Weekly Goals and Accomplishments 12/19 - 12/25Follow

Lots of Mining for me. I want to start furnishing the ground floor of my cottage to the point where it looks passable, and those goals are now within reach.

Getting my Animus spear and start collecting Alexandrite is forefront on my mind. No real raid advancements can be done this week due to the holidays. We just finished a major arc in RPs, so we have causal events until the end of the year, afterwards we'll be reviewing how we do RP events, especially major ones.

The FC is growing, which means we're dealing with more participation for each event. That tends to stretch event times, and we're wanting to rethink things to keep everyone feeling involved. But, that's not this week. This weeks is fairly relaxing for the most part.


Except for the whole event thing. This holiday event is killer if you're wanting to get all the items for your alts.

1. Finish getting 200 more soldiery for the nin body. Done
2. Get a Sands in ST to upgrade it.
3. Grind dailies for Poetics to cap it. Done
4. Do Expert Run every day for a free Alex Map.
5. Use every excess 400 soldiery for a Map.

Gonna need to spend soldiery on it too, since as it now stands i'm looking at 60 more days just to finish my relic with free maps :/

Maybe i should take up tanking some more. PLD (and war to some extend) are technically my Main jobs. But i've been on NIN pretty much always for the last few months in dungeons.

6. Gotta set up a hunt group. Every 200 allied seals is 1 Alexandrite. So that's only like 10 A-rank kills. And they give soldiery too. Every 20 kills gives me enough Soldiery for a map as well. Seems perfect.
7. Socialize. I want more kitty friends. Or just more friends in general. Also need to poke the ones i have more, out of touch with several atleast D:

Edited, Dec 22nd 2014 11:56am by KojiroSoma

Well I had an extremely lucky Saturday in game followed by an abysmally unlucky Sunday. I went 1/1 in darkhold (thank the lord), 1/3 in Brayflox HM, 1/1 in Halatali HM, and 1/1 in Qarn. I also finally got my Stone Vigil HM (1/2 over the weekend) and Aurum Vale (1/1 over the weekend) drops as well. Got a bunch of soldiery as well, purchased all my craft items and bombard cores, and now I am 3 dungeons away (Snowcloak, Lost City of Amdapoor, Sastasha HM) and 1400 soldiery from the Excalibur and Aegis shield. That was by Saturday night.

Now Sunday. 0/4 snowcloak. 0/7 Lost City. 0/7 Sastasha HM. I hate RNG sometimes.



Minion is neat, its like a pretend demon box, but its a spriggan hiding in a present. The wedding was hilarious, everyone got in mumble and added commentary. Groom wore gloves so they covered up the ring. Then they flew off into the sunset like sparkle fairies. Good times.



About 3 hours of wipes, couldn't get past first tether combo, then boom, clean victory on t10. Went on to t11, got to add phase on Saturday, downed add phase on Sunday. Still as a group learning the tethers. Can get adds down pretty well now. All in all not bad on the progress.



Got my snowman minion and my awesome glamourable boots, then once I saw that the decorations were not sellable, immediately lost interest in gathering them.

Edited, Dec 22nd 2014 9:38am by Valkayree

3 Alexandrites into my new shiny Gae Bolg Animus and going strong there.

Mining was effective on the onset, except that soon after, someone flooded the effervescent water market to unrecoverable proportions, only thing to do now is move on and see if there are greener mining sections to go for that I can reach.

'Hyrist', finally got Paladin, which is nice. The slow road for him to get 50 will inevitably unlock the 'kitchen' room for the FC hall.

My goals for this week are already met, and I'm not going to really set any new ones due to the Holidays this week. Time to relax~

Was a big day yesterday (12/23).

Went 1/1 on my Snowcloak drop and 1/3 on the Sastasha HM drop and scooped up about 350 soldiery (200 off of a castrum main story roulette run with a new player bonus), completed the final steps and I picked up my Excalibur and Aegis Shield! After going 0/17 on Snowcloak and 0/15 on Sastasha HM, this was cause for celebration! So I celebrated by buying a Wootz Cuirass to glamour over my poetic chest piece. Dyed weapon and shield jet black, went afk in Mor Dhona to simultanous fanfare , turned heads, some nice tells, and some stares of intense jealousy . Thanks to Kat and Illsaide for running a few of those Snowcloaks with me the other day so I could change it up and DPS and not have to wait 30 hours for queue.

But even on Lamia, I'm not nearly the first to zodiac. Not by a long shot. It must be nice to play from 8am-5pm, then again from 5pm-12am, every day, all day. I remember life before job... Sadly we didn't have cool stuff like FFXIV back then. We barely had Phantasy Star Online. Boo.

Off topic, but not really since it contributes to an awesome day. Opened the gifts a bit early. Bought my wife and kid a ton of cool, but I got 2 boxes of the Walking Dead Season 3 for myself because I am a huge fan. Huge fan. Not like, come back from an unescorted Georgia tour of the abandoned Terminus set to go directly to Comicon and dress like a zombie and stand in line to rub Norman Reedus' chin beard fan, but a really big fan nonetheless... Well, I have to say, never have I been so lucky! Got a Danai Gurira (Michonne) autograph, a Stephen Yeun (Glenn) autograph, and somehow managed to beat the 1:288 hobby pack odds to pull a 1/1 sketch card from artist Sam Hogg. Its actually drawn on the card itself, is signed by the artist on the back, and is now one of the coolest collectibles I own. And I looked, in comparison to some of the other artists in the set, this guy is really, really good! And that is coming from someone who is married to one of the best pencil and pen artists I've ever known. But in case you are wondering what the card looks like, I only have potato cell phone quality images atm, so I looked up the artist and he posted pictures of the cards he drew for the set (I know its deviantart but the link is SFW). Mine is the card of Maggie's character (second from the left) aiming the rifle. Rockin. More inheritance ammo for the kiddo one day.

http://zephyri.deviantart.com/gallery/#/art/Walking-Dead-S3-Sketchcards-Badass-Ladies-452877878?_sid=1360c3cc

That poetic headgear for the healers looks amazing btw...

Well, lets see...

The Good:
- Capped Poetics.
- Need 52 more Alexandrites.
- Attended a really cute wedding between two girls i know and got a nice box out of it as well.
- Finished getting all the christmas stuff
- Got a good amount of profit selling old event stuff.

The Bad:
- Failed pretty horribly at getting maps through Soldiery or Allied Seals. Just too slow.
- No one was doing hunts anymore or was interested in forming (scouting) groups for me to get those Allied Seals.
- I -was- getting a good amount of profit selling old event stuff. People were buying them for 10k around 12 times a day according to the history. That is untill someone who didnt understand basic marketing put 8 of them up for 1k. I bought them all up since one sale from me would make me more than even, but before a new one could sell he simply put another 8 of them up for 1k. Didnt want to give him the satisfaction, so i crashed the market for it completely. Oh well.

Unrelated:
- Bought myself Diablo III as a couch co-op game and have been enjoying it with friends. It's easy to get into, easy to play and kinda gauntlet-ey. Surprisingly supports up to 4 players locally, and you can even go online and play with others if you havent reached your quota of players.