Entry #5 
E5:1 

The screen lit up and there I was standing in the same place I got DC'd and slapped with a nice Error 9000 followed by the complimentary Error 1017. So far so good post maintenance, notice the time is 5:50am (EST), I was already up early finishing homework for my next class in a few hours (yay college,right?). Believe it not I actually parked my character in my room at the Inn and logged out so I'd have some rested exp when I got back. It was an act of trust that all these errors are surly being squashed and the need to not log out seemed to all disappear...


E5:2



I was doing leves and a couple side quests for exp after my RL duties concluded. An hour or so into this I realized the weather became really gloomy and eery. I eventually found out that this was the result of Odin spawning in one of the areas close by. I had no idea that we'd be able to fight some of the Primals in open world FATES. I really like this idea a lot because it adds a bit of immerison to the game. From what I know thus far, we are pretty much on the same side and band together to fight the Primals. Additionally, you get reward items from participating so I need to put my camera down next time and try to get in on that.



E5:3

One thing that's new to me are the guild wide buffs you that you can purchase once you reach a certain rank. These buffs can range from anything to extra crafting/battle exp, equipment decays slower, and even reduced teleportation costs, which we went with this time. Honestly, I favor the reduced teleportation buff a lot more. FFXIV is the first game in a long time that I've had to do so much traveling and it can get rather expensive if you hate riding the airship. Hell that can get expensive too, if you're like me and kill a lot of your money buying crafting supplies. In any case I think I caught onto what Yoshi was aiming for. Rewarding people for coming together--these aren't available to solo players. So I get the feeling that by adding this they made the game more social in a way. 


E5:4

2000 Grand Company Seals later and I was given a Chocobo I named, Jin. It took me awhile to focus on grinding FATES for seals because I was so busy leveling my gathering most of the time. Little did I know I could have been getting them the entire I was grinding crafting and running out of inventory space. Either way it worked it self out and I think we can add that to list of yet another noob move by yours truly. 



E5:5

Rain, rain, go away, come again another day..... (You sang that didn't you?). Seriously, I think I notice it raining more than the other weather elements in game. Especially the crazy tropical storms in Limsa. However, you can't help but admire the level of detail that they constantly put into account when constructing this game. Even the sounds have this organic feel to them. Almost as if it was really raining with the additional lightning. I can attest that these guys did an amazing job because thunderstorms make me sleepy and it's been quite a few times where I had to turn the sound off and listen to music until the weather passed because it was actually making me sleepy. How's that for realism?





E5:6

Remember what I said in E4:6? Well I think it happened. Leveling Archer is so fun for some reason. The DPS is good in the early levels and with the right equipment you can pretty much mow down mobs with little to no effort. And shooting at target markers as a quest is pretty awesome if you ask me. I've noticed a trend in a lot of MMO quests as you level it's always delivery or go kill x x times. However, it's a nice breath of fresh air to see it being done in a different fashion. Questing doesn't really have as much room to expand on in this realm unless your TSW (Talk about puzzles sheesh). These are the little things that matter or dips in the road to keep things interesting I believe.



E5:7

Fellgourd Float, North Shroud. I took this approximately two days before the 7th Annual Full Cold Moon Gala event. I planned on attending if RL permitted me to do so. I also wanted to check the place out before hand since it'll give me an excuse to take some screenshots. I really like the way the weather affects were present in this particular photo. Next to the few landscape shots I got when Odin appeared this is one of my favorites. It almost mirrors what fall looks like in some parts of the globe the way the lighting was. A very soft, and tranquil feel to it.



E5:8

It's funny that I never actually done any of the guild leves until like I was in the early 20s, despite getting introduced to them around level 10. This was pretty easy as to be expected. Go in...tank the boss.../win. I'd imagine these get way harder later on in the game. Right now it's a beacon of my own curiosity since I didn't do any of them at first.


E5:9

MATERIA MELDING!!! I like how modding is in this game. It's relatively easy but I know it gets more tricky when you start bumping to those percentages on the higher level equipment. I had a noob move early on when I was grinding BSM (along with everything else besides cooking and goldsmith) and I had actually forgot to pick this quest up after learning how to convert Materia. Google eventually led me to here since I realized I was missing the meld option. I can say that I do appreciate the fact that it doesn't cost me money to mod gear that I earned or made my self. (Yes I took a shot at TOR )...


E5:10

It's......so.....hot....and everything is....wavy...I didn't see this right away, I don't think Limsa has any desert areas, nor did I see it during the beta since I never got that high in levels so I would have more of the game to discover post launch. But seriously...mirage effects? That's something I've never seen in an MMO I can honestly. SE keeps getting a lot of "firsts" apparently.  


E5:11

Tosheden The Warrior. I can get used to that. But first I must level Gladiator. So far I don't mind it but that's only because it's the only class that uses swords right now. (Give us moar plz). Shortly after I took this picture I began to wonder when I'd make that first step for Monk or Bard or all of them. I really am thankful for the fact that we can have multiple classes/jobs on the same character just long as you level them. I plan to eventually get everything to 50 starting with disciples of the hand. Simply because I want to be able to meld and make my own gear. Life of a "self sufficient-ist" is a long road man....this is just one mini step. 

E6:1


9/7/13 was the date of the 7th Annual Full Cold Moon Gala event. I logged in and burned some time away by doing a couple Leves. I hadn't realized that I didn't buy or make any clothes to wear to the event  (I was making Tosheden go formal to give him something to be a bit annoyed about since he is 70% of the time.) So in a split decision I got a suit off the market that ran me a good 4000 gil and this what I came up with. Here I was standing with Siben, Marcus, and Loki. I'm pretty sure Dennntha was off somewhere trying to sneak in or score a date along with more <NB> members I hadn't officially saw in game until today. After we moved around in line a bit we chatted for awhile and listened in on all the conversations that was going on around us. To my surprise I've never actually attended a RP event this big that wasn't a warzone. The games I've  played usually had light population for people who would go to these things but here on Balmung I got a nice idea how huge the RP community is here. Probably the biggest I've ever witnessed in any game and a really great turn out, Odin even spawned and some of the RPers reacted to the change in scenery which I thought was pretty cool. Unfortunately, I didn't take many pictures because I was IC at the event can't snap shots and RP at the same time just yet anyway. But Tosheden did write something in HIS diary ......



E6:2 (Tosheden's IC Entry #1)

        Thankfully "work"summoned me away and I had to leave shortly after. I was ready to go after the food honestly, but then Ellion decides to be.....Ellion and tell me I can't leave unless I clean bathrooms in the HQ. Really....this guy....ugh! Turns out he was jokin' and I hate it cause I can never tell right away.. Loki was kinda pissed off too I think. She did get tossed around twice that night. Poor girl. But duty calls. Speakin' of duty...the Airship's here. Later..



E6:3

After logging in the following day, I teleported back to Gridania. To my surprise the gil farmers were in full force. I was blown away by this because I've never seen them spam so much. Usually they would get silenced  right away or they just didn't spam back to like that. I am used to getting tells from them but man having to add 'Asafs gthaws' to blacklist every time you enter a city is quite annoying. (Thank god for the recent patch)


E6:5

Now I have to really give it to SE for having time to do an event along with having so many server issues and trying to fix them. Takes a pretty headstrong company to provide this kind of service despite the circumstances. It just goes to show you can't always count someone out even though they slip and fall on their ass. I find my self slowly becoming more and more trusting of the company as a whole. I feel thats something important between buyer and seller, mutual trust. I trust SE to handle issues soon as they are able to fully fix them. I mean, the servers are doing exceptionally well more and more people are able to finally create their character on their servers they've been locked out from doing. Kudos guys. 


E6:6

Costa Del Sol turns into a warzone during this event killing bombards for some kind of tokens that you use to purchase the clothes from the NPCs in all 3 City-States. I collected a lot of these but I didn't really want much from vendor I got a pair trunks for the future "Lets go to the beach" type of gathering. 

E6:7

Curious George...I see what you did thar SE. *Achievement Unlocked* (Become A Warrior) Well I officially broke into my first Job. I'm still getting used to it I had no idea that the soul crystal was for your job items though. It occured to me at level 30 I still didn't get a piece of equipment from the story missions to occupy this slot. Until of course I finished the quest and realized, 'Hey! I'm Warrior now!' One down and a hell of a lot more to go...