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Chocobos should be kept in Poke balls

Jul 27

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Sooooo I’m just getting around to exploring a great deal of the content for Wings of the Goddess (is that sad or what?).  I had previously done the awesomely annoying trek to Sandoria[S], but after my account was rolled back a year due to being hacked, I lost all those many hours figuring out how to get through Jugner and thus I spent this weekend retracing myself back to Sandy. I am once again joining the campaign mission with Sandoria and I’ve started the storyline missions there.

I think my largest qualm about the past is our horrid inability to summon our chocobos. I know, I know it’d make no sense that I could summon RisingSun 15 years into the past, but the way I see it I store my chocobo in my back pocket in a ball Pokemon style so I should have every right to summon my chicken to ride her around in the past.

I got overly excited by finding the Telepoint for Recall-Meriph when I saw the chocobo vendor. I was like, “YES, CHOCOBO! SCORE!” and then I talked to the NPC and realized you need these “allied notes” and /angry emoted her. D:< Ughhh, so I was doomed back to walking. I’m just happy I’m a mage and I can teleport, warp, and recall myself if I get lazy. After looking it up on wiki I’ve come to find these allied notes are the reward of Campaign, so fuxxor, I guess I’ll have to do some of those eventually.

And no, I’m still not seriously playing XI. I really don’t have the time anymore nor the inclination to deal with horrible EXP parties and camping Fafhog for hours, so I’m not seriously contributing anything to my HNM LS. Regardless, running around having Sprites Cure IV me is still sweet and nostalgic, so I continue to log in regardless.

Also, my moogle fails me. My gardening results this month have been buttholes. I Damn you Teddy Rosevelt (the name of my moogle)! WHERE BE MY ORES?!

Time Limit MB

Jul 24

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I met up with Kristine, one of my best buddies from high school, on Weds night. This was the first time I had seen her in four years and she suggested me bringing back Time Limit, a forum that I started when we all were 12 or 13. I’ve closed and reopened this forum probably 4-5 times now over the years, but it’s nostalgic and fun, so I’ve decided to restart it yet again.

http://timelimitmb.com

We usually have quite an eclectic following of members that have been with us over the years. It’s by no means a girl-only, fluffy, rainbows and kisses MB. We’ve had a wide range of people from anime diehards, artsy hipsters, anarchists, and regular ol’ people (by these standards anyway) like me. This is not necessarily a FFXI only forum. As a matter of fact, only a few of us even play XI. I just thought it’d be nice if anyone who visited any of my sites could feel free to join a regular community.

Feel free to join. I just registered the domain this morning so the ISP might not work right just yet. Additionally nothing much is up so don’t be scared away by a blank, default template.

Final Fantasy XIV

Jun 8

Posted by arrode in Crafting, General | 1 Comment

Woo-hoo! Unless you’ve been living under a rock and haven’t heard this year’s E3 news, Final Fantasy XIV: Online is slated for release in 2010 (read: 2011 cause we know Square-Enix never releases anything on schedule).

I can’t help but feel a tad disappointed in the fact that this is basically an upgraded FF11 experience. I also abhor the fact that Square releases its Final Fantasy Online games in numerical sequence with the non-MMO variety. I think they should’ve stuck with the name Rapture or at least given it the name “Final Fantasy: Rapture” or something along those lines, but alas I digress!

I feel a renewed vigor to continue playing the game once the newer version comes out. My only qualm is that sadly I will be a full-time employee in the real world by then so who knows how much free time I’ll have to offer. I remember starting FF11 as a high school student when I was 15. Now, at 22, my free time is a lot less plentiful and the reality of the real world awaits.

Regardless, I hope to see all you guys on FF14 when it does come out. :) *excited*

In-game, I’ve been doing veryyy little. I’ve repurchased a bunch of gear that I’ve been needing in addition to getting around to finally uncursing my Zenith Pumps. I had the Aquarian Aburjuation: Feet for about two years now sitting in my mog, but I didn’t see a point to uncursing them since there are better foot pieces for BLM and RDM. My WHM isn’t high enough level to utilize Zenith Pumps, so honestly it was a waste of 700k. For those who don’t know, I’ve had someone attempt to craft me Zenith pumps twice resulting in {Full Break} BOTH TIMES (curse my luck). This time I went with the safe route and bought them off the AH. At least they look snazzy.

Else I’ve been running around figuring out how to continue soloing BLM. I apparently left my BLM off at LV65, so too high now to level off of Goblin’s Rarab in Bibiki Bay. I decided to forgo the hell-maze that is Movolpolis and move on to the Qiquirns in Adeewa Subteranne (spelling on all these places/mobs is my best guess).  The archers are indeed stupid and suffer horribly from RNG nerf so soloing them isn’t bad, if a little slow since I’m probably a level or two under what I should be. I’m making good use of this year’s Anniversary Ring.

So much has changed

May 27

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Wow, I’ve been out of the loop for so long in regards to FFXI. So much has changed and honestly I think the game has made a turn for the better! :)

I don’t have much time now to explore the game and play around since I’m currently packing to move to Boston for the summer, but hopefully once I’m settled there I’ll have plenty of time to explore all the changes ingame and write some thoughts on ‘em.

All I’ve had time to do thus far was run around and start farming the En-spells II for my RDM. I have only Enwater II so far and I haven’t even had a chance to test it out. :( I need more timeeee.

5 hours 20 minutes of patching

May 21

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I’m currently re-installing FFXI on my brand, spankin’ new laptop. ETA till done-ness is about 5 hours and 20 minutes. I see patching hasn’t improved in my few months AWOL. :)

More updates to follow, more likely than not.

FFXI Plans

Dec 4

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Winter classes are back in swing, so we’ll see how much time I have to devote to FFXI at this point. I have some accomplishments I want to get done relatively soon:

  1. Get DRK back to 37. I lost a lot of levels on it when my character was reset.
  2. Finish Alchemy. I’m sitting at 98.6+2 right now. No reason not to finish this promptly.
  3. Finish making gil so I can repurchase all my gear. I sold off all my gear when I quit.
  4. Finish meriting RDM and BRD. I lost a lot of f’ing merits too. D:<
  5. Finish leveling BLM. Sitting at 65 is fun and all, but 75 would be lovely sooner rather than later.

Optimistic goals seeing as I haven’t even logged in at all this week due to classes. We’ll see how far I get!

.DAT editing

Nov 9

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For those who kept asking about .dat editing and what it is specifically there are a number of sites on the web that cater towards updating data models in the game with fan-made ones. For the most part this is harmless and easy to do. My resources page has a few links to rather good .dat sites.

FFXI Dats and MMO Xoops are two good sites to get dat files from. I’ll warn you the later has a lot of crazy Japanese hentai-esque stuff, so be careful, but the first is in English and has a lot of fun .dat models you can change your characters to.

TECHNICALLY dat editing is illegal according to Square, but I honestly see absolutely no harm in it if you just want to update the aesthetics of your character! Just a forewarning that it is against Square’s TOS, so use it at your own digression.

For those who aren’t sure how to update your dat files. Basically you’ll have to figure out what dat number corresponds to which specific piece of armor you want to update. Like if you wanted to update your character’s hair color you’d have to look for the specific dat that corresponds to your character’s face design. This can be done by finding the number in things like Model Viewer and then replacing the specific .dat with the edited one. Make sure to make a backup of the original and which folder it came from in case the custom dat isn’t what you were expecting. Obviously make sure you rename your edited dat to the same name as the one you want to replace and put it in the right folder.

Not so hard. So enjoy. :3

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Duelist Boots :3

Nov 8

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Finally! Dynamis-Valkrum last night. So I’m officially 2/5 now for RDM after 3+ years. HOW SAD (technically 3/5 since I did get the tabard in Beaucadine last year, but since I was rolled back, I lost the armor)! I also consider this one of the better pieces for RDM/BLM so I’m quite happy to have it. Thank you ED~! :3

Now back to the slave mines to study for finals. >_<;;

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Happy Halloween!

Oct 27

Posted by arrode in Dynamis, General, Rise of Zilart | No Comments

Happy Halloween everyone!

I took a break to do all the seasonal events Square’s released for us including buying the 3 pumpkins I didn’t get last year from each of the nations, finishing off the Trick Staves/Treat Staves, and getting the Eerie Cloak +1. Fighting Pyracmon was a ton of fun, actually! The cloak’s stats are kind of useless, but it was fun getting it. :3

What else have I been up to? Helping my boyfriend Arigh get rank 5. :) I took him through 4-1 yesterday and revisiting all the old areas for magicite was quite fun, actually.

And then of course, the obligatory Dynamis-Sandoria. :) RDM shoes did drop, but my lot was epic fail at 13 or 17 or something along those lines. It seems even after all these years my lots are suck.

Hey look, it’s a galka BLM. LOL :D

And that being said I leveled my WHM for the first time in two years a few days ago. LV62 > 63. Amazing!

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Moved my journal

Oct 14

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I decided that since Arrode.com wasn’t really doing anything that I should move my FFXI journal to it. So here it is. :) I just transferred over the database, but a lot of the subsections haven’t been moved yet. Will be working on this tonight when I get the time.