On this episode of The AIE Podcast…

Plundering storms in WoW
while FFXIV is looking for maps
Streaming MFN in STO
celebrating the new year in GW2
and 64 bit servers in LOTRO

All that and more coming up right now…

Podcast Audio

Raw Video

http://youtu.be/v-kXEmnJc-Y

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Welcome to episode 432 of the podcast celebrating you, the Alea Iacta Est gaming community, the die has been podcast. This is Tetsemi: To my left is Mewkow: – (catch phrase here). And Mkallah is out being classy, I mean attending a training class. This week we are talking to ourselves about games systems, guild activities, and the community. Welcome!

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

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
In New World, we run group content on Sunday nights. We are working through the expeditions (dungeons) with an eye toward The Hive of Gorgons (raid). Find us on Hudsonland for a fresh start and the legacy server Valhalla.

WoW
In WoW news, the Battle Royale game Plunderstorm is back, with new pets, a new mount – the Plunderlord’s Midnight Crocolisk, and transmog including the Swabbie’s Shovel and Oar. You can also purchase Trader’s Tender if you haven’t maxed that out yet, or use it for next month. There’s also a back appearance – Coward’s Azure Target – available until Feb 4 for watching a WoW Twitch stream.

The Turbulent Timeways timewalking event is ongoing and great for alts. This week the quest is for 5 Warlords of Draenor dungeons and next week we’ll head to Legion.
Coming soon (TM) Will be the Undermine(d) patch, where we visit the massive underground Goblin capital to learn Gallywix is helping Xal’atath with an important project (and it’s not a mani-pedi).

Among the features are a customizable, super fast car mount (flying is not available), a quest that awards a rental apartment – which looks like it has bank access, a new dungeon: Operation Floodgate, two new delves with an associated customizable mount: the Gobtrotter. Bran can also now tank, so we can tell him “Don’t stand there!” for a change.

And in the new Raid – Liberation of Undermine, we help the various goblin cartels unseat Chrome King Gallywix. Grats to Rogues on their very cool pirate themed Tier set.

WoW Classic
Classic Refresh has some AIE and Lars is in there, Classic Cata has tapered off

SWTOR
MFN goes well with a few other event nights a week. Running on two servers, pvp nights, etc. All sorcerer Ops night events are coming up too. New and returning players still.

Wed ops team needs fill-ins

ESO
ESO MFN is back from winter break. We’ve been working on trials and helping each other with endeavors while hanging out and chatting.

FFXIV
We’re in a bit of between patches lull in content, the new custom delivery NPC and Chaotic Alliance Raid were released Christmas Eve, and we’re looking at the next Live Letter sometime in late Feb/ early March, so our next major patch is looking to be late march/early April.

That patch will include the next tier in the Arcadian 8 man raid series, and the live letter should have more details about the upcoming Disciple of the Hand/Land exploration zone and the battle exploration zone.

We are still attempting to do treasure maps on Saturday nights in the meantime.

STO
Fleet Action Report is a video podcast run 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!

The giveaway on PC has been moved to Jan. 21st to 26th and there is a bonus Marks “weekend” until then.

We do know there is a patch coming this Tuesday to fix the Trait/Loadout bug, and we’re hoping to get more information about the next event then. Consoles are currently experiencing their The Feast event, and it lasts until February 5th.

GW2
The next festival event in the GW2 calendar is the Canthan (Lunar) New Year. The dates have not yet been announced, however it should be soon as the actual Lunar New Year starts on Jan 29th this year.

LOTRO
64 bit servers, end of this month or so, guild/kinship will move to Peregrin, VIP will have first shot at new names, there might be some things that individuals need to do (like logging in). Dux will be handling moving the guild and house.

And with that, let’s get back to us and find out what’s going on in community activities.

GAME NEWS
With a lot of MMO’s slowing down content releases or releasing smaller patches, the need to always be logged on and grinding something has lessened, which leaves more time for other activities (there’s so much room for activities!).

Do you feel this means the guild/community have to take on more of a role of keeping people engaged than they otherwise would be or should we rely on the game systems to keep people engaged?

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

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 !

Next time, we’ll be talking to Guest in Game. So until then, AIE…

– This is Tetsemi
– This is Mewkow

And this has been… The AIE Podcast.

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