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Wisdom of Nym: Dreaming about Final Fantasy XIV patch 6.55 during the day-long downtime
Somehow, the final Endwalker content patch has arrived. All right, maybe you could argue that's just the tiniest bit premature; technically we've still got...
Wisdom of Nym: The highs and lows of Final Fantasy XIV’s 2024 Tokyo fan festival
There's a certain dramatic irony in the idea that as the Tokyo fan festival started winding up the Final Fantasy XIV: Dawntrail hype, the...
Final Fantasy XIV Tokyo Fan Festival: Pictomancer, lady Hrothgar, and release ambiguity
If you had been paying attention and looking forward to Final Fantasy XIV's third and final fan festival ahead of Dawntrail, you probably had...
Wisdom of Nym: What Final Fantasy XIV’s fan festival needs to accomplish
In just a few days, the last fan festival for Final Fantasy XIV's upcoming Dawntrail expansion will kick off, and on paper it looks...
Wisdom of Nym: My Viper wishlist for Final Fantasy XIV
One of the things I like about Viper in Final Fantasy XIV is that it fills a gap that the game has heretofore been...
Wisdom of Nym: What I definitely do not want to see in Final Fantasy XIV Dawntrail
We don't have very long left to go before the next Final Fantasy XIV fan festival; there's even a countdown clock on the official...
Wisdom of Nym: Still talking about Final Fantasy XIV after 13 years
This column's title is not a typo: I have been writing about Final Fantasy XIV in a weekly column for... at least 13 years...
Wisdom of Nym: Why Final Fantasy XIV fans look for messages in tea leaves from trailers
If you are not on the sinking ship that is Twitter Dot Com at this point, you have, objectively, made a good decision. But...
Wisdom of Nym: Why Final Fantasy XIV’s next limited job is (probably) not Pictomancer or Green Mage
Despite the fact that it is not coming out until significantly later, I'm willing to bet that a large part of the work for...
Wisdom of Nym: When will Final Fantasy XIV head back to the Void?
Some fans were not super happy with the amount of time that Final Fantasy XIV spent on our little trip through the Void with...
Wisdom of Nym: The best stuff from Final Fantasy XIV 1.0 that’s already in the game
Whatever we were getting back from Final Fantasy XIV version 1.0 is already in the game. Period end. And let's be honest, there was...
Wisdom of Nym: Illuminating Final Fantasy XIV’s 6.51 patch
As a general rule, Final Fantasy XIV does not offer much for players to do during the first minor patch after a major one....
Wisdom of Nym: What’s left on the table for Final Fantasy XIV’s Tokyo fan festival?
So what's still on the table for Final Fantasy XIV's third fan festival this cycle? (It's not really this year; the third one is...
Wisdom of Nym: Reactions to Final Fantasy XIV’s London Fan Festival
So we've gotten 67% of the way through the fan festival cycle for Final Fantasy XIV, and that means taking a certain degree of...
Final Fantasy XIV Fan Festival London reveals: Viper, zones, and Echoes of Vana’diel
It's time for more reveals for the Final Fantasy XIV fans in the audience as the London Fan Festival has begun, and that means...
Wisdom of Nym: Examining Final Fantasy XIV’s Growing Light story beats
Once again within this column, you will find spoilers for everything that occurred within Final Fantasy XIV's Growing Light patch, and I will not...
Wisdom of Nym: Examining Final Fantasy XIV’s Growing Light group content (spoiler-free)
So, here we are at the end of the Endwalker patch cycle for Final Fantasy XIV. That isn't entirely true, of course; we all...
Wisdom of Nym: The packed October for Final Fantasy XIV following patch 6.5
Tomorrow, patch 6.5 will be live for Final Fantasy XIV. That's the last patch of the Endwalker cycle, which means the first part of...
Wisdom of Nym: Open questions spawned by the Tokyo Game Show’s Final Fantasy XIV live letter
Thanks to the Tokyo Game Show, we've had our last Final Fantasy XIV live letter live letter before the patch, and aside from the...
Wisdom of Nym: Examining the Mamool Ja of Final Fantasy XIV
The Mamool Ja have been a feature of Final Fantasy XIV since the game's relaunch in 2013, so in a way it's kind of...
