On this episode of The AIE Podcast…

World of Warcraft is now on Zillow
Congrats to Sethos on 70!
Spring Abundance is in the air
Nifty things are happening in LOTRO
And, we have our dear friends Gusty and Shojo here to talk all about AIE in World of Warcraft

All that and more coming up right now…

Podcast Audio

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Welcome to episode #442 of the podcast celebrating you, the Alea Iacta Est gaming community, the die has been podcast. This is Mewkow: To my left is Tetsemi: – (catch phrase here). And to my right is Mkallah: (Hey folks, there is a homemade chicken pot pie in the Guild Kitchen). This week we are joined by special guests Gusty and Shojo who are here to talk to us about AIE in World of Warcraft Welcome!

Ok, we’ll be digging into World of Warcraft 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
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

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
Rust on a PvE server since the new naval update came out. Boats are fun!

New World will officially shutdown its servers January 31, 2027. We are still there! Keep an eye on the channel in nomads for a possible farewell as the end draws near.

Valheim 5 Year Celebration and Regular Update. AIE Valheim Community Server Information is pinned in the AIE Discord #Nomads channel

WoW
Noob Raid had a great final run of Manaforge Omega on pre-Midnight launch – clearing both Normal and Heroic! Dankinia will be taking a break until the first raid in Midnight is released, around early April.

Midnight launched on 3/2, with early access for folks who prepurchased expected to begin 2/27. Lots more about Midnight from our lovely guests later in the show.

Player housing. This new feature is time consuming but a great deal of fun. The creativity of our Guildies is amazing to behold!

WoW Classic
As Jehdai pointed out, we have our first 70 (Sethos) and light activity on the 20th Anniversary TBC launch on Dreamscythed Horde side. We have the guild available with the guild bank open and invite others to join us in Outland.

In other Classic news:
Reminder that there are now 3 launchers for Classic (‘Original’, ‘Anniversary’, ‘Era’)

“Original” Classic is progressing with Mists of Pandaria. The guild is available on Horde side on Galakras. If I have this right, MoP classic uses the modern guild interface so we have the new interface showing 651 members.

“Anniversary” Classic which is now at TBC as mentioned above.

“Era” classic is a separate launcher with 3 game modes:
‘Classic Era’ which is forever frozen in the original game (pre-TBC). We were on Mankrik here but really no activity or guild.

“Season of Discovery” which is where experiments were performed by the devs which some expect may lead to the anticipated “Classic Plus” many hope for. We have no real activity there currently.

“Hardcore” is the 3rd game mode in the Era client and probably our 2nd most active within the classic modes.

We have an Alliance side guild on Doomhowl and some activity on the Horde side of Doomhowl but no guild currently. Lars plans to return to his attempt at a “Solo Self-Found” run to 60 in Hardcore but that has been on pause for quite some time. We did have guild members make it to 60 on the hardcore server previously.

Ravisant is ProffessorWC or Sethos one of the raid leaders from HoG

SWTOR
In Swtor this week, we are ready for Update 7.8.1, Master’s Enigma. It will bring a story piece, Galactic Seasons 10, new date nights, and the Spring Abundance Festival. The story finale is coming in the June timeframe to make room for 8.0 at the end of the year.

We continue to do our MFN on Tuesday nights. Please join us. There are no gear or level requirements, but you may need to have gotten your personal ship as we do tend to travel about.

If you want to read about an awesome trip to Galaxy’s Edge, with not only pics but also tips and tricks for your own visit, check out guildie Strykezone’s blog post. You’ll find a link in the pinned messages in the swtor channel of the AIE discord.

The Kanjiklub House
https://kanjiklubhouse.com/2026/02/18/my-star-wars-adventure-to-galaxys-edge-at-disney/

ESO
The guild has been working on endeavors and in game events.

FFXIV
This past Tuesday we got the new Variant dungeon with the newer middle level difficulty

The next live letter is on March 13th at 4am PST, and they’ll probably be discussing the next story patch

LOTRO
We had an update that brought us some nifty things. The new raid “The Folly of Nagakhêdi” (Nah-gah-KAY-dee) for tier 1 is live, tiers 2 and 3 are coming this week and next week. There is a new legendary reward track with some great rewards such as a rose-colored mûmak calf cosmetic pet. With other class changes, mainly with guardian, we also got a great change. It is now possible to start Private Encounters from inside of a Housing Neighborhood. Looking forward to seeing you in game and doing some of these awesome new instances.

And with that, let’s get back to Gusty and Shojo and find out what’s going on in World of Warcraft.

GAME NEWS

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And that’s our show for tonight. While the chatroom begins suggesting show titles, we want to thank Gusty and Shojo 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!

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

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

And this has been… The AIE Podcast