Month: December 2019

All DoH / DoL Jobs 50+

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All DoH / DoL jobs are 50 or above now. And I crafted a new set of DoH gear. But there did not seem to be a set of DoL gear to craft, so I bought a set in Ishgard. There are some crafting pieces, but each are job specific and I don’t want to fill the Armory. I’m buying Green Level 50 main hand tool from my Grand Company for seals and crafting the Off Hand tools. Most of the leveling has come from the Once a Day Grand Company Supply and Provisioning turn-ins, which have given plenty of seals for the Main Hand Tools. The Grand Company clothing pieces are all job specific which will fill up the Armory, so I’m sticking with Generic sets.

Here’s the DoL set I found in Ishgard.

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Rock’n Forward Into The ’90s

My house dates from the 1970’s, and the kitchen lighting fixtures apparently date from then too. They have LEDs, but there is lots of Spillover around the shades and with LEDs they are too bright. By spillover I mean that far away from the fixture you are looking directly at the bulb rather than through the shade. Notice the attempt to dim one of them by adding Trash Bag plastic to the shade. Not a good idea with Incandescent bulbs, but no problem with heat from LEDs. Anyway that was a failure. The spillover made that useless.

Time for an upgrade.

Wayfair had some nice ones for not a lot of money and free shipping.

WhooHoo… We are rock’n in the 90’s now. Ok So a Can Lighting upgrade was too much work. But these only have one bulb, which is right for using LEDs and they are attractive and spillover free.

I’m way happy.
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LED Torchiere is Cool

I just got an LED Torchiere Floor Lamp from Wayfair.Wayfair Torchiere Floor Lamp Detail.png

Here it is where I’m using it. It’s probably hard to see in the clutter.

The top red circle is the top light aimed at the ceiling. The bottom red circle is the task light. I have a FLIR thermal camera and here are the temperatures for the two lights.

Task Light First. Back and Front.

And here is the top ceiling light. Back and front.

This is after running it for several hours on high. The power supply is a wall wart that supplied 24 volts at 1.5 amp for a maximum of 36 watts. Way down from the Halogen light I’m replacing that has a 300 watt ceiling directed light and a 50 watt task light.

I’ve been waiting for a couple of years and watching for an LED version of this light. For a long time only Halogen versions were available.

May you walk in the light of LEDs.
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Well Into the Roaring 40s

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Lots of progress in DoH and DoL jobs in the past couple of days using Leves and Grand Company Supply and Provisioning turn-ins. Guildleves are throttled by the game quite severely. After starting with with 99, Leve Allowances, this is down to 27 now.  Apparently I get 3 every 12 hours or 6 per day, but that doesn’t take long to eat up.

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But Grand Company Supply and Provisioning is handed out once each day at noon and that is a very nice way to make XP.

Guess I’ll be getting back to just moving through the Crafting Logs and doing items in order. That seems to give quite a bit of XP and it’s only throttled by the need to gather materials. The Job quests often require turn in of a High Quality item, which can be quite time consuming a wasteful to accomplish. I often just buy the HQ item on the market board but sometimes the prices are unreasonable – 40,000 gil for a single level 30 jacket. All I need is XP, I don’t really need to complete the job quests as far as I know. Not sure anything is gated on them. So back to the Crafting Logs for me.

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Starlight This Year is No Fun

What isn’t much fun this year is the Starlight celebration quests. I’ve tried several times and just can’t get the hang of doing the Caroling quests. So I guess I wont be getting the Starlight Barding this year. But I have an outfit from past years.

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Happy Starlight!
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More Progress

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More progress on the DoH / DoL front.

Several new methods turned up for gaining XP. Turning in Grand Company Delivery Missions gives an awesome amount of XP, but you have no control over what they want that day.

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But I polished all these off pretty quickly and it jumped some of the jobs quite a bit.

Another helpful activity is Leves as I’ve suggested, but I found that outposts were not available to me for some reason, but after a little research, I found that there was a big list of activities back at Gridania for some of my jobs.

Carpentry and Leather working were today’s favorites with no work for the other jobs.

I finished up some of the easier Specialty Housing items and put them up for sale.

Some of these items require “Fine Wax” which is a drop from a chest in the Haukke Manor dungeon. I’m sure I could farm this solo, but I’m not sure the XP or the selling prices would be worth the trouble at this point.

Tomorrow I need to work on Goldsmith and Alchemy since they are a little behind the others.

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Quarter of the Way

I’m grinding most of the professions and have made over 25% progress toward the Level Cap of 80.

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So far, the Gil cost is about neutral. I’m mostly grinding using Miner and Botanist. But there are a few items that can only be obtained by Fishing, and those I’ve bought off the Market Place.

Also I’ve run across some examples of how Leve’s are scaled between Battle and Field/ Crafting jobs.

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Partial-Erase LCD Writing Tablet

I’ve been using Boogie Boards – Eraseable LCD tablets for a couple of years now. These are very cool / cheap tablets that you can press a button to erase.

I saw my first one at Walmart and later found a later model that was plain rather than electric green. I have two next to me and use them all the time to write down notes while I’m playing MMO games. They are especially useful while crafting to keep track of which items you’ll need to gather or purchase to continue your crafting or whatever. But they make great shopping lists and “Refrigerator Notepads” since some have magnets on the back to stick on the Fridge.

Some notes while crafting

If you have not seen these, you scribble on them with a stylus, and then press a button to erase the whole thing instantly. They contain a tiny watch battery which lasts for years, and can be easily replaced. If you want a permanent copy of what you wrote, just take a picture with your phone. You might want to increase the contrast which is easily done with the photo camera app.

Breakthrough – Partial Erase

Well there’s been a breakthrough in this space! Another company, NewYes has made a version that has Partial Erase. After pressing a button, you use the Eraser on the Stylus to erase parts of the screen. Press another button twice to erase the entire screen. Very cool.

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Enjoy
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Training DoH / DoL Jobs

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As you can see I’m making progress training my Disciple of the Hand and Land jobs. It’s going pretty well. Sometimes I spend a little Gil on some items to avoid chasing around to mine or gather items, and sometimes I go out for a long Mining / Chopping session and then combine that with running around to fill in some of the Gathering logs. Mining and Botany were already open when I started, so they are a little ahead of the others. I tend to go to a capital city and then work there a while to level the jobs that are placed there. So Carpenter / Leatherworker in Gridania for a while, then off to Limsa for Blacksmith / Armorer. Tomorrow it will be Weaver / Alchemist turn in Ul’dah. I’m hoping I don’t find out later that Culinarian / Fishing is required for Facet armor.

Preparing to Craft

One of the big problems that took an  hour or so was to clean out my inventory, armory and retainers to prepare to craft. After saving quite a few gear pieces, and other nonsense encountered while leveling, it was quite a chore to clean up to free up space for leveling nine crafting jobs at the same time.

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Solo Job Quests are Out of Control

We have seen an increasing escalation of difficulty for Job Quest Instances. Of course, for Shadowbringers, there are just too many “Jobs” to have a train of Job Quests for each job, so the designers have given us “Role” quests.

Well, the instances for these are way over the top. I’m not interested in learning to RAID. I spent an evening watching the Eden’s Gate (Savage) Raid on Twitch. I’m no expert, but the whole fight was about a dozen failures, one after another, as one or another member messed some fiddly bit of mechanics by being off by a foot length and causing a wipe. And the whole fight was one Boss on a platform.

Borrrrrrrrrring. Image result for eyeroll emoji

I like the design of the MSQ dungeons. Near the end of Shadowbringers, Mt Gulg is a nice dungeon. and I’ve done it a few times with a Red Mage. It’s a little fiddly at the end, and the Boss animations can cover the Trust members that you need to follow to avoid the hits that are not well Telegraphed. But I’ve made it through several times.

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But the Role Instances are a whole other thing.

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