Weekly Goals and Accomplishments 4/3 - 4/9Follow

Yeah, after catching up on cutscenes, I think my goal may be to take a break from FFXIV to let my nerves cool after all of that.

I've got Type Zero and the FFXV Demo to go through now after completing Axiom Verge (Hey, Metroidvania fans, this is a must buy get it!) And honestly... it's going to be really hard to level Alts and get them through that story. For now, taking it easy.

I finished up the post moogle quests and got my hat and title. Then I started on the Easter event. Since you have to wait for the FATE to pop, I took the time to farm some Alex. I managed to get four out of six FATEs to drop, which I was shocked by. That, plus a couple maps, and some hunts, I've capped Crit (with only two breaks) and have five more Det to go. I'm also slowly closing in on having the 99 HQ Antumbrals I need to get my Lucis pick. I've had the pearls and cloth for over a month now, but those damn HQs are few and far between some days. I'm hoping to finish both this weekend and then start on the end of the storyline.

Took THM to 30. Gonna work on archer to 15 and then I'll be a black mage.

Leveled Pugilist to 18 I think, started Rogue. Level 6 or so. Easter got in the way.

Getting a little better with the wacom tablet. Painting is fun. 0 clean up, all the colors a guy could want.

Had a productive weekend!

After beating Turn 9 on Thursday, on Sunday I finished my Zeta, Steps of Faith and the "Before the Fall" storyline.

I'm 650 poetics away from my bard's i130 weapon. Going to work toward that and focus on WoD gear, and I'm also going to start learning t10.

Feels good though, the bulk of my grinding is over for a few months!

Catwho, if you can catch me on at the right time, I'll be glad to help. I soloed all my maps on WHM with the chocobo. I usually start him in Defender mode until he grabs hate on the first mob, then switch to Free Stance so he throws in some healing too. The exception of course would be the Bomb, where he's in Healer stance so he doesn't accidentally heal the mob. It gets a LOT easier at about i110.

Verdha finally, on the fourth attempt, got that last meld for Crit+ on the MNK relic. She still had one Det+ on the market board to pay for future breakages on the Crit, and so pulled that off and melded it too. Finally tally will be capped Crit+, Acc+5, and the rest Det+. Just need two Alex now to finish it. Been waiting to get that done before I start the new storyline, which I'll try to focus on this week. Grabbing lots of poetics is a goal too, since she has an Encrypted Tomestone and Carbontwine ready to go for the WHM weapon.

Waenlona suffered through THREE Aurum Vales last night. First time for Maelstrom rank-up. Then while queuing for Garuda, forgot to uncheck Aurum Vale and so ended up in it again -- I don't believe in quitting duties, so stuck it out to the end. And then got Aurum Vale AGAIN in low level roulette. The good news for that though is that she's about halfway to SCH50 now, should easily be able to pull that off this week. Then it'll be levelling WHM from 46 to 50 to catch up, and then relax and potter around with storyline, fishing, crafting, and THM to BLM for a few weeks probably, as well as go through the SMN storyline to complete her DoM training.

But the most important thing of all will be getting Waen to 50 to unlock glamors because she looks TERRIBLE in pretty much all normal gear and looks totally AWESOME in Coliseum. Her favorite color used to be yellow, but she's discovered that Black Is The New Yellow and goes great with her green complexion, eyes, and hair.

Remember you can do your Alex maps on any job you like, not just the one that needs it. I did the maps on WHM, but used all the Alex on MNK. Your SCH and BRD are very well geared and should be able to solo the maps with your chocobo, I would think. I've heard SCH is the easiest job to solo Alex on; I went with WHM because I was a lot more familiar with it. But my offer still stands, of course!

Thankfully everyone in Swarm is totally cool with "yeah we'll help with maps." 3/75 alex so far.

I heard from someone that you should avoid infusing any materia until you have all 75 alexandrite ready to go, and use that time to start stockpiling materia. I'm leaning toward an accuracy and determination build for my axe (since Parry is apparently a joke stat and Crit Hit seems kind of silly for a tank.) Any thoughts on that?

Edited, Apr 9th 2015 12:07pm by Catwho

The answer is best explained by this article:

http://www.ffxivguild.com/ffxiv-tanking-parry-vs-dps-stats/

It depends on what you do. MT all the time, you need parry. OT, you need DPS. Parry is still better than crit / ss for tanks. Go for the two stat and you are pumping 25-30 10-15 million gil into your relic. Go for the three stat and you might pump 3-5 million in.

I went Det / Acc / Parry on my paladin, fyi, det and acc the two main stats, and parry my lesser third stat. At that point I figured that 1 point of det for a 500k Det IV was not worth more than 1 point of Parry for 100 gil.

Edited, Apr 9th 2015 12:49pm by Valkayree

Edited, Apr 10th 2015 10:45am by Valkayree

Well, either your server has a stupidly inflated economy, or you're bad at math. On Ultros, Savage Might IVs go for 400-450k, and Savage Aim IVs go for 300-350k. Unless for some ridiculous reason your aren't using the lower tier matiera until you're forced into the IVs, you won't get even close to 25 million. All told, I spent just over 6 million on mine and I maxed out DET and CRIT. Granted, I did spend some time SBing out at the Fount, but that only saved me a couple million. If I had bought them all, it still would have been under 10.

Edited, Apr 9th 2015 6:12pm by Turin

Might IV goes for 500k - 600k currently on Lamia. The crit IV goes for 400-450k. I recall working out the numbers back when I was getting my first one and I worked out 25 million, but granted the materia costs were much higher then (in the millions) and I didn't factor that in to my new estimates. So 10-15 million maybe with today's prices, assuming no spiritbonding, and expecting that about 2 million will go to RNG pops right there at the end. Doesn't matter. Its still way to much gil for what is the equivalent of less than a point of weapon damage.

I did hit 50 DRG! And I'm on track to get my encrypted weapon next week on bard, which is pretty exciting.