The AIE Podcast #322 – Hell Froze Over: Alliance Needs You

On this episode of The AIE Podcast...

Mewkow: The Incursion is on…. Dantooine

Tetsemi: Countdown to Shadowbringers!

Mkallah: Upgrade Detected!

Mewkow: The Summer of Love is almost upon us!

Tetsemi: And we have Syreyne and Harruq who are here to talk to us about AIE in WOW!

All that and more coming up right now...

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Welcome to episode # 322 of the podcast celebrating you, the Alea Iacta Est gaming community, the die has been podcast. This is Mkallah: To my left is Mewkow: - (catch phrase here). And to my right is Tetsemi: (catch phrase here). This week we are joined by special guests Syreyne and Harruq who is here to talk to us about AIE in WoW Welcome!

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

AIE News

Community

Where the fun is mandatory but the attendance is not.

A couple of games have moved days so make sure you double check when each game is running MFN.

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

Streaming and guild podcast news

SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 295: Onslaught Of Information

http://www.newoverlords.com/swtor-escape-pod-cast-295-onslaught-of-information/

This week @AIESema, @MaxTheGrey and Astromech EPC-295 walk through all the Onslaught and Spoils news including the live stream, blog and forum posts

SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 296: Pirate Recursion

http://www.newoverlords.com/swtor-escape-pod-cast-296-pirate-recursion/

This week @AIESema, @MaxTheGrey and Astromech EPC-296 talk all about how the Dantooine Pirate event has been going and what our plans are for week 2.

Episode 46: Norman's Night In: The Cave (Part Deux)

https://www.buzzsprout.com/143519/1247648

Nick and Marcus are joined by Nick Iorfino from Bactrian Games, the creators Norman's Night In: The Cave! Mr. Iorfino talks about what it's like to develop WCN's favorite game from Pax East, and the hosts also breakdown SWTOR's changes in game update 5.10.3 Spoils of War.

WoW

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SWTOR

The new hotness in SWTOR this month is The Pirate Incursion event on the new planet of Dantooine. That, together with double xp week, has been a prime time for leveling, rep grinding, and grinding just about any other rank or number you'd like to raise. The heroic quests were challenging enough to require groups, so guild groups and community pugs abounded.

There are a number of achievements associated with stuff on Dantooine as well. The planet will be available for exploration and possibly even resource gathering after the event is over, but we don't know exactly what that will look like until next week. Some of those achievements may be doable then, or may require the event to be in progress. We shall see! After this week, the pirate event will go in rotation with all the existing events.

In guild news, the June MEGA was a pvp night hosted by Marcus and coached by guildie Medullah. Medullah explained the pvp maps and gave insights into what to look for, when to use abilities, and lots of other good info. We used SWTOR's feature that allows us to have our own instance of a warzone to duke it out between two teams of guildies.