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Stressing Over Dancer
Getting started on Dancer was a lot more difficult than I thought. The whole rotation explanation in Gamboling for Gil (the quest where you have to fight Ranaa) was beyond stressful! Trying to figure out what I was doing on top of Gegeruju being all, “Oh, wow. This is so entertaining. Not.” was absolutely harrowing. I didn’t know what my Dancer rotation should’ve looked like, and the quest did nothing to help me figure it out. I got super emotional over the quest, and ended up looking up my single-target and AoE rotations at level 60 just to get through the quest. Once I figured out what they should be, everything…
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Gathering and Audiobooks
Like most folks, I used to watch a lot of streaming television and/or movies while playing games. But I haven’t been into watching anything streaming in over six months at this point, except maybe on a date night with Manthing. But audio books have absolutely become my new jam. I started subscribing to Audible back in January after checking out The Hate U Give from the library on audio book. I’ve always told myself that audio books aren’t my thing… but I really think they are. The Hate U Give blew me away on audio book, and I honestly don’t think it would’ve had as big an impact on me…
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Ding 60!
I finally did it! I hit 60! It’s felt like an absolute slog in some places, but that’s probably because I’ve been doing level 50-52 MSQs and dungeons as as a level 58 WHM. For now, though, it’s time to burn through the last of my rested XP while I work on gathering professions. I also picked up Dancer! Which I’m super excited about! But… I can’t really do anything with it until I get through Heavensward… *sad trombone* This is post 6/31 for Blaugust You can find out more and sign up over at Belghast’s post!
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To the Crystal Tower
Labyrinths of the Ancients I am steadily making my way through the FFXIV MSQ in A Real Reborn, though I’m aggravated finding out that three quests away from Heavensward I have to do all of Crystal Tower. I mean, I’m okay with doing it, because it’s more story, but it was irksome to find out I actually had more quests to do than I thought I did. Labyrinth was my first time doing a raid in FFXIV, and I enjoyed the mechanics! I especially liked that I was able to just queue up and do it. I enjoyed the story through this point, though I still think NOAH is a…
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Corpse Groom
WARNING: Possible spoilers ahead! I don’t have much to say about this quest-line for Tam-Tara (Hard) except that it fucked me up. In a good way, though. It was… intense! I remember seeing Edda and encouraging the group of them to go be adventurers. And then I remember finding out that one of them died. And it was sad, but then completely forgotten in the rush of the never-ending MSQ. But man oh man. Tam-Tara (Hard) with all of the journal entries littered about the dungeon? I felt lucky to go in with a group of fellow first-timers, and we all stopped to read them, and discuss them in chat…
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Currently Nerding, July 2021
Dead by Daylight Right now, Dead by Daylight is just really my go-to game on weekdays. It’s great for end-of-night gaming so I can intersperse chores and content creation tasks in between matches in a variety of ways. I mainly either do a match then walk away to handle a chore, or do things while I’m sitting in queues. It depends on the time of night, and if there are any events going on. Until they implement MMR, anyway. Queues seemed to be fairly quick during the MMR test they did a few months ago. FFXIV I’m really enjoying the story! I’m having fun working my way through all the…
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Vibing in FFXIV
Unlocks Galore Note to self… don’t wait so damn long to unlock stuff now that you understand it! I’ve spent a lot of time so far unlocking classes, logs, mini-games, dungeons… I honestly didn’t realize I had so much sitting there in just base game(ish…) waiting for me to pick it up. I don’t want to run into the same in the expansions, so I’m going to make a concerted effort to unlock things as I go. I’m excited, however, because I’m closing in on level 60 (still in base game) and I’m so close to unlocking almost every job! All I have left are things specifically found in Ishgard:…
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Long Term FFXIV Goals, Redux
Phase One It seems I write a post like this every few years after I dive headlong into FFXIV… again. This time, I’ve changed my main (different server, though my Cactuar character is still alive and well), and she doesn’t have much leveled up. So I figured creating this list to give me a loose plan on what I’d like to do would be helpful. Again. Much like the last time I wrote a post like this, I’m maining White Mage for the instant queues and fast leveling experience so that I can get up to learning Dancer. I’m still thinking I can do quests as a Dancer but dungeon…
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I’m Surprised, but I Missed FFXIV
It Brings Me Joy For a long time no MMO has brought me any degree of happiness, and I’m not sure why. To be fair, I’m sure there are plenty of reasons why, but I don’t really want to dive into figuring them out at the current moment. But I honestly forgot how much I enjoyed MMOs. Just the silly little things that happen around the world thanks to the plethora of other players. For instance, I was standing around in Limsa trying to pick up some gear to raise my item level to get into Castrum Meridianum for the first time, and a Bard was standing around just playing…
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Nerding Goals September 2020
August Recap I pared down my August goals to try and be more focused in tackling them, so let’s see what I accomplished! WHM to 50 (FFXIV) Complete updated base game MSQ (FFXIV) I’m less than 50% away from dinging 50 on WHM, though I haven’t had the time or energy to do a lot of gaming as of late. Some of that is changes at work, and some of that is just trying to work my way through depressive episodes. I just don’t have a lot of desire to game during the work-week due to how my days have been going so far, but I’m going to try to…
