The AIE Podcast #295 – My head cannon can’t

On this episode of The AIE Podcast...

Mkallah: Anyone doing anything August 14th?

Mewkow: Conquest drops with a thunk

Tetsemi:Final Fantasy 14 is free for a few!

Mkallah: The housing market in ESO is hot!

Mewkow: And, we are our own guests!

All that and more coming up right now...

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Welcome to episode #295 of the the podcast celebrating the Alea Iacta Est gaming community, the die has been podcast. This is Tetsemi: To my left is is Mkallah: (Hey guys, there is a mocha java cake in the guild kitchen) . And to my right Mewkow (Greetings, gamers!) It’s been a while, so we are having a host show, to talk about what AIE is up to and what we are doing in and out of game.

Ok, we’ll be chatting soon, but first, let’s cover this week’s news...

AIE News

Community

This month’s community event will be in World of Warcraft during the Micro-holiday on April 28th, Honor a Guard! We’re going to celebrate the event and parade around Orgrimmar.

Next month’s community event will also be in WoW, helping folks who want to participate in the Balloon Tour events and those that need help with PvP for Children’s Week to finally finish off What a Long, Strange, Trip it’s Been achievement.

WoW

August 14, the day before Cyberwaif’s birthday, AND the announced release date of Battle for Azeroth! With this announcement, the physical collector’s edition is available for sale and includes a hardcover book with two novella’s exclusive to the physical collector’s edition with story about Battle for Azeroth. Excerpts were posted by Blizzard and are really worth reading - https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/news/21647285/collector-s-edition-a-tale-of-two-novellas For those of you not getting the physical collector’s edition, the novella’s will be for sale in digitial form minus all the artwork that is exclusive to the hard cover version. If you’ve already bought the expansion digitally in either standard or collector’s edition form and order the physical version, Blizzard will refund the cost of your initial purchase to your account’s Battle.net balance.

Some highlights from the PAX East announcement -

Dark Iron Dwarves and Mag'har Orcs will be the first two new Allied Races. Play through the War Campaign at release and unlock them.

Kul'Tiran and Zandalari Trolls will come later in the expansion.

Another round of realm connections is coming!

The pre-expansion patch will include content in Darkshore that tells the backstory of the Burning of Teldrassil. It will include both story quests and replayable skirmishes with elites.

There will be 2.5D animated pieces that tells the story of the Burning of Teldrassil.

Check out more information over at MMO-Champion and WoWHead which have been tracking all the announcements and dev interviews.

https://www.mmo-champion.com/content/7489-Battle-for-Azeroth-Releases-August-14th

Also, if you are in Alpha and want to join the AIE Guild there, we have formed Alea Iacta Est Audacia on the Sylvanas server on the Alliance side. That’s right, we’re on the Alliance side so we don’t spoil the Horde storyline since that’s where the majority of our folks will be playing at the start. Just hop into the #WoW channel in AIE Discord and ask for an invite or DM Tetsemi on Discord as well.

SWTOR

Mandatory Fun Night, where attendance is optional, but fun is mandatory, is on the Republic side this week. They will be tackling GoTM as their main objective with the possibility of another MFN randomly popping ...