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Building A Warband – My Early Progress In The War Within (And A Bonus Fresh Level 80 Gearing Miniguide)

Since The War Within launched two months ago in late August, I’ve been quite busy throwing myself headlong back into a new WoW expansion, chasing after the… Read more “Building A Warband – My Early Progress In The War Within (And A Bonus Fresh Level 80 Gearing Miniguide)”

Dawntrail’s launch in just about a week (for early access) means a chance to start fresh, attack Final Fantasy XIV from a new angle, and for a… Read more “Rising To Meet The Dawntrail – Tips For Progressing At The Start of a New Final Fantasy XIV Expansion”

One thing that is very nice about FFXIV at times is that it is very, very predictable in terms of content preparation and how things are handled.… Read more “If You’re Obsessed, You Can Start Preparing For Dawntrail Now (I’m Not Kidding)”

FFXIV dungeons have something of a formula. You’ll hear people say it’s always two trash pulls, a boss, repeat 3x, and that is true, but then you… Read more “Some Tips for Dungeon Runs in Final Fantasy XIV, Part 1 – For Tanks”

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)”

A benefit to the relative predictability and stability of patch content in FFXIV is that we have certainty of things that we will be seeing come April… Read more “A Guide To Gearing In Final Fantasy XIV Patch 6.1 You Can Start On Now”

Endwalker’s maintenance schedule has been announced and confirmed, which means short of a catastrophe in real life on part with the Final Days, Endwalker is release-ready and… Read more “The Final Countdown – Tips for An FFXIV Expansion Launch and What You Can and Should Do Now”

I’ve written a couple times in the past about two divergent but related topics – wanting to make a game myself and 3D modelling and rendering as… Read more “Sidenote, Sorta: Learning To Properly 3D Render and Model Using Blender: The Beginning”

(Update 10/31/2021: These ideas are all speculation and most have been disabled or worked-around with the recent PTR testing of the Timewalking Mage Tower. Further update 12/7/2021:… Read more “Preparing for Legion Timewalking’s Mage Tower”

As I’ve been mentioning a bit in posts, I’ve been doing a lot more livestreaming lately over at twitch.tv/kaylriene, and I wanted to discuss the process by… Read more “Sidenote: My Twitch Livestreaming Setup Part 1: The Hardware”