Six Months Later

It has been more than 6 months since my last post, so a lot has happened.

I have finished all Abyssea zone and caturae clears. I beat Shinryu for his atma and some of his loot (Belt, Cape, Torque) but I still want the big 3: Helm/Mail/Knife.

I have made a lot of progress on much of my empyrean armor. I have completed WAR and BRD sets (+1 onry). I have 4/5 for BLM RDM WHM MNK and 3/5 DNC SCH. I need DNC feet (8/8 seals), 3x WHM and RDM feet seals (have the boots already). I need BLM MNK SCH and DNC body seals. I haven't really focused on acquiring those seals though because the NMs that drop them are such a PITA. I need to just suck it up and run the quest in Ule. Range for MNK/NIN/SCH seals, but it is a soul-draining prospect.

Oh yeah, and I took SCH and DNC to cap. DNC is uber fun!

Here are some notable drops that I've received:
- Loki's Kaftan (nice for DNC and MNK WS, eventually NIN and THF)
- Bullwhip Belt
- Orison Earring
- Orison Cape (FINALLY!!!)
- Twilight Belt

Recently, I've been spending time farming in Castle O. I have made a few million gil n the last couple of weeks farming scrolls up there.

Ia came back to the game so that we could spend time doing something together, although she doesn't have a whole lot of time to play with her homework and classes. We're working on getting her WHM to cap so that we can more easily duo stuff for gear/seals/etc. I'd also like to get her through CoP and into sea, but I don't think that's a big priority for her.

Braego is thinking about coming back, too. That would be pretty nice as it would allow more flexibility in jobs for stuff that we all want/need to do.

Level cap just went up to 95 a couple of days ago. I was pretty lucky and managed to get my limit break done pretty quickly (I had 21/20 merits waiting). After, I went out and got BLM, SCH, WHM and RDM to 95 (although not all are capped XP-wise).

I'm looking forward to capping the rest of the jobs so I can focus on doing other stuff. I don't know why but I feel like I have to have all my jobs at cap ASAP, even if I never play them (I'm looking at you WAR and MNK!).

Not looking forward to buying all of the remaining spells that I need. So far, it seems that all the 91-95 scrolls are drops from BCs, which means they are going to be quite expensive for awhile.

Things that I want to accomplish:
- Skill up Staff (I need more staff skills so that I can proc stuff)
- Level NIN to cap
- Level THF to cap
- Finish +1 armor and start working on +2
- Work on VNM route for G.Axe
- Work on ToM Thunder-staff
- Maybe do a ToM dagger for DNC/THF?

As far as ToM goes, there are a ton of trials that I could work on, but I just can't bring myself to do it. It always feels like I could be doing something better with my time or I have another piece of gear that is good enough to make me not want to bother working so hard for such a small improvement.

For now, I'll focus on getting my jobs capped and getting Ia capped and just hopefully continue to have fun playing the game!

Posted 46 minutes ago