Weekly Goals and Accomplishments 8/1 -8/7Follow

First week of August, and the 1 year anniversary of FFXIV is approaching!

I'm actually kind of in a rut. Not beating Titan Ex on the last few tries is really getting me down. At least I'm the last one standing, more often than not.

Capping soldiery is kind of a given at this point, so I'm going to not list it :P

1. Actually get warrior to 40. Didn't happen last week.
2. Next Tuesday, get the last soldiery needed for Laevateinn~!
3. Beat my head against the Titan Ex wall some more. It's just.... ugh.
4. Beat my head against the Turn 5 wall for the first time once I have Lava staff.
5. Get another atma!

Get an Oil from ST.

Hunts for more Sands.

I got Rosenbogen last night! How did I not notice that is has 0 Accuracy? Well, to be able to use this nice +4 base damage bow over my Wave bow in Second Coil, I need to upgrade ACC on my Left-Side Armor pieces dramatically.

So Oils and Sands. That's the name of the upgrade game for the moment as far as I can tell.

Oh!! Unlock Ramuh EX. Too bad the Judgement Ring of Aiming also has 0 ACC. So, for me, it's not quite an upgrade to the i90 Allagan Ring of Aiming at this point.

EDIT: Going to read this later to learn Ramuh EX.

Edited, Aug 1st 2014 9:41am by Gnu

Going to be gone most of Saturday and Sunday. Next weekend, I'll be gone most of Friday through Sunday.

So, my goals for tonight and Sunday night are:

- Capitalize on Hunt Windows. If a bunch of windows are open, I'm finding a hunt party. Just 11 alex to go until I can build a Novus.
- Play around in T5. Joined a learning group in the PF yesterday, and we got to divebombs no problem. I was in great shape for snakes, but too many others in my pt had died to DBs, so we wiped. I feel very confident though about tanking through snakes, so would love to see the twister phase.
- Level my drg... been at 40 for awhile.

I really want to do more ST... but I did a couple runs earlier this week and got an oil on my second run. Mixed emotions.

1. I have 1000 soldiery to go (375 a piece - the 125 i already have) and 1300 seals (minus the 200 I have) to cap my black mage as far as I can go without beating T6 (which is ilvl 109). Three pieces of jewelry to upgrade from ilvl 90 allagan. So next week I will buy a piece of jewerly for the blm and upgrade it with an oil.

2. I need to get my ST loot for the week. No luck on my three runs so far. I would take a uat if it dropped, for one of my alt jobs much later, but I'd like an oil since that would save me 500 seals. Other than that I'll take tank boots or hat, and any body piece except for scylla's casting robe, which I think looks god awful. I did get the robe of divine death in some lucky expert roulette where i popped in on the last boss in tam tara hm, and if I ever get tired of looking like shiny willy wonka I can look like Hugh Hefner?

3. I piled on seven more alexandrites and have 2 maps on hand, so I think I'm at 22 of 53 towards the curtana novus (24 after the maps). Still a ways to go but I'm almost 2/3 into having both the sword and shield upgraded. Once I get that I suppose I will start buying soldiery stuff for tank.

4. I'm at 8.7 million now and the FC has 14 million. I need to figure out the ramifications of buying a bigger house, and focus on beating Kat to 10 million.

5. Maybe.... maybe.... go frontlines to try to help the flames even though I know they will lose... again.

6. Hope to all things holy that my "static" actually shows up this week and we actually beat t6.


Edited, Aug 1st 2014 2:33pm by Valkayree

The advice I used to give was:
1. buy HQ iLvl70 weapon, and if you finished your hunting log, pick up your iLvl 55 ring
2. spam Crystal Tower for gear, myth, and soldiery
3. buy myth accessories first, buy a soldiery ring first
4. work on your relic weapon, unlock dungeons and trials (some of which require the main and Hildebrand storylines) especially to unlock all the duty roulette options in the duty finder (this will greatly improve how much myth and soldiery you can collect).

Currently, with Syrcus Tower opened up, I'm not sure how frequented the Crystal Tower is anymore. SpoilerTechnically, Syrcus Tower is a part of the Crystal Tower, and what most people call "CT" is actually the Labyrinth of the Ancients which lies before the entrance to the actual Crystal Tower. So now our vernacular terminology is completely out-of-sync with the actual story. If that's not a good option, you may want to pursue the dungeons and trials sooner rather than later and drive for as much myth gear as you can stand. You can follow that up with Syrcus Tower gear to get a jump on iLvl100 equipment (especially since soldiery is going to be your greatest bottleneck).

A good weapon is a bit trickier. I still think an HQ iLvl 70 weapon is a good first step, and getting a relic to iLvl90 is relatively easy enough. Beyond that, iLvl100 weathered weapons are a viable alternative (if you can patiently save up 3 weeks worth of soldiery and snag an Unidentified Allagan Tomestone from Syrcus Tower). The weapon can also be upgraded to iLVl110 much more easily than a relic weapon if you're willing to join Hunts.


Edited, Aug 1st 2014 6:06pm by Xoie

Effing Moogle Ex!

Thanks for the response! I'm going to try to hit lvl 50 today so I'll start working on what you've said after that. I'm excited to get going on end game stuff although I know people have complained in the past about it being a big grind. As for the hunting log, are you talking about the grand company one? I've already completed my archer one but I didn't see anything indicating I can get a reward. I'm still working on my grand company one though.

Wewt! One goal already complete. Have my Relic Zenith Ax!

On the same run that also gave me the myth needed to pick up the Axe, I also happenstanced upon the Tank chest, which dropped from a rather chaotic Amon fight which I managed to hold down in the end.

I think my Tank Ego skill just raised .3 >.>

If you're from the EU like me, you can purchase Crysta quite easily through the mogstation by simply using your online-banking with your debitcard from any bank. Not quite the hurdle it was in the past :)

I took BRD hands out of ST because I didn't feel like doing any more runs, which of course meant that when we got to the end, the coffer dropped a UAT, Oil, and a body armor. I also, finally picked up enough Soldiery to use my AUT and got the spear. Then I finished my sixth Atma book. Now, I have my hobby weapon, which I'll probably never finish since I don't feel like dragging other people around to farm maps, and my daily weapon.

Weekend Update



Spent most of the weekend doing hunts. No idea why. Got a ton of seals and three log drops (lucky, right!). Spent the 3 logs to upgrade tank pants. Took 1k and bought the immortal flames man skirt for my black mage and upgraded my noct pants on the paladin. The man skirt I bought covers the hole in the back of the augmented cashmere I glamoured very nicely. But its lilac and undyable. It's really hard to make lilac look cool =/ Still have 1k seals for two oils on the jewelry for Tuesday and the week after.



Amon's hat. Now my bard is fabulous?!?



Hunts are a fantastic way to get myth. Myth is a great way to get mysterious maps. Result... 35 of 53. Now I'm into Savage Might III and Savage Aim III and it's killing my pockets.



Sitting at 8.2 million. Down 500k. Wanna know why? Novus is damn expensive if you want to cap just two stats (acc and det for me). I may break down and add parry just to save my fortune. Regarding moving the FC house, the private rooms have to be cleared of furniture, and will be lost when upgrading. The FC house needs to be cleared of furniture and the house and land must be relinquished before a new plot can be purchased. So for that reason I recommend that we wait for a large house, since the cost of the private rooms (300k) cant be reinbursed. There used to be an in-game screen that I could go to that would show all the FC houses, plots and the wards in a table format, and have the server first status and the cost of all the plots, but for the life of me I can't find it now. Did they remove this?



Queues are crazy long for FL now. I think the hardcore are burnt out, r40, or have their gear, and the others are just not interested.



Last night my static beat t6 for the first time, on about our 14th try. At the end all that was left was a tank on the boss, a tank kiting, one healer, me, and the monk and it was at about 5%. We were down 2 dps and a healer. Monk dropped the lb and my uber fire finished him off. Monk mask and ears dropped. I'm just happy to have that one under my belt. T7 tonight.

Edited, Aug 4th 2014 9:56am by Valkayree

I forgot that we were going on a wine tour on Saturday, so I had effectively zilch play time since Saturday night is XI time. (We took down Muyinga in XI - now I just need 170,000 plasms for my Nantihra hat... ouch. About halfway there.) So, between Friday and Sunday, I did....

1. WAR to almost 39, aiming to finish it to 40 on Wednesday
2. Almost but not quite capped soldiery this week, about 75 short. Even if I don't make it, I'll be less than 450 so I can hammer getting it for Laevateinn.
3. Didn't do another Titan Ex yet
4. Didn't try Turn 5 yet
5. Didn't get an atma ;

What I DID do instead of all this was finish out the latest Hildibrand episode. SpoilerI can't be the only one who was a little bit horrified of young Lalafell girl getting married of to that Hyur teenager - so relieved when it turned out she was adopted. Nice trolling there, SE.