On this episode of The AIE Podcast...

We’re sending love from the First to the Thirteenth!
Raids in ICC and Black Temple, what year is it?
Traitors amongst the Thrawn, I mean Chiss!
While rumors of a free ship abounds
Hobbit bellies aren’t the only thing expanding in LOTRO

All that and more coming up right now...

Podcast Audio



Raw Video

http://youtu.be/drSJB7kmRJU

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Welcome to episode 410 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: Err, what? She’s in New York City? (New York City?). No one let her know fashion week was last week? Oh my. This week we are joined by a special guest. Kelseer who is here to talk to us about AIE in FFXIV Welcome!

Ok, we’ll be digging into FFXIV 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 - You all get a day off!
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
Friday - FFXIV(Magical Misc Tour) 9:00 pm Eastern
Saturday - LotRO 8:30 pm Eastern
Saturday - FFXIV (Maps) 9:30 pm Eastern
Saturday - WoW Classic Hardcore 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-

SWTOR Escape Podcast (Max and Sema)
https://www.newoverlords.com/category/listen/sepc/

Behind the Games Podcast (Jeff aka Max and Sema)
https://www.newoverlords.com/category/listen/btg/

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
Diablo 4
(already teased elsewhere, but for the sake of due-diligence, albeit last minute)

The Clan continues to grow and we are at the clan cap. If you have not yet joined the clan, please reach out in the AIE discord channel #diablo and let us know. An officer will make room to let you in. If you have previously joined and are fairly certain you won't be continuing play with D4, likewise let us know so we may remove you from the clan.

Season 2 - The Season of Blood - will be kicking off on 17 October, 10AM PDT/1PM EDT, and will be launching on Steam as well.

https://news.blizzard.com/en-us/diablo4/24009152/bite-down-on-darkness-in-season-of-blood
https://news.blizzard.com/en-us/diablo4/24009153/diablo-iv-coming-to-steam-on-october-17

WoW
In WoW retail, Noob Raid cleared Black Temple-Timewalking as part of the 5-week Turbulent Timeways event. (Why yes, there is a mount reward for it.) Brewfest ended and a new dragonriding race challenge: Eastern Kingdoms Cup began. Halloween events start on the 18th. Also, a new month means new Trader’s tenders collection. There’s a new mount on the board, and another set of legacy class armor enhancement sets too.

WoW Classic
Good News Everyone: Ice Crown Citadel opens next Thursday, with the associated dungeons opening on Tuesday. New dungeon difficulty comes out as well, and we are getting account wide pets and mounts and a real dungeon finder! Whoo Hooo!!! Our classic raid team spins back up this week after a long break over the summer. Now that everyone seems healthy again (especially our raid leader) we are looking forwa...