Oh! I can answer your question! I've been been playing FFXIV since 2013 and I've amassed 21,535 currently obtainable achievement points. When I think about doing 1000 Frontlines wins, I get sick to my stomach. I've been working on getting 100 Field of Glory wins since Stormblood. I'm at 90/100. There was one day where I played 19 matches and only won 1 time. I've realized I'm totally ok with only get 95% of the achievements in this game. I feel great since I made that decision. Now I can go back to what I enjoy most: jumping around the housing districts.
Im so glad you made that decision for yourself. That seems like a healthy way of approaching it and also makes me feel better about starting with achievements and being ok with enjoying the grind, istead of pressuring myself to get all of them :D nice!
Same. Thankfully Yoshida would likely promote from in his unit. And I think almost all of then share in his vision. The only way I see Yoshi P leaving is if he was made CEO of SquareEnix rather than just a member of the Board of Directors. It does seem like his passion for game development far outweighs his desire to be a corporate bureaucrat. And since FFXIV is Square's cash cow right now I don't see him being fired any time soon. He's basically the one person keeping the game from being monetized to hell though. I think if he steps back he'd want leave the game with a good legacy, and would just promote someone very likeminded.
Yoshi saved the game from utter cancellation. Without his heroic efforts after the collapse in 2012, there would be no FFXIV anymore, it would simply not exist. The first game was played 1.0, by my friend Boone, and he said the game was very bad. On the server shutdown date, he was playing and the game kept crashing or kicking player off the servers due to poor traffic handling. He did manage to stay online for the final cutscene, but before that he was getting kicked every 30 minutes. Their software and hardware, neither one was up to standard.
2:55 I saw you run by me at the bell at Illdlyshire. No idea you were recording here, but such a sudden cider sighting right after I watched your last video was really freaky. Never know when you will encounter the mad baby on Diablos.
The day this uploaded, Yoshi P put out a statement about the benchmark update, even going so far as to say that the reason the benchmark update wouldn't be released until the third was because the Square-Enix building would be under inspection and without power, so they wouldn't be able to scramble and fix any issues the community's collective power could find within a quick turnaround time, when all he had to say was that some issues were discovered that caused them to delay it, yeah... The man has more than earned my trust. If he ever was forced out due to his health or the suits above him, I have a feeling a LOT of people would walk away from the game. I like to say that I don't trust Square-Enix but I do trust CS3 (Formerly CBU3). If anything happened to that team, I'd probably not be as invested in future projects by Square-Enix...
I remember saying that I respected Square Enix... then I realized that FFXIV was the only reason I cared about the company, then I realized it was the work of a man that kept the game as pure as it can be on a corporate environment. Honestly, after the FFXV flop and FFXVI feeling like "meh" and me forgetting a lot about those two games almost immediately, it really feels like XIV is a whole different world on it's own... and the director has a lot to do with it, I just hope he can retire with dignity and leave the game in a respectable place when he does, so people remembers the before and after. Men in suits do not deserve praise for this gigantic piece of art.
I am achievement collector who migrated from world of warcraft... because I finished it. I got every mount, pet, toy, achievement, and did it all. And to be honest the end of the path was somewhat hollow and the game devolved to where it was just trying to keep me in the game rather then being a fun game. FF14 on the other hand is still fun and keeps adding content with the intention to be fun and not to just occupy my time like WoW did. So as long as it stays like that and you balance your own gameplay to always have fun then it can be a rewarding experience.
Same, and I kinda feel bad because most of my friends do rotate between games regularly. While I'm just on FFXIV, through and through, with one or two also playing from time to time
I really appreciate the little musical cues lining up with the visuals, like at 15:49. Just a little extra touch that didn't have to be there, but is. I keep forgetting to leave a comment on that.
14:10 I'm currently 4th on lich and to answer your question, I have a irl full time job so it honestly at some point does almost turns into another job if your not careful, its good to have goals but its also good to set aside time for yourself, you can burn out and knowing when to stop for a while is key, this game has something for everyone, but that also means achievement hunters will at some point or another have to do something they don't like, I was around 24k points when I finished eureka not too long ago and you've already done it. Pagos still haunts me. If I have one piece of advice, do everything you won't be doing passively, like I never do roulettes now, why should I? I get tomes from hunts, and thats what I currently need. However! not just for the sake of time but also leave some of the core achievements last like the dungeons 10k one. Your doing them all the time anyway and its good to give yourself a reason to still do core content even at late game.
Few months ago, I helped a friend in getting the 5000 infused materia achievement by helping gather mats to make a ton of glamour prisms. The reason being that when you put equipment with materia infused into the glamour dresser, it instantly removes all the materia (but destroys it in the process too). So, they got all the 5 slotter equipment from Eureka and would infuse them, drop them in the dresser, then pull it out to infuse again. Was faster than trying to remove it, but more costly.
I’ve been a gamer all my life basically, but I’ve only started really branching out in the last few years. For a long *long* time I only played WoW, FFX, and The Sims 3. Then I added FFXIV, and early on had a period where I was *obsessed* with trying new MMOs! Then for a few years it was just swapping between WoW and FFXIV. And after a while I slowed down with WoW and finally fully transferred to FFXIV as my main MMO. But in the last 5 years or so I’ve been growing my Steam library, and trying out and finishing new games! The first real game I ever played outside my norm, was Slime Rancher. Then Stardew Valley, then other similar farming games because I really like the genre… My Steam backlog continues to grow and I’m trying to break out of my usual routines during patch downtimes to play other games! I love finding new Cozy Games these days. There are a lot of short ones that can be done in a few long sessions or a week or so of short sessions. But now I have a good rotation of things! I still default back to FFXIV a lot of the time though. All this to say, playing *any* games at all makes you a Gamer! If you’ve been playing RuneScape for 20 years you certainly earned your Gamer Street Cred 😅!
Achievement hunter here at 90% (24k points)! Can confirm that the only achievements I have left are either long, tedious grinds or are PvP related. With Endwalker not adding many (fun) long-term achievements to go for, my progress has really slowed down. I resorted to redoing Eureka on an alt in order to retain my sanity.
I can't imagine being an achievement hunter in this game. Some of them seem long just for the sake of being long. I only do achievements that give me a reward I want. Like I collected all the cards because that card Mount is really cool.
@@lens_hunter I complain, but compared to a lot of other games I've played, most of the achievements game are pretty straightforward and reasonable. Complete this raid 10 times. Craft 1000 items in this level range. Get the relics on each class. It gives you goals to set out for, sometimes for things you'd never considered before (big fishing, BLU savage, mahjong, etc.) And that keep you really engaged. The nasty achievements stand out though. Why would I want to waste 50+ hours grinding out 20k hoards? Or 7+ years doing 17k leves? I have finite time on my hands and there are better things I can do with it. I've kinda had to take a step back and decide just to do the things I find fun. And maybe work on those big grinds reeeeeeally slowly. Edit: I've been informed that the 20k hoard grind takes closer to 350+ hours. Gross.
@@lens_hunter You can get most achievements if you just play the game and do all content for years. There are some exceptions that you don´t get unless you farm them for the achievement, like the deep dungeon hidden treasures, you would need around 800 full clears to get them. Leves can be done while waiting for duty finder to earn some gil, so those are not really bad.
Answering your question, I have ADHD, I cannot fathom long term goals the same way others can. I like to 100% most games I play however and my main feeling at the end of a long grind is relief, since I don't have to worry about it anymore. For instance, when I got all the achievements in Hades, I just stopped playing it immediately---my brain considered it 'done.' If I ever got to that point in FFXIV I would probably still login, but without actual goals I don't know how long I would be invested.
Grinding stuff is the kind of things I don't like doing but that I miss when I'm done with it. It gives me something to focus on and help me get organized somehow
It's cute that Cider thinks 5 years will be the point at which he'll likely be done because of levequests, when he still needs to get 20,000 pieces of the accursed hoard, something even people who spend all day streaming Deep Dungeon often aren't even close to getting. (I mean, it's not technically time gated, so that's a plus!)
You are not farming hoards by doing normal dds. If you put in an hour of not that focused grinding every day, you can do it in like a year. And most ppl will do it much faster than that once they get into it.
@@magnusaber1 The problem there is that becomes unbelievably tedious in a way very few other things in the game are. I mean at least you don't have to wait for the little circle to open at the start of the dungeon when solo anymore.
@@gamermasterL even the optimal method isn't very optimal due to the nature of accursed hoards lol, it is definitely one of the most tedious achievements to grind, and especially when Cider hasn't done much deep dungeon afaik so he's probably looking at basically 20k to get still which is an insane amount. The 10k one was already extremely rare, and then they went and fucking doubled it lol
@@gamermasterL it's doable, sure, but most of them botted it. That is the only thing these tedious achievements bring into the game. More ways to not play it by botting it.
i'm not a person who's HUGELY into achievements (esp MMO ones), so i can't say what it exactly feels like to be close to '100%ing' achievements or the like, but doing mini grinds like the splendorous tools is definitely very satisfying as a casual player. i wouldn't say i necessarily enjoy the process of doing them, but it IS something i'm capable of doing, and is something that is easily repetitive so it gives me something to focus on when i've 'nothing else to do'. and the tools look pretty. so. lol outside of MMOs, i would say i like getting achievements, and if i think i can do it, then i will indeed go out of my way to try 100%ing. granted, they're mostly single player stuff, so it's far less of a hassle, and way less of an actual grind, but getting closer and closer to 100% does feel pretty nice :)
I've only done one long-term grind achievement (1000 ShB S ranks), but when I was getting close to the completion it was a "damn it feels unreal I'm close but i can't wait for it" thing. Now that I've gotten it, i certainly do fewer S ranks (and don't log on that often even because content lull), but I have definitely enjoyed the time and I've made many friends from Faloop in the process. When dawntrail comes around and I'm playing more again, I'll definitely be back to spawning S ranks both old and new
Currently, I'm pretty ride-or-die with FF14. Slowly, but surely, it's been dispelling all the anxieties that 10 years of WoW instilled into me. Before FF14, I had major fears of tanking, healing, raiding, and just any group content in general. The love for sprouts that this game fosters is what I love most, because it really does help me feel like I'm a member of a community, even when I like spending most of my time solo. FF14 is truly what I wanted in FF11 and WoW, but never got.
hey cider could i bother you with a question, in the next video could you show your HUD layout i would really appreciate it if you could. Your HUD always looks so clean and organized and would love to see how you have it set up^^ I am somewhat new to ff14 and looking for all the help I can get^^ thank you so much in advance. Your content has made my msq so much more tolerable as you have given me things to look forward to^^ keep up the great videos cider and keep being you
theres not only MMOs that ppl get attached too... there's those looter-shooters, the card/pokemon type collectors, whatever Genshin is... i am truly amazed that FF14 has lasted, and is in such a healthy state today, but I'm not sure for how many years this business model can be sustained by a company that repeatedly reports underperforming products. Time will tell
Best MMO news I got was that City of Heroes Homecoming got an official license from NCsoft to continue hosting their server and further develop the game. It's always been a fun game if pretty simple. But it's definitely a game from 2004. Otherwise nah, FFXIV is the only game that doesn't seem to want to nickel and dime me for everything. All the other "good" MMOs right now seem to be adopting gacha practices. If Destiny 2 figured its shit out or rebooted with a Destiny 3 I'd be interested again. It's probably the best feeling shooter and so much of it's content is no longer available which is just asinine.
It's funny that you say that you feel like a fake gamer cuz you only play a few games at a time, because I have the same feeling in the opposite way. I CONSTANTLY switch between games. Even though ffxiv is definitely the one I'm more consistent on in recent years, I still take breaks often to play other games, often not sticking with one for more than a few days or a couple weeks before switching unless something in it grabs my attention. I think I have more games "in progress" than anyone else I know, not because I don't like the game(s), but because my interest hasn't cycled back to them yet. Even now with FFXIV I might've stopped playing as soon as I finished MSQ, but the community and your series especially have kept me coming back to it and trying new things within the game, so thank you
14:20 27000 Achievement Points myself, about 8 years in the making. I gave up on completing it all because pvp is just too frustrating for me. I am just doing whatever I want now, working on what I find fun - which happens to be everything but pvp and solo deep dungeons. And probably mahjong. It really helps not rushing things too, just make plans for each week for the longer grinds like Diadem or island sanctuary gathering. That way I can keep engaged even during content lulls.
Nice chill vid. I've been doing this and that this week. I actually got 2 of the Complete 500 GC levequest achievements and I only have Maelstorm left there. I also did a bunch of collectibles, and now I only have 2 achievements left there: Gather 8000 collectibles and gather 10000 collectibles (I'm currently at 5,099). Beyond that I've been doing a few of the crafter achievements. And currently I am buckling down and doing the ARR gatherer achievements. I dual screen those and watch anime on the side to make the grind feel like less than a grind. As someone who has over 20k achievement points, I am not all that perturbed by the notion of getting everything. I play FF14 a lot with the intension of getting my moneys worth. If I complete it, I complete it.
17:18 is honestly so relatable. I'm one of those people who have 500+ plus hours in like a handful of games and that's ALL i know by heart. I see people talking about how amazing Ghosts of Tsushima is and Horizon Zero dawn. And the new dragon quest games. And i'm sitting here playing FFXIV for the 4,000th hour.
You're still ahead of me by a few hundred lalachievement score. I decided to start levelling an alt for raiding during DT's first savage tier, so I'm putting achievements on a bit of a hold. Since you were mentioning the massive pvp grind, I felt like mentioning how I'm going about it. I try to do a daily frontline match and a daily crystalline conflict win everyday. I've made some calculations that tell me that I'm going to need to eventually scale that up if I want pvp to be done around the time levequests are done, but even then I won't need to do more than a few wins in each daily.
17:30 Honestly I'm kind of jealous of this mindset. I think being able to really commit to a single game would be cool, but I get incredibly depressed doing the same thing week in week out, even if that something is a game I love. Of course there's nothing wrong with bouncing between games, it's not a job, but it bums me out a bit to know there's so much content in a game I'm never going to touch, because I'll jump into something else before I get to it (and by the time I come back there'll be even more new content! So I'll never catch up!)
- I definitely fall into that category of having a "main" game and a bunch of other, smaller games on the side. Right now FF14's my main game and the smaller stuff is stuff like Baldur's Gate 3, Crusader Kings III or one of the Total War games (Medieval 2 or Empire), Persona 5 Royal, etc. - The only other MMO these days I can say I'm slightly tempted by is Classic WoW, but that's not happening. I don't want to support Blizzard, and they shut down Burning Crusade Classic (the only version I'm truly interested in since that was when I started). - I'm of the opinion replacing Yoshi-P with anyone other than someone he hand-picks to carry the torch would basically result in the game dying. Doubly so if it's someone picked by corporate to bilk as much money out of the game as possible.
19:30 I am quite looking forward to giving Andrew Gower's new MMO a blast when it comes out. I've always enjoyed Runescape, so a new game from one of it's creators is absolutely something I would want to try, at least for a little while. At the very least might be a good distraction during Dawntrail downtime periods
Oh, early cider spider! Honestly it depends on the grind. While I HAVE had thousand+ hour grinds, MMOs achievements are ones I can't get invested in anymore. Most giant 100%'s are bittersweet. Immense relief to be done, or pride, but also emptiness to have that part of my life be gone. Even if it wasn't always great. Some are just relief though. As for MMOs...nah. Even FFXIV, I just watch you because I find YOU interesting. I'm the type to get obsessed, so I've had to cut myself off. but even outside that there's just nothing that looks interesting to me atm.
Weekly update. Lalachievements score: 16,460. So, my inventory reached criticality again, and as is usually the case, I made a concession to get it back under control. Last time, that concession was to no longer hoard in-between crafting mats, basically ingots, lumber, thread and cloth, leather, etc. Stuff that is crafted, but is also only useful as a crafting mat. I didn't *throw out* anything, but I'd been leaving a ton of stuff on 1 in my retainers to "reserve the slot", and that was silly, so in the course of crafting stuff, EW crafting log prototypes, ARR furniture prototypes, and HW tradecraft leves, I've been slowly chipping away at my retainers' bloat, and that's freed up *some* inventory. But as I alluded to, it wasn't enough. In particular, a spearfishing project I went on last week to verify the minimum length (and, theoretically, the maximum length) of every spearfish in the game left me with only about 15 inventory slots. And so I made my latest concession: I moved all of the glams I'd been storing in a retainer, basically gear that I'd picked up that would be inconvenient to reacquire, stuff that doesn't go in the armoire, can't be bought from the calamity salvager, and isn't simply a duty drop or whatever, and I moved that into my armoury chest; everything but weapons, that tab is already basically full. This freed up about two pages of retainer inventory, which let me move a bunch of stuff around, and so in turn freed up about two pages of actual inventory space. And, what am I to do with more inventory space, but finally wrap up Splendorous Tools? Well, I say "wrap up", but the reality is that I'm not going to bother with the last two steps, because on-content expert crafts are beyond me... for now... maybe. We'll come back to that. Anyway, I got Resplendent: Brilliant Raising Hammer, Brilliant Alembic, and Brilliant Frypan. All tradecraft tools are now on the last two steps. However, I ran into a problem. Sort of. A problem for me. So, because I'm in melded scrip gear, rather than pentamelded crafted gear, in order to fully "HQ" the collectables for the Splendorous Tools, I need to eat crafting food. That means that I do these crafts in 30-minute bursts, where I can generally finish between 30 and 50 crafts, depending on how my luck goes and how actively I want to participate. When I started out, I was just using a two-step macro, and the only optimization was to recognize the first macro was done before the little chime and start the second macro. Doing this, I could do a couple more than 30 crafts in 30 minutes. By the end, I had a macro that does the opener, applying the buffs, getting progress to like 95%, and then I'd manually do the quality steps because they were pretty easy to remember and I could do them faster, and then I'd judge based on where quality was whether I could just cap it off myself, or if I'd run a short macro that would do the full "guaranteed 100%" macro, and I was pushing around 40 crafts per 30 minutes. Going into this last step, I had 2 food left, and I had 30 crafts to do for ALC, 30 crafts for CUL, and 17 crafts for ARM, which meant I needed to do 39 crafts in each window without fucking up. I started on the first set, and like 3 crafts in, all of my left-side gear spiritbonded. And, just, I know this isn't a problem for everyone, but it pained me not to immediately extract that materia, I wasted like 35 crafts' worth of spiritbond to ensure that I didn't fall short of my goal and need to waste a third food on like 2 crafts. When the food buff fell off, I extracted all the materia, then checked my right-side gear, and it was all at like 97%. The same thing was going to happen! So I set out to find some stuff that I could maybe craft, that wouldn't require a food buff. And... one thing led to another, and now I have a full set of pentamelded crafted gear... Also, I got I Got This! for pentamelding the first piece of that gear. It was... I mean, it was counterproductive. I needed a food buff initially to make the mats *and* to make the gear, but the way the windows worked out, I had a lot more spare time, so I just extracted the materia under the food buff when all my right-side stuff finished. And now I'm basically just committed to the bit, gearing up to craft myself fieldcraft gear to pentameld next... Anyway, aside from that... Well, for the ultimog challenge, I needed to clear Palace of the Dead to floor 100, which I hadn't done before. Some friends and I got together over the weekend and did that, and in the process, I got In Too Deep VI and Dead Tired. And doing my weekly custom deliveries, I picked up The Customer Is Always Right: Kai-Shirr II. And so that's where I'm at now.
17:09 i became this as i got older, got married and had kids. My time became very valuable. I tried playing a variety and still do but my time is valuable. Right now my regular games are ff14 and the E.D.F. main series (edf 6 comes out in July)
17:16 This feels so real to me, especially as a streamer myself. My peers are out there, playing all the different games, different genres and everything. And I have maybe 2 or 3 games I constantly play, FFXIV being one of them makes me feel a bit "self-conscious", for maybe a lack of better term? I wanna play some of those other games, some of those other genres, but something just makes me keep coming back to my comfort games, specifically FFXIV.
I’m not a general achievements hunter, but I recently finished the longest achievement grind I’ve ever done (For The Hoard VI) and doing it was not only for the cool title, but to wear my dedication to the game and my character. I felt relief finishing it, even though it feels surreal to be done lol. But there will always be new things to chase, so I don’t feel empty at all.
Going back through these videos, it's made me realize that going in with a weekly/monthly plan like you do is the only way I can possibly approach Achievement hunting. In terms of MMOs I anticipate playing, FFXIV is forever my #1, GW2 will probably be my #2, and I plan to check out ESO and TOR at some point.
I still got years on the grind left, but each time I finish a big grind, it's a mix of feeling excited and relieved. Not a bad kind of relieved, but it's just nice to put a checkmark on something.
It's strange, but the way you explain how the game works through achievement hunting is very interesting. I've played this game for a decade, but there are so many things that I don't know or have forgotten. Some things I don't try, like Eureka for example, so this series lets me have a look at that content.
once i got into the top 100 i got more motivated and have worked my way to 58. Ive been trying to just work on a mix of longterm and short term achievements just so that my score is keeping up with others, but so far I havent gotten bored of it.
I always wondered how culinary crafts work in some cases. For example, what use do the Ixal of Echtal 9 have for culinary crafts, unless they need you to cook some raw meat to feed them so they can keep energized to work on the airship. XD
Two drills! Two drills! TWO DRILLS! And honestly, I wouldn't worry too much about the breadth of games you play affecting your 1337 gamer cred. Like, I bounce around between quite a few games, but I don't know half the stuff about FFXIV mechanics that you do (despite playing twice as long, I'm still turbo-casual, lol).
Baby question of the week: Nope, no MMOs on my radar. They're kind of in a bad spot right now in regards to the greater industry. They're too big for any real "Indie" effort to replicate anything close to 14, and profit motive is too strong for publishers to tolerate one that isn't extracting as much money as it possibly can. Since I've been playing 14 I just can't tolerate the nickel and diming others do and I'd probably sooner quit MMOs entirely if I can't find a suitable player friendly replacement.
14:20 I've had most of the crafting achievements you're working on/looking at for quite a while. It's just something to do while you're doing other stuff, listening to podcasts, or treating youtube videos as podcasts, heh. Don't know why everybody is so adverse to some of it, heh. 16:00 I thought that about Dota, like 10++ years and Dota 2 later...
Achievement hunter here with over 20k achievement points! I look forward to the day when I essentially have only some huge number achievements left because I don't feel bad plucking away when I'm able to. Stuff that is solo grindable (albeit tedious) is nice for my brain but also bad if I don't have time to work on them because I can feel the illusion of FOMO. If the day ever came that I somehow finished every or nearly every achievement, that's fine by me. I enjoy raiding and other content (that prevents me from grinding achievements efficiently), so I feel like there will always been something for me to look forward to (besides story). I've come to accept though that certain categories of achievements I'll likely never fully finish (PVP and Hunts) since I can't no-life this game anymore. 😂
I have less than 300 mentor roulettes left, and while that's only 1 achievement I am getting more and more energized as I think about how close I am to the end. I imagine that feeling would be similar to getting close to the end of all the achievements.
I have purchased a couple new games here and there while playing FF these past few years, and I never finish them. I just go right back to FF. I really love this game lol Might as well stay here for the foreseeable future
right now my levequest goal is to do every unique levequest at least once. I did the math, and I can do that in about 171 days. but that's not even for the achievements, just to do all the leves. And I'm pretty sure Dawntrail will be adding more leves for DoH/DoL, because it's one of the best ways we have to grind. I guess what I'm trying to say is, you're not alone in the leve grind.
I can already see it, 4 years down the line: *"The Weekly Drill - pt. ###"* length: 23 seconds A short compilation of all the idiots drilled that week to satiate the achievement gods.
We are very much on the same track when it comes to achievement hunting and it's so motivational. I spent most of the past week working on neglected gathering and crafting achievements 🤣
as an career MMO gamer I always call myself a "monogamous gamer" because I pretty much only play 1 MMO at a time and sometimes some shit like stardew valley for 300h before dropping back to my main game lmao
my current goal in XIV is to hit 22,000 achievement points before dawntrail. i need just 210 more, and only 25 days to get em. ill be cutting it close! but yeah im kinda the same way as you, i play a few games a lot instead of a lot of games a little each. a few times a year, Nintendo or SquareEnix or maybe Fromsoft will release something big that i just gotta play, and i take my break from XIV to play the hell outta Zelda or Elden Ring. but i still do a couple dailies in XIV, and i always come back. all my friends are on Etheirys, all my discord groups are XIV-centered. if the game werent this good, i wouldnt have spent 6500 hours on it.
FFXIV is my 1st MMORPG and I didn't get interested until the crossover event from playing Monster Hunter: World came about when hunting Behemoth. Been a fan ever since. Also enjoyed the crossover event in Kugane from hunting a giant Rathalos and getting the Poogie/Palico minions.
Oddly, fresh cooked antiques went right with my woven casks I had to barrel out to the Golden pig man. I know he has a name but he says his own name enough for the both of us.
Also i have to say, FF14 is the only mmo that I was ever able to stick with and actually enjoy playing on my own. I tried a couple "no name" mmo's with friends back then but had no motivation to play them. I am somewhat interested in the Elder Scrolls mmo, the DnD one and Guild Wars 2 but not enough to even give them a try lol.
Hey Cider, just an Idea to help, though already done then collectables...for achievement points getting the lodestar items, creating collectable to get white scrips
As someone with over 24k points, it's not as relieving as I wanted it to be. I just look forward for new stuff to be released and more stuff to grind for!
The crazy man is legitimately going to be going levequests, not only throughout the entirety of Dawntrail, but the entirety of whatever the expansion after Dawntrail is AND a good chunk of the expansion after that. Also, the MMOs i've looked forwards too either have taken an eternity to come out [Ashes of Creation] or have done things so badly in other regions that it's clear they won't be good here [Lost Ark when it finally came out, Blue Protocol, Throne and Liberty]. I pretty much always eventually return to FFXIV, maybe i'll give WoW a dip again.
I've been wondering for a while, do you dress up for the streams or is that just your normal state? No shade, it just stands out that you're always in a vest and tie no matter the stream.
Oh! I can answer your question! I've been been playing FFXIV since 2013 and I've amassed 21,535 currently obtainable achievement points. When I think about doing 1000 Frontlines wins, I get sick to my stomach. I've been working on getting 100 Field of Glory wins since Stormblood. I'm at 90/100. There was one day where I played 19 matches and only won 1 time. I've realized I'm totally ok with only get 95% of the achievements in this game. I feel great since I made that decision. Now I can go back to what I enjoy most: jumping around the housing districts.
Im so glad you made that decision for yourself. That seems like a healthy way of approaching it and also makes me feel better about starting with achievements and being ok with enjoying the grind, istead of pressuring myself to get all of them :D nice!
Where do you see yourself in five years?
Cider Spider: Still doing levequests
16:16 i agree. If yoshi got replaced by a business suit that is all about the money, i can see myself bailing.
Same. Thankfully Yoshida would likely promote from in his unit. And I think almost all of then share in his vision. The only way I see Yoshi P leaving is if he was made CEO of SquareEnix rather than just a member of the Board of Directors. It does seem like his passion for game development far outweighs his desire to be a corporate bureaucrat. And since FFXIV is Square's cash cow right now I don't see him being fired any time soon. He's basically the one person keeping the game from being monetized to hell though. I think if he steps back he'd want leave the game with a good legacy, and would just promote someone very likeminded.
@Frostman411 he's definitely more of a developer, he apparently wanted to step down as a board member but they wouldn't let him.
Yoshi saved the game from utter cancellation. Without his heroic efforts after the collapse in 2012, there would be no FFXIV anymore, it would simply not exist. The first game was played 1.0, by my friend Boone, and he said the game was very bad. On the server shutdown date, he was playing and the game kept crashing or kicking player off the servers due to poor traffic handling.
He did manage to stay online for the final cutscene, but before that he was getting kicked every 30 minutes.
Their software and hardware, neither one was up to standard.
The P stands for Prerequisite
I'll be walking around Colossalcon getting drunk. See ya guys on the flip side.
Enjoy man!
Have fun!!! Get crunk
Enjoy the drinks and the time there :D
pics or it didnt happen! :D haha
Have fun drink water
What your coming to Ohio dude I live right by there
Listen, you are not a fake gamer. Even if youve only ever played this game for these past years you are a gamer.
"Again, it's at least 5 years away. But if I keep working on it, it WILL happen."
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*laughs in Doman Mahjong*
2:55
I saw you run by me at the bell at Illdlyshire. No idea you were recording here, but such a sudden cider sighting right after I watched your last video was really freaky. Never know when you will encounter the mad baby on Diablos.
The day this uploaded, Yoshi P put out a statement about the benchmark update, even going so far as to say that the reason the benchmark update wouldn't be released until the third was because the Square-Enix building would be under inspection and without power, so they wouldn't be able to scramble and fix any issues the community's collective power could find within a quick turnaround time, when all he had to say was that some issues were discovered that caused them to delay it, yeah... The man has more than earned my trust. If he ever was forced out due to his health or the suits above him, I have a feeling a LOT of people would walk away from the game. I like to say that I don't trust Square-Enix but I do trust CS3 (Formerly CBU3). If anything happened to that team, I'd probably not be as invested in future projects by Square-Enix...
I remember saying that I respected Square Enix... then I realized that FFXIV was the only reason I cared about the company, then I realized it was the work of a man that kept the game as pure as it can be on a corporate environment.
Honestly, after the FFXV flop and FFXVI feeling like "meh" and me forgetting a lot about those two games almost immediately, it really feels like XIV is a whole different world on it's own... and the director has a lot to do with it, I just hope he can retire with dignity and leave the game in a respectable place when he does, so people remembers the before and after. Men in suits do not deserve praise for this gigantic piece of art.
I am achievement collector who migrated from world of warcraft... because I finished it. I got every mount, pet, toy, achievement, and did it all. And to be honest the end of the path was somewhat hollow and the game devolved to where it was just trying to keep me in the game rather then being a fun game. FF14 on the other hand is still fun and keeps adding content with the intention to be fun and not to just occupy my time like WoW did. So as long as it stays like that and you balance your own gameplay to always have fun then it can be a rewarding experience.
17:30 I feel that big time. In the past year I've only spent a small handful of hours on games that aren't FFXIV or GW2. Peak MMO brain right now.
Same. I'm so monogamous when it comes to games. I'll get distracted by something shiny occasionally, but mostly, I'm in FFXIV
Honestly, same. I’ve started a lot of other games but I keep coming back to FFXIV
Same, and I kinda feel bad because most of my friends do rotate between games regularly. While I'm just on FFXIV, through and through, with one or two also playing from time to time
I really appreciate the little musical cues lining up with the visuals, like at 15:49. Just a little extra touch that didn't have to be there, but is. I keep forgetting to leave a comment on that.
Episode 28: Strange Baby Introspection
14:10 I'm currently 4th on lich and to answer your question, I have a irl full time job so it honestly at some point does almost turns into another job if your not careful, its good to have goals but its also good to set aside time for yourself, you can burn out and knowing when to stop for a while is key, this game has something for everyone, but that also means achievement hunters will at some point or another have to do something they don't like, I was around 24k points when I finished eureka not too long ago and you've already done it. Pagos still haunts me.
If I have one piece of advice, do everything you won't be doing passively, like I never do roulettes now, why should I? I get tomes from hunts, and thats what I currently need.
However! not just for the sake of time but also leave some of the core achievements last like the dungeons 10k one.
Your doing them all the time anyway and its good to give yourself a reason to still do core content even at late game.
Zaltan looks like he gathers all culinarian ingredients himself
Few months ago, I helped a friend in getting the 5000 infused materia achievement by helping gather mats to make a ton of glamour prisms. The reason being that when you put equipment with materia infused into the glamour dresser, it instantly removes all the materia (but destroys it in the process too). So, they got all the 5 slotter equipment from Eureka and would infuse them, drop them in the dresser, then pull it out to infuse again. Was faster than trying to remove it, but more costly.
Oh no. Cookie Clicker lore. The ultimate challenge.
Moist cookies.
That Sonic Boom sync at 15:48 was *clean*
was just about to say that lol
I’ve been a gamer all my life basically, but I’ve only started really branching out in the last few years. For a long *long* time I only played WoW, FFX, and The Sims 3. Then I added FFXIV, and early on had a period where I was *obsessed* with trying new MMOs! Then for a few years it was just swapping between WoW and FFXIV. And after a while I slowed down with WoW and finally fully transferred to FFXIV as my main MMO.
But in the last 5 years or so I’ve been growing my Steam library, and trying out and finishing new games! The first real game I ever played outside my norm, was Slime Rancher. Then Stardew Valley, then other similar farming games because I really like the genre…
My Steam backlog continues to grow and I’m trying to break out of my usual routines during patch downtimes to play other games! I love finding new Cozy Games these days. There are a lot of short ones that can be done in a few long sessions or a week or so of short sessions.
But now I have a good rotation of things! I still default back to FFXIV a lot of the time though. All this to say, playing *any* games at all makes you a Gamer! If you’ve been playing RuneScape for 20 years you certainly earned your Gamer Street Cred 😅!
Achievement hunter here at 90% (24k points)! Can confirm that the only achievements I have left are either long, tedious grinds or are PvP related.
With Endwalker not adding many (fun) long-term achievements to go for, my progress has really slowed down. I resorted to redoing Eureka on an alt in order to retain my sanity.
I can't imagine being an achievement hunter in this game. Some of them seem long just for the sake of being long. I only do achievements that give me a reward I want. Like I collected all the cards because that card Mount is really cool.
@@lens_hunter I complain, but compared to a lot of other games I've played, most of the achievements game are pretty straightforward and reasonable. Complete this raid 10 times. Craft 1000 items in this level range. Get the relics on each class. It gives you goals to set out for, sometimes for things you'd never considered before (big fishing, BLU savage, mahjong, etc.) And that keep you really engaged.
The nasty achievements stand out though. Why would I want to waste 50+ hours grinding out 20k hoards? Or 7+ years doing 17k leves? I have finite time on my hands and there are better things I can do with it. I've kinda had to take a step back and decide just to do the things I find fun. And maybe work on those big grinds reeeeeeally slowly.
Edit: I've been informed that the 20k hoard grind takes closer to 350+ hours. Gross.
@@lens_hunter You can get most achievements if you just play the game and do all content for years.
There are some exceptions that you don´t get unless you farm them for the achievement, like the deep dungeon hidden treasures, you would need around 800 full clears to get them.
Leves can be done while waiting for duty finder to earn some gil, so those are not really bad.
What are you doing?
Cooking antiques.
Ahh, making Worther's Originals. Got it.
I fear not the gamer who has played a thousand games one time, but the gamer who has played 1 game a thousand times.
You: "There's no need to think about it right now"
Also you: continues to think about it
My brain ALL THE DAMN TIME unless I write it in my journal. That's the only way I can get those sorts of thoughts to stop lol.
Answering your question, I have ADHD, I cannot fathom long term goals the same way others can. I like to 100% most games I play however and my main feeling at the end of a long grind is relief, since I don't have to worry about it anymore. For instance, when I got all the achievements in Hades, I just stopped playing it immediately---my brain considered it 'done.' If I ever got to that point in FFXIV I would probably still login, but without actual goals I don't know how long I would be invested.
Grinding stuff is the kind of things I don't like doing but that I miss when I'm done with it. It gives me something to focus on and help me get organized somehow
It's cute that Cider thinks 5 years will be the point at which he'll likely be done because of levequests, when he still needs to get 20,000 pieces of the accursed hoard, something even people who spend all day streaming Deep Dungeon often aren't even close to getting. (I mean, it's not technically time gated, so that's a plus!)
You are not farming hoards by doing normal dds. If you put in an hour of not that focused grinding every day, you can do it in like a year. And most ppl will do it much faster than that once they get into it.
@@magnusaber1 The problem there is that becomes unbelievably tedious in a way very few other things in the game are. I mean at least you don't have to wait for the little circle to open at the start of the dungeon when solo anymore.
People actually have that achievement so it is doable. Doing normal runs isn't the most optimal way to get that achievement.
@@gamermasterL even the optimal method isn't very optimal due to the nature of accursed hoards lol, it is definitely one of the most tedious achievements to grind, and especially when Cider hasn't done much deep dungeon afaik so he's probably looking at basically 20k to get still which is an insane amount. The 10k one was already extremely rare, and then they went and fucking doubled it lol
@@gamermasterL it's doable, sure, but most of them botted it. That is the only thing these tedious achievements bring into the game. More ways to not play it by botting it.
i'm not a person who's HUGELY into achievements (esp MMO ones), so i can't say what it exactly feels like to be close to '100%ing' achievements or the like, but doing mini grinds like the splendorous tools is definitely very satisfying as a casual player. i wouldn't say i necessarily enjoy the process of doing them, but it IS something i'm capable of doing, and is something that is easily repetitive so it gives me something to focus on when i've 'nothing else to do'. and the tools look pretty. so. lol
outside of MMOs, i would say i like getting achievements, and if i think i can do it, then i will indeed go out of my way to try 100%ing. granted, they're mostly single player stuff, so it's far less of a hassle, and way less of an actual grind, but getting closer and closer to 100% does feel pretty nice :)
Dawntrail comes out in 4 weeks dude!
thanks for getting me back interested in the game! watching your videos brought me back :)
I've only done one long-term grind achievement (1000 ShB S ranks), but when I was getting close to the completion it was a "damn it feels unreal I'm close but i can't wait for it" thing. Now that I've gotten it, i certainly do fewer S ranks (and don't log on that often even because content lull), but I have definitely enjoyed the time and I've made many friends from Faloop in the process. When dawntrail comes around and I'm playing more again, I'll definitely be back to spawning S ranks both old and new
Currently, I'm pretty ride-or-die with FF14. Slowly, but surely, it's been dispelling all the anxieties that 10 years of WoW instilled into me. Before FF14, I had major fears of tanking, healing, raiding, and just any group content in general. The love for sprouts that this game fosters is what I love most, because it really does help me feel like I'm a member of a community, even when I like spending most of my time solo. FF14 is truly what I wanted in FF11 and WoW, but never got.
OMG. Someone who used that term correctly! -claps-
I respect the hell out of Cider Spider for doing full-time work and stil commiting to a scheduled series somewhat succesfully
hey cider could i bother you with a question, in the next video could you show your HUD layout i would really appreciate it if you could. Your HUD always looks so clean and organized and would love to see how you have it set up^^ I am somewhat new to ff14 and looking for all the help I can get^^ thank you so much in advance. Your content has made my msq so much more tolerable as you have given me things to look forward to^^ keep up the great videos cider and keep being you
Lol. Brother's hud layout is insanity!
I love the quest you are keeping indefinitely unfinished for this grind. It's very fitting.
theres not only MMOs that ppl get attached too... there's those looter-shooters, the card/pokemon type collectors, whatever Genshin is...
i am truly amazed that FF14 has lasted, and is in such a healthy state today, but I'm not sure for how many years this business model can be sustained by a company that repeatedly reports underperforming products. Time will tell
There is only one MMO I am watching out for with tentative curiosity, and that is Ashes of Creation. That one might end up pretty cool.
Enjoy the vacation and cocktails, you've earned it!
Best MMO news I got was that City of Heroes Homecoming got an official license from NCsoft to continue hosting their server and further develop the game.
It's always been a fun game if pretty simple. But it's definitely a game from 2004.
Otherwise nah, FFXIV is the only game that doesn't seem to want to nickel and dime me for everything. All the other "good" MMOs right now seem to be adopting gacha practices.
If Destiny 2 figured its shit out or rebooted with a Destiny 3 I'd be interested again. It's probably the best feeling shooter and so much of it's content is no longer available which is just asinine.
It's funny that you say that you feel like a fake gamer cuz you only play a few games at a time, because I have the same feeling in the opposite way.
I CONSTANTLY switch between games. Even though ffxiv is definitely the one I'm more consistent on in recent years, I still take breaks often to play other games, often not sticking with one for more than a few days or a couple weeks before switching unless something in it grabs my attention.
I think I have more games "in progress" than anyone else I know, not because I don't like the game(s), but because my interest hasn't cycled back to them yet.
Even now with FFXIV I might've stopped playing as soon as I finished MSQ, but the community and your series especially have kept me coming back to it and trying new things within the game, so thank you
“Warm cider, barn full of spiders, orange moon, starry night, particle exciter” - Aesop Rock
14:20 27000 Achievement Points myself, about 8 years in the making. I gave up on completing it all because pvp is just too frustrating for me. I am just doing whatever I want now, working on what I find fun - which happens to be everything but pvp and solo deep dungeons. And probably mahjong. It really helps not rushing things too, just make plans for each week for the longer grinds like Diadem or island sanctuary gathering. That way I can keep engaged even during content lulls.
There is not a single MMO coming out that has caught my attention, so I'm sticking with FFXIV.
15:49 that SONIC BOOM timing *chef's kiss*
Nice chill vid. I've been doing this and that this week. I actually got 2 of the Complete 500 GC levequest achievements and I only have Maelstorm left there. I also did a bunch of collectibles, and now I only have 2 achievements left there: Gather 8000 collectibles and gather 10000 collectibles (I'm currently at 5,099).
Beyond that I've been doing a few of the crafter achievements. And currently I am buckling down and doing the ARR gatherer achievements. I dual screen those and watch anime on the side to make the grind feel like less than a grind.
As someone who has over 20k achievement points, I am not all that perturbed by the notion of getting everything. I play FF14 a lot with the intension of getting my moneys worth. If I complete it, I complete it.
17:18 is honestly so relatable. I'm one of those people who have 500+ plus hours in like a handful of games and that's ALL i know by heart. I see people talking about how amazing Ghosts of Tsushima is and Horizon Zero dawn. And the new dragon quest games. And i'm sitting here playing FFXIV for the 4,000th hour.
I would say after being burned on WOW, I'm happy to call FFXIV the MMO home as long as Yoshi P is at the helm.
You're still ahead of me by a few hundred lalachievement score. I decided to start levelling an alt for raiding during DT's first savage tier, so I'm putting achievements on a bit of a hold.
Since you were mentioning the massive pvp grind, I felt like mentioning how I'm going about it. I try to do a daily frontline match and a daily crystalline conflict win everyday. I've made some calculations that tell me that I'm going to need to eventually scale that up if I want pvp to be done around the time levequests are done, but even then I won't need to do more than a few wins in each daily.
Cider Spider and Littlejohn crafting in the forest 🎶
17:30 Honestly I'm kind of jealous of this mindset. I think being able to really commit to a single game would be cool, but I get incredibly depressed doing the same thing week in week out, even if that something is a game I love. Of course there's nothing wrong with bouncing between games, it's not a job, but it bums me out a bit to know there's so much content in a game I'm never going to touch, because I'll jump into something else before I get to it (and by the time I come back there'll be even more new content! So I'll never catch up!)
>Over 10K leves later and 5 years.
You did it. Cider. You did it.
- I definitely fall into that category of having a "main" game and a bunch of other, smaller games on the side. Right now FF14's my main game and the smaller stuff is stuff like Baldur's Gate 3, Crusader Kings III or one of the Total War games (Medieval 2 or Empire), Persona 5 Royal, etc.
- The only other MMO these days I can say I'm slightly tempted by is Classic WoW, but that's not happening. I don't want to support Blizzard, and they shut down Burning Crusade Classic (the only version I'm truly interested in since that was when I started).
- I'm of the opinion replacing Yoshi-P with anyone other than someone he hand-picks to carry the torch would basically result in the game dying. Doubly so if it's someone picked by corporate to bilk as much money out of the game as possible.
I hope you're enjoying your vacation man
19:30 I am quite looking forward to giving Andrew Gower's new MMO a blast when it comes out. I've always enjoyed Runescape, so a new game from one of it's creators is absolutely something I would want to try, at least for a little while. At the very least might be a good distraction during Dawntrail downtime periods
Oh, early cider spider! Honestly it depends on the grind. While I HAVE had thousand+ hour grinds, MMOs achievements are ones I can't get invested in anymore. Most giant 100%'s are bittersweet. Immense relief to be done, or pride, but also emptiness to have that part of my life be gone. Even if it wasn't always great. Some are just relief though. As for MMOs...nah. Even FFXIV, I just watch you because I find YOU interesting. I'm the type to get obsessed, so I've had to cut myself off. but even outside that there's just nothing that looks interesting to me atm.
19:32 at this point ff14 is my ride or die game and no matter how rough my is day logging into the game has become apart of my life.
Can’t wait to come back to this in 5.4 years :D
Weekly update. Lalachievements score: 16,460.
So, my inventory reached criticality again, and as is usually the case, I made a concession to get it back under control. Last time, that concession was to no longer hoard in-between crafting mats, basically ingots, lumber, thread and cloth, leather, etc. Stuff that is crafted, but is also only useful as a crafting mat. I didn't *throw out* anything, but I'd been leaving a ton of stuff on 1 in my retainers to "reserve the slot", and that was silly, so in the course of crafting stuff, EW crafting log prototypes, ARR furniture prototypes, and HW tradecraft leves, I've been slowly chipping away at my retainers' bloat, and that's freed up *some* inventory.
But as I alluded to, it wasn't enough. In particular, a spearfishing project I went on last week to verify the minimum length (and, theoretically, the maximum length) of every spearfish in the game left me with only about 15 inventory slots. And so I made my latest concession: I moved all of the glams I'd been storing in a retainer, basically gear that I'd picked up that would be inconvenient to reacquire, stuff that doesn't go in the armoire, can't be bought from the calamity salvager, and isn't simply a duty drop or whatever, and I moved that into my armoury chest; everything but weapons, that tab is already basically full. This freed up about two pages of retainer inventory, which let me move a bunch of stuff around, and so in turn freed up about two pages of actual inventory space.
And, what am I to do with more inventory space, but finally wrap up Splendorous Tools? Well, I say "wrap up", but the reality is that I'm not going to bother with the last two steps, because on-content expert crafts are beyond me... for now... maybe. We'll come back to that. Anyway, I got Resplendent: Brilliant Raising Hammer, Brilliant Alembic, and Brilliant Frypan. All tradecraft tools are now on the last two steps.
However, I ran into a problem. Sort of. A problem for me. So, because I'm in melded scrip gear, rather than pentamelded crafted gear, in order to fully "HQ" the collectables for the Splendorous Tools, I need to eat crafting food. That means that I do these crafts in 30-minute bursts, where I can generally finish between 30 and 50 crafts, depending on how my luck goes and how actively I want to participate. When I started out, I was just using a two-step macro, and the only optimization was to recognize the first macro was done before the little chime and start the second macro. Doing this, I could do a couple more than 30 crafts in 30 minutes. By the end, I had a macro that does the opener, applying the buffs, getting progress to like 95%, and then I'd manually do the quality steps because they were pretty easy to remember and I could do them faster, and then I'd judge based on where quality was whether I could just cap it off myself, or if I'd run a short macro that would do the full "guaranteed 100%" macro, and I was pushing around 40 crafts per 30 minutes.
Going into this last step, I had 2 food left, and I had 30 crafts to do for ALC, 30 crafts for CUL, and 17 crafts for ARM, which meant I needed to do 39 crafts in each window without fucking up. I started on the first set, and like 3 crafts in, all of my left-side gear spiritbonded. And, just, I know this isn't a problem for everyone, but it pained me not to immediately extract that materia, I wasted like 35 crafts' worth of spiritbond to ensure that I didn't fall short of my goal and need to waste a third food on like 2 crafts. When the food buff fell off, I extracted all the materia, then checked my right-side gear, and it was all at like 97%. The same thing was going to happen!
So I set out to find some stuff that I could maybe craft, that wouldn't require a food buff. And... one thing led to another, and now I have a full set of pentamelded crafted gear... Also, I got I Got This! for pentamelding the first piece of that gear. It was... I mean, it was counterproductive. I needed a food buff initially to make the mats *and* to make the gear, but the way the windows worked out, I had a lot more spare time, so I just extracted the materia under the food buff when all my right-side stuff finished. And now I'm basically just committed to the bit, gearing up to craft myself fieldcraft gear to pentameld next...
Anyway, aside from that... Well, for the ultimog challenge, I needed to clear Palace of the Dead to floor 100, which I hadn't done before. Some friends and I got together over the weekend and did that, and in the process, I got In Too Deep VI and Dead Tired. And doing my weekly custom deliveries, I picked up The Customer Is Always Right: Kai-Shirr II.
And so that's where I'm at now.
17:09 i became this as i got older, got married and had kids. My time became very valuable. I tried playing a variety and still do but my time is valuable. Right now my regular games are ff14 and the E.D.F. main series (edf 6 comes out in July)
17:16
This feels so real to me, especially as a streamer myself. My peers are out there, playing all the different games, different genres and everything. And I have maybe 2 or 3 games I constantly play, FFXIV being one of them makes me feel a bit "self-conscious", for maybe a lack of better term? I wanna play some of those other games, some of those other genres, but something just makes me keep coming back to my comfort games, specifically FFXIV.
I’m not a general achievements hunter, but I recently finished the longest achievement grind I’ve ever done (For The Hoard VI) and doing it was not only for the cool title, but to wear my dedication to the game and my character. I felt relief finishing it, even though it feels surreal to be done lol. But there will always be new things to chase, so I don’t feel empty at all.
Going back through these videos, it's made me realize that going in with a weekly/monthly plan like you do is the only way I can possibly approach Achievement hunting.
In terms of MMOs I anticipate playing, FFXIV is forever my #1, GW2 will probably be my #2, and I plan to check out ESO and TOR at some point.
That "TREMBLE" at the end was almost a jump scare lol
I still got years on the grind left, but each time I finish a big grind, it's a mix of feeling excited and relieved. Not a bad kind of relieved, but it's just nice to put a checkmark on something.
14:40 it gets really boring or frustrating (if you delay pvp)
Can't wait to see BLU content, I just cleared the last fight this week. Masked carnival is probably easier than the bozja duels.
It's strange, but the way you explain how the game works through achievement hunting is very interesting. I've played this game for a decade, but there are so many things that I don't know or have forgotten. Some things I don't try, like Eureka for example, so this series lets me have a look at that content.
because of this series, I hear your voice whenever I get an achievement proc
So... thank you for that.
How blessed it's not even 1am
once i got into the top 100 i got more motivated and have worked my way to 58. Ive been trying to just work on a mix of longterm and short term achievements just so that my score is keeping up with others, but so far I havent gotten bored of it.
I always wondered how culinary crafts work in some cases. For example, what use do the Ixal of Echtal 9 have for culinary crafts, unless they need you to cook some raw meat to feed them so they can keep energized to work on the airship. XD
Two drills! Two drills! TWO DRILLS!
And honestly, I wouldn't worry too much about the breadth of games you play affecting your 1337 gamer cred. Like, I bounce around between quite a few games, but I don't know half the stuff about FFXIV mechanics that you do (despite playing twice as long, I'm still turbo-casual, lol).
Baby question of the week:
Nope, no MMOs on my radar. They're kind of in a bad spot right now in regards to the greater industry. They're too big for any real "Indie" effort to replicate anything close to 14, and profit motive is too strong for publishers to tolerate one that isn't extracting as much money as it possibly can.
Since I've been playing 14 I just can't tolerate the nickel and diming others do and I'd probably sooner quit MMOs entirely if I can't find a suitable player friendly replacement.
14:20 I've had most of the crafting achievements you're working on/looking at for quite a while. It's just something to do while you're doing other stuff, listening to podcasts, or treating youtube videos as podcasts, heh. Don't know why everybody is so adverse to some of it, heh. 16:00 I thought that about Dota, like 10++ years and Dota 2 later...
14:14 - I think about all of other games I might one day actually play if I ever truly "finish" the FF14 achievement grind.
Achievement hunter here with over 20k achievement points! I look forward to the day when I essentially have only some huge number achievements left because I don't feel bad plucking away when I'm able to. Stuff that is solo grindable (albeit tedious) is nice for my brain but also bad if I don't have time to work on them because I can feel the illusion of FOMO. If the day ever came that I somehow finished every or nearly every achievement, that's fine by me. I enjoy raiding and other content (that prevents me from grinding achievements efficiently), so I feel like there will always been something for me to look forward to (besides story). I've come to accept though that certain categories of achievements I'll likely never fully finish (PVP and Hunts) since I can't no-life this game anymore. 😂
I have less than 300 mentor roulettes left, and while that's only 1 achievement I am getting more and more energized as I think about how close I am to the end. I imagine that feeling would be similar to getting close to the end of all the achievements.
you are talented and determined, your videos are great
7:48 its "idell shaia" because its just "idyllic" and "shire" put together
LFG new cider spider upload, i can keep going
I have purchased a couple new games here and there while playing FF these past few years, and I never finish them. I just go right back to FF. I really love this game lol
Might as well stay here for the foreseeable future
Great video Cider!
right now my levequest goal is to do every unique levequest at least once. I did the math, and I can do that in about 171 days. but that's not even for the achievements, just to do all the leves. And I'm pretty sure Dawntrail will be adding more leves for DoH/DoL, because it's one of the best ways we have to grind. I guess what I'm trying to say is, you're not alone in the leve grind.
I can already see it, 4 years down the line:
*"The Weekly Drill - pt. ###"* length: 23 seconds
A short compilation of all the idiots drilled that week to satiate the achievement gods.
We are very much on the same track when it comes to achievement hunting and it's so motivational. I spent most of the past week working on neglected gathering and crafting achievements 🤣
as an career MMO gamer I always call myself a "monogamous gamer" because I pretty much only play 1 MMO at a time and sometimes some shit like stardew valley for 300h before dropping back to my main game lmao
my current goal in XIV is to hit 22,000 achievement points before dawntrail. i need just 210 more, and only 25 days to get em. ill be cutting it close! but yeah im kinda the same way as you, i play a few games a lot instead of a lot of games a little each. a few times a year, Nintendo or SquareEnix or maybe Fromsoft will release something big that i just gotta play, and i take my break from XIV to play the hell outta Zelda or Elden Ring. but i still do a couple dailies in XIV, and i always come back. all my friends are on Etheirys, all my discord groups are XIV-centered. if the game werent this good, i wouldnt have spent 6500 hours on it.
FFXIV is my 1st MMORPG and I didn't get interested until the crossover event from playing Monster Hunter: World came about when hunting Behemoth. Been a fan ever since. Also enjoyed the crossover event in Kugane from hunting a giant Rathalos and getting the Poogie/Palico minions.
Doing Custom Deliveries on a CUL is always the most hilarious. Sure Kurenai, I'll cook you up some warm clothing for your elders, nice and toasty!
Oddly, fresh cooked antiques went right with my woven casks I had to barrel out to the Golden pig man. I know he has a name but he says his own name enough for the both of us.
Materia 1 and 2 can sell in bulk because of the relic weapons eat materia to grow. (Can't remember which set it was )
If you haven't already got the achievement, you might wanna keep the low level materia and use it to get the achievement from Mutamix
Also i have to say, FF14 is the only mmo that I was ever able to stick with and actually enjoy playing on my own. I tried a couple "no name" mmo's with friends back then but had no motivation to play them. I am somewhat interested in the Elder Scrolls mmo, the DnD one and Guild Wars 2 but not enough to even give them a try lol.
Between your ramblings today and Tulok the Barbrarian ending his series, gaming seems very mortal today. >.>
Hey Cider, just an Idea to help, though already done then collectables...for achievement points getting the lodestar items, creating collectable to get white scrips
Probably ride or die, but i'd be willing to give another mmo a shot if the concept interests me
As someone with over 24k points, it's not as relieving as I wanted it to be. I just look forward for new stuff to be released and more stuff to grind for!
what achievements do you have left?
I think a new series should be in the works for frontlines, 5-10 in a row with some commentary and editing, I would down to watch that
Man I just love your vids. I’d like to see a few clips from the streams if you ever thought about that. I don’t get to be online when you stream.
The crazy man is legitimately going to be going levequests, not only throughout the entirety of Dawntrail, but the entirety of whatever the expansion after Dawntrail is AND a good chunk of the expansion after that.
Also, the MMOs i've looked forwards too either have taken an eternity to come out [Ashes of Creation] or have done things so badly in other regions that it's clear they won't be good here [Lost Ark when it finally came out, Blue Protocol, Throne and Liberty]. I pretty much always eventually return to FFXIV, maybe i'll give WoW a dip again.
I've been wondering for a while, do you dress up for the streams or is that just your normal state? No shade, it just stands out that you're always in a vest and tie no matter the stream.
I love Lord of the Rings Online, but I'm waiting for their servers to upgrade to modern standards. Feels like they haven't been updated in a decade
enjoy your vacation you mad baby!