The AIE Podcast #305 – Mkallah: I want to be a TIE Pilot

On this episode of The AIE Podcast…

    Tetsemi: On this episode of The AIE Podcast…
    Mkallah: There is a new Forsaken in town
    Tetsemi: RRRR ya ready to talk like a pirate?
    Mkallah: Celebrations are in order
    Tetsemi: The shire is on sale.
    Mkallah: and we have Marcus and Apolas here to talk about AIE in SWTOR

All that and more coming up right now…

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Welcome to episode #305 of the 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 Mewkow is busy packing up the toddler and running after boxes- wait, reverse that. This week we are joined by special guests Marcus and Apolas who are 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

Streaming and guild podcast news
SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 256: Beyond 8 Bits

This week @AIESema, @MaxTheGrey and Astromech EPC-100000000 move beyond 8 bits in podcast episode numbering and complete the Sorcerer Chapter 3 story.

http://www.newoverlords.com/swtor-escape-pod-cast-256-beyond-8-bits/

SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 257: Hit The Road Map, Jack

This week @AIESema, @MaxTheGrey and Astromech EPC-257 hit the road map. We drill into what was said in the road map and live stream, what wasn’t said, and what our opinions and speculation is on the future.

http://www.newoverlords.com/swtor-escape-pod-cast-257-hit-the-road-map-jack/

Upcoming Streams
Dankinia streams ESO’s Mandatory Fun Nights at 6 Pacific/9 Eastern on Fridays

NOMADS
Destiny 2 – New Expansion: Forsaken is live, raising level cap to 50. Each class has 3 new subclasses. New zones, a new raid, and new coop activity: Gambit. Continuing campaign story.
In-game clan chat now available.

Rejoining or want an invite to the clan, visit https://www.bungie.net/en/ClanV2?groupid=2122972

Remember to join discord and the #destiny2 chat for setting up groups

WoW
Pirate Day Warmode event on Sept 19th.

Running of the Beef: Zandalar Forever

This year, for RotB, we are doing trolls for the race. Everyone will need to create a new troll character of whatever class they wish on Ravenholdt US server. This time around we are asking everyone to level to 10 before the event and log out in the starting area where you first port into the game.

A reminder about AIE Raid Teams and Groups –
With the new raids starting to open in WoW BfA and ongoing and new group content in many of our other games, we wanted to take this opportunity to update everyone on how group content teams work in AIE and what resources are available to help.

Raid Teams and Groups

SWTOR
See game notes

EVE
BDO buying EvE. Players are afraid of Microtransactions Wonderland.
Corp is moving/regrouping after last war push by the latest big bully.
Overall, the usual.

ESO
The Imperial City Celebration is happening now and will run until Monday September 17th at 10am est. The Imperial City is a PvP zone with some PvE elements as well. During the event you can earn double rewards such as Tel Var Stones, key fragments, and double the drops from bosses.

MFN takes place every Friday night starting about 9 EDT and running for at least 2 hours. With the event happening, next Friday’s MFN might involve another attempt to explore the Imperial City for Sky Shards.

LOTRO
Get 25% off now through September 13th:
Milestone Skills
Hurried Traveller & Returning Traveller
Skirmishes & Instances
Rally Horns

Coupon code REJUVEPOT gets you a Rejuvenation Potion x5 now through September 13th

Game Events
The seasonal Farmer’s Faire festival is going until September 10
Tale of the Shipwrecked Mariner September 15 – 20
Bilbo’s Birthday September 20 – 26

Be sure to coordinate on Discord if you’d like to enjoy these events with fellow AIE Kinship brothers and sisters!

And with that, let’s get back to Apolas and Marcus and find out what’s going on in SWTOR.

GAME NEWS

We have been kicking butt in conquest
MFN helps a lot
Mfn now switches one week imp and one week pub
Ops teams are rocking
A bunch of new members have joined the guild and its so great having them.
We did get a fall road map!

Big stuff coming. Story, guild stuff, and NEW OPS!

The next MEGA in swtor will be in Sat, 9/22 – Fleet Pod Racing. The whole guild will know who the winner of the pod race is! Come to find out what im talking about on the 22nd! i
Swtor guild is now focusing MFN and Conquest on alternating weeks Imp and Pub, up from 2 to 1 previously.

The next game update is called “Jedi Under Siege” and will have separate stories for both Imp and Pub. It’s going to take place on a world that will be familiar to fans of the Tales of the Jedi comic books. Set for Fall release.

5.10 also has returning companions Doc, Nadia, and Dark Side Jaesa.

Flash Flashpoint Friday was hosted by @Dent and fun was had by all.

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And that’s our show for tonight. While the chatroom begins suggesting show titles, we want to thank Apolas and Marcus for joining us. And don’t forget, after the show is the AIE podcast stream, this week they are doing:

@marcusb814
Working class nerds podcast

@beninmtl

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 http://keyswithsoul.com !

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

Alt-Itis
Ask Buxley

Next time, we’ll have a surprise guest- even for us! . So until then, AIE…

– This is Tetsemi
– This is Mkallah

And this has been… The AIE Podcast.