A little more Final Fantasy

Since my attempt to find the other cities didn't end too well I decided I just pick up the jobs in my starter city. I quickly learned that I needed to throw my starter gear back on or my little cat lady would soon find herself standing around in her skivvies.

The two classes she had access to are archer and conjurer. A quick google search revealed what abilities these classes had and I took a look for what would be of interest to me. The conjurer has a level 8 ability called protect that's a 30 minute damage reduction! Sounds like a good leveling talent to me. So I decided to reach level 8 on my conjurer.

Since there's no quests, Tyle had to go out and kill stuff. There's a hunter's log of mobs to kill and if you kill them as a certain class you'll get xp for doing so. But even so, I still found myself having to just grind mobs. At level 5 I took her back to the city to pick up the class quest and to try and buy her some higher level gear. The robe is a nice look and I liked having a shield even if it feels wrong with a wand.

Eventually I reached level 8. I figured I better get back to leveling my lancer because I just know Zug will give me crap if my highest level is 12... So I figured 15 would be good... What? I already got 8 levels!.. 11 if you count the three I got on the archer just so I could finish that intro quest. Anyway, I saw the unicorn mount again and this time the lady was riding it properly. She will not be falling off anytime soon. But I wonder why is she sitting astride while the one from yesterday was sitting sideways?

But I've also run across another really cool mount. This one looks like a dragon bird. I think it's just armor. But then I look at the face of it... and that doesn't look like a bird.

So I hit level 15! And it's back to pick up another class quest. I've been liking how the gear has looked in the game so far. Until I got those pants... WTF... Seriously? Maybe it's just the color. The purple just doesn't work with the red and I can't imagine any shoes that could be worse unless they were sandals with black socks. Bleh. Looking forward to being able to get rid of those pants.

Slow Leveling Lancer in Final Fantasy

More Final Fantasy!

Was actually able to get on today and get some extended time in the game without servers crashing. But that didn't really make my leveling go any faster. I'm positive I shall be the last person to reach max level in our linkshell. It's been three days and I've level 12. Others are in the twenties. Oh well. Maybe I should stop worrying about leveling and just enjoy the game.

Here's some more screenshots. I looked up how to remove the ui for screenshots in the game and it says to push scroll lock. Hmm... I can't seem to find that button on my keyboard. So I googled it. Something about how it's more for old keyboards. Crud. I just bought a new keyboard and sure enough the location for the scroll lock key isn't there. I also don't have it on my laptop. Guess I'll have to make do with screenshots showing my ui for now.

As soon as I logged in I saw a bunch of people running around with these little cat pets. And I've got mail! The preorder bonuses are here!

I'm not wearing the hat. It says it'll only boost xp if  you're under level 10. Since I was already at level 10 I figured I'd keep my viking hat. But thinking about hats made me wonder if I could turn my hat off.

There we go! Much better! No more viking pot hat. At least for looks. Anyway, having figured all that out I returned to questing. I had a quest from the lancer's guild that I figured I should try and finish up. I required finding some rock called the stone of courage. I keep wanting to call it the tri-force. Anyway, I found it but apparently some jerk had already taken the stone and hid it somewhere else. It took me an embarrassing amount of time to find where he had hidden it. Anyway, made it back to the lancer's guild and I learnt that I could start learning other classes. I was told it was up to me if I really wanted to learn another but I would need specific level 30 and level 15 classes if I wanted a job. Hmm... So to be a dragoon, which is melee, I would need to be a level 30 lancer and 15 marauder. Marauder's guild is in another city. I have no idea how to get there. I did a look on google and it said something about west and that by traveling on the roads you won't be killed. So I headed west.

And I went from a forest to Northrend. I mean... I have no idea where I'm at. But I don't think I should be here. At least not according to that high level mob in the background. But since I'm already here I'm going to keep exploring areas and getting more stuff on my map.

This place looks so cool! I still have no idea where I'm at but it looks awesome!

I also found a few towns or settlements or whatever they're called. They had these bird people that I think act like flight masters. They require that you find the different ones you want to go to so they're kinda like flight masters. It costs a small fee but the coco...birds things take you pretty quickly from place to place.

I eventually found a stretch of road with really high level monsters that didn't ignore me because I was on the road. I died. And found myself rezzing back in my starting zone. No corpse walking I guess. I guess there must be a way to change the location of where you rez. Anyway, I figured since I was back where I belong I'd worry about finding another class later. I'm going to level. I reached level 12... I think I need to find a new area to quest in. I feel like I'm attacking mobs that are levels below me and there aren't many quests to do at one time. Since I was getting restless I figured it was time to stop and go do something else. But I did get one more screenshot before calling it quits.

It's a pony! Actually a unicorn but I didn't get the horn. I was pretty excited but then I saw it. She's sitting sideways! Why? She's gonna fall off! That's not how you sit on a horse! No one rides a horse sideways!

There is this invention called a sidesaddle that requires the rider to hook one leg over the saddle and have both legs hanging down the same side

Photo from Red River Station

But as you can see she is not sitting sideways! Her torso is facing forwards and is not twisted like the sideways sitting person in the screenshot.

And here's an illustration just to show you again what I mean

Image from wikipedia

The girl in the screenshot will fall off as soon as that horse takes a step! It's insane! Who in their right minds would ride a horse bareback sideways! Crud. I have a female toon. Looks like I'm not going to try to find a pony because it would drive me insane.

Final Fantasy 14

I found them! Those sneaky Final Fantasy screenshots go into a location that I wasn't really expecting. Thank goodness for the power of google. It knows all :)

First is a shot from beta

This would be Zug trying to show me around and teach me how to play. I'm a cat-person! I originally picked some caster class but for this run I made a lancer. It was fun. You go up to mobs and smack them. I understand that part. Anyway, Zug moves pretty fast but he let me on to the secret which is this ability called sprint. Which is one of my first abilities. My first attempt had me running into a tree. Why did he recruit me again? Fine, it's a new game. I know WoW really well now and I'm back to being a newb.

Saturday the early release allowed players who had preordered to get a start on playing. I made another lancer. What? Vorpal Thurst! It makes me feel like I'm going to slay a jabberwokkey! Although that was with a sword that went snicky snack or something but most definitely not a lance.

So here's my meager collection of screenshots of my cat Tyle. I'm awful with names. I called her Tyle Katze. Basically it's just Tyle cat. It just looks cooler in German. Names... I suppose it could be worse. I saw someone named Justin Bieber. Anyway, I wish the game had a random name generator. How else can I come up with one name let alone two?

What I've been up to when not raiding

It's been quite awhile since I've made a post to talk about what I've been up to when I haven't been raiding. The last one I had was when I was first leveling my hunter Awoi back in July.

First off I made a shaman to level named Kirkzel. I'm using new names for my new alts instead of old ones. It's probably a good thing for the shaman. My draenei one was called Mnementh. Just try and say it. I dare you. Anyway, Kirkzel is much easier to pronounce, although I realized her named gets shortened to Kirk in my head. Which makes me think of Star Trek. hmm.... I've think Zelkirk would be a better name but I didn't come up with it until she was level 50ish. A bit late to restart her. Well... I could still restart her. But I'm starting to like calling her Kirk. And killing her with Felreavers.

Anyway, I made Kirk so that I could have a max level Horde healer. I started her as elemental and resto and leveled though a lot of dungeon finders. I don't know how I ever leveled a toon before dungeon finder. I'm pretty happy just sitting in Org or Stormwind just waiting for a que. But I have to start taking them out into the world when they reach level 58. I quickly realized that I still really hate being a caster. I can do it. I have a warlock. I can cast. But I knew I wanted to be enhancement so when I reached Northrend I switched.

I've been really happy with it. She still needs weapons. And gear that doesn't have intellect on it. But that doesn't stop her from being a wreckingball of pain. When she was still level 69 and out questing a level 74 Alliance death knight tried to gank Kirk. I think I shocked him when not only did I survive the initial assault but that I then dropped totems and began to tear him apart. I oomed myself casting heals but he died! And I stayed around to kill him once again when he rezed. What? If you go around trying to gank lowbies you deserve whatever pain I can dish out.

While leveling Kirk has been fun I've been feeling a call to level my hunter. Awhile back I had made a list of some of the pets I would love to get on my Alliance hunter. Since I'm now focused on being the best Hordie I can be, which to me means having a ton of horde alts, I figure my worgen hunter will sit at level 69 for quite some time. But that just meant that instead of collecting those pets on my worgen I would be collecting them on Awoi. And one of the pets I really wanted was a lightening worg.

picture from Wow-petopia.com

To get a lightening worg a hunter has to be level 90. These wolves are found in the Vale of Eternal Springs. Which is going to be blown up in the next patch. While I don't know that this pet will be gone I figured I'd better be safe then sorry and since my hunter was sitting at level 73 I thought she could put in a good push to get to 90. Which I managed to do this week!

What's this? I thought I already had 5 90s? Let's see... death knight, druid, paladin, warlock, death knight... see 5! Oh! Wait! 2 death knights. Hmmm... So the hunter puts me at 6 90s and 5 classes, half of which are less then six months old. I think I just like leveling too much XD

Anyway, I got Awoi her lightening wolf and named it Blitz.

I've also settled on Awoi's look. I won't be messing with her haircut anymore although I could change the color in her hair. But I'll be leaving her as a black panda instead of a red one. Now I just have to get her a good looking mog. Anyway, getting the wolf wasn't enough. I had to get Awoi geared to run lfr. Why? I don't know, I just do. But she ran scenarios

Look! I'm a goblin! I really want a monk to run that scenario on. For a brief shiny moment there will be goblin monks. I ran enough dungeons and scenarios to get rather sick of them. I also took Awoi to the Barrens to start the weekly and pick up the ilvl 502 boots.

I originally started with buying her gear from the jp vendor and forgot that in Org I could turn her jp into honor which I could use to buy much better rewards. I did remember in time to get her a pair of gloves. With that and a purchase of the vp Klaxxi belt and upgrading a trinket she got from the dungeon finder she was at an ilvl of 460. Exactly. Time to hit lfr! She picked up a new chestpiece ...aaaaaaannnnnnnndddd a belt... damnit. It was too late to return the Klaxxi one so there wasn't much to do but laugh at how predictably that turned out. I just knew it was going to happen. Ah well. All that's left is to finish the Barren's weekly and get a piece of gear... ugh, Barrens. Ewww.... maybe I'll go level something. 

Like my priestly shadow cow Serna who's level 12

Or this level 8 monk named Lemissa. I love that name, it's an anagram of my real name. My Missy needs a new haircut! That's Awoi's hair! Which I can't change until she finally gets off the Wandering Isle. Anyone else think it's unfair that the pandas start out with white quality gear? When goblins and worgen leave their starting areas they have green and even one blue piece. The other starting zones give you green gear as well. So why don't they have any on the Wandering Isle?

Or I could do stuff on Tyle. Like achievements. I look like such a slacker in the guild. Not even 5000 achievements showing on the guild roster. I know I have 13,000 but poor Tyle is still new and is lacking in achievements. But she did get a nice new one recently.

I've finally finished all the cooking stuff! For the first time on any toon! Go Tyle! Now let's go get those other cooking achievements...No? What do you mean, no? It's not that bad... fine! I'll go level a healer!

Oh, wait... that's right. There's this new game I'm supposed to be leveling in. It's called Final Fantasy something or other. Some people are pretty excited about it. I get to be a cat person so I'm happy. Ish. Managed to get to level 10 as a lancer. I've run out of the quests that Zug showed me how to do. Now I'm trying to figure out how to read the map. But that's when I get to play. I swear it's got some kind of radar. Soon as I get in and try to level the servers come down. And I'm not even going to mention the painful process of trying to get the game. It was painful. I can't see ever doing anything like that again. Pain. Anyway, the world is beautiful and I wish I could figure out where my screenshots go. Although I might be stuffing that up. But so far the games been pretty interesting and I could spend forever just playing with the character maker. Which is actually about all I've really done. I'm not sure why I wanted to be in the early release. Something about getting a jump on leveling. Yeah... been doing that... not. Anyway, once I figure out how to get screenshots I'll try and get another post about the game.