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On the plus side, there’s only a month until Aion…

Aug 25

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With the constant lure of Final Fantasy XIV weighing so heavily on the horizon my attention has been even moreso flakey than normal.

I levelled Bard up to 66, decided I really couldn’t be bothered putting up with retarded parties, and switched to Beastmaster, currently level 32. Fun times…

Gamescom has come to a close now, and there was actually some reasonable information out of it relating to FFXIV, I was pretty surprised to see a playable version of the game there actually. Overall what we know so far sounds very promising, we just need SE to pull through now.

Blizzcon was also last week – and the WoW Cataclysm stuff that was posted up, frankly, looks fucking terrible. I am pretty disgusted with what they’re doing with the game now, it’s pretty much been dumbed down so much there’s not much of a game left. Being a Blood Elf Warrior would be pretty cool though. Can I be arsed levelling 1-85 though? Very unlikely.

Between now and “2010″ (or whenever we finally get FFXIV) I’ll generally be filling my time with dossing about, and playing Aion when it’s out in a few more weeks.

I would give my first born child to get into Beta for FFXIV, also.

Spook: 1 – Esti & Petale: 0

Jul 8

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San d'Oria

San d'Oria

In our first night of adventuring, we revisited some highly nostalgic areas!

We chose San d’Oria as our starting location, previously we had both played out our time in Bastok mostly, and a little in Windurst. So this was a bit of a change for both of us.

We followed the introductory quests, I was surprised how good they are now! Got handed a nice exp boosting ring, some gil, some exp, given a (very) basic introduction to the game.

After doing our own things for a while we met up and decided to go ahead and do the San d’Orian mission that sends you into King Ranperre’s Tomb. Now, remember that neither of us have played the game in a good few years – I was quite impressed that I managed to remember my way around inside. Having said that it did take us a while to remember where exactly the place was in the world…

Once inside we realised we didn’t really have much of a clue what we were doing. We killed mobs all through the tunnel, eventually finding the tomb we had to click on to trigger the cut scene. We thought that was it, so killed our way back out again… While chatting along the way we decided we must of missed something, so Alex did a bit of digging and we realised we were meant to kill some Ding Bats for a drop as well. These guys apparently only spawned at night, so that’s why we missed it. Fuckers. Who does that?

Trees. Grass. Rabbits, somewhere...

Trees. Grass. Rabbits, somewhere...

So, slightly annoyed, we turned around and went back through the tunnel, again.

We were happily killing Ding Bats and skeletons along the way when we came across the area the Spook spawns, unfortunately he took interest in us before we could run away, our low health made some more skeletons take interest as well.

Splat.

We decided to give up at this point and come back another day.

So that was our first evening back in Vana’diel, we ended up around level 10 which isn’t bad going all things considered. I highly doubt there will be any dunes parties for us… But you never know…

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The return to FFXI

Jul 8

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Esti & Petale

Esti & Petale

Last night saw my return to FFXI. Technically it was a few days ago, but I didn’t do much due to waiting for Alex to get his copy and patch it and such…

It all came about mainly through boredom, and somewhat through a rekindling of Final Fantasy interest due to FFXIV news, or lack thereof.

So after much debate over which jobs we should level, I have decided upon levelling Red Mage, and Alex has gone with Samurai. I’ve always been highly tempted by Ninja though, so there’s definitely potential for flaking there ;) Unfortunately it would be stupidly expensive for a newbie to do. Sigh.

I was pretty impressed by the changes they have made, lower level mobs are giving more experience now, and there are these awesome Training Regimes that give additional experience once per Vana’diel day.

This will certainly make it easier for us, we’re intending to duo (potentially trio) our way to level 75. Obviously we’ll join parties if the invite comes, but for the majority, we will be grinding our way there in much smaller groups.

Gavin has also decided to give it a try, I’m not really holding my breath on how long he will last, WoW took his virginity, FFXI is going to slap on a gimp mask and double penetrate him. I don’t think he really knows what he’s getting himself in for. He died to his first mob because he had no idea he had to equip the weapon in his inventory.

Oh the joys!

On with the adventuring.