Weekly Goals and Accomplishments - 11/20 - 11-26Follow

Thanksgiving is a time for giving thanks, and also a time to enjoy a few days off, eat a food, and play a game or two. What do you hope to accomplish by Thanksgiving?


My Goals:

1. Keep data gathering on retainers. Its a shame, I'm hearing great things from quick venture returns right now, but the luck has been consistently in the 4-10k gil range for my returns on the filed ventures XIX. I'll keep the train rolling until it dies. All I'm going to say right now is that if you need dissolvants, put a lvl 60 battle retainer into XIX. Callinon gave me some info that I will be incorporating. N=34 on battle jobs at the moment, most of the gathering has N=10. Would like to wait one more week so I have accurate numbers. Hoping I hit some rare minions or something. The steel mainspring from miner being my only item of notable rarity so far is sort of bumming me out.

2. Still 200 out from capping eso for the week. Next week I think I'm going to switch it up a bit. Being sick and tired of being ilvl 190 dps when there are so many good 210's out there, I'm going to swap over and upgrade the dragoon a bit. I fight well with it, my rotation is solid, I should do it. So, here is my game-plan...

A. Weekly Token from Void Ark to upgrade 200 - 210 - Goes to Warrior next three weeks (boots, gloves, helmet). Then dragoon.
B. Void Ark armor - Weekly drop goes to caster (still need hat, pants, gloves). Then Bard/MCN.
C. Weekly eso - Dragoon stuff from now on, all the way through right side. Will probably cross-use those on warrior anyway.
D. Keep praying for 210 stuff to drop from diadem to make my job of simultaneously leveling War, PLD, SMN, Bard, Drg, MCN easier.

3. Level MCN if I have time.

4. I guess I'll Solo queue diadem, try to jump into some other FC's hm run. Honestly, having an FC that even has the capability to unlock the HM loot train, much less unlocking the 210 loot train, then the FC collectively deciding not to enter said content due to a billion different reasons (playing fallout, not enough notice, gear is too random, like hunts better) drives me up the wall crazy. I seem to be comfortable in a zone swimming between people who are casual/hunting/playing Fallout and hardcore people who quit because the content got too soft. And no one else exists in that zone. Grrrrrrrrrr.

I was very sad about not doing Diadem last night. We knocked out the Void Ark weekly instead but.... meh.

I want the energy I had from my old Dynamis shell in XI but I just can't spare the time and energy it would take to build up a group like that again. Hell, I didn't even really start NoSephiroth - I was asked to be a leader when founder stepped down. I became the little Tarutaru face of that shell and poured my heart and soul into it. I can't do that again. I can't.

If you do find a static that wants to do HM, Valk, and y'all can schedule it during a time I can go, I'll join you. With two people from the FC, you can use our ship and house as the launching base. I just can't be the one to lead that static.

In other news, today is my birthday. My office has made me listen to embarassing bad happy birthday songs all day. I ate two donuts. No regrets.

For the week I would like to:
- Finish MCH to 60. A level and a half to go.
- Get the last two crafting classes to 60. ALMOST THERE.
- Buy another retainer. I'm out of room for gear. Again.
- Reorganize the retainers so that their jobs actually sort of match their contents.

Sigh. The good old days, when I could eat anything I want and literally have no regrets.

Getting old sucks.

I'm getting old too, and my Fitbit is now yelling at me for only having logged about 4,000 steps so far today.

Now I'm eyeing a third donut.

I couldn't see myself doing that unless Zeer Roh, Piuriu, and Dolanicus came back to FFXIV. Then I would have those three plus probably artemis and it would be doable. But the time I am on the game is limited lately, and I'd be much better off joining a group than making one. Considering that I have joined 0 Thordan groups, and have tried savage alex 1 twice when it first came out, my motivation for raiding endgame (and finding the endgame raiders that are wanting to run the loot train) is slim.

Its sort of a chicken and the egg game. Don't want to invest in endgame friendships until I'm geared, can't get geared unless I invest in finding endgame raiders to HM loot hunt.