Playing Too Much?
Posted by: Anexia in Assaults, BRD, Dynamis, Einherjar, Limbus, Salvage, Shinies!Lately…I’ve just not been feeling like playing nearly as much. I still enjoy the game, but ugh. Between early(ish) classes and late(ish) events, my sleeping schedule is WAY out of wack. We’ve recently tried upping Salvage to 4 nights/week, and I don’t really think it’s helping, that’s for sure! Right now, my schedule looks like this:
Monday: Limbus 7:30-9:30, Salvage 10-12
Tuesday: Salvage 10-12
Wednesday: Salvage 10-12
Thursday: Dynamis 8-12
Friday: Limbus 7-9, Einherjar 9:30-10
Saturday: Salvage 10-12
Sunday: Dynamis 8-12
I always said I didn’t want to do events every day of the week, that I wanted at 2-3 days to relax and do other things…and that clearly isn’t the case anymore! On the one hand, I LOVE doing salvage; really, I enjoy all of those events. I miss doing sky, I wish I could do sea. Right now though, with working 2-3 days a week, I honestly just want to sleep in the afternoons to make up for sleep I didn’t get at night due to events or homework! Which…leaves me no free time in game. Most nights, if I’m not doing an aforementioned event, or something like assaults or ISNM or meriting to keep up with the events…I’m not online. I sit in my mog house and stare at my moogle!
I’m almost tempted to say I’ll push through this stupidly busy schedule until I get a few Salvage pieces, but I know that won’t work. I do Salvage with friends, and it would be 100% awful to get my stuff then get out. But…I don’t really want to quit anything else, either. Oh well, I’m sure I’ll figure something out!
So: little updates on the above listed items~
Salvage: Well, I touched on this last weekend! We’ve had some pretty good luck this week though, that’s for sure! A week ago today we did our very first SSR, and Monday was our second — from which I netted a pair of Macha’s Slops! Tuesday was a failed Bhaf. boss run :< from which I still need my 25 Morrigan’s body, and Wednesday was a 35-less Arrapago farm. Tonight, though, we tried our very first Zhaylom! There’s still tons of room for improvement, lotting was a bit sloppy. Our biggest mistake was that we didn’t get our THF an ability cell, so we were kind of hurting on the 5th floor. We didn’t even get to the 6th, which is were our wanted items were :( We killed the 5th floor froggie with a good chunk of issue due to TONS of charm, a mistargeted DoT, DoTs wearing, Star being weakened at the start…basically a whole slough of things. HOWEVER!: we did get a 35 for our troubles! We killed the NM with 3 people alive and less than 5 minutes remaining, but we DID get the Marduk’s 35 body piece :) Star was going to pass it to me, but I’m glad he ended up getting it. We’ve gotten…7 35s total now? Marduk/Morrigan Body, Skadi Feet, Usukane pants x2, Morrigan pants, Morrigan Cuffs. Right, 7.
Two went to me, my #1 and my #2, so I’ve been really lucky with that. Star’s actually gotten two too now — Marduk body (which was completely open), and Morrigan hands (which was one of his interest pieces). Overall I’ve been pretty happy with Salvage, we’ve had some pretty big bumps but nothing we couldn’t handle. 7 35s in 9 weeks isn’t too shabby! Of course, we’ve only finished 2 pieces, but we’re working on it :) I think only 2-3 of us have our #1 35s, so we’re making sure to focus on the 35 farm runs as well as boss runs yet.
Dynamis/Limbus: Nothing TOO interesting. Completed another Ultima pop set last night, so we’ll hopefully be doing that a week from Monday! Friday was the kings route of Apollyon for the BLM SWAT party I was in, and I had a blast — that’s my very favorite limbus zone. Dyna, we won Sandy last Sunday, and farmed Bastok Thursday. We were short members so had someone swap to PLD for the first time, and on a pull they accidently pulled the wrong NM, not realizing there was 2. Not a huge deal, we’ll be back to Bastok sooner or later. Making some nice currency compared to our all snow month last month, I can say that much!
Assaults: I’m now either 16 or 17 away from Captain, and really excited :) Star and I haven’t been as good about doing assaults as we should be, but hopefully it won’t be too long until we’ve both got captain rank and can focus on getting some of the Yigit pieces we want! Yes, I realize I’m crazy…working on Yigit and doing Salvage as often as I am .___. I’m thinking I’ll swap to doing RvB 4x a week once I get captain, and trying to do 3 runs a week to get points for Yigit stuff. Not sure if that’ll work though since I typically have to help leech people in our Salvage group points. Oh well!
Merits: I haven’t been doing a TON of this, but a decent amount. My White Mage is getting pretty close to capping out, I think I’m at 15/20 job specific merits now! @2/5 Regen potency and @3/5 Cure cast time I think. I debated on going for Barspell, but I don’t really do anything that NEEDS it. I’ve got Shellra V fully merited, and have relic pants and Blessed body, so that should be pretty good for most things I do, I’d think!
Einherjar: I gave Star crap for not putting BRD on his application (he didn’t want to go BRD, which was fair enough I guess), but UGH, it’s 3 weeks in and I’ve been BRD every stinking time. I mean, I know that’s only 3 times, but I really do believe I’ll ONLY be BRD :< I’ve been spoiled, I get to bounce jobs pretty much everywhere else, and BRD is not my favorite job. I enjoy it, but it really erks me in einherjar. I keep telling myself it’s so much easier to recap BRD buffer though than it would be anything else.
Anyways! That’s about all I’ve been up to lately…maybe I’ll level another job or get a live outside of events at some point, but it sure doesn’t seem to be anytime soon!
Quotes of the Day: First one is of Ty and I talking during dynamis, about the AB/SMN thing. He started to tell me this really amusing little blurb, and I DC’d in the middle…so he kindly repeated it for me so I could SS it!
I don’t remember the exact context of this, but it amuses me. I think it had something to do with us getting incentive, and that we needed to use that gil for RR? That and this month the incentive would be much nicer than last month!
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