User blog:Haldarn/Crystal Warped

Less wiki editing this week, though lots of item screenshots and crops for my own peace of mind. Ah, that beautiful brown background. Promise I'll get on with the Unity Coffers soon...

The reason for my lax behaviour is focus on Wings of the Goddess. Finished! Woohoo! Great storyline, beats the pants off most. Did all three nations' quests and tied up with the Cait Sith and Atomos summons. Everything a cakewalk with i118 Trusts, but still enjoyable nonetheless.

Tomorrow is the May Update bringing the Crystal Storer! So much +inv for me, it'll be great! Today being the last day of 'April', I had completely ignored Feast of Swords 2016, presuming it to be the same thing that we had back in 2012. Only noticed the new headpiece and furniture rewards today, and only had time (with 8 secs to spare, mind!) to defeat one suit of Armour solo and get my Shobuhouou Kabuto. Missed the furnishings and was also slightly worried when I made the wiki article earlier that there was reference to a reward of a "fabled blade". Kicked myself for not paying attention, but it was the fault of the Easter event, which had offered nothing new at all.

The other thing I haven't had the wherewithall to deal with is Ambuscade, meaning the page I created at 2016/05/04 - The April Version Update has landed!/Details is severely lacking in item info as the menu with everything on is only viewable from the NPC once one Ambuscade has been completed. I'm still in Sparks gear with a Marin Staff from last month's Wanted NM Coffer campaign, virtually no macros and in all likelihood ineffectual skill levels when it comes to my RDM or BLM in a party-based environment. Still, going to have to bite the bullet and essentially ask for a carry through one at some point this evening so I can get that info.

Looking forward to the new Crab and Red Crab mounts, the Crab mini-event, new Ambuscade (even though I haven't done the old...), Crystal Storer and the May 2016 Login Campaign. Hopefully the new Return Home to Vana'diel Campaign will bring a few more players back too. And holy crap, the Adventurer Appreciation Campaign 2016 has just been posted up too. Just gonna go read that and get more excited.

I'm logging into FFXIV once a week for 30mins (MGP lottery and to keep my mansion), but the quality and quantity of new content over there is poor. For now Vana'diel continues to kick Eorzea in the pants. I'm honestly astounded by the huge amount of focus the devs there are giving to PvP and enforced repetition of limited content to provide advancement that all players know is going to be obsolete at the very next patch. I'm a little ashamed that I let my subscription to XIV auto-renew for the next six months, as it's not giving the right signal to the devs at all.

Last thing - I really wish the FFXIclopedia community had the chance to communicate more. I'm locked out of the forums (boo!), though those are still independent from Wikia. Blogs like this aren't part of the FFXIclopedia site (it redirects to the forum site for their own ones), and things like Move Requests are just not attended to by the wiki admins. There are a good few enthusiastic wiki editors like myself who are enjoying contributing to the wiki, but are locked out of some of the functionality of the site. Hoping that will change soon if any admins read this, as we're still second to BGWiki for FFXI (as it looks like Gamerescape's FFXI wiki is getting less edits than this).