D6 but with AAAs only: Challenge accomplished!
Posted on: November 16, 2024, at 01:49:17am

Yep, it's more or less what it sounds like. On January 5th, I created a personal Skill Rating leaderboard that I would use to track my AAAs only:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1BTqzbsbacrCDEhMHS7otLXPB3e0KfZF9c3JIwD84Fz0/edit?sharingaction=ownershiptransfer&gid=0#gid=0

I don't know when I decided that I wanted to go for D6 with only AAAs. The version history on the spreadsheet says it's at least since July 7th. I feel like it may have been earlier, maybe even as soon as I got D6.

It was maybe a little silly of me - not to mention a bit too early - to want to go for something like that. I'd soon learn that the 81-83 AAAs I'd need to get in order to clinch this achievement were actually no joke, and getting my level above the arbitrary magic number didn't make them any easier. I slowly chipped away at it for a good while, but the math would be as brutal as the one to get to D6 itself.

However, some insane AAAs near the tail end of the year gave me a BIG push towards this objective. All the 88+ AAAs ended up being a huge shortcut amd allowed me to secure D6 without even grinding out the #40-#50 range. These are genuinely some of my best scores and they made me feel like this was, more than anything, earned.

Right now, it's 5 AM. I'm hungry and sleepy. But before getting to that, I'm scrolling down the list and wow holy shit so many of these were hard and annoying. I can recall the grind for almost all of them. It does make me realize how much I've enjoyed accuracy play and grinding for these AAAs on FFR - something I've really enjoyed, but put aside in the past in favor of pushing and chasing milestones. It's been nice to do my own thing here.

Time to see how long it will take for D7 with AAAs. Never? Probably. who knows though