I decided to take it easy in Final Fantasy XIV this week since I’ve been busy with the holidays, but I accidentally got a ton of achievements anyway. From hunt marks to relics to levequests – it’s all there and more! woohoo
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how did you get to level 90 with a level 70 weapon
have you just been making people carry you through duty roulettes
worst experience in game? 10 lose streak in frontline xD
I dont even play this game if I must be honest, I just like watching people reach their goals.
I refuse to go trough the hell that that is achievement hunting. but I love watching you do it!
Add me to the list of people that got back into FF 14 because of your videos. My personal method of getting through the game is potentially pretty cringe because I just cannot have undone quests sullying my world map. So I got stalled out a bit halfway through Heavensward. Now I'm at least approaching the Bismarck quests!
one of the worst experience was while doing warring triad questline on sephirot i got a dragoon that spammed pull counter and ready check to make people skipp the cutscenes and he can pull faster after getting confronted to it he said "the book is here for a reason" and some insults
Worst experience in game…Going full time on Shiva with a party of idiots…Being a baby sprout not knowing a thing I stayed in said bad party
This series have been real feels for many. We understand the pain and drain some of these achievements are. Such as once you join the Hunt, it's hard to get off the train. As well as encouragement for a lot of use who have fallen off the train and need a boost to get back on. And even on a slow/busy week, any progress is progress. There's a lot of variety to work with. So thank you sir!
Honest question: why don't you have your chocobo out while you're doing the solo content? I mean I get they have insta kills but still.
Aww, you're wearing the post moogle hat. 😀
While I'm not committed to a major achievement grind, I do find I'm being more proactive in completing certain achievements. Maybe because I'm running out of things to do. I can see myself pivoting more towards achievement hunting during the next expansion.
These videos are fun to watch and are making me want to start farming achievements myself.
i have been enjoying the series and streams
I dont think people are interrested specifically because of "achievement hunting in ffxiv" to be honest. It's just a fun style of videos to watch. If it was anything else you'd probably do equally well.
He has become Death, destroyer of kneecaps!
I'm a casual achievement hunter! I just don't like leaving the grind unground 😛 I've been loving this series since it started, it appeals to my special kind of autism
love your weekly video
k, bye.
Came for angry Lalafel, got hooked on Firmalbert, and stayed for the endlessly entertaining content. Keep up the good work!
To think you are gonna have to eventually collect every orchestrion… and that basically means doing every single piece of content, as well as grinding it to get the music drop.
Hi; fellow achieve hunter here. You kinda can't even look at the achieves for A and S ranks because they're achieves you simply chip away at over the years. No way to really speed them up. Just have to hop onto the hunt trains and go after S ranks any time they're called out.
Oh man, you did guildhests already? I had just enough of them done to unlock mentor roulette, which pretty much took care of all guildhest-related achieves.
Good luck, and most importantly, have fun! 😀
Starting this upcoming year, the Castle in the Sky aka Diadem is the next grind I'm working on in the leadup to Dawntrail
you should do an metagamerscore account 😀 Wonder how far im in front of you :O Guess you will surpass me fastly.
Good content
As someone who has spent nearly 2 years trying to get every triple triad card in the game (to prove to my other half that it is indeed possible) and having only one card left…I can NOT even imagine trying to get every achievement in the game, that actually hurts my brain to try and comprehend the amount of work that has to go into doing this. I wouldn't even know where to start!
real talk I didn't think it will pop off at first too until I watched one of the videos and it was legit really good! I usually play it in the background when I'm either playing FFXIV or when I'm eating and I can't wait for the next episodes keep it up!!!
My worst FFXIV experience so far was joining a BLU party for Temple of the Fist. I was designated the tank. We load in, and the party leader examines me, and says, "Oh he doesn't have the right necklace." and they all left. I leave the duty very confused and… party disbanded.
I didn't have Blu tank BIS for temple of the fist. That was my crime. He's fortunately well known for this bullshit and is blacklisted by every reputable blu group on crystal for it.
Daughtry reference is an instant thumbs up. Flashback to my bionicle days
Hey man I love the vids, I want more cider spider content keep it coming
I'll fully admit, the way I found out about your achievement video was very roundabout. Some gaming website made an article about you going for every achievement, and that article was at the top of my google feed on my chrome browser on my phone. I just happened to glance that article, read it a bit cause I was bored at work, and then I watched your first video when I got home. Been subbed since.
Alright, come gather round for Story time ♪
As someone who's leveled 2 characters in full omni-class I have many many tales of terrible dungeon runs, but here's the one that will forever stick in my mind and cause me mental pain.
Stage Set: The Dead Ends
Our Cast: A BLM, Dancer, Scholar and I the tank in all the tanking glory a Gunbreaker.
We enter the dungeon and I see our dancer is a lovely little sprout. First time through this dungeon and still new to the world, I could not stay mad at them for they were truly. A small bean.
First pack was a bit rough (max pull because mama ain' raise no square), my hp bar bounced and suffered like a stutter engine with the hope of making it to grandma's house on xmas eve. We inched through after a good rotation of cd's in my corner and death staring me with open arms. This alerted me to something, either I was making mistakes and being an absolute terrible gunbreaker (I was going for the saber mount but the class was still relatively covered in rust) or our healer was doing something very very wrong.
Second pack ahoy! Oh boy. . .this is when, I at last, confirmed to my horror that it twas not I who sucked. It was indeed our healer, the soul blessed and cursed to keep us alive through the harrowing events of bird depression. For what did I see as Superbolide came upon cd? 'Physic' now class, one thing to know is the there are baits and traps in this game for healers. A little joke that are still kept on the bars much to the dismay of tanking spines everywhere. These are the Cure 1 spells, every class has one and boy howdy does it not work. These spells heal so little that it's like the tank is trying to keep their head above water in a storm. If I was a warrior, I might never have noticed! Ah but no my dear dear friends. I was Gunbreaker and while I do have a heal against the many bite and scratches and slimy slaps of diseased riddled mobs it simply could not putter away and save me.
So. After informing my healer they Adloquium exists and that their kit involved more than just physic. We came to the first boss: Caustic Grebuloff.
I engage this hobbling mess that wished for only someone to hold them close, but alas we must put an end to their suffering. Little did I know it was actually mine to be. So the first mechanic goes off and the winds blow doom riddled debuffs for all hit by the diseased riddled clouds. I shuffled to the side letting the winds drift by and continued my tanking job. But then my hp was going down down and. . .oh. . .oh no, our healer died? What happened?! How could this be? Could I tank this fight alone as our other dps fall to cases of bleed? The answer was no my friends for the stack marker and the bleeds to follow made short work of my hp.
I questioned what happened and didn't know so back to the first boss we did indeed go. Now this time, I tripped up, got hit by a wind and doom came to be placed upon my list of troubles. Now it was no big deal! The healer just needed to Esuna me and we'd be fine. The healer just needed to Esuna me and we'd be fine. . .the healer jus-. And so our third pull was upon us! The healer told that a bar under the debuff = esuna please and after a struggling fight of screams we downed the first of our many foes.
So onto the next packs with our struggling healer. Max pulls and Superbolide once more goes upon cd (because mama ain' raised no bitch). To arrive at second boss. The man, the machine the utter cluster fck of bombs. Peacekeeper.
My only words to my team as we went in was to not panic, there would be many mechanics and just resolve them and move on.
I am alone with Peacekeeper staring at the man with my gunblade drawn and tears in my eyes. We are eight minutes into this dance, I slowly chipping away at his hp bar and finally the man is felled.
Once more my team rejoins me from watching on the sidelines and we walk (well I sprint) towards the last packs and by tradition Superbolide is again, on cd.
We come to The Last Mercy, the Peaceful Death, the boss that truly made me think oh they might have a point. Ra-La.
Now Ra-la does many things in this fight. They prances along letting the party run after them else be hit by their circles filled with vunl-puffs. I warn the healer to stay close and watch when his wings glow for that is the side to avoid ♪. Yet cleaved they were as the boss comes to 60% the healer desperately spams Adlo until their bar is filled with shields to make the distance to full. But what's this? The doom stays? How could this be?! They'd healed themselves to be full health! Ah, but my friends Ra-La is truly only the purest of deaths and only the purest of heals can keep the doom away. Shields. Do not count as a cure for your doom filled affliction. And so, our healer died. As did our BLM and Dancer to each of Ra-La's raid wides.
I am alone.
Ra-La staring me down, whispering me to let go. To embrace the sweet call of oblivion. That the forty minutes we've done towards this hell could be put to just a dream. Yes. Sweet peace.
But.
I would not fall, not I as the story said all Fem Roes must. No.
Mama ain' raised no coward.
I came and took Ra-La's paw and we danced.
Round and round we went. Two cds for when they came at me with the sweet Benevolence of his Stack Marker and Aurora with my potions from Eureka Orthos (praise be) keeping me alive against his constant onslaught. Ra-La Pitied me, trying to break me with such a tank buster. Yet I lived. They gave me their Warm Glow of affection, but I stood firm to this side of the Aetherial sea. I rejected their Loving Embrace their Life's Breath with butterflies flapping what surely would be my doom.
And at last.
Ra-La falls. I stand, huffing, puffing and crying. But I was alive. I had carried my team through The Dead Ends. We made it, our poor poor little sprout had their story clear and I was given the sweet sweet peace of it being over. So I left the dungeon. Gunblade slung over my shoulder, head held tall.
And got 0 coms.
Congrats on the S Ranks achievos! ngl I don't think I'd ever see any of the S ranks without the info on them in the Encyclopedia Eorzea books, I flipped through and was kind of shocked at all the enemies I've just never see in the world before. But maybe since I got my Weaver achievements that I've been pining for, maybe I'll see those S and SS ranks one day…
my worst experience is definitely timing out on floor 99 of Heaven on High as solo sage… 3 attempts in a row
13:18 the moment i was done with leve quests removing /beckon was the most satisfying thing. lalachivements also counting some minions and mounts to your score. so you know what must be done.
When you start on your fisher achievements… I pray for you my friend.
I have to agree with others that watching this is good motivation to try and aim for more achievements, and just enjoy playing the game again. Thanks for putting this up, I enjoy watching every week so keep it up <3
You've got the secret sauce for entertaining content, a voice we are comfortable listening to, and a common interest in ffxiv.
Quite frankly you could probably just dub over DF runs and it'd probably still be a hit.
Ah yes, the customary 9 "what if I need them later" Morbol Seedlings
Worst experience recently was a guildhest where the sprout killed the gil turtle, while being told to stop attacking. Worse was that it was the tank so we couldn't pull it away from them. |D;
For the 1000 B Ranks, there's a B rank in Garlemald that spawns in 3-4 locations that are in roughly the same area. Travel time is very minimal compared to any other zone.
Can't wait to see Cider drop out of Ultimate prog because an S rank spawned. I unlocked my Mentor Roulette and have started that grind. Hope you're ready to do more Guildhests once you start that one lol.
You asked for worst experiences, and this doesn't exactly qualify as the "worst", but it's about the only bad one I've got in recent memory!
This was ~3-4 weeks after Endwalker dropped, and I got Tower of Zot come up in roulette. I was Sage healing (and was pretty good at it, as it's what I'd mained through EW). We had a solid party going in… all except the tank. She was a DRK tank who: 1) never popped any mitigates; 2) kept wall to wall pulling… on those groups that have the big robot minibosses in them. After the first wipe, the entire group told her to pump the brakes, we had to burn down one group and miniboss before moving on to the next. She doesn't say a word and proceeds to do the exact same thing, wiping us a second time. The group reiterates again to do one pack of mobs at a time and she finally acknowledges it with a basic: "o ok". Then proceeds to pull every pack at once again.
We wound up kicking her and getting an actual good tank and finishing the run with no problems. But that has stood out as the only nominally "bad" (or frustrating, at least) run I've had in recent memory, where the wipe wasn't due to someone not knowing the fight or making a mistake, but due to active ignorance.
ARR Relic is easily the worst, thankfully only have to do it once
oh hey! I'm in that tower of behemoths!
The current unreal is actually one of the easier ones, if you go at OT, you basically do one mechanic.
expecting to see a midlander of the week every week
Yes, I agree! You've inspired me as well, to look at my achievements and actually chase some of them 🙂 Currently working on completing the fishing log and working through 1-90 gathering nodes and the game opens up a lot once you create these kind of goals for yourself! Thanks for your work on these videos! I usually listen/watch while doing chores or playing the game myself, so the longer the video, the better!