Any modern game developer who knows a thing or two about his customers - us, players - is aware that customization of your playable character is one of the cornerstones for the game experience. Even single player titles with pre-defined protagonist learned to do this: ranging from haircut changes to allowing transmog or skins of … Continue reading Character Customization in WoW and FFXIV: Pro and Cons

Another week, another reset, another review of my activities. WoW Most importantly, Sanctum of Domination for plate toons done, and they're benched! This was also the final set to complete: Well, I'm not done with the raid yet, but Sanctum is now definitely not the primary activity. Remnant and Sylvanas are left to get Pins … Continue reading Trivia: WoW Sets Done & FFXIV Heavensward Complete

Let's put it simple: Blizzard absolutely failed at their Special covenant buildings. The complexity and the amount of grind to get covenant armor recolors - the main reason behind the Special "mini-games" - varies drastically from covenant to covenant. The most prominent examples would be Night Fae, which only requires their building at level 5 … Continue reading Covenant Armor Recolors from 9.0: It’s Only Fae

This is reset day in WoW, and in an hour I'm checking gear vault, jumping into another (hopefully reduced) raid runs. As I've written in my previous post, I've finished my raid/renown duties by weekend this time. This left me with playing FFXIV and also made room for the annoying - at this stage of … Continue reading Trivia: WoW Campaign Repetition on Alts and FFXIV Heavensward Main Story Done

My raiding ended on second reset day this week - vault has brought me another couple of wanted things, and it's only been 7 toons cherry picking bosses. Raid itself dropped a couple items more, and this is what is left: So, basically it's first bosses of wing 2 and 3 for my hunters for … Continue reading Trivia: Raid & Other Farm

Final Fantasy XIV perception has not changed with me as I moved to Heavensward expansion content. The game has less of an MMO or even a game vibe, and more of a great anime series adventure. It is not unlike watching One Piece which I'm a fan of: a great world, a focus on adventures … Continue reading FFXIV: Digging Through Heavensward

My August was a bit slacking considering the raid routines and gameplay in general, as 3 weekends in a row I've been out of town to travel to different cities and going to in-city events IRL. And my God, it's been so good to again plunge my teeth deep into the proper grind as this … Continue reading Hell of a Grind!

A streak of minor news considering each and every 9.1.5. feature, as well as announcement of PTR transpired this week throughout news sites. Of course Blizzard gets a shitstorm here too, but for a change, a number of positive reactions as well. The improvement numbers are really great and address so many issues, from new … Continue reading 9.1.5. Quality of Life Improvements: My Thoughts

The final Sanctum of Domination wing went live, and I ran a number of alts through LFR, so I'm ready to share the impressions. First of all, it's heavily loaded with lore action scenes and dialogues. I actually liked a lot what was going on in the encounter itself, the fight is a well executed … Continue reading Sanctum of Domination: A Peep into The Reckoning

Once you see the final raid cinematic on the first night when a raid goes live, the climactic encounter seems so far from LFR perspective. And yet: here we are, tomorrow I'm finally pummeling the big bad's face! As always, the six weeks of the first wings have come and gone in a bliink of … Continue reading Trivia: Sylvanas Incoming