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Holy cow, the new areas are nice. Amazing detail. Not as pretty as CoP areas, but nice in their own ways.
I wish I had taken notes of all the new/cool things I encountered as I went along, but I was too excited and kept getting distracted by stuff. :P
Highly cool: We were on the second boat into the new area! I thought we were first, but apparently there was one boat ahead of us. :( Luckily that first boat was nearly empty, so we were still some of the first players to ever enter the new zones.
Waiting for the new content to become active was a serious bitch. God damned idiot players couldn't stop spamming, /randoming (which cannot be filtered out), and making drinking/farting/raping/high school jokes. I would have willingly shot each of them in the head (okay, not really). But the bad part was over fast and the new stuff was so wonderful it totally outshined it!
* The boat ride over (which was rather too long for my tastes). Whales! Singing whales! And seagulls! So cool!
* You could jump off some of the bridges! I've always missed that (WoW had it)! It's so cool that they added it in, fially!
* Pets out in the city! So cool! Carbies and wyverns everywhere! (Hmm, I wonder if fellowship NPCs can be called out?)
Everything was so totally new and different! The whole city, the NPCs, everything had such a different flavor! So cool!
And lastly, I loved how I treated the whole area differently: Usually I ignore NPCs, but I wanted to talk to each and every one in the new areas. :D
A warning: The mobs outside of town are serious. They're EP and up to a 75, and high end EP at that (got 18 XP for killing one in a party). Not only that, they're strong and fast. I saw a tiger chase down and kill a 75 NIN or THF. I swear, the tiger looked like it had Flee on. I've never seen any mob move that fast.
I took a few hundred screenshots. :P I picked out the best ones to upload, but that's 72 of them. They are not edited! They're full sized! Sorry, but there are too many of them and it's too late for me to edit them. Also sorry that that FPS is stuck in the corner; I hate seeing it there, but I'm using an old version of the Windower and I can't get rid of it (I tried all of the F-keys...).
Whole directory, feel free to look at as many or as few as you like: http://www.hot-hot-hot-catlove.com/ffxi/treasures/ (Again: Spoiler warnings!)
Some of the ones I especially like:
http://www.hot-hot-hot-catlove.com/ffxi/treasures/pol%202006-04-19%2020-21-15-26.jpg - love the text! That was a fun CS and I can't wait to do that quest.
http://www.hot-hot-hot-catlove.com/ffxi/treasures/pol%202006-04-19%2020-40-00-50.jpg - view of the city from outside. For some odd reason, it was overcast the whole time we were there, which didn't make for pretty screenshots. Since we were there all night (RL), I wonder if it's just always overcast?
http://www.hot-hot-hot-catlove.com/ffxi/treasures/pol%202006-04-19%2020-49-15-31.jpg - Mammoths! Screenshot taken from far away because they were VT+ to 75. o.O
http://www.hot-hot-hot-catlove.com/ffxi/treasures/pol%202006-04-19%2020-53-14-42.jpg - Those odd spiders (for Eadwyn!) Man, they hit fast, too.
http://www.hot-hot-hot-catlove.com/ffxi/treasures/pol%202006-04-19%2020-55-21-31.jpg - Nice picture of outside.
http://www.hot-hot-hot-catlove.com/ffxi/treasures/pol%202006-04-19%2020-56-55-18.jpg - Cutest Mobs Ever!
http://www.hot-hot-hot-catlove.com/ffxi/treasures/pol%202006-04-19%2020-58-13-53.jpg - Tiger down there. Everywhere we went, the mobs were pretty darned thick. I bet some of these places will be good XP spots.
http://www.hot-hot-hot-catlove.com/ffxi/treasures/pol%202006-04-19%2021-04-24-45.jpg - Just look at the city details! So cool!
http://www.hot-hot-hot-catlove.com/ffxi/treasures/pol%202006-04-19%2021-11-00-46.jpg - Talk about armor that'll clink when you walk...
http://www.hot-hot-hot-catlove.com/ffxi/treasures/pol%202006-04-19%2021-11-54-17.jpg - This is where I was able to jump down from! I was right next to that NPC.
http://www.hot-hot-hot-catlove.com/ffxi/treasures/pol%202006-04-19%2021-13-12-07.jpg - Interesting looking weapon, but doesn't look very practical...
http://www.hot-hot-hot-catlove.com/ffxi/treasures/pol%202006-04-19%2021-18-18-62.jpg - Coolest New NPC Trick Ever. Read the bottom half of the text. (If you have the expansion pack, you might want to skip this one. It's fun to discover it on your own! Only screenshot with only text.)
http://www.hot-hot-hot-catlove.com/ffxi/treasures/pol%202006-04-19%2021-23-44-45.jpg - Black coffee for Black Mages? :P
http://www.hot-hot-hot-catlove.com/ffxi/treasures/pol%202006-04-19%2021-25-22-17.jpg - I noticed more of the NPCs were saying things related to sex. A little odd, but hey! You can use me all you like, baby~
http://www.hot-hot-hot-catlove.com/ffxi/treasures/pol%202006-04-19%2021-29-10-48.jpg - Second cutest mob (mob?) ever. Oh my god, I want one! Eee!
http://www.hot-hot-hot-catlove.com/ffxi/treasures/pol%202006-04-19%2021-48-41-12.jpg - There are so many links I wanted to use and say "Like a postcard!" but I couldn't pick just one, so I picked one at random. Look at this shot! Like a postcard!
Man, so much to see! I'm highly tempted to call in sick to work tomorrow, but I can't/shouldn't/won't. It'll all still be there when I get back. :)
Again, sorry the screenshots aren't smaller. I know they're easier to see when resized, but I have no time. So sleepy. zzzzz
Oh, Ead: There's a black pepper vendor there with what appears to be an unlimited amount of it. We can bring some in for you if you still need it.
Holy cow, the new areas are nice. Amazing detail. Not as pretty as CoP areas, but nice in their own ways.
I wish I had taken notes of all the new/cool things I encountered as I went along, but I was too excited and kept getting distracted by stuff. :P
Highly cool: We were on the second boat into the new area! I thought we were first, but apparently there was one boat ahead of us. :( Luckily that first boat was nearly empty, so we were still some of the first players to ever enter the new zones.
Waiting for the new content to become active was a serious bitch. God damned idiot players couldn't stop spamming, /randoming (which cannot be filtered out), and making drinking/farting/raping/high school jokes. I would have willingly shot each of them in the head (okay, not really). But the bad part was over fast and the new stuff was so wonderful it totally outshined it!
* The boat ride over (which was rather too long for my tastes). Whales! Singing whales! And seagulls! So cool!
* You could jump off some of the bridges! I've always missed that (WoW had it)! It's so cool that they added it in, fially!
* Pets out in the city! So cool! Carbies and wyverns everywhere! (Hmm, I wonder if fellowship NPCs can be called out?)
Everything was so totally new and different! The whole city, the NPCs, everything had such a different flavor! So cool!
And lastly, I loved how I treated the whole area differently: Usually I ignore NPCs, but I wanted to talk to each and every one in the new areas. :D
A warning: The mobs outside of town are serious. They're EP and up to a 75, and high end EP at that (got 18 XP for killing one in a party). Not only that, they're strong and fast. I saw a tiger chase down and kill a 75 NIN or THF. I swear, the tiger looked like it had Flee on. I've never seen any mob move that fast.
I took a few hundred screenshots. :P I picked out the best ones to upload, but that's 72 of them. They are not edited! They're full sized! Sorry, but there are too many of them and it's too late for me to edit them. Also sorry that that FPS is stuck in the corner; I hate seeing it there, but I'm using an old version of the Windower and I can't get rid of it (I tried all of the F-keys...).
Whole directory, feel free to look at as many or as few as you like: http://www.hot-hot-hot-catlove.com/ffxi/treasures/ (Again: Spoiler warnings!)
Some of the ones I especially like:
http://www.hot-hot-hot-catlove.com/ffxi/treasures/pol%202006-04-19%2020-21-15-26.jpg - love the text! That was a fun CS and I can't wait to do that quest.
http://www.hot-hot-hot-catlove.com/ffxi/treasures/pol%202006-04-19%2020-40-00-50.jpg - view of the city from outside. For some odd reason, it was overcast the whole time we were there, which didn't make for pretty screenshots. Since we were there all night (RL), I wonder if it's just always overcast?
http://www.hot-hot-hot-catlove.com/ffxi/treasures/pol%202006-04-19%2020-49-15-31.jpg - Mammoths! Screenshot taken from far away because they were VT+ to 75. o.O
http://www.hot-hot-hot-catlove.com/ffxi/treasures/pol%202006-04-19%2020-53-14-42.jpg - Those odd spiders (for Eadwyn!) Man, they hit fast, too.
http://www.hot-hot-hot-catlove.com/ffxi/treasures/pol%202006-04-19%2020-55-21-31.jpg - Nice picture of outside.
http://www.hot-hot-hot-catlove.com/ffxi/treasures/pol%202006-04-19%2020-56-55-18.jpg - Cutest Mobs Ever!
http://www.hot-hot-hot-catlove.com/ffxi/treasures/pol%202006-04-19%2020-58-13-53.jpg - Tiger down there. Everywhere we went, the mobs were pretty darned thick. I bet some of these places will be good XP spots.
http://www.hot-hot-hot-catlove.com/ffxi/treasures/pol%202006-04-19%2021-04-24-45.jpg - Just look at the city details! So cool!
http://www.hot-hot-hot-catlove.com/ffxi/treasures/pol%202006-04-19%2021-11-00-46.jpg - Talk about armor that'll clink when you walk...
http://www.hot-hot-hot-catlove.com/ffxi/treasures/pol%202006-04-19%2021-11-54-17.jpg - This is where I was able to jump down from! I was right next to that NPC.
http://www.hot-hot-hot-catlove.com/ffxi/treasures/pol%202006-04-19%2021-13-12-07.jpg - Interesting looking weapon, but doesn't look very practical...
http://www.hot-hot-hot-catlove.com/ffxi/treasures/pol%202006-04-19%2021-18-18-62.jpg - Coolest New NPC Trick Ever. Read the bottom half of the text. (If you have the expansion pack, you might want to skip this one. It's fun to discover it on your own! Only screenshot with only text.)
http://www.hot-hot-hot-catlove.com/ffxi/treasures/pol%202006-04-19%2021-23-44-45.jpg - Black coffee for Black Mages? :P
http://www.hot-hot-hot-catlove.com/ffxi/treasures/pol%202006-04-19%2021-25-22-17.jpg - I noticed more of the NPCs were saying things related to sex. A little odd, but hey! You can use me all you like, baby~
http://www.hot-hot-hot-catlove.com/ffxi/treasures/pol%202006-04-19%2021-29-10-48.jpg - Second cutest mob (mob?) ever. Oh my god, I want one! Eee!
http://www.hot-hot-hot-catlove.com/ffxi/treasures/pol%202006-04-19%2021-48-41-12.jpg - There are so many links I wanted to use and say "Like a postcard!" but I couldn't pick just one, so I picked one at random. Look at this shot! Like a postcard!
Man, so much to see! I'm highly tempted to call in sick to work tomorrow, but I can't/shouldn't/won't. It'll all still be there when I get back. :)
Again, sorry the screenshots aren't smaller. I know they're easier to see when resized, but I have no time. So sleepy. zzzzz
Oh, Ead: There's a black pepper vendor there with what appears to be an unlimited amount of it. We can bring some in for you if you still need it.
