On this episode of The AIE Podcast...

Mkallah: Where to start was a HUGE success!

Tetsemi: Sundae Fundae is coming your way

Mewkow: The Swoop Rally is coming our way

Mkallah: What are these strange new golems?

Tetsemi: and, we have Maellung here to talk AIE in LOTR!

All that and more coming up right now...

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Welcome to episode #346 of the podcast celebrating you, the Alea Iacta Est gaming community, the die has been podcast. This is Mewkow: To my left is Mkallah: - (Heys, there is fig ricotta cake and pineapple upside cake in the guild kitchen). And to my right is Tetsemi: (catch phrase here). This week we are joined by special guests Maellung who is here to talk to us about AIE in LOTRO Welcome!

Ok, we’ll be digging into LOTRO 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 - WoW Classic 2 pm Eastern

Sunday - STO 8:30 pm Eastern

Monday - GW2 9:30 pm Eastern

Tuesday - SWTOR 9 pm Eastern

Tuesday - FFXIV (Casual Raiding) 9:30 pm Eastern

Wednesday - FFXIV (Fun Night) 9:00 pm Eastern

Thursday - FFXIV (Progression Raiding) 9:30 pm Eastern

Friday - ESO 9 pm Eastern

Friday - FFXIV (Late Night Fun Night) 11:00 pm Eastern

Saturday - LotRO 8:30 pm Eastern

Saturday - Noob Raid (WoW) 11 pm Eastern

Saturday - FFXIV (Maps) 9:30 pm Eastern

AIE 'Where to Start' Streaming Event

This was a huge weekend in AIE! We had our Where to Start streaming event! We will have a full blog post with links to the streams shortly, and we have links to each stream in the show notes. Huge shout outs to streamers in the following games:

Dankinia for ESO; Fezgig and Marcus for WOW Alliance; Marcus for SWTOR; Durus for Division 2; some guy named Mewkow for Fallout 76; Sy for WOW Horde; Maellung and Marcus for LOTR; Abovan for FFXIV; Dent for STO; Marcus for Call of Duty; and Max conducting our Town Hall event!

And, a big AIE Thank you to Marcus and Fezgig for organizing this weekend of great content!

AIE Streaming Event Links (Will be updated with Youtube links when available)

ESO - Dankinia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErmrEWtjH_0

AIE TownHall - MaxTheGrey

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2w2wM8Gjto

AIE WoW (Alliance) - Fezgig and MarcusB814

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YUnkzhr9k8

AIEGuild Wars 2 - Corley

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRCoSU0Xt2Y

AIE SWTOR - MarcusB814

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/663532173

AIE The Division 2 - TheDurus

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/663620958?t=00h28m45s

AIE Fallout 76 - Mewkow

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/663761207

AIE WoW (Horde) - Syreyne

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IlnKisijT4

AIE LOTR - Maellung and MarcusB814

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/664302475

AIE FFXIV - Abovan

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/664420104

AIE STO - Dent

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/664505147

AIE Jedi Fallen Order - MarcusB814

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/664528363?t=2h26m50s

Streaming and guild podcast news

SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 343: Timey Wimey Timeliney

http://www.newoverlords.com/swtor-escape-pod-cast-343-timey-wimey-timeliney/

Charles posted a bunch of timey wimey timeliney stuff this week so we cover that and more on this episode of The Escape Pod Cast for Star Wars The Old Republic with @AIESema, @MaxTheGrey and Astromech EPC-343.

Working Class Nerds

Episode 76: Things We Enjoy (LIVE on Twitch!)

https://www.buzzsprout.com/143519/4336196-episode-76-things-we-enjoy-live-on-twitch.mp3?blob_id=16903808

Nick and Marcus sit down and record the show LIVE on Twitch.tv/marcusb814 and talk about why they love the games and activities that they do, plus discuss what they've been doing in gaming for the past week or so.

NOMADS

Destiny 2

The upcoming expansion is still receiving some buzz. "Beyond the Light" is available for pre-order on Steam and consoles.

The Iron Banner is returning and has some new rewards. It will run from June 30th to July 7th.