What Are You Doing (Or Not Doing) In-Game?

[GraceHorizon]

Doing roulettes a couple days a week to cap my mnemonics tomes, leveling a retainer into a different job to make my life easier when 8.0 drops. Otherwise taking a break and considering unsubscribing — 7.x has mostly lost my interest, and I’m working out how I want to wind things down in an orderly fashion for a possible return in 8.0.

[Dreadlime]

I've been unlocking and leveling jobs. No real order plan, just whatever i feel like playing at the moment. I've also cleared out the extreme trials that were clogging up my quest log. I farmed a set of moogle weapons from Thornmarch extreme and a set of armor from Odin for glam. I also doing the society quests and the relic grind... zodiac, not whatever the current one is.

I think the game wants me to talk to Wuk Lamat again, but I'm not sure when I'll get around to that.

[VeyaAkemi]

Today and for the foreseeable future, I am in Oizys, on a whim I decided I want to get to the 500k point mark across the board, I have no idea if I will be able to commit, but in the case I do, I plan to stop at ~400k to ~450k, and do the rest in the last planet in 7.5. It's a shame the 500k point mount is so lame, but I am not doing it for the mount.

I actually have an update on this! Today I finished my first class to 500k! And it's the worst one!



Compared to Fisher, I genuinely feel I am on the homestretch now even though I have 10 classes to go, Fisher is just miserable, there is so much RNG in those missions, and a single mission can take upwards to 10 minutes, all while chugging Cordials off CD like they are raid buffs, it just turns into a miserable experience when the name of the game is consistency and repetition... but it is done now, which means it is smooth sailing from now on!

Minorly, Fisher was frustrating enough that I decided to go for 500k right away, just so I wouldn't have to deal with it much more, get it all out of the way now.

Either way, I am very confident I can commit to finishing this now, the worst is behind me.

[Valence]

Why are you doing this to yourself...

Well, good luck to you in your endeavors in any case!

[VeyaAkemi]

Why are you doing this to yourself...

I just look for goals, I don't even need a reward at the end, I just need something to work towards, I returned to Cosmic to do my DoH/DoL relics, and on a whim, I decided it was high time to focus on this. I really don't think it is that bad besides Fisher.

I should also note, I actively want grinds, regardless how pointless they may seem, to me, it's the core thing MMOs are about, to find something probably pretty pointless to do, to busy yourself while chatting with people.

[Khryseis_Astra]

Minorly, Fisher was frustrating enough that I decided to go for 500k right away, just so I wouldn't have to deal with it much more, get it all out of the way now.

Either way, I am very confident I can commit to finishing this now, the worst is behind me.

Congrats! I’ll probably save it for last because I know how frustrating it will be, but being the last one I need to do will encourage me to finish!

I’m not doing it so much for the love of the grind as I am for all the starry titles. lol Focused on GSM first, and just finished WVR, now I’m on to ARM. But after that one I think I’ll go back and try to get the other crafters on a more even level going forward. Gatherers are just going to be last. lol

[HammAndCheese]

I actually have an update on this! Today I finished my first class to 500k! And it's the worst one!



Compared to Fisher, I genuinely feel I am on the homestretch now even though I have 10 classes to go, Fisher is just miserable, there is so much RNG in those missions, and a single mission can take upwards to 10 minutes, all while chugging Cordials off CD like they are raid buffs, it just turns into a miserable experience when the name of the game is consistency and repetition... but it is done now, which means it is smooth sailing from now on!

Minorly, Fisher was frustrating enough that I decided to go for 500k right away, just so I wouldn't have to deal with it much more, get it all out of the way now.

Either way, I am very confident I can commit to finishing this now, the worst is behind me.

Huge congrats! I just started on the fisher relic over the weekend and its by far the most tedious one yet... (funnily enough it was the fastest gatherer to get to 500k in the diadem so its funny that it's the most annoying now)

[VeyaAkemi]

(funnily enough it was the fastest gatherer to get to 500k in the diadem so its funny that it's the most annoying now)

Diadem fishing is simple, there is one primary target in Sweatfish, so you just sit in one spot casting your line over and over, shifting your position slightly every 30 minutes or so, which can be tedious, but it is very reliable.

Cosmic not only each mission has different standards for the fish and you need to remember them all(or have a cheat sheet handy), you need to spend a lot of time running back and forth on maps, to the point there is a strong argument there is only two missions you should bother with at all*, and even if you do that, the fish themselves are nuanced enough to demand your attention full time to actually heel them in, it's the perfect shitstorm of tedious yet demanding of focus.

*: For reference, those are EX: Processed Aquatic Metals, and EX: Refined Moon Gel, both at Sinus, legitimately, just accept and forfeit missions until you get either of them, this will ruin your Gold streak bonus, unless you get lucky, but those missions are rewarding enough to be worth far more than any other mission would be with the gold bonus, and you do sometimes get lucky anyway, and manage to make to Super Star with them.

[SamSmoot]

I was grinding low level S-rank groups for seals for Aetherite tickets all day,, but now that I reached my goal of 70K tickets (Full saddlebag), I've stopped that activity. Now, it's the weekly B-rank solo hunts, Dawntrail trains for tomes (1-2 days), and the Yok Huy crafting dailies for Mason's Abrasive.
I should upgrade my ilevel 690 crafting and gathering sets, but the thought of doing the whole overmelding thing again stops me.
Looking for something else to do.

[Solowing]

Currently just on "low power mode" Housing/Carrd holding me over until the game picks back up