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My Experience With Savage, Party Finder Pugging, and Statics in Asphodelos

Asphodelos Savage was my first-ever Savage raiding tier after 8 years of FFXIV play on and off. It was an…interesting experience, one that I enjoyed quite a… Read more “My Experience With Savage, Party Finder Pugging, and Statics in Asphodelos”

I find difficulty discussion in games quite tedious, because it sparks the most elitist, garbage takes one can imagine. Soulsborne games get this the worst, but all… Read more “Difficulty Ramps and How Endgame-Focused MMOs Fail To Onboard Players”

Role stats are dead. Sorta. If you play only WoW, I just said something that hasn’t meant a damn thing in around 6 years – back in… Read more “The Role of Role Stats in a Role Playing Game and Their Death in MMOs”

The next FFXIV Producer Live Letter is scheduled for July 1st, expected to be the first one discussing patch 6.2 in detail. That means, based on folk… Read more “What You Can Do Now To Prepare for Final Fantasy XIV Patch 6.2 (Yes, Really)”

Well, finally, I get to say this: I could be Savage. My FC static had a spot for their final pre-vacation run at P4S, so I took… Read more “My First Savage Tier in Final Fantasy XIV – In The Books!”

I debated writing a post about this issue at all, because observing it over the course of the week has been mind-numbing to a point, and it… Read more “My Favorite Memes About the Final Fantasy XIV Third-Party Tools Debate (And I Guess Some Editorial)”

One of my favorite and also least-favorite topics has cropped up again over the last few weeks, on blogs I follow and in the broader communities of… Read more “DPS Meters, Parsing, Toxicity, and The MMO Culture Around Self-Improvement and Shaming”

With nearly 3 weeks of play in FFXIV’s first major content patch in Endwalker, I’m ready to discuss raiding content in the current state of the game.… Read more “The Raid Content Of Final Fantasy XIV’s Patch 6.1 – The Good, The Bad, and The (Mostly) Unchanged”

If you’ve come to FFXIV in the past couple of years, it’s likely you’ve heard people talk about activities in-game – things about Hunts, about Tribal quests,… Read more “What To Do At Level Cap in Final Fantasy XIV – A List of Activities For The New Adventurer”

I’ve played through what is arguably the bulk of the current content in patch 6.1 for Final Fantasy XIV already – the MSQ, new dungeon, new Alliance… Read more “The (Un)Surprising Joy Of Adventurer Plates and Portraits in FFXIV Patch 6.1”