Mineral Acquisitions

I appear to be officially back in the swing of things with Final Fantasy XIV. I spent my weekend doing all sorts of activities and essentially finding joy in all of them. The challenge that I have always struggled with is finding something that I wanted to be doing that was not the main story quest. Once the MSQ finished I would languish a bit and struggle to find purpose, and ultimately log out frustrated. However I am not sure what changed but I am finding a lot of things absolutely charming once again, much like I did when playing A Realm Reborn. While this started with a grind to get the bookrocks for various mounts, it has ultimately unlocked my desire to just hang out and play various classes.

I finished the grind I believe on Saturday and completed getting what was ultimately the 210 Irregular Tomestones of Law needed for the 5 mounts I was lacking. The weird thing is… I have continued to periodically play Hidden Gorge since then. It turns out I actually sorta enjoy PVP in Final Fantasy XIV, which is a shocking revelation coming from someone who is generally speaking completely anti-PVP in all games. Even when things go horribly wrong, like the above screenshot where I happened to go down a lane where 2 Brute Justice, 2 Oppressors and 2 Cruisers were all pushing at the same time… I find the entire experience to be enjoyable. I know no matter what I only have twenty minutes of time investment and I will wind up with something at the end that makes that investment worthwhile.

I think of the mounts available my favorite is probably the Demonic Lanner which originally drops from Zurvan, or you could turn in 99 of the weapon tokens to get it the long way. Will this get me to stop riding the motor bike? Not likely. However I do really enjoy having it without having to grind my face off to get it. I am wishing I had participated in this event during other expansions, because I am sure I probably would have ultimately enjoyed myself. Mounts are a strong draw for me even though I ultimately keep using the same handful, which is absolutely true for other games like World of Warcraft as well. I seem to standardize on a couple of specific mounts that I like the best and then only summon the other ones on occasion for fun.

The other thing that I started working on this weekend is mining, and I have to say it finally feels enjoyable again. I am not exactly sure when various tweaks went into the game, but previously I had dropped off during the transition to Heavensward. Whatever the case it feels like I will be able to level my way in the various gathering professions in no time. I should probably go ahead and pick up fishing and push that up while I am doing Mining and Botany since I think for a lot of the time they ultimately wear all of the same gear. Bank space is absolutely a problem, so I need to get that under control before I tackle a crafting push.

I’m getting to the point where I am actually juggling several games. I will probably talk more about that on another day but right now I am spending a little time in World of Warcraft, and even poked my head into Guild Wars 2 on Saturday. Then when I finally settle in for the night it seems to be Final Fantasy XIV that I am tucking in with. I know tomorrow I will be spending an excessive amount of time getting caught up with Phantasy Star Online 2 which adds a fourth game to this list. I am having fun and I am also somewhat pulling out of Turtle Mode for once, and hanging out on voice chat. I maybe want to start trying some group content again. It was an enjoyable extended weekend… until about 9 pm last night, but that is a tale for another time.

2 thoughts on “Mineral Acquisitions”

  1. I finished the mogrock grind on my daughter’s character, so she’s got the 210 for the 5 mounts. She adores the demonic lanner also.

    For my own character I got up to 60 rocks, so I bought the pony I lacked, plus a riding map for Middle La Noscea. I still need to get the lanner and the Susano wolf thing, then I plan to get the 4 last riding maps that I lack. Suppose I should start grinding fates in ShB zones zo I can get the mount speedup in the new areas too at some point…

    ‘Twas good to see you online over the weekend.

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