The AIE Podcast

On this episode of The AIE Podcast...

We have Max and Sema

And Marcus

and Grebog and Nikodas

Here to wrap up the AIE WINTER CON!

All that and more coming up right now...

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Welcome to episode #383 of the podcast celebrating you, the Alea Iacta Est gaming community, the die has been podcast. This is Host 1: To my left is Tetsemi - (catch phrase here). This week we are joined by a coterie of guests who are here wrap up the AIE Wintercon!

Let’s go around the room and say hi and say what’s we’ve been up!

Grebog

Marcus

Max

Nikodas

Sema

Tet

Mkallah

Before we get into the AIE con, we want to get a Real time update on the Starbase from Grebog and Nikodas:

AIECon Winter 2022 Wrapup

Links to all events are available in the show notes and in Discord. There is a whole AIECON channel in Discord where you can see what all of the fun was about! And, I want to start this off by giving a big thanks to Kini for organizing this whole con. I can’t tell you how many times this week she has IM’d me and asked me if she was crazy for doing this. She wants to thank EVERYONE who took part in the events and who joined in on the fun! If you have ideas for the next AIECON, please reach out to Kini or in the con discord channel to get the ball rolling.

Schedule

Saturday

Guild Town Hall

We started off the weekend with a Saturday Guild hall hosted by Dankinia

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1430474218

Board Game Panel

Hosted by AlbusPuer with discussion of games played and upcoming board games.

Podcast Panel (with help from Sema and Grebog)

Marcus - https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1430876790

Wanna start a podcast panel? There are some notes and links, to software and hardware, in the #podcasts-and-panels channel under the AIECON Winter 2022 area.

Casual Games- Kini and Red hosted Casual games, which included a ton of Jackbox - evidently, one needs to watch out for AlbusPuer in Murder Trivia Party! Kini, Red, and Tabby all hosted streams (Tabby’s was on going at the time we were writing notes, but will link as soon as we have it!)

Kini - https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1430585174

Red - https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1430995437

Board Game Arena, Forgotten Waters

Forgotten Tides - https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1430706978

This is Xcamr’s brother’s game, it was played by@Balto @Katsumi @zombotanist @Nightshade @Killian Wargear and @redrum and apparently @Balto killed Lil' Gertie which AlbusPuer took exception to :P

D&D - Duskmire, Pelell, DPRoberts

Pelell - Saturday Night's Main Event

DPRoberts - The heroes of Griffon Riders!

WoW - Noob Raid

And what would a Saturday night be without a Noob Raid?

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1431040245

Sunday

Trial of Style - Horde and Alliance were hosted GustyTail

Anirra was the winner because she has played WoW for years and never done Trial of Style before. She had never even been to a Barber Shop! She is a complete convert now.

Anirra, Ponairi, Krispybacon and Crwthe (me) did several runs on Alliance side. Ponairi and Gusty ran on Horde. I was late starting that one because my D&D with DPRoberts went long. How odd!

Trial of Style - Alliance

Tabby - Casual Games

https://www.twitch.tv/tabbythagames

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1431863754

Board Game Arena

D&D - DPRoberts

Return of the Perpetual

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And that’s our show for tonight. While the chatroom begins suggesting show titles, we want to thank Everyone 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/

:In THREE WEEKS, Mew and Abovan will be talking about FFXIV. So until then, AIE...

- This is Mkallah

- This is Tetsemi

- This is Grebog

- This is Marcus

- This is Max

- This is Nikodas

- This is Sema

And this has been... The AIE Podcast.

On this episode of The AIE Podcast...

Get AIE Con on your Calendars

PIE for Moogle Treasure Trove

End of Dragons is Nigh

Lost Ark is adding to the fun… nights

And joining us to explain why he’s responsible for ½ of the 70 million Guardian deaths in Destiny 2 is Marcus “Guardian Down! … RIP That Guy!” B814!

All that and more coming up right now...

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Welcome to episode #382 of the podcast celebrating you, the Alea Iacta Est gaming community, the die has been podcast. This is Mewkow: To my left is Mkallah: - (Hey folks, there are dark chocolate caramel brownies with a pretzel crust in the guild kitchen ). And to my right is Tetsemi: (catch phrase here). This week we are joined by special guests Marcus who is here to talk to us about AIE in Destiny 2 Welcome!

Destiny 2

Clan growing

Clan Night: Tuesdays 9pm

Streaming

Thank you!

Ok, we’ll be digging into Destiny 2 shortly, but first, let’s cover this week’s news...

AIE News

Community

The AIE Con 2022 will be taking place the weekend of March 19th and 20th which is next weekend. We will kick off the weekend with the AIE Town Hall at 1pm EST on the 19th and follow up with sessions for board games, D&D, casual games, and end the weekend with an epic podcast with hosts from various AIE adjacent shows. For the full schedule and to sign up check out the AIE discord.

Mandatory Fun Nights

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- Lost Ark 8:00 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

SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 417: Legacy of the Spoilers

https://www.newoverlords.com/swtor-escape-pod-cast-417-legacy-of-the-spoilers/

Time’s up. The embargo on spoilers is lifted. Time to talk about the 7.0 story.

Working Class Nerds

Episode 144: Doritos Saves the Day!!!

https://www.buzzsprout.com/143519/10230365-episode-144-doritos-saves-the-day.mp3

Marcus and Nick sit down with Doritos, friend of the show and Nerds Community Super-Member! The trio talk about the new Kenobi Trailer, criticize SWTOR’s 7.0 expansion, and talk about Nick’s love life (lol). Enjoy! - NSFW!

Fleet Action Report - Nikodas New Player Challenge Levels 13 to 19

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

Nikodas and his daughter are running their new KDF recruits all the way to level 19!

NOMADS

If you’re playing Elden Ring, add AIEguild to your group passwords and enjoy whatever that adds to the game.

WoW

AIE's raid teams are chomping their way through the newly released Sepulcher of the First Ones. Kiddie Aggro downed 7/11 bosses on Normal difficulty and 1 boss (aka Pokeball) on Heroic. Go Team!

Hell Froze Over (Alliance side) defeated 3/11 bosses on Normal while Behind the Curve and Filthy Casuals are at 2/11 bosses. Our Teams are recruiting so if anyone is interested check the Discord #raidteam-recruitment or #raidteam-news channels.

Next weekend as part of AIE Con 2022, Gustytail will be leading Trial of Style runs on Sunday March 20. This twice a year event is a chance to show off your favorite fashions while judging everyone else's look.

WoW Classic

We have a small group that gets together on most Wednesday nights (and sometimes Sundays) to knock out group quests and/or do dungeons. AIE in The Burning Crusade on Mankrik is a quiet place to be and a nice server. If that sounds good to you, or you'd like to level up to get ready for Wrath, we have bags in the guild bank for you

SWTOR

One of our Operations teams, TACO, has room for 1 full time DPS player. They run on the Imperial side on Sunday nights at 8:30 Eastern No experience or gear required. Our other Operations teams are full, but frequently need fill-ins. We have teams running on Sunday, Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday nights. It's always worth checking on those nights to see if there are openings if you feel the need for a little raiding.

We are still settling into the Legacy of the Sith expansion. With the new content, story skips, gearing tracks and other new features, it's a lot to process. Feel free to ask questions in the swtor discord channel and join us on Tuesday nights where we make progress together.

Maellung is planning a return of Friday Night Flashpoints

ESO

Cool things the guild has been doing:

- Public dungeons, hunting world bosses, and clearing zones of Skyshards.

- Trials!!! The last two weeks we've bravely gone in to 12 person content with 10-11 people and were successful in both killing bosses and having fun.

- If you are interested in running dungeons for pledges we have two dungeon groups that occasionally need someone to fill in. Check out the Undaunted Enclave channel in Discord for more information.

Things planned or coming up for the guild:

- Trials on nights we have 12 people online for MFNs

- The new DLC dungeons leading to High Isle come out on March 14th for PC and we will be grouping up to run them for MFNs the week they release.

FFXIV

The FFXIV Chapter has lots of stuff going on and we’d love you to be a part of it.

First off, a reminder that the suspension of new game purchases has been lifted. Furthermore, if you just wanted to check out the game on its free trial, well good news everyone! The free trial has been resumed! So, now you can check out everything that FFXIV has to offer! Come for the adventure, dungeons, and loot, stay for the pretty glamours!

In game, we have a few events to bring up. Starting March 14th, the yearly event “Little Ladies’ Day” starts up. If you happened to be listening to our voices after Tuesday, go to Ul’dah, Steps of Nald and start up the yearly event. It changes from year to year, with new rewards every year. If you happen to be reading the show notes, here is the link -> Little Ladies' Day 2022 | FINAL FANTASY XIV, The Lodestone. If you want to see the link, check the show notes at aie-guild.org.

Also starting up on Tuesday, the 14th, The Moogle Treasure Trove! Get the Irregular Tomestones from doing various activities in the game, and you can trade them in for some cosmetics that may no longer be available or difficult to get on your own. Again, if you are reading the show notes, here’s the link. Moogle Treasure Trove the Hunt for Scripture | FINAL FANTASY XIV, The Lodestone. (Visit the aie-guild.org to see the link!) This event will run until the launch of patch 6.1. Speaking of which…

Patch 6.1 is on the horizon! While we don’t have an exact date, we do have “mid-April” as an approximate time frame. A whole slew of new things, such as more MSQ, dungeons, trials, Trials (like beast tribes but with a more respectful name), the return of Hildibrand (Abo’s note: YEAAAAAAH!), new Ultimate trial, and likely the most interesting change is the Improvements to the ARR 2.0 quests. Some people just don’t like group content. We get it and totally understand if you want to run completely solo. Now, AIE will be here for you, as we always have been. But, if you just want to log on, do your own thing, and be able to run dungeons as a solo player, the “Trust” system is going to be extended out to the base 2.0 game. This means any dungeons or trials that come up, you can chose to run them with a group of story relevant NPCs similar to the trust system that was started up in Shadowbringers and Endwalker.

There’s much more patch content new to talk about, so hopefully the AIE Podcast will have us on shortly (wink:wink) to talk about it in more detail.

In FC news, we are running multiple events over the week. Map Nights, Saturday nights at 9:30 EST, is still a hit and still has room for you. It’s fun, casual content, with extreme rewards for lining those Gil coffers. We do ask that you have completed the MSQ or at least unlocked all of the zones. You do not need to bring a treasure map, but it is always apricated if you do. If you do bring a map, we are looking for the “Kumbhiraskin” maps, as they are made for a group and has the chance to spawn the bonus portals.

For the FC buffs, remember to activate the Heat of Battle 3 buffs on the weekends. We “cook” up the grade 3 buffs during the week so that we can get that extra bump in XP on the weekends. Any one with the “member” rank or higher can refresh buffs or invite new people to the FC for that matter.

Remember, Discord is usually the best place to get a hold of the FFXIV member of AIE. So come on down, say hello, and we can help you get setup in the exciting adventures of FFXIV!

STO

The fleet is making another big step forward as the Fabricator is upgrading to tier V. This is the final project for the Engineering branch of the Starbase.

Science branch is closing in being able to unlock it's final tier V project as well. And that will make all sections of the Starbase Tier V.

The colony is still moving along nicely with it's projects.

STO has started a red alert event. But as this is a short event, likely going to have an announcement of the next event soon. (Probably this week)

We have Fleet Fun night on Thursdays at 11pm Eastern. Nikodas and Grebog host Fleet Action Report live at twitch.tv/grebog every Monday at 11pm Eastern. This next Monday we will be checking back in on the new character challenge we have been running.

GW2

End of dragons is here!

We unlocked the Cantha Guild Hall this past week, and we need your help to upgrade and decorate it. We are looking for people that want to make our guild hall a home by decorating it,...

On this episode of The AIE Podcast...

AIE Raids Lost Ark

The Free Company Workshop is open for business

More Fleet Milestones

Stand by for an assault on the GW2 Guild Hall

And, we have Max and Sema here to talk about Legacy of the Sith

All that and more coming up right now...

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Welcome to episode #381 of the podcast celebrating you, the Alea Iacta Est gaming community, the die has been podcast. This is Tetsemi: To my left is Mkallah - (Hey, guys, there are dark chocolate brownies with a pretzel crust in the guild kitchen.) We are in the Mewless formation this evening, but we do have two special guests Sema and Max who are here to talk to us about AIE in SWTOR Welcome!

Ok, we’ll be digging into this weeks news shortly, but before that, let’s get back to Sema and Max and find out what’s going on in SWTOR.

GAME NEWS

You'll just have to listen ...

AIE News

Community

Mandatory Fun Nights

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

SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 415: Live Legacy of the Sith

https://www.newoverlords.com/swtor-escape-pod-cast-415-live-legacy-of-the-sith/

Max and Sema, you know them! They are willing to burn and the burning has begun. 7.0 is here and they dig in.

Working Class Nerds - Episode 141: Konquered by Kitties!!!

https://www.buzzsprout.com/143519/10102862-episode-141-konquered-by-kitties.mp3

Marcus and Nick are joined by not only the legendary Kitty Kissz, but ALSO Kitty Treets!!! Watch out, this episode is definitely spicier than usual, but it's a wild ride of fun. The foursome chat about SWTOR's disappointing expansion, dive into Kitty Treets and Kitty Kissz's DUAL STREAMING! Enjoy!

Find more of Kitty Kissz at:

https://www.twitch.tv/kittykissz

Find more of Kitty Treets at:

https://www.twitch.tv/kittytreets

Treets' fave stream moment: Super sauce on Kitty's pants

https://youtu.be/KEPvIwkWyGg?t=511

Kissz fave stream moment: Danny Trejo...who? - Treets w/ Kitty

https://youtu.be/KEPvIwkWyGg?t=212

Marcus' fave stream moment: Kittykissz 2K Love Reaction Video

https://youtu.be/3ZOE9e9qUlI

Fleet Action Report - Ep 84 A Call to Arms TFOs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6gsZuUMgiU

Fleet Action Report, Grebog and Nikodas are headed back into the TFOs. We explain any mechanics in the featured TFO, and how you can beat the TFO while getting the most marks for reward. We start with the two TFOs that are part of the current 12th Anniversary event, then see what we get in the TFO random queue.

Boards & Swords #190 - Sports Games, $350 edition of Tsuro, New edition of Libertalia

https://boardsandswords.com/blog/bs190

Apparently there was a “big game” recently? Something about sports? To celebrate, we’re talking about some sports related board games and video games! Oh, and magic the gathering isn’t as hot as it used to be?

NOMADS

AIE in Lost Ark

The hotly anticipated MMO ARPG officially launched just over a week ago, on February 11th. It has already made Steam history with over 1.3 million concurrent users in a single day, ranking 2nd only to Public Battlegrounds.

It experienced some launch challenges, as many new MMO titles do, that prevented new players creating characters on servers that friends had been playing on during the 3 day head-start. However, this lasted only a day and new character creation restrictions were rarely in place for long as the server populations have stabilized across the various servers and regions. More information concerning these issues, relevant compensatory gifts offered, and more has been communicated on the game’s official website: https://playlostark.com/

Alea Iacta Est’s presence is on the NA East Region’s Regulus server and we are currently accepting invites to "Aie Fidelis". The game's guild feature is unlocked after you acquire your first mount quest reward, and is accessible from the Community Menu in the game's interface.

Four guilds have been established in response to the initial interest in the game from the AIE Gaming Community in launch. Guild capacities are set initially to 30 members with an increasing cap up to 100 as the guild levels. This cap has been raised to 32 in two guilds which have already achieved Level 2. Guild progression and participation are important components to the growth of players’ characters as well as the guild. Each week, a portion of earned contributions is donated to the guild and a bonus reward of player currency is distributed to players based on their weekly contributions across activities from weekly guild tasks, daily donations or aid given to ongoing research projects, to simply logging in each day.

The plan is to continue increasing the guild capacity of the guilds until such time as they can support the “main” characters of all playing within a single guild or two. We will maintain the other guilds and support their growth for any overflow in interest as well as alt characters that are important to any other character’s progression as many elements are the game are shared across an account’s roster of characters on that server.

Guild event planning is underway and will include meetups for daily and weekly activities, other ongoing systems’ progression such as Adventure Tome completions, Mokoko Seed Hunt nights, and more. Stay tuned in to the AIE public discord server’s Lost Ark game category for more details.

If you are interested in the game and have questions, feel free to visit us in the text and voice channels in discord, or download the free game and join us on NA East Regulus to play with the 50-plus members currently enjoying the world of Arkesia.

Current members, remember to keep up those daily donations to spur guild growth and ask for an invite to the region-wide custom chat channel to connect with players across all four guilds!

WoW

WoW 9.2 launches on Tuesday with a bunch of quality of life improvements, a new daily area, and a raid coming soon (not ™).

WoW Classic - we are looking for a few more people when Wrath comes out. #lookingfor10

ESO

Cool things the guild has been doing:

- Public dungeons, hunting world bosses, and clearing zones of Skyshards.

- If you are interested in running dungeons for pledges on Monday Nights, we have two dungeon groups that occasionally need someone to fill in. Check out the Undaunted Enclave channel in Discord for more information.

Things planned or coming up for the guild:

- Trials on nights we have 12 people online for MFNs

- On the 17th the PvP event in ESO started, feel free to post in Discord to coordinate efforts and group up for the event. We won't be doing this as part of MFN due to the faction requirements and Kini's dislike of PvP.

- The new DLC dungeons leading to High Isle come out on March 14th for PC and we will be grouping up to run them for MFNs the week they release.

SWTOR

See Game Notes

FFXIV

XIV recently had it's latest live letter! While the last expansion was named "ENDwalker", it's far from the end of FFXIV, and the adventure continues! They announced the overall plans for the 6.0 patch cycle, and some highlights include:

1. Graphics update! Higher resolution textures, improved lighting, shadows and more. Will be updated over the entire patch up to 7.0

2. The adventures of Hildibrand returns

3. New Deep Dungeon

4. Scaling difficulty 4-man dungeons, code named "Criterion" Dungeons

5. Further adjustments to the ARR main story quest, including the ability to journey into ARR story dungeons with NPC avatars

And more! The free trial also returns February 22nd, so if you're curious about FFXIV, hit us up in discord and join us on the Goblin server in the Crystal Data Center.

Weekly guild activities continue with mount farming on Fridays and map night on Saturdays.

The Free Company Workshop is open for business! The current log of the airships, submarines, and FC construction projects are logged in discord in the #workshop-log channel.

If there is something that you would like for us to create or farm up for you in the workshop, you can message an officer in discord to get the request in. Due to the queue of players requesting things, as well as the RNG of the expeditions, it may take some time for your desired item to be delivered.

Some examples of things you could request are housing "skins", minions, rare crafting materials, and rare orchestration rolls.

STO

The fleet is currently collecting fleet marks for upgrading the Starbase to tier 5. Another huge milestone for the fleet.

The anniversary event still going, which rewards aT6 ship. This is a really nice variety, the Jarok Alliance Carrier. You only have until the 24th to get your needed 20 days of activities, however you can buy out any progress you need with Zen, the in game currency.

The Klingon Recruit event is also still ongoing. You can unlock special rewards and account wide rewards through various tasks you compete while playing. You only have to get the communicator device that tracks progress before March 9th. The tasks you can complete on your own schedule.

They have started the new year long event campaign, which will reward a lockbox ship, 2 T6 100% free ship coupons, or 1,500 lobi. The first event for this is The Borg Resurgence. They have remastered two space and one ground TFO fighting the Borg. You have until March 15th to get 14 days worth of progress....

On this episode of The AIE Podcast...

February is filled with the love of games… so many games

Sith Happens

PvP in ESO

Huge congrats to the STO Fleet!

And, we have GustyKoo here to talk to us about AIE in World of Warcraft!

All that and more coming up right now...

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Welcome to episode #380 of the podcast celebrating you, the Alea Iacta Est gaming community, the die has been podcast. This is Mkallah: To my left is Mewkow: - (catch phrase here). And to my right is Tetsemi: (catch phrase here). This week we are joined by special guests Gusty who is here to talk to us about AIE in World of Warcraft. Welcome!

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

AIE News

Just a quick heads up. We have SWTOR Expansion launching on Feb 14th, Destiny 2 Expansion on Feb 22nd, and now WoW 9.2 Patch on Feb 22nd, Guild Wars 2 Expansion on Feb 28th, along with Lost Ark launching. Going to be a busy back end of the month. (edited)

Community

Mandatory Fun Nights

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

SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 414: Legacy of the Sith Eve

https://www.newoverlords.com/swtor-escape-pod-cast-414-legacy-of-the-sith-eve/

With only a few days left before 7.0 we’ve decided to team up again with Working Class Nerds for another joint episode and talk about what we’ve been doing, what we are excited about coming in 7.0 ,and what we each expect to be doing first.

Working Class Nerds - Episode 140: SWTOR Escape Pod Cast Mash-Up!!!

https://www.buzzsprout.com/143519/10055996-episode-140-swtor-escape-pod-cast-mash-up

Marcus and Nick are joined by the legendary duo: Max and Sema from SWTOR Escape Pod Cast!! This episode is a formatting blend of the two shows, where the four of them break down what they're looking forward to from SWTOR's upcoming 7.0 expansion: Legacy of the Sith!! Enjoy!

Find more of Max and Sema at: https://www.twitch.tv/newoverlords

Boards & Swords #189 - Runescape is going to be a board game? Games from our childhoods

https://boardsandswords.com/blog/bs189

A Batman version of Detective? People shelling out millions for Marvel Zombies, and we talk about those “classic” games that we grew up playing in our childhoods.

Fleet Action Report Ep 83 Best Served Cold

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRQY9FIwYn8

Fleet Action Report, a Star Trek Online video podcast; Nikodas and Grebog intend to finish the Cold War! Ending the threat posed by the Breen to the Deferi people. Will they uncover the reason for this unwarranted attack?

NOMADS

Board game night is still running 1st and 3rd Thursdays off every month. We start at 7:30PM Central and go until about 9:30. We always have room for more to join, and wish that you would come join the fun.

Lost Ark

The AIE Gaming Community has entered into the newly launched NA/EU version of the MMO ARPG: LostArk. It is an MMO that includes popular ARPG elements with millions of players worldwide. Journey through the land of Arkesia, seeking out fragments of the lost ark to put a stop to the demonic invasion that threatens the world.

AIE is currently playing on the NA East Regulus server. Note that character restrictions may be temporarily appearing to help curtail new account creations on heavily populated worlds. They are being lifted periodically as populations stabilize to allow players to join friends on these servers. It may require a game restart for it to accurately reflect on the server list. Should you have one character on the server, these restrictions will not apply to your account. If you do see a queue in excess of two or three thousand, it moves quickly.

Join over 40 members of AIE in the game as they take on dungeons, raids, weekly tradeskill tasks, and much more. If you have any questions, please feel free to drop by the Lost Ark category in the AIE Community Discord.

WoW

In WoW news, Raid Team Where is the Tank got their Ahead of the Curve achievement, defeating the Dark Lady Sylvanas on Heroic difficulty. Congrats to WITT!

Oh and then there was this: Blizzard announced the long awaited Patch 9.2 will launch on Tuesday, Feb 22 -- in just over a week! But wait, there's more: Future Patch 9.2.5 will bring cross faction dungeons, raids and PvP to WoW. Our Alliance Raid Team, Hell Froze Over has fulfilled their name’s prophecy. There was much rejoicing!

SWTOR

The Wednesday night ops team is looking for a full time dps. We run from 9-11 eastern on the Imp side. No prior ops experience is needed. We run story mode ops.

In Swtor it's all about that xpac. "Legacy of the Sith" is launching on Tuesday this week (the 15th). If you ask people what they are looking forward to the most, it's probably the next installment of the story. Many systems are getting an update too. If you've been thinking about dipping your toes back into Star Wars: The Old Republic, now is a pretty good time. It won't matter if you remember how to do things, or not. It's all new again. If you would be brand new, come check it out too. You'll be figuring it out with us.

Because this is normally how major updates go, we are predicting smooth sailing and no server restarts! YMMV....

Join us in discord on Tuesday the 15th at 9PM. We'll be hanging out in voice while we explore the newness. It will be a spoiler free zone, though!

ESO

Cool things the guild has been doing:

- Public dungeons, hunting world bosses, and clearing zones of Skyshards.

- If you are interested in running dungeons for pledges on Monday Nights, we have two dungeon groups that occasionally need someone to fill in. Check out the Undaunted Enclave channel in Discord for more information.

Things planned or coming up for the guild:

- Trials on nights we have 12 people online for MFNs

- On the 17th the PvP event in ESO starts, feel free to post in Discord to coordinate efforts and group up for the event. We won't be doing this as part of MFN due to the faction requirements and Kini's dislike of PvP.

- The new DLC dungeons leading to High Isle come out on March 14th for PC and we will be grouping up to run them for MFNs the week they release.

STO

Our Fleet Starbase's shipyard just got upgraded to Tier 5, which is huge! It gives us access to the best fleet ships available.

The anniversary event is also going on, which awards a free T6 ship, and a pretty good one at that, the Jarok Alliance Carrier. It only runs through the 24th and you need 20 days worth of activities, but you can buy out missing progress with Zen, the in-game currency.

The Klingon Recruit event is also happening, which lets you create a new Klingon character and complete special tasks to earn account wide rewards. And while all the rewards take awhile, you only need to get the progress tracking item by Mar 9 which is only a short way into the tutorial.

We have Fleet Fun Night on Thu at 11p est, and Nikodas and Grebog host Fleet Action Report live at https://twitch.tv/grebog every monday at 11p est.

Activity and attendance at both of these as been ticking up, and more are always welcome.

FFXIV

GW2

End of Dragons is coming on 2/28/2022.

Jehdai will be setting up a group night shortly after launch to unlock the new guild hall. Stay tuned to the GW2 discord Channel for scheduling and more information.

Dungeons and More (usually monthly check discord for scheduling)

Come join us in Cantha!

Also the guild bank is full of potentially useful items, please take what you need, if you need something that you can't withdraw ask an officer to pull it out for you.

LOTRO

Update 32 scheduled to go live on Wednesday. This update brings a new account-based legendary reward system that starts at level 45. If you reach the end of the track there is a repeatable goal for more rewards. New region that will take players from Trollshaws to "Angle of Metheithel". The new region is free to VIPs and available in the lotro store. All accounts have the benefit of a premium wallet and the gold cap has been lifted for non-VIPs. Finally one of Smaug's last treasure hoards has been opened and the Dwarves of Erebor have moved to reclaim it! Join them in owning a piece of Middle-earth, in the Great Hall under the mountain (aka new premium housing area). Erebor housing includes features like swimmable gold goins, and life sized chess/checker boards.

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

GAME NEWS

The past two weeks have seen some amazing news in World of Warcraft. Patch 9.2 will launch in just over a week and will bring a new zone: Zereth Mortis, New Raid: Sepulcher of the First Ones, new pets, mounts, transmog —- and players will be able to equip TWO legendary items (note: some restrictions apply.) Our Raid Teams are shaking off the dust and will be looking for new members. Anyone interested please check the Raid Team Recruitment and News channels in Discord! With the new legendaries coming, I plan to organize a guild event to gather mats, because it’s going to take a lot. With the new legendaries coming, I plan to organize a guild event to gather mats, because it’s going to take a lot.

One other thing coming with the patch is a male counterpart to the Warlock succubus pet. The Incubus is unabashedly sexy and I am interested to see the response. When I started playing WoW,...

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...

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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!.

GAME NEWS

GW2 Podcast Notes

Game Overview

Mechanics

Hybrid Action/tab targeted combat

Every zone is scaled to you, so all content is current content

No gear treadmill

Level Cap has and always will be 80

Integrated wiki

/wiki will open you system web browser on the search page

SHIFT- will put a chat code for the clicked item on the current chat input and that works as a search term for /wiki.

Story overview with as little spoilers as you can.

(most of the story is fully voice acted)

Style change when season 2 starts.

1-80 (Personal) story  Hero's Journey Kill the death dragon

Season 1 - Crazy Salad Lady destroys the world and wakes up plant dragon

Season 2 - Finding the plant dragon

HoT - Kill the plant dragon

Season 3 - 2 dragons are dead, odd things happening, Last living member of the bad race from GW1 appears, and wants to help kill dragons,  hero gets a pet dragon

PoF - Human god goes nuts in the desert

Season 4 - PRAISE JOKO,  Crystal dragon is on a rampage.

Ice Brood Saga: Pet Dragon is all grown up,  , Big Cats(Charr) Civil War, Ice and Fire dragons want to kill each other

What's different if you haven’t played since launch:

Gliding from Heart of Thorns.

Mounts from Path of Fire + Season 4

Roles

Tanks, DPS, Healers, buffers

Game has different things to do at end game now

Dungeons

Fractals - slight better dungeons

Raids

Strikes - single boss raid encounters

Dragon Response Missions

World vs World PVP

Being revamped

Structured PVP, 5v5 instanced

Mostly Conquest/CTF mode

Gear

Ascended gear

Slightly better than Exotic Gear

Only needed for Fractals

Optional for everything else

Account bound and can be shared with all your characters

Can change stats at a cost

Legendary Gear

Same stats as ascended (but can stat swap with no cost)

No cost transmog

If your endgame is Fashion Wars, this is a big help

New way to get, through collections.

The game gives you enough mats to make 1 weapon per year through daily login rewards

Not just weapons

Armor can be obtained through Raids and sPVP

2 accessories can be completed completing collections associated with LWS3 and 4.

Amulet can be obtained through return to dragons meta event, or sPVP

Rings can be obtained Raiding or WVW

Backs are from Fractals, WvW or sPVP

Can be copied to all of your characters through legendary Armory

Classes:

New Class Revenant

Introduced in heart of thorns

Channels heroes and villains from GW1 to gain power

Heavy Armor

Elite Specializations

Each class has 2 Elite specializations to choose from

These are unlocked with Hero points

CT Hero Points give 1 HP

Expansion HPs give 10 HP ( but harder)

Community run Hero Point trains happen often

Several Classes gain the ability to heal

Current meta is Rangers, Guardians and Necros for the strongest healers

Mastery System

Secondary progression system after hitting level 80.

Points are gained through achievements or they are floating out in the world

Most unlock story critical or zone specific buffs

There are a few that generally good for everything

Base Game is Free to Play

https://help.guildwars2.com/hc/en-us/articles/230165307-Guild-Wars-2-Account-Types-Free-Core-HoT-PoF

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Account#Free_accounts

The restrictions are mostly there to make botting less viable. eg:

No daily login rewards

Chat/Mail restrictions

Fewer character and bag slots

Limited TP access

There is a staged set of unlocks to access content. Examples: level 10 to get into a non-starter map. Level 15 for Lion’s Arch. Level 60 for WvW.. Usually these unlock for the whole account at once.

Unranked SPvP is unlocked at level 2 and scales players to max levels with its own no cost gear system. Completely viable to play as a F2P. Ranked PvP unlocks at SPvP level 20.

No mounts EXCEPT there is mount rental for festival races  and for the rollerbeetle races..

The Expansion: (or why is jehdai on the podcast)

Sometime in Feb, it will drop

Adding Cantha - East Asian fusion  themed area that was in GW1

New Elite for each class

2 person Turtle mount, with guns

Fishing

Boat Mount

4 new zones

New Masteries

New Legendary Weapons

New Strike Missions

New Guild Hall - We will be relocating from where we are to this one

What you can do before the Expansion drops:

AIEx is on Dragonbrand, in the US zone.

If you can't get into DB that is OK, be sure to be in the US zone if you want to play with AIE.

The only thing that realm matters for is WvW, and that is scheduled to change in the next year where it goes to a guild based system.

Fresh Start

You will need both expansions (sold with End of Dragons right now) and I highly recommend grabbing the living world stuff.

A lot of story stuff happens in the living world.

Just doing them, and the stuff for Return to Dragons will get you a legendary amulet

At a minimum this is what I would do to prep for the expansion

Be 80 (either do it the long way, or boost)

The boosted gear is really good now

Start Heart of Thorns

Unlock gliding

Then start Path of Fire

You get the Raptor Mount right away

Unlock Canyon jumping for your Raptor

Go to the zone up north and get your Bunny, and the zone down south and get your skimmer. (you can get these after you unlock

Catch a HoT HP Train in LFG

Do the entire run, there will be one HP you can’t get in TD

Unlock your first Elite Spec

Then do a path of Fire HP train ( or do it solo, or with a friend, the Path of fire ones don't’ need a big group)

Unlock that second spec

Do the last episode of Season 4

Start Skyscale Grind (this is time gated)

Now you can do whatever you want. You will be able to glide, and you will have 3 mounts, plus the skyscale. I would play through the story at this point and work on unlocking my mount masteries.

If you want to unlock your 3rd elite spec right away, you will need about 250 HPs.  If you boosted you will have to go back to central tyria to get these.

It’s worthwhile to go to each zone and unlock all the way points. You get a gold star next to your name if you explore all of CT.

Not a Fresh Start

Get your skyscale

Finish all of your return to zone Metas to finish the return to dragons meta and get your legendary amulet (this is the cheapest legendary in the game as it only costs time).

The community does a lot of cool stuff to keep you busy

Infusion trains - Start at pinata in Crystal Oasis at reset and hit all the bosses that drop infusions (this is guild wars 2 endgame here, fashion wars)

HP trains on your main and your alt

The community runs a Raid Training discord where they train people the raid encounters

Raid Academy - ask either myself or Hushwolf for the discord invite (they might not all comply with our community standards, and they aren’t AIE, but it's an excellent resource to start raiding).

Find a legendary item you like and start working on it.

Dailies

Do 3 of things and get 2 gold and some spirit shards

What is AIE doing?

We would like to bolster our active numbers

We (Jehdai) would like to move our guild hall to Cantha

Our MFN is Monday at Time (You’ll see Dejara in Discord)

Occasionally Maellung runs a dungeon night

I would like to get a dedicated group into Fractals, Raids, and Strikes

Thank you so much for all of that great information! Now, it’s time for this week’s news...

AIE News

Community

Mandatory Fun Nights

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

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On this episode of The AIE Podcast...

Nomads of the Lost Ark

WITT is going all Druid

Lifeday fun in SWTOR

MFNS are back in full swing for 2022

And, What we did on our end of year vacation

All that and more coming up right now...

Podcast Audio

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Welcome to episode #378 of the podcast celebrating you, the Alea Iacta Est gaming community, the die has been podcast. This is Tetsemi: To my left is Mkallah: - (There is Porto’s in the guild kitchen, please eat it before I do. But, leave the Giant MIckey Mouse Gingerbread for me). And to my right is Mewkow: (catch phrase here). This week we are talking to ourselves!

Ok, we’ll be digging into what we did on our winter break shortly, but first, let’s cover this week’s news...

AIE News

Community

Mandatory Fun Nights

Where the fun is mandatory but the attendance is not.

Sunday - 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

SWTOR Escape Pod Cast - https://www.newoverlords.com/

SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 410: Always In Motion

https://www.newoverlords.com/swtor-escape-pod-cast-410-always-in-motion/

Always in motion is the future. With that in mind, we still try predicting what’s coming in 2022 with our annual predictions and wishes.

Working Class Nerds - https://workingclassnerdscom.wordpress.com/

Episode 136: The Bang Gang!

https://www.buzzsprout.com/143519/9884625-episode-136-the-bang-gang

Marcus and Nick are joined by SM Playboi!!! Playboi is a Twitch streamer, giant Star Wars and Anime Nerd, and a great friend of both the show and their streams. The three of them have RIDICULOUS conversations about all of the games they're playing and of course SM Playboi's streaming career. Enjoy!

You can find more of SM Playboi at:

https://www.twitch.tv/smplayboi

Fleet Action Report - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqEKYJPKmiiYuj7eiHy6kOg

F.A.R. Ep 79 Call to Arms TFO's: Assault on Terok Nor, Brotherhood of the Sword, Khitomer in Stasis

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

Fleet Action Report, a Star Trek Online video podcast; Grebog and Nikodas are taking the fight to the enemies of the Khitomer Alliance (potentially on the Ground). The Ground TFOs have long been ignored, but here, now their time has come.

Boards and Swords - https://boardsandswords.com/blog?category=Boards%20%26%20Swords

A Much Delayed Pax Unplugged Recap (Feat. Jessica and Andrew from Gameosity) - Boards & Swords #187

https://boardsandswords.com/blog/bs187

Chris & Philip decided to take a break from the holidays, but its a new year and time to talk about Pax Unplugged! To help Chris out, Andrew & Jessica Fisher from Gameosity are on the show!

NOMADS

Lost Ark

Lost Ark is a free-to-play game that pairs the best of ARPG combat and MMO depth to create a vast, vibrant world with thrilling fights, endless customization, and endless adventure.

Launching on Feb 11, 2022, this "Diablo-esque" style action role playing game with an isometric/top-down view, it was originally released in South Korea in 2018, published by Smilegate. It will be published by Amazon Games for the NA release.

Though it is free-to-play, founders' packs are available for purchases through Steam and Amazon. These packs confer the usual perks, including a 3 day head-start for players on Feb 8, 2022. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1599340/Lost_Ark/

AIE is currently gauging interest in the game. If you intend to play, please contact @Durus or leave a comment in the AIE discord's channel nomads with #lostark. Server selection and guild details will be released once that information is available.

Website: https://www.playlostark.com

Diablo 3

Season 25 "Lords of Hell" is live (12/10/2021)

Anniversary event "Darkening of Tristram" is live as of Jan 3, 2022 and will conclude at the end of the month. Explore the Cathedral, event dungeon, and acquire anniversary rewards.

If you would like an invite to the Clan or Community, please ask in the AIE discord's nomads channel using #diablo3

Valheim

Valheim server has been shut down for now but may be available in the future if there is more interest in the future. A copy of the world is available and can be downloaded from the location pinned in the Valheim channel.

WoW

WITT Raid Team is doing an ALL DRUID fun run of Sanctum of Domination (Normal difficulty) on Jan 22 at 8pm Eastern. They are also considering All Monk and All Paladin runs. There is a sign up link in the AIE Discord - Raid Team News channel for anyone interested. Gustytail will be there!

Noob Raid had it's 2nd run of 2022 and Dankinia's Floor Tanking score increased to 3 deaths. Next week the plan is to skip to the final bosses of Sanctum. We're coming for you Kel'Thuzad and Sylvanas!

Behind the Curve has room for more raiders. Anyone interested please check the Raidteam Recruitment channel.

WoW Classic

Mount Hijal and Black Temple opening on January 17th.

Still a (half guild) raid group every Saturday evening, going strong

SWTOR

In Game News, the Public Test Server is up for the time being with no announcement about taking it down. That's good news if you wanted to work toward the Test Server achievements which earn you rewards in game, like a holographic log mount. As far as we know, 7.0 The Legacy of the Sith is still scheduled for release on 2/15/22.

For the guild, December was a cozy month of snowballs and Operations and wookiee hugging. As we roll into the second half of January 2022, though, it's going to heat up. It's Total Galactic War! That means that while guildies play SWTOR, the guild accumulates points that could win us a planet. This will be a serious effort and the competition for a planet is steep. If you want to help out there are several things you can do in just a few minutes every day that would add substantially to our point total. Drop by the SWTOR discord channel for specifics. If your character is not in the guild yet, hop in on Sunday or Monday to get in before reset for your points to count. If you character is brand new, not to worry. You will get SUBSTANTIAL points for those early levels. It really is for everyone.

Come join us for some pew pew and some (show off light sabers here) - Vrummmummmmm

FVISH!

FFXIV

Map night has returned! We're back and hitting up the new treasure dungeon, the 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 EX trials before, unsynced they're not too hard and we'll be happy to have you and help you through it!

ESO

MFN's have resumed after the holiday break. We've spend the first two of the year vanquishing world bosses in various zones.

We also jumped to our death and helped a member get the Slaughter Fish achievement.

The Daedric War Celebration runs from January 20th - Feb 1st so our MFN's will be focused on doing the dailies for the event tickets and killing bosses.

We plan to do more trials on nights we have 12 people online for MFN.

There will be a Global Reveal Event for ESO on January 27th at 12pm PST. They are going to give us a peek at the upcoming Chapter and DLCs that will be released this year. Tuning into the show on Twitch will earn you a new coral crab pet and a crown crate though Twitch drops as long as you have your accounts linked.

STO

This is going to be a big year for the fed fleet. Why? Well, we are closing in on a lot of the Tier V unlocks (highest unlock) for the starbase.

Military: 15 projects to go

Engineering: 38 projects to go

Science: 41 projects to go

While yes, you can only do 1 project every 20 hours (1 day lets say) that means we should be working on the big unlock project for Military in 3 weeks or less. This will then free up resource requirements and hopefully make it more likely we are triggering daily, but even still means 2 months we should have engineering done and 3 months science should be done, if not way sooner.

LOTRO

After a break for the holidays (and Maellung needing to heal in RL) SNL returned this past Saturday. The first fight of the new raid is coming to Bullroarer this week. Treebeard opened up Mines of Moria a couple weeks ago. The ill omens event is being postponed until maybe later this year so they can focus on the rewards. And lastly session play is bugged at the moment and will be fixed in the patch this week.

And with that, let's talk about the fun and games we had over our break!

GAME NEWS

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

If you have a question or comment about our show, you can email us at [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!...

On this episode of The AIE Podcast...

WITT gets organized!

Hey, Bioware, how soon is soon?

Looking for New Life? Reach out on Discord!

Red Alert, Red Alert- for the next two weeks, at least

And, we have Abovan here to talk to us about AIE in FFXIV

All that and more coming up right now...

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Welcome to episode #377 of the podcast celebrating you, the Alea Iacta Est gaming community, the die has been podcast. This is Mkallah: To my left is Mewkow: - (catch phrase here). And to my right is Tetsemi: (catch phrase here). This week we are joined by special guest Abovan who are here to talk to us about AIE in FFXIV Welcome!

Since we have so much FFXIV news, we are going to talk to our guest first and then do this weeks news!!

GAME NEWS

We bought a house! A large house!

Big thanks to Reka for helping us in the move to the large plot.

Our new home is located in the Lavender Beds, 9th Ward, plot 33.

The new house is on a large plot, so the house is also large. Since it is a large, we get much more real estate to work with, both inside and out. The new house will feature 3 garden plots, all of the crafting stations, and more vendors in the house, such as materia affixers, which we did not have the NPC budget for in the old house.

The additional Garden Plots will help increase the rate that we can churn out the Thavnairian Onion. These items allow you to increase the level cap of your Chocobo Companion by 1. When you cap out, feed it to your bird, and you will be able to continue to level up your companion up to level 20.

As the house starts empty, it will take us some time to settle in and get a full decoration done. So, things are in flux right now in the house and things may move around until we settle in on a housing layout. However, when we do, we plan on having a big AIE home warming party. We are working out the details now. When we have some more defined plans, we will let everyone know via Discord.

Grade 3 Heat of Battle Buffs!

We are now cranking out Grade 3 Heat of Battle buffs. These buffs provide all member a flat 15% bonus to combat XP. Since this is a limited commodity and take 70 hours to make, we will run these on weekends. During the week, we will be running the Grade 2 Heat of Battle Buffs, providing a 10% bonus to Combat XP. If you are leveling up your first job, an alt job, or just playing around with a side project, the XP bonus can really help you out.

Executing the buffs, you don’t have to wait for an officer! Anyone with the member rank (about 30 days in the FC) and above can kick off buffs (as well as invite characters to the FC). If you see the buffs fall off, from Friday to Sunday, you are welcome to fire off the Heat of Battle 3 and Reduced Rates 2. Reduced Rates drops teleportation costs by 10%. During the week, Monday-Thursday, we run grade 2 of both of those buffs, Heat of Battle 2 and Reduced Rates 2.

Game News

The Endwalker Hype Train continues! The Square Enix dev team has released Live Letter 67, and a very emotional Naoki Yoshida came out to announce a 2-week delay for Endwalker. While delays are never fun, but this will ensure a more polished game that will be now released on December 3rd for pre-orders, December 7th for the general release.

With this change, the Endwalker schedule changes to…

12/3 - Head Start for Pre-Orders

12/7 - Official start for everyone else

12/21 - 6.01 - Pandæmonium, Normal mode. The first raid of Endwalker, and a great debate on how to pronounce ‘æ’.

1/4/22 - 6.05 Pandæmonium Savage. New entry level raid crafting gear introduced.

The live letter also has tons of new announcements on how Endwalker will work. 67 slides worth!

A few quick hits:

5 new series for the role quests! Not required for MSQ this time around. But a bonus quest line if you complete all of them will be made available in Patch 6.1 or later. No level 90 job quests, however.

Crafting and gathering quests lines in Studium, one of the new major areas in Endwalker.

New Treasure Map dungeon, Excitatron 6000 in patch 6.05 (the Savage raid patch). We do lots of treasure maps on Saturdays, so please look forward to the new maps!

Tons of PvP updates, including some small scale casual and ranked PvP with some skill based matchmaking.

Lost of HQ items are being removed. HQ crafts are still in play, however.

Fishing is getting a brand new mini-game interface!

EXP scaling is being re-worked. Important note: due to this change, any progress made towards a level will be reset back to 0 when Endwalker hits due to the EXP scaling.

New Immerse Sound Gamepack will be available. Allows for 360 sound, but does have a one-time cost for the Immerse license. A 14-day demo is available. (Abo’s note: I’ve used this in other games and it is incredibly awesome.)

New housing zone will be available in 6.1. Some FC only wards, some personally only wards. Both will have classic and lottery systems for purchasing the lots.

Got a vinyl record player? Like the Endwalker theme? Now you can get a 7” Vinyl single for 28 bucks on Nov 17th.

Finally, one of our community members and FFXIV players has a new FFXIV podcast!

OldManFranks, one of the long term members of AIE, has a podcast called ‘A Podcast Reborn.” Go ahead and give them a listen, but keep in mind that it can dive into the slight spoiler territory and “adult situations”.

Thank you for all of the great information,folks! Now, before we get into this weeks news, where can the peoples find you?

Now, to this weeks News!

AIE News

Streaming and Guild Podcast News

New Overlords (SWTOR) - http://www.newoverlords.com/

SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 403: Unlimited Power

http://www.newoverlords.com/swtor-escape-pod-cast-403-unlimited-power/

Unlimited news this week on 7.0 to go with our discussion of unlimited gear power over time.

Working Class Nerds - https://workingclassnerdscom.wordpress.com/

Episode 127: Doritos!!!

https://www.buzzsprout.com/143519/9498453-episode-127-doritos.mp3

After a LONG break due to Marcus’s illness, the boys are BACK! This week they’re joined by Doritos! Doritos is best described as a professional video game enthusiast; he raids with Marcus in SWTOR, is almost always in both Nick and Marcus’s streams, and is a HUGE Horizon: Zero Dawn fan. Enjoy!

Steampunk Rally Fusion, Lockup, Taco Cat Goat Cheese Pizza - Boards & Swords #183

https://boardsandswords.com/blog/bs183

Philip is out visiting family, so Cory & Jimmy from the Dirtbags of Holding podcast are here to talk with Chris about things like: a Risk Legacy Sequel? A board game with stacking magnet cubes? A game called Taco Cat Goat Cheese Pizza? Stick around for the first game show in awhile also!

Fleet Action Report - (STO) - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqEKYJPKmiiYuj7eiHy6kOg

Fleet Action Report Ep 69 Haters Going to Hate

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqOwGwSW2io

Fleet Action Report, a Star Trek Online informational stream; Nikodas and Grebog are traveling into the realm of hatred. For tonight, it's a pair of small craft missions they'll attempt to conquer.

NOMADS

If people are playing Forza Horizon 5, Jehdai has set up an xbox club, (its game specific, we still have the main XBox club, and one for FH4). Just search for AIE in the in game search. (clubs unlock a few levels in)

Diablo 3 season 25 is on the PTR, so that means that we are about 2 weeks away from its start. The new season will have soul shards to pay homage to the 25th anniversary of Diablo.

New World

New World is still in levelling phase. MFN every Thursday, tackling bigger incursions, running around the map.

New patches weekly, fixing the most glaring issues and exploits.

Amazon now talking about consolidating servers, after the initial rush.

Come play this action gorgeous PvPvE MMO, buy once and play forever

WoW

Patch 9.1.5 is Live!

A member of Where Is The Tank (WITT) organized a Mythic Tara-grew that included people from all of our AIE raid teams, and a few pugs. Inspiring teamwork there! They plan to continue Monday nights.

Behind the Curve (BtC) is 4/10 Heroic and making progress on Soulrender (aka Garrosh Nanny).

Kiddie Aggro (KA) and Better Late Than Never (BLTN) did Achievement runs for Glory of the Dominant Raider. It awards (Hand of Hrestimorak) a mount that looks like an armored glove and can play rock, paper, scissors.

Our Alliance side Raid Team Hell Froze Over (HFO) is 3/10 Heroic. Yes, we have an Alliance Guild on Earthen Ring and alts are welcome! No need to tell your main though.

SWTOR

There has been an outpouring of news from BW in the last couple of weeks as they ramp up for the new expansion. There is no release date yet, but they are still saying "Holidays 2021". At release we will have QoL changes, 5 extra levels, new methods of gearing, new story, a new flashpoint, updated systems, and more. We will also be getting a new Operation a few weeks after the expansion launches.

Like any game studio, BW is introducing some changes that no one asked for, but there are two things coming that people HAVE been asking for: Multi-tagging and the ability to transmog weapons. Multi-tagging will change the shape of how we do World Bosses and will be especially great for us during MFNs. Swtor has long has an extensive and pretty convenient system for changing your character's outfits, but weapons have always been left out of that picture. Now that we will be able to use quest rewards, special meaning looks, and all kinds of things to transmog our weapons independent of their value as gear.

So, if you always wanted to use Torchy as your blaster pistol and wanted to join in as everyone on a planet kills a World Boss, come join us in SWTOR. Now is the time to be getting those last few levels, cleaning out your inventory, acquiring a few XP boosts and generally just getting ready!...

On this episode of The AIE Podcast...

Halloween approaches, don’t forget to post those pics!

We have MFN for New World!

We have a Raid Team Round up- And I didn’t have to do it!!

Endwalker, Experience the HYPE!

And, Dankinia took a break from falling off cliffs to join us for the podcast to talk ESO

All that and more coming up right now...

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Welcome to episode #376 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: (hey folks, there is an apple pear cobbler in the guild kitchen). This week we are joined by special guest 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

Mandatory Fun Nights

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 - New World 8:00 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

From Gusty-Koo

Hey AIE folks, I love transmog both in game and RL. I would love to see what others are doing for Halloween. Please post in the #pics-or-it-didnt-happen channel on AIE Discord. For WoW players, I would especially love to see pics of your Headless Horseman mount, helm and/or sword (as proof they actually exist). Other games - show us your rarest and best loved looks! Starring your way, New World.

Streaming and Guild Podcast News

New Overlords (SWTOR Escape Pod Cast) - https://www.newoverlords.com

SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 401: Low Sodium Merc Update

http://www.newoverlords.com/swtor-escape-pod-cast-401-low-sodium-merc-update/

7.0 Merc style is on the PTS and we finally find out how salty we are about it.

Working Class Nerds - https://workingclassnerdscom.wordpress.com/

Episode 126: Sidebar Sandwhich!!!

https://www.buzzsprout.com/143519/9413130-episode-126-sidebar-sandwhich.mp3

The only rule of this episode is that there ARE NO RULES!!! Kymeri and Atrax join Marcus and Nick for this wild ride of an episode, enjoy!!

You can find more of Kymeri at: https://www.twitch.tv/TheKymeri

You can find more of Atrax at: https://www.twitch.tv/A_atrax

Fleet Action Report (Star Trek Online) - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqEKYJPKmiiYuj7eiHy6kOg

Fleet Action Report Ep 67 Fall of the Old Ones

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVbNd6X6yB4

This week on Fleet Action Report, Nikodas and Grebog dive into the latest event. Fall of the Old Ones is a new event with a new ground based TFO for you to enjoy. We go through the Cat's Tale TFO twice to try and show you different aspects of the TFO and even give you a few tricks to help you find all the candles, find all the black cats, and even how to get those pesky skeletons into the candle light.

Boards and Swords Podcast - https://boardsandswords.com

Thunder Road Vendetta with Guest Rob Daviau - Boards & Swords #182

https://boardsandswords.com/blog/bs182

We’ve got Rob Daviau from Restoration Games here to talk about their next Kickstarter: Thunder Road Vendetta! Plus a month’s worth of news!

NOMADS

AIE is still playing Destiny 2, make sure to check out the destiny2 chat channel in the AIE discord to connect with other Guardians.

We're entering into the end of the year Holiday events-a-palooza stretch. Currently the Festival of the Lost is live until 2 Nov. Details: https://www.bungie.net/7/en/Seasons/Events/FestivalOfTheLost

New World

New World is quite a success. We had to open a second Company and move inactive to it, as we reached the cap earlier this week.

On Tuesday, we had our first MFN Trial, running around the map, fighting mid-level corrupted invasions and closing their portals.

On Thursday, we had our second MFN Trial, clearing a Pirate citadel, teaching who YARRs !

Voting was up about MFN evening selection. It was a close vote, but Thursday beat Wednesday.

Next MFN will be Thursday at 08:00 PM EST, for 2 to 3 hours, doing activities that allow players to join or leave at any time.

If anyone wants to run a Wednesday later MFN, anyone can schedule and organize.

See you in game !

WoW

Raid Team Roundup

Congrats to Kiddie Aggro for 10/10 Heroic Sanctum of Domination, our 2nd raid team with Ahead of the Curve Achievement.

The Filthy Casuals are going on break until 9.2 after completing 10/10 Normal Sanctum.

Behind the Curve is 4/10 Heroic Sanctum and farming Normal to gear up some new members.

Where Is The Tank /WiTT (alts) and DoA continue to farm Normal Sanctum, with several proceeding directly to Noob Raid. Prepare for trouble, make it double.

WiTT (mains) is 8/10 Heroic with only Fatescribe (aka Wheel of Misfortune) and Sylvanas left to go.

WoW Game News

Upcoming Extended Maintenance for US Realms - Tuesday 10/26 2 am to 10 am PDT

Patch 9.1.5 has a release date? I mean, it has a release date! November 2nd.

“It has a lot of quality of life improvements and some cool new features that we wouldn’t usually expect in an x.5 patch, including easy Covenant swapping, new character customization, Legion Timewalking, the return of the Mage Tower, legacy loot for BFA raids, and a whole lot more.” (Thanks to Blizzard Watch for the summary - https://blizzardwatch.com/2021/10/21/patch-9-1-5-release-date/)

The Mage Tower will not release until December 7th when Legion Timewalking comes around. It will be available for two weeks (twooo weeeeks). You won’t be able to collect transmog that was available in Legion, but there are new Tier 20 Armor recolors and a mount to be obtained.

Official Patch Notes - https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/news/23731242/915-content-update-notes

FFXIV

We are now less than one month away from Endwalker and the hype is real!

Remember, Endwalker starts for early access for pre-orders on November 19th. If you pre-order any version, you get an earring with a 30% bonus to all xp earned. Also, the stats on the earring scale with you, as you level, and change depending on what job you are on. This also includes crafting classes.

If you are not the pre-order type, Endwalker will start on November 23rd.

Even with all of the trailers, announcements, live letters, and media days, there still more that they have yet to announce, so on November 5th at 10pm EST, 7 PM PST and 4 rocks past the 5th sand dune in Arizona time, we have Live Letter LXVII (67). Here, all that is listed is “New Endwalker Information’ and “Miscellaneous Updates” on the agenda, so we do expect to hear new info on the expansion.

In the Free Company, we are working on creating Grade 3 XP buffs for everyone. Here’s how you can help.

First off, we need to create the aether wheel. This is created in the workshop, which is accessible in the FC house, main floor, back left corner. In there, there is the workshop and in the middle, we have our current project, which will be the Grade 3 Heat of Battle aether wheel.

You can donate the items to complete the craft. An officer will need to pull it out of the crafting station and start up a new one. From there, we need to place it in the aether wheel stand, where it needs to “cook” for 70 hours. When the time comes, we will pull out the charged aether wheel out and add it to our buff inventory.

Come Friday and Saturday, we will want to activate the following buffs.

Heat of Battle 3

Reduced Rates 2

This will allow everyone in the Free Company to get a 15% bonus to all combat XP generated, as opposed to the 10% we would get from Heat of Battle 2.

Also, remember that anyone can refresh the buffs. If you see the buffs are down, go into the FC panel and reactivate them. Just remember to use the grade 3 buffs on Friday and Saturday so that we can get an extra bonus for the weekends.

It’s still not too late to jump into your Final Fantasy XIV adventure! Come on down to the ffxiv channel in discord and we can get you started.

SWTOR

Bioware has published a cosplay kit for the very popular character, Lana Beniko. It includes high resolution images of her and of her unmistakable gear, as well as reference materials and color palettes. In case you have yet to meet Lana, here are a few words about her: "With her serene and considerate manner, one might mistake Lana Beniko for a Jedi. She is, however, a Sith Lord of great wisdom and strength who has impressed many of her peers in a considerably short period of time with her keen insights into the nature of the Force." This cosplay kit is intended to be the first of many. Malgus, anyone?

The Feast of Prosperity and Double XP are still going on. Come join us Tuesday night for MFN where we will likely be killing an event boss or two, making some currency, and piling on the XP.

ESO

See Game Notes

STO

Current Halloween Event, Fall of the Old Ones, is still ongoing.

The Mirror Guardian Cruiser will be available in the Zen Store starting 10/28.

Fleet Action Report is looking for 2 volunteers to help with the 10/25 show at 11pm Eastern. This will be to run a few Ground TFOs.

LOTRO

The new expansion "The Fate of Gundabad" will be released on November 10th. Also the long awaited curator vendor will be in Middle Earth from Oct.. 25th- Nov. 1st. If you have not taken advantage of the quest pack redeem code lotroquests2021 you have until the end of November to do so. Also most expansions are on sale in game for 99 LP. You can also go to https://lotro.com/getready for more details. Lastly, if you need any assistance with the new legendary Items we can walk you through it and answer any questions in the lotro channel.

GW2

...

On this episode of The AIE Podcast...

New World is a roaring success, quick, let’s get more servers!

Double XP and The Feast of Prosperity, oh my!

Shadow of the Mad King leads to Seasons of Dragons

This is Halloween, This is Halloween, in many games

And, we have GustyTail who is here to talk to us about AIE in World of Warcraft!!!

All that and more coming up right now...

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Welcome to episode #375 of the podcast celebrating you, the Alea Iacta Est gaming community, the die has been podcast. This is Tetsemi: To my left is Mkallah: - (There are figgy scones in guild kitchen, and apple chai scones, and pumpkin tarts, and….). And to my right is Mewkow: (catch phrase here). This week we are joined by special guests GustyTail who is here to talk to us about AIE in World of Warcraft Welcome!

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

AIE News

Community

Mandatory Fun Nights

Where the fun is mandatory but the attendance is not.

Sunday - 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

New Overlords - http://www.newoverlords.com/

(Star Wars The Old Republic)

SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 399: What About Second Feast?

http://www.newoverlords.com/swtor-escape-pod-cast-399-what-about-second-feast/

So we had a Feast of Prosperity. Well what about second feast? The second annual feast starts on Tuesday.

Working Class Nerds - https://workingclassnerdscom.wordpress.com/

Episode 125: Stayin' Alive... Seven!!!

https://www.buzzsprout.com/143519/9339965-episode-125-stayin-alive-seven.mp3

Marcus and Nick sit down with Twitch streamer and awesome guy Stay Alive 7! We go on tons of sidebars and get into what ice cream Stay really likes! Thanks for listening!

https://www.twitch.tv/stayalive_7

Fleet Action Report - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqEKYJPKmiiYuj7eiHy6kOg

(Star Trek Online)

Fleet Action Report Ep 65 A Call to Arms TFOs: Cure Found, Khitomer Vortex, and Hive Onslaught

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jywkOBZV3Q

Nikodas and Grebog are back with another episode of Fleet Action Report to cover some more of the Task Force Operations in the game. We finished up the guest stars of 2020 with Shannon Cochran as Sirella. And then we head into the TFOs: Cure Found, Khitomer Vortex, and Hive Onslaught.

NOMADS

Destiny 2

The Witch Queen expansion and start of Season 5 is still slated for a Feb 2022 release. It was announced recently that the Forsaken expansion and Season 5 content will be vaulted at that time. Make sure to complete your goals for this content soon.

New World

New World has launched as of a week ago, with much more success than anticipated, causing Amazon Studio to spawn tens of new servers a day to provide enough for all the players that wanted to join and were stuck in queues.

The initial rush is passed, queues have totally disappeared, and AIE is established on Pyrallis (North America, East) under the Syndicate banner. We currently have 87 members, with around 20 online each evening. We're already talking about MFN and adding sub-guilds.

So lots of fun to have in a gorgeous game (hard to believe it is their first MMO, especially with so little issues or bugs, on their own engine): deep crafting, PvPvE, gigantic map (for a max of 2250 online concurrently) and an incredible attention to details (even animals have real animation, sounds and live their lives).

I do hope Amazon Studio will license their engine and content, for many great games to spawn from that pearl.

Type: MMO, PvP, PvP, GvG, 50v50

Tags: Renaissance, Fantasy, Crafting, Reticular and High Action

WoW

See Game Notes

SWTOR

During MFN this past week, BC took us to Dantooine to get some rather arcane achievements. Everyone there got the achievements, even though it involved some patient waiting while items respawned. During the down time, BC either was on his way to the next clicky, or he posed some really difficult trivia questions provided by Maellung, our resident Trivia Taskmaster. A few people got killed multiple times by a parrot. For science.

Double xp started this week and will be going for three weeks. The Feast of Prosperity is on too. This event only comes around once a year, so now is the time to build up some currency to buy the holiday items, like decos, pets, mounts, and cosmetic armor. The new expansion is coming by the end of the year, so this is the perfect time to level up those last few alts.

ESO

Cool things the guild has been doing:

• The last two weeks we have been focused on doing the daily world boss and delve quests in the Blackwood zone due to an in game event.

• A four person dungeon team has formed. AC/DC runs on Monday nights and is working their way through clearing all of the instanced dungeons on normal and veteran.

• Being lead off cliffs by Dankinia

Things planned or coming up for the guild:

• MFN's activities happen each week and involve either zone clears, daily dungeon runs, and/or public dungeon clears.

Game or press release news:

• During the current Bounties of Blackwood event players unlocked a reward bundle. Don't forget to claim the goodies from the in-game crown store.

• The players have completed 85% of the bonus challenge for the Bounties of Blackwood event. For every 25% complete between now and October 12 they will extend the Explorers celebrate event for two days. It's a bonus mini event that will encompass every zone in Tamriel so keep doing those world boss dailies.

• The Deadlands prologue quest is now live and the quest starter can be obtained for free from the in-game crown store. It leads directly into the upcoming Deadlands DLC storyline.

FFXIV

Map night continues every Saturday at 9:30 pm eastern. We're currently starting at different people's houses or apartments every week. Check the FFXIV channel pins for a link to the form to sign up.

Zoot is running a mount farm on Friday evening running extreme primals from previous expansions. Even if you don't have a ton of experience in the game, you're welcome to come! Only requirement is you be at level 50, 60 or 70.

Let Durus, Abovan or Kelseer know if you have any questions or are interested in getting into the game! We'd love to have you.

STO

New 32 century ship added to the infinity lockbox: The Kirk Class Temporal Battlecruiser

25% off keys, until tomorrow (Monday)

New event starts on the 13th: Halloween Themed. Explore a haunted castle to rescue extragalactic aliens from the Devidians.

Until tomorrow (Monday) Mudd's Market is 75% off.

Tomorrow (Monday) Fleet Action Report will be featuring a torpedo boat, and explaining how to build one!

GW2

Shadow of the Mad King: Oct 5 - Nov 9th

The Halloween Event is live!. Tons of things to do, including, a super fun (or frustrating) timed jumping puzzle, the single best cash and experience farm in the game, a game of simon says in a Halloween themed Lion's Arch with Mad King Thorn, Beetle races and more.

Halloween Bonus Bash: (this ends on Tuesday)

If you go to the starting zones the mist stranger is giving one special weapon per account. This weapon has a fancy skin, and it levels with you. (think heritage stuff from wow).

There is also a super nice buff (again this ends on Tuesday) 50% XP (from everything), 30% Magic Find, and 30% WVW and PVP reward Track Progress. (if you are working on a legendary, this is a great time to grind out a gift of battle, or 2, in World vs World).

Seasons of Dragons (Return to Living World)

On October 19th we will return to the Icebrood Saga. I am not sure how this will be split up, there are 7 chapters in IBS, and chapter 7 is split into 4 sub chapters. If you have been keeping up, when you finish the return to Icebrood Saga, you will earn a legendary amulet!

The next Beta week is October 26 for the final 3 Elite specializations. Thief, Ranger, and Engineer. They have already previewed a picture of a scepter wielding Thief. If they follow the same pattern they have been, we should see what the actual classes are during the first week of return to IBS.

Guild stuff: Mandatory fun Nights happen on Mondays at 8:30 Central (the only real time zone), Maellung hosts dungeon nights (best to check discord for these). If you need help with ANYTHING in game, reach out in our discord channel. Jehdai is more than happy to help people get up tough jumping puzzles, complete difficult story achievements, or even abuse his catmander tag to bring the zerg to kill that pesky legendary you need for your griffon.

See you in Tyria!

LOTRO

We have a Kin house on Treebeard!!!!! The Kin house is located at 4 Brookbank in the Maltmead neighborhood in the Shire homesteads!!!!!! Decorating of the Kin house on Treebeard is open to all kin members. Please help us decorate the new house. We will be getting update 30.3 on Wednesday. The update will add the Brawler class as well as the new legendary system. The legendary system can be confusing at first but have no fear just ask in the lotro channel and we will do our best to answer any questions you have to learn the new system. Do not forget to redeem the code lotroquests2021 in the ingame store to unlock a ton of content for free on your entire account. Also reminder all expansions except Minas Morgul and War of Three Peaks are on sale for 99 LP. The code and expansion sale are good until the end of November

GAME NEWS

Noob Raid killed Painsmith aka Stabby McFloorpants for the first time this weekend. We are now 6/10 on normal Sanctum of Domination....

On this episode of The AIE Podcast...

Congradudolences to Gusty!

New World emerges- this week!

Saturday night is alright for MEGA

*Insert Final Fantasy XIV meme here*

And, we have Maellung and Dux who are here to talk to us about AIE in LOTRO!

All that and more coming up right now...

Podcast Audio

Raw Video

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Welcome to episode #374 of the podcast celebrating you, the Alea Iacta Est gaming community, the die has been podcast. This is Mkallah: To my left is Mewkow: - (catch phrase here). And to my right is Tetsemi: (catch phrase here). This week we are joined by special guest Maellung and Dux who are here to talk to us about AIE in LOTRO Welcome!

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

AIE News

Community

New WoW GM - With Syreyne stepping away from WoW and the WoW officers still needing leadership help there, the WoW Director team has asked Gusty to step in to help in that capacity along with existing GM’s Tetsemi and Ashayo. Gusty's leadership in WoW has been great and she has more plans on continuing to nurture that community. Please join in congratulating Gusty-Koo!

Mandatory Fun Nights

Where the fun is mandatory but the attendance is not.

Sunday - STO 8:30 pm Eastern

Monday - GW2 9:30 pm Eastern

Tuesday - SWTOR 9:00 pm Eastern

Tuesday - FFXIV (Casual Raiding) 9:30 pm Eastern

Thursday - FFXIV (Progression Raiding) 9:30 pm Eastern

Friday - ESO 9:00 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) 11:00 pm Eastern

Streaming and Guild Podcast News

New Overlords - http://www.newoverlords.com/

SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 397: Take 5 (More Levels)

http://www.newoverlords.com/swtor-escape-pod-cast-397-take-5-more-levels/

The Public Test Server is updated with L80 plus Sorc and Assassin styles.

Working Class Nerds - https://workingclassnerdscom.wordpress.com/

Episode 123: LIVE with Kogass_!!!

https://www.buzzsprout.com/143519/9251311-episode-123-live-with-kogass_.mp3

Marcus and Nick go LIVE on Twitch with Kogass_!!! Kogass is a longtime friend of the show, real life friend, and SWTOR Twitch Streamer! The three of them talk about Phase Four of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and of course all of the gaming shenanigans that they're up to. Enjoy!

You can find more of Kogass at: https://www.twitch.tv/kogass_

Fleet Action Report - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqEKYJPKmiiYuj7eiHy6kOg

Fleet Action Report Ep 63 Equal and Opposites

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tzIUSehfI0

Nikodas and Grebog are looking through the mirror in this episode of Fleet Action Report. We focus on what you need to know about the new event focusing on the task force operations and without going over and spoilers a brief chat on the new episode and season.

Boards and Swords - https://boardsandswords.com

C’MON NFTs, Warhammer Escalation League, How are we doing? - Boards & Swords #181

https://boardsandswords.com/blog/bs181

Chris is up to his eyeballs in painting miniatures - is that someone on the inside of his ear?? How did that get there?? Board Games did well on Kickstarter again, and NFTs coming to board games?? Plus Chris & Philip talk about the past year of the show and where they see it going over the next year.

NOMADS

Getting ready for the New World release on 09/28

As with all best laid plans, this may not survive first contact with the enemy. However, until such time as we need to pivot, AIE New World will be launching in US East on the Pyrallis server as Syndicate. You will need to join the Syndicate faction to join the company so make that decision carefully since faction changes are limited. We'll attempt to secure the Company name of Alea Iacta Est but have a few suffixes ready if that's not possible and will post here as soon as we lock it in. Welcome to AIE in New World.

The next AIE board game night will be October 7th @ 7:30PM Central. We have had some increased activity on our board game nights lately which is great. Come join in on the fun!

WoW

Noob Raid news - Thanks to help from members of WITT/DOA Noob Raid is now 5/10 on Normal Sanctum.

WoW Classic

We have purchased the first two guild bank tabs, please feel free to drop stuff in the 2nd tab that other guildies might find useful, especially crafting materials.

The first tab, currently, will be for bags and other things in limited supply, much like it is in Retail WoW.

FFXIV

Things are looking up in Final Fantasy XIV as we wind down our Shadowbringers adventures and get ready for Endwalker on November 19th, launching Nov 19th for the head-start for pre-orders, and November 23rd for its normal launch.

Although we are at the tail end of the expansion, now is a great time to get started in FFXIV. There is a very generous trial that works fine on PCs, MACs, and Playstation 4s and 5s. While trials accounts can not join the Free Company (That’s FFXIv speak for a guild), we can provide a ton of assistance from the Discord server. If (or really, when) you purchase the game, there is an exchange of Friend Codes down in the discord server in the channel called ffxiv-friend-codes. If you do pick up a friend code, both parties will get rewards. Once a code is used, please “react” to the code with a checkmark to signify that the code has been consumed.

If you need an invite to the Free Company, just ask in our discord server in the ffxiv channel. An officer does not need to specifically be online, but anyone with a member rank or higher. A member rank is a character that has been in FFXIV for 30-ish days.

Do you like the FC buffs? Do you hate it when they expire? Well, do not despair, as any member can refresh the buffs! Just go into the FC actions in the FC panel and refresh them! Later on, we want to start to provide Grade 3 XP buffs over the weekends.

SWTOR

In guild news, AIE has captured another planet during the periodic Total Galactic War event. Anyone traveling to Makeb will be greeted with an ingame banner proclaiming that "Makeb is controlled by Alea Iacta Est Timor" and everyone in the guild has earned the title, "Conqueror of Makeb". For MFN this week, we gathered on Makeb to take a screenshot of all the new conquerors before heading to the pub side to do more normal shenanigans.

In more guild news, MEGA has moved to Saturday nights! Last night, Marcus led everyone around the galaxy to kill World Bosses which Tabbytha had scouted out ahead of time. If you ever wanted to acquire the Lucky title AND the Unlucky title, just come with Marcus and Tabbytha one fine MEGA night to Corellia to kill the World Boss, Lucky.

In game news, Bioware is conducting a screenshot contest for the first time ever. They are looking for landscape-style shots from 10 specific planets. If you have a golden shutter finger, or just have a favorite spot, jump in and take the shot. The rules are posted on swtor.com, but if you drop into our discord, we can toss you a link. Submissions must be by October 5th. The top 10 winning entries will be made into decorations that we can all put in our strongholds. The winners themselves will get special versions that have gilded frames.

ESO

Last Fridays' MFN was spent killing the world bosses in Craglorn. Fun was had and high bridges were jumped off of. A four person dungeon team has formed. AC/DC runs on Monday nights and is working their way through clearing all of the instanced dungeons on normal and veteran. We also are being lead off cliffs by Dankinia.

MFN's activities happen each week and involve either zone clears, daily dungeon runs, and/or public dungeon clears.

STO

New Ship Bundle: Starships of the Line: Steamrunner, includes 3 starships: Tier 1 Blockade Runner, Tier 5 Blockade Runner, and the new Tier 6 Appalachia Blockade Runner. The Appalachia will also be available as a solo purchase available in the Zen Store October 1st

20% off Starship sale until Monday

Bonus Dilithium until Monday

Upcoming OS and Direct X Support Changes, starting on February 15th, STO will no longer support systems that are running Windows 7 or Direct X 10 or older

Fleet Action Report will be highlight the Voice Actors that joined STO in 2020 during their show on Monday night at 11pm

And with that, let’s get back to Maellung and dux and find out what’s going on in LORTO.

GAME NEWS

https://lotro.com/en/getready

The Coupon Code is: LOTROQUESTS2021

(1/Account, available to redeem through November 30th, 2021)

U30.2.1 (2021-09-27) pre-orders start tomorrow (9/27) for 'Fate of Gundabad'

- FIX: Instrument carry all stack adjustments

- if you pre-order you get the in-game release items at that time.

U30.3 is brawler + LI upgrade and will release before FoG (mid-Oct)

- I think of the new class as the Valar Tulkas, he wrestled Morgoth and threw him down, into chains.

U31 = Fate of Gundabad.

CLOSE

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

https://twitch.tv/maellungarrowshield

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/

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