this week, they went after Datacrons and had a lot of fun doing it!
And, breaking news from Discord! Friday August 24th. #MEGA Episode 3! Revenge of the hutts
GW2
For the first time in 4 years, the Queen’s Gauntlet and Festival of the Four Winds are back! If you missed them the first time, or just want to compete and collect phat lewts, you have until Aug. 14th.
EVE
And with that, let’s get back to Max and Sy and talk about the Summer of Love!
GAME NEWS
This year Summer of Love is running from Monday July 30th to Sunday August 5th. If you have any specific questions on the events, you can always ask the chairperson of the event or ask any officer in AIE Discord. Please keep in mind that these events are subject to change. We’ll keep you posted! I hope to see you all there!
Friday July 27:
Monday July 30:
Tuesday July 31:
Wednesday August 1:
Thursday August 2:
Schedule for Remembrance Day:
Friday August 3:
Saturday August 4:
–LOTRO – Skirmish Party from 9-11pm EST: Lets have fun while running some skirmishes – Maellung
–STO – Evening of Fun at Risa – 12:00am EST (Midnight) – Grebog
Sunday August 5:
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Max on Twitter @MaxTheGrey
If you have a question or comment about our show, you can email us at [email protected]. You can also follow us on Twitter. The show is at @aiepodcast. Mew is at @themewkow. Mkallah is at @cyberwaif,and Tetsemi is at @ivorytiger. We record live with video every other Sunday at 8pm Eastern/5pm Pacific. You can join the chatroom and play along with us on our website at https://aie-guild.org/podcast-live-stream/ and our Discord server for chat at https://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 from HuntsTheWind
We are working on scheduling our next guests now- may be EVE or LOTR. So until then, AIE…
– This is Mewkow
And this has been… The AIE Podcast.
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