On this episode of The AIE Podcast...

Mewkow: Check your calendar

Tetsemi: So Many Patchnotes

Mkallah: Mandatory fun, not just for SWTOR

Mewkow: TSW, FFXIV, and STO, oh my!

Tetsemi: And, we have Dankinia and Anwyl from NOOB raid!

All that and more coming up right now...

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Welcome to episode # of the the podcast celebrating the Alea Iacta Est gaming community, the die has been podcast. This is Mkallah. To my left is my right is Mewkow (catch phrase here) and to my left is Tetsemi: - (catch phrase here). This week we are joined by special guests Dankinia and Anwyl who are here to talk to us about AIE’s NOOB Raid in WOW . Welcome!

Ok, we’ll be talking to the lovely ladies of Noob Raid shortly, but first, let’s cover this week’s news...

AIE News

Community

Blizzcon announced, hotel rooms opened, ticket sales days Wednesday, April 5, 2017 at 7 p.m. Pacific Time and Saturday, April 8, 2017 at 10 a.m. Pacific Time.

We are already discussing the Guild Hall for 2017- more information on the specifics- and how you can help, coming soon!

Also, looking for events in the games we play? Make sure to check out the Guild Calendar on the Wiki - https://wiki.aie-guild.org/index.php?title=Guild_Calendar

WoW

Patch 7.2 releases March 28th.

MMO-Champion has a good writeup on getting prepared for patch 7.2 - http://www.mmo-champion.com/content/6473-Patch-7-2-Preparation-Character-Services-Sale-Blue-Posts-PvP-Title-Cutoff-Key-Art

But since there’s only a day left (Monday) before the patch goes live, but here’s the highlights,

Get Your Artifact Weapon to (at least) 35 Traits - Once you’ve earned 35 traits in your Artifact Weapons, you’ll be eligible for a new questline to empower your weapon.

Cap Your Artifact Knowledge - Caps at 25 and will cap to 50 in 7.2

Complete Order Hall Class Campaign - To continue with your order hall campaign in 7.2, you must have completed all currently available order hall quests.

Collect 25,000 Order Resources for New Order Hall upgrades - The first upgrade (tier 7) costs 10,000 x Order Resources and takes one day to research.

The second (tier 8) costs 15,000 x Order Resources and research completion will take 5 days.

You’ll also need Order Resources for purchasing new artifact knowledge ranks (which now caps at 50).

Earn the Broken Isles Pathfinder, Part One Achievement

Max Reputations to Exalted for Paragon - For each 10,000 reputation earned past Exalted, you will earn a supply reward similar to those awarded by Emissary Quests.

Level Class Hall Champions - All Champions will now be able to reach Legendary quality, which unlocks a third equipment slot.

Gather Crafting Materials for new BoE Legendaries

Sell Excess Gathered Materials Before Flying is Unlocked - With Flying, gathering becomes easier, supply increases and prices drop on the AH.

Level Battle Pets

Collect Transmog Items

WoWHead has a link to Blizzard’s 7.2 Video Survival Guide that was an IGN exclusive - http://www.wowhead.com/news=261625/blizzards-patch-7-2-video-survival-guide

There was also another developer Q&A with Ryan Shwayder (Senior Game Designer) covering the 7.2 content - http://www.wowhead.com/patch-7-2-live-march-28th

SWTOR

Escape Pod Cast 186 - Level Synch and Bolster

This week @AIESema, @MaxTheGrey and Astromech EPC-186 talk about how level sync and bolster work in general and why they are useful in SWTOR. They also touch on other game and community news for the week from SWTOR in general and remind everyone that our casual, family-friendly multi-game guild is always looking for new members. The officer channel on Jedi Covenant is at /cjoin aielfo and more guild information is at http://aie-guild.info/swtor

Catch the live podcast and chat room on Tuesday nights around 10:30pm central at http://twitch.tv/newoverlords. Follow and subscribe on Twitter, YouTube, Twitch, etc. to hear podcast news and see the other guild streams.