Weekly Goals and Accomplishments 8/22/2014 -8/28/2014Follow

1. My chocobo is now othard blue so that one is off the list. All that is left is to ride it around to random hunts and show it off.

2. Start back up the glazenut gravy train, since I sold 3 yesterday for the FC at 700k each. Buy another garden for the council members to grow fruits and veggies for chocobos if they wish (if we can even do that with a small house). I had the foresight to buy into the seeds that convert to blue chocobo dye fruit, which for some reason go for double the gil than anything else. So I planted 3 of the blue darkeners a day and a half ago in shroud soil III (which was 40k expensive at the time) and got 36 berries in each patch. They go for 38k each on Lamia. I only needed 30 of the blue darkeners and 10 of the green darkeners to hit othard blue (yes you can feed them all in one sitting and it works). So that leaves me with 78 to sell. I can get 3 million out of this if I play it right. May consider trading some allied seals for more seeds if demand keeps up. Not many have access to gardening (need a house, and an fc that gives you access, but everyone needs to dye a chocobo, and some multiple times. Its a great gil sink with a pipe running straight into my pockets. Plus the fact that my myth uses have dwindled up so I'm going to start buying up ilvl 90 accessories and trading them for gc seals, or buying crafting mats and trading for gil. All my lvl 50 jobs are ilvl 90. Its that bad.

3. I guess see if my static is still operating and get t6 out of the way at least. Depends on how much time I have to devote to the game this weekend.

4. I hit 109 on blm so aside from the ring from t6 to hit 110 I'm as far as I can go. Next week I buy weathered noct boots for tank and immediately apply a sands. I have 4 logs and 1700 seals so I can almost outfit my tank to 109 over the next few weeks without having to hunt.

5. I still need ST for my random weekly "grab what looks cool and I need".

6. I need to really focus on white mage. It needs to hit 50 and I need to get the relic and my achievements will increase by something like 350 points due to all the completionist triggers.

7. Keep up the Ixali tribe quests. I like these, especially the way they mirrored gc turn ins for 50 points a day at a relatively low cost. I kinda want the direwolf mount, but less now that my choco is blue, but i dunno I'll get it anyway cause I'm running out of stuff to do. The regular missions only give 15 each for Neutral and 17 for recognized, so simply walking over to North Shroud for a 50 point turn in once a day is still pretty fast progression by comparison.

Edited, Aug 22nd 2014 8:58am by Valkayree

Let's see........
Get SCH body piece from ST.
Complete daily hunts for my 3rd log and upgrade my burtgang.
Obtain atleast pvp rank 30 in frontlines for vanity gear.

1 - Finish my current atma book (just one type of critter to kill) and then farm myth to buy another one and get that done.
2 - Get my Goblin reputation to Recognized (only 5 from that) and start on the Ixal reputation quests.
3 - Find something else to spend my GC seals on. I blew 25k of them buying Coke to put on on the Market Boards. So, yes, I am one of Lamia's coke dealers.
4 - Do ST until I get something I want.
5 - Get some hunts done.
6 - Do more work on putting together said static referenced by Catwho.
EDIT: Forgot this.
7 - Get the soldiery to cash in my UAT for a shiny ilvl 100 MNK weapon.

Edited, Aug 22nd 2014 1:43pm by Illsaide

As the sahagin next to the tribe-quest giver says, "My only wish is to catch a fish -- they're so juicy-sweet!"

So yeah, kind of back into fishing again now that "The Beast of Brewer's Beacon" is done and it's fun again. Keep fishing Silver Sovereigns until I can upgrade hat and pole, and try to make enough gil to synth myself some iLvl 70 accessories to meld more Gathering/Perception. (I spent all my gil on a Thavnarian Onion -- I love levelling my chocobo, I can go to Rank 11 now! -- and the materia to meld my Leatherworker to the point where I can try the 2-star recipes.)

Casually level SMN to catch up with BLM, then do the 35 quests for each and keep levelling them some more. I'm not partying with SMN because I'm using auto-summons, because I think I'll probably want to do SCH rather than SMN anyway. This way I can share INT-based gear between SMN and BLM until I hit 50, then I can go back and gear and set up SCH macros and run guildhests and starter dungeons to learn the job. Still not sure I'll want to endgame them, but it's being fun to leve and FATE.

Try to get more Atmas. I've been on 3/12 for about a month now, and I've been spamming fates in East Shroud the whole time. I synth in East Shroud. I wait for DF in East Shroud. I level my Chocobo in East Shroud. I do beast tribe quests in East Shroud. And run to any FATE local enough to get a decent contribution before it's done. Getting an Atma of the Goat is like the 3500+ fish it took me to get the Titanic Sawfish. And the sad thing is I really need two sets, one for WHM and then one for MNK.

Maybe do some hunts, if it's not too depressing after the nerf. I could use the Oils and Sands, but soon it'll be the Soldiery cap that's limiting me on that.

And slip in some Main Scenario Roulette just for the fun of it.

I attended the Distant Worlds concert here in Chicago today. It was awesome. They dedicated the entire second set to the 20th Anniversary of Final Fantasy VI....and even more shocking is Nobuo Uetmatsu was sitting behind me and my wife when he wasn't on stage doing the keyboarding during Dark World from FFVI.

I know not related to FFXIV in any way - But that's an accomplishment I can tell every Final Fantasy fan about. :)

Edited, Aug 24th 2014 11:44pm by GavilrainOfGaruda

WAR to 45 get, and due to a good hunt day yesterday, iLvl 100 BLM.

During the massive PSN outage yesterday, I deduced a few things:

1. Google Chrome and some of Lamia's other griefers probably play on console.
2. DPS queue times in roulette were somewhat reduced. Conclusion: Console players are more likely to be on DPS clogging that up.
3. The majority of my friends are on PC.

And Valk is the exception because he idles like a hobo everywhere and never turns off his PS4.

I actually got a "most wanted job" bonus for DPS in Main Scenario Roulette last night. Never thought that would happen.

Got my Succubus minion last night, finally. No ST drop this week at all, which stinks. Currently sitting at about 44/100 on HQ Twinthreads for my WVR tool turn in items. It's a new week, and I want that Artisan's Needle!

Lots going on. Last couple of weeks were Hiatus, one of which was extended due to emergancy RL circumstances but I'm back on the horse again and ready to go.

We're starting things out slow. We've got friends from another game comming to FFXIV and filing into a sister FC that we're working in an alliance with. to try to encourage a bit of grouping together we've got a ST night going on, hoping to fill in as many as we can before Party Findering the remaining members.

After that point, my goals are fairly open again, I need to reassess my time. I'm picking up the daily/weekly hunts now that they seem more enjoyable, though trying to fit that and daily roulette runs in together is a thing. That, plus taking myself off the game one night a week for sanity purposes is going to cut my time down a bit. Not entirely sure which night I'm taking off, however.

This weeks goal is to just work on Vanguard paperwork to get that ready as well as working with our Sister FC to get them nice and comfortable in game. Nothing set for personal achievements until I know how all I'll be handling my time.

The sheer size of the thing really reminds me how much we spent! Some wierdo stayed up last night to badly decorate. Its far from done, but it is amazing what you can do with all that space and extra placement slots. And we now have 3 large gardens so that does complete one of my goals for last week I think...

I'd recommend holding onto the gil for now, I don't think we will be needing gil as an FC again until they introduce the warehouse where we build the airship.

We're still sorting through things in the FC, and also encouraging the other to be active. The main idea is to have a steady stream of cross-socialization between the groups so we are more inclined with interacting on a broader scale. Thing about good FCs is you tend to slip into isolationism, and we want to discourage that.

This, and with new members, we have more people interested in the Vanguard initiate, which puts pressure on me to get all that work done for editing and revisions.

So, goals this week are centered around getting roleplaying profiles updated for Eric Verus, and made for Lin Celistine and Hyrist Verus, as well as getting Vanguard paperwork complete. Should be easy as I have more days off for both Labor Day and my birthday (31 on the 1st, for those who are curious.)

Only other goal is to have fun. Not sweating any major goals this week as far as gameplay.