x. Vier-y Interested in Shadowbringer!

Hey Ocarina gang! Just wanted to do a quick blog post on some Shadowbringer stuff that I recently saw. I really want to see the new world maps, they look really pretty. I'm more excited about the scenery than the jobs at the moment! I can't wait till we get to explore and listen to the new OST ahhh!!! I'm going to grab my PC copy this week, I want that early access ~

Let's start off with the new race emotes if you're curious!



I actually thought the Hrothgar emotes were done well. I honestly wish they did more with the ears on both the races. I'm not sure why, but the Vierras do come off a bit emotionless? Maybe it's just me? But then again, the Vierras had the weird droopy ears, so maybe they can't do anything creative. I GUESS I'LL JUST COMPLAIN MORE ABOUT VIERRAS LOL.

I just finished watching a few job videos. So far, I'm interested in BRD and I'm actually interested in DNC. I was surprised because the teasers didn't do justice AT ALL ;o; I'm glad that BRD didn't get butchered this expansion, I was SO scared that it was going to be trash like HW BRD. I haven't seen the tank stuff yet, so I'll watch some more this weekend.



Unfortunately, I might pass on healer classes, except WHM. I'm a little heartbroken about AST. I enjoyed AST because of the cards and how there were skills that were so different from SCH and WHM. There were skills that buffed up cards and it just kept you busy throughout the instances/raids, and for me, I like that. 
With the new changes, they dumbed down quite a lot for AST? I didn't quite mind the card changes, I was a little bummed about it, but I was looking forward to relearning the cards. But they introduced quite a lot of healing skills, so I don't know, I felt like AST lost it's special trait. 
It sounds like SCH got nerfed? Correct me if I'm wrong, but they lost some DPS skills and just got more fairy things. I can see why people are feeling salty for SCH. This expansion, the healers got some really lame changes minus WHM. However, I'm still keeping my hopes up and willing to give AST a shot in Shadowbringer.

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x. Floral, Spring, and Everything Nice

Greetings Ocarina! How are you all today? Today is a more photography dump post ~  I got some Beemo photos to share since I got him to model for me for a bit hehe. This year, I planned to put in some more effort into photography and not just let my DSLR sit around to collect dust. Two weeks ago, I went to a nice garden to take some photos, so I'm going to share what I took (◠‿◠✿) so here we go (but be prepared, they're not very professional shots)!

Recently in Vancouver, the weather has been fluctuating between hot and cold the last few weeks. It's Mayyy and I want warm weathers and only warm weathers ;o; the worst part is when you go outside and it's kind of chilly so you have to layer up a bit. Then as you stay out in the sun, you just get extremely HOT.

How about the rest of you guys o: ? Are you guys experiencing weird weathers/temperatures too? But while I'm complaining about the temperature, Beemo doesn't seem to mind to be honest. Look at him, looking all happy.

Noooooooo my sunnies Beeeeeemoooooooo

He found a hecckin stick and wants to play.

In case you're curious about Beemo's size, I'm 5' for reference. His head is like as big as mine, I guess LOL?

Before going to the gardens, I need food and most importantly, coffee. This cafe was pretty neat and cute though ~

Now for some garden pictures!!

And that's it for now ~ hope you guys are having a good work week! I do see some of you guys slacking off and chatting a lot on discord, especially when it comes to Shadowbringer!

 

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x. Trying to Get Back into the Rhythm

Hello everyone! I'm trying to get back to the groove of blogging, hopefully, after a long break. And yes, I'm back to Miqote (sorry Geir, I didn't keep my promise ;o; but until we raid again, I will go back to popoto)!!!

I think I will be changing the site's url into something else but I will see how I feel about it later on. Mainly because I don't want to just blog about XIV, but I would like to talk about other games or other things. As well, I don't have any plans to expand the FC as I am very content with the size of our group; but as always, if you have other friends needing an FC, I'd be happy to add them in!

I also need to continue the appreciation posts. There are still people I haven't thanked yet and you guys are not forgotten ＼（＾v＾）ノ
!!

ANYWAY,

Posting XIV stuff!

Here's Ubi showing the size of his mount except... compare to me... LOL I'm like the size of it's foot...

It does look like I'm being kicked and Ubi doesn't even notice ;o; !!!!

I did revamp the FC house a bit and I'm maybe like 85% done. Personally, I feel a bit burnt out from decorating the house because making furniture is such a biiiiitch. Anyone feels me on this one? I also noticed one of the meals has a weird face.

Lunaria came check out the FC house while she was decorating hers, but she was getting stuck LOL Eventually she made it to the sitting area in the loft though!!! ^__^ Her cat looks adorable too ~

Although I also realized I see the bricks + stairs clipping my basement...so I'm going to figure out later what I'll do with that. I do like my loft a lot so right now, I can't be bothered to change the loft again RIP

I know this is super belated but we also beat Suzaku EX with the help of Mar and Ubi's friend, Kin! They were really nice and patient, especially Kin because I am the worst tank ever. I suck at following instructions and I often hallowed ground ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) huehue

Speaking of Suzaku EX, I think this raid was the BEST night ever. Mar's couzzie was the star of the show because she sang some cool songs. I knew the others enjoyed it, especially Geir, he loved every moment of it  (´・ω・｀)

Here's our cute group shot!!

Now here is my little rant blob on Viera. 

First of all, the benchmark is finally here. If you haven't played with the benchmark yet, go here! Now my biggest complain and I had said this in discord already, there's NO tail for Viera? 

It's 2019, you had rough drafts for boys even though they were loli bunnies. Second of all, these vieras got tails, where is OURS!? 

OKAY SO WHERE'S THE TAIL!?!?!! This is getting kind of stupid, I really don't like gender locked races because it is pretty dumb as fuck. You already got cat boys, so why not bunny boys?

So okay fine, we get the Viera heels because that's their other noticeable feature. But if you give them other gears...

They just look like they got normal feet and I assume there's no other way to work with heels (maybe too complicated for SE even). I guess for me is that I just don't want the Viera ears to be the only signature look, if you don't give me the bunny tail, then give me the heels.

Look at Miqote and Au Ras (I'm only picking out races with tails). They got several features that make them who they are. But I feel like they took quite a bit away from Vieras. There's one thing I do like about them, their thigh gaps and juicy looking thighs? LOL

Most of the Vieras do look very classy and I got the "upper class" vibe. Maybe some of them did give me a sexy office lady vibe (I am not furry RPing, trust me PLEASE). I only like a few hairstyles, but I am very curious to see them in different hairstyles and I really did wish the benchmark allowed more flexibility.

I did find the Viera race more attractive with darker or tanner skin, but this is also me seeing beauty differently though. Maybe some of you guys do like your bunnies lighter toned o:

Another resting bitch face, but I like it.

Now the ears definitely got me kind of heated. Who created these ears and why did they think this looked GOOD? Ear choices were also really limited. If Miqote had 8 tail variations, I would expect some more ear variations and not just 4. What if I want one ear up and one floppy ear?

On another note, what do I see? A headgear on a Viera??? Looks like they are really working on it. At least Vieras can eventually wear all the headgears (some day). But for now, I'll be sticking with cat (and popotos are second place in my heart).

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