The AIE Podcast #264 – The Red Mage Arriveth

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Welcome to episode #264 of the the podcast celebrating the Alea Iacta Est gaming community, the die has been podcast. This is Mew: To my left is Mkallah: – (Hey, AIE, there are tiny pumpkin tarts in the guild kitchen). And, to my right is Tetsemi (Something about spreadsheets). This week we are joined by special guests Abovan who is here to talk to us about AIE in Final Fantasy 14. Welcome!

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

AIE News

Community
So, anyone doing anything next weekend?? If you in Southern California, there may be a few things to look at- like, you know, Blizzcon and the AIE guild halll! We are at the Anaheim Hilton, San Simeon room. Doors will be open Friday morning. We still need plenty of help, if you have time, check in on site to offer assistance. And remember, the Guild Hall is open to all- Come on in, get off your feet, watch the live stream, and get to know your guildies!

Relith, one of our newer member and an Air Force vet, is starting up an AIE Veterans group. His vision a place for any veteran, active duty, or guard/reserves players (regardless of country
See the forums for more details, and they even have their own discord server. https://discord.gg/4TBbYsm

http://forum.myextralife.com/topic/57307-aie-veterans-group/

WoW
Noob Raids are running again. They are a casual group that runs LFR with the goal of learning how to raid and having fun. We run every Saturday night at 11pm server time and invites go out about 15 minutes prior.

Want to host an in game event? We had some great events in October, and would love to continue to be active in November as well. Why not try your hand at hosting a baking event for Pilgrims Bounty or a Costume Party with an all black gear theme for Black Friday. Contact the lovely Nevermore in game, on the forums, or on Twitter if you want to plan a guild event.

http://forum.myextralife.com/topic/57299-aie-guild-events-october-2016/

How is patch 7.1 treating you? Still going through patch 7.0 content and wondering what all the fuss is? Well, last Tuesday, a new Mythic dungeon set in Kharazan opened, along with a continuation of the Suramar story line. A new 3 boss raid called Trials of Valor are opened allowing you wrap up the Stormheim storyline with Odyn (asshole) and Helya (asshole) and Gaurm (cute doggie). For more information about 7.1 video that Warcraft posted – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpCRvHZMZ54

FFXIV
See Game News

SWTOR
SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 165: Dev Stream on Galactic Command

This week @AIESema, @MaxTheGrey and Astromech EPC-165 examine the dev stream on Galactic Command and related gear change announcements, in detail.

SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 166: 10-20 Dev Stream Talk

This week @AIESema, @MaxTheGrey and Astromech EPC-166 talk about the 10/20 dev stream which covered adjustments to the Galactic Command gearing strategy as well as some details on the Dark vs. Light server system.

Catch the live podcast and chat room on Tuesday nights around 10:30pm central at http://twitch.tv/newoverlords. Follow and subscribe on Twitter, YouTube, Twitch, etc. to hear podcast news and see our other guild streams.

Are you working on DvL and need some hard mode help? might be what you’re looking for. MFN during the week focuses on the bigger groups to get as many people in as possible, where the weekend edition tends to do the 4-man HM’s to clean up what people missed during the week. Head over to the forums and check it out – http://forum.myextralife.com/topic/57289-mfn-weekend-edition/

GW2
Do you play Guild Wars 2 and want to know when other guildies will be online to play? Well, has been a ton of chatter on our Discord channel about Guild Wars 2! Come join AIE in the beautiful Buy to play game

STO
No STO updates this week, Captain Cybyl has gone on a rare away mission and is too busy outsmarting the Klingons to be able to send a transmission.

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

GAME NEWS
Final Fantasy Fan Fest Wrapped up their US based show in Las Vegas.

Next shows is in Japan on Dec 24 and Dec 25, Germany Feb 18 and 19.

Tons of announcements for FFXIV, including Stormblood, the next expansion to hit next summer.

New Stuff:

3 New classes, what they are is a mystery, but the Yoshi-P clue he left us was his shirt with Marvel’s Scarlet Witch on it. We are pretty sure he is referring to Red Mage as a new job in Stormblood.

All classes, combat, gathering, and crafting has their leveling cap raised to 70.

Combat skill revamp, dumping useless skills, combining skills from similar roles to reduce the amount of “skill bloat”.

The expansion will take place in Ala Mhigo, a city that was invaded and was under the control of the Empire for the last 20 years. Can we save it? Will they want to be saved? The drama ensues!

New gear and recipes, as created from the FFXIV fan design gear contest!

Moar inventory slots!

More housing areas.

Dropping PS3 support, but offering a free upgrade to PS4 if you are still on the PS3 version of the game.

So….

What’s in the game now?

Patch 3.4 hit somewhat recently. We will get more patches before the expansion, so let’s go over some highlights of what we have now.

Palace of the Dead (Deep Dungeon)

Randomized dungeon, different leveling curve and track.
Team of 4 (matched or fixed) goes into a randomly generated dungeon. Saves every 10 levels, ending with a boss fight. Traps, buffs, and transformations abound!
Great way to learn a new class, since it runs at a different leveling track, greatly accelerated, so you can see how the class feels at higher levels very quickly.
Currently, there are 50 floors to run though, with 51-150 to be released on the mini-patch, 3.45, dropping on Nov 1.
Great way to get experience on your actual class, pets, fun loot, and on occasion, materia that is used to augment your gear.
After time, you will gear up your atherial gear (Weapon and armor) and can then bring that out with you to the rest of the world to use.

Screenshot enhancements and filters.

Taking screenshots to the next level, there has been some enhancements on how screenshots can be taken. You can sync animations with other party members with a /grouppose. You can also freeze animations or move them one frame at a time to get that perfect shot. New in 3.4, there are now ways of changing the depth of field, to de-emphasize the background, add a iris to the outside of the frame, change the color balance, or apply a filter to the image for that artistic view.
Mounts and pets can also be included in the group pose, making for a great way to show off your character!

Void Ark
Weeping City
24 Man Raids
Casual Raid Content, similar to LFR

Alex Raids
3 Raids, 1 for each raid patch
8 Man raids
Story mode, Savage Mode

The Feast
8 Player PVP Arena Style
Point based system, so if you are killed, you still get to keep playing.

More Hildabrand

Airship Explorations

The Aquapolis (New Treasure Hunts)
Some

Apartments and Aquariums
Look at the fishies!

AIE in FFXIV News

Final Fantasy Friday Fun Nights (F4N) 9pm EST/6PM PST

Free Company Workshop orders. Anyone can participate for bonus xp!

Halloween Dungeon!

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

@Abovan

If you have a question or comment about our show, you can email us at podcast@aie-guild.org. You can also follow us on Twitter. The show is at @aiepodcast. Mew is at @themewkow. Mkallah is at @cyberwaif,and Tetsemi is at @ivorytiger. We record live with video every other Sunday at 8pm Eastern/5pm Pacific. You can join the chatroom and play along with us on our website at https://aie-guild.org/podcast-live-stream/ and our Discord server for chat at https://bit.ly/AIEPodcastDiscord . Our theme was composed by the amazing Andrew Allen, follow him at @keyswithsoul! or visit his website keyswithsoul.com!

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

Overly Dramatic News – @HuntstheWind

Next time, we’ll be talking to …. Well, it is a surprise (as in Mkallah is still trying to wrangle guest). So until then, AIE…

– This is Mewkow
– This is Mkallah
– This is Tetsemi

And this has been… The AIE Podcast.