Happy 10th Anniversary Final Fantasy XIV

Sunday marks the official10th anniversary of the current iteration of Final Fantasy XIV, A Realm Reborn. According to Wikipedia, the game launched on 27 August 2013. We don't talk about the original 1.0 version that launched on 30 September 2010. That game was so bad FFXIV's Producer and Director Naoki Yoshida literally killed it with fire and started over.

On Sunday at 12:00am Pacific Time, Creative Business Unit 3 will launch two events celebrating the anniversary. The first is the traditional The Rising event. Running from Sunday until the beginning of patch 6.5 sometime in the first half of October, players can meet up with Kipih Jakkya (Uldah, Steps of Nald, X:10.1, Y:8.7) a reporter who covered the end of FFXIV 1.0 for this year's event. The Rising usually breaks the 4th wall of the story and Yoshi-P conveys some sort of message to the players from inside the game.

From The Rising 2022

This year players will receive The Rising Phoenix mount where the player actually becomes The Phoenix. In addition, I understand a mini-game is also available with 2 orchestral rolls from the game. Finally, players who participate in the event will receive a poster from the first The Rising event.

The other event, The Moogle  is traditionally run before a major patch but is synced up with The Rising this year. The event currency, Irregular Tomestones of Tenfold Pageantry, is increased for each of the raids, trials, and duties run this year, with CBU3 giving out the most (14) for running the following content:

• Euphrosyne (Level 90 raid)
• The Tower at Paradigm's Breach (Level 80 raid)
• The Orbonne Monastery (Level 70 raid)
• Dun Scaith (Level 60 raid)
• The Praetorium (Level 50 dungeon)

Pretty standard stuff, I think. But the items available might draw some interest. To begin with, getting the 10th anniversary frame kit for your character portrait. For 10 tokens getting it is almost a no-brainer. For emotes, I think any role player who entered the game during Shadowbringers or Endwalker will want to grab the Insufficient Petticoats and Excessive Petticoats emotes. Those are the ones that make characters shiver and fan themselves.

For 50 tomes, three mounts are available: Fae Gwiber from The Dancing Plague (Extreme), The Big Shell available for Skybuilders' Scrips, and the Tyrannosaur mount from Eureka.

For 30 tomes, all six of the wolf mounts from the Stormblood Extreme trials are available. Collect all 6 and I understand a seventh becomes available. Don't need a wolf mount? Both pieces of the toad costume also cost 30 tomes.

For this event the devs even were thoughtful enough to make available six earrings for 1 tome each along with the traditional light show available for that price.

Overall, I think I'll have a bit of fun trying to collect up the emotes I mentioned above along with another wolf mount or two. I even might try to get the Fae Gwiber if I have enough time and tomes.