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  1. #15
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    hqdm's Avatar
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    Aug 2013
    Posts
    234
    Character
    Honey Hole
    World
    Tonberry
    Main Class
    Gladiator Lv 2
    Mixed feeling:

    I enjoyed trying to figure out different rotation, improvements, method etc for the expert crafts.
    I didn't enjoy the feeling of being forced into long sessions of crafting.
    But I didn't think it was all that cutthroat either.

    I ended up with ~1.1m point spread across my DoH. Because the green title looked temporary, I only had goal of get to 150k and swap to new class.
    Like this, still ended up with 2-3 Saint title, and I'd started 2 or 3 days late. I had ignored ishgard for the first 1-2 days, as I had midterms around that point, then about 1/2 a day to figure out what I was doing and start crafting, but "only" 6-8h session/day or so, as my patience + attn span aren't that great.

    I don't think that qualifies as casual hours, but it's also not really maximizing time spent to the point where bots are a necessity to compete.
    There was a post where the 13th place was salty about being pushed out of the rankings by "no-lifers", but only had 350k points across 10 days.
    The creative part seems to be finding the most efficient method, so that point/hr can increase. 20-25k/hr reasonable I think, at which point 350k only ~14-15 hour. But at the same time, it's also kind of mind numbing and not very fun to do the same crafts for 15hrs, which this ranking system rewards, and I was really looking forwards to not being pressured into the same grind again.

    I don't mind the grind, but why force it to 10 days rather than the whole patch?
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    Last edited by hqdm; 07-29-2020 at 01:26 PM.