Queuewalker

Good morning friends! I thought this morning I would take a bit on the blog to talk about me and Final Fantasy XIV. I am very much not done with the game, but the current congestion situation that we find ourselves in has made it much harder for me to play “on a whim”. I’ve been doing my normal end of the year/beginning of the year binge of single player games. However normally when I am in this mode I am still logging in at least once a day into the MMORPGs I am playing at the same time. Generally speaking at least once per day I would log in, maybe do a roulette or deal with my retainers and then log back out. The challenge however is that I plan on the highest population data center and one of the highest population servers period.

When I was working on the Main Story Quest for Endwalker, I had a pretty rigorous routine of logging in at a specific time during the day so that I could be through the queue when I got “off work”. The queue would idle in the background and tick down as I finished out my afternoon and then could be ready to make progress in the story. The drive to do this was there because the story of Endwalker was so damned good. What has happened since then however is that I fell out of the routines I had been engaged with because I was in “vacation mode”. This means that by the time I think about logging in, it is usually early evening and the queues are already madness.

Earlier this week I tried to make my way through. I logged in as soon as I got off work, and then proceeded to go about my daily routine of fixing dinner and feeding the animals. About an hour and a half later we were sitting at the lower number. Meaning in that hour and a half I made it roughly one third of the way through the initial queue. My quick napkin math told me I had at least 2-3 more hours before I could make my way in… at which point I bailed out and gave my slot to someone else who needed it more. Finishing the MSQ took away a lot of my drive to fight through that queue because I know at some point in the future I can catch back up pretty easily. Instead I have been spending that time focused on playing games that are also bringing me joy… but can more easily be played on my schedule.

Once I burn through this current phase of single player games, if the state of the queues is still this rough I might even poke my head back into Elder Scrolls Online. I am still woefully behind the main story and sitting somewhere in Summerset at the moment. Which means I still have a mount of content in front of me before I am even vaguely ready for the new expansion that they are already teasing. So to recap…. very much not done with Endwalker and Final Fantasy XIV but the queues are making it very difficult to muster the desire to fight my way through them at the moment.

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  1. I spent the 1st week or so of EW just leveling up Sage and Reaper to 80…. and then kept going with Sage with the MSQ roulette and daily hits of the fae beast tribe. I started picking at the MSQ on Summoner and for a while was hopping back and forther between SGE and SMN since I’ve heard it said that the MSQ gives enough xp to level 2 jobs anymore. But it wasn’t until the long Xmas weekend that I started going after the MSQ in earnest…. but by this point I had gotten SGE and SMN to 90, so I started doing the MSQ with BLM so as to not “waste” the xp, but then since I was also doing roulettes with the BLM it got to 90 also, but the MSQ was only at level 84 as of yet so…. quick level of RDM to 84 then started it on the MSQ also, avoiding roulettes so as to not outlevel it this time.

    MSQ’s at 88 now, and so is the RDM…… I’ve finished zone 5, have a duty I need to do in zone 3, and then I don’t know if I’ll go back to get the 2nd half of zone 1 or move on to zone 6. Time will tell….

    As it is, with the long queue times, I’m mostly just running a single MSQ roulette on an alt job in the evenings anymore (currently BRD), and doing MSQ advancement on the weekends now. Guess we’ll see what this weekend holds….

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