I ended up having a long weekend this past weekend, with a snow day on Friday and on Monday. This afforded me some extra time to play the game as well as extra time to spend with my family. I struck a very nice balance and managed to accomplish a fair amount of things in game. Some more exciting than others.
I wanted to acquire a Ghastly Tathlum for my BLU magic set so I participated in a couple of Unity runs Sunday and Monday. We killed Specter worm about 5 times on Sunday, but no tathlum. I did get 10 ores. On Monday we killed it probably 7 more times and I did get the tathlum. Two people on the run also gave me their Specter's Ores so I now have 34 of the 50 needed to upgrade it. Yeah I know the only change is 1 extra magic damage, but call me a glutton for the +1 (well, as long as it doesn't involve a 50 mil cursed piece and an abjuration).
I am making progress in my Seekers of Adoulin missions. I am up to the point as of yesterday morning where you run through Outer Ra'Kaznar collecting scales. I ended up taking a detour from that mission and navigated Inner Ra'Kaznar so I could get the home point. I want to finish the missions soon so I can go on Sinister Reign runs for some more PLD and BLU improvements - and that August trust is pretty badass. I wouldn't mind that at all.
I have done Salvage at least once each day, but given the other things I am doing in game I am not accumulating Alexandrite at the same rate per day. This is not a bad thing. It is important to diversify and not burn out doing the same thing. How Kaht grinded those Heavy Metal Plates for that many days on end still boggles my mind. My salvage runs are still about 18 minutes long for SSR2, and 25 minutes for AR2. I was pretty fortunate and have gotten two runs in the past 4 days that dropped double linen.
I am halfway done with my Ilrusi Atoll assault log, having needed points yesterday morning.
This morning the update went live and we all found out (and some accurately predicted) that the REM upgrade will be 10,000 Beitetsu/Pluton/Riftborn Boulder depending on the type of weapon you are upgrading. Obviously I am a long way away from Burtgang i119, but this is not too bad considering I am doing Dawn II anyway pretty regularly. Me and three LS mates grinded out about 8 runs this morning of Dawn II, alternating between the fight and capping merits in Zi'tah. Still no Gyve Trousers or Doublet, but we did see a Fettering Blade drop. All our wins have been on Normal. We tried our strategy on Difficult, but it just does not work as you must use some damage mitigation for Promathia's attacks, which hit hard on D.
I ended up with a good amount of the three aforementioned upgrade items. I put a stack of Beitetsu on the AH in hopes I can cash in a price spike.
This week I want to see if I can pull some people from my LS to use my Naphula pops. I am hoping to get the Venerian Abjuration for Amalric Slops. That would eliminate the need to get the Gyve Trousers - except for BLU cures. I think I would initially use Path D for them for maximum damage in Salvage and other lower level ventures, but switch to Path A for fights where I would need the magic accuracy.
I made some upgrades to my magic accuracy gear and am working on more. I am farming mweya plasm to buy the magic accuracy earrings. When I have some time, I cleave mobs for Unity RoE objectives and use the yggrette shards that drop unless it's from a mob I can kill reasonably quickly. In Foret, I can kill all but the Krab pretty efficiently, although the Uragnite requires me to set a different set of spells. The nice thing about the Seekers zones is that the mob types are pretty prominent in each of the field zones and therefore easy to fulfill those unity objectives. I need the accolades to keep getting the Specter's Ores, and of course converting the Sparks to gil.
I got a few more T1 Reisenjima clears and ended up getting a Valourous Mask for my PLD. I was able to augment it with STR, Att, Acc, and Double Attack. With regain on it, it seems to be a very nice TP piece for situations where I don't need the extra MDT or PDT.
With the campaigns going on this week, I am hoping to keep doing Dawn II and get some job points on the side while capping merits. I will do a few salvage to keep up with the Burtgang progress.
I'll probably get some Incursion in as well, but that's not too high on my list of priorities.
I want to finish the SoA missions sooner than later. I decided I want to get the Shneddick Ring as my reward, because the other options for me would be marginal upgrades - I have really nice augmented dark rings so I don't need Vocane Ring that much. Also, the TH ring was a consideration as well, but I decided that I can already get TH3 so TH4 was not going to be a massive upgrade.
I want to hit 15k Alex before next week. I'm just under 3k away.
I want Amalric Slops or Gyve Trousers/Doublet. I also want Amalric Doublet, but that's a bit out of reach for me now. One thing at a time for a hero on a budget.
Burtgang Progress
12,121/30,000 Alexandrite
1/5 Complete Assault Logs (15/50 overall)
Wyrmseeker/Eyepatch complete
Aegis Progress
Stage 4
15/100 M. Silverpiece
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