Come for the games, stay for the drama.
The aftermath of the Garuda fight and the emergence of the ancient, god-eating, Ultima weapon left us more than a little discouraged. All this, and the Garlean Empire was just going to cause another Calamity to match the first one, just out of spite. Some problems are just too large to solve, and all you … Read more
I don't have time this morning before to work to write up last night's FFXIV Story Time, so I'll just leave you with this until later 🙂 Kasul and I doing a jig in front of Castrum Meridianum, as we prepare for the penultimate (their words!) encounter in the story of the fight against the … Read more
It's tough to be so close to 50 but not actually BE 50. I figured I'd better work on that. Sunday morning I used a combination of roulettes, hunting logs and fates to bridge that gap. The level 50 quest was suitably wonderful, and goddammit if I didn't feel like a member of the Sultansword … Read more
It took a surprisingly low number of stupid fetch-this quests to get to the point where we could meet our new challenge: defeat Garuda, the primal of the Ixali bird people. Though Garuda herself looks like a bird-moth hybrid, so maybe a bug crystal got mixed in with all the wind crystals used to summon … Read more
I've been wondering lately if we play classes in MMOs that reflect our own personalities, or if our personalities (in game, at least) are shaped by the classes we play. I consider myself pretty much a loner in real life, but I don't enjoy soloing in MMOs; I never have. What I really did like … Read more