Progression Report
31 entries. 8,308 words.
2013-11
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MMO Pinball.
2013-11-13.
Just so you know, I have been a veritable pinball of MMO playing lately.
First FFXIV leveling an Archer/Bard to level 30. Then WoW leveling a Mage from around 17 to 50, and leveling some other characters. Then GW2 to check out the Tower of Nightmares. Then LoTRO leveling my hobbit Hunter from 38 to 45. Then Rift to check out the Song of Dreams patch. Even a little bit of Neverwinter and TERA and (gasp) Aion thrown in there between.
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2015-02
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Progression Report – February.
2015-02-28.
I think I’ll make this a “thing” and do a monthly progress report of all the MMOs I’m playing. I started running a time tracking program* called ManicTime so I can actually record precisely how much I’ve played every game now.
FFXIV (22 hrs)**. I unlocked most of the new 2.5 dungeons and World of Darkness, however I haven’t actually gone into any of them yet. (To this day I’ve only done one level 50 dungeon-Amdapor Keep for the Relic quest.
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2015-04
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Progression Report – March.
2015-04-01.
March was definitely a low point in my 2015 MMORPG activity, but don’t panic. This is normal for me. There’s usually one or more months during the year when I end up watching television instead. Still, I accomplished a few things.
In Rift, I continued to log in every few days to collect Minion rewards and send them out again. My bank and inventory is bursting with useless junk.
In Final Fantasy XIV, I forgot to mention that I joined the cool blogger Free Company on Cactuar.
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2015-05
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Progression Report – April.
2015-05-01.
Oh crap, I forgot to write one of these for April.
Well, it’s not hard to figure it out.
I started out playing mainly Star Trek Online and made it to, I don’t know, 30something I guess, and then I was bitten by the FFXIV bug again and spent the rest of the month there. Final tally: STO 34 hours, FFXIV 127 hours. (Though I’m sure at least 25% of those FFXIV hours were AFK time.
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2015-06
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Progression Report – May 2015.
2015-06-01.
With the exception of a few interminable days at a work conference, I spent the entire month of May playing nothing but FFXIV. That clocks in at 180 hours or an average of 6 hours a day, which is pretty much the maximum amount that I can play any game in a month. (Many of those hours were spent AFK, in case you’re wondering-I tend to leave FFXIV online because it’s a pain to log in with the security token.
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2015-07
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Progression Report – June 2015.
2015-07-04.
There were only two games I played any significant amount in June: Final Fantasy XIV (28 hours) and The Witcher 3 (18 hours). The latter is not an MMORPG, but since it feels exactly like an MMORPG I’m going to count it in my progression report.
In FFXIV I started in on Heavensward, but to be honest I’m still a bit burned out from all the catching up I did in May, so I haven’t played that much into the expansion.
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2015-08
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Progression Report – July 2015.
2015-08-02.
Blaugust Day 2
July was a quiet gaming month for me. Work continues to be hectic, and I’ve also gotten it into my head that I might try to take a Microsoft exam so I spent a lot of time reading and studying.
It was around the end of July last year that I lost my job-not from anything I did, but from a contract changing hands to a different company.
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2015-09
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Progression Report – August 2015.
2015-09-03.
August was a very easy month to summarize gaming-wise: Dark Souls, Dark Souls, and more Dark Souls, for a total of 132 hours. My Knight is about halfway through NG+ at the moment, and I can still see myself playing this game for a long time to come. I want to finish with my Sorcerer and my Thief, then try a Cleric and a Pyromancer.
In the MMORPG space, my second and third most-played games in August were FFXIV and Skyforge, for a whopping one hour each.
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2015-10
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Progression Report – September 2015.
2015-10-03.
September’s report is again pretty easy: No MMORPG progression, however quite a lot of Dark Souls progression. I started Dark Souls II on roughly the 5th and as of this writing, I’ve completed the main storyline and have moved on to the post-launch DLC content on my first character. I’ve been posting a video series of my play-through on YouTube for those who might be inclined to watch.
I’m starting to get a little tired of the Dark Souls rabbit hole (the Dark Souls II DLC content is getting pretty frustrating), so I might finally get back to some MMORPGs soon.
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2015-12
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More End Of Year Charts!.
2015-12-29.
Everyone is making a chart of their gaming for the year (Belghast, Liore, and Wilhelm at least), so I thought I’d see if I could get ManicTime to export something into Excel. After judicious flipping, coloring, and rearranging, this is what I got:
My data only starts in February, so January is missing. It probably might have had some WoW in there, but definitely more SWTOR and FFXIV.
I’m a little disappointed to see that ManicTime is dead wrong about some of the times it recorded.
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2017-03
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Games Played – January 2017.
2017-03-04.
Bust of Janus, from Wikimedia Commons. Get it? Janus? January? Hey any picture is better than nothing. Better late than never, here are the games I played in January, according to ManicTime:
Final Fantasy XIV <td> 76 hrs </td> Elder Scrolls Online <td> 15 hrs </td> Lord of the Rings Online <td> 12 hrs </td> Morrowind <td> 7 hrs </td> Novus Inceptio <td> 2 hrs </td> Star Wars: The Old Republic <td> 2 hrs </td> (Only games played 2 hours or more shown.
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Games Played – February 2017.
2017-03-05.
It's a heart. Valentine's Day? February? A perfectly logical picture for this post. Games played in February, according to ManicTime. A pretty strong survival game theme here. :)
7 Days To Die - 67 hours Conan Exiles - 62 hours* Rise of the Tomb Raider - 9 hours ARK - 4 hours The Secret World - 2 hours ESO - 2 hours * Conan Exiles approximated since ManicTime counted every new version as a different game.
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2017-04
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Games Played – March 2017.
2017-04-24.
Why yes, I \*am\* still looking for a picture for these posts. From [Wikimedia][1]. I strive for timeliness here at the ol’ blog, so here is what I played in March. You might possibly detect a theme. Besides the nearly 100% lack of MMORPGs.
Mass Effect 3 - 42 hours 7 Days To Die - 39 hours Mass Effect 2 - 31 hours Mass Effect 1 - 23 hours Mass Effect Andromeda - 2 hours Factorio - 2 hours Shroud of the Avatar - 1 hour Revelation Online - 1 hour Just for the record, I also spent 39 hours in Movie Studio Platinum.
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2017-05
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Games Played – April 2017.
2017-05-08.
This one should be pretty simple.
Mass Effect Andromeda - 97 hours … and that’s literally it.
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2017-06
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Games Played – May 2017.
2017-06-02.
After completing four Mass Effect games in a row, I fell into a rather large gaming slump in May. Many, many days had no gaming whatsoever.
DiRT Rally - 13 hours Dark Souls III (The Ringed City DLC) - 7 hours Mass Effect Andromeda - 2 hours Quake Champions - 1 hour ESO - 1 hour
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2017-07
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Games Played – June 2017.
2017-07-03.
That's a dragon, not a xenomorph from Alien. With the release of Stormblood, Final Fantasy XIV returns to become my most-played game of June. The hours below are padded a bit because I frequently left the game running while I was AFK.
Final Fantasy XIV - 70 hours Dark Souls III (The Ringed City DLC) - 9 hours Secret World Legends - 3 hours
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2017-08
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Games Played – July 2017.
2017-08-01.
Final Fantasy XIV and the Stormblood expansion dominated the month of July.
Final Fantasy XIV - 154 hours Secret World Legends - 3 hours Lord of the Rings Online - 2 hours
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LotRO – Hunter Level 58!.
2017-08-14.
I just wanted to announce that my Hunter made it to level 58 in Moria. Gaining another level in LotRO (when you’re not subscribed or anything) is a major accomplishment.
I am not really sure what is going on with the epic story here. I am on Volume II, Book 4, Chapter 3 as of this writing. The dwarves are just sort of rooting around looking for chambers and relics and books and stuff.
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GW2 – HoT Progress and Thoughts.
2017-08-14.
Progress! I mentioned going through Heart of Thorns and the Living Story Season 3 in my last post, so I started working on that again. At least until I got to Heart of Thorns, Chapter 12, “The Way In.” This requires a Nuhoch Hunting Mastery before you can access it. Boo.
And people complain about FFXIV locking content behind a Main Scenario Quest!
I had previously completed up through Chapter 8, “City of Hope.
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Random Friday Tidbits.
2017-08-18.
Another brief post just to post something today.
GW2. I did in fact retry Chapter 16, “Hearts and Minds,” and beat it after two more attempts Thursday night, which took another hour. If you leave the instance for any reason, by the way, you have to start all over. So take my advice: Don’t rage quit if you die to the last boss. :) I’ll probably start Living Story Season 3 this weekend although I’m kind of burned out on GW2 already.
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LotRO – Level 59 and Khazad-dûm.
2017-08-19.
My Hunter reached level 59 and the famous Bridge of Khazad-dûm yesterday-what’s left of the bridge, at least. I was following the side quest of a dwarf Svanr who was on some kind of pilgrimage to see all of the Mines of Moria, and we got to the Bridge. Then my character took his first steps back outside in seemingly forever. It’s surely been over a year of real time since before my Hunter entered Moria.
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2017-09
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Games Played – August 2017.
2017-09-01.
Final Fantasy XIV slipped to third place in August, behind LotRO and, amazingly enough, Guild Wars 2.
Lord of the Rings Online - 45 hours Guild Wars 2 - 27 hours Final Fantasy XIV - 21 hours Subnautica - 2 hours All tied for 1 hour or less: Destiny 2 Open Beta, Dark and Light, Secret World Legends, Dark Souls III, WildStar.
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2017-10
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Games Played – September 2017.
2017-10-02.
September was a fairly low-energy, chaotic gaming month. I tried a lot of different games but nothing really clicked. Most of my time in GW2 was spent on either Living Story Season 3 or mindlessly working on map completion while watching television.
Guild Wars 2 - 25 hours Elite: Dangerous - 11 hours Final Fantasy XIV - 5 hours 7 Days To Die - 3 hours Lord of the Rings Online - 3 hours Rift - 2 hours Assassin’s Creed 3 - 1 hour Stellaris - 1 hour
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2017-11
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Games Played – October 2017.
2017-11-01.
As a bit of a data junkie, I’m nauseated to report that I forgot to re-install ManicTime after I had to reinstall Windows this month. Did I even mention that on the blog? Well, if I didn’t, my SSD failed earlier this month, so I had to reinstall.
That means I am missing game-playing statistics from the period of roughly October 11th through October 28th, rendering my report for the month of October completely useless, and indeed any report I planned to do for the entire year of 2017.
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2017-12
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Games Played – November 2017.
2017-12-01.
This GW2 jumping puzzle is not fun. Also, jumping puzzles seem harder as a Charr. The Guild Wars franchise wins the month.
Guild Wars 2 - 37 hours Guild Wars 1 - 21 hours Dark Souls III - 6 hours Final Fantasy XIV - 4 hours I played a little Dark Souls III because I still need a new character to finish my The Ringed City DLC blind playthrough.
I feel like it’s been an extremely light gaming month, but when I add up all those hours and divide by 30, it comes out to a bit more than 2 hours of gaming every day.
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2018-01
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Games Played – Year End 2017.
2018-01-01.
What counts as astronomy in Divinity: Original Sin. First, statistics for December of 2017. I flip-flopped around a lot during the holiday time, as is pretty normal for me.
A surprising addition to this list is EverQuest II, in which I had quite a bit of fun starting a new character, at least until I installed new Steam purchase Divinity: Original Sin, which captured a lot of my attention late in the month.
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2018-02
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Games Played – January 2018.
2018-02-05.
A Bethesda-heavy month.
Oblivion - 23 hours Fallout 4 - 20 hours Rift - 15 hours ShooterGame* … I mean ARK - 10 hours Morrowind - 10 hours Skyrim - 4 hours Dark Souls III - 3 hours Final Fantasy XIV - 2 hours ESO - 1 hour It might seem like an even distribution of games across the entire month, but it was more like a sequential progression of games starting with Morrowind, then Oblivion, then ARK, and then the month ended with Rift and finally Fallout 4 sunk its claws into me big time (again), quite unexpectedly.
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2018-03
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Games Played – February 2018.
2018-03-03.
I can’t say that February was the most productive month I’ve ever spent on this Earth. But I got a lot of material for a podcast, at least. (And YouTube videos, if I ever upload them.)
Kingdom Come: Deliverance - 63 hours Fallout 4 - 60 hours Final Fantasy XIV - 39 hours Elder Scrolls Online - 17 hours If you were to put them in chronological order, it would be: Fallout 4, FFXIV and ESO, then Kingdom Come: Deliverance.
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2018-04
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Games Played – March 2018.
2018-04-02.
Secret World Legends, Sign of the Times March was an odd month, both in gaming and life. Even the weather was weird. March doesn’t usually feel like the dead of winter where I live.
Secret World Legends - 57 hours RIFT Prime (and RIFT) - 48 hours* Kingdom Come: Deliverance - 38 hours Project: Gorgon - 11 hours** EverQuest - 8 hours Final Fantasy XIV - 3 hours Guild Wars 2 - 3 hours Black Desert Online - 2 hours Life is Strange - 2 hours * ManicTime seems to have difficulty distinguishing between RIFT and RIFT Prime, so I’m not entirely sure how much time was in RIFT and how much was in Prime.
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2018-09
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Games Played – August 2018.
2018-09-01.
The first story thing WoW gave me to do upon reaching level 120 was to go to this Zandalar desert to assassinate some Horde NPCs. I completely forgot to say this in my huge missive yesterday: Blaugust seemed like a great success, congratulations to everyone who participated! Huge thanks to Belghast and all the mentors for pulling all of that together. To all the new bloggers, great job! It doesn’t matter if you posted every day or not.
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2018-10
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Games Played – September 2018.
2018-10-01.
Even with a week and a half of down time from cataract surgery, I still managed to play a few games this past month.
The Witcher (Enhanced Edition), 39 hours. This is what I spent most of my gaming time doing after World of Warcraft and before surgery, and a little bit afterward to finish up the story. This is the first time I’ve finished the whole game. It got kind of weird at the end.
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