raid – Kaylriene

Evokers Are The First Non-Tank Spec Class Added To WoW, But Why?

After a chunk of heavier posts on issues facing the MMO community(mostly the FFXIV one!), I wanted to look at something lighter but also still interesting to… Read more “Evokers Are The First Non-Tank Spec Class Added To WoW, But Why?”

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”

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”

A surprise tonight as I was sitting debating going to bed – the prelim patch notes for Newfound Adventures, FFXIV’s first Endwalker patch, came out. With them… Read more “Analyzing the Preliminary Patch Notes of Final Fantasy XIV Patch 6.1”

(This is the final part of my originally-planned 3 part discussion on the current state of WoW and some things I would like to see going into… Read more “The Often-Strong Gameplay of World of Warcraft and How It Can Improve”

Admittedly, I was actually kind of excited for the first hidden patch 9.2 cinematic, in a weird way. I came prepared for today to be sort of… Read more “You Don’t Have To Write Yourself Into A Corner, You Know?”

My saga of Savage raiding to fill in that progression content need from leaving WoW behind has continued in earnest, and I have laughs and a genuine… Read more “Continuing My Savage Journey in FFXIV – Party Finder Observations and A Hard Loot Lesson”