What do you do for fun?

I'm curious, what do other people do for fun in FFXIV?

I often hear people talking about what they "have to do" like running a dungeon they dislike for the umpteenth time to get a piece of gear, for example, or grinding crafting to achieve something else (I'm guilty of this one myself), or farming items for gil, or any number of other things. It doesn't seem like they're having fun when they talk about these weekly or daily chores and that they're doing them only for the end result, as opposed to actually doing them for the fun of doing the activity itself in the moment.

So... What do you do for fun in FFXIV?

What would you continue to do for no reward other than the pleasure of doing it?

Personally, I enjoy exploring and talking/listening to NPC's. I like going to see if the Victory has changed since last I checked, or finding interesting places, or reading speech bubbles above random NPC's, or patting lonely B rank hunt targets, or just standing/sitting around watching and listening.

I'm not much of a combatant, and crafting and gathering have become a bit more like jobs than fun of late so I can't really say I do much of those for fun.

In 1.xx I also used to seek out and watch the non interactable living critters in the world like birds, butterflies and frogs. I haven't seen them so much in 2.xx so curious if they're still around and I've not noticed or if they were victims of the calamity graphical changes.

I'm just curious about what others do for fun and if anyone has any fun pastimes to share.

This isn't about arguing what is fun and what is not, just sharing what we like.

Let's have fun! ^_^

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I used to join random PF groups to help people stuck on content quite a bit. Unfortunately, ever since hunts have been put in the PF has been kinda dead so I've been logging off much quicker.

Gardening and gathering

Raid and/or queue up DF Titan EX and T5 alone because I'm bloody insane

Me personally I love a good story and I love questing and its what drives me the most in all the games I play, sooo at the top for me is the lore of the world and the games story. Secondly to those that know me um, okay I'm a bit of a housing fanatic and whats fun for me is decorating and building my game homes as much as I love decorating my real home. lastly I love gardening and gathering the most simply because I find them to be the most relaxing activities in the game. My friends know I've been known to let hours slip by on these activities alone lol.

Not necessarily pertaining to FFXIV as of now but maybe it will if Gold Saucer goes as I hope it does. I love racing and I'll challenge anyone here to a chocobo race any day of the week :P

I beat people up in town and take their stuff ^.

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^ Roll on 2.4 Yoshida, roll it on.

I fish for non-legendary fish. It's very relaxing and I make money doing it, too.

Titan EX. It's fun, it's fast-paced, and I love the music. :D

It depends on the day. I like fishing or doing low-level roulette in progress. Or just casting stoneskin on sprouts.

i like raising/coloring my chocobo, but that happens only so few inbetween ._.

Is there a way to get a 2. chocobo or more chocobs so i can grow more varied colors XD and can pick my ride/companion of todays flavour?

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Originally Posted by mbncd

So... What do you do for fun in FFXIV?

What would you continue to do for no reward other than the pleasure of doing it?

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Sometimes I join training PF groups for a content that I've cleared many times just to help people to make their first kill. I usually don't need any loot from there, so it's only for fun.

I'm in bliss when crafting and gathering. I go for dungeons/raids if I feel energetic and helpful.

I haven't been playing for long (was on hiatus for about 2 months) so I still have fun exploring, taking lots of screenshots (I got over a thousand already, I think), sometimes recording cutscenes then editing them to make gifs, organizing all of these then posting them on my blog (when I have the time). I'm pretty much a casual mmo-gamer so to speak, customizing always entertains me, so getting 'cosmetics' via events are always fun.

Theory craft about the things I read on the forums while doing some mundane tasks.

Usually laughing at the ridiculous suggestions that come from some people.

Put on my mask and follow random people when they turn to look at me I pull out my weapon. Usually they play along with some emotes :)

I've been working on my crafting/gathering melds lately by making my own gear to spiritbond... but it's not fun. Actually, I'm not sure anything I've been doing lately is that much fun. Someone jokingly said, "log out" but I find myself looking forward to it more and more these days. I used to have fun doing random primal runs until the Nexus relic step killed my motivation to ever run another instance again. I can't even tell you the last time I ran a dungeon aside from my weekly ST.

Sorry, I know this thread was about having fun. I guess it just made me realize how much fun I'm -not- having these days. Perhaps a break is in order.

Stand by the Mender in Grid while trying to get my book from Levi EX in DF for a bit then log off.
I have fun with it for a while lol. But I literally have not moved from my spot for 2 weeks
and I recently transferred servers, still didn't move lol...I didn't even turn in Garuda EX quest lol.
Eh...well, 2.4 is around the corner and I've been busy on Smash Bros.'s so there's my excuse lol.

I made a giant list of things after 2.3/E3 that I wanted to do before 2.4 and I've been happy just working towards those. That includes becoming rich (-ish) (I started 2.3 off with 100k and have worked my way up to 8 figures while stockpiling Det/crit IVs for my ninja), get everything ready for Ninja relic, meld my remaining crafters/gatherers, getting all artisan tools(done except for cul), getting all Supra(4/11 with 30/70 FC3s and 6/21 MCs), get my own personal house/start gardening. It's been a long, but enjoyable ride and enlightening. I thought that artisan tools/supras were insurmountable, but after I started working piece by piece, everything just sort of fell into line.

Reading people biotching stuff in mor dhona

Different party compositions. Simple stuff, but fun. :) My FC mates go in thinking "not sure about this..." and leave going "hahaha that was awesome!" xD You really learn new things in dungeons since the strategies are different than what you'd see with the trinity. :)

I'm hoping to start running 2 man HM dungeons soon too. :o

Doing trial roulette is pretty fun for me. Also treasure hunts and hunting A and S marks.

I like doing Trials Roulette for fun. I also enjoy tanking Fates when I see people standing around wanting to do them but afraid to do it without a tank.

Oh, look! A pleasant post without people yelling at each other! :D (Hopefully it will stay that way.)

Anyway, I would say it depends on the day. Some days I just want to run end content stuff, and that's fun. Some days I just want to level up my other classes and do low level dungeons. I like helping people out, though I'm a bit behind so I don't always get to help out with harder end game stuff. I like the craft or gather when I'm feeling particularly lazy and just want to chill.

So, apparently I like to do everything, but just at different time. Haha.

Farm Atma.

For fun I do primals, fishing/mining, and thats it. Unfortunately i play for fun 95% of the time so my gear progression is slow

I craft, in all my crafts, and make some gil. That is enjoyable to me :)

I gather on my two gathering classes, that is actually fun as well (I enjoy the HQ's i get and the occasional Map)

I am a gear collector, I have collected all sets from the lower dungeons, for melee, mage, and tank, also from Brayfox, and Cutter's cry all I'm missing is Healing mage gear, I have the rest of it all. And been working on endgame dungeons gear for quite some time now, not so fast because I always queue up as tank.

Exploring Eorzea is fantastic, I will sometimes sit in an area, and read my a the lore of the minions I have collected or the fish. Read my achievements with a great background.

Last but not least, the raids are also fun :) I take my time on them, not rush to finish to be the best of the best I'd rather enjoy them slowly :)

-Tari

Craft and gather to build up gil for a medium house when (if) they come in 2.4. I missed the mark by about 10 mil last time figuring they'd be cheaper so focusing on it a lot more now lol.... Other than that I just keep hoping more side stuff comes out soon and not just end game raids, IE Choco races, card game.

Running around destroying nature as a Botanist, queuing for roulette and joining party finders, destroy more of the natural environment as a Botanist, run around hugging all those poor B ranks and maybe some random people, and make lame puns about A/S ranks while I'm out hunting, and of course, randomly casting repose on random mobs..

:o...

I like walking around the towns and looking at folks. Sometimes petting people. XD I also love coming across rpers and listening to them.

I like training my chocobo, gardening and doing all of the side quests.

Titan Ex, T5, solo FATE bosses, T4, and help in PF/FC.

even though all of those things are part of the nexus "grind", these are all things I would do anyway bc I enjoy them, so the game has become infinitely less grindy/more fun.

Also, since I went cheap on materia for novus... VANITY!

Oh! And creeping people out with RP in df

Just got all doh to lv 50 yesterday and i already enjoy crafting 1 star 40 dur materials,with only craftship 310 control 300 none overmeld gears,even so i can still craft hq out of these materials in about 3/5 rate and its really feel good for each hq success and not boring at all.

I hunt down bots and report them for fun, so needless to say....I'm wasting my time

I enjoy running the low level dungeons when fc members ask for help. When I do those I'm reminded of why FFXIV was so good last fall. It's seems to me that more effort went into the design of those dungeons and they're much more fun and than all of these super easy speed run fests we keep getting these days imo.

Funruns... pick a dungen... see what people are around... grab them... go in... that means parties can be 4 dps, 4 tanks, 4 healers and any combo there-of. See how far we get, adjust strat, try to clear it. Have a bunch of laughs while doing it.

Dungeon. I like Hullbreaker Isle, Haukke Manor HM and Crystal Tower. Sometimes I do low dungeon case be in progress.

Well, I also like Stone Vigil HM, but sometimes party trying speed run there, and if I fail, they kick me. Then I avoid.

Not sure if the stuff I do on a daily basis is "fun" or really just habit... each day I usually do my Daily EX Roulette for an alex, mine the usual money-making items, get some desynthing in on my goldsmith (still trying to get it to 100), dump everything for sale on the MB, and then run a ST to gear my alt jobs (if I haven't already gotten my item for the week).

The only actual fun I have is the night I do Second Coil raids with my fc mates. It's fun talking with them on TS for the evening and potentially getting some nice loot. But that only takes an evening, so the rest of the week is purely the above errands. I'm sure 2.4 will freshen up the fun for me, but at the moment I'm just sort of on autopilot.

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I also enjoy tanking Fates when I see people standing around wanting to do them but afraid to do it without a tank.

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This. I love doing this while running around to where ever it is I am going. Makes good friends later as well.