The Echo Awakens

I was originally waiting to do all these missions with Leenk, but given that it might take a couple of weeks to actually do, I figured it would just be easier to do all the solo-able stuff for the add-on missions and then have Lee catch up later or something. The second mission was incredibly easy... the third looks to be as well... I actually have three small NM goblin fights to go through for it. but anyways... here's Me talking with Young Aldo
Hopefully, I'll be able to make it through all the missions by the end of the week... that's my goal anyways... sad thing is this will be the first expansion/add-on I will have actually completed. lol

tonberry slaughter

Leenk and I went up to the Temple of Ugglapih today to farm some tonberry lanterns... Leenk accidentally forgot to change his sub to /sam and instead went as a slightly gimped /thf (lvl30)... turns out that worked out to our advantage. After killing a few tonberries one dropped a flickering lantern which is used to spawn a NM named Sozu Rogberry. A fairly easy little NM that drops a Thief's Knife.It's really not a big deal, but apparently the knife sells for a decent chunk (70k) so we went ahead and went on to go spawn the NM. On the way there however, we ran into Bonze Marberry A nasty little BLM tonberry that spanked us pretty good at first. I wish I had screencapped it, because the little bastard hit Leenk with "Everybody's Rancor" and took him for 4,000 hp. ugh. Lee went down, but the tonberry only had about a 1/4 of his hp left... so after throwing up invincible and then another set of utsusemi: ni (I went as pld/nin) I was able to finish him off.

In the mean time, I started the first cut scene to the new add on storyline. I wasn't going to originally, but then I saw the Nuevo Coselete... One of the armor exclusives you can get for completing ACP. It's good pretty good stats, plus... two add on augments I can put to it (like enmity +5!! huzzah!) and it looks damn sexy... especially with my pld gear. XD

I mean... seriously... look at that! How cool looking is that?

Paladin +1

Been meaning to upload this. This is the .dat swap I ended up using on my Adaman armor for PLD. (I want to do my own thing for my AF gear... when I'm brave enough to .dat mod instead of just .dat swap)

Got it here (for crediting puproses): http://ffxidats.com/page.php?al=alias3132

Now that I really look at it, it is a bit over the top. lol but still not bad. I think the winged crown is what really does it. *smirk*

April Update

I love this game getting updates, but I hate downloading them. I've got the updates running on both my 360 and on my laptop and they are both about 3 hours each. I'll probably leave the update running on my pc while I go to work this morning... but the xbox I'll probably have to shut up and let it run later. I should have known better than the to think the updates would last less than an hour. lol
There does seem to be a decent amount of good stuff in the update. There are three jobs getting adjustments. Whm, Rdm, and Smn... I play none of the three on a regular enough basis to really care much though.
Among the more interesting things for me is the new story expansion "A Crystalline Prophecy". I won't likely get to that right away, so for now I'm going to leave it be. They have however added more Field Manuals to new areas...which I really like since Ashley (my wife) has started her own account to play as well. So since I'm helping her start this brand new character (a taru named "Emmalicious"), the xp and gil bonuses from the training manuals are great. :)
Anyone who wants more info on all that stuff can go read it here since it would silly for me to write about it at this point. most of it isn't really critical information in my personal game blog anyway.

I actually have a couple of days off to play this weekend. So I think I'm going to be doing that a little. :D Also... have some dat swap pics to post later... after I get brave enough with that, I think I might actually try .dat modding as well.

uhm.... kupo, dood!

I have officially started dabbling in .DAT swapping. XD (a gateway drug to .DAT editing! omg!) As a test to see how it would work, I messed with something that wouldn't stay with my character all the time, but I would clearly be able to see... My Moogle! He's an exploding penguin now. hehe

"How can I help ya, dood?... er... Kupo?"



"I need to get something out of stor...WTF???"

"Uhm... dood?"

Definately more to come later... dood.