Rawr!
Final Fantasy has two events currently happening, and another starting up the DAY these two end.
Currently, until Dec. 31st, there are the events, in game, of The Starlight Celebration and The Maiden's Rhapsody happening for people to enjoy.
The Starlight Celebration is the 'Christmas' themed event, which starts in Limsa Lominsa and sends you on a quest chain for the children of the world to renew an old custom of bell ringing. The reward for this is a set of reindeer antlers, complete with a big red glowing nose, helm, and some hoof gloves and shoes.
The Maiden's Rhapsody is a little more involved, but is basically a tribute to Final Fantasy XI, with music, flashbacks, and even a character from the first online mmorpg from SquareEnix. You will end up helping someone get her memories back by competing with her in FATEs which sport battle music from FFXI and at the end of it all, your reward will be some good fuzzy feelings, nostalgia, and a red Samurai outfit.
The 31st also marks the first day of a new event, Heavensturn, which features the antics of the 'Monkey' and the gods of Eorzea coming to together to decide the theme of the next year. It will last until Jan. 14th.
Of course, Maiden's Rhapsody has been out for a while, and Anima Weapons came out almost at the same time as The Starlight Celebration, so there has been plenty to do, even besides the 3.1 content that just came out in Nov. SquareEnix seems to love dropping the tidbits of content, and I love that they do.
And also of course, the seasonal events, while reoccurring, are different each year, with new rewards and storylines, so don't miss out on them if you can help it! (though, if you do, you can just buy the rewards for a couple dollars in the Mog Station next year. Final Fantasy likes to add content, not take away, and I appreciate this sooooo much. :) )
So get out there and enjoy and remember, the 31st is the magic date to get two events in by, and prepare for the third :)
Rawr!
Tuesday, December 29, 2015
Friday, December 18, 2015
Anima Weapons in Final Fantasy XIV (how to)
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The level 60 relic weapons are out in Final Fantasy XIV, Anima Weapons, and the grind is real :D
So... To start working toward your weapon, you will wanna go to Idyllshire and talk to Rowena, who will be trying to carry on with life without being way-laid by Gerolt (big surprise) complaining to her about not being able to pay her back what he owes (even less surprising) because he drank all his income away (of course). You will also find her being accosted by a young guy with a pigtail complaining that his master had the good sense to give up on Anima, but that he cannot, and wants her help.
Of course, Gerolt will berate the kid, cuss at him a bit, and then mention weapons. Rowena sees a money maker, and thus, you are on your way toward your very own powerful weapon, the lucky Guinea pig for Rowena's newest money scam.
Sooo, then the boy and Gerolt run off to Azys Lla, since the lovely technology there left behind by the Allag is sweet, and yet, not sweet enough, because then, they send you to talk to Rowena again, but this time, her spot in good old Revenant's Toll.
She will send you upstairs to the balcony to talk to some girl in a bonnet about acquiring gems. NOW, if you have your Zeta weapon from maxing out your relic at 50 content, then GRATS.
She will trade you everything to move to the next part on the spot, and you can just buy a Glam version of your Zeta and move forward.
Other people, who didn't max out their lvl 50 relic weapon have to grind, for hours.
Now, what you are grinding are luminous crystals of elements, which drop 'randomly' off of FATEs in each Heavensward zone. You will need 3 of each kind of crystal, which each zone only drops one type. You do NOT have to do this grind on your 60 you are trying to get your weapon for. I lvl'd a lvl 54 alt class up doing this. The crystals for your main will still drop even if you are not on them.
So, using my experience, grinding these FATEs, since I did not have a Zeta to turn in, we will compare two zones: Sea of Clouds and Azys Lla.
In the Sea of Clouds, I got my first Crystal after FATE 3, second after ten more FATEs, and third after about sixteen or seventeen more. All in all, took about an hour and a half.
In Azys Lla, I got my first Crystal after 12 FATEs, second after twenty more and third after forty more. It took over four hours.
Soooo, essentially, with six zones to farm FATEs for, that means at minimum you are looking at 9 to 24ish hours of work to get your quest done.
Now, the next step, doing the 10 dungeons, isn't so bad. Think, about 30 minutes ish to do each one, and that is 5 to 6 hours of effort, or less if faster, to push through. Honestly, that Zeta weapon probably took way more than 24 hours to complete, but, the reward of skipping those hours of grinding seems pretty decent to me. I think that Square actually did a good job here of rewarding the people who already put in effort on their weapon.
Now, the dungeons, I find amusing, because most of them are from lvl 50 content.
So, 4 duties make the required special item which is used in the recipe for your High Quality tokens made by the other 4 duties.
This is gonna cost you a lot, even if you have friends and you gathered the mats yourself.
Now, these are 1 star crafts, so I guess that helps, but you need 4 of each token in HQ to turn in.
So 4 Adamantite Francesca, 4 Titanium Alloy Mirror, 4 Dispelling Arrow, and 4 Kingcake.
You will need 20 of each of your unidentifiable items, which you can honestly get pretty easily in my opinion. You will need:
The level 60 relic weapons are out in Final Fantasy XIV, Anima Weapons, and the grind is real :D
So... To start working toward your weapon, you will wanna go to Idyllshire and talk to Rowena, who will be trying to carry on with life without being way-laid by Gerolt (big surprise) complaining to her about not being able to pay her back what he owes (even less surprising) because he drank all his income away (of course). You will also find her being accosted by a young guy with a pigtail complaining that his master had the good sense to give up on Anima, but that he cannot, and wants her help.
Of course, Gerolt will berate the kid, cuss at him a bit, and then mention weapons. Rowena sees a money maker, and thus, you are on your way toward your very own powerful weapon, the lucky Guinea pig for Rowena's newest money scam.
Sooo, then the boy and Gerolt run off to Azys Lla, since the lovely technology there left behind by the Allag is sweet, and yet, not sweet enough, because then, they send you to talk to Rowena again, but this time, her spot in good old Revenant's Toll.
She will send you upstairs to the balcony to talk to some girl in a bonnet about acquiring gems. NOW, if you have your Zeta weapon from maxing out your relic at 50 content, then GRATS.
She will trade you everything to move to the next part on the spot, and you can just buy a Glam version of your Zeta and move forward.
Other people, who didn't max out their lvl 50 relic weapon have to grind, for hours.
Now, what you are grinding are luminous crystals of elements, which drop 'randomly' off of FATEs in each Heavensward zone. You will need 3 of each kind of crystal, which each zone only drops one type. You do NOT have to do this grind on your 60 you are trying to get your weapon for. I lvl'd a lvl 54 alt class up doing this. The crystals for your main will still drop even if you are not on them.
So, using my experience, grinding these FATEs, since I did not have a Zeta to turn in, we will compare two zones: Sea of Clouds and Azys Lla.
In the Sea of Clouds, I got my first Crystal after FATE 3, second after ten more FATEs, and third after about sixteen or seventeen more. All in all, took about an hour and a half.
In Azys Lla, I got my first Crystal after 12 FATEs, second after twenty more and third after forty more. It took over four hours.
Soooo, essentially, with six zones to farm FATEs for, that means at minimum you are looking at 9 to 24ish hours of work to get your quest done.
Now, the next step, doing the 10 dungeons, isn't so bad. Think, about 30 minutes ish to do each one, and that is 5 to 6 hours of effort, or less if faster, to push through. Honestly, that Zeta weapon probably took way more than 24 hours to complete, but, the reward of skipping those hours of grinding seems pretty decent to me. I think that Square actually did a good job here of rewarding the people who already put in effort on their weapon.
Now, the dungeons, I find amusing, because most of them are from lvl 50 content.
| 1 | Snowcloak |
| 2 | Sastasha (Hard) |
| 3 | The Sunken Temple of Qarn (Hard) |
| 4 | Keeper of the Lake |
| 5 | Wanderer's Palace (Hard) |
| 6 | Amdapor Keep (Hard) |
| 7 | Dusk Vigil |
| 8 | Sohm Al |
| 9 | The Aery |
| 10 | The Vault |
These are all places anyone who is lvl 60 should have already been, and most have very straightforward mechanics, except Keeper of the Lake and the Vault, last bosses, which can be heal intensive depending on your group.
The dungeons to me aren't that big a deal, but after them comes the grind that having a Zeta won't have saved you from. The actual 'hard' part of making your Anima weapon is step 3.
Basically, Gerolt wants 4 items to make your weapon. 4 things doesn't sound so bad, but to make these 4 things, you have to get tons of other things.
So, there are two kinds of tokens required to make the 4 items he wants, the first tokens are unidentifiable stuffs, that you need 20 of each for making 1 of the 4 items he wants.
The second tokens are crafted. You have to have 4 high quality items of each type made by 4 specialties of the Hand, which to make those items, you have to use the other 4 specialties to make a specific item that gives you the ability to craft the high quality items. ALL DUTIES OF THE HAND ARE REQUIRED.
So, either you gotta have friends, be on good terms with your FC, or deal with the price gouging on the Market Board, cuz you can't Specialize in all the duties of the Hand yourself, even if you have maxed out crafters.
Sooo what this all looks like is this:
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You need for Blacksmith to make your token
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You need for Alcemist to make your token
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You need for Carpenter to make your token
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You need for Culinarian to make your token
| Goldsmith |
So, 4 duties make the required special item which is used in the recipe for your High Quality tokens made by the other 4 duties.
This is gonna cost you a lot, even if you have friends and you gathered the mats yourself.
Now, these are 1 star crafts, so I guess that helps, but you need 4 of each token in HQ to turn in.
So 4 Adamantite Francesca, 4 Titanium Alloy Mirror, 4 Dispelling Arrow, and 4 Kingcake.
You will need 20 of each of your unidentifiable items, which you can honestly get pretty easily in my opinion. You will need:
20 Unidentifiable Bone, 20 Unidentifiable Shell, 20 Unidentifiable Ore, and 20 Unidentifiable Seeds.
You can get these with tombstones of law and poetics, 680 each, which are easy peasy to farm and you should have gotten a bunch just from doing your dungeons to get to the items turn in part anyhoo, doing the lvl 50 dungeons, for the poetics, plus you can use beast tribes, Alexander, 1000 allied seals, and Heavensward treasure maps.
Anyhoo, you trade your tokens in to a girl in Revenants Toll, Cristina, and boom, you get your items for Gerolt.
Anyhoo, for the first part of your questing, (FATE grind/Zeta turn in) you get a 170 ilvl weapon, and it might seem like, uh... what? but it upgrades each time you put in more effort, and you do end up with a good weapon, after all is said and done, If you push thru the grind.
So, again, Grats to the people with Zeta weapons who don't have to farm FATEs in each Heavensward zone for hours on end. Enjoy the nostalgic run thru some old dungeons, and then good luck with your items. In the end, I hope you like your weapon enough to do this again for your other 60 alt classes :D
And square does too.
Which, you can be on part 1 on say, your DRK, and be on part 3 on your SMN, for example, and that is ok, btw.
But that's what's up, it takes a while, so don't give up, and Rawr!
All links are from http://ffxiv.consolegameswiki.com/wiki/
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Thursday, December 17, 2015
World of Warcraft Legion is Final Fantasy XIV with another story
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So, firstly, here is the video that I made about how I feel, which I have had uploaded for a while, and don't care if loyal fans of Blizzard don't like it, because honestly, I still feel this way.
So, what my real problem with Legion, what is really making me sad inside, is not that Blizz copied stuff from other games. Honestly, every game does it. Every game compiles a few things they liked from another game and mash them into their own game ideas. All games are just repeats of another in some way or other. That is no surprise. What makes me upset is that EVERY 'new' aspect of Legion is copied. Not a single new mechanic, new class playstyle, new gameplay or even mini games play is unique.
On top of ONLY copying from what has already been done for play, and not being innovative about a single thing for their expansion, Blizz has copied their own content they have already made as well. Literally nothing about Legion is new. Every last part of it has been seen before, but with a reskin.
I used to think of Blizz as innovators, as creative geniuses who made cutting edge gameplay for genres of games. Now, they are lazy, not making a single thing up for themselves, just pushing out anything they can easily do with minimal effort and with the most money getting raked in.
That is what makes me sad inside.
Copy other games some. Return to some of your greatness, but every single aspect? Why even call it an expansion? Why even make it? Nothing is new.
I want to play new content. I want to play a game by someone who likes making up at least a few ideas instead of only taking from other stuff, including their own products from the past. Call me crazy, but this is how I feel.
So, firstly, here is the video that I made about how I feel, which I have had uploaded for a while, and don't care if loyal fans of Blizzard don't like it, because honestly, I still feel this way.
Tuesday, December 15, 2015
Rawr! Anti tune up
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So, this is a little off topic, but not fully. I love my gaming, and thus, I love my computer. I do not want anything to ever happen to it and I try to keep it happy and feeling good.
I actually clear my internet history, cookies, cache, so on. I actually clean my registry every 2 weeks.
I try to keep my files cleaned up, my deletes from cluttering and I only download from trusted stuff I have researched.... Usually.
I had, in the past, used AVG anti virus and been ok with it, so when I saw they had a computer doctor tune up program out, and were doing a free trial thing for the holidays, I shrugged, and downloaded it.
At first, it was ok, it fixed up a bunch of stuff, but at the bottom, it had skipped my drive, so I thought, oh, I must have to manually hit that. HUGE MISTAKE # 2.
My computer restarted and came up black, with a 'scan and repair' on it that locked at 10% and would not do anything. My poor baby (computer) was trapped, for hours. I switched the back, so I could soft turn off my computer, and forcing it off only brought up the 10% again. So I tried again, and it came up totally messed up, saying the computer could not start properly. Freaking, that I might have to deal with the bios now, that somehow this thing had destroyed my baby, I tried one last time.
This time it came up saying that I had a few seconds to hit any key and skip the scan. After a couple minutes of being frozen on second 6, for I had hit about 12 keys and clicked my mouse for good measure, it came up normally, but lagging, as if having a little trouble.
So, I did what I should have done in the first place, my FIRST MISTAKE, I researched, and found nothing but bad reviews from consumers for the tune up.
I promptly uninstalled it and when asked to do a survey, of course warned them that their product had about tried to kill my poor baby. Anyhoo, don't use it, is the point, that and always research, even products from companies that didn't screw you over in the past, cuz they might just have made a bad egg this time.
Of course, some of the negative reviews said that if you didn't buy it after a day, it would undo all the good it had performed in the first place, or uninstalled it. So, after uninstalling, I ran my registry cleaner, and sure enough, all errors were back that the tune up had cleared.
So, for hours, my time was wasted, my fears for the safety of my baby spent, and in the end, I might as well have never downloaded the program, cuz even the orig ok things it did were not there to show for the trouble.
Also, you can't just uninstall it and it be completely gone, make sure you go into your drive, your programsx86 and go under AVG and remove it there after uninstalling from your remove programs/apps (depending on windows version).
Take care of your game systems, your putters, your laptops, your babies, by all means, but don't use the AVG tune up to try to do so, cuz it is not your friend.
Gaming is too important to not have my gaming baby (computer).
Rawr!
So, this is a little off topic, but not fully. I love my gaming, and thus, I love my computer. I do not want anything to ever happen to it and I try to keep it happy and feeling good.
I actually clear my internet history, cookies, cache, so on. I actually clean my registry every 2 weeks.
I try to keep my files cleaned up, my deletes from cluttering and I only download from trusted stuff I have researched.... Usually.
I had, in the past, used AVG anti virus and been ok with it, so when I saw they had a computer doctor tune up program out, and were doing a free trial thing for the holidays, I shrugged, and downloaded it.
At first, it was ok, it fixed up a bunch of stuff, but at the bottom, it had skipped my drive, so I thought, oh, I must have to manually hit that. HUGE MISTAKE # 2.
My computer restarted and came up black, with a 'scan and repair' on it that locked at 10% and would not do anything. My poor baby (computer) was trapped, for hours. I switched the back, so I could soft turn off my computer, and forcing it off only brought up the 10% again. So I tried again, and it came up totally messed up, saying the computer could not start properly. Freaking, that I might have to deal with the bios now, that somehow this thing had destroyed my baby, I tried one last time.
This time it came up saying that I had a few seconds to hit any key and skip the scan. After a couple minutes of being frozen on second 6, for I had hit about 12 keys and clicked my mouse for good measure, it came up normally, but lagging, as if having a little trouble.
So, I did what I should have done in the first place, my FIRST MISTAKE, I researched, and found nothing but bad reviews from consumers for the tune up.
I promptly uninstalled it and when asked to do a survey, of course warned them that their product had about tried to kill my poor baby. Anyhoo, don't use it, is the point, that and always research, even products from companies that didn't screw you over in the past, cuz they might just have made a bad egg this time.
Of course, some of the negative reviews said that if you didn't buy it after a day, it would undo all the good it had performed in the first place, or uninstalled it. So, after uninstalling, I ran my registry cleaner, and sure enough, all errors were back that the tune up had cleared.
So, for hours, my time was wasted, my fears for the safety of my baby spent, and in the end, I might as well have never downloaded the program, cuz even the orig ok things it did were not there to show for the trouble.
Also, you can't just uninstall it and it be completely gone, make sure you go into your drive, your programsx86 and go under AVG and remove it there after uninstalling from your remove programs/apps (depending on windows version).
Take care of your game systems, your putters, your laptops, your babies, by all means, but don't use the AVG tune up to try to do so, cuz it is not your friend.
Gaming is too important to not have my gaming baby (computer).
Rawr!
Thursday, December 10, 2015
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