On this episode of The AIE Podcast…
- Mkallah: Happy Summer of Love!
- Tetsemi: Lots of expansion shenanigans
- Mkallah: We have RRF Captain Cybyl’s STO update
- Tetsemi: Pstt… wanna play Final Fantasy XIV for free?
- Mkallah: We have Dux here to talk to us about LOTRO!
All that and more coming up right now…
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Welcome to episode #258 of the the podcast celebrating the Alea Iacta Est gaming community, the die has been podcast. This is Tetsemi To my left is Mkallah: – (there are churro cupcakes in the guild kitchen). This week we are joined by special guests Dux who is here to talk to us about AIE in LOTRO Welcome!
Ok, we’ll be digging into LOTRO shortly, but first, let’s cover this week’s news…
AIE News
WoW
The AIE Summer of Love is here! Well, as of tomorrow. We celebrate the love for our guild, and our community, this upcoming week.
The scheduled events are as follows-
Monday, 7:30 server time- Running of the Beef 13- Mechanicals Vs Manicals
We are going to be on the Gnomergan server- the idea is to create a gnome hunter and go on a fun run! More details will be available the night of the event, but this looks like it is going to be a blast. You can make your toon now, but please make sure you aren’t leveling or questing at all before hand. There will be a prize given for the best name, but please remember, this is AIE, so keep it family friendly.
Tuesday is the community wide Remembrance day- at 9pm server time. And a big shout out to Beefmaster and the Ooka Hozen style for taking over firework duty for Take- ummm, Larry this year.
Wednesday is Gusty’s All Druid ICC/Ulduar run – invites start at 7:30 server time.
Friday- COOP with Grimcow, keep your eyes and ears out for details!
Saturday- Disney trivia in “neverland” with Nevermore and Allanya- 3-5 server time- come dressed in a disney inspired transmog outfit for a chance to win more prizes.
And stick around, 8 PM server time there is a SOL old school raid night with BRA and Dojo of Awesome!
http://forum.myextralife.com/topic/57157-summer-of-love-is-coming-to-aie-august-1st-7th/
http://forum.myextralife.com/topic/57194-aie-remembrance-day-fireworks-august-2nd-help-needed/
Patch 7.0.3 has hit and what’s new that can keep you busy for a couple weeks? You can go recipe hunting!
Tome of the Clear Mind and Codex of the Clear Mind: These items, crafted by Scribes, allow you to freely talent when you are not in a rested area. The recipe for Tome of the Clear Mind comes from the Herb Trader in your Garrison, as well as the Garrison Quartermaster Sergeant Crowler and Sergeant Grimjaw. Codex of the Clear Mind is a world drop.
If you like the look of weapon enchants, you can now collect them for Transmog and they are known as Weapon Illusions – http://www.wowhead.com/guides/transmogrification/weapons/illusions
You can gather some individually and others, including a quest line for one, come with a group of illusions.
If you like clothes, and who doesn’t, you can run Kharazan and Molten Core for drops of new recipes that will teach tailors how to make a Clothes Chest useable by your party from the Kharazan Opera House and Molten Core.
http://www.wowhead.com/item=138017/clothes-chest-pattern-karazhan-opera-house
http://www.wowhead.com/item=138018/clothes-chest-pattern-molten-core
Mark August 9th on your calendars, because that’s when you can make a Demon Hunter and the Burning Legion invasion begins. And as a reminder, we’re hoping to have Umami updated to handle all your Demon Hunter applications and for those coming back from hiatus a friendly reminder it’s one application per character. If your characters are in Umami already, just type /join aielfo and as for an invite from one of the officers.
Do you like Lore? Do you like animated movies and animated web comics? Well have we got a ton of content for you.
Harbinger’s Videos – These are videos similar to the Warlords videos that were released before the Warlords expansion launched. They’ll be highlighting important lore/story characters and what they’ve been up to since Archimonde’s defeat at Hellfire Citadel as well as origin/back stories of others.
What has Khadgar been up to since we defeated Archimonde in Hellfire Citadel?
Where did the Warlords version of Gul’dan come from?
Webcomics – The links below take you to the Madefire version of the comic which is a ‘live’ version of the comic and, for me, a very enjoyable way of reading the comics. There are four so far: Magni, dealing with the Dwarven King awakening from his crystalization during Cataclysm; Nightborne, dealing with the new Elf Civilization and the story so far that we’ll be exploring once we hit 110 in Legion; Highmountain: for all you that love the Tauren race and lore; and Anduin: which contains spoilers about the Broken Shore invasion and the aftermath of that invasion.
#1 Magni: Fault Lines released
http://bit.ly/World_of_Warcraft_1
#2 Nightborne: Twilight of Suramar
http://bit.ly/World-of-Warcraft_Nightborne
#3 Highmountain: A Mountain Divided
http://bit.ly/World-of-Warcraft_Highmountain
#4 Anduin: Son of the Wolf (warning Broken Shore/Legion spoilers)
http://bit.ly/World-of-Warcraft_Anduin
There is also a new audio drama launching tomorrow called The Tomb of Sargeras and will be four episodes in length. It will deal with Gul’dan and The Tomb of Sargeras (which contains Sargeras colossal, broken form)
You can subscribe via iTunes – http://itunes.com/wow
EVE
Don’t forget, there is a meetup for planned for the big EVE Vegas event at the Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino – the event is Friday, October 28th to Sunday, October 30th. Expect Shinanigans, space double crossing, and stuff blowing up, but not in real life.
Tickets can be purchased for the event itself at http://vegas.eveonline.com/
http://www.meetup.com/Alea-Iacta-Est/events/229507699/
FFXIV
Want to try Final Fantasy XIV, but want to pay? There is a free login campaign going on through August 30th. Log in now and you will get five days to play the game for free. And with Heavensward going on now, this is the perfect time to explore all that the game has to offer, including the Palace of the Dead, which helps you earn a new i235 weapon.
And don’t forget, Mew is still looking for everyone’s thoughts on how to use the FC action buffs.
SWTOR
The AIE guild in SWTOR will be having a few Summer of Love events as well!
They will be honoring Remembrance Day on August 2 and 8pm central time. Meet at the traditional location high in the Juran mountains north of the house Aide on Alderaan. Coordinates are 1490, -940.
Saturday, August 6th from 8-10 pm Central time, there will be a guild party for both factions. Festivities include Stronghold tours and awards, a costume contest, a worst costume dance party, and music played over plug.dj!
http://forum.myextralife.com/topic/57218-remembrance-day-and-the-summer-of-love-2016/
And, this week on SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 153: Sema, Max, and Astromech EPC-153 review how Conquest works and talk about how one of our guild members put up over 5 million conquest points himself. They also touch on other game and community news for the week from SWTOR in general.
STO
RRF Captain Cybyl’s Star Trek Online News Summary for week ending 07/31/2016:
1. The Star Trek Las Vegas 50th anniversary convention starts this Wednesday, August 3, 2016. As a tribute to 50 years of Star Trek, Star Trek Online is celebrating with it’s ‘Agents of Yesterday’ release along with associated, limited-time perks.
2. The ‘Agents of Yesterday’ expansion released July 6, is in full swing! A player creates an original series Trek character and plays special time travel episodes.Cybyl reports that the episodes quite light and fairly easy. The short story arc has a major plot twist but, no spoilers!
3. The current release ’Temporal Cold War’ time-travel episodes came to an unexpected conclusion, not through gameplay, but through a new blog backstory: ’No Profit but the Name’.
4. The concurrent timeline story arcs had enough players somewhat confused of the timeline differences. So STO released blogpostings ‘The Story So Far’ parts 1 and 2. These must-read narratives explain the differences in the timelines and clear up major points of confusion. A part 3 is rumored to be released next week.
5. There are a 20% off Services and a 15% off Lockbox key sales this weekend. If you are a player with new bridge officers or have collected a quantity of Kelvin lockbox loot drops, take advantage of this sale.
6. The usual large number of UI and player quality-of-life improvements and fixes, were released over the last 2 weeks as well. For a complete run down, check out the website.
7. Make AIE Classis Starbase Great! The AIE Classis’ Fleet Starbase is still seeking contributions of materiel and duty officers from all AIE fleet mates. Donations assist in building up the Fleet’s Starbase and other Fleet holdings to their full potential. Check out the Fleet holdings tab in the Fleet’s in-game menu.
8. Players are encouraged to check out the above news, backstories, patch release notes, forums, commentary, etc., at the Star Trek Online website .
Until next time, RRF Captain Cybyl signing off
And with that, let’s get back to Dux and find out what’s going on in LOTRO
GAME NEWS
Update 16, the Ashes of Osgiliath.
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New areas
Upper Lebinnin
Lossarnach
The pasture lands to the south of the Pelennor.
South Ithilien
Osgiliath
The city astride the Anduin river, a fallen bulwark against Mordor. - Epic story continues.
- New instances:
The Sunken Labyrinth
Join the resistance beneath the enemy occupied city of Osgiliath.
The Ruined City
Uncover old friends, or foes, in the occupied city.
The Dome of Stars
Attack the enemy leader who hold Osgiliath
Imbuement – further improve your legendary weapons.
Update 16.2:
- New PvMP area – Osgiliath.
Update 17 The Siege of Minas Tirith
- Old Anorien region:
Pelennor Fields (where the dark forces staged their attack).
Talath Anor (area north of the Pelennor).
the White City, Minas Tirith itself.
Two epic battles:
The Defense of Minas Tirith
Hold the line, defend the walls of the city.
The Hammer of the Underworld
Witness as Gandalf confronts the Witch-King of Angmar.
Epic story continues.
Cosmetic weapons
New crafting tier (9).
Update 18:
- Far Anorien region:
Woses / Drúedain
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr%C3%BAedain
Riders of Rohan have left Rohan and pass through the Beacon Hills
One of my favorite scenes in the movies as the beacons are lit.
Mouth of the Entwash, a swamp. yeah.
The Battle of the Pelennor Fields (three zone-wide battle).
Epic story continues.
3 instance cluster
The Blood of the Black Serpent
Ride with Theoden, King of Rohan in mounted combat.
The Quays of Harlong
Join Aragorn and his men as they arrive on the Pelennor and turn the tide!
The Silent Street
Denethor and Gandalf face off over Faramir in the Rath Dinen, the Silent Street.
Level cap raised from 100 to 105.
Featured instances with rewards, pretty much the instance of the day kind of thing.
Update 18.2
- Throne of the Dread Terror – first new raid in years (since we were level 75 at Isengard!
CLOSE
And that’s our show for tonight. While the chatroom begins suggesting show titles, we want to thank Dux for joining us.
@HistoricGeek
Mkallah: 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. Mkallah is at @cyberwaif,and Tetsemi is at @ivorytiger. We record live with video every Sunday at 8pm Eastern/5pm Pacific. You can join the chatroom, http://aie.community and play along with us on our website at https://aie-guild.org/podcast-live-stream/. Our theme was composed by the amazing Andrew Allen, follow him at @keyswithsoul! or visit his website keyswithsoul.com!
Tetsemi: And now it’s time to play all of the great AIE member segment we received this week, including … wait, a note has just arrived, due to a summer cold, Overly Dramatic News has been on a small break. Rumors of an Altitis and Raid Wrapup abound, but we’ll have to see if @TheMewKow has snuck out of FFXIV long enough to wrap up a segment or two.
In two weeks, we’ll be talking to someone about something! So until then, AIE…
– This is Mkallah
– This is Tetsemi
And this has been… The AIE Podcast.