Alea Iacta Est

On this episode of The AIE Podcast…

Are you ready for WotLK- again?

Taking down bosses and ToT in ESO

FFXIV gets retro (maps, that is)

Get LotRO before Before the Shadows falls

And, we have Corley and Sema here to talk to us about AIE in SWTOR

All that and more coming up right now…

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

AIE News

Community

Where the fun is mandatory but the attendance is not.

Sunday – WoW Classic 2 pm Eastern

Streaming and Guild Podcast News

SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 439: Playing On A Steam Deck

SWTOR on a Steam Deck… yes it’s real and it’s spectacular. We’ve brought on our friend Corley to talk about that and more on this episode of The Escape Pod Cast for Star Wars The Old Republic with @AIESema, @MaxTheGrey and Astromech EPC-439.

Shipping Your First Game – Behind The Games chat with Somara Atkinson

Shipping Your First Game – Behind The Games chat with Somara Atkinson

Getting started in game development, especially indie game development takes a huge commitment and a lot of work. Sometimes narrowing the focus and just getting your first game out there is the breakthrough you need. Somara Atkinson is an indie game developer just about to ship his first game. He talks with us about what that took, how an earlier project didn’t work out as well, and what his advice is. Great talk with Somara and we hope to play Parkour Posse soon… thanks, Somara!

The Psychology of Pokémon Is Out in the Wild! Dr. Gameology – Season 2 Episode 38

Dr. Gameology is joined by Jenny and Gene to discuss the growth of the show and the release of “The Psychology of Pokémon: The Power to Catch ‘Em All.” Dr. Daniel Kaufmann, the real life person behind Dr. Gameology, wrote Chapter 15 of this book, and is getting ready to talk about it at Orlando Nerd Nite. The Gaming Persona crew talks about different ins and outs of seeing the Pokémon party have an impact in daily life so we can all aim to be our very best!

Gaming Library:

Block and Key, Carcassonne 20th Anniversary Edition, Disney: The CCG – Boards & Swords #203

Disney is making a CCG? You can play your dead characters in a new RPG? Plus, Chris went to Nova Open, so Philip has to look at some Out of Context Comments on some Warhammer 40k news!

Working Class Nerds – Episode 168: THE BIG ANNOUNCEMENT!!! (NSFW)

Marcus and Nick are joined this week by longtime pillar of the Nerds Community- Atrax!! The three of them go on the most sidebars of any episode so far, and have a HUGE, GREEN announcement about the future of Working Class Nerds!! Enjoy!!

You can find more of Atrax at: https://www.twitch.tv/a_atrax

NOMADS

Dual Universe is now available on Steam with a free Demo Server for all to try out the game.

Lost Ark

The new Machinist class will be available on Sep 28:

WoW

WoW Classic

And in other news: at each new Raid 25 tier, the past raid loot will be available on smaller teams (Raid 10 and dungeons). There will be many tiers of Heroic dungeons, so 5 man groups can still gear up to previous raid tier

SWTOR

ESO

Things planned or coming up for the guild:

Game or press release news:

FFXIV

From Elaine of Shallot / Sahja Moshraka

Friday, October 7th is the next Letter from the Producer LIVE, with news on 6.25 and beyond.

STO

Save 35% on all legendary ships and bundles until 9/26 at 10am PT.

Star Trek Online Ascension, a new content drop is live! It includes a new event called “The Emperor’s Will” which rewards a new Tier 6 Ship!

Our fleet hosts a fun night every Thursday at 11pm Eastern. We can help you gain levels or gear, or whatever else you might request. If nothing else, we run TFOs or events.

Fleet Action Report, a video podcast, records live every Monday at 11pm Eastern. We will sometimes ask for help from our audience. Please, make sure you check #sto in the AIE Discord.

Star Trek Fleet Week will begin 10/10 and end 10/15. This is a first time event hosted by Cryptic Studios (Star Trek Online) and Modiphius (Star Trek Adventures). See their planned schedule at arcgames.com.

GW2

LOTRO

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

GAME NEWS

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If you have a question or comment about our show, you can email us at [email protected] . You can also follow us on Twitter. The show is at @aiepodcast. Mew is at @themewkow, Mkallah is at @cyberwaif,and Tetsemi is at @ivorytiger. We record live with video every other Sunday at 8pm Eastern/5pm Pacific. You can join the chatroom and play along with us on our website at https://aie-guild.org/podcast-live-stream/ and our Discord server for chat at https://aie-guild.info/discord . 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 http://andrewallenmusic.com/

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

Next time, we’ll be talking to Maellung and possibly Dux about LOTRO . So until then, AIE…

– This is Corley

And this has been… The AIE Podcast.

On this episode of The AIE Podcast…

Wrath is coming, Wrath is coming!!!!

Grats to AIE SWTOR for Total Galactic War.

ESO is undaunted!

So long, Anor legendary server and thanks for all the Hobbits!

And, we are doing a Host AMA with questions submitted by YOU

All that and more coming up right now…

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Community

Mandatory Fun Nights

Where the fun is mandatory but the attendance is not.

Sunday – WoW Classic 2 pm Eastern

Streaming and Guild Podcast News

Max aka Jeff was out at PAX West 2022 and met some really cool creators and studios. Sema and Max walk through a sample of 10+ smaller games, studios, and creators that caught Max’s eye.

Also, Let Max and Sema know if you want a more detailed video on any of the studios they talk about. Stay connected by subscribing on YouTube and your favorite podcast feed so you don’t miss the next interview. Enjoy!

SWTOR Escape Pod Cast – 438: Ashley Ruhl Interview Notes

We got a chance to interview Ashley Ruhl, the new Narrative Director for SWTOR to hear her views on narrative design and what it means for us as players.

Boards & Swords #202 – One D&D, Embracer Group Owns Lord of the Rings?, More Gen Con Talk!

We’re back in the studio, time to get started on the next 200 episodes. Chris did a lot of Gen Con talk recently, but what all did he actually do there?

Dr. Gameology – S2: E35 | Quitting Games Can Be a Good Thing

Quitting games can be a difficult decision. Dr. Gameology and the Gaming Persona cast review games they have had to step away from. This difficult decision comes accompanied by research and player experiences from the entire group. This thoughtful discussion aims to bring gaming habits into a real-life context that helps to emphasize the value of knowing your in-game goals, and using play time as a way to help you move forward as your best self.

Working Class Nerds – Episode 166: Execute Order 166

Marcus is joined by our official 3rd host Atrax from GreenBot Videos. The dudes chat about all the new games coming in 2022 and 2023! Nick will be back next week as he is playing paintball in Chicago!

Atrax: https://www.twitch.tv/a_atrax

NOMADS

Lost Ark – Quiet, AIE servers consolidated

D&D – a few games running and the channel is fun and active

Diablo III – We are a couple weeks into season 27 for Diablo 3. There are a few of us that regularly run as a group many nights of the week. If you would like to join us or need help with some of the conquests this season, want a toon power leveled or just want to join in the fun let us know in the #diablo channel.

Nomads Servers – Nazrai running a private server and has offered to stand up some fun games. Currently running Empyrion, Ark… could do Rust, Valheim, etc.

Board Games – This Thursday will be our next board game night. All you need is a web browser to play. Come join in on the fun at 7:30PM Central.

Dual Universe – Dual Universe is set to launch on September 27th and AIE will be there from the beginning. Join us to be part of building the civilization that will tame a solar system.

Will you be the first to discover an unknown asteroid full of valuable materials? Or maybe you’ll be the first to see the scenic lake side view on a distant planet. Will you captain a battle cruiser or your own humble hauler? If the only limitation to what you can create is your imagination, will you let your imagination limit you?

Join Catavarie in the Dual Universe channel in discord to discuss all your in game aspirations.

WoW

That is Gustytail rocking those super pointy shoulders.

Lots of folks in Retail WoW have been visiting Classic to relive (or unlive) the original Death Knight starting quest. It’s a great piece of storytelling… and there’s a sweet mount reward there too. Wrath of the Lich King drops Sept 26 so don’t wait.

WoW Classic

If you do the starting zone for DK, you get a drake mount in retail

We decided on a name for our #10forWrath raid team, Akela’s Wrath.

SWTOR

7.1.1 is coming up (TBD) and will contain some balance changes. Some early-ish thoughts from the devs have been posted about what they are planning to do. Buffing healers is the best part!

Join us in discord for any question you might have, or if you want to join an Operations Team. And join us on Tuesday nights for MFN!

FFXIV

ESO

If you are interested in running dungeons for pledges we have two dungeon groups that occasionally need someone to fill in. Check out the Undaunted Enclave channel in Discord for more information.

Things planned or coming up for the guild:

We’ve been playing our weekly Tales of Tribute matches for the AIE tournament and posting our victories and defeats in discord for all to see.

Update from Kramer – What an exciting week in the tourney we have ties across the board tied for 1st is @Kini (Dankinia) [she/her] and @Newtype72 (Morrogoth) at 3-0 3rd place is @Bashirra and @DPRoberts at 2-1 then in 5th place we have @redstick94 and @Malakyi at 1-2 and in 7th place we have @Darklightwolf and @Tetsemi Lok’vadnod (he/him) at 0-3

STO

KDF fleet is finalizing the dilithium mine and should have all the media very soon. The Starbase had started completing tier 2 projects for the different branches and so should be able to push for the big tier 2 upgrade soon.

Fun night is every Thursday at 11pm Eastern. We do things from running random TFOs, help people level up, to run missions for gear for a build. If you have a request, we will gladly help you with what you want to do.

Fleet Action Report episode 114 will be recorded live on Monday. In this episode we will be back on our new player challenge characters and covering endeavors. What they are. How to work on them. And what you get out of the endeavor system.

GW2

LOTRO

And with that, let’s get onto out Host AMA- and chatroom, if you have any questions, throw them into the channel and we will answer if we have time at the end!

GAME NEWS

MK- Savory- Handmade croissant dough stuffed with chicken, mushrooms, and a gorgonzola cream sauce.

Tets – Chicken Thingies, see above and Dark Chocolate & Caramel, Pretzel Crust Brownies

Ghomus: I’m GUESSING at least all the hosts play Single Player RPGs on either the console(s) or PC. What is the one game you’ve all put an EMBARRASSING amount of time into?

MK- Star Wars: Masters of Teräs Käsi- because I wanted to unlock Mara Jade

Tets – The Bards Tale on the Commodore 64, the grind is real!

Mew – Fallout

Kini: Favorite ride at Disneyland and why is it your favorite?

MK- Really Kini? Really? You are going to find out this spring! Just kidding, I am a sucker for Pirates and Haunted Mansion because they are timeless. Star Tours because it came out when I was a Star Wars obsessed teen. I also really love Indiana Jones. And Rise of the Resistance, and…. Okay, just take me to Disney!

KJH – Pirates of the Caribbean, the park is hot, the ride is cool, and the music and atmosphere, followed closely by Star Tours & Indiana Jones.

Mew – spaceship earth, dinosaur, rocking rollercoaster

Max: With the tabletop RPG stuff that gets discussed… would @Mkallah (or Tets or Mew) be looking to “DM” one of those sometime soon? If so, what channel will that stream on?

MK- I actually have anxiety about DMing! I am happy to take extensive notes, help create mythology and maps, remind the DM of NPC names, and more, but the idea of DMing makes me anxious.

Tets: Maybe MK and I need to Co-DM, she can do the Lore, I’ll do the Rules

Mew: I likely get too evil for that myself.

Hoots: What’s the worst thing you’ve ever seen in the show notes?

MK- It’s not what I have seen, but what my mind puts in there itself and I somehow READ even though the words don’t make sense!

Tets: Worst thing to read is names you’ve only seen and never heard pronounced, even if you’re familiar with the game. I think STO is infamous for this. Hey MK, it’s Cardassian, not Kardashian

Cataverie: Would you rather fight 1 Max sized Duck or 100 Duck sized Maxxes?

MK- It depends, what time zone are we in. If we are in Central, I forfeit. If it is any other timezone, I will take the 1 Maxsized duck- if I win, that is a lot of duck meat and it is my favourite special occasion food. The 100 duck sized maxxes will just swarm ya!

Tets: One Max sized duck is basically an ostrich, so no, I’ll take my chances with the swarm. I was a decent soccer player.

Mew: Swarm: Lego sets!

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If you have a question or comment about our show, you can email us at [email protected] . You can also follow us on Twitter. The show is at @aiepodcast. Mew is at @themewkow, Mkallah is at @cyberwaif,and Tetsemi is at @ivorytiger. We record live with video every other Sunday at 8pm Eastern/5pm Pacific. You can join the chatroom and play along with us on our website at https://aie-guild.org/podcast-live-stream/ and our Discord server for chat at https://aie-guild.info/discord . 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 http://andrewallenmusic.com/

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

– This is Mkallah

And this has been… The AIE Podcast.

On this episode of The AIE Podcast…

The Nomads have their hands in SO MANY GAMES

Zombies- remember Zombies! They are back!

SWTOR is digging deeper!

The Tales of Tribute tournament in ESO is right around the corner!

And, we have Abo to talk all about FFXIV!

All that and more coming up right now…

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AIE News

Community

Where the fun is mandatory but the attendance is not.

Sunday – WoW Classic 2 pm Eastern

Streaming and Guild Podcast News

We finally get to some spoiler talk and speculation on Malgus and Sa’har. @thenewoverlords #AIEGuild audio links at https://newoverlords.com

Drawing On Their Talents – Behind The Games chat with Inktale Studios

This indie studio duo is building on hand crafted art to make an amazing game. Audio links at https://newoverlords.com

Dr. Gameology – S2: E34 | Dead By Daylight and Asymmetric Multiplayer

Dr. Gameology has played Dead By Daylight for the first time. After an evening of getting chased down by Killers of all kinds, he reflects on the experience and discovers the research on this style of multiplayer. Spirited debate ensues on what winning and competition mean in the context of a game in this style.

Working Class Nerds (NSFL) – Episode 164: Free Ride Games Stream Team!!!

The guys are joined by the FRG stream team!!! With FIVE whole guests this week, this episode is a wild ride of laughs, heartfelt moments, and of course Destiny 2 sidebars! Enjoy!You can find more of Free Ride Games, and the rest of the Stream Team at https://www.twitch.tv/freeridegames

Boards and Swords – Episodes 200 & 201

Boards & Swords 201 Gen Con 2022: Another on location episode! Next time we’ll be back in the studio but in this episode Chris is on the floor at Gen Con 2022 talking with a bunch of folks about what they’ve got on display. Thanks to Eric Yurko for bantering with Chris in the beginning, and to Edge studios, Colorway Game Labs, and Dire Wolf for talking to us about products and embarrassing themselves with some impromptu jokes!

NOMADS

With this launch will come a wipe, starting all players on a level playing field. So even if you haven’t played during the years long Beta you can still play along with all.

Ask Catavarie any questions you have in the Dual Universe channel under nomads in the Discord.

Come on AIE let’s DU(do) it!

Lost Ark

Please note that with the reduced activity we’ll be retiring the auxiliary guilds of “Aie Honoris” and “Aie Fidelis”, neither of which made it past guild level 3. Any characters active in these guilds are encouraged to drop the guild and apply for “Aie Communitas.” Please contact Durus in discord or make a post to lostark in the AIE discord with the hashtag lostark-app. Keep in touch with updates to the Lost Ark guilds in the AIE discord’s lostark-announce channel.

In game news, this past week saw the release of the “Under the Arkesian Sun” update that features the Maharaka festival, return of Event Guardians, and the Pet Ranch. More details are available at https://www.playlostark.com/en-us/news/articles/under-the-arkesian-sun-release-notes

Empyrion

WoW

Noob Raid has been doing the Fated raids with the plan to eventually get the mount reward.

WoW Classic

SWTOR

We have Operations Teams running on most nights of the week. If you want to try this type of larger group game play, this might be for you. Our raid leaders are always on the lookout for alternates and some of our teams are looking for new permanent members.

ESO

Game or press release news:

Things planned or coming up for the guild:

With ESO update 34 the release of the High Isle Chapter came their first attempt at a card game known as Tales of Tribute. This card game that had the community in an uproar has caught fire and swept into the hearts of all that play the game.

So I have fronted the gold and decided that we shall have our first AIE ToT tournament which will officially start Monday September 5th and run until Monday October 10. I will post the brackets each week on Mondays so everyone can see who they get to play that week as well as the current standings.

Players will have one week Monday thru Sunday to play their match against each other and post a screenshot of the result which will be verified and added to the ongoing tournament standings. To enter this AIE tournament

I hope you all have fun playing and may the best card shark win or go down fighting

To enter the tournament all you have to do is send a DM to @kraemer29 and let me know your userid for ESO. It is not too late to sign up for the tourney, it starts September 5 and runs till 10/10 and pays out 10 spots we currently have 6 people enrolled just let me know in the channel here and i will get you listed

Now what you all have been waiting for is the prize list.

FFXIV

STO

KDF is almost done with the dilithium mine and all the discounts that unlock. The Starbase is closing in on tier 2. Once the dilithium mine is done, Grebog will be adding another smallholding into the rotation of projects.

Fun night is Thursday at 11 pm Eastern. Every third Thursday we do a KDF night.

Fleet Action Report episode 112 will be recorded live on Monday at 11 pm Eastern. This week Nikodas will be doing a deep dive into a special theme build he calls the Ice Princess.

GW2

GAME NEWS

This will be a MSQ spoiler free discussion. If you have not reached 6.2, fear not, as we will not be talking about any of the plot points, themes, characters, locations, encounters, or other items of the MSQ other than the fact that there is more MSQ, it’s great, and you have a new dungeon (common) and a trial to do! (not as common, but still happens on a regular basis)

The MSQ in 6.2 It’s great. You should play it.

The trial has its normal story mode and also an Extreme mode available as well. Successful adventurers in this mode will score you an iLevel 615 weapon.

Besides the MSQ, we have a new raid tier! The 2nd wing of Pandaemonium is now open. The Savage mode of this raid will not unlock until Tuesday, however.

For the non-savage and EX players, we have the next chapter of Tataru’s Grand Adventure. This continues her fun story. Side note, you do need to complete the 24-player Mhach. It’s a fun and neat story.

For those still leveling or new to the game, further changes to the game have been made to the MSQ to allow for a more single player experience. Specifically, the Steps of Faith has been re-worked into a single-player duty.

Oh, and a new feature. Nothing big.

Island Sanctuary

But once you do, you get an island. With stuff! And you do things. Island things!

Also neato things.

It’s the same fight as the EX version from heavensward but scaled up to 90.

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If you have a question or comment about our show, you can email us at [email protected] . You can also follow us on Twitter. The show is at @aiepodcast. Mew is at @themewkow, Mkallah is at @cyberwaif,and Tetsemi is at @ivorytiger. We record live with video every other Sunday at 8pm Eastern/5pm Pacific. You can join the chatroom and play along with us on our website at https://aie-guild.org/podcast-live-stream/ and our Discord server for chat at https://aie-guild.info/discord . 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 http://andrewallenmusic.com/

Next time, we’re doing an Ask Us Almost Anything episode, we’ll be answering questions from you, our wonderful listeners. Please feel free to submit questions via the #aie-podcast channel or our e-mail [email protected] . So until then, AIE…

– This is Abovan

And this has been… The AIE Podcast.

On this episode of The AIE Podcast…

Season 4 Launches on Aug 2nd! Hey, we have something that day!

Legacy of the Sith on August 2nd- we STILL have something that day!

STO has Tier 5 on the radar!

We have your full Summer of Love schedule!

Plus, we have GustyKoo to tell us all about AIE’s Summer of Love!

All that and more coming up right now…

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AIE News

Community

Where the fun is mandatory but the attendance is not.

Sunday – WoW Classic 2 pm Eastern

Streaming and Guild Podcast News

The very last Charles Boyd stream for SWTOR was Thursday, and we also heard more about 7.1 from some of the new team leads directly.

Behind the Games

As Game Director at Infinity Ward’s new Austin studio, Chris builds on his vast AAA game creator and leadership experience at Bioware, where we first met Chris years ago. We talk about what a Game Director does, what games and design principles inspire him, how useful and less useful feedback comes across, and what’s on his shelves. Thanks, Chris!

The Gaming Persona Podcast

Fleet Action Report

The Galaxy goes to Red Alert in this episode of Fleet Action Report! Watch as Nikodas and Grebog join the fight against the Borg, Tholians, Elachi, and the Na’Kuhl. Watch to see if they can prevent the Tzenkethi from destroying a peaceful galaxy.

Working Class Nerds (NSFW – Language)

Nick and Marcus are joined by Nick’s paintball teammate and close friend Fernando! The three of them discuss all of the new Marvel content that was announced at Comic Con! Enjoy!

NOMADS

Summer Medleyfaire event is in progress

Board Games

WoW

New details on Dragonflight keep coming out. It’s weird to think that Dragon Riding could make getting from place to place fun, rather than the slow grind to unlock flying that we’ve seen in past expansions. Also we’ll have otter mounts as a reward for a mount collecting achievement and they are adorable.

Noob Raid is being run by Wingclip and Celindre in Dankinia’s absence.

WoW Classic

Soon pre-patch with level XP reduction, new talent trees, spells and a new heroic class (Death Knight)

SWTOR

TACO is a Sunday night ops team and we are needing to fill two DPS spots. We run Sunday nights Imp side at 7:30PM Central.

ESO

Game or press release news:

STO

KDF: The main starbase will be done upgrading to tier 1 by the time this is read live. We are also closing in on Tier 3 of the Dilithium mine.

Thursday night fun nights are happening at 11pm. We do all kinds of group activities and if someone has a request, we try to help with those as well.

FFXIV

Map nights are still rolling along! Saturday nights at 9:30 pm EST. Come along, get loot, have a great time! Level 90 characters that have all of the zones unlocked are required. Bringing a map is not required but always appreciated.

And with that, let’s get back to GustyTail and find out what’s going on in Summer of Love.

GAME NEWS

Why August 2nd?

Bruce Galloway was an early member of AIE who passed away on August 2, 2007. His character, Milliway, is permanently fixed at the second-highest rank in the guild: Imperator. He was a fan of AIE on a level that cannot be overstated, and a good friend and kind soul to all who knew him.

https://wiki.aie-guild.org/index.php?title=Milliway

Start Aug 2nd, Tuesday

Walk at 9:30pm EDT

The D&D One Shots are full and the DM’s and players have been lively making preparations on their dedicated chat channels – a new thing this year. We’ve got sessions on Thurs, Fri, Sat and Sun.

WOW

WoW Classic

There are 2nd and 3rd place prizes as well, just a few small pets! but it should be fun!

And we are doing the Remembrance day walk from the shrine of the Fallen Warrior to the gates of Orgrimmar. We hope to see you there!

SWTOR

Look forward to seeing you all at 9/8C!

ESO

FFXIV

STO

Guild Wars 2

LOTRO

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If you have a question or comment about our show, you can email us at [email protected] . You can also follow us on Twitter. The show is at @aiepodcast. Mew is at @themewkow, Mkallah is at @cyberwaif,and Tetsemi is at @ivorytiger. We record live with video every other Sunday at 8pm Eastern/5pm Pacific. You can join the chatroom and play along with us on our website at https://aie-guild.org/podcast-live-stream/ and our Discord server for chat at https://aie-guild.info/discord . 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 http://andrewallenmusic.com/

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

Our next show is in a month, we will let you know as the next show gets closer! So until then, AIE…

-This is Gusty!

And this has been… The AIE Podcast.

On this episode of The AIE Podcast…

We have the summer of love schedule!

We have some Dragonflight expansion information,but no spoilers!

Merrily we march along towards patch 6.2.

LOTRO wants to get the band back together

And, we have Dr Gameology here to talk to us about all sorts of fascinating things!

All that and more coming up right now…

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Ok, we’ll be going over this week’s news in a few, but first, let’s chat with Doctor Gameology!

GAME NEWS

AIE News

Community

Start Aug 2nd, Tuesday

– WoW = Gusty (Shrine of the Fallen Soldier -> Booty Bay)

End Aug 7th

Gusty – in charge of the WoW coordination will sort out routes and fireworks. Pet battles/giveaways, Transmog runs, Visit the other side (horde/alliance flip)

Gusty – D&D discussions – All sessions 4-5 players (make slots for 5?)

Mandatory Fun Nights

Where the fun is mandatory but the attendance is not.

Sunday – WoW Classic 2 pm Eastern

Streaming and Guild Podcast News

Any reputation that you can’t get to legendary is a bad reputation. Syndicate was almost that way for us but help for that is coming in 7.1… and if you want to hear more about reputations in general, listen now!

Boston Indie Scene – Behind The Games chat with Kate Olguin

We talk about Kate’s EDU experience at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, her experience building the indie game Call of Karen, her work sponsoring and organizing the Boston indie game dev scene, and her current game design role at Other Ocean Interactive working on games like Project Winter.

Return to Dark Tower, Vampire Rivals Expansions, Capstone+? – Boards & Swords 199

Would you do a subscription to a board game company? How about play Legend of the Five Rings in D&D? We’ve got all that plus we both got a chance to play Restoration Games’ version of the classic “Dark Tower” game.

Star Trek Online – Fleet Action Report – Ep 105 2 year anniversary

This is a very special episode of Fleet Action Report. It is our 2 year anniversary and so we brought in the community to come and have some fun with us. We did some PVP matches just for fun and laughs, and watched Grebog die many times in his glass cannons.

Working Class Nerds (NSFW)

Marcus and Nick sit down with fellow content creator Jacusky!! Jacusky is a Dad, awesome streamer of Destiny 2 content, aannndd an all around amazing person! Enjoy!!

You can find more of Jacusky at:

NOMADS

Activity in the guilds is light, and we encourage anyone not in the “Aie Communitas” guild to request an invite to this more progressed guild. Please inquire about transfers Durus or the discord channel #lostark

WoW

I'm proud to be the feature producer of this initiative. It's my passion to help make WoW as inclusive as we can be either through a sense of identity or accessibility. We have a long way to go still, so I will ask for patience as we move towards these initiatives. https://t.co/69pKJw8NR7

— Angela #ABetterABK (@bagelberry) July 14, 2022

In WoW, Season Four is around the corner and Gustytail is among those still pushing for Mythic Keystone Master. Hooves crossed and thanks to everyone who helped their guildies with last minute achievements.

And of course there is Summer of Love! The schedule is up and we’ve got several WoW events, such as Snail racing, a Battle Pet Safari and De Other Side Challenge (roll a toon on the opposite faction.) Join the fun and bring others!

Cross Faction Noob Raid is going strong. For the next 3 weeks while Dankinia is on a much needed vacation Wingclip and Celindre have volunteered to run things.

WoW Classic

Skye is proud to announce that his Sister Summer of Love (Summeroflove) is looking for a mate. In true Troll fashion you must earn her hand. Six items will be required to win her hand. Her suiter must be a new level one Troll (no bad habits) and able to take care of her (thus the 6 items). The items will be announced on the night of 31 July 2022. To support her in her new life the family has put a dowry of 1000 gold for the winner of the Great Hunt. First troll to trade me said Items gets Summer of Love and of course the Gold.

There are 2nd and third place prizes as well, just a few small pets, but should be fun!

Wrath is coming closer (surely end of August or beginning of September), so we do have an influx of new players coming in to level this summer.

As a reminder, to attract new players for #10ForWrath, we are giving gold (100) to any new player, to make skills, mount and leveling easy.

Sundays and Wednesdays are dungeon days (9-11 EDT), and we all help each other on the 5 man quests and things. We are working on getting 10 to 70 so we can raid Karazhan, and begin to get that #10forWrath synergy going! Our Raid Leader is Shrimpiclese, and we are always ready for new people to come join in the fun of classic!

SWTOR

ESO

Things planned or coming up for the guild:

Game or press release news:

FFXIV

For those grinding away in the Crystaline Conflict, the season rewards, which ends at the release in 6.2, will reward all rewards up to the tier you reach. So, you don’t have to worry about blasting past a reward that you want.

Data Center Travel is up and running. Now, we’d love to have you in our FC on Goblin. But we get that other people may belong to other communities or you have an established friend group elsewhere, you can now travel to Goblin for AIE events. Any AIE member or friends thereof are welcome to hang with us on our events, visit our house, ect. We would love to see you at our next event.

Speaking of which, our map nights are still rolling along! Saturday nights at 9:30 pm EST. Come along, get loot, have a great time! Level 90 characters that have all of the zones unlocked are required. Bringing a map is not required but always appreciated.

If you are not 90, be on the lookout for non-level 90 map events. Group maps with a chance at the loot zone are available from level 60 on up.

And Thursdays at 10pm EST, we are going to be running sprout raids again. We completed all of the legacy 24-player raids (up thru Shadowbringers) and will be looping back around to the Crystal Tower series.

Remember, some of these 24-player raids are a pre-requisites for other content. The Crystal Tower series is actually required content now to complete ARR. We’d love to see you there.

STO

KDF fleet is closing in on finishing the dilithium mines and having tier 1 of the Starbase done.

Thursday night fun night at 11pm. We run patrols, missions, and task force operations, depending on requests and any events going on. We focus on the Federation side except for the third Thursday of the month, then we head out on our KDF captains.

Fleet Action Report just celebrated its second anniversary. You can catch us live on Mondays at 11pm and archived episodes are on YouTube. https://Twitch.tv/grebog

GW2

LOTRO

What is Weatherstock you ask?

Weatherstock is a player run concert of Epic proportions held on the summit of Amon Sul on the Landroval server. The current list is 22 different player bands that will play, in game, in character, for 10-15 minutes each. Where’s Max, Pellel, and the crew? We don’t know, but suspect they might try to get in next year, right Max?

https://weatherstock.guildlaunch.com/index.php?gid=316072%7C

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If you have a question or comment about our show, you can email us at [email protected] . You can also follow us on Twitter. The show is at @aiepodcast. Mew is at @themewkow, Mkallah is at @cyberwaif,and Tetsemi is at @ivorytiger. We record live with video every other Sunday at 8pm Eastern/5pm Pacific. You can join the chatroom and play along with us on our website at https://aie-guild.org/podcast-live-stream/ and our Discord server for chat at https://discordapp.com/invite/bCVvumW. 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 http://andrewallenmusic.com/

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

Next time, we’ll be talking to Gustytail about the Summer of Love!!!!. So until then, AIE…

– This is Mkallah

And this has been… The AIE Podcast.

On this episode of The AIE Podcast…

When New Content and the Summer of Love Collide

We have a Flashpoint Newsflash coming in fast

AIE in ESO goes to 11!

Guild Wars 2 gets a little more balanced!

And, we are talking amongst ourselves

All that and more coming up right now…

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AIE News

Community

Where the fun is mandatory but the attendance is not.

Sunday – WoW Classic 2 pm Eastern

Summer of Love

SOL 2022 Notes

Start Aug 2nd, Tuesday

– WoW = Gusty (Shrine of the Fallen Soldier -> Booty Bay)

End Aug 7th

Gusty – in charge of the WoW cordination will sort out route and fireworks. Pet battles/giveaways, Transmog runs, Visit the other side (horde/alliance flip)

Gusty – D&D discussions – All sessions 4-5 players (make slots for 5?)

Streaming and Guild Podcast News

We have a player made guild event coming next week that uses the macrobinoculars and seeker droids. You may have forgotten about them or never had the chance to start those missions.

Behind the Games Podcast

The People Are The Studio – Behind The Games chat with Hector Padilla of IO Interactive

Many game studios are having a moment right now where they need scale, and to learn to be better, more professional companies. IO Interactive has this figured out with leaders like Hector Padilla, a people manager at IO Interactive. IOI is the game studio that makes the Hitman series and soon a new 007 game. Hector focuses on making teams work together while developing all these great games. We talk here about an inside view of IO Interactive and Hitman, how to run a studio like a mature company, how to connect teams and people, and a little about the future of gaming. Thanks Hector and IOI!

Working Class Nerds (NSFW) – Episode 158: Multiverse of Fetta Cheese!

Boards and Swords Podcast

Apparently Backerkit is making its own Kickstarter like platform? Also Magic the Gathering is 30 years old? In more recent news, Origins Game Fair was a few weekends ago and Ken from Geek Craft is here to talk about it!

Star Trek Online – Fleet Action Report

In this episode of Fleet Action Report, Grebog and Nikodas are continuing to work on their budget builds for their New Player Challenge. We run the mission for the Bajor Defense Deflector and then move on to Task Force Operations (TFO) for getting some marks.

WoW

AIE Virtus displaying their Waste Warped Deathwalker — the Mythic Plus Dungeon achievement mount.

WoW Classic

As a reminder, to attract new players for #10ForWrath, we are giving gold (100) to any new player, to make skills, mount and leveling easy.

Also, Blizzard announced they will be providing a 50% EXP buff before and during the Wrath pre-event. No announced date for that to start yet, but keep an eye out for it.

Sundays and Wednesdays are dungeon days (9-11 EDT), and we all help each other on the 5 man quests and things. We are working on getting 10 to 70 so we can raid Karazhan, and begin to get that #10forWrath synergy going! Our Raid Leader is Shrimpiclese, and we are always ready for new people to come join in the fun of classic!

SWTOR

We have Operations Teams running on most nights of the week. If you want to try this type of larger group game play, just hop into discord and ask about it. Our raid leaders are always on the lookout for permanent members and alternates.

MFNs continue to run on Tuesdays nights. BC runs a mix of events, including operations, so there is always something fun to do. In many cases your character can be any level as long as you have your personal ship so that we can summon you. No gear level or experience required.

Also, coming this Tuesday, July 5th, there will be a MFN treasure hunt in SWTOR, check the #swtor channel in AIE Discord for more info on what’s planned.

FFXIV

Late August, we will be getting patch 6.2. What are we getting? New MSQ, new Raid Tier, new gathering Tribe quests, More details on animal crossing island adventures -let your minions run free -farming and animal raising , Variant Dungeons (the easier ones), Criterion Dungeons (difficult dungeons with 2 levels of difficulty), PvP Series 2 (Series is new rewards, season is just for ranking progression), and the best features of all, the glamour dresser in being increased from 400 to 800 items.

AIE Map Nights, Saturday at 9:30pm EST, are still a popular event. Be a level 90, have access to all of the zones, and loot, prizes, and general merriment will be your reward. We use Level 90, 8-player maps. You do not have to bring a map to join, but if you do wish to bring one for the group to use, we are looking for the Timeworn Kumbhiraskin Treasure Map.

AIE is also hosting Sprout Raids on Thursday nights at 10pm EST. These raids will vary in levels, as we go through all of the 24-player raids in each expansion. So far, we have completed all of the Crystal Tower and the Shadow of Mhach raid series. Currently, we are working on the Dark Apocalypse raid series. Once this series wraps up, we will have the new Endwalker alliance raid to do, and then will wrap back around to the Crystal Tower raid series again.

ESO

Things planned or coming up for the guild:

STO

KDF is closing in on Tier 3 of the dilithium and has started some starbase work.

Thursday night fun night is still happening. We start at 11pm Eastern. And fun nights will be Fed based except for the 3rd Thursday of the month, which we will then explore with our Klingon Defense Force captains.

And as always, catch Fleet Action Report on Mondays at 11pm. this Monday will be heading back to Risa as the summer event has started. twitch.tv/grebog

GW2

Guild stuff is the same as it always is. Mondays, and Dungeons and more. Also still taking donations for the guild hall

LOTRO

Late July – Update 33.1 ‘Further Adventures with Elladan & Elrohir’

Treasure Bugan event

August – Farmers Faire

Mid-August – Season 3 of the Legendary Item Reward Track

August 31st – Legendary world of Shadowfax allows access to the Far Anorien and Wastes regions and the level cap increases to 105.

August 31st – Shutdown of the Anor Legendary server

September – Update 33.2 class/race combos expanded

And with that, let’s find out what we’ve been doing in and out of game!

GAME NEWS

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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 also follow us on Twitter. The show is at @aiepodcast. Mew is at @themewkow, Mkallah is at @cyberwaif,and Tetsemi is at @ivorytiger. We record live with video every other Sunday at 8pm Eastern/5pm Pacific. You can join the chatroom and play along with us on our website at https://aie-guild.org/podcast-live-stream/ and our Discord server for chat at https://aie-guild.info/discord . 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 http://andrewallenmusic.com/

Next time, we’ll be talking to Doctor Gameology, an AIE member with a very unique set of special skills!- . So until then, AIE…

– This is Tetsemi

And this has been… The AIE Podcast.

On this episode of The AIE Podcast…

Diablo Immortal is Mobile, and more!

Noob gets cross…. Faction, that is

FFXIV is making it RAIN

GW2 Sky Pirates is doing it live!

And, we have Maellung and Dux who are here to talk to us about AIE in LOTRO

All that and more coming up right now…

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

AIE News

Community

Where the fun is mandatory but the attendance is not.

Sunday – WoW Classic 2 pm Eastern

Streaming and Guild Podcast News

Star Wars Celebration news and announcements plus some SWTOR class balance news for 7.1

STO – Fleet Action Report – https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqEKYJPKmiiYuj7eiHy6kOg

This episode of Fleet Action Report, Grebog will conduct a Deep Dive of his control build while Nikodas details what else you’ll need for Elite TFOs.

Working Class Nerds (NSFW) – Episode 154: The Podcasters Podcast!!

Okay this one is a DOOZY! Marcus and Nick are rejoined by GATR and Hazel from the Guardian Down Cast, as well as Both Randy AND Adam from Bone Apple Tea!!

The SIX of them talk all about how they got into podcasting and how they developed their shows! You don’t wanna miss this marathon of a show! Enjoy!

Find more of the Guardian Down Cast at:

Find more of Bone Apple Tea at:

Behind the Games – Sound Design For Far Cry – Interview with Eduardo Vaisman of Ubisoft Toronto

How far would you go to make the game you are working on sound good? We interviewed Eduard Vaisman, the Bafta Nominated Audio Director for Far Cry at Ubisoft to find out. We talked to him about his wilderness trip seeking sounds, how the sound design was done for Far Cry 6, the difference between sound design for movies and games, and what Eduardo personally was able to bring to the story and themes of the game.

NOMADS

Diablo Immortal

WoW

Team Kiddie Aggro defeated Heroic Jailer in the Sep-ull-cher of the First Ones. They are the first AIE Raid team to get Ahead of the Curve achievement!

WoW Classic

Dungeons and more runs on Sunday and Wednesday nights, from 9-11 EDT. Please feel free to use whatever is in the guild bank for leveling professions and things like that. Welcome to all the returning players for #10forWrath

SWTOR

The Public Test Server is back up, and we are hoping to field a team to go in and take a look at the new Operation.

Looking for DPSers on two of our Operations teams – Sunday Nights imp side and Monday nights pub side.

Check out Flashpoint Fridays on the first Friday of each month. Look for Maellung!

Maellung, how about a report from June’s Flashpoint Friday?

FFXIV

But for those that are not level 90, we are now running non-90 map nights, thanks to Sahja, we will have a group that will be doing level 60 maps found within the Heavensward expansion. On Sundays at 4pm EST, we will be running ‘Timeworn Dragonskin Maps’, which are the 8 player version and have a chance to open up the portals to ‘The Aquapolis’ bonus zone. Since this is level 60 content, this is included in the free trial, so if you have a level 60 character, but haven’t invested any money into the game yet, you are able to join in on the fun and prizes! Super thanks to Sahja for running this event. Join us in 2 weeks for Stormblood and Gazelleskin maps.

AIE is also hosting Sprout Raids on Thursday nights at 10pm EST. These raids will vary in levels, as we go through all of the 24-player raids in each expansion. So far, we have completed all of the Crystal Tower and the Shadow of Mhach raid series. Currently, we are working on the Rabanastre raid series. We have completed The Royal City of Rabanastre and The Ridorana Lighthouse over the past few weeks. We will be moving over to the Obonne Monastery for the final raid of the Rabanastre raid series.

Make It Rain! The Annual Gold Saucer event, “Make it Rain” is back and is providing an extra 50% bonus to all MGP (Manderville Gold Saucer Points. The S in Saucer is silent, I guess.) This bonus applies to all MGP mini-games, such as the Cactpot, Mini-Cactpot, Fashion Contest, and the little skill mini-games in the Gold Saucer or in the AIE FC house. To celebrate the event, we will be running the “Jackpot” buff to increase the bonus by another 10%! To top it off, there’s a new seasonal questline that will reward some new emotes that will be sure to be a hit.

And…

• Somehow Further Hildibrand Adventures!

There’s plenty of stuff to see and do in FFXIV! We hope to see you in Eorzea soon!

ESO

Things planned or coming up for the guild:

STO

KDF side dilithium mine is counting down the upgrade for Tier 2 and had the Tier 2 discount project queued up to start as soon as the other finishes.

Thursday nights at 11pm EDT is MFN.

GW2

MFN is mondays at 9:30 pm EDT

Dungeons and More is this Friday, June 10th at 9 pm – 11pm EDT

Also we are still looking for donations of materials for the guild hall. Please see the pinned posts in discord for more information on what we need, and how to donate.

LOTRO

And with that, let’s get back to Maellung and Dux and find out what’s going on in AIE in LOTRO.

GAME NEWS

https://lotro-wiki.com/index.php/Class

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If you have a question or comment about our show, you can email us at [email protected] . You can also follow us on Twitter. The show is at @aiepodcast. Mew is at @themewkow, Mkallah is at @cyberwaif,and Tetsemi is at @ivorytiger. We record live with video every other Sunday at 8pm Eastern/5pm Pacific. You can join the chatroom and play along with us on our website at https://aie-guild.org/podcast-live-stream/ and our Discord server for chat at https://aie-guild.info/discord . 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 http://andrewallenmusic.com/

Next time, we’ll possibly be talking to Jehdai about Guild Wars 2. So until then, AIE…

– This is Dux

And this has been… The AIE Podcast.

On this episode of The AIE Podcast…

Destiny 2 is New, New, New this Tue, Tue, Tuesday

We have a Mini Raid Team wrap up for WoW

First Fridays are for Flashpoints

GW2 needs your kegs and wine bottles

And, we have Dankinia here to talk to us about AIE in ESO

All that and more coming up right now…

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Ok, we’ll be digging into Elder Scrolls Online (ESO) shortly, but first, let’s cover this week’s news…

AIE News

Community

Where the fun is mandatory but the attendance is not.

Sunday – WoW Classic 2 pm Eastern

Streaming and Guild Podcast News

We like to hunt world bosses and with multi-tag and fast spawn things are a little different in the 7.0 era.

Also, check out https://www.newoverlords.com/ for another new podcast called Behind the Games where Jeff (Max) and Sema interview people working in the game industry and give you a glimpse behind the scenes about what’s going on in game development and marketing.

Working Class Nerds – Episode 152: Working Class Questions! (NSFW)

Marcus and Nick are joined this week by GREAT friend of the show Joey Fetta, and the three of them answer questions posted in our discord by YOU! Enjoy!

Fleet Action Report – Episode 97 Heart of the Storm

In this episode of Fleet Action Report; Nikodas and Grebog are taking the fight to the Terran Empire. It’s into the Heart of the Storm event where we’ll be taking on 2 new episodes and 1 new TFO.

Boards & Swords 196 – A Final Fantasy TCG? Pirate Pathfinder Board Game, Out of Context Comments

A better look at that Runescape board game, Embracer Group buys up more IPs, did you know there’s a Final Fantasy TCG? All this plus we take a look at some out of context comments made at Warhammer Fest!

NOMADS

The server merge to Valhalla went smoothly a few weeks back and things are mostly quiet as the community waits for updates and new content to shake things up. We have a handful of players that log in a couple times a week though so if anyone did want to try it out or get something going they can post up in the channel and rally the troops.

Star Citizen

As always if anyone wants to do some multi crew stuff they can reach out to Jehdai.

Destiny 2

Look for the new trailer coming this Tuesday morning!!

Division 2

Lost Ark

WoW

Alliance Team Hell Froze Over began Heroic Sepulcher this week, downing 2 bosses. Their progression team So Let’s Go Skating has Heroic Halon-druss (aka Murder Crab) on the menu tonight. Oh, last minute update, they are currently enjoying those crab cakes!!!

Noob Raid took out one boss in Sepulcher and the weekly world boss. A few more experienced raiders would make a big difference to our scrappy Guild runs. Oh and in case you are wondering, Kini has tanked the floor 75 times so far this year.

Alliance side is also highly active in Mythic Plus runs and we’re working to spread some of that to energy to the Horde, with Midnight Mythics 2-3 nights a week. Mythics are a great way to gear and increasingly vital to WoW endgame activities.

WoW Classic

Sunwell Plateau (the last raid of Burning Crusade) is open and its difficulty (it is the un-nerfed version) has surprised many players, used to steamroll the rest of the expansion

Dungeon nights on Sunday and Wednesday continue as well!

SWTOR

MFNs continue to run on Tuesdays nights. Ideas about what to do for MFN nights are welcome!

May the 4th brought a new companion pet, the P1-XL Probe Droid, and a week of double XP.

We have Ops opportunities on two of our teams. If you want to give Ops a try, give a shout out in discord. Specifically, that would be Albuspuer for TACO (Sunday nights, 7:30-9:30 Central, Imp side) and Balto for Where’s the Cantina (Monday nights, 7:30 Central, Pub side).

ESO

FFXIV

AIE is also hosting Sprout Raids on Thursday nights at 10pm EST. These raids will vary in levels, as we go through all of the 24-player raids in each expansion. So far, we have completed all of the Crystal Tower and the Shadow of Mhach raid series. Currently, we are working on the Rabanastre raid series. We completed The Royal City of Rabanastre last week and will be moving on to The Ridorana Lighthouse. We look forward to all of you “prime” people there on Thursday for another fun spout raid. (The joke is that one boss can tell you to stand in prime numbers to avoid getting hit from his attack. Yes, FFXIV has a math boss.)

Thanks for all of your support and energy in FFXIV. As the patches start hitting and more content is available, AIE in FFXIV will be here. Thanks!

STO

Thursday nights at 11pm is fun night. Next week we plan on having a KDF fun night. Let everyone get their KDF captains out and get them some fresh air and exercise.

Heart of the Storm event is going on now. It has a great ground set. May be the best in game.

Monday’s at 11pm eastern come watch Fleet Action Report live https://twitch.tv/grebog

Next episode Nikodas and Grebog will be back on their new character challenge captains to hit level 60 and maybe push for 65 while live. We will also discuss all the new unlocks at level 60 and 65.

GW2

Currently the guild is working on upgrading the tavern which will allow for better guild wide buffs. We are in need of Empty Kegs, or the materials to craft them, (See Pinned post in discord). We also need bottles of Elonian Wine (or the gold to purchase them), and lots of Elder wood planks, Mithril Bars and Varies Leather Squares.

Jehdai is still looking at getting strikes going once more people get through the story. Mandatory Fun Nights are Mondays at 9:30 eastern, as well as dungeons and more happen monthly.

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

GAME NEWS

The Elder Scrolls Online: High Isle comes out June 6 for PC/Mac and June 21 for consoles. High Isle is the newest chapter and we get to dive into the culture of the Bretons with a zone main story, six new delves and world bosses, two new public dungeons, a new trial, two new companions, and a deckbuilding game called Tales of Tribute where you can play against other players and npcs and earn things like furniture and cosmetics. And of course there will be new gear and collectibles. I’m hoping at least one of the new companions won’t get upset when you use the Blade of Woe like the two current companions do.

When it launches we will also get Update 34 which is a base game patch. Some of the changes will be the ability to include Mundus Stones in your saved armory builds, a new Quick Select Wheel on PC, and of course I expect to see some changes to abilities and gear based on the notes I’ve seen about the PTS.

What’s a good Addon Manager for ESO? – Minion is what pretty much all of us use for Addons in ESO. It is pretty simple to set up and keep updated. The downside, is it won’t automatically install any library dependencies when you install the add on so you have to make sure you install them as well.

What Addons do you recommend? – So many.

For crafting

Just for fun in groups – LovelyEmotes

Are there addons that keep you on track with the main story quest and/or the Dominion, Alderi, etc. tracks?

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I’m @Dankinia on Twitter and Twitch.

If you have a question or comment about our show, you can email us at [email protected]. You can also follow us on Twitter. The show is at @aiepodcast. Mew is at @themewkow, Mkallah is at @cyberwaif,and Tetsemi is at @ivorytiger. We record live with video every other Sunday at 8pm Eastern/5pm Pacific. You can join the chatroom and play along with us on our website at https://aie-guild.org/podcast-live-stream/ and our Discord server for chat at https://aie-guild.info/discord . 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 http://andrewallenmusic.com/

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

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

– This is Dankinia

And this has been… The AIE Podcast.

On this episode of The AIE Podcast…

WoW! We’re flying on Dragons … soon ()

Raising the caps and counting loses in SWTOR

Has anyone seen the Lost ARK?

Tavern crawls, I mean construction is going on in GW2!

And we’re transporting into the STO Fleet with Grebog and Nikodas!

All that and more coming up right now…

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

AIE News

Community

Where the fun is mandatory but the attendance is not.

Sunday – WoW Classic 2 pm Eastern

Streaming and Guild Podcast News

What are bolster and level sync? What do they do to our stats? What changes are coming? That’s right… back by popular demand… it’s stat talk!

Working Class Nerds (NSFW) – Episode 149: Free Ride Games!!!

Marcus and Nick sit down with Destiny Streamer, Twitch Partner, and the all around amazing community-having king, Free Ride Games!!! The three of them chat about their recent Destiny and gaming escapades, Nick talks about his busy week and they even have Sidebars within Sidebars about comic book storylines! Enjoy!

You can find more of Free Ride Games at: https://www.twitch.tv/freeridegames

Fleet Action Report

F.A.R. Grebog’s New Character Challenge Captain level 41 to 49

Grebog spends the night running from 41 to 49 on his new character challenge captain.

WoW

WoW 10.0 – Dragonflight has been announced, with a new 4 zone area, new playable race with it’s own class, a revamped talent tree, dragon riding, and much much more!

WoW Classic

Nerfed version will come a few weeks/months later, as the un-nerfed is no joke.

Blizzard announced Wrath of the Lich King in 2022 (so surely October or November)

More people are logging in and joining, so we are hopeful to have 10 for Wrath

SWTOR

Also… Max and Sema will be doing this week’s SEPC tonight after the AIE Podcast (8:30ish central). Showing some SW cosplay and other stuff from PAX East, which is still in progress.

FFXIV

We will be continuing Sprout Raid in the upcoming weeks, with the next raid on April 28th, going into the Void Ark. This is a level 60 Raid, available at the end of the base Heavensward expansion. Hope to see you there.

The other events, mount farms (Fridays) and Map Nights (Saturdays) are still in play and we’d love to see you there as well.

ESO

Things planned or coming up for the guild:

STO

LOST ARK

The April update and patch have arrived: Battle for the Throne of Chaos. https://www.playlostark.com/en-us/game/releases/throne-of-chaos

* The new continent of South Vern is available to continue the story of Lost Ark.

Daily activities in the guild continue. Do not forget to speak up in-game, in the global chat to group with guildies.

GW2

Currently we are working on upgrading the tavern which will allow us to have better guild wide buffs. We are in need of Empty Kegs, or the materials to craft them, (See Pinned post in discord). We also need bottles of Elonian Wine (or the gold to purchase them), and lots of Elder wood planks, Mithril Bars and Varies Leather Squares.

Jehdai is still looking at getting strikes going once more people get through the story. Mandatory Fun Nights are Mondays at . and dungeons and more happen monthly.

LOTRO

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

GAME NEWS

Detail FTP vs Pay to Win

Talk about new character challenge

Talk about Fun Nights

Talk about some of the more interesting episodes

Talk about hitting T5 Starbase

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If you have a question or comment about our show, you can email us at [email protected]. You can also follow us on Twitter. The show is at @aiepodcast. Abovan is at @abovan, Mew is at @theMewkow, Mkallah is at @cyberwaif,and Tetsemi is at @ivorytiger. We record live with video every other Sunday at 8pm Eastern/5pm Pacific. You can join the chatroom and play along with us on our website at https://aie-guild.org/podcast-live-stream/ and our Discord server for chat at https://aie-guild.info/discord . 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 http://andrewallenmusic.com/

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

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And this has been… The AIE Podcast.

On this episode of The AIE Podcast…

We’re two manning his show

ESO is taking advantage of the XP and getting it done

AIE is expanding into lots of spaces

STO is on unlock

And, I (Abovan), am here to talk about FFXIV

All that and more coming up right now…

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

AIE News

Community

Where the fun is mandatory but the attendance is not.

Sunday – WoW Classic 2 pm Eastern

Streaming and Guild Podcast News

What are bolster and level sync? What do they do to our stats? What changes are coming? That’s right… back by popular demand… it’s stat talk!

Working Class Nerds (NSFW) – Episode 147: Tom_Tom Tv Takeover!

Marcus and Nick sit down with one of help streamers in Destiny 2 Tom_TomTV. This was an amazing conversation. We even have something Top secret in this episode. DONT TELL NICK!

Tom_Tomtv Link: https://www.twitch.tv/tom_tomtv

Mad Max Warhammer, Firefighter RPG, Best Games for On The Go – Boards & Swords #193

Philip is recovering from Vegas, so Chris got Shaun from the former “All the Bits” podcast to come on the show and talk about a few games that are great to play on the go. Also, a brand new version of Catan got announced, a popular RPG maker is making a game where you play as First Responders, and much more!

In this episode of Fleet Action Report, Nikodas, Grebog, and special guest TabbythaGames take you through the true end game of Star Trek Online. That is right, we go into space barbie.

WoW

Alliance side team Hell Froze Over is 8/11 Normal in Sepulcher, freeing the dominated King Anduin from the Jailer’s grasp. (Dun dun dunnnnnn!)

Behind the Curve and the Filthy Casuals are both 4-11 Normal in Sepulcher. Next target: The Angry Crab.

WoW Classic

(Zul’Aman is a catch up raid, for those that don’t have Black Temple and Mount Hijal on farm)

SWTOR

During our MFN on Tuesday nights, we’ve been working toward Conquest and Galactic Seasons targets. Recently, now that a lot of people have reached the new max level of 80, we have added Operations back into the mix. So far the new scaling has worked out pretty well for us.

We’d like to field a team to go on the Public Test Server to check out the new Operations bosses when they become available again. Keep an eye on discord for when that might be.

ESO

Things planned or coming up for the guild:

FFXIV

Destiny 2

We work on all the weeklies and help clan members if they need help with something specific.

Lost Ark

The game is free to play, and we’ll take all the help we can get finding that darn Ark!

STO

Colony is still moving along quite nicely. All the hard work with the holdings is greatly appreciated.

First Contact Day event had started. The rewards is a A600 synth as a combat pet. (If this sounds a bit odd to you, don’t worry it does, to us, as well.)

We have Fleet Fun Night on Thursdays at 11pm Eastern. Nikodas and Grebog host Fleet Action Report live at twitch.tv/grebog every Monday at 11pm Eastern. This next Monday we will be covering the latest event, First Contact Day.

GW2

Jehdai is still looking at getting strikes going once more people get through the story. Mandatory Fun Nights are Mondays at <9:30pm ET>. and dungeons and more happen monthly.

LOTRO

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

GAME NEWS

Now, there may be spoilers, so let’s get into the spoiler mood…

The Titanic. It sinks.

Darth Vader was indeed Luke’s Father

Maggie shot Mr. Burns

All of Eorzea is saved. Zenos is dead. The Scions have disbanded. The Hydaelyn and Zodiark storyline has concluded and the first steps of the new storyline will be starting on Tuesday.

So, now that we have spoiled it all, how we get there is awesome. One of the most satisfying gaming experiences that we have ever had. Seriously. You owe it to yourself to go play it. Seriously.

Thankfully, the game has resumed the free trial and game sales so if you haven’t played it, you can play it. Free trials are capped at level 60, but do include all content from the base game, the 1st expansion, all of the patch content, and jobs from that expansion. That includes the Dark Knight job, which is so well written, it is considered a preview of the current expansion story themes (which was written by the same person, Natsuko Ishikawa).

On Tuesday, we get the next chapter of the FFXIV story. This is like “phase 2” or what happens after Avenger’s Endgame. Fresh stories. We don’t know much about where it is going to go, but we are sure that it will be awesome.epic, and worth playing.

Quick Hits of new patch features.

More MSQ

New Ex Trial, Endsinger.

New story connecting the end of Endwalker and Omega, the Stormblood raid series.

New Unreal Ultima’s Bane – Ultimate Weapon raid, iLevel 560, capping at 565.

Lots of changes to the ARR experience.

MSQ Dungeons revised.

Duty Assist to fill out a group for people that do not wish to use the duty finder

Players are not locked to either, so if you feel like people one day, NPCs the next, you can swap all you want.

Cape Westwind is now a solo trial.

Castrum Meridianum is 4 player with extensive changes to the flow of the dungeon.

Praetorium is now a 4 player dungeon with lots of changes.

Ultima Weapon moved from the dungeon to a 4 player trial, added to the newly imagined MSQ roulette.

Lahabrea will now be a solo duty.

New PvP, Crystalline Conflict

Push the cart, I mean the Crystal!

New Alliance Raid

New Tribe quests.

New Hildabrand

New Tataru’s Grand Endeavor

Mog Station items are able to be “tried on” in your inn room

Player “Adventure Plates”. Like a FFXIV business card, customizable in game and searchable. Player info and customizable portrait.

FC News

Starting up a new event, Sprout Raids!

Thursdays at 10:00pm EST.

We will be cycling through the 24-player raid series. Each raid will be announced in Discord, but will be done in a predictable format.

Usually, these will take 45 mins to an hour to complete.

Pretty straight forward, forgiving raiding experience.

First 3 ARR Alliance Raids are required to continue on to Heavensward.

Great turnout for the first run of this event. Plenty of room for more, so we hope to see you there.

Friday Night Mount Nights! A community grass roots event, starting at 8:30-ish, but the time varies, so pay attention to Discord for exact start times. Go though the game’s EX trials for mount drops. This starts at level 50 and has about 4 mounts per expansion that can be acquired.

Saturday night map nights. Treasure maps will be run at 9:30pm EST. Casual, but highly profitable content. Many times, the map portals will be an item on the Adventure’s Tails book, so a great way to fill out the book for the week as well. Again, bringing a map is not required, but highly appreciated if you do.

Want to help out with maps? The unlock to be able to decipher a map starts in Wineport and can be done in about 5 to 10 mins with cutscenes.

Have other event ideas that you want to run with, or just bounce ideas off of people? Just speak up in the #ffxiv channel in discord! We’d love to hear your ideas and thoughts.

We can’t wait to usher you through your FFXIV experience. Plenty of friendly faces, voices, and characters to play with during your time in FFXIV. Drop on down in the #ffxiv channel, say hello. Even if you are just starting out, we’d love to be part of your journey.

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If you have a question or comment about our show, you can email us at [email protected]. You can also follow us on Twitter. The show is at @aiepodcast. Mew is at @themewkow, Mkallah is at @cyberwaif,and Tetsemi is at @ivorytiger. We record live with video every other Sunday at 8pm Eastern/5pm Pacific. You can join the chatroom and play along with us on our website at https://aie-guild.org/podcast-live-stream/ and our Discord server for chat at https://aie-guild.info/discord . 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 http://andrewallenmusic.com/

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

Next time, we’ll be talking to Someone about some Game. So until then, AIE…

This is Mew

And this has been… The AIE Podcast.