I’ve never done posts like this previously, but it gives me something to talk about now that I have my own space. And god knows I need a way to remember what I get up to in this game beyond furiously digging through my screenshots. Also, it’s not quite the end of the month, but no way I’ll be bothered to write this up during the week. It’s close enough.
WINGS OF RESOLVE BABY
The Endwalker EX mounts are so sick, they finally coerced me into farming all EXs on content. I’ve never been particularly in love with a mount series before (my previous EX farming has been crafting item focused, lmao), and thought the Endwalker ones were especially ugly, but god my badass anime wings. They’re so cool. And I got them after only 17 clears! So now I’m free to just park my ass in Worqor Lar Dor to get those wings. I’ve actually only cleared it once and feel like I haven’t memorised it well, so I suppose I should host some practice runs before imposing on other people’s farm parties.
IL710
Speaking of EX farming, a lot of parties are locked behind an IL710 minimum now. Which is understandable, since you can skip mechanics already with that (you can beat Everkeep before the second Projection of Turmoil finishes now, and probably before it starts if you’ve got your savage gear), but what about people like me, who are decent at combat but so fucking lazy about their weekly reclears and can’t be bothered pugging savage?! But through a combination of living in maps, EX drops and, occasionally, remembering to do Arcadion, I finally dragged myself over the 710 line this week and forced myself on PF again.
MAPS
Speaking of… I’ve had kind of shitty portal luck with those things and only just hit 5 clears, but I’ll get the funny title eventually. I really wish the drop rates were better though, so many rooms go by with no rollable treasure at all. I was a total fiend for Ophio parties in Endwalker and loved hosting them because they were so easy – every map in a single zone! And now we’re back to zone hopping and it’s kind of a pain… SQEX please make the second map like Ophios again thank you. And to the people in PF please join my Ophio parties I love those things. And I need the Emet minion. For that 30 mil marketboard price, of course. I’m absolutely not registering his ugly ass.
CRAFTING AND GATHERING
You know I’m on that damn scrip grind. I always go for the high-tier melds even though I’m not a devout craftinghead who spends the majority of their time doing it. And so far… well…
I mean it could be worse. It could be a lot better, too. But I at least got my orange scrip craft down to a single macro, and gathering materials isn’t nearly as bad as it was for the sykon bavarois. Thank you for using dark rye flour so I can use the level difference to gather tons of rye quickly and make it all HQ flour in two seconds.
As for the gathering scrip grind… ughhhhh. I forgot how fucking miserable this was. Gathering pentamelding is always less urgent for me, but man why did they have to nerf spiritbond farming. Please. I want to be free. I want to be happy. (Voice of a guy currently on the Divine Provider grind)
Hopefully I can wrap up my crafting scrip grind in October. Tonberry is a total buyer’s market so by then the profits on crafted gear will be well and truly slim, but at least I’ll be ready for the next big additions of gear. Or, well, the scrip grind to pentameld my current gear – of course I have to keep grinding up after that so I can have a stash ready to pentameld the 7.1 crafting gear. Hahaha.