On this episode of The AIE Podcast...

Tetsemi: Blizzcon guild hall 2017 is so last year!

Mkallah: Destiny is cursed

Tetsemi: Bards are performing!

Mkallah: SWTOR has a token to boost

Tetsemi: We are our own guests!!!!

All that and more coming up right now...

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Welcome to episode #288 of the the podcast celebrating the Alea Iacta Est gaming community, the die has been podcast. This is Mkallah: To my left is Tetsemi: - (catch phrase here). The Mew House was stuck by the plague this week, so we are without everyone’s favourite altoholic. Due to the chaos of the holidays, we are doing a solo show this week.

Ok, we’ll be chatting a little more, but first, let’s cover this week’s news...

AIE News

Community

If you visited the guildhall at Blizzcon and have ideas of things you’d like to see added to the guildhall for next time, please drop an e-mail to [email protected] so that we can look it over and add it to the discussion that’s ongoing for next year.

NOMADS

Destiny 2 PC membership going strong. Near daily activities, membership in the AIE2 Clan is growing as it approaches Clan Rank 2.

Full Clan Raid cleared. Many members hitting 305 (max) gear score.

First Expansion: Curse of Osiris arrives on 5 Dec. New planet Mercury, new social zone "The Lighthouse," increased level cap, new raid content, and new story content.

Here's the backsides of the raiders who made that clear. Because: bad interfaces be bad.

Diablo 3 - Guildies are enjoying the new Season 12 which launched shortly after Blizzcon 2017 ended.

WoW

Antorus Raid Normal/Heroic launches this week.

SWTOR

SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 219: Bye Balmorra and F2P

http://www.newoverlords.com/swtor-escape-pod-cast-219-bye-balmorra-and-f2p/

This week @AIESema, @MaxTheGrey and Astromech EPC-219 finish up on Balmorra in our continuing live character playthrough series. We also talk about how Free To Play works these days as well as other news from SWTOR, the community and our guild Alea Iacta Est.

SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 220: Putting the Hammer Down

http://www.newoverlords.com/swtor-escape-pod-cast-220-putting-the-hammer-down/

This week @AIESema, @MaxTheGrey and Astromech EPC-220 run through the Hammer Station Flashpoint in our continuing live character playthrough series. We also talk about how guild or community in-game events can work as well as other news from SWTOR, the community and our guild Alea Iacta Est.

For MFN this week the 28 will be imperial side Dread Palace and next week Imperial side Ravagers on December 5th.

New level 70 token (Master's Datacron) - You can now pay to boost a toon to level 70 and then go back and do any story you want to and earn CXP while doing it

New Flashpoint

New Ops boss (Nahut in Gods From the Machine Operation)

New GSF Deathmatch map set in orbit over Iokath

Legacy-wide credits and Unassembled Components (gearing component)

Update to Group Finder UI

Plan to turn character transfers back on - 90CC for a limited time, then back to their normal price of 1000CC

And double XP, CXP, and PVP Valor for the week.

FFXIV

Patch 4.15: Bards can now "perform." Custom music options for bards under the Performance ability. New PvP mode "Rival Wings."

The Feast season 6 is now live (Ranked PvP play)

Latest American version of Duty Commenced is now archived and viewable: http://sqex.to/I28

The Maiden's Rhapsody seasonal event returns. A FFXI cross-over promotional event that rewards a cosmetic set of the old FFXI Samurai armour.

Letter from the Producer #39: https://youtu.be/9ohPP5yrKRs

Details some of the 4.1 and upcoming 4.2 features.

Cross-world tells are now a thing, maybe linkshells in the future!

STO

Spire will complete the Research Facilities I, with Operations Facilities I queued up right behind it, which will then have the Spire Tier I upgrade right behind it. The research facilities has 5 more projects to be filled and we can start the completion of the big projects for it.