x. FFXI -- Scrub Adventuring ~ Ocarina

How is everyone doing? I hope everyone's weekend went well, and if not, let me send you some good vibes over on your way. Lately, I've been playing FFXI with Sas, Geir, Rix, Asa, Kaede, and very very very rarely, Yoshi ^__^ (psssst, Neru, join back with Brian. You guys should come back to FFXI)!!

My overall experience with FFXI had been pretty positive, but that is because I do not mind some tedious adventuring to get from Point A to Point B. I still need to follow some guides while questing, and there are times I get myself into one of the following situations:

being incredibly lost in the dungeon
finding out these old map designs are super awful, but it's like puzzle solving to me
running into high level monsters and instant aggros and kills you
has certain pre-requisites if you want to solo quests and can be tedious
all of the above

There are some quests that requires a lot of work and you're kind of wondering "Why are you designed like this?" Same with some maps in XI, there are maps that made me wonder "Why are you this painful?" This game is pretty time consuming, so I wouldn't suggest to those that have a huge backlog of games/less free time.

Okay, enough of me blabbing, it's time for...my stash of screenshots!

I found someone dressing up as an actual dragon...they were one of the first few players that loaded when I zoned into Mhaura. Mhaura is just so populated that it takes 84 years to load. Also, yes, I am a WHM.

Here's a snapshot of me, Sas (Goura), and Geir (Ornstein) doing Omen! The others are trusts (they're just like FFXIV trusts).

Teehee, here's a cute snapshot of the girls ^__^ we were helping Kaede leveling her RDM!

I also took a snazzy snapshot of us while we were doing Sheol. Geir and Sas brought their alts with them...so....you know who Sasuugu is LOL

Going to share some scenic shots. XI's graphics may not be up to everyone's taste/standards, but mind you, this game is pretty damn old. That doesn't stop me from admiring building and town designs/scenic maps though ^__^

Friggen Sas riding his sphere mount into the sunset.

Attempting a selfie :3

This is by no means spoiling any of the MSQs in FFXI (not sure how many people care enough for that, but better to be safe than sorry). If you don't want to read anything MSQ related, including my personal opinion, then you're done for this post!

I'm going to start off with Wings of the Goddess. So far, I'm really enjoying the MSQ, but I'm barely at 20%. Mind you, there's 60+ quests in this MSQ, so I'm going at my own pace. Now, one of the characters that stands out to me is Mayakov and his character design LOL?

His lisp and uhm his flamboyant postures HAHAHA it's problematic but okay... SE, must you go to that extreme on the gay stereotype?

My current favourite MSQ is Adoulin (I only finished 3 MSQs at this point)! Let me tell you, this MSQ was really well-written. I definitely felt the emotional roller coaster rides for most of these characters. Heck, at one point of the story, I wanted a break because I thought certain things happened for good and I didn't want to accept it (it made sense but...my heart couldn't handle it).

I did enjoy the humor SE put into the MSQ though! They purposely included these options in...

and if you give me these choices...

Here's Teodor and boy, he's living life. He goes around town with wine in his goblet and just gambles. Of course, with the choices I was given, I did tell him he was dapper HAHAHAHAHA

While running around town, found a random onion crafting in Adoulin. He's just flailing his little arms, it's cute ;u;

Ingrid is one of the biggest ... cunts in FFXI. Normally, if a character becomes a huge bitch, I would give them the "bitch" tag, but Ingrid just surpasses that level. The things she does in the MSQ just makes me want to murder her, so bad.