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Send us a textIn this podcast episode, I sit down with author Amy Truebloog to discuss her writing career and more. *******Amy True, also writing as Amy Trueblood is a celebrated and award-winning author.In her latest book, “Meet Me in Ivy Falls,” she brings her formidable writing talents to the adult contemporary romance market.Some of Amy's awards include Award-Winning Historical Fiction: Amy True's book (writing as Amy Trueblood) Across a Broken Shore won the 2020 Gold Medal for Historical Fiction in the Independent Publisher Book Awards and the Moonbeam Children's Book Awards. Her work has also been recognized by the American Library Association, with “Across a Broken Shore,” being named a 2020 Best Feminist Book in Children's Literature. Junior Library Guild Selections: Both “Nothing But Sky” and “Across a Broken Shore,” were selected as Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selections. Amy grew up near Disneyland, which sparked her interest in storytelling from a young age. She graduated with a degree in journalism and has experience in advertising and entertainment. She's an active member of the writing community, extremely active on social media, and a frequent participant at romance conventions. Her journey to publication was not straightforward, facing challenges and rejections before successfully publishing her books. This dedication and perseverance provides an engaging talking point with audiences.Books by Amy True: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Amy-True/author/B0CVQZVR27?ref=ap_rdr&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=trueBooks by Amy Trueblood: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Amy-Trueblood/author/B07664V7N4?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=1723756980&sr=8-1&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true*******If you would like to contact the show about being a guest please email us at Dauna@bettertopodcast.comThis episode is on YouTube:https://youtu.be/ROlH2MAqQ8EFollow us on Social MediaInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/author_d.m.needom/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bettertopodcastwithdmneedomHave a question or want to be a guest on the podcast email: dauna@bettertopodcast.comHave a question for our producer Rich Zei contact him at rich.zei@thirdearaudio.comIntro and Outro music compliments of Fast SuziTo see upcoming guests click here: https://www.dmneedom.com/better-topodcast©2024 Better To...Podcast with D. M.NeedomSupport the Show.Support the show

On this episode of The Writer and the Critic, your hosts Kirstyn McDermott and Ian Mond, begin with a brief celebration of Ian winning the William Atheling Jr. Award for his reviews in Locus that meanders into a discussion about the importance of criticism and the dangers of AI. Huzzah for Ian and criticism! Boo hiss for AI! The books up for discussion this month are The Broken Shore by Peter Temple [7:25] and Slow Horses by Mick Herron [33:30]. Mentioned in dispatches and highly recommended are the following television series: Deadloch (2023) The Sandbaggers (1978-1980) If you've skipped ahead to avoid spoilers, please come back at 1:04:25 for final remarks. Next month, the two books on the slab will be: After the Forest by Kell Woods I am Homeless if This is Not My Home by Lorrie Moore Read ahead and join in the spoilerific fun!

On this episode of The Writer and the Critic, your hosts Kirstyn McDermott and Ian Mond, begin by chatting about cardamon knobs, cygnets and the shenanigans of parkour cats. Seriously. The books up for discussion this month are The Living Sea of Waking Dreams by Richard Flanagan [5:05] and The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera [46:00]. If you've skipped ahead to avoid spoilers, please come back at 1:14:10 for final remarks. Next month, the two books on the slab will be: The Broken Shore by Peter Temple Slow Horses by Mick Herron Read ahead and join in the spoilerific fun!

We return to the Broken Shore in this episode and visit the former Temple of Elune. After learning a bit more about the history of this building, we enter and climb the spire in order to return a Pillar of Creation to it's rightful spot. We get some tour guides as well! Though they may be a bit busy with each other. ____________________________________ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/dungeonfables Bonus Roll Directory: https://www.bonusroll.gg/directory Show's Twitter: https://twitter.com/DungeonFables Ali's Twitter: https://twitter.com/AliandrasK Ali's Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/aliandras

In this episode host Andy Muir is joined by Text CEO and Publisher, Michael Heyward, to discuss the work of the late Peter Temple and his book The Red Hand. Following the interview, Suzanne Leal, Dr Sue Turnbull and Catherine du Peloux Menage explore Temple's back catalogue with Andy, unpacking Jack Irish, Truth and The Broken Shore to reflect on why he is one of Australia's most important crime writers. All the books discussed can be purchased from podcast partner Booktopia. This podcast is supported by The City of Sydney https://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au GO TO THE BAD SYDNEY BOOKTOPIA PAGE to purchase recently released books featured on the podcast or at BAD Sydney events:  https://www.booktopia.com.au/bad-sydney/promo2474.html SHOW NOTES:  BAD Sydney Crime Writer's Festival Website: https://www.badsydney.com Facebook: @BADCrimeSydney  BAD: ALL ABOUT CRIME BOOK CLUB https://www.facebook.com/groups/1421791224828182/ Instagram: @badcrimesydney Twitter: @BADCrimeSydney Youtube: @Bad Sydney  Suzanne Leal Website: https://www.suzanneleal.com Facebook: @suzanne.author Twitter: @suzanne_leal Instagram: @Suzanne Leal Author Andy Muir Website: C/O https://affirmpress.com.au/publishing/andy-muir/ Facebook: @andy.muir.357 Instagram: @muir8052 Michael Heyward - Text Publishing Website: https://www.textpublishing.com.au Facebook: @textpublishing Twitter: @text_publishing Good Reads: @Text Publishing YouTube: @TEXTPUB BOOKS DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE INCLUDE:  Peter Temple:  The Red Hand Jack Irish Novels The Broken Shore  Bad Debts In the Evil Day White Dog Shane Maloney - Stiff Kenneth Cook - Wake In Fright  Jane Harper - The Dry See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Virginia and Louise share their most recent reads and two wonderful books by award winning writers whose characters dwell on the other side of the tracks.Email hello@divinginpodcast.comInstagram @diving_in_podcastVirginia’s Instagram @virginia_readsLouise’s Instagram @louise_cooks_and_readsSong ‘Diving In’ – original music and lyrics written and performed by Laura Adeline – https://linkt.ree/llauraadelinePodcast sound production and editing by Andy Maher.Graphics by Orla Larkin - create@werkshop.com.auBooksA Re-Purposed Life, Ronni Kahn and Jessica Chapnik Kahn, Murdoch Books.Death Leaves the Station, Alexander Thorpe, 2020 Fremantle Press.The Broken Shore, Peter Temple, 2005, text publishing.Shuggie Bain, Douglas Stuart, 2020, Picador.How To Be an Author, Georgia Richter and Deborah Hunn, 2021,Fremantle PressPodcastsYou Beauty, Leigh Campbell and Kelly McCarren, Mamamia Media,TelevisionShtisel, Ori Elon and Yehonatan Indursky, 2013, Netflix.

She breathes deeply, trying to quell the rising sense of panic. A detective came to her home, drugged her and kidnapped her. She tries to make sense of it, to imagine alternatives, but only one conclusion is possible: it's the past, come to claim her. Martin Scarsden's new life seems perfect, right up until the moment it's shattered by a voicemail: a single scream, abruptly cut off, from his partner Mandalay Blonde. Racing home, he finds an unconscious man sprawled on the floor and Mandy gone. Someone has abducted her. But who, and why? So starts a twisting tale of intrigue and danger, as Martin probes the past of the woman he loves, a woman who has buried her former life so deep she has never mentioned it. And for the first time, Mandy finds denial impossible, now the body of a mystery man has been discovered, a man whose name she doesn't know, a man she was engaged to marry when he died. It's time to face her demons once and for all; it's time she learned how to trust. Set in a Sydney riven with corruption and nepotism, privilege and power, Trust is the third riveting novel from award-winning and internationally acclaimed writer Chris Hammer. 'The best Australian crime novel since Peter Temple's The Broken Shore.' - The Times on Silver

The Broken Shore lies empty. Thus one enterprising goblin has decided to open a resort on the island. Visit the website at http://FrazleyReport.com or email us at newsroom@frazleyreport.com

Discord: http://discord.worldofwarcast.com Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/starmike Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv Ren Going for the drake achievement -- sort of Got 3 fel eggs this week: 1 Felglow Mana Ray mount, 1 Fel-Afflicted Skyfin pet, and Now “the Exalted” … “the Beloved” next?? Slowly getting everyone completed with the Argus campaign New toon: male blood elf protection paladin (going to go brewmaster monk for N&A) - almost level 40 Discussion: What makes you keep an alt? (@Cattarina and the “nursery of alts”) Mike More Ulduar achievements Still can’t do XT. Tried on alts. Just bad luck. Going to finish up Argus because I’ve neglected it too long. This Week in WoW Third wing of Antorus is open Battleground bonus event Darkmoon Faire opens Sunday Did we all watch Jeff Kaplan by the fire? News Legion Attunement Tracker on Wowhead now tracks Allied race unlock requirements Nightborne unlocks with completing Suramar (Good Suramaritan) Highmountain unlocks with completing High mountain (Aint No Mountain High Enough) Void Elf and Lightforged Draenei open with completing the Argus campaign (You Are Now Prepared!) Attunement tool at http://www.wowhead.com/attunement New hunter pets on PTR for 7.3.5 - including ones obviously meant to be starter pets for new allied races Nightborne: Manasaber Highmountain Tauren: Great Eagle Void Elf: Voidstalker Lightforged Draenei: Lightforged Talbuk Other hunter pets include beasts clearly from Argus, such as umbralfins, dustcloaks, and chitinbuks, and ones clearly associated with Silithus like silithids, flying hornets, scorpids, and spiders Allied race racials: more complete data. (Speculate on best classes?) Nightborne: Hunter, Mage, Monk, Priest, Rogue, Warlock, Warrior +15 to inscription=, increased magical damage by 1, access maili for 1.5 minutes (cooldown 10 minutes), A Force Shield that deals arcane damage and snares them by 50%, lasts 20 seconds (no info on cooldown), 1% magic resistance Highmountain Tauren: Druid, Hunter, Monk, Shaman, Warrior charge that knocks down enemies for 1.5 seconds (2 minute cooldown), +15 to mining and faster mining, +1% to versatility, overall damage reduction by 330 (scale?) and increased chance to loot additional meat and fish. Void Elf: Hunter, Mage, Monk, Priest, Rogue, Warlock, Warrior 1% reduction of shadow and arcane damage, “your abilities have a chance to empower you with the essence of the void” (?), reduces void storage and transmog costs by 50%, spell casts not delayed by taking damage, and a built-in rift teleportation similar to warlock gating (2 minute cooldown). Lightforged Draenei: Hunter, Mage, Paladin, Priest, Warrior 20% extra xp for killing demons, +10 to blacksmithing plus summoning a Forge of Light on demand, reduce holy damage by 1%, call down a strike of holy energy damaging enemies within 5 yards after 3 sec, and “erupt with light upon death, dealing holy damage to enemies and healing allies). Speculation: Allied races are not going to be introduced in 7.3.5, but there are plenty of files being pushed to the servers about four of the six races, which gives Bliz the option of releasing them before the expansion. Thoughts? Original dry run of Leeeeroy Jenkins video https://youtu.be/8hmgrHohDGM From the Discord: How to do less damage for raid achievements, without having to de-equip items or gear: From @OPH on Discord: brought up there was a toy or shirt that used to exist that would reduce damage output by 90%. This is true. Whole Body Shrinka toy, which shrinks you down to a tiny size and does reduce your damage output to about 10% -- lasts for 3 minutes but has a 30 minute cooldown. Soft Foam Sword also allows you to "mortally wound" a trivial enemy, but it isn't usable in dungeons or raids. What else could be done? Came up with a cheap engineering solution even non-engineers can use. Further discussion on queuing a Broken Shore class hall mission for Broken Shore Campaign - @settlersrule said he was forced to take a 3 day elite mission because that was all that was available. Tips on how to manage this situation. From Twitter: Going back to my report that the Murky world quest dismounts you when you fly over it, apparently it’s not just Murky, but any quest where you morph. @Frenzol informed me the wisp quest in Val’sharah does the same thing.

Discord: http://discord.worldofwarcast.com Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/starmike Twitch: http://twitch.tv/starmiketv Ren Going for the drake achievement -- sort of Got 3 fel eggs this week: 1 Felglow Mana Ray mount, 1 Fel-Afflicted Skyfin pet, and Now “the Exalted” … “the Beloved” next?? Slowly getting everyone completed with the Argus campaign New toon: male blood elf protection paladin (going to go brewmaster monk for N&A) - almost level 40 Discussion: What makes you keep an alt? (@Cattarina and the “nursery of alts”) Mike More Ulduar achievements Still can’t do XT. Tried on alts. Just bad luck. Going to finish up Argus because I’ve neglected it too long. This Week in WoW Third wing of Antorus is open Battleground bonus event Darkmoon Faire opens Sunday Did we all watch Jeff Kaplan by the fire? News Legion Attunement Tracker on Wowhead now tracks Allied race unlock requirements Nightborne unlocks with completing Suramar (Good Suramaritan) Highmountain unlocks with completing High mountain (Aint No Mountain High Enough) Void Elf and Lightforged Draenei open with completing the Argus campaign (You Are Now Prepared!) Attunement tool at http://www.wowhead.com/attunement New hunter pets on PTR for 7.3.5 - including ones obviously meant to be starter pets for new allied races Nightborne: Manasaber Highmountain Tauren: Great Eagle Void Elf: Voidstalker Lightforged Draenei: Lightforged Talbuk Other hunter pets include beasts clearly from Argus, such as umbralfins, dustcloaks, and chitinbuks, and ones clearly associated with Silithus like silithids, flying hornets, scorpids, and spiders Allied race racials: more complete data. (Speculate on best classes?) Nightborne: Hunter, Mage, Monk, Priest, Rogue, Warlock, Warrior +15 to inscription=, increased magical damage by 1, access maili for 1.5 minutes (cooldown 10 minutes), A Force Shield that deals arcane damage and snares them by 50%, lasts 20 seconds (no info on cooldown), 1% magic resistance Highmountain Tauren: Druid, Hunter, Monk, Shaman, Warrior charge that knocks down enemies for 1.5 seconds (2 minute cooldown), +15 to mining and faster mining, +1% to versatility, overall damage reduction by 330 (scale?) and increased chance to loot additional meat and fish. Void Elf: Hunter, Mage, Monk, Priest, Rogue, Warlock, Warrior 1% reduction of shadow and arcane damage, “your abilities have a chance to empower you with the essence of the void” (?), reduces void storage and transmog costs by 50%, spell casts not delayed by taking damage, and a built-in rift teleportation similar to warlock gating (2 minute cooldown). Lightforged Draenei: Hunter, Mage, Paladin, Priest, Warrior 20% extra xp for killing demons, +10 to blacksmithing plus summoning a Forge of Light on demand, reduce holy damage by 1%, call down a strike of holy energy damaging enemies within 5 yards after 3 sec, and “erupt with light upon death, dealing holy damage to enemies and healing allies). Speculation: Allied races are not going to be introduced in 7.3.5, but there are plenty of files being pushed to the servers about four of the six races, which gives Bliz the option of releasing them before the expansion. Thoughts? Original dry run of Leeeeroy Jenkins video https://youtu.be/8hmgrHohDGM From the Discord: How to do less damage for raid achievements, without having to de-equip items or gear: From @OPH on Discord: brought up there was a toy or shirt that used to exist that would reduce damage output by 90%. This is true. Whole Body Shrinka toy, which shrinks you down to a tiny size and does reduce your damage output to about 10% -- lasts for 3 minutes but has a 30 minute cooldown. Soft Foam Sword also allows you to "mortally wound" a trivial enemy, but it isn't usable in dungeons or raids. What else could be done? Came up with a cheap engineering solution even non-engineers can use. Further discussion on queuing a Broken Shore class hall mission for Broken Shore Campaign - @settlersrule said he was forced to take a 3 day elite mission because that was all that was available. Tips on how to manage this situation. From Twitter: Going back to my report that the Murky world quest dismounts you when you fly over it, apparently it’s not just Murky, but any quest where you morph. @Frenzol informed me the wisp quest in Val’sharah does the same thing.

A Draenei is acting like a recluse on the Broken Shore. Smokywood Pastures messes up the distribution of the Hearthstation toy for Winter Veil. Are WoW Tokens poised to be the next cryptocurrency? Visit the website at http://FrazleyReport.com or email us at newsroom@frazleyreport.com

Discord: https://discord.worldofwarcast.com Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/starmike Our talk about WoW Classic. This week: Ren: WHO BENCHES ELI? Accidental discovery: how accidentally three-manning heroic Eye of Azshara turned into two-manning normal dungeons (EoA, Black Rook, Vault of the Wardens, Violet Hold, Darkheart Thicket, Maw of Souls), mage and warlock style Epic troll druid progress: Resurrected October 26 -- in 30 days, leveled 101-110, finished 2 druid weapons, class hall, Broken Shore campaign, Argus campaign, iLevel 913 Worgen mage finished class hall, almost finished Argus, iLevel 911 - first level 1000 legendary Mike: Achievement hunting w/Ali Mount farming - nothing this week dropped :( This Week in WoW Antorus opened Antorus Mythic opens next week End of Pilgrim’s Progress, 13th Anniversary Pet XP event ends Tuesday Cataclysm Timewalking next Tuesday News and Discussion Shaman Challenge - new finishers and a new record! New secret mount discovered http://www.wowhead.com/item=152814/maddened-chaosrunner#comments New mount in Heroic Argus - Violet Spellwing Spoilers from the cinematic! Classic server discussion continued What happened when? An overview of vanilla patches Mod histories When did mods become available? First Mod of the Cast - SellValue, 26 March 2006 First 5 mods still available from Curse (but only one still works)

Discord: https://discord.worldofwarcast.com Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/starmike Our talk about WoW Classic. This week: Ren: WHO BENCHES ELI? Accidental discovery: how accidentally three-manning heroic Eye of Azshara turned into two-manning normal dungeons (EoA, Black Rook, Vault of the Wardens, Violet Hold, Darkheart Thicket, Maw of Souls), mage and warlock style Epic troll druid progress: Resurrected October 26 -- in 30 days, leveled 101-110, finished 2 druid weapons, class hall, Broken Shore campaign, Argus campaign, iLevel 913 Worgen mage finished class hall, almost finished Argus, iLevel 911 - first level 1000 legendary Mike: Achievement hunting w/Ali Mount farming - nothing this week dropped :( This Week in WoW Antorus opened Antorus Mythic opens next week End of Pilgrim’s Progress, 13th Anniversary Pet XP event ends Tuesday Cataclysm Timewalking next Tuesday News and Discussion Shaman Challenge - new finishers and a new record! New secret mount discovered http://www.wowhead.com/item=152814/maddened-chaosrunner#comments New mount in Heroic Argus - Violet Spellwing Spoilers from the cinematic! Classic server discussion continued What happened when? An overview of vanilla patches Mod histories When did mods become available? First Mod of the Cast - SellValue, 26 March 2006 First 5 mods still available from Curse (but only one still works)

Ren: Started on Argus campaign with rogue (as predicted) Still playing Diablo 3 but having some repetitive motion injury issues with right hand Ditched Bagnon for ArkInventory Pleased with TV appearance on THE DEAD FILES - and cancelled Sling (HDTV antenna works great - between that and Amazon Prime’s Thursday Night Football, Giants season is saved!) Caught 3rd eagle this week Mike: Argus! Wait, it’s only one chapter? Can’t do the dungeon yet What’s this cloth? Spoilers! Chests everywhere Couldn’t get enough items for the i880 gear (not that I need it) Mobs aren’t that hard to kill. What’s with the eye quest? 20% more damage in/out? Some guy’s been buying my stuff on the AH and not making a profit Uldaman Tomb of Sargeras w/Ali This Week in Wow One word: Argus Next week: Mac’Aree zone opens, unlock Invasion Points, and a questline to open Greater Invasion Points that can drop 930 gear. For those who aren’t into Argus, it’s Cataclysm Timewalking. The Archaeology reward for next 2 weeks is a toy called the Crystalline Eye of Undravius, which lets you look around and see invisible NPCs as demons or changes existing NPCs into demons for 15 seconds (apparently Khadgar is a succubus). If you’re a toy collector or are after your 8 archaeology quests for a new artifact tint, go for it. Collecting 300 toys will get you a mount, the Mechanized Lumber Extractor. 7.3 News Nightfallen reputation requirements removed from several Suramar quests, making it possible to complete the Suramar campaign without reputation gates. Undocumented changes Artifact catch-up for alts: Artifact Knowledge now starts at 41 regardless of book Removes Class Hall Campaign for third relic slot Removes Broken Shore campaign to unlock Empowered Traits Higher drop rate for artifact appearances, and you can get them for artifacts you own that you aren’t currently using (off spec) I880 Relinquished Gear no longer available to purchase with Nethershards. Completing opening Broken Shore scenario on one character is required to unlock Argus Reduced requirements for Breaching the Tomb - example, you only need 50 Mark of Sentinax instead of 100 Timewalking dungeon loot starts at 880, and Black Temple timewalking loot starts at 930. Lots of Tomb of Sargeras changes - mostly nerfs Nomi Work Orders can now yield Broken Islands Recipe Scrap (drop rate lower than Nomi Snacks). 10 scraps = one undiscovered recipe Fishing Round the Isles achievement now requires 20 world fishing quests, not all of them Levitating players can now jump Lightning Bolt and Chain Lightning updated animations were not implemented. Apparently they got bad reviews on the PTR. Two new class hall follower catch-up items added to Warmage Kathleen at Deliverance Point: Grimoire of Lost Knowledge (adds 6000 XP to follower for 2500 nethershards) and Relinquished Armor Set (sets champion iLevel to 880 for 400 nethershards) New missions for followers may be related to a new side quest, available to players after completing the An Offering of Light main quest series. These side quests unlock a new type of troop or missions that offer new follower equipment Helpful toy: Sightless Eye (not to be confused with the Sightless Eye currency) - makes you much less detectable to mobs on Argus or Broken Shore for 10 minutes, with a 5 minute cooldown. Any damage, including falling damage, breaks this. (Or just make a rogue) Diablification #1: Antaen Light-Bringer in the first part of Argus -- after the first few quests, you join Kil’jaeden and Prophet Velen to destroy a siege weapon that looks like a large green portal of some type Spoiler: it pops up and it’s a big mob Ren: Recognized this IMMEDIATELY because it looks almost exactly like a mob called the Realmwalker in the Battlefields of Eternity level in Act IV of D3, who is a giant mob who hides in the ground with a big portal eye on his head. Knew what was going to happen

Ren: Started on Argus campaign with rogue (as predicted) Still playing Diablo 3 but having some repetitive motion injury issues with right hand Ditched Bagnon for ArkInventory Pleased with TV appearance on THE DEAD FILES - and cancelled Sling (HDTV antenna works great - between that and Amazon Prime’s Thursday Night Football, Giants season is saved!) Caught 3rd eagle this week Mike: Argus! Wait, it’s only one chapter? Can’t do the dungeon yet What’s this cloth? Spoilers! Chests everywhere Couldn’t get enough items for the i880 gear (not that I need it) Mobs aren’t that hard to kill. What’s with the eye quest? 20% more damage in/out? Some guy’s been buying my stuff on the AH and not making a profit Uldaman Tomb of Sargeras w/Ali This Week in Wow One word: Argus Next week: Mac’Aree zone opens, unlock Invasion Points, and a questline to open Greater Invasion Points that can drop 930 gear. For those who aren’t into Argus, it’s Cataclysm Timewalking. The Archaeology reward for next 2 weeks is a toy called the Crystalline Eye of Undravius, which lets you look around and see invisible NPCs as demons or changes existing NPCs into demons for 15 seconds (apparently Khadgar is a succubus). If you’re a toy collector or are after your 8 archaeology quests for a new artifact tint, go for it. Collecting 300 toys will get you a mount, the Mechanized Lumber Extractor. 7.3 News Nightfallen reputation requirements removed from several Suramar quests, making it possible to complete the Suramar campaign without reputation gates. Undocumented changes Artifact catch-up for alts: Artifact Knowledge now starts at 41 regardless of book Removes Class Hall Campaign for third relic slot Removes Broken Shore campaign to unlock Empowered Traits Higher drop rate for artifact appearances, and you can get them for artifacts you own that you aren’t currently using (off spec) I880 Relinquished Gear no longer available to purchase with Nethershards. Completing opening Broken Shore scenario on one character is required to unlock Argus Reduced requirements for Breaching the Tomb - example, you only need 50 Mark of Sentinax instead of 100 Timewalking dungeon loot starts at 880, and Black Temple timewalking loot starts at 930. Lots of Tomb of Sargeras changes - mostly nerfs Nomi Work Orders can now yield Broken Islands Recipe Scrap (drop rate lower than Nomi Snacks). 10 scraps = one undiscovered recipe Fishing Round the Isles achievement now requires 20 world fishing quests, not all of them Levitating players can now jump Lightning Bolt and Chain Lightning updated animations were not implemented. Apparently they got bad reviews on the PTR. Two new class hall follower catch-up items added to Warmage Kathleen at Deliverance Point: Grimoire of Lost Knowledge (adds 6000 XP to follower for 2500 nethershards) and Relinquished Armor Set (sets champion iLevel to 880 for 400 nethershards) New missions for followers may be related to a new side quest, available to players after completing the An Offering of Light main quest series. These side quests unlock a new type of troop or missions that offer new follower equipment Helpful toy: Sightless Eye (not to be confused with the Sightless Eye currency) - makes you much less detectable to mobs on Argus or Broken Shore for 10 minutes, with a 5 minute cooldown. Any damage, including falling damage, breaks this. (Or just make a rogue) Diablification #1: Antaen Light-Bringer in the first part of Argus -- after the first few quests, you join Kil’jaeden and Prophet Velen to destroy a siege weapon that looks like a large green portal of some type Spoiler: it pops up and it’s a big mob Ren: Recognized this IMMEDIATELY because it looks almost exactly like a mob called the Realmwalker in the Battlefields of Eternity level in Act IV of D3, who is a giant mob who hides in the ground with a big portal eye on his head. Knew what was going to happen

On this episode of The AIE Podcast... Tetsemi: As the Summer of love wraps up Mewkow: We have lots of video evidence Mkallah: so .. much… wow.. News Tetsemi: Fly me to the moon… fire Mewkow: and we have Captain Cybyl's STO update! All that and more coming up right now... Podcast Audio Raw Video http://youtu.be/KrYxycDk_QI Open Welcome to episode #281 of the the podcast celebrating the Alea Iacta Est gaming community, the die has been podcast. This is Mkallah: To my left is Tetsemi: - (catch phrase here). And to my right is Mewkow: (Greetings, Gamers!). This week we have our Summer of Love wrap up! Welcome! Ok, we'll be digging into What we have been up to shortly, but first, let's cover this week's news... AIE News Community For anyone that missed the Summer of Love activities and wants to see what ocurred, please check out the forum post that the wonderful Syreyne has been keeping up to date. http://forum.myextralife.com/topic/57442-community-summer-of-love-2017-july-31st-to-august-6th/ There were a lot of activities across all the games AIE is in, with the last event running earlier today in WoW with the Transmog Gear and pet Swap meet! Thank you to everyone that participated and made the Summer of Love a wonderful AIE event. If you missed some of the events, here are a few videos we found taken by our wonderful guildies. FFXIV - By Ryooshi - https://youtu.be/RiqEmSWGM5Q (Rememberance Day) WoW - By Joey Image - https://www.twitch.tv/videos/164656428 (Running of the Beef) Also for a ton of screenshots, check out the #AIEGuild hashtag on Twitter https://twitter.com/hashtag/AIEGuild WoW There was a live Q&A with Ion Hazzikostas (no spoilers) over general WoW topics and some 7.3 specific information. It looks like Legion is becoming more alt friendly and some catch up mechanisms are in place for those just hitting 110. The time gate for the 3rd relic slot will automatically be removed in 7.3. In addition, players will not have to do the Broken Shore questline to unlock Concordance of the Legionfall and the other new traits. Artifact Knowledge is also getting changes and will be global across all player. The week of the patch, all players will be Artifact Knowledge 41. There are new missions, equipment and chests on Argus that can shoot Champions all the way to item level 900. Reusable Augment Runes coming from Exalted Army of the Light, the Lightforged Augment Rune. http://www.wowhead.com/news=269167/liveblog-of-the-q-a-with-ion-hazzikostas SWTOR SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 205: To Merge Or Not To Merge http://www.newoverlords.com/swtor-escape-pod-cast-205-to-merge-or-not-to-merge/ This week @AIESema, @MaxTheGrey and Astromech EPC-205 talk about the current server merge discussion, pros and cons, ways to merge, alternatives, and our views. Also the Mandatory Fun Night, on Tuesday, will be on the Republic side this week. FFXIV Moonfire Fair event begins this Tuesday! http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/special/2017/Moonfire_Faire/ The quest begins in the Limsa upper decks and you can get a full seasonal outfit and some housing items while the event is live. STO Just a quick update from Grebiss on the forums http://forum.myextralife.com/topic/57452-status-of-the-fleet/ We have completed the required work to allow us to start the Shipyard Tier IV upgrades. This will unlock many more fleet ships for everyone to purchase. And once we complete the shipyards, I believe we will be able to upgrade the starbase to tier IV as well. I may hold on the Starbase tier IV to keep resources flowing into fleet ship consumables, so everyone can buy their desired fleet ships. The Research Lab is also making big progress and one of the two branches is nearing completion as well with the other branch over halfway through tier 3. Captain Cybyl's Star Trek Online News Summary for week ending 8/6/2017: Before today's news: On Remembrance Day, August 2nd, 2017, Captain Cybyl,

Episode 28 - Arena Design Contest   Upcoming WoW PVP Events http://wiki.teamliquid.net/worldofwarcraft/Main_Page Method NA Major - 13-16 Jul Warhorse Guild Qualifiers - 14 Jul EU Cup #5 - 20-24 Jul Copa Closing Pre-Season 17 Aug 17   WOW PVP NEWS The Korean ACAP Regional Qualifiers happened on 4&6 July.  Teams "Hey" and "Ttukbaegi breaker" will be advancing to the APAC Regional Championship. http://www.inven.co.kr/webzine/news/?news=181402&site=wow https://worldofwarcraft.com/ko-kr/news/20899043/2017-wow EU Cup #4 happened - Congrats to Boetar, Swapxy, Fabss, and Blizzo of Method for winning this tournament! http://wiki.teamliquid.net/worldofwarcraft/Arena_Cup/2017/EU/4 More Hotfixes - https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/news/20863656/hotfixes-july-7 Big change for holy priests and ray of hope; and Shaman Earth Shield Totem New Brawl out today; 6v6 - Temple Kotmogu, WSG and Silvershard Mines - https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/news/20564524/jump-into-pvp-brawls-deep-six-july-11-july-18 Mythic PVE Tournament! https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/news/20873067/the-mythic-dungeon-invitational-is-coming   Subject of Analysis Today we will discuss, the Contest submissions! Congratulations to Alisaunder and Suchghost!   Blue Recluse Podcast Molten Core Rehash Bash   Location: Molten Core: Ragnaros Lair Ragnaros pops up from time to time. Fireballs characters if they use stealth. “BY FIRE BE PURGED!” Sulfuron Hammer tossed onto arena field. AOE damage in the location it lands in. The hammer creates line of sight 3 Control points, 1 active at a time that spawn, Hold the point Ragnaros will fight for you if you fill the bar up to 100% for 10 seconds. Instead healing debuff, lava fills the arena slowly over time. Deals damage. Increases over time. Winning Rewards: Coloured reskin of a T1 piece, over 5 NEW colours, never before seen in game.   TankThatReb (Darkmoon Herald Podcast)  Molten floor Lava covers random parts of the floor that ticks for 20% of health Arena has a ramp/bridge that players can get knocked off of   Alisaunder   I agree!  I would like to see more storyline in my PvP options, like the continuation of the arrival at Stormheim, with two gun ships sailing through the clouds with Genn or some other high ranking Alliance and Horde leader giving us a speech while we wait to start and test out the cannons a bit. The clouds part! Grapples get thrown! Cannons roar! People are swinging, grappling or jump packing across to the enemy ships, defending their own ships to a last man standing finish. Or NPC rezzers in the bowels of the ship revive the dead and it's on to kill Genn if you can. Winners (or survivors) can receive a cut scene receiving a medal and some kind of achievement. Maybe an honorary title or some other RP perk like become an honorary member of the Gilnean forces.   Zullell I've got a suggestion for a PVP battleground that would be Legion themed. I don't think Blizz has made enough use of those cool flying Legion disks on the Broken Shore yet. I think it would be really cool to have a sort of "capture the node via flying" sort of battleground. You could have the Sentinax as the main mid point, and maybe two other Legion ships as secondary points kind of like in Eye of the Storm. But in order to get to them, you need the flying disks, and you could gain a special ability and have combat on the disks. Plus, wouldn't it be cool to get an achievement for knocking another playing off said disk :D.  You would also have basic combat and buffs on the "ground" of the island as well, but the main thing would be surviving flying to the ship and successfully capturing it for your side.   "Suchghost / Soniclol"  The idea is there and hopefully from the picture you can see the map layout. Again, the layout is also very simple and not fleshed out at all. Just enough time to make the basic layout at its core. The map itself is 100% fair on either team because it is completely symmetrical.  There is a bottom floor and ramps that leads to an upper floor. Very similar to Blades Edge Arena but less complicated.  Blades edge is a cool map because of the dynamics that are involved with the different floor levels. However that map is kind of complicated in nature as it has 6 ramps leading to the upper level and a bunch of line of site location down below.  My new design render has only 2 ramps up and a couple line of site locations down below. Which would be great in my opinion.  The theme for the map can be literally anything but I think a cool dark rocky texture with bright green lava and fire would fit a demon/legion theme. Call this map "Demon's Stand" or something cheesy like that. Would be located somewhere in the new demon hunter zone.  Can be added to the normal PvP arena queue.     ACELANNA   Arena design: Open concept with areas that have LOS like. Inside the arena there are random pop up boost icons. Red boost will stun you as well and make you immune to damage. This allows the other person to heal and move while possibly gaining an advantage. Yellow boost will slow you down while increasing your damage output. Green boost will increase your speed while increasing the damage you take from other players. You take the negative with the positive or you can maneuver your opponents to gain the boost. Black rook hold, Nagrand, Shadopan arena and the big open desert arena platforms would be good for this boost system.   Gerissar Lore This arena is set in Naga lore.  It is on the shore of zone (to be determined), in old elf ruins.  The top of the walls will be filled with Naga watching their prisoners fight to their deaths, with Lady Vash occasionally watching (she will do taunts like the Ogre King in Nagrand Arena).  The dead are used to feed the Kraken. Topology This arena will be a half circle facing the sea.  Teams start in cells on either side of the arena.  There is a rock outcropping in the sand on one side, and a fallen pillar on the other (gives LOS points).  The arena does extend partially into the sea, but the way is blocked by a giant net.  Players can use the water to avoid AOE ground effects, but the run speed is slowed.  Also, should Blizz enable this, the water splashes will reveal the location of a stealthed/invisible player (not fully, but you can see where their feet are) Extras If players stay after the match ends, Kraken tentacles will pull the bodies of the dead out to sea. Picture   Andallyn My arena is set in Suramar City. Both teams have a long bridge they will be battling on amidst a legion assault on the city. The bridge is placed at height, adorned with ancient mana and mystical foliage, and is the access point to the inner sanctum of Suramar City a crucial edge for the legion and in that same vein an almost fatal blow to Suramar. A unique tactic will be available to the contestants consisting of tightly packed groups or “surimarian” forces and legion forces that will move. Essentially these function as moving pillars for LoS which requires more than a rinse and repeat tactic and mixes a little strategy and RNG into the mix. Additionally it should give the feel that you are not the only ones doing battle and that you really are fighting alongside the armies as legion forces will take out the forces of suramar and vice-versa as time goes on. Windstead My first arena is totally a troll with the long hallway and portals on each side so that as a frost mage i can kite you forever but that is not a very fair arena for a lot of reason so my realistic arena would be based in the great dark beyond think star auger fight in night hold the first stage outer space the map will last five mins and have a ton of line of sight and places to hide from your opponents after that there will be an announcement and the zone will planer shift meteors will smash the outer edge of the platform which you can fall off of to your death now you will be in a fel style zone there will be far less places to hide but still some that can be used if the match last 10 min then once again an announcement will be made and a giant demon will smash his fist into the center of the arena there is now no longer any place to hide it is a open area no pillars no los and the arena in the twisting nether think eye of the storm style now has walls there is no escape and the match should finish quickly but if the match continues to the 15 min mark an old god will appear and kill everyone and it's a draw. Warcraft PVP Scene NA Bracket http://us.battle.net/wow/en/pvp/leaderboards/2v2 EU PVP Brackets: https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-gb/game/pvp/leaderboards/2v2   Trivia question Congratulations to Alisaunder, who answered: Azeroth has two moons and an Argus; Which is still less than Jupiter has.   Finding Us Technically - https://www.twitch.tv/technically_pvp https://twitter.com/Techically_PvP Technicallypvp@gmail.com https://technicallypvp.wordpress.com/ Andallyn - https://twitter.com/Andallyn1244 Windstead - https://twitter.com/windstead84

On this episode of The AIE Podcast... Mew: We are talking to ourselves Mkallah: There are Rusty Ashes of Creation? Tetsemi:: Keeping up with Broken Shore Mew: Are you ready for Stormblood? Mkallah: We have Captain Cybyl's STO update All that and more coming up right now... Podcast Audio Raw Video http://youtu.be/gVRCyAGntoQ Open Welcome to episode #276 of the the podcast celebrating the Alea Iacta Est gaming community, the die has been podcast. This is Tetsemi. To my left is Mewkow (Greetings, Gamers). And, to my right is Mkallah (Hey, guys, there are dark chocolate fig cakes in the guild kitchen). We are our own guests again! Ok, we'll be digging into News shortly, but first, let's talk about what we have been up to. Tetsemi Got through the Druid Class Order Hall and Artifact Quest line (Tank/Melee DPS) and just getting caught up on the Broken Shore quest line (stuck on the 12 wq's). Once I get caught up, I'll start on my Rogue. Also have been working on my crafting a bit, it's very much a slog on alts, compared to previous expansions, so not focusing too much on it. Dabbling in SWTOR a bit, checking out Iokath and it's dailies. Trying to find time to get into either MFN or an operation, but days have been very busy. Mewkow - In FF14, finally got my Bard to ilevel 230, so I'll be running the final dungeons for Heavensward and will be ready for the expansion. Once that is done, I'll try to grind a bit of Gil, and level gathering and crafting classes to try and have those ready for Stormblood. FC has been quite active lately, likely due to expansion hype. Sadly, new players can't join us on Gilgamesh, but lots of returning players are appearing. I will be joining in the Early Access play on the 16th, which should give me plenty of time to get pretty far in before WoW drops the Tomb in everyone's laps. Not very subtle of them to have it come out on the same day as Stormblood, which has been a known date for quite a while. Thoughts? And speaking of WoW, paladin is 110 now and with the partial catch-up of artifact knowledge, and some AP grinding, is closely catching up to my warrior so I can have the two tank types ready for Tomb. Both my FERT druid and worgen warrior are nearly at knowledge level 40 and a couple traits away from concordance. Once I get them to 40, I'll be sharing the knowledge love around to my many alts. My belf rogue is waiting for the knowledge boost before going too much deeper in that story. In SWTOR, I have been moving forward in the Fallen Empire storyline with my Bounty Hunter. In non MMO gaming, I am currently exploring the many mods that are being made for Fallout 4, now that the game is in a more final state as far as DLC goes. There are some impressive DLC like mods out there, adding tons of story and lore to the game. Some even feature voice acting, and add new factions to the game, like the Enclave from Fallout 3, and even NCR armor and power armors from other groups. A while back, I managed to get my hands on an Oculus, and I'm seeing the promise coming there. I saw a new controller being kickstarted that will bring ‘touch' to VR by having haptic feedback in a glove. The fact that it is aiming to be compatible with all the existing VR headsets is promising because the more VR becomes interchangeable in tech, the strong it becomes as a whole. For a recent real life leveling event, I got a nintendo switch. It came with the new Mario Kart, which will allow me to participate in some of the workplace gaming that's been going on lately amongst the switch owners. It's a smooth experience on the built in screen, handles nicely. I'll be trying the new Zelda game next which I hear is rather good. The only sore spot I've seen with it is inventory management and equipment breakage. Oh, and suddenly losing all sense of time while playing it. Mkallah- Phoenix Comicon- our time and misadventures. (some guildies were nice enough to come by and say Hi!

Medros, Phandeth and Toasty are back to discuss this month in WoW, the recent Dev Q and A, Traveler Pepe, Dog in Dalaran, and more

Medros, Phandeth and Toasty are back to talk about Warglaives transmog, Anduin on the Broken Shore, Heroes mega bundles, and more

On this episode of The AIE Podcast... Mkallah: Find the Path Mewkow: And the Blue Prints Tetsemi: LOTRO turns 10! Mkallah: Step into the Far Edge of Fate Mewkow: And, we have Arv and Apolas here to chat about SWTOR All that and more coming up right now... Podcast Audio Raw Video http://youtu.be/JSonAKjDOZk Open Welcome to episode #274 of the the podcast celebrating the Alea Iacta Est gaming community, the die has been podcast. This is Tetsemi: To my left is Mkallah: - (Hey, guys, there is carrot cake in the guild kitchen). And to my right is Mewkow (Greetings, Gamers) This week we are joined by special guests Arv and Apolas who is here to talk to us about AIE in SWTOR Welcome! Mewkow - Finished Andromeda. Enjoyed the story. Waiting for the DLC. Now diving back into WoW more full time to catch up on 7.2 content. Not too far from getting revered rep for the final piece of pathfinder 2 flying. Will now be able to dig into the new SWTOR content since the wow rep grind is a dailies thing. Tetsemi - FERT Killed Gul'dan on Normal making this the second raid content, this expansion, we've killed before it has been nerfed or the new raid content has launched. Tetsemi has unlocked flying and is halfway to exalted with the Armies of Legionfall. I've completed the Class story line on my Mage and Death Knight as well, and working through the Paladin storyline, which is really good so far, as we've invaded a demon homeworld providing a daring rescue of our forces and inducted the first Night Elf Priest into the Paladinhood. Hopefully Tyrande didn't notice we recruited one of her priests. Got through the initial storyline on Iokath with my Pub Trooper and Imp Sorc, each ultimately deciding to stick with their original faction, although the decision for my Trooper was more difficult than I had thought. When I get to the Bounty Hunter, Smuggler, and Agent it'll be interesting to see which direction I got. I'm planning on having at least one or two characters go cross-faction just to see how it plays out and fits into their storyline. Ok, we'll be digging into the Galaxy far, far away shortly, but first, let's cover this week's news... AIE News Community Don't forget to check the guild calendar out and see what's going on in all the games that AIE is involved in! Want to lead an activity or have an event or raid team that needs to be on the calendar, just drop a note to the officers in #lfo in AIE Discord or e-mail the officers at aie-guild.org and we can make sure your event is added. https://wiki.aie-guild.org/index.php?title=Guild_Calendar Imperium Ludi Galadeon is keeping us up date with the progress on Ashes of Creation. A new video has been published describing the Nodes in more detail and, I quote Galadeon, “The housing stuff planned is insane” http://forum.myextralife.com/topic/57396-ashes-of-creation/#entry955435 WoW Shout out to the guildies for helping Wobbley sort out the last piece of the achievement he needed for the Suramar quest line. Love to see guildies jumping in and helping folks with questions in the forums. http://forum.myextralife.com/topic/57417-perhaps-im-a-bit-lost-but/ How are you finding patch 7.2? Have you gotten PathFinder part 1 & 2 done and taking to the skies? Are you having flashbacks with the treasure goblin to the Isle of Thunder and the chest room? This week, if you grab the quest from your journal or the Archmage Timear in Dalaran you can get 5k order resources for completing 20 WQ's. Between the emissary quests and the Broken Shore dailies it's fairly easy to hit the 20 WQ's in a few hours. Also you get 50% more reputation gain from each WQ, so if you're trying to gain reputation, go grind! EVE Eve Online has a great news writeup about current game information and new things coming down in the future. Looking for new blue prints? Think you're all that and a bag of chips? Well the Blood Raider Shipyards await the brave capsuleer and friends (always bring friend...

We missed out on doing a show last week because of real life getting in the way, so this weeks' show is extra long! We have a lot to cover, including 2017 updates to Noblegarden, what the buildings are all for on the Broken Shore, paragon reputations and more! Here are some links we talked about in the show: Con Before The Storm kickstarter is currently up! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/d20crit/con-before-the-storm-2017 WTB Gold guide to getting the Riddler's Mind Worm - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2UzvELi9no Wowhead's guide to Noblegarden - http://www.wowhead.com/noblegarden-2017-guide Wowhead's guide to Buildings on the Broken Shore - http://www.wowhead.com/comprehensive-broken-shore-guide#buildings Listen to episode 60 on Podbean, or download from iTunes or Stitcher. You can watch future episodes live on twitch at twitch.tv/reinsofazeroth or watch this and past episodes on YouTube. Share your mount/toy/achievement collection stories, pics and questions – @reinsofazeroth or reinsofazeroth@gmail.com, or check out our Patreon page. Thank you to Sirius for our wonderful twitch artwork! To see more of Sirius’ art or to commission her, visit her website at https://supersirius.net, or check out our Art page.

On this episode of The AIE Podcast... Tet: There are Two Towers MK: The Faction Battle Reignites Mew: We have Secret… Oh, sorry, that was redacted Tet: We have Captain Cybyl's STO update Mk: And Abovan is here to chat about Final Fantasy All that and more coming up right now... Podcast Audio Raw Video http://youtu.be/lKkjpZZ_NQY Open Welcome to episode #273 of the the podcast celebrating the Alea Iacta Est gaming community, the die has been podcast. Greeting Gamers, this is Mewkow. To my left is Tetsemi: (catch phrase here) and to my right is Mkallah (There are scones, lemon cake, and angel food cake in the guild kitchen). This week we are joined by special guests Abovan who is here to talk to give us an update on AIE in FFXIV. Welcome! Ok, we'll be digging into Final Fantasy XIV shortly, but first, let's cover this week's news... AIE News Community Are you having trouble keeping track of what AIE is doing in all the games we play? Well glance over at the Guild Calendar and take a look at all the activities! https://wiki.aie-guild.org/index.php?title=Guild_Calendar Imperium Ludi Galadeon posted in the forums to let everyone know about a new MMO in development called Ashes of Creation. It's a player driven content MMO with the content unlocked by player activities around hidden nodes in the game. A 6+ minute video of the basic concepts is also in the forum post. Let us know what you think in the forums post below. http://forum.myextralife.com/topic/57396-ashes-of-creation/ WoW Follow up from our last podcast, Noob Raid did invade Trials of Valor raid and were able to knock down the first two bosses in the Trial, way to go raiders! Patch 7.2 has been out for a bit now and players have unlocked two of the three towers and experienced what was offered by each. Most feedback seen, seem to indicate the solo scenario for your class weapons was very difficult and higher level gear is going to be needed for most folks to complete the scenario, also the extra loot chest (the random buff) did provide extra loot but I think folks were looking for a bit more from it. The Nether Disruptor was completed and brought with it a world boss that has a chance to drop loot (I received a ilevel 900 Blood Relic for my tanking weapon) as well as an item that gives you Artifact Power (with level 28 AK it gives 1.2 million AP). You also get the buff that if you spend a bonus roll token and don't get bonus loot, there is a chance the token will be refunded to you. More Unstable Nether Portals are created while this tower is up and there is a chance to get Artifactor Commendations which are used in crafting legendaries by the three armor class professions (Tailoring, Leatherworking, and Blacksmithing). Legion Invasions are also active, but the requirement to complete all four has been removed from Pathfinder Part 2 (to unlock flying in Legion), so the requirements now are just Pathfinder Part 1, Exploring all of Broken Shore, and getting getting to Revered reputation with Armies of Legionfall. Getting reputation with Legionfall is achieved through Work Orders in your class hall, completing the World Quests that are up on the Broken Shore and turning in Building Supplies for Towers. Legion Invasions does not give Legionfall reputation, but they do help with the reputation for the zone they are in. SWTOR http://www.newoverlords.com/swtor-escape-pod-cast-187-uprisings-part-ii/ This week @AIESema, @MaxTheGrey and Astromech EPC-187 talk about the second set of Uprisings that were added to the game in update 5.1. Hats off to @AIESema who was a trooper and did the podcast with a wicked cold. http://www.newoverlords.com/swtor-escape-pod-cast-188-cantina-questions/ This week @AIESema, @MaxTheGrey and Astromech EPC-188 talk about the new Tyth preview videos the community has been able to release and we also brainstorm some questions attendees might be able to ask at the Cantina event in Orlando next week. http://www.swtor.

Medros, Phandeth, and Toasty are back to discuss the Broken Shore advancement, 7.2 content schedule, mob scaling, and more

Are you ready for Patch 7.2? It's one Blizzard's biggest patches in awhile. It' SO BIG we have to cover it over multiple shows! Tonight's episode goes through what everyone seems to be most excited about - flying and class mounts! Here are some links we talked about in the show: Wowhead's coverage of the latest dev Q&A about patch 7.2 - http://www.wowhead.com/news=261289/liveblog-of-the-legion-itemization-q-a-with-matt-goss Wowhead's complete guide to unlocking flying - http://www.wowhead.com/broken-isles-pathfinder-flying-guide Wowhead's Pathfinder tool (see how much you have left to unlock flying!) - http://wowhead.com/flying [SPOILER WARNING] Full list of class mounts and their related quests - http://www.wowhead.com/patch-7-2-class-mounts Wowhead's Armies of Legionfall reputation guide - http://www.wowhead.com/armies-of-legionfall-reputation-guide [SPOILER WARNING] SignsOfKelani's YouTube video about how to farm Nethershards on the Broken Shore - https://youtu.be/SIw6fETj0eo Wowhead's guide to Buildings on the Broken Shore and their perks - http://www.wowhead.com/news=261030/patch-7-2-broken-shore-buildings-overview Download episode 58 from iTunes or Stitcher. You can watch future episodes live on twitch at twitch.tv/reinsofazeroth or watch this and past episodes on YouTube. Share your mount/toy/achievement collection stories, pics and questions – @reinsofazeroth or reinsofazeroth@gmail.com, or check out our Patreon page. Thank you to Sirius for our wonderful twitch artwork! To see more of Sirius’ art or to commission her, visit her website at https://supersirius.net, or check out our Art page.

Toasty and Phandeth are ona beach in Hawaii so Medros is joined by Bim and Emma to talk about the latest from the 7.2 PTR, Lucio in HotS, and more

Broken Shore & Invasions? Yay Blizz! Breaking add-ons? Boo Blizz!

Unshackled Fury presents: Requiem for a King. In the wake of our loss at the Broken Shore, I offer my own memorial service for our great warrior king!

http://d20crit.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/dalacad71.mp3 In this weeks episode, Inquisitor Aura and Serephita come back from hiatus with news from Comicon and Gamescom and talk about Demon Hunters, the Broken Shore and what 7.1 is going to hold for the future of Warcraft.

Phandeth, and Toasty are joined by Rho to talk about the demon invasion, the broken shore scenarios, and more

This week, Eyelazorz! The Legion hype is Real and Vaul and Ari go hands on with the new Demon Hunter class and everyone has been hitting the Broken Shore. Also hands on with the Karazahn Hearthstone expansion Have something to say? Send your emails to noexcusesvtw@gmail.com. Or tune in live at 9:30pm EST Saturday to interact directly with the show via IRC!

The demons are here! And WE are here to help you get all the pets, achievements and transmog from killing them all! Demon invasions, Broken Shore, Dark Whispers and Demon Hunters are all covered in this episode. Don't forget, Episode 30 is NEXT WEEK and it's going to be streamed LIVE on twitch. It’s going to be all about transmogs, so we want to see YOUR favourite transmogs! Follow us on twitch at twitch.tv/reinsofazeroth. Here are some links we found useful:Everything you need for the pre-patch demon invasions and Demon Hunters is on wowhead in their guide at - http://www.wowhead.com/guides/legion/pre-patch-demon-eventListen to episode 29 on Podbean, or download from iTunes or Stitcher. Share your mount/toy/achievement collection stories, pics and questions – @reinsofazeroth or reinsofazeroth@gmail.com.

Legion invasions, Broken Shore reactions, and Demon Hunter sadness on this week’s episode! Our discussion topic: How did you feel when you were approaching 30? Did you feel like you’d accomplished anything by that point? And how can you make friends with people when you really don’t have any? Be a part of the show by sending your Tell Us One Thing questions, feedback, and requests for advice to questions@taurenthinktank.com. Slash Moo, everybody! Website: http://taurenthinktank.com Patreon site: http://patreon.com/taurenthinktank Twitter: @TaurenThinkTank Facebook: http://facebook.com/taurenthinktank Discord server:  http://tinyurl.com/tttchat2

For videos, audios, and all things CtR, join us online at http://converttoraid.com This week, Gizmo (Lords of the Storm podcast) and Sharku join the crew as we talk about Warcraft and other Blizzard games! Intro - Welcome back, Sharku! 11:05 - Demon Hunters/Invasions rock Azeroth! 11:45 - Broken Shore scenario 15:40 - Demon Invasions 17:53 - Demon Hunter starting area overview 18:30 - Naming of a DH 21:10 - More Demon Invasion 25:08 - Dark Whispers event 31:55 - Harbinger Series 34:35 - Diablo Season 7 begins 40:00 - Auriel is LIVE in Heroes of the Storm 42:20 - LucioBall glitch 44:50 - HotS eSports - NA Tournament and more 53:10 - Listener Question 58:00 - Outro Follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/converttoraid or individually: Pat Krane -- http://twitter.com/PatKrane Dairies -- http://twitter.com/BoredMind Gizmo -- http://twitter.com/Gizmozord Sharku -- http://twitter.com/Sharku_CTR  

Get ready for Invasions, the Broken Shore, and Demon Hunters on a new WoW! Talk!

For some readers, the love of mysteries started with Nancy Drew. Here are some suggestions for mystery readers from Nancy Pearl and the folks around the table at the Bryant Corner Cafe. Nancy Pearl says her enjoyment of mysteries is limited by some wince-worthy writing. But she avoids those writers. The books Nancy recommended and some suggestions from the rest of us around the table at The Bryant Corner Café, 32nd and 65th in the Bryant neighborhood in Seattle. We will be there next Tuesday, June 2nd at 3:15. Drop on by. William McIlvanney, The Laidlaw TrilogyMcIlvanney was the founder of what’s now being called Scottish Noir, and inspired writers Denise Mina, Val McDermid, Ian RankinIsraeli novelist Batya Gur and her Michael Ohayon series Tana French, Dublin Murder Squad seriesThe authors of the sub genre, mediaeval mysteries (suggested by Judy)Ellis PetersMargaret FraserC.J. SansomeHenning Mankell, Inspector Wallander series  (suggested by Bill, though sometimes a little to gruesome for Nancy)Sue Grafton, Kinsey Milhone (we are up to X in the alphabet.)Faye Kellerman, (a few books featuring the Orthodox Jewish Rina Lazarus and police detective Peter Decker. These were a favorite of Nancy’s father.)Peter Temple (we can’t leave a mystery discussion without Nancy touting the Australian writer and the book, “The Broken Shore.)H. R. F Keating, Inspector Ghote series. Rose liked S.J. Gazan, The Dinosaur FeatherRobin likes Alexander Mccall Smith, The No 1 Ladies Detective Agency. (Though Nancy finds them less mysteries than character driven stories. She isn’t sure they even belong in the mystery section and are an example of why she chaffs at putting books into different categories. ) Judy calls out Sherlock Holmes for re-reading. Nancy calls for Agatha Christie, even if, as she says, all the characters are just collections of ticks. For good mysteries with Roman themes, Keith enjoys the Flavia Alba mysteries by Lindsey DavisFor good writing and good mysteries with contemporary themes, Nancy recommends Walter Mosley and his Easy Rawlins series.Donna Leon’s Inspector Brunetti series and Andrea Camilleri’s Inspector Montalbano series are Steve’s favorites. Also, he suggests Pierre Magnan, “Death in the Truffle Woods.” Of course that takes us to Martin Walker’s Bruno, Chief of Police novels, also set in France.We mentioned that Soho Press has a Soho Crime imprint of interesting translated foreign mysteries.  Also, here is a page from Dartmouth College that list mysteries from other lands. Other than the U.S. that is.What are your favorite mysteries by non-American writers?  Share some titles with us, so we can read the mysteries folks across the world enjoy. 

As part of the Equity Foundation’s In Conversation series, performers are given the opportunity to attend an intimate question and answer session with leading performers, producers, directors, writers and other members of the industry Mitchell Butel Mitchell is a triple Helpmann Award winning actor and singer. His theatre credits include The Government Inspector, Angels in America, Strange Interlude, Snugglepot and Cuddlepie, The Laramie Project, A View from the Bridge, Dead Heart (Belvoir), Romeo and Juliet, The Grenade, Summer Rain, The Republic of Myopia, Harbour, Tartuffe, Mourning Becomes Electra, The Café Latte Kid, Summer of the Aliens, Six Degrees of Separation (STC), Tomfoolery, Urinetown, Piaf (MTC), Boeing-Boeing (Dainty), Stones in his Pockets, The Venetian Twins (QTC), Emerald City (Griffin), Laugher on the 23rd Floor (Ensemble), Meow Meow’s Little Match Girl, Woyzeck (Malthouse), Othello (Bell) and Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love (STCSA). Music theatre credits include South Pacific, Orpheus in the Underworld, The Mikado (Opera Australia), Assassins (Silo) Avenue Q (AAP), The Producers, Sugar, Little Me, Hair (Production Company), Grease, Little Shop of Horrors (DAE), Man of La Mancha and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (GFO) opposite Geoffrey Rush. Film/TV credits include Holding the Man, Hiding, The Broken Shore, Mr & Mrs Murder, Bordertown, Wildside, Grass Roots, Rake, The Bank, Two Hands, Dark City and AFI-nominated performances in Strange Fits of Passion and Gettin’ Square. Mitchell has appeared in three solo cabaret shows, Excellent Adventure, Now for the Weather and Killing Time (which is available on iTunes and just completed a sellout season at the Hayes Theatre). Mitchell received Helpmann Awards for The Venetian Twins, Avenue Q and The Mikado and Green Room Awards for Piaf and Hair. Proud member of Actors Equity since 1988 and a member of the National Performers Committee since 2007. He is also a Board member of Belvoir St Theatre. Tony Sheldon Tony Sheldon made his Broadway debut starring in PRISCILLA, QUEEN OF THE DESERT at the Palace Theater. He played the role of Bernadette for more than 1750 performances in Australia, New Zealand, London, Toronto and New York, winning the Theatre World Award for Outstanding Broadway Debut as well as nominations for the TONY Award, the Drama Desk Award, the Drama League Award and the Outer Critics Circle Award as Best Actor in a Musical. He was honored with his own caricature at Sardi’s restaurant in Times Square. For his performance in PRISCILLA he won the Toronto Theatre Critics Award and the DORA Award as Best Actor in a Musical in Toronto. In Australia he won the Sydney Critics Award, the Green Room Award, the Glugs Award and the Aussietheatre.com Award for Best Actor in a Musical as well as the MO Award as Musical Theatre Performer of the Year. He was also nominated for the Australian Dance Award and the Helpmann Award. In London he was nominated for the Olivier Award and the What’s On Stage Award for Best Actor in a Musical. Since his arrival in the USA, Tony has appeared as Horace Vandergelder in HELLO, DOLLY! at the historic Goodspeed Opera House, King Pellinore in CAMELOT for Theatre Under The Stars in Houston and in the films CARRY ME HOME with Cuba Gooding, Jr. and BUTTERFLIES OF BILL BAKER with Will Chase. He was featured on the tv series JOAN & MELISSA: JOAN KNOWS BEST and performed on THE VIEW, ROSIE! and THE NBC TODAY SHOW. In Australia, Tony won the 2005 Helpmann Award, the Sydney Critics Award, the Mo Award and the Glugs Award for his performance as Roger de Bris in THE PRODUCERS. He was also nominated for a Helpmann and a Green Room Award for his work in THE WITCHES OF EASTWICK in 2003. Tony played the lead role of Lawrence Jameson in the Australian premiere of DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS, to rave reviews. Media Super is the principal sponsor of the Equity Foundation.

The new year brings back our very first episode. Nancy is off for a few weeks, attending to her own writing. Here is our very first episode, with something added. A word from our sponsor. Sarah Swanson at The Bryant Corner Cafe is the person who has made us a space here at the cafe.  So, we find out a little bit about why that is, and also, we taste their homemade hollandaise sauce Write us at thatstackofbooks@gmail.com. Looking for a book suggestion? Have a thought about a topic we should cover? Give us some feedback to the show. Drop us a line. We love to hear from you.Here are the books we discussed on this episode.That Stack of Books Episode 1 Some of the books, authors and genre’s discussed by Nancy, Steve, Katy and our visitor’s Welcome To Subirdia, John M. MarzluffRichard Norton Smith, On His Own Terms: A Life of Nelson RockefellerGarth Stein, The Sudden LightPeter Temple, Truth, The Broken Shore; The Jack Irish SeriesDonna Leon, Guido Brunetti SeriesAndrea Camilleri, Salvo Montalbano SeriesManuel Vazquez Montalbon, Pepe Carvalho SeriesPatrick Millikin, Phoenix NoirJon Talton, David Mapstone Mysteries SeriesM.M. Kaye, The Sun In Morning, The Far PavilionsAgatha Christie’s booksPaul Scott, The Raj QuartetEmma Straub, The Vacationers.Ian MacEwan, The Children Act, Atonement, Black DogsAdrian Mckinty, The Cold, Cold GroundJohn Boyne, This House Is HauntedLouisa May Alcott, Little Men, The Old Fashioned Girl, Jack And JillNicole Krause, The History of Love Jonathan Safron Foer, Everything Is IlluminatedMarie-Helene Bertino, 2 A.M. at The Cat’s PajamasCheryl Strayed, WildJulia Glass, And The Dark Sacred Night, The Three JunesAnthony Marra, A Constellation of Vital PhenomenaJohn Le Carre, A Most Wanted ManCea Person, North Of NormalKristin Hannah, Fly AwayLeanne Moriarty, Big, Little Lies, The Husband’s SecretElin Hildebrand. Various titles Kathyrn Ma, The Year She Left UsFiona McFarland, The Night GuestDavid Shafer, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot 

Nancy's small stack and a table full of folks with great books to share. Hope you drop by next time. We are at The Bryant Corner Cafe at 65th and 32nd in NE Seattle 10 am on Tuesday. I don't have the whole list yet, but here are a few of the books we discussed today."The Broken Shore," Peter Temple "F: A Novel," Daniel Kehlmann"Aviary Wonders Inc. Spring Catalog and Instruction Manual," Kate Samworth"My Favorite Things," Maira Kalman