Final Fantasy XI

Midsummer’s Update

by Jukor
Hi everyone! First off, I’ve moved across the US, so I’m now on Pacific Time. I’ve also been relegated to my personal laptop since the end of March because of moving, so I’ve been unable to play games as much as I was able to at the time of my last post. In the time ... Read More

Current Stuffs

by Jukor
As life goes, endings must always arrive. This also holds true for MMORPGs, though how permanent the ending is depends on the player. I’ve personally found FFXIV’s current expansion, Endwalker, to be a bit underwhelming, considering I went into it with every single quest completed. Maybe as someone with more free time than she cares ... Read More

A Sign of Life?

by Jukor
Holy cow, it’s been ages since I wrote anything here. So so sorry! The last post I made was musings on the MMOs I’ve played for the last 20ish years, so let’s make a more modern update on that. First off, some IRL updates. About a year and a half after that post I changed ... Read More

Of Vana’diel, Eorzea, and Azeroth…

by Jukor
I’ve played a lot of MMOs over the years, some noteworthy, others not so much. Focusing on the noteworthy side, I’ve chosen to make the first post in nearly two years about what I consider the most noteworthy MMOs I have played: Final Fantasy XI, Final Fantasy XIV, and World of Warcraft. Why are these ... Read More

Transitioning: Vana’diel to Eorzea and Beyond

by Jukor
Well, it’s been quite a while since I posted here! In the past, oh, 8 months or so since my last post, I played through the FF14 beta phases and did some goofing off in FF11 between them, all leading up to the release of FF14, which I jumped into with both feet. I ended ... Read More

Mathy Mathy Mathy…

by Jukor
Ugh, Excel is both the most awesome program ever and the most dangerous. I took some time this morning to tabulate up how many merit points I need to fully merit my 5 99s and associated categories: 691. Ouch. Guess I got a lot of worm parties or whisker burning to do… On the less ... Read More

Looking Forward…

by Jukor
Thus far the use of Ninja to collect seals and +2 items has gone rather nicely. Wednesday night I killed Pascerpot a few times with a friend’s BLM to get the 8 seals for Iga Kyahan +1, and we killed 3 Bukhises as well, which weren’t nearly as smooth, even with another NIN to help, ... Read More

A Heart Beneath a Blade, Clothed in the Light of Dawn

by Jukor
It’s been a couple of weeks since I wrote anything over here, so it’s time for some recap action! I’d started work on finally finishing the Lu Shang’s Fishing Rod quest, even going so far as to compile a spreadsheet to track remaining fish, stacks of fish, and full 200-catch fishing days, but some reading ... Read More

Another New Month…

by Jukor
I’m back in Vana’diel for the Nth time. An old friend of mine, the original owner of my second account in fact, started playing it again and posted on Facebook that he needed an Earth Staff. So happens I had one on a mule signed by someone who was in our old HNMLS on Ragnarok ... Read More

New Year, New Goals, and a Beta?

by Jukor
It’s been a while since I blogged here, hasn’t it? Since last July, I’ve waffled between FFXI, FFXIV, and Guild Wars 2, which I picked up on release date. GW2 was fun at the start and I actually enjoyed doing some PvP as a Guardian. I quickly got a little tired of it, however, once ... Read More