Your Travel Journal from Collector's Edition

Have you written in it?

Did you outline the drawings to see what you're really looking at?

Make names of potential crafters from launch to keep tabs on their progress? Then eventually go back and finds them with an invite to a linkshell you're in?

Wonder why the contents of your artbook are upside down?

Make a handwritten list of all the recipes you learned?

Coordinates of places you gather from and what you get from those nodes?

Forgot that you had it?

Didn't get one?

Left it blank, because it was too delicious to ever use, so it can't be used?

I have sketches in mine ^^

lol

I forgot i had one until i read this >.<

I thought about the sketches. But after a while, it just became my fancy cookbook of experimentations:

Page 8 equivalent:
Steamed Burger. Bring water to boil. Dump patty into water. Waited 13 minutes. Bring it out. Why is it so juicy and slimy? MMM this is delicious! Now that I think about it's slightly different from cooked in skillet. Try marinating burger in teriyaki sauce before boiling next time.

Someone baked his broken GTX285 after two manufacteurer replacements. Now he says it works. I wonder if I should bake this out of warranty 9800GTX? Maybe I'll try when I move out next month.

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Originally Posted by Fiosha_Maureiba

Have you written in it?

Left it blank, because it was too delicious to ever use, so it can't be used?

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Pretty much that, I haven't found a use worthy enough for it yet. ^_^

The first month of the game I used it to compare recipes for lvling GSM, now I use it for work, haha!

I'm waiting for the day someone sees it and says "OH! You play XIV!?!" - Let the good times roll.

Dear Travel Journal,

Guess who I have a crush on? .....

(the rest is personal)

thought it was neat, forgot I had it, thought about writing in it, quit playing the game cause Tanaka screwed us, forgot I had it again, started playing again, found the journal again, thought about writing in it.. again, the servers went down... yea, that's about it.

I love the journal! I am halfway through so I use it more sparingly now. I am interested to hear others creative uses for it. For me though, some quick examples off head:

Started off with day by day overdramaticisms on my battle endeavors
Day 1: "the road to victory is paved with wharf rabbit blood!"
and do's and don'ts guides for my classes, so I could share my wisdom one day
Dos and Donts of being a Pugilist:
Do: punch things in the face
Don't: stop punching them in the face

then i started writing down crafters and NPCs of interest, and leves to avoid like the plague, and good craft recipes
somehow then evolved into a quote book
"whats life if you never pull down your shorts and slide on the ice!"
"it's not whether you win or loose, as long as you come in first"

now I kinda just doodle players and cool looking gear I see, and write random things that cross my mind, since most helpful game knowledge is burned into my memories eye

i forgot i had it until about 2 months ago, started using it for crafting, no real order to the pages though, just random recipes with how/where to obtain some mats.

Mine's still in the box, along with an unused security token (I already got one from FFXI).

If I could draw, it would be a sketch book. If I took handwritten notes, it would be a notebook, but that's what I got a netbook for.

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Originally Posted by SHJcules

I love the journal! I am halfway through so I use it more sparingly now. I am interested to hear others creative uses for it. For me though, some quick examples off head:

Started off with day by day overdramaticisms on my battle endeavors
Day 1: "the road to victory is paved with wharf rabbit blood!"
and do's and don'ts guides for my classes, so I could share my wisdom one day
Dos and Donts of being a Pugilist:
Do: punch things in the face
Don't: stop punching them in the face

then i started writing down crafters and NPCs of interest, and leves to avoid like the plague, and good craft recipes
somehow then evolved into a quote book
"whats life if you never pull down your shorts and slide on the ice!"
"it's not whether you win or loose, as long as you come in first"

now I kinda just doodle players and cool looking gear I see, and write random things that cross my mind, since most helpful game knowledge is burned into my memories eye

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Love it!

I contemplated Dear Yoshi-P letters. The kind that I could, but'll never send. (I.e.

Dear Yoshi-P,

Please share more photos of your adventures around the world.

/enddiaryfortoday

But overdramatized quotes sounds like fun too!

I love the journal too, no artworks upside down :)
I have some recipes in it but also some poems ,some things that come to my mind.
Lol i listed all the things to not!^^ throw away, because they are needed for blacksmith.
This journal is the best part of this CE, better than the tumbler(you cant drink anything that would not destroy it^^,like milk) im sorry for this grammar :)
There are plenty of pages left for me, but i will write new things during my future adventures in eorzea :)

Been using mine since day one, I use it for Account names, Passwords, other infos that I usually forget, Cd keys and ummm I dunno some other stuffs? :3 Maybe use it for crafting sometime who knows.

It's still sat in the box. I had forgot about it.

I have a question. Was anyone else a little disappointed when you realised the pictures on each page repeat after a while?

HQ item overall though!

Haven't used mine yet. I want to use it though, but I want to find a very good FFXIV related use. Looked on here to find some good ideas. The journal is very nice and was well worth the extra cost to CE (so was the security token) and I love the illustrations and concept art.

-Adding recipes seems like a decent idea to me, but there are too many recipes and that would be a lot of tedious writing for me and I might fill the entire journal up with just recipes. Personally I prefer just to use The Lodestone for looking up recipes.

-I want to write in information regarding attributes or hidden effects (like FFXI), but I'm not sure there are any hidden effects yet and I want to wait until attributes are set in stone via updates. I'll try to not write things down to heavily so I can easily erase if needed. I want information that is not immediately available to me in game and perhaps not so easy to locate in a wiki (or at least not all on one page).

-I'm considering writing notes that I would probably forget regarding lore, missions, or quests and that is also interesting.

-Considering writing down map locations as well for gathering or locations of interest (however I'd rather have map markers like in FFXI).

-Considering using a couple of pages for favored foods and their effects when this info is easily available and accurate.

-Considering reserving a certain portion for writing memories of entering a new zone for the first time (too late for this with zones already create unfortunately like that feeling you get when you first enter Sky or Sea) and also for thoughts after achieving what is seemingly impossible at first attempt (like many FFXI missions such as having to defeat the Shadow Lord).

-Also considering writing in ideas regarding improvements to FFXIV to post in the forums (however this might be best just to write in a notebook, not sure I wanna put this in my journal).

I could probably fit all of these ideas within this journal.

Would appreciate any other ideas and I love this thread.

We didn't get an art book :/

I took it out the box, flipped through it one good time then put it back in the bax and started playing.

my little boy ate it (>.<)

I wish we had suck a book in-game like Warhammer one.

-jealousy and envy- I wish I had one...if only they issued it out as a buy-alone thing, I'll take it up fast. T_T

I've been contemplating using it to write crafting recipes in..
Once I get high enough to warrant needing to write them down
Other than that it sits on my desk looking cool.

As for the tumbler, it alternates between water, coke, or mead while playing FFXIV, depending on the time of day.

Mine has become my go-to scribble pad for anything game related. It sits within reach of the couch pretty much at all times. (Or at least it did until it was recently packed for my coming move.)

I made notes about guild leves only to find out later that the stuff I wanted notes on was randoamly generated and my notes were worthless. lol

I can't draw and my handwriting is way too messy to spoil the journal with... So it sits in the FFXIV box looking all pretty lol

what I should write on it?

November 18, 2011. grinding at Ever Lakes, spamming Cure, Cure, Cure and Cure.

November 19, 2011. same as yesterday.

November 20, 2011. same as yesterday.

November 21, 2011. same as yesterday.

November 22, 2011. same as yesterday.

November 23, 2011. same as yesterday.

November 24, 2011. same as yesterday.

November 25, 2011. same as yesterday.

For those that didn't get the travel journal, did you get a coffee mug? Or did buy standard edition or Buddy Pass account?

I've considered lore. Little terms like Gridanians calling the Black Shroud the Twelveswood. Or the reason why monsters are supposingly hostile to foreigners of Gridania is because they're afflicted with greenwraith (at least according to NPC guards around town). For a time, I wrote down characters and lesser NPCs that appeared in story missions in Ul'dah.

The two things that snagged me were the idea of a book with concept art (though hard for me to see) and the makings of DVD, which I have yet to watch, but think it may be the same as the YouTube videos released.

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Originally Posted by Evangela

what I should write on it?

November 18, 2011. grinding at Ever Lakes, spamming Cure, Cure, Cure and Cure.

November 19, 2011. same as yesterday.

November 20, 2011. same as yesterday.

November 21, 2011. same as yesterday.

November 22, 2011. same as yesterday.

November 23, 2011. same as yesterday.

November 24, 2011. same as yesterday.

November 25, 2011. same as yesterday.

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win lol Mines still in the box saving it to sell in 10 years.