Magic Fencer Report – 魔法剣士物語

The Sword Icon or the Hammer Icon?

The level cap’s been raised in the WoW Forever beta, so we’re getting closer to release. Instead of continuing on the Undead Paladin I took to the previous beta cap, I started an Undead Warrior. Why am I torn between these two classes for my “main” after posting about Paladin specifically a couple of times? ... Read More

On Paladin, Part the Second

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To preface this, I’ve been playing the World of Warcraft: Forever beta this weekend, and while the previous post in this “series” had a Final Fantasy-tinged lean, this one will lean into Warcraft exclusively. I play a Paladin in World of Warcraft. Why this particular class? As mentioned in a previous post, Cecil Harvey from ... Read More

On Paladin

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Two days ago was Final Fantasy IV’s 35th anniversary. Incidentally it was also Final Fantasy X’s 25th anniversary. Some 30-ish years ago, I rented Final Fantasy II for the SNES, which I later got my own copy of, and was absolutely enthralled with the game, specifically Cecil Harvey’s path from a Dark Knight to a ... Read More

On This Blog’s Title

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When I started this blog in early 2008, I forget if it had a name other than simply “jukor.net”. At some point, I had some inspiration, so I decided to name this blog “Magic Fencer Report” with a subtitle of 魔法剣士物語 (mahou kenshi monogatari), which doesn’t translate directly, it carries the same idea. Why “Magic ... Read More

The Forthcoming Months…

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So, the North American leg of 2026’s Final Fantasy XIV Fan Festival tour in Anaheim, CA, occurred last weekend with the forthcoming expansion Evercold announced. Plenty of FF14 content creators and gaming news sites have discussed the reveals, so I won’t go too far into detail except saying the “Evolved” combat mode, at least the ... Read More

A Quick Update

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Hi! I’m still here! A friend started playing WoW recently and was asking me a buncha questions, so I thought, why not, let me resub for a month and see if I can help her out. Turns out, I’ll probably stick around for a bit. Another friend’s been playing pretty consistently for a while, so ... Read More

A Bit Listless…

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It’s been a while since I posted here, but that’s because I’ve not been doing anything of import gameswise. In November I decided I needed to quit FFXI for a while. I logged in for a few minutes during the recent free login campaign to check something and haven’t been back since. I logged into ... Read More

Closing a Loop

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I wrote this post 12 years and a few months ago, where I’d basically that Almace was out of my reach. In those days, perhaps I was incorrect as Empyreans were still in demand. They’re still in demand these days, at least some of them, and though crit hit weaponskills like Chant du Cygne have ... Read More

Murgleis Complete and Future Plans

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I finished Murgleis and joined the glowy rapier club a few days ago. Huzzah! It’s my RDM’s permanent mainhand sword lockstyle and will get lots of good use. With that out of the way, it was time to start other things: I upgraded to HQ Turms hands and feet for RUN, and I started working ... Read More

Race Change and Murgleis Update

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The eagle-eyed among you will notice my XI-Prof image in the sidebar says “Hum♀ F1A” yet most people who played FFXI with me from 2004 until today would remember I was in fact a Hume Male. Well, that changed last night: the promised race change feature was finally enabled in FFXI, and as soon as ... Read More