Here stands Clan Destine, level 70 red mage, ready to take on the ultimate story battle in Final Fantasy XIV's latest expansion. She'll get to it eventually, but there's a lot more to Stormblood than epic battles and new job classes.
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Since Final Fantasy XIV's Stormblood expansion launched in early access on Friday morning, I've leveled a Red Mage from 50 to 60 and taken my first steps into the city state of Ala Mhigo. Imagine what I could have accomplished had the servers been anywhere near stable!
At around 4 AM Eastern this morning, less than a week after the release of World of Warcraft's fifth expansion pack, my little Draenei boy became a level 100 Shaman. That was awfully fast.
Last week, I posted less-than-favourable launch day impressions of Trion Worlds' Defiance, the massively multiplayer shooter tie-in to SyFy's upcoming original series. I bemoaned the lack of PC options, criticised the silly vehicle physics and worried over its lack of general chat functionality. A week later those issues are still present, yet I've been playing voraciously whenever free time strikes. Here's why.
Having spent a couple of weeks in the exiled world of Arborea in the delicate boots of a pretty pink Sorcerer, for my second MMO log I decided to take the long, strange trip to mid-level madness in something a little more sturdy.