Burnt out! What do I do?Follow

Well this isnt another "Im leaving FFXI" thread but I am bored of FFXI. I'm not even thinking of leaving the game, but I just dont know what to do with myself while I'm playing. And before everyone says "Do something else"... That is what im doing but thats part of the problem. As many of you have read my relationship post im not going to go into that but long story short I dont get much playtime anymore.. maybe an hour a day during the week (just enough to trade in guild point items) and I get time on and off during the weekends.

So I'm sitting in windy yesterday thinking to myself "I am bored out of my mind" I cant lvl synthing because I already emptied all the AH out of materials or I am waiting for good crafting moons/days. I'm done with my subjob leveling. The only job I really enjoy playing right now is THF but at 25k till lv 62 it feels like I will never make it with the amount of time I actually get to play now. Ive done missions up to Bastok 9-1, Zilart 6, and Promy 2-3. It seems like for M9-1 and ZM6 Im going to have to lvl up a bit and even as Thf I'm far from the top of the list of needed jobs for missions. It seems like the only thing left for me to do is keep handing in items for guild points (im 93k/150k for my furniture) and maybe lvl leathercraft to 60 but after that ... then what? Im hoping once I get leather and bone to 100/60 and my furniture I want to try to find some 70+ blms for the venemous claw BCNM so I can sign myself a scorpion harness. But it seems like everyone and their mother has one already... By the time I make one everyone is gonna have one anyway and they wont be so special.

I feel like whenever I'm playing I'm just wasting time. I just feel like im falling farther and farther behind the crowd. Anyone got any suggestions?

Even my tight schedule gives me a decent 2-1/2 to 3 hours to level (if I get a party quickly enough). 1 hour though, that's barely enough time to get from Jeuno to your home town to grab that 1 item out of storage that you can finally use...

I'm afraid I don't have any advise for the burnout, other than many people suggest a long break from the game. Perhaps a schedule change though. If it's possible in your situation, rather than play an hour a day each weekday, if you can only play a couple of days during the week, and play for a few hours each time. Keeping the overall time basically the same, but giving you more time to actually accomplish something when you play.

Good luck working things out Sleek.

Well... after my RDM static I was really really burnt out.. the game was more like work to me than fun.. Every time I looked at my character I felt sick. =P

For starters, I cut back on playtime.

Second, I was incredibly lucky to have a couple really good friends who dragged me off on wild and crazy adventures. I levelled low level jobs with friends.. we got slaughtered.. we went back for revenge.. laughed, had a good time. They really showed me the meaning of fun again. You just have to not care about dying and exp loss.. ^.~ hard, I know, if you have limited time to level..>.<

But.. anyway.. if you have a low level job and you want to go spread some chaos among the mobs with me.. or even don't mind your higher level jobs meeting potential doooooooom.. come hang out with me some time.. I can teleport and R2 as WHM.. or I can chainspell-escape as RDM ^^ or just go SPLAT as a lesser job. XD

Oh yeah.. and welcome to our LS ^^ Our group's kinda nuts.. but it's a good group ^^ *hugs daddy BPP and her new brother Sleek*

Yay for BRDs ^^ If you want pointers just bother me in the LS. And yes you have to be a ***** around 25, start getting those mages away from the melees and all ^^

Nothing says I ove you more than war/mnk with ballad. Or a White Mage with Madrigal and Minuet ^^

Tutu tutu tutuu

Oh and use a flute or a harp, I dont want to hear your voice :P

Congratulations, I was checking my mule before going to work and I saw this message: Sleekmotorwurkz blah blah Knight's Minne. And I was like... aaah he found BRD ^^ I wonder how many BRD's we actually have.