Quiet day

I don't really have much to post about today as I didn't get up to very much apart from grind through the main storyline quests, so I didn't really feel the need to take many screenshots today.  Although saying that I did think the image below would make a nice screenshot.

Anyway, while running around different areas to progress the storyline I found a double mining point which i also thought was worth a screenshot.

 

I also had another blogger guy incident, where I ended up saying to the guy that I would take a screen with him in and post it here, but the whole area around the repair NPC where I met him was ultra lag so I have just these two screens to post on that, and it's all in the text boxes.

I am an Auction House Fanboy!

You read that title right!  I was called an Auction House fanboy!  After doing a quick shout telling people about the online web bazaar thing yg are doing (see last post), one guy called Soi Fon started getting upset and telling me that I shouldn't promote online Auction/Bazaar sites becuase the changes that SE are making to the ward system in 1-2 weeks will fix everything.
I said back that I don't think people will use more than one retainer still and that everything will still get bunged into one retainer and put in a random ward because peole are lazy, but if it does work and what I think doesn't happen then online Auction/bazaar site will die anyway so he shouldn't worry.
What he called me was a Auction House Fanboy, honestly, you couldn't make it up!

Ugh, what a weekend!

I didn't update the blog at all over the weekend because I went out with my friends Friday night and I wasn't sober until Monday night!  Anyway that leaves me with a bigger update today though!

I found a mine far north of Uldah called the Nanawa Mine which looks like a nice place to grind once I get up to about Rank 30, you can use the screen below to see the location of the mine.

Here is what the outside of the mine look like, really I should of taken one inside but I was too concerned with running towards the Aetherial Gate I spotted on the map of the mine.  I made it to the gate but was dead seconds after.

I had a go at eating some of the raw meat I had picked up from mobs I had killed.  Roegadyn are really the only race that can do this, just like Galka in Final Fantasy XI.  Anyway I had a go at eating Marmot Meat +1 to see what effect it would have.

The effect was a HP increase.  I went from 995, (in the above picture) to 1028 as seen in the below picture.

Just so I could document the full effects of this food, you can even see how long it lasted by looking at the times on the desktop clock.  It was 14:54 when I ate the meat, and 14:59 when the effect wore off.  So to all those unable to work that out, the effect was 5 minutes long.

I even did the same test with some Dodo Tenderloin +1 to see what effect that would have on me.

The same sort of thing really.  Again I started at 995 HP and after eating the food I had 1028 HP

Fun times in Eorzea

Today I set off from Camp Black Brush to complete from Local leves I had, there was no dust storm today so it was a nice peaceful walk.

After handing in the the Leves I needed to, I felt like a spot of minign was the order of the day.

After a little bit of mining I took on another few Leves and has luck would have it, I found another chest on my journey.

After finding the chest I went on to attempt to kill the mob for the Guild Leve.  It didn't work out so well.











After getting my arse kicked I went on the complete the Guild Leve, but only just!

I went back to camp and I found a Behest just about to start.  I joined up to it, as did many other people so the amount of mobs that we had to kill was quite a few.  being the level I was I found that there was not a lot I could do to help the group.

After finishing the Behest I took the reward money and went back to town and travelled to the market wards andspent my money on the materails needed for creating a Bronze Dagger.  After getting the bits I needed I went to the Blacksmith Guild in Limsa and created my new weapon.  I also got a new option after I had got to 100% to touch up the item.  I selected it a few times although I'm not too sure what it done.

My Article is online!

CVG.co.uk has published my article HERE about Final Fantasy XIV!  They link to this blog from the article and you can read it online right now HERE.
Yeah, ok I linked it twice, but I don't care I'm just so damn happy!

Group boat ride

Here's a few pictures of todays group boat trip to Limsa, I would write more but it's late, I've been playing all day and I want to go to sleep.  So I'll leave you with some pictures.

I found the hookers!

The Miners Guild looks like it'll be a fairly normal place to go, but once I got there I found out its actually a secret whore house!  This is what I found

1) First of all this lady says I might what to stay sober, pah!  What does she know!

2) Hold on, maybe she was right!  Whats going on here?!

3) No way!  Its actually full of hookers!  Heicko is going to go wild!

4)  You have got to be kidding me!  Damn it, why did I just spend my money on a pickaxe?!

Day one

As expected with day one, not everyone is in yet but here is a few pictures of who did make it in.

It's here!

I have it!  It came in the post today, so I have run home from work at lunch time to install it and while I'm waiting I'm posting this message with some nice pictures!
The book is nice, not sure what I'm going to write in it though, the map is made from cloth which I didn't expect and the Cup needs to be washed out first because there was some strange white powder stuff inside it.

Getting FFXIV? Better find out how to pay for it first....

Want to play FFXIV?  Of course you do, thats why your here!  Anyway you'll be buying Crysta tomorrow so you can play.

What is Crysta?  Well its like MS points that you use on Xbox Live but these points are used for paying for FFXIV sub and security tokens.  Being an English man myself, I am going to quote the exchange rate for proper money here,  £1 = 100 Crysta Points.  You can convert that into whatever funny money you have in your place of residence!
Either way buy points to play game, thats the bottom line.
Why not read what CVG had to say about the issue here.

Linkshell List

I'm putting this image of our Linkshell list online here so it is easy for everyone to quickly add the names back to their friends list on Wednesday.  Also it's easier for me to invite you all again if I have a copy of everyones names in one handy place (and if everyone uses the same names!)

One week of waiting left.

This time next week Final Fantasy XIV collectors edition will be out and any of you, that like me have pre-ordered the game will be holding it in your sweaty hands.
So to aid with the excitement I'll be doing some posts from now until then, I'm going to post big news items that have happened during the development of Final Fantasy XIV, and what better way to kick off a week of looking back than the place it all began.  The Sony 2009 E3 show, where FFXIV was shown to the public for the first time.  It's fair to say that the audience was quite surprised!

New graphic settings.

I didn't see this the other day when i was changing from windowed to full screen mode but it's there now.  You can put the resolution to any setting you like, which is nice.

I'm on a boat!

Today I travelled back from Limsa Lominsa to Camp Port near U'ldah on the boat.  It's an easy trip to make, quite useful as once you have seen the Crystals in the citys, you can teleport there anytime you wish.

To make the trip yourself you'll need to go to the ferry port and walk up to the gate, bring up the menu and an option will be at the top which you will need to select to pass through.  It doesn't seem to cost any money which is nice.

Once through all you have to do is wait for the boat to show up and it'll put you on board by itself.

Although that can take, perhaps I should of asked an NPC just how long it would be until the boat arived.

But when the boat does show up you get a little cut scene show people getting on the boat.  Looks like it going to be busy.

Turns out that all the people that got on during the cut scene didn't want to go on the deck of the boat.  Make me wish I brought a fishing rod with me though.

Well god knows where these people from that cut scene went, because they sure as hell are no downstairs either.  perhaps they have locked themselves away in some cupboard I don't know about beucase they are still in fear of the FFXI boat attacks.  I have been on two boat rides now and I have not seen an attack yet, maybe I have been lucky.

I arive at Camp Port after a boat ride that seemed to last about 10 minutes although it felt longer.  I really reget not bring a fishing rod now.

Anyway Camp Port is not too far away from U'ldah.  You can walk it in about 15-20 minutes, which is about the same sort of time that it takes to walk south out of Gridania and arive at U'ldah.  So really the three citys are quite close to each other in that resepct.

Most epic name so far.

That's one epic name.  But I think it's an epic fail because sending that guy a /tell is going to be a nightmare if you want to be quick.  It's like those people that have those obscure Japanese names because they think they look cool but you keep having to look how it is spelt.  I'm waiting to run into John Smith, I'll give anyone called John Smith a Linkshell invite!

Doing a Local Leve

Today I decided to take on a Local Leve quest that involved creating a new knife for a chief in the town.  If you have not tried the Local Leves yet, then this post should act as a guide on how they are done.

 So I went and found the person that was going to supply me with the materials I needed to create this knife.  I found the NPC at Camp Bentbranch just like it said in the Leve description.

As with all these things I selected the NPC and selected the chat option for the Local Leve quest.

The the NPC starts to jabber on about some crap before handing over the items I'll need to make the knife.

Finally after giving me the stuff I need I can actually get to work on getting the job done.  I bring up the crafting menu and select the 'Requested Items' option.  I missed this the first time I tried to do a Local Leve and was puzzled why the NPC wouldn't take the items I had made.

Anyway next I get asked which Leve I am creating the items for, so I select the knife one.

After selecting 'OK' in a few more windows I selected the item I am making and get to work.

I made the knife on my third attempt and then the game decided to tell me that actually I had to make more than one knife, i had to make two to pass the Leve.  So I failed, but I did mange to get to rank 2 on Blacksmith so it's not all bad.