They’ve released the changes  here  if you want to look them over… get some coffee.. its quite large if you really read it all.

The rest of this post is mostly information for my own behalf, so may be boring.  Just information I want to remember when I have a few minutes to reconfigure my game plan with my character.

Things to remember when figuring out future point allotment:

≪Parameters and Their Effects≫

Strength

• Attack Power
• Damage dealt by puglist, gladiator, marauder, and lancer arms

Vitality

• Damage taken
• Enhancement Magic Potency
• Maximum HP
• Damage dealt by marauder arms

Dexterity

• Accuracy
• Block Rate
• Parry
• Damage dealt by archer arms

Intelligence

• Attack Magic Potency
• Damage dealt by puglist

Mind

• Healing Magic Potency
• Magic Accuracy
• Damage dealt by gladiator, thaumaturge, and conjurer arms

Piety

• Magic Evasion
• Enfeebling Magic Potency
• Maximum MP
• Damage dealt by archer, lancer, thaumaturge, and conjurer arms

≪Auto-attack Damage Bonus≫

* The above damage bonus also applies to “Shot” attacks by archers.

Macros

[dev1249] The /assisttext command has been added. This command allows you to target the target of another character. Characters can be specified using subcommands such as <t> and <st>

Ex.)
/assist <t>
/assist <st>

[dev1254] The /shutdown text command has been added, which allows players to close the game in a single step. Upon selecting Exit Game in the main menu, players can now choose to close the game or return to the character screen.
Camera

[dev1255] Adjustments have been made to preserve camera position during target lock, preventing undesired movement along both axes.

NPC’s who unlock Achievements

Below is a list of achievement NPCs who unlock categories and distribute rewards.

Edit – Apparently this is my 335th post… sheesh..who knew..

My Husband has been struggling with his character for awhile. Not sure why exactly, but his Rogaedyn has been hard to play as of late, and doesn’t update properly. Even though he should have 99 leve quests available, (as he only plays when I drag him over there) for whatever reason it was still only giving him 8. total accrued. The next day, it showed he could get 44, but then later it went back to saying he only had 8 accrued, and he most certainly did not do any levequests in between.  I had thought maybe he was looking at something wrong, but then I checked it out. Something is definitely wrong with the character.

Because of this and the persisting camera issue, he just isn’t enjoying playing that character anymore.  I don’t know if its part of being a Rogaedyn, but the character is very slow to respond and misses quite frequently no matter what stats and equipment he has on. So he made the decision to retire Blindrage for a bit. He’s not going to get rid of him, but he was thinking that he might wait to put anymore effort into him until 2.0 comes, and then maybe in the port over to the new systems, whatever glitch will clear up and maybe things will be better.. We’ll see how it goes.

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So in the meantime, He recreated his original character from FFXI, so I created another character in order to play with her.

We had fun playing, and even was able to enjoy some time with an old friend Kundala aka Kun Dala

Saturday we were going to see about getting a group together to do TotoRak Dungeon for the “Imperial Devices” quest for people in our LS. I couldn’t do it because I had forgotten my son had been promised something and I needed to take care of that. Others were trying to finish up some things, so I suggested we wait and do it Sunday.

Was all excited to go with the LS on Sunday, but then had Family end up dropping by unannounced and then staying for awhile longer than they initially had thought they would, so I didn’t get to do it with the LS.

When I knew I was at the very least going to be later than anticipated, I logged on and told them that we had family over, and it would be at the very least an hour, and that they could go ahead and run it without me.. but I don’t think they did, so I kinda feel bad.   It ended up being quite a bit longer. By time I was able to login, none of them were on.

I always feel bad when things come up and I can’t end up being there for something I suggested in the first place, or to help people get through a quest or something. Life has a way lately of not letting me follow-through sometimes, and I hate that feeling. I don’t want to be thought of as “That” girl.. the one that offers, but then doesn’t help, because I’m really not that way, but things just seem to happen lately. ><

All that said, the visit had been important. Those family members had surprised us with a visit, and  are going to be leaving on an extended trip. We won’t likely see them for a few years or more, so it was a case of real life > game, which is my mindset.  I needed to be with them, just wish I had known before hand so that I wouldn’t have suggested something I couldn’t follow through with.

Anyways..

I did end up getting a quick run through Toto-Rak to see what it was like. A new friend of mine was kind of bored doing leves and offered to run me through there so I could see kinda what it was all about. Its a good, because then hopefully when I do end up going with the LS, I will kinda know the basic idea.  From what he told me, its kind of a puzzle. You walk around and collect these yellow glowing photo-cells. There are only 16 of them in the whole place, and there are 4 different gates.  You need 4 of the photo-cells to open each of the gates.

From what I understand, one gate opens an area to where you do your initial quest where you talk to the seedseer and some moogles that had been trapped in the maw.

You talk to them, and then you can leave and finish the quest. However my friend did end up taking me to fight one of the Bosses in there. A Spider-like Miteling.  (I should have taken a picture).

He killed it, and some chests appeared and he opened them.  I felt bad later, because I don’t know what all we got, but I think I might have ended up with most of the things.  I realized the next time I logged in that  I’d received like 4 different items from that excursion. I hope Vyle hadn’t wanted anything that I had gotten. I just never really pay attention to the “loot list”.  I’ll have to ask him later, I was so distracted just looking around and trying to figure out how to get out after we were done, that I didn’t pay attention.

Also this weekend I had been able to reach Archer level 30 though which was convienient as two of the items I had ended up getting had been a Level 30 top (Poacher’s Tunic) and a Level 30 hat (Poacher’s Hat). Robin Hood-esque type pieces, so kinda fit with the Archer thing.

Also, since I now had enough points, I was able to get my chocobo.

I deviated from my FFXI naming convention a bit this time. In FFXI, my chocobo’s name was Capitaine Jack.  Which had been a combination of available names that the game had picked. Since I love Pirates of the Carribean, it was kinda fun. This time however, we could pick our own name, so I actually named my chocobo Phoenix.

Me & Phoenix:

French Interviews:
* http://forum.finalfantasy14.eu/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=1993

- Topics:

• Game Server locations – possible move, but not now
• More flexibility in UI upon 2.0, allowing for some ingame changes to be made instead of having to log out to do them.
• Free Company Crests – will be a compilation of ingame options.
• Samauri’s will be added down the road to use katanas
• Theif possible class that would lead to a Ninja Job that holds two Katanas?
• Need more magic related classes added first.
• Chocobo Raising – colors may be related to status or achievements
• Market Wards Revision – improving search function and possibly adding the ability to see the price the last 20 items went for in order to help people price things.
• In 2.0, keeping the retainer system, but drastically changing how the market district looks. (No more thousands of NPC’s standing around staring at you).
• Careful Implementation of Legendary Weapons
• Each Primal will have a very unique story associated. Evil Moogle too!
• Re balancing of existing classes
• Battle Regimens, Self Combos & Possible Finishing Moves.
• Mount system – possible Magitek Armors?

* http://rainyautumnskies.wordpress.com/2011/10/28/10-27-2011-interview-with-naoki-yoshida/

• Luminous Studio heavily involved, but not exact same engine to be used in 2.0
• Chocobo Fights should be available by 2.0 for sure, but likely not before then.
• Chocobo Breading
• Grand Company content that will earn parts (armor?) for your chocobo
• storyline wise – Ishgard to be involved in the 7th umbral era.
• Access to Ishgard in 2.0
• Only able to summon 1 Primal per world at a time.
• Will be a set of common summons that will be available to use on a regular basis
• Carbuncle confirmed as a common summon for a Summoner Class!
• Was not intending Dragoon to have dragon pet as it will be tricky to balance, however its came up so often that they will start thinking about its feasibility.
• 1.2 will add ability to search for player
• linkshell features will be updated after 1.2
• Weddings in Eorzea is being discussed.
• Will be working on loot function for Primal fights
• Flexibility in server features, ability to move between servers being discusses as to if it should cost or be free at certain times.

Fighting the urge to just try it on my 27 conjurer and AoE them into submission, I decided I really wanted to be able to complete this quest as an archer. The first two times I attempted it, I was at level 21 roughly. I stepped back and leveled a couple times and tried again at 23. It was pretty rewarding this time when I beat them and got the cutscene. Even better when I realized I wasn’t done, and it lead into a whole second part that gave me the option to use the echo. The echo sometimes allows you to go back in time and witness an incident. It actually ended up involving the NPC Kan-E-Senna (basically the leader of Gridania) and what appears to be a younger sister.  I really wish I had known, would have probably had fraps on so I could take pictures during the cut scenes.  I did take a few pictures right before and right after of the NPC Ray-O-Senna.  Beat the quest and was rewarded with story… It was an awesome night!

Last night I spent an hour or so working on my archer and reached level 25.  One more level till I reach my initial goal for Archer which was the Chameleon ability which lets you shed enmity. It has been a goal as the skill can be pulled over to other classes and used for that effect, which would be good when I’m playing with Blindrage, minimizing enmity generated by cures.

Archer has really grown on me, Its never been a class I’ve ever been the least bit interested in, but for some reason I’m really enjoying FFXIV’s rendition of the class.  Mostly I have been just trying things out and doing leves on my own. Archer is my solo class, its the one with no strings attached. Its the one that my husband hasn’t imagined a paring between it and a class he likes, so I don’t have to worry about out-leveling him, since I like to play three times as much as he does.  I can play it all I want, it is my freedom, my own pet project, and I’ve been loving it.

Being new to the idea of archer, I have been reading up on it a little. The first thing I found was that multi-shot is definitely a suggested ability.  Today at lunch, I went home and logged in a few minutes to see how many archer guild marks I had, and I had just enough, so I traveled to the Archer’s Guild in Gridania and bought it from Cassandra for 6000 guildmarks.  So tonight when I get home, or maybe tomorrow early morning before work I’ll test it out.  I’ve been doing alright without it, but we’ll see how much it helps.

NM’s List – http://error13001.co.cc/nms.html

Updated & newer crafting info: http://mooglebox.com

This morning I checked out the following site: http://lodestone.finalfantasyxiv.com/pl/company/twinadder/index.html to find the following:

Minecraft Update:  Have been working on a map for a starting admin town for when the server goes live next. Its been a little more difficult than normal. Not as free as far as design goes, and kinda limited, and definitely a challenge.  Will likely turn out fine, but I am struggling.

I’m hoping, but I’m not convinced that things will pan out the way that its all intended, but if it doesn’t we’ll just go on from there.  Ideas where given, Blind and I spent the good part of a day building out a few things that had been mentioned, and I was actually pretty proud of it. It wasn’t a cut & paste type space and thought that what we had laid out gave character and had personality and room to grow as players built their own builds in the measured out spaces for the market area. However it was then taken down as others decided they didn’t like what we had done, so we removed the builds.  It was kinda frustrating because then someone went in right after us and build an area with very little definition, uneven spacing, and no personality between buildings. They all look the same…  sigh.. whatever though.. its not our server so not our decision.   Sad part is that I had already written out ideas of having quests associated with some of the buildings Blind and I had created, but now I’m told they won’t fit in elsewhere and won’t be included. Thats what I get I suppose. Ah well.. I’ll just build in “our” corner and wait for the judgement to pass there. I kinda can’t wait for this stage to be over. I wish Mojang would hurry and finish the 1.9 so that we can get the server back on its feet and get things going for the players.

Final Fantasy XIV ~

This little jewel of a game however has really started to come into its own and shine for me. I haven’t been able to spend much time on it, but what limited time I did get to play has been incredibly enjoyable. Once chocobo’s were out, I had my goal of gaining a Grand Company personal chocobo.

Man I love the Grand Company storyline so far! I especially love that this game allows players to feel like they can accomplish most storyline things  solo. This is so nice! I often lamented not being able to enjoy first hand the storylines in FFXI, because I came in late to the game at a point where few had any interest in going back and doing older content.

People are whining a bit because they fear the proposed “Dungeon Finder” that will allow players across servers to be able to join up to participate in specific content.  I’m actually totally excited at this prospect.. maybe I’ll really get to participate this time around!

I couldn’t find it really posted clearly anywhere else, so I’m going to make a list of quests that have to be done in order to get your chocobo. I intend on joining Gridania’s Grand Company so I’ll start there.

Grand Company Quest Line list for Chocobo

Grand Company Seals – Twin Adder (Gridania)

• “Breaking the Seals” (Gridania) -note: talk to NPC’s & fight Urianger’s Familiar
• “The Mail Must Get Through” (Gridania) – note: takes you to New Ala Mingo in Ul’dah zone
• Grand Company Seals – Immortal Flames (Ul’dah)
• “Career Opportunities” (Ul’dah) -note: talk to NPC’s & fight Urianger’s Familiar
• “Arms Race” (Ul’dah) -note: meet with merchants in Limsa
• Grand Company Seals – Maelstrom (Limsa)
• “The Price of Integrity” (Limsa) -note: talk to NPC’s & fight Urianger’s Familiar
• “Engineering Victory” (Limsa) -note: fight then takes you to Coerthas Windmill near Camp Glory
• “Their Finest Hour” (Gridania) -note: listen Kan-E-Senna’s speech, then travel & fight Clay Golem
• “Burning Man” (Ul’dah) -note: ends with meeting a notable Ul’dah leader (forgot name though.. sorry)
• “An Officer and a Wise Man” (Limsa) -note: fight & ends with meeting Limsa’s Female Roegadyn Leader and then listening to her speech
• “Appetite for Destruction” (Gridania) (I’m on this one now)
• “Serenity, Purity, Sanctity” (Gridania) – unlocks official enlisting

This morning, I logged in and was surprised with all the Halloween decorations. Who knew that Gridania could be transformed into a place a little more eerie.. lol. Here is  a me with my treat.. an unripened pumpkin head and some decor:

Enjoy!

After a bit of patience, I was finally able to obtain the final swimsuit and unlock my wallpapers. Kinda neat.