On this episode of The AIE Podcast...

Tetsemi: Get your questions in for the Town Hall

Mewkow: Plebs are no more

Mkallah: Jedis are under siege, just in time for a big anniversary

Tetsemi: But first, be ready for the Witch Festival

Mewkow: And, Syreyne and Acuzod are here to talk to us about AIE in World of Warcraft

All that and more coming up right now...

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Welcome to episode #307 of the the podcast celebrating you, 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 Syreyne and Acuzod who are here to talk to us about AIE in World of Warcraft Welcome!

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

AIE News

Community

Town Hall for Friday. Might want to highlight the #discord-qa channel in Discord where people can post their questions.

A couple of the game divisions are doing in-game meet-ups for the Town Hall.

Dent has a note up in a couple places on what SWTOR will do (Slippery Slope Cantina and then Rampage fun after), and ESO sounds like they might do one as well after their Friday MFN.

The Blizzcon channels in Discord are up and running. The post describes what's up and the discussion on who will be there and when they might

Streaming and guild podcast news

SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 262: 5.10 Stay A While And Listen

http://www.newoverlords.com/swtor-escape-pod-cast-262-5-10-stay-a-while-and-listen/

This week @AIESema, @MaxTheGrey and Astromech EPC-262 cover Bioware’s longest dev stream with our longest podcast episode all about V.X, or at least as much of it as we could get through in the time we had.

Mandatory Fun Nights

Where the fun is mandatory but the attendance is not.

Monday - GW2 9:30 pm Eastern

Tuesday - SWTOR 9 pm Eastern

Friday - ESO 9 pm Eastern

FFXIV 9 pm Eastern

Saturday - STO 10 pm Eastern

Noob Raid 11 pm Eastern

NOMADS

Corley has an AIE Rust server back up to check out the latest changes for any of the Rust fans. Maple Story 2 was released and we have at least couple guild members in there.

In Destiny 2 news; The guild is still working towards getting the clan banner leveled to its maximum benefits, currently at level 2. For those that want to help with this goal, you will need to get to the current max level of 50 and then grab the daily clan bounties from Hawthorne at the Tower. There is normally 1 solo pve bounty, 2 solo crucible bounties, and 3 clan group bounties that are refreshed every day. Once we get to level 4, we will be able to complete the raid bounties.

WoW

Just a mechanical, behind the scenes change with guild invites. We have removed the pleb guild rank and everyone is now a Cohort by default. As the major reason for the two rank system is long gone (the rapid expansion of the guild in the early days), it didn’t make a lot of sense to keep the two rank system around and removes one of the headaches of the officers having to do promotions each month.

SWTOR

New Content update coming in December – Jedi Under Siege

• New Storyline based on the rivalry between Jedi and Sith

• Nightmare mode for the latest Operation – Gods From the Machine

(Also reducing difficulty of existing Veteran mode for that Operation)

• New Tier of Armor

• New guild features and tools

Guild Leveling

Purchasable Guild Buffs

PvP Challenge Mode (get a special guild instance of a warzone)

• New Planet - Ossus

• New Daily Area

• Returning Companions

7th Anniversary of swtor is Dec 20th.

MEGA coming in late October – light on details atm

ESO

The Witches Festival starts on Thursday October 18th and runs until Thursday November 1st. There will be a 100% XP buff as well as a lot of creepy themed items. Boss kills will drop Plunder Skull containers which can contain motif pages, masks, recipes, and style materials, among other Witches Festival themed items.