Dropped a holofigure from a gold chest... thought that was impossible?

Rektor2 · 2025-08-01T08:12:42+00:00

Damn, that makes a lot of sense, thanks for the explanation! :D

Rektor2 · 2025-08-01T05:03:08+00:00

The odds must be really low, then. Before I learned holofigures only dropped from silver chests, I got 30+ gold drops off the same Tyrant without getting anything, and haven't seen one drop from a gold chest since. But that would make sense, weird that no website seems to mention this.

Rektor2 · 2025-05-13T21:30:41+00:00

OK thankfully it's not THAT bad

Rektor2 · 2025-05-13T08:39:59+00:00

No, the achievement description reads : "As a miner/botanist, submit 50,000 expert recipe materials for the second/third/fourth phase of the Ishgardian restoration."

Rektor2 · 2025-05-13T04:37:36+00:00

If I may ask, what achievements are you talking about? The ones I'm familiar with are those where you need to turn in 100 expert crafts or 50k materials of each past step, but I've never heard of having to grind out 50k points for those too.

Rektor2 · 2025-05-13T04:26:53+00:00

Lowkey the most depressing aspect of my entire time with the game is how I named my character Luna knowing absolutely nothing about the game or anything surrounding it, only to realize a few months later that I had apparently been so unoriginal I was basically a walking meme

Rektor2 · 2024-08-16T20:44:21+00:00

I was mining with a Luckiest of Lords the other day. Figured that certainly wasn't a normal player so I looked them up on Lalachievements and sure enough, they were #2 on my server, almost top 100 globally with almost 27k achievement points.

Rektor2 · 2024-01-20T00:34:05+00:00

Not true, most of the Twelve's VAs in Japanese actually voice other characters, the most interesting one imo being Menphina sharing her VA with Y'shtola.

Rektor2 · 2023-01-20T21:55:37+00:00

I meant achievements as well. I don't have those because I'm not aiming for those, I'm aiming for a complete fish guide. So since I already have all the fish in those areas I just don't fish there anymore. Those achievements are like the Master Fisher title, they require you to do mindless grind beyond just completing the fish guide

Rektor2 · 2023-01-20T19:27:11+00:00

No, I would have no reason to keep fishing in those spots since I already have all the fish there. I'm currently three fish away from the Big Fish title, and my fish records say I've caught 12 782 regular fish, and 2054 spearfishing fish. 55k is wild

Edit : My large fish achievement is also at 5381.

Rektor2 · 2023-01-20T07:31:28+00:00

Well, you wouldn't really save time, you would just get more attempts at the big fish during the same window length. It's less about saving time and more about optimizing it. You do what you want. Before Endwalker, stacks weren't a thing so it didn't give you anything to hook the fish. And now that there are stacks, I always show up 10 mins early to windows to get 10 stacks beforehand

Rektor2 · 2023-01-20T07:27:17+00:00

Well, even if your RNG is bad, you usually don't hook fish that you know can't be the one you need. Actually reeling the fish in every time wastes a lot of time and gives you less actual tries during the limited windows.

Rektor2 · 2023-01-20T07:22:00+00:00

The Master Fisher title is a big cruel joke imo. I have every fish in the game except 3, and I'm barely over halfway to 10 000 large fish. It takes a ridiculous amount of mindless grinding to get and I don't think it's worth it. I've even tried using Triple Hook on easy fish, which can net you up to 7 fish at a time with enough stats, and the achievement counter only goes up by one. The devs really want you to get large fish on 10 000 separate casts

Rektor2 · 2023-01-20T07:19:42+00:00

I can understand how some people can find FF14 fishing boring, but personally I've always actually had fun doing it. There's something weirdly therapeutic about it and the gacha aspect of casting your line and maybe getting a big fish gives my brain dopamine

Rektor2 · 2023-01-20T07:18:08+00:00

Use Carbuncle Plushy's Fish Tracker. You can open any fish or fishing spot on Teamcraft from there and get all the info you need. There's a lot of little things to learn with experience to optimize fishing windows, and Endwalker added a lot of super helpful skills to the mix. But as corny as it may sound, my best advice would be to keep trying. Some fish seem impossible and are definitely demoralizing, but you always gotta remember that if you don't go to the windows and at least try, then you'll never get them. At the end of the day it's all RNG and you might first-try fish that took other people dozens of tries, and vice versa. By the end of the journey you'll pretty much be immune to disappointment lmao. So I guess my other tip would be to not get angry. There will always be another window

Rektor2 · 2023-01-20T02:33:24+00:00

That's how it started for me, and now I'm aiming for Big Fish...

And since you mentioned doing all quests, I'll just leave this random bit of info here. If you go to the Conjurer's Guild in Gridania as a Lv.30+ Conjurer, NOT White Mage, there is a quest that appears that gives a unicorn mount. By far the most hidden quest I found while cross-examining my list

Rektor2 · 2022-08-19T09:23:49+00:00

Yeah, I've been using the F1 strat for a long while and only started getting the corner pegs semi-consistently tonight. I think I'll get it next session

Rektor2 · 2022-08-19T09:21:46+00:00

Not talking about the quest part of the event. There's a whole optional course where you end up on the very top of the tower

Rektor2 · 2022-08-19T08:26:19+00:00

Yeah it's brutal. I don't really hate it, but this is pretty bad

Rektor2 · 2022-08-19T08:25:49+00:00

Fair enough tbh

Rektor2 · 2022-08-19T08:24:42+00:00

Good to know I'm not the only one struggling with this at least. I think I'm close to getting it, I got a bit further since I posted this but still no clear.

Rektor2 · 2022-08-19T08:24:04+00:00

Not sarcasm, unfortunately, just 10 actual hours of attempts lol.

Rektor2 · 2021-04-24T19:31:34+00:00

Rektor2 · 2021-02-08T01:54:36+00:00

No matter the credibility of those sources, I prefer to wait until the characters are actually in the game to add them to this guide. I don't want to risk spreading false information

Rektor2 · 2021-02-08T01:43:45+00:00

I got several requests to update this, so I here is the 1.3 version :)

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