Welcome back to another exciting achievement hunting adventure in Final Fantasy XIV! Today we’re taking a dive into the elusive materia spiritbonding achievements while dodging DDoS attacks. Can we stay connected long enough to pound out a menial grind? LET’S FIND OUT!
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I dug myself out of the Tunic-shaped pit I fell into a few weeks ago, and have tentatively resumed playing FFXIV. Still, not too much to report. Lalachievements score 16,215.
I picked up I Made That Alchemist VI from crafting ALC furniture, and have swapped to crafting CRP furniture to try and finish out the unique crafting achievements. Got Customer Is Always Right: Adkiragh III in the course of doing my weekly custom deliveries.
But the big ones were big fishing: Go Big or Go Home VI (Sea Butterfly, Mud Golem, Ninja Betta, Bombardfish, Syldra, Frilled Shark, Jacques the Snipper, Warden of the Seven Hues, Raimdellopterus, Ignus Horn) and Go Big or Go Home VII (Blue Widow, Worm of Nym, The Gobfather, King of the Spring, Silver Sovereign, Oschon's Print).
I talked with someone in the comments of a previous video about big fish, and which ones I was going for, and at that time I mentioned Warden was a fish a friend had told me was really bad. Now that I've done it, and more importantly, now that I understand how Stethacanthus works, I understand that I was confusing two different stories that I'd heard at a time when I didn't really know how big fish worked. While the friend had initially complained about Warden, it occurs to me now that complaints about being stuck in a zone, unable to leave or log out, to the point of taking time off work, and then using a collector's glove to cheese something with intuition, that was her describing Steth, not Warden.
I started tracking some basic stats to reflect my efforts with big fish. Dunno if anyone else will find it interesting, but these are the stats for this batch. For clarity, a "cast" does not include mooches.
Sea Butterfly: caught, 1 bite, 4 intuitions, 46 casts, 2 windows
Mud Golem: caught, 1 bite, 11 casts, 1 window
Ninja Betta: caught, 1 bite, 6 casts, 1 window
Bombardfish: caught, 1 bite, 30 casts, 1 window
Syldra: caught, 1 bite, 19 casts, 1 window
Frilled Shark: caught, 1 bite, 5 mooches, 2 casts, 1 window
Jacques the Snipper: caught, 1 bite, 34 casts, 1 window
Warden of the Seven Hues: caught, 1 bite, 1 intuition, 20 mooches, 106 casts, 4 windows*
Raimdellopterus: caught, 1 bite, 3 intuitions, 4 mooches, 35 casts, 2 windows
Ignus Horn: caught, 3 bites, 120 casts, 3 windows
Blue Widow: caught, 1 bite, 21 casts, 1 window
Worm of Nym: caught, 1 bite, 6 casts, 1 window
The Gobfather: caught, 1 bite, 7 mooches, 10 casts, 1 window
King of the Spring: caught, 3 bites, 108 casts, 3 windows
Silver Sovereign: caught, 1 bite, 10 casts
Oschon's Print: caught, 2 bites, 131 casts
*For Warden, I did two Greenfish windows, but four Violetfish/Orangefish windows, for about three hours of standing around waiting in Yanxia. It took two Greenfish windows in the first place, because I misunderstood how to reset the 50-minute fish lockout, thinking it was dropping a line in another hole when it was actually just moving over a bit, so I accidentally reset intuition progress.
At this point, I'm down to 28 big fish in ARR, and then I'll be starting on HW proper. In the meantime, I have Charibenet, Bobgoblin, Ruby Dragon, Stethacanthus, Cinder Surprise, and Ealad Skaan pinned, getting an early start on them. As before, keeping 2 pinned per expac (except EW, for now; once I finish ARR I'll replace the HW pins with EW pins), based very loosely on vibes from skimming reddit threads about which fish were the meanest.
Doesn't look like he's a full pole enthusiast. Looks like he's just pole-ish.
Lalas can't break into my house and craft on my furniture if I don't have a house in the first place!
*is sad*
Place your bets – what will be the LAST achievement?
oh it actually is not breaking and entering if you don't break anything. it's home invasion. it's a lesser charge. don't ask how I know this.
I was on ocean fishing when the ddis happened. Half our members disappeared. We blamed scurvy.
I think your grind is going to get me to resub. It's been a while since I've played and maybe it can help me overcome my social phobia a bit.
Don't forget your Better Crowned Pies!
I do hope the irony is not lost to time that we spent the whole video crafting as a lala with the quest "Child Labor" active.
It's a good visual gag.
Funnily enough, I'm struggling with spiritbonding right now. Since I'm doing a solo character, and getting certain Materia is just. Hard. lmao. And it's Grade 3 you need for relics and the 50 quest…
192'nd
I recently did all the ARR relics and decided to spiritbond all the Level 1/2/3/4 materia I needed, and I found the best way to do it was to use the lowest level crafted gear I could (level 19-23, when materia slots first start appearing) and doing crafts that were level 40+.
there's very little benefit for more than 20 levels above.
@12:25 Guys, we may not get to watch Cider toss 10 Venoct coins into the trash ; ;
As a sprout I got better understanding of spiritbond from this video than from ingame and wiki.
Cider crafting in bathtub reminded me of me being in our FC house bush, boiling 999 eggs. I still dont know why I did such thing, but I like boiled eggs
dont mind if you craft in my house. if you are at it, you can fix my bed XD
My Dark Matter's been sitting at 700 gill for weeks and no buyers. One like = one tear shed.
Another week has passed, and you're now 260 lalachievement score ahead of me. My free time has been cut down a little because the summer semester at my university started. Still, I made huge progress toward my crafting project for HW blacksmith leves. I also got my 500th chocobo racing win, which is a relatively rare and grindy achievement.
Since there was a lot about spiritbonding, melding, and materia this episode, I'd figure I'd mention that I have been extracting materia since I unlocked materia extraction nearly 3 years ago. I have affixed 1895 materia and extracted 3752 materia. Glad to see it payed off for my achievement hunting 😀
Its called goblin because… no… I shan't say….
something something goblin co-
[LOUD INCORRECT BUZZER NOISE]
You forgot the spiritbond food.
love this videos but hope we get a continuation of "mad because small"
This video didn't feel like 30 min at all, which is high praise, now i can't wait for the next one haha. Thanks! :}
18:37 Goblin deez nutz
Congrats on your carpenter achievement!! I feel your pain, I finished all ARR crafting achievements in roughly 6 weeks, alongside with Miner and Botanist. I'm currently chipping on the fishing one and I'm like 500 hooks away getting that as well. Funnily enough while doing fishing I finished the HW gathering and crafting ones, so I could hopefully start Stormblood soon. I wish you godspeed on your journey through those crafting ones!
I’m happy to inform that after you started tackling hunt achievements back then I followed your footsteps and this week I finally got my tiger mount achievement! Also agree this week dc’s were rough! Imagine mass dc during Ker pull on Light dc on the hunting Thursday xD
Also sorry for double comment, but this one goes out to commenters mainly – is there like a good Achievement Hunt Discord for XIV? I'm in several Servers for specific aspects of the game, but idk, it would be nice to team up with other Achievement Hunters so some grinds would be less draining!
House roasting tours guide mad baby. Plus, trashing them by leaving saw dust.
Zaltan looks like he doesn't extract materia, because he thinks it keeping it at 100% make the gear better.
The assimilator means you're a protoss Vespene Geyser gas extracting structure (maybe also means you allow probes to be inside of you for gas extracting purposes)
I recommend checking the requirement of the Novus books for overlapping with the Battle Levequest achievements. There are Levequests required in those books, some of them GC related.
I did more than 15k Spiritbonding things in ARR, when the items got destroyed. Made my first bil
still respect the grind !
Dont even play ffx, just respect the hustle
Kid: "Mommy, it is here again."
Mom: "How often do i have to tell you there are no Lalafels that break into your room at night to craft."
Mom leaves
Cider: "You know what they say about Snitches kid."
I don’t play a lala so I’m trying to train my dog to craft in peoples bathtubs instead.
Spiritbonding used to be a great way to make gil. I think I've had the 5,000 achievement since early HW or maybe even AAR days. Crafting and gathering was the best way to raise spiritbond too. You can also use a spiritbond potion if you want to speed things up.
timed nodes for gathering are the ideal way to spiritbond, you give up on quantity of items for attempts, the more you do, the better. Fill an eorzean days with nodes and its gg
I wouldn't mind you breaking into my house lmao
crafting meaningless crap in some rando's bathroom. FF14 needs more of this.
"I have all these gathering achievements to get in addition to all these crafting achievements, and it sucks because the crafting achievements are really expensive to get unless you gather the ingredients yourself." >proceeds to pay through the nose for easily farmable ingredients
Hey Cider, just wanted to mention that there's a buff food that boosts your spirit bond gaining, the better crowned pie that boosts it by +2. There's also a potion (or medicine) that boosts it by 6 and is pretty cheap (Superior Spiritbond Potion). And last but not least, there's a reason to visit your chad adventure squadron. There's a mission that gives you an item that boosts your spirit bonding by another 3 for 2 hours. You can get 10 of those once per week. Each point in spirit bonding is worth 1 materia (or 20%).
I was in Castrum Lacus Latore when the DDoS started, had loads of people DC, and we only saved 2 prisoners. Luckily I never DCd, and we cleared, but it was rough. Image I DCd when tanking Lyon lmao
Breaking into people’s homes to craft has to be one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen. TREMBLE!!!!