On this episode of The AIE Podcast...

Mkallah: Polarity has hit the switch in Division

Tetsemi: Get your pie throwing arms ready!

Mewkow: Join FFXIV for map nights, and fame, and riches, Oh My

Mkallah: Hobbit days are here again!

Tetsemi: And we have Sema here to talk to us about AIE in SWTOR

All that and more coming up right now...

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Welcome to episode #340 of the podcast celebrating you, the Alea Iacta Est gaming community, the die has been podcast. This is Mewkow: To my left is Mkallah: - (I’ve been stress baking, the guild kitchen is FULLY stocked). And to my right is Tetsemi: (catch phrase here). This week we are joined by our special guest Sema 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...

AIE News

We want to send a shout out to all the workers keeping everything running while this crisis is ongoing. To the doctors and nurses, to the folks working at the grocery stores & pharmacies , to the transportation and road works, to the truck drivers and delivery folks and IT/Data center folks, to the teachers. Huge thanks you’s!

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

Thursday - FFXIV(low raid) 9 pm Eastern

Friday - ESO 9 pm Eastern

Saturday - LotRO 8:30 pm Eastern

Saturday - Noob Raid (WoW) 11 pm Eastern

Saturday - FFXIV (Maps) 9:30 pm Eastern

Streaming and guild podcast news

SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 331: How To Make A Billion Credit

http://www.newoverlords.com/swtor-escape-pod-cast-331-how-to-make-a-billion-credit/

Our guest, multi-billionaire Thaan, tells us how to make a billion credits!

SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 332: The Rakghoul Galacdemic

http://www.newoverlords.com/swtor-escape-pod-cast-332-the-rakghoul-galacdemic/

We haven’t talked about the Rakghoul event in a while but a plague we can fight with blasters sounds good right now.

Working Class Nerds

Episode 69: We've been Boarded by Deathstar Troopers!!!

https://www.buzzsprout.com/143519/3085738-episode-69-we-ve-been-boarded-by-deathstar-troopers.mp3?blob_id=10882249

The guys are joined by ALL of the members of The Deathstar Troopers! They're the SWTOR raid team that Marcus runs on Sunday evenings. The roster includes: Dr. Swtor, Ted, Beaux, Slayer, Katerina, Kione, and Ven! They talk about how everyone got started with running operations, and why they all love it so much!

NOMADS

Division 2

The game's first season is now well underway with the first manhunt target, "Neptune,"completed by most players. New "league" and "global event" play is now live.

Leagues consist of certain timed challenges that confer ranks for better completion times in missions. These ranks translate into rewards bestowed by claimed crates in the league menu. Collect seasonal items and even an exotic.

This global event that went live last week, "Polarity Switch," consists of switching between active colors displayed on your character to defeat correspondingly colored mobs in the game. Reward caches are conferred after completing challenges such as "eliminating positive polarity Outcasts," or other factions, etc.

The next manhunt target, "Venus," goes live on the 31st, along with the next apparel event, "Urban Jungle."

Some excitement surrounding the game has died down as it's been struggling with many bugs and game balance issues -- some directly related to the new season's events. Despite that AIE participation is still reasonably high, averaging 18-20 people online per day.

WoW

HFO got Puppy!! 6/12 normal. Still recruiting and we got a Zod!!!

BLTN got AoTC

Noob Raid is now 4/12 in Ny'alotha

100% XP, leveling those allied races is crazy!!! People are leveling alts at all stages and looking for people to hang out. (Mechagnomes are so OP!!!)

https://www.wowhead.