On this episode of The AIE Podcast...

Mewkow: Looking for a Raid Team, we got you covered!

Mkallah: Where in the World is Sema San Diego

Tetsemi: Way down in Harrowstorm

Mewkow: Eve has settled in…. Again

Mkallah: And we have Abovan and Durus

All that and more coming up right now...

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Welcome to episode #336 of the the podcast celebrating you, the Alea Iacta Est gaming community, the die has been podcast. This is Tetsemi: To my left is Mewkow: - (catch phrase here). And to my right is Mkallah: (catch phrase here). This week we are joined by special guests Abovan and Durus who are here to talk to us about AIE in FFXIV Welcome!

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

AIE News

Community

Mandatory Fun Nights

Where the fun is mandatory but the attendance is not.

Sunday - STO 8:30 pm Eastern

Monday - GW2 9:30 pm Eastern

Tuesday - SWTOR 9 pm Eastern

Wednesday - FFXIV 10 pm Eastern

Friday - ESO 9 pm Eastern

Friday - FFXIV(Late Night) 11 pm Eastern

Saturday - LotRO 8:30 pm Eastern

Saturday - Noob Raid (WoW) 11 pm Eastern

Saturday - FFXIV (Maps) 11 pm Eastern

Streaming and guild podcast news

SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 324: Our Amps Are One Louder

http://www.newoverlords.com/swtor-escape-pod-cast-324-our-amps-are-one-louder/

Class balance coming soon, Alderaan Stronghold updates on the PTS, and we talk about Amplifiers.

Working Class Nerds

Episode 63: Our Eyes See 2020

https://www.buzzsprout.com/143519/2549677

Nick and Marcus look ahead to the games their most looking forward to coming out in 2020, and of course recap what they've been up to in their gaming lives.

WoW

Patch 8.3 is out and the guild activity level seems to be up as people are doing daily quests, looking for groups for Horrific visions, and camping rare mount spawns.

The new raid opened on Tuesday and a number of raid teams are progressing through it while Blizzard hurriedly fixes in bugs with hotfixes and extended maintenance windows.

If you’re looking for a raid team, make sure you check the #raid-recruitment channel in AIE Discord and if you’re looking for a group to run Horrific visions or the Heroic version of Mechagon, make sure you check the #lfg channel for people looking for groups.

UMAMI applications are no longer a requirement for WoW Retail. We are opening up guild recruitment to the server with the in-game recruitment system. New and current members of AIE can continue to use Discord, aielfo in-game community, as well as the new Blizzard guild recruitment system to request guild invites. We want to thank Stigg for everything he has done with our UMAMI system and Greenwall, and we can’t wait to see what else he has in store for AIE.

AIE’s 13th Anniversary next month and 3rd Annual Ralff's Amazing Race (details coming soon (tm))

SWTOR

MEGA!

Friday Feb 7th 9pm Real world time (Eastern)

Sema San Diego!!! We will be hiding Sema on a planet. What planet you ask? You will have to come to find out. Looci and the Officers will have the clues you will need to find Sema.

Don't miss the Monthly Epic event!

Our operations teams are thriving. Some are working through the new operation, some are working through the whole progression of all the operations, and some are doing whichever operation they feel like doing that week!

We've done 3 MFNs so far this year and have been extremely happy to have had some players come with us that had never seen those operations. It's always fun when that happens.

We are looking forward to a new Stronghold--this time on the beautiful planet of Alderaan. I know what you're thinking, but it's still thousands of years before THAT happens. The stronghold is currently on the PTS, so watch for times when the PTS is available if you want to hop in and stroll around in it.

The next patch is 6.1 and should be coming some time in February. It will include some class changes, the Alderaan stronghold and a "story beat".

FFXIV