Glamour & Other Miscellany in the World of Final Fantasy XIV
As much as I play FFXIV, it might come as a surprise that I don’t actually care much for its core gameplay. I dislike its global cooldown-centered combat system, and I like the now traditional safety dance style of encounter design even less. I’ve always preferred RPGs to action games because of their slower pace, so […]
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We’re getting closer and closer (hopefully) to the release of the first area in the Forbidden Land of Eureka. We know it’s slated for Patch 4.25, and though we don’t have an exact date for that, there’s a lot of precedent for .x5 Patches launching about five weeks after the major Patch itself. Since 4.2 […]
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I’ve been taking Patch 4.1 pretty slowly, in keeping with my trend so far in Stormblood, but I have at least touched on all of the main bits of the Patch that I’m ever likely to. Since I’m still waiting to pick up some new gear to play around with for glamours (I haven’t had any […]
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Several months ago now, in the leadup to the release of Stormblood, I spent several posts talking about Heavensward in retrospective, and in what I think was my most massive one of those posts, I talked about the overall endgame structure in Final Fantasy XIV. You can check out that full post if you’re curious (it’s a long read!), but […]
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It’s been a week since the launch of Stormblood, and following all the thinking I did on Heavensward as FFXIV’s first expansion came to a close, the new one has really given me a lot to think about. I made sure to set aside time for Stormblood so that I could really dive into it in a way that I’ve not […]
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There won’t be a full post today, as it’s the first day of Early Access, and I want to dive into leveling Samurai and all of the new stuff we have to look forward to! I hope everyone had a great pre-patch Maintenance. As you dive in today, remember to take care of yourself! Eat, […]
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As most everyone no doubt knows by now, the North American Data Center for FFXIV is back up and running. It was a long couple of days for many of us, I’m sure, though I have a feeling Alahra spent most of it lounging about: I spent the first day side tracked, mostly (I had […]
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Things are pretty quiet on the glamour front these days. I’ve more or less finished my Heavensward glamours for Ninja, Monk, Bard, Casters, Tanks, Healers, and Gatherers, with only Dragoon and Crafters on the list for something new. I may yet iterate further on my pre-Stormblood Samurai and Red Mage glamours, too, but for the […]
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FFXIV and Amazon are at it again with another promotion. I talked a bit about the last one, which had a really broad batch of items. I got the most mileage out of the mount—I’ve never once used the maid outfit since unlike everyone else on earth, I think it looks terrible on miqo’te, but […]
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I’m a bit late to the party due to having bonus subscription time from adding a PS4 license to my account awhile back (during last summer’s Amazon promotion), but yesterday, I finally hit the last Veteran Reward tier. I’d been sitting on a Time Card to bump my account to the tier for over a month now, chomping […]
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