There are a LOT of time consuming achievements in FFXIV, so let’s take a look at how long just TEN of them would take to do!
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Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:38 (10) Lifer III
01:14 (9) Off to the Races IV
02:00 (8) For the Hoard VI
03:44 (7) I Hope Mentor Will Notice Me VI
05:02 (6) Leader of the Pack
06:20 (5) Amethyst Keel / Ebony Leaf / Rose Gold Scales
07:57 (4) Treasure Maps
09:13 (3) The Hunt Featuring Math Cae
13:45 (2) ALL Levequest Achivements Combined
15:54 (1) Impossible Achievements
17:27 Fun Fact
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The levequest achievements are a prime example of the devs just assigning numbers to the achievements without actually thinking through them. My island sanctuary has been maxed out for months, and I'm not even at 10k/30k gathered items from the island.
But I believe I have a solution for the levequests issue:
Setup the system so that you only get rewards for completing levequests when you have allowances to spend. Then, if you're out of allowances, they still count towards achievements, but reward none or a negligible amount of exp. This prevents bots from ruining the economy if they spam them out, but would allow achievement hunters to continue progressing on this, what would still be, absolutely ridiculous achievement.
Hoping one day someone at Square will look back at this old content and recognize the absurdity of it all and make things more reasonable.
I’m trying to get a title “Desertbreaker” that requires me to mine thousands of times in Thanalan.
The reason your Crystaline Conflict queue was taking long is probably because you went for ranked, non-ranked queues pop much more! Still, 1000 wins is a lot… I'm big time PvPer with a bit over 3000 frontlines matches and 1300ish wins but I'm still nowhere near that on CC. Maybe in a couple of years.
Lifer is an example of an achievement that you should just be able to do passively by playing the game, since you'll always need to run content for some reason or other. There's no sense in trying to grind that one out (or others like it that give you achievements for things you do naturally, anyway).
I knew this game's achievements were absurd but not to this level. Do they even want people earning these?
I've been picking up on getting a few achievements and completion goals in the past few weeks, especially when waiting on PFs. Fun fact, fishing and crafting leves, unlike battlecraft, mining and botany leves, revolve around simply acquiring a requisite item; This means you can freely complete these leves while in a party… As well as stock up on items beforehand, if it suits you.
There's a reason my ultimate thrillseeker title stays, that 5k took effort and time… and some lost sleep.
As a reminder though for the hunt, it's all community driven. Scouters and conductors for A trains and spawners for S ranks including that for some DCs co-ordination between worlds to try and queue things up to allow for as many people to get as possible.
Thank your conductors and spawners people.
Fishing achievements, I feel are wild in that you can go anywhere from a couple of months to years on end depending on how good your luck is for some of the fish.
Achievement hunter here! I encourage everyone who is working towards these achievements to have a 2nd purpose behind them to make it more enjoyable and engaging. Sometimes eyeing the number like a hawk is a symptom of an upcoming burnout. Here is what I mean:
Lifer: Run roulettes for leveling or tome grinding, or solo Stormblood dungeons for gear to turn in for gil or other things.
Chocobo Race: Learn to make the best Pedigree 9 bird with the proper stats and abilities! I will say that I have over 1,000 races done due to just optimizing a race chocobo because a lot of it is RNG. It gets addictive. Once you get a good bird, it's actually a wonderful way to make MGP. The races are 2 minutes or less, and you don't have to have people join you to do them. The only gripe I have with Chocobo Racing is that there are hardly any good guides out there that help explain what's going on with the stats and abilities.
Deep Dungeon: Try to aim for the achievements that require you to get the weapons, such as palace of the dead Padjali weapons. Aim to finish the last floor both with a group and solo. You also could make decent gil off some of the sacks from the later floors. You can also level jobs in here! Likewise, you naturally get horde that way with a profit. Though, 20k is … well … cursed. You probably won't get it doing everything else, but I would do everything else first before strictly aiming for that achievement in particular.
Mentor Roulette: The happy number is 3 a day. (I don't know what else to say! xD)
PvP: Bring forth your job you know best. Remember, you can queue into a job you want to level into Frontline rolo for the exp bonus, but you can change to your best playing job inside before the match starts. PvP is great when tomestone farm events are up, or a new PvP series is released.
Treasure Maps: You can get a new treasure map with gathering every 18 hours. You can hold about 5 of the same type of maps by: 2 retainers, saddlebag, your own inventory, and having one already deciphered in your key items. I will say this, though some people may or may not believe me: Treasure maps have the same rule as actual gambling does. If you are a new player doing maps (first time achievements), or a returning player doing maps; you have a higher % of getting to the end (or winning) than being someone who has been online for a while now. That is their way to lure you in to do more maps. So… if you want to try; find a new treasure hunter, or returning player for your treasure endeavors! Maps are great for making gil, and getting clusters if you care of them, haha. (They also tend to be a fun activity to hang out with friends with. FC hosts events for maps due to this all the time!)
Hunts: Join a hunt discord for your datacenter, keep your notifications on when you want to do them, and find a linkshell for S ranks. Perfect for tomes, (you know… For those relics, or augmented gear upgrades.)
Levequests: So you don't feel like a mouse on a treadmill; I recommend doing them
onceortwicea week instead of doing them every day. Once you obtain the unique levequest achievements, and the 3 grand companies; focus on the most recent expansion's turn ins for excellent gil. The only strange one is battlecraft leves because they have been discontinued in Stormblood. There is a wiki explaining where to find them all and what their objectives are. Avoid escorts, and "Kill as much as you can in 5 minutes" leves because they waste your time. Once you turn in leves; you always will have an option to do one that isn't one of those I would avoid.Blunderville: er… So I only got one win out of this; but the best way to get 100 clears is to do them on the most dead DC, or just transfer to Materia to do them. I have met someone who actually done that, and it's hilarious to me. Great MGP though along with a quirky store to buy glam, music, emotes, minions, and housing items from. So I would do them often once the event returns.
-scratches head – All of these achievements are notorious and take forever to do. So if you can find a way to make them "background" noise while doing what you enjoy; you are better off. Good luck out there, and don't let them sap the joy out of the game for you.
I've just resolved to making sure I keep up on the time gated achievements (leves especially), pick a smaller achievement to work on when I have a spare few hours (working on triple triad atm), and then try and take advantage of moments to complete a chunk of the larger achievements. Multiple instances during DT's launch will help a lot for the A and S ranks, focus either Frontline or CC when a new series drops, spam Rival Wings during moogle tome events, that kind of thing. Just gotta understand that it's a years-long endeavor.
the luckiest lord/lady from the mappas is by far the worst imo
3:25. No it isn't. Because it requires standing still on hoard spawns which you'd never do naturally for two reasons. 1. Standing still isn't a good way to survive. 2. Most hoard locations are also trap locations and all of them aren't next to the wall. So hugging the wall to avoid traps will prevent you from getting this.
That Treasure maps category has one small caveat in it.
As a person who does have the "Luckiest of Lords" and got the "Luckiest of Ladies" for my partner…
It's a map within a map.
That is UNTRADABLE with a roughly 1% chance of getting to the end. This does take into account the insane amount of hours it takes to FARM the maps from other maps (Stormblood gazelleskin maps).
Some of which take a decent chunk of the time to get by clearing THAT map for the guaranteed single thief map at the end of shifting altars/lost canals of Unnair.
There's a reason it USED to be the rarest title in the game before data center visit and BLU being able to solo maps at level 70.
Even without the farming aspect it takes about 2000 maps to get it 20 times with the stats we've compiled.
I'm pretty sure running those maps alone is a good chunk of your time.
In a group of 8 pugs you'd pretty much farm 250 thief maps over the course of your grind. And most people generally feel it's 1 map per thief map. So that's 250 hours right there before even doing the content you're doing it for as prep.
I did Off to the races IV, I had already about 200-300 before starting actually grinding for it. I finished in about 2 weeks and it was the most mind numbing grind ive done.
I recall reading on the official site that Blunderville would make occasional reappearances. Who knows when.
The Chocobo Racing queue is unique in that it will not wait until it finds a full lobby or even 1 player. Since there might not be a full lobby of players in queue at your chocobo's league, it only looks for about 1 minute before the queue pops regardless of how many players were found, even if it's just yourself, filling the lobby with an appropriate number of NPC's with green names. The only scenario where you would need to wait longer is if the servers are full for some reason, which admittedly isn't unlikely during the Make it Rain Campaign.
I wouldn't be surprised if stuff like the Levequest achievements were implemented back when Realm Reborn was all there was, so the large required numbers was Square-Enix likely trying to keep us busy when they weren't entirely sure what the first expansion was going to be like (or if we would get one at all).
Been watching Cider Spider do achievement hunting lately, it's been interesting to see his approach to all these different parts of the game (and whether he stays sober during a lot of it lol)
Not an achievement i dont think. But Gotta put some respect on the Jumbo cactpot win For the moneybags title. My friend won it once and his record was still tgere. 2 years later. (Its gone now)
Imo they should probably nerf and/or get rid of some of these achievements that take several months & years to complete, it feels rather needless to still have them in the game.
Also, in regards to Levequests, the fact that the allowance is only at 100, which has been the case since ARR, it's so outdated, the fact that you can't do as many as you want and/or that they're not raising the cap to like 10000, or get more than 6 per day, you're basically getting handicapped for no apparent reason.
Don't you only get 100 instances to do per day? I'm pretty sure you can only run Ifrit 100 times every 24 hours, so that'd mean it takes at least 100 days of doing full 100 instances to get that 10,000 instance win achievements.
For the first one: since you have a daily lockout of 100 duties you would at least take 100 days to finish the achievement. Unsynched content should count towards that lockout. At least I think it is still a thing.
While lifer 3 does take 55 hours of gameplay to complete, it also takes at minimum 100 days to complete due to the 100 instance daily limit.
I actually have the Lifer 3 😁 I finished that last year and I couldn't believe it when I saw it
Im also less than 200 mentor roulettes away from finishing the 2000 needed. I've been playing this game for way to long lmao 😂
Isnt there a cap though on how many dungeons one can run per day? I am pretty sure Rinon reached it when farming a relic in one day.
Mapping the Realm: Satasha is longest achievement in the game, as no one checks out the side rooms of the pirate hideout.
I just got, within a day and a half of each other, the morbol mount AND my astrope. I enjoyed the journey for both, but i legitimately finished TWO ULTIMATES in the time it took me to grind out the morbol, and THREE ULTIMATES
andTWO RAID TIERS in the time it took to get astrope. I did a few every day. some days I skipped, some i had a drink or two and did 30 mentor roulettes on random classes cause why not.The achievement I'm going for right now is the one that gives you the "High Roller" title. All I have left to do is win 1,000,000 mgp from the Jumbo Cactpot, which at the rate I'm progressing should take one more year. 😭
I feel like there could be an honorable mentions category, ones that take some doing but aren’t as bad.
The one for getting 1,000,000 mgp from the jumbo cactpot COULD be done in one pull. But if you never win it (not an unsafe assumption) and only get the consolation prize of about 1,000 mgp x3 every week that’s still 333 weeks or close to six years? Granted, second third and forth place cropping up sometimes will greatly speed this up and your commitment is seriously just two minutes of menu clicking each week.
Then there’s 1,000,000 from mini cactpot, which I have better luck at, but I’m sure it still takes a while. 900k so far on my progress.