Well, you did not expect me to sit idle and watch a "0" gap in the list of my jobs where Scholar was meant to be, did you? Yesterday I had the idea of leveling arcanist on both of the toons, and split my efforts upon getting a soulstone to Summoner on mi'qote and Scholar … Continue reading FFXIV Summoner: A Pet Class of No-Pet Gameplay

*spoiler alert: I will be talking about MSQ and new raid lore, so approach with care Right, so I've tested the many new things about 6.1. patch, and ready with my impressions post. Mind you, I'm a casual player, so I'm skipping the big ass raiding apart from the basic level, min-maxing, gear and other … Continue reading FFXIV: Patch 6.1. Impressions and Review

I've closed so many, many loose ends in the recent days. Still more to go, but the bulk of tasks before patch is complete. Smileton/Stigma dungeons: done on both toons. Asphodelos: first 4 bosses defeated by my lalafell, mi'qote to go there once.YorHA/Eden/Werlyt raids and questlines: done on both toons (well, apart from weekly gating … Continue reading FFXIV: Ready for the Patch 6.1.!

Exploring new FFXIV jobs/classes is challenging for a beginner. I encountered this problem myself: every next job guide you meet in the web will throw an engineering-value blueprint at you. Dozens of abilities – most of them you don’t even have until final levels. The worst thing about guides is they lack comprehension and aim to maximize … Continue reading FFXIV Red Mage: Basics Guide for Dummies

One week from now, it's 6.1. - the first content patch of Endwalker. Am I ready for it? Well - yes and no. Yes - because after you finish Endwalker's main story, you're already quite geared and met the requirements to take on the next main story quests, and that is done on both toons. … Continue reading FFXIV: New Content Patch Incoming

As FFXIV players perfectly know, the core of alt job leveling - up to 100% experience depending on player style - is group content, presented in a form of duty roulettes. Several types of group content, where you can receive a huge chunk of XP per your first daily run via group finder. I've decided … Continue reading FFXIV: A Test-Drive of Duty Roulette Experience Efficiency

The meme is of my own making, but you're free to repost it :) Alright, I give Blizzard some credit - the issue of Sylvanas was resolved not without an elegance. Of course, execution has no place in game - it's what the bad guys do in media, and it was never truly an option. … Continue reading WoW: Sylvanas Fate

Well, there are little issues actually :) I'm very, very comfortable with FFXIV tanking, and in fact this is one of the most relaxed roles in the triad of tank - healer - dps. I'm at peace with all the three jobs I'm playing, and extremely enjoying all of them. Warrior - nuff said, I'm … Continue reading FFXIV: Tanking Issues

"Didn't know what a stress machine was this morning, and now we have two of them." (c) Maurice Moss, The IT Crowd Well, that was my paladin job yesterday. What do you know, in the morning I did not even know if I would ever play paladin in any visible period, and by evening I'm … Continue reading FFXIV: Re-Evaluation of Alt Jobs

So, as I've parked most DPS jobs at 90, for the whole past week I've been busy with the 50-60 level leg of "unconventional" alt jobs - "unconventional" as in "non-DPS". These are: Astrologian, White Mage (healers) and Warrior (tank). For those of you who are not familiar with FFXIV leveling, up to 90-100% of … Continue reading FFXIV: Re-Evaluation of Tanking and Healing