The story of my time playing Final Fantasy 14 is that there is more to do than anyone could reasonably accomplish without years of effort. As a result, every time I play, I am making choices about what gets my time and attention and what will languish, untouched, for months or even years. My previous attempts to dabble in a bit of everything spread me too thin and left me worn out, so these days I am trying to stay focused on a smaller number of things. There’s all my usual weekly stuff, of course: Island Sanctuary maintenance, side quests, acquiring limited currencies, leveling my alt, stockpiling things for future projects, maintaining my sales listings, and so on: the background work of playing a video game that is required to do the more focused parts of the game at other times. All of this can take up as much time as I give it because, while there is an end to it all, it is so far away right now that I have no idea when I’d reach it even if this stuff was all I focused on. So I try to keep it to a reasonable level, based on how I’m feeling in any given week or on any given day, and pick some other stuff to focus on when I’ve got the time and energy. Right now, a lot of that is going towards the RP wrestling season that’s currently under way, but if I had to name my focuses, I would say the Occult Crescent and leveling an alternate character.
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