On this episode of The AIE Podcast...

Tetsemi: DOA for April Fools!

Mewkow: Command Authority pushback!

Mkallah: STO on the beach

Tetsemi: There’s a bug in GW2

Mewkow: And we have Abovan who is here to talk to us about AIE in FFXIV

All that and more coming up right now...

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Welcome to episode #294 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). And to my right is Mewkow: (catch phrase here). This week we are joined by special guests Abovan who is here to talk to us about AIE in FFXIV Welcome!

Tetsemi: Blame Shojobeat for this, 100%, I got all my WoW Professions to 800. If you have a raid team member that supplies cauldrons or potions of power for the raid team, do them a huge favor and send them Legion herbs each week. I knew Ben the Mage and Saisri were spending a bunch on this, but good lord, Alchemy is the worst for material costs. Also, when the WQ for Bacon is up, make sure you do it and send to your feast provider, fish is cheap, bacon is not.

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

AIE News

Imperium Ludi

Just a reminder for folks looking for AIE in other games, there are some folks active in The Division, check out the thread in our forums! - http://forum.myextralife.com/topic/57017-the-division/page-2

In ESO news, the next season of crown crates, the Scalecaller crate, is coming out March 15th. Your last chance to buy the current crate, the Flame Atronach, is on March 14th, so get them while you can. Also, if you hurry and log in today and kill at least one monster deserving of such a fate, you can get 1 free crate from the upcoming season.

NOMADS

Just a reminder that there is a new season in Diablo III so jump into the AIE Community in Diablo III and start rocking that seasonal character for rewards and profits. And don’t forget, any Paragon levels you achieve during the season are added to all your non-seasonal characters at the end of the season, so don’t just stop when you hit 70, keep going and benefit all your characters.

WoW

April Fools is coming up, and DOA is hosting a huge April Fools by taking extra guild members until we hit raid size cap. Message Syrene in game or on Discord for more info!

Don’t forget the Fools Rush in Challenge that GustyTail has issued to the community and now has extended to the first week of April, play a character class that you’re least familiar with, team up with friends, and go do dungeons and LFR!

http://forum.myextralife.com/topic/57485-april1-fools-rush-in-challenge/

How did you do in the Trial of Style? Did you make it to GustyTail’s Transmog Swap Meet last weekend before the Trial of Style? Let us know if you participated and how you did in the Trial of Style!

SWTOR

Patch 5.8, Command Authority, which was supposed to launch this Tuesday, has been pushed back a week to March 20th. This will bring with it the final boss Izax, the Destroyer. If you defeat it on the hardest difficulty, you will get a new achievement, a special and unique title, and a ‘very enticing’ legacy-based reward.

http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?p=9540049#edit9540049

Speaking of patch 5.8, it also bring in the new Conquest update as laid out in the forums post here http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?p=9549316#edit9549316 the biggest shift, is going to be how your Stronghold bonus is determined. No longer do you have to fill the stronghold with chairs to get 100% bonus, you just need to unlock all the room in a stronghold for it to count towards the Stronghold bonus. I think Max is going to have an un-chair-ing in some of his strongholds.

Mandatory Fun Night, where attendance is optional, but Fun is mandatory! Come hear Max’s tales of how the Imperial Explosive Conflict storyline goes on March 13th on the Imperial Side (of course) and then on March ...