'Tis the Season!

Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas, and Happy New Year! Hope Santa leaves phat loots under the tree for you!

Playing Catch Up

I haven't had time to update! D: Let's see if I can give a fairly quick rundown of the highlights since my first post...

With my first month of subscription came a makeover for Aylin! Let's see, taller, paler skin, new hair style and color, new tail shape, new eye color... oh yeah, and bigger boobs. :x

Original Aylin

"New and Improved" Aylin

My first 50 was actually Alchemist! First off, this is a big accomplishment for me since I never once got a craft to cap in FFXI (WoW doesn't count, crafting there is ridiculously easy). I haven't really found much use for it, sadly, other than melding a book or two for myself on the way to 50 Arcanist, or making some books/wands for FC mates. Maybe eventually it'll be more useful?

Not long after Alchemist dinged, I achieved the same on Arcanist! I actually dinged on Summoner, as it was easier to AoE and get higher ratings in FATEs for me than it was on Scholar. However, all my points have gone into mind, and I'm pretty much playing Scholar exclusively now.

Sassy lil' school girl!

If you haven't unlocked/played/finished the storyline for Scholar, you should. I promise you will never look at Wanderer's Palace the same again...

Somewhere in there was Halloween. The quests were cute, but now these ghost costumes are clogging up valuable space on my retainers. :x

I also blitzed through the FFXIII: Lightning Returns promo quests. They were mildly interesting, but honestly I didn't even make it 3 hours in on the first FFXIII. OH well, at least I got some cute gear to use on my lowbies all the melee classes I haven't leveled past 1 yet!

I'm sure this moment would have meant more to me if I knew what the hell it was really about.

That's really the basic rundown of what's been going on. I've been working on my relic, but have been hitting my head repeatedly against the wall that is Titan. I'm hoping my FC will help me out (especially since I've upgraded some gear now and have quite a bit more HP), but we'll see. I really want my spiffy book. :x

I'm also working on leveling Culinarian, but I hit a wall with leves and iron acorns. So... now I'm trying to blitz Botanist to 40 so I can just save some money and collect them myself. In the end, hopefully I can use Botanist to actually *make* some money as well, since I'm completely horrible with it in MMO's. :x

I will try to update a little more regularly than I have, and you know as soon as I get my hands on my Omnilex, there will be an update!!

A Brief Introduction

Once upon a time...

...I was a tarutaru in Vana'diel named Etain. I had a pretty nifty blog, and enjoyed updating it roughly once a week or so.

Life happens, things change, the blog was abandoned and I left Vana'diel for good.

Then this crazy game called Final Fantasy XIV came out, and I was fairly intrigued by it. More than a month later and it's safe to say I'm sucked in. It definitely helps to be playing alongside some great friends from when I was playing Final Fantasy XI.

I've been following Strawberry (formerly an Elvaan named Jkun) and his entertaining blog. I got that itch to start blogging again.

So here I am.

Fair warning- I'm pretty much a XIV newb. I'm also fairly more casual of a player than I was previously- most of my grinding/leveling happens on the weekend and days off. I'm also old(er) now, so my approach and opinions on things in the MMO-verse have changed a bit.

Anyway, I hope you'll (re?)join me on my adventure in Eorzea. I'm sure it will be moderately entertaining.

At least, I hope so.