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 a rather long list of wants and needs for crafting purposes.  Also, I need to make a ton of gil, as I am getting lower than I'd like because of extended crafting projects and because I need to buy a ton of items for CoP, ZM, and leveling in general.
 * Silk Thread/Silk Cloth: At 10k/36k per stack, that's bargain-level to me.  I need to use them to finish off Clothcraft 59 -> 60.
 * Steel Scales: At 20k per stack, I can make some break-even synths for Smithing to get it to 57.
 * Teak Log: 2k each, caps at WW85, big help. Not much else you can do with them at this point besides NPC.
 * Ahriman Wing: 3k each is the base price to make profitable Super Ethers, which I need to skill-up my Alchemy Mule.


 * Guild Points: I'm currently saving up for Alchemy Key Items and will soon be getting into Signboard territory for Woodworking. That's a ton of points, and getting Guild Points 3-4 days per week is key.  Granted, I won't always get them because sometimes the items are too expensive relative to the number of points offered.
 * Alchemy: 8,543
 * Woodworking: 78,894

Moon-based Activities

 * Full Moon: Well, really, anytime the moon is >80% and will be that way for the time I am on FFXI, I plan to fish.  Best time for outdoor fishing, which is basically all I have left.


 * New Moon: Crafting-time!  At this point, with all crafts at 51.7 or above, I need skill-ups pretty badly and will focus on crafting during the best skill-up times only.  The rest of the time, I can randomly craft items for profit.

Weekly Activites

 * Campaign Stuff: I use stuff broadly here because it includes quests, Battles, and Ops. I plan to use a week's worth of Op Credits all at once, if possible, mostly on 'inside-the-city' type activities designed to get XP for several jobs I disdain leveling (but really shouldn't).


 * CoP Static: I have a weekly date with Plot.  Having a ton of jobs at 30, except for SMN, I'm pretty handy at Promy.  Having a well-leveled and geared BST and DRG at 61 and 46, respectively, I'm handy to take along for farming in CoP areas.  Ironically, I'm the only person in my Static, I think, without PLD at 60+.

Itinerant Activities

 * Ramming: Basically put, you grab X number of stacks of Dark Crystals, Windurstian Tea Leaves, and Distilled Water and head to La Theine Plateau or Konschtat Highlands as BST/THF, THF/RNG, or any combination that has Treasure Hunter and Widescan to kill rams for their valuable valuable drops.  Konschtat Highlands gets my vote because I can kill Mad Sheep in between Rams for their drops and to try for Stray Mary, as well as Grain Seeds, Beehive Chips, and other goodies from Too Weak mobs.


 * Special Events: Assault, BCNM, ENM, etc, all fall into this category.  Any time someone needs help making a run at a NM, AF Quest, etc.  I don't do this to farm (see Ramming), but I do also 'hire myself out' (Price is typically "Pretty Please"x2) to help BLU get spells, cuz BST rocks at that.


 * Quests/Missions: This doesn't quite get its own day every week, but I will usually decide to do this if I am not up for Ramming and nothing special is planned otherwise.
 * Order of preference for Quests is:
 * Bastok/Sandy/Windy Quests: Easiest to start and usually to do.
 * Jeuno Quests: Almost as easy to do, just as easy to start.
 * Other Quests: Bit more running around to start and do, because of how scattered they are.
 * Outland Quests: Down-right nasty to start in terms of running/warping/tele-ing, and usually much harder.
 * WotG/ToAU Quests: A lot more runnning around, usually takes a lot of time because of the need to Sneak/Invis as well.  The NM fights are also not soloable by a BST61.
 * Order of preference for Missions is:
 * Bastok Missions: Wanna beat Zeid cuz Rank 10 rules for Signet length and for Gilz Rewardz.
 * ToAU Missions: I supppose I'll have to do them eventually, but too many require either multiple 75 jobs or a full party of 75s.
 * Zilart Missions: I fear that if I complete any more of them, I'll have to attend Sky sessions as a gimp with Widescan and a Charm-Bind.
 * Promathia Missions: Well, as the static is still on the Promys, not as much to like.  I'm told that CoP is like leveling Ninja: it sucks at the start but gets better after a point.

BST Leveling
Basically, any time I am on and just spinning my wheels, a good suggestion for a duo won't be taken amiss. Also, at some point, I plan to resume the solo act; I want more Beastman/Kindred Seals to clog my MH.

Throught pontificating this week...--Ctownwoody 18:06, 26 April 2008 (UTC)