'Bout; Slightly Less Worse Each Time

I'd list myself as slightly more than casual player and the main draw was the AF3 Kupon. My friends did sort of drag me thru it, which I do greatly appreciate. One friend, who definitely is more of a hardcore player (and who is going after Mastery for Hoxne) did get the title.

Now, what to spend the Kupon on as I don't know what to do with it lol...

Definitely understand the want for 700 points. That's 30m and dozens of hours. I've been a proponent of get silver tier (now gold) ever since the 1st bout.

Specifically, cap though. Why keep going after 700.

Some for the hoxne
Some because it was only 10 days and/or because the objectives were considerably simpler than previous bouts
Some because I already did half of it why not

So many more capped than expected. By a lot.

In my case, a hedge against the future. Wanted it on main for mastery/hoxne reasons, but wasn't that much extra work for the alts and you never know when they're gonna add more ***like vorseals that require random-*** completionist stuff.

If you squint you can kinda draw a line from atmas through vorseals to mastery/hoxne and then extrapolate out into some future content. If after atmas were introduced you tried to describe a system like vorseals, you wouldn't sound that crazy... but if you jumped to hoxne you'd definitely seem crazy.

I also think that, even for people who weren't aware or didn't care about the title or Hoxne, it wasn't much of an additional lift to hit the 1400 cap.

If I'm gonna do the 700 points for AF+3 reward, may as well get to 1200 for the other stuff since that's a decent reward too (I took Old Cases on my main, but 107 job points on my alt). And once you're already at 1200 for the final reward tier, and there are only two days left and they're pretty easy events that you've just done 1-2 times so they're fresh in your memory... eh, why not just knock them out solely for the "I did it, perfect score!" bragging rights? That kind of completionist mindset doesn't seem that out of place for habitual FFXI users (like me!)

I wouldn't have ever been in that position if not for the good rewards in the 700/1200 tiers motivating me to get involved, but since I did, may as well go all out and get 100%.

Before anyone says "but then why did those people even bother to log in right on Day 0 and knock out the first partial day's VBD tasks?"... well, for me it was just insurance. I knew you couldn't miss much to hit the 1200 final reward tier, so wanted to give myself every opportunity in case I forgot a day, got a messed up or cancelled RoE, etc. But then I DID keep up the whole time and got my 1200 tier on the earliest day possible, and at that point... might as well just do the last two days' VBDs too!