This week in Final Fantasy XIV we’re back in Zadnor trying to clear some duels and grind mettle! These solo fights might as well be ultimate raids for a noob like me, so buckle up and get ready to watch a pathetic Lalafell get stepped on for approximately 30 minutes.
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Progress is progress. And some of these chonky achievements are gonna be a long haul. My failings was not doing more mentor roulettes before I lost status because I feel behind on doing extreme trials during Shadowbringers.
eh, not every achievo grind is going to get achievos every day. no worries, just do your best dude. If you really wanna see the number go up, you could take a break to do some fishing or try some deep dungeons or…a lot of things, because thankfully this game has a lot to do o/
chucklesHave you tried deep dungeon yet Cider Spider?Bro I don't even play FF14 any more and these videos are still great. The journey is the best part, the 2 total achievements…eh you'll get em next time.
I just did the Zadnor Lyon duel recently. On my third attempt, I was in an instance that was somehow both fresh and dead – two people in it. The other dude, an absolute gentleman, helped me duo prep the skirmishes and CE leading to Lyon. I actually cleared that attempt, which I attribute partly to the fact that it's a lot calmer when only one person is watching you lol
edit: Also, hot take – I think a lot of people (myself included) underestimate Menenius. None of it looks hard on paper, but there are so many little things you can fuck up. Definitely gave me more trouble than I expected.
Floor 199 in POTD Solo. i was about 2 kills with a resolution up away from the end I could see it and I accidentally hit two mobs at once and died.
TREMBLE
"Get motivated, idiot" – Cider Spider, maybe
Not a failure, but the titan bgm reminded me of the recent mount farm I had to bow out of. First savage raid, and hoo boy did everything blur after a while, so no mount for me.
That said, this video has encouraged me to give the savage grind another go in the future. You're not gonna be a master right out the gate, after all.
I'll be rooting for you in the coming duels, you got this!
My greatest failure was a 1-100 PotD solo run that ended by killing myself with a silver coffer explosion despite having my aetherpool well above what would be imporved by it
I don't think you can beat the dps checks with a healer tbh here.
I love the series. It has reinvigorated my interest in the game, which was waning in the pre expansion lull
No achievements doesn't mean no improvement. Keep at it.
8:50 the silver coins can also be spent on gear inside of the Southern Front. It's able to be dyed by default so it's decent glamour fodder if you like what it looks like. If you don't however, then yeah turning the silver coins into gold is the only real use for 'em lol.
"cider, why are you making chocolate pudding at 4 am?" "pudding achievement"
Maybe not the biggest failure, but after a long break was hitting my stride in trials and even saved the party a few times with healer LB3s. Then, casually joining a dungeon roulette, we wipe from a boss due to necrosis. The sprout in the party asks if they made a mistake only for the tank to hint that esuna (by me) is needed to remove the debuff. 😅At that moment I realized I was an idiot and actually had to use one of my brain cells for once in a roulette.
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I managed to have a pretty productive week!
Reforged: Majestic Manderville Index 10
The Customer Is Always Right: Ameliance III 5
The Customer Is Always Right: Margrat II 5
Open and Shut II 10
Veni Veni Venias 10
And Khloe Was Her Name-o II 5
The King and Die 10
Raising the Curtana 10
Lakshmi Intolerant 10
Be Still My (Automatic) Heart 10
Scent of a Woman 10
The Road of Verminion I 10
As for biggest failure… hmm. Nothing truly epic comes to mind except for wasting many months' worth of poetics by not knowing what to spend them on, and THEN trying to get relic weapons only to learn that I need thousands and thousands… ugh.
Cider, with dc travel happening to oce, feel free to come join us on Ravana for map achievements! I’ve got about 50 of the event maps for 100% portals!
Question of the week: within the context of the game, I don't really have an interesting answer. Not because I haven't failed, but because I haven't really committed to anything to the extent that I could fail. I mentioned last week that, loosely, my goal is and has always been just everything, and the nice thing about having an overly broad goal without a deadline is that, outside of just not playing the game, I'm never not making some progress towards it. The only time I've really had a goal that had a deadline was when I've done savage raiding, where the goal has simply been "clear the tier before the next tier drops".
To that end, my answer would be failing to kill E12S before EW dropped. For context, I didn't catch up with current MSQ until after 5.5, and started raiding only shortly before 5.58 unlocked the raids and added echo. So this wasn't a like 8-month endeavor or anything. My friends and I dipped our toes into PF some time in late June, and had this weird thing where we were in two quasi-statics, running between them four 2-hour days a week, through July and August, before work obligations and scheduling conflicts thinned it to one static, and eventually, mercifully, it dissolved as well, I'd guess in like October. I think the furthest we ever saw was lions, but really we were a Titan prog group. By that point, I was pretty burnt out, both from running with two groups and so doing a lot of duplicate prog, but also because one of the people shared across both groups is someone I just really don't get along with.
Anyway, progress report! Lalachievements currently at 15,980:
This week wasn't very focused. Leve allowances were building up, so I did another round of tradecraft leves. This time, I picked up With Pestle in Hand III, With Needle in Hand III, and With Gem in Hand III. While gathering materials to prepare for my next run of EW relic tool crafts, I wound up picking up I Collected That III. Someone in my static was an hour late to raid last week, and so we opted to farm E4S unsynced to get everyone the mount, and I picked up Savage Paradise Found III. Working on the EW FSH relic tool, wound up picking up The One That Didn't Get Away III.
I ended up burning myself out by trying to get all achievements possible, barely played for 4 years now, finally i think i have gotten back into it. Glad they changed pvp too, how long ago did they change the old maps?
Posting the fails with the wins. A truly Chad maneuver. Next time just get gud and it'll be fine.
I miss playing this game
Moral of the story here: git God.
Also, your content is great.
This is all.
My biggest failure?
…Ignoring the social aspect of the game, I think.
I heard many things of high praise for this game, and I got it for the story. And I went through it all, up to the latest patch (prep for dawntrail)
But I never made one friend. I never spent time at any 'social gathering'. I never did any of that. And it's…lonely. Since I never knew how to even get into the whole 'community'. I still don't.
Patiently waiting for Blue Mage content.
Thanks for posting even these less successful weeks! Not only are your vids still fun, but its important to acknowledge that not every week is gonna be a big success when it comes to long-term projects lome these! Still went up a rank too! Nice!
I missed your tiny little, high pitched Lalafell voice.