Welcome to episode 312 of the the podcast celebrating you, the Alea Iacta Est gaming community, the die has been podcast. This week we are joined by special guests Syreyne who is here to talk to us about AIE in World of Warcraft Welcome!

The AIE Podcast #312 – Max is the New Kelly McGillis (Get back to raid)

Video Games

Games & Hobbies

Leisure

On this episode of The AIE Podcast…

MoP Remixed is getting us ready for a War Within
You have less than a month to sign up for the Tales of Tribute Tournament 6!
Skip, Skip, Skip to Dawntrail
STO heard you wanted more Borg
Buckle Up, Folks, we have Max and Sema here to talk AIE in SWTOR!

All that and more coming up right now…
Podcast Audio

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Welcome to episode #422 of the podcast celebrating you, the Alea Iacta Est gaming community, the die has been podcast. This is Tetsemi: To my left is Mewkow: – (catch phrase here). And to my right is Mkallah: (Hey, folks, there is a summer strawberry cake in the Guild Kitchen). This week we are joined by special guests Sema & Max who are 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
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
Starfield, Lars has a continuing series, highlighting his playthrough, via Youtube https://www.youtube.com/@larsgagnergaming
No Man’s Sky just launched a new expedition
V Rising server has an AIE crew continuing to hunt
ARK is live and between expansions
Fallout 76 has a spike in interest and will have a big update/expansion later in June
Diablo season 4 is progressing and looks fun
Stask is continuing to dabble in New World
WoW
In WoW retail, the Mists of Pandaria – Remix event is off to a roaring start and many Guildies already have multiple level 70’s. It’s a great way to level alts for The War Within (with Beta starting June 5) and there’s a ton of transmog, mounts, toys and pets to collect. Chen Stormstout’s Hat and Keg? Theramore tabard? Yes Please!
Saturday’s Noob Mythics became a Remix run instead, and Raid Team Kiddie Aggro did Siege of Orgrimmar last week. Alliance Team Hell Froze Over may Remix Raid this week.
Noob Raid cleared all but final boss Fyrakk in Awakened Amirdrassil on Saturday. Thanks as always to Dankinia our fearless floor tank!
Also, Darkmoon Faire is up and the June Trading post arrived with a heartbreakingly cute assortment of summer gear including the Pearlescent Goblin Wave Shredder (a flying surfboard), Water Blaster BL (gun) a murloc floaty belt, lots of swimwear and a rainbow beach chair. More tendies needed!
WoW Classic
Sema has an update!!! Cataclysm launched, with little issue, it’s been a pretty calm release. The guild has been busy doing content, and dungeons, and leveling professions. It’s fun to see these zones again, and the dungeons as well. Several of us on the raid team have never raided these raids when it was current, so we are looking forward to it! We have also been working on guild achievements, to get some of the better perks. Come on over to classic and have some Cata fun!
SWTOR
See Game Notes
ESO
We’ve been having a great time attempting to clear more difficult trials. We are not always successful, but even when the entire group joins Kini for floor tank practice we all have fun.
Kraemer has all of the mundus stones and crafting stations currently available at his primary residence. Feel free to stop by to use them if you need to.
The next chapter expansion, called Gold Road, comes out on June 5th for PC. We are looking forward to exploring the new area as well as the changes to some of the base game systems when it comes out.
Tales of Tribute Tournament 6 will be starting on July 1st and run for 5 weeks though Summer of Love. You can sign in the Tot channel of the AIE discord or reach out to Kraemer.
FFXIV
The complete edition/complete collector’s edition and the Endwalker/Endwalker Collector’s edition are 60% off on most platforms right now, if anyone was looking to start the game when Dawntrail comes out and wants to catch up now! Also story skips (skipping over previous expansions) and level skips (skipping a class from base level to level 80, with a full set of lvl 80 gear) are half off at the moment, if people want to play a specific class through the expac!
Newly updated Benchmark for Dawntrail to be released June 3rd with updated environmental lighting and shading to better reflect the major graphics update.
Our weekly FC gathering has been postponed until a couple weeks after Dawntrail’s release to allow people to play MSQ at their own rate.
Multiple events going on in game at once at the moment, as most players are in a holding pattern until Dawntrail releases at the end of the month.
STO
Federation fleet is still racking up provisions so people can continue getting fleet credits to purchase the special equipment the fleet holdings offer.
KDF fleet is moving along nicely with their holdings. Starbase is now Tier III closing in on Tier IV. The spire is working on unlocking Tier II. The Fleet Research Lab is almost completed Tier II as well. And the Fleet colony is closing in on unlocking Tier I for each of the branches, which will unlock a daily trickle of colony provisions for the projects.
STO has released new content this past Tuesday and we are back to fighting even more borg. And along with the new content release there is an event showcasing all the new content dealing with borg. The rewards are some that if you can, you should not miss. You will get a dimensional hypermass torpedo launcher, type 14 shuttle support squadron, 500 lobi, and 1 Epic Phoenix Prize token PER CAPTAIN on your account. So if you have 30 captains, that could be 30 ships. (Note: Phoenix prize pack ships are not account wide ships.) You can also save your epic token for when they do any phoenix prize pack event and bring back ship upgrade tokens as a choice to buy.
LOTRO
This week we got some news on what is coming for Update 41. Some of the highlights are double sided pvmp reward tracks with rotating quests that both sides will pvp each other over.
Players in PVMP can by choice have a bounty on them. New non-competitive crafting event. The lore-master, burglar and the hunter will be the main focus for class work in this update. We also got the news on the 2nd hobby that was teased in the Producer’s Letter. The new hobby will be bird watching. There are about 600 birds to be spotted at the moment, with possible migration depending on the season. Bird watching hobby is expected to be on Bullroarer within the next 2 weeks.
And with that, let’s get back to Sema & Max and find out what’s going on in SWTOR.
GAME NEWS
Guild stuff in general



New PvP seasons started so PvP nights on Wed starting back up
SV server fun nights monthly



SWTOR 7.5



Bessi

Venture system
Currencies and caps
Training and ability unlocks


Spring Fest

Intro and story

Haunted farm!


Fishing

Relax
Catch
Release


Gardening

Seek seeds
Gardening robot


Creature Rescue

Three planets to collect them
Rehab
Release


Pies

Four pies
Gather ingredients
Make
Share


Laser Pole

Dance




Story

No spoilers for now
Sa’har
Time on Hutta
Hutta rework
Things happen





CLOSE
And that’s our show for tonight. While the chatroom begins suggesting show titles, we want to thank Sema & Max for joining us.
Sema: Best way to reach me is our discord.
If you have a question or comment about our show, you can email us at podcast@aie-guild.org 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 segments we received this week, including…
Next time, we’ll be talking to Dankinia in ESO. So until then, AIE…
– This is Sema
– This is Max
– This is Tetsemi
– This is Mewkow
– This is Mkallah
And this has been… The AIE Podcast.

The AIE Podcast #422 – Dantooine Pies in the Guild Kitchen

On this episode of The AIE Podcast…

Grats to the NOOBS!
Zombies in SPACE
Dawntrail is on the horizon
Big congrats to our friends on Fleet Action Report!
And, Looci is here to talk about WoW Classic!

All that and more coming up right now…
Podcast Audio

Raw Video
http://youtu.be/_SxxArmSrk0
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Welcome to episode #421 of the podcast celebrating you, the Alea Iacta Est gaming community, the die has been podcast. This is Mewkow: To my left is Mkallah: – (Hey folks, con is next week- grab me some tea while you are in the guild kitchen). And to my right is Tetsemi: (catch phrase here). This week we are joined by special guests Looci who is here to talk to us about AIE in WoW Classic Welcome!
Ok, we’ll be digging into WoW 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 – WoW Classic Hardcore 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
We have a few people on a private V Rising server now that the game has gone to a 1.0 release. It’s a fun, Vampire themed crafting survival action combat game.
Diablo Season 4: Loot Reborn is now live and is seemingly doing very well and players are really liking the updates. We have Diablo regulars in there checking it out and I’m sure they can offer help and guidance to anyone looking to jump back in.
Other Nomads stuff is happening this week in Fallout 76, ARK, and Starfield as well.
WoW
Noob Raid successfully cleared Timewalking Ulduar, and congrats to two players for obtaining the rare mounts Invincible and Mimiron’s Head.
Aside from Noob Raid, the excitement is all about Remix: Mists of Pandaria, a limited time, speed leveling event that launched Thursday for Retail WoW. Quite a few players have reached level 70 already and are working on more toons while gathering numerous transmog items, mounts and pets. Many alts! Handle it! The characters can join current guilds but won’t be on live servers until the new expansion, The War Within.
AIE opened our second Alliance guild, Amicitia, to make room for the new alts. A few people had trouble pronouncing the guild name, so it’s now known as Amy.
Welcome Amy!
WoW Classic
See Game Notes
SWTOR
This past week was Rakghoul week and if that means nothing to you, just picture swtor’s version of zombies. There is no cure, we just have to kill them. A lot. Including a giant one with no eyes that we managed to dispatch on Tuesday during MFN.
The double xp event is over, but it’s still a good time to level as it’s basically pretty quick in this game. For tips, join us in discord. There is a lot of chatter about the best/most-fun way to do things.
Friday fun happened on Shae Vizla server this week where we knocked out some Uprisings and Heroic weeklies. Next week, back to Star Forge.
The PvP season is wrapping up, or has wrapped up (time is so unreliable), but the main point is Wednesday Night PvP goes on hiatus between seasons. Check this spot for when the season starts up again.
FFXIV
Map Night has Gigantamaxed into Mandatory Fun Night for the remainder of Endwalker up until the release of Dawntrail, at which point it’ll need to take a lil’ nap after the dynamax infusion wears off while we enjoy the new expansion pack. Have content you want to run? Are you lower level and still want to map it up? Come join us at 9:30 eastern every saturday! We’ll still be running chill content, so don’t be afraid to come on in!
FFXIV also recently had it’s latest Letter from the Producer Live that included a new Job Actions trailer that showcases some of the job changes coming in Dawntrail and their new animations, as well as many more details on the new jobs Viper, a dual wielding bad boy who flips and slashes around his foes while also throwing his swords like sword chucks and occasionally Darth Mauling it up by combing his swords, and Pictomancer, a painter who brought a paint brush to a sword fight and still ends up winning.
Dawntrail will be released on July 2nd, with early access starting June 28th. If you’ve ever wanted to dip your toes into FFXIV, now is the time.
The base game and the EW expansion and both collectors editions are on sale for 60% off until June 11th, except for Steam.
Also, take your birds out for walkies!
ESO
We’ve been running trials and dungeons for loot and laughs while waiting for the next event and the expansion.
Kraemer has all of the mundus stones and crafting stations currently available at his primary residence. Feel free to stop by to use them if you need to.
The next chapter expansion, called Gold Road, comes out on June 5th for PC. We are looking forward to exploring the new area as well as the changes to some of the base game systems when it comes out.
Tales of Tribute Tournament 6 will be starting on July 1st and run for 5 weeks though Summer of Love. You can sign up in the ToT channel of the AIE discord or reach out to Kraemer.
There are a couple of things needed to participate in the tournaments 1 must be an aie guild member 2 have the ability to use the tales of tribute game in ESO. There are now multiple ways to get access to the game 1 own the High Isle chapter or have purchased any collection that came out after high isle. And 3 complete the first quest in the line to get access to the decks used to play. The tournament will run for 5 weeks starting on July 1,2024 and run until August 5, 2024.
Will list prizes in show notes, no need to run through them on the podcast.
Tales of tribute 6 prize list
First place 5,000,000 Gold
Second place 4,000,000 Gold
Third place 3,000,000 Gold
Fourth place 2,000,000 Gold
Fifth place 1,750,000 Gold
Sixth place 1,500,000 Gold
Seventh place 1,000,000 Gold
Eightth place 1,000,000 Gold
Ninth place 1,000,000 Gold
Tenth place 1,000,000 Gold
Total Prize fund 21.250,000 Gold
For anyone who wishes to join please let me know in the tales of tribute channel in discord or mail me in game @Kraemer29
STO
Fleet Action Report just celebrated their 200th Episode! Next up is a Dyson Destroyer ship build this coming Thursday! Also, our 4th anniversary is only a few weeks away. To celebrate, we’re planning a new type of PvP!
STO is starting a Red Alert event on the 23rd. Then, on the 28th the next content drop hits. Named Parallels, players are going to a new universe to stop the Borg! This event rewards 500 lobi and a Epic Phoenix Prize token in addition to other prizes!
GW2
The April Fools event has happened and the next event is going to be Dragon Bash on June 4th. “The Midnight King”, the last stage of the current expansion, is going live on May 21st. And there is a bag slot sale on that ends on the 28th
In guild specific news, I want to call attention to the heroic effort of Hortensus Hawkeye aka. Kirontuk. He went to great lengths to get the materials necessary to progress the guildhall’s tavern to the next level. Thank you Hortensus!
LOTRO
Update 40 has gone live! Now we venture into Umbar-môkh, the neaths, a large complex beneath the city of Umbar.
The quest pack “Beneath the Surface” is free to VIPs and available in the LOTRO store for points. New quests will be released weekly to continue the story.
Beyond that there are numerous class and game tweaks like the ability to rename carry-all in your inventory.
https://www.lotro.com/update-notes/lotro-update-40-release-notes-en
And with that, let’s get back to Looci and find out what’s going on in WoW.
GAME NEWS
Less than 24 hours to the launch of Cataclysm Classic! We are all very excited to roll on into Cata, to revisit its dungeons and Raids. The AIE classic group has been preparing for this since we killed Arthas in January. The Blizzard team has released a very accelerated pace for this expansion, with only 15 months to complete all the content. They have also stated that they will be monitoring the progress and can slow the release if they feel that teams are still progressing through the current raid. We hope this isn’t too fast a pace for us, as we are pretty casual, with only 1 night a week to raid. The Devs are hoping for less gaps and lulls in content during this expansion.
The Stale Pufft Marshmallow team have had a few roster changes, and we have added a few new people for this raid tier, so we continue with about 14 people for 10 man raids. A continuous struggle for the raid leaders to keep the roster flowing, and to make sure everyone gets time in the raids.
Some of the highlights that we have are: Transmog, reforging, guild perks! Archeology, and a revamped talent system. Overall, the raid team is pumped for this expansion. If anyone is interested in joining us in Cata, just drop an @officer ping in the AIE discord, and we can get you into the guild.
CLOSE
And that’s our show for tonight. While the chatroom begins suggesting show titles, we want to thank Looci for joining us.
If you have a question or comment about our show, you can email us at podcast@aie-guild.org 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/
Next time, we’ll be talking to Someone about Something. So until then, AIE…
– This is Looci
– This is Mewkow
– This is Mkallah
– This is Tetsemi
And this has been… The AIE Podcast.

The AIE Podcast #421 – Timey Wimey – Towy Wowy?

On this episode of The AIE Podcast…

For some reason, Fallout is really popular right now!
The Dark Heart cometh
Cata is in pre-launch… again!
So much new in SWTOR
And, we are talking to ourselves

All that and more coming up right now…
Podcast Audio

Raw Video
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Welcome to episode #420 of the podcast celebrating you, the Alea Iacta Est gaming community, the die has been podcast. This is Mkallah- and, since it’s 420, there are plenty of munchies in the guild kitchen! To my left is Tetsemi: – (catch phrase here). And to my right is Mewkow: (catch phrase here). We are chatting with ourselves this week!!
Ok, we’ll be digging into what we’ve been doing in and out of game shortly, but first, let’s cover this week’s news…
AIE News
Community
Just a reminder, we’ll be starting announcements for Summer of Love in the next few weeks, so keep an eye out on the AIE Discord for all the announcements and events. If anyone would like to host their own event or help with events, feel free to tag @officer in the AIE Discord with your ideas.
Mandatory Fun Nights
Where the fun is mandatory but the attendance is not.
Sunday – You all get a day off!
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
Friday – FFXIV(Magical Misc Tour) 9:00 pm Eastern
Saturday – LotRO 8:30 pm Eastern
Saturday – FFXIV (Maps) 9:30 pm Eastern
Saturday – WoW Classic Hardcore 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
Fallout 76 has been popping. The Alien Invasion event last week and this week has a few of us engaged there. The show was great and what sparked interest.
WoW
Confront Xal’atath When Dark Heart Arrives on May 7
Mark your calendars for the release of the next content update for Dragonflight—Dark Heart— on May 7!
Dive into the final chapter of Dragonflight as it sets the stage for the upcoming expansion—The War Within™, sojourn into new questlines, Heritage Armor sets for Draenei and Trolls, six new hair colors for Kul Tiran Humans, access to all Dragonflight quests regardless of Renown for maximum-level characters, and more.
https://worldofwarcraft.blizzard.com/en-us/news/24090236/confront-xalatath-when-dark-heart-arrives-on-may-7
WoW Classic
Cataclysm classic pre-patch is live, and Deathwing is claiming lives randomly in the zones around his lair.
Not a smooth pre-patch at all, Blizzard outdoing itself this time. This are getting more stable, even with goblins and worgens running around.
May 20th will be Cataclysm launch, with only 15 months until the following expansion.
SWTOR
This week we had a livestream about Game Update 7.5, “Desperate Defiance”, which is due this spring, possibly even this month. We will be getting a new pvp season, a new game system called Ventures, and a new Spring Event. The game continues to get art updates–this time for the planet Hutta. The Public Test Server is up now and players are able to test the new Ventures.
The Dantooine Spring Abundance Festival looks like a cozy extravaganza with farming, pie baking, and animal rescues. Maybe the galaxy needs a break from pirate invasions, intrigue and eternal war.
Right now, though, it’s a good time to level characters because of double xp. Come join us for MFN on Tuesday this week and get some Conquest points, Galactic Seasons objectives, and that sweet, sweet double xp.
ESO
We’ve been running trials and dungeons for loot and laughs while waiting for the next event and the expansion.
Kraemer has all of the mundus stones and crafting stations currently available at his primary residence. Feel free to stop by to use them if you need to.
The next chapter expansion, called Gold Road, comes out on June 5th for PC. We are looking forward to exploring the new area as well as the changes to some of the base game systems when it comes out.
STO
2024 Event Campaign – Part III:
Play through multiple Events to earn a Tier 6 Infinity Promotional Ship of your choice, two Free T6 Zen Store Coupons, AND 1500 Lobi! A total of six Events will participate in this Event Campaign, each contributing Campaign Progress toward this valuable prize. Earn progress for your entire account by participating in an eligible Event, including after claiming the Grand Prize for each individual Event. Check out the first eligible Event below!
Demon Hunting Event:
This Event will include multiple TFOs previously featured individually in a combined Featured Event that will allow players to choose their preferred activity each day. All of these TFOs can be accessed via the Event UI, accessible within your Mission Journal by clicking on the “Events” Tab.
Herald Sphere
Gateway to Gre’thor
Brotherhood of the Sword
Participating in this Event will give all players the opportunity to win the Herald Defiler Mace, the Omni-Directional Herald Antiproton Beam Array and the Wide Arc Herald Antiproton Dual Heavy Cannons.
FFXIV
Live Letter LXXXI (81) is coming May 16th at 4am PDT! This is expected to contain more info on Dawntrail as well as the Job Actions trailer and more info about job updates. The Job Actions trailer showcases some of the new actions and rotation we might expect in Dawntrial.
An updated Benchmark is due to be released on May 23rd. This is to fix the benchmark having incorrect lighting in the Character Creation screen as well as addressing some feedback with the latest updates to the new and improved graphics coming in Dawntrail.
LOTRO
Corsairs of Umbar and the Mariner are now available in the LOTRO Store!
Learn more about our latest expansion on LOTRO.com.
Make your Piece of Middle-earth Shine! Get 20% off:
Select Housing Decorations
Select Housing Sets
Housing Property Writs
Select Cloaks
Now through May 9th!
And with that, let’s find out what we have been doing in and out of game!
GAME NEWS
Question of the Week- how did you celebrate May the 4th!
CLOSE
And that’s our show for tonight. While the chatroom begins suggesting show titles, we want to thank ourselves for joining us.
If you have a question or comment about our show, you can email us at podcast@aie-guild.org 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’ll be talking to someone in something. So until then, AIE…
– This is Mkallah
– This is Tetsemi
– This is Mewkow
And this has been… The AIE Podcast.

The AIE Podcast #420 – Falling into Force, Fourth, Fallout, and Fun

On this episode of The AIE Podcast…

Patch here, patch there, patch everywhere
All our SWTOR guild does is win!
Congrats are in order for Alea Iacta Est Classis
We promise, we are NOT podfading
So, we our own guests this evening

All that and more coming up right now…
Podcast Audio

Raw Video
http://youtu.be/yQSATFwJ5Jw
Open
Welcome to episode #419 of the podcast celebrating you, the Alea Iacta Est gaming community, the die has been podcast. This is Tetsemi: To my left is Mewkow: – (catch phrase here). And to my right is Mkallah: (hey folks, there are lemon bars in the guild kitchen, please eat them, I am trying to reduce my sweet tooth). Sorry about the long time between shows, but we needed to do a shift so we can be back on track! We will get into game news in just a few, but before that, what has everyone been up to?
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!
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
Friday – FFXIV(Magical Misc Tour) 9:00 pm Eastern
Saturday – LotRO 8:30 pm Eastern
Saturday – FFXIV (Maps) 9:30 pm Eastern
Saturday – WoW Classic Hardcore 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
Destiny 2 – Into the light event has started, it’s a free to play for everyone Horde mode with reprised weapons. Also 2 older exotic weapon quests have been revised and re-released. Whisper of the worm sniper rifle and Outbreak Perfected Pulse.
Fun night has moved to Sunday officially.
WoW
Guild Event on Monday where Raid Team Kiddie Aggro helped about a dozen guildies kill Heroic Fyrakk, final boss of Amirdrassil for the Ahead of the Curve Achievement. Players also got a short quest to unlock a Fyrakk appearance for their Dragonriding mount.
With the new patch on Tuesday, the three Dragonflight raids will take turns becoming Awakened, rotating weekly. Awakened raids will be harder, drop improved gear and a token, Antique Bullion, that can be used to buy weapons and other items as well as a Jigglesworth Sr mount. Completing all three raids awards the Voyaging Wilderling Mount and Awakened Hero achievement.
The eight Dragonflight dungeons have been revamped to Mythic level. In a helpful change for many players, the timer is being removed for level 0 to 10 mythics.
Players will be able to design their own personal tabards, thanks to a new quest that starts in Valdrakken.
For housekeeping, use up those catalyst charges on gear before they reset on Tuesday and spend any flightstones. One good option is to buy rep tokens from the various factions, which are account bound. Unspent flightstones will turn into gold.
If you are interested in the War Within Beta sign-ups, it’s here – https://thewarwithin.blizzard.com/en-us/
WoW Classic
Cataclysm pre-patch drops on 30 April, with Cataclysm starting on 20 May. We are all hoping that the PTR is not indicative of the state of the game, as it hasn’t been very stable. They have also released a roadmap for Raids during Cata, and the pace seems to be very accelerated. If they stick to this roadmap, the final raid will be out in January of 2025. It appears that they will be rolling things out every 3 months, which for those of us who haven’t played previously, seems kind of fast.
The scenarios of Zelazane’s Fall and Operation Gnomeregan are out, and they give 2 toys, a Darkspear troll costume, and a Gnomeregan Gnome costume. You only need to do 1 of the scenarios, and you get both toys.
Season of Discovery is in Phase 3, and the level cap is now 50. I know several guildies are enjoying it. Beyond that, I haven’t been in it recently.
And Hardcore Classic now has self found mode, it is unknown how many people are taking advantage of this. When you create a character in Self found mode, you have no access to the AH, Mail, or trading at all.
SWTOR
We won another planet during this past week of Total Galactic War. In fact we won two planets, since our fledgling guild on Shae Vizla (or is it a guild of fledglings?) also won a planet once our victory on Star Forge was assured.
This week’s MFN was a celebration of the TGW win, a distribution of prizes for everyone, and an early-to-bed night. TGW is good fun, but it does take some recovery time.
Don’t forget Warzone Wednesday. You never know which faction or which level range will be playing, so stay tuned to discord.
Friday Fun this past week was a rousing game of Git Some Fun (GSF). If you want to see what Galactic Starfighter is all about you can watch the VOD at twitch.tv/stask27. Warning: Possibly not for the faint of heart.
FFXIV
Talk about the FF16 collab.
FFXIV Dawtrail Performance Benchmark dropped yesterday and will be updated to correct lag/graphical glitches that are already fixed in the upcoming game but had not been back ported to the Benchmark engine.

ESO
We are currently taking advantage of the anniversary event by clearing trials and doing world boss kills for loot boxes. After we have our cake of course so we get our event tickets.
Kraemer has all of the mundus stones and crafting stations currently available at his primary residence. Feel free to stop by to use them if you need to.
The next chapter expansion, called Gold Road, comes out on June 5th for PC. We are looking forward to exploring the new area as well as the changes to some of the base game systems when it comes out.
STO
Alea Iacta Est Classis, our Federation Fleet, has finished upgrading all Fleet holdings. We continue to enable ways for our members to earn Fleet Credits, but all items, ships, and bridge officers have been unlocked!
Alea Iacta Est Honoris, our Klingon Fleet, is working on all holdings with the focus currently split between the Starbase and the Spire to unlock fleet consoles.
STO’s current event is celebrating First Contact Day! Earn the Photon Rifle with 14 days of progress earned by running one of two TFOs or a Patrol. Along side this, players can create Delta Recruits. This special type of character will unlock multiple items and marks for your entire account!
Our video podcast, Fleet Action Report, hosts an informative show every Thursday at 10pm Eastern. We’ve got upcoming episodes involving a Proton Energy build, and the Delta recruits!
Also, our fleets host a Fleet Fun Night Mondays at 10pm Eastern. We will run TFOs, assist with difficult missions, help master ships, or just play alongside you. Come join the fun!
LOTRO
On 04/18 LOTRO will celebrate its 17th Anniversary. There will be a free gift tied to the event.
For the week of April 11th to the 18th the LOTRO store will give away the Universal Ingredient Pack x10 when you use code UNIPACK.
Here’s a link to the latest patch notes (39.1.2):
https://www.lotro.com/update-notes/lotro-update-39-1-2-release-notes-en
GAME NEWS
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And that’s our show for tonight. While the chatroom begins suggesting show titles, we want to thank us for joining us.
If you have a question or comment about our show, you can email us at podcast@aie-guild.org 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’ll hopefully be talking to Marcus in Destiny 2. So until then, AIE…
– This is Tetsemi
– This is Mewkow
– This is Mkallah
And this has been… The AIE Podcast.

The AIE Podcast #419 – AIE: Every game Everywhere All at Once

On this episode of The AIE Podcast…

We promise, we are NOT podfading!
Are you a world builder?
10.2.6 is THIS WEEK!
We are in a new galactic season!
And, we are talking to ourselves

All that and more coming up right now…
Podcast Audio

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Welcome to episode #418 of the podcast celebrating you, the Alea Iacta Est gaming community, the die has been podcast. This is Mkallah: To my left isTetsemi (enter catch phrase here) And, we are Mewless this evening, but we figured we would get a show out so no one thought we were Podfading! We sure missed you all and there is a ton of news to catch up on!
Ok, so let’s get into the news
AIE News
Community
Mandatory Fun Nights
Where the fun is mandatory but the attendance is not.
Sunday – You all get a day off!
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
Friday – FFXIV(Magical Misc Tour) 9:00 pm Eastern
Saturday – LotRO 8:30 pm Eastern
Saturday – FFXIV (Maps) 9:30 pm Eastern
Saturday – WoW Classic Hardcore 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
The BitCraft Alpha is going live on April 4th. It’s a multiplayer, open world, survival/exploration type game. No invites have gone out but they have a signup going on (that’s a little over-gamefied in my view, but ok). We’ll very likely have some AIE people in there checking it out.
Besides the other ongoing fun stuff (Rust, Palworld, ARK, etc.) there will be some single-player RPG games coming out next week that people may want to chat about. Horizon: Forbidden West is finally hitting PC (Steam) and Dragon’s Dogma 2 is looking interesting.
Mkallah- TTRPG News
If you are a world builder, Chaosium is running a Basic Roleplaying Design Challenge with their open gaming license (d100). And let’s be honest, if you’re going to try and label the system as BRP (Basic Roleplaying), we’re going to add Universal and System to it and call it (BURPS). Also it’s being released under the ORC (Open RPG Creative) license.
https://www.chaosium.com/blogthe-basic-roleplaying-design-challenge/
Daggerheart is doing a public playtest beginning March 12.
https://darringtonpress.com/daggerheart/
https://app.demiplane.com/ Has Daggerheart Character creation
This system looks really interesting and is much more character focused and story driven.
WoW
The 10.2.6 Content Update Arrives March 19
Mark your calendar for March 19 when the 10.2.6 content update goes live with a bold, new, limited-time event. You won’t want to miss out on the fun. It’s important to note that Dragonflight season 4 will go live several weeks after the release of the 10.2.6 content update. For heroes working toward the Amirdrassil Feats of Strength, you’ll need to obtain Ahead of the Curve: Fyrakk the Blazing before Season 4 begins, and the achievement is no longer available to earn.
Gustytail’s favorite Holiday, the Trial of Style returns as well and there will be Guild runs.
WoW Classic
Cataclysm beta is out, several of our Raid team have gotten invites. The state of Cata Beta is pretty bad. At one point in the Goblin starting area, if you aren’t a mana user, you can’t progress the quests, In the Troll starting area, one quest mob just keeps despawning when you start interacting with him, and you can’t progress further. So that said, we continue to do silly things, like our Dungeon Draft. Part 2 was last night, we leveled to level 24, and completed Shadowfang Keep, Black Fathoms Deep, and the Stockades. The teams got a bit of a shuffle, which was interesting, and more learning was had. The judges are Shrimpiclese, Scotaidh, and Macfearsom, and they have determined that races just don’t work for various reasons. So now its going to be a point system, Finish a dungeon first, and you get 1 point. We also had the Wheel of Doom, where the judges would spin the wheel and we would have to do what ever was on it. One wheel spin had us turning our keyboard around, or putting your mouse in the other hand. one was remove your belt until after the next boss. Generally silly things like that. Overall it was a great time, and fun and silliness was had!
Our next dungeon challenge will be get to level 29, and we expect to do the Scarlet Monastery gauntlet. probably a few weeks from now, as we have people with real life commitments for the next few weekends.
The Bubblegum Unicorns won the challenge this time! Sema’s team won this one, they were just a hair faster than Looci’s team!
SWTOR
7.4.1 has dropped and the Galactic Season 6 has officially started. During MFN this week, we ran around accomplishing GS goals as well as Conquest goals.
We also had a fun night on Shae Vizla, this past Friday which was very well attended. Several guildies took advantage of the free character transfers going on there now. We may have a second fun night on SV this month due to there being 5 Fridays in March. 7.4.1 also added in a new narrative feature called Date Night, where players can play short scenes with some of their companions to further their stories a bit.
We also got something new to collect called ancient armaments. These are previously-np-longer-available armor pieces with a chance to drop from just about anything, including out in the world.
ESO
We have sweet and awesome things going on in the Elder Scrolls Online! On June 5th we will have the new chapter release of Gold Road. recently we have had the release of 2 new 4 person dungeons last week. last month we finished the tales of tribute tournament number 5 will list final standings at the end. With a lot of help from our faithful guild members we have the 4 grand master crafting tables loaded up with all 77 craftable sets for use. Please visit @Kraemer29 ‘s primary residence which also has all 13 mundus stones and multiple combat dummies to test out builds. Dankinia and I are working on getting multiple events for the 2024 Summer of Love including tales of tribute 6 and an Eso lore and monster style dnd one shot for MFN that week. I think that is all but Kini will let you know if there is more
Kraemer wants to thank all those that played in the tales of tribute tournament number 5 which was dominated by Malakyi who steam rolled over the competition to her first tournament win. With 4 other players splitting victories amongst the field. All of the prize money has been sent out and look forward to the next tournament. Here is the final standings:
Name wins loses
Malakyi 8 2
Dankinia 5 5
Dproberts 5 5
Bashirra 5 5
Newtype 5 5
Kraemer 2 8
FFXIV
Last major patch before the new expac is this Tuesday, new hatchingtide event just began this week, and coming up soon the ff16 crossover event will be happening!
STO
Monday Nights at 10pm Eastern is our Fleet Fun Night. Anyone is welcome to join us, and we’d love to see some people come try out the game.
Fleet Action Report, our video podcast, runs every Thursday at 10pm Eastern. Our topic of conversation for this upcoming Thursday will be highlighting the new Tholian Trouble event. We will run both updated TFOs and give the details on how to achieve all the optional objectives.
The changes to the Year-Long event have gone live. Participating in all the events from now until December can earn a player 1500 Lobi, 2 100% Off Zen Store Ship coupons, and a free premium ship pack (either lockbox or premium ships can be chosen). This is a great way to earn some of the best ships and equipment in the game without having to spend a dime on Zen.
LOTRO
Lots of stuff has arrived Season 9 of the legendary reward track, the spring festival and update 39: Arenas of Conflict . This update is largely new instances and s raid in the Umbar area. The raid is currently tier 1 only. Tier 2 and 3 is expected to hit the live servers soon. When the new raid opens up to tier 3, we will be running some missions once again to get our characters geared up a little easier.
GAME NEWS
CLOSE
And that’s our show for tonight. While the chatroom begins suggesting show titles, we want to thank each other for joining us!
If you have a question or comment about our show, you can email us at podcast@aie-guild.org 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/
Next time, we’ll be talking to someone about some game!. So until then, AIE…
– This is Mkallah
– This is Tetsemi
And this has been… The AIE Podcast.

The AIE Podcast #312 – Max is the New Kelly McGillis (Get back to raid)

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