On this episode of The AIE Podcast...

Mkallah: We have your community updates

Mewkow: Noob is on FIRE!

Tetsemi: Our free company is prime company

Mkallah: Reasonable Reasons are redacted

Mewkow: And, we have Sema and Max who are here to talk about AIE in SWTOR

All that and more coming up right now...

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Welcome to episode #315 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: - (Hey guys, there is lemon lime basil shortbread in the guild kitchen ). And to my right is Mewkow: (catch phrase here). This week we are joined by special guests Sema and Max who is here to talk to us about AIE in SWTOR Welcome!

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

Streaming and guild podcast news

Working Class Nerds - Episode 38: The State of Star Wars with Sith Talk's Sam

https://www.buzzsprout.com/143519/986315

Nick and Marcus are joined by Sith Talk host Sam to discuss and analyze how Star Wars got so big, where it is now, and where it could be going.

SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 281: Member The Dread Masters?

http://www.newoverlords.com/swtor-escape-pod-cast-281-member-the-dread-masters/

This week, in addition to hot takes on the dev tracker, @AIESema, @MaxTheGrey and Astromech EPC-281 open up the archives and start a mini-series talking about the Dread Masters

SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 282: Dread Masters From Ec To Tfb

http://www.newoverlords.com/swtor-escape-pod-cast-282-dread-masters-from-ec-to-tfb/

This week @AIESema, @MaxTheGrey and Astromech EPC-282 continue our walk through Dread Master lore and cover the story elements of EV, KP, EC, and TFB.

Imperium Ludi

Just a reminder, we’re still going strong with #Anthem and would love to see more people active in it. If you are playing, make sure the check out the #Anthem channel in AIE Discord and ping Durus to add your Origin ID to the list of people playing so you can get the Alliance bonuses.

Mandatory Fun Nights

Where the fun is mandatory but the attendance is not.

A couple of games have moved days so make sure you double check when each game is running MFN.

Monday - GW2 9:30 pm Eastern

Tuesday - SWTOR 9 pm Eastern

Wednesday - FFXIV 10 pm Eastern

Friday - ESO 9 pm Eastern

Saturday - Noob Raid (WoW) 11 pm Eastern

Sunday - STO 8:30 pm Eastern

WoW

A bit of a brag about Noob Raid. We are now 8/8 on Uldir Normal. Our first time ever seeing Ghuun and we killed him on the 1st pull (which was an accidental pull). We then followed that up by going 3/9 in BD'A Normal.

1. This month's Community Event: Trial of Style - March 20-24

2. Next month's Community Event: "April" Fools Rush In - Gusty - Whole month of April

ESO

The Thieves Guild and Dark Brotherhood celebration event started on March 7th and rungs until Monday March 18th 10am est. The event gives double reward drops for World and Delve Boss kills, increased rewards for completing Heists and Sacraments, and 1 event ticket for each Sacrament and Heist completed each day per account.

In guild related news, MFN is still Friday night at 9pm est.

FFXIV

General items: The Free Company attendance is way up. Many folks are taking advantage of the Amazon Prime deal which gets you a free copy of the Starter Edition which also comes with 30 days of game time. The Starter Edition is the vanilla version of the game, taking players up thru level 50 and associated 2.x patches. Many of these players have been sticking around, and have jobs in various levels. Now is a great time to start your adventure in Eorzea with AIE. The Twitch Prime deal lasts thru May 3rd, but we'd love to see you in the game today!

But what about those that do not have Twitch Prime? Or maybe your desktop or laptop may need a refresh so most of your modern gaming is done on the PS4? (sorry, no xbox1 or switch version yet) Well, there is a free trial that you can download that will le...