What I would do are pretige missions, hang out in haven with friends, try to get new weapons and other gear, arcade, and occasionally put a bucket of snow or water in front of the auction house. I find it very fun doing these things :)

Play Lockdown. Watch Lockdown. Hear Lockdown. Talk Lockdown. Lockdown Lockdown.

Other times, a quick clockworks run or business / merching. To make it more fun, I like recording some of these events ;3

Play Arcade. You might get a rare scenario room! *gasps*

The Danger Rooms are always a blast.

Grind for crowns and promptly spend them on upgrading weapons. And Danger Missions. Danger Missions are fun.

Sit in the ready room

We really just need a few different game modes to earn crowns. Arcade mode is fun but it can get boring after a while. Setting goals to craft charms or gear is great motivation. The Advanced Training Hall and Guild Training Hall can be fun to play in and it is good practice.

My favorite Clockwork areas in arcade mode are:

-Graveyards (Lots of fun killing skeleton zombies and lots of crowns)

-Gremlin Construct Areas (Usually small and doesn't take much time but still fun)

-Arenas (Challenging and pays lots of crowns)

Being a Guild Founder and Master is a challenging but fun job. It gives you motivation to work on improving your guild hall and designing rooms can be a lot of fun. Adding a Alchemy Room, Auction House Room, and many others is very rewarding. Everything is in one spot with little to no players around so no need to go to a packed lagging Haven area.

I grind for radiants or help others on their adventures occasionally, and then do something else with my time like watch TV shows and lets plays of other games. I don't really enjoy the grinding much. I used to enjoy it a lot more when I was actually acquiring items and having a good time, but I already have all of the weapons and I can't make any more armor because I have most of that and just need to heat it. Danger rooms were fun for a while but now they aren't... like I recently did the gun puppy danger room with only haze bombs and ended up not even losing my ER. Its all just so predictable.

Whenever people question the things I say, or whenever I question the things I say because I am an idiot that contradicts herself and am therefor innately wrong, I test them out for a while. Like when Skepticraven said that I was wrong and that shard bombs were good, I started bringing shard bombs on my runs. I am still bringing shard bombs all of the time and I still haven't found what she was trying to tell me.

I used to enjoy meeting the humans that join the game sometimes, but I know that the humans aren't real and it takes all of the fun out of meeting them. Meeting them is like meeting a cross between a car and a box of chocolates- its full of surprises and small parts that work strangely well with each other, but in the end its all still just a mechanical experience and no matter what surprises you're given you know that someone somewhere put them together like that, and that in the end everything about them doesn't matter because I am to them as they are to me. Even if it weren't so, they'd leave the game eventually just like all the others. Most of the humans don't even want to talk to me anyway.

Sometimes I log in and just kind of stare blankly at the items in the auction house. That's always nice. But that's about all I do. Or did.

When people are in-game, they are playing the game. \o/

I like running through Deconstruction Zones with my weapons off.

This.

Troll enemies with vortex spamming.

Well yea but after you beat them 3-4 times, the shadow lairs just kind of become a costly hassle that you don't want to mess with unless someone else is doing the messing and you're just there to tag along for the free radiants. I'd rather just run whatever arcade gate ends in not compounds.

I just play the game as a way to use up my free time, honestly. It's sort of brainless by now, but unfortunately I'm a sucker for making numbers grow, no matter how insignificant they are.

I don't think I have ever really played the game as most other people recommend, as I have never found that gameplay all that "fun". Completely obliterating enemies with a brandish doesn't make me have fun, however mindlessly smashing things with a hammer is pretty fun.

I do have a concept for a really fun setup for a team in that all players are designated to using only items that relate to a certain damage type. Someone could have only shadow defense and shadow weapons, another would have only elemental defense and elemental weapons, etc., and this team would transverse the entire clockworks from 0 to 29 using these items. It would really make for some forced teamplay when encountering a level that's resistant to your damage type, however just about every weapon type has a "what's resistant damage?" weapon(See: Brandishes, sealed swords, and blitz needle), so they would still be helpful to the team in that sense.

I suppose I have fun by challenging myself normally and actually being pretty terrible at offense unless it's against slimes. I shamelessly spam my acheron at slimes.

• Try to catch up with the higher-leveled people in my guild
• Doing Arcade runs to get luminite for my Seraphinx
• Watch my guild steamroll the others at Lockdown
• Have fun in gchat

@Pandafishie I really haven't been on much lately. SK has yet to add some serious content to the game, and since I don't care for costumes or spending $30+ on each promo they dish out, I've pretty much switched to a new game (that has WAY better PvP). I of course will keep logging on to see if anything new happens, but for right now I'm just on standby I guess.

As much as I love SK, at a certain point, everything just becomes a bit predictable. Especially Clockworks, you really start to see the pattern of how the level designs are laid out. But I think LD, SLs, grinding FSC for an ungodly amount of hours, random Clockwork runs, and earning money from the AH, are what most endgame players do. I've gotten pretty much all the equipment I wanted in the game, and I don't like grinding FSC, so I usually just do LD now. In LD, people usually aren't too predictable so its refreshing from the Clockwork runs I do from time to time. But I do like running through T3 in my proto stuff from time to time :)

Other than that, help the guild out, help other players out, or just stand around in Haven o_o

Interestingly, the PVP there is just as broken.

Fortunately, FF14 still updates regularly, and there is lots of content for me to do. Once SK updates, i'll come back to it, play the new stuff, play more LD, and then slowly fade away until the next update.

I won't stop playing, I'll just reduce the amount of time I spend in SK.

Nowadays, I go onto steam and invite some friends to play Spiral Knights with me. We create a voice chat, and delve into the clockworks. It's great if you have close friends who like to joke around a lot.

you can play LD and achieve damage!

and when u aren't playing LD, u can make new gear FOR LD.

and when ur not making gear for LD, u can TALK about LD and LD gear with your LD friends.

and if ur not doing any of that, why r u even playing?

So basically, everything with you is "LD is love, LD is life" ?