User blog:Haldarn/Deep Inside

I cannot stop playing this game! And already there's a June update on the horizon. I'm actually resenting the time I'm going to have to take off XI to play XIV for 3.3, but if past experience is anything to go by, I'll be done with that in two days (I refuse to tome-grind and I don't attempt Extreme primals).

This month I've taken advantage of the Return Home to Vana'diel Campaign (May 2016), as I had made eight additional mules in the past back when I had no family and a lot of disposable income. They all activated, so for the period I used them to take advantage of the Abjuration Dial Campaign - over 130 abjurations! Now all I need is the Cursed/Hexed gear to combine it with... I left them on my mule which has now gone inactive, as I can't spare the space on my main char and main mule.

This is mainly because I hoard! I decided what I really needed to do was to clear through all of the old content that kept me hanging on to all these tons of upgrade/pop/crafting items. My inventory space should exclusively be filled with worthless Rare/Ex gear that I've collected from around Vana'diel!

So the majority of what I have filling up space are Abyssea seals for Empyrean upgrades to +1. I did spend a few days in Dynamis - Bastok and Dynamis - Jeuno collecting every base piece of Relic (and what I thought was a reasonable amount of currency until I belatedly read about the proc system there) and storing them, but inventory woes overtook me so I'm instead concentrating on Abyssea.

Although I seem to have become distracted getting 100% completion on Abyssea zones and am currently farming up zone megaboss pops repeatedly and not being able to proc red with my BLM/WHM so always missing the Atma and having to retry. It's almost worth levelling up WAR/NIN... I'm using Curilla for Red Lotus/Seraph Blade and Halver for Raiden Thrust - plus Earth Shaker, Sunburst and Seraph Strike from me makes 6/13 possible - so about a 50% chance, right? lol no I have Nanaa Migho for drops and Kupofried and Moogle to round out the team (don't want to be doing too much damage). Right now I'm on my third Hadhayosh farm, but only need his atma and Megamaw Mikey's (who's being oddly stubborn).

Yeah, that's not conducive to gathering seals, but I am getting a good few +2 items from Hadhayosh, Briareus and Carabosse, not to mention helms I could do with for my Almace-in-progress.

I did come back with 150x Ram Skins, so I've been crafting them into leather in a vain hope of selling them at profit (in stacks though). All I can say is a thank you to the developers for adding the /lastsynth command. A macro of 6x /lastsynth made it very simple.

In other news, I got through to the Seekers of Adoulin section of Rhapsodies, with help on the last battle in Reisenjeima from an LS mate (who pwned where I could only be pwned) called Dashuto. REALLY looking forward now to getting on with Seekers, but I have an overbearing need to clear ALL CONTENT pre that expansion before I start. :/

Ok other than that we had the Crab Club Cabal event which was amusing and didn't involve too much pain. I completed it for my main and my mule. I bought 10x Bonanza Marbles for each of my eight off-mules and will get 10x for my main and mule as soon as I clear the inv space... The Adventurer Appreciation Campaign with free stuff from the Moogles... Well across all 10 characters, despite multiple 'Wait' options, I didn't see the Atomos Statue or the Nomad Moogle Wand, just regular stuff - though I did need the Adventurer's Certificate.

Not sure if it'll help, but I'm considering filling my bazaar and afking in Jeuno. I think it's so unlikely nowadays that anyone would go to the lengths of looking in bazaars for anything other than upgrade items, but it's worth a shot. If nothing sells after a week, I'll save the electricity and my laptop's lifespan (it gets so hot!).

Here on FFXIclopedia, I want to make some not-minor changes to things like Item Page layouts (though I did read somewhere that BDK had implemented moving forward without blank segments), the damnable Rare and Ex symbols, and a reordering/layout update of Area pages. Who do I clear this with? Does anyone care? Do I just edit and see who undoes me in protest?

I also really want to get into the Escha pages, which seem so unfinished and missing basic information it pains me. Geez, but I still have that Unity Concord NPC page to finish - and I've still not really even done it! I've added a lot to Template:Stat and started using it (seemed pointless at first, but grown to love it). Other pages I've authored or heavily edited this month have been:
 * Adventurer Appreciation Campaign 2016 and Adventurer Appreciation Campaign 2016/Guide
 * May 2016 Login Campaign
 * Gobbie Mystery Box
 * Mog Bonanza 2016
 * Return Home to Vana'diel Campaign (May 2016)
 * Potency of Cure Effect Received
 * Template:SeeAlso
 * 15x pieces of Peacekeeper i109 +1 gear
 * all of the missing information on appreciation campaign rewards and past rewards
 * a lot of the pages and graphics for items from the May 2016 update.
 * all 60+ of the updated food graphics (effects are now on the descriptions!) for May (more for June.. :/)
 * any other updated items that required new graphics that I could lay my hands on.
 * new mounts and associated obtainments.
 * numerous missing items including eg Kunaji Ring which showcases my preferred new layout format, if anyone cares!
 * and my own list of Rare/Ex items for idiot collectors like myself, currently in progress at User:Haldarn/Rare Ex

I hope that serves as some kind of record for my dedication to the site this month. If User:Tahngarthor or User:Blue Donkey Kong reads this and would either give my ideas blessings or give me edit rights on protected pages, I hope you can see they're in good hands.