The AIE Podcast

On this episode of The AIE Podcast...

Tetsemi: Welcome to Dent and MarcusB our newest AIE Officers

Mewkow: Shall we kill all humans?

Tetsemi: Say goodbye to Legion and hello to BfA

Mewkow: Have you been to the Festival the Four Winds?

Tetsemi: And the EvE Crew invades AZ-R0F!

All that and more coming up right now...

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Welcome to episode 303 of the 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). Mkallah is off being crafty and will return next podcast episode.. This week we are joined by special guests us who is here to talk to us about AIE in World of Warcraft Welcome!

Ok, we’ll be digging into AIE World of Warcraft shortly, but first, let’s cover this week’s news...

AIE News

Community

Welcome and condolences to our newest community officers (with a focus on SWTOR) - Dent and MarcusB! These two will be a great addition to the AIE Officer corp and we look forward to getting them into the guild leadership role.

Thank you to all who came out and celebrated the Summer of Love, Max and Syreyne have put together a write up with links to a lot of the videos taken by the community. Check out the aie-guild.org article - https://aie-guild.org/blog/2018/08/summer-of-love-2018-wrap-up/

If you want to see how COOP went, take a look at the write-up and the videos up on the site as well - https://aie-guild.org/blog/2018/08/aie-coop-summary/

And speaking of guildies getting together - For everyone who lives in the southern New England area. There is a comic book convention at Mohegan Sun in Uncasville, CT on 17-19 August 2017. It is a local show with plenty of Comic Book creators, vendors, and some Hollywood Stars of the past few decades. If anyone is planning or thinking of attending, Corley was thinking AIE people could get together for a lunch on one of the days. There are a number of restaurants at Mohegan Sun where he could try to make some reservations. If anyone is interested, let him know and hopefully we could have some type of meetup. This is the website for the show. It is a bit hard on the eyes, but it has all the info. Tickets are still available. http://www.terrificon.com/

Streaming and guild podcast news

http://www.newoverlords.com/swtor-escape-pod-cast-252-wanna-kill-all-humans/

Remember when HK-51 was an epic companion and getting a new companion was a huge deal? We remember, and this week @AIESema, @MaxTheGrey and Astromech EPC-252 kick off that classic HK-51 mission line and talk about what it was like when it was new.

http://www.newoverlords.com/swtor-escape-pod-cast-253-were-all-legends/

Summer update 5.9.2 is live and we are all Galactic Legends. @AIESema, @MaxTheGrey and Astromech EPC-253 spend some time talking through the update in detail from inside the live Rishi Stronghold.

Upcoming Streams

Keep an eye out on the https://twitch.tv/aieguild channel. Most of our mandatory fun nights are streamed there and Max the Grey will be streaming next Sunday the BfA leveling he’s doing.

WoW

GustyTail is having her “Goodbye to Legion” event in WoW as we speak, she will be shooting off fireworks, doing giveaways, and generally getting the guild involved in saying goodbye to Legion and hello to BfA!

https://aie-guild.org/blog/2018/08/lets-launch-bfa-with-a-bang/

If you are a raid leader and haven’t filled out the survey that Nevermore has, please contact her in game (Neverending), on Twitter (@QuotedNevermore), @Nevermore in AIE Discord, or the AIE Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/AIEguild/ as she’s putting together things to make raid team organization and recruiting a bit easier for all.

And just a infrastructure update, we will be replacing the AIELFO channel in game with the AIELFO Community. Umami bulletins and the application approved letters have been updated with the new methodology. This give us better control over the aielfo communication in game, and as always, you can also ping of an officer in the AIE Discord #lfo channel as well.

SWTOR

Speaking of the AIE Discord #lfo channel, SWTOR is making the move to removing it’s AIELFO channel in game and relying on the #lfo channel in Discord for finding an officer for an invite or help.

Mandatory Fun Night will be on the Republic side this week, and the format for which side it which week has shifted. Right now it’s going to be every other week with an occasionally free-for-all rest week thrown in. Make sure you pay close attention to AIE Discord and the #swtor channel.

And a big thank you, from MarcusB, to everyone that participated in the MEGA event to kick off the Summer of Love. Without you, events like this don’t happen.

Take a look at the SWTOR update just published - https://aie-guild.org/blog/2018/08/swtor-state-of-the-galaxy/

ESO

Wolfhunter DLC releases August 13th in tandem with Update 19, bringing 2 new dungeons to explore.

Update 19 makes some changes to battlegrounds and PVP as well as some quality of life changes.

Skill respecs are changing so you no longer have to clear all your points and fully rebuild. You will be able to change them individually, sort of like how it works with Champion Points. Also the werewolf skill line is being updated as well.

And of course MFN is Friday Nights at 9 Eastern.

GW2

It’s the last couple days for the current event, the Festival of the Four Winds. There is a Boss Blitz Bonanza this weekend, where if the players complete 5000 Boss Blitzes in the pavillion, any account that participated gets a prize. https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/weekend-boss-blitz-bonanza/

MFN is on Monday from 9:30 pm to 11:30 pm EDT, if there is interest we can do festival events before they are gone.

EVE

The Eve Team has lit cynos and bridged to the System of AZ-R0F. As such there are rumors that things are burning in a most Eve kind of way. Expect an Eve inspired Raid team to to go out in the next few weeks.

AIEU along with its alliance Blades of Grass and coalition members have successfully defended the strategic system of 16AM-3. This great military and morale victory has ensured that the our space way of life endures. - AIEU Ministry of Truth, Love and Happiness

Interested in helping spread love and happiness in the universe?

Then come check out AIEU

https://discord.gg/b3m6EAK

FFXIV

The Monster Hunter World collaboration is underway. If you are level 70 in at least one class, and have the Main Scenario Quest for Stormblood completed, be sure to find the Hearty Hunter in Kugane to get started. This event features a major creature named Rathalos, and if you can defeat him and the other challenges, you can get rewards such as a mount, minions, an armor set, and some housing items.

Starting tomorrow, the moonfire festival begins, featuring new outfits, item pieces, an emote, and some summer food.

And don’t forget, there are static groups looking for new members to join and tackle the end game content. Make sure to ask for more details in the FF14 channel in discord.

And with that, let’s get back to us and find out what’s going on in AIE World of Warcraft.

GAME NEWS

Legion Wrap Up

What did we enjoy?

Tetsemi: Class stories, all of them, some of the more unique content they’ve done and really fleshed out all the classes and made them feel special. I really like how the Priest class order hall tied into Before the Storm and seeing those characters come to life in the story. And Artifact weapons, not having to collect a separate 1h and off-hand weapons.

Mewkow:

What did we dislike?

Mewkow:

Tetsemi: Unlocking class hall armor sets on alt’s. The 8 dungeon one was bad enough, but having to get exalted with the Nightborne for the shoulders, no thank you.

What personal goals did we meet?

Tetsemi: I got to see all 12 class order hall stories, got the Protection Warrior appearance from the Mage Tower and unlocked both heritage armor sets for the Highmountain Tauren and Nightborne. Our raid team also completed all the raids, on Normal, while they were still current.

Mewkow:

What personal goals did we miss?

Mewkow: class mounts

Tetsemi: Collecting all the class order hall armor sets. Completing a Mythic 15+ for the artifact appearance. Heritage armor for Void Elves and Lightforged.

What are we not going to miss from Legion?

Tetsemi: Dalaran. We’ve had it as ‘home base’ for two expansion (Lich King and Legion) and I think I’m done with it.

Mewkow:

What are we going to miss from Legion?

Mewkow:

Tetsemi: Class order halls and class specific stories, fighting a foe that’s not the Alliance, and haste tanking. The new Protection Warrior rotation feels slow and clunky and not as fluid as it was in Legion.

BFA Look Ahead

What are we looking forward to the most?

Tetsemi: New stories and new bosses to raid, but mostly new stories.

Mewkow:

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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 [email protected]. You can also follow us on Twitter. The show is at @aiepodcast. Mew is at @themewkow. Mkallah is at @cyberwaif,and Tetsemi is at @ivorytiger. 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 our Discord server for chat at https://bit.ly/AIEPodcastDiscord . Our theme was composed by the amazing Andrew Allen, follow him at @keyswithsoul! or visit his website http://keyswithsoul.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 Mewkow

- This is Tetsemi

And this has been... The AIE Podcast.

On this episode of The AIE Podcast...

Mkallah: War of the Thorns gets a little prickly!

Tetsemi: Midyear Mayhem is massive!

Mewkow: Discover STO Discovery

Mkallah: Are you ready to compete in Queen's Gauntlet and Festival of the Four Winds?

Tetsemi: And, Max and Sy are here to tell us all about Summer of Love!

All that and more coming up right now...

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Welcome to episode #302 of the the podcast celebrating you, the Alea Iacta Est gaming community, the die has been podcast. This is Mewkow: To my left is Mkallah: - (Summer of Love surprise cake is currently baking in the guild kitchen). And to my right is Tetsemi: (catch phrase here). This week we are joined by special guests Max and Sy who are here to talk to us about the Summer Of Love! Welcome!

Ok, we’ll be talking to our guests shortly, but first, let’s cover this week’s news...

AIE News

Streaming and guild podcast news

Swtor Escape Pod Cast 251: Don’t Fear The Reaper

http://www.newoverlords.com/swtor-escape-pod-cast-251-dont-fear-the-reaper/

This week, @AIESema, @MaxTheGrey and Astromech EPC-251 are joined by @MarcusB814 (guild member and host of the Working Class Nerds podcast) to run Red Reaper and talk about Datacrons and the monthly event Marcus is running on the 27th.

NOMADS

No Man's Sky has released a major update to the game 4 days ago. Several changes to the game to include the ability to play together with 3 of your friends. The game is buy-to-play and if you played before, it's a free update, if not it's $29.99 on Steam.

WoW

War of the Thorns has started and it’s looking like the Horde are the bad people, at least right now, and Horde players are not happy with the story so far.

Regular Noob Raid resumes October 6th. Normally the only requirements to join are a max level toon and the willingness to laugh a lot while we die over and over again.

A huge thank you to Syreyne and the DOA raid team for running the Noob’ers through Normal Antorus the past two weekends.

ESO

Congratulations, we’re sorry! Dankinia has been promoted to Game Director of ESO!

Midyear Mayhem is happening right now until August 6th. This event gives bonus rewards and XP for PVP activities.

The DLC will be on sale for 75% off for those that do not have it and there will be bonus rewards for a variety of activities in Wrothgar.

STO

Star Trek Online is about to take you into the world of the latest Star Trek TV series, Star Trek: Discovery. This fall on PC, and soon after on Xbox One and Playstation 4, Captains will take the first step on a continuing journey to 2256, in the height of the Klingon War. For the very first time in STO’s history, we’ll be updating the game in line with a currently airing Star Trek series. Here’s what to expect from Star Trek Online: Age of Discovery:

https://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/10962253-star-trek-online%3A-age-of-discovery

For a limited time, Research and Development packs will be available to Captains for 20% off!

From Thursday, July 26th at 8AM PST to Monday, July 30th at 10AM PST, both Research and Development packs as well as bundles will be discounted.

SWTOR

Mandatory Fun Night will be on the Republic side this week, make sure you check in the #swtor channel in AIE Discord to find out what the conquest goal for the week is and how you can best hit that goal.

Congrats to the Conquers of Balmora!

Thank you to MarcusB for the MEGA event in SWTOR this week, they went after Datacrons and had a lot of fun doing it!

And, breaking news from Discord! Friday August 24th. #MEGA Episode 3! Revenge of the hutts

GW2

MFN is on as usual, Monday 6:30 pm PT/9:30 pm ET in coordination with the Summer of Love event.

For the first time in 4 years, the Queen's Gauntlet and Festival of the Four Winds are back! If you missed them the first time, or just want to compete and collect phat lewts, you have until Aug. 14th.

https://en-forum.guildwars2.com/discussion/49240/game-update-notes-july-24-2018

EVE

It’s been a busy summer in EVE! AIEU now has 6 fleet commanders at the alliance level, one of those FC Tukucommin is now a coalition level FC, we have two new members of the GroL Lake council bringing up the number of AIEU directors in that body to 3, AIEU is now effectively running the alliance logistic chain and is the premiere arms dealer for the alliance.

And with that, let’s get back to Max and Sy and talk about the Summer of Love!

GAME NEWS

Summer of Love schedule here

https://aie-guild.org/blog/2018/07/summer-of-love-2018/

This year Summer of Love is running from Monday July 30th to Sunday August 5th. If you have any specific questions on the events, you can always ask the chairperson of the event or ask any officer in AIE Discord. Please keep in mind that these events are subject to change. We’ll keep you posted! I hope to see you all there!

Friday July 27:

–SWTOR – Pre-Event MEGA Datacron Run – Marcus and the SWTOR team - This went AWESOME!!!!!

Monday July 30:

–WoW – “Hide and Forseeken Laser Tag” at 9pm EST – Allanya & Nevermore

-- GW2 - Vigil at the Field of the Fallen in Lion's Arch - 9:30 pm EST

Tuesday July 31:

–WoW – Pub Crawl Micro-Holiday – Syreyne - We will start meeting up in Dalaran at 9PM EST, with a roll out time of 9:30PM EST (Server). More details on this micro-holiday can be found here: http://www.wowhead.com/kirin-tor-tavern-crawl-micro-holiday-guide

–SWTOR – MFN Special Edition – Apolas and the SWTOR Officers

Wednesday August 1:

–Video Podcast – Special Edition Sy’s Fireside Chat – EVE - Name Change and Co-Host!!!

Thursday August 2:

–Remembrance Day – All Games

-WoW – Shrine of the Fallen Warrior – (Fireworks afterwards)

-SWTOR – Alderaan in the Juran Mountains, our traditional SWTOR location

-LOTRO – Remembrance walk from the Boar Fountain in Bree to The Last Homely House in Rivendell before Remembrance Day starts – 7pm EST

Schedule for Remembrance Day:

9:30pm EST – Discord/Game – Members meet up in their game, and have an open forum type format where the general membership can talk about love ones that have passed, share stories, etc.

10:00pm EST – Official start with speeches and statements by members of Council

10:30pm EST – Wrap up, and for games that do this, Remembrance Walk back (Ex: WoW)

11:00pm EST – End event

Friday August 3:

–STO – Remembrance Flight – 1:00am EST at Wolf 359 (That’s Thursday late evening/Friday early morning) – Grebog

–ESO – MFN Special Edition – 9:30-11:30pm EST – Durus

–FFXIV – MFN Special Edition – 10:00pm EST – Abovan

Saturday August 4:

–WoW – COOP - Summer of Love would not be complete without a COOP run, so COOP we must! Saturday August 4th at 8PM server(EST) we will retaliate and invade the Eastern Kingdoms. No mercy or quarter will be given. The Alliance must pay!

We will meet in Elwynn Forest before the gates of Stormwind and raze whatever stands in our way at 8pm. Warmode MUST be turned off to avoid phasing issues. Also to lay ruin to Stormwind we must be dressed our best! Visit the transmographer and make sure your armor looks sharp and fearsome with the AIE Tabard and Cloak of Coordination.

–LOTRO – Skirmish Party from 9-11pm EST: Lets have fun while running some skirmishes – Maellung

–STO – Evening of Fun at Risa – 12:00am EST (Midnight) – Grebog

Sunday August 5:

–WoW – Gusty’s Giveaways: Pet Adoption and Mog Giveaway – 4pm EST in Undercity

–LOTRO – Beorn to Have Fun from 3:30-5:30 pm EST: Roll up a new Beorning and play it through the 5 min intro and join in the fun. – Maellung

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And that’s our show for tonight. While the chatroom begins suggesting show titles, we want to thank Max and Sy for joining us. And don’t forget, after the show is the AIE podcast stream, this week they are doing:

Syreyne on Twitter @SyreyneAIE and on Twitch at twitch.tv/syreyne

Max on Twitter @MaxTheGrey

If you have a question or comment about our show, you can email us at [email protected]. You can also follow us on Twitter. The show is at @aiepodcast. Mew is at @themewkow. Mkallah is at @cyberwaif,and Tetsemi is at @ivorytiger. 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 our Discord server for chat at https://bit.ly/AIEPodcastDiscord . Our theme was composed by the amazing Andrew Allen, follow him at @keyswithsoul! or visit his website http://keyswithsoul.com !

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

Overly Dramatic News from HuntsTheWind

We are working on scheduling our next guests now- may be EVE or LOTR. So until then, AIE...

- This is Mewkow

- This is Mkallah

- This is Tetsemi

And this has been... The AIE Podcast.

On this episode of The AIE Podcast...

Mewkow: the Summer is filled with Love for AIE

Mkallah: Everything you know is about to change… again

Tetsemi: Need some Mandatory Fun, we have you covered most nights of the week

Mewkow: Wolfhunter is coming to ESO

Mkallah: Get ready for a host show

All that and more coming up right now...

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Welcome to episode #301 of the 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: (catch phrase here). This week is a host show to discuss the various activities in AIE and how we are getting ready for Battle of Azeroth. Welcome!

Unfortunately, our guest this evening had a schedule conflict, so we’ll be chatting amongst ourselves shortly, but first, let’s cover this week’s news...

AIE News

Community

Just a quick reminder that the AIE Guild is also on Facebook and we’re looking at how we can best utilize it to keep everyone informed that prefers that method of communication. Stop by and say hi! https://www.facebook.com/AIEguild/ It’s a great place to keep a track of the events in AIE, see what raid teams run when and if they are recruiting, and to interact with your AIE guildmates.

The Summer of Love events are coming up for AIE in all the games, here’s a quick rundown of everything currently planned (subject to change, void where prohibited, yadda yadda yadda)

Monday July 30:

--WoW - "Hide and Forseeken Laser Tag" at 9pm Server / EST - Allanya & Nevermore

Tuesday July 31:

--WoW - Pub Crawl Micro-Holiday - Sy

--SWTOR - MFN Special Edition - Max/Sema

Wednesday August 1:

--V-Pod is the guest for the Special Edition of Sy's Fireside Chat

Thursday August 2:

--Remembrance Day - All Games

-WoW - Shrine of the Fallen Warrior - including Beef's and his team’s firework spectacular

-SWTOR - Alderaan in the Juran Mountains, our traditional location

-LOTRO - Remembrance walk from the Boar Fountain in Bree to The Last Homely House in Rivendell

Friday August 3:

--STO - Remembrance Flight - 1:00am at Wolf 359 (That's Thursday late evening/Friday early morning) - Grebog

--ESO - MFN Special Edition - 9:30-11:30pm EST - Durus

--FFXIV - MFN Special Edition - 10:00pm EST - Abovan (Tentative)

Saturday August 4:

--WoW - COOP - (Tentative)

--LOTRO - Skirmish Party from 9-11 ESTl: Lets have fun while running some skirmishes - Maellung

--STO - Evening of Fun at Risa - 12:00am (Midnight) - Grebog

Sunday August 5:

--WoW - Gusty's Giveaways: Pet Adoption and Mog Giveaway - 4pm in Undercity

--LOTRO - Beorn to Have Fun from 3:30-5:30 pm ESTl: Roll up a new Beorning and play it through the 5 min intro and join in the fun. - Maellung

SWTOR Pre-Event July 27th - MEGA Datacron Run.

We’ll have more details next show.

Streaming and guild podcast news

If you like PvP in Star Wars and want a good tour of the new PvP centered Stronghold on Rishi, take a listen to Episode 249 of the Escape Pod Cast.

This week, @AIESema, @MaxTheGrey and Astromech EPC-249 broadcast live from the PTS and tour the new Rishi Stronghold, showing off all the new features and unlocks

http://www.newoverlords.com/swtor-escape-pod-cast-249-rishi-casa-de-pvp/

Take a listen to Episode 250 (Congrats team!) of the Escape Pod Cast. This week, @AIESema, @MaxTheGrey and Astromech EPC-250 get back to the Sorc story, check out some interlude bit and finally get to Corellia

http://www.newoverlords.com/swtor-escape-pod-cast-250-penultimate-planet/

Upcoming streams

Max will not be streaming tonight, as Sema has informed him that he will be spending the time cleaning out his inventory for pre-patch!

WoW

A quick announcement from Nevermore-

“Hey AIE Guildies in WoW - If you have a raid team that will be active for Battle for Azeroth, please have a raid leader get in touch with Nevermore ASAP She is trying to gather a bunch of information and want to make sure that she’s not forgetting anyone. Message her via Discord, Twitter @QuotedNevermore, or send an in game mail to her main Neverending. Thank you”

With patch 8.0 coming out on Tuesday, everything you know will change … about your characters and how they play. Thankfully WoW Head has a great write-up about the upcoming changes so you’ll be prepared! https://www.wowhead.com/class-guides-battle-for-azeroth-bfa-pre-patch?webhook/how-to-play-your-class-in-the-battle-for-azeroth-8-0-pre-patch-class-guides-for-

Also, if you are returning and your characters were removed for inactivity or you are new to AIE please take a look at https://aie-guild.org/blog/2018/07/wow-pre-patch-incoming-so-get-back-in-game/ with all the information needed to get you back in the game and familiar with all the ways AIE publishes information.

Also, with the hiatus of Noob Raid, Syreyne’s raid team is taking Noob raiders through Antorus on July 21st and July 28th starting at 9pm EST for the first raid and 11pm EST for the second raid. More information in the article at https://aie-guild.org/blog/2018/07/antorus-tours-for-noob-raiders/

SWTOR

MFN is on Tuesday at 9 pm EST and will be on the Imperial side.

PTS is open to the public and some scheduled PvP playtesting is going on with devs in-game incognito and some of the AIE folks have been participating in said activities.

The Escape Pod Cast did a podcast from inside the new PvP focused stronghold on Rishi on the PTS. Since then, they are continuing to develop and make updates rapidly to respond to feedback. There's an AIE PTS guild and we have the Stronghold fully unlocked for it for anyone that wants to get in and check it out.

ESO

A reminder that MFN for ESO are on Friday’s at 9pm EST and are usually streamed on the AIE Twitch channel, https://twitch.tv/aieguild

Don’t forget to speak up in guild Chat, ask for help, or just say Hi! And, check the ESO discord channel regularly for events and daily partners.

And, in ESO general news- With the upcoming Wolfhunter DLC game pack and Update 19, Hircine's curse has taken hold in Tamriel and beyond. Are you prepared to face the March of Sacrifices and Moon Hunter Keep dungeons? Wolfhunter is coming soon to ESO plus members and in the in game-crown store. The pack will arrive with update 19, a free base-game update for all ESO players. More information is available on elderscrolls.online.com

FFXIV

A reminder that MFN for FFXIV are on Friday’s at 9pm EST as well. As far as game news, there is a producer live letter happening on Monday, July 16th. Please look forward to it.

STO

The Sally Ride is somewhere in game. She was last seen near Narenda, but supposed to move around every so often. If you find the ship hail them and you will get a special admiralty version of the ship.

The summer event is in full swing on Risa. There is a free ship for completing the daily aerial courses. There are all kinds of other events from power board races to sand castle building contests. If you don't have a power board to use at the fleet colony, now is the time to pick one up.

Why would you want a power board? The fleet colony has a big bay. You can run around it on land, but it is easier to hop on your powerboard and cut across the water. If you are doing the gather missions, you have to go to close to the end of each side, so cutting across the water is the fastest method. And no, you can not swim across.

EVE

EVE continues to be on fire, Goons and TEST are allies again, some Keepstars died this weekend while others were were saved, Space Cadets, Hoplite Fleets, Arms Salesmen... it's been pretty busy.

And with that, let’s talk about what we have been doing in and out of game, and how we’re getting ready for Battle of Azeroth!

GAME NEWS

Mkallah - Lots of pen and paper roleplaying, D&D, World of Darkness (Mage and Werewolf), City of Mists

Tetsemi - Mage Tower (Protection Warrior), Brawler's Guild (Rank 8), 14 Horde and 2 Alliance characters through Silithus (got 3 pets), finished Field Medic (First Aid), and got both Nightbourne and High Mountain Tauren allied race armor (for leveling from 20-110).

Mewkow - Working on the mage towers, which means lot of alt gearing. Finally ran through the Retribution pally hidden weapon quest. Pally stuff. Shaman, death knight, profs.

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And that’s our show for tonight. While the chatroom begins suggesting show titles, we want to thank you all for joining us.

If you have a question or comment about our show, you can email us at [email protected]. You can also follow us on Twitter. The show is at @aiepodcast. Mew is at @themewkow. Mkallah is at @cyberwaif,and Tetsemi is at @ivorytiger. 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 our Discord server for chat at https://bit.ly/AIEPodcastDiscord . Our theme was composed by the amazing Andrew Allen, follow him at @keyswithsoul! or visit his website http://keyswithsoul.com !

And now it’s time to play all of the great AIE member segment we received this week, including….. Well, none! If you want to try your hand at recording a segment, let us know! We would love to play segments created by our AIE guildmates.

Next time, we’ll be talking to most likely Syrene and Max about Summer of Love! So until then, AIE...

- This is Tetsemi

- This is Mewkow

- This is Mkallah

And this has been... The AIE Podcast.

On this episode of The AIE Podcast...

Mewkow: The community has been very very busy!

Tetsemi: Summer of Love is just around the corner

Ghomus: We have fun, and boy, is it mandatory

Lanctharus: Get ready for Heaven - on - High

Mkallah: And, we’re getting the band back together, in more ways than one!

All that and more coming up right now...

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Welcome to episode #300 of the the podcast celebrating you, the Alea Iacta Est gaming community, the die has been podcast. 300, that can’t be right!! This is Mkallah! To my left is Mewkow: - (catch phrase here). And to my right is Tetsemi: (catch phrase here). And, as you heard in the introduction, this week we are joined by a Duo of very special guests Ghomus and Lanctharus who are here to celebrate this milestone! Welcome!

Ok, we’ll be interviewing our guests shortly, but first, let’s cover this week’s news...

AIE News

Community

One of our own, Jason McDonald (aka Thraxxis ) has written a book! How to be a Sh*#ty Boss. It is currently available for Kindle download on Amazon

https://www.amazon.com/How-Sh-Boss-Alienating-Employees-ebook/dp/B07F2Q7GSH/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&qid=1530363524&sr=8-8&keywords=jason+mcdonald

Syreyne's Fireside Chats are going strong and a good way to hear from the broad range of guildies we have. The show can be found on Youtube, search for Sy’s Fireside Chat or subscribe to her feed, Syreyne the Rogue.

Summer of Love and Remembrance Day is coming up! The annual event celebrating our love for the AIE community takes place July 30th to August 5th. Please feel free to contact Sy if you want to run an event in any of the games that AIE plays, and she can get you on the Schedule.

Remembrance day is Thursday, August 2nd and will be celebrated in a number of games.

Streaming and guild podcast news

Available for download on Itunes, Stitcher, and their own website, https://secretsoftalonguard.com , join Evaric, Zephirah, Draven Dresden, Ben the Mage, Quoted Nevermore, and Alludra on their D&D adventure, Secrets of Talonguard! They are only a few episodes in, so join take a listen to what the Heroes of Knightsblood have gotten themselves into.

Upcoming Streams

Friday July 6th, ESO MFN Featuring whomever is volunteered to stream the scrollsy fun.

And tonight, Max has WOW planned for the AIE stream. Stick around for some pre-BfA hype, hang out in discord, show off characters, and more.

WoW

Summer of Love in WOW schedule-

Tuesday July 31: Pub Crawl Micro-Holiday - WoW

Saturday August 4: COOP - WoW

Sunday August 5: Gusty's Giveaways - WoW

A huge thank you to Dankinia for leading the Noob raid during Legion , from her note on AIE’s Discord - “Thank you everyone who joined us for the final Noob Raid run of Legion. After some early struggles with the first of 3 bosses, we killed the final two of ToS on our first pulls. It was a awesome final run before our break.

Noob Raid will resume the first Saturday of October which is the 6th, and we current plans are for us to take our freshly leveled 120's back to Legion so we can clear the Argus raid. I hope to see you all then.”

SWTOR

Mandatory Fun Night will be on the Republic Side this week, be sure and join in all the fun as the guild takes on conquest goals, has some story time with Max for folks that haven’t run through content yet, and make sure to remind everyone, Fun is Mandatory, as is your armor, don’t let your transmog fool you into thinking you’re actually wearing your gear.

ESO

A reminder that Mandatory Fun Night is on Friday’s in ESO so be sure to join early and get in the fun. You may even be lead over a cliff by Dankinia, who knows what adventures are planned.

EVE

Pew Pew SO MANY *explosions* hurt feels, narratives, man babies, and more! Come join your AIE Fleet Commanders with the POWAH of their alliance (fun creators!) and help defend our new home and put the nefarious Test Alliance in their place. The Hobo War is now known as the EvE War ((everybody vs. Everybody) Come hug everybody with your teeth!

Fleet commander program and a soon to be announce Newbro training program.

STO

Not to be left out of the new content, make sure you check in with your fleet mates in AIE and get ready to tackle the annual Lohlunat Festival Festival from July 3rd through August 16th. More details here - https://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/10934263-the-2018-risa-lohlunat-festival%21

FFXIV

Make sure you’re patched up and ready to tackle the second installment of the Deep Dungeon series, Heaven-on-High with your guildmates on July 3rd! Unsure of what you need to do to be ready, check out the link https://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/pr/blog/002412.html Which tells you what you need to do and how to access the new content.

LOTRO

There are still rumors of getting the band back together, but you can enjoy the Summer Festival which just started this weekend including the Weatherstock concert series July 7th and 8th on the Landroval server!

And with that, let’s get back to Ghomus and Lanc!

GAME NEWS

Interview questions!

Just a note- we are going to have some different questions for you, Lanc, than we do for Ghomus

Mkallah: How did you get involved in the AIE podcast?

Ghomus:

Lanctharus: I got snookered in.

Mewkow: Who was your favourite guest on the show?

Ghomus: Scott and Randy

Mewkow: What was your favourite time on the show?

Lanctharus: The times I have flummoxed HOOTS on air

Tetsemi: What are you the proudest of during your time with the show?

Ghomus:Nerdtacular shows

Tetsemi: Just how many times have you guested on the AIE podcast?

Lanctharus: I have lost count

Mkallah: Favourite co-host

Ghomus: Alludra/Acuzod combo-host.

Mkallah: Favourite guest to be on the show with

Lanctharus: Kephas

Mewkow: Best memory from doing the show?

Ghomus:

Lanctharus: Alludra + Kephas + Lanc show

Tetsemi: Best take away from your involvement?

Ghomus: segments and how creative community is

Tetsemi: How many ships have you blown up?

Lanctharus: 376 roughly 217 dollars

I have destroyed over 712 ships at an estimated cost of 2,700 dollars

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And that’s our show for tonight. While the chatroom begins suggesting show titles, we want to thank Ghomus and Lanctharus for joining us.

@shownotfound

@lanctharus

If you have a question or comment about our show, you can email us at [email protected]. You can also follow us on Twitter. The show is at @aiepodcast. Mew is at @themewkow. Mkallah is at @cyberwaif,and Tetsemi is at @ivorytiger. 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 our Discord server for chat at https://bit.ly/AIEPodcastDiscord . Our theme was composed by the amazing Andrew Allen, follow him at @keyswithsoul! or visit his website http://keyswithsoul.com !

The full interviews with Dills and Alludra will be played immediately following the show, but right now it’s time to play the AIE member segments this week including ...

Overly Dramatic News - @HuntsTheWind

Next time, we’ll be talking to Sweetgrass, aka Moll about Overwatch. So until then, AIE...

- This is Mkallah

- This is Mewkow

- This is Tetsemi

And this has been... The AIE Podcast episode 300!

Link to the AIE Christmas show - http://cdn.aie-guild.org/podcast/aie_podcast_ep065.mp3

Link to AIE Podcast Wiki - https://wiki.aie-guild.org/index.php?title=Main_Page/AIE_Podcast

On this episode of The AIE Podcast...

Tetsemi: Stay awhile and listen to Sy’s Fireside chat

Mkallah: And, stick around for Midsummer fire festival

Mewkow: We have Mandatory fun nights for almost every night of the week

Tetsemi: And, updates on how we fare in Hobo Wars

Mkallah: And, Abovan is here to talk to us about AIE in Final Fantasy XIV

All that and more coming up right now...

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Welcome to episode #299 of the the podcast celebrating you, the Alea Iacta Est gaming community, the die has been podcast. This is Mewkow: To my left is Tetsemi: - (Another settlement needs my attention!). And to my right is Mkallah: (Do you know how big a cake we are going to need for our next episode?). This week we are joined by special guests Abovan who is here to talk to us about AIE in FFXIV Welcome!

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

AIE News

Community

There is a new post up on the AIE Guild site - https://aie-guild.org/blog/2018/06/aie-community-news/ - that is intended to provide some cross-community updates as well as some insight into some of the work the officer team does behind the scenes across all the games. We are planning on having a post like this at least monthly, if not more frequently, let us know what you think!

Guild Podcast News

Our very own Syreyne has started talking to AIE members in a new show called Sy’s Fireside Chat. So far she has interviewed Diddi and Velazarius; Anwyl, Antibus, and Termaku; Acuzod and his family, Sethos; and OldLadyFranks and giggles with OLF’s daughter. You can find all the episodes linked in her #episodes channel on https://discord.gg/thZ4EdF .Next week she will be interviewing Grimcow on Episode 5.

Swtor Escape Pod Cast 244: Mad Max And Sema – Fury Roadmap

This week, @AIESema, @MaxTheGrey and Astromech EPC-244 hang out in the casino while we walk through the summer roadmap in detail.

http://www.newoverlords.com/swtor-escape-pod-cast-244-mad-max-and-sema-fury-roadmap/

Swtor Escape Pod Cast 245: SWCC The Chicago Way

This week, @AIESema, @MaxTheGrey and Astromech EPC-245 talk about the PvP update posts and Star Wars Celebration with details on visiting Chicago, all while we check back in on our Sorc class story.

http://www.newoverlords.com/swtor-escape-pod-cast-245-swcc-the-chicago-way/

Upcoming Streams

Don’t forget about the AIEGuild twitch channel http://twitch.tv/aieguild which is hosting a variety of content from AIE Streamers covering AIE in most of the games we’re currently in, including a number of Mandatory Fun Night events. Max the Gray will be streaming FFXIV along with Abovan shortly after the podcast, showing off the guild house and other activities that the AIE Guild is involved in.

Keep an eye out on http://twitch.tv/dankiniaplays as she will be streaming Noob Raid in WoW along with Season 14 of Diablo III which starts on June 15th, 2018.

NOMADS

There has been an uptick in Destiny 2 activity with the announcements, from the website as well as E3, about new content coming and changes to the game. Jump on in and play with other AIE Guild members, check out the #destiny2 channel in AIE’s Discord server.

Essentially, the start of the new season brought back Faction Rallies and that event is going on now but ends Tues. It only lasts one week and there are rewards specific factions: gear, weapons, etc.

There's also hype for the newly announced Forsaken Expansion 2 to the game.

A handful of guardians are popping on to finish weekly events to level the Clan and obtain powerful engrams for all. The Clan is still accepting new members while anyone how hasn't been on in 4-6 months may be removed to make room for new members. You can always receive an invite back to the Clan though.

WoW

The Midsummer Fire Festival starts on June 21st and goes through July 5th. Please keep an eye out on the guild calendar, https://wiki.aie-guild.org/index.php?title=Guild_Calendar , as well as https://aie-guild.org for upcoming events, including groups getting together to put out the Alliance Fires.

ESO

Mandatory Fun Night,on Friday’s, continues to be well attended. The guild usually gets together and crashes an open world zone. Hitting world bosses, sky shards, dolmens, delves and public dungeons can be pretty fun so why don’t you join us or watch for http://twitch.tv/thedurus to stream on their channels or otherwise hosted on the AIE Twitch channel.

Guild members are on nearly every night running dailies, and working on the new story content introduced with the recently released Summerset.

SWTOR

Mandatory Fun Night, this week will be on the Galactic Republic side, the conquest event is Relic of the Gree so they will go fight Xenoanalyst, and the Ilum Gree WB and do the Ilum rampage at the same time. Conquest target will be set for Medium on Pub side, and Small on Imp Side. Speaking of which, congratulations to the guild on taking on and meeting the Large Planet goal on the Imp side and the Medium Planet goal on the Pub side last week. A lot of effort was put into that guild activity and it was great to see the guild come together to conquer the goal.

Star Wars Celebration will be in Chicago, April 2019 and tickets are going fast. Last we checked they were 80% sold out and the full event pass was already sold out.

Also, Friday, June 22nd at 8pm central, SWTOR will have a monthly guild event. Guild member Marcus is driving it and plans to take the guild on a rampage, taking down as many world bosses in the game as we can. That's the first in what will likely be a new series of Monthly events in SWTOR.

FFXIV

See Game Notes

STO

The fleet had been making big steps forward on the various holding projects. Also for submitting Umami applications for the new Jem'Hadar, just use the faction federation and race alien.

It is bonus dilithium weekend. So come do queues, mine dilithium, and earn extra dilithium this weekend. The next weekend is going to be upgrade weekend, where tech points are normally doubled from your upgrade kits. This will help you get all your new Jem'Hadar captains and all your old captains their new max level great if MK XV, yes that is correct mk XIII is no longer the top gear level.

The new expansion, Victory is Life had been released. Odo returns with the Dominion to form an alliance with the Federation and KDF. As such, you can now create Jen'Hadar. If you purchase the starter pack you can unlock the Jem'Hadar Vanguard race. They have an added bonus in space combat on top of the default ground bonus of the regular Jem'Hadar. All Jem'Hadar start at level 60. They also are Gamma Recruit, which there are various objectives to complete with corresponding rewards. Many unlock account-wide rewards you can claim on other captains.

The Cardassians are another c-store race as well, as they join the fight. They start at level one and act as another option for races as a standard Captain.

And as with all things there are many new ships and even some old lockbox ships that are now in the c-store. So if you were hoping to get any of the old Jem'Hadar ships or the Cardassian Galor cruiser, you can now just visit the c-store. The Dominion haven't been sitting idle with their ship technology and offer 4 new tier 6 Vanguard ship variants of all the Dominion ships. The Cardassian also offer 3 new tier 6 Intel ships.

If you are wanting the new vanguard Jem'Hadar ships on other captains, once you level up the ship mastery to the 6th tier, it unlocks account wide

EVE

The "Hobo Wars" between several small alliances and their large super power backers continue and show some signs of gathering strength. Some Hobos have left the area, some have fallen, some have joined larger groups. We are "getting settled" in our current home, have been very active conquering and defending our territory. We have excellent support setup for current pilots and welcome anyone that is curious to join us at our public channel in our AIEU Discord. Check out the #eve_embassy channel in the AIE Discord for more information.

And with that, let’s get back to Abovan and find out what’s going on with AIE in FFXIV.

GAME NEWS

Patch 4.3: Under the Moonlight

The ramifications of the Doma part of the main Stormblood story, along with the post credits scene (no spoilers!) come to a tipping point.

New primal fight with ???, because it is a spoiler, but a good story to witness.

More Side stories, including a new 4 Lords side quest.

Return to Ivalice, 24 man raid. 2nd part of the expansion.

The Doman Enclave reconstruction. I’m not saying that Doma was destroyed in an earthquake or a flood or something, but it needs to be rebuilt.

New best tribe, the Namazu. Crafting dailies, scaleable quests to help level your crafters from 60-70. There are now daily quests you can do to level your crafting jobs from 1-70.

New dungeons for Grand Company Squads

The Aurum Vale

Braflox Longstop Hard

Sohm Al

Squad members can be glamoured and equipment dyed.

Bard performance actions have been updated to include

Flutes

Oboes

Clarinets

Fifes

Panpipes

All notes can be keybinded.

Lots of job changes, read the case notes.

Cross server linkshells are a thing.

New Feast season, the ranked PVP.

Cosmetic bonus - Male bunny ears.

If someone is in a hurry and starts a boss fight early, you will be asked to join the fight and not be locked out. Does not let you a) leave the fight and then come back in or b) enter the fight if you are dead or died during the fight.

Lords of Vermillion matches has been updated to include NPC challenges, so a match will always be available.

Chocobo races can be registered for via duty finder, both solo and in groups.

Which leads us into…

The Make it Rain Campaign has started and will run thru July 24th.

Extra MGP will be available on all mini-games in the Gold Saucer!

Earn unique items during the event, including the mini games themselves as housing items

On this episode of The AIE Podcast...

Mkallah: The AIE community is doing ALL the things

Mewkow: Open up your warmind

Tetsemi: Imp congratulations are in order

Mkallah: Final Fantasy patch 4.3 is finally dropping

Mewkow: And, we have the crazy pilots from EVE!

All that and more coming up right now...

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Welcome to episode #298 of the the podcast celebrating you, the Alea Iacta Est gaming community, the die has been podcast. This is Tetsemi: To my left is Mkallah: - (catch phrase here). And to my right is Mewkow: (catch phrase here). This week we are joined by special guests Lanctharus, Lars Gagner and the very late incredibly exploding Tukucommin who are here to talk to us about AIE in EVE Welcome!

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

AIE News

Community

Streaming and guild podcast news

SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 242: Calculating Conquest

http://www.newoverlords.com/swtor-escape-pod-cast-242-calculating-conquest/

This week, @AIESema, @MaxTheGrey and Astromech EPC-242 are joined by guild member @brendancavanagh to talk about Conquest updates and BC’s excellent planning spreadsheet.

SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 243: Smooth Operators

http://www.newoverlords.com/swtor-escape-pod-cast-243-smooth-operators/

This week, @AIESema, @MaxTheGrey and Astromech EPC-243 are joined by guild members and ops leaders Dent and Marcus (@marcusb814 also of the WorkingClassNerds podcast) to talk about starting and running an ops team, while we run the Umbara Flashpoint.

Upcoming streams

Max the Gray will be streaming on the https://twitch.tv/aieguild channel tonight after the podcast. Join him after we wrap up Eve to see AIE in ESO!

Also, on the same channel we have ESO streaming on Thursday at 9 EDT and Noob Raid for WOW on Saturday at 11 EDT.

Other Community stuff-

Are you going to Phoenix Comic Fest or just want to see what the phoenix crew is up to? Arra has created a Tadpool AZ discord to be used for con and beyond. Hit one of us, or Arra, up in discord for the link. And, speaking of Phoenix Comic Fest, Nevermore will be at booth AA503, Bouvi will be at the Hero Initiative booth at AA396/398, and Mkallah will be at AA501 carrying her own merchandise and goods from two other AIE members. Come by and say Hi, and keep your eyes out for a wandering Mew as a guest visit to Phoenix for con

Imperium Ludi

Destiny 2

New DLC has dropped for the game: Expansion II: Warmind. New story content, new raid, new strikes AKA reskinned story missions, and new gear to grab....

Season 3 has recently kicked off. Be on the lookout for the faction rally.

Some old faces have resurfaced and guild powerful engrams are being generated, go get them!

DLC info: https://www.destinythegame.com/expansion2

WoW

Congratulations to Noob Raid on downing two new bosses, 1 last week and 1 this week! Sounds like a great time was had by all. If you’d like to join in the fun, be online on Saturday evenings around 11 pm EDT and keep and eye out in game chat and in the #Wow channel in the AIE Discord.

SWTOR

Congratulation to the guild for hitting the medium conquest goal on the Imperial Side. The guild is really focusing on conquest goals and helping each other out to find ways to hit the goals that are both effective and fun.

Speaking of fun, Mandatory Fun Night will be on the Republic Side this week, make sure you join the #SWTOR channel on the AIE Discord and join in the Conquest activities and planning.

Also, patch 5.9.1 (mostly bug fixes) will be released on May 22nd and the Summer 2018 Roadmap is out - http://www.swtor.com/info/news/news-article/20180516 - looks like a lot of quatlity of life improvements a PvP focus with the PvE storylines picking up in the fall.

FFXIV

Patch 4.3 dropping on Tuesday, Monday is the 24-hour major patch maintenance.

Preliminary patch notes dropped.

Many changes, many QoL, many few features.

And it was the 45th birthday of Yoshi-P, (Naoki Yoshida) the FFXIV Game Producer, and the FFXIV worldwide gaming community created a 2 hour happy birthday video from the players around the world.

Details for all FFXIV news, events, and FC events are found in the FFXIV discord.

ESO

A new expansion called Summerset will be arriving on Mon., May 21st for players on PC/Mac and coming June 5th to PS4 and XBox. It features 6 new areas, a new skill line called the Psijic Order (pronounced Psy - jick), a new Trial (like a raid), Jewelry crafting and much more.

The guild members have been sky shard farming since they know they will want skill points early on for the new jewelry crafting skill line.

STO

In the upcoming new expansion, you will be able to create Jem'Hadar captains. As Jem'Hadar are all cloned for specific paths, this means your new Jem'hadar captain will start at level 60. You will start with a full complement of Jem'Hadar bridge officers, a fully geared ship, and shuttle.

It also says you will also have pre-completed progress in Crafting, Specializations, and Reputations. All players will be able to create Jem'Hadar characters, but they are recommending new players to create a regular captain first to go through the tutorial and learn to play. There is a Jem'Hadar tutorial, but likely be more an introduction to the new features the Jem'Hadar have before they join a faction.

There will also be a special variant of Jem'Hadar that you can purchase in the c-store, Odo's Vanguard. These are a special premium breed carefully created under the watchful eye of Odo. They are identical as their lesser brethren, with the added bonus that their engineered soldier trait will also give bonuses to space combat.

Romulan captains may be happy to know that coming with the expansion, the Federation and KDF are going to allow the Romulan captains that have allied with them to fly most of their starships. So, if you have a Romulan captain and have been wanting to fly a Defiant class ship, you will soon get that option.

As for the fleet itself. We are currently focusing hard on the Spire holding, but also making steady progress on a few of the other holdings as well. When complete the Tier II of the Research branch of the Spire, we will have access to some of the best tactical consoles in the game.

And with that, let’s get back to Lanctharus and Hoots and find out what’s going on in EVE .

GAME NEWS

The Tenerifis Campaign aka Reasonable people doing things for Reasonable Reasons

So first a little story

We left GotG

    Things have gone kind of bad for them

    Theft, knifed in the back

    Leader lost his big golden space mushroom

Move to the dronelands with Russians

    We realized things were kind of bad

    DCU imploded

Moved again to crash on the Space Panda Couch

    The Kool-Aid Orange Keep

The “narrative” Welcome to the Hobo War

Wr are fighting a couple of old “friends”

    Waves at TEST

        Trying to keep the space pandas and their friends down

    Blow a kiss to BRAVE

        TEST’s off again, on again girlfriend

AIEU has 5 new active Fleet Commanders in the alliance

AIE operates a critical logistics chain

OpSec

OpSec

[Redacted OpSec}

AIEU creates community

Propaganda

DJ PvP

Content generation for Hoots

Battles of YF-P4X

Tuku the hero AIEU deserves

The freeporting of ZD1-Z2

Sneaky people doing sneaky things

That sneaky Lanctharus guy

You never call me in the Batphone!

Your typical fight as an FC as told by Lanc

No, I swear I didn’t call PL!

Ohs noes! We are getting ROFLSTOMPED

Corporate FC program

We pay you to be a hero

40 million ISK per fleet

Lots of new and returning faces

Max streaming EVE very soon

Holding the line and expanding the Empire

How Sov in EVE currently works

The creation of the AIEU Pop•Tarts© Entosis Doctrine

How do you take over a system?

How about a station?

Point to AIEU Discord here: https://discord.gg/G3etFXG

Odd things happen here

CLOSE

And that’s our show for tonight. While the chatroom begins suggesting show titles, we want to thank Lanctharus, Lars Gagner, and the ever lovable Tukucommin the explodable, first of his name for joining us tonight.

@lanctharus

@aie_universal

@Uncle_Tuku

If you have a question or comment about our show, you can email us at [email protected]. You can also follow us on Twitter. The show is at @aiepodcast. Mew is at @themewkow. Mkallah is at @cyberwaif,and Tetsemi is at @ivorytiger. 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 our Discord server for chat at https://bit.ly/AIEPodcastDiscord . Our theme was composed by the amazing Andrew Allen, follow him at @keyswithsoul! or visit his website http://keyswithsoul.com !

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

Overly Dramatic News - @HuntsTheWind

Next time, we’ll be talking to Abovan in FFXIV. So until then, AIE...

- This is Tetsemi

- This is Mkallah

- This is Mewkow

And this has been... The AIE Podcast.

On this episode of The AIE Podcast...

Mkallah: Twitching for more AIE content? We got you covered

Tetsemi: Take a Balloon Tour

Mewkow: FFXIV is going mobile

Mkallah: Capt’n, we need more ships!

Tetsemi: And, we have Max and Sema here to talk to us about AIE in SWTOR

All that and more coming up right now...

Podcast Audio

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Welcome to episode #297 of the the podcast celebrating you, the Alea Iacta Est gaming community, the die has been podcast. This is Mewkow: To my left is Mkallah: - (My craft sprawl has taken over the guild kitchen). And to my right is Tetsemi: (May the Force be with you or Serve you well). This week we are joined by special guests Max and Sema who is here to talk to us about AIE in SWTOR Welcome!

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

AIE News

Community

AIE is now active on Twitch and the AIE community is going to be streaming more often. Check out https://www.twitch.tv/communities/aieguild Plans are still in the works for hosting AIE community members streams, keep an eye out on the AIE Guild site and the AIE Discord in the #content-creators channel for more information and opportunities.

WoW - Noob raid http://www.twitch.tv/dankiniaplays

Streams every Saturday night at 11:00 pm Eastern. The only requirement is that you are level 110 and want to have fun with a bunch of AIE folks raiding. Spots fill up fast, so make sure you’re there on time!

SWTOR - The Escape Pod Cast - https://www.twitch.tv/newoverlords

SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 240: Ring My Belsavis

http://www.newoverlords.com/swtor-escape-pod-cast-240-ring-my-belsavis/

Sema & Max continue to play through the Sorc class story on Belsavis while we talk about in-game events and what else we'd like to see.

SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 241: Nothing But Nathema

http://www.newoverlords.com/swtor-escape-pod-cast-241-nothing-but-nathema/

Sema & Max are joined by guild member Zen to run the new Nathema flashpoint and talk about the conclusion to the Traitor story and the end of an era. (Thanks for playing Star Wars the Old Republic ?)

ESO - Streaming Mandatory Fun Nights on Friday - https://www.twitch.tv/thedurus

FFXIV - Follow along as Abovan wanders through Heavensward! - https://twitch.tv/abovan79

AIE Game Specific News

Community

This month’s community event will be the Balloon tours in WoW (more info in the WoW News section) and next month’s event will be the Midsummer Fire Festivals to steal Alliance Fires on Sunday June 24th from 2-4 pm EDT (Server time).

WoW

We are doing the Balloon Tours event on Friday, May 11th starting at 11pm server time (EST). It takes four people queued up for a balloon to launch on the tour so we will be coordinating everyone to make sure folks can get to see which tour they want to see. Keep an eye out for an article on the https://aie-guild.org website for more information.

And if you’re in the BfA Beta, just a reminder, we have a couple of co-guilds available for you to join. We’re on the Sylvanas server, on the Alliance side, so as not to spoil the Horde storyline. Just hop into the #lfo channel on the AIE Discord and ask for an invite.

SWTOR

See Guest Game News!

ESO

The newest chapter in the world of Tamriel, entitled Summerset, is going into pre-order pre-release on May 21st for the PC/Mac and for everyone (those plus PS4 and XBox1) on June 5th.

FFXIV

Patch 4.3 will be titled, Under the Moonlight, and will be available late may.

New 24-player raid, continuing the Ivalice storyline, Pharos at Ridorana. New 8-player trial that is still under wraps. New Deep Dungeon, Heaven-on-High. Less of a deep dungeon and more of a tall tower. Heaven-on-High will have 30 floors of story content with floors 31-100 as challenge content. For those that have gone through stormblood, at least the Doma part of Stormblood, you might remember the large criss-cross tower in the Ruby Sea.

The new FFXIV mobile app will be debuting on 4.3.

Free features include, chat, event planners, and manage market board items.

Premium (like for $$$) features include more saddle bag storage (extra bag space, but not for active items) and a retainer for more bank space and market board slots.

The Namazu Beast tribe (AKA the sentient catfish people) will have their own daily quest and reputation rewards, joining the rest of the grindable beast tribe factions. Eureka will be expanded into the Ice-aspect area. Solo players are getting adjustments to fare better in Eureka content. Items will be able to be withdrawn from your Glamour Dresser (This is the storage for items that you want to keep around for glamour purposes, which is FFXIV speak for Transmog.) Cross Realm link shells are now a thing. These are chat channels that can now invite people from different servers.

For the top tier raiders, a new Ultimate difficulty raid will be unleashed to make the raiders cry in the follow up patch, 4.31. This will be Ultima Weapon, one of the last bosses from A Realm Reborn. (The base game) Not a spoiler, since a) It's a Final Fantasy game, and b) It came out in 2013.

New 4 player dungeon, the Swallow's Compass

STO

Need more ships? Until May 7 10AM Pacific, 20% off all ships in the c-store. The ship and dry dock slots, and ship upgrade tokens are also 20% off. Also, if you buy Tier 5 ships, you will receive a free ship upgrade token

Phoenix Prize pack is back again. You have until May 10th 7AM Pacific to claim a daily free prize pack. You can also spend dilithium in the dilithium store to buy more prize packs for more chances at some T5 and T6 ships. The daily free prize pack can be picked up at Drozana Station.

Arena Sompek has returned also until May 7 10AM Pacific. You can claim a new ground weapon if you have completed the event 3 times. This time it is a pair of Tsunkatse Gloves, which will also unlock a new appearance at the tailor.

They are also offering a new "Elite Starter Pack." As STO shifts away from the monthly subscription, they are introducing the new starter pack as a way to unlock some of the monthly subscription rewards. The lifetime subscriptions are staying, and will still be available for purchase, so do not worry there. Once you pick up the starter pack, you will get one new character slot, 20 shared bank slots (the account wide bank), 5 captain retrain tokens, increase to your energy credit cap to 2 billion. And then once per character you can reclaim in the c-store to get 30 inventory slots, 60 bank slots and 2 bridge officer slots. If you have unlocked all this from other methods, like the regular monthly subscription, you will not lose any of these perks. If you have questions about this change, I highly recommend visiting the article about this: https://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/10883424

And last but not least. If you still want to create Delta Recruits, you have until May 17th. If you are unsure if you should create 1, I would highly recommend having at least 1 on your account. If you can, then it can be beneficial to have a romulan and a standard federation officer as delta recruits, as there are slightly different checkpoints for free account wide bonuses. This also works with KDF as well, with having its own story and unlocks for account wide bonuses.

EVE

AIEU is recruiting, if you are already in the system come back, it’s a great time to be alive. We are in the process of taking our own space, and are having frequent fights with our old alliance TEST.

GW2

Balance Patch is coming on May 8th, and includes a rework of underwater weapon and skills. Keep an eye out on the GW2 blog for more details the morning of May 8. https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/coming-soon-changes-to-underwater-skills/

LOTRO

25% Skirmish Marks weekend from 5/10/18 - 5/14/18

Lootbox Weekend from 5/17/18 - 5/21/18

VIP Event Boost from 5/24/18 - 5/29/18

And with that, let’s get back to Max & Sema and find out what’s going on in SWTOR!

GUEST GAME NEWS

Focus on guild activities and story of guild accomplishments

Hunt for Izax

Explain the content arc and GftM

Explain no lockouts

Reminder on what MFN is

Talk about our ops teams

Talk about everyone working together to get all ops teams killing Izax

Conquest

Talk about the system

Talk about the guild targets

Mention Sakic and BC (zen on republic, Arv on invading, etc.)

Mention the spreadsheets!

Reminder on patch notes if needed

Quick rundown of 5.9 patch notes

http://www.swtor.com/patchnotes

Nathema + traitor story (will talk about in detail during the run)

Double XP, CXP, Ship Req

Returning Companion: Felix Iresso – Consulars

Returning Companions: Akaavi Spar & Mako – Bounty Hunter and Smuggler

Conquest updates (talk about more next week with another possible guest)

Relatively minor class updates (tank nerfs don't seem too bad)

Izax fight tuning

New Augments

Introduction to Conquests and Intro to Black hole work again.

CLOSE

And that’s our show for tonight. While the chatroom begins suggesting show titles, we want to thank Max & Sema for joining us.

@AIESema

@MaxTheGrey

twitch.tv/newoverlords

If you have a question or comment about our show, you can email us at [email protected]. You can also follow us on Twitter. The show is at @aiepodcast. Mew is at @themewkow. Mkallah is at @cyberwaif,and Tetsemi is at @ivorytiger. 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 our Discord server for chat at https://bit.ly/AIEPodcastDiscord . Our theme was composed by the amazing Andrew Allen, follow him at @keyswithsoul! or visit his website http://keyswithsoul.com !

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

Altitis - @TheMewKow

Next time, we’ll be talking to Hoots and Lanc in EVE. So until then, AIE...

- This is Mewkow

- This is Mkallah

- This is Tetsemi

And this has been......

On this episode of The AIE Podcast...

Mewkow: Can you Volunteer for Guard Duty?

Tetsemi: 17 Raid lockouts and the time is short!

Mkallah: Ready for Raid Roulette?

Mewkow: Celebrate LOTRO 11th anniversary in style!

Tetsemi: And, Durus and Dankinia are here to talk to us about falling off the edge… we mean AIE in ESO

All that and more coming up right now...

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Welcome to episode #296 of the the podcast celebrating the Alea Iacta Est gaming community, the die has been podcast. This is Mkallah: To my left is Mewkow: - (Greetings, Gamers!). And to my right is Tetsemi: (catch phrase here). This week we are joined by special guests Durus and Dankinia who is here to talk to us about AIE in ESO Welcome!

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

AIE News

Community

Save the date - 10 pm to 11 pm server time, on April 28th, we are celebrating Volunteer Guard Day and we’ll be gathering in Orgrimmar to step into the shoes of a guard with a /salute and you’ll get to serve and protect the city just like them. Stay vigilant and watch out for any invaders. Pay attention to the AIE Discord #WoW and #General channels as well as the guild site for event times. There is reported to be a pet give away…. And other stuff.

Also, have you ever wanted to give someone some WoW Gametime, a little money for some Hearthstone cards, or just enough for them to buy Deckard Cain in Heroes of the storm but are just too busy to leave your house and hit the nearest shop for a game time card? Well, then Blizzard has some good news! You can now gift Blizzard balance directly to someone else who has a Battle.Net account, all without leaving your house and having to deal with people! Check out the article over at https://news.blizzard.com/en-us/blizzard/21707369/blizzard-balance-gifting-now-available

NOMADS

The new God of War is out, and stealing a lot of people’s time and energy. AIE Has a PS4 Community, so if you’re interested in joining just search for AIE and ask for an invite.

WoW

Ready Check Noise/Ham Horn - There are 17 Raid lockouts till Battle for Azeroth! Time to cross off all those bucket list items, get your Allied races leveled, plan for your Orc’s new posture thanks to the chiropractor, I mean barbershop, and drool over the sweet new hair styles with exclusive ‘glowy bits’ coming to the Alliance side allied races! (Boo!) But hey, we got the best Antlers in the house (Moo!)

The Battle for Lorderan is testable on the Alpha server (no voice overs or major spoiler cutscene available, yet) and shows what happens after the intro cinematic showing the two armies starting the battle. No word yet on Malfurion’s fumble fingers that started the fire in Teldrassil, but we’ll let you know when it’s available as well.

If you are leveling an allied race and don’t want to leave Pandaria at 90, good news, the XP from quests, gathering, and mob kills stays decent up to level 94, so no need to rush to Alternate Timeline Draenor, hang out in Pandaria, do the intro quest to Warlords, start your garrison, and you can head right over to Taledor without needing to deal with Frostfire or Gorgrond.

Also, if you haven’t run with Noob Raid, you haven’t gotten to enjoy events like this - https://clips.twitch.tv/SavageFunnyCobblerPanicBasket Shout out to Gijora, the magnificent b*****d that brilliantly executed the Mass Rez Cliff Jump taking the majority of the raid team to their death after the wipe.

SWTOR

Check out the great article that the SWTOR team put toger on the AIE guild hunt for Izax - https://aie-guild.org/blog/2018/04/aie-swtor-and-the-hunt-for-izax/ We have almost 100% of the active raid teams with a kill on the final boss from GftM (Gods from the Machine) and in two weeks patch 5.9 will drop bringing even more Conquest adjustments as well as new content.

Mandatory fun night is on the Imperial Side and we will be tackling the Emergency Operations. Any Operation from Eternity Vault up to Dread Palace is a conquest goal, so make sure to attend, help yourself and the guild get to their Conquest goals.

SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 238: For Whom The Belsavis Tolls

http://www.newoverlords.com/swtor-escape-pod-cast-238-for-whom-the-belsavis-tolls/

This week @AIESema, @MaxTheGrey and Astromech EPC-238 play through the Sorcerer class story between Hoth and Belsavis. We also talk about 5.9 class update notes and cover other news, including what's going on in our guild Alea Iacta Est.

SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 239: Save Us Belsavis

http://www.newoverlords.com/swtor-escape-pod-cast-239-save-us-belsavis/

This week @AIESema, @MaxTheGrey and Astromech EPC-239 continue to play through the Sorc class story on Belsavis while we talk about Conquest and say congrats to Eric Musco.

FFXIV

New things coming in patch 4.3: MSQ, more 24-man Return to Ivalice raids, new trials, 4 Lords (other trials), Ultimate Weapon's Refrain, new Beast Tribes, more Hildabrand, Heaven-on-High (the new POTD), Eureka updates if that is your thing, and the mysterious "Additional Updates"

Oh, and a new dungeon

Late May is the tentative date.

One of the additional update is the raid roulette, 8-player group finder in other words.

https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/patch/4_3 Teaser site up.

Goblin is still a preferred server, so new toons will get a road to 60 buff, up the level cap of Heavensward, the last xpack) which gives you 3X experience on all gains.

You can easily run your first class up to 60 on Main Story Questline exclusively. (Class and Job quests are still recommended to unlock skills, however)

STO

Research lab has fully completed upgraded. Be sure to visit it to buy your extra traits and research slots.

They are opening up the ability to create Delta Recruit captains again. You have until May 17th to create one. As you level up a Delta Recruit, you unlock bonuses for all your captains no matter the faction.

The next expansion, Victory is Life, is slated for June. The level cap will increase to 65. The story will be another step forward in the Deep Space 9 section of the Star Trek story. And as always, if possible, they always try to bring back the actors to voice their in game avatars. They are featuring episodes leading up to the release that start some of the pre-expansion lore.

People collecting ships, do not panic, T6 ships will stay as the top tier of ships. Though I would bet we will see stronger ships as time goes on. They do tend to slowly creep up the power of the ships as they release new ones.

EVE

After refusing to bend to (absent) Russian Overlords, AIEU moved to Chinese Pandemonium. Kind of clear to state that gaming there is totally different from playing on occidental servers.

LOTRO

LOTRO Bonus Days brings you LOTRO's 11th-anniversary celebration now through May 8th and Double Bonus Points now through April 29th!

Reclaim Middle-earth! Get 20% off now through April 26th:

Select Expansions & Expansion Quests (In-game only)

Enhanced XP Supply & Hornberg Token

Skirmishes & Instances

The 100% Mark Acquisition Boosts

The Weekly Coupon gets you +5% Attack Damage (90 min) with coupon code ATTKDMG now through April 26th

GW2

Monday fun nights are still a thing. They are like office hours...sometimes the line is around the corner, sometimes you get paperwork done.

There has been a change to how bonused gathering tools work. The bonus is now extractable and applyable to any gathering tool, even the consumable ones. A really nice QOL boost.

ESO

Anniversary event is ending on Monday. After that, the cake will be a lie.

ESO Plus will be free from 24-30 April. Current subs will get a free crown crate each day.

For more detail on what is going on in ESO, let’s get back to Durus and Dankinia !

GAME NEWS

"As a PTS participant, you'll have a watermark visible while playing to help us identify any possible NDA breaches. To reiterate: You can share almost all of your adventures in ESO: Summerset publicly, including Jewelry Crafting, the Cloudrest Trial, open world adventures, Abyssal Geysers, Delves, World Bosses, Public Dungeons, and anything in the base game, but any details related to the main quest and its storyline beyond “The Queen's Decree" is under NDA."

Elder Scrolls Online Talking Points

What’s all this ESO stuff about? Basic chat about the game and world. Sub model, free to play, Steam, PC, console, addons, etc.

The entire world scales. Jump in and play with friends now that you’ve been playing with in other games for years. Caveat: level 10 for dungeons, level 6 is when craftings starts.

What’s AIE doing in the game? How do guilds work?

How do you get involved with AIE in the game? Talk to us in-game or via Discord in the #lfo or #eso chat channels. No UMAMI needed.

Mega-servers but if you want to play with us it has to be NA PC.

Brief word about the economy and trade guilds.

Tips

ESO Plus - note upcoming free / crate promotion

https://www.elderscrollsonline.com/en-us/esoplus

Crafting

Inv / note the level 7 reward for 10 additional inv slots. Don’t buy the first ten until after level 7.

Addons. Use “Minion” : https://minion.mmoui.com/

If you don’t own the game currently. Morrowind is now rolled into Sumerset and the entire game can be bought / up to date and ready for update 18 on 21 May for PC.

Want to see us play the game? Talk about streams. The best way to get a glimpse of what the game is about.

Announcement summary for Summerset Isle

https://www.elderscrollsonline.com/en-us/news/post/26347

Summerset and Update 18 Info

https://www.elderscrollsonline.com/en-us/news/post/26341

CLOSE

And that’s our show for tonight. While the chatroom begins suggesting show titles, we want to thank Durus and Dankinia for joining us.

Dankinia My twitter is @dankinia and my twitch stream is http://twitch.tv/DankiniaPlays where you can see Noob Raid in action every Saturday night.

ESO userid: @dankinia

Durus is @thedurus on the Tweeters, and streams as http://twitch....

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...

Podcast Audio

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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 up later in the week depending on Conquest goals. As always please keep track of AIE Discord and the #SWTOR channel for up to date information and make sure you’ve completed your story line far enough to have your own ship.

Since we were gone both patch 5.8 and 5.8a dropped with a loud thud or clank depending on who you talk to. Major highlights were the Conquest overhaul, the return of followers and the final boss of GoTM, Izax. Links to both sets of notes are below, and the Conquest overhaul is a work in progress, to put it politely. There will be more changes ahead in patch 5.9 restoring some of the ability of alts to participate in Conquest and provide more variety in ways to participate in Conquest as well as more incentive for larger guilds to invade Medium and Large planets.

http://www.swtor.com/patchnotes/3202018/game-update-5.8

http://www.swtor.com/patchnotes/03272018/game-update-5.8a

SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 236: Boarding Party On

http://www.newoverlords.com/swtor-escape-pod-cast-236-boarding-party-on/

This week @AIESema, @MaxTheGrey and Astromech EPC-236 talk cartel and conquest updates while running a playthrough of the Boarding Party Flashpoint

SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 237: Reviving Revan

http://www.newoverlords.com/swtor-escape-pod-cast-237-reviving-revan/

This week @AIESema, @MaxTheGrey and Astromech EPC-237 run the Foundry Flashpoint and experience the introduction of Revan into the SWTOR story.

Cartel Market Direct Sale through Monday night. All items that came out of the cartel packs are available for direct sale.

FFXIV

There is a free login campaign currently running from March 27th through May 6th.

https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/topics/detail/6d6666ed8b669d6b6c6b9c6a38935191a68f0714

Eligibility -

Users who have previously purchased and registered FINAL FANTASY XIV.

All registered services accounts are set as inactive during the campaign period.

Registered service account must have been inactive for at least thirty days.

Also, for those that might have missed it, Eureka the forbidden land has been opened. Did you play FF11 and enjoyed the Notorious Mobs and camping them, the mad dash for mobs and resources? In a similar vein to the Palace of the Dead, you will have separate leveling in this new land. Interestingly enough, rumor has it that the dungeon queues have taken a hit as a result, and even DPS are in short supply there.

STO

https://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/10838844-victory-is-life-our-fourth-expansion%2C-coming-june-2018%21

Star Trek Online is incredibly proud to announce our fourth major expansion, Victory is Life. Paying homage to fan-favorite Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, this brand-new expansion will bring Captains to the Gamma Quadrant and beyond, in a new story kicked off by the invasion of the mysterious Hur’q.

In addition to new cast members and features, Victory is Life will raise the Star Trek Online level cap to 65, introduce a new queue, new progression systems, and will add a Sector Battlezone, a new gameplay feature that takes players into a war between the stars to save the Gamma Quadrant.

EVE

AIEU is moving again and trading Russian overlords for Chinese overlords. AIEU and it's aliance will be moving to a new region of space. Once there we will be paying the "IRON PRICE" for our space sovereignty. AIEU will be going to war!

https://aie-guild.org/blog/2018/04/a-special-message-from-the-eternal-beloved-aieu-space-dictator-hoots/

LOTRO

There are quite a few events currently running or upcoming in LOTRO.

Hobnanigans (Chicken Hockey until April 9th)

25% XP Boost April 12th through April 16th

LotRO 11 Anniversary starts April 19th

20% off Shared Wardrobe, Cosmetic Outfit Slots, Mounted combat Trait Spec, and select cosmetics in the store until April 12th

Code MARKAC gets a 100% Mark Acquisition (90 minutes) bonus until April 12th

ESO

In ESO, the guild is getting active again with the new content and fixes since launch making it a solid game. We had a guild dungeon run over the weekend and we have opened a guild house.

We now have a guild account and guild house set up in ESO. The account is @AIEGuild. To get to the guild house, right click on that account in the guild roster and select "Visit Primary Residence".

The house is located right on the outskirts of Rawl'kha with an Outlaws Den just out the back door and easy access to a small town with everything centrally located, bank, stable, wayshrine, crafting and some of the top guild traders.

Everyone in the guild right now is set up as a "decorator" and can move any decos around. Only the owner can place. If you have decos you want placed just mail them to @AIEGuild and I'll drop for you to move where you'd like. Once things settle down we can think about locking decorating but we can all just play around with it for now. Enjoy!

In game news, a new expansion was announced called Summerset(More on that in 2 weeks), and if you haven’t seen already, the anniversary event has begun. Make sure to find the baker in the starter cities and grab your cake memento. During the event, summoning and using the special cake will give you a huge XP boost. Also, make sure to grind those daily quests because during the event, they will also drop a special anniversary loot box full of goodies, and some super rare motifs and other epic items.

GW2

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/the-game/releases/march-29-2018/

From March 29th through April 19th the Super Adventure Festival will be running in Guild Wars 2.

Asuran genius Moto’s cutting-edge, high-tech ludonarrative triumph, the SUPER ADVENTURE BOX, is back for our annual festival of bouncing mushrooms, exploding flowers, and clouds with attitude. Jump into the future of edutainment…if you can handle that much adventure.

GAME NEWS

Cyberwaif

Not enough

Mewkow

Just watched Ready Player One. Like, literally an hour ago.

Far Cry 5 had my attention for the most part.

ESO had the latter bit of it.

Now starting up on Witcher 3.

And when I can sneak it in, I’ve been poking at the WoW Alpha.

Tetsemi

In WoW, leveling up the 4 allied races (2 Horde, 2 Alliance) (2 Alliance at 30, HMT at 66, and Nightbourne at 78). Working on my Alchemist, trying to get all the researched discoveries. Still raiding, but in a much more relaxed fashion now that we’ve killed Argus a few times. Still haven’t got the Pantheon trinket on Tetsemi, but we do have enough people with it on the raid team to get the bonus.

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On this episode of The AIE Podcast...

Tetsemi: DOA for April Fools!

Mewkow: Command Authority pushback!

Mkallah: STO on the beach

Tetsemi: There’s a bug in GW2

Mewkow: And we have Abovan who is here to talk to us about AIE in FFXIV

All that and more coming up right now...

Podcast Audio

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Welcome to episode #294 of the the podcast celebrating the Alea Iacta Est gaming community, the die has been podcast. This is Mkallah: To my left is Tetsemi: - (catch phrase here). And to my right is Mewkow: (catch phrase here). This week we are joined by special guests Abovan who is here to talk to us about AIE in FFXIV Welcome!

Tetsemi: Blame Shojobeat for this, 100%, I got all my WoW Professions to 800. If you have a raid team member that supplies cauldrons or potions of power for the raid team, do them a huge favor and send them Legion herbs each week. I knew Ben the Mage and Saisri were spending a bunch on this, but good lord, Alchemy is the worst for material costs. Also, when the WQ for Bacon is up, make sure you do it and send to your feast provider, fish is cheap, bacon is not.

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

AIE News

Imperium Ludi

Just a reminder for folks looking for AIE in other games, there are some folks active in The Division, check out the thread in our forums! - http://forum.myextralife.com/topic/57017-the-division/page-2

In ESO news, the next season of crown crates, the Scalecaller crate, is coming out March 15th. Your last chance to buy the current crate, the Flame Atronach, is on March 14th, so get them while you can. Also, if you hurry and log in today and kill at least one monster deserving of such a fate, you can get 1 free crate from the upcoming season.

NOMADS

Just a reminder that there is a new season in Diablo III so jump into the AIE Community in Diablo III and start rocking that seasonal character for rewards and profits. And don’t forget, any Paragon levels you achieve during the season are added to all your non-seasonal characters at the end of the season, so don’t just stop when you hit 70, keep going and benefit all your characters.

WoW

April Fools is coming up, and DOA is hosting a huge April Fools by taking extra guild members until we hit raid size cap. Message Syrene in game or on Discord for more info!

Don’t forget the Fools Rush in Challenge that GustyTail has issued to the community and now has extended to the first week of April, play a character class that you’re least familiar with, team up with friends, and go do dungeons and LFR!

http://forum.myextralife.com/topic/57485-april1-fools-rush-in-challenge/

How did you do in the Trial of Style? Did you make it to GustyTail’s Transmog Swap Meet last weekend before the Trial of Style? Let us know if you participated and how you did in the Trial of Style!

SWTOR

Patch 5.8, Command Authority, which was supposed to launch this Tuesday, has been pushed back a week to March 20th. This will bring with it the final boss Izax, the Destroyer. If you defeat it on the hardest difficulty, you will get a new achievement, a special and unique title, and a ‘very enticing’ legacy-based reward.

http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?p=9540049#edit9540049

Speaking of patch 5.8, it also bring in the new Conquest update as laid out in the forums post here http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?p=9549316#edit9549316 the biggest shift, is going to be how your Stronghold bonus is determined. No longer do you have to fill the stronghold with chairs to get 100% bonus, you just need to unlock all the room in a stronghold for it to count towards the Stronghold bonus. I think Max is going to have an un-chair-ing in some of his strongholds.

Mandatory Fun Night, where attendance is optional, but Fun is mandatory! Come hear Max’s tales of how the Imperial Explosive Conflict storyline goes on March 13th on the Imperial Side (of course) and then on March 20th, join us on the Republic Side for Tales from Karagga’s Palace!

If you haven’t heard Storytime by Max, or had Corley read the Codex entries to you, you’re missing out!

SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 232: Did I Mention Best Duelist?

http://www.newoverlords.com/swtor-escape-pod-cast-232-did-i-mention-best-duelist/

This week @AIESema, @MaxTheGrey and Astromech EPC-232 discuss the coming Conquest updates while our sorc story sets an Ashara trap on Taris.

SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 233: We Have Queshtions

http://www.newoverlords.com/swtor-escape-pod-cast-233-we-have-queshtions/

This week @AIESema, @MaxTheGrey and Astromech EPC-233 talk about some upcoming update clarifications in the news and continue our Sorc adventures, moving on to Quesh.

FFXIV

See Game Notes

STO

Into the beach event is currently going on. Completing the event 14 times get you a special ship console.

Lifetime subscription sale is going on now until early April. $100 off of the lifetime subscription.

Fleet holdings are making good progress. The K-13 station is closing in on unlocking tier 1, while we are closing in on finishing the final stage for the fleet research lab.

EVE

No major news, move ops should be over, things are getting back to normal. As normal as having a Russian bear as your friend is.

Also, As a followup to last weeks show, the folks in Eve have started a mentoring program and are taking new pilots under their wings and showing them how to force an enemy infrastructure to go into reinforce mode so it can be destroyed afterwords! 3 enemy bases were attacked and a good time was had by all!

GW2

Season 4 Episode 2, "A Bug in the System" was released. New map and new story chapter, can’t say much more that isn't slightly spoiler-y. Oh and new Legendary Dagger, the Claw of the Khan-Ur, an item of great lore importance to the charr, and pretty cool.

And with that, let’s get back to Abovan and find out what’s going on in FFXIV.

GAME NEWS

Patch 4.2

Been out for awhile now

Added new story content, continuing the Stormblood story, which is getting crazier by the patch.

New 8-players raid, Deltascape. FF6 Style bosses with a Kefka boss at the end.

Story and Savage modes available.

2 New Dungeons

For the fashionistas out there, the new weekly quest, Fashion Report is now available.

Get “judged” by an NPC at the Gold Saucer for rewards, based on a theme.

Submarines added, for the FC to build as a group to send out on missions, similar to the airships.

“The Ralff” airship has been completed and has been running missions for us to get unique crafting materials, eventually will level up far enough to allow items needed to craft up FC buffs.

Elemental Resistance is removed from the game! Rejoice!

Stackable items go from 99 to 999 per stack! Your bags, sacks I mean, will cry of not being overloaded again!

Chocobo saddle bags available! It’s like a bank that you can access in non-combat, non-instances areas. Your sacks will cry again in joy!

Duty recorder! Record your dungeon runs in-game! Play back from your vantage point or other players or NPCs. Store up to 3 dungeon runs.

Glamour Commode! Thanks to better a translator team than google translate, we have instead Glamour Dresser!

Lets us store gear for cosmetic and glamour purposes.

Can store sets of glamour.

Patch 4.25

This week! Maybe.

New Hildibrand quests.

The Forbidden Land!

144 players per zone

Separate leveling and progression

Friday Fun nights are still happening. Come as you are and we’ll find common content to run as a group.

AIE news!

Members can activate their own buffs now.

End game team is starting to form up, Speak with Abovan or Durus for details.

Plenty of new folks too, so getting started in the game isn’t a problem, as you will have other new players as well as seasoned folks to help you out.

Getting the game.

At the time of this recording, the game is on sale on the Square Enix Store.

Complete edition (Base game and all xpacks) 60 bucks, down to 30.

Stormblood Expansion, 40 bucks down to 20.

This includes both the PS4 version as well as the PC or Mac version.

CLOSE

Shoutouts:

Shout out to our favorite STO News reporter Cybyl who has been dealing with real life, we’ve missed her, but glad she was here tonight in the chat room!

And that’s our show for tonight. While the chat room begins suggesting show titles, we want to thank Abovan for joining us.

If you have a question or comment about our show, you can email us at [email protected]. You can also follow us on Twitter. The show is at @aiepodcast. Mew is at @themewkow. Mkallah is at @cyberwaif,and Tetsemi is at @ivorytiger. 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 our Discord server for chat at https://bit.ly/AIEPodcastDiscord . Our theme was composed by the amazing Andrew Allen, follow him at @keyswithsoul! or visit his website http://keyswithsoul.com !

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

Altitis - @TheMewKow

Quick program note, due to travel and Easter, we are taking a month off. We will return on April 8th! So, until then, AIE

- This is Mewkow

- This is Tetsemi

- This is Mkallah

And this has been... The AIE Podcast.