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 tried to have a narrow list but having 4 characters, 3 of them pure crafting mules, makes it hard to do that, especially when there are some nifty new items out there, and I need major profits, while getting Guild Points in 3 crafts...
 * Guild Point Item Materials: I'm stopping this except for certain occassions, because I'm feeling very burned by the process.  Also, I'm getting into end-game activities/leveling with my DRG now, so I really need to hoard my time and gil


 * Guild Points: I'm burned on this, but these reflect my latest totals...
 * Alchemy: 45K/200k
 * Woodworking: 135k/200k
 * Cooking: 38k/500k
 * Fishing: 0k/300k
 * Leathercraft: 6k/110k


 * Mules: I can haz mules.  Alchemy, Bonecraft and Cooking mules to be exact, which are not crafting their main crafts for particular reasons.  All are making decent progress at their current tasks, except Alchemy, which has reached 100+3 and I'm debating what to do with it, longer-term.

Moon-based Activities

 * Full Moon: If I'm on and can craft, it'll most-likely be my Cooking or Bonecraft mule that gets the love.  My Alchemy mule needs some more Goldsmithing, I guess, and Leathercraft, but the former requires tons of Mythril Beastcoins and the latter will wait on the former (Vellum-stage, so I need Gold Dust).


 * New Moon: More likely to be Fishing While LFP (this needs its own acronym) than Campaiging While LFP (again, need acronym).

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'm almost at the point where my two choices for LFP are now at Campaign Battle while LFP or Fishing while LFP...I guess it'll depend on my TNL and whether I want to hike to Nashmau vs. Retrace...


 * 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.
 * 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
 * 2/2 with a second group: PLD/WAR, SMN/WHM, WHM/SMN, BST/NIN, BLU/NIN, DRK/NIN
 * Here's my after-action report on 8-4: 8-4 Report.
 * ABCs: 68/??; still debating relative merits of a Loquacious Earring for my BLM/RDM, but I did get my Brutal Earring. There are some BLM AF+1 that look nice and my DRG has some pretty good AF+1 options, too.  I'm mostly waiting because I'm 1 item off upgrading each.
 * AF+1 Items in Storage: RDM x2, NIN, DNC x2, PUP x2, SAM, DRK x2, BLM, BRD x2, WHM, THF, DRG, COR, BST x2, RNG, BLU, SCH, SMN

Itinerant Activities

 * SeaShell: I'm in a group that does bi-weekly, two-day Sea runs.  Pretty fun considering that there are 8 or so BLMs in the group, which can pretty much solo most NQ mobs and a great deal of the NMs in Sea, if not the Gods.
 * Nyzul Isle: Formed a static, we're starting this week.  I've even gotten a microphone so I can bark disorienting orders at them when it comes to lamps...Looks to be SAM/NIN, SAM/DNC, THF/NIN, BST/NIN, RDM/???, and WAR/NIN

Merits
I've added DRG-based Merits in, much to my Chagrin...However, if I get into good MerPo parties, i.e. 15k+/hr, it'll be worth it it clear out all backlogged merits. Only fully-bought items are struck out:
 * HP/MP Merits: HP x4, MP x4 (Total Cost: 20 Merits)
 * Magic Skill Merits: Enfeebling Magic x8, Elemental Magic x8 (Total Cost: 42 Merits)
 * Other Merits: Enmity Down x4, Critical Hit Rate (Merit) x4 (Total Cost: 20 Merits)
 * Combat Skill Merits: Axe Skill x8, Polearm skill x8 (Total Cost: 42 Merits)
 * Beastmaster Group 1 Merits: Killer Effects x2, Call Beast x4, Sic x4 (Total Cost: 24 Merits)
 * Beastmaster Group 2 Merits: Feral Howl, Beast Affinity x5 (Total Cost: 25 Merits)
 * Black Mage Group 1 Merits: Magic Potency: Ice x5, Magic Potency: Thunder x5 (Total Cost: 30 Merits)
 * Black Mage Group 2 Merits: Flare II x2, Freeze II x3, Burst II x3, Tornado II x2 (Total Cost: 38 Merits)
 * Dragoon Group 1 Merits: High Jump Recast x5, Super Jump Recast x5 (Total Cost: 30 Merits)
 * Dragoon Group 2 Merits: Angon x4, Empathy x4, Strafe x2 (Total Cost: 41 Merits)

Total Earned: 87 Total Wanted: 312 (*sob*)

This Week's Tentative Schedule

 * Saturday: FOOTBALL!!!!!!!!!  I will be absorbing College Football while LFP/Campaigning or Fishing, maybe doing house chores.  I may try to do Brothers D'Aurphe as much as possible.
 * Sunday: Dual threats on my time of Dynamis and Sea.  Also, crafting/farming day for my mules inbetween.
 * Monday: Sea Part 2: The Reckoning...actually, just a follow-through on my biweekly Sea stuff
 * Tuesday: I should have maxed my medals by now, so it's debatable if I'll be collecting more Allied Notes (I bought some of the Fourth Brunne Set but have buyer's remorse already) or if I'll be Fishing, but either way, I suspect that I'll be LFP.
 * Wednesday: Limbus.  Crafting afterwards.
 * Thursday: My Sea Shell does Forced Spawns on this day, so I may pitch in, especially if it's Swift Belts.  Otherwise, it'll be LFP while Campaigning or Fishing...
 * Friday: See Tuesday.

Grinding away the last few levels as DRG...--Ctownwoody 17:05, October 3, 2009 (UTC)