On this episode of The AIE Podcast...
Tetsemi: We’re not pod fading!
Mkallah: The AIE community has been very busy!
Tetsemi: We have New officers!
Mkallah: Many Bothans died to give you this anniversary
Tetsemi: We have Syreyne and Ellynn here to talk about AIE’s upcoming anniversary in WOW
All that and more coming up right now...
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Mkallah- Welcome to episode # 247 of the the podcast celebrating the Alea Iacta Est gaming community. This is Mkallah and right over there, we have Tetsemi. (Must get all the oil rigs!) Alludra is off hybernating in all this cold and wet weather we have been having. This week we are joined by special guests Syreyne and Ellynn who are here to talk to us about AIE Guild Anniversary in World of Warcraft. Welcome!
Ok, we’ll be talking to Sy and Ellynn shortly, but first, let’s cover this week’s news...
AIE News
Rocket Chat - https://aie.community It’s a thing! Use your Umami name (all lower case) and password and help us test the outside the game chat. More information here - http://forum.myextralife.com/topic/56923-what-happened-to-the-forum/#entry946835
Community
Community Games
Also upcoming game Blade & Soul (North American release) is garnering some discussion on the forums as well - http://forum.myextralife.com/topic/56782-blade-soul
Join Lotwook for the Conncon in Connecticut for the weekend of March 18-20th! There is a strong focus on RPG, Board Games, and miniatures and if enough folks are interested, he will organize a meetup. If you are interested, please let Lotwook know on the forums and more information can be found at www.conncon.com
http://forum.myextralife.com/topic/56983-ct-meetup-march-18-20th-conncon
Diablo III just released Season 5. You can earn your 6 piece class armor set instead of getting lucky while farming for it and then you can take on the Armor Set dungeon challenges. Can you drop a meteor on every single mob in the dungeon before you kill it? You know you can! Great write up/video at DiabloFans - http://www.diablofans.com/news/48615-patch-2-4-roundup and https://youtu.be/fJDnmbhXOHM
We have several active clans and an Alea Iacta Est community. http://forum.myextralife.com/topic/54694-diablo-3-pc-clan
NOMADS
Check out the Nomad thread in the forums about their lastest roam into Diablo III - http://forum.myextralife.com/topic/56944-diablo-3-patch-24-and-season-5
WoW
Welcome to the newest AIE Officers in World of Warcraft - Allanya (@BenTheMage), Ellynn (@Ellynn_), Nazrai (@NazAIElock) and CelticGoddess (@Celticgodess09). Congratulations to the new officers, welcome to the machine!
Legion Alpha is back and they had their first raid boss test on Friday. For those lucky enough to have an invite, let us know how it’s going, but don’t spoil the story/lore please.
Also our AIE Anniversary is coming up and we’ll be digging into that shortly after the rest of the game news.
EVE
The folks in Eve are busy doing interviews for all the candidates for the Council of Stellar Management which is an elected body of players to help drive the direction of Eve among other [redacted] things. Keep up to date with all the AIE shenanigans in EVE as well as Eve news in the Cap Stable podcast - http://capstable.net
FFXIV
Welcome to the newest officer in Final Fantasy XIV - Sashi! May all your Chocobo’s be awesome.
SWTOR
Speaking of anniversaries, many Bothan spies died to bring you rumors of an anniversary celebration to be announced soon. Please keep an eye out on the forums, as we’re running out of Bothan’s.
Episode 125 of the Escape Pod Cast is out and they discuss Star Wars: The Force Awakens and other game news - http://forum.myextralife.com/topic/51359-swtor-escape-pod-cast/page-32#entry947316
And don’t forget the Tuesday Night Mandatory Fun Nights - http://forum.myextralife.com/topic/53691-tuesday-mandatory-fun-night Keep up to date with which side is running and what they’ll be doing.
STO