Cosmic Tools Completed

Last night I finally completed the cosmic tools grind in Final Fantasy XIV's patch 7.2. With the acquisition of the Cosmic Fishing Pole I have almost completed all the tasks I wanted to accomplish on the moon in the first phase of Cosmic Exploration.

The Cosmic Fishing Pole

I'm not going to lie. By the end of the grind I was ready to do something else. The grind through the crafting tools wasn't too bad. By the end I was mostly pushing buttons to execute macros, although a couple of instances would crop up where I manually crafted items. The worst was the final tool, the Cosmic Fishing Pole. I saved fishing for last due to the activity's heavy reliance on the random number generator. Between Red Alerts and finding a tutorial on how to do some of the Class A missions I managed to muddle through.

The mech is huge

I managed to get the Vacuum Suit from the roulette with twenty Big Bang tickets left to play. For the regular prizes I only have to get the Visage emote, the Micro Rover minion, and a orchestrion roll. I'm not really sure I want to do the grind for the High Mobility Vacuum Suit as I need to score 500,000 in all 11 crafting and gathering classes. I know three more phases are planned before the end of the expansion, but I'm not close to those totals.

My class progress so far. Not even close.

With the grind complete I can go back to trying to do content involving combat. I still need to complete the Recollection trial to complete the MSQ. I might even try to get my white mage phantom weapon although leveling up my Blue Mage job to level 50 probably is a higher priority. But except for the latest allied tribe quests I'm free to do other things for another 6 or 7 weeks.