On this episode of The AIE Podcast…

Some major movements are happening in our WoW guilds
ESO is on sale!
Beach Party, Risa style!
Guild Wars 2 is getting elite!
And, we have Gusty here to help us with the Summer of Love schedule of events!

All that and more coming up right now…

Podcast Audio

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Welcome to episode #437 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 to my right is Mkallah: (Hey folks, there are Dutch Babies in the Guild Kitchen). This week we are joined by special guest Gusty who is here to talk to us about AIE in Summer of Love Welcome!

Ok, time to jump into Summer of Love and this week’s news! Gusty, tell us what all is going on in WoW retail to start!

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
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/

WoW
Hey folks, the plan in WoW is to consolidate our co-guilds, starting August 9th, which will make creating neighborhoods for player housing easier.

Members of co-guilds that we are mothballing will be encouraged to LOOT THE GUILD BANKS.

One change to the SoL schedule is Kiddie Aggro’s offer of Heroic Gallywix carries on Tuesday night for Undermine Ahead of the Curve achievement.

Here’s what’s coming up in WoW-Retail for the AIE’s Summer of Love, July 26 to Aug 2 (Remembrance Day)

July 26 (Sat) 5pm Eastern/4pm Central D&D with Duskmire.
“We’ve Got a Bad Feeling About This” Homebrew Solar Punk
D&D 5e Star Wars characters – 5 players lvl 6
Sign up in dnd with Duskmire.
11pm Eastern/10pm Central – Noob Raid SoL edition.

7/27 (Sun) 4pm Eastern/3 Central Fate One Shot with Lithou:
The adventures of Florida Man across the 6th and a half dimension
5 players. Info in dnd with Lithou.
8pm Eastern/7 Central AIE Podcast and Town Hall, SoL Edition.

July 28 (Mon) 8pm Eastern/7 Central Lore Night with Anirra
Gather at relevant locations for tales of Azeroth. They can be lore, famed NPCs, folks tales or your own character. (Remember the time you punched Deathwing?) Contact @Anirra to be a storyteller. All can listen in Discord.

NEWJuly 29 (Tues) 9pm Eastern/8pm Central AOTC – Undermine Edition
Kiddie Aggro is offering Heroic kills for Ahead of the Curve: Chrome King Gallywix and will carry as many guildies as time permits. Contact Gustytail if interested.

July 30 (Wed) 8pm Eastern/7 Central Raisin’ Bran
We will run Delves and count how many times we can make him say, “Don’t Stand There!” Let Gusty know if you are interested.

July 31 (Thurs) 8pm Eastern/7 Central Earthen Rings
Roll a new Earthen (in advance) and we race from Orgrimmar to Stormwind and vice versa.

Aug 1 (Fri) 8pm Eastern/7 Central Trial of Style
Gusty’s favorite Holiday returns! Bring your best – or worst looks and be judged by fellow players. Mismatch Mayhem IS a category. Runs take about 10 min.

AUG 2 9pm Eastern – 8 Central Remembrance Day.
The signature AIE Guild event. Meet at the Shrine of the Fallen Warrior near Crossroads to honor friends and family we have lost, followed by a procession to Orgrimmar and picnic at the back gates.

WoW Classic
MOP is out, Sema and Looci are pet battling! A few others are in and playing again. Hard Core remains at about 3 to 4 people, and everyone is enjoying that as well. Anniversary Classic is quiet, but a few folks are in there as well! Looci is planning to walk in MoP on the 2nd for Remembrance Day.

SWTOR
We will be doing a special version of MFN at 9PM Eastern on Tuesday night, as well as a Star Wars Trivia game on Friday night. We will do our traditional walk in the Juran Mountains on Alderaan for Remembrance.

ESO
Save Up to 75% on ESO Standard Edition during the PlayStation Summer Sale.
Update 47, titled “Feast of Shadows,” will be released on August 18th for PC/Mac and September 3rd for PlayStation and Xbox consoles. This update introduces a new dungeon pack and other content as part of the “Seasons of the Worm Cult” storyline.

FFXIV
Next major patch is on 8/5, with a new alliance raid, new relic upgrades, and the final MSQ chapter for the Dawntrail expansion (the next two will be set up for 8.0). Moogle tomestones is currently active until the patch, and Gold Saucer GATEs give around 4 each, every 20 minutes, which is a very chill way to get them.

STO
Story update July 29th. Also, from July 29th at 8am PT to August 19th at 12pm PT on PC, you can create a new Temporal Agent character. Lohlunat Festival ends July 30th, AKA the Risa beach party.

GW2
“Train new elite specializations and adventure on the magical island of Castora when the expansion launches on October 28!” 9 new elite specs. Devs will be detailing them over time. Mesmer, Ranger, and Guardian, which bring the troubadour, galeshot, and luminary.

LOTRO
For the Remembrance Day ceremony LOTRO will be meeting in our normal spot on the hill above the Prancing Pony. We can use a summoning horn if people want or need help finding the way up there. We may run some stuff after the Remembrance Day Ceremony.

GAME NEWS

Anything else to add, Gusty?

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And that’s our show for tonight. While the chatroom begins suggesting show titles, we want to thank Gusty 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 once a month on 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!

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

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

– This is Gusty
– This is Tetsemi
– This is Mewkow
– This is Mkallah

And this has been… The AIE Podcast.