March 18, 2015

Missed a day already. Oh well, kind of forgot about it.

Progression continues in ARR; Tuesday was another weekly reset. Wasn’t too keen on raiding again, but that’s always a feeling I get before actually going into raid time. A second piece of healer gear finally dropped – the Hood, in Turn 10 – and I took it with intent to glamour; neither of us healers needed it as we already had something better. As expected, it was freely given to me to account for the first piece that had dropped before, and that would make the actual piece both of us needed (the Earrings) an open roll between the two of us. Other than that, T10 through T12 progressed as usual, with T12 going the fastest for whatever strange reason.

Everything else continues as usual; I’m constantly checking retainers for whatever money they make selling things (15+ million gil potential isn’t anything to laugh at) and wondering what to spend the hoarded gil on. It will probably lead into a stockpile for when Heavensward is released and there are materials or items to actually spend gil on.. maybe. Still, at this point, there is just the filler content to finish up: Beast Tribe dailies, the fishing log, PVP, and Gold Saucer stuff.

Beast Tribe dailies should be finished up within the next week (finally), and that will be a relief – it isn’t a pleasant thing to be running around a single area doing menial work, but it does mean filling in an area of the character window, a unique glamour piece, and more achievements to add to the log.

Fishing, on the other hand, is a pretty big goal; I have all the secondary gear at this point, so its really a matter of catching the fish I need to complete the log and the achievements and to get the improved tools. Its a technically long-term goal, but it shouldn’t be too hard to achieve if I were to put in the time.

Gold Saucer will probably be more relevant with 2.55; Square confirmed a boost to MGP rates, and that should make earning the glamours from there much more feasible. Chocobo racing, especially, will be more worthwhile when the MGP rates are boosted from the terrible amount they give now.

In non-ARR related updates, MH4U has taken up the rest of my time. There are occasions where soloing hunts leaves me frustrated enough to look around for save editors and the like – usually to no avail. Its really a matter of wanting the easy way out of the grind for better gear, but it ultimately isn’t going to be a thing I actually do; part of the fun is the struggle to the finish – the journey, rather than the end result – so I wouldn’t be too satisfied with having taken a shortcut to the end.

More stuff another time. Screenshots when I remember to.

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