In a rut

[Reiryuu]

Warning: This is a partial rant, partial hope for someone to slap me sane.

I am currently at a loss of what to do. That's not to say I'm not enjoying the game, but I find myself in a position where I have so much on my mind I am really unsure of what to do to clear some of the options.

Background: I stopped playing around 2.2 and started up again around the start of November. I usually play white mage because it's one of the few jobs in the game that I feel somewhat OK playing (most of the jobs make me feel "meh" I don't know I have yet to find one I really really enjoy) and I have recently leveled Ninja to 50 returning my all lvl 50 status.


I am not fully geared, this I know. I am quite far behind... so far behind that I am wondering if it's worth taking tiny steps forward NOW or taking slightly larger ones in 2.5 since it's right around the corner now. For example, I haven't bought any gloves for my whm because they don't have any piety!! > Maybe the 2.5 world of darkness gloves will be i120/125 etc and have some. That would be nice and make me not waste the poetics.

Then there's 3.0 and prep for that. Will one of the 3 classes introduced finally be one that really clicks with me? Maybe Astrologian will. Maybe Dark Knight. I kind of doubt Machinist will, but I will level it and maybe even play it if I enjoy it.

I know I am still on my Atma weapon... I stopped. It's too much work to get to the current relic level and I got tired of it on the book stage >.>; Plus 400k gil is a lot of money for me. It's certainly not something I can do or want to do for a job I only feel kinda "meh" about anyway.

I probably should get some gear and go out and defeat Shiva Extreme finally but... newer shinier gear is just... so... close... ><!!

Advice... is appreciated. T__________T

[LionKing]

My advice:

1/ Log off your game.
2/ Do something for your life
3/ Wait for the new expansion
4/ Log in and enjoy all new contents.

You can go do that or:

1/Finish your story line quests . Or else it will even more overwhelm when the new expansion is released.
2/Pick one job you like best and gear it up with Poetics Gear. And gear your alts jobs with Soldier Gear.
3/Defeating Shiva Ex if you have not done so. Seeing the trend from the past, in which you are required to beat the number of certain Primals boss to unlock the new one. It might or might not the case, better be safe than sorry though.
4/Looking for a FCOB static and start doing them if you like challenges fight.
5/After finishing all 4 listed, you can come back here and ask for more advices.

Cheers.

[ZhycranaDranix]

Gear lvl from WoD would be around maybe 120 just like the CT gear was only as good as SOL gear not upgraded so Coil is still number one option world of darkness will give players the chance to close the gap faster seeing as you can then obtain two-three i120 items in a weeks time, also while collecting upgrades for your poetics gear....WHM has the most BiS in poetics gear for healers...Left Side-Top, Bottom Right Side-Neck, Ears, Ring...The ring does nothing for SCHs and is only a MND upgrade when our crucial sub stat is either Crit/Det

I would continue playing just for the poetics even if just that for the weeks coming still adds up to 1350 netting you your top in which then you can upgrade to the i130 and so on collecting other gear while strengthening and regaining your healing form from before you stopped playing because as a main Healer myself you can't just pick up in FcOB or any end game content and think your just going to pop cure and be okay it takes knowing your role and being effective and WHM for alot of DPS checks in FcOB managing your mana is probably the most work i.e P3 T12 etc etc so yeah grind poetics and sharpen your skills

[Reiryuu]

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That's right... I forgot that the Poetic Gear would be upgradable to i130. Though I just realized by staring at the merchant just now that the i120 pants don't have any piety on them either! *rage* T_T

As for BCoB... I haven't passed turn 5 yet. (Never really been in an FC that's gone to it and have no interest doing it with random people I don't know. I know. I'm an old fashioned kind of raider. =/) I suppose I could try to break out of that mold when Alexander comes in 3.0.

[ZhycranaDranix]

I suppose I could try to break out of that mold when Alexander comes in 3.0.

If anything I've known from this game(first mmo btw) is that they build on content, though a completely different raid/setting they won't make it easier than the Tier 13 right now. So with that like I said sharpen your skills on ScOB and FcOB find a group people are still gated behind T9 so you have a little time. Trust me, Dbs showed up in T5,T9,and T13 so yeah they def build on mechanics and how to handle them. It also prepares you to actually heal in a raid environment it's different from healing a primal.... Coils last way longer and a lot more mechanics and team oriented

[Teslo]

That's right... I forgot that the Poetic Gear would be upgradable to i130. Though I just realized by staring at the merchant just now that the i120 pants don't have any piety on them either! *rage* T_T

As for BCoB... I haven't passed turn 5 yet. (Never really been in an FC that's gone to it and have no interest doing it with random people I don't know. I know. I'm an old fashioned kind of raider. =/) I suppose I could try to break out of that mold when Alexander comes in 3.0.

Bear in mind that the Tomestone gear (In this case, Poetics) is intentionally sub-optimal. Poetics more so than past gear sets. They're there mostly for you to help fill in the gaps so you can more easily complete FCoB. Get the gear, it'll help. If you fall into the trap of thinking "The next content patch is right around the corner, no sense in wasting resources to get the current stuff when it's about to become obsolete!", you'll never upgrade because content patches happen rather frequently in this game!

I only raid with people I don't know when I'm confident the content can be completed easily. Nothing wrong with that. But if you WANT to raid, you should find a group that raids and join it. Then you can raid with people you've at least met. :P

[Roris]

I like how some suggestions are "go play other games" while you've already payed for a sub. Anyway the game really doesn't have a lot to do each patch, just two repeatable things and one of them is weekly locked and I guess the overtly rehashed relic quest of the patch. So even if you do catch up before 3.0 you'll only have Shiva and Final Coil worth doing, and the last one only if you manage to find a static or a PF group. So you could still catch up and prepare right now for 3.0, but 3.0 will also let you catch up even faster.

The thing though, is by then all this old content will probably be even more dead, depending on how they handle old content. So sadly with the game's WoW design it's only worth doing content in its prime before everyone moves on to the next shiny treadmill. You also already missed about two months worth of poetics, which is about the whole left side and 3 accessories.

The only real advantage about being caught up for 3.0, using the 1.0 to ARR transition as the closest reference we have, is that you'll have a higher chance to do Alexander on the first week or two after it released, and I guess you'll have an easier time getting those extra 10 levels to the new level cap. The other only advantage is you won't have to wait 2 hours or even more to do most old content, using Ultima Weapon and CT 1 as an example of content that's deader than dead because there's no real reason to do it right now. This also depends on how they handle old content by either removing set party requirements to even queue for them i.e. be able to enter with less than 8 people and maybe even solo and have a chance to beat it at level 60, or with the GC squad system they mentioned.