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