Dropping Hot Rocks

Since I caught so much general shit from the Final Fantasy XIV for my continued assurance that Blue Mage was not a real job… I am in fact slowly working on leveling it. I still stand by my assessment that it is not a real job and literally does not count for any of the battle job achievements, but to quell the uprising I am going to try and make it be orange as well in my jobs list. While recording the podcast I pushed it up to level 55 largely through the repeated application of Choco Meteor which involves dropping a giant Meteor over and over on my targets. In theory if I could convince a friend to help me I can supposedly do this in a matter of minutes by fighting low level Shadowbringers mobs, but honestly I am fine slowly pushing up my levels through dropping big rocks.

Shocking to no one I have been spending most of my time in New World. Now that things have more or less stabilized I am focused on getting my character to level 60. There are a bunch of things that I have found out recently that has made me want to just push to the endgame. Firstly apparently leveling weapon skills becomes significantly easier post 60, because every mob that you kill is treated as though it were “on level”. Additionally there appears to be some sort of gold to xp conversion which means random world jobs are dropping something like 5 gold each. Yes I know it is technically “coins” in game but that sounds weird as fuck so I will continue to refer to it as gold. Lastly I am really looking forward to reaching a point where I am working on gear that is going to last me more than a few levels.

I did however get my first legendary drops, and I am wishing I had gotten one of them when it was actually relevant back around level 40. My friend Rob aka Grakulen released a video showing off a pretty easy and lucrative mob farm in Brightwood. This involves killing an Angry Earth tank named Meldue, Soldier of Blight and they have a pretty interesting static drop table including all of the items shown above. In about two hours of killing this mob I got all four of the items, a duplicate of the sword, and I believe twelve vials of azoth along with a slew of other BOE blues. I would kill Meldue and then hop the wall and kill one of the wood wolves. By the time I had killed and harvested it with logging to get Wyrdwood it would be time to kill Meldue again. If you are nearing level 40 and can handle the camp, then I would highly suggest popping over and getting some items. Sadly I have not figured out how to replace the gem in the necklace, so I hold onto an item I got from the Boar camp for when I am tanking.

My little hovel is coming along nicely, but I wish I had bought in Everfall instead of Windsward. It isn’t that Everfall is a better town for crafting, and more that Windsward is held by Team Green on my server, and Everfall is the entry to the Purple Empire of the North. Were Windsward to flip Purple this would all change, but it would be lovely to have access to all of my vaults in Purple territory from my main crafting hub. I am closing in on level 55 and have been slowly pushing up Furnishing. Warenwolf has this theory that when we craft multiple items at a time, we are not getting the full benefit of all of the experience gains so I am going to do some testing around that. As of last night I can mine Orichalcum so I am probably going to spend some time working on Engineering again so that I can make myself a full set of Orichalcum tools.