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
ARK is back on the menu… we have a group in on The Island map starting fresh and having fun including at least one new survivor.
April will be a fun month for ARPG enjoyers, with Path of Exile 2’s new league launching on April 4, Last Epoch’s on April 17, and Diablo 4’s on April 29. Post in the relevant Discord channel if you have questions or want to group up.
WoW
On April 1 we’ll be switching the invite guild to Audacia on Horde side. Alliance invites are still going to Amicitia.
In Raid Team news, Kiddie Aggro has taken down Sprocketmonger Lockenstock for 5/8 Heroic in Liberation of Undermine.
So Let’s Go Skating, on Alliance side, will be running tonight, adding to their 3/8 Heroic tally.
Dungeoneering Inc is gearing up in Normal Undermine with their sights set on Heroic Vexie.
Next week in WoW, Timewalking is back and we’ll be visiting Warlords of Draenor. Who’s up for a trip to the Garrison?
On Saturday, join the baby Winterfin murlocs of Borean Tundra for the micro holiday March of the Tadpoles. (Why is this happening in April not March??) And Darkmoon Faire arrives Sunday, with profession quests, rep and XP buffs to beef up your Goblin Cartel contacts.
WoW Classic
Classic is hopping in various flavours. Please check out the chatter on the AIE Discord to see what we are up to.
Season of Discovery is in Phase 7 which includes the Naxxramas raid, Phase 8 will drop on April 8th with “New Outdoor Content, profession content in New Avalon, and Scarlet Enclave-related quest content.” and then on April 10th the “Scarlet Enclave Raid and Legendary Weapon Questline Available at 1:00 pm PDT globally”. AIE is rather inactive in SOD but if you want to join us, we have some presence on the Horde side of the Wild Growth server.
The “current” Classic is still in Cataclysm Phase 4 “Hour of Twilight”, the pre-patch for Mists of Pandaria should release in late July and the full expansion sometime in August. AIE activity is quiet but we expect some excitement for the re-release of Mists.
Fresh 20th Anniversary classic has an assortment of active AIE players on Dreamscythe (mostly Horde side), the servers are currently in Phase 3 (Blackwing Lair). Blizzard has told us that these servers will progress into The Burning Crusade which is likely late 2025 or early 2026.
Fresh 20th Anniversary also has Hardcore servers. AIE is active on both the Alliance and Horde sides and looking to do some group content on Alliance side. Some players are attempting solo-self-found and you can catch up on our adventures by checking out the discussion on the AIE discord. The Hardcore servers will not progress to TBC.
SWTOR
MFN is going strong and we have small pick up groups during the weekend doing uprisings and flashpoints for season and conquest objectives. Stay tuned to discord to see when groups are forming.
ESO
The ToT tournement ended this past weekend and Dankinia luck with cards continued to be better then her luck with dice. All of the players did well and it was nice to see some new players join in the fun. Prizes have been awarded to everyone thanks to Kraemer’s generosity in funding the event.
FFXIV
As always, 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
GW2
Finally have some notice of the date for the Super Adventure Festival. It is unusually late this year, starting on April 15 to May 6. Usually it overlaps April Fool’s Day, but that collided with the most recent Repentance update.
LOTRO
Housing is opening on March 31st. It is going to be a scheduled opening of the housing neighborhoods. The only way to purchase a house during this rollout will be through the housing broker. For sale signs will NOT be accessible. For a list of the rollout there is a link to the lotro forums that has the schedule. We are expecting to purchase our Kinship house on Friday. We are going to try for the same house we had on Landroval. There is a letter to the players that will give us a look at the next 6 months from Orion that is expected to be out this coming week. Next due to the high population of the regular 64 bit servers, there will be 2 new regular 64 bit servers. 1 will be US based and 1 EU based. More news on the new servers expected in a few weeks. The Spring Festival has been extended through April 8th.
CLOSE
If you have a question or comment about our show, you can email us at podcast@aie-guild.org 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!