Still playing, still having a good time!

I haven't actually posted in a while, but I have indeed been playing.  1.22 has been fun, even if I have probably spent more time doing older content than the new stuff.




Got monk to 50 and got my AF. Thank you Luminaire, you are always all a ton of fun to play with ^^

I make this look good!

Luminaire!

Also, did the 40 Garuda fight, it was over pretty fast and then Cid wanted to have a talk with me

Cid, still lookin fine!

I did some hamlet defense, I really need to do more before I decide what I think...

Hamlet defense complete!

Got a little star for my trouble...

 Probably best of all, old friends returned for the welcome back campaign! 

Almost Heroes!

The Garlean Empire has decided to attack very close to home and adventurers have responded.

The Garlean Empire brings all the boys to the yard

Additionally, I did a ton of runs in AV and CC. Many, many shouts in Ul'dah were answered by me and I ran all over Eorzea helping people which is my favorite thing to do.

I've also been doing weekly SBXIV podcasts you can listen to over at http://zantetsuken.net/.


My legacy member email came so I am locked in at the discounted price for the life of FFXIV!  I certainly hope 2.0 is worth it.  I'm starting to get anxious for some 2.0 info.  We could really use some teasers....

I'm not even here...

Shhh its date night so you don't see me, I was never here...

There is some freaky crap going on with that moon...

When I logout from the bed I crawl up on it and lay down!

1.22 incoming!

Is anyone else totally excited to play 1.22?  I really need to get back to work instead of reading the 13 posts worth of patch notes over and over ><;


We get quests, a new primal battle, hamlet defense, new GC ranks, reduced party size requirements to get into AV and CC, the armoir, ability to set inn as additional return point, battle adjustments, materia adjustments, medicine adjustments, ability to request materia meld, synthesis adjustments, display of weapons dps, sanctions, Mercantile Houses allowing buying and selling cross-city, LS changes, etc.


There are so many awesome changes I cannot possibly go into them all here but I plan on covering my reaction to them in an upcoming post. Perhaps Kariri will be seduced into trying out the new changes and share her thoughts!


I was surprised that the Garuda battles were for level 40 and then the hard one is 45 as the Ifrit one was 25.


I'm a little confused about instanced hamlet defense and the 8 man pt's as I was thinking this would be something in the openworld you would go do when you didn't feel like building a party. However server limitations probably won't allow it to go smoothly and if pick up groups form at the hamlet easily I am all for it.  Now we just need a little dot by our name visually showing that we are seeking ^^

Yelta's exciting podcast news

Those of you who already listened to this week's show already know, for everyone else there is news!


I am no longer a guest host on the SBXIV podcast, I am now a permanent addition! They couldn't get rid of me, like a bad rash I will keep coming back week after week.


Listen to the latest podcast here where my cat makes her second appearance as a background noisemaker ><;

Disturbing...

You look at Khamis Touq and panic!

I don't know what that was all about, but I laughed pretty hard!

Hatching-tide: Scrambled Eggs

Much like last year, we hunt down Spriggans and slaughter them for their fancy eggs and then we are given egg related hats and rings.

The egg warmers intrigue me, there are a few different stages and the eggs inside are wiggling around O.o

I wonder if they are going to hatch into anything interesting?  I wont get my hopes up though, last year we were all ready for something to happen and nothing did.

Durandal here we come!

Apparently Durandal is some type of sword* 

The servers are now down for an 8 hour maintenance. When we next log in we will be on the Durandal server and have our 1.21a patch.  Here is hoping it all goes smoothly and none of us lose any data!

We are very much looking forward to our new, bigger population and hopefully making a lot of new friends to murder pixels with.

*but Yelta wouldn't know since she doesn't play with the  pokey type weapons much.

*Kariri says STABBITY!