Weekly Goals and Accomplishments - 10/30 - 11/5Follow

Hopefully Valk sees this thread and we don't end up with a dupe!

What are your plans for Halloween weekend?

- Get Magical Grandmother through the 15 MSQ and unlock airships so she can do the Halloween event. If it's locked to the 30 then *sigh* grind her to 30. Getting to 15 happened in 4 hours but it slows down tremendously after that, even when you know what you're doing.

- Get another crafting class to 60. Probably leatherworker. It happens when it happens, but getting one more there would be nice.

- MCH to 55 for reals this time. I got to 54 last week but because of Grandma, I didn't get the final planned level last night.

Edited, Oct 30th 2015 12:27pm by Catwho

Going to be another week of very busy non-Eorzea activities: the band has another show coming up next Friday, and with rehearsals and networking to boost attendance it's going to be hard to find time to log on. So some modest plans:

Verdha: clear Fractal Continuum, finish off all the Law gear she wants. Keep fishing.

Waenlona: keep pushing on MSQ and other quests, try to start at least one night after retainer check/gearing up with more than 4 digits of gil for once. Fish some more. Maybe grind some of the low level crafts to 15. Drink more goblin rum.

Finish up AC: Syndicate, get ready for Fallout 4, wonder why I bothered to pay for my sub this month...

Did the Halloween event, too... was very fun! Loved the quick story line, and the rewards are wicked. We've sure come a long ways from "ring this bell."

Also FATE'd my bard up from 52 to 53 in North Thanalan while watching Guardians of the Galaxy. Plan to get into 54 today while watching the Seahawks.

Didn't get a chance to run expert yesterday, but I'll do that today and maybe a couple rounds of PvP.

Meanwhile, in Vana'diel..

I've spent my first couple days back in XI just getting my feet under me. Spent awhile visiting different cities and shouting for a linkshell, but to no avail. It's sad seeing Vana'diel so empty -- I have so many memories of people bustling around, or hanging out in-game with my old ls mates -- and now, nothing. I did an all-areas search, and there were like 550 people logged into the game, which is still substantial given the game's situation. I'm very curious to see whether SE does server merges in the months following this final content update -- there are enough people out there to keep this game lively, but worlds definitely need to be condensed. I also think the game is now "classic" enough where it has more replay value for people like me, who previously played it from a more "hardcore, focus on one character" standpoint. Anyway, enough rambling.

Thankfully I've had lots of guidance from Fynlar, who is on my server. Also, one of my old ls mates did return to the game a month ago, and he started sending me messages as soon as I logged into PlayOnline to install the client. :) So with Kaer, Fyn and myself, at least we've got a good core to try to beat the last of the storyline content, which is my main reason for coming back.

Started the new "Records of Eminence" quest and basically got a free set of i117 gear... although I'm a career rdm, I decided to gear up my blm first... now will work on weapons and gear for rdm. Also did the first several Rhapsodies missions (cool storyline so far). And plugged in gear sets, then redid all my BLM macros. Oh, and also had to dig out my old PC gamepad; I was a PS2 player during my FFXI peak, and I never learned to play with a mouse and keyboard.

Perhaps the strangest thing I did in XI was sell off some blm gear I'll never need again. Goodbye, Igqira Weskit... we had a great run.

Edited, Nov 1st 2015 11:53am by Thayos

I dinged 60 CRP a few days ago. BSM, ARM, CUL, and FSH left for sub-60 crafting and gathering.

Picked up BLM esoteric weapon, body, and legs over the last few weeks.

This patch seriously can't come soon enough at this point. If I weren't obsessively capping esoterics and doing GC hand-ins every week, I'd have unsubscribed.

The Igqira set was always so cool. We need it in XIV.

The mighty Hecatomb Harness/Wyvern Helm combo was probably my favorite in XI though. RIP to my Taru DRG.

I believe the elemental wheel is: fire > ice > wind > earth > lightning > water > fire and then light and dark are strong against each other.

I was a BLM for 3 years before prying myself out of it... I cannot unlearn this stuff.

But don't ask me to get dressed in that game. Some things are a bridge too far.

I tried to pick the game back up after several years of not playing it.

I couldn't remember how to dress myself.

It wasn't pretty.

The gear sets are awesome, and SOOOOOOOOOOO long overdo.

Seriously, where was that feature like eight years ago, when so many people actually played the game?

On my red mage macro palette, I actually had two or three base macros to accompany spell macros just to handle all the gear swapping that needed to take place for each type of spell. It was insane. With the gear sets, that frees up three spots that could have held valuable spells/abilities.

Doesn't really matter in the grand scheme of things, because I had my ability/spell usage down to a science when I played... but the gear sets definitely would have just made things simpler. No need to have to redo ALL macros just because you upgrade one piece of gear.

Note... I do not miss gear swapping... not one bit.

I got heavily into Spellcast and then Gearswap to manage gear sets before they added in the gear set feature.

I also really got annoyed that every time I got a new piece of gear I'd have to spend 10 minutes editing an XML or LUA file.

Edited, Nov 4th 2015 12:14pm by Catwho