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.
 * Platinum BCs: 7k each. I figure 24 stacks and I'll have enough to not be suicidally-depressed about leveling Goldsmithing to 60 without dropping 1 million gil.


 * 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: 5k
 * Fishing: 0k

Moon-based Activities

 * Full Moon: Skillrafting time, as possible.  I want to level Goldsmithing and Smithing on my Mule to help with bullet-production and my main's Goldsmithing is only 54 and I want it to 60.  Also, I am leveling certain sub-crafts on my Alchemy mule just cuz I can.  Finally, a new mule may be in the works.  I am divided between Cooking and Clothcraft.


 * New Moon: This time has become both "Fishing time!" and "HQ Crafting Time!" as my Woodworking finally hit the point where I will try for HQ Elemental Staves.  Also, I am considering getting back into Anima Production, as some of them are selling well and profitably...
 * Note on HQ Staves: I need one each. However, Elemental Bead prices have been rising for some time now and I am just entering that end-game-ish/Mana-Burn-ish stage for BLM where basic gear is starting to cost mucho gil.  Until I use my supply of Beastmen's Seals and Kindred's Seal up, I may put off the HQ staves...ugh.

My good BESTEST-EVAR friend Frekii just 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 loner. So...Fishing is BACK!

Weekly Activites

 * Campaign Stuff: I now do 7 Campaign Operations every Sunday morning and only spend as much time as is needed to defend my medal, as I level new jobs. 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).


 * Sky: My LS has a weekly Sky run, Sunday evenings, we can always use more members, I guess...


 * Sea NM Rewards: Our LS and a sister-LS do weekly Limbus runs together and we have another 7-8 people going through the CoP storyline, both for end-game events and for Sea Gods.


 * 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 3 AF+1 and a Brutal Earring for BST...for now....
 * Here's my after-action report on 6-4: Promathia Mission 6-4/Ctownwoody's CoP 6-4 Experience.
 * Here's my after-action report on 8-4: 8-4 Report.
 * ABCs: enough for another AF+1 (just need the items)
 * AF+1 Items in Storage: RDM x2, NIN

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)
 * Attribute Merits: INT x5 (Total Cost: 36 Merits)
 * Magic Skill Merits: Enfeebling Magic x8, Elemental Magic x8 (Total Cost: 42 Merits)
 * 'Others' Merits: Enmity Down x4, Spell Interruption Rate Down 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: ??? (Split between Fire, Ice and Thunder Mastery? What about ES Recast?) (24 Max, but more likely 18-19)
 * Black Mage Group 2 Merits: Flare II x3, Freeze II x3, Burst II x3, Tornado II (Total Cost: 39 Merits)

Total Earned: 45 Total Wanted: 251 + BLM Group 1 (maybe 270 total)

This Week's Tentative Schedule
I am cutting back on updating my guides until I bring my Mule through several stages of each. Also, I have set BLM60 aside as a stopping point until I do various things...that point is coming up fast (god bless Pet Camps).
 * Saturday: Exactly one of two things: Duoing with LS mates as BST or Merit-ing as BST (or if neither happens, LFP while Campaigniong). Besieged as it happens, for the free skill, mostly, but that doesn't count.
 * Sunday: Campaign Ops to start (DRK to 37 now), followed by duoing/meriting, and then finished with some sky farming.  If a friend has finally gotten her BST to 75, we may merit/level while farming Despot.  After Sky, I will consider trying a few HQ Elemental Stave synths.
 * Monday: BSTing.  I want massive merits.
 * Tuesday: See BSTing for Merits.
 * Wednesday: Limbus-night.
 * Thursday: Either duoing again or trying to get into an Einherjar group.
 * Friday: BSTing or crafting.

My BLM is now 70, so I am taking a break to really merit out my BST even more. That aside, I am watching for Besiegeds to skill-up, will be earning gil and doing crafting chores, and may end up doing Zenis and other Misc stuff but feeling less of a hurry now that I've reached Manaburn levels. Through pontificating this week. --Ctownwoody 10:30, 28 February 2009 (UTC)