✦ the forever list ✦
No progress bars. No giant numbers staring at me. Just things that take forever and are worth making a tiny dent in whenever I don't feel like doing anything specific.
I don't know what to do
Filter by mood or time if I have opinions. Otherwise let the website make the bad decision for me.
Hit the button when decision-making has failed.
ideas match
background forever grind
Chip away at the enormous A-rank hunt achievements, nuts, clusters, tomes, materia and whatever else piles up along the way.
Join one hunt train. If another one lines up nicely afterwards, great; if not, you still moved the giant hunt numbers.
This is deliberately not tracking kills here. Your achievement log already knows the ugly number.
opportunistic
Keep slowly feeding the truly unreasonable S-rank achievements whenever marks happen to pop.
Keep an eye on calls while doing something else and detour for any S-ranks that are convenient.
Much nicer as a background habit than as something you try to force.
easy to stack
Let the giant FATE completion achievements rise while also doing gemstones, relic steps, levelling, shared FATEs or event farming.
Pick a zone where FATEs pay you twice: gemstones, levelling, relic progress or another reward you actually want.
The best version of this grind is one where the achievement is almost incidental.
roulette chaos
The Astrope grind is enormous, but Mentor Roulette is also a very good answer to 'I want to play, tell me what duty to do.'
Do one Mentor Roulette. Keep going only if the roulette chaos is still entertaining.
No counter here. In-game achievement progress is the source of truth.
proper session
Work on hoards, clears, solo attempts, titles, weapons and whatever Deep Dungeon achievement rabbit hole currently appeals.
Choose one Deep Dungeon and make the session itself the goal rather than staring at the lifetime counters.
Palace, Heaven-on-High, Eureka Orthos or Pilgrim's Traverse can all live under this umbrella.
many grinds at once
Treat the Crescent as a bundle of long goals: coffers, field progress, encounters, rewards and whatever achievement chains you still have hanging around.
Go into the Crescent with one small side goal and let all the hidden lifetime counters move around it.
Good when you want something busy without deciding on one exact achievement.
daily-friendly
Wins, KOs and the various Frontline achievements all move together, so the daily roulette can quietly feed several horrible goals.
Do your daily Frontline and consider that enough. Anything beyond that is bonus progress.
This page does not care whether tonight gave you one win or none.
short burst
Long-term PvP wins and KO achievements become much less grim when CC is treated as a few quick matches rather than an all-night obligation.
Play a short set of matches and stop when it stops being fun.
The in-game PvP profile and achievement log can handle the actual numbers.
stack with other farms
Use PLD, WAR, DRK or GNB for qualifying duties whenever another farm gives you the excuse.
Pick whichever tank mount still needs love and use that tank for the duties you were going to run anyway.
Much better as a default-job habit than as a dedicated hundreds-of-runs marathon.
second-monitor heaven
Gather restoration materials, inspect piles, earn Skybuilders' scrips and slowly chew through the huge gathering-side Firmament achievements.
Pick Miner, Botanist or Fisher, put something on the second monitor, and spend one comfortable session in the Diadem.
The Diadem is still the gatherer half of Ishgardian Restoration and its materials feed Firmament crafting.
batch craft
Craft and turn in Ishgardian Restoration supplies, build Skyward-score style progress and hoover up Skybuilders' scrip rewards over time.
Choose one crafter, make a manageable batch of restoration collectibles, hand them in, and stop there if that scratches the itch.
The reconstruction is complete, but the Firmament still accepts restoration deliveries and awards scrips.
completionist project
Instead of camping one crafting job forever, rotate through the restoration achievements and class-specific score goals across the whole crafting roster.
Pick the crafting job you have neglected most recently and make that tonight's Firmament class.
A nice long-term 'eventually all of them' project without displaying eight separate progress bars.
cosmic grind
Work through Sinus Ardorum stellar missions, successes, mission ratings, credits and lunar-era Cosmic Exploration achievements.
Head to Sinus Ardorum, pick a crafter or gatherer you feel like using, and just run stellar missions for a while.
This is the actual Moon portion of Cosmic Exploration, so it gets its own card rather than disappearing into a generic crafting bucket.
tool project
Let stellar missions feed research data into the Cosmic Tool upgrades across your crafting and gathering classes.
Pick one class whose Cosmic Tool you want prettier or further upgraded and spend the session doing its stellar missions.
Cosmic prototypes do not need to be equipped for research-data progress.
many stars, one grind
Treat Sinus Ardorum, Phaenna, Oizys, Auxesia and later Cosmic Exploration areas as one giant long-term crafter/gatherer playground.
Go to whichever cosmic area still has missions, rewards or achievements you actually care about and stay until you fancy something else.
The point is to avoid turning each star into yet another dashboard counter.
passive crafting
The huge class-by-class crafting achievements are perfect background goals while making raid supplies, housing items, glamour pieces or sale stock.
Choose one crafter and make a useful batch of something rather than crafting junk purely for a number.
Rotate jobs whenever one starts feeling stale.
extremely chill
Use normal gathering, Gatherer's Boon and expansion-specific gathering achievements as background progress while stocking useful materials.
Pick one material route you actually need and gather it until the repetition stops being soothing.
Works especially well when you are simultaneously stocking current crafting materials.
dangerous rabbit hole
Big Fish, Ocean Fishing, fishing logs, rare windows and the assorted Fisher achievements can become a whole second game if you let them.
Pick one fishing sub-goal: a window, an Ocean Fishing voyage, a log gap, or a zone you have been ignoring.
Only choose this if you are prepared for the fish to win.
classic long project
Old relic weapons are excellent filler because almost every step gives you an obvious little task without demanding that you finish the whole weapon tonight.
Choose one unfinished relic and do exactly one step, currency batch or duty loop.
Bonus points if the relic also overlaps with FATEs, roulettes or another Long Haul card.
zone-by-zone
Shared FATE ranks and gemstone rewards are a satisfying regional grind that also feeds the broader FATE achievements.
Pick one incomplete zone and do FATEs there until you are bored.
Simple, visible in-game, and stacks beautifully with the FATE mountain.
allowance sink
Leve-related gil and completion achievements are the definition of 'do some occasionally and Future Me will be grateful.'
Burn a sensible chunk of allowances on something efficient, then forget about the achievement again for a while.
No need to expose the lifetime gil total on the website.
passive social
Player commendation achievements are best handled by simply being useful, pleasant and visible in normal group content for a very long time.
Run roulettes or group content normally. There is nothing special to farm beyond giving people a reason to commend you.
The vaguest grind on the page, exactly as intended.