How Bad Are Spiritbonding Achievements? - Getting Every Achievement in FFXIV #25 

"It was late at night. I had finished my shift at the local catgirl cafe. Exhausted after the long day, I bid farewell to my coworkers and set out for my home in the mist. The owner of the cafe told me to be careful however. Rumours spread among the people and some of the employees that they found their homes broken into and some found sawdust left in their bathtubs and beds. It sounded absurd to me at the time. But when I returned home, I noticed my doorknob completely shattered. The inside was dark so I had to light my lantern. I wasn't one to back down from a burglar, I used to be an adventurer after all. But as I drew my blade and stepped into my shadowed house, I heard a noise. Faint sounds of sawing, and a very gruff voice of a man. A chill ran down my spine. I had fought garleans, beastmen, and even once a primal and lived through, always surviving within an inch of my life and filled with fear. Yet none of those could compare to the sheer horror that I found when I followed the voice. In my water fountain, I saw a female lalafell, or at least they looked female. Their voice was that of an adult man, and they muttered to themselves about nonsense like "Bread selves" and "Make sure to use materia melded gear when grinding ARR crafts". They had a strange aura of piety, and their face was perpetually filled with a deep rage. It scared me. I saw them hacking away with their saw, despite being drenched in the water, and even after I stood next to the fountain, they paid me no heed, continuing to saw and mutter meaninglessly. I screamed. And I ran for my dear life. I had dropped my weapon in the rush along with the lantern, which crashed and spilled over, engulfing the room in flames. The house was made of wood, and the flames quickly spread. It was the dead of night. No one outside could have been there to call the maelstrom command. The smoke filled my lungs and through the pointless coughing I dropped to my knees. I fell down, with my head faced directly towards where that lala was sitting. There was no change in their behaviour. The continued to saw, even with the flames encroaching upon them. My breath grew weak, and the flames roared. And despite it all, all I could give was a weak smile. At least this will kill this menace. I had abandoned my role as an adventurer, because I couldn't save the ones I loved. But maybe, doing this, killing it, would save everyone. I closed my eyes, and let these flames embrace me, and that monster. At least I could do at least one good deed in my life. This will be my redemption. I will see you in the seven hells, lala..."

Using the full Athena speech for the DDOS related DCs was an inspired touch 😂

Kid: "Mommy, it is here again." Mom: "How often do i have to tell you there are no Lalafels that break into your room at night to craft." *Mom leaves* Cider: "You know what they say about Snitches kid."

Crafting lalafells? In my house? At this time of day? On this part of the star? Localised entirely within my hot tub?

Just in case you don't know! There's a food called Better Crowned Pie that gives Spiritbond +2! I get mine by buying Urushi with GC seals (you can also use Allied Seals) and giving those to a vendor in Mor Dhona for the Pie! Vendor's name is Talan!

All I'm saying is that a person coming home and finding a lala crafting in their bathtub is never *not* going to result in something hilarious. I highly recommend it.

I really enjoyed the transition from crafting to suddenly roasting peoples houses.

I really need an hour of silence occasionally broken by the sound effects of "man sigh dying" "tremble" and "this blank is blank AF"

Friendly reminder that he hasn't started the fishing grind 😢

How many times do you think I said "spiritbond" in this video?

They call it Goblin because summons are one of the pools they pull server names from and Goblin is a hidden summon in FFIV

Love your burglary crafting home show. You show a unique perspective while doing carpentry in stranger's bathrooms. Bravo on your creativity

The higher the ilvl for gathering the faster you gain spiritbond. Many of us use spiritbonding to get mass quantities of lvl 9 and 10 materia, by gathering the legendary folklore nodes with fully melded gathering gear. You just manage to get enough stats to the breakpoints and then just get to 900 GP. And you just swing at all the timed nodes. And use your 900Gl GP to get 3 uses of wise to the world to get another hit on the node. And I'd you're lucky you'll get the bonus proc. But on average. With fully melded gear, (once you get the breakpoints amd 900 GP, you can meld junk gear like he did in the video) you'll get gathering materia roughly every other node. And the bonus is that since you're doing EW nodes. And wearing EW gear. You'll get very valuable level 9 and 10 materia. It's a good passive income maker! And if any of you are omnicrafters. It's also good for pentamelding this new upcoming expansions new crafting gear

Cider finally embracing the Lalafell inner desire to be cryptids, 10/10

I think you nailed it, pretty impressive you were able to deduce they were a lancer enthusiast so quickly. That's 100% what all those poles are for.

I do hope the irony is not lost to time that we spent the whole video crafting as a lala with the quest "Child Labor" active. It's a good visual gag.

Silly Cider Spider, you need to be at least this tall to get the full Spiritbond bonus. Also, just go kill Water Sprites at Urth's Fount. 2013 Spiritbonding strats.

Still can't wait on the mahjong grind and I'm happy to teach ya

"You may have been expecting a Eureka video this week..." ...I just kinda just expected Eureka videos every week at this point >.>

Nothing makes me sadder then going into a larger house... And seeing nothing. People want housing to do some really creative stuff, and to see them wasted is terrible.

It's called Goblin because of the Blue Mage spell 'Goblin Punch.' -Yoshi-P (Probably)

For all the problems it causes, I honestly really appreciate the non-instanced housing in this game. It would be a lot harder to wander around and break into random people's houses if they were each in their own little pocket dimension. It's something you don't really get from most other MMOs. My achievements this week: - Level 90 Gunbreaker, Culinarian, and the omni-90 achievement for crafters - 500 high-quality crafts as Weaver - Every single Skysung crafter tool (8 achievements) - Every single Skybuilders' crafter tool (8 more achievements)

All jokes aside, this video is educational AF.

I love randomly running into Cider doing things.

“You gotta be a tenacious crafter to succeed in life.” Wise words from a wise baby.

Cider crafting in bathtub reminded me of me being in our FC house bush, boiling 999 eggs. I still dont know why I did such thing, but I like boiled eggs

I would love to see a small intermission segment of house tours between achievements

For +spiritbond gear there's also the Meteor Survivor Ring from a quest in La Noscea that gives you +3 spiritbond gain instead of +1. It's also not unique for some reason, so after doing the quest you can pick up a second one from the calamity salvager

Another week has passed, and you're now 260 lalachievement score ahead of me. My free time has been cut down a little because the summer semester at my university started. Still, I made huge progress toward my crafting project for HW blacksmith leves. I also got my 500th chocobo racing win, which is a relatively rare and grindy achievement. Since there was a lot about spiritbonding, melding, and materia this episode, I'd figure I'd mention that I have been extracting materia since I unlocked materia extraction nearly 3 years ago. I have affixed 1895 materia and extracted 3752 materia. Glad to see it payed off for my achievement hunting :D

I had to learn a lot about spiritbond when i was working on arr relics on free trial...ended up doing the same loop in east shroud hitting trees. I would get 10 materia every 30 minutes. Thats with HQ gear and 2 materia per item. I eventually just went and did ixali quests daily, got crafter/gatherer materia from them and then transmuted those materia into battle ones

not me just wanting ciderspider to break into my in-game house and critic it

So the most gil-efficient solution I found for the spiritbond achievements is the following setup: Gear: Culinarian Tool (offhand optional), full Emperor's New set. (I glammed over it so I wasn't naked.) Craft: Table Salt x a ton. (Auto-crafting works fine for this.) Food/Drink: Better Crowned Pie HQ (gain +2) and Superior Spiritbond Potion HQ (gain +6); these stack Other Buffs: FC Action That Which Binds Us II (unspecified gain), Proper Care II (reduces gear wear, so fewer pauses to repair) Cost benefit analysis (ignoring Fire Shard costs): Material Used: Rock Salt x1, costs 3g. Item Crafted: Table Salt x6, sells for 6g. (Net gain of 3g per craft, ignoring Fire Shard cost and ignoring HQ crafts) Materia Produced (per approx 120 crafts, without potions): DoW materia Grade I or II. The Grade I sells for 2k-8k depending on the kind, and the Grade II sells for 500-4k depending on the kind.

This series has been so much freaking fun

i was wondering what that glam of yours was for when you were doing s ranks yesterday........... what a funny surprise lmao very informative. i was under the impression you always had to be wearing gear proportionate to current level doing content at current level to spiritbond. nice to learn that there's more ways to get it

15:20 that "a few lowers level" almost went over my head

Look forward to your uploads! this one is very nice to see the houses! sending you large lot luck

my god he acknowledged lancer's existence

This video didn't feel like 30 min at all, which is high praise, now i can't wait for the next one haha. Thanks! :}

Most people would consider my house boring but you know, crafting all the furniture for it were the best two weeks I had in this game and I love the way it turned out.

"You can't stop lallafell from crafting in your bathtub." Truer words were never spoken.

Some of the lower level lumber can be purchased from the Ixal tribe if I remember correctly. Grade II, III, and IV materia has no value any more because FC airships can bring it back en masse..... but grade I? That is still worth its weight in gold.

Spiritbond doesn't randomly go up a percent. it actually extends 2 decimal places and it is possible to see the exact number with a plugin which you obviously can't be using while streaming or making videos.

the funny thing is... my house (well FC house) is themed around being a store and selling wares from crafting. Not that anyone would ever find it on the ghost town that is Maduin. XD

As a sprout I got better understanding of spiritbond from this video than from ingame and wiki.

Congrats on your carpenter achievement!! I feel your pain, I finished all ARR crafting achievements in roughly 6 weeks, alongside with Miner and Botanist. I'm currently chipping on the fishing one and I'm like 500 hooks away getting that as well. Funnily enough while doing fishing I finished the HW gathering and crafting ones, so I could hopefully start Stormblood soon. I wish you godspeed on your journey through those crafting ones!

I rewrote a few times and deleted it... For FATE syncing the combat Materia, don't do lv40 stuff. Get VERY low items, I mean single digit stuff, and do the same method in the starting ARR areas. I know I'd done that when farming a number of ARR relics many years ago to make the Alexandrite step cost less. You sync down for the FATE and kill anything, not just FATE mobs, on something very fast like a Bard or Machinist (or Dancer, didn't exist back in like HW). For Quantity of materia bonded, I think it is faster than anything else shown off. For AFKability, Crafting will win though.

Those poles are clearly structural supports for anti-earthquake measures.

I’m happy to inform that after you started tackling hunt achievements back then I followed your footsteps and this week I finally got my tiger mount achievement! Also agree this week dc’s were rough! Imagine mass dc during Ker pull on Light dc on the hunting Thursday xD

if i dont have a house will the lala provide one to break in to?

For the record, the combat leve gave no spirit bond because he was over leveled for it. If you are within the level range of the leve quest, it will give spirit bond.

Ahh dang thank god I finished that 5000 sb one way back in ARR at the shroud crystal spawn where Odin first appears. Another banger of a video streamer.

There was a brief time right after the change from destroying items to keeping items when you extract materia, when you could put on low level gear, and go kill monsters around the level of said gear (you being like 80) and you would gain spiritbond quite quickly. I could kick myself for not taking advantage of that more. So now combat based spiritbond requires You, the gear, and the monsters, to be around the same level. So you can do it in fates, but not leves, because leves don't sync.

10:03 They call it an “extract science” for a reason.

Great video, Cider!

"Go break into random people's houses and look around." Spider, the last time I did that, I got arrested.

Drink for every time Cider used the "TREMBLE" sound effect.

I recommend checking the requirement of the Novus books for overlapping with the Battle Levequest achievements. There are Levequests required in those books, some of them GC related.

Hey Cider, just wanted to mention that there's a buff food that boosts your spirit bond gaining, the better crowned pie that boosts it by +2. There's also a potion (or medicine) that boosts it by 6 and is pretty cheap (Superior Spiritbond Potion). And last but not least, there's a reason to visit your chad adventure squadron. There's a mission that gives you an item that boosts your spirit bonding by another 3 for 2 hours. You can get 10 of those once per week. Each point in spirit bonding is worth 1 materia (or 20%).

The crafting achievements and fishing achievements are the main reason I don't think I'll ever go for 100% achievements in this game and just focus on collecting stuff. Mounts, minions, Orchestrions, etc.

I learned some things in this video about systems I don't really engage with. Not for any practical purpose...but for science!

Another good item you can get for spiritbonding is a ring you get from a specific yellow quest chain in upper la noscea. It's a short quest and the ring gives +3 to spiritbonding

Just started the vid and I hope this gets relayed to you. But spiritbond potion +1 and legendary gathering nodes gets MASSIVE amounts of green materia. Level 9 and 10 currently. Then immediately sold on the marketboard for LOTS of profit. There's even YT tutorials about it from when 6.0 released.

Breaking into people’s homes to craft has to be one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen. TREMBLE!!!!

That was very silly. I liked it. Congrats on your 3 achievements :D

"Can I break i to other people's apartments?" New favorite Cider Spider quote XD

Any reason you used the Aetherite rings with only +1 spiritbond instead of the Meteor Survivor ring that has a +3 spiritbond?

I always make sure to wear my spiritbonding set when I craft/gather lower level stuff. Make sure to use HQ pentamelded gear below level 19/20 and you can get Materia 1s and 2s for ARR relic quests. I regularly sell mine because I get so many that I couldn't possibly use them all. It's a decent gil maker. I also make sure to use my retainers to gather as much as possible to help reduce my own gathering or marketboard dependency.

Once upon a time, in 2.x, we did our spirit bonding in Urth Fount. There was always a group there.

Was just creeping up on my 10000th HQ carpenter craft when the DDOS attacks started. Finally managed to transfer to Light the next day and finish it up. That's all my Carpenter achievements (except for Ishgardian Restoration) done.. only 7 more crafting classes to go!! 😅

Spiritbonding used to be a great way to make gil. I think I've had the 5,000 achievement since early HW or maybe even AAR days. Crafting and gathering was the best way to raise spiritbond too. You can also use a spiritbond potion if you want to speed things up.

I recently did all the ARR relics and decided to spiritbond all the Level 1/2/3/4 materia I needed, and I found the best way to do it was to use the lowest level crafted gear I could (level 19-23, when materia slots first start appearing) and doing crafts that were level 40+. there's very little benefit for more than 20 levels above.

timed nodes for gathering are the ideal way to spiritbond, you give up on quantity of items for attempts, the more you do, the better. Fill an eorzean days with nodes and its gg

"If you don't want lalas breaking into your room and getting saw dust on your bed, lock your door!" sounds like something Eorzeans tell their kids to get them to remember to lock their door.

Haha I wondered why DMC sold out on goblin. Thanks for the little gil buff cider!

I dug myself out of the Tunic-shaped pit I fell into a few weeks ago, and have tentatively resumed playing FFXIV. Still, not too much to report. Lalachievements score 16,215. I picked up I Made That Alchemist VI from crafting ALC furniture, and have swapped to crafting CRP furniture to try and finish out the unique crafting achievements. Got Customer Is Always Right: Adkiragh III in the course of doing my weekly custom deliveries. But the big ones were big fishing: Go Big or Go Home VI (Sea Butterfly, Mud Golem, Ninja Betta, Bombardfish, Syldra, Frilled Shark, Jacques the Snipper, Warden of the Seven Hues, Raimdellopterus, Ignus Horn) and Go Big or Go Home VII (Blue Widow, Worm of Nym, The Gobfather, King of the Spring, Silver Sovereign, Oschon's Print). I talked with someone in the comments of a previous video about big fish, and which ones I was going for, and at that time I mentioned Warden was a fish a friend had told me was really bad. Now that I've done it, and more importantly, now that I understand how Stethacanthus works, I understand that I was confusing two different stories that I'd heard at a time when I didn't really know how big fish worked. While the friend had initially complained about Warden, it occurs to me now that complaints about being stuck in a zone, unable to leave or log out, to the point of taking time off work, and then using a collector's glove to cheese something with intuition, that was her describing Steth, not Warden. I started tracking some basic stats to reflect my efforts with big fish. Dunno if anyone else will find it interesting, but these are the stats for this batch. For clarity, a "cast" does not include mooches. Sea Butterfly: caught, 1 bite, 4 intuitions, 46 casts, 2 windows Mud Golem: caught, 1 bite, 11 casts, 1 window Ninja Betta: caught, 1 bite, 6 casts, 1 window Bombardfish: caught, 1 bite, 30 casts, 1 window Syldra: caught, 1 bite, 19 casts, 1 window Frilled Shark: caught, 1 bite, 5 mooches, 2 casts, 1 window Jacques the Snipper: caught, 1 bite, 34 casts, 1 window Warden of the Seven Hues: caught, 1 bite, 1 intuition, 20 mooches, 106 casts, 4 windows* Raimdellopterus: caught, 1 bite, 3 intuitions, 4 mooches, 35 casts, 2 windows Ignus Horn: caught, 3 bites, 120 casts, 3 windows Blue Widow: caught, 1 bite, 21 casts, 1 window Worm of Nym: caught, 1 bite, 6 casts, 1 window The Gobfather: caught, 1 bite, 7 mooches, 10 casts, 1 window King of the Spring: caught, 3 bites, 108 casts, 3 windows Silver Sovereign: caught, 1 bite, 10 casts Oschon's Print: caught, 2 bites, 131 casts *For Warden, I did two Greenfish windows, but four Violetfish/Orangefish windows, for about three hours of standing around waiting in Yanxia. It took two Greenfish windows in the first place, because I misunderstood how to reset the 50-minute fish lockout, thinking it was dropping a line in another hole when it was actually just moving over a bit, so I accidentally reset intuition progress. At this point, I'm down to 28 big fish in ARR, and then I'll be starting on HW proper. In the meantime, I have Charibenet, Bobgoblin, Ruby Dragon, Stethacanthus, Cinder Surprise, and Ealad Skaan pinned, getting an early start on them. As before, keeping 2 pinned per expac (except EW, for now; once I finish ARR I'll replace the HW pins with EW pins), based very loosely on vibes from skimming reddit threads about which fish were the meanest.

Don't forget your Better Crowned Pies!

fun fact, there is also spiritbonding food called better crowned pie for an extra +2 spiritbond

What's the body glamour you have at the start of the video after the intro? The one over the vermillion cloak of healing?

I don't know why visiting someone's house and doing crafting just feels so... Illegal but it isn't? I don't know how I would feel if I found someone crafting in my house.

Yep, should absolutely shame whichever jerk has a one-person FC hoarding a large plot without even decorating it properly.

I desperately need a clip or a short of "If you don't lock your door you can't stop lalafell from crafting in your bathtub"

I see your Nancy Sinatra reference and my old ass approves. 👍🏻

Breaks my heart seeing large houses with empty interiors. Such a waste.

Can you hear it? It's the sound of the magitek repair materials mafia fainting! No fr one time I tried to sell an extra stack of magitek repair mats on my server and the second I did I was undercut by like, oh idk, 40 different retainers, and the price of it was about 1/3 of its usual price for the next month or two xD

Back in my day, we spiritbonded gear for materia IV's at Urth's Fount 👴

Not sure if said already but there is a trick working on meld x amount times chieve. Meld your piece of gear and drop it in glam dresser and then retrieve it auto removes melds.

as someone who used to be on goblin its called that because goblin deez nutz not looking forward to hitting this set of achievements if i ever get around to it. thank you for taking one for the team when it comes to theory crafting this stuff 😥

I think ya can buy the command mission buffs from grand companies directly? I might be confusing the crafter/gather buffs with the others in that shop

Ohhh I like some of those tricks for faster spiritbonding. To save money I've been trying to farm materia 1 and 2 for my ARR relics, but i should be trying harder to overlap my materia farm with other crafting/gathering achievements

oh it actually is not breaking and entering if you don't break anything. it's home invasion. it's a lesser charge. don't ask how I know this.

The assimilator means you're a protoss Vespene Geyser gas extracting structure (maybe also means you allow probes to be inside of you for gas extracting purposes)

Cider! You can buy junk monger and craft material permits to put vendors in your house! No need to run to random vendors for dark matter or overpay for rubber 😢

idk if cider perfected the craft of ignoring hell grind achievement but just like how 26:31 didnt even acknowledge 10,000 material affix. the animation alone drive people mad.

I recently got myself a small house after like over a month of consistent attempts. Canonically my WoL has a toddler and a newborn at this point in MSQ, so to reflect that, I made a crib by facing and overlapping a pair of armchairs and putting a mobile over it. :)

One of the first summons in a final fantasy game, was the goblin summon, in final fantasy 4.

the first time i really payed attention to spiritbond was after i'd caught up in shb and was working on Diadem with some of the end of expac scrip gear (the lvl 80 stuff). it simply /refused/ to gain spiritbond at a reasonable pace and i recall watching the % tick up infuriatingly slowly until finally giving up on actually getting much materia out of diadem activity. i think i even tried to ask in shout chat why i wasn't gaining any and shout collectively shrugged and went "wait, you're getting spiritbond??" iirc you get a decent amount while levelling but i'm certainly not taking an alt in there to test it. you'd probably get more with lower ilvl gear, even at cap, though. the punchline, though, is how i proceeded to get 2 achievements for materia in there, one for obtaining materia and one for melding materia. i was still quite new to the game at the time so they were probably the baby achievements anyway but it was really funny.

Now I want to add a bread shelf to my house and make sure there's a stepstool in front of it...

Thank you again for helping me stimulate the Crystal low level economy.

Everytime he said "spiritbonded" I died a little inside

i've learned a LOT about content i never touch with this series which coincidentally has made me curious about more content.