User:Ctownwoody/Current Activities

This is an on-going, completely fluid assessment of what I am doing. Typically, I change the order, priority, etc, week-to-week, and will try to focus on some activities on a daily basis.

Daily Activities

 * Check AH: I am always on the look out for wants and needs for crafting purposes.  Subcrafts:  I'm doing some sub-crafting on my mule to get him around 50 on each, so I can take my time crafting junk in Jeuno for profit, so my Wishlist is large, varied and none-too-pressing.
 * Newer Mules: Yeah, I'm pressed for time, so my new mules are getting the short end of the stick on help. Mostly they are gardening for stuff and waiting for the right Conquest results to get Fame x6~7 in all 3 cities (I Hate Windy Fame quests...)


 * Guild Points: Currently, I am now getting back into this process because my Alchemy has finally hit and my Woodworking is 100+3, so I suppose I need the final items for each, if only so I can start on Fishing Guild Points...
 * Alchemy: 30k
 * Woodworking: 3k
 * Fishing: 0k


 * Mules: I can haz mules.  Bonecraft and Cooking mules to be exact, which are not crafting their main crafts for particular reasons.  Cooking is loading up on Cornettes in Bastok to ship back to Windy (I hate Windy fame quests).  Bonecraft is in Sandy, doing Leathercraft to 18 (he'll be slowly leveling it thereafter) before going to Bastok as well.
 * Question for those in the know: Is it worth it to get the East Ronfaure (S), West Sarutabaruta (S), North Gustaberg (S), and Rolanberry Fields (S) Cavernous Maws completed for easy back-and-forth access between the main 4 cities?

Moon-based Activities

 * Full Moon: Skill-crafting time, as possible.  I'm finishing off some crafting with my Alchemy Mule before sending him into "Guild Point" mode for the 2 Furnitures.  Oh, and Goldsmithing if supplies permit (they rarely do).  My 2 new mules will be using this time when they start crafting (super-busy IRL).


 * New Moon: This time has become both "Fishing time!" and "HQ Crafting Time!" as I try for HQ Elemental Staves now, if I can get the right beads in decent quantity and price (look up Ice Ore on Asura sometime to see what I mean).
 * Note on HQ Staves: I need one of each for BLM but I'm have only to make a Pluto's Staff for myself at this point. I may try for a signed version of it and Jupiter's Staff, but frankly, I prefer to save my GPs for the Signboard.

My good BESTEST-EVAR friend, Frekii, got his Ebisu Fishing Rod with 1/369 and 1/36 on Liks and Gugrusauruses, respectively. Having repaired one of his 3 Lu Shang's Fishing Rod constantly over the 6 month period that he has had them, I have asked for a loaner. So...Fishing now rocks (well, as much as it can at top levels where skill is very very rare)!

Weekly Activites

 * Campaign Stuff: I now do 7 Campaign Operations every Sunday morning. Let me put a plug in for using Campaign Operations as a great way to level sub-jobs whose skills you do not need raised (THF, DRK, etc).  I also spend some odd bits of time doing Campaign for LPs and for recapping XP.
 * I am also considering getting both of my new mules into the past and signed up so that they can do Ops for Allied Notes. That way, I can use the Cavernous Maws to get them from city-to-city easily.


 * Sky: My LS has a weekly Sky run, Sunday evenings, we can always use more members, I guess...
 * Well, actually, last time we did Gods, an amazing 24 people showed. Last time we did farming, 12 people showed...Hmmm...


 * Limbus Raiding: Having completed Chains of Level-Cap Promathia, my static is joining others from a cousin LS and previous victors within our own to do Limbus-runs.  I only want 1 more AF+1 and a Brutal Earring for BST....
 * Here's my after-action report on 6-4: Promathia Mission 6-4/Ctownwoody's CoP 6-4 Experience.
 * Using this guide, I led a group through on their first try: PLD/WAR, SAM/NIN, BST/NIN, SCH/WHM, RDM/WHM, RNG/SAM
 * Here's my after-action report on 8-4: 8-4 Report.
 * ABCs: 90/75 (Brutal Earring); still debating relative merits of a Loquacious Earring for my BLM/RDM
 * AF+1 Items in Storage: RDM x2, NIN, DNC x2, PUP x2, SAM, DRK x2, BLM, BRD, WHM, THF, DRG, COR

Itinerant Activities

 * Special Stuff: Anything not listed elsewhere falls into this category.  Any time someone needs help making a run at a NM, AF Quest, etc.  I don't do farming (I will farm Rams but that's cuz it's low-strss, high-drop fun I do for selling the drops), but will look for and kill NMs, especially ones that I haven't killed before.

Merits
I've changed this up from before, mostly because I have been abjectedly begged asked to level Black Mage because our LS lacks them:
 * HP/MP Merits: MP x8 (Total Cost: 30 Merits)
 * Magic Skill Merits: Enfeebling Magic x4, Elemental Magic x8, Dark Magic x4 (Total Cost: 39 Merits)
 * 'Others' Merits: Enmity Down x4, Critical Hit Rate (Merit) x4 (Total Cost: 20 Merits)
 * Combat Skill Merits: Axe Skill x8 (Total Cost: 21 Merits)
 * Beastmaster Group 1 Merits: Killer Effects x2, Call Beast x4, Sic x4 (Total Cost: 24 Merits)
 * Beastmaster Group 2 Merits: Feral Howl x2, Killer Instinct x2, Beast Healer x1, Beast Affinity x5 (Total Cost: 39 Merits)
 * Black Mage Group 1 Merits: Magic Potency: Ice x5, Magic Potency: Thunder x5 (Total Cost: 24 Merits)
 * Black Mage Group 2 Merits: Flare II x1, Freeze II x4, Burst II x4, Tornado II (Total Cost: 40 Merits)
 * Alternative: All AM2's at 1, with Freeze II and Burst II at x3 (Total Cost: 36 Merits)

Total Earned: 74 Total Wanted: 237 (*sob*) (alternative is 233) (will stop at 40 more, though)

This Week's Tentative Schedule

 * Saturday: LFP while fishing or try to sky farm, dunno.
 * Sunday: Sunday morning is Campaign Ops and mule stuff...Sunday afternoon/evening will be Father's Day.
 * Monday: Close to Full Moon.  Depending on what happens Sunday, may either LFP, Sky Farm, or mule-craft
 * Tuesday: LFP as BLM while Fishing.
 * Wednesday: Limbus.  We have a Strategy for how to low-BLM Omega, but it depends on certain people showing in time, which doesn't always happen.
 * Thursday: Full Moon, so see Monday.
 * Friday: See Tuesday.

I have decided that 40 merits (sob) is all I need to finish off BLM in a respectible fashion for someone who wants to level other stuff afterwards. So, I'm going into lock-down mode. --Ctownwoody 15:15, 20 June 2009 (UTC)