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Cake day: July 4th, 2023

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  • That’s not an uncommon reaction I feel once you complete the main story and are living patch to patch rather than being fully immersed in the world. It’s very easy to get in a rut where you’re playing as a tick the box exercise rather than actively working towards something. I know I’ve had nights where I’ve logged on and thought “okay, now what?”, so complete understand where you’re coming from!

    But don’t be afraid to take a step back and have some time away between patches if you’re not finding fulfilment! 7.1 news should be dropping tomorrow so hopefully that gives you something to look forward to, but even if it doesn’t, there’s always plenty of other games out there that you can try if FFXIV isn’t doing it for you at the moment!




  • Completely get the low motivation. I feel this late into a patch it’s not an uncommon thing. If you’re not working on something else, getting into a rut of capping the 450 tome, get the raid tier tokens, do your custom deliveries, do Doma restoration, etc., isn’t difficult. (I’m literally queuing for Expert roulette as we speak 😅).

    Hopefully once the news on 7.1 starts to come out it’ll peak your interest again! And if not? Don’t stress 😊 Letting a couple of patches build to get a bigger hit after a break isn’t a bad thing either!


  • That sounds like a cool little project! I haven’t taken much time to play with the game’s internals since I play on console so it isn’t really possible, but love to see what people can do with a bit of free time and a curiosity to understand how something works!

    I’m also looking forward to the raid, although largely because I was an FFXI player for over 10 years, so am curious to see which parts of the game they decide to use for the basis of the raids.


  • I’ve had a quiet week this week. Haven’t really ticked much off the to do list other than gaining a few levels on my white mage. Should hit 80 this week and then I can try the 80 poetics weapon @[email protected] suggested for my Aerith glam 😊 Did manage to get two non CT Alliance Raids this week though! (Void Ark and Mhach… but at least they’re not CT!)

    For 7.1 I’m going to assume we get our first tribal quests (I’ve already forgotten what they’re rebranded to now 😅), and I reckon it’ll be the Pelupelu. Pretty sure they announced them as one of the groups during the DT media tour (I could be wrong there) and given their involvement and proximity with Tuliyollal they seem the most likely choice.

    Vague spoilers on DT below

    Not sure what to expect story wise. I feel there’s going to be a rebuilding Tural post invasion plot somewhere but also an exploring the idea of intershard travel plot as well, since we already know Shtola is trying to get back to the First. Given Dawntrail was all about Wuk Lamat and her journey, I feel it would make sense for the rebuilding of Tural to happen around you rather than you directly participating, since again, that should be Wuk’s journey, not yours.

    So as we progress through the DT patch content you see the results of what happened with Alexandria, see people picking up the pieces and rebuilding their lives independently of the WoL’s involvement. And as we do our thing with the intershard stuff you can see the zones progressively change (since we already have a precedent for that in the final DT zone). Might be new structures being built, might be the use of electrope if any got brought back, might be people from different zones mingling together. Just feel it would make the world feel a bit more alive.









  • There’s usually Discord servers too that coordinate runs on the different servers if it’s something you’re wanting to jump into! I haven’t does DRS yet but there’s a new DRS player group planned for the start of next month on Materia that I’m really thinking about giving a go (especially since it’s a weekend where my wife is away so I’ll be at home just with the kids so taking over the lounge room for a run wouldn’t be a major hassle 😊).

    Congrats on the clear, and the mount!


  • Fun fact as well, if you have one of the custom facades being used on your house and then upgrade to a larger plot, the facade upgrades to the new size as well! So you don’t need to say grab a small one initially and then craft a medium one later, it’ll just upgrade with the plot.

    Don’t think it applies to the piecemeal facades though (not 100% sure on that) where you pick all the individual features.


  • Don’t worry, I’m embracing the non-grind mentality

    ❤️

    And yeah, totally understand about the lack of good plots. That being said if you can afford it I’d still recommend getting your foot in the door so to speak with a view to upgrade later when you can, only because it gives you access to the company workshop and submarines, which while it takes months to fully max out eventually becomes a license to print gil with minimal work. And since it does take a while to get to that point, the earlier you start the sooner you’ll be done.

    Plus you can unlock workshop crafts to make the new housing facades. They’re often a good money maker right when the new patches drop!



  • Urgh, the Zodiac weapons are such a grind 😒 But congratulations on getting it done! Now you can decide if you want to keep it or trade it in to skip a step in the HW relics. Since you’re never going to use it for stats these days, and trading it in permanently unlocks the ability to by replicas (if you haven’t you need to have the weapon on you to purchase the replicas, so if you lose it for some reason you have to do it all over again), it’s usually a good option to pursue.

    And good job on the Ixali - that too is a big grind and I was so happy when it was finally done! Now you can finally get rid of that stupid crafting glove 😅


  • You can always move over to Materia if you want housing, we’ve still got small plots available for FCs 😊 Probably not the smartest idea if you’re not in Australia though…

    I didn’t enjoy the variant dungeons enough to bother going through all the routes personally. They felt like a slog. To be fair I did do them solo, would probably be better in a group, but yeah, it wasn’t content that grabbed me. I do want to go back to whichever one gives you the giant pixie mount though at some point. Will get to that some day.

    I finally got my last Endwalker role quest done a few weeks ago too! I didn’t have a high level melee DPS and picked up Viper after Dawntrail so was finally about to get through it all (kinda cheated in ShB since melee and ranged were just grouped as physical DPS). They’re a bit of fun honestly, I enjoyed doing them. Hope you are as well!

    And nothing wrong with feeling disinclined to play for a bit! The game is honestly structured around that, so put your feet up so to speak, do what you feel like doing and don’t feel worried about not logging on!