Yes, we know it's not Warcraft related but everyone of us here had their little hearts all a flutter after seeing the official trailer.  This movie single handedly guaranted that at the very least this geek could not resist the path of nerdom.  So please enjoy.

Introduction and explanation of meeting format and rules

State of the guild

How we can improve "public" perception of AIE on Earthen Ring

• How can we make a concerted effort to improve perception?
• How can we get the word out to all AIE members to show respect and set a good example even in the face of insults and ignorance?
• Ahundred positive interactions is ruined by just one bad one.
• How we as a guild react to complaints.

Are there any plans to update the AIE Call to Arms mod?

Gchat

• Standardization of policing
  

• Wintergrasp announcements in Gchat
• Discussion about people generally spamming /g for their meet-ups, events, etc. Stuff that's not official Guild business but arranged by individuals sometimes seems to be taking over /g

A note about Blizzard authenticators

• There has been a lot of misinformation about the Blizzard authentication system so here are the facts.
  

New AIE podcast

Ventrillo ettiquette

• Idle timer in Vent

Could you please elaborate on the use of having other guilds posting their achievements and everything on our forums?

Open questions if time allows

Recording the next show live Saturday March 6th, at 2pm server.

Free TV : Ustream

When: Sunday, March 7th at 12:00 PM server time
In game location: The amphitheater on the High Rise of Thunder Bluff
In Ventrillo: The Grand Hall

We are pleased to announce what we plan to be the first of many town hall style meetings designed to allow the membership to have a more active role in how the guild functions.

We ask members to please submit their questions for discussion either by responding to the forums post or by e-mailing them to officers@aie-guild.org.

DEADLINE for submitting questions or ideas is no later than Saturday, March 6th at 11:59 PM server time.

An agenda will be posted on the guild site.

Please note that we will attempt to keep the meetings as short as possible (30 minutes for regular guild business and 30 minutes for discussion is our target) and we'll be holding the meeting in a channel where everyone is silenced by default. We'll have one officer un-mute members in turn to ask questions.

Further details about the structure of the meeting will be covered by the moderator at the meeting.

Per the EU's Vault of Archavon page it has been announced that the final boss will be none other than Algalon the Observer.

This pretty much guarantees that this boss will not be puggable unless Blizzard decides to hit him with a humongous nerf stick.  This also may answer some of the questions regarding the new mount models that have been data mined

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Celestial Horse mount

StarCraft II Beta - Patch 1 (version 0.3.0.14093)

BALANCE CHANGES

• TERRAN
  • Viking
    • The armor value for this unit in Fighter Mode has decreased from 1 to 0.
    • The damage done by this unit in Fighter Mode has changed from 6 (+8 armored) to 10 (+4 armored).
  • Reaper
    • The damage done from D-8 Charges has decreased from 40 to 30.
    • The delay between attacks for D-8 Charges has decreased from 2.5 to 1.8.
  • Orbital Command
    • The build time for this upgrade has decreased from 50 to 35.
• PROTOSS
  • Observer
    • Gravitic Boosters: The cost of this research has decreased from 150 minerals and 150 vespene gas to 100 minerals and 100 vespene gas.
  • High Templar
    • Phase Shift: This ability has been removed from the game.
    • New ability: Feedback - Drains all energy from the target unit and causes damage equal to the amount of energy drained.
  • Colossus
    • The building pathing radius for this unit has decreased from .75 to .5625.
  • Mothership
    • Vortex: The energy cost of this ability has increased from 75 to 100.
    • Vortex: The target radius of this ability has decreased from 3.0 to 2.5.
    • Temporal Rift: This ability has been removed from the game.
    • Wormhole Transit: This ability has been removed from the game.
    • New ability: Mass Recall - Teleports all of the player's units in the target area to the Mothership.
  • Nexus
    • Chrono Boost can no longer target allies.
  • Gateway
    • The build time of this building has increased from 50 to 65.
• ZERG
  • Infestor
    • Fungal Growth: The damage done by this ability has decreased from 48 to 36.
    • Fungal Growth: This ability now prevents affected units from burrowing.
    • Neural Parasite: Functionality changed - The Infestor now channels this spell, which lasts 10 seconds or until the Infestor is destroyed. You can now target all units with this ability.
    • Terran Infestation: The ability’s energy cost has reduced from 50 to 25 and Infested Terrans now spawn 1 at a time.

BUG FIXES

• Addressed an issue causing people to receive an “Internal Battle.net Error” message with their game client.
• Muting your microphone will no longer cause your microphone to be turned off in the operating system once the program has exited.
  • Please note that the voice chat functionality has only partially been implemented. There are many known issues with voice chat that we expect to address in a future patch.
• The “Medium” graphical settings were reconfigured to work better on appropriate machines. The video settings “auto-detect” functionality has been reset as a result.
• Added a frame rate limiter to the game menus to prevent some graphics cards from running at higher frame rates than necessary.

As reported on http://starcraft.incgamers.com.

IncGamers.com reports StarCraft 2 will be released in the third quarter of 2010 if a Razer brand distributor can be trusted.

Calling in on The Instance podcast, the WoW player "Daerys" from the Ravenholt EU server revealed his company "is the official Razer brand distributor and we've been told that the Razer merchandise StarCraft 2 product will be released to coincide with the game."

Now, the company does not "have the exact date yet, but we are expecting it in the third quarter of 2010."

While this could just be some attention-seeker claiming false information, it doesn't sound very far-fetched. A third quarter release seems very likely considering the beta recently started, and they normally don't last a full year. Besides, the Activision-Blizzard conference call revealed both StarCraft 2 and WoW: Cataclysm are planned for 2010.

Must try and resist the cute!

Ah who am I kidding!  These guys are cute plus you get a bonus in-game pet if you purchase one.

All this for $25 dollars

Oh who's a cute lil wind rider?  You know you are!

Sorry folks but poor old Lanctharus here has been a bit bleary eyed staying up late playing the Starcraft 2 Beta but here is a taste of some of the action that you are likely to see courtesy of Dseph.

And in case you couldn't tell I really like the Zerg.

For the SWARM!