Mar '18 Gaming Goals

The Goals

It's that time again to put together gaming goals for the month so I don't just faff about and waste my gaming time.

She looks happy to start!

World of Warcraft

• Level Chest-Dwarf to 60 (then boost to 110) for "Double Agent" achievement
• Reach Honored with both Wrynn's Vanguard & Vol'jin's Spear (on Warriors)
• Level Macadamia to 110 (towards "Quintessential Quintet" achievement)
• Obtain flying in Draenor
• Finish "Nagrandeur" achievement
• "Explore Shadowmoon Valley" achievement
• "Explore Nagrand" achievement
• "Securing Draenor" achievement
• Revered with The Saberstalkers
• Revered with Order of the Awakened
• Revered with Vol'jin's Headhunters

Secret World Legends

• Play more of my Dragon character
• Upload first Let's Play video

Dec '17 Gaming Goals

Cutting it Close

She's dreaming of a white Christmas.

I realize that there's only a week left in December, but I wanted to try to set a few goals for myself for the week, especially since life will be a bit lighter than usual. It'll also focus the free time I have available.

The Goals

So, here we go! What do I want to try to accomplish this last week of December?

World of Warcraft

There's a few of the holiday achievements I don't have that I'd like to work towards, however, I also don't have other stuff unlocked/obtained to work towards them (again, I've talked about it before, but if achievements are going to be account bound, they should damn well be actually account bound!!). Such as the reputation with Ogri'la, a Gaudy Sweater, a Crashin' Flyer, the Iron Armada set, etc.

• Level Arraign (Horde DK) to 90 towards "Quintessential Quintet"
• Level Chestnaught (Alliance Warrior) to 55 towards "Double Agent"
• "Crashing' & Thrashin'" achievement
• "Bros. Before Ho Ho Ho's" achievement
• "Let It Snow" achievement
• Obtain a Globe Yeti (since I just found out about them, oh, yesterday)

Secret World Legends

• Get Ky (Chest? I'm not sure how to refer to her...) to level 5

Nov '17 Gaming Goals Review

Last month I started back up with my gaming goals, in an effort to give myself some goals to get myself blogging again. So let's take a look at how I did with them, shall we?

She's sad that there was so little time to game as of late.

The Goals

I lacked time to game throughout November and December. Real life sort of ends up getting in the way at the end of the year. It's something I'll have to take into account for next year. Or try to remember to take into account. I always remember about it in hindsight!

World of Warcraft

There are a few achievements that I didn't even begin to touch, such as "Well Read" and "Turkey Lurkey". I worked on leveling my Death Knight towards "Quintessential Quintet", though only got her about six or seven levels. Same with leveling my dwarf towards "Double Agent". I did complete "Friend or Fowl?" because it was an easy two minute achievement.

I surprisingly ended up completing "Raiding with Leashes", mainly because I didn't need many pets to finish, and RNG was on my side. I haven't been so lucky with "Raiding with Leashes II", yet. I only grabbed myself a Menagerie Custodian, but I've been getting lots of Wolves and Custodians since, while trying to grab the Imp and Abyssal. No luck on any drops in SSC or TK.

Secret World Legends

I ended up rolling up my dragon for my new Let's Play YouTube videos, and I've been playing a bit of her, trying to build up some back log of videos. I've never played a Dragon before, and have been having some fun. So, I achieved and even surpassed my goal of just rolling her up.

I also rolled up a RP toon to try to get into RP for the first time in a very long time (in MMOs, anyway). Sadly, I haven't had much time to play her, but I'm hoping to rectify that a bit in the coming week so I can spend time gaming with folks, as well. I'm excited to get into her, though. I've a bit of a story concocted, but I need to spend a bit of time writing it up and putting it into the SWLRP mod.

Other

I ended up not touching my otomes at all, but I'm hoping to do a bit of that this coming week as well. I'll be laying out some new goals to just finish out the month of December, and then starting fresh in January with a longer, updated, list.

Raiding with Leashes

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I mentioned working on this achievement in my monthly gaming goals post, and I finished it sooner than I expected, to be honest. All I had left was the Viscidus Globule, Giant Bone Spider, and Stitched Pup, and I'd finally obtain Mr. Bigglesworth (putting me one step closer to Crazy Cat Lady).. but the RNGods have never really been in my favor.

Before I did anything, I decided to see how much they were on the Auction House, because I really didn't want to trek all over on tons of different toons. However, after breaking down and getting the Viscidus Globule on the AH for 14k, I decided it was probably worth my time to just go farm the dang things. I know a lot of people won't think that 14k is a lot, and it isn't that much, but when you only have 300k gold to your name, one is kind of stingy. And at least it cut out having to trek over to AQ40 until I wanted to just get the achievement, or was working on transmog farming (which is low priority—pets first!).

I hit up Naxxramas on Chestnaught to see what I could get, and ended up with the pet from Loatheb (which I already have two of thanks to generous guildies), as well as the one off of Maexxna. Gluth was not kind to me, sadly. Nor were tier drops, for that matter. So since Naxx is so easy to get to, I'll have to make farming both normal and heroic Dreadnaught Battlegear one of my first transmog goals. Anyway, the spider is gross. I'm super afraid of even Daddy Long Legs (yes, I know they aren't spiders), so I put this guy out, took a picture, and put him right back. Blech. But at least I have him, now! And I'll level him eventually when Squirt is back on the 30th (NA realms).

So, since Gluth didn't put out for Chest, I hopped on my hunter, Hazelnutt, and decided to just hit up the Construct Quarter. She didn't get lucky either. So off to the shaman, Shaelee! Only hit up the Construct Quarter up to Gluth as well, but she surprisingly ended up getting lucky. He's cute in a kind of disgusting way. It was a bit annoying to try to run even old content as a healer, so I guess I'll have to finally bite the bullet and get my enhancement weapon on her.

And so, I have finally obtained the adorable Mr. Bigglesworth! I also ended up with pretty much every 10 Man achievement on Chest on my run through. Which, honestly, is my top pet peeve in WoW. If achievements are truly supposed to be account bound, why on earth do I not get credit on the toon if I've already completed it on another! I shouldn't be spamming guild chat with achievements I got back when it was current content when I was playing my Druid. That defeats the whole purpose, Blizzard. Fucking fix it. I don't mind if I can't get credit cross-characters for most achievements. That's fine. Whatever. But I want the credit for the ones I've done, instead of a "Not completed on XTOON." when I mouse over something.

#IntPiPoMo Count: 20/50

Nov '17 Gaming Goals

Starting Back Up

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I used to do a thing where I put together gaming goals every month. And then I fell off the blogging and gaming bandwagon for a good while. These gaming goals help keep me from floundering around in gaming, and focus my limited free time so I just don't sit there and scroll through Facebook.

The Goals 

She's totally sure they'll all get done...

Without further ado, here's my gaming goals checklist.

World of Warcraft

• "Well Read" achievement 
• "Friend or Fowl?" achievement 
• Level a fourth 110 (towards "Quintessential Quintet" achievement) 
• "Double Agent" achievement
• "Raiding with Leashes" achievement (Giant Bone Spider, Stitched Pup, Viscidus Globule) 
• "Raiding with Leashes II" achievement (Netherspace Abyssal, Tideskipper, Coilfang Stalker, Lesser Voidcaller, Menagerie Custodian, Fiendish Imp, Tainted Waveling, Pocket Reaver, Phoenix Hawk Hatchling) 
• "Turkey Lurkey" achievement 

Secret World Legends 

• Roll up my Dragon for my new LP YouTube videos

Other 

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Did I mention it's #VNNovember for the Community Game-Along challenge? That works out well, considering I want to try to get through the five million dating sims I've going at the same time (I'm currently playing Norn9, Sweet Fuse, Period Cube, Men of Yoshiwara: Ohgiya, Dream Daddy, Pub Encounter, and Seduce Me 2).

• Finish Mitarashi's route in Sweet Fuse 
• Start Urabe's route in Sweet Fuse 
• Finish Takigawa's Happy and Super Happy routes in Men of Yoshiwara: Ohgiya

#IntPiPoMo Count: 13/50

October Goals Review

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I cut down on my gaming goals list fairly extensively for October.

Feyd, Ender, and Try helped me get attuned for Kara, too!

WildStar

• Purchase Service Tokens
• Re-rune DPS set
• Buy new unlocked tank gear
• Re-rune tank set
• Keep pimping Lifestyles of Nexus V for folks to sign up!
• Make plans for guild/alliance Shade's Eve Shindig (Never did.)
• Put up the last Yardcore I recorded ages ago

WoW

• Complete the Stormheim storylines
• Unlock Suramar world quests
• Get Archaeology to 100
• Get Fishing to 300
• Get Cooking to 600
• Get First Aid to 400
• Get Blacksmithing to 775
• Get Mining to 750

Other

• Finish Asagiri's route in Men of Yoshiwara: Ohgiya
• Finish one of the routes in Sweet Fuse

Thoughts

Life has been hectic in ways that I didn't even plan for it to be, both emotionally and with work. I still got a decent amount of things finished, all things considered, though.

WildStar stuff that isn't related to the community-at-large, or Wildcast (which I suppose is the community-at-large) have taken a bit of a wayside to everything else. Not that it's a bad thing, but I do feel kind of bad about it. I've been doing a lot of stuff related to WildStar, just most of it outside of the game, which is a weird contrast.

I finally finished out Stormheim, which I think is my least favorite out of all the zones in the Broken Isles. Which stinks, even as a Warrior. I think that might be why it was my least favorite. That you've done all this Warrior stuff, and it doesn't seem to mesh with Stormheim well. I've been trying to work my way through more of Suramar, and have slowly gotten through it (I think I hate it more than Stormheim), so I've unlocked more quests, but I really need to just finish the stupid zone.

I got farther in professions than I thought I would. I'm stuck at 765 Blacksmithing, and all of my patterns are grey. So that stinks. Archaeology feels more grindy than I remember, granted, I never got it very high on Chestnut, so that's something to aim towards on Naught. Fishing is something I've been doing to kill time, plus I really want the Legendary fishing pole! First aid is getting there, slowly. I'm hoping as I get a higher level skill that my bandages will heal for more. I've hit a rut in mining, as well. Both of my Leystone and Felstone nodes are stuck at 1 star, despite lots of farming for the quest items. I really love professions, but WoW has really screwed the pooch with them, this expansion.

As for my otomes, I haven't really gotten much done in either of them with work. I usually play them on my lunch breaks, but October didn't leave me with many of those that weren't thirty minute "hurry up and eat" breaks.

October Gaming Goals

You better get your shit together, Nomi!

A quick list to keep me on track for the month, now that my schedule is changing some, and I find myself with (slightly) more free time.

WildStar

• Purchase Service Tokens
• Re-rune DPS set
• Buy new unlocked tank gear
• Re-rune tank set
• Keep pimping Lifestyles of Nexus V for folks to sign up!
• Make plans for guild/alliance Shade's Eve Shindig
• Put up the last Yardcore I recorded ages ago

WoW

• Complete the Stormheim storylines
• Unlock Suramar world quests
• Get Archaeology to 100
• Get Fishing to 300
• Get Cooking to 600
• Get First Aid to 400
• Get Blacksmithing to 775
• Get Mining to 750

Other

• Finish Asagiri's route in Men of Yoshiwara: Ohgiya
• Finish one of the routes in Sweet Fuse

September Goals Review

We got to Cenarius! Also, unattempted photobomb by Ru.

My goals for September, I felt, were pretty manageable.

WildStar

• Purchase Service Tokens
• Re-rune DPS set
• Buy new unlocked tank gear
• Re-rune tank set
• Keep pimping Lifestyles of Nexus V for folks to sign up!
• Make plans for guild/alliance Shade's Eve Shindig
• Finish editing Wildcast Ep 97 by the Thursday after recording
• Put up the last Yardcore I recorded ages ago

WoW

• Complete the class order campaign on my main
• Complete the Stormheim storylines
• Unlock Suramar world quests
• Get Archaeology to 100
• Get Fishing to 200
• Get Cooking to 600
• Get First Aid to 400
• Get Blacksmithing to 775
• Get Mining to 650

Other

• Finish Asagiri's route in Men of Yoshiwara: Ohgiya
• Finish one of the routes in Norn9

Thoughts

I tried, and got close!

Okay, so maybe some of my goals were a bit lofty with everything going on in real life.

I did get Protobucks in WildStar..,. but then I spent them on the Corgi and Fox Hoverboard combo-pack instead of Service Tokens. I mean, how can you pass up a baby Corgi named Leeloo?! Because I didn't get Service Tokens, I didn't re-rune my DPS set, so the new pieces are still sitting in my bag, waiting to be runed.

I didn't even purchase my tank set, let alone re-rune it, which is something I'm going to need to do soon, as we've hit the roster boss with school back in session, and I've been playing OT more to help out in GA.

My goal today is to finish the podcast and get it over to Avid. Woops! And I'll get to Yardcore when I get to Yardcore. I think I'll leave it as a running item until it's done.

I've been trying to catch up in WoW doing various things, but I've mainly been pulled into chain-running Mythics with guildies, so a lot of the goals I had have been sitting by the wayside. I've been trying to level fishing mainly to get the Artifact fishing pole for the water walking and the fish form to get around easier, since I don't (yet) have a water strider.

There's so much I want to do in WoW to catch up to where I need/want to be for raid, and then so much other stuff that I just want to finish, that it's almost a bit overwhelming. I do plan to run at least one Mythic+2 (maybe we'll try the +3?) today, but I'd really like to just work on professions in between the massive amount of chores, and working on Wildcast. And this coming week I'd really just like to go farm achievements in Pandaria for mounts. I might see if Feyd wants to come along for mount collecting, too, since he dragged me through a few places to try to get drops earlier this week.

As for my otomes... I've played a little bit more of Asagiri's route, and I'm enjoying it, but I'm having a hell of a time trying to get into Norn9. I think I just chose a bad combination of protag (there's three to choose from) and the love interest (the one I wanted is not unlocked, because I need to finish the other two associated with the protag first...). So I'm going to buy Sweet Fuse since it's been on my list to buy, it's fairly cheap, and Rissa has been trying to get me to play it since they found out I liked otomes and I have a Vita. Overall, though, not too bad with everything going on irl.

September Gaming Goals

I've kind of fallen off the gaming goals as I had originally intended them for many reasons. So I'm just going to continue them as a to do list for the remainder of the year as a way to keep myself focused on what I'd like to accomplish in the games I'm digging at the moment.

Ready to tackle goals in style!

Quick August Review

WildStar

• Finish the pre-quest for Redmoon Terror (I need that mount before it's gone!!)
• Finish re-runing all the new DPS gear that unlocked with the RMT changes (Tank can wait until September)
• Get the birthday presents for the folks I'm getting them for
• Finish Wildcast (I'll give myself until Wednesday for this one)

WoW

• Level mining on the Naught (hopefully hit 700, but we'll see how far I get...)
• Level cooking on the Naught (again, hopefully 700)
• Level first aid on the Naught (see above)
• Level fishing on the Naught (see above)
• Do a few invasions on the Nut for some gear for her
• Get paladin to 80 (Invasions!)
• Get hunter to 80 (Invasions!)
• Get rogue to 80 (Invasions!)
• Get mage to 40 (Invasions!)
• Get warlock to 40 (Invasions!)
• Run some achievement runs in Wrath and Cataclysm with Chaide (because once Legion hits that'll be total backburner for a long while!)

I did get quite a few levels and profession stuff done on my various WoW toons, but not enough to check off goals. I still feel fairly accomplished, though, especially with WildStar goals.

September Goals

WildStar

• Purchase Service Tokens
• Re-rune DPS set
• Buy new unlocked tank gear
• Re-rune tank set
• Keep pimping Lifestyles of Nexus V for folks to sign up!
• Make plans for guild/alliance Shade's Eve Shindig
• Finish editing Wildcast Ep 97 by the Thursday after recording
• Put up the last Yardcore I recorded ages ago

WoW

• Complete the class order campaign on my main
• Complete the Stormheim storylines
• Unlock Suramar world quests
• Get Archaeology to 100
• Get Fishing to 200
• Get Cooking to 600
• Get First Aid to 400
• Get Blacksmithing to 775
• Get Mining to 650

Other

• Finish Asagiri's route in Men of Yoshiwara: Ohgiya
• Finish one of the routes in Norn9

Gaming Goals: May

I started these Gaming Goals posts back in June 2015 as a way to try to organize my gaming time around freelance obligations as well as my day-job and general life obligations. You can view the archive of goals and reviews here.

Richard expects me to do well this month.

I meant well in March, and then never made goals because real life got extremely overwhelming. May is kind of in-between overwhelming and lots of free-time at the moment. My weekends are fairly free (minus D&D), but my weeks are really busy. So I'm going to try to take it light on goals--especially because ThaydFest is a thing this month. The Secret World also might slow down some because one of our four-person-team is going to be gone most of May, and then Chaide is going to be gone most of June. But at least that gives me time to catch up on the videos.

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The Community Game-Along this month is Metroidvania games. So I had planned at the start of the year to get in some Dust: An Elysian Tale. And I'm still going to try to do so, which might reduce some of my other goals. Too bad every month can't be dating simmonth!

WildStar

• Finish Celestion achievements (on Chestnut)
• Start Galeras achievements (including normal STL and normal Hycrest)
• Upload completed Yardcore 10
• Put on ThaydFest without stressing!

Final Fantasy XIV

• FSH 30
• BTN 22
• MIN 22
• CUL 10

The Secret World

• Finish and upload Let's Play 4
• Start Transylvania

Steam, etc.

• Finish one route in Men of Yoshiwara: Ohgiya
• Play some Dust: An Elysian Tale
• Finish the introduction in Norn9: Var Commons

Gaming Goals Review: March & April

I started this back in June 2015, and have been keeping up with it this past month. I've kept reducing my goals due to real life, and I think I hit a stride heading into December, and have kept it up for the most part. Well, except maybe on the blogging end and the goals posts the past two months!

Comparison Time!

WildStar

• Finish Celestion achievements (on Chestnut)
• Get Bauxyte her key and at least one dungeon towards attunement
• Upload completed Yardcore 10
• Choose which toon will be next to 50

Final Fantasy XIV

• WAR 50 Completed!
• FSH 30
• BTN 30
• MIN 30
• Start working on crafting professions to clean out retainers (max of level 15) Started!

The Secret World

• Finish and upload Let's Play 4 and 5
• Finish Saiid's missions Completed!

Steam, etc.

• Finish Men of Yoshiwara Completed!
• Finish all of Impey's endings (including GCs and video) in Code Realize Completed!
• Start Victor's route in Code Realize Completed!
• Start Amnesia: Memories (suggestions on the card suit to pursue first are welcome!) Changed game.

I ended up completing quite a few goals, though mostly outside of MMOs. Real life was busy again. Actually, it doesn't ever seem to slow down, any. Granted, it should be a tad bit slower this month compared to the past few.

Comparison: February and March

• 1 hour less of WildStar... so comparable hours
• 1 hour less of Final Fantasy--again, comparable
• 1 hour less of The Secret World--I'm sensing a pattern here
• Added 2 hours of Men of Yoshiwara
• Added 23 hours of Code: Realize ~Guardian of Rebirth~
• No Blade & Soul (down 2 hours)
• No Black Desert Online (down 3 hours)
• Added 15 hours of Stardew Valley
• 77 total hours in Feburary
• 110 total hours in March
• Overall up 33 hours in March--I blame this on Stardew Valley and Code: Realize

Comparison: March and April

• 9 hours less of WildStar
• Added 2 hours of Final Fantasy
• Added 11 hours of The Secret World
• No Men of Yoshiwara (down 8 hours--completed in March)
• 17 hours less of Code: Realize ~Guardian of Rebirth~
• No Stardew Valley (down 15 hours)
• Added 3 hours of Atlas Reactor (beta)
• 110 total hours in March
• 77 total hours in April
• Overall down 33 hours in April--I know this is due to project deadlines at work and IRL events

Overall Thoughts

Chaide and I finished the base-game story!!!

So I didn't get very much done in WildStar. Partially was just real life, and partially was just I've been working on ThaydFest stuff non-stop. I'll probably adjust my goals there knowing that ThaydFest won't be over until end of May.

We finally got our main classes to level 50 in FFXIV, and we've been working past the 2.0 story very slowly. We're currently about halfway through the "A Realm Awoken" patch. We're currently stuck on the "Rock-solid Protection" quest, (1) because of time and (2) we can't figure out if we need normal or... hard mode? I think it's called hard mode. And needing normal makes no sense since it's a level 45 dungeon. So if you have thoughts, let me know. I almost got my gathering professions up, so I might continue those goals. My play time has decreased there overall, so I'm not sure adding a new class to level would be wise. Maybe I'll think about how much story we can feasibly get through this month and use that as a goal instead.

We're almost into Transylvania in The Secret World, but I just haven't had much time outside of work to work on the videos without also cutting into my gaming time, or time spent with Chaide in general.

My other gaming goals were fairly easy, honestly. I was a terrible person and left Men of Yoshiwara: Kikuya minimized during raids and pulled it up whenever I was dead. Honestly, it's what keeps me so jovial during raids, because I hate dying. And Code: Realize was easy, because I play that for an hour every day at work during lunch. Plus, if I carry my Vita with me everywhere, so if I'm waiting in line or something, it's easy enough to pop out and play some. I'm at the point where I'm almost done with Lupin's route, and I'm sad to see the game end! But more thoughts on that another time. I decided that instead of playing Amnesia first, I'm going to be playing the new Men of Yoshiwara that just came out a few weeks ago. I got it day-of because it was on sale, but I was up in the air on which otome to try next, until Sushi told me about how one of the routes is right up my alley (I love the sweet romance/childhood friend routes), so now I have to try it first.

I also picked up Stardew Valley and Atlas Reactor these past two months. Stardew Valley is lots of fun, but it's something that I can only really handle in small doses. I just get bored with it after a few hours, and need to put it down. Plus I stink at the whole relationship building thing, and after a while I start to feel overwhelmed at all the things to do and that I want to do and... yeah.

Atlas Reactor is one that I was lucky enough to get a beta code, and I have lots to write about it, but I've not had much time to get in there and play around with it more to solidify the thoughts and guides I want to write. Overall, I love it because it's more thought- and strategy-based than MOBAs in general. Or at least from my limited MOBA experiences. I've tried HotS and LoL, but neither caught my fancy. I don't like the way it works, and it's super confusing, whereas I caught onto Atlas Reactor really quickly, and it almost feels like a team-based game of chess.

Thank you to the wonderful Ammo for the beautiful ThaydFest banner donation!

The month of May is going to be taken up mainly by ThaydFest, so I don't know that I'll have a lot of goals for May, but June will have countless hours to fill in, because Chaide is going to be teaching in Africa for two and a half weeks straight... so I'll have lots of time to game (and be sad) and put together Let's Plays.

Gaming Goals: March

I started these Gaming Goals posts back in June 2015 as a way to try to organize my gaming time around freelance obligations as well as my day-job and general life obligations. You can view the backlog of goals and reviews here.

Going to sass my way through March (and Egypt)!

January had a nice balanced list of stuff, but real-life started hitting me harder than expected in February. Life is going to continue to do that through most of March, but I'm going to see if I can't keep many of the same goals and continue towards them.

The Community Game-Along theme this month is Monster Hunter-likes, but it doesn't really sound like a genre I'd be into. Coupled with most of the month being booked-up with things, I don't think I'll be participating this month.

WildStar

• Finish Celestion achievements (on Chestnut)
• Get Bauxyte her key and at least one dungeon towards attunement
• Upload completed Yardcore 10
• Choose which toon will be next to 50

Final Fantasy XIV

• WAR 50
• FSH 30
• BTN 30
• MIN 30
• Start working on crafting professions to clean out retainers (max of level 15)

The Secret World

• Finish and upload Let's Play 4 and 5
• Finish Saiid's missions

Steam, etc.

• Finish Men of Yoshiwara
• Finish all of Impey's endings (including GCs and video) in Code Realize
• Start Victor's route in Code Realize
• Start Amnesia: Memories (suggestions on the card suit to pursue first are welcome!)

Gaming Goals Review: February

I started this back in June 2015, and have been keeping up with it this past month. I've kept reducing my goals due to real life, and I think I hit a stride heading into December, and have kept it up for the most part.

For the sake of comparison

WildStar

• Finish Celestion achievements
• Get Bauxyte to level 40 Completed!
• Cycle through toons to burn rested EXP Completed!
• Upload completed Yardcore 10

Final Fantasy XIV

• WAR 50
• FSH 30
• BOT 30
• MIN 30
• Start working on crafting professions to clean out retainers

The Secret World

• Try to finish out Egypt
• Upload completed Let's Play 3 and 4

Blade & Soul

• Reach level 20
• Run at least one dungeon (preferably with friends)

Steam, etc.

• Finish Men of Yoshiwara
• Pick up Cat Goes Fishing and play some
• Get up to Chapter 5 in Code: Realize Completed!
• Play some more Torchlight

So it's not hard to see based on both the chart and the goals I obtained that real life pretty much kicked my butt this past month. Work has been super busy, and with a friends' wedding coming up in a few weeks, Chaide and I have both been slogged with obligations related to that (especially since Chaide is in the wedding).

For comparison between January and February...

• 29 less hours of WildStar
• 9 less hours of Final Fantasy
• 32 less hours of The Secret World
• 16 less hours of Men of Yoshiwara
• No Paladins (down 14 hours)
• No Animal Jam (down 15 hours)
• No Pirate 101 (down 12 hours)
• Added 10 hours of Code: Realize ~Guardian of Rebirth~
• Added 2 hours of Blade & Soul
• Added 3 hours of Black Desert Online
• 189 total hours in January
• 77 total hours in February
• Overall down 112 hours of game-time

I wish the Achievement Granted crap didn't show up on top... I wonder if I hide UI if the Level Up will go away?

I had started on the Celestion achievements, and am only a few short, but got distracted by swapping out to burn some rested EXP on the toons, and I took advantage of the Bonus XP Weekend (and a lot of flasks) to get Bauxyte to 50! I even did Crimson Badlands once, and am half-way to her key. I have some gear it's worth tossing non-set runes into for now, and I'd love to start getting her attuned for some variety.

We ended up hitting 49 in Final Fantasy, and I'm hoping we finally hit 50 in March. We shall see, though. My work from home days haven't been conducive to lunches where I plop in front of my personal computer (instead of the work ones) for an hour with Netflix running, food in hand, and farm-time. So again, hoping to carry over a lot of those goals. Especially the gathering ones, as I'll either need to purchase a new retainer (which was a plan at some point anyway, just not quite... now), or really get started on those crafting professions.

We didn't get out of Egypt in TSW, but we're getting close. I think we only have a few missions left in the first town, and then we can go see Saiid. I'm so excited! From what little I've seen of him (so far) I'm super-duper excited to see more of him. His attitude comes across in spades! As for the Let's Play... I did get the third one up, and the fourth one partially completed. I'm anxiously awaiting some down-time to be able to work more on those videos.

I barely got any Blade & Soul time in, so those will probably carry over as well. I'm none-too-thrilled so far with the game, and my friends are starting to fall off as well. So we'll see if I even get to it. I really would like to try to give it the good old "20 hours/20 levels" trial. 

I'm super close to finishing Men of Yoshiwara, and am hoping to finish it in March so I can move onto Amnesai: Memories for my PC otome. I never picked up Cat Goes Fishing, though I'm still hoping to one day, because it looks adorkable. I didn't get into Torchlight due to time.

I've been playing a bunch of Code Realize for multiple reasons. One, it's what I do at lunch time. When I tried watching stuff on Prime at work, people would constantly interrupt my lunch break, despite having a sign up saying I was at lunch. With my head buried in my Vita, people leave me alone. Also, with everything else that's going on, it's been a nice way to get in fifteen minutes here before an event, or ten minutes there before bedtime. I've been pursuing Impey as the first guy, mainly because I thought I liked him the least, but he's grown on me a lot. Granted, I like Lupin least of all so far, and don't know how I'll feel when I get to him as the "True Game Ending" (he's locked behind the four other guys).

Gaming Goals: February

I started these Gaming Goals posts back in June 2015 as a way to try to organize my gaming time around freelance obligations as well as my day-job and general life obligations. You can view the backlog of goals and reviews here.

Love is in the air! And fortunes too, apparently.

I think January had a good length list with both some easy and not-so-easy goals to work toward. I'm going to try to continue that flow this month.

WildStar

• Finish Celestion achievements
• Get Bauxyte to level 40
• Cycle through toons to burn rested EXP
• Upload completed Yardcore 10

Final Fantasy XIV

• WAR 50
• FSH 30
• BOT 30
• MIN 30
• Start working on crafting professions to clean out retainers

The Secret World

• Try to finish out Egypt
• Upload completed Let's Play 3 and 4

Blade & Soul

• Reach level 20
• Run at least one dungeon (preferably with friends)

Steam, etc.

• Finish Men of Yoshiwara
• Pick up Cat Goes Fishing and play some
• Get up to Chapter 5 in Code: Realize
• Play some more Torchlight

Gaming Goals Review: January

I started this back in June 2015, and have been keeping up with it this past month. I've kept reducing my goals due to real life, and I think I hit a stride heading into December, and have kept it up for the most part.

Look! I made a pretty chart of my game time for the month!

WildStar

• Get my last AP (48 total) point! Completed!
• Rune out my DPS set with class runes (pants) Completed! (And put them in shoulders)
• Get my tanking set figured out on Chestnut Completed!
• Level up alts to burn up all the rested XP they have Completed!

FFXIV

Cactuar

• WAR 50
• PLD 40
• ARC 25
• CNJ 20

TSW

• Finish the bloody Blue Mountains already

Steam

• Finish Tokiwa's endings and date scenario (Men of Yoshiwara) Completed!
• Finish Kagura's endings and date scenario (Men of Yoshiwara) Completed!
• Play some more Shadowrun Returns and get the videos over to QueueTimes

Overall not bad! I completed all my WildStar goals, granted, they weren't overly difficult, per se. I mean, grinding out the dailies for the plat and the elder gems was a bit cringe worthy. So I think I've just accepted that I will be poor in that game because there are better things to do with my time than grind out plat.

I surprisingly didn't get much time in with Final Fantasy. A large portion of that is due to the fact that Chaide is more into The Secret World at the moment, and in a way I am, too. We're still chugging away at level 50 once a week, though, so sometime in February we'll hit it, I'm sure. My goals will definitely be changing based upon my game time, and prior obligations in February/March.

We finally made it out of the Blue Mountains in TSW! HURRAH! I've actually written a lot about The Secret World lately, and have been working my butt off at putting the videos together. I'm hoping to have the next one out soon(tm). The story is absolutely amazing, and we're loving Egypt! So far, it's one of our favorite zones.

Oh my...

On Steam, I've kind of been addicted to Otomes. I finished out the two routes I wanted to, and started on Iroha's route. I'm hoping to work on that more this month, and finally finish out the game. I've spent countless hours in Men of Yoshiwara in both December and January. As for Shadowrun Returns? I'm hoping to have some free time to get it in... soon(tm). I'd also really like to finish up Torchlight. Chaide is interested in trying to get in some Torchlight II together as a Let's Play. He enjoys being a part of those, when I do them. I think because he doesn't have to do the editing... I kid! Partially. I know he just likes spending time with me and sharing my interests, and creating Let's Play videos is one of them.

Anyway, expect a nice new list of goals for February SOON(TM)!

Gaming Goals: January

I've been enjoying putting together this gaming goals thing I decided to try out in June. It's helped me focus my time and come up with blog posts. Life has remained at a constant busy-level thanks to work, so my goals are going to remain small for now.

I got this in the bag.

WildStar

• Get my last AP (48 total) point!
• Rune out my DPS set with class runes (pants)
• Get my tanking set figured out on Chestnut
• Level up alts to burn up all the rested XP they have

FFXIV

Cactuar

• WAR 50
• PLD 40
• ARC 25
• CNJ 20

TSW

• Finish the bloody Blue Mountains already

Steam

• Finish Tokiwa's endings and date scenario (Men of Yoshiwara)
• Finish Kagura's endings and date scenario (Men of Yoshiwara)
• Play some more Shadowrun Returns and get the videos over to QueueTimes

I think I'll be able to manage most of what's on the list. It's fairly condensed, so it should be fairly manageable. As usual, though, we'll see what's actually attainable.

Gaming Goals Review: December

I started this back in June 2015, and have been keeping up with it this past month. I've kept reducing my goals due to real life, and I think I hit a stride heading into December, but then the Holidays happened, so we'll see if I met any of my goals at all.

(Magnolia) Chestnut enjoyed fixing bells to bring happiness to the children in XIV!

WildStar Goals

Chestnut

• Work towards the last two AP (48) points! Halfway to last one!
• Put up Yardcore 9
• Winterfest Fun!!!!!!!!! Completed!

FFXIV Goals

Cactuar

• Level 50 WAR
• Do the Christmas event Completed!

TSW

• Put up third LP video
• Finish Blue Mountains!
• Complete the Christmas events!

Results

Let's take them a game at a time. In WildStar I'm halfway (I think even 3/4 way) to getting my last Ability Point. Finally! It's been such a process for me, especially since I was feeling a little bit of burnout after ThaydFest, but I've gotten back into the swing of things and am greatly enjoying myself again. I got Yardcore up, and did Winterfest, too! Hopefully I can churn out a Winterfest post in a timely manner... so, sometime this week.

Chaide and I are level 47 on our main classes in XIV and finished out the MSQ to the point where we need to be level 49. It's our goal to try to make it through to the Heavensward story end of the month. We also did the Christmas, New Years, and XI crossover event. I'll probably do a joint post about those at some point.

We didn't get in a lot of TSW due to the Holidays, Cam traveling for work, etc. but we also ran into some issues completing the Christmas events, which I discussed briefly in an article over at MMOGames. Overall, considering it was the holidays and the progress we made, I think I made a pretty good dent in my goals!

#Listmas Gaming Goals: December

This post is a part of the #Listmas initiative. Check it out and participate!

This gaming goals thing I decided to try out in June has truly proven to be of use to me to organize my game-time and make the most of it, especially in these busy times.

Once again cutting down because it's halfway through December already, and we've vacation and won't be able to MMO.

WildStar Goals

Chestnut

• Work towards the last two AP (48) points!
• Put up Yardcore 9
• Winterfest Fun!!!!!!!!!

FFXIV Goals

Cactuar

• Level 50 WAR
• Do the Christmas event

TSW

• Put up third LP video
• Finish Blue Mountains!
• Complete the Christmas events!

FFXIV Longterm Goals

I put together this post a while ago, but let's see how I'm doing and where I'm at and what I want to work on next and if I've adjusted anything (which I have)! It is Listmas, after all... I'm only going to cover DOW, as I'm not really focusing on DOM just yet.

• GLA 30
• Obtain WAR, level as main Job
• GLA 34
• CNJ 34
• ARC 30
• Obtain BRD
• PGL 46
• LNC 15
• Obtain MNK
• LNC 34
• Obtain DRG
• Obtain DRK
• CNJ 15
• Obtain PLD
• ROG 30
• Obtain NIN
• Obtain MCH
• WAR 60, assuming not already completed
• DRK 60
• PLD 60
• DRG 60
• BRD 60
• MNK 60
• NIN 60
• MCH 60

#Listmas Gaming Goals Review: November

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I started this back in June 2015, and have been keeping up with it this past month. I reduced my goals the past few months due to real life, and I think I started getting things to a reasonable goal list. But, we'll see in a moment.

Finding images for these posts is kinda difficult...

WildStar Goals

Chestnut

• Work towards completing my AMP (57) and AP (48) points
• Put up Yardcore
• THAYDFEST 3!
• Put together an awesome Harvest Party for the guild
• Take a mini-cation to rev up for the Winterfest Explosion and server event the guild is planning... (Just a week of no WildStar and play some other games lol)

FFXIV Goals

Cactuar

• Level 20 MIN
• Level 40 WAR
• Level 35 GLD
• Level 5 PGL
• Level 15 CNJ
• Pick up PLD

TSW

• Finish through 2015 Halloween content
• Run Hell (dungeon)
• Put up third LP video

Thoughts

• I'm doing these as a bullet because my brain is so fragmented with life-stress that it's easier than writing coherent paragraphs
• I feel like each month I say "I thought X was busy, HAH! This month trumped it!" But yeah, it's true. You should see the draft of my December goals... (or lack thereof)
• My summary of WildStar for the past month is pretty much just everything in Episode 77 of the Wildcast Podcast. Avid had me on to talk about Thaydfest 3 since he and Behalter missed it.
• Yeah, I didn't get Yardcore 9 up. It's half-edited. Like I said--life. It's my goal to finish it up tonight, hopefully?
• I killed it in XIV. We played a lot of it. I leveled a lot of alt classes. I'm excited to get to the 2.0 story. I think my WAR is now 46ish?
• We didn't finish TSW Halloween--we had to have Kaidan unlocked to complete the 2015 stuff, so we said "screw it" and worked on more Blue Mountains quests
• We did purchase the Ultimate Edition (all three of us) and gifted one of the base-game copies to our friend Sylver
• She'll be joining us in the future on our Let's Play videos, but she kind of refuses to use TeamSpeak (if it's being recorded), so I'm trying to figure out how to set up a "just party chat" channel so I don't need to block chat out on the videos and people can see her comments
• The third TSW video is in the works. It, like Yardcore, is half done. Real life. You know.
• I'll get December's goals up at some point
• I also want to participate in the "12 Days of Geekmas" thing but feel so far behind. And I don't want to spam with possible double-posts. And I've kind of nothing to say about a few of the fandoms on the list...

Gaming Goals: November

This post is a part of #IntPiPoMo! You can find out more, and sign up at this link.

I've been enjoying putting together this gaming goals thing I decided to try out in June. It's helped me focus my time and come up with blog posts. Life has been super busy, but doing these really do help me stay focused and away from the whiny "I'm boooooooored" crap.

#IntPiPoMo 6/50 - Writing down your goals is a good way to tackle them, experts say!

Going to be cutting down again this month because AMGREALLIFE, so let's get to it!

WildStar Goals

Chestnut

• Work towards completing my AMP (57) and AP (48) points
• Put up Yardcore
• THAYDFEST 3!
• Put together an awesome Harvest Party for the guild
• Take a mini-cation to rev up for the Winterfest Explosion and server event the guild is planning... (Just a week of no WildStar and play some other games lol)

FFXIV Goals

Cactuar

• Level 20 MIN
• Level 40 WAR
• Level 35 GLD
• Level 5 PGL
• Level 15 CNJ
• Pick up PLD

TSW

• Finish through 2015 Halloween content
• Run Hell (dungeon)
• Put up third LP video

I completely cut out SWTOR, so we'll see if I play any of it. Definitely a minimized list. I still have to wonder if I'll finish it all, considering it's halfway through the month already. I'd also like to try to finish up Torchlight (the original) since I'm almost there, and then uninstall it from the computer. Then work my way onto Shadowrun: Returns. But, we shall see what I can accomplish. Maybe I'll add them to January depending what my schedules look like.