Tonight's thoughts:
-Working on MSQ 2.3, did
spoiler (click to show/hide)
Ramuh fight
Nice music, but kinda easy, no interesting mechanics, just dodge AoEs, kill adds, win? Looking forward to the Extreme fight. Also what's up with that beard lol
-Did T10 of Coil, figure even if I'm not in the mood to run new coil on weeknights, I can probably do like 1 turn a day. Party didn't even wait until 8 people joined, took off with six people unsync even though I'm basically at sync with my ilevel, so that's 5 unsync. Almost wiped on boss even though it was straightforward lol
-Party made some comments that made me think T11 will have some important mechanics, so gonna watch a guide before looking for a T11 party next time.
-So I've been really confused because I thought after I buy some gear for 20,000 gil and the move on to better gear, I can sell that gear and make some of that back. Like I've been really confused for 90% of the game as to why I can't sell on the market most equipment. I always thought it was because green/blue unique stuff is market prohibited. But then I pooled together all my outgrown gear I'll never need again (crafting/gathering gear since I'm omni-crafting/gathering leveling my sub-jobs) and then I couldn't sell almost anything! And this was just normal gear. I was so confused until I googled and apparently in MMOs once you use a piece of armor once, it becomes soul bound to you (even if spirit bond is less than 100%) and you can never sell it to anyone :| So all that 20,000 gear because useless and can sell it for 100gil to an NPC vendor to clear inventory space
The only thing I can thing of to get out of this is if I can desynth old used equip to material and sell that? I don't even know if that's possible.
-Market fluctuates like crazy. Marlins were down from 250,000 a week or two ago to now there's tons of listings for 100,000 or less. I caught a few more tonight and was kinda bummed how low they had dropped. Otoh, found some other FC items that were selling for like 90,000-100,000 gil that cost like 8k at the FC. Now I know about diversifying. I'm selling lots of stuff and hopefully some of it sells. Made about 100k tonight, so at 750k now. One day will pass my first million saved. (although I've had over a million already, since I spent 300k on my FC room + like 100-200k on various gear at times).
-ATMOS. So even though I'm not doing the Zodiac Weapons because I'm not crazy, I've been keeping an eye out for every Fate I run across figuring if I run across an ATMOS fate I'd equip my relic zenith and do it. But I've never even seen one of these Atmos fates anywhere. Do they even exist??
-Really like that starting in like 2.2 MSQ, all the main story scenes are now voiced.
-Did a trial duty roulette for the heck of it, got Garuda Hard and man, after doing Extreme bosses and Coil and stuff, (hard) boss trials are such a joke. Hardly any mechanics matter, everyone can just burn the bosses down. I mean it's a quick and easy way to get some xp/gil and maybe poetics on roulette, but yeah it's tough for me to have fun fighting non-extreme bosses/raids because the combat is just too easy. And dungeons and their trash mobs are kinda boring, mainly just fun for party chatting. The Extreme boss fights (and Odin) are fun though, as is Coil T5 and T9 so far.
-I have to say, I find the world lore of 14 kinda boring compared to other FFs or other rpgs. The only interesting things seem to be the Primals, but so far they don't have much depth, they're just like "people wish for them and they materialize and come down and mass mind control people" which is just sorta...boring? I'm hoping they go somewhere interesting with the Primals, because otherwise there's ANCIENT HI-TECH ALLEGAN which was cool for the Crystal Tower, but it's pretty generic ancient hi-tech mysterious civilization, and then besides those two things it's just like evil empire vs elves/humans/orcs. Basically while I enjoy the story enough right now, it's just really plain from a worldview/worldlore. Almost every good rpg I've played in the last few years have had much more interesting setups. Like Trails in the Sky does ancient hi-tech civilization and mysterious masked characters way better and Xenoblade does ancient hi-tech mysterious civ way better too. Even FF15, which I haven't really played much seems to have a more interesting world lore based on kingsglaive.
Just really hoping FF14 goes in some interesting directions with regards to Primals and the mechanics of the universe Eorza fits in. I guess it's a bit too grounded so far for my rpg tastes.