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Sophia Ex Cleared!

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…

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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love an MMO

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…

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A6S Cleared

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…

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Healing Magic vs. Abilities in Final Fantasy XIV Online

Inspired by a recent post on reddit, I wanted to share with new healers in Final Fantasy XIV Online that there is a difference between healing magic (also called spell-based healing) and healing abilities. If you hover over the skills on your hotbar, you can see what is what. [caption id="attachment_517" align="aligncenter" width="549"] Adloquium is…

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New Monthly Scoring System

Because of a few things I’ve been kicking around in my head, I’ve decided to implement a new scoring system, starting this month, in December. I’ve created a page detailing the new scoring system, which is maybe a little complicated. On a high level, I’ll just say that it’s designed to help me follow some…