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December Report

A few days late, but here is what will be my final AchieveChamp donation for a bit, at least until the ~economy's~ impact on my personal finances becomes more certain (in a positive direction, obvs).

I've only got 20 this month, and part of that is because of that "With Saw in Hand VII" achievement and all its horrid little siblings. Those Heavensward large levequests are, perhaps, one of the worst concepts ever introduced to the game, and I've been spending months trying to knock them out of the way, and I think I still have at least one month to go.*

*as always, not counting what I need for Culinarian and Fishing once I eventually pick those up. I need to clear out my inventory first, though, which means getting rid of all this ding dang Heavensward crafting stuff.

Anyway, that's $20 (plus fees) to charity.

I think overall this has been a great project for helping me manage my free time and disposable income, so I hope to dive back into it someday. Until then, it will be nice not to have to take all these screenshots of my Lodestone page for a while.

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Emmy Weeks 31(2)-35 (8/1-8/31) Report

I'm not late, you're late... Okay I'm really really late this month... But to be fair the start of my month had me doing a lot work, then I spent a weekend at a convention, then last week I broke my ankle... So yeah, it's been a busy September. Let's see what August looked like.

Week 31(2) (8/1-8/3)

Week 32 (8/4-8/10)

Week 33 (8/11-8/17)

Week 34 (8/18-8/24)

Week 36 (8/25-8/31)

Such a mixed bag of stuff. Treasure maps, fishing, triple triad, and so so much Bozja. I finally went back and finished the plot for Bozja and started working on the resistance weapons. I now have finally beat all of the Triple Triad NPCs (that'll show in September's wrap-up) so that's cool! I'm currently working on the achievement for having cards 1-312. I'm only 4 away!

Here are my August totals:

Week 31(2) (8/1-8/3) Total: 2 Achievements Week 32 (8/4-8/10) Total: 10 Achievements Week 33 (8/11-8/17) Total: 15 Achievements Week 34 (8/18-8/24) Total: 18 Achievements Week 35 (8/25-8/31) Total: 10 Achievements August Monthly Totals: 55 Achievements

That's $55 for August. Here's the receipt:

I ended up adding in some processing fees as well. But I wanted a nice round number. And here are my stats as of 9/17

Total Achievement Points: 16,445 Brynhildr Rank: #306 Global Rank: #21,525

I already know September is going to be quieter. Unless I decide to just start pounding out new achievements in the next two weeks... We'll see I guess!

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Monthly Report - August

My new scholar glam ended up accidentally very matchy-matchy with my chocobo.

Remember when I said I'd probably be scaling back my achievement hunting this month?

Me neither! That's 43 achievements, and now that I'm out of the MSQ grind, and I'm back to $1 per cheevie, so that's another $43 for charity!

Plus processing fee. Idk why, but this time it routed me specifically to UNRWA's US branch. You can give too at UNRWA if that's within your financial means.

Anyway, as you might have seen from my achievements, there's a lot of purple in there. I've been doing a lot of relic quests--both for splendorous tools and resistance weapons. Why those, specifically? I don't know. I guess because they're currently taking up the most space in my inventory with all the materials they need. But splendorous tools is a pretty easy endeavor now that Dawntrail is out, so I can knock those out pretty fast these days.

My achievement score on Lodestone is now 12,455, and I'm now ranked #1,027 on Brynhildr. According to Lalachievements, I've completed 43% of all available achievements, which is where I was before Dawntrail--the addition of new achievements in the new expac knocked me back down to 42%, and now I can keep climbing. September will probably be more relic weapons & tools, plus leveling some more of my classes up to 100.

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Emmy Weeks 26(2)-31(1) (6/27-7/31) Report

And of course I'm late. To be fair, I was working on a presentation about music in Ulitma Thule for the past week.

So Dawntrail... I have many, many thoughts on it. And I will not be sharing them here. However, I can say the graphical update has been amazing! Here's a pretty similar picture to one I took a while ago. If you haven't been to Ultima Thule after the update, I suggest you do! The sky is beautiful!

Here's what I did during Dawntrail and the rest of July:

Week 26(2) (6/27-6/30)

Week 27 (7/1-7/6)

Week 28 (7/7-7/13)

Week 29 (7/14-7/20)

Week 30 (7/21-7/27)

Lots from DT, lots of crafting and gathering, a number of raids because they were on my Wonderous Tales and I was close to finish a couple. And the one I'm most proud of currently!:

I've now caught every Big Fish from ARR, HW, and StB! I have 5 Big Fish left in the game (until they add them in DT), 2 in ShB and 3 in EW. I'm currently taking it pretty easy in game. Just crafting, gathering, and sometimes going battle content (I really gotta finish leveling classes so I can do the role quests...)

Here are my July (and end of June) totals:

Week 26(2) (6/27-6/30) Total: 6 Achievements Week 27 (7/1-7/6) Total: 25 Achievements Week 28 (7/7-7/13) Total: 20 Achievements Week 29 (7/14-7/20) Total: 15 Achievements Week 30 (7/21-7/27) Total: 13 Achievements Week 31(1) (7/28-7/31) Total: 0 Achievements July Totals: 79 Achievements

That's 79 achievements at $0.50 per achievement, rounded up to $40 for the month. I'll be back to $1 per achievement for August.

Here are my Lalachievement stats (as of 8/5)

Total Achievement Points: 15,925 Brynhildr Rank: #348 Global Rank: #24.267

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Monthly Report - Dawntrail Early Access & July

Hmm, well, regardless of my feelings on the quality of Dawntrail's MSQ, I certainly did play through all of it and then some. And, as expected, picked up a fair amount of achievements along the way. Whoo boy.

If you notice any of those are out of order, no you didn't. To spare you the effort of counting them all yourself, that's 69 cheevos (nice). Most of them are Dawntrail-related, but there's a couple of PVP and Custom Deliveries achievements peppered in there as well, plus *squint* a hunt log? Look, I've been having a weird time with this game since Dawntrail came out.

In the future, I expect my achievement hunting to slow down quite a bit, at least for a while. I'm thankfully starting to get my health a little more wrangled again, and that has me wanting to do more activities that involve me, uhhh, not sitting at this computer. The surprising drop in quality with the MSQ writing has also got me kind of burned, and I'm not really champing at the bit for the next patch story-wise (I am excited to see the new gameplay additions, though--DT's combat has been stellar). All that together, and my focus might be more on other projects for the next while, although I still intend to keep this going for as long as I'm earning achievements with Efnisien.

Anyway, onto to the giving.

69 achievements at $0.50 per achievement means a total of $34.50, which I'm just gonna round up to $35 for simplicity's sake. Once again, I'll be putting that money toward UNRWA to support their efforts providing on-the-ground aid to Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank.

Oh, I nearly forgot to update on my current achievement standings too! My achievement score on Lodestone is now 12,080, I'm ranked #1,104 on my world, and my new rarest achievement is "With Axe in Hand VIII" for completing 125 unique botany levequests (which is all but 5 of the botany levequests in the game). Considering how that one requires doing some of Heavensward's very annoying large levequests, and how unpopular levequests are in general, I don't imagine that one's getting dethroned any time soon.

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Emmy Weeks 23-26(1) (6/1-6/26) Report

Here we go! One last look to the horizon with the girls. Emmy is ready for some fun summertime adventures! Not pictured, her new summery adventure outfit!

In less than 24 hours, Dawntrail will be out and I'll be happily playing, locked in my bedroom for the next 2 weeks (not true, we're going to a concert next weekend), living my best FFXIV summer vacation life! I'm so excited!!!

Now I set my monthly amount to $0.50 per achievement, partly to account for early access for Dawntrail, but also because I knew I was going to do the Yo-kai event and that's something like... almost 40 achievements from one event? Anyway, here's how the weeks have gone so far:

Week 23 (6/1/-6/8)

Week 24 (6/9-6/15)

Week 25 (6/16-6/22)

Week 26(1) (6/23-6/26)

Besides the Yo-kai event what I did was fishing. Lots and lots of ocean and Big Fishing! Also some gathering and crafting, and I made it floor 100 of Palace of the Dead finally! On the topic of Big Fishing, I made some awesome new friend and we've all celebrated our various wins and commiserated over time zone issues keeping us from getting to certain windows (I see you Ealad Skaan, 8:40 am on early release day. Not gonna happen...) It's been really fun and I highly suggest starting it if you haven't because Big Fishing people are some of the nicest I've met! I'm missing 11 Big Fish between ARR and EW, one is Stormblood (cure you Ruby Dragon!), two in Shadowbringers (Ealad Skaan and Lancetfish. I did not have time to be in Lancet jail..) and 8 in EW (all the fish added in 6.55, plus Vidyutvat Wrasse and Dudina Fish). Just in time for a whole new slew of fish to get!

You know, I had plans to get ready for Dawntrail, instead I fished. No regrets honestly :)

Here are my June running totals (pre-Dawntrail):

Week 23 (6/1-6/8) Total: 27 Achievements Week 24 (6/9-6/15) Total: 28 Achievements Week 25 (6/16-6/22) Total: 8 Achievements Week 26(1) (6/23-6/26) Total: 9 Achievements Current May Total: 72 Achievements

That 72 achievements at $0.50 per achievement for $36 for chariety!

Here are my Lalachievement stats (as of 6/27)

Total Achievement Points: 15,110 Brynhildr Rank: #393 Global Rank: #27,111

I have a new rarest achievement! Specters of the Ruby Sea for catching one of every type of fish present during a Spectral Current on the Ruby Sea. According to Lalachievements it is the 56th! rarest achievement!

Now onto Dawntrail! As we know, Our Journey Will Never End :)

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Emmy Weeks 21-22 (5/19-5/31) and Monthly Round-Up

Ultros, nice of you to show up to the Make it Rain Campaign at the Gold Saucer! This second half of the month has been filled with one main thing: Big Fishing. Lots and lots of Big Fishing. And mostly failing at it. As of the time I'm writing this (6/1/24 evening) I am missing a total of 6 Big Fish in Heavensward and Stormblood (2 in HW and 4 in StB). I stayed up late last night just to get a chance to get the fish at the Mercantile Dock in Yanxia (it paid off, I did catch it!) Also, ocean fishing. I have been doing a good amount of ocean fishing. It's lots of fun :) And then yesterday I did a bunch of individual treasure maps. It was nice to do something with a guaranteed reward... Here's how the rest of May turned out:

Week 21 (5/19-5/25)

Week 22 (5/26-5/31)

Yeah all I basically did the last couple of weeks was fish. Ocean or otherwise. It's a nice thing to do in game, cause work has been a lot this month and it's nice to not have to think too much!

Here are the May Totals:

Week 21 (5/19-5/25) Total: 2 Achievements Week 22 (5/26-5/31) Total: 11 Achievements Final May Total: 40 Achievements

40 achievements at $1 is $40 for May

Here are my Lalachievement stats (as of 6/1)

Total Achievement Points: 13,950 Brynhildr Rank: #467 Global Rank: #29,621

Like Efnisien, I'm going to bring my amount per achievement down to $0.50 for June (and probably July. Depends on how fast I'm going through Dawntrail!)

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Emmy Weeks 18(2)-20 (5/1-5/18)

Well just over halfway through May is close enough... I've been busy, then I got sick, so my start of May has been a trip! Have a picture of Alpha and Omega when I found them in Old Sharlyan. And didn't fix the lighting... Here's the breakdown for the first two and a half weeks of May:

Week 18 pt 2 (5/1-5/4)

Week 19 (5/5-511)

Week 20 (5/12-5/18)

Overall there's a lot of variety going on here! Treasure maps, custom deliveries, fishing, and crafting. A very good snapshot of what I've been doing the first half of the month. With Dawntrail on the horizon, this is probably what everything will look like for the rest of the month.

Here are my May running totals:

Week 18 (5/1-5/4) Total: 4 Achievements Week 19 (5/5-5/11) Total: 12 Achievements Week 20 April (5/12-5/18) Total: 11 Achievements Current May Total: 27 Achievements

Here are my Lalachievement stats (as of 5/20)

Total Achievement Points: 13,760 Brynhildr Rank: #467 Global Rank: #31,555