On this episode of The AIE Podcast...

Gusty’s new guild challenge is too too cute

SWTOR- Return of the Hype- or, the Hype strikes back, take your pick

ESO- Trials planned, and bosses killed

Zoot’s a running (mount farms) in FFXIV

And, Jehdai is here to talk to us about AIE in Guild Wars 2!

All that and more coming up right now...

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Welcome to episode #379 of the podcast celebrating you, the Alea Iacta Est gaming community, the die has been podcast. This is Mewkow: To my left is Tetsemi: - (catch phrase here). And to my right is Mkallah: Hi folks, there is boozy bread pudding and apple tarts in the guild kitchen). This week we are joined by special guests Jehdai who is here to talk to us about AIE in Guild Wars 2 Welcome!

Before we start in on the news, let’s get back to Jehdai and find out what’s going on in Guild Wars 2- because there is a lot!.

GAME NEWS

GW2 Podcast Notes

Game Overview

Mechanics

Hybrid Action/tab targeted combat

Every zone is scaled to you, so all content is current content

No gear treadmill

Level Cap has and always will be 80

Integrated wiki

/wiki will open you system web browser on the search page

SHIFT- will put a chat code for the clicked item on the current chat input and that works as a search term for /wiki.

Story overview with as little spoilers as you can.

(most of the story is fully voice acted)

Style change when season 2 starts.

1-80 (Personal) story  Hero's Journey Kill the death dragon

Season 1 - Crazy Salad Lady destroys the world and wakes up plant dragon

Season 2 - Finding the plant dragon

HoT - Kill the plant dragon

Season 3 - 2 dragons are dead, odd things happening, Last living member of the bad race from GW1 appears, and wants to help kill dragons,  hero gets a pet dragon

PoF - Human god goes nuts in the desert

Season 4 - PRAISE JOKO,  Crystal dragon is on a rampage.

Ice Brood Saga: Pet Dragon is all grown up,  , Big Cats(Charr) Civil War, Ice and Fire dragons want to kill each other

What's different if you haven’t played since launch:

Gliding from Heart of Thorns.

Mounts from Path of Fire + Season 4

Roles

Tanks, DPS, Healers, buffers

Game has different things to do at end game now

Dungeons

Fractals - slight better dungeons

Raids

Strikes - single boss raid encounters

Dragon Response Missions

World vs World PVP

Being revamped

Structured PVP, 5v5 instanced

Mostly Conquest/CTF mode

Gear

Ascended gear

Slightly better than Exotic Gear

Only needed for Fractals

Optional for everything else

Account bound and can be shared with all your characters

Can change stats at a cost

Legendary Gear

Same stats as ascended (but can stat swap with no cost)

No cost transmog

If your endgame is Fashion Wars, this is a big help

New way to get, through collections.

The game gives you enough mats to make 1 weapon per year through daily login rewards

Not just weapons

Armor can be obtained through Raids and sPVP

2 accessories can be completed completing collections associated with LWS3 and 4.

Amulet can be obtained through return to dragons meta event, or sPVP

Rings can be obtained Raiding or WVW

Backs are from Fractals, WvW or sPVP

Can be copied to all of your characters through legendary Armory

Classes:

New Class Revenant

Introduced in heart of thorns

Channels heroes and villains from GW1 to gain power

Heavy Armor

Elite Specializations

Each class has 2 Elite specializations to choose from

These are unlocked with Hero points

CT Hero Points give 1 HP

Expansion HPs give 10 HP ( but harder)

Community run Hero Point trains happen often