goodbye blogspot

moving this blog over to FFXIV loadstone.

If anyone actually reads this, you can come find me here: http://lodestone.finalfantasyxiv.com/rc/diary/top?cicuid=1672630

Open Beta

I really could not wait to get home to try out the FFXIV open beta once I heard about it. And now I'm home and I've tried it. The graphics for this game are absolutely gorgeous. I'm just glad I have a rig that can actually run it. I was a little worried about my computer at first because the specs Square Enix put up for the game are a little crazy... especially for an MMO, but turns out I'm running it just fine. So that's good news for when the official release comes out.

For the Beta, I used my three character slots to put a character in each main city. I have a Miqo'te in Ul'dah, a LalaFell in Limsa, and my main Hyur (Beamer Magnus... of course) in Gridania. Beamer I started as a Gladiator since I figure I'm probably the most familar with that. Elita (the Mithr...er... Miqo'te) is a Conjurer, and Twinkle (the Lalafell) is a Alchemist. I have yet to try any Disciples of the Land jobs. I'm so lost on crafting. I just don't like doing it in any game really. I will probably highly neglect that. I like the way battle works in this game though. It's not as fast as some MMO's, but it's considerably quicker than FFXI which is nice.

I'll update more later, but for now, he's what I've got Beamer looking like:

Final Fantasy XIV

So... I've been done with FFXI for a little while now. Probably since my last post actually. It wasn't that I didn't enjoy the game, I just had too much going on at the time plus... with XIV coming out and all that.

Sooooooo... FFXIV will be released on 30 September on PC and for those who preorder the collectors edition, it will be out on 22 September. I managed to make sure that I get a collectors edition... AND now have a PC powerful enough to play it. lol woot! Knowing that I'm going to be playing the game in a couple of months gets me pretty pumped up about it. It'll fade for a little bit before I actually get the game, but when I have it, it'll all come rushing back.

I'm trying to coordinate with friends from FFXI to all end up on the same server. Plus, figuring out who will be playing what class and all that helps too. Honestly though with as flexible as this new armory system is supposed to be, it really won't matter a whole lot. I do however plan to try and take up my usual role as the tank for whatever group I'm in. I'm sure that will vary from time to time though. I'm not looking forward to having to switch to a mage role within my group.

Anywho... I know I have maybe...2 people ... possibly 3 ... that actually read this blog. Probably not so much anymore... but anyways. Sorry for the lack of posting for awhile now. It'll all be back up and going again soon. :)