Final Fantasy

FFXIV daily report Raid: Void Ark (DRG) Leveling: Aurum Vale (AST) Vath rep: Trusted (DRK) I have to admit that I am still processing the events from our story night. It was …. shocking things happened. Afterward, I changed my armor to more honor Ishgard. I will write about THAT, soon… busy tonight, unfortunately. During the 3.2 story quest, I became very aware as to how out of place I looked in the Gambler attire that I’d worked so hard to get. With… what happened… I felt I needed to get more serious about the troubles ahead. ...

Lovely ladies going for a song FFXIV Weekend report: Paladin to gear level 196 Dragoon to gear level 203 Astrologian to gear level 188 Arcanist –> Summoner/Scholar level 31 Picture is of the pop idol group trying to grab their little bit of fame in Ul’dah as part of the “Little Ladies” event. You hand out some flyers and vote for the one you want to be the leader of the group. I voted for Masha, the Mi’qote, as one does. As you do stuff for them, you unlock new outfits and new interview questions. ...

Slime boss! FFXIV Daily Report: Level 60: Neverreap Level 50: Halatali (Hard) Leveling: Thousand Maws (AST) Trial: Typhon & Ultros (AST) Raid: Void Ark (DRG) Mini Cactpot: Big Loser (40K MGP) Dragoon gear level: 190 Stone, Sea, Sky: Failed A1S test The healer I got in Neverreap REALLY HATED the zone. But I kinda like it. The pulls are mostly easy, there’s a lot of time where even as a tank I can drop into DPS stance and do my best. On the other hand, there is no useful loot there for any job, given how easy it is now to get far better gear. The only reason to do this particular dungeon is for tomes. ...

An Evil Plot? FFXIV Daily Report: Level 60: Aetherochemical Research Facility Level 50: Amdapor Keep Leveling: Tam Tara Deepcroft Trial: Ifrit (Hard) (AST) Stone, Sea, Sky: Alexander Gordias (DRG & PLD) PLD gear level: 195 DRG gear level: 188 This was my first night playing post-patch, and there was a lot of stuff to get used to. All the level 60 dungeons which were spread out among two roulettes and didn’t include every dungeon, are combined into one roulette. We rolled up in Aetherochemical, NOT my favorite. Previously there were almost no rewards for doing this dungeon, but now there are esoteric and lore tomes to get. It was a smooth, if lengthy, run. ...

Soooo Eeeeeevil It’s been FOREVER, and I know it! So long that I just remember the highlights of what we did on our last “story night” before we ran out of main story quest and moved into the side stories of the level 60 content. But clearly, I had to mention the Warriors of Darkness. We stumbled across them while following rumors of a well-dressed mysterious stranger who was performing feats of derring-do for the residents of the Dravinian Forelands. The rumors led us instead to a monochromatically coordinated adventuring group making short work of Ravanna. A sudden Echo flashback showed them confronting an Ascian who seemed to be about to deflect their attack with an idea for better work they could be doing. Naturally, we have seen the leader of the Ascians conspiring with creepy-elf Urianger on some means to restore the balance, now that we, the Warriors of Light, have had our connection with Hydaelen restored and her power once again at our command. So clearly they have been turned. ...

Do I have to say by this time that there WILL BE spoilers here, as there are for every post? The guides for this part of the quest were VERY CAREFUL to avoid any specifics about who or what you’d be fighting. When we left off, we were JUST ABOUT to ride on mini-Midgardsormr’s back to “The Flagship”, Azys Lla’s center of power. That power is due to the Warring Triad, which, Google assures me, are three primal Primals that were caught and frozen into stone. We first met the Warring Triad in Final Fantasy VI/III, but this was the first I’d heard of them in Final Fantasy XIV. ...

Let me stamp that for you... Kasul was sooo close to 59, so we spent a little time doing quests and running Fates and those were actually pretty fun. There’s a storyline dealing with fights between good and bad dragons that we took part in. The bad dragon has all sorts of bad dragon friends, but all the good dragon had was us. Well, sometimes a Fate train would come chugging in, complete the Fate, and steam off once more, and that was fun. I even changed to Dragoon for a bit of it, got level 54 out of it and could wear some of the armor I got from quests while leveling up my Paladin job. ...

A sudden, stabbing pain... It was probably the most damning condemnation of religion I’ve ever come to see in a video game. Final Fantasy XIV’s pope-analogue, the Archbishop Thordan VII, acknowledges to his bastard son, Lord Commander Aymeric, that the entire Ishgardian religion is nothing more than a sham. They’ve known all along that all Ishgardians contain the power of the ancient dragons. Religion is just a convenient tool to focus all that inherent power into the body of the Archbishop and his personal guard, the Heaven’s Ward. ...

The General is the Pope's bastard son. Niiiice. When I logged in Monday, Kasul was just finishing up his level 56 in order to start on the new Ishgard plot. The one that will finally explain just what the Ascians and the Holy See were up to. We just know it’s something evil. Turns out Ser Aymeric is the Archbishop’s kid, and everyone thinks dear old dad has been behind his stratospheric rise to the top of the Ishgard defense force. The old guy’s vow of celibacy notwithstanding. That’s really for the little guys. ...

That moment you realize your whole life has been a lie... It was a night of revelations! And dragons! And cutscenes! So, so many cutscenes… We Scions of the Seventh Dawn had long known that primals are actually created by the thoughts and power of those that summon them. King Moogle Mog XIV, we’ve known for a long time, was just a fanciful story Moogles told themselves before he was given form by those stories (and killed repeatedly by me, a fact that hasn’t seemed to harm Nina/Moogle relationships). The entire Summoner job is based around summoning smaller versions of primals under the summoner’s command. ...