If you are a currently paying customer of FINAL FANTASY XIV, you most likely know or have seen of the hulking mounted giants known as Goobbue that came with patch 1.20b. We also know that some of you out there are enthusiastic about it, don’t give a damn, or would rather they not be in the game at all. But no matter what you think or feel of the situation, one thing isn’t going to change: these lumbering giants are here to stay as an additional mount to the chocobo.
So, my question to you this time is: What do you think of the Goobbue? Like em? Don’t? State your reasons why. As a bonus if you have ideas for another mount, feel free to include them!
I can already tell you what I would like to see next: a giant fucking Mandragora. That’s right folks. I am taking my epic fights against the giant Mandragora and showing my utter dominance against them by riding on their head while laughing maniacally and burning mobs, people, and towns to the ground. As for the Goobbue; they are damn humongous. I would like them taken down in size a notch or two. Being a Lalafell is scary when someone decides to CHASE you down while riding on their Goobbue (which happened to me before I was able to get mine). The mount is so big that it takes up a majority of my screen real estate even if I zoom out far enough. I like em big, but even big things can be TOO big!
Welcome to another edition of Aetheryte Camp! This new section or our page is topics of discussion I thought might be interesting and would like shared and expanded upon by the readers of Zantetsuken and the listeners of Sequence Break XIV. Depending on the responses of the thread, we may read the comment or ask you to be a guest on a future episode. So please make sure you include a valid e-mail account when you comment; your e-mail address isn’t shared with anyone and no one else can see it but the members of the Zantetsuken blog team. Thanks! Now onto the entry!
Yes, yes, I know. Its been awhile. But I am back! This week I was mean to that doofus named Orophen, but I feel bad. Really bad. Sorta. Kinda. You get the picture. Anyway, to make it up to him I want to know what YOUR wishes are for SquareEnix and primarily Final Fantasy XIV for this new year. What sort of things do you want to see? Do you, too, want to see a massive campaign to get more players on board? Or do you just want them to introduce baby wyverns for your family to eat?
Welcome to another edition of Aetheryte Camp! This new section or our page is topics of discussion I thought might be interesting and would like shared and expanded upon by the readers of Zantetsuken and the listeners of Sequence Break XIV. Depending on the responses of the thread, we may read the comment or ask you to be a guest on a future episode. So please make sure you include a valid e-mail account when you comment; your e-mail address isn’t shared with anyone and no one else can see it but the members of the Zantetsuken blog team. Thanks! Now onto the entry!
I don’t know about you, but with the onslaught of games coming out, work, school, beta testing an upcoming MMO, and the holiday season spent with friends and family, FFXIV has currently been a sleepy land for me. Yoshi-P admitted things were too quiet on his end, and my friends and I joked he was probably either beta testing the same MMO we were or he was playing Skyrim. You take your pick. It hasn’t helped much some of us are waiting to see how our precious class is going to be affected by the upcoming update. We’ve talked about this on the podcast, “They Have Magic Feet“, but the thoughts there are that of three people and hardly the majority.
Welcome to another edition of Aetheryte Camp! This new section or our page is topics of discussion I thought might be interesting and would like shared and expanded upon by the readers of Zantetsuken and the listeners of GTD. Depending on the responses of the thread, we may read the comment or ask you to be a guest on a future episode. So please make sure you include a valid e-mail account when you comment; your e-mail address isn’t shared with anyone and no one else can see it but the members of the Zantetsuken blog team. Thanks! Now onto the entry!
For many players of an MMO, the game only begins when you have reached the cap of the game and are able to tackle dungeons, raids, or over world monsters of all sorts with more precision, tactical strategies, and team work. Better gear usually helps, and as does a dose of patience, dedication, and skill. For some games, their end game content can be as varied as what is found in FFXI or more consistent and progressive as other MMOs. The current state of FFXIV end game consists of some large NMs, a higher level instanced dungeon, and then the Ifrit Hyper Mode Battle. There is more content to come in the future with the introduction of 2.0, but with a whole year ahead of us… that leaves us with a lot of time sitting, waiting, and imagining.
I love Dragoons. Final Fantasy IX is one of my favorite games and I really adored Freya Crescent both on the battlefield and in the story. I’ll even admit to having a childhood crush on Kain Highwind from Final Fantasy IV, and thinking how awesome he was with his Jump abilities. So when I say I don’t want to see a wyvern as a damn pet for Final Fantasy XIV’s Dragoon, it’s for a damn good reason.
The aforementioned Dragoons are especially strong characters, and even the current LNC abilities in XIV is powerful enough to warrant some players to employ tactics that include a party largely made up of Lancers. Their Jump abilities is where they especially shine, allowing them to leap up into the air to great heights, avoiding their enemy’s attacks, and come crushing down on their opponent with great damage. In these games prior to XI, none of these Dragoons or Dragoon-like equivalents (more akin to being just a LNC or hybrid) had a pet. They didn’t need it! So then now comes the question regarding XI: But why did DRG in XI have a wyvern!? I’ll be frank; I have no damn clue and I won’t try to play it off like I do. I do, however, remember the time early in a DRG’s career when they were nerfed in the world of Vana’diel. The Dragoons had suffered in its reputation due to the fact their Wyvern easily fell in battle and could not be summoned again
until after the two hour ability timer had refreshed. It had gone from awesome to lol to awesome again, but a lot of that took time for SE to fix the reputation that it had given DRG during its dark era. Time that I’m not very confident SE should devote to using for a pet job at this time.
Welcome to the first entry of Aetheryte Camp! This new section or our page is topics of discussion I thought might be interesting and would like shared and expanded upon by the readers of Zantetsuken and the listeners of GTD. Depending on the responses of the thread, we may read the comment or ask you to be a guest on a future episode. So please make sure you include a valid e-mail account when you comment; your e-mail address isn’t shared with anyone and no one else can see it but the members of the Zantetsuken blog team. Thanks! Now onto the entry!
Last night, after we had recorded an episode of GTD, Rubicon had wondered if Yoshi-P ever regretted having brought up the idea that the current state of FFXIV is only 50% complete because people are wanting to pay for the game at a discounted rate vs. the full blow subscription fee. Immediately I thought of the person that we have come to know as Yoshi-P. Without a doubt he is the most transparent person we know of coming from SquareEnix. Maybe there is someone else out there, but he is notably more transparent than anyone else I can think of. I know that the man himself has strong desires to keep up this image of himself and for a very good reason; right now holding back and being as guarded as Tanaka was has only hurt the Final Fantasy MMO products and frustrated parts of its player base. Being secretive and coy also isn’t in alignment with more modern and more notably western approaches to the game industry. The later being especially important, because lets face it: the
Japanese game industry is floundering in the west compared to its western brethren.
I know it has been a terribly long time since I have last updated, and I deeply apologize. Things have been crazy. With my cousin visiting, going to PAX (I never did make my write up, did I?), and then changes here and there in my personal life… its been busy at best and downright crazy at its worst. During the time of being back in school since 2006, studying math after a ten year hiatus (hello rationa-wha the hell is that!?), and being sick here and there… I have managed to squeeze in time to play a little but not as often as before. But today’s entry isn’t so much as to talk about my adventures or lack there of, but to talk about my thoughts on the future of both games I have grown to love and hate.
First off…. Final Fantasy XI! I have actually deactivated my account for a few reasons:
a.) I wasn’t as interested thanks to the cooling off period from my cousin visiting.
b.) I was more interested in games such as LoL, XIV, and WoW.
c.) The updates have been lack luster at best.
First of all, I apologize my updates are very sporadic. I haven’t updated in awhile and it hasn’t helped that most of the time I have been busy with other things. Hopefully things will level out by the start of September when things start to settle down a little bit for me. Sort of. Eep!
Playtime has been, unfortunately, been as sporadic as my updates because of my schedule and not being able to clearly focus on scheduling events properly. Despite that Team Derp has moved on and we have managed to pull through with podcast recordings and also playing a bit of XIV together this past week. Part of the reason is two fold: as it stands FFXI isn’t that interesting to me at the moment. The updates are lack luster and the sheer amount of time needed to put into things at this very moment is something I am lacking at the moment. The other reason is that updates and news for XIV HAVE picked up a lot of steam as noted in the recent podcast episodes for Go Team Derp! If you haven’t already heard/read about the upcoming changes to Final Fantasy XIV, I highly encourage you to check out the last Letter from the Producer or simply check out the updates posted on zantetsuken.net. Also listening to our podcast is a super bonus!
Hello, my name is Calaera and I have an addiction to blowing things up. I wasn’t always this way. In fact, in many MMOs (including XIV), I have played predominately as a healer or support class. I used to love healing and supporting my party, but that was then. Before I found out just how gratifying it was to blow something up and see fireworks of gore and blood all over the place.
Believe it or not, if I were role-playing, that would most likely be a solid confession of mine. During beta and the earlier months of XIV’s retail release, I had wanted to play a support class. I had leveled THM to an extent but my previous recollections of the job wasn’t something that stood out to me. In fact the only note worthy experience was being able to kill things with Punishing Barbs and regain lost MP with Siphon MP. Did Banish or Scourge stand out? Hell no. Maybe I’m remembering things wrong, but it just wasn’t as spectacular to me then to convince me, “Hey, I can stay as THM and kick ass as a wannabe BLM!”
