Hunt Marks Have Taken Over My Life - Getting Every Achievement in FFXIV #06 

It's not just the achievement grind, it's getting videos from you in a new perspective, getting your unique humour in ways we dont normally get, keep it up! Love the series!

I attribute your booming success with this series to 1: you just being an entertaining, cool dude and 2: there being a lack of long(ish) form, high quality, chill, laid back FFXIV content that these videos fill nicely.

My worst FF14 experience was when my favorite bench in Limsa was taken. The nerve of some people.

watching these after i get home from work on friday has become the normal...at least for the past month. and thanks to you im now addicted to getting as many S ranks as possible. appreciate it! 🤣

Gotta love the holiday season! Did you get what you wanted this Christmas?

Happy to be nominated for Namazu Chad of the week--looking forward to next week's competition! Happy hunting--love the series

i will actually never get tired of that death cry also ofc you're doing well, you have this thing the kids call... a 'personality'. and a good one at that.

You've inspired me to start working on achievements again. Thank you for being a good influence!

Sadly, Achievement Hunting in FFXIV isn't as big as it should be due to the lack of rewards; personally I do like to see number go up. On another note; this series has motivated me to get back on the grind. Also, thanks for introducing me to Lalachievements.

I saw this video pop up and I got confused. I thought you were uploading these videos on Friday. I had a moment and then it dawned on me that it is Friday and I was filled with joy, I don't have to go to work tomorrow. Not only that, but I don't have to go to work for the rest of the year. Thank you CiderSpider, I can't tell you how much this means to me.

Ran into your channel on accident when you posted your first video and I've been impatiently awaiting them every week since

I love my weekly cider spider check in! I hope you had a happy holidays! 💕💕

I love seeing your updates! these videos have honestly helped me rekindle my love for the game and I'm gonna pick it back up in the new year

I love these so much, they're so cozy - I look forward to a new one every week. Nice to watch your progress as I grind myself :)

I love these videos!! They've definitely revived my resolve to keep chipping away at the 'A Card in the Hand' achievement, I just hit 300/312 total the other day listening to your vids ♡

I love these videos!!! Keep it up. I look for them each week. You give me ideas of what I can work on and how bad some of it will be.

Honestly not only are these all super fun to watch with your humor and editing, but they've been an inspiration to me to actually start trying to get extra achievements myself, so thank you for that!

As always, I *love* your content, and I'm always so excited when you choose to share it with us!! Just make sure you're not pushing yourself too hard, and are taking time for you too, you deserve it. Much love!

i really enjoy this super chill content. watching you do whatever you want and go where the wind takes you is very relaxing.

I'm glad to hear you'll be keeping this series going. You've definitely inspired me to get some achievements. I didn't think I'd ever get the B- or A-rank hunt achievements for ARR and Heavensward. It never occurred to me to go to Dynamis to try them. I did so and managed to get those achievements. And regarding the prompt, definitely my worst in-game experience has been grinding out an ARR relic weapon.

I look forward to this every week and it makes me happy to see someone engage in this content!

I enjoy listening to your commentary. I started with your shorts, but honestly these videos keep me coming back.

These videos are my absolute favourite. I can't wait for them every week! It feels like I have company while I work on my own grinds xd. Hope you had a wonderful holiday season! You deserved all the success of this series. Can't wait to follow your journey in 2024!

Watching these has helped me find things to do in FFXIV. I was facing a huge burnout and these have inspired me to try Hunts and other old content. Thanks for all you do making these videos.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and yours Cider. My main obsession originally was relic hunting, deep dungeons, and crafting penta-melded gear for my 5 main jobs. But thanks to your videos I have now started paying more attention to leves and hunt trains when I have time to join em. I love your Mad Because Small series and I'm really enjoying your Achievement Grind series as well. Stay healthy and take a break whenever you need it, but you're doing a great job. Cheers mate.

I cannot wait to be done with The Hunt achievements. Got 1k ShB S ranks last week, got 1k EW S ranks for xmas, and i am currently 15 away from 5k. Can finally step away from the aetheryte

I seriously get so excited every time I see a new one of these. They're just... fun. Enjoyable watches. And I love that about it. Plus, it's just nice hearing you talk at length and narrate your adventure!

The hunt addiction is strong. I have long since finished all my hunt achievements and I still hunt regularly, including hunt train conducting. As a fellow achievement collector, I'm glad you've continued with this series.

Yes, I agree! You've inspired me as well, to look at my achievements and actually chase some of them :) Currently working on completing the fishing log and working through 1-90 gathering nodes and the game opens up a lot once you create these kind of goals for yourself! Thanks for your work on these videos! I usually listen/watch while doing chores or playing the game myself, so the longer the video, the better!

The ishgardian restoration achievements are taking way longer than I thought, but they've led me to get into the (surprisingly popular?) fete events on my server. After what feels like endlessly grinding it's a ton of fun to take a break to chat with people/steal fourth Kupo/give facts about sheep/steal presents for engineers and merchants/emote spam and so on. I've also started keeping extra hq gatherer/crafter items on me so I can give them to people I see grinding those out in the world - works great with the starlight Santa glam.

love ur vids bro happy holidays

I really enjoy this series! Nice voice, good sense of humor, just very chill and relaxing ffxiv fix when I'm doing things other than playing LOL. Slowly grinding away at my own achievements and this series has gotten me curious about parts of the game I haven't touched (Bozja...........) So thanks!!

This series has become one of the things i've been looking forward to every week, it makes my grinds less lonely having a new video to watch where somebody else grinds is nice. Also it helps that your voice makes me focus and laugh a lot

My worst experience in game happened around late HW early StB. Either the gold saucer challenge log wasn't a thing yet or i was too dumb and didn't know about it. I was relatively new to the game and I wanted the adamantoise mount from the saucer. I spent every single day in the saucer playing the tree chopping minigame for like 2 months earning the 200k MGP needed to buy it starting from however much you're allowed to exchange gil for. I still hear the saucer theme music in the darkest corners of my psyche to this day. Silver lining: I'm really really good at that one minigame now.

I adore this series. I've been listening to the update as I drive around town getting a milkshake and bacon wraps, then rewatching as I eat and can actually see. It's become a nice routine for me. Today's plans were kinda FUBAR, but it's nice to still have some consistency. and even without that, your stuff is always good quality. I found you thanks to the first "mad because small," and I've looked forward to every upload since!

I look forward to this every week. Glad you started this!

I think the chill achiev farming, variety options for such a broad task + your infotainment-styled editing and commentary make for a very good series that I can see myself following for as long as it goes! We're all achievo-chasers at the end of the day, with varying degrees of madness, so I guess the videos resonate with more people than expected. Can't wait for the Relic gauntlet myself! I've been chipping away at Anima/Resistance materials with some of the quests permanently open, it'll be glorious to turn them all in once the time comes. And then we get to Dawntrail with its own new achievements to get!

Welcome to the Hunting Community! As a fellow Achiev hunter, its nice to see someone getting into it and streaming their progress :D Keep it up!!

I've been watching these achievement videos over lunch for days as these are actually genuinely entertaining. I'm on a soft break from the game but you make we wanna resub to get back into the grind xD Thanks for these awesome vids Cider - stay hydrated!

Rewatching this series yet again for mental health boost. Your commentary is so entertaining and funny. Keep up the great work!

Honestly youve kept my love for 14 alive while i wait for the japan fan fest, so like thank you, and you mentioned this being something you have to build up, i bet thats true and i cant wait to see you at 1 mil views before dawntrail 🖤

I love when it's friday and I'm getting ready for bed and this pops up in my feed. Such a comfy routine that heralds the weekend

Honestly can't wait for a playlist of these videos in a year or so :), keep up the awesome grind Cider~

This is possibly the best content on YT atm. Please never stop doing these.

Happy New Year's, Cider Spider! I need to start hopping on and getting some hunt marks myself. :)

It absolutely has motivated me to start going after potential achievement grinds I've left alone or half finished. Thanks for the videos.

so excited for your fishing arc (i've been on the ocean fishing grind for a few months)

The thing that got me through the deadness of 5.5 and 5.55 was the grind. Now that we're in 6.5 and 6.55 the grind is there to have my back once again. Also binding beckon to shiftQ is insane lmfaoooo. Gotta be a lot of pain behind that one

I live vicariously through these videos, as I don't actually feel like playing atm, but dang, it's fun watching! Keep up the good work

Why on earth is the video series I'm currently the most invested in an deep voiced tiny potato getting achievements in a game I stopped played a couple years ago?! XD Love your videos Cider Spider, they are amazing! Keep them coming! 💖

Thanks for keeping it going. There was no Frieren this week, but you didn't disappoint. Also, happy new year.

The B rank in the north side of Yanxia (big namazu) is by far the fastest way to grind B ranks. Only like 6 possible spawns all close together and he only takes about half of a proper opener to take down each time. Keep up the grind! I love keeping up with this adventure you've embarked on, it keeps me motivated to keep doing my own grinds!

These videos have spurred friendly competition in Rivalries in my FC where were constantly comparing our Achievement scores and helping each other hunt for achievements.

Seeing this more relaxed(but still edited) ff14 content has soothed my need to play it since im unable to for awhile, so Ive been loving these videos!

I love this content - you're a funny guy and it's engaging to watch because you're always doing something different. Highlight of the week!

I've always loved achievement hunting; it's practically ingrained in my DNA, especially since I first played the Xbox 360 and it was a concept I then understood -- and probably why I don't do too well when it comes to Nintendo consoles (they don't really have a similar concept). All that aside: you actually do an amazing job providing genuinely entertaining content and commentary, and I feel you're one of the top FFXIV content creators for it. Thanks for doing this and making it available to us.

This is the first video I've watched of yours and I really enjoy it. I can relate because I am also trying to get every achievement in ff14!

Of all the editing gags I think my favorite of them is the death yell. I've heard it in game and it always sounds like that player dies in real life at the same time too. Plus Cider's voice is pretty smooth. Keep up the grind! You might inspire me to load up XIV to do a grind some day soon.

I do look forward to these every week, they're strangely compelling :D Worst toxic moment: just picked up RDM so ran a 50/60 roulette and got sastasha hard. Didn't know anything about rotations and used the AE spells to queue up dual cast. A group member asked in chat "why is this RDM using AE, idiot" and yeah, that smarted Worst WTF moment was THE most scuffed LotA run I've ever done, I got to see Phlegeton mechanics I didn't even know existed

Watching your achievement hunting videos has encouraged me to start finishing up some achievements of my own.

real talk I didn't think it will pop off at first too until I watched one of the videos and it was legit really good! I usually play it in the background when I'm either playing FFXIV or when I'm eating and I can't wait for the next episodes keep it up!!!

Much as I love the grind updates, it brings me such joy to know that each ultimate has an associated achievement--I look forward to the day that you're hunting those.

Genuinely have enjoyed this series. Made me try to raise up my score as well doing content and things I normally would ignore.

19:50 That is the Rank 20 Island Sanctuary mount, it's also a 2-seater. I love my three wheeled motorcycle.

I really enjoy these videos. And as for many others, they really motivate me to work on my own completion. I often watch them while grinding for achievements myself :)

With as many duties as I've run I have too many horror stories to really pick a "worst" but some stand-outs include but are not limited to; -Eden Shiva in roulette, AST is wearing Cryptlurker accessories and *level 30 grey normal quality vendor trash* on their left side. Including the weapon. They had just above 1k HP total (I took screenshots because I was so floored). The SCH kept hard raising them and the other SMNs + tanks refused to wipe so we could kick the AST/the AST could equip gear. We somehow made it in one pull, but it was terrible. I think I remember the AST being apologetic and I'm not inclined to believe it was malicious, but that doesn't really change the fact that they apparently queued in on a non-combat gearset and sat on the ground the whole fight. -Shitty gil farming bots in Wanderer's Palace, tank and healer. I was still pretty new at the time and didn't understand how to kick or abandon a duty, so we were there a while. -That Dalriada we failed entirely because our tank on the top team refused to tank, then refused to die so we could reset and we timed out. We nearly had it without them, and I think that's the bit that still gets under my skin. -e12n card farming. Godspeed to you Cider, I hope you leave that til level 100 because the drop rate is a fucking lie. Ran it synced a few times cause filling a PF can be slower than queue-ing and generally it was a bit of a shitshow, but the Black Mage who cast lb3 during Titan Junction right near the end of the fight is an asshole who I hope steps on legos because we had to do the whole thing again. -and a funny one; Eden Ifrit/Garuda with 1 healer alive, the other dead, and some guy shrieking at me, a SMN, to rez them. idr what role they were, just that they were annoying and it was smack in the middle of one of the big movement mechanics in that fight. swiftcast had been used for movement at the start of the mechanic, the alive healer had a great handle on things, and we cleared soon after with no major hiccups but by god was i salty enough to make a "swiftcast is read in x.x" macro just for that one guy. i get a lot of positive use out of it but i always remember that it was born of spite.

I began achievement hunting because of these videos! I wasn't originally going to but you made it look more interesting. :3

Came for angry Lalafel, got hooked on Firmalbert, and stayed for the endlessly entertaining content. Keep up the good work!

ima keep it 100% with you. i love the videos. i dont even play ff14, but these videos help me communicate with my friends who do. love em keep it up!

This series is super fun. Please keep going!

I have mad respect for your dedication here's to more years!!

Found this series a couple weeks ago, and it's been a great series to have on in the background, especially while going after my own goals :P At the moment, I'm working on collecting all the ARR relics, which don't have their own achievements, but they feed into the Anima weapons, so at least there's that! I'll definitely say, though, it does make me wish I had other people who were also interested in my friend circles for some friendly competition/cooperation, but videos like these definitely make some of these processes feel less lonely!

I think one of the worst experiences I've ever had in game was when one player refused to believe that Healer LB2 didn't revive the party. It got so bad that a healer used it and no one got back on their feet. I'm betting they felt really stupid after that.

i think i appreciate the most about these videos is the way you point out little tips and tricks to make things easier; like i do hunt trains every so often but i had no idea that thanalan as the smallest map had the densest spawn points when it came to b ranks which makes those achievements easier, so that's something i can keep in mind when i go for the hunting ones later. little things like that are super useful and super helpful, in addition to your unique brand of humor and the way you keep the videos engaging content wise even when you're doing something people may consider boring like grinding out mobs. also please remember to take some time to relax lmao waiting a week for a video won't hurt anyone if you need a break

I do enjoy these videos and for my achivements I have been doing tribe quests in Shadowbringers. I also for some reason burned all my levequest allowence on carpenter large-scale levequest. Though that leveled me really fast. The worst experience was a community one in the form of a glam contest. It was a confusing mess because of the results and instructions coming from a mixture of discord, in game chat and a twitch stream. Had to leave early because it went on for way way too long.

I think your videos are great, keep it up and don't let it get you down in your achievement grind.

Ever since this series came out, I have been **obsessed** with achievement-hunting for fishing. Men fear me. Women fear me. God abhors me. But fish? Fish want me, and I want their [Lord of Far Seas] title for 20 points.

Don’t feel pressured boss! Always get hyped for a new video Forsure but there’s no harm in taking ya time. Ya doing awesome 🤘😁

I am having a TON of fun watching and sharing the series with my FC. We are even planning on achievement hunting times ourselves because we figure we could have a ton of fun with it.

Already at 475 likes... good luck with those shots :) Honestly I love these vids they're just chill and fun to listen to.

love this series! keep it going

Thank you for doing these videos. Helping me keep my sanity.

You have just unlocked some memories in me of my time as a sprout when I also used to have beckon on my hotbar, it's almost like that was in another different game.

You're the reason I started going for some of the grindy achievements in general. Latest I did was getting all the mining achievements in the black shroud, and man there is like nothing to mine there lol. Ended up maxing out my wind shards for the mining 41-50 nodes 4,000 times and I'm now a Forestbreaker

Achievement hunting for its own sake is one of those types of activities that I would never want to do myself, but I love watching you do it!

I have to agree with others that watching this is good motivation to try and aim for more achievements, and just enjoy playing the game again. Thanks for putting this up, I enjoy watching every week so keep it up

Started watching this as something to listen to while grinding levels. Great voice too.

love your weekly video

Very entertaining video imo, but one of the reason i keep coming back to this series is the death noises 🤣 idk why but i like it so much🤣

I'll be honest, I'm watching these vids mostly for your humor, but also to live vicariously through you since I can't be bothered to go achievement hunting myself. It's just not my style of gameplay, but your excitement is contagious.

You asked for worst experiences, and this doesn't exactly qualify as the "worst", but it's about the only bad one I've got in recent memory! This was ~3-4 weeks after Endwalker dropped, and I got Tower of Zot come up in roulette. I was Sage healing (and was pretty good at it, as it's what I'd mained through EW). We had a solid party going in... all except the tank. She was a DRK tank who: 1) never popped any mitigates; 2) kept wall to wall pulling... on those groups that have the big robot minibosses in them. After the first wipe, the entire group told her to pump the brakes, we had to burn down one group and miniboss before moving on to the next. She doesn't say a word and proceeds to do the exact same thing, wiping us a second time. The group reiterates again to do one pack of mobs at a time and she finally acknowledges it with a basic: "o ok". Then proceeds to pull every pack at once again. We wound up kicking her and getting an actual good tank and finishing the run with no problems. But that has stood out as the only nominally "bad" (or frustrating, at least) run I've had in recent memory, where the wipe wasn't due to someone not knowing the fight or making a mistake, but due to active ignorance.

You have reminded me that I have been neglecting my Mentor Roulettes. For my own shits n' giggles, I have been chronicling each Roulette I do. I've done 222 of them, and before it became an instanced fight, I did the Steps of Faith 3 times and Castrum (the Ultima fight one) is the one I've done the most at 11 runs. It's also gotten me into more than a few Guildhests. Unsurprisingly, outside of ARR content I see very few "Extreme" mode fights, but I have seen Thok-ast-Thok EX and the Pool of Tribute EX once in my runs. It's been interesting. I am planning on tallying up all the duties to see what % of ones I got over others and which duty I did the most to get my pony.

love it!!! tahnks for the upload!!!

I've been watching these whenever they come out and had no idea it was weekly until you mentioned it.

these videos are the best part about sitting down for lunch on a lovely aussie saturday

As someone else suffering from escort leves -- I'm not sure if you have a specific Beckon macro, but if not: /micon Beckon emote /target /beckon I just focus-target the escort NPC at the start, and if I use that macro it'll automatically re-target my focus target and beckon at them. Makes it marginally easier to get back to beckoning after killing the local wildlife. Also -- joining in the chorus that this series has been a joy to watch. But if you do need to take a break, definitely take a break!

I do look forward to these weekly achievement hunt videos. There IS a set of achievements that I particularly look forward to: The ones where you clear Savage raids several times, and... Ultimates. Good luck c:

I was just watching because you’re entertaining, but you have inspired me to up my achievement game

These videos are fun to watch and are making me want to start farming achievements myself.

I love these vids and look forward to them every week. I don't always stay subbed to XIV during low-content periods and watching these basically scratches the itch i have to play the game every once in a while... take breaks if you need to, but otherwise I love this content. it's almost like you've invented a new kind of video.