On this episode of The AIE Podcast…

Mkallah: Happy Summer of Love!

Tetsemi: Lots of expansion shenanigans

Mkallah: We have RRF Captain Cybyl’s STO update

Tetsemi: Pstt… wanna play Final Fantasy XIV for free?

           Mkallah: We have Dux here to talk to us about LOTRO!

All that and more coming up right now…

Podcast Audio

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http://youtu.be/2s6f0j6uP2Q

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

AIE News

WoW

The scheduled events are as follows-

Monday, 7:30 server time- Running of the Beef 13- Mechanicals Vs Manicals

Tuesday is the community wide Remembrance day- at 9pm server time. And a big shout out to Beefmaster and the Ooka Hozen style for taking over firework duty for Take- ummm, Larry this year.

Wednesday is Gusty’s All Druid ICC/Ulduar run – invites start at 7:30 server time.

Friday- COOP with Grimcow, keep your eyes and ears out for details!

Saturday- Disney trivia in “neverland” with Nevermore and Allanya- 3-5 server time- come dressed in a disney inspired transmog outfit for a chance to win more prizes.

http://forum.myextralife.com/topic/57157-summer-of-love-is-coming-to-aie-august-1st-7th/

http://forum.myextralife.com/topic/57194-aie-remembrance-day-fireworks-august-2nd-help-needed/

Patch 7.0.3 has hit and what’s new that can keep you busy for a couple weeks? You can go recipe hunting!

Tome of the Clear Mind and Codex of the Clear Mind: These items, crafted by Scribes, allow you to freely talent when you are not in a rested area. The recipe for Tome of the Clear Mind comes from the Herb Trader in your Garrison, as well as the Garrison Quartermaster Sergeant Crowler and Sergeant Grimjaw. Codex of the Clear Mind is a world drop.

If you like the look of weapon enchants, you can now collect them for Transmog and they are known as Weapon Illusions – http://www.wowhead.com/guides/transmogrification/weapons/illusions

You can gather some individually and others, including a quest line for one, come with a group of illusions.

If you like clothes, and who doesn’t, you can run Kharazan and Molten Core for drops of new recipes that will teach tailors how to make a Clothes Chest useable by your party from the Kharazan Opera House and Molten Core.

http://www.wowhead.com/item=138017/clothes-chest-pattern-karazhan-opera-house

Mark August 9th on your calendars, because that’s when you can make a Demon Hunter and the Burning Legion invasion begins. And as a reminder, we’re hoping to have Umami updated to handle all your Demon Hunter applications and for those coming back from hiatus a friendly reminder it’s one application per character. If your characters are in Umami already, just type /join aielfo and as for an invite from one of the officers.

Do you like Lore? Do you like animated movies and animated web comics? Well have we got a ton of content for you.

Harbinger’s Videos – These are videos similar to the Warlords videos that were released before the Warlords expansion launched. They’ll be highlighting important lore/story characters and what they’ve been up to since Archimonde’s defeat at Hellfire Citadel as well as origin/back stories of others.

What has Khadgar been up to since we defeated Archimonde in Hellfire Citadel?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UW5IYrgOgYU

Where did the Warlords version of Gul’dan come from?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3QJ8Pgjj3c

Webcomics – The links below take you to the Madefire version of the comic which is a ‘live’ version of the comic and, for me, a very enjoyable way of reading the comics. There are four so far: Magni, dealing with the Dwarven King awakening from his crystalization during Cataclysm; Nightborne, dealing with the new Elf Civilization and the story so far that we’ll be exploring once we hit 110 in Legion; Highmountain: for all you that love the Tauren race and lore; and Anduin: which contains spoilers about the Broken Shore invasion and the aftermath of that invasion.

#1 Magni: Fault Lines released

http://bit.ly/World_of_Warcraft_1

#2 Nightborne: Twilight of Suramar

http://bit.ly/World-of-Warcraft_Nightborne

#3 Highmountain: A Mountain Divided

http://bit.ly/World-of-Warcraft_Highmountain

#4 Anduin: Son of the Wolf (warning Broken Shore/Legion spoilers)

http://bit.ly/World-of-Warcraft_Anduin

There is also a new audio drama launching tomorrow called The Tomb of Sargeras and will be four episodes in length. It will deal with Gul’dan and The Tomb of Sargeras (which contains Sargeras colossal, broken form)

EVE

FFXIV

And don’t forget, Mew is still looking for everyone’s thoughts on how to use the FC action buffs.

SWTOR

Saturday, August 6th from 8-10 pm Central time, there will be a guild party for both factions. Festivities include Stronghold tours and awards, a costume contest, a worst costume dance party, and music played over plug.dj!

http://forum.myextralife.com/topic/57218-remembrance-day-and-the-summer-of-love-2016/

And, this week on SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 153: Sema, Max, and Astromech EPC-153 review how Conquest works and talk about how one of our guild members put up over 5 million conquest points himself. They also touch on other game and community news for the week from SWTOR in general.

STO

1. The Star Trek Las Vegas 50th anniversary convention starts this Wednesday, August 3, 2016. As a tribute to 50 years of Star Trek, Star Trek Online is celebrating with it’s ‘Agents of Yesterday’ release along with associated, limited-time perks.

2. The ‘Agents of Yesterday’ expansion released July 6, is in full swing! A player creates an original series Trek character and plays special time travel episodes.Cybyl reports that the episodes quite light and fairly easy. The short story arc has a major plot twist but, no spoilers!

3. The current release ’Temporal Cold War’ time-travel episodes came to an unexpected conclusion, not through gameplay, but through a new blog backstory: ’No Profit but the Name’.

4. The concurrent timeline story arcs had enough players somewhat confused of the timeline differences. So STO released blogpostings ‘The Story So Far’ parts 1 and 2. These must-read narratives explain the differences in the timelines and clear up major points of confusion. A part 3 is rumored to be released next week.

5. There are a 20% off Services and a 15% off Lockbox key sales this weekend. If you are a player with new bridge officers or have collected a quantity of Kelvin lockbox loot drops, take advantage of this sale.

6. The usual large number of UI and player quality-of-life improvements and fixes, were released over the last 2 weeks as well. For a complete run down, check out the website.

7. Make AIE Classis Starbase Great! The AIE Classis’ Fleet Starbase is still seeking contributions of materiel and duty officers from all AIE fleet mates. Donations assist in building up the Fleet’s Starbase and other Fleet holdings to their full potential. Check out the Fleet holdings tab in the Fleet’s in-game menu.

8. Players are encouraged to check out the above news, backstories, patch release notes, forums, commentary, etc., at the Star Trek Online website .

Until next time, RRF Captain Cybyl signing off

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

GAME NEWS

Update 16.2:

Update 17 The Siege of Minas Tirith

Update 18:

Update 18.2

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And that’s our show for tonight. While the chatroom begins suggesting show titles, we want to thank Dux for joining us.

@HistoricGeek

Mkallah: 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. Mkallah is at @cyberwaif,and Tetsemi is at @ivorytiger. We record live with video every Sunday at 8pm Eastern/5pm Pacific. You can join the chatroom, http://aie.community and play along with us on our website at https://aie-guild.org/podcast-live-stream/. Our theme was composed by the amazing Andrew Allen, follow him at @keyswithsoul! or visit his website keyswithsoul.com!

Tetsemi: And now it’s time to play all of the great AIE member segment we received this week, including … wait, a note has just arrived, due to a summer cold, Overly Dramatic News has been on a small break. Rumors of an Altitis and Raid Wrapup abound, but we’ll have to see if @TheMewKow has snuck out of FFXIV long enough to wrap up a segment or two.

In two weeks, we’ll be talking to someone about something! So until then, AIE…

– This is Mkallah