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July 16, 2018The AIE Podcast #301 – Last minute upgrading, crazy leveling, Summer of Love, and war stories galore!
On this episode of The AIE Podcast…
Mewkow: the Summer is filled with Love for AIE
Mkallah: Everything you know is about to change… again
Tetsemi: Need some Mandatory Fun, we have you covered most nights of the week
Mewkow: Wolfhunter is coming to ESO
Mkallah: Get ready for a host show
All that and more coming up right now…
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Welcome to episode #301 of the the podcast celebrating you, the Alea Iacta Est gaming community, the die has been podcast. This is Tetsemi: To my left is Mewkow: – (catch phrase here). And to my right is Mkallah: (catch phrase here). This week is a host show to discuss the various activities in AIE and how we are getting ready for Battle of Azeroth. Welcome!
Unfortunately, our guest this evening had a schedule conflict, so we’ll be chatting amongst ourselves shortly, but first, let’s cover this week’s news…
AIE News
Community
Just a quick reminder that the AIE Guild is also on Facebook and we’re looking at how we can best utilize it to keep everyone informed that prefers that method of communication. Stop by and say hi! https://www.facebook.com/AIEguild/ It’s a great place to keep a track of the events in AIE, see what raid teams run when and if they are recruiting, and to interact with your AIE guildmates.
The Summer of Love events are coming up for AIE in all the games, here’s a quick rundown of everything currently planned (subject to change, void where prohibited, yadda yadda yadda)
Monday July 30:
–WoW – “Hide and Forseeken Laser Tag” at 9pm Server / EST – Allanya & Nevermore
Tuesday July 31:
–WoW – Pub Crawl Micro-Holiday – Sy
–SWTOR – MFN Special Edition – Max/Sema
Wednesday August 1:
–V-Pod is the guest for the Special Edition of Sy’s Fireside Chat
Thursday August 2:
–Remembrance Day – All Games
-WoW – Shrine of the Fallen Warrior – including Beef’s and his team’s firework spectacular
-SWTOR – Alderaan in the Juran Mountains, our traditional location
-LOTRO – Remembrance walk from the Boar Fountain in Bree to The Last Homely House in Rivendell
Friday August 3:
–STO – Remembrance Flight – 1:00am at Wolf 359 (That’s Thursday late evening/Friday early morning) – Grebog
–ESO – MFN Special Edition – 9:30-11:30pm EST – Durus
–FFXIV – MFN Special Edition – 10:00pm EST – Abovan (Tentative)
Saturday August 4:
–WoW – COOP – (Tentative)
–LOTRO – Skirmish Party from 9-11 ESTl: Lets have fun while running some skirmishes – Maellung
–STO – Evening of Fun at Risa – 12:00am (Midnight) – Grebog
Sunday August 5:
–WoW – Gusty’s Giveaways: Pet Adoption and Mog Giveaway – 4pm in Undercity
–LOTRO – Beorn to Have Fun from 3:30-5:30 pm ESTl: Roll up a new Beorning and play it through the 5 min intro and join in the fun. – Maellung
SWTOR Pre-Event July 27th – MEGA Datacron Run.
We’ll have more details next show.
Streaming and guild podcast news
If you like PvP in Star Wars and want a good tour of the new PvP centered Stronghold on Rishi, take a listen to Episode 249 of the Escape Pod Cast.
This week, @AIESema, @MaxTheGrey and Astromech EPC-249 broadcast live from the PTS and tour the new Rishi Stronghold, showing off all the new features and unlocks
http://www.newoverlords.com/swtor-escape-pod-cast-249-rishi-casa-de-pvp/
Take a listen to Episode 250 (Congrats team!) of the Escape Pod Cast. This week, @AIESema, @MaxTheGrey and Astromech EPC-250 get back to the Sorc story, check out some interlude bit and finally get to Corellia
http://www.newoverlords.com/swtor-escape-pod-cast-250-penultimate-planet/
Upcoming streams
Max will not be streaming tonight, as Sema has informed him that he will be spending the time cleaning out his inventory for pre-patch!
WoW
A quick announcement from Nevermore-
“Hey AIE Guildies in WoW – If you have a raid team that will be active for Battle for Azeroth, please have a raid leader get in touch with Nevermore ASAP She is trying to gather a bunch of information and want to make sure that she’s not forgetting anyone. Message her via Discord, Twitter @QuotedNevermore, or send an in game mail to her main Neverending. Thank you”
With patch 8.0 coming out on Tuesday, everything you know will change … about your characters and how they play. Thankfully WoW Head has a great write-up about the upcoming changes so you’ll be prepared! https://www.wowhead.com/class-guides-battle-for-azeroth-bfa-pre-patch?webhook/how-to-play-your-class-in-the-battle-for-azeroth-8-0-pre-patch-class-guides-for-
Also, if you are returning and your characters were removed for inactivity or you are new to AIE please take a look at https://aie-guild.org/blog/2018/07/wow-pre-patch-incoming-so-get-back-in-game/ with all the information needed to get you back in the game and familiar with all the ways AIE publishes information.
Also, with the hiatus of Noob Raid, Syreyne’s raid team is taking Noob raiders through Antorus on July 21st and July 28th starting at 9pm EST for the first raid and 11pm EST for the second raid. More information in the article at https://aie-guild.org/blog/2018/07/antorus-tours-for-noob-raiders/
SWTOR
MFN is on Tuesday at 9 pm EST and will be on the Imperial side.
PTS is open to the public and some scheduled PvP playtesting is going on with devs in-game incognito and some of the AIE folks have been participating in said activities.
The Escape Pod Cast did a podcast from inside the new PvP focused stronghold on Rishi on the PTS. Since then, they are continuing to develop and make updates rapidly to respond to feedback. There’s an AIE PTS guild and we have the Stronghold fully unlocked for it for anyone that wants to get in and check it out.
ESO
A reminder that MFN for ESO are on Friday’s at 9pm EST and are usually streamed on the AIE Twitch channel, https://twitch.tv/aieguild
Don’t forget to speak up in guild Chat, ask for help, or just say Hi! And, check the ESO discord channel regularly for events and daily partners.
And, in ESO general news- With the upcoming Wolfhunter DLC game pack and Update 19, Hircine’s curse has taken hold in Tamriel and beyond. Are you prepared to face the March of Sacrifices and Moon Hunter Keep dungeons? Wolfhunter is coming soon to ESO plus members and in the in game-crown store. The pack will arrive with update 19, a free base-game update for all ESO players. More information is available on elderscrolls.online.com
FFXIV
A reminder that MFN for FFXIV are on Friday’s at 9pm EST as well. As far as game news, there is a producer live letter happening on Monday, July 16th. Please look forward to it.
STO
The Sally Ride is somewhere in game. She was last seen near Narenda, but supposed to move around every so often. If you find the ship hail them and you will get a special admiralty version of the ship.
The summer event is in full swing on Risa. There is a free ship for completing the daily aerial courses. There are all kinds of other events from power board races to sand castle building contests. If you don’t have a power board to use at the fleet colony, now is the time to pick one up.
Why would you want a power board? The fleet colony has a big bay. You can run around it on land, but it is easier to hop on your powerboard and cut across the water. If you are doing the gather missions, you have to go to close to the end of each side, so cutting across the water is the fastest method. And no, you can not swim across.
EVE
EVE continues to be on fire, Goons and TEST are allies again, some Keepstars died this weekend while others were were saved, Space Cadets, Hoplite Fleets, Arms Salesmen… it’s been pretty busy.
And with that, let’s talk about what we have been doing in and out of game, and how we’re getting ready for Battle of Azeroth!
GAME NEWS
Mkallah – Lots of pen and paper roleplaying, D&D, World of Darkness (Mage and Werewolf), City of Mists
Tetsemi – Mage Tower (Protection Warrior), Brawler’s Guild (Rank 8), 14 Horde and 2 Alliance characters through Silithus (got 3 pets), finished Field Medic (First Aid), and got both Nightbourne and High Mountain Tauren allied race armor (for leveling from 20-110).
Mewkow – Working on the mage towers, which means lot of alt gearing. Finally ran through the Retribution pally hidden weapon quest. Pally stuff. Shaman, death knight, profs.
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And that’s our show for tonight. While the chatroom begins suggesting show titles, we want to thank you all for joining us.
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, none! If you want to try your hand at recording a segment, let us know! We would love to play segments created by our AIE guildmates.
Next time, we’ll be talking to most likely Syrene and Max about Summer of Love! So until then, AIE…
– This is Tetsemi
– This is Mewkow
– This is Mkallah
And this has been… The AIE Podcast.
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July 02, 2018The AIE Podcast #300 – Inside AIE Show-Not-Found Baseball
On this episode of The AIE Podcast…
Mewkow: The community has been very very busy!
Tetsemi: Summer of Love is just around the corner
Ghomus: We have fun, and boy, is it mandatory
Lanctharus: Get ready for Heaven – on – High
Mkallah: And, we’re getting the band back together, in more ways than one!
All that and more coming up right now…
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Welcome to episode #300 of the the podcast celebrating you, the Alea Iacta Est gaming community, the die has been podcast. 300, that can’t be right!! This is Mkallah! To my left is Mewkow: – (catch phrase here). And to my right is Tetsemi: (catch phrase here). And, as you heard in the introduction, this week we are joined by a Duo of very special guests Ghomus and Lanctharus who are here to celebrate this milestone! Welcome!
Ok, we’ll be interviewing our guests shortly, but first, let’s cover this week’s news…
AIE News
Community
One of our own, Jason McDonald (aka Thraxxis ) has written a book! How to be a Sh*#ty Boss. It is currently available for Kindle download on Amazon
https://www.amazon.com/How-Sh-Boss-Alienating-Employees-ebook/dp/B07F2Q7GSH/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&qid=1530363524&sr=8-8&keywords=jason+mcdonald
Syreyne’s Fireside Chats are going strong and a good way to hear from the broad range of guildies we have. The show can be found on Youtube, search for Sy’s Fireside Chat or subscribe to her feed, Syreyne the Rogue.
Summer of Love and Remembrance Day is coming up! The annual event celebrating our love for the AIE community takes place July 30th to August 5th. Please feel free to contact Sy if you want to run an event in any of the games that AIE plays, and she can get you on the Schedule.
Remembrance day is Thursday, August 2nd and will be celebrated in a number of games.
Streaming and guild podcast news
Available for download on Itunes, Stitcher, and their own website, https://secretsoftalonguard.com , join Evaric, Zephirah, Draven Dresden, Ben the Mage, Quoted Nevermore, and Alludra on their D&D adventure, Secrets of Talonguard! They are only a few episodes in, so join take a listen to what the Heroes of Knightsblood have gotten themselves into.
Upcoming Streams
Friday July 6th, ESO MFN Featuring whomever is volunteered to stream the scrollsy fun.
And tonight, Max has WOW planned for the AIE stream. Stick around for some pre-BfA hype, hang out in discord, show off characters, and more.
WoW
Summer of Love in WOW schedule-
Tuesday July 31: Pub Crawl Micro-Holiday – WoW
Saturday August 4: COOP – WoW
Sunday August 5: Gusty’s Giveaways – WoW
A huge thank you to Dankinia for leading the Noob raid during Legion , from her note on AIE’s Discord – “Thank you everyone who joined us for the final Noob Raid run of Legion. After some early struggles with the first of 3 bosses, we killed the final two of ToS on our first pulls. It was a awesome final run before our break.
Noob Raid will resume the first Saturday of October which is the 6th, and we current plans are for us to take our freshly leveled 120’s back to Legion so we can clear the Argus raid. I hope to see you all then.”
SWTOR
Mandatory Fun Night will be on the Republic Side this week, be sure and join in all the fun as the guild takes on conquest goals, has some story time with Max for folks that haven’t run through content yet, and make sure to remind everyone, Fun is Mandatory, as is your armor, don’t let your transmog fool you into thinking you’re actually wearing your gear.
ESO
A reminder that Mandatory Fun Night is on Friday’s in ESO so be sure to join early and get in the fun. You may even be lead over a cliff by Dankinia, who knows what adventures are planned.
EVE
Pew Pew SO MANY *explosions* hurt feels, narratives, man babies, and more! Come join your AIE Fleet Commanders with the POWAH of their alliance (fun creators!) and help defend our new home and put the nefarious Test Alliance in their place. The Hobo War is now known as the EvE War ((everybody vs. Everybody) Come hug everybody with your teeth!
Fleet commander program and a soon to be announce Newbro training program.
STO
Not to be left out of the new content, make sure you check in with your fleet mates in AIE and get ready to tackle the annual Lohlunat Festival Festival from July 3rd through August 16th. More details here – https://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/10934263-the-2018-risa-lohlunat-festival%21
FFXIV
Make sure you’re patched up and ready to tackle the second installment of the Deep Dungeon series, Heaven-on-High with your guildmates on July 3rd! Unsure of what you need to do to be ready, check out the link https://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/pr/blog/002412.html Which tells you what you need to do and how to access the new content.
LOTRO
There are still rumors of getting the band back together, but you can enjoy the Summer Festival which just started this weekend including the Weatherstock concert series July 7th and 8th on the Landroval server!
And with that, let’s get back to Ghomus and Lanc!
GAME NEWS
Interview questions!
Just a note- we are going to have some different questions for you, Lanc, than we do for Ghomus
Mkallah: How did you get involved in the AIE podcast?
Ghomus:
Lanctharus: I got snookered in.
Mewkow: Who was your favourite guest on the show?
Ghomus: Scott and Randy
Mewkow: What was your favourite time on the show?
Lanctharus: The times I have flummoxed HOOTS on air
Tetsemi: What are you the proudest of during your time with the show?
Ghomus:Nerdtacular shows
Tetsemi: Just how many times have you guested on the AIE podcast?
Lanctharus: I have lost count
Mkallah: Favourite co-host
Ghomus: Alludra/Acuzod combo-host.
Mkallah: Favourite guest to be on the show with
Lanctharus: Kephas
Mewkow: Best memory from doing the show?
Ghomus:
Lanctharus: Alludra + Kephas + Lanc show
Tetsemi: Best take away from your involvement?
Ghomus: segments and how creative community is
Tetsemi: How many ships have you blown up?
Lanctharus: 376 roughly 217 dollars
I have destroyed over 712 ships at an estimated cost of 2,700 dollars
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And that’s our show for tonight. While the chatroom begins suggesting show titles, we want to thank Ghomus and Lanctharus for joining us.
@shownotfound
@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 !
The full interviews with Dills and Alludra will be played immediately following the show, but right now it’s time to play the AIE member segments this week including …
Overly Dramatic News – @HuntsTheWind
Next time, we’ll be talking to Sweetgrass, aka Moll about Overwatch. So until then, AIE…
– This is Mkallah
– This is Mewkow
– This is Tetsemi
And this has been… The AIE Podcast episode 300!
Link to the AIE Christmas show – http://cdn.aie-guild.org/podcast/aie_podcast_ep065.mp3
Link to AIE Podcast Wiki – https://wiki.aie-guild.org/index.php?title=Main_Page/AIE_Podcast
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June 11, 2018The AIE Podcast #299 – Making it Rain in FFXIV
On this episode of The AIE Podcast…
Tetsemi: Stay awhile and listen to Sy’s Fireside chat
Mkallah: And, stick around for Midsummer fire festival
Mewkow: We have Mandatory fun nights for almost every night of the week
Tetsemi: And, updates on how we fare in Hobo Wars
Mkallah: And, Abovan is here to talk to us about AIE in Final Fantasy XIV
All that and more coming up right now…
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Welcome to episode #299 of the the podcast celebrating you, the Alea Iacta Est gaming community, the die has been podcast. This is Mewkow: To my left is Tetsemi: – (Another settlement needs my attention!). And to my right is Mkallah: (Do you know how big a cake we are going to need for our next episode?). 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 AIE in FFXIV shortly, but first, let’s cover this week’s news…
AIE News
Community
There is a new post up on the AIE Guild site – https://aie-guild.org/blog/2018/06/aie-community-news/ – that is intended to provide some cross-community updates as well as some insight into some of the work the officer team does behind the scenes across all the games. We are planning on having a post like this at least monthly, if not more frequently, let us know what you think!
Guild Podcast News
Our very own Syreyne has started talking to AIE members in a new show called Sy’s Fireside Chat. So far she has interviewed Diddi and Velazarius; Anwyl, Antibus, and Termaku; Acuzod and his family, Sethos; and OldLadyFranks and giggles with OLF’s daughter. You can find all the episodes linked in her #episodes channel on https://discord.gg/thZ4EdF .Next week she will be interviewing Grimcow on Episode 5.
Swtor Escape Pod Cast 244: Mad Max And Sema – Fury Roadmap
This week, @AIESema, @MaxTheGrey and Astromech EPC-244 hang out in the casino while we walk through the summer roadmap in detail.
http://www.newoverlords.com/swtor-escape-pod-cast-244-mad-max-and-sema-fury-roadmap/
Swtor Escape Pod Cast 245: SWCC The Chicago Way
This week, @AIESema, @MaxTheGrey and Astromech EPC-245 talk about the PvP update posts and Star Wars Celebration with details on visiting Chicago, all while we check back in on our Sorc class story.
http://www.newoverlords.com/swtor-escape-pod-cast-245-swcc-the-chicago-way/
Upcoming Streams
Don’t forget about the AIEGuild twitch channel http://twitch.tv/aieguild which is hosting a variety of content from AIE Streamers covering AIE in most of the games we’re currently in, including a number of Mandatory Fun Night events. Max the Gray will be streaming FFXIV along with Abovan shortly after the podcast, showing off the guild house and other activities that the AIE Guild is involved in.
Keep an eye out on http://twitch.tv/dankiniaplays as she will be streaming Noob Raid in WoW along with Season 14 of Diablo III which starts on June 15th, 2018.
NOMADS
There has been an uptick in Destiny 2 activity with the announcements, from the website as well as E3, about new content coming and changes to the game. Jump on in and play with other AIE Guild members, check out the #destiny2 channel in AIE’s Discord server.
Essentially, the start of the new season brought back Faction Rallies and that event is going on now but ends Tues. It only lasts one week and there are rewards specific factions: gear, weapons, etc.
There’s also hype for the newly announced Forsaken Expansion 2 to the game.
A handful of guardians are popping on to finish weekly events to level the Clan and obtain powerful engrams for all. The Clan is still accepting new members while anyone how hasn’t been on in 4-6 months may be removed to make room for new members. You can always receive an invite back to the Clan though.
WoW
The Midsummer Fire Festival starts on June 21st and goes through July 5th. Please keep an eye out on the guild calendar, https://wiki.aie-guild.org/index.php?title=Guild_Calendar , as well as https://aie-guild.org for upcoming events, including groups getting together to put out the Alliance Fires.
ESO
Mandatory Fun Night,on Friday’s, continues to be well attended. The guild usually gets together and crashes an open world zone. Hitting world bosses, sky shards, dolmens, delves and public dungeons can be pretty fun so why don’t you join us or watch for http://twitch.tv/thedurus to stream on their channels or otherwise hosted on the AIE Twitch channel.
Guild members are on nearly every night running dailies, and working on the new story content introduced with the recently released Summerset.
SWTOR
Mandatory Fun Night, this week will be on the Galactic Republic side, the conquest event is Relic of the Gree so they will go fight Xenoanalyst, and the Ilum Gree WB and do the Ilum rampage at the same time. Conquest target will be set for Medium on Pub side, and Small on Imp Side. Speaking of which, congratulations to the guild on taking on and meeting the Large Planet goal on the Imp side and the Medium Planet goal on the Pub side last week. A lot of effort was put into that guild activity and it was great to see the guild come together to conquer the goal.
Star Wars Celebration will be in Chicago, April 2019 and tickets are going fast. Last we checked they were 80% sold out and the full event pass was already sold out.
Also, Friday, June 22nd at 8pm central, SWTOR will have a monthly guild event. Guild member Marcus is driving it and plans to take the guild on a rampage, taking down as many world bosses in the game as we can. That’s the first in what will likely be a new series of Monthly events in SWTOR.
FFXIV
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STO
The fleet had been making big steps forward on the various holding projects. Also for submitting Umami applications for the new Jem’Hadar, just use the faction federation and race alien.
It is bonus dilithium weekend. So come do queues, mine dilithium, and earn extra dilithium this weekend. The next weekend is going to be upgrade weekend, where tech points are normally doubled from your upgrade kits. This will help you get all your new Jem’Hadar captains and all your old captains their new max level great if MK XV, yes that is correct mk XIII is no longer the top gear level.
The new expansion, Victory is Life had been released. Odo returns with the Dominion to form an alliance with the Federation and KDF. As such, you can now create Jen’Hadar. If you purchase the starter pack you can unlock the Jem’Hadar Vanguard race. They have an added bonus in space combat on top of the default ground bonus of the regular Jem’Hadar. All Jem’Hadar start at level 60. They also are Gamma Recruit, which there are various objectives to complete with corresponding rewards. Many unlock account-wide rewards you can claim on other captains.
The Cardassians are another c-store race as well, as they join the fight. They start at level one and act as another option for races as a standard Captain.
And as with all things there are many new ships and even some old lockbox ships that are now in the c-store. So if you were hoping to get any of the old Jem’Hadar ships or the Cardassian Galor cruiser, you can now just visit the c-store. The Dominion haven’t been sitting idle with their ship technology and offer 4 new tier 6 Vanguard ship variants of all the Dominion ships. The Cardassian also offer 3 new tier 6 Intel ships.
If you are wanting the new vanguard Jem’Hadar ships on other captains, once you level up the ship mastery to the 6th tier, it unlocks account wide
EVE
The “Hobo Wars” between several small alliances and their large super power backers continue and show some signs of gathering strength. Some Hobos have left the area, some have fallen, some have joined larger groups. We are “getting settled” in our current home, have been very active conquering and defending our territory. We have excellent support setup for current pilots and welcome anyone that is curious to join us at our public channel in our AIEU Discord. Check out the #eve_embassy channel in the AIE Discord for more information.
And with that, let’s get back to Abovan and find out what’s going on with AIE in FFXIV.
GAME NEWS
Patch 4.3: Under the Moonlight
The ramifications of the Doma part of the main Stormblood story, along with the post credits scene (no spoilers!) come to a tipping point.
New primal fight with ???, because it is a spoiler, but a good story to witness.
More Side stories, including a new 4 Lords side quest.
Return to Ivalice, 24 man raid. 2nd part of the expansion.
The Doman Enclave reconstruction. I’m not saying that Doma was destroyed in an earthquake or a flood or something, but it needs to be rebuilt.
New best tribe, the Namazu. Crafting dailies, scaleable quests to help level your crafters from 60-70. There are now daily quests you can do to level your crafting jobs from 1-70.
New dungeons for Grand Company Squads
The Aurum Vale
Braflox Longstop Hard
Sohm Al
Squad members can be glamoured and equipment dyed.
Bard performance actions have been updated to include
Flutes
Oboes
Clarinets
Fifes
Panpipes
All notes can be keybinded.
Lots of job changes, read the case notes.
Cross server linkshells are a thing.
New Feast season, the ranked PVP.
Cosmetic bonus – Male bunny ears.
If someone is in a hurry and starts a boss fight early, you will be asked to join the fight and not be locked out. Does not let you a) leave the fight and then come back in or b) enter the fight if you are dead or died during the fight.
Lords of Vermillion matches has been updated to include NPC challenges, so a match will always be available.
Chocobo races can be registered for via duty finder, both solo and in groups.
Which leads us into…
The Make it Rain Campaign has started and will run thru July 24th.
Extra MGP will be available on all mini-games in the Gold Saucer!
Earn unique items during the event, including the mini games themselves as housing items to be placed in the house to be played anytime. Fully functioning mini-games, rewarding MGP.
A repeatable quest line that start off as a ghost story, but turns into a cute matchmaker questline.
On May 29th, we got patch 4.31
Adding The Weapon’s Refrain (Ultimate). New challenge raid for high end players, revisiting the Ultimate Weapon from the end of A Realm Reborn. The videos are for this are OMG SO COOL!!
CLOSE
And that’s our show for tonight. While the chatroom begins suggesting show titles, we want to thank Abovan for joining us.
@Abovan
If you have a question or comment about our show, you can email us at [email protected]. You can also follow us on Twitter. The show is at @aiepodcast. Mew is at @themewkow. Mkallah is at @cyberwaif,and Tetsemi is at @ivorytiger. We record live with video every other Sunday at 8pm Eastern/5pm Pacific. You can join the chatroom and play along with us on our website at https://aie-guild.org/podcast-live-stream/ and our Discord server for chat at https://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 AIE Podcast turns 300! And we are rounding up some very special guests for the occasion. So until then, AIE…
– This is Mewkow
– This is Tetsemi
– This is Mkallah
And this has been… The AIE Podcast.
1 hr 5 min
May 21, 2018The AIE Podcast #298 – Moral Relativism and Narrative in EVE
On this episode of The AIE Podcast…
Mkallah: The AIE community is doing ALL the things
Mewkow: Open up your warmind
Tetsemi: Imp congratulations are in order
Mkallah: Final Fantasy patch 4.3 is finally dropping
Mewkow: And, we have the crazy pilots from EVE!
All that and more coming up right now…
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Welcome to episode #298 of the the podcast celebrating you, the Alea Iacta Est gaming community, the die has been podcast. This is Tetsemi: To my left is Mkallah: – (catch phrase here). And to my right is Mewkow: (catch phrase here). This week we are joined by special guests Lanctharus, Lars Gagner and the very late incredibly exploding Tukucommin who are here to talk to us about AIE in EVE Welcome!
Ok, we’ll be digging into EVE shortly, but first, let’s cover this week’s news…
AIE News
Community
Streaming and guild podcast news
SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 242: Calculating Conquest
http://www.newoverlords.com/swtor-escape-pod-cast-242-calculating-conquest/
This week, @AIESema, @MaxTheGrey and Astromech EPC-242 are joined by guild member @brendancavanagh to talk about Conquest updates and BC’s excellent planning spreadsheet.
SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 243: Smooth Operators
http://www.newoverlords.com/swtor-escape-pod-cast-243-smooth-operators/
This week, @AIESema, @MaxTheGrey and Astromech EPC-243 are joined by guild members and ops leaders Dent and Marcus (@marcusb814 also of the WorkingClassNerds podcast) to talk about starting and running an ops team, while we run the Umbara Flashpoint.
Upcoming streams
Max the Gray will be streaming on the https://twitch.tv/aieguild channel tonight after the podcast. Join him after we wrap up Eve to see AIE in ESO!
Also, on the same channel we have ESO streaming on Thursday at 9 EDT and Noob Raid for WOW on Saturday at 11 EDT.
Other Community stuff-
Are you going to Phoenix Comic Fest or just want to see what the phoenix crew is up to? Arra has created a Tadpool AZ discord to be used for con and beyond. Hit one of us, or Arra, up in discord for the link. And, speaking of Phoenix Comic Fest, Nevermore will be at booth AA503, Bouvi will be at the Hero Initiative booth at AA396/398, and Mkallah will be at AA501 carrying her own merchandise and goods from two other AIE members. Come by and say Hi, and keep your eyes out for a wandering Mew as a guest visit to Phoenix for con
Imperium Ludi
Destiny 2
New DLC has dropped for the game: Expansion II: Warmind. New story content, new raid, new strikes AKA reskinned story missions, and new gear to grab….
Season 3 has recently kicked off. Be on the lookout for the faction rally.
Some old faces have resurfaced and guild powerful engrams are being generated, go get them!
DLC info: https://www.destinythegame.com/expansion2
WoW
Congratulations to Noob Raid on downing two new bosses, 1 last week and 1 this week! Sounds like a great time was had by all. If you’d like to join in the fun, be online on Saturday evenings around 11 pm EDT and keep and eye out in game chat and in the #Wow channel in the AIE Discord.
SWTOR
Congratulation to the guild for hitting the medium conquest goal on the Imperial Side. The guild is really focusing on conquest goals and helping each other out to find ways to hit the goals that are both effective and fun.
Speaking of fun, Mandatory Fun Night will be on the Republic Side this week, make sure you join the #SWTOR channel on the AIE Discord and join in the Conquest activities and planning.
Also, patch 5.9.1 (mostly bug fixes) will be released on May 22nd and the Summer 2018 Roadmap is out – http://www.swtor.com/info/news/news-article/20180516 – looks like a lot of quatlity of life improvements a PvP focus with the PvE storylines picking up in the fall.
FFXIV
Patch 4.3 dropping on Tuesday, Monday is the 24-hour major patch maintenance.
Preliminary patch notes dropped.
Many changes, many QoL, many few features.
And it was the 45th birthday of Yoshi-P, (Naoki Yoshida) the FFXIV Game Producer, and the FFXIV worldwide gaming community created a 2 hour happy birthday video from the players around the world.
Details for all FFXIV news, events, and FC events are found in the FFXIV discord.
ESO
A new expansion called Summerset will be arriving on Mon., May 21st for players on PC/Mac and coming June 5th to PS4 and XBox. It features 6 new areas, a new skill line called the Psijic Order (pronounced Psy – jick), a new Trial (like a raid), Jewelry crafting and much more.
The guild members have been sky shard farming since they know they will want skill points early on for the new jewelry crafting skill line.
STO
In the upcoming new expansion, you will be able to create Jem’Hadar captains. As Jem’Hadar are all cloned for specific paths, this means your new Jem’hadar captain will start at level 60. You will start with a full complement of Jem’Hadar bridge officers, a fully geared ship, and shuttle.
It also says you will also have pre-completed progress in Crafting, Specializations, and Reputations. All players will be able to create Jem’Hadar characters, but they are recommending new players to create a regular captain first to go through the tutorial and learn to play. There is a Jem’Hadar tutorial, but likely be more an introduction to the new features the Jem’Hadar have before they join a faction.
There will also be a special variant of Jem’Hadar that you can purchase in the c-store, Odo’s Vanguard. These are a special premium breed carefully created under the watchful eye of Odo. They are identical as their lesser brethren, with the added bonus that their engineered soldier trait will also give bonuses to space combat.
Romulan captains may be happy to know that coming with the expansion, the Federation and KDF are going to allow the Romulan captains that have allied with them to fly most of their starships. So, if you have a Romulan captain and have been wanting to fly a Defiant class ship, you will soon get that option.
As for the fleet itself. We are currently focusing hard on the Spire holding, but also making steady progress on a few of the other holdings as well. When complete the Tier II of the Research branch of the Spire, we will have access to some of the best tactical consoles in the game.
And with that, let’s get back to Lanctharus and Hoots and find out what’s going on in EVE .
GAME NEWS
The Tenerifis Campaign aka Reasonable people doing things for Reasonable Reasons
So first a little story
We left GotG
    Things have gone kind of bad for them
    Theft, knifed in the back
    Leader lost his big golden space mushroom
Move to the dronelands with Russians
    We realized things were kind of bad
    DCU imploded
Moved again to crash on the Space Panda Couch
    The Kool-Aid Orange Keep
The “narrative” Welcome to the Hobo War
Wr are fighting a couple of old “friends”
    Waves at TEST
        Trying to keep the space pandas and their friends down
    Blow a kiss to BRAVE
        TEST’s off again, on again girlfriend
AIEU has 5 new active Fleet Commanders in the alliance
AIE operates a critical logistics chain
OpSec
OpSec
[Redacted OpSec}
AIEU creates community
Propaganda
DJ PvP
Content generation for Hoots
Battles of YF-P4X
Tuku the hero AIEU deserves
The freeporting of ZD1-Z2
Sneaky people doing sneaky things
That sneaky Lanctharus guy
You never call me in the Batphone!
Your typical fight as an FC as told by Lanc
No, I swear I didn’t call PL!
Ohs noes! We are getting ROFLSTOMPED
Corporate FC program
We pay you to be a hero
40 million ISK per fleet
Lots of new and returning faces
Max streaming EVE very soon
Holding the line and expanding the Empire
How Sov in EVE currently works
The creation of the AIEU Pop•Tarts© Entosis Doctrine
How do you take over a system?
How about a station?
Point to AIEU Discord here: https://discord.gg/G3etFXG
Odd things happen here
CLOSE
And that’s our show for tonight. While the chatroom begins suggesting show titles, we want to thank Lanctharus, Lars Gagner, and the ever lovable Tukucommin the explodable, first of his name for joining us tonight.
@lanctharus
@aie_universal
@Uncle_Tuku
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 Abovan in FFXIV. So until then, AIE…
– This is Tetsemi
– This is Mkallah
– This is Mewkow
And this has been… The AIE Podcast.
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May 07, 2018The AIE Podcast #297 – SWTOR #cheerjoin
On this episode of The AIE Podcast…
Mkallah: Twitching for more AIE content? We got you covered
Tetsemi: Take a Balloon Tour
Mewkow: FFXIV is going mobile
Mkallah: Capt’n, we need more ships!
Tetsemi: And, we have Max and Sema here to talk to us about AIE in SWTOR
All that and more coming up right now…
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Welcome to episode #297 of the the podcast celebrating you, the Alea Iacta Est gaming community, the die has been podcast. This is Mewkow: To my left is Mkallah: – (My craft sprawl has taken over the guild kitchen). And to my right is Tetsemi: (May the Force be with you or Serve you well). This week we are joined by special guests Max and Sema who is here to talk to us about AIE in SWTOR Welcome!
Ok, we’ll be digging into AIE in SWTOR shortly, but first, let’s cover this week’s news…
AIE News
Community
AIE is now active on Twitch and the AIE community is going to be streaming more often. Check out https://www.twitch.tv/communities/aieguild Plans are still in the works for hosting AIE community members streams, keep an eye out on the AIE Guild site and the AIE Discord in the #content-creators channel for more information and opportunities.
WoW – Noob raid http://www.twitch.tv/dankiniaplays
Streams every Saturday night at 11:00 pm Eastern. The only requirement is that you are level 110 and want to have fun with a bunch of AIE folks raiding. Spots fill up fast, so make sure you’re there on time!
SWTOR – The Escape Pod Cast – https://www.twitch.tv/newoverlords
SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 240: Ring My Belsavis
http://www.newoverlords.com/swtor-escape-pod-cast-240-ring-my-belsavis/
Sema & Max continue to play through the Sorc class story on Belsavis while we talk about in-game events and what else we’d like to see.
SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 241: Nothing But Nathema
http://www.newoverlords.com/swtor-escape-pod-cast-241-nothing-but-nathema/
Sema & Max are joined by guild member Zen to run the new Nathema flashpoint and talk about the conclusion to the Traitor story and the end of an era. (Thanks for playing Star Wars the Old Republic ?)
ESO – Streaming Mandatory Fun Nights on Friday – https://www.twitch.tv/thedurus
FFXIV – Follow along as Abovan wanders through Heavensward! – https://twitch.tv/abovan79
AIE Game Specific News
Community
This month’s community event will be the Balloon tours in WoW (more info in the WoW News section) and next month’s event will be the Midsummer Fire Festivals to steal Alliance Fires on Sunday June 24th from 2-4 pm EDT (Server time).
WoW
We are doing the Balloon Tours event on Friday, May 11th starting at 11pm server time (EST). It takes four people queued up for a balloon to launch on the tour so we will be coordinating everyone to make sure folks can get to see which tour they want to see. Keep an eye out for an article on the https://aie-guild.org website for more information.
And if you’re in the BfA Beta, just a reminder, we have a couple of co-guilds available for you to join. We’re on the Sylvanas server, on the Alliance side, so as not to spoil the Horde storyline. Just hop into the #lfo channel on the AIE Discord and ask for an invite.
SWTOR
See Guest Game News!
ESO
The newest chapter in the world of Tamriel, entitled Summerset, is going into pre-order pre-release on May 21st for the PC/Mac and for everyone (those plus PS4 and XBox1) on June 5th.
FFXIV
Patch 4.3 will be titled, Under the Moonlight, and will be available late may.
New 24-player raid, continuing the Ivalice storyline, Pharos at Ridorana. New 8-player trial that is still under wraps. New Deep Dungeon, Heaven-on-High. Less of a deep dungeon and more of a tall tower. Heaven-on-High will have 30 floors of story content with floors 31-100 as challenge content. For those that have gone through stormblood, at least the Doma part of Stormblood, you might remember the large criss-cross tower in the Ruby Sea.
The new FFXIV mobile app will be debuting on 4.3.
Free features include, chat, event planners, and manage market board items.
Premium (like for $$$) features include more saddle bag storage (extra bag space, but not for active items) and a retainer for more bank space and market board slots.
The Namazu Beast tribe (AKA the sentient catfish people) will have their own daily quest and reputation rewards, joining the rest of the grindable beast tribe factions. Eureka will be expanded into the Ice-aspect area. Solo players are getting adjustments to fare better in Eureka content. Items will be able to be withdrawn from your Glamour Dresser (This is the storage for items that you want to keep around for glamour purposes, which is FFXIV speak for Transmog.) Cross Realm link shells are now a thing. These are chat channels that can now invite people from different servers.
For the top tier raiders, a new Ultimate difficulty raid will be unleashed to make the raiders cry in the follow up patch, 4.31. This will be Ultima Weapon, one of the last bosses from A Realm Reborn. (The base game) Not a spoiler, since a) It’s a Final Fantasy game, and b) It came out in 2013.
New 4 player dungeon, the Swallow’s Compass
STO
Need more ships? Until May 7 10AM Pacific, 20% off all ships in the c-store. The ship and dry dock slots, and ship upgrade tokens are also 20% off. Also, if you buy Tier 5 ships, you will receive a free ship upgrade token
Phoenix Prize pack is back again. You have until May 10th 7AM Pacific to claim a daily free prize pack. You can also spend dilithium in the dilithium store to buy more prize packs for more chances at some T5 and T6 ships. The daily free prize pack can be picked up at Drozana Station.
Arena Sompek has returned also until May 7 10AM Pacific. You can claim a new ground weapon if you have completed the event 3 times. This time it is a pair of Tsunkatse Gloves, which will also unlock a new appearance at the tailor.
They are also offering a new “Elite Starter Pack.” As STO shifts away from the monthly subscription, they are introducing the new starter pack as a way to unlock some of the monthly subscription rewards. The lifetime subscriptions are staying, and will still be available for purchase, so do not worry there. Once you pick up the starter pack, you will get one new character slot, 20 shared bank slots (the account wide bank), 5 captain retrain tokens, increase to your energy credit cap to 2 billion. And then once per character you can reclaim in the c-store to get 30 inventory slots, 60 bank slots and 2 bridge officer slots. If you have unlocked all this from other methods, like the regular monthly subscription, you will not lose any of these perks. If you have questions about this change, I highly recommend visiting the article about this: https://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/10883424
And last but not least. If you still want to create Delta Recruits, you have until May 17th. If you are unsure if you should create 1, I would highly recommend having at least 1 on your account. If you can, then it can be beneficial to have a romulan and a standard federation officer as delta recruits, as there are slightly different checkpoints for free account wide bonuses. This also works with KDF as well, with having its own story and unlocks for account wide bonuses.
EVE
AIEU is recruiting, if you are already in the system come back, it’s a great time to be alive. We are in the process of taking our own space, and are having frequent fights with our old alliance TEST.
GW2
Balance Patch is coming on May 8th, and includes a rework of underwater weapon and skills. Keep an eye out on the GW2 blog for more details the morning of May 8. https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/coming-soon-changes-to-underwater-skills/
LOTRO
25% Skirmish Marks weekend from 5/10/18 – 5/14/18
Lootbox Weekend from 5/17/18 – 5/21/18
VIP Event Boost from 5/24/18 – 5/29/18
And with that, let’s get back to Max & Sema and find out what’s going on in SWTOR!
GUEST GAME NEWS
Focus on guild activities and story of guild accomplishments
Hunt for Izax
Explain the content arc and GftM
Explain no lockouts
Reminder on what MFN is
Talk about our ops teams
Talk about everyone working together to get all ops teams killing Izax
Conquest
Talk about the system
Talk about the guild targets
Mention Sakic and BC (zen on republic, Arv on invading, etc.)
Mention the spreadsheets!
Reminder on patch notes if needed
Quick rundown of 5.9 patch notes
http://www.swtor.com/patchnotes
Nathema + traitor story (will talk about in detail during the run)
Double XP, CXP, Ship Req
Returning Companion: Felix Iresso – Consulars
Returning Companions: Akaavi Spar & Mako – Bounty Hunter and Smuggler
Conquest updates (talk about more next week with another possible guest)
Relatively minor class updates (tank nerfs don’t seem too bad)
Izax fight tuning
New Augments
Introduction to Conquests and Intro to Black hole work again.
CLOSE
And that’s our show for tonight. While the chatroom begins suggesting show titles, we want to thank Max & Sema for joining us.
@AIESema
@MaxTheGrey
twitch.tv/newoverlords
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…
Altitis – @TheMewKow
Next time, we’ll be talking to Hoots and Lanc in EVE. So until then, AIE…
– This is Mewkow
– This is Mkallah
– This is Tetsemi
And this has been… The AIE Podcast.
1 hr 18 min
April 23, 2018The AIE Podcast #296 – Elder Durus and Young Kini Talk Scrolls
On this episode of The AIE Podcast…
Mewkow: Can you Volunteer for Guard Duty?
Tetsemi: 17 Raid lockouts and the time is short!
Mkallah: Ready for Raid Roulette?
Mewkow: Celebrate LOTRO 11th anniversary in style!
Tetsemi: And, Durus and Dankinia are here to talk to us about falling off the edge… we mean AIE in ESO
All that and more coming up right now…
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Welcome to episode #296 of the the podcast celebrating the Alea Iacta Est gaming community, the die has been podcast. This is Mkallah: To my left is Mewkow: – (Greetings, Gamers!). And to my right is Tetsemi: (catch phrase here). This week we are joined by special guests Durus and Dankinia who is here to talk to us about AIE in ESO Welcome!
Ok, we’ll be digging into ESO shortly, but first, let’s cover this week’s news…
AIE News
Community
Save the date – 10 pm to 11 pm server time, on April 28th, we are celebrating Volunteer Guard Day and we’ll be gathering in Orgrimmar to step into the shoes of a guard with a /salute and you’ll get to serve and protect the city just like them. Stay vigilant and watch out for any invaders. Pay attention to the AIE Discord #WoW and #General channels as well as the guild site for event times. There is reported to be a pet give away…. And other stuff.
Also, have you ever wanted to give someone some WoW Gametime, a little money for some Hearthstone cards, or just enough for them to buy Deckard Cain in Heroes of the storm but are just too busy to leave your house and hit the nearest shop for a game time card? Well, then Blizzard has some good news! You can now gift Blizzard balance directly to someone else who has a Battle.Net account, all without leaving your house and having to deal with people! Check out the article over at https://news.blizzard.com/en-us/blizzard/21707369/blizzard-balance-gifting-now-available
NOMADS
The new God of War is out, and stealing a lot of people’s time and energy. AIE Has a PS4 Community, so if you’re interested in joining just search for AIE and ask for an invite.
WoW
Ready Check Noise/Ham Horn – There are 17 Raid lockouts till Battle for Azeroth! Time to cross off all those bucket list items, get your Allied races leveled, plan for your Orc’s new posture thanks to the chiropractor, I mean barbershop, and drool over the sweet new hair styles with exclusive ‘glowy bits’ coming to the Alliance side allied races! (Boo!) But hey, we got the best Antlers in the house (Moo!)
The Battle for Lorderan is testable on the Alpha server (no voice overs or major spoiler cutscene available, yet) and shows what happens after the intro cinematic showing the two armies starting the battle. No word yet on Malfurion’s fumble fingers that started the fire in Teldrassil, but we’ll let you know when it’s available as well.
If you are leveling an allied race and don’t want to leave Pandaria at 90, good news, the XP from quests, gathering, and mob kills stays decent up to level 94, so no need to rush to Alternate Timeline Draenor, hang out in Pandaria, do the intro quest to Warlords, start your garrison, and you can head right over to Taledor without needing to deal with Frostfire or Gorgrond.
Also, if you haven’t run with Noob Raid, you haven’t gotten to enjoy events like this – https://clips.twitch.tv/SavageFunnyCobblerPanicBasket Shout out to Gijora, the magnificent b*****d that brilliantly executed the Mass Rez Cliff Jump taking the majority of the raid team to their death after the wipe.
SWTOR
Check out the great article that the SWTOR team put toger on the AIE guild hunt for Izax – https://aie-guild.org/blog/2018/04/aie-swtor-and-the-hunt-for-izax/ We have almost 100% of the active raid teams with a kill on the final boss from GftM (Gods from the Machine) and in two weeks patch 5.9 will drop bringing even more Conquest adjustments as well as new content.
Mandatory fun night is on the Imperial Side and we will be tackling the Emergency Operations. Any Operation from Eternity Vault up to Dread Palace is a conquest goal, so make sure to attend, help yourself and the guild get to their Conquest goals.
SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 238: For Whom The Belsavis Tolls
http://www.newoverlords.com/swtor-escape-pod-cast-238-for-whom-the-belsavis-tolls/
This week @AIESema, @MaxTheGrey and Astromech EPC-238 play through the Sorcerer class story between Hoth and Belsavis. We also talk about 5.9 class update notes and cover other news, including what’s going on in our guild Alea Iacta Est.
SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 239: Save Us Belsavis
http://www.newoverlords.com/swtor-escape-pod-cast-239-save-us-belsavis/
This week @AIESema, @MaxTheGrey and Astromech EPC-239 continue to play through the Sorc class story on Belsavis while we talk about Conquest and say congrats to Eric Musco.
FFXIV
New things coming in patch 4.3: MSQ, more 24-man Return to Ivalice raids, new trials, 4 Lords (other trials), Ultimate Weapon’s Refrain, new Beast Tribes, more Hildabrand, Heaven-on-High (the new POTD), Eureka updates if that is your thing, and the mysterious “Additional Updates”
Oh, and a new dungeon
Late May is the tentative date.
One of the additional update is the raid roulette, 8-player group finder in other words.
https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/patch/4_3 Teaser site up.
Goblin is still a preferred server, so new toons will get a road to 60 buff, up the level cap of Heavensward, the last xpack) which gives you 3X experience on all gains.
You can easily run your first class up to 60 on Main Story Questline exclusively. (Class and Job quests are still recommended to unlock skills, however)
STO
Research lab has fully completed upgraded. Be sure to visit it to buy your extra traits and research slots.
They are opening up the ability to create Delta Recruit captains again. You have until May 17th to create one. As you level up a Delta Recruit, you unlock bonuses for all your captains no matter the faction.
The next expansion, Victory is Life, is slated for June. The level cap will increase to 65. The story will be another step forward in the Deep Space 9 section of the Star Trek story. And as always, if possible, they always try to bring back the actors to voice their in game avatars. They are featuring episodes leading up to the release that start some of the pre-expansion lore.
People collecting ships, do not panic, T6 ships will stay as the top tier of ships. Though I would bet we will see stronger ships as time goes on. They do tend to slowly creep up the power of the ships as they release new ones.
EVE
After refusing to bend to (absent) Russian Overlords, AIEU moved to Chinese Pandemonium. Kind of clear to state that gaming there is totally different from playing on occidental servers.
LOTRO
LOTRO Bonus Days brings you LOTRO’s 11th-anniversary celebration now through May 8th and Double Bonus Points now through April 29th!
Reclaim Middle-earth! Get 20% off now through April 26th:
Select Expansions & Expansion Quests (In-game only)
Enhanced XP Supply & Hornberg Token
Skirmishes & Instances
The 100% Mark Acquisition Boosts
The Weekly Coupon gets you +5% Attack Damage (90 min) with coupon code ATTKDMG now through April 26th
GW2
Monday fun nights are still a thing. They are like office hours…sometimes the line is around the corner, sometimes you get paperwork done.
There has been a change to how bonused gathering tools work. The bonus is now extractable and applyable to any gathering tool, even the consumable ones. A really nice QOL boost.
ESO
Anniversary event is ending on Monday. After that, the cake will be a lie.
ESO Plus will be free from 24-30 April. Current subs will get a free crown crate each day.
For more detail on what is going on in ESO, let’s get back to Durus and Dankinia !
GAME NEWS
“As a PTS participant, you’ll have a watermark visible while playing to help us identify any possible NDA breaches. To reiterate: You can share almost all of your adventures in ESO: Summerset publicly, including Jewelry Crafting, the Cloudrest Trial, open world adventures, Abyssal Geysers, Delves, World Bosses, Public Dungeons, and anything in the base game, but any details related to the main quest and its storyline beyond “The Queen’s Decree” is under NDA.”
Elder Scrolls Online Talking Points
What’s all this ESO stuff about? Basic chat about the game and world. Sub model, free to play, Steam, PC, console, addons, etc.
The entire world scales. Jump in and play with friends now that you’ve been playing with in other games for years. Caveat: level 10 for dungeons, level 6 is when craftings starts.
What’s AIE doing in the game? How do guilds work?
How do you get involved with AIE in the game? Talk to us in-game or via Discord in the #lfo or #eso chat channels. No UMAMI needed.
Mega-servers but if you want to play with us it has to be NA PC.
Brief word about the economy and trade guilds.
Tips
ESO Plus – note upcoming free / crate promotion
https://www.elderscrollsonline.com/en-us/esoplus
Crafting
Inv / note the level 7 reward for 10 additional inv slots. Don’t buy the first ten until after level 7.
Addons. Use “Minion” : https://minion.mmoui.com/
If you don’t own the game currently. Morrowind is now rolled into Sumerset and the entire game can be bought / up to date and ready for update 18 on 21 May for PC.
Want to see us play the game? Talk about streams. The best way to get a glimpse of what the game is about.
Announcement summary for Summerset Isle
https://www.elderscrollsonline.com/en-us/news/post/26347
Summerset and Update 18 Info
https://www.elderscrollsonline.com/en-us/news/post/26341
CLOSE
And that’s our show for tonight. While the chatroom begins suggesting show titles, we want to thank Durus and Dankinia for joining us.
Dankinia My twitter is @dankinia and my twitch stream is http://twitch.tv/DankiniaPlays where you can see Noob Raid in action every Saturday night.
ESO userid: @dankinia
Durus is @thedurus on the Tweeters, and streams as http://twitch.tv/thedurus. These days there is a lot of ESO is being streamed. However Steam and PS4 games are also known to show up there.
ESO userid: @theadurus
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 we didn’t receive any this week, but please check out https://www.twitch.tv/newoverlords right after the show as @MaxTheGrey will be live streaming some ESO and showing of the AIE Guild and guild house as well as some of the cool game features.
Next time, we’ll be talking to MaxTheGrey and Sema’t’witch about AIE in StarWars the Old Republic and thoughts on patch 5.9, if it doesn’t get delayed! So until then, AIE…
– This is Mkallah
– This is Mewkow
– This is Tetsemi
And this has been… The AIE Podcast.
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April 09, 2018The AIE Podcast #295 – My head cannon can’t
On this episode of The AIE Podcast…
Mkallah: Anyone doing anything August 14th?
Mewkow: Conquest drops with a thunk
Tetsemi:Final Fantasy 14 is free for a few!
Mkallah: The housing market in ESO is hot!
Mewkow: And, we are our own guests!
All that and more coming up right now…
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Welcome to episode #295 of the the podcast celebrating the Alea Iacta Est gaming community, the die has been podcast. This is Tetsemi: To my left is is Mkallah: (Hey guys, there is a mocha java cake in the guild kitchen) . And to my right Mewkow (Greetings, gamers!) It’s been a while, so we are having a host show, to talk about what AIE is up to and what we are doing in and out of game.
Ok, we’ll be chatting soon, but first, let’s cover this week’s news…
AIE News
Community
This month’s community event will be in World of Warcraft during the Micro-holiday on April 28th, Honor a Guard! We’re going to celebrate the event and parade around Orgrimmar.
Next month’s community event will also be in WoW, helping folks who want to participate in the Balloon Tour events and those that need help with PvP for Children’s Week to finally finish off What a Long, Strange, Trip it’s Been achievement.
WoW
August 14, the day before Cyberwaif’s birthday, AND the announced release date of Battle for Azeroth! With this announcement, the physical collector’s edition is available for sale and includes a hardcover book with two novella’s exclusive to the physical collector’s edition with story about Battle for Azeroth. Excerpts were posted by Blizzard and are really worth reading – https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/news/21647285/collector-s-edition-a-tale-of-two-novellas For those of you not getting the physical collector’s edition, the novella’s will be for sale in digitial form minus all the artwork that is exclusive to the hard cover version. If you’ve already bought the expansion digitally in either standard or collector’s edition form and order the physical version, Blizzard will refund the cost of your initial purchase to your account’s Battle.net balance.
Some highlights from the PAX East announcement –
Dark Iron Dwarves and Mag’har Orcs will be the first two new Allied Races. Play through the War Campaign at release and unlock them.
Kul’Tiran and Zandalari Trolls will come later in the expansion.
Another round of realm connections is coming!
The pre-expansion patch will include content in Darkshore that tells the backstory of the Burning of Teldrassil. It will include both story quests and replayable skirmishes with elites.
There will be 2.5D animated pieces that tells the story of the Burning of Teldrassil.
Check out more information over at MMO-Champion and WoWHead which have been tracking all the announcements and dev interviews.
https://www.mmo-champion.com/content/7489-Battle-for-Azeroth-Releases-August-14th
Also, if you are in Alpha and want to join the AIE Guild there, we have formed Alea Iacta Est Audacia on the Sylvanas server on the Alliance side. That’s right, we’re on the Alliance side so we don’t spoil the Horde storyline since that’s where the majority of our folks will be playing at the start. Just hop into the #WoW channel in AIE Discord and ask for an invite or DM Tetsemi on Discord as well.
SWTOR
Mandatory Fun Night, where attendance is optional, but fun is mandatory, is on the Republic side this week. They will be tackling GoTM as their main objective with the possibility of another MFN randomly popping up later in the week depending on Conquest goals. As always please keep track of AIE Discord and the #SWTOR channel for up to date information and make sure you’ve completed your story line far enough to have your own ship.
Since we were gone both patch 5.8 and 5.8a dropped with a loud thud or clank depending on who you talk to. Major highlights were the Conquest overhaul, the return of followers and the final boss of GoTM, Izax. Links to both sets of notes are below, and the Conquest overhaul is a work in progress, to put it politely. There will be more changes ahead in patch 5.9 restoring some of the ability of alts to participate in Conquest and provide more variety in ways to participate in Conquest as well as more incentive for larger guilds to invade Medium and Large planets.
http://www.swtor.com/patchnotes/3202018/game-update-5.8
http://www.swtor.com/patchnotes/03272018/game-update-5.8a
SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 236: Boarding Party On
http://www.newoverlords.com/swtor-escape-pod-cast-236-boarding-party-on/
This week @AIESema, @MaxTheGrey and Astromech EPC-236 talk cartel and conquest updates while running a playthrough of the Boarding Party Flashpoint
SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 237: Reviving Revan
http://www.newoverlords.com/swtor-escape-pod-cast-237-reviving-revan/
This week @AIESema, @MaxTheGrey and Astromech EPC-237 run the Foundry Flashpoint and experience the introduction of Revan into the SWTOR story.
Cartel Market Direct Sale through Monday night. All items that came out of the cartel packs are available for direct sale.
FFXIV
There is a free login campaign currently running from March 27th through May 6th.
https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/topics/detail/6d6666ed8b669d6b6c6b9c6a38935191a68f0714
Eligibility –
Users who have previously purchased and registered FINAL FANTASY XIV.
All registered services accounts are set as inactive during the campaign period.
Registered service account must have been inactive for at least thirty days.
Also, for those that might have missed it, Eureka the forbidden land has been opened. Did you play FF11 and enjoyed the Notorious Mobs and camping them, the mad dash for mobs and resources? In a similar vein to the Palace of the Dead, you will have separate leveling in this new land. Interestingly enough, rumor has it that the dungeon queues have taken a hit as a result, and even DPS are in short supply there.
STO
https://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/10838844-victory-is-life-our-fourth-expansion%2C-coming-june-2018%21
Star Trek Online is incredibly proud to announce our fourth major expansion, Victory is Life. Paying homage to fan-favorite Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, this brand-new expansion will bring Captains to the Gamma Quadrant and beyond, in a new story kicked off by the invasion of the mysterious Hur’q.
In addition to new cast members and features, Victory is Life will raise the Star Trek Online level cap to 65, introduce a new queue, new progression systems, and will add a Sector Battlezone, a new gameplay feature that takes players into a war between the stars to save the Gamma Quadrant.
EVE
AIEU is moving again and trading Russian overlords for Chinese overlords. AIEU and it’s aliance will be moving to a new region of space. Once there we will be paying the “IRON PRICE” for our space sovereignty. AIEU will be going to war!
A special message from the eternal beloved AIEU space dictator Hoots
LOTRO
There are quite a few events currently running or upcoming in LOTRO.
Hobnanigans (Chicken Hockey until April 9th)
25% XP Boost April 12th through April 16th
LotRO 11 Anniversary starts April 19th
20% off Shared Wardrobe, Cosmetic Outfit Slots, Mounted combat Trait Spec, and select cosmetics in the store until April 12th
Code MARKAC gets a 100% Mark Acquisition (90 minutes) bonus until April 12th
ESO
In ESO, the guild is getting active again with the new content and fixes since launch making it a solid game. We had a guild dungeon run over the weekend and we have opened a guild house.
We now have a guild account and guild house set up in ESO. The account is @AIEGuild. To get to the guild house, right click on that account in the guild roster and select “Visit Primary Residence”.
The house is located right on the outskirts of Rawl’kha with an Outlaws Den just out the back door and easy access to a small town with everything centrally located, bank, stable, wayshrine, crafting and some of the top guild traders.
Everyone in the guild right now is set up as a “decorator” and can move any decos around. Only the owner can place. If you have decos you want placed just mail them to @AIEGuild and I’ll drop for you to move where you’d like. Once things settle down we can think about locking decorating but we can all just play around with it for now. Enjoy!
In game news, a new expansion was announced called Summerset(More on that in 2 weeks), and if you haven’t seen already, the anniversary event has begun. Make sure to find the baker in the starter cities and grab your cake memento. During the event, summoning and using the special cake will give you a huge XP boost. Also, make sure to grind those daily quests because during the event, they will also drop a special anniversary loot box full of goodies, and some super rare motifs and other epic items.
GW2
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/the-game/releases/march-29-2018/
From March 29th through April 19th the Super Adventure Festival will be running in Guild Wars 2.
Asuran genius Moto’s cutting-edge, high-tech ludonarrative triumph, the SUPER ADVENTURE BOX, is back for our annual festival of bouncing mushrooms, exploding flowers, and clouds with attitude. Jump into the future of edutainment…if you can handle that much adventure.
GAME NEWS
Cyberwaif
Not enough
Mewkow
Just watched Ready Player One. Like, literally an hour ago.
Far Cry 5 had my attention for the most part.
ESO had the latter bit of it.
Now starting up on Witcher 3.
And when I can sneak it in, I’ve been poking at the WoW Alpha.
Tetsemi
In WoW, leveling up the 4 allied races (2 Horde, 2 Alliance) (2 Alliance at 30, HMT at 66, and Nightbourne at 78). Working on my Alchemist, trying to get all the researched discoveries. Still raiding, but in a much more relaxed fashion now that we’ve killed Argus a few times. Still haven’t got the Pantheon trinket on Tetsemi, but we do have enough people with it on the raid team to get the bonus.
In SWTOR, mainly focusing on my Sith Sorcerer to participate in Conquest weeks, though that’ll change this week as we focus on the Republic side. Still trying to collect all the Odessen armor set pieces from the various loot boxes and max out the rep with your four alliance leaders on Odessen.
A ton of soul searching in WoW. Listen to episode 263 of Azeroth Round Table if you want some more audio. Because Blizzard has been very good at communicating the mechanical aspects of the expansion but haven’t yet shared the story beats of it, Tetsemi, in WoW, will most likely be retired as a character and one of the allied races (Nightbourne or Highmountain Tauren) will take up his banner in Battle for Azeroth.
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And that’s our show for tonight. While the chatroom begins suggesting show titles, we want to thank ourselves for joining us.
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…
Altitis – @TheMewKow
Overly Dramatic News – @HuntsTheWind
Next time, we’ll hopefully be talking to some of our ESO folks!. So until then, AIE…
– This is Tetsemi
– This is Mkallah
– This is Mewkow
And this has been… The AIE Podcast.
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March 12, 2018The AIE Podcast #294 – FFX-cellent
On this episode of The AIE Podcast…
Tetsemi: DOA for April Fools!
Mewkow: Command Authority pushback!
Mkallah: STO on the beach
Tetsemi: There’s a bug in GW2
Mewkow: And we have Abovan who is here to talk to us about AIE in FFXIV
All that and more coming up right now…
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Welcome to episode #294 of the the podcast celebrating the Alea Iacta Est gaming community, the die has been podcast. This is Mkallah: To my left is Tetsemi: – (catch phrase here). And to my right is Mewkow: (catch phrase here). This week we are joined by special guests Abovan who is here to talk to us about AIE in FFXIV Welcome!
Tetsemi: Blame Shojobeat for this, 100%, I got all my WoW Professions to 800. If you have a raid team member that supplies cauldrons or potions of power for the raid team, do them a huge favor and send them Legion herbs each week. I knew Ben the Mage and Saisri were spending a bunch on this, but good lord, Alchemy is the worst for material costs. Also, when the WQ for Bacon is up, make sure you do it and send to your feast provider, fish is cheap, bacon is not.
Mkallah- Ok, we’ll be digging into FFXIV shortly, but first, let’s cover this week’s news…
AIE News
Imperium Ludi
Just a reminder for folks looking for AIE in other games, there are some folks active in The Division, check out the thread in our forums! – http://forum.myextralife.com/topic/57017-the-division/page-2
In ESO news, the next season of crown crates, the Scalecaller crate, is coming out March 15th. Your last chance to buy the current crate, the Flame Atronach, is on March 14th, so get them while you can. Also, if you hurry and log in today and kill at least one monster deserving of such a fate, you can get 1 free crate from the upcoming season.
NOMADS
Just a reminder that there is a new season in Diablo III so jump into the AIE Community in Diablo III and start rocking that seasonal character for rewards and profits. And don’t forget, any Paragon levels you achieve during the season are added to all your non-seasonal characters at the end of the season, so don’t just stop when you hit 70, keep going and benefit all your characters.
WoW
April Fools is coming up, and DOA is hosting a huge April Fools by taking extra guild members until we hit raid size cap. Message Syrene in game or on Discord for more info!
Don’t forget the Fools Rush in Challenge that GustyTail has issued to the community and now has extended to the first week of April, play a character class that you’re least familiar with, team up with friends, and go do dungeons and LFR!
http://forum.myextralife.com/topic/57485-april1-fools-rush-in-challenge/
How did you do in the Trial of Style? Did you make it to GustyTail’s Transmog Swap Meet last weekend before the Trial of Style? Let us know if you participated and how you did in the Trial of Style!
SWTOR
Patch 5.8, Command Authority, which was supposed to launch this Tuesday, has been pushed back a week to March 20th. This will bring with it the final boss Izax, the Destroyer. If you defeat it on the hardest difficulty, you will get a new achievement, a special and unique title, and a ‘very enticing’ legacy-based reward.
http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?p=9540049#edit9540049
Speaking of patch 5.8, it also bring in the new Conquest update as laid out in the forums post here http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?p=9549316#edit9549316 the biggest shift, is going to be how your Stronghold bonus is determined. No longer do you have to fill the stronghold with chairs to get 100% bonus, you just need to unlock all the room in a stronghold for it to count towards the Stronghold bonus. I think Max is going to have an un-chair-ing in some of his strongholds.
Mandatory Fun Night, where attendance is optional, but Fun is mandatory! Come hear Max’s tales of how the Imperial Explosive Conflict storyline goes on March 13th on the Imperial Side (of course) and then on March 20th, join us on the Republic Side for Tales from Karagga’s Palace!
If you haven’t heard Storytime by Max, or had Corley read the Codex entries to you, you’re missing out!
SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 232: Did I Mention Best Duelist?
http://www.newoverlords.com/swtor-escape-pod-cast-232-did-i-mention-best-duelist/
This week @AIESema, @MaxTheGrey and Astromech EPC-232 discuss the coming Conquest updates while our sorc story sets an Ashara trap on Taris.
SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 233: We Have Queshtions
http://www.newoverlords.com/swtor-escape-pod-cast-233-we-have-queshtions/
This week @AIESema, @MaxTheGrey and Astromech EPC-233 talk about some upcoming update clarifications in the news and continue our Sorc adventures, moving on to Quesh.
FFXIV
See Game Notes
STO
Into the beach event is currently going on. Completing the event 14 times get you a special ship console.
Lifetime subscription sale is going on now until early April. $100 off of the lifetime subscription.
Fleet holdings are making good progress. The K-13 station is closing in on unlocking tier 1, while we are closing in on finishing the final stage for the fleet research lab.
EVE
No major news, move ops should be over, things are getting back to normal. As normal as having a Russian bear as your friend is.
Also, As a followup to last weeks show, the folks in Eve have started a mentoring program and are taking new pilots under their wings and showing them how to force an enemy infrastructure to go into reinforce mode so it can be destroyed afterwords! 3 enemy bases were attacked and a good time was had by all!
GW2
Season 4 Episode 2, “A Bug in the System” was released. New map and new story chapter, can’t say much more that isn’t slightly spoiler-y. Oh and new Legendary Dagger, the Claw of the Khan-Ur, an item of great lore importance to the charr, and pretty cool.
And with that, let’s get back to Abovan and find out what’s going on in FFXIV.
GAME NEWS
Patch 4.2
Been out for awhile now
Added new story content, continuing the Stormblood story, which is getting crazier by the patch.
New 8-players raid, Deltascape. FF6 Style bosses with a Kefka boss at the end.
Story and Savage modes available.
2 New Dungeons
For the fashionistas out there, the new weekly quest, Fashion Report is now available.
Get “judged” by an NPC at the Gold Saucer for rewards, based on a theme.
Submarines added, for the FC to build as a group to send out on missions, similar to the airships.
“The Ralff” airship has been completed and has been running missions for us to get unique crafting materials, eventually will level up far enough to allow items needed to craft up FC buffs.
Elemental Resistance is removed from the game! Rejoice!
Stackable items go from 99 to 999 per stack! Your bags, sacks I mean, will cry of not being overloaded again!
Chocobo saddle bags available! It’s like a bank that you can access in non-combat, non-instances areas. Your sacks will cry again in joy!
Duty recorder! Record your dungeon runs in-game! Play back from your vantage point or other players or NPCs. Store up to 3 dungeon runs.
Glamour Commode! Thanks to better a translator team than google translate, we have instead Glamour Dresser!
Lets us store gear for cosmetic and glamour purposes.
Can store sets of glamour.
Patch 4.25
This week! Maybe.
New Hildibrand quests.
The Forbidden Land!
144 players per zone
Separate leveling and progression
Friday Fun nights are still happening. Come as you are and we’ll find common content to run as a group.
AIE news!
Members can activate their own buffs now.
End game team is starting to form up, Speak with Abovan or Durus for details.
Plenty of new folks too, so getting started in the game isn’t a problem, as you will have other new players as well as seasoned folks to help you out.
Getting the game.
At the time of this recording, the game is on sale on the Square Enix Store.
Complete edition (Base game and all xpacks) 60 bucks, down to 30.
Stormblood Expansion, 40 bucks down to 20.
This includes both the PS4 version as well as the PC or Mac version.
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Shoutouts:
Shout out to our favorite STO News reporter Cybyl who has been dealing with real life, we’ve missed her, but glad she was here tonight in the chat room!
And that’s our show for tonight. While the chat room begins suggesting show titles, we want to thank Abovan for joining us.
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…
Altitis – @TheMewKow
Quick program note, due to travel and Easter, we are taking a month off. We will return on April 8th! So, until then, AIE
– This is Mewkow
– This is Tetsemi
– This is Mkallah
And this has been… The AIE Podcast.
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February 26, 2018The AIE Podcast #293 – Three Hour Tour In Space
On this episode of The AIE Podcast…
Mkallah: ESO Roles the Dragon Bones
Tetsemi: Season 13 of Diablo is upon us!
Mkallahi: Get ready for Gusty’s Transmog Trial of Style
Tetsemi: Captain Hunter makes his triumphant return to STO
Mkallah: And we have Hoots and a very Special Guest!
All that and more coming up right now…
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Welcome to episode #293 of the the podcast celebrating the Alea Iacta Est gaming community, the die has been podcast. This is Tetsemi: To my left is Mkallah: – (Hey guys, there is Sticky Toffee pudding in the guild kitchen). (And, Mewkow will be in shortly! Something about a backyard playscape being scattered around the neighborhood!) And to my right is Mewkow: (Greetings Gamers, or whatever else Mkallah decides to write in here). This week we are joined by Hoots and a mystery guest who are here to talk to us about AIE in Eve The Fine Art of Seafaring. Welcome!
Ok, we’ll be digging into EVE shortly, but first, let’s cover this week’s news…
AIE News
Imperium Ludi
ESO news: The Dragon Bones update is now live with two new dungeons and accompanying new items sets, monster helms and achievements. There’s only a handful of players in ESO these days but an AIE is available in game and a channel is active in Discord for those interested.
NOMADS
Season 13 in Diablo 3 has officially started and the group of usual suspects are in there doing our thing, come join us, it’s free to play after all. And a new League will be starting in Path of Exile this coming Friday at 1pm ET, it, also, is free to play, and really a lot of fun. Come on by and give Apolas and Durus a shout.
WoW
Gusty is hosting a transmog swapmeet, a WoW event, for the Trial of Style, giving away transmog gear. March 3rd at 4pm and march 4th at 1pm.
http://forum.myextralife.com/topic/57494-get-fabulous-for-the-trial-of-style/
Also a reminder of the upcoming April 1st Fools Rush in Challenge
Do a raid or dungeon on Sunday, April 1, in your least-played spec. Yep. Tanks go heals (and vice versa if you’re a Druid). Hunters go Survival (which may be a misnomer in this case). Mages go Arcane (get to hear the cool stuff your weapon says!) The idea is to have fun and make a fool of yourself with friends.
http://forum.myextralife.com/topic/57485-april1-fools-rush-in-challenge/
We had an amazing time with the First Annual Rall’s Amazing Race and can’t wait to duplicate this in other games as well. Thanks to Pellel and Max for the idea, thanks to Syreyne for hosting and cat herding, and thanks to Eagle the quest giver for taking his own mage portal and giving us all a good laugh.
http://forum.myextralife.com/topic/57492-first-annual-ralffs-amazing-race/
Speaking of good laughs, posted w/out comment, because it speaks for itself.
https://clips.twitch.tv/SuperMotionlessAdminCorgiDerp
SWTOR
SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 231: Not a Roadmap to Taris
http://www.newoverlords.com/swtor-escape-pod-cast-231-not-a-roadmap-to-taris/
This week @AIESema, @MaxTheGrey and Astromech EPC-231 walk through the game update news posted about 5.8 and 5.9 in the “not a roadmap” post all while we finally get our story play-through onto the surface of Taris
Update news for updates 5.8 and 5.9 are now published. We’ll be seeing those updates in March and April. This will include the final boss of the Gods From The Machine operation, conclusion to the Traitor story with a Flash Point on Nathema, and updates to Conquest, among other things.
Mandatory Fun Night will be on Pub side this week running Dread Fortress and next week on Imp side running Dread Palace.
FFXIV
Personal housing is once more available.
Raid Deltascape Savage now available.
Little Ladies’ Day, the next seasonal event starts on 1 March.
It features concert glow lights, doll furniture display, and music.
Our FC world server, Goblin in the Aether Data Center, still has the “Road to 60” buff that greatly boosts XP gains for jobs under level 60.
We’ve welcomed a few new folks to the FC, please be on the lookout for new names in FC chat.
A few folks are on daily doing hunts, and roulettes. Speak up in FC Chat if you want to be involved.
Those that missed the amazon FF14 purchase bonus event a year or so ago can now purchase those formerly exclusive maid and butler outfits on the store.
STO
Welcome back to Captain Hunter who has returned from his hiatus in STO and is back and exploring all the new content. He also brings with him news, that starting in March, you will be able to 3D print your starship.
Detail and discussion can be found on the forums at – http://forum.myextralife.com/topic/57498-3d-print-your-starship/
Development Laboratories rank III will be completing mid week. This will allow the purchase of an additional ground reputation trait and space reputation trait. These will be able to be purchased at the fleet science lab. After this completed, we will begin work on the final upgrade for the science lab. This will be a big project and take a lot of resources.
And as always the fleet has been doing amazing with all the hard work on the fleet projects.
EVE
See Game Notes
LOTRO
Yule Fest encore is happening now through March 4, it’s second Christmas!
Hobnanigans (chicken hockey) starts March 1 and ends March 5. Hop on Discord if you’d like to coordinate some Hobnanigans with fellow Kin members.
In the store, get 20% off instant level 50, 95, or 105 through March 1. Just look for Gift, Blessing, or Aria of the Valar.
And with that, let’s get back to Hoots and Lanc and find out what’s going on in AIE in EVE.
GAME NEWS
December 5th Alpha Clone Update
https://www.eveonline.com/article/clone-states-the-next-steps/
Upcoming March Release
https://www.eveonline.com/article/p4ejjg/balance-changes-coming-in-the-march-release
Assault Frigate Updates
https://forums.eveonline.com/t/februrary-balance-update-assault-frigates-and-assault-damage-controls/54115
Assault frigates stir unhealthy yearnings with Lanc
New Fleet Commander ship called the Monitor.
Lanc HATES the Muninn
AIEU — Core Competency — Moving
Three Hour Tour
Departure from GotG
Drone Control Unit and Drone Russian Federation
DNSBlack <3
DBRB
The Spire
Movement still in progress.
Bender’s Army (Alpha Clone Doctrine courtesy of Mannfred Sideous)
Why hello again! So you have been away from the game for awhile. Not to worry. Here is not what to do to get back into the swing of things.
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Shoutouts –
Deathstar troopers are going to take down the dread masters tonight in the dread palace!
And that’s our show for tonight. While the chatroom begins suggesting show titles, we want to thank Hoots and Lanc or joining us.
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
Altitis – @TheMewKow
Next time, we’ll be talking to Abovan in FFXIV. So until then, AIE…
– This is Mkallah
– This is Mewkow
– This is Tetsemi
And this has been… The AIE Podcast.
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February 12, 2018The AIE Podcast #292 – Doing it the Acuzod way!!!
On this episode of The AIE Podcast…
Tetsemi:The Battle for Allied Races
Mkalah: February means AIE Love
Mewkow So much love in so many games!
Tetsemi: And, we have Captain Cybyl’s STO update
Mkalah: And, the return of some Old Friends to talk to us about AIE in WOW
All that and more coming up right now…
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Welcome to episode #292 of the the podcast celebrating the Alea Iacta Est gaming community, the die has been podcast. This is Mewkow: To my left is Tetsemi: – (catch phrase here). And to my right is Mkalah: (There is Quiche in the guild kitchen, and cinnamon rolls, and baked french toast, and blueberry croissant bake and…). This week we are joined by special guests Syreyne and Acuzod who is here to talk to us about AIE in WoW Welcome!
Ok, we’ll be digging into WoW shortly, but first, let’s cover this week’s news…
AIE News
Imperium Ludi
Laskan has started a thread on the OrbuvVR game and is looking for other AIE Folks playing in the game, take a look at the forum thread and respond if you’re playing!
http://forum.myextralife.com/topic/57486-orbusvr/
WoW
The Battle for Azeroth alpha is out and a number of streamers have been showing off gameplay. Are you in the alpha or have you watched any of the streams? Let us know what you think.
Also, with the pre-order now released, you can gain access to 4 of the 6 allied races that were announced. Horde-side you can unlock the Highmountain Tauren and the Nightborne, and on the Alliance-side you can unlock the Void Elves and Lightforged Draenai. Have you pre-ordered and starting unlocking/playing the new allied races?
SWTOR
Mandatory Fun Night will be on the Imperial Side for the next two weeks, the 13 of February will be Toborro’s Courtyard and Ravagers and on the 20th, Terror from Beyond.
Also conquest in two weeks will be a crafting week, so start saving up your materials now.
Congrats to Sith with Unlimited Power, Soldiers of Light, Deathstar Troopers and Lords of Light for all downing the new raid boss!
Patch Notes – Game Update 5.7a
Corrected an issue that was preventing players from triggering the shuttle cutscene in Kuat Drive Yards.
Chapter 7: The Lady of Sorrows bonus Mission “Clean Up Detail” has had its rewards reduced.
Corrected a texture issue for the Guerrilla Tactician’s Breastplate.
SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 229: Zash Clash and 5.7a News
http://www.newoverlords.com/swtor-escape-pod-cast-229-zash-clash-and-5-7a-news/
This week @AIESema, @MaxTheGrey and Astromech EPC-229 get to the finale of the Sorcerer Chapter 1 story. We also talk about 5.7a, Microsoft buying EA (or not) and other news
SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 230: A Ton of Thanaton
http://www.newoverlords.com/swtor-escape-pod-cast-230-a-ton-of-thanaton/
This week @AIESema, @MaxTheGrey and Astromech EPC-230 deal with an introduction to Darth Thanaton in our Sorcerer play-through and spend some time talking about Strongholds and their various uses. We also cover other news
FFXIV
Valentine Day seasonal event: Valentione’s Day — lasting until 15 February.
Letter from the Producer LIVE (42nd) was yesterday, Saturday 10 Feb — stuff!
There’s a “Be My Valentine!” creative writing contest — submit your love letter as written to a game NPC, 300 words or less by 16 Feb.
FC News
Friday Night Fun Nights continue.
Some new members are rapidly approaching “end game”
New effort for 8 man content is once more underway. Contact Durus in AIE Discord for details.
The newly crafted airship “The Ralff” was constructed and sent on its maiden voyage.
We are now working on creating our first submarine for fC explorer missions.
Streams: Both Abovan and Durus have taken to streaming some Final Fantasy content. Look for posts in the “content-creators” channel of discord or drop them a follow on Twitch.tv: http://twitch.tv/abovan79 and http://twitch.tv/thedurus
EVE
The alliance that AIEU is a part of Blades of Grass is moving! Throughout the next few weeks we will be moving space from Branch to a new home to be announced Soon If you are have been a part of AIEU in the last two years and have stuff in Branch. Now is the time to log on and contact an officer. The Blades of Grass Alliance are parting ways with the larger coalition of Guardians of the Galaxy and are relocating. The parting has been amicable, but we all look forward to shooting each other in the near future!
STO
Captain Cybyl’s Star Trek Online News Summary for week ending 02/11/2018:
1. The featured episode, ‘Scylla (skil-ah) and Charybdis (ka-rib-dis)’, rewards for weeks 2 and 3 have been unlocked. See the STO website for the exciting details.
2. It’s an upgrade weekend, captains! All Technology Boost Tokens used to upgrade weapons, shields, ground weapons, etc, will earn you DOUBLE technology points.
3. Speaking of Technology Boost Tokens: by sheer coincidence, this weekend only, Technology Boost Tokens on the C-Store are now on sale for a 20% discount.
4. But wait! There’s more! New costumes and uniforms on the C-Store are also on sale this weekend only for a 20% discount. Look your very best while upgrading your Technology skills.
5. By the way, fleets that have achieved tier 5 in their Dranuur (drah-noor) Colony can unlock a brand new T6 Lukari (loo-car-ee) Dranuur (drah-noor) Scout ship. Check out the STO website.
6. Finally, don’t forget: All the Fleet’s Star Bases are always seeking contributions of materiel and personnel. And once again, please check out news, backstories, patch notes, forums and other goodies at the Star Trek Online website .
Until next time, Captain Cybyl says, ‘Live Long and Prosper’!
LOTRO
The Kinship is looking for a good time to get together to do Skirmishes, hop into the lotro Discord channel if you’re interested.
A Buried Treasure event starts February 15 and runs through the 20th, followed by a Yule Festival Encore from February 22nd through March 5th
In the LotRO store, it’s 30% off select warsteeds and mounts as well as riding skills and movement speed buffs. Also, OPENBOX gets you a free Black Steel Key until 2/15
And with that, let’s get back to Acuzod and Syreyne and find out what’s going on in WoW
GAME NEWS
Notes for WoW – Trial of Style Season 2, April Fools, and Ralff
Acuzod – There are some great events coming up in WoW over the next few months. From March 5th to March 9th, there will be a micro-holiday called Trial of Style Season 2. This is the return of the ultimate transmog tournament, where you compete against five other players to see who can create the best transmog outfit to match the challenge theme. At the end of the tournament, you win some amount of transmog tokens, based on how you placed, which can be used to buy unique transmog sets created for the event. If you are a mogger, talk to a transmog NPC in any capital city to join the tournament.
Syreyne – Also coming up in April, our very own Gustytail has set forth a challenge. She is daring you all to a Fools Rush In event. ( http://forum.myextralife.com/topic/57485-april1-fools-rush-in-challenge/ ) The idea is to play your least favorite/geared/known spec and run dungeons and raids with your fellow “fools”. Death and chaos may ensue, but there should be tons of laughs for everyone. If you haven’t figured it out by now, the event is on April Fools Day aka April 1st. We know that’s also Easter Sunday, so we are opening it up to that whole first week of April. Make sure you take plenty of screenshots and tag the guild on Twitter!
Acuzod – As you may or may not know, February 13th is our guild anniversary. It is a time to cheer for the beginning of AIE and the start of this wonderful community. It is also a time of sadness, as last year on February 17th, we lost one of our greatest members who was the epitome of what AIE is….Ralff aka Roger White.
(((pause here for a few minutes to reflect on Ralff)))
Syreyne – One of the last events Ralff wanted to do in WoW was an Amazing Race. So for Ralff and all that he did for this community, we are now hosting an annual event in his honor…Ralff’s Amazing Race!
Acuzod – The race will start in Orgrimmar on Saturday, February 17th. At 8pm server time (Eastern), we will open registrations with a shotgun start at 9pm. The event shouldn’t run more than an hour or so…..plenty of time for everyone to join NOOB raid afterwards! Just like in the real amazing race, everyone will be given the first clue at the same time. You’ll have to figure the clue out and find your hidden officer. Once you get there, you may have to do an emote or mini-challenge to receive your next clue.
Syreyne – Points are given to out for those that make it to the hidden mark. More points for first, second, or third, but everyone that gets there for the clue will receive points. There may also be bonus points earned with hidden or special mini-challenges. The top four people with the highest points win prizes! And everyone participating gets a Left Shark!!! Seriously….everyone….
Acuzod – Don’t worry about being level 110. All the locations are in Kalimdor and Eastern Kingdoms. Everyone is welcome to join in on the fun, but level 60 flying could give you an edge. You can compete as a pair (2 people) but you have to register that way. So if you’re under 60, grab a flying buddy and take to the skies!
Syreyne – While you can fly yourself (and a buddy!) and take flight points, please don’t use class specific cheats to hop around the world…mage portals, druid dreamway, etc. We want to make this as fair for everyone as possible. The clue givers will be keeping track of points on a spreadsheet, so once you’ve made it to the final destination, head on back to Gallywix’s to party before NOOB raid!
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And that’s our show for tonight. While the chatroom begins suggesting show titles, we want to thank Acuzod and Syreyne for joining us.
@SyreyneAIE
@Acuzod
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 Hopefully the fools from EVE!. So until then, AIE…
– This is Mkallah
– This is Tetsemi
– This is Mewkow
And this has been… The AIE Podcast.
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