On this episode of The AIE Podcast...

Mkallah: The AIE community is doing ALL the things

Mewkow: Open up your warmind

Tetsemi: Imp congratulations are in order

Mkallah: Final Fantasy patch 4.3 is finally dropping

Mewkow: And, we have the crazy pilots from EVE!

All that and more coming up right now...

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Welcome to episode #298 of the the podcast celebrating you, the Alea Iacta Est gaming community, the die has been podcast. This is Tetsemi: To my left is Mkallah: - (catch phrase here). And to my right is Mewkow: (catch phrase here). This week we are joined by special guests Lanctharus, Lars Gagner and the very late incredibly exploding Tukucommin who are here to talk to us about AIE in EVE Welcome!

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

AIE News

Community

Streaming and guild podcast news

SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 242: Calculating Conquest

http://www.newoverlords.com/swtor-escape-pod-cast-242-calculating-conquest/

This week, @AIESema, @MaxTheGrey and Astromech EPC-242 are joined by guild member @brendancavanagh to talk about Conquest updates and BC’s excellent planning spreadsheet.

SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 243: Smooth Operators

http://www.newoverlords.com/swtor-escape-pod-cast-243-smooth-operators/

This week, @AIESema, @MaxTheGrey and Astromech EPC-243 are joined by guild members and ops leaders Dent and Marcus (@marcusb814 also of the WorkingClassNerds podcast) to talk about starting and running an ops team, while we run the Umbara Flashpoint.

Upcoming streams

Max the Gray will be streaming on the https://twitch.tv/aieguild channel tonight after the podcast. Join him after we wrap up Eve to see AIE in ESO!

Also, on the same channel we have ESO streaming on Thursday at 9 EDT and Noob Raid for WOW on Saturday at 11 EDT.

Other Community stuff-

Are you going to Phoenix Comic Fest or just want to see what the phoenix crew is up to? Arra has created a Tadpool AZ discord to be used for con and beyond. Hit one of us, or Arra, up in discord for the link. And, speaking of Phoenix Comic Fest, Nevermore will be at booth AA503, Bouvi will be at the Hero Initiative booth at AA396/398, and Mkallah will be at AA501 carrying her own merchandise and goods from two other AIE members. Come by and say Hi, and keep your eyes out for a wandering Mew as a guest visit to Phoenix for con

Imperium Ludi

Destiny 2

New DLC has dropped for the game: Expansion II: Warmind. New story content, new raid, new strikes AKA reskinned story missions, and new gear to grab....

Season 3 has recently kicked off. Be on the lookout for the faction rally.

Some old faces have resurfaced and guild powerful engrams are being generated, go get them!

DLC info: https://www.destinythegame.com/expansion2

WoW

Congratulations to Noob Raid on downing two new bosses, 1 last week and 1 this week! Sounds like a great time was had by all. If you’d like to join in the fun, be online on Saturday evenings around 11 pm EDT and keep and eye out in game chat and in the #Wow channel in the AIE Discord.

SWTOR

Congratulation to the guild for hitting the medium conquest goal on the Imperial Side. The guild is really focusing on conquest goals and helping each other out to find ways to hit the goals that are both effective and fun.

Speaking of fun, Mandatory Fun Night will be on the Republic Side this week, make sure you join the #SWTOR channel on the AIE Discord and join in the Conquest activities and planning.

Also, patch 5.9.1 (mostly bug fixes) will be released on May 22nd and the Summer 2018 Roadmap is out - http://www.swtor.com/info/news/news-article/20180516 - looks like a lot of quatlity of life improvements a PvP focus with the PvE storylines picking up in the fall.

FFXIV

Patch 4.3 dropping on Tuesday, Monday is the 24-hour major patch maintenance.

Preliminary patch notes dropped.

Many changes, many QoL, many few features.

And it was the 45th birthday of Yoshi-P,