Final Fantasy XIV - Free Login Weekend

[Xarious]

www.pcgamer.com/final-fantasy-xiv-offering-free-weekend-for-lapsed-players/

From today until February 2nd. If you wanna log in and run around for a bit/look at new content, now's your chance. No sub required, you just need to have had an active sub for ARR in the past.

[Darkmage]

Come say hi, damnit.

[Malakai]

DM! You should transfer to Malboro! My Free Company is pretty active and we have a snazzy website and mumble and sometimes Twitch streams: theexodusguild.com/

[Xarious]

No, he should stay on Midgard and hang with me!

[Malakai]

You can come too!

[Darkmage]

I have a number of RL people who are on Mid, I would have to convince half a dozen people or so to transfer, or pay for it myself. In the meantime, I'll leave you some pictures.

[Malakai]

Fair enough! But convince them all.

Here are more screenshots!

Outside the FC Mansion.


My house!


Ang and Vist's wedding! (I made a new character resembling Malakai for the wedding. This is Vist with me here)

[Xarious]

I'd love to transfer and play with you, I miss ya pal. But I'm in the same boat as DM -- I play with my wife and a few RL friends. I can't expect all of them to transfer, and I can't leave them

I'll make an alt sometime soon on Malboro complain about your

[Darkmage]

Dragon, on my head
Dragon on my fucking head
(Sung to the tune of "Cutsman" by Horse The Band, which can be found here if you want the full effect: www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7wpzKvNhfA

[Darkmage]

na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/topics/detail/24d3c419fae62ce2771b4b0b7d01c6348ab5d5e5

[Xarious]

After an almost 3 month break, I've resubbed and am working on capping my WHM. Changed my race to Au Ra Female for a change of pace - tried every other race already, and the Au Ra Males look terrible and have an awkward run animation.

Kael Skylock - Gilgamesh

DM -- how are things going on Midgardsormr? Are you still playing with Pashmana and other refugees? (Or are you playing at all, for that matter?)

Mal -- Still on Malboro?

Really enjoying Heavensward now that I got back into it. Story is pretty good. First 3 dungeons were alright. Can't wait to cap WHM and then try one of the new classes, although the expansion is making me want to play Dragoon, lol.

The essence of Xarious lives on, even if he is floating around in the void somewhere, never to be seen again. (RIP Vana'diel Xarious)

[Xarious]

Heavensward is turning out to be a really good expansion. The story is great, the new dungeons are fun and the set pieces are really nice. I loved "The Vault".

I'm still working on the level 60 grind (4/5 to 58), but I'm having fun. More fun than I had the last 3 or 4 months of Vanilla XIV.

One of my main gripes so far is Aether Currents: This is such a monotonous drawn out way to obtain flying. I understand that it is this way for pacing, but its just such a pain in the butt to have to locate Aether Currents in every area to just to be able to fly in that area. It kills some of the immersion for me. Not to mention the areas are designed around flying -- they super massive and have multiple planes that it takes forever to get around WITHOUT flying. Its easy enough to just google the locations and go to them, but it just... ugh.

Might be trivial for some, but it bugs me. And hey, I wouldn't be Xarious with getting to bitch about something, right?

I know you XIV nay-sayers are still in love with XI, but it really is a great game with a large, active, and fantastic community, unique and challenging content, and is pretty fun. If you ever get the bug to play again, I suggest giving it a chance. Those who quit back in the day have a mountain of story content to get through to get caught up to Heavensward, but that's half the fun anyway. Plus I miss you guys

Edit: Although, I guess if any of you still play or started playing, we wouldn't be on the same server anyway. But I could always create a character to talk to y'all! Vistmir and Angonette still played as of a few months ago on Leviathan (I think?). I made a character to talk to them a few times. They havent changed one bit.

[Darkmage]

Yup, still playing, most of the left over refugees rolled into Baconfist, ran by one of Pash's friends. I've capped both BLM and NIN, and I'm working on eso gear for BLM and Alex gear for NIN. Alex is kinda fun, if you haven't gotten to it yet, it's basically the new "soft" raid, taking place of the tower series. I really liked the story for HW, it had some pretty good moments in there. The new areas are gorgeous, and the new dungeons aren't bad, except Never Reap, Never Reap is fucking terrible and I hate it.

I agree on the Aether currents and the new zones, the currents are incredibly annoying to hunt down, and the zones are clearly designed for flying. Once you can fly, they really aren't a big deal, so it's just the typical SE built in time sink. I also find it kind of irritating going back to the old zones and not being able to fly. If you took a few months off, you luckily missed the hunt spam that happened for a while there, since the seals are used for upgrading the law gear, the hunt mobs used to die in 10 seconds or less, but that seems to have mostly passed by now.

A few links to help you along.
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1493L7c3hWGQKSMZ57YvF4s66o1Y7l9WMBmLndEdZLTA/htmlview?usp=sharing&sle=true

forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threads/239587-Aether-Current-Locations

ffxiv.consolegameswiki.com/wiki/Aether_Currents

Also, if you find yourself bored, Pash sometimes streams their Alex Savage runs, they run Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, 9:30pm EST Tuesday and Thursday, not sure what they're doing on wednesdays, and you can watch the old streams here: twitch.tv/pashmana

[Xarious]

Sweet dude! Thanks so much. Let them know I say hi, will ya? I really miss you and that group in general. My FC on Gilgamesh isn't the biggest, but they're super nice. It was made by a RL friend of Naedo Legacy who was also on Midgard, Istari Xiomar. (Black Waltz)

I haven't tried Alex or anything yet, I'm still working on getting WHM to 60 and finishing the HW story, but I've been taking my time. Last thing I did was the Bismark fight, which I did blind. I got the gist of it, but I didn't have to interact with any of the mechanics since I was healing. The fight itself reminded me of the fight with Sin near the end of FFX.

My original character Xaril Seraph is still active on Midgardsormr. I log on from time to time, but no one is on. I'll get lucky some day soon I hope, lol

[Malakai]

Heyo, I still play on Malboro, in a guild made by friends from work. I switched from WAR to DRK when heavensward came out and have been enjoying it a lot. I'm slowly crawling through savage alex with a static from our Free Company - we've downed A1 and are working on A2 now.

Heavensward is really fun, but a lot of people are getting burnt out now that the 3.1 release date was set for early November. A lot of us are taking this lull to catch up on other games, hah.