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

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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?

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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 podcast@aie-guild.org 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.