On this episode of The AIE Podcast...
Mewkow: To boldly go, into ESO
Tetsemi: Follow the breadcrumbs to Azeroth
Mkallah: No rest for the Scions
Mewkow: We have Captain Cybyl’s STO update
Tetsemi: And so much news, that we had to do a Host Show
All that and more coming up right now...
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Welcome to episode 291 of the the podcast celebrating the Alea Iacta Est gaming community, the die has been podcast. This is Mkallah: To my left is Mewkow: - (catch phrase here). And to my right is Tetsemi: (catch phrase here). This week we are joined by special guests us who are here to talk to us about AIE in our gaming lives. Welcome!
Ok, we’ll be digging into our gaming lives. shortly, but first, let’s cover this week’s news...
AIE News
Community
Keep an eye on AIE Discord, the forums, and the main https://aie-guild.org page for information regarding the February events in all the games that AIE is involved in. Rumor has it, the WoW team is cooking up something special for the February event based on an idea that Ralff had and the the SWTOR team has run in the past. Curious? So are we, can’t wait to find out more as we get closer to the event.
Also, one of our AIE SWTOR members has a podcast called Working Class Nerds, check it out at https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/working-class-nerds/id1330089578?mt=2#episodeGuid=Buzzsprout-626038
Imperium Ludi
Some brave AIE souls are checking out ESO again. Check out the #eso channel in the AIE Discord for anyone interested in joining them.
The guild is named Alea Iacta Est Cartis and is available for all AIE members to join.
On the Crowfall side of news, game is getting more finished and we'll surely have an open beta (currently still a kickstarter beta, and the kickstarter campaign is closed) this summer with release sometime this year.
Still a lot of work but basic issues like animation cancellations and powers are fixed and are fluid now.
More classes and races are in
WoW
Patch 7.3.5 - Patch Notes - https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/news/21365423
A lot of content shipped with this patch but isn’t available for play yet. If you have killed the last raid boss in Antorus on any difficulty, the character that killed him will get a new breadcrumb quest leading to Orgrimmar and the new quest line leading up to the next expansion, Battle For Azeroth. As of right now, you do need to kill the last boss in Antorus on each character you want to get the new content available to them, it is not account wide. No word if it will become account wide later in the patch cycle.
For all you altoholics, the new zone scaling is in for all content zones as well as a nerf to XP gained both through heirloom gear and quest/mob XP rewards, so as they say in Pandaria “Slow Down!” and enjoy the leveling content.
Holiday Dungeons are also now available to all characters starting at level 20 (same level as the new Allied races start at, coincidence? I think not) and the rewards will scale with character level.
And, as of right now, all Dungeons reward personal loot, which means if you want a piece for transmog, you have to run it on a class capable of obtaining it from the loot table. Expect the prices of BoE greens to skyrocket.
STO
Captain Cybyl’s Star Trek Online News Summary for week ending 01/20/2018:
1. STO’s 8th Anniversary celebration is now upon us with new story arcs, featured episodes, Q’s party patrol, Omega particles, an anniversary T6 Interceptor starship giveaway, new and wondrous rewards and daily free prizes. Ship stats and details are up on the STO website.
2. The new featured episode to start the story arc, 'Scylla and Charybdis’, features Captain LeForge, Captain Kuumaarke and General Martok fighting the final, epic battle against the genocidal Tzenkethi. See the STO website for the exciting details.
3. With the launch of the 8th anniversary, a new backstory, ’They Came From Below’, has been posted on the STO website.
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