The AIE Podcast

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On this episode of The AIE Podcast...

- UMAMI has gone MIA

- Time to get your cloak on

- Research where no man has researched before

- Help the homeless hobbitses

- And we talk with Lanctharus about AIE in World of Warcraft..

All that and more coming up right now...

AIE NEWS

AIE: General

Just a head’s up for those of you looking to join AIE - our membership system, UMAMI, is currently down at the moment due to some unannounced changes at our hosting provider. This is also affecting our Jabber server, so our out-of-game Greenwall has taken the hit as well. Hang in there and we’re sure Stigguyver will have everything back up and working soon, using nothing more than duct tape, chicken wire, and some partially chewed bubble gum.

 

AIE: WOW

For you AIE World of Warcraft members who have put off the long grind to get your legendary cloak, like me, we’ve got good news! Starting a few days ago running until Monday June 30th, Blizzard will be applying the Gaze of the Black Prince buff, which will increase the reputation gain with the Black Prince by 100%, and greatly increase the chance of getting the sigils, runestones, and all those other annoying things when defeating his enemies. Big thanks to Ironclawed for posting that announcement, I guess I’ll finally try to finish that up.

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AIE: STO

In AIE Star Trek Online, Perfect World has leaked some of the details of their upcoming patch 9.5, which will include a new crafting system called Research and Development. As a bonus, the new R&D system will require fewer materials, so as not to take up so much bag space, and they will be adding more materials to different maps, so even if you go somewhere you’ve gone before, you just might find something new.

 

AIE: LOTRO

The hobbitses from AIE Lord of the Rings Online are looking for your help. They are still taking donations for their guild house, and will take anything, anything, that you care to offer. Extra junk taking up your bag space, leftover materials from your power crafting sessions, used coffee grounds, you name it. If you don’t need it, toss it in the guild chest and Bonroku will find some way of turning it into housing funds.

 

AIE: Spotlight

We’d like to give a shout out to AIE members Adarystus and Vynirendan, also known as Jesse and Aaron, hosts of the Life is Leet podcast, also known as “Nerds yelling at microphones about things”. They cover video games, anime, books, movies, and whatever else they feel like. You can find their show on the web at lifeisleet.com...And if you are or know an AIE member who hosts a podcast or does anything else rather impressive, let us know here at the show so we can brag about it. Email us at [email protected].

 

Ghomus Announcement - Stepping down after show 200

 

AIE: 200

We’d like to announce that episode 200, which should hit on July 17th, will be a very special show. We’ll have a number of special guests on to celebrate our 200th episode, and we’ll be saying farewell to Ghomus. We’d like to invite all of our listeners to send in anything they’d like us to share for either occasion, be it emails, audio files, or you name it. Send to [email protected] with the subject line “AIE 200”.

G: And with that...

 

GAME NEWS

 

[GUESTS: Put your show notes here.]

 

Hello everyone!

 

So the summer season is in effect.

 

So I wanted to talk about a couple of topics today.  They being how to avoid the summer doldrums and how exactly does the guild operate?

 

Something I call “peaking behind the curtain”.

 

How do I ensure that WoW still is fun for me?

 

Summer is always hard as people are will go on vacation or at the beach or god forbidden decide to spend time with their families.

 

Unfortunately this is the time that PvP groups, instance groups and Raids tend to fall apart.

 

With the march toward Warlords, Blizzard is going to try and entice us with in game rewards and bonuses.  Take my advice, CAPITALIZE on this as soon as you can.

 

AIE:WoW

 

So how does stuff works institutionally wise?

 

So the operations of the AIEGC is a complicated thing that requires hours of work form the various officer volunteers in the gaming community.

 

UMAMI

History of how invitations were done before

Then one day Stigg created UMAMI

 

Because of the sheer size of WoW we have created a rather unique managerial structure to keep things running smoothly.

The co guild top administration is split up between myself and Ashayo

This structure is designed that in case of a catastrophe Either Ash or myself can take

over control of all the guilds in a set period of time.

The Praetorian group is designed to deal with mid level managerial issues and can act as our functional lieutenants if for some reason we are not available.

Centurions handle the day to day operations of each fo the individual co-guilds.  They are the heart and soul of the officer corp.

process invitations, police chat and Vent

Craziness!

 

In addition we are constantly engaged in various discussions and debates amongst ourselves and the other division officers.

 

Now some people may have heard us talk about something call the Constabulary, what exactly is this?

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And that’s our show for tonight, We want to thank Lanctharus for joining us!

 

[GUESTS: We’ll ask you if you have anything you want to plug here - Twitter, Website, etc.]

 

@lanctharus

 

http://lanctharus.com

 

http://capstable.net

 

Next week we’ll be talking to the folks playing Final Fantasy XIV!

 

Stay tuned, as we’ve got a full ride of great AIE members segments coming right up, including…

Much Lesser Known Shas

Overly Dramatic News

Hailing Frequencies

Buxley’s Journal

Ask Miss Mulgra

Epic Diapers

 

But first, if you need to reach us, we can be found at...

- Email: [email protected]

- Twitter @aiepodcast, @shownotfound @acuzod @alludra_aie

- We record live with video every Thursday at 9pm Eastern/6pm Pacific. You can join the chatroom and play along with us, or watch one of our past shows, on our website at TheAIEPodcast.com

- Our theme was composed by the amazing Andrew Allen, follow him at @keyswithsoul! or visit his website keyswithsoul.com!

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On this episode of The AIE Podcast…

- UPDATE ALL THE THINGS!

- Mine Mine Mine

- Hello Tokyo

-  Take a cruise in space

- And we have Kav and Durus here to catch us up on Wildstar

All that and more coming up right now...

AIE NEWS

AIE WOW

For those of you in AIE World of Warcraft, you might want to check your Battle.Net account and make sure you’ve selected all the beta options. Blizzard has launched the Alpha for the Warlords of Draenor expansion, and invites have been going out hot and heavy this week. Though blue posts admit that it is mostly blizzard community influencers that have been selected in the first wave. Don’t lose heart though! More invites are sure to hit soon, and to be honest you aren’t missing much, the game is super ALPHA right now.

 

Did you get your double valor? The double valor buff is still going strong until June 10th. In case you missed it, blizzard is rewarding double the valor for all the things! Such as dungeons, quests, boss kills, and turning in your timeless isle coins. Unfortunately they did not double the valor cap, which means that it’s simply faster than ever before to get your characters to cap.

 

Azeroth choppers is airing their final episode starting today June 5th, announcing the winner of the community vote for best motorcycle! The winning faction will get a free mount in game! Not sure what’s going to happen with the other bike, do they explode it? Anyone been watching?

 

Today is also the final day to change your blizzcon ticket info! So if you haven’t already, go! Make sure the info is correct! You don’t want to miss out on the fun!!

 

AIE EVE

For the AIE Spreadsheets in Space gang, CCP has just launched the next expansion for EVE Online, called Kronos. It comes with updated ship models and graphics, new warp in and warp out animations, new ship animations, new sounds, and a whole lot more. Also, Vailgeek has announced a major mining operation to take place this Wednesday June 11th, at 1:30am server time. Which is like, who knows local time. Apparently there’s a glitch in the game, and undocking a spaceship keeps leading to it’s eventual explosion, so AIEU wants to keep the cupboards stocked, and you can help!

 

AIE TSW

AIE The Secret World is happy to announce that Tokyo is finally here! Funcom released Issue #9, “The Black Signal” this week, which brings a new chapter to the game’s storyline, new AEGIS gear improvements, and the zone of Tokyo. No mention has been made of a possible giant lizard attack, but you know, it is The Secret World, so it’ll probably happen.

 

AIE FF

Guess what else updated! Final Fantasy demands to not be outdone by all this updating/beta/new episode fun, and has launched patch 2.28! If you want to see patch notes that put the other games to shame, and frankly, are crazy though, check them out! This patch makes many awesome quality of life changes such as buffing duty roulette rewards, fixing broken bits, and just plain making the menus easier to navigate.

 

AIE STO

For the AIE Star Trek Online gang, Perfect World has announced the grand prize of this year’s Riza Summer Event, which is going on right now. Players who complete the Event Reputation will earn the Riza Luxury Liner. This ship is even more customizable than last year’s Riza Corvette, and comes with a powerful weapon called the Soliton Wave Generator. The Summer Event looks like a lot of fun, and of course STO is free to play, so get out there and explore!

 

AIE Imperium Ludi

Just a quick reminder from Ralff, AIE has a Diablo 3 gaming community. More information on how to join can be found on the AIE Wiki. And if Diablo isn’t your kind of game, odds are AIE members are playing something you’ll enjoy. Hit up the Imperium Ludi forums to find the plethora of games we’re into. This is a great time to be a gamer, and and even better time to be in AIE.

 

AIE General

And for those that might be new to the community, don’t forget you can hang out with AIE members outside of games as well. We have our own Ventrillo server for voice chat, and our own Jabber server for text chat, so you can kick it with AIE even when you’re stuck at work. Information on both can be found on the AIE Wiki.

 

And finally, one of AIE’s favorite community members, Kim Price, wrote in to let us know that Doghouse systems just announced a partnership with Blizzard to produce World of Warcraft themed PCs. You can now get a screaming new gaming rig with official Blizzard Horde artwork on the case, or if you really want to, I guess you could get an Alliance design, maybe, if, you know, you didn’t really want the coolest PC possible.

battlepets!! double the memory!!

 

And now, to hear all about the newest addition to the AIE Gaming Pantheon...

 

GAME NEWS

What is Wildstar

Payment model

Where are we in the GERP (Durus)

Long leveling art, 150+ Hours for beta for Kav

No Mac client at this time.

Working in cooperation with Star Travelers guild for Wildstar

Guild Neighborhoods coming

Active recruiting in Wildstar

Guild size, over 250

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And that’s our show for tonight, We want to thank Kav and Durus for joining us!

 

@samuraikav http://wildstar-Core.com

@thedurus

 

Next week we’ll be talking to They Who Have Not Been Named. Tuned in to see who it is!

 

Stay tuned, as we’ve got a full ride of great AIE members segments coming right up, including...

- Ask Miss Mulgra

- Azeroth Archives

- Overly Dramatic News

- Much Lesser Known Shas

But first, if you need to reach us, we can be found at...

- Email: [email protected]

- Twitter @aiepodcast, @shownotfound @acuzod @alludra_aie

- We record live with video every Thursday at 9pm Eastern/6pm Pacific. You can join the chatroom and play along with us, or watch one of our past shows, on our website at TheAIEPodcast.com

- Our theme was composed by the amazing Andrew Allen, follow him at @keyswithsoul! or visit his website keyswithsoul.com!

 

Gratz to Apolas for this week’s show title!

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On this episode of The AIE Podcast…

Ghomus tries to figure out how to do things on his own! And doesn’t do all that well!

Also, we have Grimbane and RattoZatto here to talk about the Secret World!

AIE NEWS

AIE EVE

The AIE in EVE Online gang will be holding a “Hunt Ourselves a Lanctharus” event. Tomorrow night, our...er...fearless leader will be flying around QETZ-W and while we all love Lanc, there has been a 100 MILLION ISK bounty put on his head. How can you not pass that up? A warning has been issued, that Lanc will most likely be shooting back. ;)

http://forum.myextralife.com/topic/53680-lets-go-hunt-ourselves-a-lanctharus-friday-may-30th-1000-pm-est/

http://forum.myextralife.com/topic/53669-stepping-up-a-new-challenger-has-entered/

 

AIE Nomads

Thanks to Lotwook for sending us this update! They are finishing out their stay in STO with a Fleet Marks run. Which is running around earning Marks to help complete guild projects.  Saturday 9pm EDT. This Wednesday June 4th at 9pm EDT they are power leveling alts in Diablo 3. They are talking an average of 1 level per minute up to lvl 35-40 range. This is done via highest level of torment which gives 16 x XP and a level 70 in the group. (I know it sounds exploity, but is well within Blizzards design and after level 40 there is a steep slow down in XP gains as mobs become much slower to kill for the lvl 70).  Starting June 6th they start their roam into Guild Wars 2. (as a note? this is NOT free to play, but a buy-once and don’t have to sub game)

 

AIE Wildstar

A server has been chosen for Wildstar’s headstart this weekend! For those who will be playing said game as it launches, look for AIE on the Stormtalon - PVE server, Exile side! We will of course be having the director and one of his officers next week right here on the show, but the launch happens sooner than that! Keep an eye on the forums for more information as things develop. http://wiki.aie-guild.org/index.php?title=Wildstar:Main_Page

Community

AIE is all about social gaming, whether we’re playing MMOs, boardgames around a table, console gaming, really anything!  And sometimes you might just want to sit and WATCH someone play a game that you know. Well Durus set up a thread here where if people are streaming, they can list who they are and a link to such!  Twitch seems to be rather quickly becoming the norm for these sorts of things, but there are all kinds of options!

Normally we don’t like to talk up too many Kickstarters because we don’t want this to just become a place people get sick of hearing about them, but making an exception for this one. SURELY most people in AIE have either watched Reading Rainbow, or have kids that did! LeVar Burton and company are bringing it back, and they need your help! The drive is going great thus far, but let’s see how high this one can go, bringing services to many schools in need! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/readingrainbow/bring-reading-rainbow-back-for-every-child-everywh  This funded in less than 13 hours, but more money won’t hurt a thing!

 

(Grimbane and Ghomus are already backers!)

GAME NEWS

[Redacted]  No Tokyo in May (The Dragon are to blame, even if it’s a Templar plot, financed by the Illuminati).

 

According to the Quarter 1 Financial report, it is coming out early June (Pyramidian willing), as well as other interesting bits of information about how well The Secret World is (or isn’t) doing financially, and as far as content is concerned.  Also, additional Funcom work is revealed about the new Lego Game, and future tablet and smartphone apps.  Also, Japanese male and female school uniforms coming in The Secret World, kind of, sort of, more closer to otaku style.

 

The Whispering Tide event has gone through a month-long change of pace, by allowing players to access previous content.  However, there was a bit of a community hub-ub when the Flappy raid was inaccessible for a brief period during this “replay” event.

 

We learned a bit about some of the major personalities and characters involved with the story.  Most notably, the identity of who’s perspective the Tokyo “tutorial” flashback belongs to that all players experience with their new characters.

-Sarah: Protégé to Arturo Castiglione, and a strong psychic conduit, after the events of what happened in the subway under the Orochi Corp. headquarters.

-Gozen:  Latest in an ancient family line that protects Japan from demonic and supernatural threats.  Think of the girls from Sakura Taisen(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakura_Wars), without the steam-punk mechs (unless she gets a mech)

-Inbeda: An oni who’s been cast out of demon society, but now runs a demon bodyguard and mercenary company.  He has a 300 year vendetta against the fellow oni who banished him.

-Daimon Kiyota: Head of the occult branch of the Yakuza.  He’s got a magic pachinko machine that predicts events.  The Dragon has a special eye out for him, as does he on them.

-Kurt ‘Buster’ Kuszczak: An Orochi Corp. tank pilot who’s suffering from the worst kind of post traumatic stress.  A skilled driver who was transferred to Japan, and was one of the first responders to The Incident in the subway, but now he’s the last untainted survivor of his unit, driven mad by the horrors and madness of The Filth.

http://www.thesecretworld.com/news/characters_of_tokyo

 

As far as progression goes, AIE has plateaued, but there’s been some outreach with another similar minded community, In Vino Veritas (In Wine (there is the) Truth).  If people have listened to previous news announcements on this podcast, DottWarner is one of the primary contacts AIE has with their community.  Many community members have shared in their friendly generosity, and have come back with new and vibrant enthusiasm to add to our own community.  For more information about our interactions with In Vino Veritas, check The Secret World section of our forums.

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RattoZatto can be followed on Twitter on @RattoZatto.

www.acrosstheboardgames.net

 

Grimbane is found at @sundryphotos

www.sundrycreations.net

Next week we’ll be talking to Kav and Durus about the newest game going through the AIE GERP process, Wildstar!

 

Stay tuned, as we’ve got a full ride of great AIE members segments coming right up, including...

Ask Miss Mulgra

Buxley’s Journal

Epic Diapers

Much Lesser-Known Shas

But first, if you need to reach us, we can be found at...

- Email: [email protected]

- Twitter @aiepodcast, @shownotfound @acuzod @alludra_aie

- We record live with video every Thursday at 9pm Eastern/6pm Pacific. You can join the chatroom and play along with us, or watch one of our past shows, on our website at TheAIEPodcast.com

- Our theme was composed by the amazing Andrew Allen, follow him at @keyswithsoul! or visit his website keyswithsoul.com!

 

Kudos to Lotwook for the show title!

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On this episode of The AIE Podcast...

- WoW crashes, in a good way!

- Spreadsheets in space are shipping out

- The Jedis are getting explosive

- And we have Abovan and Bonroku here to talk to us abotu AIE in Final Fantasy ARRRR

All that and more coming up right now...

 

AIE NEWS

AIE WoW

For those of you who just brought a number of new level 90 characters into the guild, but have no idea how to play them, don’t worry. Blizzard has published a number of “crash course” videos that give you a quick overview of one DPS specialization for each class in the game. You’ll find these on the Battle.Net site or in the link in our show notes.

 

AIE EVE

If you haven’t heard, AIE Universal is moving to a new section of space, and time is running out for you to get all your junk over to the new home. They will be closing down the corporation headquarters in Shamahi, so if you have stuff there, get it contracted to Stu ASAP. Deadline is this weekend, so get a move on, rookie.

 

AIE SWTOR

Arveshet is looking to put together a 16-man HM Explosive Conflict group this Wednesday, May 28th, at 8:30 Eastern. In addition to being a lot of fun, this will get everyone through the hardest part of the quest to get the Aratech speeder. If you’re level 50+ and want in on this, see Arveshet’s sign-up post in the SWTOR forums.

 

AIE Diablo

Blizzard has announce the overwhelmingly popular legendary drop rate that they came out with to celebrate their 15th anniversary has been so overwhelmingly popular that they’ve decide to keep it! That’s right, the base drop rate for legendary items has officially gone to plaid!

 

AIE Meetups

- Comicapalooza Friday May 23rd (tomorrow) 5:00pm, Houston, TX

- Kalamazoo Drafthouse, X-Men Days of Future Past viewing, Sunday May 25th 2:00pm Kalamazoo MI

 

And with that...

GAME NEWS

 

Welcome and hello once again!

We have gone over the entry level game before, and some patch content.

Live letter is tomorrow (Friday), so if you not listening live, there may be new patch content coming news available.

 

But for today, let’s talk the max level game of FFXIV.  Of the podcast’s own, Alludra is a brand new level 50.  So, let’s talk what can someone do, who is a brand new max level character in FFXIV.

 

This is accurate as of patch 2.25, incase you are listening to this as a download.  2.3 is coming soon!

 

Finish story quests, class quests.

 

50% XP bonus for defeating monsters on all other classes.

 

Start Relic

Relic Quest Line is in Appendix 1 at the bottom for reference.

 

Unlock Dungeons

The Wanderer’s Palace

Amdapor Keep

Pharos Sirus

Lost City of Amdapor

Copperbell Mines Hard Mode

Haukke Manor Hard Mode

Halitali Hard Mode

Brayflox’s Longstop Hard Mode

Unlock Trials

Hydra

Chimera

Garuda Hard Mode

Ifrit Hard Mode

Titan Hard Mode

Moogle King

Gigamesh

Levithan

 

Unlock High Level Roulettes

Main Scenario

Guildleve Roulettes

Low Level Dungeon Rolettes

Trial Roulettes

High Level Dungeon Rolettes

 

Beast Tribe Daily Quests

 

4 Stages of each, can do 6 quests a day.

Sylph

Amal’jaa

Sahagin

Kolbold

 

Main Scenario Quests

 

Patch 2.1 and 2.2 Added and expanded story content.

 

Hildebrand quest lines are awesome!

 

Crystal Tower

Small quest line to attune to CT.

 

Binding Coil of Bahamut

 

Unlock Extreme Mode Trials

 

Upgrade Gear

Crafted

Myth/Soldiery Tokens

Trials

Crystal Tower

Extreme Modes

Coil

Cross Skills

 

Challenge Logs

CLOSE

 

And that’s our show for tonight, We want to thank Abovan and  Bonroku for joining us!

 

Abovan: @abovan

 

Bonroku: @bonroku

 

Also, Chocobo Stable Podcast!

 

Next week we’ll be talking to the gang from The Secret World

 

Stay tuned, as we’ve got a full ride of great AIE members segments coming right up, including…

- Buxley’s Journal

- Ask Miss Mulgra

- Overly Dramatic News

- Mega Minute

- Much Lesser Known Shas

But first, if you need to reach us, we can be found at...

- Email: [email protected]

- Twitter @aiepodcast, @shownotfound @acuzod @alludra_aie

- We record live with video every Thursday at 9pm Eastern/6pm Pacific. You can join the chatroom and play along with us, or watch one of our past shows, on our website at TheAIEPodcast.com

- Our theme was composed by the amazing Andrew Allen, follow him at @keyswithsoul! or visit his website keyswithsoul.com!

 

Until next time, AIE.

- This is AcuZod

- This is Alludra

And this has been... The AIE Podcast.

 

Kudos to Kazrik for this week’s show title.

ADDITIONAL INFOS:

 

FFXIV Relic Weapon Quest.

 

Level 50

Finish your class and story quests

Talk to Nedrick Ironheart in Vesper Bay to pick up quest "A Relic Reborn"

Talk to Rowena in Revenant's Toll

Talk to Gerolt, in North Shroud

Go to directed Beastmen Stronghold and find quest item "broken relic weapon"

Zaha'rak = PLD, MNK

Natalan = BRD, DRG

U'Ghamaro Mines = WAR, WHM, BLM

Sapsa Spawning Grounds = SCH

Sylphlands = SMN

Aquire Class weapon and meld with 2 Grade 3 Materia

PLD = Aeolian Scimitar + 2 Battledance III

WAR = Barbarian's Bardiche + 2 Battledance III

MNK = Wilding Cesti + 2 Savage Aim III

DRG = Champion's Lance + 2 Savage Aim III

BRD = Longarm's Composite Bow + 2 Heaven's Eye III

WHM = Madman's Whispering Rod + 2 Quicktongue III

BLM = Sanguine Scepter + 2 Savage Might III

SCH = Erudite's Picatrix Of Healing + 2 Quicktongue III

SMN = Erudite's Picatrix Of Casting + 2 Savage Might III

Aquire Alumina Salts from D'horme Chimera in Coerthas. Must be the job you are working on the relic weapon for.  This can be done via the duty finder.

Aquire Amdapoor Glyph by running Amdapoor Keep. Must be the job you are working on the relic weapon for.  This can be done via the duty finder.  Turn in to Rowena in Revenant's Toll.

Slay 24 beastmen in respective stronghold.

PLD = 8x Zahar'ak Lancers, 8x Pugilists, 8x Thaumaturges

WAR = 8x U'Ghamaro Quarrymen, 8x Bedesmen, 8x Priests

MNK = 8x Zahar'ak Lancers, 8x Pugilists, 8x Archers

DRG = 8x Natalan Boldwings, 8x Fogcallers, 8x Swiftbeaks

BRD = 8x Natalan Boldwings, 8x Fogcallers, 8x Windtalons

WHM = 8x U'Ghamaro Quarrymen, 8x Bedesmen, 8x Priests

BLM = 8x U'Ghamaro Quarrymen, 8x Bedesmen, 8x Priests

SCH = 8x Sapsa Shelfspine, 8x Shelfclaw, 8x Shelftooth

SMN = 8x Sylpheed Sighs, 8x Screeches, 8x Snarls

Defeat Hydra.  This can be done via the Duty Finder Must be the job you are working on the relic weapon for.

Defeat Ifrit Hard Mode for the White-hot Ember.  This can be done via the Duty Finder Must be the job you are working on the relic weapon for.

Defeat Garuda Hard Mode for the Howling Gale. This can be done via the Duty Finder Must be the job you are working on the relic weapon for.

Defeat Titan Hard Mode for the Hyperfused Ore. This can be done via the Duty Finder Must be the job you are working on the relic weapon for.

Purchase Bottle of Radz-at-Han Quenching Oil for 225 Mythology Tombstones

Turn into Gerlot in North Shroud

Level 80 Relic Acquired!

To get level 90 Relic, need to farm up 900 Mythology Tombstones for 3 Thavnairian Mist in Revenant's Toll.

It is 3, regadless if you are a 2h weapon or 1h and a shield.  If you use a 2h, 3 are needed.  1h and an offhand, your offhand will be 1, and your weapon will then be 2.

Use the forge by Gerlot and you will get your Relic +1.

Level 90 Relic Acquired! (Zenith)

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On this episode of The AIE Podcast...

Diablo 3’s birthday!

Guild Wars 2 has some news!

Lanc is here to chat with us about World of Warcraft!

All that and more coming up right now...

 

(a note, the podcast has been reuploaded with a fixed version!)

 

AIE NEWS

Were you affected by the great ventrillo outage of 2014? It seems our service was interrupted for 24 hours! The officers were aware within an hour that it happened, but sadly there’s not much we can do to make typefrag work faster. Things are now up and running like normal! Remember, if you see something go pear shaped, let the officers know!

 

Final fantasy XIV

Free company bank update! As you know AIE in Final fantasy is saving up for a large guild house. This week Abovan was kind enough to give us an update! The guild is up to nearly 13 million! While that sounds like a lot, the house size we have our eye on is 48 million! If you want to help out just drop by any amount of gil into the Free company bank! Abo suggests hitting up the challenge log if you want to see easy money just roll in!

http://forum.myextralife.com/topic/53500-fc-bank-update/

 

Diablo

Diablo 3 birthday event! From may 15-22 diablo is celebrating their birthday the best way they know how, with epic loots! If you log in during this time you will receive double rift fragments as well as an additional 100% drop rate for legendary items within those same rifts! Remember you need the expansion Reaper of souls to do rifts.

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/blog/14005211/

 

Star Trek Online:

Saturday the 17th, at 4:00PST/7pm EST we will gather in Vent (the Ten Forward channel) to all watch the TOS episode "Nomad". We will all sync is up on Netflix (or what ever people will watch it on) and start at the same time and then (hopefully) hilarity ensues.

 

Guild Wars

What? Guild wars news? No way! But it’s true! The festival of the four winds is returning in honor of the Guild wars launch in china! The crown pavillion is reopened and there’s lots to do in the event! So go, have fun and play!

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/prepare-for-the-festival-of-the-four-winds/

 

AIE Imperium Ludi

It appears the Heroes of the Storm Alpha invites have been going out hot and heavy over the last couple of weeks. Zod (the omnipotent) wants to remind everyone in AIE getting their invite that the Friends system in the Heroes Alpha is separate from the regular Blizzard friends list, so you’ll need to add your friends to Heroes separately. You’ll also want to join the AIE chat channel in game. To do so, type /join AIE in the chat window.

AIE Meetups

AIE members, are you in or near Kalamazoo? Well Pelell is setting up another meetup to make up for the snowed out Hobbits. The tentitive date is Sunday May 25th, and the new movie is X-Men Days of Future Past. You can check in and give your opinions or RSVP on the forums and on the Meetup.com website.

http://forum.myextralife.com/topic/53495-aie-meetup-x-men-dofp-at-kalamazoo-drafthouse/

GAME NEWS

 

Wow busy time leading up to Summer but just because it’s getting close to vacation doesn’t mean we are taking a break.

 

Last month's Craft Faire went incredibly well.  Many thanks to Syrene and all her captains and lieutenants who helped put the whole thing on.

 

Speaking about AIE shenanigans, all hail Grimmcow who lead an epic four hour COOP run which completely and utterly decimated the Alliance.  I helped out to rally the troops and it always warms my heart to see such utter death and destruction.

 

By the way, if you are interested in running a COOP team DO EET!  Doo eet NAO!

 

So let’s see what we have to talk about.  Blizzard has been WoWing us (See what I did there)  with the new environment graphics and videos and character sneak peeks.  They showed us how lovely the new female Night Elf and Space Goat models will look like.  I am very much looking forward to facing these in the Battle grounds.

 

In addition we got to see two new mounts.  The Clockwork horse mount and a new Ravager mount.  I am personally looking forward to the new Talbuk mounts as it have a black battle Talbuk that I earned back in the Burning Crusade.  I am eagerly looking forward how Lanctahrus will look sitting atop this mount and let’s not forget that Blizzard is very likely to give us new models for our Blood Elves.

 

I am going to look FABULOUS!

 

Blizzard has a sale on a couple of vanity helmets:

Jewel of the Firelord

Hood of Hungering Darkness

Crown of Eternal Winter

Are all 33% off until May 20th.  That’s just $10.00 bucks a piece

 

Azeroth Choppers moved to end if we have time!

 

Now for some serious topics.

 

Blizzcon 2014 Tickets sales came and went and congrats to all those who got tickets.  We wanted to let you know that we have begun to dust off the machinery, lubricating all the gears to the AIE Blizzcon machine.  Currently we are planning to having the AIE meet and greet mixer and we will soon start looking at what it will take to fund and operate the guild hall.  Keep an eye out on the forums and this here podcast about all guild Blizzcon related news.

 

Also help make a Baby Metal performance a reality!

 

On November 2004 Blizzard released World of Warcraft and the world has never been the same since.  We have seen a lot of really cool stuff but we in AIE need something not only for us but for everybody who runs a guild in WoW.

 

We want offline guild invites.

 

Think about it, no longer having to wait until an officer is online to invite you into the guild.  Just request an invite and it could be handled within a short period of time.  We have already breached the topic on Twitter with a few select devs and during the summer we will be organizing a movement to have Blizzard include this feature which is present in every new and modern MMORPG into WoW.  We will be posting on Reddit, the official World of Warcraft forums and on Twitter.  We will be firmly but politely requesting this feature to be added in a future game update.

 

We need all of you to keep this request constantly on the minds of the WoW devs and community team.  We are aware of the current technological limitations of the current system but it is about time that Blizzard shows guild management a little love and attention.  You will be seeing more about this on the AIE forums and various guild member Twitter accounts.

 

Add your voice and make a difference not only to AIE but to every guild out there.

 

I will be doing my guild leader thing and will be contacting other larger guilds on other servers informing them about our drive in hopes that they add their voice to the cause.

So have you folks been watching the Azeroth Choppers web series?  I have and I have some good and some bad things to say about it.

 

Look at Lanctharus stepping on his soap box.

 

LikesDislikes

Great Production Too reality showey

Really cool Horde BikeAlliance bike….

SamwiseAlliance?  Really Metzen?  Really?

 

What I really hate

Fake manufactured drama.  You had 5 weeks, now you have 2 weeks

Dun dun duuun

So much stock footage of burly biker types looking hard, standing together

crossing their arms and looking grim.

CLOSE

And that’s our show for tonight, We want to thank Lanctharus]for joining us!

 

@lanctharus

 

Next week we’ll be talking to the fine folks from Final Fantasy.

 

Stay tuned, as we’ve got a full ride of great AIE members segments coming right up, including...

Ask Miss Mulgra

Azeroth Archives

Buxley’s Journal

Epic Diapers

Hailing Frequencies

Hunter Talk

Overly Dramatic News

Much Lesser Known Shas

But first, if you need to reach us, we can be found at...

- Email: [email protected]

- Twitter @aiepodcast, @shownotfound @acuzod @alludra_aie

- We record live with video every Thursday at 9pm Eastern/6pm Pacific. You can join the chatroom and play along with us, or watch one of our past shows, on our website at TheAIEPodcast.com

- Our theme was composed by the amazing Andrew Allen, follow him at @keyswithsoul! or visit his website keyswithsoul.com!

 

Thanks for Mewkow for the showtitle!

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On this episode of The AIE Podcast...

- The tickets are half gone!

- The Force is heating up!

- Someone’s looking for a fight!

- The Nomads are all over the place!

- And we have Stu here to talk about space battles with AIE in EVE Online

All that and more coming up right now...

 

AIE NEWS

 

AIE WOW:

Hey, AIE World of Warcraft members, are you going to BlizzCon? Were you lucky enough to get tickets yesterday? If not, you still have one more chance. The second and final round of tickets go on sale this weekend, Saturday May 10th, at 10pm Pacific. If fortune doesn’t smile on you, don’t fret, we are working on plans for this year’s AIE Town Hall. It’s still up in the air, so don’t buy any airline tickets yet, but if we do hold it again this year, it will be sooo worth going to. More news to follow in future broadcasts, so stay tuned.  Also, if you’re really into the art and design that goes into the game, you’re going to want to check out senior Art director Chris Robinson’s blog post from Tuesday, where he shows off one of the new zones they are working on for Warlords of Draenor, called Spires of Arak, and explains some of the technologies and hurdles that go into creating the world of Azeroth. It’s absolutely beautiful and fascinating. You can find the post in the World of Warcraft website, and we’ll have a link in our show notes.

 

AIE: SWTOR

From AIE in a galaxy far, far away, Kazrik posted a link to a Bioware article that came out yesterday with details on the upcoming Summer of SWTOR, due to launch on June 10th, and includes a casino, bonus rewards for PVP matches, an overhaul to the GroupFinder, and a far too many other treats to cover.  It sounds like the Force will definately be with you this summer.

 

AIE:TSW

AIE The Secret World member DottWarner will be running a PVP Achievement Farming events this weekend.. If you’re looking to gain some notches on your PVP belt, the runs will take place immediately following their normally scheduled raids, which are at Saturday at noon Pacific and Sunday at 10am Pacific, so the PVP event start times will be some point after then, and will include Stonehenge achievements if enough people show up, or Fight Club 10k player kills if not.

 

AIE:STO

The AIE Nomads gang will start their roam into AIE in Star Trek Online tomorrow, Friday May 9th. Capt Hunter and the rest of the AIE in STO gang are looking forward to greeting the wandering adventurers, and somehow have talked Perfect World into increasing the number of ship slots available to characters in order to celebrate. Ok, AIE probably had nothing to do with it, but it is true. Starting today, every character will have two extra ship slots available to them.

 

AIE: Nomads

And speaking of the AIE Nomads, the most recent minor league game vote has come to a close, and the winner, for the third time, is Marvel Heroes. So if you’re looking for a quick fun game to play with a bunch of AIE members, this is the one. However, the Nomads aren’t known for sitting still, and Lotwook has posted that the gang is also playing World of Tanks. Is that enough game for you yet?

 

AIE: Imperium Ludi

Actually, no, that’s not enough. AIE is now branching into Wildstar, and we’re pleased to announce that Space Admiral Kav has been named Director of the AIE Wildstar expansion. No news yet on what Kav’s plans are for the guild, but when the royal decrees come down, we’ll be sure to bring them to you.

 

No News

We didn’t find any big news this week for AIE in RIFT, GW2, or LOTRO. If you guys have something going on that we missed, please send it to us at [email protected], or of course, post in the forums!

 

Meetups

Comicapaloozza in Houston Friday May23rd at 5pm

 

Game Code Giveaway?

Gratz to cybyl for winning a copy of Mirror’s Edge!

 

BREAKING NEWS! Vent outage! http://t.co/5TB7qnwt0g

AIE EVE:

And now, for all the news from the land of Spreadsheets in Space….

 

GAME NEWS

 

[GUESTS: Put your show notes here.]

Hoots said he can’t come on the show any more, apparently he is banned for messing with the show notes when Ghomus was reading them.

 

Friday 5/9/2014.  It will start at 11:00pm ET

http://forum.myextralife.com/topic/53455-announcement-state-of-the-corporation-59/

 

EVE Valkyrie Keynote

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k07Uu7qUEa0

 

More EVE Valkyrie news, Game rebuilt in UNREAL Engine and Katie “Starbuck” Stackoff to be the game’s voice actress, Ran.

The game will offer Occulus Rift and Sony’s Morpheus VR headset

 

DUST 514 Keynote

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_GRjNL7l40

Project Legion

DUST 514 PS3 development to end? Project Legion announce for the PC to replace DUST 514.

http://www.polygon.com/2014/5/2/5674892/project-legion-PC-CCP

 

EVE Online Keynote

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k07Uu7qUEa0

CCP is moving away from two expansions a year model in favor of a 10 updates a year, new features to be released as they are ready.

http://www.polygon.com/2014/5/2/5675722/eve-online-kronos-expansion-ccp

The first expansion will be named Kronos

EVEN more new ships!

Tech 2 ORE Prospect

New Moa model

New Dominix

The Mordu Legion ships - Gamur (frigate), Orthrus (Cruiser), Barghest (Battleship)

Condor & Typhoon redesign

 

And all the other stuff we learned about

New warp in and out effects - Sonic Boom!

More ship rebalancing that you can shake a stick at

]The Phoenix is being rebalanced!  -Because it WAS terrible

Better New Player Experience -

 

So much Industry talk

T2 BPO CHANGES

LOWSEC-ONLY CONSTRUCTION ARRAYS

The EVE Prophecy Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFTUazuGdTw

Monument

http://eve.com/monument/name-finder/

 

CSM9!

One character, three games - EVE, Valkyrie & Legion/DUST

As announced by Halldor Fannor, CCP’s CTO

http://themittani.com/news/fanfest-2014-ccp-presents

 

So what has AIEU Been up to?

Last we spoke we had Join BRAVE collective and were having a blast

Formed a Coalition with our previous alliance TEST, NEXUS, and HONOR called HERO.

In March we deployed to the Derelik region to cause havoc and chaos in the Catch region. (Owned by Russian alliances -A- (AAA) and Darkness of Despair (DnD) )

Mid March to Early April Darkness of Despair was disbanded a director who was unhappy, for various reason. Release

Brave seized the opportunity and took Sovereignty for the first time ever.

Shortly thereafter, HERO started “BURN Catch” campaign

Now, HERO co are taking systems in Catch daily.

Hero coalition, including Brave and AIEU are now deploying to V-3… system to further press into the region.

AIEU is moving deployment from Shamahi(in Derelik) to QETZ-W in Catch.

Put corp Courier and item exchange contracts up for you doctrine ships if you want them moved.

Space Logistics is a lot of work! And Hoots doesn’t even feed me!

CLOSE

 

And that’s our show for tonight, We want to thank Stu for joining us!

 

http://capstable.net

or on Twitter: @_stupidgenius (Stu)  @capstable (the Show)

 

Next week we’ll be talking to the gang from World of Warcraft

 

Stay tuned, as we’ve got a full ride of great AIE members segments coming right up, including...

- Overly Dramatic News

- Buxley’s Journal

- Ask Miss Mulgra

- Much Lesser Known Shas

- Azeroth Archives

- Megaminute

- Hailing Frequencies

But first, if you need to reach us, we can be found at...

- Email: [email protected]

- Twitter @aiepodcast, @shownotfound @acuzod @alludra_aie

- We record live with video every Thursday at 9pm Eastern/6pm Pacific. You can join the chatroom and play along with us, or watch one of our past shows, on our website at TheAIEPodcast.com

- Our theme was composed by the amazing Andrew Allen, follow him at @keyswithsoul! or visit his website keyswithsoul.com!

 

Kudos to RattoZatto for this week’s show title!

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On this episode of The AIE Podcast...

Childrens Week is here. Time to get your PVP on.

Spreadsheets get slimmer

May the 4th be with you!

Where can you hear your chocobo?

And we have Ben and Jasmine here to chat about the creativity of AIE

All that and more coming up right now...

 

 

AIE NEWS

We start off this week with the grandaddy of AIE communities, AIE in World of Warcraft

It’s time once again for Children’s Week, that annual event that’s part of the Long Strange Journey achievement, well known for the number of highly annoying PVP actions you have to partake in. To help, DaboGyrl has re-posted her guide for knocking out the PVP events with as little stress as possible. If you still need to complete the Long Strange Journey, you’ll want to check out her tips. They’re in the AIE Azeroth forums under the title “The Dreaded Children’s Week”. And speaking of the forums, if you’re new to AIE and looking to get into raiding, or if you have a raid team looking to fill a few spots, don’t forget we have a section of the forums just for you. In the AIE Azerth forums you’ll find the Team Recriutment sub-forum, which will let you post yourself as a free agent, or post your raid team info, so prospective raiders can find you.

 

And now to spreadsheets in space with the AIE EVE crew. Due to all of the changes the AIE EVE gang has gone through, leaving TEST, Joining BRAVE, and now conquering the section of space known as Catch, the AIE Corporation is making some changes to streamline the pilot training and ship fitting process. They’ve reduced the number of fit recommendations, and changed the skill training plans to match. The changes are all in the wiki if you want to check them out.  And speaking of the wiki, Hoots has been working hard to rebuild the EVE wiki to make it easier to read and find information in. However, it’s a big job, and he’s asking for help double-checking everything. Anyone can edit the wiki, so if you see something missing or that could be explained better please jump right in and change it.

 

For you hobbitses in AIE in Lord of the Rings Online, the LOTRO 7th anniversary party started last Saturday, and it’s been so well received, that they decided to extend it. The anniversary event and all the goodies it contains will now run through May 6th. And in celebration of the 7th anniversary, the AIE LOTRO gang held a concert and played instruments in game, and apparently they’re pretty good. Lotwook says a wandering talent scout caught the act and the guild has been asked to play at a server-wide RP festival. No idea if that’s true or if Lotwook is just pulling our leg, but there you have it.

 

In a galaxy far far away with the AIE in Star Wars The Old Republic Just a reminder, there is a double XP weekend coming up, starting tomorrow, Friday May 2nd and running through Monday, May 5th. BioWare will also be giving everyone who has a SWTOR account on May 4th a free MT-4T Astromech droid mini-pet. (Looks kinda like an R2-D2) May the 4th be with you!

 

To celebrate the AIE Nomads crew jumping in with AIE in Star Trek Online, Captain Hunter is toying with the idea of holding a Mystery Star Trek 3000 event, where everyone will cue up the Nomad episode of The Original Series to the same point, start playing it at the same time, and then riff on it over vent. If you’ve ever seen MST3K or Riff Tracks, that’s what we’re talking about here. If you want to be a part of the fun, jump in his post in the forums.

 

For the AIE in Final Fintasy XIV gang,Abovan and Bonroku are starting a little side project they’re calling the Chocobo Stable Podcast. I think that’s an homage to another well known AIE podcast. They’ve posted episode 0, which is their demo of the idea, and would love some feedback from the rest of the FF gang. SO give it a listen and let them know what you think. It’s at chocobostable.libsyn.com

 

AIE: Others

We have no news this week from the AIE RIFT, The Secret World, or Guild Wars 2 guilds, so if you’re in one of those groups and want us to talk about you, email us at [email protected], or better yet, post it in the forums and we will find it.

 

Meetups

Here are the AIE meetups coming up in the next month...

- Spring Raid on Harry’s Hofbrau in San Jose on Saturday May 3d

- Comicapalooza in Houston Friday May 23rd

If you plan to attend either of these, RSVP on the AIE Meetup,com site, or better yet, sign up and start your own meetup!

 

And with that….

 

GAME NEWS

 

[GUESTS: Put your show notes here.]

Topic: Content creation and AIE Community

AIE has a ton of content creators in the community. Rather than break off and create their own communities these wonderful people stay and add to AIE, or even join us!

CLOSE

 

And that’s our show for tonight, We want to thank Ben and Jasmine for joining us!

 

JASMINE:

 

irljasmine.com

twitter.com/irljasmine

twitch.tv/irljasmine

facebook.com/irljasmine

 

Ben:

twitter.com/althemage

Battlepets: Battlepet.net

Azeroth Roundtable: Azerothroundtable.com

Flex Mode: Stormridecast.libsyn.com

Geektopia: Website coming soon!

 

Next week we’ll be talking to the game from AIE EVE

 

Stay tuned, as we’ve got a full ride of great AIE members segments coming right up, including...

- Hunter Talk

- Ask Miss Mulgra

- Much Lesser Known Shas

- Alludra’s Pets

 

But first, if you would like to interact with the show...

- Email: [email protected]

- Twitter @aiepodcast, @shownotfound @acuzod @alludra_aie

- We record live with video every Thursday at 9pm Eastern/6pm Pacific. You can join the chatroom and play along with us, or watch one of our past shows, on our website at TheAIEPodcast.com

- Our theme was composed by the amazing Andrew Allen, follow him at @keyswithsoul! or visit his website keyswithsoul.com!

Kudos to NerdEsq for this week’s show title.

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On this episode of The AIE Podcast...

-The Craft Faire is Here!

- Spreadsheets are shipping out

- We’re getting the band back together

- Something is happening in Anaheim

- And we have Lotwook here to talk to us about AIE Nomads

All that and more coming up right now...

AIE NEWS

AIE: New Member!

A huge congrats to Siv for the new addition to his family! Charlie Ann was born on 4/22 and is happy healthy and all the things you hope in a new addition to the family! If you would like to send congratulations, twitter seems to be the place! Just tweet @siv_aie

 

AIE: World of Warcraft

Lots to talk about for the AIE World of Warcraft gang this week. First up, after months of preparation and planning, the Spring Craft Faire is finally here. The craft faire will be held this Saturday, April 26th, from 4pm to 7pm server time, and continued on Sunday, April 27th, from 2pm to 5pm, server time, so get your new and boosted characters to Silvermoon and crank up those skills.

 

As you heard here on this show last week, Syrene put out a challenge for people to send in full bags of materials in order to be entered in a mini-raffle for two Sky Golems, and the response was overwhelming. She had 110 full emails full of mats, plus tons of extra mats that didn’t meet the rules for the challenge, but were extremely awesome nonetheless. You guys rock. And we’re happy to announce the winners of the mini-raffle are Zerrakim and Nunemacher! Congrats you two! Please track down Syrene this weekend at the craft faire to collect your prizes. Thanks to Edelody and Cowpoeria for volunteering their virtual dice rolling skills to select the winners.

 

If you’d like to win a prize of your own, don’t forget the craft faire is also holding a huge Craft Faire Raffle. Tickets are 100 gold each, which you can send to Seriewa. [S-E-R-I-E-W-A]. Ticket sales end at 11pm server time tomorrow, Friday April 25th. Any gold that comes in after that point will be returned to sender. There are some rules and regulations for the raffle, which you can find in the AIE wiki, along with a list of all the current prizes, which includes six sky golem mounts, an X-51 Nether-Rocket X-TREME mount, around 50 rare companion pets, eleven 28-slot bags, and a lot more, and people are still donating items for the raffle, so you probably want to get in on this. And just to mention it, all gold received in ticket sales is used to purchase more prizes for the raffle and cover some of the in-game costs of running the craft faire. Nobody is making any money on this.

 

There will be also be a  COOP run on Saturday. Meet up at the death blimp in Orgrimmar at 8pm if you’d like to bring some love to the Alliance.

 

And of course we’d be remiss if we didn’t mention that Blizzard has finally announced that there will be a Blizzcon this year. It will be held at the Anaheim Convention Center in California on November 7th and 8th. Tickets will be on sale on May 7th and 10th for $200 a pop. Even at that price, they’re expected to sell out in seconds, so make sure you call in sick, tell your friends you’ll be busy, and be ready with some fast fingers.  The really good news is that this means there will also be an AIE Guild Hall. this year! We’re still working out the details, but even if you don’t win the lottery and get Blizzcon tickets, you’ll want to come anyway and spend two days hanging out with us in the Guild Hall across the street. It’s a total blast, and some say even more fun than Blizzcon itself. Stay tuned for more information.

 

AIE: EVE Online

We move now to spreadsheets in space with the AIE EVE gang. This week Hoots announced they are working on the logistics in preparation for the continued invasion and occupation of Catch, which is a region of space in the game. If you’re looking to fleet up and join the fun, make sure to move all of your ships and anything else you want to take with you to the corporation station in Shamahi as soon as possible so they can arrange the transportation details..

 

Also, if you joined in with AIE’s alliance with the Brave collective, but haven’t logged into the game in a week or two, please be aware that all of the API keys you used to sign up with Brave have been leaked online by a rogue Brave IT administrator. Someone having your API key doesn’t give them the ability to log into your account or steal anything, so it’s somewhat harmless, but it does let them see all of your ships, your inventory, kills and deaths, etc., which may be pretty bad in some circumstances, so if you haven’t yet, sign into your Eve account and delete the API key you used for Brave, and then of course make a new one and re-enter it in your Brave account.

AIE: Star Wars the Old Republic

For all you AIE Jedis and Smugglers in Star Wars the Old Republic that have been looking forward to Galactic Strongholds coming out in June, Bioware has announced they are pushing the release back a couple of months, with Early Access starting in August instead. The good news is that they are using the extra time to add extra features they hadn’t originally planned, including conquest events that let you use the power of your stronghold to dominate the event, Guild Flagships that will let you buff your guild members from orbit and instantly transport entire groups to your personal coordinates, a new stronghold on Tatooine,and much more. We’ll be sure to ask the SWTOR gang about all the details the next time they’re on the show.

 

And speaking about asking a SWTOR guildie something, the leader of the AIE SWTOR gang, Emperor Pellpeltine himself, is in the hot seat this week. Ask him anything you want to know in the Ask a SWTOR Guildie thread in the forums. But keep it clean of course. We don’t want another incident like last time.

 

AIE: Lord of the Rings Online

And coming up in the AIE Lord of the Rings Online clan, this weekend they will be holding a kinship party complete with live music. Yes, you can actually play instruments in the game. And to make sure it goes well, there will be a band rehearsal tomorrow, Friday April 25th, at 8pm Eastern. If you want to join the band, just meet up at the guild house and you’re in. I think they’re pretty lax on the requirements for musical ability. And if you can’t even play an instrument, show up and they’ll teach you. There is room for two students, and it’s first come first served, so you might want to be there early.

 

AIE: Star Trek Online

And for you federalies from AIE in Star Trek Online, Season 9 has launched. Earth Space Dock has been remodeled, Borg and Undine missions have been revamped, plus a lot more that we’ll talk to the AIE STO gang about coming up soon, and Captain Hunter reports that the new Earth Space Dock is awesome, so get in there and check it out.

 

AIE: Elder Scrolls Online

For you Elder Scrolls folks, enjoying the latest game in the AIE collection, Grimbane would like to remind everyone that the guild bank is there to help everyone out, and understands if new players don’t have anything to contribute, but at the same time, don’t take everything you can get your hands on. Be sure to leave things for others, only take things appropriate for your character immediately, and add what you can when you can. Right now everyone has full access to the bank, but that could easily change.

 

AIE: Other Games

For those of you in AIE in The Secret World, Guild Wars 2, Final Fantasy, and Steam, we didn’t come across any big news for you guys this week, so if we missed something, or something awesome happens in the next week, be sure to email it to us at [email protected]. Huge thanks to everyone who contributed to this week’s show.

 

AIE: Meetup

There will be a meetup at Harry’s Hofbrau in the San Francisco/San jose area next weekend, Saturday May 3rd, at 1:30pm. If you’re in the area and plan to attend, hit the AIE Meetup.com site and RSVP. ANd if you’re not in the area, go to the Meetup.com site anyway and register your own local AIE meetup, so we can talk about it.

 

BREAKING NEWS: This saturday is buxley’s birthday!! Happy birthday buxley!! We see you in the chatroom!

 

AIE: Nomads

And finally, we turn to Lotwook to fill us in on all of the news from the AIE Nomads gang. Lotwook, take it away...

 

GAME NEWS

 

A brief overview of the Nomads group

AIE major league roams - decision to go 3 weeks instead of 4. (As it turns out we are more ADD then we thought!)

What to do in this 4th week?

Room for “meta” interests - Game reviews, wiki updates, podcast bumper, artists, “off shift” leaders etc.

Weekly "Minor League" games - How they are decided

Group makeup (no, not as in lipstick) - The “roster” and a story about a "new gamer"

We have a Tshirt which can be found at slashloot.com

 

The list of past minor league games: Warframe, Path of Exile, Hearthstone, Neverwinter, Diablo 3, Marvel Heroes.

 

A look back at Past Roams: Rift and SWTOR. What each had to offer

 

Current Roam : LOTRO.

A look back at the fun so far and what LOTRO has to offer

This Saturday April 26th is Kinship party! Band Practice is tomorrow Friday April 25th

 

Next Roam: STO starting May 9th.

We're in the beginning stages of building a calendar for the Roam

Episode 9 has come with some new content. (This means big patch. Download early!)

Like Rift, STO is level multi-level friendly

Thinks to consider for STO:

Get downloading! and submit your UMAMI app.

You will need to finishing the tutorial before joining the guild (game mechanics)

If you are playing Romulans you will need to be level 10 before joining the guild (again game mechanics).

It's suggested to be level 10ish on or around May 9th.

 

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On this episode of The AIE Podcast...

- Role Playing, in an RPG?

- Craft Faire Pet Battles!

- Food!

- The Hobbitses are partying!

- And Syreyne is here to talk to us about WoW’s Craft Faire!

All that and more coming up right now...

AIE NEWS

AIE WOW: Welcoming The Sun Role Playing Event

It might be hard to remember that the AIE World of Warcraft guild is founded on a roleplaying server, but AIE member Ironclawed definitely remembers. She will be hosting a role playing event to celebrate the Spring Equinox. (Yes, the Spring Equinox was last month, but who’s counting?) The event will be held tomorrow, Friday April 18th, at 8pm server time, starting in Bloodhoof Village and will include a pilgrimage to Red Rocks for the celebration with a return to Bloodhoof for feasting and story telling.

AIE WOW: Spring Craft Faire Pet Battle Tournament and Transmog Contest

As if the AIE WoW Spring Craft Fair wasn’t a big enough event in itself, with all the skill leveling, raffle giveaways, and everything  else Syrene is going to fill us in on in a few minutes, Nevermore has just announced a Spring Craft Faire Pet Battle Tournament and a “My Battle Pet and Me” transmog contest. The event will be held on Sunday, April 27th, from 7pm to 9pm server time in the Crusader’s Coliseum at the Argent Tournament Grounds in Icecrown. The winner of the tournament will get to choose either a rascal-bot or darkmoon eye as their prize. You have to have at least three level 25 battle pets to play in the tournament, and you need to register in advance so they can get the brackets all set up. But if you don’t have three level 25 pets, or just want to show off your fashionista skills, there will be a transmog contest immediately following the tournament. To join, just choose your favorite companion pet and create the perfect transmog outfit to match. For more information and to register for the tournament, check out her thread in the AIE Azeroth section of the forums.

 

AIE General: Food, yum

This is also in the AIE Azeroth section of the forums, but it really applies to everyone, because who doesn’t like food, right? AIE member Moozedude has started a thread asking for everyone’s favorite eats, so if you have a recipe that you’d love to share, or are just looking for ideas for dinner, check it out. This is not the first time the AIE forums have been flooded with food, and it’s probably a good time to remind people that we actually have our own AIE Cookbook, full of great recipes submitted by the members of AIE, with custom artwork by the Gerpmeister himself. It’s in the Frogpants store for only $19.95, and all profits go to fund the various servers and services used the guild.

 

AIE LOTRO: April Events

For all you Hobbitses lovers out there, Dux has posted a few events coming up for AIE in LOTRO this month. Update 13 was launched earlier this week, and there will be 7th anniversary games coming out later this month, but to add to that, the AIE clan will be holding a PvMP tour of the Ettenmoors on the 19th, and a Kinship party with live music on the 26th. Dux didn’t post too many details, so if these events sound like fun, go track him down in game and find out more.

 

AIE STO: Double XP Weekend & Mining info

For the AIE Star Trek Online crew, Capt Hunter wants you to know that from now until Monday the 21st, STO will be holding a double XP weekend event. All missions and events will earn you double the experience, so if you’re still leveling up your captain, be sure to check it out. And if you’re looking for something to do, Capt Hunter also recommends digging into their private dilithium mine. You can grab a shuttle from their starbase to the mine, knock out your mining dailies, get your mining duty officers on task, and do it all for double the XP.

AIE FF: PS3 to PS4 Upgrade

And last, AIE Final Fantasy member Jehdai posted that Square Enix is giving away free upgrades for Final Fantasy ARR from the PS3 version to the PS4 version from now until the end of the year. So if you’ve moved on up to the new Playstation platform, you can take your Final Fantasy with you. This is a permanent transfer, you won’t be able to play it on the PS3 anymore after you upgrade, but who wants to play on a last-gen console anyway, right?

Meetups

Here are the meetups on the calendar at the AIE Meetup.com site….

Tomorrow, April 18th, 3pm,  AwesomeCon in Washington DC at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center

Saturday, May 3rd, 3pm, Spring Raid on Harry's Hofbrau (SF Bay Area/San Jose)

Friday, May 23, 5pm, Comicpalooza in Houston Texas

To RSVP for any of these meetups, or to plan your own get-together with your local AIE members, head to Meetup.com and search for Alea Iacta Est.

 

And with that….

GAME NEWS

Craft Faire Events

The Craft Faire is a guild wide event held twice a year in Silvermoon City in loving memory of Milliway.  This event brings the whole guild together for the singular purpose of helping out their fellow guild members.  We spend months gathering materials throughout Azeroth and stockpiling them until the weekend of the Craft Faire.  And what do we do with them?  We give them away to guildies to level up their professional skills.  So, if you’re a new 90 and haven’t bothered with professions yet, and you have an AIE guild tag, then join us at the Faire and level up Engineering or Tailoring or any other profession.  Maybe you’re only level 40 and just got fast ground riding and want to get your Mining maxed.  We can help with that too.

 

This year the Faire will be held on April 26th from 4pm to 7pm server time (EST) and on April 27th from 2pm to 5pm server time (EST).  One thing we brought back this time was to have everyone pre-register for the Faire.  With all the new boosted 90 toons, the captains didn’t want to get blind-sided.  The registration form is available on the AIE forums.  Another new thing we did this time was to create an open Google doc with a list of all the materials we still need for the Faire.  So instead of going to 10 different spreadsheets and trying to read them, we have it all in one place as a simple document.

 

One way to help us gather the materials we need is to join the Victory Garden group.  They are planting the crop of the day and other Panda material seeds and sending in their harvests.

 

One of the biggest things we still need are volunteers to help work the Faire.  We are still looking for people to help out the Enchanting and First Aid Captains.  And we can always use mages for teleporting people to Silvermoon or people with multi-passenger mounts to be taxi drivers.

 

The Craft Faire is one of the largest events we have in World of Warcraft, and it wouldn’t be possible without the generosity of our guild members.  Thank you to everyone, past and present, that has ever donated their time or farmed materials to make this all happen.

 

Raffle:

Don’t forget, we also have the Craft Faire raffle going on.  At last count, we were up to 5 Sky Golems, a bunch of crafted 553 gear, a ton of rare pets, and some Royal Satchel bags.  Tickets are 100 gold each.  Rules for entry and other fun info is on the AIE wiki (wiki.aie-guild.org).  Some of you may wonder what we do with the gold.  Well, a very small percentage is used to buy storage banks and last minute materials on the auction house.  The rest goes into prizes for the raffle.  Like vendor mats to make Sandstone Drakes, or buying 3-person mammoth’s in Dalaran, or if there’s enough, the awesome Yaks.  The gold doesn’t go into the co-guilds’ banks nor do we keep it.  That means, the more tickets that are bought, the more prizes we can buy to give away.

 

We also have some other events going on that same weekend.

 

Pet Battling Event:  Noted above in News

COOP:  Maybe….Possibly….???   We don’t know but we think so!! Watch the forums for info!

After Party:  Sunday after Faire at Gallywix’s.  This is when we will be announcing winners of the Raffle.

 

FULL Mail with Full Stacks to Seriewa (so all 12 slots) till Wednesday Night!

 

Gave away Dead Space Key to the chatroom!

 

CLOSE

 

And that’s our show for tonight, We want to thank Syreyne for joining us!

 

Twitter: @SyreyneAIE

Craft Faire Info:  http://wiki.aie-guild.org/index.php?title=Craft_Faire

 

Next week we’ll be talking to the Nomads!

 

Stay tuned, as we’ve got a full ride of great AIE members segments coming right up, including...

- Hailing Frequecies

- Buxley’s Journal

- Ask Miss Mulgra

- Much Lesser Known-Shas

- MegaMinute

- Overly Dramatic News

- Hunter Talk

- Azeroth Archives

 

But first, if you need to reach us, we can be found at...

- Email: [email protected]

- Twitter @aiepodcast, @shownotfound @acuzod @alludra_aie

- We record live with video every Thursday at 9pm Eastern/6pm Pacific. You can join the chatroom and play along with us, or watch one of our past shows, on our website at TheAIEPodcast.com

- Our theme was composed by the amazing Andrew Allen, follow him at @keyswithsoul! or visit his website keyswithsoul.com!

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Until next time, AIE...

- This is Ghomus

-  This is Alludra

- This is AcuZod

And this has been... The AIE Podcast.

 

Kudos to cybyl for this week’s show title.

On this episode of The AIE Podcast...

-  We have Guild Wars 2 News!

- The Nomads are moving on

- EVE gets down to business

- Appreciate your junior officer!

- And we have Grimbane here to talk to us about AIE’s venture into Elder Scrolls Online

All that and more coming up right now...

 

AIE NEWS

As we mentioned last week, the World of Warcraft 6.0 patch notes have been released. These are in beta, and will undoubtedly change before the next expansion goes live, but Old Man Franks has started a spirited discussion in the forums, asking what people think of them. So if you have any thoughts, comments, or gripes, or just wanted to see what your fellow Azerothians are saying, check out his forum thread.

 

I know it sounds like we remind you about this every week, but don’t worry, there are only two weeks left for us to tell you that the AIE World of Warcraft 2014 Spring Craft Fair is about to happen. It’s almost time to get that new level 90 you boosted all skilled up. If you just joined AIE and don’t know what I’m talking about, go to the forums and read up up about the event on Syrene’s post. It’s probably our single largest in-game social gathering, and is something you just have to see.

 

It’s time once again for Ask a SWTOR Guildie. This time Maelchon is in the hot seat, so if there’s anything you ever wanted to know about him, now is the time to ask. So far Maelchon has answered who his favorite raid team member is, what color his light saber would be in real life, his favorite guilty pleasure, and more. To find out the answers, and ask your own questions, hit the forums.

 

Microsoft isn’t the only company to get a major reorganization. AIE EVE just announced a change to their corporation org chart. Several AIE members are taking on division head roles in different aspects of the game. (Game? Doesn’t sound like a game does it?) Hoots is in charge of Diplomacy, Lanctharus is heading up Military, Stu is handling Logistics, Kuda has taken on Manufacturing and Industry, and Orsalis is leading Recon and Intel. If you’re a spreadsheet spacer interested in helping in any of those divisions, contact those guys at once. Unless you’re a spai of course.

 

Also in the same universe, elections have started for seats on the Council of Stellar Management, which is the player-selected group of representatives that work with CCP to help make EVE a better game (Nope, still doesn’t sound like a game). Voting ends on April 22nd, and Hoots, Lanc, Stu, and Kuda have spent the last several months interviewing candidates for their Cap Stable podcast to help you make an informed decision. They have interviewed 28 of the 46 candidates, so they’ve really done their homework.

 

The AIE Nomads are finishing up their roam into SWTOR today. The tents are packed, the camels are loaded, and Lotwook has posted a nice thank you message to the AIE SWTOR community in the forums. Starting tomorrow, the Nomads will wander their way into LOTRO, so if you’ve been thinking about playing a hobbitses with a bunch of cool kids, now is your chance.

The Nomads have also posted that their next game will be Star Trek Online, and after that, they may head into Guild Wars 2. GW2 is the first pay-to-play game they’ve taken into consideration, and Lotwook is asking for thoughts about this on the forums.

 

Speaking of Guild Wars 2, NCSoft is offering the game on sale for 50% off. It’s $25 for the regular edition, and only $35 for the deluxe edition. The sale ends on April 13th, so if you want to pick it up and join the Nomads, now is the time to buy. They’ve also announced the April 2014 Feature Pack will be coming out on April 15th. This is the first release to to focus exclusively on in-game features, which includes their new megaserver system, a new wardrobing system, the removal of armor repair costs, and much more.

 

And finally, Captain Hunter wants to remind you that the Star Trek Online Junior Office Appreciation Weekend has started. This includes a 50% increase in XP earned by completion of duty officer assignments, a free purple quality duty officer, and other duty-related perks. (I’m not sure what you do with a purple doody, and I don’t want to know.)

 

Thanks to Larranna for the giveaway code this evening! (Crysis 2!)

 

GAME NEWS

ESO Launch smooth

Guilds growing steadily, numbers are at 132 individual accounts and rising every day.

On day 1 we had nearly 100 invites.

All my temp officers have been a super big help

I currently have a few candidates for my full time officers (stay tuned in the forums for those announcements)

Talk a bit about the gameplay.

No Auction House but interesting alternatives that make people interact!(Oh No’s socializing in an MMO)

Classes and Races

Dungeons

PVP is awesome…and I hate pvp usually

Rifts are cool oh I mean Dark Anchors

In keeping with tradition in Elder Scrolls games you can be a werewolf or vampire

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Crafting is insane and will take years to max everything out.

Patching has gone pretty smooth. Very little down time and a fairly regular weekly maintenance schedule.

Talk about Veteran System and End Game

So you think you’re done when you hit 50? Think again!

CLOSE

 

And that’s our show for tonight, We want to thank Grimbane for joining us!

 

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Next week we’ll be talking to the gang from AIE in World of Warcraft

 

Stay tuned, as we’ve got a full ride of great AIE members segments coming right up, including…

- Much Lesser Known Shas

- Ask Miss Mulgra

- Overly Dramatic News

- Azeroth Archives

- Buxley’s Journal

 

But first, if you need to reach us, we can be found at...

- Email: [email protected]

- Twitter @aiepodcast, @shownotfound @acuzod @alludra_aie

- We record live with video every Thursday at 9pm Eastern/6pm Pacific. You can join the chatroom and play along with us, or watch one of our past shows, on our website at TheAIEPodcast.com

- Our theme was composed by the amazing Andrew Allen, follow him at @keyswithsoul! or visit his website keyswithsoul.com! He's also in the middle of a kickstarter! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/coverville/andrew-allen-trio-the-music-of-marvel-and-dc?ref=live

Until next time, AIE.

- This is Ghomus

- This is AcuZod

And this has been... The AIE Podcast.

 

Kudos to cybyl for this week’s show title