8:04 Starts with overview of town of Adoulin. East Adoulin first -- castle into main part.
East Adoulin music: "Sacred City of Adoulin"
Large zone.
8:06 Huge statue of Altana with a waterfall. Nice early landmark for first visits.
Large circular library -- can be explored in the Adoulin storyline.
So large of a zone, it has multiple waypoints. Walking will be an issue.
8:08 And then to West Adoulin...
Music: "The Pioneers"
Center square for a nice meeting point (that's so 2006 or so!)...
Absolute ton of waypoints...
Auction Houses in Adoulin are linked up with the main Auction House.
8:10 Starts discussing Coalitions (the six "guilds" which were mentioned at VanaFest 2012) by visiting the Pioneering Coalition building.
Pioneering Coalition is basically Colonization assignments in the Ubulka Continent.
And we leave Adoulin to the west (two nice Galkas at the gate for Tohi!)...
8:12 And the rest of the Community Team joins Camate in the Frontier Station. Kind of like an Outpost front line for the Colonization Coalition.
Bivouacs can be built to extend the line and create bonuses. Gather supplies, ease of transport, etc.
Bayohne: Galka GEO
Rukirii: Mithra DRG
Okuipuit: Tarutaru RUN
Camate: Forgot (Elvan)
8:15 Battle Time!
Start by looking at Geomancer.
RUN gets Flash as a pulling mechanism.
Two different kinds of runes -- they DO stack with BRD songs or other Magic.
Indi-spells are cast on self to do a bubble.
First one shown is Indi-Fury -- gives everyone inside the bubble a Fury (probably increased attack, decreased defense).
Geo-spells use the Loupans to create a bubble around a spot.
Geo-Paralysis is the example shown -- all opponents in the circle are subject to paralyzation.
4 person-120 XP for the first one.
Only one active Luopan at a time, so Full Circle eliminates.
You can also enfeeble a single opponent with an Indi (Indi-Slow) spell and then a beneficial Loupan (Geo-Refresh).
However, such an Indi-spell will only effect monsters of whom you have hate with.
Luopans can take damage and also lose HP over time.
A Geomancer can use Life Cycle to heal a Luopan (just like Spirit Link in DRG), and another ability (Ecliptic Attrition) will allow the GEO to increase the effect strength at the cost of increased decay.
A party of 4 99's can chain on the Blanched Mandragoras shown... :)
8:22 Bit deeper in now.
New one: Fernfelling Chapuli.
AND THEY LINK... :)
Elemental ra-magic is demonstrated here. It's elemental magic centered on the caster, rather than on the mob.
8:26 Now, it's time to go to Reives. (What I called "Besieged in Reverse" last year.)
3 kinds:
Lair
Wildskeeper
Colonization
We'll see two of them -- first, a Lair Reive.
Campaign type tags, but this one is actually easy to jump in and join. Run in and get started.
However: You get a penalty (no entering a Reive for 10 minutes) for leaving.
Lair Reives is basically to destroy certain things -- like a Wasp Nest for a bug lair.
Rewards contingent on participation, like Besieged and Campaign. XP, another point-type based thing for Adoulin (bayld is apparently what it is called).
8:31 To the next zone...
Environmental blockages shown now. Colonization Reive this time.
Good idea to clear the area out BEFORE you deal with the blockage.
Indi-Attribute spells shown.
Nice battle music for the Reive. :)
Colonization Reives open up pathways and open up the ability to use Bivouacs.
You need actual Skills to open up the blockages once you clear the way to attack them.
8:36 Time for Rune Fencer.
To the Morimar Basalt Fields.
RUN gets many of the same buffs that you might expect for a PLD-type job.
Also gets Spikes spells too!
RUN-exclusive spell, not revealed as to what: Foil.
Opponent: Sinewy Morimata.
RUN is the new tank spell -- harnesses power of runes.
Runes can be used like Finishing Moves on a DNC.
Releasing runes can be done in two ways: One is Fusion... That's elemental damage.
Gambit reduces elemental defense.
Swordplay shown -- increases accuracy and attack until the next critical hit is scored against the Rune Fencer -- which won't happen, because they have GM Invincible on.
Valiance: Reduces damage from elemental spells of certain types the runes used determine.
Liemont: Absorbs elemental damage of certain types the runes used determine.
8:43 Last destination of the stream.
The Aydeewa Subterrane????
A cool surprise: The Music Box Bonus item...
Just played the Music Box from this zone...
They then show the bonus items for the Ultimate Collection - Seekers Collection.
End of stream.
Not much to the actual stream itself. Good introduction for people who haven't been keeping up. Some stuff for the other people.
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Friday, March 15, 2013
So, according to the bitches on the FFXIAH forums......
... I'm Tohi's boyfriend now.
Half of me wants to laugh -- she's well taken, thank you very little. (Wonder what her boyfriend would actually think of all that garbage?)
Part of me wants at the trolls for their blatant misrepresentation...
Until I realize... That's about all the fuck they are good at surrounding FFXI!!
EDIT: Tohi's answer to the "rumors":
Half of me wants to laugh -- she's well taken, thank you very little. (Wonder what her boyfriend would actually think of all that garbage?)
Part of me wants at the trolls for their blatant misrepresentation...
Until I realize... That's about all the fuck they are good at surrounding FFXI!!
EDIT: Tohi's answer to the "rumors":
Thursday, March 14, 2013
I just realized something last night in yet another argument I've had with Leviathan's elite...
Got into it again -- no trouble this time. Just got into it again.
Oh, which of the big-time Leviathan players was it this time?
Well, no matter for the moment. If his name comes up again, I'll edit or mention it later.
What's important is something I realized: He had the same "I pay my money, I have the right to play the game how I want." routine.
Well, got news for you:
No you don't!!
A player has no right to play the game at all, except under the terms the absolute owners of the game, Square-Enix, set forth.
If a player's play is in contradiction with that situation, he does not have the right to play the game the way he so chooses. He does not have the right to bot the game, hack the game, use an illegal user interface to the game, or gain advantage by any of those or other known or unknown exploits!
I'd love to stand around and call people out and basically take names and addresses of some of you motherfuckers for when the shit finally DOES hit the fan.
I don't have the right to play the game like that. So I can't.
This is why I've had to crack the ol' "book", 100 Ways to Go "There" Without Going "There".
(No, it's not an actual book, but should give you an idea of what I'm trying to go with here.)
The fact is that Square-Enix grants you a limited license, where the players (except when it politically suits them) claim unlimited license.
Kinda reminds me of how piracy has killed my love for anime!
Shall we make it the end of my love for the Final Fantasy franchise too?
Oh, which of the big-time Leviathan players was it this time?
Well, no matter for the moment. If his name comes up again, I'll edit or mention it later.
What's important is something I realized: He had the same "I pay my money, I have the right to play the game how I want." routine.
Well, got news for you:
No you don't!!
A player has no right to play the game at all, except under the terms the absolute owners of the game, Square-Enix, set forth.
If a player's play is in contradiction with that situation, he does not have the right to play the game the way he so chooses. He does not have the right to bot the game, hack the game, use an illegal user interface to the game, or gain advantage by any of those or other known or unknown exploits!
I'd love to stand around and call people out and basically take names and addresses of some of you motherfuckers for when the shit finally DOES hit the fan.
I don't have the right to play the game like that. So I can't.
This is why I've had to crack the ol' "book", 100 Ways to Go "There" Without Going "There".
(No, it's not an actual book, but should give you an idea of what I'm trying to go with here.)
The fact is that Square-Enix grants you a limited license, where the players (except when it politically suits them) claim unlimited license.
Kinda reminds me of how piracy has killed my love for anime!
Shall we make it the end of my love for the Final Fantasy franchise too?
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
More evidence that Windower is Cheater for "Hack My Computer To Pieces"
You know, there's a reason Square-Enix never has explicitly allowed Windower, and some details which have been leaked out about the next version of the cheating piece of hack-ware (v 4.0) shows it well.
(Hat tip to my usual friends who keep an eye on such things so I don't have to all the time!)
It turns out that the usual pieces of shit who make this crap have added all sorts of tracking devices, so that anyone who can really monitor the stuff (including RMT who are already on the prowl, according to at least one player who got hacked waiting for his Mog Bonanza numbers last night!) not only the IP you are playing FFXI from, but the unique identification number of your computer.
Does anyone not realize that, with the right software and all that shit, they can actually take control of your computer entirely?
Look at the compiled code for yourself.
I mean, a lot of players aren't above RMTing accounts and then recalling them later.
You think some of these people who know they are all but hacking FFXI to allow a different user interface aren't trying to extract a little bit more out of the equation?
And keep this in mind: Let's say Square-Enix someday does the unthinkable and closes down Windower -- this would give them the opportunity to know who is playing where...
Not good, cheaters. Not good.
(Hat tip to my usual friends who keep an eye on such things so I don't have to all the time!)
It turns out that the usual pieces of shit who make this crap have added all sorts of tracking devices, so that anyone who can really monitor the stuff (including RMT who are already on the prowl, according to at least one player who got hacked waiting for his Mog Bonanza numbers last night!) not only the IP you are playing FFXI from, but the unique identification number of your computer.
Does anyone not realize that, with the right software and all that shit, they can actually take control of your computer entirely?
Look at the compiled code for yourself.
I mean, a lot of players aren't above RMTing accounts and then recalling them later.
You think some of these people who know they are all but hacking FFXI to allow a different user interface aren't trying to extract a little bit more out of the equation?
And keep this in mind: Let's say Square-Enix someday does the unthinkable and closes down Windower -- this would give them the opportunity to know who is playing where...
Not good, cheaters. Not good.
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
There are days I wonder if I should've stayed in jail...
Wow.
I think I had to run into two of the biggest troll douchebags in Final Fantasy XI history tonight.
Needless to say, what they want, they eventually got: Dwb and Nepptunez have been GMed for at least two charges, harassment through trolling and purported admissions of the use of Parser.
I guess I should rewind this to about 3 1/2 hours ago.
For only the second time in about three months, and because I was bored after a (Old) Nyzul climb was aborted at 40 for the night, I decided to join a Voidwatch group.
It was a Pil group needing a Dragoon, and there you go.
Unfortunately, Dwb appeared as the last person to join the group, at least by my view of the alliance.
The wins were uneventful and almost too fast.
It's what happened around them that got things rather agitative:
You see, the _moment_ Dwb and Nepptunez see me in the group, they're trying to drive me out. They fail. They feel I am so weak that it would be better for the alliance to go with 17!
But it literally is constant, and, after the first kill, they start purporting Parser usage. Given their linkshell, I would not be shocked.
And both players claim XBox usage, and I think they are lying through their teeth.
This continues for the rest of the run, and I try to hold tongue before I get tossed by the alliance leader for the exchange.
Fortunately, that doesn't happen.
I get in another of my shout wars, and that goes predictably.
Then we "take it to tell".
Basically, they're refusing to understand one very fundamental problem:
If my presence in the alliance is so damaging to the alliance (even as a Relic (and a 90 Relic at that) DRG) that it would be better to not have me there (news to me, it seemed like I was proc-ing Polearm the entire set!), that's illegal under the User Agreement.
3.2 Disruption. You may not in any way disrupt or interfere with the Game experience of other players, including the disruption of SQUARE ENIX’s computers and servers.
Note that this DOES NOT have a limitation to physical computer/network disruption.
This is a point I've been making since my 24PB back several months ago: If I am perceived, as a non-Windower player, to be so weak that my presence in the game hampers other players, that is actionable under User Agreement 3.2.
About an hour to an hour and a half of tells later, I get to the precipice of wanting to punch them out.
I believe I stop just short. I got as far as:
In response to a comment of "I'm a man. I can handle it."
saying: "Unless you are willing to handle this in-game with a GM or to meet me real-life and address it there, I don't think so."
I realized I could go no further without a direct threat. So they got what they wanted.
I would like to threaten people. For the last 15 years, I have come to the conclusion that only the threat of violence prevents violent conduct. Law, in and of itself, is a threat of violence. Where I come from, violence was the ONLY law. You fucked up, YOU GOT FUCKED UP. That's how Lower 1 and 3 worked on the Island. It got bad enough, you get killed. Sometimes very brutally.
The fact is, and one player very correctly noted this to Square-Enix directly shortly before my banishment from the Official Forums in 2011: I'm basically a threat to anyone I come into contact with. In any social situation I am in, the potential exists for violence, at any time.
Hell, I got so pissed off at a security guard two weeks ago for fucking me over he had to put me on the ground (and the only reason it got there is because I knew better than to give him what he wanted -- though I definitely wanted to punch him hard) and call the cops.
I don't give a fuck. I really don't. Most of the people here (and that's as much in my locality as it is on Final Fantasy XI) are so far beyond help that only two options are left: Within or outside the law. What makes me angriest is that I still have to (because of considerations completely outside FFXI) try to operate within the law, when it is clear that I believe that a lot of the people administering it have been compromised, hence operating in that manner does limited, if any, good!
You let these little troll shits run Adoulin like they've tried to do the rest of XI, and they will finish killing the Final Fantasy franchise. These little shits who are your audience, Square-Enix, have done more damage to the Final Fantasy franchise than anyone save the abortion of a Development Team for Final Fantasy XIV.
I don't play this game to make friends. I do it to spite people like these motherfuckers.
I make no secret. We met face-to-face, and it would be on. Again, they have no regard for anyone but themselves, so that regard has to be forced, street-style. I just have to (and it's becoming harder and harder) keep it within the limits.
And that's what makes me angry: Those limits are more to keep my butt-cheeks spread while my principles get violated -- principles I must have to prevent some very bad things from happening soon -- to let the socially-accepted motherfuckers in this game basically do what they want.
Fuck the lot of them.
I think I had to run into two of the biggest troll douchebags in Final Fantasy XI history tonight.
Needless to say, what they want, they eventually got: Dwb and Nepptunez have been GMed for at least two charges, harassment through trolling and purported admissions of the use of Parser.
I guess I should rewind this to about 3 1/2 hours ago.
For only the second time in about three months, and because I was bored after a (Old) Nyzul climb was aborted at 40 for the night, I decided to join a Voidwatch group.
It was a Pil group needing a Dragoon, and there you go.
Unfortunately, Dwb appeared as the last person to join the group, at least by my view of the alliance.
The wins were uneventful and almost too fast.
It's what happened around them that got things rather agitative:
You see, the _moment_ Dwb and Nepptunez see me in the group, they're trying to drive me out. They fail. They feel I am so weak that it would be better for the alliance to go with 17!
But it literally is constant, and, after the first kill, they start purporting Parser usage. Given their linkshell, I would not be shocked.
And both players claim XBox usage, and I think they are lying through their teeth.
This continues for the rest of the run, and I try to hold tongue before I get tossed by the alliance leader for the exchange.
Fortunately, that doesn't happen.
I get in another of my shout wars, and that goes predictably.
Then we "take it to tell".
Basically, they're refusing to understand one very fundamental problem:
If my presence in the alliance is so damaging to the alliance (even as a Relic (and a 90 Relic at that) DRG) that it would be better to not have me there (news to me, it seemed like I was proc-ing Polearm the entire set!), that's illegal under the User Agreement.
3.2 Disruption. You may not in any way disrupt or interfere with the Game experience of other players, including the disruption of SQUARE ENIX’s computers and servers.
Note that this DOES NOT have a limitation to physical computer/network disruption.
This is a point I've been making since my 24PB back several months ago: If I am perceived, as a non-Windower player, to be so weak that my presence in the game hampers other players, that is actionable under User Agreement 3.2.
About an hour to an hour and a half of tells later, I get to the precipice of wanting to punch them out.
I believe I stop just short. I got as far as:
In response to a comment of "I'm a man. I can handle it."
saying: "Unless you are willing to handle this in-game with a GM or to meet me real-life and address it there, I don't think so."
I realized I could go no further without a direct threat. So they got what they wanted.
I would like to threaten people. For the last 15 years, I have come to the conclusion that only the threat of violence prevents violent conduct. Law, in and of itself, is a threat of violence. Where I come from, violence was the ONLY law. You fucked up, YOU GOT FUCKED UP. That's how Lower 1 and 3 worked on the Island. It got bad enough, you get killed. Sometimes very brutally.
The fact is, and one player very correctly noted this to Square-Enix directly shortly before my banishment from the Official Forums in 2011: I'm basically a threat to anyone I come into contact with. In any social situation I am in, the potential exists for violence, at any time.
Hell, I got so pissed off at a security guard two weeks ago for fucking me over he had to put me on the ground (and the only reason it got there is because I knew better than to give him what he wanted -- though I definitely wanted to punch him hard) and call the cops.
I don't give a fuck. I really don't. Most of the people here (and that's as much in my locality as it is on Final Fantasy XI) are so far beyond help that only two options are left: Within or outside the law. What makes me angriest is that I still have to (because of considerations completely outside FFXI) try to operate within the law, when it is clear that I believe that a lot of the people administering it have been compromised, hence operating in that manner does limited, if any, good!
You let these little troll shits run Adoulin like they've tried to do the rest of XI, and they will finish killing the Final Fantasy franchise. These little shits who are your audience, Square-Enix, have done more damage to the Final Fantasy franchise than anyone save the abortion of a Development Team for Final Fantasy XIV.
I don't play this game to make friends. I do it to spite people like these motherfuckers.
I make no secret. We met face-to-face, and it would be on. Again, they have no regard for anyone but themselves, so that regard has to be forced, street-style. I just have to (and it's becoming harder and harder) keep it within the limits.
And that's what makes me angry: Those limits are more to keep my butt-cheeks spread while my principles get violated -- principles I must have to prevent some very bad things from happening soon -- to let the socially-accepted motherfuckers in this game basically do what they want.
Fuck the lot of them.
Thursday, February 28, 2013
Well, Comeatmebro can not say he never gave me anything...
Dynamis-Xarc solo tonight, was going to get the L5 part for the axe -- until I forgot that I already had the pop for it... in my Storage!
Still got the replacement Necropsyche.
And a surprise...
Comeatmebro decides tonight is the night, because he's bored and "we're buds" (God, if that ain't sarcasm...), to give me an Archon Cape.
(Now, before anyone panics... Consider how much he and his crew do ADL. Yes, that's the backpiece Arch Dynamis Lord drop. Hell of a drop for Dynamis work.)
I do think he has something in mind, but I will give him something in return.
It is this, since I know he reads the blog:
I don't think I've ever adequately explained, on the blog, why I support the efforts against 3PP.
People have to remember one simple fact: There are three separate platforms on which this game is played in the same environment, at the same time.
Players on all three of those platforms should have the same chance to play content, regardless of the platform they are on.
Many of the Terms of Service that I continually rant on (third-party programs, etc. and so forth) are there, at least by my read, because those tools are NOT AVAILABLE to all three platforms.
Now, there are claims that the JPs on their PS2s have made illegal tools of their own (All-Seeing Eye, I think, was one referred tool) -- and they use this as justification for their actions.
If Square-Enix were to, tomorrow, abrogate the rule and let people use user-created third-party programs to play FFXI, then I would regret the decision (bots, etc. -- I'm thinking of Adoulin content here...), but it is their choice to make.
I don't write these rules, contrary to the opinions of many who read this blog. (For example, my understanding is that they actually want people to create UI aids for FFXIV:ARR.)
I just think that far too many people (yes, him included, which is why I always asked about the $100/mo he's putting in -- not to mention that he has to find a way to buy 8 codes for Adoulin at another $240) do this to make money. I know that a lot of people do it to denigrate other players.
I've just seen too many athletes on steroids to avert my eyes (even when my own character is involved -- see the whole reason I left Siren and what I did when I discovered who I was really playing with there!) on the matter.
Four weeks can't go by fast enough. Sheesh.
Still got the replacement Necropsyche.
And a surprise...
Comeatmebro decides tonight is the night, because he's bored and "we're buds" (God, if that ain't sarcasm...), to give me an Archon Cape.
(Now, before anyone panics... Consider how much he and his crew do ADL. Yes, that's the backpiece Arch Dynamis Lord drop. Hell of a drop for Dynamis work.)
I do think he has something in mind, but I will give him something in return.
It is this, since I know he reads the blog:
I don't think I've ever adequately explained, on the blog, why I support the efforts against 3PP.
People have to remember one simple fact: There are three separate platforms on which this game is played in the same environment, at the same time.
Players on all three of those platforms should have the same chance to play content, regardless of the platform they are on.
Many of the Terms of Service that I continually rant on (third-party programs, etc. and so forth) are there, at least by my read, because those tools are NOT AVAILABLE to all three platforms.
Now, there are claims that the JPs on their PS2s have made illegal tools of their own (All-Seeing Eye, I think, was one referred tool) -- and they use this as justification for their actions.
If Square-Enix were to, tomorrow, abrogate the rule and let people use user-created third-party programs to play FFXI, then I would regret the decision (bots, etc. -- I'm thinking of Adoulin content here...), but it is their choice to make.
I don't write these rules, contrary to the opinions of many who read this blog. (For example, my understanding is that they actually want people to create UI aids for FFXIV:ARR.)
I just think that far too many people (yes, him included, which is why I always asked about the $100/mo he's putting in -- not to mention that he has to find a way to buy 8 codes for Adoulin at another $240) do this to make money. I know that a lot of people do it to denigrate other players.
I've just seen too many athletes on steroids to avert my eyes (even when my own character is involved -- see the whole reason I left Siren and what I did when I discovered who I was really playing with there!) on the matter.
Four weeks can't go by fast enough. Sheesh.
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Another big day to flip cheaters off!!
Woo-hoo!
Just today alone:
But this job seems to have quite a bit of versatility to it! Some interesting mechanics too. Like an enhancement of Swordplay that goes away if you take a critical hit?
Should be fun in about four weeks.
Oh, and one more thing I did tonight:
MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Just today alone:
- Finished capping 99 PLD, making that 10 jobs fully capped and merited (and no FC parties, no Astral Burning, none of that illegal shit).
- Got my Mog Bonanza marbles.
- Caught the new music and Rune Fencer material on the Adoulin site...
But this job seems to have quite a bit of versatility to it! Some interesting mechanics too. Like an enhancement of Swordplay that goes away if you take a critical hit?
Should be fun in about four weeks.
Oh, and one more thing I did tonight:
- Relic #2 complete. I now have a Mandau.
MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
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