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(+) Yeah! (+)

DNC buff and OCE servers going from 120ms to 6ms in ONE patch.

PRAISE THE LORD.

Damn. I feel like the fate trains are nearly dead already. I'm on my fourth last dps job too, at 88; which is made worse by dps queues on everything worth decent exp. Thanks, work schedule. <_<

Note to self: Look at Comp Draughts on the mb, and grab multiples of three, high quality, for 1500 or less per pot. Otherwise don't worry about it.

51 HQ draughts went for just under 1200 a piece this evening. So I turned 63k into 164k gil while dinner was cooking. Keep this up, and I might be able to buy the remaining crafting materia I need for accessories and tools. Then I can look into one of my major goals for the month or two before 6.1 hits, and knock out some firmament crafting for achievements and mounts (and Casual Attire for Lyra).

I'm getting close to a couple pvp achievements, which I should be able to pop this month. This month I should also be able to finish leveling my jobs and melding my crafter accessories, which means it'll be time to put time time and energy into Diadem/Firmament.

I totally intend to raise my mount collection, but also reach or pass the 80% mark on achievement points before 6.1 comes out.

In 5 weeks we have never seen anything but boots drop from p2s. :|

Finally got some good p4s prog in with the entire group. Killed phase 1 twice tonight, and got a lot of Act 2 prog in. That mechanic sucks lol but the rest of the fight looks like it won't be as bad as Act 2.

The pvp groups I have been getting these last few days have been disgusting me. They scatter about and let the other alliances steamroll them or grab objectives uncontested way too often. Sure, there is a 300k exp difference between 3rd place and 1st, but there's only achievement progress on victories from, well, getting 1st place victories; of which I need 16 more for that Mael horse. There's also little to no fun to be had from losing so damned often, especially for things well out of my control.

Gods, I can't wait to be level capped on all jobs, rank 50 for Mael, and done with this forsaken content.

It's too bad the new pvp mode will probably carry yet more achievements I need to grab some of, just to secure a good 80% or more of available points in the game. Just like other things barred by rng, this is torture for anyone busy with life, unlucky too often, or both.

I found the base macro I'd found back in 5.41-ish, that I had added a couple Tricks steps to for the chances at extra cp for the Progress at the end. I've tested it and added Trained Finesse at one point. My non-specialists can, with current melds and food, reliably reach 13,990 quality or more when the third collectible tier is 1400 (14,000 quality). Even 1 more Control would meet that threshold; which the new food at 87 or whatever could pass if I were to bother.

The rough part continues to be the Progress at the end because of limited CP and Durability, but with how the Expert conditions work I should be able to finish 80% of the crafts relying on rng. 500 more Craftsmanship, and that is still a thing, having maybe shaved a step or a little less at the end. lol

That goes to show how much more worthwhile Control and CP are when melding and crafting things in this game.

Anywho.

Pld is now 90, no thanks to the bad groups I've been getting in pvp. No, really, the last Frontline ended with the job about 700k exp from leveling, which wouldn't have happened if I'd won a couple more matches. Well, now Gnb is next with that, while I fate grind Nin (now 83), Mch (81) and Dnc (81). Then I'll be done.

Then I'll be past the 20k mark on achievement points, before diving back into Expert crafting, and well on my way to maybe, hopefully, reaching 80% before the content patch comes . . . and sets me back again. xD

Got to p4s phase 2 enrage \o/

papercup posted...

Got to p4s phase 2 enrage \o/

I misread that, and imagined Playstation 4s as having an enrage rather than a technological expiration date. Oh! Maybe it becomes a full-fledged attack helicopter before going boom and taking users with it!

Got SGE to 90!

Leveling GNB next, and oh God these hotbars. There's so many buttons. x_x

papercup posted...

Leveling GNB next, and oh God these hotbars. There's so many buttons. x_x

Gnb really does have a lot. Like it truly feels like a dps rotation, but with tank cooldowns and abilities. It's also one of two I am working on at the moment, along with Nin.

Gods I'll be glad to be done with Nin. It's my least favorite DPS this time around, with Blm being my second least favorite by about a mile. I still have Mch and Dnc at 81, but I'm getting tired of leveling stuff. There are just so many jobs, and it doesn't help that most of the Bozja groups and Fate parties have dwindled by now.

Like I have to get online and do either one at prime time, and sometimes make my own group (gross, ew, please no) for the desired area because, for some reason, people keep making groups in my least favorite zone in the many expansion zones - Labyrinthos. Or in the last zone of this expansion, which is too high my my 81s to hit anything. I miss opening PF at almost any hour and seeing groups for the moon or z5.

My leveling order to get the rest to 90 is:
GNB
NIN
SAM
MNK
WHM
WAR
BLM
RDM
AST
DRK

And I'll be all 90.
I did it so I'd have 3 dps to 90, then a healer then a tank, repeat. And it mostly works out.

I used pvp for Drk and Pld so that I wouldn't have to actually touch Drk or remember how to use Pld. For Gnb, I am at least implementing the occasional other roulette since it's a dps disguised as a tank for faster queue reasons, like some kid trying to look older so they can get into an R-rated movie on their own. My Maelstrom pvp rank is almost 50 (2888/13620 on last rank), and any last remaining matches for it after Gnb hits 90 will go toward Nin, because again I want Nin to just be done.

For Mch and Dnc, at least I will no longer have to worry about positionals or aoe hell as I go to kill mobs during fates or skirmishes. It may take some serious convincing to get me to touch pvp again at that point, though I should, in theory, be a stone's throw from the Maelstrom Warstead, which I should have had by now (currently 87/100) if not for the many groups I keep getting that seem to soil themselves within moments of the matches starting.

It'll be nice if I can finish these soon so I can put a little time or energy towards materia for my gatherers or my crafters' off-hand tools. Then I'll hit Diadem and the Grade 4 expert crafts, and hope rng doesn't screw me on too many of the recipe completions. With the macro, melds, and food/pots I now have, getting the third collectible threshold is easy, as I have said before. Getting full Progress? I have to make a choice between the extra points given by this assured threshold and a more guaranteed win than what I should have by now. The planned Craftsmanship meld on my off-hand tools won't really help, as I'd need another 500-650 of the stat to save one Progress step. By the time we get that much? We'll be looking at Grade 5s and potentially Grade 6s for a competition that only bot-users will win . . . again. *sighs*

Ugh... Another such Frontline where my alliance was just not great. There were a few decent people in there, and I'm sorry to have left them to their fateful loss once the Interceptor was down, but I have decided, unfortunately, to do other things with what's left of my morning than to experience that last 3/5 of a losing match.

For clarification, I do not see myself as anything close to great. I do, however, look at others' performance by comparison and can tell you that, when it comes to Frontline, too many people care only for that quick and easy exp and not for winning, and it shows as hard as the worst of the worst customers at any retail or food service job.

p4s cleared! \o/

Didn't win anything. ;-;

I got to see the Skirmish again that's before Metal Fox Chaos. Still no field note.

At least Gnb is 86, almost 87, and Nin is 87. They're getting close to done like my Mael rank is. So that'll leave Mch and Dnc, which are 81. I'll probably use Bozja/Zad to get them to 86+, and cross my fingers at another chance at my last field note. Like with some Triple Triad cards, some mount drops, and my pvp matches in general, luck is seemingly my arch nemesis. -.-

I bought myself and my bf the peacock mount for Valentine's Day. Also Cruise Chaser since that, too, was on sale. =)

congrats!

Single digit rolls on everything in Savage this week. :| All I won was the weapon upgrade, which isn't even BiS. lol

There, rank 50 with Mael, and I'm still frontline 9 wins from the warsteed. I finally broke my Seal Rock curse too, and got that to 6 wins, so we'll see how I feel in eight days, on a day off from work, regarding any possible win grind to get that x10 achievement; we'll see. If I go for the warsteed, I'll probably pop a couple more achievements along the way, which is fine, but I do have bigger priorities in finishing my last few jobs to 90.

And then the Expert crafts before the big patch. Please give me enough time, Yoshi. ;-;

Some announcements from the live letter:
-Trust system will be added to story dungeons for 2.0-4.5 throughout the 6.x patch cycle
-MSQ roulette dungeons will be revamped. Will become 4-man dungeons, and some of the fights will be removed and reworked into solo duties.
-Cape Westwind will be reworked into a solo duty.
-Trusts might be added for some older 8-man content
-Patch cycle is being slightly adjusted. Patches will now be every 4 months instead of every 3.5 months.
-DC visit coming in 6.18
-6.1x will have PvP rework. 24-man raid. Dragonsong Ultimate. Ultima's Bane Unreal. "Variable difficulty dungeon" for 1-4 players. Housing. Hildibrand is coming back. And there will be the start of a new side quest series that will go through the entire EW patch cycle starring Tataru. More trials.
-6.2 8-man raid series. Island Sanctuary. Relics. Deep Dungeon. More trials.
-6.3-6.5 Two More "variable difficulty dungeons." More 8-man and 24-man raids. Ultimate #5. Updates for Island Sanctuary. More trials.

There may be more things coming that they didn't talk about. They said they are planning a BLU update for EW but they don't know when it will happen.

-7.0 will see a major graphical overhaul. Character textures and skin materials are being upgraded. They showed some mock ups and they looked really nice.
-Environment and lightning engine upgrades. They showed off some scenes like Titania under a new lightning engine and they looked good.
-Shadows and grass generation upgrade. Shadows should be more accurate, less blocky, more objects and characters will have shadows. Grass won't look pixelated. Will look more smooth and full up close.
-Not all characters, gear, areas, etc. will be updated at the same time. These updates will come gradually throughout the 7.x patch cycle as the team can finish them. So there might be instances where say Raubahn's model is updated, and the Sultana's isn't for example. So they might look strange next to each other. But their goal is to eventually move everything to the new graphics pipeline over time. Which, considering how big the game is, and that at the same time they'll also be making new expansions and patches sounds like an unbelievable amount of work.

-They have a 10-year roadmap for the game going forward. New expansions, patches and content are being planned out. They are hoping to keep the game running for at least 20 years.

Edit: Oh and the live letter specifically for 6.1 information is planned for March 4th.

papercup posted...

-Trust system will be added to story dungeons for 2.0-4.5 throughout the 6.x patch cycle

Fantastic news

papercup posted...

-MSQ roulette dungeons will be revamped. Will become 4-man dungeons, and some of the fights will be removed and reworked into solo duties.
-Cape Westwind will be reworked into a solo duty.

As opposed to making solo versions of those dungeons for story, and then lift the curse of unskippable cutscenes from the roulette version so people can speedrun the dungeons for fun. <_<

papercup posted...

-Patch cycle is being slightly adjusted. Patches will now be every 4 months instead of every 3.5 months.

Expected. Thanks, Covid.

papercup posted...

Ultima's Bane Unreal.

And so many people, I'm sure, went "Ugh, Ultima again? Really?" I, for one, am not looking forward to people being unable to do orbs.

papercup posted...

They showed some mock ups and they looked really nice.

The eyes look nice for everyone who isn't a Roe. Roes look like they need to go tf to sleep. Everything else looks reshaded, and possibly like ARR era shading or a step higher (back before HW adjustments).

papercup posted...

Edit: Oh and the live letter specifically for 6.1 information is planned for March 4th.

So expect 6.1 to fall on the Ides of March. Speak hands for me!

88 GNB! \o/ Gonna get it to 90 likely on Wednesday then I'll start NIN

87 Mch, two lines on WT (which I turned in after getting Mch to 87), and I intend to level it more with Alliance and frontline tonight after work.

https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/topics/detail/9c4b11b82c2eb95cf1aa053d93e0b2cdfe7d87d2

March 4th live letter is at 3 AM PST >_>

I haven't won a single thing from p4s. x_x

papercup posted...

I haven't won a single thing from p4s. x_x

*Comforts*

Such is the rng life. I have lived it for too long.

Anywho, I'm now 8/10 on the current Onsal Hakair achievement, 95/100 on the Mael warsteed, Mch is 90, and Dnc is 82. Having done the math, it is likely I will be at 79% of achievement points before 6.1 comes along, unless I can miraculously get a slew of clears on a lot of things as a Blu, or the final clears for the last Savage achievements for O4, O8, and O12. I'd love to be at 80%, but that's a ways off (at like 20,350 points or so) from my current 19,980.

It would also help if rng stopped being a butt on some drops or TT match wins. <_<

God I hope Zepla is okay. I hope she got out of Ukraine

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God I hope Zepla is okay. I hope she got out of Ukraine

Yeah, as do I, along with her pets. She posted a video on Youtube 9 hours ago saying she was going to try and cross the border, and that hopefully the folks in Poland could help expedite necessary tests (rabies, etc.,) for her pets so she can go somewhere both safe from the fighting and has a good enough connection to continue her work.

It took way too many tries to get one Frontline win today; something like six attempts. My plan had been to get two or three Seal Rock wins today, on a day off from work, so I could pop the x10 achievement there and only worry about Frontline during the Onsal Hakair days for two more wins over there, but no! Six attempts for one damned win. I swear I am cursed. Whenever I get close to finishing something, and any amount of luck is involved, I get screwed over by said luck. Triple triad cards, legendary fish, matching for pvp, clears for certain raids, the last field note? Forget about it. If the bad luck wasn't so consistent or persistent, I'd be past the 80% mark on achievement points right now, past the 150 mark on mounts not counting the few cash shop ones, probably close to 90% minions, and much more relaxed and less inclined to take breaks from the game out of frustration. Not because I've done what I wanted and have projects outside of the game, but because XIV vexes me with its luck element.

So yes, of course I take pride in getting stuff done in this game, and share roughly 3/5 of that pride, because the luck element is a rusty nail I find at every turn. I love this game, and it handles rng or pure grind better than some others of its ilk, but there is so much room for improvement in the places it really counts.

I used to be ninth on Gilgamesh in achievement points before the forced break two and a half years ago. Fifteenth or sixteenth despite my work schedule until some people moved in from other servers. I'm struggling at twenty-third or so, caring more about milestones such as 20k--five more levels on Dnc will topple that with ease--or 80% of available (non-season event) points, which is a few hundred points away. A few hundred points or more... easily overcome if the luck element didn't single me out to counter-weight the exceptionally lucky.

Pardon my rant, but seriously, sod rng with an overheated curling iron, and chuck it into freezing water before that heat wears off. I just want what is fair, within a reasonable amount of time, with what time I have to play this thing.

My jobs are, indeed, all capped, and of course my ninth Onsal or 97th Maelstrom victory isn't happening this morning because the game keeps saying no. No to getting a good group, no to getting nodes on our side of the map, and no to so many KO claims when they should obviously be mine but are counted as Assists. That said, I am getting ever closer to 750 KOs . . . when the next achievement for it is 1000; it won't surprise me if I somehow get that before these damned x10 achievements for Seal Rock or Onsal.

So much "fun."

Got the Savage mount! \o/

papercup posted...

Got the Savage mount! \o/

Congrats!

Years later, I finally got the Suzaku card. Six remain for the jellied toast, now. *Glares at Varis and Lunar Bahamut*

papercup posted...

Got the Savage mount! \o/

woohoo !

Today I finally got an Open Tourney win (yay Phoenix card), the Lunar Bahamut card from Paglth'an, and cleared DiaEx my first nine times (but lost the one gwiber).

Once I finally do the Gogo fight, I'll just need Emerald's card and the G-Warrior one for the jellied toast. I'm so close. @_@

When I've woken up, it'll be a Seal Rock day. Wish me luck, as that's my x10 SR victory and x100 Maelstrom victory. And then our Free's Company's semi-weekly Map Night is coming up in the evening as well. If I'm lucky, I'll get my fifth clear of Excitatron for yet another achievement. What will I do in the time between pvp and Map Night? Maybe Gogo. Definitely laundry. Possibly Diadem for much-needed mat grinding.

I finally beat Gogo, though I missed the 6:50 time by a week bit since I'm out of practice on Blu. Now that I have his card, that leaves Varis, Emerald (need to clear that Ex), and G-Warrior for the jellied toast. If I can get those and the gwibers in the following week, I'll be so happy, though of course I still intend to do the Firmament stuff.

Also, I need a Celestial Kimono from Tsuki to finish my Pld glam.

Got my FSH to 90 this week, and my NIN is 87. Gonna level MNK next.

Unga bunga warrior dabes

66/99 Hades tokens at the moment. No mount for me yet, though I've seen it all of thrice. I've received as many auracite from desynths, plus one I won through rolls; I sold the desynth ones. Don't get me wrong. The auracites are nice, but I want the mount for its own sake, so Rpr has a dedicated mount, but also as part of the whole set I'm still working on.

I'm back up to 199.4mil gil at the moment. It's taken the better part of a year, barely doing some things and selling random drops, to make back about 47 of the 75 million I'd spent on those gold mounts. <_<

Tonight, I also finally got the kimono I needed to polish my Paladin glam with the glowing sword and shield. It definitely goes well with the spring/autumn and summer outfits my tanks all use, and is fine with the winter one. Honestly, the most boring of my tank weapons right now is the Omega Bayonet from O12s. Once I have the time, I'm wanting to do some screenshots of all my glamours I use, so it's nice to finally have the weapon I want on Pld.

Back to mounts? After I'm done with Hades, I should concentrate on Diamond Gwiber, clear Emerald Ex and get both that gwiber and the card, along with the G-Warrior card, clear SoSEx to get that final gwiber, and then farm Varis for the last card for the jellied toast. All of that will be a cool seven mounts to add to my current 147.

And then there's all I still need to acquire from Firmament stuff, including a couple mounts and minions. If I can get a Casual Attire Coffer from there, I'll send it to my alt Lyra for her Drk, level her, and give her the sword I wanted to make for her. You know glamour is serious business when you level an alt character's jobs or classes just to give them more outfits.

90 NIN! \o/ Leveling SAM next

papercup posted...

90 NIN! \o/ Leveling SAM next

Congrats \o/

I finally got my healers' winter glam looking nice the way I want it. Granted, one of the neat details of the outfit won't really show itself unless the robe lifts up to reveal the starlight tights, but I like it all the same. So I need to set aside some time soon to do the screenshots.

Anywho. I randomly joined an O8s farm tonight just so I can knock out my x10 achievement finally. Good gods. A group with good dps that saves most of its burst damage for the last 25% or so of the Godka phase can totally skip Forsaken, and then only see like one easy-ass mechanic early in the clown phase. Like, no, really, a good group can beat the fight in about 3 minutes without any need to die or reset after the transition. o.o

Now I kinda want to see how fast O4s melts, because I need something like four or five clears there still. We should test this, paper, and bring five or six newbs-to-the-fight from the fc with us to get their winged danger noodles. What do you think? lol

Oh gods. I actually just did my last five chiev clears of O4s. Paper, you should see it unsynced. You'll cry. There is one multi-part mechanic left that can kill people, but it's so easy to handle that you can shrug it off and win the fight a moment later.

O12s x10 is done. That one still has some mechanics, including Fundamental Synergy in the M/F phase, as well as the tethers, Hello World, and the spinning aoes afterward in the final phase. My ninth clear wasn't horrible, though it was clear the people there to "farm" were relearning the fight. My tenth - another party? Almost everyone was learning, the mechanics that are left were being done wrong, so wrong, and we wiped so many times before we got lucky with a clear. Lucky, I say, because my Brd had to hold M at one point and died to someone else's poor performance at another. <_<

My gil is back over the 200mil mark, so some random fc members or random newbs may receive generous help in the way of goods they weren't expecting, in the near future. Yay for that.

I'm still working on Diamond's gwiber and Varis's card. SoSEx will come afterward. Plus I still have plenty of Firmament stuff to do. I'm finally at 79% of achievement points, though, so we'll see if I can hit 80% by the patch; then I can aim for 80% again over the following months. lol

So E4s is an interesting case. Like with DiamEx, The mechanics all play out in normal sequence until the boss dies, even if you're OP. I had my first clear tonight, and it happened seconds after (big guy) Titan knocked down three fourths of the platform. A good group might be able to finish him before that, with current gear.

Sadly no sandshoe for me yet.

Moments after you logged this morning, paper, I got my last card for the TT mount. =D

Jellied toast for #150 - let's go!

Wooo congrats!

Yeah I've been thinking about maybe hosting e4s mount farms for FLAME. Not sure about e8s and e12s yet. Maybe after another tier.