So at the start I didn’t like any of the Melee jobs, then Monk was “ok”. Not great, but ok. After 50 it was more fun and now that I’m 60 I’m kinda enjoying it. I had also completely forgotten how to play Samurai, and when I took it up again last week it was a little annoying – but now after playing it to 60 I kinda like it more than Monk. On the weekend I also started with Ninja again, and, big surprise, I don’t like it – but we’ll see – maybe it will also be better?

My Crafters are now really close to being finished, just a couple of dailies left on the Blacksmith, and I started the Arkasodara dailies in Endwalker, and rotating between Dragoon, Black Mage, and Red Mage (all 81) at the moment. Wondrous Tails go to the Sage (90 to 91 already).

Typical “forgot to post draft” moment, this time only a few days though.

Didn’t really play a lot this week. Got the Halloween event done just in time, got a few more Manderville Relic Weapons done, and worked on some Arkasodara and Amalj’aa rep – but not a lot of levels.

We now know the preorder goes live on Wednesday Nov 4, the same day WoW Forever launches. I’ll probably preorder to get the new 30% EXP earring though.

I really want to try the typing event though.

A bit of a leveling update: Astrologian and Dark Knight are 100 (so only Sage and Gunbreaker at 90 from Healers and Tanks), Red Mage and Black Mage are 80 now and then I also brought Blue Mage from 70 to 80, which took less than 2h by letting Clionids in Tempest eat Leaches that I pulled with Sardine and lured into them, classic BLU shenanigans.

Monk is also 60 now (then at some point Samurai and Ninja), and my sub will renew today or tomorrow, but with WoW Forever coming in 2.5 weeks, I’m wasn’t so sure about this at first.

For my Crafters, not a lot is missing: Alchemist is 97 and Blacksmith is close to 93 – so a couple more dailies and Custom Deliveries.

All my poetics are going into Manderville Relic Weapons now and I’ve already gotten rid of the Level 70 caster gear, not sure I have some Physical Ranged/Tank/Healer gear at level 80/90 or lower left somewhere on a Retainer.

I guess my “goals” are now finishing the Crafters, then get the Melee to 60.

As I started chipping away at some Duties, I managed to get Astrologian to 95, Dragoon to 80 (will stay there for now), and with a mix of Duties and a lot of FATEs Dark Knight is now 99, and I also unlocked the Mount Speed stuff via Shared FATE Rank 2 in all but one Dawntrail zone, and also started on Endwalker ones (although the FATEs only give half the XP). I want to get DRK to 100, and then switch to all the Melee classes I have at 5x (Monk, Ninja, Samurai) and get them to 60. Ignoring Viper (and Pictomancer), who would probably start at 80 anyway.

I’m so ready to preorder Evercold, but it may take another couple of weeks until they announce that, and I hope there will be an upgraded +XP earring again, like the Endwalker one I have, but it’s only good until Level 80.

Crafters and Collectables look fine, I also found a nice guide that gave me enough Orange Scrip (for just a bit of Gil, maybe 200k) to fully equip every Crafting Job with a set of 750 Star Tech tools (and a full shared set of course). Nothing for the Gatherers, but I need to read up on that.

With an overabundance of Poetics I started buying more Manderville (Endwalker) Relic Weapons, and continued that quest line, so I can upgrade them, because some look really nice. MCH Revolver is already Level 2, next is DNC Chakrams to Level 3, then probably the GNB Bayonet to Level 3. Of course Level 4 looks the coolest but that’s quite some work, so I’ll see which Level 2 and 3 ones are good enough.

WoW was a bit boring at the moment and I wanted to catch up anyway, so I resubscribed to Final Fantasy XIV again last week. Apparently the last time I played was in Patch 7.1, so there was quite a bit of story left.

After a week I have finished 7.2 and 7.3, and the first 2 wings of the Alliance Raid.

Dancer got to 100, Dragoon to 70, Fisher to 100, and Leatherworker to 100. I’m soon finishing the Heavensward Moogle Allied Quests and got to tank 5 for Yok Huy and Mamool Ja for Dawntrail. Maybe I’m now only missing the last step for the Custom Deliveries for Adkiragh… no, apparently I missed Tiisol Ja (7.51, so not unlocked) in Dawntrail, Anden in Endwalker, and Charlemend in Heavensward.