It’s been about a month since my first entry in this FFXI “Journal” I don’t remember if I ever made any promises about how often I’d update, but I’ll apologize for the lack of content even if not. It’s something that’s been in the corner of my mind, but every time I came back to it, there was always something I’d rather do.

I’ve been playing too much. No question. There’s been other stuff I’ve wanted to do, but I’ve found myself pushing it aside for FFXI. My excuse was always that I would play a lot now to get some of my jobs up to snuff and then I could take it easy for a while.

The problem was that there was a lot of stuff, and as soon as I finished one thing, I found another I wanted to work on. As should probably be expected of any ongoing game, I guess. I remember I finished Masamune, and almost immediately went to work on BRD empyrean harp and THFs Twashtar. Now I’m even working on Verethragna for MNK and on mythic for BRD. It just never seems to end.

Which means at some point, I’m going to need to put my foot down and cut back a bit. Quite a bit in fact. Even if I’m not doing much with my life right now and have the time, I feel like I should be doing a variety of things. Not just FFXI.

I’d like to institute a system where I play a certain amount of FFXI (Maybe like 2hours) and take a 30 minute to 1 hr break doing something else (Maybe longer if I’m vibing with something) That way I’m not just letting FFXI absorb all my free time and accomplish nothing else

Can’t really start it at the start of the month (due to being super close on finishing some stuff), but maybe by the time Suikoden remaster comes out I can have something in place.

Let me talk about my current plans in FFXI

Apart from finishing Verethragna and the BRD mythic, I’m hoping to start work on a Tizona for BLU. It probably wont take me very long to do, but it probably will be slower than BRDs mythic. I’m also hoping to gear up my WAR some to have a savage blade zerging option.

I do need to make a bunch of capes still. Not sure which ones to focus on. Maybe a TP cape for WAR and a WS for MNK. I also need to properly make a SAM cape and a THF WS cape.

I’d like to do more odyssey. Still need a mpaca set and I’d love to get Nyame rp’d somehow. Not sure how likely that is, although with a REM BRD under my belt, I can’t imagine that it’d be too difficult to find groups

Still would like to get aeonics, but I’m waiting for my LS. Originally I had considered hopping to another server and getting them merc’d, but I decided the money would be better spent working on stuff I can do and being patient.

Not an exciting entry, I know. I’m feeling really tired right now and it’s sapping a lot of my energy just to write this. However I needed something to do while waiting for these spawns