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On this episode of The AIE Podcast… We will see you at Nerdtacular Renegades is giving a galaxy far far away vibe SWTOR celebrates with 4 crazy nights the STO Starbase is expanding And, we have our first show of 2026! All that and more coming up right now… Podcast Audio Raw Video http://youtu.be/RNmHGBUf5gU Open Welcome to episode 441 of the podcast celebrating you, the Alea Iacta Est gaming community, the die has been podcast. This is Mkallah: To my left is Tetsemi – (catch phrase here). And to my right is Mewkow: (catch phrase here). Happy 2026, folks! The first week and a half has felt like a year and we are all getting back into the swing of things. Ok, we’ll be digging into what we’ve all been up to shortly, but first, let’s cover this week’s news… AIE News Community Nerdtacular 2026 has been announced- the event that we affectionately refer to as the Nerd Family Reunion is back for the first time since 2017. Lots of information on Frogpants.com, including tickets and hotel details. The event is scheduled for June 11-13 and will be held at the Salt Lake Marriott Downtown at City Creek in Salt Lake City. All three of us have tickets and have been chatting about how we can record a live show. Mandatory Fun Nights Where the fun is mandatory but the attendance is not. Sunday – Destiny 2 8:30 pm Eastern Monday – GW2 9:30 pm Eastern Monday – STO 10:00 pm Eastern Tuesday – SWTOR 9:00 pm Eastern Wednesday – HFO Mythic+ Mayhem (WoW) 8:00 pm Eastern Friday – ESO 9:00 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 We have a ton of AIE member podcasts! Want to know where to find them? Look no further than here- New Overlords Podcast (Max and Sema) https://www.newoverlords.com Boards and Swords (Chris and Philip) https://boardsandswords.com/blog?category=Boards%20%26%20Swords Dr. Gameology ( Dr. Daniel Kaufmann ) https://drgameology.com/ STO – Fleet Action Report (Grebog and Nikodas) https://www.youtube.com/@fleetactionreport A Podcast Reborn: A FFXIV Community Podcast (Brandon aka Old Man Franks, Meagan, and Rho) – NSFL https://www.bonusroll.gg/directory/a-podcast-reborn/ NOMADS Destiny 2 The new expansion Renegades is chugging along- it is a very”Star Wars themed” expansion. We get lightsabers! It’s got a very cool Darth Revan/Kylo Ren feel to the new bad guy. We get to be kinda like bounty hunters and work for the criminal syndicates doing contract jobs as part of the core activity for the expansion. Earning reputation with each syndicate gains new abilities to use during the contract runs. Not much going on Guild wise. Things are pretty slow overall in Destiny 2, the community is waiting on the new Roadmap to see where things are going. Rumors and hopes are high that a Destiny 3 gets announced. If you are in Destiny 2 and Just_Wargus online feel free to reach out for a hand with anything. ARK – got a pretty dedicated group in there right now WoW Resting up for prepatch of Midnight. Housing is going well. Remix winding down. Noob Raid started up again after its holiday break. A new addon, XFaction for cross guild communication is working well. The last days of Legion Remix are upon us. We are in the final 7 days, so get those last minute runs done now. There is still transmog gear to grind, pets, mounts, and exclusive legion remix only housing items to grab before they are gone. If you ever wanted those legion artifact appearances, this is it. SWTOR In SWTOR, we closed out 2025 with our Winter Nights celebration which was 4 evenings of guild activities including a tour of World Bosses where we took a piece of armor off after each successive fight, stronghold tours, dressing up in our Life Day finest, a clothing drive on the starter planets, a parade of Life Day mounts, and a cracking good trivia night. Great way to spend the last gaming week of 2025. On to 2026! Next week is Total Galactic War! Again! This time we are ready for it. Mostly. We will be maximizing conquest points this week by doing group activities, crafting, and class stories. GSF and pvp are also good ways to rack up the points, if you are so inclined. Keep an eye on discord for any last minute group stuff that may pop up. ESO Nothing new really. It’s been quiet due to the holidays. FFXIV Just had a new patch and things are going well. New MSQ, Savage raid tier is open and the world first race is already over. New trial with a train, new Unreal trial with everyone’s favorite lady to hate and feel sorry for, Tsukuyomi’s Pain. The cosmic crafter and gatherer area has new updates, and crafters have pink heart themed items to make new. Hildebrand has more story, and the Air Force One GATE has a new place to fly around and pew pew.. The Strategy Board is live, and everyone is clearly using it for helpful raid explanations and mechanics demonstrations. Totally. Free login campaign has started. Up to 96 hours from when you start it. Ends February 9th. STO KDF fleet has made some big strides with the fleet holdings. The Starbase will complete the Tier IV shipyard in just about a week. Which means after that we can start tossing resources in for a tier IV Starbase. Also the Research lab is closing in on Tier III. What all this means is more fleet ships will be accessible. And once the research lab hits Tier III, the purchasable trait slots will be available. Fleet Action Report has been doing playthroughs of the missions showcasing accolades and recruit special tasks, while letting you know what rewards could be handy for your ships or on ground. We will be completing the final mission of the Iconian War arc this week. Which you can catch us live recording the episode Thursday 10pm eastern. Fun nights are Monday 10pm eastern. If you want to group up and run any STO content, looking for help with something, or just want to hang out, come join us. LOTRO Not much is happening. In general players are leveling, working on the epic quest, and enhancing their legendary items. If anyone is looking for help leveling or enhancing their legendary items please reach out to Maelllung and they’d be happy to help! And with that, let’s get back to what we have been doing in and out of game! GAME NEWS HOST CHAT Question of the show- what was the geekiest gift you received for the holidays? CLOSE 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 find us on the AIE Discord and BlueSky https://bsky.app/profile/aiepodcast.bsky.social. We record live with video once a month on 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 look for the link to our discord server at https://aie-guild.org. 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! And now it’s time to play all of the great AIE member segments we received this week, including… We will see you all in February. So until then, AIE… – This is Mkallah – This is Mewkow – This is Tetsemi And this has been… The AIE Podcast.

On this episode of The AIE Podcast… We have floor tanking and other WoW noobs… um, news Happy Lifeday, AIE December, where the attendance is optional and the fun is mandatory LOTRO brings YULE Kingdoms of Harad And, join us for our last show of the year All that and more coming up right now… Podcast Audio Raw Video http://youtu.be/TZ8A0NVJjUM Open Welcome to episode #440 of the podcast celebrating you, the Alea Iacta Est gaming community, the die has been podcast. This is Tetsemi: To my left is Mewkow: – (catch phrase here). And to my right is Mkallah: (hey guys, there is leftover caramel apple pie in the guild kitchen). This week, we have a wrap up of what is going on for December in AIE and gaming in general. Ok, we’ll be digging into what we have been up to 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 – Destiny 2 8:30 pm Eastern Monday – GW2 9:30 pm Eastern Monday – STO 10:00 pm Eastern Tuesday – SWTOR 9:00 pm Eastern Wednesday – HFO Mythic+ Mayhem (WoW) 8:00 pm Eastern Friday – ESO 9:00 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 We have a ton of AIE member podcasts! Want to know where to find them? Look no further than here- New Overlords Podcast (Max and Sema) https://www.newoverlords.com Boards and Swords (Chris and Philip) https://boardsandswords.com/blog?category=Boards%20%26%20Swords Dr. Gameology ( Dr. Daniel Kaufmann ) https://drgameology.com/ STO – Fleet Action Report (Grebog and Nikodas) https://www.youtube.com/@fleetactionreport A Podcast Reborn: A FFXIV Community Podcast (Brandon aka Old Man Franks, Meagan, and Rho) – NSFL https://www.bonusroll.gg/directory/a-podcast-reborn/ WoW Noob Raid is on winter break until January 3, 2026 so Dankinia can get a bit of relief from the horrible jokes the group likes to torment her with. During 2025, Dankinia demonstrated her floor tanking abilities 172 times. While she is out, Celindre will be leading Noob Raid – After Dark during the normal 11pm EST time slot each Saturday. In WoW, Midnight – the next expansion – has a release date of March 2nd with the pre-patch release on Jan 13. Anyone with an Epic Edition pre-order will have early access – expected Feb 27 according to WoWHead. Players with early access will also be able to use the new Player Housing feature as of Dec 2. This will be a bit complicated for AIE and our co-guilds, which are one of several ways to join “neighborhoods” for player housing. Every player’s Warband gets two houses – one Horde and one Alliance, but any alt can access either home. There will be open neighborhoods that are server wide, and Guilds can create private neighborhoods open to anyone in that guild. Groups of friends (such as Raid Teams) can also create charters for their own neighborhoods. We will have neighb orhoods for all the co-guilds (probably) but haven’t assigned which officer will be assigned to which yet. Currently, in addition to the Legion Remix event (speed leveling/transmog/mounts etc), the WoW Anniversary is active in Retail WoW, with a rep & xp boost. Visiting the Anniversary Celebration at the Caverns of Time will provide an additional buff. Rep is good – because it’s one of the ways to obtain decor for Player Housing. SWTOR SWTOR will see a holiday release of update 7.8 entitled “Pursuit of Ruin”. It will include a new story chapter, a new type of Dynamic Encounter, and a new stronghold (player housing). That’s not to mention Life Day festivities, with the snow balls and the wookiee hugging. Also, for the first year ever, we will be trying out a new guild event during the evenings between Christmas and New Years. Stay tuned to discord for more info on that! ESO MFN in ESO generally takes the month of December off, but expect to find a couple of people hanging out at the normal time on Friday nights though the holidays. Attendance will be sporadic but feel free to reach out if anyone would like company while running the holiday events in game. FFXIV Patch 7.4 comes December 16th. Main Scenario – Into the Mist Raid Dungeon – The Arcadion: Heavyweight Division Variant Dungeon – The Merchant’s Tale New Dungeon – Mistwake New Trial – Hell on Rails New Unreal Trial – Tsukuyomi’s Pain (Unreal) New Frontline Campaign – Worqor Chirteh Weapon Enhancement Quests – Phantom Weapons Inconceivably Further Hildibrand Adventures Manderville Gold Saucer GATE – Air Force One (The Cieldalaes) Cosmic Exploration: Oizys and Tool Enhancement Quests – Cosmic Tools Strategy Board – Raid explanations but better Glamour Update – Unlocked all types! New Theme Settings – Clear Green and Clear White Mac support (Ventura ends Jan 27, Tahoe now supported) Save 50% on Collector’s Edition Digital Upgrades Until December 7 New ridiculous hotpot mount (It flies) And irregular tomestones are active now until 7.4 is live. Fanfest is happening where Blizzcon is normally, April 24/25th. Cookbook #2 is out! LOTRO New expansion “Kingdoms of Harad” as of right now is scheduled to be released on December 3rd. The instance cluster for the expansion is expected to be delayed, which means this gives a chance to level up to the new level cap and get a group together and look at it as a kinship. Also looking forward to the Yule Festival that starts on December 11th. Join us as we look to have fun in Frostbluff as well as protecting it in “The Battle of Frostbluff”. STO Yes, it’s true, Cryptic studios has once again been sold. However, this is not a time for doom and gloom. The new owners have no intentions of sunsetting STO. In fact, STO has simply returned to its original owners who want to see the game succeed. There are ongoing sales in both the Zen Store and Mudd’s Market. Some of these are as high as 50% off! Lifetime Subscriptions are 33% off until Dec 14th Q’s Winter Wonderland will be returning on Dec 9th. While we don’t have any specific details on what the rewards will be this year, it’s sure to be something you don’t want to miss! And with that, let’s get to what we have been doing in and out of the game! And, Mkallah has a question for everyone! GAME NEWS Okay, friends! What geeky thing are you planning to give for the holidays, and are there any geeky gifts you hope to receive? CLOSE And that’s our show for tonight. While the chatroom begins suggesting show titles, we want to thank us, for joining us. If you have a question or comment about our show, you can email us at [email protected] You can find us on the AIE Discord and BlueSky https://bsky.app/profile/aiepodcast.bsky.social. We record live with video once a month on 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 look for the link to our discord server at https://aie-guild.org. 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! And now it’s time to play all of the great AIE member segments we received this week, including… We will see you all in January of 2026!. So until then, AIE… – This is Tetsemi – This is Mewkow – This is Mkallah And this has been… The AIE Podcast.

Those Nomads are roaming again Legion is Legioning, but hey, at least there is flying from the get go Dantooine is a Wreck(age) FFXIV is here for Spooky Season And, we are talking with ourselves All that and more coming up right now… Podcast Audio Raw Video http://youtu.be/4oTusrZCzo4 Open Welcome to episode #439 of the podcast celebrating you, the Alea Iacta Est gaming community, the die has been podcast. This is Mewkow: To my left is Mkallah: – (listen, there is a wedding shower and a witch’s tea next saturday, I am gonna need everyone to not snack on random sweets in the guild kitchen, you can have the left overs). And to my right is Tetsemi: (catch phrase here). This week we are talking to ourselves. Just a note, please keep AIE’s Kramer in your thoughts. He will be out of the games indefinitely due to a stroke on the evening of October 5th. Right now he is in a long-term acute care hospital and the last thing we heard is that he is making small improvements. Ok, we’ll be digging into what we have been up to 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 – Destiny 2 8:30 pm Eastern Monday – GW2 9:30 pm Eastern Monday – STO 10:00 pm Eastern Tuesday – SWTOR 9:00 pm Eastern Wednesday – HFO Mythic+ Mayhem (WoW) 8:00 pm Eastern Friday – ESO 9:00 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 We have a ton of AIE member podcasts! Want to know where to find them? Look no further than here- New Overlords Podcast (Max and Sema) https://www.newoverlords.com Boards and Swords (Chris and Philip) https://boardsandswords.com/blog?category=Boards%20%26%20Swords Dr. Gameology ( Dr. Daniel Kaufmann ) https://drgameology.com/ STO – Fleet Action Report (Grebog and Nikodas) https://www.youtube.com/@fleetactionreport A Podcast Reborn: A FFXIV Community Podcast (Brandon aka Old Man Franks, Meagan, and Rho) – NSFL https://www.bonusroll.gg/directory/a-podcast-reborn/ NOMADS Fun times with a group in 7 Days To Die on a private server. We may pick up another survival game in the future too. Stay tuned and check in Nomads if you want to jump in. New World’s Nighthaven update is live giving us a new zone, skill tree revamp, Catacombs, and log in queues! Come check us out in the fresh start server Hudsonland and say hi in the New World channel under nomads. (note that Hudsonland is currently locked though so you’d have to wait until it is unlocked if you haven’t logged in there in the last 180 days) WoW Noob Raid got its first full clear on Manaforge, and yes Dankinia was there for it. Remix is going great, it’s a legion revisit, and all the things we hated about Legion are still there. The best thing is you can now fly from the get go, which makes ancient mana farming much easier. WoW Classic Classic is good, not many people are online at this time and there is always room for more. SWTOR We are looking forward to update 7.8, which is going to include a unique style of Dynamic Encounter called the Wreckage of Dantooine. A ship with powerful technology is going to crash land on Dantooine, spilling out its cargo of basically terraforming bacteria and substances along with the droids to make it all happen. This will create burgeoning biomes that will start to push out the native farming land of peaceful Dantooine. Players will have the opportunity to enter the biomes and push them back by doing various activities to make a central boss accessible. We are hoping this form of Dynamic Encounter is guild friendly, meaning that everyone in a raid group will get credit as we work toward the goals. Fingers crossed! 7.8 does not have a date yet, but it should be on the test servers soon. ESO The guild has been working on endeavors and in game events. FFXIV Kelseer is going back to any level map nights, and the Halloween seasonal event is going on right now until Nov 4 with a new mount. The next Live Letter is set for 10/31 at 7am EST/ 4am PST, where they’ll be discussing 7.4 (the beginning of the set up for 8.0!) STO This week, we’re finishing up the Delta Quadrant story line by running Nikodas’ favorite mission! Tune at 10pm Eastern only on http://twitch.tv/grebog. – FAR is a video podcast that explains all aspects of STO. Visit http://fleetactionreport.com/ or https://discord.gg/kDebFUFg for more information. LOTRO New Expansion is up for Pre-sale, with that, Bullroarer is in, its cycle of builds for update 46: Kingdoms of Harad. Harvestmath runs through November 2nd. The legendary reward track has been extended through December 2nd. This is to align it with the release of Kingdoms of Harad. If you need help with the reward track we are always up to running some group content to help get some of those levels done. If you missed out on getting your toons transferred off of the 32 bit worlds that just closed, you may now transfer from those dark worlds for free. The code for a bunch of quest packs is still available through November 3rd, use the code EXPLOREOURWORLD, sorry Mkallah, for shouting but it is case sensitive. And with that, let’s chat about what we’ve been up to- and Mkallah has a question for us all! GAME NEWS Question- Favourite fall treat! Bonus question if we have time- have you ever dressed up as a character from a game? CLOSE 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 find us on the AIE Discord and BlueSky https://bsky.app/profile/aiepodcast.bsky.social. We record live with video once a month on 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 look for the link to our discord server at https://aie-guild.org. 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! And now it’s time to play all of the great AIE member segments we received this week, including… Just a quick programing note, as the end of the year schedules are filling up, we are trying to squeeze in one more show, somewhere at the end of November or very early December. – This is Mewkow – This is Mkallah – This is Tetsemi And this has been… The AIE Podcast.

On this episode of The AIE Podcast… The great migration is under way And, we have a mini raid wrap up! Congradullances to Stask! Kdf Recruits incoming And, we are catching up with ourselves All that and more coming up right now… Podcast Audio Raw Video http://youtu.be/BfHzOgkipbI Open Welcome to episode #438 of the podcast celebrating you, the Alea Iacta Est gaming community, the die has been podcast. This is Mkallah: To my left is Tetsemi: – (catch phrase here). And to my right is Mewkow: (catch phrase here). This week we are having a host show Welcome, friends! Ok, we’ll be digging into what we have been up to in and out of game 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 – Destiny 2 8:30 pm Eastern Monday – GW2 9:30 pm Eastern Monday – STO 10:00 pm Eastern Tuesday – SWTOR 9:00 pm Eastern Wednesday – HFO Mythic+ Mayhem (WoW) 8:00 pm Eastern Friday – ESO 9:00 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 We have a ton of AIE member podcasts! Want to know where to find them? Look no further than here- New Overlords Podcast (Max and Sema) https://www.newoverlords.com Boards and Swords (Chris and Philip) https://boardsandswords.com/blog?category=Boards%20%26%20Swords Dr. Gameology ( Dr. Daniel Kaufmann ) https://drgameology.com/ STO – Fleet Action Report (Grebog and Nikodas) https://www.youtube.com/@fleetactionreport A Podcast Reborn: A FFXIV Community Podcast (Brandon aka Old Man Franks, Meagan, and Rho) – NSFL https://www.bonusroll.gg/directory/a-podcast-reborn/ WoW The great migration to the active 5 horde co-guilds is going well. Member removal of accounts that haven’t logged in for a year or more also was completed and we have plenty of room for growth, so we kept the two recruiting co-guilds, Libertas and Fortuna, open for another month. The consolidation on the alliance side and culling of accounts also left us with plenty of room for growth. It feels so much better to login and see so many others in guild playing. We encourage those who haven’t made the migration to please do so, and don’t be shy. If you need help, officers are here for you. We get it, it can be scary to hit the /gquit, but I think you will like rejoining an active co-guild. Alliance side MFN raid team HFO is 7/8 on normal and working on the dance with Demensius. Noob Raid ran Firelands for the Timewalking quest, with thanks to Ashayo for getting a skip on the (again) bugged Lord Rhyolith. Ragnaros was troublesome but we took him down eventually, then hopped over to the new Raid, Manaforge Omega to defeat first boss, Plexis Sentinel on Normal. Kiddie Aggro has feasted upon Nexus King Saladbar and are now 7/8 Heroic in Manaforge Omega. Next stop: Dimensius. Surely our bestie Xal-Atath will reward us well for his demise this time? Raid Team Dungeoneering INC has advanced to 4/8 Heroic with successful kills of Loomithar, Soulbinder and Forgeweaver. Raid team So Let’s Go Skating got 3/8 heroic last week with a sub 1% best pull on Araz, they’re going back in this evening for revenge! SWTOR AIE in swtor has a new Guild Master! Corley has passed the reigns on to Stask. Show them both some love! ‘Where’s the Cantina’ Operations Team is hosting a 16 man run of Terror From Beyond on Monday, September 8. For fun times and a Galactic Seasons objective, check in discord for more info and to let Machete know you are interested. There are no gear requirements, but you must be 80 and subbed FFXIV New relic step is out Cosmic Exploration has been updated with a new map to visit, and new rewards to craft and gather for. Map night continues every Saturday at 9:30 pm eastern. Don’t be intimidated, you don’t need to bring anything to join in on the fun! ESO Keep your eyes open for the next ToT tournament which should start in October. STO Kdf Recruits starting on the 8th. Remember, they are a great way to bolster your endeavors. While the boost to the endeavors is only earned once, the extra perk points you unlock doing the endeavor portion is for each kdf recruit. You can get 5 extra perk points just by doing endeavors with each kdf recruit for the recruit tasks. Make 10 kdf recruits and 50 more perk points. LOTRO There has been some recent news in lotro. First Angmar and Mordor legendary servers has opened up Rise of Isengard expansion, so with that the new level cap is 75 on those servers. The 32-bit servers are now considered dark servers. As a thank you for players’ patience with the lag boss they have released a code that you can redeem in the in-game store for a lot of quest packs, 1x per account. The code is EXPLOREOURWORLD. Lastly, stay tuned to ?lotro channel for some upcoming Kin/guild activities. And with that, let’s find out what everyone has been doing in and out of game. GAME NEWS CLOSE 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 find us on the AIE Discord and BlueSky https://bsky.app/profile/aiepodcast.bsky.social. We record live with video once a month on 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 look for the link to our discord server at https://aie-guild.org. 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! And now it’s time to play all of the great AIE member segments we received this week, including… The AIE Podcast will return on October 5th! . So until then, AIE… – This is Mkallah – This is Tetsemi – This is Mewkow And this has been… The AIE Podcast.

On this episode of The AIE Podcast… Some major movements are happening in our WoW guilds ESO is on sale! Beach Party, Risa style! Guild Wars 2 is getting elite! And, we have Gusty here to help us with the Summer of Love schedule of events! All that and more coming up right now… Podcast Audio Raw Video http://youtu.be/-vdJETqWd_s Open Welcome to episode #437 of the podcast celebrating you, the Alea Iacta Est gaming community, the die has been podcast. This is Tetsemi: To my left is Mewkow: – (catch phrase here). And to my right is Mkallah: (Hey folks, there are Dutch Babies in the Guild Kitchen). This week we are joined by special guest Gusty who is here to talk to us about AIE in Summer of Love Welcome! Ok, time to jump into Summer of Love and this week’s news! Gusty, tell us what all is going on in WoW retail to start! AIE News Community Mandatory Fun Nights Where the fun is mandatory but the attendance is not. Sunday – Destiny 2 8:30 pm Eastern Monday – GW2 9:30 pm Eastern Monday – STO 10:00 pm Eastern Tuesday – SWTOR 9:00 pm Eastern Wednesday – HFO Mythic+ Mayhem (WoW) 8:00 pm Eastern Friday – ESO 9:00 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 We have a ton of AIE member podcasts! Want to know where to find them? Look no further than here- New Overlords Podcast (Max and Sema) https://www.newoverlords.com Working Class Nerds (Marcus and Nick) – NSFL https://workingclassnerdscom.wordpress.com Boards and Swords (Chris and Philip) https://boardsandswords.com/blog?category=Boards%20%26%20Swords Dr. Gameology ( Dr. Daniel Kaufmann ) https://drgameology.com/ STO – Fleet Action Report (Grebog and Nikodas) https://www.youtube.com/@fleetactionreport A Podcast Reborn: A FFXIV Community Podcast (Brandon aka Old Man Franks, Meagan, and Rho) – NSFL https://www.bonusroll.gg/directory/a-podcast-reborn/ WoW Hey folks, the plan in WoW is to consolidate our co-guilds, starting August 9th, which will make creating neighborhoods for player housing easier. Members of co-guilds that we are mothballing will be encouraged to LOOT THE GUILD BANKS. One change to the SoL schedule is Kiddie Aggro’s offer of Heroic Gallywix carries on Tuesday night for Undermine Ahead of the Curve achievement. Here’s what’s coming up in WoW-Retail for the AIE’s Summer of Love, July 26 to Aug 2 (Remembrance Day) July 26 (Sat) 5pm Eastern/4pm Central D&D with Duskmire. “We’ve Got a Bad Feeling About This” Homebrew Solar Punk D&D 5e Star Wars characters – 5 players lvl 6 Sign up in dnd with Duskmire. 11pm Eastern/10pm Central – Noob Raid SoL edition. 7/27 (Sun) 4pm Eastern/3 Central Fate One Shot with Lithou: The adventures of Florida Man across the 6th and a half dimension 5 players. Info in dnd with Lithou. 8pm Eastern/7 Central AIE Podcast and Town Hall, SoL Edition. July 28 (Mon) 8pm Eastern/7 Central Lore Night with Anirra Gather at relevant locations for tales of Azeroth. They can be lore, famed NPCs, folks tales or your own character. (Remember the time you punched Deathwing?) Contact @Anirra to be a storyteller. All can listen in Discord. NEWJuly 29 (Tues) 9pm Eastern/8pm Central AOTC – Undermine Edition Kiddie Aggro is offering Heroic kills for Ahead of the Curve: Chrome King Gallywix and will carry as many guildies as time permits. Contact Gustytail if interested. July 30 (Wed) 8pm Eastern/7 Central Raisin’ Bran We will run Delves and count how many times we can make him say, “Don’t Stand There!” Let Gusty know if you are interested. July 31 (Thurs) 8pm Eastern/7 Central Earthen Rings Roll a new Earthen (in advance) and we race from Orgrimmar to Stormwind and vice versa. Aug 1 (Fri) 8pm Eastern/7 Central Trial of Style Gusty’s favorite Holiday returns! Bring your best – or worst looks and be judged by fellow players. Mismatch Mayhem IS a category. Runs take about 10 min. AUG 2 9pm Eastern – 8 Central Remembrance Day. The signature AIE Guild event. Meet at the Shrine of the Fallen Warrior near Crossroads to honor friends and family we have lost, followed by a procession to Orgrimmar and picnic at the back gates. WoW Classic MOP is out, Sema and Looci are pet battling! A few others are in and playing again. Hard Core remains at about 3 to 4 people, and everyone is enjoying that as well. Anniversary Classic is quiet, but a few folks are in there as well! Looci is planning to walk in MoP on the 2nd for Remembrance Day. SWTOR We will be doing a special version of MFN at 9PM Eastern on Tuesday night, as well as a Star Wars Trivia game on Friday night. We will do our traditional walk in the Juran Mountains on Alderaan for Remembrance. ESO Save Up to 75% on ESO Standard Edition during the PlayStation Summer Sale. Update 47, titled “Feast of Shadows,” will be released on August 18th for PC/Mac and September 3rd for PlayStation and Xbox consoles. This update introduces a new dungeon pack and other content as part of the “Seasons of the Worm Cult” storyline. FFXIV Next major patch is on 8/5, with a new alliance raid, new relic upgrades, and the final MSQ chapter for the Dawntrail expansion (the next two will be set up for 8.0). Moogle tomestones is currently active until the patch, and Gold Saucer GATEs give around 4 each, every 20 minutes, which is a very chill way to get them. STO Story update July 29th. Also, from July 29th at 8am PT to August 19th at 12pm PT on PC, you can create a new Temporal Agent character. Lohlunat Festival ends July 30th, AKA the Risa beach party. GW2 “Train new elite specializations and adventure on the magical island of Castora when the expansion launches on October 28!” 9 new elite specs. Devs will be detailing them over time. Mesmer, Ranger, and Guardian, which bring the troubadour, galeshot, and luminary. LOTRO For the Remembrance Day ceremony LOTRO will be meeting in our normal spot on the hill above the Prancing Pony. We can use a summoning horn if people want or need help finding the way up there. We may run some stuff after the Remembrance Day Ceremony. GAME NEWS Anything else to add, Gusty? CLOSE And that’s our show for tonight. While the chatroom begins suggesting show titles, we want to thank Gusty for joining us. If you have a question or comment about our show, you can email us at [email protected] You can find us on the AIE Discord and BlueSky https://bsky.app/profile/aiepodcast.bsky.social. We record live with video once a month on 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 look for the link to our discord server at https://aie-guild.org. 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! And now it’s time to play all of the great AIE member segments we received this week, including… Next time, we’ll be talking to Guest in Game. So until then, AIE… – This is Gusty – This is Tetsemi – This is Mewkow – This is Mkallah And this has been… The AIE Podcast.

On this episode of The AIE Podcast… We have your Summer of Love schedule With D&D, and Lore, and Remembrance Day, and more Congrats to the SWTOR on a total galactic win Big Changes are coming to LOTRO And, we are chatting amongst ourselves All that and more coming up right now… Podcast Audio Raw Video http://youtu.be/sm6TJ3q-Mj4 Open Welcome to episode #436 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 fig and goat cheese pinwheels in the guild kitchen). And to my right is Tetsemi: (catch phrase here). This week we have your Summer of Love schedule and other gaming news! Ok, we’ll be chatting about what we’ve been up to shortly, but first, let’s cover this week’s news… AIE News Community Where the fun is mandatory but the attendance is not. Sunday – Destiny 2 8:30 pm Eastern Monday – GW2 9:30 pm Eastern Monday – STO 10:00 pm Eastern Tuesday – SWTOR 9:00 pm Eastern Wednesday – HFO Mythic+ Mayhem (WoW) 8:00 pm Eastern Thursday- Board Game Night (1st and 3rd Thursdays) 7:00 pm Eastern/6:00 pm Central Friday – ESO 9:00 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 We have a ton of AIE member podcasts! Want to know where to find them? Look no further than here- New Overlords Podcast (Max and Sema) https://www.newoverlords.com Working Class Nerds (Marcus and Nick) – NSFL https://workingclassnerdscom.wordpress.com Boards and Swords (Chris and Philip) https://boardsandswords.com/blog?category=Boards%20%26%20Swords Dr. Gameology ( Dr. Daniel Kaufmann ) https://drgameology.com/ STO – Fleet Action Report (Grebog and Nikodas) https://www.youtube.com/@fleetactionreport A Podcast Reborn: A FFXIV Community Podcast (Brandon aka Old Man Franks, Meagan, and Rho) – NSFL https://www.bonusroll.gg/directory/a-podcast-reborn/ Summer of Love July 26th – August 2nd with August 2nd being Remembrance Day So far Summer of Love will include two D&D one-shots, one hosted by Duskmire in a Star Wars setting and the other hosted by Kraemer for ESO on their MFN night. If anyone is interested in hosting a One-Shot, contact Gustytail. We’ll also have Lore Night, where participants will share a story from in game lore, events or their character’s backstory. In WoW, we’ll have trivia night in Guild chat with pet and transmog giveaways, WoW Hide and Seek, and a Delves event. SWTOR The big news in SWTOR is that we won both our Total Galactic War last week and are using this week to pick prizes, lie on beaches with pina coladas, and not do uprisings for a bit. It was a close race on some days, but we pulled away near the end and our competition just could not catch us. Check out discord for our victory screenshot. And while you are there, feel free to click on the capybara link. It will make your day better. ESO Summer of Love we have the D&D one shot down at the docks going on on our usual MFN Friday August 1st and we will meet at Kini’s main house on Saturday August 2nd for Remembrance Day in the Chapel room. FFXIV Come join us for map night at 9:30 eastern every Saturday! As long as you have completed the Heavensward main story there’s stuff for you to do! You can even join us as part of the free trial, or if you’re in a different FC or world! We’re on Goblin in the crystal data center. STO Fleet Action Report, your weekly dive into the world of Star Trek Online! In Episode 257, join hosts Nikodas, Tabbytha, and Grebog as they plunge into the unknown—deep into Fluidic Space itself! This week, they tackle the eerie missions “Assimilation” and “Fluid Dynamics”, where the Borg and Undine collide in one of STO’s most unsettling story arcs. What happens when the Borg find a way to assimilate the Undine? Tune in to find out—and bring a towel. It’s going to get weird. New Official STO Discord – now open! Join here: https://t.co/x72UXMQuZj Console Sale – 20% off ships, bundles, slots, tokens until June 30th! Heart of the Matter Event – Ongoing through July 2nd TFO: Devil’s Heart Mini-episode: All That Matter Reward: Kida’s Boon Set 2-piece bonus: Drain heals hull 3-piece bonus: Subsystem power drain, antiproton damage, delayed explosion LOTRO There are big changes coming to Lotro. For starters, August 31st free transfer from 32 bit worlds, after that they will become dark worlds. With this change coming, the kinship on the legendary server Treebeard has been disbanded. Also, the old forums are going away, and have been in a read-only state for a few years. New stuff to the game right now, the midsummer festival is going on right now with new quests in Futherholm. Futherholm is a new island off the coast of Umbar. Minas Tirith midsummer is still around. The midsummer festival runs through July 7th. Be on the lookout for some group stuff for the kinship to run in the near future. We will have a special SNL (MFN) on July 26th as to not divert from Remembrance Day And with that, let’s talk about what we have been up to- and, we have a question of the month! GAME NEWS If you could vacation in any game location, where would it be? CLOSE And that’s our show for tonight. While the chatroom begins suggesting show titles, we want to thank the chatroom for joining us. If you have a question or comment about our show, you can email us at [email protected] You can find us on the AIE Discord and BlueSky https://bsky.app/profile/aiepodcast.bsky.social. We record live with video once a month on 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 look for the link to our discord server at https://aie-guild.org. 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! And now it’s time to play all of the great AIE member segments we received this week, including… We will see you again on July 27th!. So until then, AIE… – This is Mewkow – This is Mkallah – This is Tetsemi And this has been… The AIE Podcast.

On this episode of The AIE Podcast… Get ready for a new Heresy Vegas, now available in WoW Repentance has (almost) arrived We have a LOTRO 64 bit server update And, Corley is here to talk to us about AIE in SWTOR All that and more coming up right now… Podcast Audio http://youtu.be/yCpEVGV78Bg Open Welcome to episode #434 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 guys, there are lemon bars and dark chocolate cookies in the guild kitchen- you know, light side and dark side!). And to my right is Tetsemi: (catch phrase here). This week we are joined by special guest Corley who is here to talk to us about AIE in SWTOR Welcome! Ok, we’ll be digging into SWTOR 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 – Destiny 2 8:30 pm Eastern Monday – GW2 9:30 pm Eastern Monday – STO 10:00 pm Eastern Tuesday – SWTOR 9:00 pm Eastern Wednesday – HFO Mythic+ Mayhem (WoW) 8:00 pm Eastern Thursday- Board Game Night (1st and 3rd Thursdays) 7:00 pm Eastern/6:00 pm Central Friday – ESO 9:00 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 We have a ton of AIE member podcasts! Want to know where to find them? Look no further than here- New Overlords Podcast (Max and Sema) https://www.newoverlords.com Working Class Nerds (Marcus and Nick) – NSFL https://workingclassnerdscom.wordpress.com Boards and Swords (Chris and Philip) https://boardsandswords.com/blog?category=Boards%20%26%20Swords Dr. Gameology ( Dr. Daniel Kaufmann ) https://drgameology.com/ STO – Fleet Action Report (Grebog and Nikodas) https://www.youtube.com/@fleetactionreport A Podcast Reborn: A FFXIV Community Podcast (Brandon aka Old Man Franks, Meagan, and Rho) – NSFL https://www.bonusroll.gg/directory/a-podcast-reborn/ NOMADS Destiny 2 – We are currently in Episode Heresy, Act 1. Act 2 launches this Tuesday with a new mode called Court of Blades. It takes inspiration from Destiny 1 Court of Oryx. It has an augment system similar to what WoW had in Torghast. 5 new weapons are tied to this activity. Guardian games also launches with Act 2. Guardian games has a boss rush mode as an activity. Bungie had a developer stream last week going over Act 2, and gave information on new things coming in Act 3 which launches only 3 weeks after Act 2. Act 3 has a mode coming that is basically what LFR is in Wow but for Destiny 2 dungeons called explorer mode. It seems pretty cool, basically a matchmade activity with a lot of markers and tips in game on how to complete the dungeon. No organized guild activities, there are a handful of us still playing and getting together to run Nightfalls and dungeons. WoW In WoW news, the Liberation of Undermine Raid arrived, with lots of crazy mechanics and a big Vegas vibe. First boss Vexie and the Geargrinders make quite an entrance! You have been warned. Raid Team Kiddie Aggro cleared Normal (Good night, Gallywix) as well as Vexie on Heroic. Alliance Raid team Hell Froze Over downed five bosses on Normal – up to Sprocket-monger Lockenstock. Their progression Team, So Let’s Go Skating – picks up right about now with The One-Armed Bandit. Noob Raid defeated two bosses – Vexie and the Cauldron of Carnage (aka Mecha Kong vs Fire Breathing T-Rex) and the weekly World Boss. Great job, Noob Raiders! There is one wing (three bosses) available in LFR for those with gear level 606. On Tuesday, the raid will be available on Story Mode for solo players. You don’t get loot but can complete a quest for a nice crafting upgrade item. Delves in Season 2 award a new customizable mount: Delver’s Gob-Trotter, and Bran can now tank, but needs our help after an encounter with a new villain known as The Underpin, who stole Bran’s hat and all our curios! Among the new curios are the Mechasaur EZ-Build Kit and Kaja’Cola Carrier. There are two new delves: Sidestreet Sluice (aka what floor am on again?) and Excavation Site 9. Previous delves have some minor story updates, with goblin shenanigans. And Dungeoneering Inc is 6/8 on normal. We raid on Sat nights. WoW Classic We have been seeing some more AIE traffic in the classic Discord channels which is encouraging. Nothing big in the news to speak of regarding the WoW Classic alternative universe. SWTOR See Game Notes ESO We are almost done with week 2 of the ToT tournament . We have 1 match remaining between Ranatha and Bashirra. So this how the members stack up heading into the third week name wins loses Dankinia 4 0 Ranatha 3 0 Newtype 2 2 Kraemer 1 3 David 1 3 Bashirra 0 3 Now for week 3’s exciting matches Newtype vs Ranatha Dankinia vs David Bashirra vs Kraemer Good luck to all the players FFXIV Live Letter on March 14th, 3 am PDT Patch is expected to be Mar 25 but that will be confirmed at this Live Letter. STO Star Trek Online’s 15th Anniversary event is going on now with Garrett Command Alliance Dreadnought Cruiser as the reward. This event ends soon and you no longer have enough time to earn the cruiser for free, but you could buy out the event to get the ship. Many are hailing this as one of the better ships available in the game and it is our recommendation that you don’t miss this chance. The Fed fleet is still just stacking provisions to allow folks to earn their fleet credits for use in the fleet stores. The KDF fleet has been progressing along nicely. We just completed Tier I of the Colony, which allows for the coffers to autofill a little each day, which will speed up future progress at the Colony. The Spire is closing in on Tier III, which will unlock the elite tactical consoles. And the Research Lab is pushing the projects to complete Tier II, opening up some nice science consoles for doing space magic. Fleet Action Report has just passed 240 episodes and started a new series on helping players new and returning from a long hiatus in relearning the game. We are not sure how many episodes this will take, but the goal is to try and cover the things people struggle with the most. GW2 The next update for Guild Wars 2®: Janthir Wilds™ is ”Repentance,” launching on March 11. Upcoming is the (currently unscheduled) Super Adventure Festival, which typically runs 3 weeks from Late March to mid April. A celebration of old school platforming with bright colors and pixilated graphics. LOTRO The 64 bit servers have finally opened and after an issue with character transfers we are getting the kin finally moved to the new 64 bit RP server “Peregrin”. Once they open up the housing and we get our kin house, we will have a kin house party to celebrate during SNL after the house is purchased. The spring festival also returns at 10am on March 13 and runs through April 1. And with that, let’s get back to Corley and find out what’s going on in SWTOR. GAME NEWS There’s only 3 weeks left in the PvP season, so Warzone Wednesday will be mothballed until the next season. CLOSE And that’s our show for tonight. While the chatroom begins suggesting show titles, we want to thank Corley for joining us. If you have a question or comment about our show, you can email us at [email protected] You can find us on the AIE Discord and BlueSky https://bsky.app/profile/aiepodcast.bsky.social. 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 look for the link to our discord server at https://aie-guild.org. 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! And now it’s time to play all of the great AIE member segments we received this week, including… Next time, we’ll be talking to Guest in Game. So until then, AIE… – This is Corley – This is Mewkow – This is Mkallah – This is Tetsemi And this has been… The AIE Podcast.

On this episode of The AIE Podcast… Are you ready to patch? The next ToT tournament starts tomorrow Are Dilithum crystals the traditional gift for 15th anniversary? 64 is the new 32 Our friends Lars and Grebog are here to talk about WoW and STO and Live Service games All that and more coming up right now… Podcast Audio Raw Video http://youtu.be/x1gUF5wLWl8 Open Welcome to episode #433 of the podcast celebrating you, the Alea Iacta Est gaming community, the die has been podcast. This is Mkallah: To my left is Tetsemi: – (catch phrase here). And to my right is Mewkow: (catch phrase here). This week we are joined by special guests Lars and Grebog! Welcome! Ok, we’ll be digging into our discussion 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 – Destiny 2 8:30 pm Eastern Monday – GW2 9:30 pm Eastern Monday – STO 10:00 pm Eastern Tuesday – SWTOR 9:00 pm Eastern Wednesday – HFO Mythic+ Mayhem (WoW) 8:00 pm Eastern Thursday- Board Game Night (1st and 3rd Thursdays) 7:00 pm Eastern/6:00 pm Central Friday – ESO 9:00 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 We have a ton of AIE member podcasts! Want to know where to find them? Look no further than here- New Overlords Podcast (Max and Sema) https://www.newoverlords.com Working Class Nerds (Marcus and Nick) – NSFL https://workingclassnerdscom.wordpress.com Boards and Swords (Chris and Philip) https://boardsandswords.com/blog?category=Boards%20%26%20Swords Dr. Gameology ( Dr. Daniel Kaufmann ) https://drgameology.com/ STO – Fleet Action Report (Grebog and Nikodas) https://www.youtube.com/@fleetactionreport A Podcast Reborn: A FFXIV Community Podcast (Brandon aka Old Man Franks, Meagan, and Rho) – NSFL https://www.bonusroll.gg/directory/a-podcast-reborn/ NOMADS Fez has a Valheim server. ARK servers are still running for anyone that wants to jump in. No Man Sky is having a little chatter. Dune Awakening – May 20th for Dune Awakening.There will be AIE in there and at least one non-officer has asked about AIE groups. Ashes of Creation – Beta is in progress. Bhock is playing and I’m sure there are some others. Still a ways out for official release. WoW Patch 11.1 releases this Tuesday Feb 25th, and Season 2 begins the following week on March 4th! Per usual, many class and system changes will come with the patch, and the season brings a new raid and mythic+ dungeon pool WoW Classic Quiet in Cataclysm Classic. The word is the pre-patch for Mists of Pandaria classic will drop before July 31 and full release before August 31. Still some action in the 20th anniversary classic. @redrum is nudging me to run dungeons with a group (Horde side). AIE guild exists on DreamScythe Horde side. I am also working on Hardcore solo self-found on the 20th anniversary Doomhowl server and publishing my progress via my YT channel. The raid team stopped playing cata classic last summer, it looks like there’s still a handful of players logging in though The final cata raid Dragon Soul was released yesterday, and heroic was cleared in an hour by the world first team Season of Discovery is in Phase 7. We had folks in there in early phases but no recent participation. Brand new content like Karazhan Crypts (5-person) and upcoming Scarlet Enclave Raid. Apparently catch-up mechanics are good so perhaps some of us may jump back in to check it out. SWTOR Live stream next week, new content coming, cleared new Lair boss, won another planet. ESO Kraemer will be hosting the next ToT tournament which will run from 02/24 – 03/31. The prizes include houses from the crown store and piles of gold. Let Kraemer know if you’d like to join in the fun. From Kraemer – Greetings to all our Elder Scrolls Online players! We are about to host our 6th Tales of Tribute guild only tournament, and you may wish to play after seeing the prize list this time. In order to participate you need to have the high isle chapter and the ability to play the game tales of tribute if you need help getting the start quest done please ask for help and one of us will be happy to help, The tournament will run the last week of February until the end of March from Feb 24th till Mar 31 the number of games per week will be determined after we see how many sign up.: Sign ups are now open please respond in the tales of tribute channel or DM Kraemer29, Good luck to all players, FFXIV Multiple events getting ready to start in game to prepare for the big 7.2 patch. The moogle tome event which gets you trial mounts, emotes, and glam items starts 2/26 and will run until the patch. Little ladies day starts on Mar 3 and will run for two weeks, featuring a new glam outfit. The patch itself which contains a new 8-man raid tier, a new “Exploration Zone” for crafters and gatherers to build outposts (in space!), and the start of the endgame Dawntrail relic weapons, will be releasing at the end of March, with a final date TBA in the next live letter. At said live letter we will also be receiving new information on Dawntrail’s take at Bozja/Eureka- the Occult Crescent. STO Star Trek Online’s 15th Anniversary event is going on now with Garrett Command Alliance Dreadnought Cruiser as the reward. This is being said to be one of the better ships in game and you just need to get 40 points, 2 possible points every 20 hours. And the Ark Royal, from the game Starfleet Command, has been confirmed as being part of the 15th anniversary ship bundle, with some potential hints to other ships. The KDF fleet has been progressing along nicely. We just completed Tier I of the Colony, which allows for the coffers to autofill a little each day, which will speed up future progress at the Colony. The Spire is closing in on Tier III, which will unlock the elite tactical consoles. And the Research Lab is pushing the projects to complete Tier II, opening up some nice science consoles for doing space magic. The Fed fleet is still just stacking provisions to allow folks to earn their fleet credits for use in the fleet stores. Fleet Action Report has just passed 240 episodes and started a new series on helping players new and returning from a long hiatus in relearning the game. We are not sure how many episodes this will take, but the goal is to try and cover the things people struggle with the most. We are still doing Fun Nights on Monday at 10pm Eastern and all are welcome. You can bring KDF or Federation captains. And it is a great time if you are struggling to ask for some help. LOTRO The Lord of the Rings Online is excited to announce that four new 64-bit servers will make their debut on March 5th, 2025! Get all of the information about our 64-bit servers, free transfers, and other related topics on LOTRO.com: https://www.lotro.com/guides/lotro-64-bit-transfer-faq-en Here are the details: Monday, March 3rd 12:00 PM Eastern (-5 GMT): VIP subscribers will be able to log into the game world to access the character creation screen on their destination world and secure up to three names per 64-bit world of their choice. VIPs will not be able to log into the game world to play, or be able to transfer their existing characters, but they can create characters with their desired names and then later rename their transferred character to their preferred name after deleting the placeholder character. Tuesday, March 4th 12:00 PM Eastern (-5 GMT): Free transfers from 32-bit to 64-bit worlds will be available to all players. The new game worlds themselves will remain closed, but the transfer tool will be enabled to allow for transfers to these worlds. Wednesday, March 5th 1:00 PM Eastern (-5 GMT): Our new game worlds open! Free transfers from 32-bit to 64-bit game worlds will continue through August 31st, 2025. Free transfers between the new 64 bit worlds will operate on a rotating weekly basis and continue through April 30th 2025. Wednesday, March 12th: We will begin offering free transfers from many previously-closed game worlds to these new 64-bit worlds. See our table in the FAQ for specific server order and timing on LOTRO.com. After this final transfer period these previously-closed worlds will be permanently closed, and no future character transfers will be possible. And with that, let’s get back to Lars and Grebog. GAME NEWS Mkallah- What keeps a live service game going? Tetsemi- How do you keep up with all the content coming out? Mewkow- How to avoid burning out with the need to play all of the content and focus on just the content that is fun for you? Mkallah- What games do live service well and what don’t they do well? Tetsemi- What are some things that make you not want to invest time in a game and what are some things that do? CLOSE And that’s our show for tonight. While the chatroom begins suggesting show titles, we want to thank Lars and Grebog for joining us. Lars Gaming https://www.youtube.com/@larsgagnergaming STO Fleet Action Report https://www.youtube.com/@fleetactionreport If you have a question or comment about our show, you can email us at [email protected] You can find us on the AIE Discord and BlueSky https://bsky.app/profile/aiepodcast.bsky.social. 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 look for the link to our discord server at https://aie-guild.org. 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! And now it’s time to play all of the great AIE member segments we received this week, including… Next time, we’ll

On this episode of The AIE Podcast… Plundering storms in WoW while FFXIV is looking for maps Streaming MFN in STO celebrating the new year in GW2 and 64 bit servers in LOTRO All that and more coming up right now… Podcast Audio Raw Video http://youtu.be/v-kXEmnJc-Y Open Welcome to episode 432 of the podcast celebrating you, the Alea Iacta Est gaming community, the die has been podcast. This is Tetsemi: To my left is Mewkow: – (catch phrase here). And Mkallah is out being classy, I mean attending a training class. This week we are talking to ourselves about games systems, guild activities, and the community. Welcome! Ok, we’ll be digging into all that 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 – Destiny 2 8:30 pm Eastern Monday – GW2 9:30 pm Eastern Monday – STO 10:00 pm Eastern Tuesday – SWTOR 9:00 pm Eastern Wednesday – HFO Mythic+ Mayhem (WoW) 8:00 pm Eastern Thursday- Board Game Night (1st and 3rd Thursdays) 7:00 pm Eastern/6:00 pm Central Friday – ESO 9:00 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 We have a ton of AIE member podcasts! Want to know where to find them? Look no further than here- New Overlords Podcast (Max and Sema) https://www.newoverlords.com Working Class Nerds (Marcus and Nick) – NSFL https://workingclassnerdscom.wordpress.com Boards and Swords (Chris and Philip) https://boardsandswords.com/blog?category=Boards%20%26%20Swords Dr. Gameology ( Dr. Daniel Kaufmann ) https://drgameology.com/ STO – Fleet Action Report (Grebog and Nikodas) https://www.youtube.com/@fleetactionreport A Podcast Reborn: A FFXIV Community Podcast (Brandon aka Old Man Franks, Meagan, and Rho) – NSFL https://www.bonusroll.gg/directory/a-podcast-reborn/ NOMADS In New World, we run group content on Sunday nights. We are working through the expeditions (dungeons) with an eye toward The Hive of Gorgons (raid). Find us on Hudsonland for a fresh start and the legacy server Valhalla. WoW In WoW news, the Battle Royale game Plunderstorm is back, with new pets, a new mount – the Plunderlord’s Midnight Crocolisk, and transmog including the Swabbie’s Shovel and Oar. You can also purchase Trader’s Tender if you haven’t maxed that out yet, or use it for next month. There’s also a back appearance – Coward’s Azure Target – available until Feb 4 for watching a WoW Twitch stream. The Turbulent Timeways timewalking event is ongoing and great for alts. This week the quest is for 5 Warlords of Draenor dungeons and next week we’ll head to Legion. Coming soon (TM) Will be the Undermine(d) patch, where we visit the massive underground Goblin capital to learn Gallywix is helping Xal’atath with an important project (and it’s not a mani-pedi). Among the features are a customizable, super fast car mount (flying is not available), a quest that awards a rental apartment – which looks like it has bank access, a new dungeon: Operation Floodgate, two new delves with an associated customizable mount: the Gobtrotter. Bran can also now tank, so we can tell him “Don’t stand there!” for a change. And in the new Raid – Liberation of Undermine, we help the various goblin cartels unseat Chrome King Gallywix. Grats to Rogues on their very cool pirate themed Tier set. WoW Classic Classic Refresh has some AIE and Lars is in there, Classic Cata has tapered off SWTOR MFN goes well with a few other event nights a week. Running on two servers, pvp nights, etc. All sorcerer Ops night events are coming up too. New and returning players still. Wed ops team needs fill-ins ESO ESO MFN is back from winter break. We’ve been working on trials and helping each other with endeavors while hanging out and chatting. FFXIV We’re in a bit of between patches lull in content, the new custom delivery NPC and Chaotic Alliance Raid were released Christmas Eve, and we’re looking at the next Live Letter sometime in late Feb/ early March, so our next major patch is looking to be late march/early April. That patch will include the next tier in the Arcadian 8 man raid series, and the live letter should have more details about the upcoming Disciple of the Hand/Land exploration zone and the battle exploration zone. We are still attempting to do treasure maps on Saturday nights in the meantime. STO Fleet Action Report is a video podcast run by AIE personnel on Thursdays at 10pm Eastern. Our show is dedicated to teaching others how to play STO. We feature build videos for both ground and space, show off new ships, and explain other aspects of sto. We also invite you to ask questions during the show so we can answer them live! AIE Classes and/or Honoris run a Fleet Fun Night on Mondays at 10pm Eastern. These events are live streamed so you can join the fun even if you’re not able to join us in-game. These nights are for you! Need help with a mission or build? Want a team of players you know to run TFOs with? Need help working out your first or 300th build? That’s what we’re here for! The giveaway on PC has been moved to Jan. 21st to 26th and there is a bonus Marks “weekend” until then. We do know there is a patch coming this Tuesday to fix the Trait/Loadout bug, and we’re hoping to get more information about the next event then. Consoles are currently experiencing their The Feast event, and it lasts until February 5th. GW2 The next festival event in the GW2 calendar is the Canthan (Lunar) New Year. The dates have not yet been announced, however it should be soon as the actual Lunar New Year starts on Jan 29th this year. LOTRO 64 bit servers, end of this month or so, guild/kinship will move to Peregrin, VIP will have first shot at new names, there might be some things that individuals need to do (like logging in). Dux will be handling moving the guild and house. And with that, let’s get back to us and find out what’s going on in community activities. GAME NEWS With a lot of MMO’s slowing down content releases or releasing smaller patches, the need to always be logged on and grinding something has lessened, which leaves more time for other activities (there’s so much room for activities!). Do you feel this means the guild/community have to take on more of a role of keeping people engaged than they otherwise would be or should we rely on the game systems to keep people engaged? CLOSE And that’s our show for tonight. While the chatroom begins suggesting show titles, we want to thank ourselves for joining us. If you have a question or comment about our show, you can email us at [email protected] You can find us on the AIE Discord and BlueSky https://bsky.app/profile/aiepodcast.bsky.social. 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 look for the link to our discord server at https://aie-guild.org. 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 ! Next time, we’ll be talking to Guest in Game. So until then, AIE… – This is Tetsemi – This is Mewkow And this has been… The AIE Podcast.

On this episode of The AIE Podcast… Happy 2025 from the AIE podcast! Let the regular MFN schedule resume! Get ready for Warzone Wednesday! Christmas eve looked a bit chaotic And, we are talking amongst ourselves All that and more coming up right now… Podcast Audio Raw Video http://youtu.be/YfznTlELh1I Open Welcome to episode #431 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 Pain au Chocolat in the guild kitchen). This week we are getting back in the saddle after our holiday break, so we are talking amongst ourselves. Ok, we’ll be digging into what we’ve been doing 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 – Destiny 2 8:30 pm Eastern Monday – GW2 9:30 pm Eastern Monday – STO 10:00 pm Eastern Tuesday – SWTOR 9:00 pm Eastern Wednesday – HFO Mythic+ Mayhem (WoW) 8:00 pm Eastern Thursday- Board Game Night (1st and 3rd Thursdays) 7:00 pm Eastern/6:00 pm Central Friday – ESO 9:00 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 We have a ton of AIE member podcasts! Want to know where to find them? Look no further than here- New Overlords Podcast (Max and Sema) https://www.newoverlords.com Working Class Nerds (Marcus and Nick) – NSFL https://workingclassnerdscom.wordpress.com Boards and Swords (Chris and Philip) https://boardsandswords.com/blog?category=Boards%20%26%20Swords Dr. Gameology ( Dr. Daniel Kaufmann ) https://drgameology.com/ STO – Fleet Action Report (Grebog and Nikodas) https://www.youtube.com/@fleetactionreport A Podcast Reborn: A FFXIV Community Podcast (Brandon aka Old Man Franks, Meagan, and Rho) – NSFL https://www.bonusroll.gg/directory/a-podcast-reborn/ NOMADS From Fez: New, hosted Valheim server, is up. Fresh start, fresh seed. Server info is pinned in Nomads. From Bhock: Still on Ashes of Creation, Alpha 2 Phase 2, testing node progression and soon crafting Phase 3 starting mid May, so we’re still on schedule From Stask: After a holiday hiatus, the New World crew continues working through expeditions (dungeons) on Sunday nights at 9ish central. We can be found on the fresh start server Hudsonland. WoW Dankinia is leading the Noob Raid after a short winter break. Thank you again Celindre for stepping in and leading the group to its first full clear in my absence. Since Dankinia’s return, we’ve cleared it 2 more times and the Floor Tank counter for the year is already at 6. WoW Classic There are a handful of folks still playing on the fresh servers, last time I checked there is nobody at 60 yet. SWTOR Snowball cannons have been put away and keybinds have been reset to blasters and lightsabers. Mostly. Also, Warzone Wednesdays have returned for the new pvp season. Dynamic encounters are providing a quick-hit way to work toward achievements and Conquest targets. 2025 has started! ESO ESO MFN is back from winter break. We’ve been working on trials and helping each other with endeavors while hanging out and chatting. https://youtu.be/n1_PQsv03Rk?si=Wb4efaD27oftURA- STO A new year and the game’s anniversary is coming. The event typically is at the end of this month or very beginning of February. They just released a new Sol System map with the updated ESD exterior as it was shown in Season 3 of Picard. Unfortunately with the patch that brought in the new art, there have been several bugs. From loadouts dropping, traits unloading, and even for some people equipment being unequipped. They are aware of the issues and hopefully have this all resolved soon(tm). FFXIV We’re in a bit of an inbetween patch lull in content, the new custom delivery NPC and Chaotic Alliance Raid were released Christmas Eve, and we’re looking at the next Live Letter sometime in late Feb/ early March, so our next major patch is looking to be late march/early April. That patch will include the next tier in the Arcadian 8 man raid series, and the live letter should have more details about the upcoming Disciple of the Hand/Land exploration zone and the battle exploration zone. We are still attempting to do treasure maps on Saturday nights in the meantime. Also return campaigns live https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/topics/detail/d02aa811f6ba2870e902126f6db287d223f4fe93 Basically 4 free days if you login between Jan 9th and February 6th. GW2 A guildmate has requested maybe doing a Guild event next Friday to run Strike Mission: Kainang Overlook. LOTRO Some exciting things on the horizon for lotro. Orion did release a letter in December to show us what they have planned for each quarter in 2025. The first look at update 43 is hitting Bullroarer (pts) hopefully this week. The current legendary rewards track has 1 month remaining. New 64 bit servers are arriving soon. These will be open to all players. These servers will see the culmination of the 2 years of work the devs have put into fighting the lag boss. Standing Stone Games hopes to have these new servers open sometime in February, but no later than March. While we wait for all this, we will still be running some delvings and other instances at lvl cap and running stuff at the other lvl ranges. And with that, let’s find out what has been going on… with us! GAME NEWS What have we been up to? What are we looking forward to in 2025? CLOSE And that’s our show for tonight. While the chatroom begins suggesting show titles, we want to thank ourselves for remembering how to podcast. If you have a question or comment about our show, you can email us at [email protected] You can find us on the AIE Discord and other non-Twitter social media.. 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 look for the link to our discord server at https://aie-guild.org. 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 https://andrewallenmusic.com/ And now it’s time to play all of the great AIE member segment we received this week, including… Next time,we are tentatively scheduled for next week! So until then, AIE… – This is Mewkow – This is Tetsemi – This is Mkallah And this has been… The AIE Podcast.

On this episode of The AIE Podcast… We have a mini WoW Raid wrap up! Q-ing through a winter wonderland Happy Life Day, Captain Moria makes it LEGENDARY And, it is our final show of the year! All that and more coming up right now… Podcast Audio Raw Video http://youtu.be/P-NzuWSQw-c Open Welcome to episode #430 of the podcast celebrating you, the Alea Iacta Est gaming community, the die has been podcast. This is Tetsemi: To my left is Mkallah – (Holiday baking coming soon to the guild kitchen). And to my right is Mewkow: (catch phrase here). For the last show of the year, we have some fun giveaways and LOTS of news. Ok, It is the end of the year and we have a TON of news to go over! AIE News Community Mandatory Fun Nights Where the fun is mandatory but the attendance is not. Please check each game for any special holiday schedule! Sunday – Destiny 2 8:30 pm Eastern Monday – GW2 9:30 pm Eastern Monday – STO 10:00 pm Eastern Tuesday – SWTOR 9:00 pm Eastern Wednesday – HFO Mythic+ Mayhem (WoW) 8:00 pm Eastern Thursday- Board Game Night (1st and 3rd Thursdays) 7:00 pm Eastern/6:00 pm Central Friday – ESO 9:00 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 We have a ton of AIE member podcasts! Want to know where to find them? Look no further than here- New Overlords Podcast (Max and Sema) https://www.newoverlords.com Working Class Nerds (Marcus and Nick) – NSFL https://workingclassnerdscom.wordpress.com Boards and Swords (Chris and Philip) https://boardsandswords.com/blog?category=Boards%20%26%20Swords Dr. Gameology ( Dr. Daniel Kaufmann ) https://drgameology.com/ STO – Fleet Action Report (Grebog and Nikodas) https://www.youtube.com/@fleetactionreport A Podcast Reborn: A FFXIV Community Podcast (Brandon aka Old Man Franks, Meagan, and Rho) – NSFL https://www.bonusroll.gg/directory/a-podcast-reborn/ NOMADS In New World, our jovial band of adventurers continues to explore Aeternum and progress through the expeditions (dungeons) with many laughs and even more slaying. WoW Raid Teams Kiddie Aggro and So Let’s Go Skating (aka Slugs) have defeated all bosses in Heroic Nerub-Ar Palace, and Kiddie Aggro did an Achievement run this week for Glory of the Nerub-Ar Raider, which awards Reins of the Shadowed Swarmite. During the photo op in Dornegal, Guild Highly Illogical joined in the fun. Official Noob Raid is on break until Jan 4, 2025 but Celindre will be running Noob Raid After Dark (still family friendly) in the Noob Raid time slot while Kini is away. WoW Classic The guild is created on the Horde side on DreamScythe. Going well, Lars will try to login here to check numbers Big burst to start and perhaps quiet now as expected. WoW Classic Fresh Anniversary Edition: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLr6A3z7BDJTLBqR7l5OHRp7hjmCqMLx1c WoW Classic Hardcore 20th Anniversary Edition: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLr6A3z7BDJTJGY61wTpjQdbdXyT_598Xq SWTOR We are locked in battle this week for the planet of Taris in Total Galactic War. So far we have the lead by a margin that keeps fluctuating, so no predictions yet. Guildies, both grouped and solo are contributing this week to our total point score by questing, crafting, dungeons, raids, and pvp. Everything counts. Through passion we gain strength; through strength, power; through power, victory. And through victory we get to have our guild name announced on the planet of Taris every time anyone goes there. Next week, the annual Life Day event starts and on Tuesday night we will be celebrating our efforts in TGW as well throwing a healthy number of snowballs. ESO ESO MFN is on winter break until Jan 3rd 2025, but feel free to group up for holiday events in Kini’s absence. FFXIV 7.1 has arrived! With it, new story content, pvp rebalance, end game raid content, and a Return to Vana’diel FF11 inspired alliance raid, which contains some of the best mid-core fights the game has ever had! Treasure Maps also got a huge expansion of potential loot including new glamour weapons, hairstyles, facewear and more. Come join FFXIV for Map Night at 9:30 eastern every Saturday to join in on the fun! We are now doing low-level maps in addition so if you’re not level capped, you can join in! Message Kelseer on discord or in game if you have any questions! STO Q’s Winter Wonderland is in full swing! This year, the grand prize is the Eleos Intel Scout Ship. The civilan version of this vessel was shown in Star Trek Picard season 3. This is a quick and nimble science ship with Intel seating. The Obena Class starship has been added to the Infinity Lockbox! This is a ship originally featured in Star Trek Lower Decks. This is a Miracle Worker heavy cruiser, featuring a robust hull and an extra universal console slot. Fleet Action Report is a video podcast ran by AIE personnel on Thursdays at 10pm Eastern. Our show is dedicated to teaching others how to play STO. We feature build videos for both ground and space, show off new ships, and explain other aspects of sto. We also invite you to ask questions during the show so we can answer them live! AIE Classes and/or Honoris run a Fleet Fun Night on Mondays at 10pm Eastern. These events are live streamed so you can join the fun even if you’re not able to join us in-game. These nights are for you! Need help with a mission or build? Want a team of players you know to run TFOs with? Need help working out your first or 300th build? That’s what we’re here for! GW2 Wintersday, the GW2 winter seasonal event starts this year on Tuesday the 10th at noon PT, and will run for the usual 3 weeks. This is the Karma focused event so if you’re running low it can help you top up. LOTRO Moria has opened up on the Angmar and Mordor servers. That means you can now get legendaries on those servers and more importantly skirmishes are now available. December sales have started with some great deals for this week. Lastly, travel to Frostbluff is opening this week with the Yuletide festival arriving on the 12th. And now, the fun stuff … or even more fun stuff GAME NEWS We have WoW Mounts to give away, 2 Hateforged mounts, and 1 Sky Golem. Congrats to Xerosis on winning 1 of the mounts! The other two mounts will be given away on the next podcast in the New Year! Question- what was your favourite moment in gaming this year? CLOSE And that’s our show for tonight. While the chatroom begins suggesting show titles, we want to thank you all for a great 2024 in gaming. If you have a question or comment about our show, you can email us at [email protected] You can find us on the AIE Discord and other non-Twitter social media.. 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 look for the link to our discord server at https://aie-guild.org. 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 https://andrewallenmusic.com/ And now it’s time to play all of the great AIE member segment we received this week, including… Alright, AIE, we will see you in 2025, so until then- – This is Tetsemi – This is Mkallah – This is Mewkow And this has been… The AIE Podcast.

On this episode of The AIE Podcast… We promise we are not Podfading! We wish you a happy Galactic seasons Go see Kraemer for all of your crafting needs! We have a guild wars two update!!! And, we are our own guests! All that and more coming up right now… Podcast Audio Raw Video http://youtu.be/3pH5I_D7d9w Open Welcome to episode 429 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 US!!! Welcome! Ok, we’ll be digging into what we have been doing shortly, but first, let’s cover this week’s news… AIE News Community Where the fun is mandatory but the attendance is not. Sunday – Destiny 2 8:30 pm Eastern Monday – GW2 9:30 pm Eastern Monday – STO 10:00 pm Eastern Tuesday – SWTOR 9:00 pm Eastern Wednesday – HFO Mythic+ Mayhem (WoW) 8:00 pm Eastern Thursday- Board Game Night (1st and 3rd Thursdays) 7:00 pm Eastern/6:00 pm Central Friday – ESO 9:00 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 We have a ton of AIE member podcasts! Want to know where to find them? Look no further than here- New Overlords Podcast (Max and Sema) https://www.newoverlords.com Working Class Nerds (Marcus and Nick) – NSFL https://workingclassnerdscom.wordpress.com Boards and Swords (Chris and Philip) https://boardsandswords.com/blog?category=Boards%20%26%20Swords Dr. Gameology ( Dr. Daniel Kaufmann ) https://drgameology.com/ STO – Fleet Action Report (Grebog and Nikodas) https://www.youtube.com/@fleetactionreport A Podcast Reborn: A FFXIV Community Podcast (Brandon aka Old Man Franks, Meagan, and Rho) – NSFL https://www.bonusroll.gg/directory/a-podcast-reborn/ NOMADS Ashes of Creation – Alpha 2 is on and running, with a few members. We now have a fresh start company (Covenant) in New World on Hudsonland. We are enjoying all the improvements they’ve made lately. We are also on the legacy server Valhalla. WoW Noob Raid is 7/8 in normal Nerubn-ar Palace. Not bad at all for a bunch of Noobs lead by a professional floor tank. WoW Classic Fresh start servers are coming up in Classic SWTOR The guild is still doing MFN on Tuesday nights at 9pm EST. We are helping everyone get their Galactic Season objectives done. Still have a couple months to finish everything up. The Public Test Server (PTS) is up with content from the next patch 7.6 on it. One of the things being tested are dynamic events, which are like world quests in other games. A new single boss operation is being tested also. Lords of Light has taken it down, but there are some different mechanics that are not working correctly right now. Should be fun when it’s in the live game. There are rewards for doing 100 dynamic events and a title for defeating the operation boss. Keep an eye out for groups getting together on the PTS if you want to finish those rewards up. We have four operations (raid) teams that are running different things. Check in the SWTOR channel in discord for when spots are open and subs are needed. There are a couple teams that have some regular spots open. Join up if you want to see some different content in Star Wars: The Old Republic. FFXIV New patch is out, more MSQ, more Alliance Raid, and you can combine level 1 outfits in the glamour dresser so they only take up one slot instead of many. Also, update your adventure plates! ESO We’ve been attempting some new-to-us trials, with varying degrees of success. Kraemer has all of the mundus stones and crafting stations currently available at his primary residence. Feel free to stop by to use them if you need to. GW2 Extra Life event running until the 19th. Take your toon into Lion’s Arch. where it will give you a bunch of Karma kegs. Buy Extra Life sponsoring goodies from the gem store, get more prizes, and the money goes to the Extra Life charity via the GW2/Arenanet team. The Extra Life karma boosters are good for getting maximum value from the Orphan Run daily during the upcoming WIntersday. Do both go to LA and buy, and it will give you a couple of Victory Caches. Wintersday event is starting on Dec 10th, running for 3 weeks (as usual). This is the event for stacking up karma, so make sure you have karma boosting food/utilities/etc. stacked up. The Karma page on the GW2 wiki gives a list of all the boosters. And with that, let’s get back to us and find out what we’ve been up to! GAME NEWS What have we been up to? What, even, is time? MK- in theory, it is what keeps everything happening at once. Also, if you mess with it too much, it causes paradox- I don’t suggest it, there is a lot of backlash! On a scale of 1 to planetary destruction, what is our stress level? MK- does something the size of the third moon of Endor count CLOSE And that’s our show for tonight. While the chatroom begins suggesting show titles, we want to thank ourselves for joining us. If you have a question or comment about our show, you can email us at [email protected] You can find us on the AIE Discord and other non-Twitter social media.. 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 look for the link to our discord server at https://aie-guild.org. 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 https://andrewallenmusic.com/ And now it’s time to play all of the great AIE member segments we received this week, including… Just a show note- our next scheduled show is December 1st, which is the Sunday after Thanksgiving in the US, so we are tentative. After that, we are into the insane Yuletide season, so the schedule is very full! Keep an eye on the AIE podcast channel to see when we may be recording next . So until then, AIE… – This is Mkallah – This is Mewkow – This is Tetsemi And this has been… The AIE Podcast.

On this episode of The AIE Podcast… NOOB is back, baby! The Galactic season has been extended The Entire galaxy is on red alert! FFXIV is at a crossroads And, we are talking amongst ourselves All that and more coming up right now… Podcast Audio Raw Video http://youtu.be/J0sb-7jQ1Ns Open Welcome to episode #428 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 will be pan au chocolate in the guild kitchen). This week we have a host show! Welcome! Ok, we’ll be digging into what we’ve been up to in and out of the game 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 – Destiny 2 8:30 pm Eastern Monday – GW2 9:30 pm Eastern Monday – STO 10:00 pm Eastern Tuesday – SWTOR 9:00 pm Eastern Wednesday – HFO Mythic+ Mayhem (WoW) 8:00 pm Eastern Thursday- Board Game Night (1st and 3rd Thursdays) 7:00 pm Eastern/6:00 pm Central Friday – ESO 9:00 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 We have a ton of AIE member podcasts! Want to know where to find them? Look no further than here- New Overlords Podcast (Max and Sema) https://www.newoverlords.com Working Class Nerds (Marcus and Nick) – NSFL https://workingclassnerdscom.wordpress.com Boards and Swords (Chris and Philip) https://boardsandswords.com/blog?category=Boards%20%26%20Swords Dr. Gameology ( Dr. Daniel Kaufmann ) https://drgameology.com/ STO – Fleet Action Report (Grebog and Nikodas) https://www.youtube.com/@fleetactionreport A Podcast Reborn: A FFXIV Community Podcast (Brandon aka Old Man Franks, Meagan, and Rho) – NSFL https://www.bonusroll.gg/directory/a-podcast-reborn/ NOMADS There are at least 2 dungeons and dragon ongoing campaigns currently one being run be Dproberts on some sundays and the other by Kraemer29 on saturdays we next meet on october 26th for both scheduling we both have to deal with the epic IRL monster Diablo IV – Vessel of Hatred launches on October 7th at 4 pm PDT with a new class, the Spiritborn, a reduction in base top level to 50, growing to 60 with the expansion, along with a multitude of new difficulty levels, and story. WoW Noob Raid resumed last week and since cross-faction LFR isn’t a thing, decided to make an attempt at Normal difficulty. They managed the first boss, but still needed a lot of practice for the second one. Next week is time walking so they will be making another attempt at getting rare mounts with a full clear of Ulduar. WoW Classic With the launch of Season of Discovery Phase 5 on Thursday, September 26 at 22:00 CEST, Blackwing Lair will become available. Blackwing Lair is tuned and intended for ~20 players but the instance is capped at a maximum of 40 players. Blackwing Lair is on a 7-day raid reset timer. Zul’Gurub is tuned and intended for ~10 players, but the instance is capped at a maximum of 20 players. Zul’Gurub is on a twice-weekly raid reset timer. New Raid: The Crystal Vale Prince Thunderaan the Windseeker has broken free from his prison with the release of Phase 5 and will be available to all players as a newly reimagined raid encounter. Thunderaan is tuned and intended for ~20 players but the instance is capped at a maximum of 40 players. The Crystal Vale is on a twice-weekly reset timer. Old Raid: The Molten Core Available with weekly resets starting on September 24th, The Molten Core will become available to raid with an instance capped at a maximum of 40 players. It will remain tuned for 20 players. SWTOR We continue to work through Galactic Season 7, which has been extended 6 weeks. If you need help with the larger group objectives, join us on Tuesdays and/or Fridays. We’re looking forward to another Broadsword livestream this fall as they let us know what’s coming up. ESO We’ve been working on dailies as a group to earn event tickets for the current in-game event and watching as Dankinia jumps/falls off cliffs on the way to our objectives. Kraemer has all of the mundus stones and crafting stations currently available at his primary residence. Feel free to stop by to use them if you need to. STO The entire Galaxy is going to Red Alert! From October 10th at 8am PT to October 17th at 12pm PT on Xbox and PlayStation, all of our Red Alert events will be returning at once, as the Final Frontier is caught in a massive invasion on all sides. During this event, you’ll be able to play the following content: Borg Red Alert Elachi Red Alert Tholian Red Alert Tzenkethi Red Alert* Nakuhl Red Alert *Please note: As the only Red Alert with a fail condition, the Tzenkethi Red Alert will not grant daily bonus progress if you fail the TFO. The fail condition will likely be removed in future runs of this event. More here https://www.playstartrekonline.com/en/news/article/11571644 FFXIV Crossroads, referred to as Patch 7.1, will release in mid-November 2024. Aside from the main scenario, a variety of sidequests will also be added, including: Allied Society Quests featuring the Pelupelu; they will have daily quests you can utilize to level combat jobs from 90-100. A new Custom Deliveries client: Nitowikwe, who was encountered in the Dawntrail main scenario traveling through Shaaloani. A capstone Role Quest for players who completed all Dawntrail role quests for combat jobs. A capstone quest for Wachumeqimeqi Deliveries for players who completed all the crafting and gathering quests. Inconceivably Further Hildibrand Adventures, where Nashu Mhakaracca seems to have found herself in Solution Nine. More can be found at https://novacrystallis.com/2024/09/final-fantasy-xiv-live-letter-83-summary-patch-7-1-detailed-ffxi-collab-chaotic-alliance-raids/ LOTRO We are in the pre expansion hype. Legacy of Morgoth is now available for pre-sale. It is tentatively scheduled to go on November 6th. With the raid content in February 2025. Harvestmath is also almost here. It will run from 10/10 at 10 am eastern through November 3rd. The elf avatar update is also expected to arrive with update 42 Legacy of Morgoth. Lots of stuff happening on the horizon. Lastly, if you want or need any help in game, please let us know. And with that, let’s chat about what we’ve been up to! GAME NEWS What we’ve been doing CLOSE And that’s our show for tonight. While the chatroom begins suggesting show titles, we want to thank US for joining us. If you have a question or comment about our show, you can email us at [email protected] You can find us on the AIE Discord and other non-Twitter social media.. 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 look for the link to our discord server at https://aie-guild.org. 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 https://andrewallenmusic.com/ And now it’s time to play all of the great AIE member segments we received this week, including… Next time, we’ll be talking to Guest in Game. So until then, AIE… – This is Mewkow – This is Tetsemi – This is Mkallah And this has been… The AIE Podcast.

On this episode of The AIE Podcast… October is already going to hell! Or, at least Sanctuary WoW is getting ready for a huge milestone! Happy Star Trek day to all that celebrate! Taking a casual stroll through LOTRO And, in honor of Star Trek day we have Corley here to talk to us about AIE in StarWars The Old Republic All that and more coming up right now… Podcast Audio Raw Video http://youtu.be/plNPWkzzoVg Open Welcome to episode #427 of the podcast celebrating you, the Alea Iacta Est gaming community, the die has been podcast. This is Tetsemi: To my left is Mkallah: – (catch phrase here). And to my right is Mewkow: (catch phrase here). This week we are joined by special guests Corley who is here to talk to us about AIE in SWTOR Welcome! Ok, we’ll be digging into SWTOR 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 – Destiny 2 8:30 pm Eastern Monday – GW2 9:30 pm Eastern Monday – STO 10:00 pm Eastern Tuesday – SWTOR 9:00 pm Eastern Wednesday – HFO Mythic+ Mayhem (WoW) 8:00 pm Eastern Thursday- Board Game Night (1st and 3rd Thursdays) 7:00 pm Eastern/6:00 pm Central Friday – ESO 9:00 pm Eastern Saturday – LotRO 8:30 pm Eastern Saturday – FFXIV (Maps) 9:30 pm Eastern Saturday – WoW Classic Hardcore 9:30 pm Eastern Saturday – Noob Raid (WoW) (starting up again either the 21st or 28th) 11:00 pm Eastern Streaming and Guild Podcast News We have a ton of AIE member podcasts! Want to know where to find them? Look no further than here- New Overlords Podcast (Max and Sema) https://www.newoverlords.com Working Class Nerds (Marcus and Nick) – NSFL https://workingclassnerdscom.wordpress.com Boards and Swords (Chris and Philip) https://boardsandswords.com/blog?category=Boards%20%26%20Swords Dr. Gameology ( Dr. Daniel Kaufmann ) https://drgameology.com/ STO – Fleet Action Report (Grebog and Nikodas) https://www.youtube.com/@fleetactionreport A Podcast Reborn: A FFXIV Community Podcast (Brandon aka Old Man Franks, Meagan, and Rho) – NSFL https://www.bonusroll.gg/directory/a-podcast-reborn/ NOMADS Diablo 4’s first expansion, Vessel of Hatred, launches October 8. We’ll journey to the jungles of Nahantu to track down Mephisto, with access to a new Spiritborn class and Mercenaries to fight alongside us. The expansion will also introduce the Dark Citadel (a four player raid), and the Kurast Undercity (a time attack dungeon). Season 6 also starts on October 8, with a revamped leveling experience, D4’s take on runewords, new endgame activities, and a group finder. Post in the #diablo channel in Discord if you want to join the clan to chat and group with fellow AIE members. See you in Sanctuary! No Man Sky just launched a new update – Aquarius – Fishing! WoW In Wow Retail, players were able to unlock Earthen as an Allied Race following a campaign update this week. The cinematics are glorious! In a coming patch, Drak’thyr will be playable as six additional classes: Hunter, Warlock, Mage, Warrior, Rogue and Priest, with shadow priests getting some cool visuals for their wings. The first Raid of War Within – Nerub-ar Palace – opens September 10 and Queen Ansurak has much to answer for. Blizzard also announced plans for WoW’s 20th Anniversary, an event so massive that it’s going to run through November and December. Features include a revamped Blackrock Depths raid/dungeon, Timewalking for Deadmines, Dire Maul (both sides), and Stratholme (also both sides). There will also be timey-wimey stuff with Chromie at the Caverns of Time, PvP fun in Alterac Valley, and special Warcraft 3 flavored items at the Trading Post. Among notable loot, there will be a new mount: Coldflame Tempest – a blue version of Ashes of Al’ar, baby Doom Lord battle pets, and an updated Appearance for the Iconic Tier 2 armor sets. Paladins are rejoicing (YEAH!) and Gustyail can’t wait for a new set of goofy moose antlers. Death Knights, Demon Hunters, Monks and Evokers will get brand new sets, since they were not around way back then. Raids and mythic 0s are opening with this coming reset. Mythic plus the following reset. There will be timewalking Zul’farrak as well. WoW Classic From Bhock: Got my first Sinestra kill, so only 2 hard modes (Nefarian and Council) remain and I doubt we’ll ever do Council HM. Still making good gold running a gDKP on Saturdays, so good time in game overall, even if I’m not sure of attendance with Firelands and the rest of the expansion, as most players will skip the rest until Mists of Pandaria, And me, I will be a lot on Ashes of Creation, starting 10/25 Alpha 2 SWTOR See Game News ESO We’ve been working on trials, killing world bosses, and helping each other collect gear. Kraemer has all of the mundus stones and crafting stations currently available at his primary residence. Feel free to stop by to use them if you need to. FFXIV The next Letter from the Producer LIVE Part LXXXIII (83) Set for September 28! This is the first live letter that will debut some of what will come with Patch 7.1. A new set of updates to the Graphical Update have also been announced, but most of the changes are incredibly subtle and difficult to read over a podcast, so check out the lodestone if you’re interested! STO Star Trek Day was Sept 8th! To celebrate, STO is running a special event until the 20th! At Earth and DS9 you can visit all the starring ships from Star Trek movies and television. Hailing all 10 ships will grant a special title! The Flagship Celebration event has 4 days left! If you’ve not completed the event yet, you might still have time. If not, you could reduce the buyout price a bit if you desire! The Galaxy goes to Red Alert starting Thursday, Sept 12th for 1 week. Participating for 5 days earns one an Ultimate Tech Upgrade and a Specialization Point! Our fleet is hosting a fleet fun night Mondays at 10pm Eastern! You can join us in-game to run TFOs, or we can help you with troublesome missions, episodes, ship builds, or anything else you might need. If you can’t join us in-game, you can watch the fun at http://twitch.tv/grebog! Fleet Action Report will be talking about Warbirds at 10pm Eastern on Thursday, Sept 12th! We’ll give you the details on all the different types of Warbirds, and what sets them apart from other ships in the game. As always, you can watch the fun on the same twitch address as above, http://twitch.tv/grebog. LOTRO There is big stuff on the horizon for lotro. Over the next 5 weeks, a casual stroll on Wednesday afternoon will be giving a sneak peek at the new landscapes in the upcoming expansion “Legacy of Morgoth”. Also, the starting area “Before the Shadow” is now available to everyone with a coupon code for 2 free steads. The code for the steads is GALADRIELSGIFT. The new instance “Dragon and the Storm” is now on the live servers. This too has a coupon code for a free green dragon portrait frame and a golden drakeling pet by using the code SMAUGSSPOILS. Be advised that both codes are 1/ account so use it wisely. And with that, let’s get back to Corley and find out what’s going on in SWTOR. GAME NEWS Guild news: Tuesdays – MFN 9pm EDT Wednesday Ops Team has a spot open for permanent member 9pm EDT Wednesdays Stask and Machete run PvP. Alternated between low level and max level. 8:30pm EDT Fridays alternate between GSF, Master Mode FPs, and stuff on SV. 8:30pm EDT Game Stuff: There have been a few updates in the last few months. 7.5 and 7.5.1 have been released. 7.5 had the next part of the story and ended on a bit of a cliff hanger. Interested to see where it goes from here. Might be some good surprises coming for us. 7.5.1 launched the next Galactic Season The Greatest Bounty. Bounty Contract week is active while the Season is going on. No new companion again which is good. Also no rep except the one that is for the Bounty Brokers Association. DvL bosses have returned to the game. Only the ones that are needed for the weekly objectives. Can be tough, but with enough people it can be a bit easier. This is something that we have been focusing on for MFN. Only the first 16 in a group get drops from the boss for some reason. Tokens are currently per character, but will be legacy wide once the patch goes in on 10 Sept. Vendors for those tokens have some new items that are legacy bound, but old stuff has restrictions. Shared tagging works, but is restricted to the same faction. A new set of Date Night with Vette and Aric Jorgan. Timothy Omundson returns to voice Aric Jorgan. Twitch drops (going until 9/16) – speeder Items in the Cartel Market inspired by The Acolyte and Star Wars: Visions. Swoop racing is coming mid Sept. CLOSE And that’s our show for tonight. While the chatroom begins suggesting show titles, we want to thank Corley for joining us. If you have a question or comment about our show, you can email us at [email protected] You can find us on the AIE Discord and other non-Twitter social media.. 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 look for the link to our discord server at https://aie-guild.org. 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 https://andrewallenmusic.com/ And now it’s time to play all of the great AIE member segments we received this week, including… Next time, we’ll be talking to someone in some game. So until then, AIE… – This is Corley – This is Tetsemi – This is Mkallah – This is Mewkow And this has been… The AIE Podcast.

On this episode of The AIE Podcast… We say farewell to a good friend So, play any games recently? Congradudolences are in order for Corley The RISING is imminent And, we have an interview with Dr Gameology! All that and more coming up right now… Podcast Audio Raw Video http://youtu.be/69D8qJllCsU Open Welcome to episode #426 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 Dr. Gameology ( Dr. Daniel Kaufmann) who is here to talk to us about his new book, The Gamer’s Journey. Welcome! Just a note before we get too far into the show. As you may or may not know, AIE lost one of our greats on August 16th. Our dear friend, guildmate, fellow member of FERT, creator of Overly Dramatic news, and podcast co-host, James “Acuzod” Jefferies lost his battle with cancer. He was loved by so many and made all of us who knew him just a little better. He is survived by his amazing wife Jodi, their kids, Jennifer, Kimberly, and Sami, and grandson Nathan. Zod will be remembered for his humor and his kindness, and his voice will live in this podcast, as it is his voice you hear on all of the bumpers! Oh, and if you see Acuzod online, it is his grandson, Nathan, playing on his Papa’s account. Ok, we’ll be digging into this week’s news shortly, but first, let’s talk to our esteemed guest, Dr Gamelolgy, himself! GAME NEWS Mkallah- We had you back on the show in episode 389 and you talked about your psych research as it relates to gaming and the gaming persona podcast. Now, it’s all come together in your new book, The Gamer’s Journey- tell us about the journey and how you got there. Mewkow- Did you find gaming an escape while working on the book, or did it evolve into being in research mode? Tetsemi- What was your biggest surprise while working on The Gamer’s Journey? Mkallah (if needed)- And, the big one, where can everyone find your book? Dr. Gameology ( Dr. Daniel Kaufmann ) – https://drgameology.com/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@DrGameology The Gamer’s Journey is a book that explores all the stages of the Hero’s Journey, but using only video games. The sources of knowledge across the book include mythology, psychology, philosophy, anthropology, and many others. Almost 200 games were used in the analysis over the 19 chapters. Barnes & Noble: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-gamers-journey-daniel-kaufman-phd/1145608008;jsessionid=72D67ABDB12601FCBA38CEB1CA541A19.prodny_store01-atgap15?ean=9781955406239 Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Gamers-Journey-Daniel-Kaufman-PhD/dp/1955406235 AIE News Community Mandatory Fun Nights Where the fun is mandatory but the attendance is not. Sunday – Destiny 2 8:30 pm Eastern Monday – GW2 9:30 pm Eastern Monday – STO 10:00 pm Eastern Tuesday – SWTOR 9:00 pm Eastern Wednesday – HFO Mythic+ Mayhem (WoW) 8:00 pm Eastern Thursday- Board Game Night (1st and 3rd Thursdays) 7:00 pm Eastern/6:00 pm Central Friday – ESO 9:00 pm Eastern Saturday – LotRO 8:30 pm Eastern Saturday – FFXIV (Maps) 9:30 pm Eastern Saturday – WoW Classic Hardcore 9:30 pm Eastern Saturday – Noob Raid (WoW) 11:00 pm Eastern Streaming and Guild Podcast News We have a ton of AIE member podcasts! Want to know where to find them? Look no further than here- New Overlords Podcast (Max and Sema) https://www.newoverlords.com Working Class Nerds (Marcus and Nick) – NSFL https://workingclassnerdscom.wordpress.com Boards and Swords (Chris and Philip) https://boardsandswords.com/blog?category=Boards%20%26%20Swords Dr. Gameology ( Dr. Daniel Kaufmann ) https://drgameology.com/ STO – Fleet Action Report (Grebog and Nikodas) https://www.youtube.com/@fleetactionreport A Podcast Reborn: A FFXIV Community Podcast (Brandon aka Old Man Franks, Meagan, and Rho) – NSFL https://www.bonusroll.gg/directory/a-podcast-reborn/ WoW Noob Raid is officially on break due to the new expansion. It will resume mid to late September. It’s pretty quiet in WoW right now. Just kidding! New expansion The War Within officially launches tomorrow (Aug 26) but players who bought the Epic Edition have had access since Thursday and many are already level 80. It’s doable in about 3 hours if you can ignore side quests (i.e. not Gustyail) and we ask that everyone resist the urge to discuss major plot twists – and there are some doozies – in Guild chat. In War Within, we meet the Earthen, Dwarves who will be an Allied Race, and the Arathi, a group of mainly Humans and Elves who were accidentally stranded in Hallowfall on what was supposed to be a 3-hour tour. (Wait? Did I get that right?) There are 36 new mounts to obtain, including a lynx, fire bees, a giant mole and several mech suits. Some require rep, and the Darkmoon Faire starting next Sunday will help with that and has profession quests as well. To help carry all the new quest items and loot, there are two free 34-slot bags available. Break the Kaja Cola Machine at the Inn in the Ringing Deeps (59.0, 64.3) to get a Goblin Mini Fridge. (WoWhead has details.) The Windswept Satchel can be found in Hallowfall at 30.2, 38.8 on a ledge at the Priory of the Sacred Flame. SWTOR As Max’s retirement, in real life, has gotten busy, Corley has been promoted to GM/Game Director for AIE in SWTOR. Congradudolences! The SUP ops team has an opening for a full time spot. We run from 8-10 pm (Max time) on Wednesday nights. We mainly run story mode ops on the imp side. We are very new to ops friendly. If you are interested, let Maellung know, please. A couple things to add: Swtor is having its first ever twitch drop event. For four hours of watching swtor streamers, you get a Orlean Voidstream Mount. A number of guildies have already gotten it, so if you need any help making it happen, just post in discord. Also, Galactic Seasons 7 has begun and brings with it a nice rotation of returning World Bosses that we have not had the opportunity to kill in a long time. Join us on Tuesday nights for MFN where we will be taking them down. ESO We’ve been working on trials, killing world bosses, and helping each other collect gear. Kraemer has all of the mundus stones and crafting stations currently available at his primary residence. Feel free to stop by to use them if you need to. FFXIV In order to implement Patch 7.05 HotFixes and to conduct maintenance on the infrastructure, maintenance will take place on all Worlds at the time below, during which FINAL FANTASY XIV will be unavailable. Aug. 26, 2024 8:00 p.m. to Aug. 27, 2024 3:00 a.m. (PDT) As for The Rising seasonal event set to start the same day, it will begin once maintenance has concluded. From Tuesday, August 27, 2024 at 12:00 a.m. to Wednesday, September 11, 2024 at 7:59 a.m. (PDT) The wandering minstrel seeks an adventurer both willing and able to help put the finishing touches to this year’s Rising celebrations. Limsa Lominsa Upper Docks, see the Wandering Minstrel. Two event items: a Minion, Brushed-up Krile, and an Interior Decoration, Rising Table Lamp. STO This Week in STO Bonus Marks Weekend 8/22 to 8/26 Content that provides marks will reward 50% bonus above normal Lobi sale 8/22 to 8/26 20% off all items in the lobi store Key sale 8/22 to 8/26 All matter keys are 15% off 20 key bundle with ultimate tech upgrade also returns during the sale Hirogen Predator Heavy Escort [T6] Added to Infinity Lockbox 8/22 Flagship Celebration 8/22 to 9/12 14 Days of Progress to earn rewards 4 TFOs: Borg: Disconnected, Iupiter Iratu, Swarm, Synth Wave Reward is Khitomer Defender Space Set 3 piece set: Shield, Antiproton blast when hull is damaged, Deflector LOTRO The legendary servers Angmar and Mordor have been live for several weeks now, and it is really fun seeing the low level instances being run a lot. New instance “The Dragon and the Storm” will be going live this week, up to tier 3 difficulty . The instance will be available to free to play players as well. An announcement was hinted that will be coming this week with a coupon code that you will want to pay attention to. Stay tuned for more on the announcement and the coupon code when it is released. CLOSE And that’s our show for tonight. While the chatroom begins suggesting show titles, we want to thank Dr. Gameology for joining us. If you have a question or comment about our show, you can email us at [email protected] You can find us on the AIE Discord and other non-Twitter social media.. 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 look for the link to our discord server at https://aie-guild.org. 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 https://andrewallenmusic.com/ And now it’s time to play all of the great AIE member segments we received this week, including… Next time, we’ll be talking to Corley or some other AIE Folks in SWTOR. So until then, AIE… – This is Dr. Gameology – This is Mkallah – This is Mewkow – This is Tetsemi And this has been… The AIE Podcast.