Katella’s Corner

Few weeks ago Google had done their name in Barcode. They had a link that led you to a site that allowed you to do the same thing.  Meant to post this and the site but got busy, and misplaced it..

Broke down and bought a few diamonds on their 30% off weekend, and Blindrage and I bought a mount each. It was a hard decision weither to buy a couple cheap mounts for a couple characters, or to buy one really cool one. In the end, decided if it actually cost, its better to get something we really liked as opposed to something we didn’t really care for.

For the longest time, I had had my heart set on buying a chocobo… err.. I mean Ostrich.. But at the last second, I saw this purple snow beast, and changed my mind.

Blindrage bought a green dragonfang (something) and then (accidentally) used his remaining diamonds to re-color it.

I used what diamonds I had left to buy a couple clothes racks for my house.  They are basically manniquins that show the armor you put on them.  Freed up some storage for me, and let me keep a couple sets that I really liked as sort of decoration for my house.. I was pleased.. plus now it looks like people are there to greet me when I get home.. lol!

Blindrage is now a level 33 Knight/Priest,  and Katella is a level 32 Priest / 30 Knight.

No rest for the weary… lol

~ FFXIV  news ~

Spent some time yesterday also looking up information on FFXIV.  I’m really excited and really impatient for next year’s release of FFXIV. I’m hoping that SE has made some improvements, so that casual gamers can be a little more successful in its next installations of their franchise.

I’m very interested in the Armory System, sounds very cool to be able to change your “job” on the fly by merely changing your weapon, making your hard learned skills available whenever needed, rather than only when you had a job set as your main skill. I had always thought that some kind of option should have been available, especially when it came to party wipes that occur so far from a mog house or a nomad moogle.

Also interesting to me is the seemingly integrated nature of the crafting system. Only time will tell.

Here are a few links if you are interested in looking it up.

http://www.ffxivblog.com/

http://www.neobahumut.com/boards/index.php?topic=1128.0

http://ffxiv.zam.com/story.html?story=19138

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/more-detail-on-jobs-questing-in-ffxiv

http://www.ffxivcore.com/topic/92-ffxiv-classes-jobs-and-information-revealed-updated/

As I mentioned in my last post,  Our Guild “Envy” had been able to make a castle just the other day. I was in Dragonfang when the announcement came up, so I took a screenshot.

This guild is super nice! People quite friendly and helpful when they can. Very reminiscent of  a couple of Linkshells I had the pleasure to be a part of in FFXI.

Here is a couple group shots we took at the castle…

Here is a view of the castle itself

I bought an Elven Screen and donated it to furnish the castle, since I have one in my house.

Here is a picture not at all related to the post, but I want to share it, just because its cute.. hehe

And here is the newest Knight Pic at level 28

Not newest, but here is one of the most recent pics I got of Katella, I will get an updated one soon.

Through the weekend, I was able to get Katella up to 28 on both Priest and Knight.  I really like the combo, but I’m not so sure of my skills, I still feel really slow when it comes to effectively targeting. I remember it made such a difference when I figured out the targeting macros in FFXI.  Targeting options in RoM at a glance seem kind of limited.  The few useful macro’s I’ve found seem to be more scripting instead of commands.   I miss the commands.. lol!  Wish I had a solid place to look up stuff, although I suppose thats the difference in playing a newer game vs. an established one like FFXI. I hate scouring forums looking for macros, tips, and explanations..  so frustrating.  I’ve been spoiled for life I think by having the FFXIclopedia wiki.. lol.

In RoM, I still haven’t even figured out how to do the runes and tier stuff. The places I’ve found small bits of information, its unfortunately still seems greek to me.

I tagged along to provide extra heals as my priest for  a Necropolis of Mirrors Run last night.  It was fun although it was very laggy, and I sometimes had a hard time keeping up with the group. My computer is getting too old I think..  I did die twice. The first time was because someone inadvertently pulled the entire room and the boss mob. Luckily, I had soul bound (re-raise) on at that point,  but the second time I didn’t..  actually the second time I died, no one could figure out what I died from.. I actually had raised a couple people and there were no mobs, nothing attacking, hit points went from full to nothing, and I just fell over. Was very odd. Luckily didn’t get any debt from it.  Very annoying, but Soul Bond has a half an hour timer on it. Twice now I’ve been in parties where we’ve wiped, and raised myself, then group members, and then didn’t have the option to put it back on.  I miss FFXI reraise.. I’m sure RoM is trying to make it a little difficult still by having that timer, but honestly, even when you could reapply reraise in FFXI pretty quickly, didn’t mean you’d have the mana, or even  get the chance to..  so it works  out. I think they should change it.. lol!  All the regular mobs were 35-39 in Necropolis of Mirrors, so they were all red to me. I was probably still too low really to be in there.

On my knight, I broke down and bought 11 Life Crystals so that I’d have enough to get the level 25 elite skill.  I had been trying to farm them in Forsaken Abbey, and dispite spending a couple hours a night for 2 and a half weeks, I had only gotten 4.

Now I need 15 more Life crystals for the other elite skill.. ><   I may have to break down and buy them later..

Our Guild got a castle the other night. We went up and took a look. It was cool. I’ll post pictures of it later.  We took a group picture there and when I was exploring afterward, I actually fell off the the side..  The castle is in the sky.. lol.. it was a long fall.