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. :)

/sigh

Time for a break... I've finally caused myself to become very burnt out on this game. It was bound to happen soon. I've actually been playing quite a bit lately, but because when I play (and the usual amount of time) is so off from what the game would normally require, I usually end up doing solo lvl grinding or even crafting (that seems very unproductive). I don't get a lot of the game by doing this. Along with that, Lee managed to get his account hacked and can't play for awhile... So without my usual group to play with (Lee being the "leader" of that group) when I AM on for any sort of extended period of time is a little frustrating.

It's been harder and harder to play ffxi as my kids are getting older too... It's nice to see all the news suggesting that Final Fantasy XIV will appeal to casual players as well since I'm gearing more and more in that direction.

Granted, I still very much like the game and SE and all that. I just need to step away for awhile. School and a deployment coming up, I won't really have a choice anyways.

Hell... maybe I'll even draw something. Haven't done that for months.

finally decided

My next job to 75 will be Warrior. With as much time as I've spent lately on SAM, THF, DRK, and a few other melee/DD's, WAR seemed to be the best choice for now. If anything Dark Knight will be next after that... I think.

Did a Nyzul run the other night with Yancey, Tenzo, Leenk, Cptporkchop, and... uh... some sch that came with us. I can't remember the guy's name. Anyways... I got two drops!!! (and forgot to screencap them.) Managed to get my Askar hands and feet. :3 They're both fairly handy for a PLD and will work well when I get WAR to 75. I'm extremely pleased with obtaining them.

This has little to do with anything, but I found it amusing... I managed to Skillchain on myself as a lvl 30 THF/NIN. lol

Back to the grind... more later when something exciting happens and actually remember to screencap it. >.<

30 SAM

Trying to lvl Melee jobs kinda gets me wanting to level ALL my jobs. Last weekend I ended up doing 2 lvls on DRK, 10 lvls on SAM, 1 lvl on WAR, 5 lvls on DNC, and 1 on MNK. I really need to work on THF as well... but I might be starting to spread myself a little thin. What's good though is that my gear for most of these jobs is pretty much the same since they're all between 37 and 20 basically... save for the weapons and a couple of other job exclusive things. Ultimately my goal is to get all this stuff to at least 37 and then just pick whatever I decide I like best and go from there. I will likely lvl DRK or WAR I think, but I kinda like SAM and DNC is just too good for solo'ing not to play around with it every now and then.

Tried doing a SMN burn pt the other day with Justin (Mehungtoolow) that ended in an epic fail. I'm not sure how. I've always been told these things are amazingly easy and quite awesome for quick xp... somehow, two of the smn's (I went as lvl 12 BLM since... I just want warp and don't care to lvl it) forgot to 2hr and then went when the COR (Justin) was afk. So... after waiting around after the emo fit everyone threw over it, I ended up warping back to my HP and went back to working on SAM again.

Started posting stuff on FFXIAH.com just for the heck of it. People post the strangest comments to artwork. I don't draw my characters in really awesome gear generally... i guess most people post screencaps on there or artwork on there for that purpose... I must have missed the memo. For anyone that's curious, go here: http://www.ffxiah.com/player.php?id=1156263

wow... soooo... my blog is gimp

after looking through a few other blogs (though Cinnabun's links in his blog) I realize that my feable blog looks fairly awful compared to most others. I'll uh... get to work on that once I figure out how these guys get some of the cool looking stat bars and stuff on their pages.