Weekly Goals and Accomplishments 2/27 -3/5Follow

What the heck happened to February? AGGGGH.

Weekend:
- Get over my hopeless chocobo racing addiction long enough to finish CT and ST for the weekly
- Lancer to 38

Next Week:
- Lancer to 40
- Win the 50 races achievement in chocobo racing

Well I know what I am working on but I am not sure what I will actually finish.
I finally got Tam-Tara Deepcroft (Hard) and last night one shotted The Stone Vigil (Hard).
So one last phase for this leg of the relic and on to the final phase.
Would like to help Tesee get her Lucis for carpentry.
I would like to get my lucis for miner but I may be short on seals. Almost have all my Antumbral Rocks requires (116,000 GC seals for Magicked Oilcloth and moonstones) ouch. Magicked Oilcloth make no sense on a gathering job to me.
I would like to craft a few artisan offhands.
I want to pick a few cards this weekend too..
Lots too work on not sure any of it will be finished 100 percent.

Edited, Feb 27th 2015 9:35am by Nashred

Edited, Feb 27th 2015 9:36am by Nashred

For me, just more of the same. Last two weeks have seen both characters make leaps and bounds advancing in their respective directions, and I don't plan on changing anything I'm doing because apparently it's working (and fun).

It's become clear that the Demon Tabard of Aiming is going to taunt me in XIV like the Moldavite Earring did in FFXI.

0/20 runs for seeing it even drop. 0/4 for this week and counting. I'll settle for the gloves if they drop but this is getting ridiculous.

Edit: Greeded and won the BLM hat - and the tabard still did not drop, much to the disappointment of the other BRD in the party. But now my BLM looks kind of epic.

Edited, Mar 1st 2015 10:53am by Catwho

Tes and I combined got a lot done. Major crafting weekend.
We got Tes her lucis for carpentry on Saturday! went pretty well.. About 1/2 the fails as the last lucis...
We crafted a couple artisan off hands for us and some friends.
Sunday I had to do taxes and was also feeling sick, ended up sleeping a few hours. Still got my master crafting book 2 and supra for goldsmith.
Tes got her master craft book 2 for leather and her Supra.
So on too Lucis for goldsmith and for Tes on leather.

Edited, Mar 2nd 2015 9:15am by Nashred

Weekend Update:

This weekend I played cards. A lot of cards. I think in numbers now. I was mostly on the Vita playing Triple Triad while my wife and I watched TV and movies and did some early spring cleaning. I ran very little in the way of dungeons, and it shows. I don't want to rush this zeta phase. Now that I have the 130 bow and I'm not too concerned about a static right now, the motivation is negligible. Pretty much it is just to cap and look cool.

1. 5/12 on paladin zeta. Almost to 6.

2. 2/12 on bard zeta. Just started 2.

3. I did rank up in the cards, and decided to keep rolling on. After 30 cards obtained, I got the ability to add unlimited 2 star cards to the decks. I made an ascension deck (5 beastman) and descension deck (all cards without types), a strong 7 deck with positional weakness (which I use most often in normal matched), and a more balanced deck that works well against weak opponents, but is terrible against the harder ones (looking at you Swift ).

So now I am at 45 cards. I'm 15 away from 60, and the ability to add unlimited 3 star cards to my deck and become pretty much unstoppable. I've only seen a few with the deck hoarder title. I want that. Deck Holder isn't nerdy enough for me. But I took both cards from Swift and his stupid three eorzea-hour window, took all three from the imperial soldier in mor dhona, and took both from zeb and his descension rules. I'm ready for this tournament.

In addition, since I beat all the opponents (well 30 is all I needed) I got an achievement that netted me a Squall card. Helps a lot!

4. I ran 0 chocobo races. I'll leave that to Kat to be our resident choco-race master. My lock on the lotto is terrible. Haven't won more than 200 on a single scratchoff.

5. I won the dragoon chest in WoD. I'm actually pretty happy about it. Dragoon looks 15x cooler. Also won the healer chest drop in a random ak hm I ran with Ikaru, so I glamoured it over the soldiery healer coat for my whm and sch, and my healer no longer looks like a tool.

Also, with so many people in the casinos, prices are low again. Buy low, sell high. Or buy low and play materia lotto. That's what I've been doing. Wish my luck was better, but I can't complain. Every now and then I check in and one of my wootz weapon pieces sold. That's a nice boost. This week will be doing all the standard capping stuff (which will also level the zetas), and get that Deck Hoarder status. Must have deck hoarder status!

ATMA grinding hurts my head.

It's a curse i tell you.

I havent been in a dungeon in over two weeks.

First i started my new job, then with the prospected funds i got Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate (awesome!), i also ordered the "new" (sorry, didnt have money when it came out) Dynasty Warriors Gundam Reborn. And now we also got chocobo racing.

It's a real struggle to motivate myself enough to get something done in the game.

This week i'll stick to easy goals then:

- Cap Poetics
- Gear the crap out of BLM on Soldiery
- Run WoD for a blm/brd/nin drop and the roulette to upgrade PLD with twine.
- Get PLD's new Relic quests started (and done with?)

Well, it has certainly been a week. I was unable to get most of what I wanted last week due to a combination of Triple Triad and some drama with a (now ex-)friend.

Notable Things:
-Made my first 3 star item (just a furnishing for a good friend as a going away gift)
-Got to 53 cards
-Finished the 1st two verses of this parody

What I'd like to do this week:
-Get Demon Sandals of Healing (Last item I want for WHM until the expansion)
-Cap tomes and get PLD a new piece (debating whether or not to get carbontwine or coat for PLD this week)
-Finish Video with FC
-Finish script for parody
-Get to 60+ cards (I only have 4 left in the world to collect from NPCs, as far as I know).
-Enter the Tournament of Champions

I'm super stoked about the Tournament.

Should have edited the post to reflect, but I found out a few days ago that I still needed to get Gaius. Lists I was using weren't all the way populated. Haven't tried Gaius yet because the GC serpent commander won't hand over the goods. The one from Swift I still need is Alphinaud & Alisaie, but I can also get that from Joellaut in Whitebrim so I'll just get it there.

So I'm at 46 right now, rearranged the house in rl last night so I'm pretty screwed in my hopes of winning the tournament, but I hear people are selling wins and it is rigged anyway.

I still need Titan (from Tratchoum in LLN or Landenal in south shroud), Alphinaud & Alisaie (from Swift or Joellaut in CCH), Behemoth (from a bronze pack, Sezul in north shroud, or Ourdilic near Snowcloak), Papalymo & Yda (from the serpent GC commander or Buscarron), Ramuh (from serpent GC commander), Garuda (from Marcette in central shroud), succubus (from Piralnaut in east shroud), Odin (from Landenel in south shroud), and Gaius.

That is 9, well 8 if I dont try for 300 wins to have a random shot at Gaius. That would put me at 54.

Then I still need ahriman from DD, Tonberry from WP, sagahin from sastasha, siren from pharos (0/1 there), demon wall from ak, shiva from hm or ex, onion knight from wod, chimera from cutters cry. That is 8 more there that could get me to 64.

Then there is lahabrea and Kobold, which are silver card pack wins, and warrior of light and zidane which are both gold pack wins. Nanamo is 400000 and cloud is 1 million, so no thanks. All 6 of those unlikely cards would put me at 70. So I still have room to pick and choose. I got some tough ones already (King Mog, Hildebrand, Gilgamesh, Ultima, Bahamut) that people are having trouble getting, so hopefully I just need to play a bit more and I'm there.

Still, I wish I had more time to play lately. It's killing me.




Edited, Mar 3rd 2015 3:24pm by Valkayree

Spent most of yesterday playing disc golf as a team building exercise with the office, then going with them for dinner and drinks, then watching anime for a few hours with friends.

Didn't even log on until after my normal pumpkin time, so my big accomplishment last night was playing mini cactpot and refreshing the ventures on my retainers and tracking down Sang Petro from another thread on the forums here :)

Just gonna finish the raids I haven't done this week and next, finish up the main storyline and then chill out til Heavensward. Maybe.. maybe, I'll work on my Relic weapon chain but so far I've had s*** luck collecting Atmas and frankly the payoff doesn't seem worth the grind at this point.

Edited, Mar 5th 2015 8:55am by BrokenFox

Progress Update:



Update:

6. Now on 7/12 for paladin zeta. Just started #7 yesterday.
7. On 3/12 for bard zeta. Just started #3.
8. Upgraded tank pants with twine, bought tank gloves with poetics. Won the tank coat from WoD (awesome glamour).
9. I got approached for a static on Tuesday. Wasn't really looking. They were going Wednesday. Had a new tank and new whm that kept messing up. One dps was a little low. We couldn't beat t10. I might stick with them, but they aren't really establishing schedules and trying to go every day, and that doesn't really work for me. You either get it or you don't ya know?
10. Got to 56 cards. Almost there. Still have 2 I can win from silver (Lahabrea, Kobold), and 2 I can win from gold (warrior of light, zidane) but my luck on those has been dismal (even won mini cactpot and bought 10 silver packs and got nothing special). So I'm left running WP, DD, sastasha, pharos, cutter's. big keep, dragon's neck, shiva and mog. Gaius is literally the only card I have left to get from actually playing cards against NPCs that I haven't already obtained.


Edited, Mar 6th 2015 11:00am by Valkayree