#and im not talking about the mmo... i dont really play it anymore

[snowdroppy]

is there any ni no kuni discord servers out there i can be insane in or what....i just wanna talk about nnk... can we talk about nnk, please mac? i've been dying to talk about nnk with you all day okay?!!!!

[quintiliusheartripper]

I will say while i am intrigued by the recent expansion and willing to see it through to the end-

(probably because i dont have an attatchment to a commander character. Like me and velak have a commander and characters attatched but im super flexible with it since he doesn’t really play anymore and eod feels like the true end to it all. I use the main story as a like… marker for events in the world since theres a lot of places that one can explore thats more enriching interesting and personal. I can still use the wizard tower as a plot point for some things but im still seeing the commander being an anomaly who wasnt supposed to happen in a living fractal and its why the wizards didnt do anything this whole time untill something was actually directly attacking them. )

-i am disappointed by a lot and part of it is the way they are doing the releases especially when the expansion is full priced and unfinished when released

It really feels like a cop out and a excuse and im more interested in arenanets unannounced project ive been tracking for a while. “A well funded mmo established fantasy rpg with a focus on story” running on a unreal engine and with linux support and also talking about “guild wars 2 and beyond”in their hiring. Im hoping its a guild wars 3 but this expansion DEEPLY feels like how it felt just before EOD during LWS5 where resources were being cut from one place to be placed in another. Like its one fractured expansion per year until…when? The unannounced game that started production 2022/23 is released? I just hope they figure out a way to keep the game running for people if they move on to a gw3 but gw2 is n entirely different beast from gw1.

[blookmallow]

been trying out fallout 76 (with 0 expectations, ive been told its not great) and its been a weird time

so far

- i like that we have a female radio dj but why are we getting the reprise of butcher pete Again. will i never be free from butcher pete

- theres an occasional announcer voice on the other radio channel who is alarmingly nick valentine's voice and its weird every time. i also did not know until very recently that nick's voice actor is also the mr handy voice. this is still fucking me up

- got a "Drink to gain positive effects!" notification and thought i was being encouraged to drink alcohol but then realized i had forgotten i was supposed to be like, drinking water

- found a camp where everyone was dead except for one guy, who acted like nothing was wrong at all. no acknowledgment of an attack or anything in this camp. it was late at night so i went to bed. when i started the game back up all the dead people were regular alive npcs again. what happened. did someone come through and kill everyone and then it reset

- didnt realize i have no ability to pause. got murdered by ghouls while looking at my inventory. i do not usually play mmos

- im constantly bewildered by the existence of other players i knew this was a feature of this game but i dont know what to do with it at all. i never have voice on so if anyones trying to talk to me im not hearing it. im playing my character as a weird confused hermit and i have no desire to actually engage with anyone else really

- wandered into some guy's camp (another player not an npc) and was messing with his collection of arcade games only to realize the guy was there walking around in his underwear like 2 feet away. i just kinda quietly walked away

- i have no clue what the social etiquette here is at all. every player ive walked by so far has kinda just continued doing their own thing and ignored me. ive been looking at other peoples houses but not taking anything/attempting to unlock anything. i dont know if im trespassing or what. i saw someone fighting a bunch of protectrons and helped but then i just immediately disappeared back into the woods, lacking any means of communication as i refuse to have a microphone on

- love the mothman cult. excellent

- i dont know what to do with myself without the ability to collect things and make little decorative shelves. everything becomes a stealable paper bag if dropped and i get why but i dont care for it. very confused at the ability to search every corpse in the vicinity through one corpse inventory though it is helpful. i dont know why clothes are never part of corpse inventories anymore but i really want better clothes. i have a consistent problem with caring more about visuals than armor capabilities in fallout but im doing pretty good not dying constantly in this one all things considered

- just kind of fucking around exploring really

[faiiryys]

its leeky noelle

i wasnt going to come back to tumblr ever again but... ngl i miss photosets lmao. uhh. i dont really want to talk about why i left but a run down is i went into financial crisis, 3 people hurt me over the summer, i was actively suicidial and getting sick constantly and yeah! its been a rough year of job hopping after only working days at a time to working a job that treats me like garbage when they know i fork over 40-50 per workday just to be there.

but uh yeah i miss tumblr... i thought since i would be back id follow a few mutuals again. um.

positive! on a positive note im going to school for money LOL but i got approved a job on campus so thats something. im desperate to get out of the food industry so im gonna try and get a degree to become a high school counselor just to have something. i hope i can make it work. i play final fantasy xiv mmo. its my life rn. i fucking rewatched hannibal of all things and had a meltdown that made me want to get my life on some sort of track. uhhh. steven universe movie was cool. i havent dyed my hair and look like shit. i love fire emblem. still about my shitty interests. met a g4m3grump loosely on the ff mmo and he liked my art and followed my twitter so that was kinda cool. small world. had a birthday. i cleaned my room last night and i quit my job but they dont know that yet rlly but :P

i still go by leeky/noelle but ive been calling myself fairy and even ofeimfeoin latte the past two months... its my ff character and i just feel nice when ppl call me those names :( latte is just amusing to me lmao its cute but yeah..fairy..

i ...just really miss being social but dont know how to be anymore. ive been living on solely twitter but no one talks much over there so yeah. anyways miss u guys if anyone reads this.

[it-is-i-mommy-milkers-1000]

@paint-lady thanks for the offer! i did notice some missions and bosses need more ppl to defeat *throws em a side eye* but for now im trying to get through as much of the game solo and free, just to see how much i can do all on my own >:D @chiclet-go-boom the game honestly kinda reminds me of vampire the masquerade bloodlines, but if it was open world. might be because of the graphics? i dont know, but it gives me nostalgia feels from the get go. swl makes me a little teary ngl, its sooo much fun! and since you asked for the pics~ eheheheheeh (i got so many ss, maybe too much, ill try to narrow it down)

meet lucile preston, quiet unhinged will-throw-herself-into-a-dangerous-situation-without-any-thought-behind-her-eyes-because-its-fun trickster templar (shes so fucking pretty ohmygodčlafelm i love her) r. sonnac (sassy cat-boi faction leader) questions how this novice is even alive at this point, yet reports of her successfully completed missions keep arriving, and he eagerly awaits each one to drink up like his favourite tea brand i imagine her powers to be somewhat electric (her hair is the main inspo), and she can teleport fast short distances with them (imagine like ciri from the witcher). she thrives in pandemonium. she was able to fight before the bees altered her life, but the templars mainly taught her the basics with how to use guns and her power, so i headcanon it that she just got really good at them while she spent her time at the solomon island (plenty of targets to train on there over the course of several months) i picked templars for my first playthrough because i feel like they make the most sense to me story-wise. my second time is def going to be with one of the other two factions.

now here are some scenery ss i took! this game is so damn PRETTY goddddd

there's so much content in this game i can gush about, from the worldbuilding, to storytelling, to fantastic npc's, so on, but one thing i don't particularly like is the fact that quests don't necessarily seem to have a conclusion. i don't know if this is a thing that only happens in this game, or if this is a part of mmo's in general (this is my second mmo i've ever played). but i do a quest, i have a blast while it lasts, and just as i complete it, i just get a notification that its over, no further dialogue, or roleplay involved. the most i get is a hint in my lore tab where you get something like "the talk of the town" achievement, and there was a part with john wolf where he nodded at the fact that i defeated jack the lad before. so it mostly comes down to me just headcanoning the hell out of the interactions i do get to make it make sense in a way. which brings me to my second issue, where i thought that there would be more interactions with the "big three" (the characters from the promo trailers that we get to interact with in the beginning). from as much i could read and gather, without spoiling myself, there is not many interactions with them? and that makes me kinda disappointed because i was really excited and hoping to play with those characters more. i really want my character to feel like she made a lot of connections with people, be it good or bad. but i can only do that if i decide that's how it goes, it doesn't really happen in the game now to fangirling

i recently played the quest "maine chainsaw massacre" and i cackled like a gremling while taking swipes at all the zombs at the beach. that chainsaw is now my new favourite weapon. altho i cannot use it anymore (ノД`)・゜・。cri as you can see, there are zero zombs in front of me cuz i cut through em like butter mwahahahahah this game is so gay. MAM please. youre staring into my soul kjsdfjfd

Madame Roget please kiss me.

SO GAY.

my favourite monsters so far are: the revenant, jack-o-lantern (as ive mentioned), will-o-wisps, spectres, boogeyman, those little rock golems and scarecrows! i absolutely despise draug and familiars, zombies i can somewhat stomach (those are mainly just because ive fought sooo much of them, theyre annoying) tbh most quests that are there just sort of as a grind tactic i don't really like playing because i quickly get bored of them. my main form of entertainment were always story related quests. i got a lot of them over at kingsmouth and the savage coast (that part was awesome), buttt not so much at the blue mountain which is where im currently at. The black house was so cool and creepy to play! i love how in the lorebook its says "the black house stood silent.." and then you go up to it and it sounds like a stomach of a giant beast gurgling and moaning, all cracking wood, and of course, theres blood dripping from the ceiling *:･ﾟ✧*:･ﾟ✧ i just sorta headcanon those little things as maybe a normal person that has no ties to the world beyond would see that black house and not hear anything, they would just get this uneasy feeling to stay far far away, while the bees can see its true nature. the atlantic island park was *chefs kiss* i honestly wish we had more quest there and then the pumkin head jack!

when i tell you i squealed from excitement when i found out i got to continue to play this story

lmaoo "By the way, you do have other priorities on the island." i love sonnac sm

best quest. john wolf best quest giver.

hes so dreamy *swooooooooooooon*

oh my god JUST KISS ALREADY

lucile will marry the heck out of him. BEST OTP <3

and since were at the end, here are some honourable ss:

fighting hellspawn like a pro

same energy

and this cursed pic of smug lucile <3

i need to mention for posterity that the first time i played this game and walked into this theme park, i lasted about five seconds before i turn right the fuck around because the air started to warp around me and i was not ready for reality to nose dive like that.

i went back awhile later and the air warped and the creepy music was playing and i walked past the gates this time, stood there with my axe in hand to see what was going to leap out at me and then walked right back out again because nothing did but i Did Not Trust It.

seriously, this game gave me the heebie jeebies every single game session. do NOT even talk to me about Blue Canyon Mine. or The Black House. i spent more time just standing there waiting for the weird shit to jump out and eat me than anything else, and i was almost never disappointed.

[press-start-comic]

Accord to Owen

July 25, 2017 SarcasticCan is away CC: hey, Owen! CC: haha, yOu being away is un-CAN-ny Of yOu! :OD SarcasticCan is online SC: i came back just to fight u for that joke SC: u make it all the damn time CC: sOrry, i CAN't help it! :OD SC: TERRANCE CC: haha! sOrry. CC: anyways, are yOu excited fOr the game tOnight? SC: yeah florent is so excited CC: O.O but are yOu? SC: yeah SC: well SC: im happy to see florent so excited SC: doesnt happen often CC: really? i dOnt talk tO him Often. why is he sO dOwn all the time? dOes he need a gOOD jOke? :OD SC: uh SC: he would probably hate that CC: DO: SC: hes pretty fucked up from some stuff from his childhood SC: but thats not my story to tell CC: DO: that's sO sad! SC: anyways SC: its good hes so happy about this SC: only problem is that he isnt really sure how to set up the server SC: i also dont really trust him to host it and not fuck it up SC: so i guess im gonna have to figure it out CC: i thOught flOrent was gOOd with cOmputers and tech stuff. SC: hes good with mmo strategies and modding games SC: tho i taught him how to do that SC: but he doesnt know how to set up a non-lan server SC: especially one that can hold SC: what are we 9 people SC: even tho he should be the one hosting it since he has a much more stable internet connection from what ive seen SC: he never lags or drops out of games and his family doesnt really use the internet besides his brother but his brother is more into comics and writing SC: im pretty sure his internet runs at like 200mbps like wtf does he need all that bandwidth for SC: but then again im not quite sure how im going to set up the server in this game SC: im assuming its similar mechanics to most other games so im sure it wont be a problem SC: but i cant find ANYTHING about this game SC: nevertheless how to set up a server SC: remind me to take notes while we play SC: like tell me every little thing you do CC: O.O that's a lOt. i didn't knOw sO much went intO this! SC: of course you wouldnt CC: ... well if yOu need any help, i can try my best! SC: asking help from you would be me teaching you how all of this works rather than getting any actual input SC: but thanks SC: if anything im gonna ask shane to help SC: im pretty sure shes studying to be a programmer so she might know how this stuff works SC: in fact im pretty sure shes working on her own little 8-bit game rn i should ask her about it CC: *they're *them SC: oh fuck sorry CC: is that sarcasm, i can't tell with yOu anymOre. :OP SC: why the fuck would i be sarcastic about something like that CC: ... is that sarcasm? Sarcastic Can went on Do Not Disturb CC: Owen, nO!!!

CHOOSE YOUR FIGHTER

[skiasurveys]

tell me about your crush!!!!!!! - Hes my boyfriend. I love him a lot, he’s funny, he loves gaming. He likes anime ( lmaooo), he is white but hes part turkish and german. but born in canada haha. He’s 7 years older than me (or 6.5) , we went to the same high school except he graduated WAYYYY BEFORE ME. He knows a lot of weird stuff. He loves MMOs and is on the leader boards for ESO which i find hilarious. We met on OKcupid which is a dating app. He says hes serious about me lol.

tell me about your ex-  well my most recent ex, i dated for only 3 months. we dated from Nov 2015- feb 2016. He broke up with me on Valentines day last year, which is funny tbh because he spent lots of money on me and then broke up wtih me. apparently i was too invested which makes no sense. I didn’t really connect well with him. we were more like close friends than boyfriend/girlfriend. He was slightly autisic or whatever so he didn’t really understand sarcasm sometimes which was really fucking annoying. I would make jokes and he took them way too serious or hard and would get mad at me -.-. He wasnt a bad boyfriend but he was just not my type. I said i loved him even though i didn’t. i was in love with the idea. I knew i didn’t want to spend my life with him. we never connected super great either, like we had nothing in common except the fact that we liked video games but he played shit games like (League of Legends). After we broke up, we met a week later to clear shit up i guess and it was super awkward and i was acually over him within a day so i was like this sucks and is weird. Then a month after we broke up he wanted to hang out but then he stated he wanted to have a hook up.. we never had sex when we dated either so that was weird -.-  Then he started dating other people and if i messaged him asking how he was, he would get all pissed off and said we couldnt talk any ore and i was like whatevr thats fine but then his relationships never worked out and he would break up within a week LOL and then tried to date me again. THEN when I started dating Connor ( my current bf) he got really jealous and mad, and tried to tell me to get out. Then later in my relationship like 6 months he asked if we could fuck (three some) and i was like i rather kill myself, then he would randomly text me asking if connor and i broke up, and then would claim he missed me but all he wanted was a booty call. He got super mad when he found out i fucked connor lol. anyways, i told him to fuck off and respect me and connor and he finally stopped being weird. But i recently deleted him off Facebook because I was so tired of seeing him on fb, so yeah. we dont really talk anymore. thank god.

tell me about your day It was okay. I slept til 2 Pm ( yikes..) and picked up Pills and played video games. nothing to do.

tell me about your dreams  I cant remember my dreams actually.

tell me about your drama  I have really no drama in my life.

tell me about yourself :-)  I am 20 years old, I like cats, mcdonalds fries. I am a art student in college. I am dating someone, its our one year today. I live in Canada..i like taking surveys too much

tell me about something awkward/embarrassing  I once had sex and then got my period during it and that was super awkward and embarrassing, and i was so embarrassing that i hid in the bathroom for 20 minutes and he was like “yo its okay jen” and its still awkward when i think about it.

tell me about a funny story or something  Lol, okay. this story is like 4 years old but whatever. so i was in grade 10 at the time and I went to this Youth Conference with my youth group from church. So my best friend was with me and we were at the concerts and stuff, and she had to use the washroom but she didn’t want to go alone so i went with her. So I use the stall next to hers but I come out way before she does. I am washing my hands and she comes up to me and washes her hands super quick turns to me and says we need to get the hell out of here, and before we run out this girl comes out of the stall that i was in and my friend turns to her and says “ Im so sorry i thought you were my friend” and im like what....so we leave quickly and she tells me. so basically This girl was wearing the same shoes as me and same colour pants as me, and my friend thought it was me so she grabbed the girls leg from under the stall and the girl was like “wtf???!” and so she thought that girl was me, and i honestly can’t stop laughing whenever i think of this because its just something that she would do. I never let her forget.

tell me your favourite band/artist/album/song  My fav band is Of Monsters and Men. They are from Iceland, and they sing different songs. They have a unique sound too. I love every song they produce.

tell me about your favourite meme  I can’t just pick one..

tell me about your favourite fic  I dont read fanfiction really.

tell me a secret ;)  um. when i was 18 i almost banged some 34 year old because I was stupid and actually thought he liked me LOL. Thank god i got rid of him. LOL i still laugh at my stupidity 

tell me a lame joke/bad pick-up line are you a astronaut cus your ass is out of this world.

tell me about your favourite tumblr user(s)  I don’t really have a FAV..i love all my mutuals.. 

tell me about your least favourite tumblr user(s)  I only dislike people who are super self righteous..who think they are always right.. who give out false info..especially people who use their followers for money..etc

tell me what you’re thinking about  just life.

confess your sins  I sometimes lie a lot but thats usually just to get out of shit LOL rant about stuff!!!  Not really a rant. But i super duper hate it when people leave you on “read” idk its super annoying. Like if you cant talk just say youll talk to me when youre off work/etc but i hate it when they have no excuse. Im fine if its a few minutes or whatever but when they just dont reply especially if im asking a question it just gets so fucking annoying. If i know youre busy its differen’t. But idk i just wish people would just tell me they wouldnt be texting that much a certain day or at leas jjust reply something quick. it takes 2 seconds..

let’s talk about the sex because sex ed isn’t talked about enough  dont have sex until you know you could handle a child. 

talk to me about astrology stuff!!!  I dont know anything about that stuff.  talk to me about aliens!!!  why havent the aliens taken me..yet..

[mettic]

Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward, a personal retrospective.

jesus i put a lot of hours in this game. something finally managed to beat dota on my steam hours, maybe because people wont play dota with me anymore but thats a different issue.

You dont really realize how much you get into an mmo until you find one you really like. this is probably gonna be pretty long so im gonna put it under Read More.

How much experience did I have with MMOs pre FFXIV?

Basically nothing. I had done a trial of WoW during WOTLK but WOTLK was like 9 years ago man, I was like 12 at best

Part of my inspiration to start playing FFXIV was because Wildstar was drumming up some hype an I was on board because I could play as a cool robot. I was onboard with wildstar up until the open beta and then i played it and you dont have to be an MMO veteran to know what Wildstar was ass. I was actually SUPER salty about how bad Wildstar was and I think that dissapointment  made me say fuck  it and do the FFXIV trial.

While I like to say that i started playing FFXIV during 3.0 thats a lie. According to these oldest screenshot i started to play around 2.3. I actually did hit 50  and get to the end of the 2.0 MSQ but i didnt do much later and I think life started to catch up to me so I unsubbed. I wasnt even on Hyperion originally, I was Adamontoise! 

3.0, Heavensward

Cant exactly remind myself as to why I started playing again. Old screenshots state that I started playing again around october 2015, a few months into 3.0. I had time available to me again, I think Carlego had decided to try the trial and Vitamin had offered to do stuff iwth me if I went on hyperion so I said fuck it and dropped the bucks for HW and a server transfer and started playing catchup.

its not really worth talking about the leveling experience but I’d like to say taht i actualyl really enjoy questing and leveling in MMOs. Some people hate it but I love this shit, even if at heart its just a huge time sink. Probably the thing I’m most excitied about in Stormblood is to do questing again. maybe I’m a loser?

3.0 was also my first experience in doing  content that you actually have to try to clear, in Bismark EX and Ravana EX.  I dont have much memory of Bismark, we were already pretty overgeared for him by the time I got there, and I swear it only took me atleast one look out to learn and kil lit. maybe. It was like two years ago.

Ravana I had put much more time into, started setting up nights and shit for it. I sorta wish I had footage of me doing ravana because im sure i’d be furious at myself for how bad I was probably playing, but hey I cleared it so whatever. It was an accomplisment, I felt good!

next primal, not so much.

3.1, As Goes Light, So Goes Darkness

I have a theory, and it’s that if you are a person who does end game bosses in the more modern MMO settting, there’s gonna be a fight  early in your “career” that humbles you and forces you to actually really fucking try in future fights. For me that was Thordan EX. Thordan was humbling. 

For reference I did not clear Thordan during 3.1, and its still frustrating to me. There were a lot of reasons for that, we had some frustrating people in the group I did it with, I was pretty bad, Thordan Divebombs were racist agaisnt roes

man i get salty watching this video cuz i was standing on the exact same spot as some other people and get hit but the NIN who gets clipped by the particle  effects didnt. racist.

Thordan forced me to start actually really consider my cooldown usage  in the context of the fight, and all that SHIT.  I still consider Thordan easily the hardest of 3.X primals but I’m not sure if thats just me being bias enough. I got my clear after the fact but it was never the same.

If it wasn’t obvious, I did NOT do Gordias prog at all during 3.0-3.1. Gordias was a meme and I didnt beat Thordan during tis patch, gordias was NOT happening.

3.2, The Gears of Change

Sephriot was also an infuriating fight but for different reasons from Thordan. I was probably the last of the people in my static to get my Seph EX clear because we didnt do seph as much as a group and did a lot of PFing. I play WAR btw and this fight was an absolute nightmare as an OT because OT is easiest role in the fight but the fight had a kinda infamous DPS check so even though I have had this dumb fight down on the back of my hand and can probably still explain it piece by piece off memory to people, I had to pray to god that my PF dpses didn’t die and lose us the fight because lol sephirot.

my sephirot clear was PEAK Mettic Yelling

what a nightmare.

However, as you noticed if you kept watchign the video, I also started doing Midas Progression! Midas prog would be my first e xperience in doing raid progression and what a dream. But I’ll discuss hat more in the 3.3

3.3, Revenge of the Horde

Before I start talking about Midas, I’ll talk about Nidhogg EX. Nid is probably my favorite of the 3.x primals, I think that fight is super fun, especially as a OT as its a very OT involved fight. Fuck the Geirskyol tethers tho that shit was BS sometimes.

Anyways, Midas.  My midas progession at heart was awful. Over the course of two patches worth of our best attempts at consistent two days 3 hours each a week of raiding,  we only cleared A5S and A6S, the later we only cleared two or three times. A couple reasons, one of the biggest was probably that we lost close to one-two months worth of progression due to various reasons of people not being able to make it, and we lost tons of time inside the actual fight due to every reason I could possibly think of, from random 5 minute long DCs to someone thinking that someone’s trying to break into their house. IMO if we didnt miss that huge amount of time, we probably could’ve cleared atleast A7s, because our A7S prog when we got to actually do it was pretty good (I wanna say that we managed to atleast hit second set of cages over the course of our fight dedicated a7s night.) But then someone left and we had to start teaching someone A5S and A6S and we were clowns and didnt get far.

Midas was a nightmare. And also probably the most fun i’ve ever had in this game. The memes were out of this fuckign world.

and so many more were lost to time. Still sad that  we didnt record the time that we fugged a blaster tankswap that we used to vitamin would open on  brawler without 10 trillion magic vuln stacks that ended up with me yelling “NO WAIT” 0.1 second before he gets one shotted by the brawl autoattack. good times. Prog was ass but the memories will never be forgotten.

3.4, Soul Surrender

Won’t talk too much about Sophia. I really do not have much of a memory of the fight. It was a fight that gave me very little trouble in getting clear, probably second only to Bismark in clear difficulty. It’s a pretty good fight, but I got my clear and farmed it painlessly so whatever. 

Creator had a change in my static’s mindset because while Im sure everyone had a lot of fun in Midas, the lack of actual good prog was pretty fucking disappointing, and we had a lot of high hopes for our creator prog because A12S got killed on the second day of the patch, so everyone knew that Creator was easier than Midas.

AC still holds the title of Free Company That Does Everything  Everyone Else Does But Slower And Worst. We got A9S down on our second raid nigth, which  was kinda dooming cuz most groups had that fight down on day 1 but WHATEVER we got it at like 10%.

My screenshots and tumblr posts say that we took down A10s like a week later but it sure as hell didn’t feel like that. I think it was one of those things where we got the clear but didn’t stop clowning it afterwords, and we’d spend like an hour on raid night on getting a10 down before we could get back to progging A11S. 

My screencaps show that we got A11 during early December, so about two months after a10s clear.  These numbers are kinda depressing to write out, but shit hey we got it before 3.5. I remember that those winter months became a pretty big issue for people having to miss weeks, and we had a lot of weeks where we only got out a9/a10 weekly clears cuz people couldn’t stay for a11 and that kinda stuff. This would actually still be an issue into 3.5, if not get worst.

3.5, the far edge of fate

For EXs, I absolutely hate Zurvan. Probably my least favorite fight of 3.5, and I’m sure a lot of people sahre that sentiment.  The fight itself in of itself would already be one of my least favorites in a vacuum because I think think its annoying and the fire and ice tethers is a bad mechanic for a EX, which is designed to be done by PF groups with no voice communcation, but more importantly the community lost its mind on this fight because of that fucking tweet of good players beating zurvan a few hours after 3.5′s launch saying that it was easier than dun scaith. I gotta say really good palyers gotta stop saying shit is easy because it fucks up the PF scene with people having absurd expectations. Skipping Soar becoming common knowledge also helping fuck up the PF scene because peopel would do fucking anything to skip soar. 1-2-5 parties are the expectation for zurvans still, and lots of people even run 1-1-6 because GOTTA SKIP SOAR. not that I can blame them, soar was realyl dumb. Also people using Tank LB2 for second late phase soar is so silly. I do like that it was a fight that didnt require the standard 2-2-4 set up tho. 

It was easier than seph/thor and I think Ravana to get a clear but harder than Soph/Bis to get a clear. Annoying fight, Annoying scene, and Infinity is a wack song dont lie to yourself.

Anyways Creator. To make it quick we did NOT clear A12S before echo, but imo give me like 1-2 more weeks I think we coulda got it. But at the same time it felt like I was saying “we get it next week” for like two-three weeks. A12S was the fight that made me feel like I should’ve been more proactive in helping raid members learn mechanics outside of raid night, something I’ll think about going into Stormblood.  We did however end up clearing it, but we cleared it at the start of april. That’s like a 4 month time inbetween A11S down and A12S down, which is pretty depressing. But in oru defence it was our most awkward season for missing days, and like midas we’ve probably lost like 1-2 monthsf worth of raid nights, and who knows how many “no a12s prog only a9-a11″ nights, and more importantly two of our regulars couldn’t run anymore and we had to find replacements from outside our group of friends. But thats just excuses, and TBH this fight gave a lot of people awkward issues, i’d say taht I know how to do this fight as OT off the top of my hand but apparently I fucked up first time stop positioning last night so idk.

I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t amped on actually clearing a raid tier, but getting it on echo it pretty disappointing. Creator to me was also never really as fun as midas even though our prog was much better, the memes weren’t there. But shit I as a player learned a lot from this, especially on optimization DPS in the context of individual fights

still too lazy to use pots tho.

FOR STORMBLOOD

My biggest personal goal for stormblood is to clear an omega tier before echo. I’ll be happy iwth myself if I can get that, and I want to be more proactive in helping raid members learn mechanics because mechanics is and what has always held my group back.

What I’m playing in stormblood is kinda up in the air tbh.  I really want to play Samurai because MY WEBBRAND but I also wonder if its worth it,  because I played almost exclusively WAR for EX and Raids in HW, so all my raiding experiene is on tank. Even on EXs I probably went as my sub class, BRD, less than 10 times over the course of HW. I’m gonna try to level all the melees going into stormblood to get melee practice and start taking my melee 60s to casual 60 content for more practice.  Tho I tell my raid members that I’m going SAM to Omega I’m not 100% against going WAR for the sake of getting a pre-echo clear. Plus none of these fuckign kids play war they just wanna play DRK/PLD. casuals.

get hyped for Omega!

anyways the important shit:  HW glamour.

3.0 glamour

Absolutely ador this set actually? It’s straight up vendor gear but it rules, and there isn’t a lot of good heavy armor set in this game.

The blue color is because its based on my favorite leveling set, the heavy iron set, and for reasosn I do not remember I dyed them all this color of blue. I think it’s a good blue!

3.1, The Behemoth King

A set inspired by old METTIC.TUMBLR.COM followers would recongize, it s bsaed on my favorite dark souls character I made, the Boar King, Which was the giants set with the iron boar helm. it ruled. I attempted to recreate it for FFXIV, and was the most effort I put into glamour because I sat for like 5 hours waiting for Behemoth for the helm. The gold was gaudy btu I love the gaudy. I also switche chest pieces during the patch cuz I was never really sastified.  I think I like the first one more if I ahd found better leg pieces instead of ones that show my fucking underwear. Might bring this back, I love the behemoth helm.

3.3

Probably my least favorite? I  designed it aroudn the chest that I saw the cape chest piece and really wanted to use it. The black and blue undyeable colors of the chest always put me off tho and I never found something that  really made it what I want. Good chest piece tho

3.4-most of 3.5

honestly my favorite leveling set in the game. I think this set fucking rules. SOmething about it just clicks with me. Also makes cutscenes really funny because you cant move your head with it on. 

I actualyl kept this unti llike last week, even through most of 3.5. I only changed it when i got the A12S axe cuz that one is cool

and I just painted it fucking red lmao. Kinda miss the blue but I’ll use this for a while. I’ll honestly probably be using this into 4.0 in some way unless some real dope shit comes out.

BARD 3-1 +

i leveld my bard and got this glamour in 3.1 and I dont think I’ve change it since. I like this set a lot, plus BRDs dont get a lot of full face helmets. Ive changed the weapon a lot tho, used the pruple ironworks for a while cuz i like it but i never really fit the aesthetic. Used the Lore bow  for a long time, and im currently using a purple a12s bow. Dont be surpried if im still using this in 4.0

see yall in stormblood!

[tsurumyaru]

i should probably check my wow blog i whisper, staring blankly at the logout button,,, bu,,,t,,,,,

tho tbh, i have no will whats so ever to play wow. I have a TON of drafts on lorstandian to make into in game jokes, but i just.. i bought wow time last month, logged in twice, and left. best 100k ive ever spent. /sarcasm/ thank god half my time on wow is spent farming and i think i have 200k ish left bhfju i mean no one talks to me on wow really so what is the point? the only person i care abt on there is jenn and i hhhhhh cant face her anymore!!! so looks good!!!! id play for my guild because that was fun but they died out when the gm got a new job and moved into no internet land. honestly if my wow blog didnt have 2k+ followers i wouldnt feel so bad abt never updating, but idk, the only shit i reblog/anything there is my own content and im just,what do i do if i never log in? wheezes. i didnt even touch the new legion patch, i just did noble garden and... thats it...

i guess ill go check that blog anyhow, rip me. i love lorstandian, but honestly im just soooo,,,, i dont,, love the game anymore. i love my wow ocs, i love my characters, i love my mounts, but its all so repetitive when you’ve played for about 12?? 13?? years. o well. maybe one day, ill play again. whats the point of a mmo if it just makes you feel lonely? Its to the point of ‘the memories are more fun than the current situation.’

[skiasurveys]

basic shit

As you begin this survey, what is the current date and time?

May 31th 2017, 6:30 PM

How has your day been so far?

actually decent!

How are you? Are you okay? I just thought I’d ask, because people don’t always bother to ask.

I am actually doing okay. 

If you’re NOT okay, what’s wrong?

.

The last time you left your house, where did you go? Did you walk, or travel in a vehicle?

I drove my car to the mall to get taco time and mcdonalds for my boyfriend and i haha 

In your opinion, who is/was the coolest teacher at your school, and why?

I really loved Mrs Waldo and Mrs Oprenchok because they both knew how to teach and Mrs Waldo was an amazing art teacher.

Are you wearing anything blue? What about purple?

nope.

What tinned foods do you currently have in your cupboard?

tuna, beans, soup.

Who was the last person you yelled at? Why?

no one. i dont normally yell.

Do you know anyone named Graham?

Nope.

Are you sitting next to anyone?

Connor

How many girls do you know named Alison?

None.

Do you dislike the last person you Facebook messaged?

Nope.

Who was the last person that sent you a Facebook friend request, and you ignored them? Why did you ignore them?

A random person, i didnt know.

Is there a certain person that you only have to think about, and you automatically smile?

Yeah connor <3

Do you dunk biscuits in your tea/coffee?

I dont drink coffee or tea

Who is your favourite person to have weird random conversations with?

depends on the person.

Does it bother you when someone goes offline without saying “bye”?

No not anymore. since everyone has their phone we kind of just all talk randomly. it only bugs me if were in a good convo and they just disappear for hours haha.

Is there anyone in your group of friends that you don’t completely trust? If so, why do you feel that you can’t trust them? You don’t have to give names.

I trust them all. 

When was the last time you used a computer in a public place?

Long time.

5 random facts about the person you love/like.

1. He is half turkish. 2. He is on the leaderboards for Elder scrolls online. (MMO). 3. He broke his ankle when playing Football in 9th grade ( i think was 9th) and now has a metal bar in it. 4. He loves being naked lol 5. He LOVES meat.

Do you prefer to do the asking out, or be asked out?

Be asked out. But really i kind of like it mutual. Like with my current BF when we first started talking/seeing eachother we were flirty and then he said he wanted me to be his GF and then it just happened so casual. so it was kind of mutual. :D

Is there anything happening soon, that you’re NOT looking forward to?

Not really.. I mean im not looking forward to school with finales and papers but im also looking forward to it! haha

Have you ever called a teacher mum/dad?

when i was 8.

Who’s the quietest of all your friends?

I dont know were all the same. 

What were you like as a 10 year old?

Tom boyish.

Who did you last say “I hate you” to? Did you mean it?

No idea. Probably didn’t mean it though.

Do you own anything that is heart-shaped?

Nah.

Have you forgiven the last person that broke your heart?

I have.

Are you home alone right now? If so, where are the people you live with?

Nope.

What colour was the last towel you used?

white and tan.

Are you planning on getting drunk anytime soon?

Not really.

How old were you when you got your first computer?

I was 11 when I got my first laptop that was mine.

Are you a chocoholic?

nah. I dont really like chocolate.

Name the last 5 males you talked to, outside of family.

Connor, the other Connor lol, Jacob, Jared, Josh, William.

Name the last 5 females you talked to, outside of family.

Kyra, Jennifer, Sasha, Courtney, Seanna

What kinds of music do your parents like to listen to? Do you share any of their taste in music at all?

My mom likes all kind of music, she likes country which i don’t. But we do share a few of the same tastes.

Did you ever have an imaginary friend as a child? What was his/her name?

Nope.

Is there a song that reminds you of the person you love/like? Do you listen to that song often?

a few.

What’s the date and time now?

7:05 PM. I took a break half way through this survey haha