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Goldsmith Quest lv50

By Aleczan Knighthill | September 24, 2013 - 7:11 am |September 24, 2013 Goldsmith, NPC Screenshots

I just finished level 50 guild test quest for my Goldsmith. At first, I had SO MUCH to say about this quest, but then, there is TOO MUCH to say about it, so I’m not going to talk about the story, LOL. Let’s simply leave it at “OMG It is awesome! You should do Goldsmith guild test quests and see it!!!!!!!”

The story is truly stunning. Wonderful plot, not just hilarious. And for all of you who had played FFXI (Aht Urhgan expansion) before, this quest line will remind you of the automatons in Whitegate and Puppetmaster job from FFXI, which is a huge reason to complete it! (I’m talking about the automaton because it is less likely to be story spoiler, as these mammets are everywhere in Ul’dah, not a secret.) The final quest, Jaded, will shake your emotions. Although it MIGHT not be the same identity, as the outer appearance is totally different, that name rings a bell and made me silently weep with reminiscent longing.

Hab, an odd zombie

By Aleczan Knighthill | September 22, 2013 - 6:58 pm |December 31, 2013 NPC Screenshots

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Today I went to mine some Mythril Ores in the far southeast corner of Sagolii Desert and met this lone NPC. He is a corpse-type NPC similar to those fallen enemies we used to slay every now and then.

LOL! SE never fails to amuse me with their NPC dialogues. That’s why I love to hit a small conversation with random NPC I met. Some of them say funny stuff.

And this one might be involved in a quest or something, as I saw quite a few adventurers – non-miner – came to visit him over there, talked, and then returned or teleported. I don’t want to look it up now because I don’t want to spoil myself until I’ve run into that quest on my own. XD

My lv 43 Fishing Gear

By Aleczan Knighthill | September 19, 2013 - 5:32 pm |September 21, 2013 Disciples of the Land, Screenshots

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Today I stopped being lazy and started to regear my gathering classes. I saw that Rosewood Fishing Rod (lv. 43) was dirt cheap, so I ditched my Horn Fishing Rod (old one, level 37, been using since 1.0, LOL!) and grabbed it. Then I bought Mythril Mesail (lv. 42) and Boarskin Jerkin (lv. 43). Now this is what my Fisher (and Miner and Botanist) look like.

Quite fashionable, eh? LOL!

Today I’m trying to record fish and fishing locations in my fish guide and fishing log. Going around in Central Thanalan, I needed up to level 25 bait (Bass Ball)! Also, it was the first time I ever used a fly lure in 2.0. Crow Fly is level 20 and was for Dark Bass. Unlike baits, the character does a slow reeling motion while waiting for a bite on the fly lure. I find it amusing. But what’s most amusing is that whenever I hook an Aegis Shrimp (using Bass Ball) my fishing rod makes a creaking noise that sounds as if it is going to snap! It always made me shudder, envisioning my fishing rod breaking into two, like back in FFXI if I tried to land a fish larger than my rod could handle.

I’m not sure if I’ll be diligent enough to carry this on until higher levels, but now I’m recording what fish bite on which bait. I hope I can come back to look at the info and make use of it later whenever I need to catch a specific fish.

Alec’s Recent Days

By Aleczan Knighthill | September 17, 2013 - 3:39 pm |September 17, 2013 Screenshots

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Oops!!! I haven’t written anything in this blog for a few days. Well, to my excuse, I now have a friend who visited and is staying over at my house. We went out on Saturday and Monday. And she has some troubles from losing her wallet on Sunday, so I was pretty busy trying to help her sort stuff out (with great helps from my dad and mom – because I don’t drive!) I haven’t had any interesting story (or rant LOL) to write about, as I was always grinding some kind of EXP whenever I had time during the weekend and didn’t turn my attention to adding new content to my blog. Right now I still don’t know what to write about, but I don’t want my blog to be too quiet XD So I’ll just be lazy and post some pics from the game during the past few days.

I’ve been participating in the Moonfire Faire and taking some pics with the paper bomb balloon decorations.

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I like the balloon pool. It adds a nice touch to the festivities.

I’ve been cooking. I made a lot of dishes in-game. I even finished my tier 3 Cooking Achievement, Savoring the Realm:Apprentice (to synthesis 750 items of level 21-30)

Then I realized I had an old crafting body in the Calamity Salvager, so I went and got it back, then dyed it pink. ^^

I’ve also fished. Somehow I feel it is harder to collect all the data in fishing log when I am already high level fisher than when I started anew on new char in phase 4. It’s like I can fish anywhere, so I was lost as to where to go next. LOL.

FATE: Return of the King. From my observation, few people know that the Bomb Balloon can attract the Bombards and let us kill the bomb faster and easier, because they gather together. Many of the low level Bomb King FATEs I have joined would fail if I fail to activate the Balloon (like getting attacked by an aggro mob which makes me have to run away to lose aggro before coming back to the Balloon), which pretty much means that no one else was doing the job. ><;;

I also moved my lazy butt and went out to continue the main scenario quests. Damn Thancred, why would you make me run all the way to here to meet you in a rain storm?

Then we continued the story with sister Ourcen. Ifrit (quest) was easy because Corn was the tank. XD I never liked anyone’s tanking more than his, LOL. Makes me feel spoiled as either a healer or a damage dealer.

And I went on until I got to revisit the Waking Sands. This merchant…. hmmmp!

So I stopped here last night before joining a Grand Company, as I had to go do my watch duty at grandma’s house. Then today I continued and got back into the Immortal Flames. ^^ Finally!

My new Lalafell

By Aleczan Knighthill | September 12, 2013 - 2:09 pm |September 12, 2013 FFXIV Festivals, Screenshots

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Ah….ahem, I have noticed that there is an influx of visitors to my blog recently due to the information regarding Pigments and Dyes. Friendly warning, though, my blog is usually full of silly screenshots or random scenery screenshots from the game, and sometimes my rants about things or people. Ah, and most importantly, although I try to keep my blog Safe For Work, sometimes it might contain y-a-o-i-(ish) stuff such as screenshots of Ina and Tos. I’ll try to remember to put a warning at the beginning of the entry so people can avoid seeing what hurts their eyes. LOL.

All in all, it was just because I was crazy about the dyes that my blog TEMPORARILY became informative and seems like a source of information about in-game stuff. So, don’t expect much out of my blog, it usually contain random topics! XD

Anyway, back to my intended subject today, I made a new Lalafell character on Ragnarok just for the fun of it and to accompany my friend’s Lalafell. Maybe you can say we made these chars just for the Moonfire Faire event (and the swimsuits) hahaha!

Having fun at the Faire, playing with the fireworks (sparklers) wearing the swimsuits.

The morning arrived and Ina exclaimed “No! Sunlight!” Haha.

Full-sized Ina and Tos

Those Lalafells above are the mini version of these two chars of ours: Inari and Thanatos.

In order to avoid posting NSFW content into this entry, I hereby finish my today’s topic. Talk to you later!

Revenge of the Chefsbane

By Aleczan Knighthill | September 9, 2013 - 3:31 pm |September 9, 2013 Culinarian, Cutscene Screenshots, Quests

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WARNING: This entry contains graphic spoilers of Cooking quest (Culinarian Guild Test) level 50.
คำเตือน: หัวข้อนี้มีรูปภาพที่เปิดเผยเนื้อเรื่องของเควสต์กิลด์ทำอาหารเลเวล 50

Alright, I have just gleefully finished my Culinarian Guild Test level 50 today and obtained my newest Cooking Tool, Chantico. I really like how the event turned out and couldn’t stop laughing with satisfaction.

Yep, I am having a HUGE kick out of this quest. I wasn’t only clapping my hands, but also clapping my feet when I saw the outcome of this quest. LOL. Hell, yeah I am not a person to keep quiet when there’s something fishy. So, serve you right, mister! OMG, look at her face! Hahahahaa! That’s what you get for messing with me.

Anyway, since what I enjoyed was better be described visually, I will not talk about it further, but rather show you 10 screenshots from the cutscene in this quest. THAT FACE. That face of hers is just priceless. I now don’t mind that I had to go up and down the continents, the beaches, the rivers, and the mountains in order to gather the ingredients for these exquisite dishes. It really is worth it.

– The End (of CUL50 quest) –

Scenery Screenshots #1

By Aleczan Knighthill | September 5, 2013 - 9:26 pm |September 5, 2013 Screenshots, View Screenshots

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A dump of random screenshots from my folder. I especially love nighttime sky in FFXIV: ARR. They really did a great job with the stars and milky way or whatever we see out there. Really mesmerizing.

Western Thanalan, outside Ul’dah’s Gate of the Sultana, looking northwest.

At the Eighty Sins of Sasamo, looking back at Ul’dah.

La Noscea. Somewhere around Cedarwood? I am not sure.

Silver Bazaar Docks.

Limsa Lominsa Upper Deck, the Bismarck’s balcony.

Somewhere in Eastern Thanalan, I guess.

On a hill at Costa Del Sol, looking into the sea.

Coerthas, of course.

Coerthas, still.

Camp Tranquil’s harvesting spot, Lower Paths.

FFXIV Dye Reference #2

By Aleczan Knighthill | September 4, 2013 - 9:32 pm |October 22, 2013 Informative, Reference, Screenshots

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Additional information: for the locations of the NPC shops that sell these dye pots, please scroll down to the bottom of this entry.

*UPDATED 13 Sep 2013*
I originally forgot Ash Grey Dye, and had probably mixed it up with Goobbue Grey, so I have made a new set of Grey Dyes screenshots and replace the old one. Also, I just noticed that some of the screenshots didn’t have the link to its large image, so now I corrected that as well.

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After making a post about crafted dyes, my friend asked for store-bought dyes that we buy from NPC at merchant stalls in the markets. So here goes, all the dyes in screenshots.

This set of equipment includes:
Head – Bronze Sallet
Body – Woolen Shirt
Hands – Goatskin Armguards
Legs – Hempen Kecks

By the way, you can click on the pictures to load the large image.

Ash Grey Dye
Goobbue Grey Dye
Slate Grey Dye
Charcoal Grey Dye

Rose Pink Dye
Rolanberry Red Dye
Rust Red Dye
Blood Red Dye
Salmon Pink Dye

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FFXIV Dye Reference

By Aleczan Knighthill | September 4, 2013 - 6:33 pm |January 11, 2014 Informative, Reference, Screenshots

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*For screenshots of the 6 new crafted dyes from patch 2.1, please see my new entry.*
*For store-bought dyes from merchant NPCs, please see next entry.

Some screenshots as color reference for FFXIV: ARR dye system. I did all 13 colors on both sets of my gear. These screenshots will show how each of the new (craft only) dyes look on different type of materials (cotton, velveteen, leather, metal, etc.)

The set on the left consists of:
Head – Mythril Magnifiers
Body – Velveteen Gown
Hands – Cotton Halfgloves
Legs – Cotton Breeches

The set on the right consists of:
Head – Steel Goggles
Body – Velveteen Doublet Vest
Hands – Woolen Work Gloves
Legs – Boarskin Culottes

By the way, I’m sorry that the second set toward the end had its pics taken around sunset, so the colors might seem a bit weird due to the lighting. ><;;

Snow White Dye

Soot Black Dye

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Fishing is Fun

By Aleczan Knighthill | August 31, 2013 - 3:44 pm |August 31, 2013 Disciples of the Land, Screenshots

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So I am back to fishing again. I regret going back to fishing in FFXIV. Why? Because I can’t stop fishing after I started fishing. I even forgot my dinner because I was too happy fishing. Damn. ><;;

I really love the new fishing system. It is less tedious and much more interesting. It yields quite low EXP, but if you manage to land a HQ fish, the amount of experience points you earn will make your jaws drop. I got, for example, 4000 EXP from landing a HQ Copperfish at Raincatcher Gully (as a fisher level 15). As for my high level fisher on Ragnarok, using the skill (ability) Mooch is a hell lot of fun. At Aleport (location is named Skull Valley, though), I landed a Wahoo (43.3 ilms) from using HQ Merlthor Goby as a bait, netting me 5253 EXP at level 43.

Fishing in Limsa

Also, I like the reeling animation now, especially when the fish is very big! It is entertaining to watch. (Yeah, I am simple and easily entertained, LOL.) And look, when we land a HQ fish, the character looks very happy. Alec laughs gleefully with open mouth when she gets HQ fish, as opposed to wide smile for NQ.