Good morning folks. I am going to drop my usual “morning friends” business but I will talk about that a bit later. First off I am failing you because the well has officially run dry. I made it through twenty mixtapes for MixTape Mondays, before ultimate running out of juice. You can always view the archives here, but I am uncertain if or when this series is going to return. It was a pretty good run and I am fairly proud of some of the blends of music that I presented, but also more or less out of creative juice when it comes to music. That said it still serves as one of my longest-running series, so I guess there is that.
Instead this morning I am going to talk a bit about the nature of friendship and the internet. I had something happen yesterday that once again reminded me that internet relations are not necessarily guaranteed to be a two-way street. More specifically this is referred to as “Parasocial Relationships” and I have even blogged about this construct before in the past. However I myself just allowed myself to get bit by that and I feel this mixture of stupidity, shame, and sadness. This is not a drama blog, so I am not going to go into details… because quite honestly they are pretty boring. Ultimately it was someone I tried to be friends with and has once again shown me that I am not really in that group for them.
I am a pretty simple monkey as far as monkeys go. I use the word “friend” pretty liberally, and start off posts with “morning friends” because quite honestly if you are here on the regular it seems like you are at least interested in me as a human being. I’ve never stuck to a single topic long enough to really be a “theme” blogger, even though this blog once upon a time started off that way. Sure when I am on a Final Fantasy XIV or World of Warcraft bender… this becomes a blog where I almost exclusively talk about that one thing. However, if you are going to stick around for more than a few articles here or there, my assumption is that you at least on some level care about me as a human being. If that is the case I count you as a friend, which is a term with a lot of gradation to it.
I try to meet everyone with the possibility of making a brand new lifelong friend. I grew up as an only child and worse… an only child living out in the country separated by any possibility for neighbor children to play with. I wanted nothing more than a sibling, but that never came to fruition so while I spent copious amounts of time entertaining myself… I always wanted to be able to hang out with another human being. Granted I am very BAD at doing so because oftentimes my idea of that is “you go do whatever you want to do, and I will do whatever I want to do… but we will technically be inhabiting the same space”. After years of fining that entertaining myself skill, I am usually off doing my own thing but can be summoned forth for shenanigans at a moment’s notice.
This also means that I often cast a pretty wide net when it comes to trying to invite people into my world. Where I fail miserably as a human being, is that because I am constantly inviting people into my “monkeysphere“… I am usually doing a pretty shit job of checking in on the people who are already there. This is especially true when more recently I have been in a bit of a funk and I am trying desperately not to fall into one. That means I have reverted into a “speak when spoken to” sort of mode when it comes to human interactions. I’ve kept my head down and focused on my dumb objective of getting everything to level 80 in Final Fantasy XIV and also planning a bit for New World, but otherwise been fairly oblivious to the world around me.
I have no idea what necessarily I did to make me unworthy of friendship, but I also don’t necessarily have to know. People gotta do whatever is best for themselves, and that is true even if it means that I can’t be part of that adventure. I am not a great friend. I know this. I keep putting myself out there but once I have made that first contact and invited people into my madness… the whole only-child thing kicks in and I have no fucking idea whatsoever to do with them once I have roped them in. Often times it is a situation of exhausting myself of social energy just in working up the moxie to make that first contact, that I have none left for when they shockingly seem interested. That doesn’t mean I am going to stop trying, however, and I do have a group of folks who have managed to put up with my bullshit for long enough that they are permanent fixtures of my world. I guess I am just constantly searching for more people who might also be “drift compatible”.
So mostly this morning’s post is being melancholic, at least trying to get it out of my system. That said I also think it is important that you the reader understand that when I am using the word friend in a blog post I am being sincere… or at least as sincere as I know how to be. I am a deeply flawed human being, but this isn’t some marketing ploy to get you to subscribe to my pyramid scheme… although when I go into recruiting for a new game it very much DOES start to seem like a sales pitch. Ultimately I seek connections because I don’t really want to be alone, even if I have no clue how to actually be the sort of friend that normal human beings are. I wish I did not allow the actions of others, that I have zero control over… to deflate the wind from my sails but I guess that is also part of being me as well. I get my hopes up and also get them dashed… sometimes without anyone realizing they actually did it. I’ve made it to forty-five and am not sure if I know another way to exist.
If you’ve made it this far in the post, I salute you. I probably would have stopped reading several paragraphs ago. I hope you all have a great week and hopefully tomorrow I will return to my regularly scheduled nonsense. Today however I had to be a bit sad over something I have no real right to be sad about. My blog is oftentimes how I work through things, and hopefully, after making this post I can toss some topsoil over it and be done with it for a while.
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Good Morning Folks! This morning I am going to venture forth into a topic that I admittedly am no real expert on. However, I also know there are a large number of folks out there trying to figure out how to make money in Final Fantasy XIV. For me personally, it was a shift in my mindset and I am going to talk a little bit about that going forward. What I feel is extremely important as evidence is that when I returned to the game on the weekend of July 4th, I had roughly 100,000 gil to my name. Essentially the entire time I have played Final Fantasy XIV, I have hovered in that 100k-200k range and never really understood how people managed to make the sort of money that they did.
There are regular folks who have amassed over 100 million gil and the truth is… I have a feeling at some point I will join those ranks. As of this morning before sitting down to write this post, I am sitting on around 12.9 million gil. So in a little less than 3 months, I have amassed over 12 million gil. Like I said for the most part this has just been me being extremely active with the game and making tweaks to the way I interacted with it. This doesn’t involve a lot of effort or any significant amount of market manipulation, just changing how you view the game. Once again please note that I am by no means a gil making expert, I am just doing some simple things to hopefully someday be able to afford a house.
Sell Everything
At the end of a night of adventuring, you are going to walk back into town and open your bags and see a bunch of nonsense. The thing is there is something key that you need to understand in Final Fantasy XIV and once you do… it will shift your perspective. Nothing drops from a mob that is not used in some way, and most of these items are used in the game’s vast and complicated crafting system. Farming materials from mobs takes an awful lot of time… I know this because I have done it and it is often times mind-numbing. As a result most crafters simply buy materials from the market board, because after about level 25 you can’t buy the items you need from vendors.
What this means is that all of those Teeth, Skins, Furs and countless other nonsensical drops have real-world value. While my inventory in the above shot is pretty much pruned from these because I sold them all last night… I often time have several items that are worth somewhere in the neighborhood of 1500 gil apiece. Granted this is pricing on the market board and not vendors because the mistake is usually to just walk up to a vendor and liquidate everything for pennies on the dollar. Once I started actively engaging with the Market, I noticed just how freaking thriving it really is. So many times I will post an item and then in mere moments I get a message from the system telling me that item sold. As I have branched out into alts on other servers, I am experiencing the same sort of rapid turn on even low-level crafting materials so it is absolutely not just a Cactuar thing.
Ultimately you need to become acquainted with the Market Board interface because it is pretty powerful. When you go to list an item on your vendor it will bring up a dialog allowing you to set the price of the item you are listing. The challenge here is you are likely going to have no clue what the value of that item is, but the game provides you with a nice system in order to look up every item that is currently selling and view all of the recent histories of items that have sold. Check out the area I marked in green on the left labelled “Compare Prices” this is going to bring up the dialog labelled “Search Results” and show you all of the items currently for sale with the same name as the one you are listing. If you want to delve further you can click the item I have highlighted in green on the right side to bring up the History dialog showing the recent prices and when an item has sold.
Based on these and my knowledge that these items are needed for a quest in groups of 4, I priced my item at 6000 gil because someone buying them for the quest is going to be likely looking for the exact number. There is someone setting 25 for 3000 gil each, but that also means that a player is going to have to buy ALL 25 of them, and most people are not going to be willing to flip those slowly 4 at a time to make up the difference. There is another player that has 8 of them and 2 of them… but my listing would be the only one at the exact amount needed in that 6000 gil price point, which means more than likely my item is going to move extremely quickly. I will talk more specifically about the item I am selling later and how to acquire it, because it is pretty easy for even lower-level characters to get these.
Be Active In The Game
This is probably my single largest source of gil… just doing activities in the game and letting the game reward me for doing it. For example each day I do one of each of the roulette and collect the reward bonus both for levelling purposes and for gaining gil. This has been my key to leveling my alts as fast as I have, is that each roulette rewards a huge chunk of bonus experience. However, there is also a decent cash bonus as well. For example, yesterday when I completed my Main Scenario Roulette I noticed that the cash reward was over 16,000 gil. Do enough of these over time and it just adds up to a large sum of money. I’ve found that I have less and less need to actually spend the gil, and this steady trickle means that my bank account is constantly growing.
Another thing that you should be ignoring is the Challenge Log items. For example, I have not run a lot of FATEs this week, but in doing so I am leaving a ton of experience and a decent chunk of gil on the table. At some point, I need to go do some fates because if I do 10 that will be worth roughly 2.5 million experience and 3,000 gil. A good number of these happen organically while doing other activities, but you should probably spend at least a moment before the reset on Tuesday looking through your Challenge Log and seeing if there are any low-hanging fruit that you can finish up quickly. FATEs are absolutely something worth doing, so I have a feeling at some point I will do some of the ones in Il Mheg on one of my level 70 characters, since those tend to be pretty active and will be paid for doing so.
Don’t Cap Currency
One of the things that happen over time in this game is that you start to cap a few currencies. One of these is Grand Company seals, which are used to upgrade your reputation with your grand company but also can be used to buy a bunch of things. There are a lot of sources for earning these but probably the easiest and most overlooked is delivering gear that you don’t need that is green or better. Turning these in at your grand company rewards you anywhere from hundreds of seals to thousands of seals depending on the level and rarity. So as a result when I am running activities I always greed on gear regardless if I need it or not. Most players pass on everything because they don’t want the items clogging their inventory, and you can turn this instinct into paydirt by converting these items directly into grand company seals.
However, if you want to turn them into gil directly there are a few ways. I exclusively use grand company seals to make sure I have enough ventures in order to send my retainers out on missions. However, if you want to buy items to flip on the market you are given a few options. The best of these are the items I spoke about earlier and that I have highlighted in green. There is a step in the Heavensward relic chain that requires you to turn in 4 of each of the items highlighted. These can be crafted by trade skills but are annoying enough to make that crafter don’t usually do so anymore. So far I have had the best luck with Kingcakes, but in theory, each of these sells in the neighborhood of 5-6k gil each and you want to sell them in stacks of 4 at a time. As a result, this becomes a pretty easy way to convert 20,000 grand company seals into 24,000 gil.
What About Poetics?
This one becomes a bit more tricky. There are lots of things that you can spend poetics on, and in truth, I would highly suggest you buy tier sets for your alts as you level them. Having done a lot of this recently in my grind go 80 on all characters, I have learned that you can very easily make it all the way to the next major decade milestone in leveling off of the best tier set from the previous expansion. So when I ding 60, I outfit a character in the Shire gear from Idyllshire and that will take me all the way to 70 when I buy a set of Scaevan gear from Rhalgar’s Reach. Later as you get into the legendary weapon quests you are going to constantly find yourself needing poetics to buy various things and different steps in the chain. However, if you are just wanting to liquidate your poetics quickly and painlessly I do know a few ways.
This first method is by far the most direct and requires access to either Ishgard and the Rowena vendor near the teleport, or Idyllshire. Essentially you want to find an item for sale called Demicrystal. This costs 25 poetics each and sells for 50 gil, so you can buy 80 of them for your 2000 poetics and straight-up vendor them for a grand total of 4000 gil. It is sort of the most brain-dead option for converting poetics into gold and requires no access to the Market Board. However, there is a significantly better option if you are willing to put in the effort.
This will require you have access to Idyllshire at the end of the Heavensward story campaign. There are two items also available on Hismena called Unidentifiable Shell and Unidentifiable Ore. These can be purchased on pretty much any place a Rowen representative exists, but you are going to need access to Idyllshire specifically for the next part. These are used for a weapon quest eventually, but they serve another use. However, since we are specifically talking about them, you can buy them for 150 poetics each which means at maximum if you are capped you can get 13 at a time.
If you go next to Hismena over to Bertana, you can convert the Unidentifiable Shell to Grade 3 Shroud Topsoil, and Unidentifiable Ore to Grade 3 Thanalan Topsoil. So to understand the value here, each time you need to plant an item in either your Housing garden or one of the individual Pots that you can place in apartments and personal rooms, you are going to need to consume soil. This means folks who are actively growing things are going to need a lot of this, and most folks are going to be seeking the highest grade soil available. In my experience prices fluctuate wildly on soil, but lately, it has been going for the neighborhood of 1000 gil each. That means if you can buy 13 items for your 2000 poetics you can potentially flip them for 13,000 gil.
What About Doman Enclave?
Earlier I said nothing drops in Final Fantasy XIV that does not have a purpose, and that you should avoid vendoring things if at all possible. Some of you were probably thinking “But Bel, What about the Gil bags? Aren’t they designed to be sold?” and on some level, you are absolutely correct. The Gil bags that you can get in lieu of items from quests are absolutely designed to be vendored. However, what if I told you that you could get twice the amount of value from them? At the end of Stormblood, an area opens up called the Doman Enclave, and you are effectively building a town by donating items to the cause. One of the best items that you can donate is the bags of gil, because you are given a gratuity for donating to the cause. This starts out being half of the value and over the course of leveling up the area eventually caps out at doubling your money.
There is a weekly limit to how much you can earn from this system, but it might benefit you to save up those gil sacks until the Tuesday reset and then pour those resources into leveling the Doman Enclave and essentially earning you some free gil for just teleporting there and doing some hand-ins.
Do Some of All of the Above
Basically, I am extremely active in the game and through doing my roulettes and some of the above I am earning way more cash than I can possibly spend. The biggest shift for me personally was to stop vendoring the trash in my bags, and instead first checking to see if any of it is valuable on the market. For me personally, I tend to sit a 100 gil limit to how much it is worth my time to actually flip. If an item is only going for 50 gil or so on the market, I am probably just going to vendor the item and be done with it. However, if I can turn 2000 gil for posting an item I am absolutely going to do that every single time. You will need to sort out how engaged you want to be in this process, and then there is also the challenge of market board space since each retainer can only sell 20 items at a given time. Most crafting materials flip pretty quickly, but you are going to need to keep evaluating your prices in order to make sure you move things.
I hope this helps someone out there. There is a version of me that used to hoard every single material I got, but in truth, the economy is so fluid in Final Fantasy XIV, that I have little to no doubt that I could easily buy back whatever I need whenever I need it. If you take nothing else away from this post, I would say the “Sell Everything” mindset is the biggest shift that put me on the road to riches. If you have any direct questions I am more than willing to field them, but also know that I am by no means an expert.
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Well folks it is time to talk about New World because next Tuesday it officially launches. I know I have not spoken about this in a really long time but there are several reasons for that. Firstly most of the time I have been playing New World has been under NDA. On my blog, I do my level best to abide by the non-disclosure agreements that are associated with closed Alpha and Beta testing. The negative about this however is it means that I largely just avoid talking about the game. In August of 2020, I wrote a few pieces on the game, because I was participating in a “preview” event that allowed public discussion. however, before that and for a long time after that event I was in private testing and simply could not talk about the game. Apart from that, I have remained fairly radio silent about the game other than occasionally mentioning that it was my intent to play it when it was released.
New World has been this interesting experiment because as games go it desperately needs to succeed. Amazon Game Studios has had a sequence of flops, and there is very much this feeling that New World has become this make-or-break scenario for the studio as a whole. As a result, this game has changed more than probably any Alpha/Beta test that I have been a part of. I greatly enjoyed the state of the game last August, and over time it has only gotten better and grown into more of a fleshed-out PVE experience. This has been somewhat to the chagrin of the PVP crowd, but time and time again they have proved not to be enough to make an MMORPG thrive. The game that exists today is this really enjoyable open-world sandbox of a game that lets you build your own class and more or less choose how you want to engage with it. I call it a sandbox, but it absolutely has theme park inspiration but seems to split the balance between the two constructs.
Why Are We Talking about this Now?
This game has been delayed so many times… enough that I legitimately cannot remember how many actual times the date has moved. It was supposed to launch last year, and then that date kept sliding into 2021 with August being another tentative date. When September was set, we were uncertain if it really would finally launch. However, based on this tweet on September 21st and the fact that they released the final list of official servers… I am assuming that all systems are go for launch. Now finally after all this time… I feel like I can reasonably work up some modicum of hype over it. This has been a bit of a hard game to love because traditionally you have a fixed point in time when you can expect it to be in your hands. With this game I legitimately halfway expected Amazon Game Studios to pull another launch date slip and tell us we were going to be getting it in October or November. Please note… I would have happily played the version we played back in August, but what they have added to the game since then is significant.
Amazon is taking this game launch seriously. If my math is correct there are 177 servers for the launch with 54 taking up NA East, 22 NA West, 64 Central Europe, 11 Australia, and 26 South America. That seems like a lot, but apparently the way the game is designed the servers align to specific themes which allows them to easily collapse them if need be to keep them feeling active. I mean this is a company that has the full support of AWS at their disposal, so I would hope they would figure out a way to quickly grow and shrink capacity. A good number of the names have been used before, which means they are likely going to have a baked-in player base that spent time on that server during alpha and beta tests. Other names are just going to be popular because of the name itself… like Valhalla is probably going to be a mess.
My friend Nimgimli raised an interesting point yesterday morning. He surmised that this is the first major Western MMORPG release since the impact of Streamers and their fanbases was a major disruptive force. He commented that in the past we would simply avoid whatever server that the GoonSquad was rolling on, and could feel relatively fine about that. I would also note that I used to track where the broad groups of noted Everquest Assholes like Fires of Heaven were rolling, but the concept is still valid. Instead of one large army that you have to avoid, you have a significant number of smaller pools of potentially awful experiences to avoid. That said Asmongold chose to roll on the FFXIV server I have played on since the launch of A Realm Reborn and the impact has been negligible other than general server congestion. However, if such things concern you greatly some excellent soul has created a tracker to keep tabs on which Streamers are rolling on which servers, credit to Scopique for pointing this out.
Where Are You Going?
After some thought, I have decided to saddle my horse to a group that Grakulen is involved with. A number of other Twitter-folk are there like Namaslay, Broximar, Accomp, and a whole slew of others that I am just not thinking of at this very moment. By a vote of the community, we are going to Minda which is a NA East server, and choosing to go with the Syndicate aka Team Purple aka The Illuminati. Marauders would be my first personal choice, largely because my favorite color is green and I think their custom gearsets look badass, but I am also fine with Purple which is my second favorite color. Basically, I was fine with being anything but Covenant… aka the religious zealots and that faction that more or less represents the Inquisition.
This isn’t my community and as such, I am hesitant to directly link the details in a public blog post. However given that I have already drafted several friends to the cause and they have been on board with this, I have a feeling that all are going to be welcome within reason. If you are interested in this expedition to the new world, hit me up in private and I can share the details of how to join the social infrastructure of this group. So to recap in boldface:
Server: Minda – NA East
Faction: Syndicate – Team Purple
Why Not Stalwart/Greysky?
One of the things that I have become known for over the years is leading a bunch of groups as we venture forth into new games. Generally speaking these either have fallen under the banner of House Stalwart, the guild I formed in World of Warcraft, or have been associated with Greysky Armada the Free Company I helped found in Final Fantasy XIV. When folks see me aligning with a game, they expect there to be a guild I am recruiting for associated with it. That is still more or less the same thing here, and I am always going to be more than happy to recruit my friends along for the journey. The key difference being I am just a visitor in the New World community and am in no way associated with its leadership. I figure at some point I am going to get asked the question by my loyal friends who will follow me to hell and back… why I didn’t just start my own thing.
New World has a lot of systems that benefit greatly from a large assemblage of players all pulling in the same direction. There is a territory control mechanic that comes with a significant number of benefits for the players associated with the company that controls said territory. Additionally, there are just a number of perks associated with being in a large guild in the first place. Everything in New World is player-driven, which means there are no vendors and everything is going to come from the labor of some player out in the world providing it. In this scenario, it is extremely beneficial to be part of a larger community that can pool resources and my hope is that by joining an existing initiative everyone is going to benefit from having a larger pool of potential supporters.
Lastly and this one is extremely key… I go into New World knowing it is going to be a secondary game for me. I enjoy it greatly, but I also enjoy it when I am playing it in a very low-key manner. Wherever I ended up, I did not want my activity… or potential lack thereof to make or break the guild as a whole. I know I have a large number of goals still looming in Final Fantasy XIV and I also know Endwalker launches in November which is going to consume my focus and attention. Joining with a large group of other players means I don’t have to feel guilty when I flit in and out of this game as my schedule allows. The game that I enjoy the most is casually roaming around doing PVE content and trade skills, and I feel like I can lend my hand as a seasoned MMO tank while also maybe helping out on large crafting initiatives.
When Does This Happen?
I’ve stated this a few times but New World launches next Tuesday, September 28th. We don’t know for certain when exactly the official launch time is but based on past experience with the Alpha and Beta processes… the servers oftentimes actually come online a little bit early. When I hear an official start time I am sure I will share it publicly. You can purchase the game from most of the usual suspects, and I start out as having my preorder through Amazon directly, but being completely honest… they don’t handle digital preorders in the best manner. I ultimately refunded and purchased through Steam where it has been a seamless process of getting into the more public testing events. Obviously as a result I would suggest going with Steam, but your mileage may vary. From what I am hearing we should be able to start the preload process at some time on the 27th.
I am going, to be honest, the experience is not going to be for everyone. However, if you find yourself enjoying games like Valheim, then I think you will probably dig New World. My goal is to get in and work on crafting because I want to largely be self-sufficient when it comes to armor and weapons. I am going to be playing a Sword and Board tank wearing full heavy armor, which means I am going to heavily focus on weapon and armor crafting. I am not entirely decided, but more than likely my secondary weapon is going to be the Two-handed Axe that they recently added to the game. However, it is equally likely that I might go Two-handed Hammer for the stun capabilities, which would allow me to also be somewhat of a PVP tank. I’ve refined this playstyle over the course of several tests and have honed in on exactly how I want to play the character.
Like I said above, if you are interested in coming along for this journey hit me up on the side and I will share the community information with you. Now that we have a confirmation of the date I am really starting to get excited. I’ve not really participated much in the last few tests because I did not want to wear that new shine off the gameplay experience. Hope to see you all on Aeternum.
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Good morning friends, I had no intention of taking a break yesterday but this week has conspired against me. It is shocking what a difference having a good cup of coffee in the morning makes. On Monday we ran out of creamer and I had some truly heinous coffee in which I attempted to make a vanilla protein shake work… and it very much did not. During the day a whole other crisis ensued as we lost access to water for about half the day, and given that I have neighbors in visual range of my back yard the whole “peeing in nature” thing doesn’t quite work. Yesterday morning we were awoken at 4:47 by the awful sound of the next-door neighbors AC unit forcibly shutting off… as we lost power. This was off for the entire morning and given that the creamer we purchased was sitting in the fridge… I was deeply hesitant to open that in order to preserve the cold as long as possible. This morning however the dials all clicked into alignment and I have just finished my first cup of coffee the way I wanted it… and it was grand.
I am still very much grinding away towards my ultimate goal of having all classes to level 80. In fact, I have been trying to add a little bit more effort given that I know New World is going to be launching in a few days and I will be spending a significant chunk of time getting started over there. My goal is to reach a state of equilibrium where I am playing both games, but given my focus on the leveling goal that might be a little harder than I want it to be. I am updating the spreadsheet daily and there is a certain joy in seeing the numbers drift upwards. I tweaked my log scale line chart a bit to show the maximum number of total levels which is 1430 and better indicate where I am sitting on that curve.
It is still much easier to see progress on the bar chart where I am mapping each individual job and my current level. The main thing that I changed was adding level call-outs to each of the bars and changing the color of them to denote DPS, Tank, or Healer class. Visually it feels like I am way closer to my goal than I actually am. I should very easily push White Mage to level 80 today once the roulettes reset, but that would still leave me with 57 levels to go. Given that I really enjoy Heaven on High, I am working a bit on grinding out AST and BLM through those levels. Once I get to 71 Trust becomes an option, but that really is a somewhat mind-numbing offering. Trust levels go so much slower than actually running the dungeon with human beings. Getting to level 71 also opens up Bozja which is probably something that I should actually explore a bit further, but I do not find the joy in it that Asha and Waren seem to.
Another big thing that took place over the weekend is that the stars aligned just right and we were able to bring our next-door neighbor to the Free Company house and their assorted friends along for map night. In the car with me are Sigrid, Vita, and Aimi and we had a grand night of maps. I think they brought us significant luck because not only did we manage to make it to the final stage of a single portal… but we managed this feat twice. I am pretty convinced at this point that what happens in the dungeons is completely up to chance. However for the entirety of the night we each managed to clear just shy of a million gil in cash drops alone, not taking into account anything that we were able to sell after the fact.
I am not sure if there is a broad offering of bosses, but we managed to get one which a rework of Echidna from Void Ark. It was actually a somewhat challenging encounter or at least one that was pretty hectic. Another big bonus of the night is that we managed to drag along Eliyon who picked up most of the level between 79 and 80 on his White Mage. It was so good to finally be able to do something with Sig, Vita, and Aimi other than just waving and talking in Shirogane outside our respective houses.
I did not get a proper screenshot after conquering the dungeon, but I did manage to snap this one before we all exited. I kinda wish there was a higher alliance raid version of these maps, to be honest. Whatever the case I am glad we have gotten in the rhythm of running these every Sunday. They make for a really relaxing way to close out the week and a good way to just hang out with friends.
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