At 2:35 a.m. Eastern time on January 24, 2017, just 25 minutes before weekly reset, we finally got it! Jiffy of Cactuar cleared A12S! We did it! It was a long, long raid night. We started our raid around 8:30 p.m. as usual, but we felt we were getting so close to the clear that…
It’s hilarious looking back just about one year ago, when I was devising some arcane complicated formula for how I would score my monthly progress in working on my backlog of games, especially since 90+% of my gaming time this past year has been focused on Final Fantasy XIV. Since my FFXIV character is basically…
In our first major milestone of the 3.4 Patch of FFXIV: Soul Surrender, the Jiffy Raiders of Cactuar defeated Sophia in Containment Bay P1T6 (Extreme) on what was going to be our last pull of the night at 10:48 P.M. Eastern time on Thursday, September 29th. It wasn’t necessarily a clean kill, we had a…
As a gamer, I’ve long been interested in MMOs, but I’ve never really given one a shot until now. I’ve known many people who enjoyed MMOs, primarily World of Warcraft, but beyond just an awareness that the games exist and the vague fear of adding another subscription to my budget, I had always talked myself…
It was a long time coming, but after weeks of work, my raid group cleared A6S on our sixth pull of the night at 10:07 PM Eastern on Tuesday, August 9th. This group had been working on A6S since the first time I subbed for them, and has undergone a number of roster changes and…