x. Dawn Breaks

Hallo wonderful people! Today's weather is so cold and rainy, but Beemo was kind of thriving in it because he likes to get his pawsies and tummy wet. Since Beemo was enjoying his walkies in this weather, I guess I can't complain too much. Enough of Beemo and I, let's jump straight into the blog post.

While Rix and I were waiting on our raid group to log on, Luna and Rare were chilling around on the FC lawn. Luna probably needed a break from moving her furniture around non-stop in her lovely home. Rare was doing roulettes on his MNK because he wanted to try MNK out in Endwalker. 

Of course, we summoned our mounts so we could have a mount party. I look...so small here compare to everyone else.

LMAO d( ´ ▽ ` )b Rix and I were shooting Rare (I mean who else, clearly not Luna) HAHAHAHA

When Luna summoned her giant lion, I can't help but to call Rare's lion the ugly child. Is it not ugly????

Before heading into trials with my raid gang for BLU stuff, Luna and Rare brought out the valentines day chair mounts. (*°ヮ° *) How can I not take a screenshot of you two, so cute (mostly Luna tho, she's the cutest Viera ever)!!! 

Now onto BLU raid prepping!! We were doing The Dragon's Neck because we get to learn several skills there. I was highly amused when I turned into a Kappa and I was THE SAME SIZE AS GEIR. LOOK AT THAT OMG (*°∀°) But my head is chubbier than Geir's, does that mean I have big brain?

After learning some BLU skills, we also helped Geir power level. He wasn't that far from level 70, so we spent quality time together at Yanxia.

Sometimes we get easily distracted... like for example, I was busy taking screenshots because Butter and I look really good in this shot. I captured Rix doing her usual running and Hiro changed into his WHM. At the same time, we were all too busy talking in Discord that we lost Geir, so he ended up dying (twice) ... LOL! Oopsies (≧∇≦)

After Geir reached level 70 and wrapped up for the raid night, Butter and I went to go check out Ocean Fishing. Except poor Butter couldn't hit 80 after doing his trade in, he was super close. I shall bring you to Ocean Fishing one of these days.

Since we couldn't do Ocean Fishing, we were checking out gathering gears, but I wanted to see it on male characters.... and omg I'm sorry, they look SO FUNNY ON GUYS HAHAHAHAHA 

As I was dying at every single outfit that Butter posted, I realized we were spamming in the wrong chat in our raid Discord.... OOOOOOPS???

We later went to do some birb farming because Butter was only missing two ᕦ(ò_óˇ)ᕤ I basically got Butter to stay up late again because we had to grab his last two birbies. Don't worry, he's fine, I hope but it was worth it! His first one was Bismarck, which was super easy peasy. 

His last one was Thordan and that one was super easy to duo as well! We actually got lucky with Thordan, well I think we got lucky, because I remember farming with the FC and it took 84 years to get ours. Think we only needed to smack Thordan twice or thrice, and he dropped the birbie for Butter!

And now it's tiiiime for Butter to get his lovely FIREBIIIIRD.

Yay congrats Butter ＼＼\(۶ ᐛ )۶//／／ and look how pretty it is with the starry skies!

That's it for now gang, so until next blog post,

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x. Full Fathom Five

Hallo Ocarina, how's it going for you all? It's already the end of summer... or I mean September, but that's pretty much the same thing, right? Well, I do like autumn, especially when the trees are changing colors. What I don't like is gross rainy weathers up here, it gets too gross to even enjoy the rain. Anyway, let's get into the blog post, shall we?

Over the summer, I was helping out some Faerie friends with Eden savage raids. I still enjoy E11S and I love watching people struggle a bit at the last phase. It can be so chaotic and just hearing people going "... HOW DO I EVEN DO THIS?" can be so amusing o(≧∇≦o) It reminded me of how my group did it and when we first learned it, really fond memories. 

And of course, clear run means group shot! We actually dressed up in burger colors, Mar and I are the buns. We got some tomatoes and patty, mayonnaise, lettuces, and sesame. 

Afterwards, we decided to go for Diamond EX. Some people wanted to do mount farming, I wanted some extra tokens, and some people wanted to hang out.

The mount gods blessed us by dropping one, I was pretty sure I wasn't going to win this one, but then...

Huzzah! I ended up winning it with 71 ＊*♡( ⁎ᵕᴗᵕ⁎ ）and now I got 4-5 dragons left to collect!

To end that night, we wrapped up with some Sephirot runs. Unfortunately, he did not drop a pretty birdy, pft stingy.

As for my alt progress, I made it to the Tempest. I wanted to see the size differences between potatoes and Amarout giants LOL and omg, wow. I'm very teeny....

ᕕ( ᐕ )ᕗ I also can't help but to spam my screenshot button 

I'm being denied pretty hard...

NOW MY POLAR BEAR JUST LOOKS LIKE THEIR PET DOG LIKE LOL????????????

And I'll end tonight's post with a screenie of cute lala that is exploring the mysterious Amarout and admiring the architecture.

Until next post,

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x. Once in a BLU Moon

Hallo Ocarina! Tonight I'm going to blog about what my raid group had been doing ever since we finished farming E12S (Eden). We were doing some mount farming and then ... I never thought this was ever going to happen, but we decided to level up our BLU mages and do BLU raid eventually!! Hiro and I finally unlocked our BLU mages and we power leveled our BLUs super fast (of course, thanks to Das and Butter for helping out, despite their BLUs were maxed/close to 70).

When I was learning some BLU magic myself, Luna was like:

"WHAT? YOU'RE ON BLU MAGE?!"

I know, shocker indeed!! 

I had to use my amazing Namazu head because I had no gear LMAO ٩(๑❛ᴗ❛๑)۶ Rix was using crafting gears cause she had no gear as well. Here's Butter picking up the rest of the peeps, so we can go on a road trip. 

LET'S GOOOOO POWER LEVELING!!! ＼＼\(۶•̀ᴗ•́)۶//／／

Once we hit level 60, we went to another location to level up. Rix brought out her slipper and drove us, vroom vroom!

By the way, can you guess Butter's outfit? 

Once we hit level 70, we went to go learn some BLU spells!! Trying to gear BLU was hard because I apparently lack lots of level 70 gears... so had to do some poetic farming...ಥ‿ಥ

Then I later dragged Butter to help me learn more BLU skills, so again, he became my permanent driver that evening. Look at the whale mount thoughhh, it could sit 4 people, but they decided only 2 pft!

Why do I look so nosy when I sit at the back LOL???? What the...

I wanted to learn Tailscrew because I wanted more BLU spells. Butter was trying to convince me there's no point in learning it and that it sucks, but it was no use because I made up my mind. Tailscrew basically brings your enemy's HP to 1 but the chances are really low. The moment I learned it, I put it onto my hotbar. 

Butter: Tailscrew sucks though.

Dolce: But I want to try it!!

Butter: Just imagine you used Tailscrew on your first try and you're like "Butter, what are you talking about?"

Dolce: LOL we'll see! 

So off we went to another map to find a new monster. Butter kindly tanked the monster for me and I was waiting for the monster to cast its skill. Once I saw the skill being casted, I pressed Tailscrew and INSTANTLY BAM! The monster went to 1 HP!

Butter: Did... you just use Tailscrew....?

Dolce: On my first try too! Yeah Butter, what are you talking about?

Butter: I.. I'm so mad. I can't believe that happened. 

Dolce: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

Thank you Butter for being my chauffer and my BLU sensei for that night ♪ ヽ(･ˇ∀ˇ･ゞ) I made him stay up super late just so I can get some useful skills before I could go solo things.

That's all for now gang, until next blog post,

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x. Season 2 of Return to the Oblivion

Happy Monday everyone or I hope you have a good start to this week. Tonight's blog post is kind of short, but I do have a letter for my dear Cucco raid gang at the ends, so feel free to skip that part when you get there. I'm going to start off by showing off my Wind-Up Hraesvalgr, he's officially my favourite minion. He looks so silly, but it's very charmingly cute!!

You can get this minion by purchasing one of the Heavensward artbook. I happened to see the artbook while I was shopping in a mall nearby my area. I've been contemplating whether I should get the second Heavensward artbook for awhile. When I wanted to get it, it was sold out for awhile, and now... I have it ᕙ(＠°▽°＠)ᕗ

Speaking of Hraesvalgr, Cucco raid went back to E8S because we got blueballed pretty hard last tier. We want to get this fight off of our "to-do" list and might as well farm the mounts before Endwalker (*ﾉ・ω・)ﾉ♫♩ We taught Butter and Rare Light Rampant, and they picked up the bow-tie strat pretty well! Thank you to Aki for subbing in and helping us grabbing our clears. 

Hmmm this shot of Rare, me, and Juren though (and Hiro in the background). I might use this one when I need to update the FC header on the site /think

Finally got a ninja full group shot!! 

Emote idling while we're on a recess break ＼＼\(۶•̀ᴗ•́)۶//／／

Yay our first clear, so of course I had to get a group shot. Lmao love the dabbers.

To my dear raid group,

First of all, I want to thank Geir and Rix for adopting me back into the raid group. After a long break from Stormblood, I wanted to go back into raiding, but I didn't want to look for new random groups. I get anxious when people trial me and I get nervous when random strangers expect me to voice chat. 

I want to thank Das for taking really good care of me when I joined the group. He was very patient and he was helping me explain some mechanics. When I was still gearing up my DNC, I was really scared of being the dead weight. So there were some nights that I got too nervous to even speak in Discord, but now how things have changed (but also, for Rix too hehe). He even let me poached him into our FC and I love how Das looks forward to raid nights every week. 

I want to thank Rare for coming back to raid and geared up his PLD before the third tier of Eden started. I'm glad that you let me hog the WHM spot, but if you want to switch to healing, I can maybe think on it while I go sleep. I'm so glad you are able to talk more on Discord now that you're not living with your strict roomie!! It was so weird when you barely talk. Raiding with you was never a dull moment, because there were time where I could rescue you to your death or attempt killing you off. Anyway, welcome back to raid, you were .. somewhat missed. 

Thank you Rix for finally being more comfortable with us and chat with us on Discord. I missed having the best gal duo jokes + shipping so much from Heavensward, so knowing that you're in the raid group, the shipping is back at it again. Thank you for always helping me out when it comes to gathering lots of raid food materials (I mean, everyone did help too but I have to give Rix the most credits)! You were always so quick to respond and to gather things for me when I asked for help. 

I want to thank Juren for being an amazing full-time healer. I wasn't sure if I was being a mean co-healer, but I love being the full-time Glare mage (or...as Geir/Rix/Rare knows, I never heal even if I'm on a healer class). As well, I was comfortable talking to you when it comes to strategizing or planning our mitigations. You never got mad at me or felt offended when I was suggesting things, whether I was planning we should both DPS more or timing heals better or what not. Thank you for putting up with me as your co-healer, Juren!

Thank you Hiro for being such a fun person to raid with. I always wanted to raid with you since ARR, and now we get to be raiding buddies, look at that!! Every time when we are about to grab our first clear and you say "Fuck the police", that always makes me laugh to myself. I don't know why, but it's so fitting and it's great, so don't ever change. Thank you for helping out with the call outs, I thought you did great, especially in E10S. As well, thank you Hiro for always helping me out when it comes to gathering mats for raid!

Thank you to Kiriya and Butter. Kiriya played a huge part in helping me find our 8th person, and he has no idea how appreciative I am. When shit was going down with me and Thomas Ryder, I felt so bad that I kind of ruined raid for everyone else. Not only did people not like Thomas Ryder, but we were going to lose a member (technically they're subbing). I felt somewhat responsible, so I basically went to Kiriya, dropped him my drama and asked for help. Kiriya, being my close friend, said: No, I gotchu girl. 

Annnnd out popped Butter. Thank you Butter for officially joining us and I'm really looking forward to raiding together in Endwalker. You continue the pun trains that the group (SIGH) started and you're also super chill. I love how you sometimes break Rix during raid, and she will laugh so hard that she can't even speak anymore. Thank you for taking on the tank role or even suggesting to be a flex role! That helps so much when it comes to raid planning. We are all very happy to have you on board, but don't get too chummy with Rare, he's such a bad role model.

Lastly, I want to thank Geir. Geir allowed me to make some changes in the raid group. I know Geir is super laidback (heck we've been playing XIV since ARR), but I was still a bit nervous bringing up or suggesting new rules since I was a new member in the raid group. However, Geir listened to me and was very receptive to my suggestions. Not only that, Geir was super patient with everyone in the raid. He also calmly discussed strategies when we were constantly wiping to mechanics. What I like about Geir is that he would never point fingers at people for fucking up, but generally speaking, we're all pretty good at admitting our faults. 

If it weren't for you guys, I would still be a super casual player and I would hop on FFXIV once in a blue moon. Thank you all for being a great team, I always look forward to raid nights and continuously progging on fights. I'm really excited to raid with you in the new Endwalker raid!!

That's it for now, until next blog post

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