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I was still missing some things from the Fall Guys Event and just wanted to throw a heads-up that right now is a good time to go and do it if anyone is still missing things like I was.

Around 11am PST, I was getting games with 3-8 people on average, and around 4pm I saw that spike up to around 16-22 people per lobby. I was getting a rare game here and there, where I was completely alone; in a solo game. At that point, the only thing you're up against is the timer and your own skill.

Gotta admit though, it feels good to win in those lobbies when it's totally full and not solo.

And no, I'm not gonna aim for the Queen Bean or King Bean title, lol. Heck that 🙃. I just wanted my vendor items via currency and I'm happy with those 💖 (& maybe one win each 👑)

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FFXIV Christmas Prep 🎄

I set my Glamour and put up my Christmas Decor already 🙃. I think last year I waited until the middle of December. I did the same thing with Halloween this year too, now that I'm thinking about it 🤔. Wonder if I'm just feeling more motivated about things in general this year.

I didn't do a whole lot. Honestly I don't have a lot of free storage spaces in my house to go crazy (inside or out). I keep thinking it'd be fun to buy some of those snow piles to put outside but I wouldn't use them much, if at all. It'd literally be for decor purposes and I live in Lavender Beds so it'd look a little off 🫠

I tend to bounce back n forth between the cookie cutter MogStation holiday outfits, and making my own 'out of the box' holiday glamours. This year I went cookie cutter for Mari, and Original for Kei. I was going to go cookie cutter for Kei also (until I noticed the Darbar coat in his glamour dresser- which is what he's wearing).

Kinda sad the Reindeer Headband (from MogStation) goes behind Viera's ears. It looks odd. But I don't know how else they'd configure it on a Viera's head so I don't know what I was expecting 🤷🏻‍♀️

When I was making these glams, a friend and I went over this topic and I want to say it here incase anyone gets the wrong impression; there is nothing wrong with 'cookie cutter' anything. Sometimes it's actually refreshing, perfectly simple, and exactly what you're searching for.

This is the cookie cutter one (I swapped away from) in the same pose 👇🏻

Now I get to (and am looking forward to,) decorate my other games for Christmas 😄

Edit: I got more of the Darbar set! (minus the hat)

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I'm not the quickest when it comes to finding new stuff in patches. I also don't always go to Reddit and look at the lists of 'stuff is found here or bought with this'. (rarely I do, those lists are handy btw.)

With that being said, today I found these on one of the PvP vendors (the Mark Quartermaster - on the Far Right).

It's easier to find things when you check the box that says "Show only recently added items."

They added GC Trophies for housing 😮

Once upon a time, picking your GC and repping it used to be a thing... kinda. Okay, maybe even then it wasn't all that much of a big deal. But when you picked a GC and ran Frontlines, you were on that team.

At some point they added 'a fix' or 'a change' (whatever you want to call it) and there were games where you'd get thrown into random teams when players couldn't fill, or the queue times were long. But for the most part, you were on the team of your GC. Now days you pick your GC entirely on aesthetics or backstory of your OC, unless for something else. That's entirely on you. Now that change is permanent and every time you run a Frontline, you join as a Freelancer.

I'm one of those lazy -loyal 🤫 people where I pick a GC at the beginning of MSQ and I refuse to swap to another one even though I know I should. Swapping would benefit me, I'd get new achievements and GC exclusive items and I could always return to my first GC... it just seems messy as some things won't migrate with me 🙃

But that's not what I wanna talk about~. I really like these new housing items. We can buy them separately or as a set.

I'm going to post a bunch of screenies below of how these look spaced apart, and how I believe they were meant to be placed close together as a set.

Twin Adders, a.k.a. 'Serpent'. ⬆️

Immortal Flames, a.k.a. 'Flames'. ⬆️

Maelstrom, a.k.a. 'Storm'. ⬆️

These being 7.5k Wolf Marks each, you'll need 22.5k Wolf Marks for a whole set. The 'Left' Trophy for all of them has an effect. For Serpent, cherry blossom petals fall. For Flames, steam rises. For Storm, water crashes out from the side.

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The 6.5 MSQ was great. imo. Probably my favorite of the post EW MSQ. I'm not going to spoil anything story-wise, don't worry! I will say that I enjoyed both the dungeon and trial though 😄

I haven't done much else... went to my island to get that grind started. I'll be working on that casually with the daily tasks, per usual.

I'll also be doing my Daily Frontline to avoid the rush-grind at the end of the series. The new Trophy Crystal Universal Gear they added looks awesome! If you like the techwear style, that is (which I do 🥰).

The sets are made in such a way that you can easily mix and match them if you want. And don't forget about the Magitek Attire set on the Mogstation, and also the Late Allagan Gear you can purchase with Wolf Marks. I feel like they can all intertwine in ways that'll work and look good.

I bought the C-2 set with the A-1 goggles and dyed it Turquoise Blue 👇🏻. Unfortunately the more hat-cover types still don't work on Viera (and I'm going to take a not-so-wild guess the same goes for Hrothgar). The goggles and the face masks work (as seen in my screenies - but those typically do).

Here's another preview; the A-2 set with the A-1 goggles again, on my Miqo'te 👇🏻. Dyed mostly Ruby Red.

Overall pleased with this patch 😊. I know there's still more stuff I've yet to do, but I tackled what I could today.

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For a while now I've been looking for a setting in FFXIV and I've finally found it. It's not NEW, but I don't think it's commonly known either.

I wanted the setting that changes the player's name color in chat, according to their role. For example, if they are tank, their name would be blue, if they are healer, their name would be green, and if they are DPS, their name would be red.

At first I thought it was this ⤵️

The "Apply colors according to role." check mark option. But what that does, is this;

It may be a bit difficult to tell here because I tried to edit names in the screenshot (attempting to be considerate of people). It's really hard to see the ONE tank in my Alliance (B). But that option color codes the names of players above their head, in your party. And It doesn't effect other players in your alliance. (I have my alliance name plates set to a color very similar to that green apparently... I might change it.)

After learning this (literally today), I went searching again and found the real thing. It's this ⤵️

Found in Character Configuration > Log Window Settings > Button at the top right that says "Name Display Settings"

It'll open a new window called "Chat Log Name Display Settings".

I feel like this is rather hidden tbh 😅. But I was going over this topic with a couple friends in Discord and honestly this find is nice. We're all going to be using it 👌🏻

You can mess with the settings and apply them, and view how they'll look real time at the bottom with the small chat 'example' they provide.

It's just one of those small quality of life things, y'know? It's not game breaking, but it's nice to have 😊