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AggroChat #486 – Sheep for Divines

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2024/07/21

Good Morning Folks! I am going to give you fair warning… this is a very Path of Exile episode. We pushed that topic to the very end of the show but once you hit it… it is pretty much an hour of talk about the upcoming Settlers of Kalguur League. We start off the show ... Read more The post AggroChat #486 – Sheep for Divines appeared first on Tales of the Aggronaut.

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A Flurry of Activity

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2024/07/19

Good Morning Folks! As is often the case in the lead-up to Blaugust I occasionally give update posts. We’ve had a flurry of activity for initial sign-ups but there is still quite a bit of time before the event starts. As of writing this, there are roughly thirteen days left before the start of the ... Read moreThe post A Flurry of Activity appeared first on Tales of the Aggronaut.

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The Wrong Proportions

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2024/07/18

Good Morning Friends. I have to say I was overwhelmingly excited when I got to the point of the ARR MSQ when it started doling out the formerly Binding-Coil-era gear sets. For pretty much all of my time as a Lalafell I have used this set, dyed jet black, with the bunny kabuto for my ... Read more The post The Wrong Proportions appeared first on Tales of the Aggronaut.

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The Arcadion Is Fun

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2024/07/17

Hey Folks! Last night I did something… that I have not done since Heavensward. Yesterday was the opening day of the very first raid of Dawntrail, and Ace and I threw ourselves at the content. Sure we watched a few quick videos… for reference, I highly suggest the content from SamsonGrey because they are short ... Read more The post The Arcadion Is Fun appeared first on Tales of the Aggronaut.

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Roegabel is Pretty Fun

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2024/07/16

Morning Folks! I legitimately did not expect to grow to like Roegabel… but I gotta say I am digging it. Tanking random dungeons feels specifically fun because I am ginormous and can play fully zoomed out while also knowing exactly where my character is in relation to effects. I also really dig this outfit I ... Read more The post Roegabel is Pretty Fun appeared first on Tales of the Aggronaut.

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Clearing ARR and Optional Dungeons

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2024/07/15

Good Morning Folks! I am reading a lovely story about my murder faerie on this rainy day in Limsa Lominsa. I wish that it were actually rainy in the real world because maybe it wouldn’t be targeted to get upwards of 115 degrees Fahrenheit today. I managed to push my Summoner across the level 100 ... Read more The post Clearing ARR and Optional Dungeons appeared first on Tales of the Aggronaut.

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AggroChat #485 – The Fantasia Dare

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2024/07/14

Hey Folks! We are back in fighting form with the entire crew. We start off discussing SGDQ or Summer Games Done Quick a massive speedrunning community event. From there we talk a bit about the Path of Exile 3.25 Settlers of Kalgur spoilers and some of the changes that are being made. Then we roll ... Read more The post AggroChat #485 – The Fantasia Dare appeared first on Tales of the Aggronaut.

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Blaugust 2024 Is Coming

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2024/07/12

Good Morning Friends! It is that time again, time for another Blaugust. Last year represented the tenth running of the event and it was an extremely successful time. It was the first time running the event in our currently deeply fractured social media landscape. Blaugust was an event born largely on Twitter, and it was ... Read moreThe post Blaugust 2024 Is Coming appeared first on Tales of the Aggronaut.

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Ishgardians are Still Awful

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2024/07/11

Morning Folks! Since I spent all day yesterday talking about my Summoner, I figured this morning I would talk a bit about our progress on Kraken characters. Fair warning for this older content I am going to be pretty open with story spoilers as I talk through it. This is ten-year-old content so you had ... Read more The post Ishgardians are Still Awful appeared first on Tales of the Aggronaut.

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Simplifying Summoner

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2024/07/10

Good Morning Friends! I’m now starting to feel like I am actually rolling on Summoner. Yesterday I pushed it through to level 93 after running beast tribe dailies and then PVP, Main Story, Trial, and Alliance Raid roulettes. I got one of the Nier raids which was pretty awful and takes for freaking ever to ... Read more The post Simplifying Summoner appeared first on Tales of the Aggronaut.

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Reading Stories to Baddies

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2024/07/09

Good Morning Friends! I had a pretty early night last night and turned in around 8:30, so did not make a ton of progress. I did however get my Summoner to level 90 like I thought I would, and made it up to Titan on my Kraken Warrior which we will run first thing this ... Read more The post Reading Stories to Baddies appeared first on Tales of the Aggronaut.

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The Kraken Project

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2024/07/08

Morning Folks! This is the point where I fess up to cheating on my beloved Cactuar. One of the cool things that came with this expansion is the ability to overflow onto less populated servers. We did this a few times over the first few days of Dawntrail and there were four of us who ... Read more The post The Kraken Project appeared first on Tales of the Aggronaut.

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AggroChat #484 – Pray Return

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2024/07/07

Hey Folks! Last night we recorded a show in which we attempted to thread the most delicate needle. Ammo, Bel, Grace, and Thalen have all finished the Dawntrail MSQ and only really want to talk about that. Tam however has not even started it, nor has he finished any of the post-Endwalker content. So we ... Read more The post AggroChat #484 – Pray Return appeared first on Tales of the Aggronaut.

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Machinist Dings 100

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2024/07/05

Good Morning Folks! Yesterday was of course a holiday here in the United States and as a result, I did not blog. Going into yesterday I had managed to push my Machinist up to level 99 and was able to equip the full set of artifact gear. Through some tribal daily quests and a few ... Read moreThe post Machinist Dings 100 appeared first on Tales of the Aggronaut.

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FFXIV Dawntrail MSQ Thoughts

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2024/07/03

Good Morning Folks! I took a bit of a break this week as I worked my way through the Dawntrail expansion Main Story Quest. I decided to just pause my blog posts until I had finished because I did not really want to discuss this expansion piecemeal. First I feel like we need to talk ... Read more The post FFXIV Dawntrail MSQ Thoughts appeared first on Tales of the Aggronaut.

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AggroChat #483 – Kids and Origins

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2024/06/30

Hey Folks! We are back to a full crew this week. We start off with a discussion about Fallen Aces which leads into a larger discussion of games that feel like spiritual successors to other games. From there we talk about Kodra’s experiences with Origins and taking his kiddo to at least part of it. ... Read moreThe post AggroChat #483 – Kids and Origins appeared first on Tales of the Aggronaut.

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Rolling out the VHS Cart

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2024/06/28

Good Morning Friends! I apologize but you are likely not going to get a proper blog post from me until I have spent some more time in Dawntrail. With a new expansion comes a bunch of spoilers information and it would not do well for me to be part of that problem. So I am ... Read more The post Rolling out the VHS Cart appeared first on Tales of the Aggronaut.

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Regularly Playing: June 2024 Edition

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2024/06/27

Good Morning Folks. Over the fifteen years of this blog, I have attempted to create a good number of reoccurring posts. In all cases, I have failed to maintain them for very long. However, one of the series that I managed to keep going relatively frequently was “regularly playing”. The idea behind this is that ... Read more The post Regularly Playing: June 2024 Edition appeared first on Tales of the Aggronaut.

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Uncomfortably Jaded

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2024/06/26

Good Morning Folks. Last night I made my way through the last part of the Alliance Raid for Endwalker and really enjoyed the story. Mastodon was sort of adorable last night as we all said goodnight to our Warriors of Light and put them to bed for a two-day nap. It feels really weird waking ... Read more The post Uncomfortably Jaded appeared first on Tales of the Aggronaut.

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Chilling with the Gods

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2024/06/25

Good Morning Folks! I started my mission in Final Fantasy XIV back in 2013 here in Limsa Lominsa as a Marauder main and I will be continuing that same lineage as Warrior in Dawntrail. Throughout all of it, however… I have sort of wished that the Aetheryte in Limsa was not the hub for the ... Read more The post Chilling with the Gods appeared first on Tales of the Aggronaut.

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