I Made a Huge Mistake - Getting Every Achievement in FFXIV #17

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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[CiderSpider]

Misfortune hangs heavy on a head once held high. Such is poor cover for when the heavens fall.

[oleub]

"cider, why are you making chocolate pudding at 4 am?" "pudding achievement"

[Sarcasticmoocow]

Thank you for keeping with this series. You are my favourite "I'm going to be driving for awhile and I need someone to talk to me" content creator!

[Fenkuro]

i seriously hope the tremble joke never goes away

[Heathiekins]

I will never forget my biggest failure going for an achievement, even though it was many MANY years ago.

I've been playing World of Warcraft since Wrath of the Lich King (so like....late 2000s) and I struggled to get gold. There was, however, an achievement that would give you the fastest flying mount speed and a dragon mount. It is called What a Long, Strange Trip It's Been, and you earn it by doing set achievements for each of the holidays in game. Because it's an MMO, these events cycle through on a real life yearly calendar, so I had been taking part in each event as each holiday came around. That is, until Pilgrim's Bounty, the Thanksgiving holiday. I'm not really good at PVP content, especially in WoW, so even though I was able to get most of the achievements, there were some that required you to sit and eat at a banquet table in each of the opposing capital cities. As a Horde player, my at the time boyfriend (now husband) and I were going through each capital city dressed in no armor, just the pretty clothes for the event, so sometimes, people let us be. But sometimes, we would get massacred. But regardless, we pressed on until the final night of the event. We only had one more table to visit: Darnassus, the capital city INSIDE a giant living tree. We had to run through NPC guards meant to kill us (and they succeeded time and time again) and corpse hopped (die, get as far as you can, rez, die again, etc.) our way to the banquet table. This took hours, because of our lack of armor and skill against these mobs and other players. Finally, we could see the table. One more corpse hop would've gotten us there. Then, the clock ticked to the next day and the event ended. I watched the table disappear, along with all the decorations. And there we stood, in Darnassus, one single step away from getting the final achievement for the mount and flight training. I didn't save up the few thousand gold to just buy the flight training by the next year, either, so one year later, we were able to go to Darnassus a little more easily and get the final achievement. But we had to wait one full year to do it.

The achievements have dates on them, and it's one year later than all the other achievements. A constant reminder of what happened.

[KibaAzure]

The Zadnor Lyon duel was one of the most stressful things I ever did in the game. It took me about 10ish attempts to clear it and even just waiting for the duel to start had my nerves going off. When I finally beat him my hands were literally shaking for about a minute.

[MirinkaiserVODs]

Grind on, achievement hunters!

Edit: I'm only missing two things in Bozjan Southern Front: Castrum Lacus Litore runs (I'm at 41/50) and the Sartauvoir duel. Zadnor though? As a fairly mid player in regards to doing mechanics accurately and perfectly, I can't even begin to work out how I might possibly complete those duels someday. My Dalriada runs are at a meager 24/50 too. Lots of work ahead for me.

Edit 2: To answer the question asked near the end of the video, my greatest failure in achievement hunting is chasing the solo Palace of the Dead completion. I have put literally hundreds of hours into it (most of it on an older character though), but I lack the knowledge and consistency to make it very far. I always screw up in some embarrassing manner. I've only gotten past floor 150 three times, and never even reached the floor 160 boss. These acheivements just aren't in my skill range.

[LuisVet]

50k subscribers, 5 Gabriel mounts. You got your chance Cider, you got your chance

[acehealer]

16:49 GAZE UPO- GAZE GA- GA- GAZE!

Congratulations on 50K subs! It's awesome how much your channel has grown.

I hit level 50 for the first time this week. Really excited to experience more of FFXIV!

[JohnSears]

"The world shall -tremble- "
*BUTTER*

[xeernfayero]

Oh man, I'm in the video! So funny thing is that I only recently got back into Bozja. I hadn't run it since Shadowbringers, but once I saw your stuff on grinding out the Southern Front achievements, I get the urge to get back in there. I had never won a duel until I came back to it, so it's thanks to you!

[bradbhd]

"If at first you don't succeed, never try again" - Homer Simpson

[rune_prism]

my theatre teacher drilled into us how important improv is. we practised occasionally whilst prepping to put on plays; i admit improv is not at all my strong suit, it is not something i even enjoy, but it is something i did had to learn whilst learning how to perform. cue to me on stage with my co-actor, doing a scene where we're both meant to break out into song.. and the music didn't start. it took like 3 minutes for it to start. i didn't *freeze* per say, but i think the audience could tell how confused i was at the technical failure; my co-actor was an antagonist, so i couldn't necessarily banter with him, but it took us like 15 seconds to realise that the music wasn't going to immediately start. it was very awkward but we managed to at least crack a joke before the music finally started 😅

congrats on the 50k CS! :) hopefully next week's video has more accomplishments you can be proud of!

[Tolly]

These videos are such a treat for me every week! I get to see the grind that I'll personally never have the patience for, and enjoy the most difficult content that my poor hands just can't keep up with.

[michaelriggs]

Back when you only needed 1000 comms to get mentor, I wanted my final duty before qualifying to be a min ilvl clear of Ifrit Ex with my guildies. We ate it so hard, I was the only one who remembered the mechanics. We settled on doing Titan Ex unsynced at the end of the night. It was a fun night, and I still use the Titan earring I got that night in most of my glams.

to top it off tho, this was the week that they raised it to 1500 and I just hadn't gotten to reading the patch notes. so no clear and no mentor, haha!

[duncanmacleod]

Oh cool, this was for a video after all. It was neat running into you. I'm the highlander RDM that rezzed you after Lyon.

[rowboatcop]

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!

[Megumi-dzmm]

If you plan on tackling the gold saucer achievements, you should probably start them sooner rather than later. Some of them are lifetime achievements that take a really long time like "win an accumulative 10mil mgp from gold saucer attractions"

Or the achievement for getting a rank 285 racing chocobo. That one took me several months of hard grinding and breeding. The rng is brutal.

The achievement for completing all 15 of the chocobo challenge races took me several more months, because that last course was absolutely brutal and I kept failing it over and over and over again. I would breed more choco's only to fail to get the stats I needed and then I'd have to release it and start all over again before I could even qualify to try the course again. It was rough.

The acheivements for getting all the TT cards and the TT mount achievement were also insane. Some of the npc's had really low drop rates and they're difficult to even beat consistently.

Getting the TT mount forced me to reluctantly lvl Blu since there's certain TT cards you can't buy unless you finish certain Blu job quests.

Not to mention some of the TT cards that have to drop from doing content have insanely low drop rates. I had to do Mothercrystal almost 40 times before getting Hydaelyn's card. I was going insane because it was the last card I needed to have a full set and my completionist brain was seething at the empty spot in my card list. Lol.

Then they went and released more cards even more cards locked behind Blu, and I have yet to get those. Lol. I really really really don't wanna lvl Blu. Ugh.

[toperishtwice]

Idk, I don't know if I've ever really had anything "in the bag" and then later failed. But the worst showing I've ever had trying for an achievement in ff14 was the duels myself. I was so bad at them that I ended up grinding out all my notes manually. I got every note without clearing a single duel lol

[skittyrocks]

Well I'm glad you decided to come back to YouTube cause I look forward to your videos each week!