ffxiv – Kaylriene

Trying Out Uncomfortable Things – Playing Black Mage and Scholar At Level 90

In FFXIV, while I’ve had all jobs leveled since midway through Shadowbringers, I have certain jobs I just kind of don’t play. The two top culprits that… Read more “Trying Out Uncomfortable Things – Playing Black Mage and Scholar At Level 90”

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)”

On Monday, I wrote and published a post looking at the way in which discussions around DPS meters and real-time parsing have been trending in MMOs. I… Read more “How Do You Solve A Social Problem In Games? A Second Look At DPS Meters, Parsing, and Communities”

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”

One of the headlines that came out of the early live letters around patch 6.1 for FFXIV was the idea that the team wanted to make the… Read more “The Legacy Content Revamp of Final Fantasy XIV Patch 6.1”

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 am someone who is on the record as having enjoyed FFXIV PvP prior to the current patch, and so with Crystalline Conflict out and the massive… Read more “The PvP Changes to Final Fantasy XIV Of Patch 6.1”

This post is going to be laden with spoilers for the MSQ and eventually the role quest capstone of FFXIV’s newest patch, Newfound Adventure. If you haven’t… Read more “The Delicate Balancing Act of the Story of Newfound Adventure – A Review With Spoilers”

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”