x. Addressing Concerns & Issues (Please Read)

Hello Ocarina members, I do have some important stuff for you all. After getting a good grasp of Patch 3.2, there are several concerns that I've been thinking about. In addition, I want to thank some members in providing thoughtful suggestions and concerns. I am very aware of certain problems and after discussing with Sasuun, we have come up with solutions for the following issues.

Now the idea of forums had been brought up in the past and now it has been brought up again. I understand that without forums, it can be difficult to organize or discuss about group activities. However, I am staying away from using a forum as it takes quite a bit of time and effort to maintain. What Sasuun and I decided to do is we created a private subreddit for our FC (I know majority of you guys are reddit readers).

I will be changing the layout gradually over the week, so please excuse the un-Ocarina theme. I encourage members to go and request access to the subreddit. State your name as well, so that we know who you are.

Please click here for the link!

The purpose of this subreddit is very open. We can share links and XIV related news into our subreddit. We can have discussions on MSQ and other stuff. You can form group activities and PvP up there. This is your area in organizing, so go ahead and use it!


The last one I want to talk about...

Now I have been reading reddit and I've seen numerous people being upset about the fact that the Zu Mount is only from FC airships. Some of the newer glamour are also from airships, and I know a lot of us love dressing up our character.

We have decided that we will be raffling the extra mounts to the FC, as well as the glamour items! We want everyone to have a chance or at least in some other way in getting the Zu mount and other glamour goods. Raffle information will be explained in more details when we retrieve extra loots from airships! As well, these items will also be used for FC events, so there are quite a few chances for you in obtaining one.

I hope this clears up some concerns and hopefully you all enjoy Patch 3.2!

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x. And Patch 3.2 Maintenance Begins...

Hallo Ocarina members!! Today's post is a bit unusual because I am currently not at home. So that being said, I do not have a lot of XIV pictures and I did not bring my laptop with me. Please excuse the photos' poor quality, but I would like to throw some stuff out about Patch 3.2 ~!

I know I'll be overwhelmed in what to unlock and where to begin. Thankfully on reddit, someone made a clean guide in showing you where to unlock the 3.2 quests. If you prefer google docs, you can also use this other guide! I thought this would be perfect for some of you guys too, so happy unlocking!! I'm also quite happy to see some of you guys back for 3.2 ^__^ so welcome back!

Some additional miscellaneous things like new battle poses and examples of dyeable starter gears!

I hope to see some of you guys on for the 3.2 :D I really hope this patch is the beginning of change and to make XIV slowly better. Heavensward and onward had been a big let down, so maybe a small hope would be nice, y'know? See you guys on when maintenance is done!

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x. Announcing Winners of Screenshot Contest!

I will be announcing the screenshot winners tonight! I really enjoyed looking at everyone's screenshots and a lot of them were seriously fantastic! Now let's get straight into the screenshot winners, shall WE!?

^ LOL OOPS I TYPOED -- MAR ARTERRA (I'M SORRY)

"This picture really tells a clear tale of how Mar wanted to celebrate Christmas. However, Ravana wants to ruin Christmas with his tremendous power. Mar, who just wanted a simple Christmas, is filled with determination..."

"The colors in this screenshot is quite gorgeous. We have Lunaria, an attractive Mi'qote, posing with the Heavensturn event decorations. It's a mystery for why she is posing seductively and who she is seducing..."

"How many times do we often encounter a flamboyant fisher in Eorzea? This fisherman clearly fed his cat way too much fish...tragedy. Such tragedy to the poor cat. May it rest in peace."

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x. Where's your Inner Beast?

Hallo Ocarina, I hope you guys had a nice relaxing weekend or spent some time with your favourite person/stuffed animal/friend/family during Valentine's Day. Remember, Valentine's Day is not about relationships. It's about love, so it is totally appropriate in celebrating love with your family. Nothing is wrong with that!

I'm going to throw in brief (is it really) update on the FC! I'll start off with some dungeon runs that I did with a few FC mates ~ because we had some magical bonding moments ;D *sparkle sparkle*

Sas is still lvl noob NIN. He'll never be 60.

We look pretty good together though! #teamOcarina

and then some EXDR runs with Aikia and Naria! Welcome back Naria! I hope we'll see you more often when 3.2 comes!!

When I took this screenshot, I honestly thought the Korpokkur Kid was like...a POKEMON. Instead of saying "Pika! Pika!" it goes "Korpo! Korpo! Koooorrrr!!!!" y'know LOL?

Yes Aikia, we know.

Here's me and Lunaria, spending some honey sweet love together HAHAHAHA.

and down the honey slide we gooooo, weeee!!

Another EXDR moment with Lunaria with a sparkle of Scherza!

Speaking of dungeons, my luck with trials is god awful. I hate trials so much with a burning passion, its as hot as Megaflare. Omg. I often fail in Ramuh HM and Chrysalis and I ALWAYS, FOR SOME REASON, GET THEM.

Here comes a random rant, avoid this if you want to skip my rant:

One of my Ramuh's was pretty nasty because I had an AST that was shit talking about other players a lot, yet they did not do any mechanics. Like if you want the trial to go faster, it is simple. Just do the damn mechanics instead of being on your high horse.

A new person mentions they were new to Ramuh HM, but shortly after, they get one shotted from Ramuh as the tank were grabbing the orbs. O'hail the might AST says: yet you didn't know not to be in front of Ramuh. Okay. 

I legitimately rolled my eyes at that comment because I am partied with an elitist. Later, the WAR was saying he was low on TP and the AST makes a bitchass remark: Yet we have a BRD in the party. derp

I look over to the BRD and they were terror'd. LIKE OKAY. THE BRD CAN DO SOMETHING WHEN THEY ARE TERROR'D AND NO ONE IS GOING TO SAVE THEM.

When I got terrored, the AST that was standing next to me got the lightning circle. But like a smart ass, he runs AWAY from me. *CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP* BEST SHIT TALKER NA 2016

Not that they said anything directly at me, but I was going to leave a toxic comment towards the AST. Unfortunately they left, so I couldn't throw an insult just for the poor players that got targeted.

Also I hate Steps of Faith. I'm a very hating person when it comes to trials. It brings out the ((Inner Beast)) of me. LMAO

OKAY ONTO THE GOOD THINGS, let's move on! So we have been getting some people on for VA runs, even if they were smaller parties, we were able to see some familiar faces ^__^

We almost had a full FC VA party in one of the weeks and it was pretty fun! We certainly look fabulous here :D

Ria is guiding her little people around VA, she's like our teacher LOL and then I DC'd for life shortly here.

Because I DC'd hard, I came back and I abused this time to take some pretty scenery shots of VA! I mean, you are so busy trying to catch up with the rest of the group that sometimes, you'll miss the beauty of the dungeon.

Aikia got petrified oh oh oh oh oh oh NUBLET.

Ria looks sooooo cooooooool. She's like guiding the group to war  or something here.

AND OF COURSE, MAR AND HIS AMAZING FUCKING LUCK, WINS THE MINION FROM VA. AT LEAST IT IS SOMEONE FROM THE FC. *cries myself to bed*

It has been a wonderful time to get to see Aikia again in the raid group :D he had been helping the group out for subs, so really thankful he could make it to our group from time to time!

We tried playing with our new roles that we'll be in 3.2, and overall, I thought we did great. I will cherish my healing moments with Rare because he had seriously SPOILED me so much.

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Now that I'll be healing with Sas, I will...I will do my best as the new WHM for the group. BUT I'LL MISS YOUR HEALS, RARE!

Pew pew pew pew! Red flashing lights wee woo wee woo!

Then we danced our night towards a bit of Thordan :D

Soooo we did forget about Aikia's group shot because we suck, we got a bit too excited and trigger happy exited. So this is our full group one I have that includes everyone! NEXT TIME, Aikia, I'll get a proper one.

Here we are being silly and lining up :3

Dumping some screenies of FC mates because I love you guys all so much /pukes. Here's Ria playing with her ugly lizard :x

It was Lunaria's birthday 2 weeks ago, so she gets to be a special birthday girl! The thavnarian dress looks gorgeous on her!

Aikia brought a friend over to XIV and they started their journey in Uldah. It was amusing since I was stalking his new friend :3

We had a few map parties and we were dancing around this player who was watching some cutscenes LOL

Looks like a band picture, hell yeah!

We've been seeing Sameen on more now too! Yay :D

Here's Aikia and his horrible sense of fashion :c

Of course...the corny cheesey Valentine's Day cutscenes were incredibly cringey.

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Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay.

However, my fortune with Hiro Biro was awful (according to him, we had all good fortunes though).

Closing the post off with some short random notes. I recently finished the school side quest story in Foundation and let me tell you:

IF YOU DID NOT DO IT YET AND YOU'RE LOOKING FOR SOME STORY TO READ, DO THIS ONE RIGHT NOW.

I seriously love the story and they just left it off at a cliffhanger (no kidding). I am in a story withdrawal because this one was very interesting and it really captured my attention. 3.2, please give me more of the storyyyyyy!!!

and of course, I envy some NPCs in town for having some prettier robes <_<

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