Aywren Sojourner: Gaming and Geek Life

This past month, my goal was to simply get Astro to 70 and Warrior to 60 in FFXIV. Not only did I do that, but I also finished leveling my Dark Knight, the last job I had flagging behind, to 60 last night. This was not part of my goals, so it’s an above and beyond!

Not only that, but bringing all jobs up to 60 was one of my 2019 Gaming goals, as seen here:

I’d still like to push those final few battle jobs that I just got to 50 on my main up to at least 60 by the end of this year.

Other than that, I have two more DPS lingering at 60 that I want to get to 70 before the expansion drops… I also want to finish all the job quests I keep putting off!

At this point, all of my jobs aside from Warrior and Dark Knight are at 70. This puts me in an excellent spot for Shadowbringers, which I’m going to dive into this Friday.

I’m also up to date on all of my job quests for the first time in forever. Hitting up the Stormblood beast tribes will be enough to keep leveling my tank jobs without much of a time hit when the expansion comes.

I’m hoping the new Trust system will be a good way for me to pull up my alt jobs to 80 in the future. We’ll have to see what kind of experience it gives. That and whatever beast tribes we get going forward.

With this post, I’m signing off until Shadowbringers. See you in the First!

It was in the goals list of April 2018 when I first realized… hey… I’ve leveled a lot of jobs to 70, but I haven’t touched the job quests for them yet. This was pretty unusual for me to do seeing that in past expansions, job quests gave out important skills along the way, and I never skipped them.

This was not so with Stormblood. The only job quest that gave something of reward beyond a fun story was the level 70 quest. So, I could… and did… level alt jobs without ever touching a quest and be just fine for it.

That, plus Alliance Roulette, amounted to a huge backlog of unfinished job quests as I leveled one after another to 70. Over a year ago, I finally realized I’d gotten in over my head, and decided to try to work them into my goals.

I was also severely behind on my crafting job quests, and manage to work through all of those. But my battle job quests just got kicked back month after month undone.

One of the things I wanted to make sure I did before Shadowbringers dropped was finally finish these job quests. So I’ve been force-ably sitting myself down every night this week after doing my Astro/Dark Knight leveling, and got them ALL done, job after job.

I knocked out Samurai on Monday. Scholar on Tuesday. Ninja on Wednesday. And finally, last night, I completed the Monk quests.

As of now, if a job is level 70, I have all quests done for it!

Warrior is sitting at level 60 (all quests done) waiting for Astro to finish with beast tribe quests – I should have that leveled to 70 over this weekend. I’ve kept up for job quests on that, so it’ll be an easy finish.

Dark Knight just hit level 58 last night, which did unlock a new job quest that I will do tonight. Been keeping up with that, and MIGHT have it leveled to 60 by the time the expansion drops. It’s hard to say as I’ve gotta be out of town for a few days next week, so my playtime is going to be drastically cut right before the expansion.

Overall, I feel like I’m right where I want to be for Shadowbringers in terms of progress. I’ll be using beast tribes and clean-up quests to eventually pull Warrior and Dark Knight up to 70. I’m not in a rush for those because I’ll also be leveling the new jobs the same way, and all of my tanks will share gear.

Hitting 60 on Dark Knight will also complete my 2019 gaming goal for leveling, as that’s really where I hoped to get for those jobs. So to push beyond to 70 will be a big bonus!

Don’t worry, the event itself is still going until Shadowbringers drops. But for me, the farming concluded last night when I got my second Pegasus on my RP alt.

I’d had thoughts of working on another mount, and I might still try for a couple minions, but overall, I think I’m going to take a break from the Syrcus Tower runs. As much as I enjoy the raid, running it 50 times over the past few weeks has given me my fill.

Also, I need to set aside time to work on job quests. This is the only goal I haven’t put time towards (again) this month. Leveling on my main is going very well – my Astro will hit 69 tonight and my Dark Knight will probably ding 56. This puts me in a much better spot than I expected to be before the expansion.

If my last remaining tank job hits 60, then I can pick up and level both Dark Knight and Warrior along the way with Gunbreaker. I don’t have any notion of actually playing the new tank job, but I’ll level it, just like I am all the other jobs.

It’s very plausible to get all of my main’s jobs to 70 by the end of the year, which sets me up in a good position to work towards 80 next. Especially if Trusts work well for leveling, and beast tribe quests are released for Shadowbringers on top of that.

It’s only been recently that I’ve decided to try to max all my jobs in FFXIV, so I was way behind the curve with my tanks and healers. I’m pretty proud of the progress I’ve made, especially considering I’m not comfortable taking them to group content.