FFXIV

[sinnatious]

So!  I started playing FFXIV recently.
Since you know, I make great decisions like deciding to try out MMOs for the first time when I'm unemployed. YEAH, THAT CAN'T POSSIBLY GO WRONG. But I'd been listening to a lot of friends talking about it, and had read a few game dev articles about the relaunch, and that made me curious enough to take the

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Re: YAS, ANOTHER FFXIV PLAYER! :D

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Ha nice! Please tell me you have your own Bannor-themed family FC. :P

I have joined all but three of the guilds at this point (blacksmith, armourer and marauder I have yet to broach). I've got Goldsmith and Miner to 50 and have been slowly working on getting them up to 2-star level. Other notables are my WHM at 46, Botanist at 40, Weaver at 41, Bard at 38! \o/ Been working on ATMA too but taking my time with it because FATE-farming gets boring pretty quickly. Mostly because you're so often level-syncing down to 15 and losing all of your abilities. :(

Ahaha Hunts are crazy. Luckily I usually only hunt at night Australia time, which is early morning in NA and thus server population down quite a bit. There's less concern about hunts doing that disappearing trick because of the number of players so people are less likely to jump the gun on pulling. LOL but you could totally have a drinking game around hunts. A shot when someone pulls early. A sip for every 'inv please'. You would be drunk in no time. XD

Have you done the Moonfire Faire stuff? So fun! Made me want to go to a real festival again. XD

Re: YAS, ANOTHER FFXIV PLAYER! :D

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We're working on making a Bannor-themed family FC. :D
It's a thing - it'll happen... eventually. I definitely play the most out of all of my family and it's a bit of struggle to get the rest of them to play most times. Orz

WHM is the best~ #whmpride
But BLM is equally fun. And they're RIDICULOUSLY OP. Like, they do almost as much damage as the tanks, which is crazy.

I still don't really understand ATMA? I just normally hear people shouting about it, hahaha.

I haven't done much FATE-farming but I rather love FATE-grinding. Coerthas is kinda the coolest thing to ever happen to that game, in my opinion. :D

Ohmigawd, if I did a drinking game, I'd die.
The irony is that you could totally say, "Hunt up," and give boogus coordinates and everyone and their mother would STILL come running all over the place.

I'm working on Moonfire Faire stuff! Only thing is I finally finished the actual main story (whoops, late to THAT party, haha), so I've been running around and collecting the level 50 quests and figuring out which HM dungeons I want to run.
So many choices...

Re: YAS, ANOTHER FFXIV PLAYER! :D

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You'll understand atma after (and if) you do your relic quest. It's basically just a randomised drop from FATEs you need to gather to upgrade your weapon, but the nature of truly random drops is that they're massively unfair, so you have some people doing the quest in no time at all and others who can literally spend weeks without reward. Hopefully Square fixes it somewhat (there is some evidence that they may have tweaked the drop rate to be a little higher but the system is still poorly designed as it currently stands). These days there are much easier methods of getting a high level weapon so a lot of people are shifting to those instead. It's probably the first instance of true, pure painful grind I've encountered in the game yet. It wouldn't so bad if you could level up another class while you weren't doing it... I have eight out of twelve so far, thinking I might only do relic for the one class...

Love Coerthas. Mor Dhona too. All the high level areas are just beautiful and amazing.

Yeah, post-50 there's still so much more to do! The answer is: everything. You have to do everything.

Re: YAS, ANOTHER FFXIV PLAYER! :D

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Whoops - that anon comment you just got was meeeee~
Sorry. XD