Good Morning Friends! Last night I got my last ten mogrocks and picked up the nifty satin jacket thingy. It was really the only thing on the list of available items that I felt like I had to get, and even then it waas mostly because I wanted to use it for a new Monk Glamour shown above. Essentially I ground it out mostly through repeated runnings of Praetorium which were worth 10 mogrocks each. I tried some PVP grinding but given that my heart is never in PVP and I just don’t really care about winning or losing… and clearly some people really care… it felt like a waste of time. Praetorium sure is like 50 minutes, but at least I can be watching a YouTube video or even farming things in New World while waiting through the cutscenes.
The last thing that really needs to happen before Endwalker is to clean out all of my retainers. I have ten of them because I have a problem with stuff… and on those there are a bit over 1600 items… most of which is now useless given that I leveled everything to 80. In theory I need to have a grand spring cleaning and turn in for Grand Company Seals. I also need to sift through the vaults and outfit my retainers in some proper gear while I am at it. Given how hard I am putting this off… I am uncertain that I will actually get it done by Friday. Have I mentioned how much I really hate inventory management and how I prefer to just keep digging new holes to stuff items in? If the game allowed me to have more retainers… I probably would have twenty vaults full of crap.
While prepping for Endwalker, I want to break out Super Dungeon Friends again and remind folks that it exists. If you want a long form understanding of what exactly it is… you can check out my original post on it. The short of it is that with cross server opening up at some point during the 6.* patch cycle, I wanted to get a jump on creating a community while folks can look to find groups and do things. This has worked to some extent and has at least allowed folks from certain server communities to meet new people. If nothing else it has served as a great place to ask questions and get friendly answers because we all remember what it was like to try and learn all of these systems. If you are reading this you are welcome to come hang out and join in the nonsense.
Lastly if you are unmoored and sitting on a server without an existing friend group, or starting the game fresh and need a good home… I welcome you all to Cactuar. I’ve been on the server since the launch of A Realm Reborn in 2013 and it is a pretty great place to be. There is just something special about the server and not even an influx of some of the most popular streamers could really tamp down the community spirit. If you need a good home, ping me and we will talk. Using this also as a reminder that if you are trying to create a character on a server, you really need to be doing it during off peak hours… preferably early in the morning. Last night most of these servers were locked to new character creation, but as of this morning they are all back open again. You can check the status of servers via the official page and it will show you if it is safe to transfer characters… which for those curious costs $18 and is started through the MogStation.
Last reminder is to get everything done that you need done by Wednesday, because that is the last full day of play that you are going to have. The servers are going down on Thursday in preparation for the launch of Endwalker on Friday. You can check out the official announcement here, but essentially wrap everything up Wednesday night that you want done before the expansion launches.
A special note about the launch – any partial experience on a class will be reset to 0. So if you’re just on the edge of hitting the next level, it’s best to do so before the downtime. I guess that would only be meaningful to 70+ jobs (crafting in particular) so that money/time isn’t lost.