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Free FFXIV time has ended

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With some elbow grease I managed to get Summoner (and thus Scholar) to 100 last night and make a little progress with the Pelu and Moogles, and Dragoon is 58. I’ll be away for the weekend so I didn’t instantly resub, but I plan to next Monday – why waste like 5 days?

Not so sure about goals. There’s the 3 tank jobs at 90, the 3 healer jobs at 90/90/80 and then all the dps. Ranged at 90/90 and yeah ok, the casters at 70 and yeah, the melee are a mess at 3*50, 58, 90. Also not focusing on the gathering/crafting jobs this time, I’ll see if I can wait out the 7.3 patch with the Allied Society that focuses on that (or maybe even 7.2 and 7.3 – like in Endwalker, where I had them all at 90 before that already). Also MSQ to catch up and the Allied Raid I haven’t unlocked… I think. I’m just not in the mood to grind endgame gear, the gear treadmill is not as bad as with WoW, but I don’t enjoy farming gear that is old next patch. Much better to complete all the missing Poetics gear sets, because I love the concept of e.g. getting one Level 80 healer gear set and then I can use it on 4 jobs for 10 levels. Perfect.

I’m not hyper enthusiastic about the game at the moment but it’s good fun and I hope I can put in a WoW break of about a month after tonight’s raid. I’ve been playing constantly since the expansion came out in… August? Although only been raidlogging for the last month or so.

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Free game time for FFXIV

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FFXIV has another 4 days of free game time and I checked back in. Apparently there was a 7.1 patch I’d missed and the new Alliance Raid is in. As those seem mostly for gear catch up and I’m not really interested in that… nah.

But I did some of the usual duty finder roulette dance and SMN/SCH is 95 (up from 92 or so) and I got 2 levels in Mining and 2 on Dragoon. It’s decent fun this weekend. If you did lose track, there’s quite a bit to catch up though. I mean, I have 8 jobs at 90 that I didn’t touch when Dawntrail launched and then the lower ones, and have not even unlocked the two new ones at 80.

Ah well, with WoW winding down, maybe a month of not only playing EVE would be something?

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2024 in review

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Another end of a year, another review.

What I played a lot:

  • World of Warcraft
  • EVE Online

Other games I played:

  • Final Fantasy XIV
  • Diablo IV
  • Stellaris

Gaming expenses in 2024:

  • WoW: 194 EUR
    • TWW expansion – 50 EUR
    • 4x 3 month sub – 4×36 EUR
  • EVE Online: 521 EUR
    • 3x 3month sub – 3x 40.7 EUR
    • 1x 3m+6 MCT sub – 61 EUR
    • 2 packs – 15 EUR
    • 1x PLEX – 323 EUR
  • Final Fantasy XIV: 46 EUR
    • Dawntrail Expansion – 35 EUR
    • 1 month sub – 11 EUR
  • Diablo IV – 0 EUR, didn’t buy the expansion
  • Others: Steam – 10 EUR

I bought this EVE PLEX package with the plan to use it for the next sale on subscriptions, and I didn’t spend a single percentage on it for four months until the sale came. Now all my 3 accounts are paid throughout the full year 2025. The plan is to not spend more than a couple bucks on EVE next year. That will totally work 😛

Summary:

  • Amount of MMOs played 3:
  • Amount of MMO subscriptions paid: 12 (WoW) + 36 (EVE) + 1 (FFXIV) =49
  • Amount of games purchased: 1
  • Amount of MMO expansions purchased: 2
  • Amount of money for in-game currency: ~330 EUR
  • Amount of free games I didn’t play: lots
  • Amount of games I purchased and then didn’t play: 1

So the total is 771 EUR, that’s 65 EUR per month, more than 2023. (And maybe I should have counted those 236 EUR for this year, but I did count them for last year… I think)

Ah well, maybe I’m finally old enough to say screw it when my monthly gaming budget looks like a lot, but is actually about as much as a dinner and drinks for two people anywhere that is not a McDonald’s.

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Raiding Nerub-ar Palace Week 12

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Sunday was a casual stroll through the first four bosses (maybe only one shots for the first time?), then one wipe on Ky’veza and an Ovi’nax rekill on the 6th pull.

Tuesday had us wipe on the Silken Court all night, 13 times to be exact. Best try 21%. It’s hard, but doesn’t feel as terrible as Ovi’nax did.

I’ve been slowly working on some alts via Timewalking and, to no one’s surprise, scaling is ultra-broken. If you have a 70 in not-terrible but at-launch 370ish gear you will simply be destroyed by the bosses whereas a 3x or 1x tank will hardly notice any hits.

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Raiding Nerub-ar Palace Week 11

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Sunday saw us breeze through boss 1-4, then 3 wipes on Ky’veza, and on to Ovi’nax (again). Five wipes with 21% being the best try of the night.

Tuesday had us down one healer and getting a replacement (our top DPS…), 4 healers, 2 tanks, 7 DPS is a weird combo but Ovi’nax died on the fifth pull of the night. 50 wipes, 1 kill – for boss 5 or 6 out of 8 – yikes.

We continued on to the Silken court and wiped ten times, but already got to stage 3 a couple times, best try at 16% – not bad!

Unfortunately that one week I did M+ wasn’t continuing, also due to lack of time. My Warrior is at iLvl 617 now and there are not many upgrades from the Heroic raid, hardly any good ones at all.

But I already have 3 Horde chars at 80, and two more at 7x, maybe this week I’ll have some time for Timewalking and other leveling things again. Only class missing at 80 is the Evoker now (ugh) and I have two Warriors, and missing an Alliance Mage.

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Raiding Nerub-ar Palace Week 7-9

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Week 7 saw us go Heroic only for the first time, 4th pull on Rasha’nan and a couple of tries on Ovi’nax. Tuesday we went into the Timewalking Raid and ran out of time for the last boss, so everyone had to catch up solo in LFR for the achievement.

Week 8 was four oneshots and then 16 wipes on Ovi’nax.

In Week 9 we decided to change to Nexus Princess and on the 20th pull it worked. 5/8 Heroic now.

I took advantage of the Timewalking dungeons and got a Disc Priest and Brewmaster Monk from 70 to 80, a Prot Warr from 74 to 78 and a Prot Paladin from 70 to 75. So that’s only the Evoker missing now for all classes to 80. (and then also a second Paladin and Warrior…)

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