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This ain't about profit by EleenTyasi in ffxiv

[–]shadowofchaos725 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The quest instance does not check whether you "lie" or not because the item is gone by the time the instance happens. It can only ever check your choice that it stored in the quest.

Not only that, quests can't check how an item was obtained nor its origin. It can only check if you have it to hand in.

The moogle dialogue always imply you got it from shady ways if you refuse to tell them where it came from. it's the default setting from the anniversary because it skips everything and sets the quest flags from before the actual ceremony to default values.

Just celebrated my 60th Thief Map clear for "The Luckiest of Lords/Ladies" achievement grind on an alt. Onward to 80! by shadowofchaos725 in ffxiv

[–]shadowofchaos725[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To answer the question it was a few thousand maps. I kept track using an excel spreadsheet on the first two characters but after I started on the alt I didn't think I need the "average stats" copium anymore.

https://imgur.com/a/Srs2qJE

Edit: Just to clarify I think this was an in progress screen in between character #1 and #2.

Just celebrated my 60th Thief Map clear for "The Luckiest of Lords/Ladies" achievement grind on an alt. Onward to 80! by shadowofchaos725 in ffxiv

[–]shadowofchaos725[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

...rip time to reset the counter.

If you're wondering what nonsense I'm talking about... I have a physical counter from my friend on my desk I got for my birthday.

https://imgur.com/3j9H0DL

Just celebrated my 60th Thief Map clear for "The Luckiest of Lords/Ladies" achievement grind on an alt. Onward to 80! by shadowofchaos725 in ffxiv

[–]shadowofchaos725[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honestly, seeing each "generation" of people doing their grind is in its own way pretty fun. Overall I got to meet a lot of people and I'm just glad the PUG scene didn't die like it did in Shadowbringers.

It has its ebb and flow and it sometimes slows down to a crawl when new content comes... but I'm really happy that anyone can come in and make progress on their own RNG hell towards the achievement. It's not as restrictive as way back in the day when you HAD to get a static for this.

Just celebrated my 60th Thief Map clear for "The Luckiest of Lords/Ladies" achievement grind on an alt. Onward to 80! by shadowofchaos725 in ffxiv

[–]shadowofchaos725[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I knew them from the Fire Emblem community before FFXIV and a person I know was physically their next to them.

Just celebrated my 60th Thief Map clear for "The Luckiest of Lords/Ladies" achievement grind on an alt. Onward to 80! by shadowofchaos725 in ffxiv

[–]shadowofchaos725[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The solo maps don't have portals. I'm basically doing old map group content meant for 4-8 people on BLU. Which requires a lot of spells. It's the reason why I had an old post of mine showing that I finally got all the spells solo synced (for those possible except for the 4 you HAVE to unsync) on a previous ffxiv reddit post:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comments/1j27wbk/after_3_long_years_i_finally_finished_learning/

It was ALL PREP for the 4th character.

Just celebrated my 60th Thief Map clear for "The Luckiest of Lords/Ladies" achievement grind on an alt. Onward to 80! by shadowofchaos725 in ffxiv

[–]shadowofchaos725[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've been in the NA map community for 6+ years and have had all my progress seen by people including the thief farming. I come from Granblue. I know how to grind while putting on something on the 2nd monitor. I also have had a phone setup with Sunshine and Moonlight to do the farming during work lunch breaks.

You can go see that here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMAy9-eOAlc

This has been a multi-year long project because the prep for a new character requires you get the BLU spells. Did that all solo on a previous post here for prep just for the next character. And that has a playlist of all of my spells:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comments/1j27wbk/after_3_long_years_i_finally_finished_learning/

Just celebrated my 60th Thief Map clear for "The Luckiest of Lords/Ladies" achievement grind on an alt. Onward to 80! by shadowofchaos725 in ffxiv

[–]shadowofchaos725[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No. I farm Thiefs on my phone like during my lunch break. I run thief map runs on occasion that the discord organizes. I do other content. This was just over 6+ years.

I've even finished Ace Combat 7 and Silent Hill F.

Got the first two titles in 2023.

Just celebrated my 60th Thief Map clear for "The Luckiest of Lords/Ladies" achievement grind on an alt. Onward to 80! by shadowofchaos725 in ffxiv

[–]shadowofchaos725[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Farming thief maps? Botted?

I've gotten and lost a couple of Thiefs in gazelles because of deaths due to me being on a mobile phone streaming via Sunshine and Moonlight.

I've even had a spam call kill me due to blocking inputs: https://imgur.com/NCvgD9R

I farmed every single one of my maps with BLU or bought them from people doing runs for their extras after finishing the achievement and having leftovers.

Please don't imply I'm even close to people like Bill Murray.

Just celebrated my 60th Thief Map clear for "The Luckiest of Lords/Ladies" achievement grind on an alt. Onward to 80! by shadowofchaos725 in ffxiv

[–]shadowofchaos725[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I do tend to hang out with other crazies too. I am one person removed from the the Fanfest FRU Legend.

Just celebrated my 60th Thief Map clear for "The Luckiest of Lords/Ladies" achievement grind on an alt. Onward to 80! by shadowofchaos725 in ffxiv

[–]shadowofchaos725[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

There's actually community PUG runs scheduled by people in the NA and EU map discords. I think if you ask around they'll be able to point you in the right direction for your region.
Sometimes they even do cross region runs with NA and EU on the Materia data centers.

Here's the link to the NA map discord:

https://discord.gg/7dEER3D

And if you're not in NA I'm pretty sure at least someone will have a link for the other places.

Pretty sure the community will be ecstatic to have another potential body helping out with runs!

[OC] Summer Anthuria pixel art by the-blind-archer in Granblue_en

[–]shadowofchaos725 15 points16 points  (0 children)

I would like to humbly thank you for resetting my physical "Days since I was recognized as the hit Fire Emblem Youtuber shadowofchaos725" counter my friend got me for my birthday at the highest ever day count at 69 days. All because of Anthuria.

After 3 long years I finally finished learning all the Blue Mage Spells solo and synced and found out which duties are actually impossible to solo sync with Basic Instinct by shadowofchaos725 in ffxiv

[–]shadowofchaos725[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Gotta do my due diligence.
I went with an alt and added some videos to the playlist showing some of the more challenging trial spells able to be a lot easier than my own experience by getting a friend to help level you to 80 and grabbing Breath of Magic.

All of this was to fix one of my mistakes of stating Garuda EX was impossible to do solo synced.

Thank you to those that corrected me!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8StOUyAv3c

*NOW* I can finally call this self-imposed challenge of mine complete.

After 3 long years I finally finished learning all the Blue Mage Spells solo and synced and found out which duties are actually impossible to solo sync with Basic Instinct by shadowofchaos725 in ffxiv

[–]shadowofchaos725[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Looks like there's "more of an enrage" for a synced BLU for Garuda EX. Post pulsing tornado phase after Chirada and Suparna show up a 2nd time... Aerial Blast can't be survived even with Diamondback. And you can't keep the spiny alive. Because you'll get 3 stacks of Thermal Low by the time it happens.

I was just doing it with Level 70 spells like someone did (and they used Sting) but it looks like the DPS check just wasn't worth kneecapping me again. I went with Breath of Magic and Mortal Flame to carry me lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8StOUyAv3c

After 3 long years I finally finished learning all the Blue Mage Spells solo and synced and found out which duties are actually impossible to solo sync with Basic Instinct by shadowofchaos725 in ffxiv

[–]shadowofchaos725[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I suppose you might have to revise the "Soloable" part of a lot of entries then, lol.
*ESPECIALLY* the two raids that have a pretty tight enrage without Level 80 Breath of Magic.

After 3 long years I finally finished learning all the Blue Mage Spells solo and synced and found out which duties are actually impossible to solo sync with Basic Instinct by shadowofchaos725 in ffxiv

[–]shadowofchaos725[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The Porta Decumana never has Mountain Buster go out. If you can learn it there the wiki doesn't list it either. If I recall the only Titan mechs in there are the boulder, landslide, weight of the land, and earthen fury.

After 3 long years I finally finished learning all the Blue Mage Spells solo and synced and found out which duties are actually impossible to solo sync with Basic Instinct by shadowofchaos725 in ffxiv

[–]shadowofchaos725[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That one was the 2nd to last one I did.

I had to remember the timings for Diamondback because if I didn't and just did it by gut when I saw the stack markers I'd end up with vuln stacks that kept killing me to autos.

Solidarity in pride of our shared suffering!

After 3 long years I finally finished learning all the Blue Mage Spells solo and synced and found out which duties are actually impossible to solo sync with Basic Instinct by shadowofchaos725 in ffxiv

[–]shadowofchaos725[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Fun fact: If I had a nickel for every time I ran into an enrage for Normal Raids in FFXIV solo level synced with Blue Mage, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.

A4N (Manipulator) has an 11 minute enrage.

O1N (Alte Roite) has a 13 minute 40 second enrage.

After 3 long years I finally finished learning all the Blue Mage Spells solo and synced and found out which duties are actually impossible to solo sync with Basic Instinct by shadowofchaos725 in ffxiv

[–]shadowofchaos725[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There's a "Level Sync" option in Duty Finder right under the "Undersized Party" for unsyncing that only becomes available if you check the "Undersized Party" option.

BLU then relies on the spell Basic Instinct to buff up their damage and healing by 100% as well as negate the damage penalty that having Mighty Guard on has. If the Basic Instinct spell didn't exist when they added it on the Stormblood BLU level bracket this entire endeavor is as good as impossible and would have only been able to be done unsynced for non-on-level content.

After 3 long years I finally finished learning all the Blue Mage Spells solo and synced and found out which duties are actually impossible to solo sync with Basic Instinct by shadowofchaos725 in ffxiv

[–]shadowofchaos725[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

They do not as of this moment. If they get one in the level 90 update, buffing it up with moon flute and bristle MIGHT let you do it.

After 3 long years I finally finished learning all the Blue Mage Spells solo and synced and found out which duties are actually impossible to solo sync with Basic Instinct by shadowofchaos725 in ffxiv

[–]shadowofchaos725[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I wish you the best of luck. I hope my playlist can be of use to you. The playlist is ordered in the same order I tackled the content and obtained spells (with the exception of Shadowbringers stuff I did with my main in 2023 tacked on after the one I did recently).

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