On of my New Year's resolutions is to try to do better about posting to this blog on a regular basis. I realized now that I look at it that it has been over a month since my last post. Much of that is because I have been very much head down working my way through the new Final Fantasy XIV expansion, Endwalker, and I've also been trying to honor the generally accepted one month ban on spoilers.
But we're far enough along, I feel like it's time to go ahead and start posting again.
So first, lets' do some quick status updates on where I stand. I ended up playing my Summoner for the MSQ despite my initial intentions, and was glad I did. I really like the changes that they made to the job for the expansion and am finding the rotation to fit my playstyle a lot better than it did before. Since finishing the MSQ, I have also managed to get my Machinist to 90 and am almost there on my Gunbreaker (currently at 89).
I've also finished the role quests for both caster dps and for healers and am about half way through the ranged dps one. If you haven't had the chance, I would highly recommend going through the role quests. For this expansion, they involve going back to some old places and tying up a few loose ends on older storylines, all while working through issues that are in keeping with the themes of this expansion. They're very well done.
I've also started to work on getting my DOH/DOL jobs up to 90. I quickly figured out why I should have updated all my gear for those jobs to the level 80 gear as it became apparent that it was going to be difficult to do much of anything in level 77 gear.
I also regretted not finishing the job quest lines for each of the DOH/DOL jobs as it also became apparent that with the changes in abilities for each crafting job that I would probably need the ability Manipulation for each job, which is unlocked separately for each crafting job through those quest lines.
That was the bad news. The good news was that working through those quest lines got me enough xp to get up to level 82 on each job, which enabled me to use the level 81 gear from the new expansion. I wasn't able to craft it, so I had to drop about 1.5M gil on the market board to buy all of it, but I've already pretty much earned that back through my regular activities.
The level 81 DOL/DOH gear is actually pretty decent looking. It's a nice improvement over the dwarven-themed level 77 stuff that I was using.
I've been working through Studium delivery quests in Old Sharlayan, which are very similar to the Crystarium delivery quests, but have mostly been using Grand Company turn-ins to level those jobs. They're all sitting between 83 and 85 at this point.
After I finish Gunbreaker, I'll work on my Samurai next and then finish up the rest of my level 80's, before I embark on getting the rest of the lower level jobs to 90. I've been using the daily leveling roulette to work on my lower level jobs a bit at a time and all of them are above 40 at this point. Once they get above 50, I will go back to doing them one at a time, rather than all at once.
I'm not going to get into much here on spoilers for the expansion story line, other than to say that I really enjoyed it. You can tell that the developers poured their hearts and souls into this one and the story did a great job of tugging at the emotional heart strings throughout. I was pretty pleased that it was essentially a fairly clean happy ending, because I definitely wasn't expecting that, particularly since they kept consistently foreshadowing that it was going to be anything but.
I've also done a couple of weeks worth of the new raid, Pandaemonium, which I'm also enjoying. It's only the 2nd FFXIV normal raid that I've ever done as current content, and so far I like both the fights and the story line. The fights are challenging and take some time to figure out, without being frustrating. Your mileage may vary.
That's it for now. Until next week.
Cheers,
Joar
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