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July 17, 2024The AIE Podcast #424 – BIG mood change
On this episode of The AIE Podcast…
We have your Summer of Love schedule
Summer is patch season
Hot times, summer in Nar Shadaa
Happy 4th Anniversary to our friends over at Fleet Action Report
We are talking amongst ourselves- which means Dawntrail chat!
All that and more coming up right now…
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Welcome to episode #424 of the podcast celebrating you, the Alea Iacta Est gaming community, the die has been podcast. This is Mewkow: To my left is Mkallah: – (when is fig season again? I need to have chocolate fig cakes in the guild kitchen!). And to my right is Tetsemi: (catch phrase here). This week, we are talking amongst ourselves! Welcome!
Ok, we’ll be digging into what we have been up to shortly, but first, let’s cover this week’s news…
AIE News
Community
Mandatory Fun Nights
Where the fun is mandatory but the attendance is not.
Sunday – Destiny 2 8:30 pm Eastern
Monday – GW2 9:30 pm Eastern
Monday – STO 10:00 pm Eastern
Tuesday – SWTOR 9:00 pm Eastern
Wednesday – HFO Mythic+ Mayhem (WoW) 8:00 pm Eastern
Thursday- Board Game Night (1st and 3rd Thursdays) 7:00 pm Eastern/6:00 pm Central
Friday – ESO 9:00 pm Eastern
Saturday – LotRO 8:30 pm Eastern
Saturday – FFXIV (Maps) 9:30 pm Eastern
Saturday – WoW Classic Hardcore 9:30 pm Eastern
Saturday – Noob Raid (WoW) 11:00 pm Eastern
Streaming and Guild Podcast News
We have a ton of AIE member podcasts! Want to know where to find them? Look no further than here-
New Overlords Podcast (Max and Sema)
https://www.newoverlords.com
Working Class Nerds (Marcus and Nick) – NSFL
https://workingclassnerdscom.wordpress.com
Boards and Swords (Chris and Philip)
https://boardsandswords.com/blog?category=Boards%20%26%20Swords
Dr. Gameology ( Dr. Daniel Kaufmann )
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STO – Fleet Action Report (Grebog and Nikodas)
https://www.youtube.com/@fleetactionreport
A Podcast Reborn: A FFXIV Community Podcast (Brandon aka Old Man Franks, Meagan, and Rho) – NSFL
https://www.bonusroll.gg/directory/a-podcast-reborn/
AIE Summer of Love – Events
WoW Retail:
Sat 7/27 at 8pm Eastern, 5pm Pacific – WoW Trivia with Gustytail (Discord, Noob Raid Prime channel)
Sun 7/28 at 6pm Eastern, 3pm Pacific “What’s the Buzz?” D&D with Mementh Info and sign up in AIE Discord dnd-with-mementh
Mon 7/29 8pm Eastern, 5pm Pacific – “Help! Help! I’m locked out of my Mage Tower!” D&D with Duskmire – info and sign up in AIE Discord dnd-with-Duskmire
*Please sign up early so the DM’s can answer any questions and better prepare.
Wed 7/31 at 8pm Eastern, 5pm Pacific – Remix Race: We’ll be speed leveling Pandaria-Remix alts to 70
Thurs 8/1 at 8pm Eastern, 5pm Pacific – Lore night with Anirra. We gather in various locations to tell a story about our character or something in WoW. The previous event was a lot of fun!
Fri 8/2 at 9pm Eastern, 6pm Pacific – Remembrance Day – Meet at the Shrine of the Fallen outside Crossroads to remember friends and family, then parade to Orgrimmar for fireworks & BBQ
NOMADS
WoW
There’s a big content patch coming (Warbands, Skyriding (aka Dragonriding for other flying mounts), new quests. The War Within Pre-Expansion Content Update Goes Live July 23 – WoW
WoW Classic
Life is very quiet on the Cataclysm classic front. Many of us have been playing in Pandaria Remix, and the Stale Puft Raid team will be a retail raid team in the War Within. TWW (Tdub) looks to be amazing! So we will remain in the Classic worlds but with a very reduced presence. The lights will remain on, but there probably won’t be very many people on line. If anyone needs to reach us for anything, please reach out in the ?wow-classic channel and ping an @officer . We remain happy to help out as we can, but the cadence will be very slow paced. We may come back, but nobody knows.
It’s summer in a galaxy far, far away, and that means it’s time for Nar Shadaa Nightlife. We did some group gambling during MFN last week and traded tips and tricks for the event. Warzone Wednesday was on the pub side this week, and Friday Frolics was a GSF night. Stask was the flyer and Looci and Sema were cheering him on.
SWTOR
It’s summer in a galaxy far, far away, and that means it’s time for Nar Shadaa Nightlife. We did some group gambling during MFN last week and traded tips and tricks for the event. Warzone Wednesday was on the pub side this week, and Friday Frolics was a GSF night. Stask was the flyer and Looci and Sema were cheering him on.
ESO
The last few weeks have been spent working on the new scribing quest line and clearing the overland portion of the new zone.
Kraemer has all of the mundus stones and crafting stations currently available at is primary residence. Feel free to stop by to use them if you need to.
Summer of Love is coming soon. Stay tuned for more information on events that will be held in ESO such as a DnD one shot and a trial night.
FFXIV
Tuesday is the first patch of Dawntrail, with the first four of the new 8man raid series dropping, as well as the new limited tome gear. More on that in our chat!
STO
Fleet Action Report just celebrated its 4 year anniversary. Thank you all for the support.
The summer event has started and the free ship this year is the Vovin Obelisk Carrier. It currently is said to have one of the best consoles in the game. There are all kinds of new items in the summer event store from a new kit frame to a rainbow mellanoid slime non combat pet, or a rainbow version of Murph from Prodigy.
LOTRO
Lots of things on the horizon for Lotro. We are about a week and a half away from Update 41. Later in August will be a new instance as part of the celebration of the Year of the Dragon. Also the rumored lotro official discord is in the works and they will try to have it out hopefully September ish. Lastly, the 2 new legendary servers are still expected to go live this month. There is a lot more coming so as to not take up too much time, stay tuned for more fun kinship stuff.
And with that, let’s find out what we have been doing in and out of game!
GAME NEWS
Insert lots of FFXIV Dawntrail chat here
CLOSE
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 find us on the AIE Discord and other non-Twitter social media.. 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 look for the link to our discord server at https://aie-guild.org. And for past episodes, you can see them on our Youtube channel, https://www.youtube.com/c/TheAIEPodcast ! Our theme was composed by the amazing Andrew Allen, follow him at @keyswithsoul! or visit his website https://andrewallenmusic.com/
And now it’s time to play all of the great AIE member segments we received this week, including…
Next time, we’ll be talking to…. Someone in some game! So until then, AIE…
– This is Mewkow
– This is Mkallah
– This is Tetsemi
And this has been… The AIE Podcast.
51 min
June 17, 2024The AIE Podcast #423 – Floor Tanking with Dankinia
On this episode of The AIE Podcast…
Destiny 2- the Light and the Dark
Shhhhhh, no spoilers
So much to do in SWTOR before June 25
(less than) Two weeks before early access in FFXIV
And, we have the Floor Tank, Dankinia, here to talk to us about AIE in ESO!
All that and more coming up right now…
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Welcome to episode #423 of the podcast celebrating you, 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 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
Mandatory Fun Nights
Where the fun is mandatory but the attendance is not.
Sunday – Destiny 2 8:30 pm Eastern
Monday – GW2 9:30 pm Eastern
Monday – STO 10:00 pm Eastern
Tuesday – SWTOR 9:00 pm Eastern
Wednesday – HFO Mythic+ Mayhem (WoW) 8:00 pm Eastern
Thursday- Board Game Night (1st and 3rd Thursdays) 7:00 pm Eastern/6:00 pm Central
Friday – ESO 9:00 pm Eastern
Saturday – LotRO 8:30 pm Eastern
Saturday – FFXIV (Maps) 9:30 pm Eastern
Saturday – WoW Classic Hardcore 9:30 pm Eastern
Saturday – Noob Raid (WoW) 11:00 pm Eastern
Streaming and Guild Podcast News
We have a ton of AIE member podcasts! Want to know where to find them? Look no further than here-
New Overlords Podcast (Max and Sema)
https://www.newoverlords.com
Working Class Nerds (Marcus and Nick) – NSFL
https://workingclassnerdscom.wordpress.com
Boards and Swords (Chris and Philip)
https://boardsandswords.com/blog?category=Boards%20%26%20Swords
Dr. Gameology ( Dr. Daniel Kaufmann )
https://drgameology.com/
STO – Fleet Action Report (Grebog and Nikodas)
https://www.youtube.com/@fleetactionreport
A Podcast Reborn: A FFXIV Community Podcast (Brandon aka Old Man Franks, Meagan, and Rho) – NSFL
https://www.bonusroll.gg/directory/a-podcast-reborn/
NOMADS
Destiny 2 – New expansion launched, new activities, new weapons. It is the conclusion of what Bungie is calling the light and dark saga where we fight the big bad from the last 10 years. They did some new really neat stuff like a 12 player activity that unlocked when the new raid had been completed by a team. Overall it has been getting very positive reviews.
WoW
oob Raid cleared up to final boss Sarkareth in Aberrus on Saturday night and in coming weeks will be working on getting people the Awakened Raid achievement. Defeating all bosses in Vault of the Incarnates, Aberrus and Amirdrassil on Normal difficulty awards the Voyaging Wilderling Mount. Planning has begun for AIE’s Summer of Love event, which will run July 27 (26?) through August 2nd (Remembrance Day). In WoW, we’ll have a Lore Night and a WoW Trivia night, as well as pet and toy giveaways.
The next expansion, The War Within has a launch date of Aug 26 – with early access Aug 22 for people who pre-purchased the Epic Edition. Beta access has opened and there are spoilers out there. Please respect others by not discussing big revelations in Guild chat or Discord (unless it’s hidden). Meanwhile players are busy finishing up achievements and leveling alts – many of them in Pandaria Remix. It’s a wicked good time!
We’ll also have a new playable dwarf race, The Earthen, in War Within. It seems only fair that they should be unlocked on Day One for Earthen Ring server, right?
Here is a picture of Gusty on the Voyaging Wilderling Mount
WoW Classic
Our Stale-Puft Marshmallow raid team has had one raid night so far, in which we came 10% away from full clearing normal Blackwing Descent 10m, off to a strong start!
The only Cata news of note is Blizzard recently changed valor to be a rolling seasonal cap, like how conquest points already worked, so we’re all very excited about that, especially for upcoming alts
Season of Discovery has lots of news about upcoming season 4, reaching the level cap of 60 at last
Sounds like some really cool stuff, like new tier sets for every spec, 3 difficulty levels for Molten Core, and of course many new rune abilities
FFXIV
Less than 2 weeks, June 28th, until early access for the new expac drops! Last live letter aired last night, the VOD is on their page I believe. Lots of fun new zones and new gear sets revealed.
SWTOR
In Swtor, we are still feeling our way through 7.5. There is a lot to do and the only deadline is that the Spring Festival will be ending June 25. There is still time to catch up on that. In the meantime, there is no limit to when you can do the main story or the new Venture system. The Venture will eventually earn you a gun-faced dog companion. He’s adorable.
We do our MFN on Tuesday night, have a fun PvP night on most Wednesdays, and do a variety of things on Friday nights. Come join in the discussion in the swtor channel if you want to hear what cicadas sound like or see a robot restaurant server deployed in the Chicago area.
ESO
See Game Notes
LOTRO
We got our first look at update 41 on Bullroarer this past week, in which monster play is getting some love. We are expecting Bullroarer to open up for this week so we can take a look at the new hobby (hopefully). Lotro summer sales continues with some great stuff on sale every week for the next couple weeks. This week is a sale on carry-alls. We are excited to get some exciting teasers from Executive Producer Severlin from a couple of shows he has been on. Some exciting things that have already been teased and waiting for more information on them.
And with that, let’s get back to Dankinia and find out what’s going on in ESO.
GAME NEWS
The new expansion, Gold Road, came out on June 3 for PC and brought with it a new zone and storyline as well as a new system called Scribing that lets you customize your skills and abilities. There is a questline to unlock it and then daily quests that can be done to acquire materials. For the last few MFN’s we’ve all grouped up to run a short trial or do dailies and then hung out in voice chatting with each other as we worked through the Scribing quests. I foresee more time spent doing dailies in our future to collect all the components needed.
The Zeal of Zenithar event starts on June 20th and runs through July 1st. There will be a daily quest each day that gives you a Sublime Parcel box as a reward and a variety of other activities that reward a Delightful Parcel Box. The boxes contain style pages, crafting materials, and recipes, among other items.
Planning for AIE’s annual Summer of Love event is currently underway. Kraemer is planning a short one-shot D&D game as part of the event. Also Tales of Tribute 6 starts on July 1st and runs to August 4th. There are plenty of spots still open so let Kraemer know in Discord if you’d like to join in the fun.
If you’re interested in more info about ESO or want to get involved in one of our weekly dungeon groups or trials, there is more info available in the Discord or you can reach out to myself or Kraemer directly.
CLOSE
And that’s our show for tonight. While the chatroom begins suggesting show titles, we want to thank Dankinia for joining us.
If you have a question or comment about our show, you can email us at [email protected] You can find us on the AIE Discord and other non-Twitter social media.. 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 look for the link to our discord server at https://aie-guild.org. And for past episodes, you can see them on our Youtube channel, https://www.youtube.com/c/TheAIEPodcast ! Our theme was composed by the amazing Andrew Allen, follow him at @keyswithsoul! or visit his website https://andrewallenmusic.com/
And now it’s time to play all of the great AIE member segments we received this week, including…
Next time, we’ll be talking to Guest in Game. So until then, AIE…
– This is Kini
– This is Mkallah
– This is Tetsemi
– This is Mewkow
And this has been… The AIE Podcast.
42 min
June 04, 2024The AIE Podcast #422 – Dantooine Pies in the Guild Kitchen
On this episode of The AIE Podcast…
MoP Remixed is getting us ready for a War Within
You have less than a month to sign up for the Tales of Tribute Tournament 6!
Skip, Skip, Skip to Dawntrail
STO heard you wanted more Borg
Buckle Up, Folks, we have Max and Sema here to talk AIE in SWTOR!
All that and more coming up right now…
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Welcome to episode #422 of 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: (Hey, folks, there is a summer strawberry cake in the Guild Kitchen). This week we are joined by special guests Sema & Max who are here to talk to us about AIE in SWTOR Welcome!
Ok, we’ll be digging into SWTOR shortly, but first, let’s cover this week’s news…
AIE News
Community
Mandatory Fun Nights
Where the fun is mandatory but the attendance is not.
Sunday – Destiny 2 – 8:30 pm Eastern
Monday – GW2 – 9:30 pm Eastern
Monday – STO – 10:00 pm Eastern
Tuesday – SWTOR – 9:00 pm Eastern
Wednesday – HFO Mythic+ Mayhem (WoW) – 8:00 pm Eastern
Thursday- Board Game Night (1st and 3rd Thursdays) – 7:00 pm Eastern/6:00 pm Central
Friday – ESO – 9:00 pm Eastern
Saturday – LotRO – 8:30 pm Eastern
Saturday – FFXIV (Maps) – 9:30 pm Eastern
Saturday – Noob Raid (WoW) – 11:00 pm Eastern
Streaming and Guild Podcast News
We have a ton of AIE member podcasts! Want to know where to find them? Look no further than here-
New Overlords Podcast (Max and Sema)
https://www.newoverlords.com
Working Class Nerds (Marcus and Nick) – NSFL
https://workingclassnerdscom.wordpress.com
Boards and Swords (Chris and Philip)
https://boardsandswords.com/blog?category=Boards%20%26%20Swords
Dr. Gameology ( Dr. Daniel Kaufmann )
https://drgameology.com/
STO – Fleet Action Report (Grebog and Nikodas)
https://www.youtube.com/@fleetactionreport
A Podcast Reborn: A FFXIV Community Podcast (Brandon aka Old Man Franks, Meagan, and Rho) – NSFL
https://www.bonusroll.gg/directory/a-podcast-reborn/
NOMADS
Starfield, Lars has a continuing series, highlighting his playthrough, via Youtube https://www.youtube.com/@larsgagnergaming
No Man’s Sky just launched a new expedition
V Rising server has an AIE crew continuing to hunt
ARK is live and between expansions
Fallout 76 has a spike in interest and will have a big update/expansion later in June
Diablo season 4 is progressing and looks fun
Stask is continuing to dabble in New World
WoW
In WoW retail, the Mists of Pandaria – Remix event is off to a roaring start and many Guildies already have multiple level 70’s. It’s a great way to level alts for The War Within (with Beta starting June 5) and there’s a ton of transmog, mounts, toys and pets to collect. Chen Stormstout’s Hat and Keg? Theramore tabard? Yes Please!
Saturday’s Noob Mythics became a Remix run instead, and Raid Team Kiddie Aggro did Siege of Orgrimmar last week. Alliance Team Hell Froze Over may Remix Raid this week.
Noob Raid cleared all but final boss Fyrakk in Awakened Amirdrassil on Saturday. Thanks as always to Dankinia our fearless floor tank!
Also, Darkmoon Faire is up and the June Trading post arrived with a heartbreakingly cute assortment of summer gear including the Pearlescent Goblin Wave Shredder (a flying surfboard), Water Blaster BL (gun) a murloc floaty belt, lots of swimwear and a rainbow beach chair. More tendies needed!
WoW Classic
Sema has an update!!! Cataclysm launched, with little issue, it’s been a pretty calm release. The guild has been busy doing content, and dungeons, and leveling professions. It’s fun to see these zones again, and the dungeons as well. Several of us on the raid team have never raided these raids when it was current, so we are looking forward to it! We have also been working on guild achievements, to get some of the better perks. Come on over to classic and have some Cata fun!
SWTOR
See Game Notes
ESO
We’ve been having a great time attempting to clear more difficult trials. We are not always successful, but even when the entire group joins Kini for floor tank practice we all have fun.
Kraemer has all of the mundus stones and crafting stations currently available at his primary residence. Feel free to stop by to use them if you need to.
The next chapter expansion, called Gold Road, comes out on June 5th for PC. We are looking forward to exploring the new area as well as the changes to some of the base game systems when it comes out.
Tales of Tribute Tournament 6 will be starting on July 1st and run for 5 weeks though Summer of Love. You can sign in the Tot channel of the AIE discord or reach out to Kraemer.
FFXIV
The complete edition/complete collector’s edition and the Endwalker/Endwalker Collector’s edition are 60% off on most platforms right now, if anyone was looking to start the game when Dawntrail comes out and wants to catch up now! Also story skips (skipping over previous expansions) and level skips (skipping a class from base level to level 80, with a full set of lvl 80 gear) are half off at the moment, if people want to play a specific class through the expac!
Newly updated Benchmark for Dawntrail to be released June 3rd with updated environmental lighting and shading to better reflect the major graphics update.
Our weekly FC gathering has been postponed until a couple weeks after Dawntrail’s release to allow people to play MSQ at their own rate.
Multiple events going on in game at once at the moment, as most players are in a holding pattern until Dawntrail releases at the end of the month.
STO
Federation fleet is still racking up provisions so people can continue getting fleet credits to purchase the special equipment the fleet holdings offer.
KDF fleet is moving along nicely with their holdings. Starbase is now Tier III closing in on Tier IV. The spire is working on unlocking Tier II. The Fleet Research Lab is almost completed Tier II as well. And the Fleet colony is closing in on unlocking Tier I for each of the branches, which will unlock a daily trickle of colony provisions for the projects.
STO has released new content this past Tuesday and we are back to fighting even more borg. And along with the new content release there is an event showcasing all the new content dealing with borg. The rewards are some that if you can, you should not miss. You will get a dimensional hypermass torpedo launcher, type 14 shuttle support squadron, 500 lobi, and 1 Epic Phoenix Prize token PER CAPTAIN on your account. So if you have 30 captains, that could be 30 ships. (Note: Phoenix prize pack ships are not account wide ships.) You can also save your epic token for when they do any phoenix prize pack event and bring back ship upgrade tokens as a choice to buy.
LOTRO
This week we got some news on what is coming for Update 41. Some of the highlights are double sided pvmp reward tracks with rotating quests that both sides will pvp each other over.
Players in PVMP can by choice have a bounty on them. New non-competitive crafting event. The lore-master, burglar and the hunter will be the main focus for class work in this update. We also got the news on the 2nd hobby that was teased in the Producer’s Letter. The new hobby will be bird watching. There are about 600 birds to be spotted at the moment, with possible migration depending on the season. Bird watching hobby is expected to be on Bullroarer within the next 2 weeks.
And with that, let’s get back to Sema & Max and find out what’s going on in SWTOR.
GAME NEWS
Guild stuff in general
New PvP seasons started so PvP nights on Wed starting back up
SV server fun nights monthly
SWTOR 7.5
Bessi
Venture system
Currencies and caps
Training and ability unlocks
Spring Fest
Intro and story
Haunted farm!
Fishing
Relax
Catch
Release
Gardening
Seek seeds
Gardening robot
Creature Rescue
Three planets to collect them
Rehab
Release
Pies
Four pies
Gather ingredients
Make
Share
Laser Pole
Dance
Story
No spoilers for now
Sa’har
Time on Hutta
Hutta rework
Things happen
CLOSE
And that’s our show for tonight. While the chatroom begins suggesting show titles, we want to thank Sema & Max for joining us.
Sema: Best way to reach me is our discord.
If you have a question or comment about our show, you can email us at [email protected] You can find us on the AIE Discord and other non-Twitter social media.. 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 look for the link to our discord server at https://aie-guild.org. And for past episodes, you can see them on our Youtube channel, https://www.youtube.com/c/TheAIEPodcast ! Our theme was composed by the amazing Andrew Allen, follow him at @keyswithsoul! or visit his website https://andrewallenmusic.com/
And now it’s time to play all of the great AIE member segments we received this week, including…
Next time, we’ll be talking to Dankinia in ESO. So until then, AIE…
– This is Sema
– This is Max
– This is Tetsemi
– This is Mewkow
– This is Mkallah
And this has been… The AIE Podcast.
1 hr 11 min
May 20, 2024The AIE Podcast #421 – Timey Wimey – Towy Wowy?
On this episode of The AIE Podcast…
Grats to the NOOBS!
Zombies in SPACE
Dawntrail is on the horizon
Big congrats to our friends on Fleet Action Report!
And, Looci is here to talk about WoW Classic!
All that and more coming up right now…
Podcast Audio
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Welcome to episode #421 of the podcast celebrating you, the Alea Iacta Est gaming community, the die has been podcast. This is Mewkow: To my left is Mkallah: – (Hey folks, con is next week- grab me some tea while you are in the guild kitchen). And to my right is Tetsemi: (catch phrase here). This week we are joined by special guests Looci who is here to talk to us about AIE in WoW Classic Welcome!
Ok, we’ll be digging into WoW shortly, but first, let’s cover this week’s news…
AIE News
Community
Mandatory Fun Nights
Where the fun is mandatory but the attendance is not.
Sunday – Destiny 2 8:30 pm Eastern
Monday – GW2 9:30 pm Eastern
Monday – STO 10:00 pm Eastern
Tuesday – SWTOR 9:00 pm Eastern
Wednesday – HFO Mythic+ Mayhem (WoW) 8:00 pm Eastern
Thursday- Board Game Night (1st and 3rd Thursdays) 7:00 pm Eastern/6:00 pm Central
Friday – ESO 9:00 pm Eastern
Saturday – LotRO 8:30 pm Eastern
Saturday – FFXIV (Maps) 9:30 pm Eastern
Saturday – WoW Classic Hardcore 9:30 pm Eastern
Saturday – Noob Raid (WoW) 11:00 pm Eastern
Streaming and Guild Podcast News
We have a ton of AIE member podcasts! Want to know where to find them? Look no further than here-
New Overlords Podcast (Max and Sema)
https://www.newoverlords.com
Working Class Nerds (Marcus and Nick) – NSFL
https://workingclassnerdscom.wordpress.com
Boards and Swords (Chris and Philip)
https://boardsandswords.com/blog?category=Boards%20%26%20Swords
Dr. Gameology ( Dr. Daniel Kaufmann )
https://drgameology.com/
STO – Fleet Action Report (Grebog and Nikodas)
https://www.youtube.com/@fleetactionreport
A Podcast Reborn: A FFXIV Community Podcast (Brandon aka Old Man Franks, Meagan, and Rho) – NSFL
https://www.bonusroll.gg/directory/a-podcast-reborn/
NOMADS
We have a few people on a private V Rising server now that the game has gone to a 1.0 release. It’s a fun, Vampire themed crafting survival action combat game.
Diablo Season 4: Loot Reborn is now live and is seemingly doing very well and players are really liking the updates. We have Diablo regulars in there checking it out and I’m sure they can offer help and guidance to anyone looking to jump back in.
Other Nomads stuff is happening this week in Fallout 76, ARK, and Starfield as well.
WoW
Noob Raid successfully cleared Timewalking Ulduar, and congrats to two players for obtaining the rare mounts Invincible and Mimiron’s Head.
Aside from Noob Raid, the excitement is all about Remix: Mists of Pandaria, a limited time, speed leveling event that launched Thursday for Retail WoW. Quite a few players have reached level 70 already and are working on more toons while gathering numerous transmog items, mounts and pets. Many alts! Handle it! The characters can join current guilds but won’t be on live servers until the new expansion, The War Within.
AIE opened our second Alliance guild, Amicitia, to make room for the new alts. A few people had trouble pronouncing the guild name, so it’s now known as Amy.
Welcome Amy!
WoW Classic
See Game Notes
SWTOR
This past week was Rakghoul week and if that means nothing to you, just picture swtor’s version of zombies. There is no cure, we just have to kill them. A lot. Including a giant one with no eyes that we managed to dispatch on Tuesday during MFN.
The double xp event is over, but it’s still a good time to level as it’s basically pretty quick in this game. For tips, join us in discord. There is a lot of chatter about the best/most-fun way to do things.
Friday fun happened on Shae Vizla server this week where we knocked out some Uprisings and Heroic weeklies. Next week, back to Star Forge.
The PvP season is wrapping up, or has wrapped up (time is so unreliable), but the main point is Wednesday Night PvP goes on hiatus between seasons. Check this spot for when the season starts up again.
FFXIV
Map Night has Gigantamaxed into Mandatory Fun Night for the remainder of Endwalker up until the release of Dawntrail, at which point it’ll need to take a lil’ nap after the dynamax infusion wears off while we enjoy the new expansion pack. Have content you want to run? Are you lower level and still want to map it up? Come join us at 9:30 eastern every saturday! We’ll still be running chill content, so don’t be afraid to come on in!
FFXIV also recently had it’s latest Letter from the Producer Live that included a new Job Actions trailer that showcases some of the job changes coming in Dawntrail and their new animations, as well as many more details on the new jobs Viper, a dual wielding bad boy who flips and slashes around his foes while also throwing his swords like sword chucks and occasionally Darth Mauling it up by combing his swords, and Pictomancer, a painter who brought a paint brush to a sword fight and still ends up winning.
Dawntrail will be released on July 2nd, with early access starting June 28th. If you’ve ever wanted to dip your toes into FFXIV, now is the time.
The base game and the EW expansion and both collectors editions are on sale for 60% off until June 11th, except for Steam.
Also, take your birds out for walkies!
ESO
We’ve been running trials and dungeons for loot and laughs while waiting for the next event and the expansion.
Kraemer has all of the mundus stones and crafting stations currently available at his primary residence. Feel free to stop by to use them if you need to.
The next chapter expansion, called Gold Road, comes out on June 5th for PC. We are looking forward to exploring the new area as well as the changes to some of the base game systems when it comes out.
Tales of Tribute Tournament 6 will be starting on July 1st and run for 5 weeks though Summer of Love. You can sign up in the ToT channel of the AIE discord or reach out to Kraemer.
There are a couple of things needed to participate in the tournaments 1 must be an aie guild member 2 have the ability to use the tales of tribute game in ESO. There are now multiple ways to get access to the game 1 own the High Isle chapter or have purchased any collection that came out after high isle. And 3 complete the first quest in the line to get access to the decks used to play. The tournament will run for 5 weeks starting on July 1,2024 and run until August 5, 2024.
Will list prizes in show notes, no need to run through them on the podcast.
Tales of tribute 6 prize list
First place 5,000,000 Gold
Second place 4,000,000 Gold
Third place 3,000,000 Gold
Fourth place 2,000,000 Gold
Fifth place 1,750,000 Gold
Sixth place 1,500,000 Gold
Seventh place 1,000,000 Gold
Eightth place 1,000,000 Gold
Ninth place 1,000,000 Gold
Tenth place 1,000,000 Gold
Total Prize fund 21.250,000 Gold
For anyone who wishes to join please let me know in the tales of tribute channel in discord or mail me in game @Kraemer29
STO
Fleet Action Report just celebrated their 200th Episode! Next up is a Dyson Destroyer ship build this coming Thursday! Also, our 4th anniversary is only a few weeks away. To celebrate, we’re planning a new type of PvP!
STO is starting a Red Alert event on the 23rd. Then, on the 28th the next content drop hits. Named Parallels, players are going to a new universe to stop the Borg! This event rewards 500 lobi and a Epic Phoenix Prize token in addition to other prizes!
GW2
The April Fools event has happened and the next event is going to be Dragon Bash on June 4th. “The Midnight King”, the last stage of the current expansion, is going live on May 21st. And there is a bag slot sale on that ends on the 28th
In guild specific news, I want to call attention to the heroic effort of Hortensus Hawkeye aka. Kirontuk. He went to great lengths to get the materials necessary to progress the guildhall’s tavern to the next level. Thank you Hortensus!
LOTRO
Update 40 has gone live! Now we venture into Umbar-môkh, the neaths, a large complex beneath the city of Umbar.
The quest pack “Beneath the Surface” is free to VIPs and available in the LOTRO store for points. New quests will be released weekly to continue the story.
Beyond that there are numerous class and game tweaks like the ability to rename carry-all in your inventory.
https://www.lotro.com/update-notes/lotro-update-40-release-notes-en
And with that, let’s get back to Looci and find out what’s going on in WoW.
GAME NEWS
Less than 24 hours to the launch of Cataclysm Classic! We are all very excited to roll on into Cata, to revisit its dungeons and Raids. The AIE classic group has been preparing for this since we killed Arthas in January. The Blizzard team has released a very accelerated pace for this expansion, with only 15 months to complete all the content. They have also stated that they will be monitoring the progress and can slow the release if they feel that teams are still progressing through the current raid. We hope this isn’t too fast a pace for us, as we are pretty casual, with only 1 night a week to raid. The Devs are hoping for less gaps and lulls in content during this expansion.
The Stale Pufft Marshmallow team have had a few roster changes, and we have added a few new people for this raid tier, so we continue with about 14 people for 10 man raids. A continuous struggle for the raid leaders to keep the roster flowing, and to make sure everyone gets time in the raids.
Some of the highlights that we have are: Transmog, reforging, guild perks! Archeology, and a revamped talent system. Overall, the raid team is pumped for this expansion. If anyone is interested in joining us in Cata, just drop an @officer ping in the AIE discord, and we can get you into the guild.
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And that’s our show for tonight. While the chatroom begins suggesting show titles, we want to thank Looci for joining us.
If you have a question or comment about our show, you can email us at [email protected] You can find us on the AIE Discord and other non-Twitter social media.. 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 look for the link to our discord server at https://aie-guild.org. And for past episodes, you can see them on our Youtube channel, https://www.youtube.com/c/TheAIEPodcast ! Our theme was composed by the amazing Andrew Allen, follow him at @keyswithsoul! or visit his website https://andrewallenmusic.com/
Next time, we’ll be talking to Someone about Something. So until then, AIE…
– This is Looci
– This is Mewkow
– This is Mkallah
– This is Tetsemi
And this has been… The AIE Podcast.
49 min
May 06, 2024The AIE Podcast #420 – Falling into Force, Fourth, Fallout, and Fun
On this episode of The AIE Podcast…
For some reason, Fallout is really popular right now!
The Dark Heart cometh
Cata is in pre-launch… again!
So much new in SWTOR
And, we are talking to ourselves
All that and more coming up right now…
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Welcome to episode #420 of the podcast celebrating you, the Alea Iacta Est gaming community, the die has been podcast. This is Mkallah- and, since it’s 420, there are plenty of munchies in the guild kitchen! To my left is Tetsemi: – (catch phrase here). And to my right is Mewkow: (catch phrase here). We are chatting with ourselves this week!!
Ok, we’ll be digging into what we’ve been doing in and out of game shortly, but first, let’s cover this week’s news…
AIE News
Community
Just a reminder, we’ll be starting announcements for Summer of Love in the next few weeks, so keep an eye out on the AIE Discord for all the announcements and events. If anyone would like to host their own event or help with events, feel free to tag @officer in the AIE Discord with your ideas.
Mandatory Fun Nights
Where the fun is mandatory but the attendance is not.
Sunday – You all get a day off!
Monday – GW2 9:30 pm Eastern
Monday – STO 10:00 pm Eastern
Tuesday – SWTOR 9:00 pm Eastern
Wednesday – HFO Mythic+ Mayhem (WoW) 8:00 pm Eastern
Thursday- Board Game Night (1st and 3rd Thursdays) 7:00 pm Eastern/6:00 pm Central
Friday – ESO 9:00 pm Eastern
Friday – FFXIV(Magical Misc Tour) 9:00 pm Eastern
Saturday – LotRO 8:30 pm Eastern
Saturday – FFXIV (Maps) 9:30 pm Eastern
Saturday – WoW Classic Hardcore 9:30 pm Eastern
Saturday – Noob Raid (WoW) 11:00 pm Eastern
Streaming and Guild Podcast News
We have a ton of AIE member podcasts! Want to know where to find them? Look no further than here-
New Overlords Podcast (Max and Sema)
https://www.newoverlords.com
Working Class Nerds (Marcus and Nick) – NSFL
https://workingclassnerdscom.wordpress.com
Boards and Swords (Chris and Philip)
https://boardsandswords.com/blog?category=Boards%20%26%20Swords
Dr. Gameology ( Dr. Daniel Kaufmann )
https://drgameology.com/
STO – Fleet Action Report (Grebog and Nikodas)
https://www.youtube.com/@fleetactionreport
A Podcast Reborn: A FFXIV Community Podcast (Brandon aka Old Man Franks, Meagan, and Rho) – NSFL
https://www.bonusroll.gg/directory/a-podcast-reborn/
NOMADS
Fallout 76 has been popping. The Alien Invasion event last week and this week has a few of us engaged there. The show was great and what sparked interest.
WoW
Confront Xal’atath When Dark Heart Arrives on May 7
Mark your calendars for the release of the next content update for Dragonflight—Dark Heart— on May 7!
Dive into the final chapter of Dragonflight as it sets the stage for the upcoming expansion—The War Within, sojourn into new questlines, Heritage Armor sets for Draenei and Trolls, six new hair colors for Kul Tiran Humans, access to all Dragonflight quests regardless of Renown for maximum-level characters, and more.
https://worldofwarcraft.blizzard.com/en-us/news/24090236/confront-xalatath-when-dark-heart-arrives-on-may-7
WoW Classic
Cataclysm classic pre-patch is live, and Deathwing is claiming lives randomly in the zones around his lair.
Not a smooth pre-patch at all, Blizzard outdoing itself this time. This are getting more stable, even with goblins and worgens running around.
May 20th will be Cataclysm launch, with only 15 months until the following expansion.
SWTOR
This week we had a livestream about Game Update 7.5, “Desperate Defiance”, which is due this spring, possibly even this month. We will be getting a new pvp season, a new game system called Ventures, and a new Spring Event. The game continues to get art updates–this time for the planet Hutta. The Public Test Server is up now and players are able to test the new Ventures.
The Dantooine Spring Abundance Festival looks like a cozy extravaganza with farming, pie baking, and animal rescues. Maybe the galaxy needs a break from pirate invasions, intrigue and eternal war.
Right now, though, it’s a good time to level characters because of double xp. Come join us for MFN on Tuesday this week and get some Conquest points, Galactic Seasons objectives, and that sweet, sweet double xp.
ESO
We’ve been running trials and dungeons for loot and laughs while waiting for the next event and the expansion.
Kraemer has all of the mundus stones and crafting stations currently available at his primary residence. Feel free to stop by to use them if you need to.
The next chapter expansion, called Gold Road, comes out on June 5th for PC. We are looking forward to exploring the new area as well as the changes to some of the base game systems when it comes out.
STO
2024 Event Campaign – Part III:
Play through multiple Events to earn a Tier 6 Infinity Promotional Ship of your choice, two Free T6 Zen Store Coupons, AND 1500 Lobi! A total of six Events will participate in this Event Campaign, each contributing Campaign Progress toward this valuable prize. Earn progress for your entire account by participating in an eligible Event, including after claiming the Grand Prize for each individual Event. Check out the first eligible Event below!
Demon Hunting Event:
This Event will include multiple TFOs previously featured individually in a combined Featured Event that will allow players to choose their preferred activity each day. All of these TFOs can be accessed via the Event UI, accessible within your Mission Journal by clicking on the “Events” Tab.
Herald Sphere
Gateway to Gre’thor
Brotherhood of the Sword
Participating in this Event will give all players the opportunity to win the Herald Defiler Mace, the Omni-Directional Herald Antiproton Beam Array and the Wide Arc Herald Antiproton Dual Heavy Cannons.
FFXIV
Live Letter LXXXI (81) is coming May 16th at 4am PDT! This is expected to contain more info on Dawntrail as well as the Job Actions trailer and more info about job updates. The Job Actions trailer showcases some of the new actions and rotation we might expect in Dawntrial.
An updated Benchmark is due to be released on May 23rd. This is to fix the benchmark having incorrect lighting in the Character Creation screen as well as addressing some feedback with the latest updates to the new and improved graphics coming in Dawntrail.
LOTRO
Corsairs of Umbar and the Mariner are now available in the LOTRO Store!
Learn more about our latest expansion on LOTRO.com.
Make your Piece of Middle-earth Shine! Get 20% off:
Select Housing Decorations
Select Housing Sets
Housing Property Writs
Select Cloaks
Now through May 9th!
And with that, let’s find out what we have been doing in and out of game!
GAME NEWS
Question of the Week- how did you celebrate May the 4th!
CLOSE
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 find us on the AIE Discord and other non-Twitter social media.. 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 look for the link to our discord server at https://aie-guild.org. And for past episodes, you can see them on our Youtube channel, https://www.youtube.com/c/TheAIEPodcast ! Our theme was composed by the amazing Andrew Allen, follow him at @keyswithsoul! or visit his website https://andrewallenmusic.com/
And now it’s time to play all of the great AIE member segment we received this week, including…
Next time, we’ll be talking to someone in something. So until then, AIE…
– This is Mkallah
– This is Tetsemi
– This is Mewkow
And this has been… The AIE Podcast.
58 min
April 22, 2024The AIE Podcast #419 – AIE: Every game Everywhere All at Once
On this episode of The AIE Podcast…
Patch here, patch there, patch everywhere
All our SWTOR guild does is win!
Congrats are in order for Alea Iacta Est Classis
We promise, we are NOT podfading
So, we our own guests this evening
All that and more coming up right now…
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Welcome to episode #419 of 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: (hey folks, there are lemon bars in the guild kitchen, please eat them, I am trying to reduce my sweet tooth). Sorry about the long time between shows, but we needed to do a shift so we can be back on track! We will get into game news in just a few, but before that, what has everyone been up to?
Let’s cover this week’s news…
AIE News
Community
Mandatory Fun Nights
Where the fun is mandatory but the attendance is not.
Sunday – Destiny 2!
Monday – GW2 9:30 pm Eastern
Monday – STO 10:00 pm Eastern
Tuesday – SWTOR 9:00 pm Eastern
Wednesday – HFO Mythic+ Mayhem (WoW) 8:00 pm Eastern
Thursday- Board Game Night (1st and 3rd Thursdays) 7:00 pm Eastern/6:00 pm Central
Friday – ESO 9:00 pm Eastern
Friday – FFXIV(Magical Misc Tour) 9:00 pm Eastern
Saturday – LotRO 8:30 pm Eastern
Saturday – FFXIV (Maps) 9:30 pm Eastern
Saturday – WoW Classic Hardcore 9:30 pm Eastern
Saturday – Noob Raid (WoW) 11:00 pm Eastern
Streaming and Guild Podcast News
We have a ton of AIE member podcasts! Want to know where to find them? Look no further than here-
New Overlords Podcast (Max and Sema)
https://www.newoverlords.com
Working Class Nerds (Marcus and Nick) – NSFL
https://workingclassnerdscom.wordpress.com
Boards and Swords (Chris and Philip)
https://boardsandswords.com/blog?category=Boards%20%26%20Swords
Dr. Gameology ( Dr. Daniel Kaufmann )
https://drgameology.com/
STO – Fleet Action Report (Grebog and Nikodas)
https://www.youtube.com/@fleetactionreport
A Podcast Reborn: A FFXIV Community Podcast (Brandon aka Old Man Franks, Meagan, and Rho) – NSFL
https://www.bonusroll.gg/directory/a-podcast-reborn/
NOMADS
Destiny 2 – Into the light event has started, it’s a free to play for everyone Horde mode with reprised weapons. Also 2 older exotic weapon quests have been revised and re-released. Whisper of the worm sniper rifle and Outbreak Perfected Pulse.
Fun night has moved to Sunday officially.
WoW
Guild Event on Monday where Raid Team Kiddie Aggro helped about a dozen guildies kill Heroic Fyrakk, final boss of Amirdrassil for the Ahead of the Curve Achievement. Players also got a short quest to unlock a Fyrakk appearance for their Dragonriding mount.
With the new patch on Tuesday, the three Dragonflight raids will take turns becoming Awakened, rotating weekly. Awakened raids will be harder, drop improved gear and a token, Antique Bullion, that can be used to buy weapons and other items as well as a Jigglesworth Sr mount. Completing all three raids awards the Voyaging Wilderling Mount and Awakened Hero achievement.
The eight Dragonflight dungeons have been revamped to Mythic level. In a helpful change for many players, the timer is being removed for level 0 to 10 mythics.
Players will be able to design their own personal tabards, thanks to a new quest that starts in Valdrakken.
For housekeeping, use up those catalyst charges on gear before they reset on Tuesday and spend any flightstones. One good option is to buy rep tokens from the various factions, which are account bound. Unspent flightstones will turn into gold.
If you are interested in the War Within Beta sign-ups, it’s here – https://thewarwithin.blizzard.com/en-us/
WoW Classic
Cataclysm pre-patch drops on 30 April, with Cataclysm starting on 20 May. We are all hoping that the PTR is not indicative of the state of the game, as it hasn’t been very stable. They have also released a roadmap for Raids during Cata, and the pace seems to be very accelerated. If they stick to this roadmap, the final raid will be out in January of 2025. It appears that they will be rolling things out every 3 months, which for those of us who haven’t played previously, seems kind of fast.
The scenarios of Zelazane’s Fall and Operation Gnomeregan are out, and they give 2 toys, a Darkspear troll costume, and a Gnomeregan Gnome costume. You only need to do 1 of the scenarios, and you get both toys.
Season of Discovery is in Phase 3, and the level cap is now 50. I know several guildies are enjoying it. Beyond that, I haven’t been in it recently.
And Hardcore Classic now has self found mode, it is unknown how many people are taking advantage of this. When you create a character in Self found mode, you have no access to the AH, Mail, or trading at all.
SWTOR
We won another planet during this past week of Total Galactic War. In fact we won two planets, since our fledgling guild on Shae Vizla (or is it a guild of fledglings?) also won a planet once our victory on Star Forge was assured.
This week’s MFN was a celebration of the TGW win, a distribution of prizes for everyone, and an early-to-bed night. TGW is good fun, but it does take some recovery time.
Don’t forget Warzone Wednesday. You never know which faction or which level range will be playing, so stay tuned to discord.
Friday Fun this past week was a rousing game of Git Some Fun (GSF). If you want to see what Galactic Starfighter is all about you can watch the VOD at twitch.tv/stask27. Warning: Possibly not for the faint of heart.
FFXIV
Talk about the FF16 collab.
FFXIV Dawtrail Performance Benchmark dropped yesterday and will be updated to correct lag/graphical glitches that are already fixed in the upcoming game but had not been back ported to the Benchmark engine.
ESO
We are currently taking advantage of the anniversary event by clearing trials and doing world boss kills for loot boxes. After we have our cake of course so we get our event tickets.
Kraemer has all of the mundus stones and crafting stations currently available at his primary residence. Feel free to stop by to use them if you need to.
The next chapter expansion, called Gold Road, comes out on June 5th for PC. We are looking forward to exploring the new area as well as the changes to some of the base game systems when it comes out.
STO
Alea Iacta Est Classis, our Federation Fleet, has finished upgrading all Fleet holdings. We continue to enable ways for our members to earn Fleet Credits, but all items, ships, and bridge officers have been unlocked!
Alea Iacta Est Honoris, our Klingon Fleet, is working on all holdings with the focus currently split between the Starbase and the Spire to unlock fleet consoles.
STO’s current event is celebrating First Contact Day! Earn the Photon Rifle with 14 days of progress earned by running one of two TFOs or a Patrol. Along side this, players can create Delta Recruits. This special type of character will unlock multiple items and marks for your entire account!
Our video podcast, Fleet Action Report, hosts an informative show every Thursday at 10pm Eastern. We’ve got upcoming episodes involving a Proton Energy build, and the Delta recruits!
Also, our fleets host a Fleet Fun Night Mondays at 10pm Eastern. We will run TFOs, assist with difficult missions, help master ships, or just play alongside you. Come join the fun!
LOTRO
On 04/18 LOTRO will celebrate its 17th Anniversary. There will be a free gift tied to the event.
For the week of April 11th to the 18th the LOTRO store will give away the Universal Ingredient Pack x10 when you use code UNIPACK.
Here’s a link to the latest patch notes (39.1.2):
https://www.lotro.com/update-notes/lotro-update-39-1-2-release-notes-en
GAME NEWS
CLOSE
And that’s our show for tonight. While the chatroom begins suggesting show titles, we want to thank us for joining us.
If you have a question or comment about our show, you can email us at [email protected] You can find us on the AIE Discord and other non-Twitter social media.. 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 look for the link to our discord server at https://aie-guild.org. And for past episodes, you can see them on our Youtube channel, https://www.youtube.com/c/TheAIEPodcast ! Our theme was composed by the amazing Andrew Allen, follow him at @keyswithsoul! or visit his website https://andrewallenmusic.com/
And now it’s time to play all of the great AIE member segment we received this week, including…
Next time, we’ll hopefully be talking to Marcus in Destiny 2. So until then, AIE…
– This is Tetsemi
– This is Mewkow
– This is Mkallah
And this has been… The AIE Podcast.
1 hr 7 min
March 18, 2024The AIE Podcast #418 – Now there are two of them! This is getting out of hand.
On this episode of The AIE Podcast…
We promise, we are NOT podfading!
Are you a world builder?
10.2.6 is THIS WEEK!
We are in a new galactic season!
And, we are talking to ourselves
All that and more coming up right now…
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Welcome to episode #418 of the podcast celebrating you, the Alea Iacta Est gaming community, the die has been podcast. This is Mkallah: To my left isTetsemi (enter catch phrase here) And, we are Mewless this evening, but we figured we would get a show out so no one thought we were Podfading! We sure missed you all and there is a ton of news to catch up on!
Ok, so let’s get into the news
AIE News
Community
Mandatory Fun Nights
Where the fun is mandatory but the attendance is not.
Sunday – You all get a day off!
Monday – GW2 9:30 pm Eastern
Monday – STO 10:00 pm Eastern
Tuesday – SWTOR 9:00 pm Eastern
Wednesday – HFO Mythic+ Mayhem (WoW) 8:00 pm Eastern
Thursday- Board Game Night (1st and 3rd Thursdays) 7:00 pm Eastern/6:00 pm Central
Friday – ESO 9:00 pm Eastern
Friday – FFXIV(Magical Misc Tour) 9:00 pm Eastern
Saturday – LotRO 8:30 pm Eastern
Saturday – FFXIV (Maps) 9:30 pm Eastern
Saturday – WoW Classic Hardcore 9:30 pm Eastern
Saturday – Noob Raid (WoW) 11:00 pm Eastern
Streaming and Guild Podcast News
We have a ton of AIE member podcasts! Want to know where to find them? Look no further than here-
New Overlords Podcast (Max and Sema)
https://www.newoverlords.com
Working Class Nerds (Marcus and Nick) – NSFL
https://workingclassnerdscom.wordpress.com
Boards and Swords (Chris and Philip)
https://boardsandswords.com/blog?category=Boards%20%26%20Swords
Dr. Gameology ( Dr. Daniel Kaufmann )
https://drgameology.com/
STO – Fleet Action Report (Grebog and Nikodas)
https://www.youtube.com/@fleetactionreport
A Podcast Reborn: A FFXIV Community Podcast (Brandon aka Old Man Franks, Meagan, and Rho) – NSFL
https://www.bonusroll.gg/directory/a-podcast-reborn
NOMADS
The BitCraft Alpha is going live on April 4th. It’s a multiplayer, open world, survival/exploration type game. No invites have gone out but they have a signup going on (that’s a little over-gamefied in my view, but ok). We’ll very likely have some AIE people in there checking it out.
Besides the other ongoing fun stuff (Rust, Palworld, ARK, etc.) there will be some single-player RPG games coming out next week that people may want to chat about. Horizon: Forbidden West is finally hitting PC (Steam) and Dragon’s Dogma 2 is looking interesting.
Mkallah- TTRPG News
If you are a world builder, Chaosium is running a Basic Roleplaying Design Challenge with their open gaming license (d100). And let’s be honest, if you’re going to try and label the system as BRP (Basic Roleplaying), we’re going to add Universal and System to it and call it (BURPS). Also it’s being released under the ORC (Open RPG Creative) license.
https://www.chaosium.com/blogthe-basic-roleplaying-design-challenge/
Daggerheart is doing a public playtest beginning March 12.
Daggerheart
https://app.demiplane.com/ Has Daggerheart Character creation
This system looks really interesting and is much more character focused and story driven.
WoW
The 10.2.6 Content Update Arrives March 19
Mark your calendar for March 19 when the 10.2.6 content update goes live with a bold, new, limited-time event. You won’t want to miss out on the fun. It’s important to note that Dragonflight season 4 will go live several weeks after the release of the 10.2.6 content update. For heroes working toward the Amirdrassil Feats of Strength, you’ll need to obtain Ahead of the Curve: Fyrakk the Blazing before Season 4 begins, and the achievement is no longer available to earn.
Gustytail’s favorite Holiday, the Trial of Style returns as well and there will be Guild runs.
WoW Classic
Cataclysm beta is out, several of our Raid team have gotten invites. The state of Cata Beta is pretty bad. At one point in the Goblin starting area, if you aren’t a mana user, you can’t progress the quests, In the Troll starting area, one quest mob just keeps despawning when you start interacting with him, and you can’t progress further. So that said, we continue to do silly things, like our Dungeon Draft. Part 2 was last night, we leveled to level 24, and completed Shadowfang Keep, Black Fathoms Deep, and the Stockades. The teams got a bit of a shuffle, which was interesting, and more learning was had. The judges are Shrimpiclese, Scotaidh, and Macfearsom, and they have determined that races just don’t work for various reasons. So now its going to be a point system, Finish a dungeon first, and you get 1 point. We also had the Wheel of Doom, where the judges would spin the wheel and we would have to do what ever was on it. One wheel spin had us turning our keyboard around, or putting your mouse in the other hand. one was remove your belt until after the next boss. Generally silly things like that. Overall it was a great time, and fun and silliness was had!
Our next dungeon challenge will be get to level 29, and we expect to do the Scarlet Monastery gauntlet. probably a few weeks from now, as we have people with real life commitments for the next few weekends.
The Bubblegum Unicorns won the challenge this time! Sema’s team won this one, they were just a hair faster than Looci’s team!
SWTOR
7.4.1 has dropped and the Galactic Season 6 has officially started. During MFN this week, we ran around accomplishing GS goals as well as Conquest goals.
We also had a fun night on Shae Vizla, this past Friday which was very well attended. Several guildies took advantage of the free character transfers going on there now. We may have a second fun night on SV this month due to there being 5 Fridays in March. 7.4.1 also added in a new narrative feature called Date Night, where players can play short scenes with some of their companions to further their stories a bit.
We also got something new to collect called ancient armaments. These are previously-np-longer-available armor pieces with a chance to drop from just about anything, including out in the world.
ESO
We have sweet and awesome things going on in the Elder Scrolls Online! On June 5th we will have the new chapter release of Gold Road. recently we have had the release of 2 new 4 person dungeons last week. last month we finished the tales of tribute tournament number 5 will list final standings at the end. With a lot of help from our faithful guild members we have the 4 grand master crafting tables loaded up with all 77 craftable sets for use. Please visit @Kraemer29 ‘s primary residence which also has all 13 mundus stones and multiple combat dummies to test out builds. Dankinia and I are working on getting multiple events for the 2024 Summer of Love including tales of tribute 6 and an Eso lore and monster style dnd one shot for MFN that week. I think that is all but Kini will let you know if there is more
Kraemer wants to thank all those that played in the tales of tribute tournament number 5 which was dominated by Malakyi who steam rolled over the competition to her first tournament win. With 4 other players splitting victories amongst the field. All of the prize money has been sent out and look forward to the next tournament. Here is the final standings:
Name wins loses
Malakyi 8 2
Dankinia 5 5
Dproberts 5 5
Bashirra 5 5
Newtype 5 5
Kraemer 2 8
FFXIV
Last major patch before the new expac is this Tuesday, new hatchingtide event just began this week, and coming up soon the ff16 crossover event will be happening!
STO
Monday Nights at 10pm Eastern is our Fleet Fun Night. Anyone is welcome to join us, and we’d love to see some people come try out the game.
Fleet Action Report, our video podcast, runs every Thursday at 10pm Eastern. Our topic of conversation for this upcoming Thursday will be highlighting the new Tholian Trouble event. We will run both updated TFOs and give the details on how to achieve all the optional objectives.
The changes to the Year-Long event have gone live. Participating in all the events from now until December can earn a player 1500 Lobi, 2 100% Off Zen Store Ship coupons, and a free premium ship pack (either lockbox or premium ships can be chosen). This is a great way to earn some of the best ships and equipment in the game without having to spend a dime on Zen.
LOTRO
Lots of stuff has arrived Season 9 of the legendary reward track, the spring festival and update 39: Arenas of Conflict . This update is largely new instances and s raid in the Umbar area. The raid is currently tier 1 only. Tier 2 and 3 is expected to hit the live servers soon. When the new raid opens up to tier 3, we will be running some missions once again to get our characters geared up a little easier.
GAME NEWS
CLOSE
And that’s our show for tonight. While the chatroom begins suggesting show titles, we want to thank each other for joining us!
If you have a question or comment about our show, you can email us at [email protected] You can find us on the AIE Discord and other non-Twitter social media.. 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 look for the link to our discord server at https://aie-guild.org. And for past episodes, you can see them on our Youtube channel, https://www.youtube.com/c/TheAIEPodcast ! Our theme was composed by the amazing Andrew Allen, follow him at @keyswithsoul! or visit his website https://andrewallenmusic.com/
Next time, we’ll be talking to someone about some game!. So until then, AIE…
– This is Mkallah
– This is Tetsemi
And this has been… The AIE Podcast.
46 min
February 05, 2024The AIE Podcast #416 – Hunting for a Destiny!
On this episode of The AIE Podcast…
Ark and Enshrouded, and Nightingale, oh my!
It’s a holiday bonanza in WoW
It’s the final week of Tales of Tribute and we have the scoreboard here
LOTRO is giving us Legendary Love for Valentine’s Day
And, we have Marcus here to talk about Destiny 2!
All that and more coming up right now…
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Welcome to episode #416 of 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: (hey folks, there are blueberry croissant puff, cinnamon rolls, and WAFFLES in the guild kitchen). This week we are joined by special guests Marcus who is here to talk to us about AIE in Destiny 2 Welcome!
Ok, we’ll be digging into DESTINY 2 shortly, but first, let’s cover this week’s news…
AIE News
Community
Mandatory Fun Nights
Where the fun is mandatory but the attendance is not.
Sunday – You all get a day off!
Monday – GW2 9:30 pm Eastern
Monday – STO 10:00 pm Eastern
Tuesday – SWTOR 9:00 pm Eastern
Tuesday- Destiny 2 9:00 pm Eastern
Wednesday – HFO Mythic+ Mayhem (WoW) 8:00 pm Eastern
Thursday- Board Game Night (1st and 3rd Thursdays) 7:00 pm Eastern/6:00 pm Central
Friday – ESO 9:00 pm Eastern
Friday – FFXIV(Magical Misc Tour) 9:00 pm Eastern
Saturday – LotRO 8:30 pm Eastern
Saturday – FFXIV (Maps) 9:30 pm Eastern
Saturday – WoW Classic Hardcore 9:30 pm Eastern
Saturday – Noob Raid (WoW) 11:00 pm Eastern
Streaming and Guild Podcast News
We have a ton of AIE member podcasts! Want to know where to find them? Look no further than here
New Overlords Podcast (Max and Sema)
https://www.newoverlords.com
Working Class Nerds (Marcus and Nick) – NSFL
https://workingclassnerdscom.wordpress.com
E 232 enter the marcusverse
Boards and Swords (Chris and Philip)
https://boardsandswords.com/blog?category=Boards%20%26%20Swords
Dr. Gameology ( Dr. Daniel Kaufmann )
https://drgameology.com/
STO – Fleet Action Report (Grebog and Nikodas)
https://www.youtube.com/@fleetactionreport
A Podcast Reborn: A FFXIV Community Podcast (Brandon aka Old Man Franks, Meagan, and Rho) – NSFL
https://www.bonusroll.gg/directory/a-podcast-reborn/
NOMADS
ARK: Sounds like the group in ARK is looking to attempt the final dungeon of the Island map, called the Tek Cave and Overseer. It may be happening while the podcast is going on even!
Enshrouded: A handful of guildies are playing Enshrouded and while it’s not really multi-player, but rather a co-op style game, feel free to ask in Nomads for others that may want to play along. If it does trend toward larger group open world features in the future AIE will likely start up a shared server for it.
Many are looking forward to early access of Nightingale coming in a few weeks. It might end up being another small group survival game we all try out. There will be no private servers at this point for early access but keep an eye out in the Nomads channel for ways to play together!
WoW
Noob Raid completed Timewalking Firelands – barely – with an all out final pull. Congrats and thanks to everyone who joined in the fun. One month in, Noob Mythics had a decline in interest, although people are asking in guild chat if anyone wants a mythic plus run. Let’s do more of this!
So Let’s Go Skating got AOTC last Sunday!
There’s a holiday bonanza this week. The Darkmoon Faire is up (grab those rep and xp buffs) as well as the Lunar Festival… and Love is in the Air begins Monday. All have things to do to complete the Trading Post. Gustyail is already rocking the Love Witch’s Attire … as a boy Tauren… because what’s better than men in tights? (see image) This month’s items are especially hard to choose between. The Fur-endship Fox mount was a must for Gusty. (What do you folks like best?)

WoW Classic
Having cleared ICC on Normal, we went in last night and hit it on heroic difficulty. We cleared the 1st wing with no major issues, and we killed Festergut and Rotface, and took 1 pull on Professor Putricide! We are also routinely clearing Obsidion Sanctum with 3 drakes for the mount!
A few things we have planned is a level 17 dungeon challenge, where 2 teams will go into Rage Fire Chasm, Deadmines, and Wailing Caverns, and the 1st team to complete all 3 wins a prize. The prize is just something little, like a bouquet of flowers from the vendor, but it’s all about the fun! We are playing different classes, and different rolls just to make it even more interesting.
We really wanted @Sema (she/her) to tank, but she is just going to DPS. No Idea what the status is on SoD, but next level round comes out on 8 Feb. and that is to level 40, so you will get a mount.
SWTOR
AIE Guildie Strykezone is on day 271(ish) of his mega project to watch all of Stars Wars. He estimates it as a 376 day process and he’s on track to finish around there. Check out his progress (and his completely cool website) at https://kanjiklubhouse.com/2023/05/04/the-star-wars-viewing-mega-marathon/
MFN headed into an operation this week and handily completed Nature of Progress which is familiarly known as Dxun.
Friday night was flashpoint night AND Groundhog Day. I believe Stask saw his shadow and we will have six more weeks of war between the Sith Empire and the Republic. At least.
FFXIV
Free login campaign has started, and ends Feb 21st. You get 96 consecutive hours of play time for this round.
Valentione’s day starts on Feb 7th, and also ends on the 21st, so you can spend time with the holiday if you like. Looks like the goodies this year are a heart chair, and the love heart hands emote.
Moogle Treasure Trove round 1 has started, and will end on March 11th. Expect a second one to likely start afterwards, and will likely last until the expansion launches.
Maiden’s Rhapsody will end tomorrow at 7am PST, so if you are hearing this live, you have tonight to get it done. It takes a course of several FATEs to complete, so get started. This event is the one that gives you a FF11 looking samurai outfit that can be freely applied to any job.
ESO
We have been testing our skills in Trials. We have been working on one that is new to us, as well as going back and revisiting ones we can clear with confidence.
As we enter the final week of tales of tribute 5 we once again have a close race at top between Dankinia who is 1 game behind Malakyi with DPRoberts and Bashirra just 2 games back. Here is a look at the standings as of right now
Malakyi 6 2
Dankinia 5 3
Dproberts 4 4
Bashirra 4 4
Newtype 3 5
Kraemer 2 6
Now we get ready for the final week we will be having everyone play the players that are near them in the rankings so here is the schedule
Group 1
Malakyi
Dankinia
Group 2
DPRoberts
Bashirra
Group 3
Newtype
Kraemer
Good luck to all our players and thanks for playing Tales of Tribute 5
STO
35% off legendary items until the 5th. We just missed the anniversary event. Admiralty event until the 8th
LOTRO
Coming to Bullroarer hopefully this week, first preview for update 39. In this first build are possibly some looks at some of the new instances and the raid. Elderslade will be getting missions to look at in this build. Season 9 of the legendary reward track begins on February 14th. Lastly, for those that have been waiting with your lotro points to pick up the River Hobbit bundle, it will be arriving in the lotro store next Thursday.
And with that, let’s get back to Marcus and find out what’s going on in Destiny 2.
GAME NEWS
Season of the wish… We went into the veil
Rivens wishes are out now. (Farming)
Riven’s Wishes is a questline that awards players with Wish Tokens, a unique currency that may be exchanged for Exotic armor, Masterwork materials, holiday mementos, and Deepsight patterns for all Last Wish weapons.
Into the Light comes out in April
Final shape: Tuesday June 4 2023
CLOSE
And that’s our show for tonight. While the chatroom begins suggesting show titles, we want to thank Marcus for joining us.
If you have a question or comment about our show, you can email us at [email protected] You can find us on the AIE Discord and other non-Twitter social media.. 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 look for the link to our discord server at https://aie-guild.org. And for past episodes, you can see them on our Youtube channel, https://www.youtube.com/c/TheAIEPodcast ! Our theme was composed by the amazing Andrew Allen, follow him at @keyswithsoul! or visit his website https://andrewallenmusic.com/
And now it’s time to play all of the great AIE member segment we received this week, including…
Next time, we’ll be talking to Guest in Game. So until then, AIE…
– This is Marcus
– This is Tetsemi
– This is Mewkow
– This is Mkallah
And this has been… The AIE Podcast.
1 hr 11 min
January 22, 2024The AIE Podcast #415 – WoW: Followers are better than Humans.
On this episode of The AIE Podcast…
Gotta kill them all? That can’t be right? Checks notes- yeah, it’s right
Seeds of Renewal breathes new life into the world we love
Follow the Gold brick road…
Happy Anniversary to STO!
And, we have Gusty here to talk about AIE in World of Warcraft
All that and more coming up right now…
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Welcome to episode #415 of the podcast celebrating you, the Alea Iacta Est gaming community, the die has been podcast. This is Mewkow: To my left is Mkallah: – (hey folks, there is a mocha java cake in the guild kitchen). And to my right is Tetsemi: (catch phrase here). This week we are joined by special guests Gustytail who is here to talk to us about AIE in World of Warcraft. Welcome!
Ok, we’ll be digging into WoW Retail shortly, but first, let’s cover this week’s news…
AIE News
Community
Mandatory Fun Nights
Where the fun is mandatory but the attendance is not.
Sunday – You all get a day off!
Monday – GW2 9:30 pm Eastern
Monday – STO 10:00 pm Eastern
Tuesday – SWTOR 9:00 pm Eastern
Wednesday – HFO Mythic+ Mayhem (WoW) 8:00 pm Eastern
Thursday- Board Game Night (1st and 3rd Thursdays) 7:00 pm Eastern/6:00 pm Central
Friday – ESO 9:00 pm Eastern
Friday – FFXIV(Magical Misc Tour) 9:00 pm Eastern
Saturday – LotRO 8:30 pm Eastern
Saturday – FFXIV (Maps) 9:30 pm Eastern
Saturday – WoW Classic Hardcore 9:30 pm Eastern
Saturday – Noob Raid (WoW) 11:00 pm Eastern
Streaming and Guild Podcast News
We have a ton of AIE member podcasts! Want to know where to find them? Look no further than here-
New Overlords Podcast (Max and Sema)
https://www.newoverlords.com
Working Class Nerds (Marcus and Nick) – NSFL
https://workingclassnerdscom.wordpress.com
Boards and Swords (Chris and Philip)
https://boardsandswords.com/blog?category=Boards%20%26%20Swords
Dr. Gameology ( Dr. Daniel Kaufmann )
https://drgameology.com/
STO – Fleet Action Report (Grebog and Nikodas)
https://www.youtube.com/@fleetactionreport
A Podcast Reborn: A FFXIV Community Podcast (Brandon aka Old Man Franks, Meagan, and Rho) – NSFL
https://www.bonusroll.gg/directory/a-podcast-reborn/
NOMADS
ARK continues to be a fun place for the team there with a group boss kill of the Dragon planned for tonight. We are looking forward to the next DLC remaster coming in the next couple months.
Rust is spun back up as well and a group in there is trying out the new features including more automation and even the ability to tie notifications of in-game activities to your phone.
Palworld launch this week and is pretty hot at the moment. The pitch is “ARK survival but with Pokemon instead of dinos… and the Pokemon can have guns” There may be a private group server being spun up for this depending on interest.
WoW
See Game Notes
We have successfully killed the Lich King! There are a few raid members who still need that kill, so we shall continue to kill him until everyone has the title. Waiting for further word on when we are looking at a Cata release. Season of Discovery gets the next band to 40 starting on Feb 8th, I believe.
WoW Classic
We have successfully killed the Lich King! There are a few raid members who still need that kill, so we shall continue to kill him until everyone has the title. Waiting for further word on when we are looking at a Cata release. Season of Discovery gets the next band to 40 starting on Feb 8th, I believe.
SWTOR
The SUP operations team is looking for a permanent member. Any role will work. SUP is on the Imperial side and meets on Wednesday nights from 9-11PM Eastern. No previous experience required!
Join us for MFN on Tuesday nights. We tend to focus on Conquest/Galactic Seasons/Story Mode Operations. You can usually be any character level and always any level of experience. Just make sure you have your personal ship!
FFXIV
Final stage of Endwalker relics have arrived! In about 4-6 weeks we’ll get the final “major” patch for 6.x (6.58) which will most likely unlock everything in preparation for Dawntrail.
The FFXI crossover even sooner..
FFXIV and FFXVI crossover event happening in April.
Also the FC house has had a facelift inside as well as outside now, come check it out.
ESO
Cool things the guild has been doing:
MFN’s are back after the holiday break and a Tales of Tribute Tournament started on Jan 15th.
We tried out a new trial last week due to an in-game event, we didn’t clear it, but we made a good effort and will try again next week.
Game News:
They announced a a new DLC pack in March with two new dungeons followed by Gold Road, a new chapter, which will release in June.
Gold Road will have a new zone, story line, a new system called Scribing, and takes you to West Weald which might be familiar to people who played Oblivion. It’s available for pre-purchase now.
STO
STO’s Anniversary event begins 1/23/2024! This event features a new story episode, a new TFO, and rewards a new Starship! The Tier 6, Khitomer Alliance Rex Pilot Escort!
Fleet Action Report intends to highlight this new event this coming Thursday, at 10pm Eastern. Join us at Grebog’s twitch channel to experience the fun!
Join in tomorrow, 1/22/2024, at 10pm Eastern, for our Fleet Fun Night! We can help level new toons, run TFOs, or team up for any other aspect of the game! If you need help, or want to try out STO, this is your chance to run with our Fleet Leaders!
LOTRO
The road map for 2024 is out and it looks great. Some hype of a lot of things planned for this year. Coming soon is the new 3 and 6 man instances with the new raid to follow soon after. The letter is posted in the lotro channel if you want to take a look.
The ill omens skirmish event is still going on through January 31st.
And with that, let’s get back to Gusty and find out what’s going on in WoW Retail.
GAME NEWS
Patch 10.2.5 Seeds of Renewal brought a lot of new content (but no new Raid) as the Dragonflight expansion winds down. Players can visit the new Night Elf capital, Bel Ameth, that is being built in the World Tree Amirdrassil. There’s a lovely cinematic where Tyrande and Malfurion are reunited, featuring probably the first real kiss in WoW. King Genn Greymane and daughter Tess also want their capital, Gilneas back and we get to help. I enjoyed having Lillian Voss join the party, which Genn didn’t like at all. Visiting Bel Ameth and completing the Gilneas quests award transmog and I got a lovely fox mount from Genn as well.
Follower Fungeons (I mean Dungeons). Tried and enjoyed them!
Azerothian Archives is buggy and not as fun but it will keep people busy.
Dragon Riding is now available everywhere in WoW where flying is allowed and the new racing event, Outland Cup is active. TRANSMOG and dragon customizations available.
CLOSE
And that’s our show for tonight. While the chatroom begins suggesting show titles, we want to thank Gusty for joining us.
If you have a question or comment about our show, you can email us at [email protected] You can find us on the AIE Discord and other non-Twitter social media.. 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 look for the link to our discord server at https://aie-guild.org. And for past episodes, you can see them on our Youtube channel, https://www.youtube.com/c/TheAIEPodcast ! Our theme was composed by the amazing Andrew Allen, follow him at @keyswithsoul! or visit his website https://andrewallenmusic.com/
And now it’s time to play all of the great AIE member segment we received this week, including…
Next time, we’ll be talking to …. Well, we will let you know as soon as we do!. So until then, AIE…
– This is Gustytail
– This is Mewkow
– This is Mkallah
– This is Tetsemi
And this has been… The AIE Podcast.
59 min
January 08, 2024The AIE Podcast #414 – Back for the New Year here’s an Updatepalooza
On this episode of The AIE Podcast…
Seeds of Renewal is almost upon us!
RED ALERT< RED ALERT… through January 18th!
We have news from FFXIV FF
So many games, so many updates!
And, we are getting back into the swing of things after our break
All that and more coming up right now…
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Welcome to episode #414 of the podcast celebrating you, 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 catching up to see what we’ve been up to over the break, what games we have been playing, and the like. Welcome!
Before we get into what we have been up to, let’s go over this week’s news!
AIE News
Community
We have your Mandatory Fun Nights schedule for 2024!
Where the fun is mandatory but the attendance is not.
Sunday – You all get a day off!
Monday – GW2 9:30 pm Eastern
Monday – STO 10:00 pm Eastern
Tuesday – SWTOR 9:00 pm Eastern
Wednesday – HFO Mythic+ Mayhem (WoW) 8:00 pm Eastern
Thursday- Board Game Night (1st and 3rd Thursdays) 7:00 pm Eastern/6:00 pm Central
Friday – ESO 9:00 pm Eastern
Friday – FFXIV(Magical Misc Tour) 9:00 pm Eastern
Saturday – LotRO 8:30 pm Eastern
Saturday – FFXIV (Maps) 9:30 pm Eastern
Saturday – WoW Classic Hardcore 9:30 pm Eastern
Saturday – Noob Raid (WoW) 11:00 pm Eastern
Streaming and Guild Podcast News
We have a ton of AIE member podcasts! Want to know where to find them? Look no further than here-
New Overlords Podcast (Max and Sema)
https://www.newoverlords.com
Working Class Nerds (Marcus and Nick) – NSFL
https://workingclassnerdscom.wordpress.com
Boards and Swords (Chris and Philip)
https://boardsandswords.com/blog?category=Boards%20%26%20Swords
Dr. Gameology ( Dr. Daniel Kaufmann )
https://drgameology.com/
STO – Fleet Action Report (Grebog and Nikodas)
https://www.youtube.com/@fleetactionreport
A Podcast Reborn: A FFXIV Community Podcast (Brandon aka Old Man Franks, Meagan, and Rho) – NSFL
https://www.bonusroll.gg/directory/a-podcast-reborn/
NOMADS
On the small server front, there’s groups running right now in ARK and Rust.
Rust has a fresh map this week and Corley and Kuda have just started building.
On ARK, we’ve just wrapped up the winter event and a few of the group have started in on end bosses. We’ll be continuing there for a while and are looking forward to the next holiday and soon, the next expanded map for Ascended.
WoW
WoW Retail, Patch 10.2.5 Seeds of Renewal is coming January 16 with lots of changes.
Night Elves are building their new capital, Bel-Ameth in the World Tree Amirdrassil and Alliance and Horde players can visit, although Horde will have a buff warning that they’re being watched… especially fire mages. There are new Night Elf tabards, cloaks and weapons there as well as new Night Elf children NPC’s.
Worgen leader Genn Graymane is also taking his people back to their former capital, Gilneas.
Dragonriding is coming to every zone in WoW where flying is possible — but at 80% Dragonflight speed… because 100% would be ridiculous, right? There will be new Dragon Racing events with new transmog and achievements to earn.
Darkspear Trolls are getting 5 new hair colors and Dranei will have a new skin tone available, and Warlocks will have new customizations for their Demonic Tyrant and Darkglare demons.
New Follower dungeons will allow players to practice roles and abilities without resorting to LFD. NPC’s will make up the rest of the party.
Holidays Love Is In The Air, the Lunar Festival and Noblegarden have new content including battle pets, transmog, and a dragonriding appearance. Be warned there are some very, very pink items coming to the Trading Post in February.
And there’s a new weekly event, Azeroth Archives that will have solo and group content to earn a variety of goodies and reveal lore about the Dragon Isles as the expansion winds down.
In AIE news, Raid Teams Kiddie Aggro and So Let’s Go Skating are closing in on their Ahead of the Curve achievements. Guild spam incoming!
Dankinia returned from break and led Noob Raid to defeat 8 of 9 bosses in Amirdrassil. Fyrakk, our raiders have their eyes on you!
And we launched a new Guild Event – Noob Mythics on Saturday. This will be a weekly event from 8-10pm server. It’s like Noob Raid, but for Mythic Plus Dungeons. We ran two groups, completing 4 mythics each. Thanks to Officer Ashayo and raiders from Kiddie Aggro and So Let’s Go Skating for helping to make this a success.
WoW Classic
In Wrath Classic, we are cruising through ICC, with good progression on the Lich King. Ruby Sanctum opens on 11 January, but as a 10 man team, we kind of expect it to be a one and done raid. We are waiting patiently for more news on when Cata is coming out, and looking forward to prepatch for the leveling boost.
Hard Core has been quiet but we do have our first 60 (Healarious). A flurry of activity in the first weeks of Season of Discovery but seems to have slowed down a bit. We are probably a couple weeks out until the next phase (cap of level 40) in SoD.
SWTOR
Coming out of the holiday lull, we have until Tuesday (1/9) to hug wookies and throw snowballs. Double XP ended Jan 4th.
SUP (Sith with Unlimited Power) has 2 openings for their Wednesday night Imperial Ops team? Any role can work.
ESO
We will be returning to MFN on the 12th and the 5th tales of tribute tournament starts on the 15th
GW2
GW2 Dungeons and More is returning this month but it will be the 3rd Thursday this month
STO
STO goes to Red Alert from now until the 18th. This event likely is a placeholder as STO preps for their anniversary event! Keep your eyes open for any anniversary announcements!
Fleet Action Report, a STO Podcast that teaches how to play the game, live streams every Thursday Night at 10pm Eastern.
Alea Iacta Est hosts a Fleet Fun Night every Monday at 10pm Eastern. Everyone is welcome to join this event, which is live streamed. Here we can introduce new players to the game and/or help you gain levels, run missions, TFOs, or any other activity in the game.
FFXIV
The FC house has been updated with a new look, if anyone wants to swing by and check it out.
If anyone would like to do more content/use different buffs/or anything the guild can help with just to drop Caztiel Winchester a tag in discord or send a tell when they’re in game!
Maybe even craft up a set of those expensive walls for your house! They’ve unlocked all the prototypes so we can put anything into the workshop and anyone can contribute materials for them! So just let Caztiel Winchester if you want to make any of the themed housing exteriors!
Patch 6.55 launches on January 16th
They really drew out the reveal of the new class, Pictomancer. Finally, cat mom has joined the fight. Krile gets the draw on her studies in the new job. Cyberpunk FF14 confirmed. Jan 16 is the 6.55 breadcrumbs for 7.0, Squirrelmaster limited job named.
Mew and Tet- discuss FFXIV FF here
LOTRO
Update 38.2 planned to be released on January 10. With this comes the ill omens skirmish event that will run from January 11 through January 31. New pets: jackal, snake and crab. The wrapper rewards are Level 20-148: Assortment of Crafting Mats + 2 Universal Solvents and for Level 149-150: 2 Luckstones, 2 Universal Solvents, Sea-Farer’s Primary Essence, Cloak of Conflict. If you need help with the ill omens skirmish event, Maellung is sure that a certain kin member would be more than happy to have an excuse to run more skirmishes.
Also with this update are a bunch of fixes that couldn’t get in game before the holiday break.
And with that, let’s get back to what we have been doing over the break
GAME NEWS
Tetsemi- Lots of gaming, house decorating/undecorating, and much organizing.
Mewkow- Family lighthouse trip, disneyworld.
Mkallah- BAKING, Working (ugh), Yule, hiking, had a whole week without dice and it made me sad, Christmas eve day sushi, Christmas Eve tea
CLOSE
And that’s our show for tonight. While the chatroom begins suggesting show titles, we want to thank us for joining us.
If you have a question or comment about our show, you can email us at [email protected] You can find us on the AIE Discord and other non-Twitter social media.. 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 look for the link to our discord server at https://aie-guild.org. And for past episodes, you can see them on our Youtube channel, https://www.youtube.com/c/TheAIEPodcast ! Our theme was composed by the amazing Andrew Allen, follow him at @keyswithsoul! or visit his website https://andrewallenmusic.com/
And now it’s time to play all of the great AIE member segment we received this week, including…
Next time, we’ll be talking to a Relevant Guest about a Relevant game So until then, AIE…
– This is Mkallah
– This is Tetsemi
– This is Mewkow
And this has been… The AIE Podcast.
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