Good Morning Friends! I thought I would start out this morning by talking a little bit about the information I posted over the weekend. For those who may not have read it yet, I wrote some of the various options that you have for leveling alternate jobs in Final Fantasy XIV. More specifically I focused on some of the options that I have actually been partaking of while leveling my own alternate battlecraft jobs. I’ve been more or less following the script and completing my beast tribe dailies, daily crystarium hunt logs, and a handful of the most beneficial roulettes. As a result, my Dancer is roughly one-quarter of the way through level 78 and pending everything going as planned should hit level 80 tonight.
Essentially I have been putting on at least two levels every single day and doing so in a pretty reasonable and chill manner. I’ve not really been grinding anything, with the exception of putting on a full third level yesterday doing Bozjan Southern front. If I keep this up I will actually be able to level everything to 80 well before the Endwalker expansion lands. I will likely vary things up significantly for tanking and healing classes because I can very easily do the whole highest dungeon queue method for those. Another side benefit of all of this process however is that I am getting extremely close to having maxed out all of the battlecraft beast tribes, which is a thing I never thought would actually happen. I am more and more convinced that this sort of method, is what the FFXIV team had intended for leveling alts.
More recently I have had plenty of allowances left over to devote some effort to my gathering jobs. So I am spending an awful lot of time in the Namazu camp because Mining, Botany, and Fishing are all within that level range. It seems like another very easy way to cram on a free level every single day. Once I have finished with the battle jobs, I will probably start abusing these alternate leveling systems in order to push up my crafting professions as well. Final Fantasy XIV seems to really reward doing a little bit of a lot of different things every single day, and maybe just maybe I am mature enough to be able to do repeated tasks day after day until I reach a goal. I’ve always struggled with daily quests because I get bored and wander off before I actually reach whatever goal I am seeking.
I’ve talked at length about how awful of an idea it is to start a second character in Final Fantasy XIV. There however is a single exception to this rule, and that is that you want a character located on another data center. As a result, I actually have a handful of alts that I have created sprinkled out through a few different worlds. More recently I have been spending a bit of time on my alternate character on Ultros in the Primal datacenter. When I last left this character I had gotten it to level 20 and was ready for the Marauder quest. On the Main Story Quest side, I was just about to hop on the airship to head to Gridania from Limsa Lominsa and start the world tour that ends in the first handful of dungeons. I think essentially if I reach a point where I can no longer make easy progress on the job that I am actively leveling… I might start hopping over to some of these alts and throw on a few quests as a chill nightcap for the day. I’ve also not seen any of the ARR content since 2013, so it might be fun to see exactly how that early game worked.
Lastly I am in the market for real estate. One of the other side benefits of this whole “do a lot of things every day” aspect of the game is that the money just sort of materializes from out of nowhere. When I came back to the game two months ago, I was sitting on 100,000 Gil to my name. This morning I am staring at just shy of 5,000,000 Gil. I’ve not really done anything out of the ordinary other than selling pretty much anything that has any modicum of value on the market board and doing a wide variety of activities. I have very specific requirements when it comes to housing, namely that I want a Small House in the Mists neighborhood. This means that I am logging in every morning and checking the housing district for Limsa Lominsa and today I happened to see an opening.
The only problem is… we already have a large number of people camped out at the sign post. It is highly unlikely that I win this battle because I don’t plan on macroing my way to victory. However I am still going to periodically try and purchase the house because apparently there is a hidden timer that starts ticking down when a house goes on the market. There is no actual way to know when you can purchase the house, so you just have to sit here and keep trying. Maybe I will be lucky, but I sincerely doubt I manage to purchase this very first house. I think mostly I want a home because I want to feel even more invested in this server community. I love Cactuar and always have and I want to forever be part of the strange group of loveable weirdos that call it home.
Good luck with Housing Extreme. Know that they are going to change this to a lotto system in the future – not sure exactly when, but likely with the new expansion (or maybe when they release Ishgard housing?).
One thing to consider – it costs more to do it this way, but you might have a better chance – is to buy a less desirable house first. Often Goblet houses are overlooked for the houses in other wards because they’re considered undesirable. But if you can pick up one of these houses and at least own some property, you can instantly relocate to any open lot you really want later and completely bypass the timer. (At least, until the lotto system gets put in place.)
You will have to pay a second chunk of gil for the relocation, though having a house already knocks some off the price. That’s how I got my nice small in the Lavender Beds on my main – I owned a Goblet house for a while first.
Sadly, chances are, if this Mist house is in a desirable spot, someone who already owns a house may relocate to it and all the folks standing out there will be out of luck. It’s a fault of the system that really isn’t fair – but you can use in your favor if you can just get your foot in the door – and I believe that’s what they seek to fix with the lotto system.