I Cleared This Raid 50 Times for an Achievement - Getting Every Achievement #02 

I can't wait for the moment Cider realizes he has to not only learn mahjong, but get good enough to consistently win.

"i'm a dps so nobody cares if i suck, they can't even tell probably" is funnier when you remember he was judging the black mages in the last video for using fire 1

I'd easily listen to an hour long of your shenanigans, love the achievement series, take care Cider ❤

After many long nights on the front, I managed to slap another video together! Hopefully we can do this weekly! Speaking of weekly... which achievements have you gotten this week?

Ahhhhh, when you speak of the Fishing Achievements, it brings a tear to my eye. They can simultaneously be some of the most relaxing, and frustrating, ones to go for, at the same time. But I'll tell you this: I love my "Big Fish" title. I rarely ever take it off. And I was both surprised and elated when SE added a Big Fish Framer's Kit. I use the background all the time in my portraits. :D

Something about "I like the part where I build the gauge and then spend the gauge" really sent me

30-45 minutes is a good length for this particular format. keep it up, Angry Small One!

Three things to take away for me from this video: 1. Apparently I'm not the only one who sees a 10+ minute queue, and thinks "I could buy some new gear off the vendor in the meantime", only then to have the queue pop after two frickin' minutes while I'm in the vendor menu. 2. I've only played FFXIV for a year, and I'm ahead of you on retainer ventures. In fact, I've finished those achievements. Yay me, I'm feeling good about myself now 3. I really should finally start picking up Machinist, I've put it off so far. On the plus side, I do very much like my Dancer heals, thank you very much

You've inspired me to do a little achievement hunting of my own. Currently #43 on Exodus. God help us.

Frankly Spider you're my favourite background talking noise so I'm happy with these being as long as you have the suffering for.

Hey man just so you hear it, I love achievement grind channels and fun short form progress videos are always nice… But, your delivery is amazing and it makes me happy when I see you post videos

This series inspired me to start doing levequests and working towards achievements more seriously. I've always been an achievement hunter in games and had already been sort of half-assedly chasing a bunch so you gave me the extra push to actually figure out what the biggest grinds are and what to prioritize, as well as starting to keep track of what I get each week to stay motivated. Also to answer the question of "what do DPS players even do during queues", that's usually when I do a lot of my dailies/weeklies like tribe quests, custom deliveries, sending out Squadrons and Retainers, gathering my daily treasure map, mini-Cactpot, etc. If I run out of those I start using it to grind out stuff like FATE rank or Triple Triad stuff. There's plenty of achievement grinds you can make progress on while waiting in a queue! My achievements this week: - Level 80 Miner, Botanist, and Dark Knight (plus the achievement for omni-gatherer level 80) - 90 deliveries to Ehll Tou and 36 to Charlemend - 50 uses of the Aetherometric Augur in the Diadem - A whole assload of PvP achievements at once; I got my 10th win on Seal Rock which also got me level 50 with the Maelstrom, so then I switched to Immortal Flames and got 1 frontline win which catapulted me to level 10 with them, netting 4 Flames achievements at once.

I really like longer videos - I regularly watch 1 hour + long videos while doing my dailies etc.

I sort of feel for the Shadowbringers love. When you get Anden, you'll be heading back to Fairyland to help him out so you'll have more time to spend with the pixies. ;)

I never even played Shadowbringers as current content, and I feel the same sort of coziness when doing Shadowbringers stuff. Just something about the music, the zones, the characters, it just strikes a chord with me.

For the length of the video, I'd say half an hour, just like this, is great! It's a lot of content, it's fun to watch, and it's just the right amount for a weekly upload!

Everybody is going to be different, but I enjoy watching these kinds of videos over dinner or breakfast, so 45-50 minutes is the sweet spot!

I appreciate the Bozja Castrum Lacus Litore tips because when I ran it first time not long ago I had no clue what was going on the entire time. I was just following my party. The "Sprout Killer" was in indeed a Sprout Killer.

I like this format, I'll never complain for more if you have the energy for it but I'm happy with it as is :)

longform content is my personal preference, so if you upload this long or longer, I'll happily be here!

I watch 4-5 hour videos frequently, so there is no too long. you're great to watch on my second screen while playing

I literally watch these videos for the commentary. That commentary is funny AF.

I think these videos are the perfect length (but I'd totally have them on in the background as I do my own grind if they were longer)! And as others have said, love your more "unscripted" sense of humor just as much as the Mad Because Small videos. So many smiles and laughs watching your content! I'm a fan of the Shadowbringer's zones too; really happy the new relic tools brought us back to Norvrandt to enjoy!

Genuinely loving this series and I'd happily watch much longer video's. Definitely inspiring to keep climbing those achievement hunter ranks.

I love this series! Achievement grinds are what keep me subbed consistently, and I love hearing your commentary while doing the same thing!

I'd easily be able to listen to a solid hour of this stuff or more it's fun to listen all the things ya have to do to hunt these achievements

You make great videos, you've got the humor, you've got the style, and you've got a great voice. You make the video however long you want it to be, and I'll enjoy it short or long.

Cider: How much of this video are you willing to sit through Me: *just binged 4 of these videos back to back*

On the Aether data center, the Lyon party is free-for-all by tradition. You want up there, you gotta be quick. Fun story, I was doing CLL as BLM with only 8 ppl total. This means that only 7 will fight Lyon, since there must always be at least one to tend to his menagerie. And if that one person falls, it'll wipe out the pt fighting Lyon. So everyone else goes to fight Lyon, and I'm just freaking out trying to kite like 30 rabid coerls and beetles... it was pretty funny actually.

I have a lot of content creators that I like to watch, so these days I'm finding 20-30 minute videos are kind of the sweet spot. This is especially true if it's a weekly video, I'd love to have something to look forward to but know that I don't have to set aside my evening for it. As someone who loves completionism in games, I definitely felt overwhelmed by XIV's list and have not let myself pursue it too persistently because I will burn out. But it's making me really satisfied to watch YOU go through the journey, so I can sort of get that feeling of accomplishment vicariously. So thanks for this series!

Found your videos while doing my own crafting achievement grind and now I'm just binging them all while I craft

I think 30-45 minutes would be a fine target length for one of these videos. The odd vid thats longer would just be a treat! Your commentary is wonderful to listen too

"I'm asking in the context of Castrum Lacus,. of course." Man knew EXACTLY what some little shit like me was gonna say without the clarification XD

I look forward to your "nonsense". It's the best part of my week.

I love those new vids Cider! ❤ They are truly great and I enjoy them so much

I cant wait for the day Cider Spider is thrusted into Eureka for all the relics+BA clears

I wouldn't mind you making these videos as long as your heart feels! If it's too long to watch in one sitting, I just get to pause it and pick it up the next day and it gets me further thru the week to the next video!

Mad because Achievement. Who let the Smol Child have a Gun? You've doomed us all.

This is the exact kind of content to relax to after a long day. Make em as long as you want, I'm not going anywhere

The continued popularity of both Eureka and Bozja just really shows how they dropped the ball in not having a field operations zone in Endwalker. It’s some of the best content to have on hand for content lulls.

Literally just finished your first achievement video like an hour ago... Thank you for continuing.

Good sense of humor, good voice, interesting concept, keep it coming, take the time you need for your story. I'm listening

I’m loving this series. 30 minute vids are my personal favorite!

Thank you for making this content during this draught season of 14, i will have to go back to bozja and zadnor for that sweet 50 run as well as my leves. Appreciate the video!

top gamer for sure. i've ran castrum with 3 people before and solo'd top as whm (healers are so broken in there lmao) best of luck with your future achievement hunting

I can't speak for everyone but I love this kind of content! I'll watch as much as you publish.

Hang in there with the rough roulettes my dude, but congrats on your Bozja! Also I actually find your long videos really fun to listen to while I work

Not sure if you are unaware or just didn't explain clearly in the video, but the 2nd CLL boss will use 3 elements each fight: Water (always), either Fire or Ice, then one of Wind, Lightning, or Earth. The real cursed combo is Fire + Earth. Don't move because Pyretic, but also you have to move because Earth does the circle -> progressively expanding ring thing. The only real out there is standing at the outermost ring when the mechanic starts, so you have about a second after Pyretic expires to move into the 2nd (hopefully now resolved) ring.

Love this new series! Thanks!

Great video, especially looking forward to the other relic weapon grinds.

Welcome to the grind, brother. I'm sitting at #37 on my leaderboard on Faerie (Aether DC), with around 21,000 points (in game, including time limited achievements from days gone by). I applaud your commitment to the bozja stuff, that takes me a lot of mental patience to get into. Good luck with the leves, I finished out the grand company ones a while back and have been doing battlecraft leves every morning before work and every evening after work that I am home. Takes me five minutes and I can just call that good. Good luck with Triple Triad, Mahjong, and fishing. I have the Big Fish title, and it took me almost a year and a half to catch all the special ones. Godspeed, good luck, we're all counting on you.

I have no bloody idea how the bottom fight at the beginning of Castrum looks like, somehow I always ended up at the top. I'm fine with longer videos but to narrow it down I would say around 60-90 minutes. Also great video! Can't wait to see more of the series and Good Luck with all the Achievement hunting!

no video is too long for me. i've watched 8 hour videos before and loved every second of it, i even rewind if i have to get up and go cook (i like to leave it running instead of pausing, so my pc doesn't go to sleep). i fully recognise i am an outlier however, and i highly doubt you'd make videos that long, so i'm going to say that i would be 100% okay with an hour long video in your style :) i am also very happy with these half hour videos though, considering they're already longer than the average! and i enjoyed this video too! and i look forward to watching you stream more achievements to eventually turn into videos with more of your added commentary!

These videos got me inspired. Up to 14225 achievement score now!

I like the longer videos, gives me something to watch/listen to on my other monitor while I grind my own achievements

These videos are great, happy with any length video

Absolutely love listening to these videos while grinding my own stuff. Would watch 1-2 hour vids no problem, even without milestones in them

I like the half hour chunks. You are a mad lad and I respect you.

27:00 LOL the gunbreaker timed it perfectly to make it look like he died

No video is too long, I love listening to all of this while I'm working!

I will literally watch this madness endlessly! Apologies to your editing time xD But I'm loving the series and the long vids!

However long you want to make these videos is okay by me! You've inspired me to start my FF14 achievement grind (though, I always knew this day would come, and the pressure of the levequest achievements just kept building and building). I'm trying to take it slow so I don't burn myself out so this week I only got some Hunt mark achievos, but I did make some good progress on others. 😁

With Castrum Lacus Litore, top team almost always. Also this format of videos is very nice to watch. :)

Crank these videos loooooooong, I love having these on in the background while I'm doing my own stuff.

These are actually fantastic to listen to in the background while I to achievement hunt.

Longer videos have their charm too, like I can watch on another monitor while sitting in DPs queue. I'd love some more mad because small, though!

i just recently found your channel but holy shit man you are a blast to watch!

I'm sitting at 37/50 Castrum Lacus Litore runs. I really hate doing more than one in a day, as I find it rather taxing in how boring it is (since run #10 or so, anyway). Oh, and I gained 100 points since the first achievement video. In last week's video, I had 18250 points. Now I have 18350. Today, I got the ALC skybuilders' alembic (from scratch) for 20 points. Other notable recent achievements include killing my 500th A rank hunt mark, getting DRG to level 90 and getting the first tier of its Endwalker relic weapon. Also, I'm a bottom gamer (in the context of Castrum Lacus Litore of course).

definitely a power bottom in reference to the castrum of course. Love the videos :D

I'm loving the videos, keep it up man. I dont think this one was too long. I mean...giga chad odin glam guy believes so too.

Great video man! I personally don't mind long videos as much but I do think around thirty minutes seems like a good length.

Charity Chadheart- you can get BONKERS prep fragments from reflect farming in Bozja- You can go to Eorzean weather to see when they pop- Different weathers will spawn different sprites- but this is awesome for Prep, care, and support frags. On another note a Cider Spider video can be as long as you want! I dig the voice and your sense of humour bro.

There is literally no limit in my opinion, so long as you don't burn yourself out and enjoy making them I shall sit here and enjoy watching/listening to them while I play FF14 on my main monitor.

We can never truly escape, Viera Voice 7.

Nice to know that FFXIV doesn't put achievements on your list that you can't get anymore and the online sites do the same thing. It would really piss me off if I had those, considering how many games I avoided on the PS4 because some of them require online trophies you can never get anymore and those trophies sit on your list, forever locked and as visible as cankers. You're amazing. As a trophy hunter who had to redo his account many times because of trophies he couldn't complete at his age, I am glad to see someone try to get everything in FFXIV even if it takes your entire life. ^_^ And you're a Lalafell too, which is my favorite race. My current Endwalker clearer is a female Lalafell called Nemona Rookie so if you see her running around your server, wave hi! ^_^

I like the length of your vids ❤️ they're nice to listen to while playing Theatrythm

Great video, CIder. Good work. Shared!

honestly these could be an hour long and I would watch them! +1 vote for the longer vids

ay nice to see this series still going!

given your goal the length of these are cool, also i do enjoy the commentary :D

This series is fantastic best of luck in your endeavors! Bottom gamer here! Make the video as long as you'd like this is good stuff.

Oh hey the Castrum run that I saw you in made it into the video! We had very big DPS that run.

I'm mostly listening while working with stealing glances at the video and easily would've loved a video twice as long. Constantly finding myself cracking up and loving the commentary.

I'd watch a video as long as an hour, Cider Spider, half an hour is fine

Number 5 on Lich here. The key to sucess is knowing what is weekly and what is daily. Like: Priority Limited time events (CC series rewards, seasonal events, Garo Gear?) MSQ Weekly Unreal Wonderous tails Weekly Deliveries Levequests Island Santurary Latest tomestone cap Latest Savage raids Latest Alliance Raid Fashion report Discord run events like DR Savage GrandCompany Squad Scrolls Challenge Logs (IMPORTANT Eureka/Chocobo leveling) Being available for a static Rival wings actually being active during weekend peak hours Jumbo Cactpot Dailies Check FC submarines Roulettes (Including PVP roulette) Harvest a map Check for certain fish on the carbunclepushie website Grandcompany hand ins Certain Ocean fishing routes Beast Tribe quests Retainers Theres more than this but you get the idea.

20:36 I mean tanks and healers are also DPS. How good they are it depends on comparing every class separately.

29 minutes and 59 seconds is the magical duration of the videos

9:19 - It does my soul good to hear "Zoids".

30 mins to an hour is normally perfect for me to fit in my day

Since I can't watch your streams, this is definitely a wonderful series for me to watch :D. And as for top or bottom... can't say I've done it enough to find a comfortable spot :P. And for video time... I've sat through 4 hour vids about 30 min shows.. I don't think I have a limit there lol. The joy of multi-monitors.

Yeah, i'll say 45 - 60 mins would be ok with me. Thanks Cider for giving tips on the content on the side too. Good luck on your future adventures.

Long videos are the best thanks for the entertainment!

I like the long vids. I've been leveling my crafter/gatherers so the vids on my second monitor help with the boredom.

I've been on the achievement grind for awhile. so it's nice to have a video on while I grind relics. But I'm also doing the full radar on Lalachievements. which means collecting EVERYTHING. mounts, minions, cards, blue spells, orchestrion rolls...bardings

Did you also encounter the glaring issue of closing/locking instances for BSF & Zadnor? I remember it being a slight issue in Eureka for Baldesian Arsenal runs, but when I was doing the 50x clears of CLL and Dal, it seemed like I'd have an instance lock on me before I even hit the 180 minute mark. Constantly checking the adventurer list, just to see if the people coming in had stopped.

I did a crafting food session during this video so that's the ideal length for me, one crafting food. I use the food manuals to make sure each food lasts 45 mins, but if someone isn't using that then a 30min video covers their crafting! I noticed you passing on gear drops in dungeons, but have you got the desynth achievement yet? Casual gear dr ops from dungeons did a lot of numbers when it came to my gear. Also if you haven't got the achievement for levelling all of your trusts to 90 yet, that's an excellent way to gather xp for jobs, it's how I got a few of my jobs raised up.

Give me an hour of this content and ill be happy! I could watch you for hours

I really enjoy these types of videos in the 30-60 minute range

Definitely a top gamer! Also any length video is cool by me. I typically watched 1 hour+ content.

Top gamer all the way, best of luck in the grind