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The AIE Podcast #431 – 2025, what do you mean, change our shoes?


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On this episode of The AIE Podcast…

  • Happy 2025 from the AIE podcast!
  • Let the regular MFN schedule resume!
  • Get ready for Warzone Wednesday!
  • Christmas eve looked a bit chaotic
  • And, we are talking amongst ourselves
  • All that and more coming up right now…

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    Welcome to episode #431 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: (Hey folks, there is Pain au Chocolat in the guild kitchen). This week we are getting back in the saddle after our holiday break, so we are talking amongst ourselves.

    Ok, we’ll be digging into what we’ve been doing 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 – Destiny 2 8:30 pm Eastern

    Monday – GW2 9:30 pm Eastern
    Monday – STO 10:00 pm Eastern
    Tuesday – SWTOR 9:00 pm Eastern
    Wednesday – HFO Mythic+ Mayhem (WoW) 8:00 pm Eastern
    Thursday- Board Game Night (1st and 3rd Thursdays) 7:00 pm Eastern/6:00 pm Central
    Friday – ESO 9:00 pm Eastern
    Saturday – LotRO 8:30 pm Eastern
    Saturday – FFXIV (Maps) 9:30 pm Eastern
    Saturday – Noob Raid (WoW) 11:00 pm Eastern

    Streaming and Guild Podcast News

    We have a ton of AIE member podcasts! Want to know where to find them? Look no further than here-

    New Overlords Podcast (Max and Sema)

    https://www.newoverlords.com

    Working Class Nerds (Marcus and Nick) – NSFL

    https://workingclassnerdscom.wordpress.com

    Boards and Swords (Chris and Philip)

    https://boardsandswords.com/blog?category=Boards%20%26%20Swords

    Dr. Gameology ( Dr. Daniel Kaufmann )

    https://drgameology.com/

    STO – Fleet Action Report (Grebog and Nikodas)

    https://www.youtube.com/@fleetactionreport

    A Podcast Reborn: A FFXIV Community Podcast (Brandon aka Old Man Franks, Meagan, and Rho) – NSFL

    https://www.bonusroll.gg/directory/a-podcast-reborn/

    NOMADS

    From Fez:
    New, hosted Valheim server, is up. Fresh start, fresh seed. Server info is pinned in Nomads.

    From Bhock:

    Still on Ashes of Creation, Alpha 2 Phase 2, testing node progression and soon crafting
    Phase 3 starting mid May, so we’re still on schedule

    From Stask:

    After a holiday hiatus, the New World crew continues working through expeditions (dungeons) on Sunday nights at 9ish central. We can be found on the fresh start server Hudsonland.

    WoW

    Dankinia is leading the Noob Raid after a short winter break. Thank you again Celindre for stepping in and leading the group to its first full clear in my absence. Since Dankinia’s return, we’ve cleared it 2 more times and the Floor Tank counter for the year is already at 6.

    WoW Classic

    There are a handful of folks still playing on the fresh servers, last time I checked there is nobody at 60 yet.

    SWTOR

    Snowball cannons have been put away and keybinds have been reset to blasters and lightsabers. Mostly. Also, Warzone Wednesdays have returned for the new pvp season. Dynamic encounters are providing a quick-hit way to work toward achievements and Conquest targets. 2025 has started!

    ESO

    ESO MFN is back from winter break. We’ve been working on trials and helping each other with endeavors while hanging out and chatting.

    https://youtu.be/n1_PQsv03Rk?si=Wb4efaD27oftURA-

    STO

    A new year and the game’s anniversary is coming. The event typically is at the end of this month or very beginning of February.

    They just released a new Sol System map with the updated ESD exterior as it was shown in Season 3 of Picard. Unfortunately with the patch that brought in the new art, there have been several bugs. From loadouts dropping, traits unloading, and even for some people equipment being unequipped. They are aware of the issues and hopefully have this all resolved soon(tm).

    FFXIV

    We’re in a bit of an inbetween patch lull in content, the new custom delivery NPC and Chaotic Alliance Raid were released Christmas Eve, and we’re looking at the next Live Letter sometime in late Feb/ early March, so our next major patch is looking to be late march/early April.

    That patch will include the next tier in the Arcadian 8 man raid series, and the live letter should have more details about the upcoming Disciple of the Hand/Land exploration zone and the battle exploration zone.

    We are still attempting to do treasure maps on Saturday nights in the meantime.

    Also return campaigns live

    https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/topics/detail/d02aa811f6ba2870e902126f6db287d223f4fe93
    Basically 4 free days if you login between Jan 9th and February 6th.

    GW2

    A guildmate has requested maybe doing a Guild event next Friday to run Strike Mission: Kainang Overlook.

    LOTRO

    Some exciting things on the horizon for lotro. Orion did release a letter in December to show us what they have planned for each quarter in 2025. The first look at update 43 is hitting Bullroarer (pts) hopefully this week. The current legendary rewards track has 1 month remaining. New 64 bit servers are arriving soon. These will be open to all players. These servers will see the culmination of the 2 years of work the devs have put into fighting the lag boss. Standing Stone Games hopes to have these new servers open sometime in February, but no later than March. While we wait for all this, we will still be running some delvings and other instances at lvl cap and running stuff at the other lvl ranges.

    And with that, let’s find out what has been going on… with us!

    GAME NEWS

    What have we been up to?
    What are we looking forward to in 2025?

    CLOSE

    And that’s our show for tonight. While the chatroom begins suggesting show titles, we want to thank ourselves for remembering how to podcast.

    If you have a question or comment about our show, you can email us at [email protected] You can find us on the AIE Discord and other non-Twitter social media.. We record live with video every other Sunday at 8pm Eastern/5pm Pacific. You can join the chatroom and play along with us on our website at https://aie-guild.org/podcast-live-stream/ and look for the link to our discord server at https://aie-guild.org. And for past episodes, you can see them on our Youtube channel, https://www.youtube.com/c/TheAIEPodcast ! Our theme was composed by the amazing Andrew Allen, follow him at @keyswithsoul! or visit his website https://andrewallenmusic.com/

    And now it’s time to play all of the great AIE member segment we received this week, including…

    Next time,we are tentatively scheduled for next week! So until then, AIE…

    – This is Mewkow

    – This is Tetsemi
    – This is Mkallah

    And this has been… The AIE Podcast.

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