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I've been wanting to make this for a while now; a Portrait Collage!

This is the second of two- featuring my Main-alt, Mari 🤺

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I've been wanting to make this for a while now; a Portrait Collage!

This is the first of two- featuring my Main, Tobi ⚔️

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Hi2u2 Ultros 🐙🫶🏻

I've honestly never seen him in the Air Force One gate before, and seeing him there was the last thing I ever expected to see, lol. So when he popped into view and it registered who I was looking at, I was giggling like crazy 😂

I swear, I'm too easily amused.

For those unaware, Moogle Treasure Trove is currently going, and so is All Saints' Wake. Gates at the Gold Saucer give Moogle Tomes ✌🏻

And if that wasn't enough, The Fall Guys Event is going to come back on the 23rd. We got our hands full.

Edit: He was there again! Now I'm questioning if he's always been there and I've been so tunnel visioned on the targets that I never noticed 🫠 (don't mind me, I'm derp, and there for the pewpew)

Edit x2: He's NOT always there! I'm not a huge derp after all! 😅

Ultros come back~! 🤗

Edit x3: Godbert Manderville?!!?!?

\o/

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I haven't been playing FFXIV lately. It's probably been a handful of months now where I've only been logging in to tend to my islands on my bunboi (main) and fem miqo (main alt). But I thought it was finally time to retire the PvP glam that came out a few patches ago on Kei. (The mix & match ones you can buy with Trophy Crystals with "Model" and "Tactical" in the names.)

I went back to a glam I bought off the online store some time before that patch, that I didn't get to use much (because there's not enough glam plates~ I use them all~ 🫠); the Mun'gaek Attire!

After I applied it I was like wait... this reminds me a bit of another certain FF character 🤔🙃. I won't say who but... the brainrot is eating away at me hard 😅

I need to log into my catboi and run PvP to get to Series 25 still 😵‍💫. I'm behind and procrastinating so bad. At this rate he wont be getting that attire coffer 😵

(Think I'm a mixture of burnt out- I mean I've been playing this for almost 5 years now with no break. My motivation is focused in other things. Plus my brain is like "save your drive for the new expansion when it releases", among other things 🤷🏻‍♀️. I'm super hype for Dawntrail though.)

Glamour

🔸 Head: Kokuko Men 🔸 Body: Mun'gaek Uibok 🔸 Hands: Mun'gaek Cuffs 🔸 Legs: Mun'gaek Trousers 🔸 Feet: Ophiotauroskin Boots of Casting 🔸 Earrings: Asuran Earring of Healing 🔸 Rings: Augmented Crystarium Ring of Casting

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After a couple years of semi-casual grinding Frontlines, I finally acquired my Seal Rock Field Commander's Coat! 😄

I say 'semi-casual' because often I'd take breaks of purely never touching Frontlines at all, and then sometimes I'd grind it for hours, day after day, for weeks in a row, for the Moogle Tome Events. And I do mean Frontlines as a whole, not just this specific map.

It's Kei's turn next, to get his 🙃

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FFXIV Pizza!!! 🍕

There's new things in the MogStation and I had to jump on top of them 😄

I attempted to obtain the Pizza Emote when the GrubHub collab was going on, however long ago that was, and that was a fiasco and a half. Terrible experience, waste of time and effort, got nothing out of it, and I'll never use their service ever again because of it. I know for a fact many others feel the same, but anyways...

I'm so glad they finally put the Pizza Emote on MogStaton. We also got a Pizza Housing item! Maybe someday we'll also see the Eat Chicken-KFC collab Emote that Japan has.

I think it's cute how my Viera does a thumbsup but at the same time keeps his eyes closed the entire time, lol 😅

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Tis done~! Series Level 25 in PvP on my main and main-alt 🫠. I feel like I may aim for it on one more alt just because I've become so used to doing Frontlines every Onsal & Seal Rock day, as a daily routine. And because I've already been getting the attire coffers on all three of these characters anyways.

What I'd love to see out of these PvP coffers, is outfits that do not resemble plate. So far, this season's set + the past three attire coffers we've gotten, all look like heavy plate. I've officially ran out of tanks to glam SE! Please give us a set that resemble robes or preferably resemble a scouting set. Mix it up a bit, y'know?

For my Viera, I dyed it Pearl White. For my Miqo'te, I dyed it Gunmetal.

I do really like this glam set, don't get me wrong, but the part that dyed was the plate itself. I guess I was hoping we'd get to dye the fabric. And then there was this rustic bronze tinge over the metal plate areas preventing the blacks and whites from being too pure. Still not sure how I feel about that. On one hand it's a nice effect adding authenticity to it, and on another I wanted a brighter white and a darker black, lol 😖

SE announced already that we'll be given the option to add two dyes to a piece of glamour in the future so I'm not too concerned about being unable to dye the fabric parts for now. It'll likely come in time, just gotta be patient.

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FFXIV Patch 6.51 !!

Good Gods a lot has been happening. I finally have a moment to stop and post something 😅

I've been tending to my own personal island, traversing a new island, braving a crazy new event that Manderville added to the Gold Saucer with these hyperactive beans?

I'll be posting a lot of screenies below, some potentially spoiler-y so... unfold the cut if you're interested.

(I'm more or less posting these for sentimental/archival purposes but) Fall Guys Event!

Very anxiety inducing at first but once I got the hang of it, not so much, and rather fun 😎. Ngl though, I did stop queueing after getting all the glamour and pets I wanted, and reaching one win 👑

I need to hop back in for a couple more things but my router is literally dying and I'm waiting for my ISP to come out to fix the issue first. A lot of people, including myself, are learning from this event that the snapshotting sucks. So, I'd really prefer to have my net fixed before attempting to queue more.

Oh!! Something I wanted to throw out there for people who don't want to run this a whole lot but want to put the Fall Guys furniture to use. If you just buy ONE piece of each thing, you can place multiple of that furniture item on your island. Go crazy and make a "fun space". I've been considering doing it, lol. Just food for thought 😋

Island Sanctuary!

I'm not even remotely done here yet. I've hit Rank 20, got the Felicitous Furball glamour, and the 100k crowrie mount/bike, but there's a 200 Felicitous Voucher mount that is going to take agesssss to acquire. I've seen some people with it already. Likely bought the vouchers off the MB or traded with friends. The going rate for those vouchers on my server is 90k-95k each (atm). Buying all 200 of them would make the mount 19m (currently). I'll be patient and slowly earn them, lol 😋

Aloalo Island!

Okay, I'll just be transparent here. I love the Variant Dungeons 🥰. Maybe Zenos wasn't wrong when he was blabbing on about how I'm an adventurer looking for a challenge, or a test of skill. I feel like Variant Dungeons do that decently enough to keep me in a good place (don't get rusty), but don't push me too much to be annoyed (*cough*fliptables*cough*). I'm not a raider- I'm not OP. But I do like a little push or a challenge here and there.

So, for me, I see these as fun, with rewards that are worth the time and effort.

I cannot say the same for the Criterion version of them however. I haven't done them and I see a lot of people raging over the terrible rewards. If it's that many people, it's worth looking into and from what I have heard, they're right to be upset.

If you need raid gear to do Variant Dungeon and the reward gear is under or on par with the raid gear that's needed to do it- that's a huge no. I don't have all the facts or experience to know first hand how true that is though 🤷🏻‍♀️

Posting these 👆🏻 because this is my favorite path. I've always loved mimics and had this slight obsession with them since I played Ragnarok Online many years ago (my first MMO ever).

Silly little treasure chests, you're so evil and cute 💝

(Coulda sworn I got a screenie with the parasol but I cannot find it 🙃. Same with the new hair on my female bun... might edit it in later but probably not.)

Edit: (I'm editing one in at least 🙃)

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World of Warcraft: Retail (The War Within, Worldsoul Saga)

So, totally unrelated to FFXIV, but also related in a way... my BFF's BF talked her into playing WoW again, and she talked me into playing WoW again, lol (with the help of the cinematic). It's been FOUR years since I've played.

The reason I say it's "related in a way" is because I want to still play FFXIV at the same time and upkeep my FFXIV 'muscle memory'. I started doing the Loporrit Dailies recently - need to continue doing that. I still need to hit Series Level 25 in PvP - so I'll continue doing those daily. I need to continue getting my Island Sanctuary Felicitous Vouchers. And lastly, I began doing the weekly Custom Deliveries for Anden and Margrat. I intend to finish those for the Glamour and Mount. (It boggles my mind how people can say "I'm bored" in FFXIV. There's SO MUCH to do, always. Just admit that you're not bored, you're lazy 😑.)

If the muscle memory thing doesn't make sense, here's an example: It's when you drop/neglect one game for so long (let's call it Game A) to start playing another (Game B), that you completely forget the controls or lose the reflexes you once had for Game A, because you're too consumed living in Game B. I do not want that.

Just thinking about returning to WoW, I feel a bit overwhelmed. All of us used to play Horde for the majority of our gametime (my BFF and her BF, & some of my other friends who've quit). But before I quit, I was trying to make the permanent swap to Alliance (played Alliance for about a year). She's still playing Horde with her BF so I won't be playing with her unless I continue to play Horde. I'll need to find an Alliance server. It'll be cool if I can find a guild that has people who play both WoW & FFXIV. I need to look up which addons I'll need. I fear for all the crap I left in my inventory LOL.

But mainly. When I saw that new cinematic with Thrall and Anduin my heart broke. Anduin has gone through so much trauma in the time I have been away. All I could think about was "Wtf did they do to my King?" And now I feel like I'm crawling my way back and I'm over my head on how to do it. I need to know what happened to him.

(In BfA,) Azeroth turned into a joke and I was isekai'd away Anduin, I'm so sorry 😭. I'll bring some of the light back with me and give it to you, from Eorzea 💖

(FFXIV x WoW collab, when?)