On this episode of The AIE Podcast…
Gusty’s new guild challenge is too too cute
SWTOR- Return of the Hype- or, the Hype strikes back, take your pick
ESO- Trials planned, and bosses killed
Zoot’s a running (mount farms) in FFXIV
And, Jehdai is here to talk to us about AIE in Guild Wars 2!
All that and more coming up right now…
http://youtu.be/Y-W2SZGcf9M
Welcome to episode #379 of 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). And to my right is Mkallah: Hi folks, there is boozy bread pudding and apple tarts in the guild kitchen). This week we are joined by special guests Jehdai who is here to talk to us about AIE in Guild Wars 2 Welcome!
Before we start in on the news, let’s get back to Jehdai and find out what’s going on in Guild Wars 2- because there is a lot!.
Thank you so much for all of that great information! Now, it’s time for this week’s news…
Where the fun is mandatory but the attendance is not.
Sunday – WoW Classic 2 pm Eastern
Sunday – STO 8:30 pm Eastern
Monday – GW2 9:30 pm Eastern
Tuesday – SWTOR 9 pm Eastern
Tuesday – FFXIV (Casual Raiding) 9:30 pm Eastern
Wednesday – FFXIV (Fun Night) 9:00 pm Eastern
Thursday – FFXIV (Progression Raiding) 9:30 pm Eastern
Friday – ESO 9 pm Eastern
Friday – FFXIV (Late Night Fun Night) 11:00 pm Eastern
Saturday – LotRO 8:30 pm Eastern
Saturday – FFXIV (Maps) 9:30 pm Eastern
Saturday – Noob Raid (WoW) 11 pm Eastern
Streaming and Guild Podcast News
WTOR Escape Pod Cast 412: Getting Gear in 7.0
https://www.newoverlords.com/swtor-escape-pod-cast-412-getting-gear-in-7-0/
Bryant Wood, Bioware Systems Designer, posted some extensive notes on gearing in 7.0 including some new news. We break it down and talk through our plans for gearing up.
Working Class Nerds – Episode 138: Guardian Down Cast!!!
https://www.buzzsprout.com/143519/9967450-episode-138-guardian-down-cast?t=0
Marcus and Nick are joined by Hazel and Gatr of the Guardian Down Podcast! Hazel and Gatr are the hosts of the Guardian Down Podcast which focuses on Destiny 2. The three of them chat podcasting, Star Wars, and of course Destiny 2’s upcoming expansion The Witch Queen!
You can find more of Hazel and Gatr at:
https://guardiandowncast.libsyn.com/
https://open.spotify.com/show/7BVJBQAH1Sg1lgF0v3c8Ct
Boards & Swords #188 – Essen is Bought, Tony Hawk the Board Game? (Feat. Beneeta Kaur!)
https://boardsandswords.com/blog/bs188
Now that the holidays are over, are things back to normal? Not entirely, as we have special guest Beneeta Kaur (twitter.com/beneeta_k) on to tell us what she’s been up to recently!
Fleet Action Report – Episode 81 It’s Very Cold in Space part 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZPYl0Wg_wU
On this episode of Fleet Action Report, a Star Trek Online informational livestream: Nikodas and Grebog are called to defend the Deferi from a group of aggressive aliens. Who are those that would attack the delicate Balance of the Deferi, and can we stop them?
WITT’s All Monk Fun Run was postponed, as many of the participants are still gearing up. We look forward to seeing what a full raid Touch of Death will do bosses. Muhahahaha! There are plans afoot for an All Paladin run and a repeat of the All Druids in coming weeks. Anyone interested, contact Gustytail.
Gustytail also has a new Guild Challenge! This Wednesday is 02/02/2022, and clearly, the best way to observe this is to WEAR A TUTU — or your best approximation. In game or at home, embrace the silliness and twirl like no one is watching. Then post in pics or it didn’t happen.
Gustytail will be disappointed if @CyberWaif doesn’t have something suitable at the ready.
Mount Hyjal and Black Temple have opened their doors to the unwary adventurers, piling up corpses sky high on their doorsteps… ah, adventurers and the attraction of new loot !
Map night continues! We’re entering the exciting Excitatron 6000 every Saturday at 9:30 pm eastern. Check the pins in the ffxiv channel for more info.
Our lovely community member Zoot is also running mount farms on Friday at 8pm eastern. Level requirement depends on what is being run, but it’ll generally adapt to whoever wants to come. Don’t be intimidated if you’ve never done an extreme trial before! They’re not as hard as the name Extreme might imply.
We are starting to feel the hype for 7.0. It’s just two weeks away. There are all kinds of ideas floating around for how to prepare and what things to do first. If you’d like to join in on that discussion be sure to join us in discord in the swtor channel.
Last week, the guild made a run at winning a planet in Total Galactic War. We fought the good fight, had a lot of fun, and put up more points than we ever have before. Early on in the week, it became clear that really only one other guild was even a challenge for us. We went neck and neck with them for most of the week, but on the weekend, they really poured on the steam and took a commanding lead. Afterwards, their guild leader congratulated us on a battle well fought and shared with us that they had not had more fun in swtor in a long time. It was a good week!
We’ve spent the last couple of weeks killing world bosses in Clockwork City and Summerset for the Daedric War Celebration so we could earn event tickets for the new pet and other rewards.
Trials are on the agenda on nights we have 12 people online for MFN’s.
We will also be doing our usual zone clears, public dungeon clears, and group delve runs.
At the global reveal live stream they announced the Legacy of the Bretons Year-long Saga and that the next chapter (expansion) is called High Isle.
The first DLC for 2022 is called Ascending the Tide and will come out on March 14th for PC and March 29th for console and kicks off the year long adventure with two new dungeons. The High Isle chapter will be released on June 6th for PC and June 21 for consoles. There are two additional planned DLCs (one dungeon pack and one story zone) that will come out later in the year.
The new chapter will explore the islands of High Isle and Amenos and involves a main story line that ties into the Legacy of the Bretons year-long saga. It brings with it a new in-game collectable card game called Tales of Tribute, a new 12 player trial, two new companions as well as new world events, delves, public dungeons, world bosses, and stand alone quests.
There will also be several updates and quality of life improvements.
Pre-purchases are on sale now and will grant immediate access to a new mount and pet. The pet is only available if you pre-purchase before April 4th. In addition, if you pre-purchase you will get a few additional rewards at launch such as a new costume, a pet, treasure maps, experience scrolls, and a crate.
The fleet is about to take a massive step forward with fleet holdings. (By the time of the podcast) We have started working on unlocking the military tier V upgrade. This is a big project and every little bit will help us get this done.
The reason this is so big is it is the final upgrade for the military tier of the Starbase. It also means we will have access to all the fleet ships, minus one that comes from the colony. And most importantly once complete it will allow us to start working on the Starbase tier V upgrade.
Grebog wants to send a huge thank you all to the fleet for their hard work getting us here and their continued hard work on these projects.
Grebog has been asked what will this mean once we are done with all of these? How can I still get fleet credits? There will still be plenty of ways we can get fleet credits from provisioning projects to temporary boosts projects.
Fleet fun nights are every Thursday at 11pm. We do things from helping people level to running TFOs and event tasks.
And that’s our show for tonight. While the chatroom begins suggesting show titles, we want to thank Jehdai 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://aie-guild.info/discord . And for past episodes, you can see them on our Youtube channel, https://www.youtube.com/c/TheAIEPodcast ! Our theme was composed by the amazing Andrew Allen, follow him at @keyswithsoul! or visit his website http://andrewallenmusic.com/
And now it’s time to play all of the great AIE member segment we received this week, including… Well, no segments this week, but if you want to try your hand at creating one, we would love to have you!
Next time, we’ll be talking to Gusty in WoW. So until then, AIE…
– This is Tetsemi
And this has been… The AIE Podcast.
