Finishing Every Heavensward Relic - Getting Every Achievement in FFXIV #07

Completing relic weapons in Final Fantasy XIV is a massive source of achievements, and on my journey to get EVERY achievement, I must of course obtain EVERY relic. And even though we're in Endwalker, the Heavensward relics are still some of the most difficult to make. So that's what we're doing today.
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[@ShadowGrimsy]

The real reason why "Ukonvasara" sucks as a name for the relic in question is that the name translates to "Ukko's hammer", and the weapon itself is an axe.

[@ThatKirisame]

I mean what is an axe but a really sharp hammer?

[@BatttleBun]

@@ThatKirisamewhat is a hammer but an axe in dire need of sharpening

[@crittomato7043]

Instead of bonking its chopping :D but yea love the Finnish names but this rubs me wrongly

[@superlahna]

came here to say this. glad i didnt need to (so many games make this same mistake and its funny every time....)

[@Relmitos525]

It's weird to me that they did this. Not because Ukonvasara is an axe, but because while in FFXIV it's a sharp axe, in FFXI Ukonvasara is still a great axe but it does in fact have large, flat edges where the blades should be that makes it more like a hammer then a great axe. It's like they knew but elected to not make it a kind of hammer in XIV despite doing it in XI.

[@Nobrev]

That level 90 lancer is sending me into fits of sheerly deranged joker laughter and I can't stop. Good video.

[@TheIvoryDingo]

That ending was painful when I realised you didn't have the Dragoon relic

[@kevingriffith6011]

30:16 I don't know, man. I don't see Dragoon on this list. Are you sure that's it?

[@angelinside9596]

31:03 he still doesn’t have drg achievements completed. Oh boy, guess back to step 1 😨

[@thomasfleming8131]

Thanks to this comment I noticed the first time he rattled off the jobs

[@Simmons101]

Skipped my favorite (and currently only) HW relics.

[@Terramagu]

The items for the relics, when they were current, cost uncapped tomestones. At the time, it was law, esoterics, and lore. They never required the capped tomestones, which were esoterics, lore, and scripture. Which is nice. What isn't nice is that the amount of tomestones required was SO MUCH MORE. The Umbrite step, for example, cost roughly 27 thousand lore tomes. PER WEAPON. ARF was run a lot, since it gave 150 per run. Hence the idiom, "ARF 'til you BARF"

[@Lagzlot]

Not being able to spend Scripture tomes for the umbrite grind essentially made roulettes useless, so ARF grinding was really your only choice. And Twelve forbid you had a healer who couldn't dodge ice balls and/or a summoner who didn't have swiftcast...

[@D3v1ance]

Not to mention the light grind was absolutely criminal. Not only was it current so you couldn't just blast through in under 2 minutes, but the yield was lesser.

[@EdenNeedsAYoutubeHandle]

Don't forget that the Dispelling Arrows, Kingcakes, Titanium Alloy Mirrors, and Adamantite Francescas had to be HQ crafted and couldn't just be bought from company seals (unless you opted to buy the HQ crafted items on the market board, which the cost of all weapons combined would easily be up in the tens of millions.) Don't even get me started on the drop rates on those FATEs...

[@The-Nomad1]

if I never do ARF again it'll be too soon

[@JustJohn816]

Missing something? Did you forget the Dragoon relic??? I can't remember you mentioning the Areadbhar! And if you did, the only other thing I could think is maybe you forgot to account that you did the Scholar one? EDIT: YOU DIDNT MENTION THE DRAGOON RELIC, DID YOU FORGET IT!?@?!?!? EDIT EDIT: YOU DONT HAVE DRAGOON UNLOCKED!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!? EDIT edit edit I'm gonna have a fit

[@lycanyte5898]

The worst part was when he hovered on the anima weapon achievements to really drill the joke home

[@Blutkatze]

Oh gods I went back after reading your comment and you're right!! Dragoon is missing!! Oh nooooo xD Guess the grind is not over yet

[@coreyd4482]

It's a good thing he deleted all those extra pieces of relic items that'd just be clogging up his inventory...

[@Ryota7films]

why did he do that?

[@JustJohn816]

@@coreyd4482 I KNOW AAAH THAT HURTS TO SEE 🤣

[@lucalycan]

The way the "Child Labor" quest has just been left uncompleted. That has to be intentional.

[@DaneeBound]

Some deep Charity Nineheart lore here: She can’t do the Dragoon relix, because she can’t be a Dragoon. Guess those tiny feet really aren’t made for jumping.

[@kevingriffith6011]

The ability to reach the light switch is a power that Hydaelyn denies the angriest baby for all our sakes. She would become far too powerful.

[@firefox7352]

or the counter at a wendy's. we would all be doomed if angry baby could order her own wendys, instead Mom must do it (we have wendy's at home)

[@aguyhere7945]

Keep in mind the real grind for the Manderville weapons are the ten years of side quests you have to do if you weren't already caught up with them.

[@matthewhostetter8974]

Cider you are a complete madman. For doing almost all of this on stream. Also keep the Meme alive, because there is no Lancer Relic weapon.

[@shirazan6314]

(psst! Little time-saver tip: For those parts of the game where you have to spam-click the same button over, you can spam-press numpad 0 instead. It's a bit easier on your hands than spam clicking. Also very useful when turning in lots of gear to your GC!)

[@SkydreamPony]

The little "wah!" with each achievement or quest completion makes me smile every time :D Wah!

[@christinewilliamson9820]

My goal by Dawntrail is to be top 25 on Excalibur/Primal and get to 85% completed achievements. Currentlyranked 32 at 78% completed. I watch your stream while grinding achievements! Thanks for the motivation!

[@fletcherrenn5326]

Primal is a tough server to hit that high in the leaderboards on, that's some crazy dedication

[@throwaway5012]

Ah, for 85% completion - that's somewhere in the neighborhood of 22,500 at time of writing. Those numbers would put you up in the top 10 :) Keep grinding!

[@gjet35]

As someone that made all of the Relics as they were current (because I have a crippling completionist addiction) some of the grinds were painful; especially the first step of the Anima Relic as it was lengthened to be the same time as was predicted for Gordias Savage. So many damn Unidentified pieces...

[@Shellbe26]

Some tips that might help you - Farm SHB relic fates with HW fates (too late for that lol) - Farm ARR relic fates while doing the 10k fate achievements and the achievement fates (make sure its always equipped) - While waiting for fate on ARR relic books do your dungeon runs, pop out if not there, do the next dungeon. - You'll never be free of our Lord and saviour The Hunt - Do your tank achievements while doing mentor roulette. Youll get instant queues and chances are decent you'll get a dungeon that applies to one of them.

[@ramirezthesilvite]

I kept waiting for the realization that he missed one and that's why he had leftovers.

[@kevingriffith6011]

30:16 Judging by this class list, I'd say he knows exactly what he's doing. Let's just say he's missing a little more than a relic weapon for one of his classes.

[@ditzyhere3138]

I was worried he was doing it on accident and was gonna suddenly realize but it's for a bit apparently lol

[@Dw7freak]

At a tip: The scrips can be replaced with poetics or grand company seals. Scrips are just the most cost efficient way to do that step, since you can farm them easily. But there's an item in both the grand company and poetics shops that can be used instead if you don't want to level any crafters. From the poetics, you can use Superior Enchanted Ink and Thavnairian Mist for 6750 poetics for that step. From the grand company, you can use Moonstones for 1.5 million seals. Per weapon... Why'd I get all those moonstones...

[@Herbile7]

I look forward to these every week. Thanks for keeping this series going!

[@Hedoro_Latoureux]

Honestly was pretty fun helping you out with the light farming and victory laps, finally got me to finish some of the anima weapons I'd been sitting on at that stage for months.

[@HayTatsuko]

Naw, the deep Square lore in Keeper of the Lake is that one of its midbosses refers to the awesome shoot-em-up Squaresoft made in 1997. You might have heard of it -- _Einhänder._ The Endymion critters in Sea of Clouds are another reference - some of the playable fighter ships of Einhänder are called that.

[@evilandru]

As a DRG main, Your lack of DRG hurts my soul. We only lay on the floor because it feels nice and cool on our face.

[@jessicawilson1751]

So it's like when I was in undergrad and got shitfaced drunk. Got it, no wonder I've slacked in leveling dragoon.

[@hellothere4778]

I will be honest, I checked your lalachievements timeline recently and my jaw dropped when i saw you got almost 800 achievement points in 1 day from relics! I am hoping to catch one of your streams soon. Anyways, now i am gonna enjoy your video!

[@radiantchocolatehero8177]

I love watching your vids as i grind to level all my crafters and gathering classes. Thank you for your vids. ❤

[@Lurki-]

Congrats on getting this beast of a grind completed! Its one big boost up in achievement score. You'll def 100% be in the top 100 in Diabolos if you keep this series up, but be careful to not burn yourself out. Late happy new years by the way! I myself won't be achievement hunting too much this year, but I do want to finish up all of the grand company achievements. Since I got all of maelstrom done in ShB, Immortal flames done in EW, now Gridania is next up for DT. For once in my life I will be 100% caught up soon with Custom Deliveries. That took me almost 3 years to get all of the 150 achievements. Time gated stuff is rough, but I am happy regardless.

[@D_Jester]

I've said it before one a previous one of your achievement hunting videos, but by the gods does this inspire me to get back into FF14. The only thing stopping me is that the place I'm training at for the next few months has horrible internet, and I refuse it on my 5+ year old gaming laptop, when I have a beast of a PC waiting for me elsewhere. Love the content, I'm glad you're taking the effort to edit these for youtube so we could all be along for the ride. My New Year's resolution is to just get my truck paid off.

[@Riftweaver1981]

i love these videos, you are incredibly entertaining, my dude. and you have the perfect face for radio

[@GallianMilitia]

Love the videos! During the down time before Dawntrail you have inspired me to complete the same challenge for the Gilgamesh server, top 100 here I come!

[@rosemaiden5992]

Whenever I watch your videos, makes me wish I could join in and play with you Cider. You always remind me of ways to have fun in FF14. Keep up the amazing work!

[@firesoy]

looking forward to the Eureka videos when you do the Stormblood relics, should be a good five videos or so

[@PurpleAlzir]

I am now getting the memory of running great gubal hard like 40 times before realizing A1S was easy and quicker back in HW. Definitely wasn't stepping into a current savage tier at that point.

[@AlleluiaElizabeth]

I love that you bring up random lore bits whenever you get the chance. The story of this game is the best part.

[@Speedy_Boi__]

Love these vids man, keep it up!

[@IamProvocateur]

Phew. I’ve been whittling away at these for a couple years now along with the ARR relics. You’re an extra special WOL for doing it all at once lol GG

[@Veishan]

Checking in a little late this Friday but that's okay. Love your stuff as always man

[@Luna_Bell]

When I saw the lancer, I laughed so hard. Another great video. I swear it's making me want to try and complete my achievements. But then I remember how long it takes sometimes and then my ADHD side of me is like....Maybe I'll do it next week.

[@MoonBearization]

I love that Cider started doin these videos and now im seein other content creators do the same thing xD

[@EliteSmorechannel]

Glad because small posted!

[@rune_prism]

it's such a shame we'll never be able to get the dragoon relic weapons because the job is only available to estinien. oh well, the relics you got are pretty cool to make up for that! :) another great video, CS! looking forward to seeing you break top 100!

[@keiyangoshin3650]

Another great and fun video! 👍 Honestly I’m still in shock of the amount of poetics, scripts and seals needed for the Heavensward relics. 😱 Which is why I never bothered with any of them. Good grief SquareEnix! 😩 You are a remarkable individual Cider Spider. ❤️

[@FieryKanata]

Great job, Cider!!

[@TheTsunaru]

I.. dont know if its a bit or not, but he totally forgot about Dragoon.. And then did the thing at the end. Welp.

[@TransTaey]

It's totally a bit - he doesn't even have DRG unlocked lol

[@selay333]

I’ve been slowly saving up to finish all my hw relics like you did. Though I think I’ll just focus on 1 day to save what little sanity remains in me.

[@JakkHorwikk]

Absolutely sick. Wish I had the time to play this game like that. Absolutely loved playing though the first three expansions.

[@Enderlinkpawnu]

I like to personally thank you for getting me into doing more serious achievement farming. I am working slowly on the luminous tools. Just something I can do mindlessly if I feel like playing XIV but not go to Eureka (my only relic serise left). Its a grind, but quite a breather after doing Mentor Roulletes every day for like a year for the mount lmao,.

[@CiderSpider]

Happy New Year! What's your first achievement of 2024?

[@nevermore5073]

I started playing the game this year! 🎉

[@post-mastersodium3136]

I guess pld to lvl 90, or something else, I wasn't paying attention, lol

[@rinnnnnnnnnnrin]

Black mage lux weapon :3

[@HayTatsuko]

Bound by Hope ("The Seventh Dawn" title)

[@Nenerineri]

Finally beating Gogo, gettting 1-312 triple triad cards....and being 1 orchestrion away from 100%.

[@SStyle5]

Imagine doing all Relics from all expansions already... It was a good Covid project

[@kittenhello245]

I'm also on this journey. Good luck!

[@lithic2331]

Fantastic video!

[@christopherbullivant315]

I've been waiting for this one since I heard you say on stream that you were stockpiling the materials. The HW relics are probably the most wild outlier in points of the entire list

[@WotgAshiee]

Grats on finishing all your relics! I love getting huge chunks of achievement points done all at once like that, I currently have 17 jobs worth of EW relics materials to turn in for that day because seeing the 500+ point jump is so satisfying. I want the patch to happen so I can gather the items from the last stage... until then I'm working on grinding the hoard which is... a slog :(

[@TheDarkThunder]

Great job! Best looking weapons imo

[@ScavGecko]

That thumbnail picture of your Lalafell is great

[@TajinQ]

Can't wait for the triple triad card collecting episode

[@Rhetorify]

RIP Dragoon relic ;-;

[@hiten_style]

A project I've had in the back of my mind for a long time is setting up a character such that I get as many achievement points as possible in a 24-hour period. (I hardly know where to even begin on routing/scheduling that.) But man, what an insane amount of preparation that would be. Just seeing all the mats you had stored up just for HW relics makes me think that I would probably end up needing like 2 or 3 extra retainers just to stockpile all the items I'd need to hoard for the various turn-ins.

[@Nem_FFXIV]

keep up the grind homie, we see u out here

[@Gooberzilla]

Seeing you put tenacity and skill speed on the Machinist relic caused my soul to evacuate my body, and this post is being typed from beyond the grave by my ghost. :D

[@trav3linglemon662]

I only did the summoner relic about a month ago and swore i wouldn't do it again. I commend your commitment to the grind.

[@arahabaki9325]

You're literally my role model with my handful achievement I got and I love you so much

[@sageata_verde]

Cant wait for next week!

[@adjwindu70]

Happy New Year

[@Tolly7249]

Checks notifications, Cider Spider top of the list. "Aw yeah gonna be a good day!"

[@hevensarmada]

These videos have become my Saturday morning: drag my ass out of bed and get shit done around the house videos. Can't wait for next week.

[@kaufmann921]

I did two of these when they were current I think? Maybe end of Heavensward, going into base Stormblood? And that was after I had broken down the ARR weapon versions into the Astral and Umbral nodules.....so yeah that was a thing. Anima is made from a chunk of your soul, without a doubt. And now I'm back trying to get the other 11 of them and kicking myself that I never hoarded the items. So Godspeed Cider, I salute you for having the foresight to spend your tomestones. I will be along in..... sometime next decade?

[@dinguskahn4855]

Less Dhona keeps surging back to me like a goofy wave and i chuckle every time. Solid goof.

[@shadowofchaos725]

Its wacky what achievement hunters go through. I've heard all of the pain from others in discords. I am not that strong. It's another thing entirely to watch it happen on a video log on a weekly basis lmao. As always I wish you the best in this hell and it's extremely entertaining watching the details + snarky commentary. It's a treat every week. And we appreciate you sharing your journey with us.

[@CH-dr1ds]

Heavensward's were the first set of relics that I completed, in both senses of the word. In the downtime of ShB's first patch, it gave me something to focus on and use poetics and all the scrip and tribal currency on

[@MiaThorsteinsson]

my goal is to find the motivation to start playing again, and also fix the shaking of my arm, so it would actually be possible to play lol. Great video as always, glad you didn't lose all your marbles with this massive grind

[@MrAaturner3]

"We ended the week with a total of, that's right, 69 ACHIEVEMENTS." Nice. Also, fantastic job on the grind.

[@sailor_anna9924]

One thing I wanna finally do in ffxiv is get the necromancer title. My favorite title and of course it's one of the hardest lol. Love these videos and your journey to all achievements

[@DMZ6KG]

I decided to go for the Mimesis Lux well before I had the equipment for A9S because I like to do reasonable things. Thankfully there was a Moogle tomestone event going on so it was pretty quick to get into the HW alliance raids for aetheric density farming. Had to do a ton of them but on the plus side now I'm really good at those raids.

[@SventFulgur]

I always felt the DRK Tyrant weapon reminded me of Nightmare 's sword from soul caliber

[@TheYambino]

I remember grinding the fates and dungeon for every hw relics about a year ago. Come today and all my weapons are sitting on the light grind! Ill uh, get that motivations someday.

[@Vash_tha_Stampede]

I remember doing these when it was current, it was rough. We did A4S instead of A9S because you could kill it faster and easier so that it worth the slight drop in efficiency. Wasn't fun getting my SCH weapon because it was in the dark times when healers could miss without stacking accuracy

[@JarroHood]

I find it funny as ya explain the stream privilege bit at 20:08 , that you have that Specific Kugane quest almost completed

[@nighttiger314]

This week I'm sorry to report you may have missed out on more progress for hunts. At least on Aether, when the new year rolled around it seems like it reset all the SS rank hunt lockout timers, shortly after midnight on the first we had a chain across the servers of spawning (iirc) 6 or 7 in a row

[@asclepius29k]

Oh yea, I remember seeing all the SS ranks poppin off on New Years, a shame he missed out :(

[@Caittus]

Nah, there wasn't any unusual spawning behavior there, just more people around than usual. Timer reset looks significantly different, we'll see the true chains after 6.55 maintenance.

[@liquidsolid3417]

There is no such thing as SS rank hunt lockout timers lol, SS rank spawns are RNG. You guys just had a lucky run, nothing more, it happens.

[@cyphi474]

We did green treasure maps for unidentified stuff, 200 poetics(or Soldiery, whatever it was) per map and if you managed to fail, which could happen because those were hard(back then), you had nothing. Other option was item exchange with Ulan, or beast tribes daily.

[@aoistrawberry]

i finished all hw relics in sb... before msq roulette and other easy poetic sources. I didn't know i was that crazy for finishing them. :D

[@ZedLRS]

If you want some recommendation for a chill farm, I'd say the chocobo races are pretty ok! Gj for the relics

[@EclipseHighroller]

I remember doing this. The grind is real. AST weapon was my first Lux weapon and i earned my 13th and final Lux (MNK) about a year later.

[@simcatgirlorangehair]

Som Al is one of my favorite dungeons in HW because it is just well done.

[@terraglade]

My (ffxiv) goals for this year involve getting all my wolves, hitting all 100s in dawntrail (almost done with 90s), and maybe get all relics of one class.

[@va_caliber4822]

185 is huge, congrats!

[@gracesalay4834]

I"m not watchign this one bc I don't want to spoil what the relics look like for myself but I am gonna leave a comment to help with the algorithms! congrats on the relics!

[@6demonai]

Well all that grinding was worth it, Congratz on shooting up in ranking.

[@Zanador]

My dude is committing to this grind with a deliberate handicap??? Damn, that's nuts. I hope you get every achievement that doesn't require Dragoon before you ever unlock it, lol. I've coincidentally also been grinding relics this week, although I'm starting with the ARR relics. It's not the most relevant for achievement purposes since there's only achievements for the first step for some reason, but my completionist brain won't let me ignore them. I'm at the point where I've gathered all the vendor and crafted materials and now I'm just suffering through the insane grind of SIXTEEN DUNGEONS PER RELIC to get the quest items I'll need for each one. Then I can actually start the relic quests themselves and turn everything in... although those quests have 2 entire light-farming steps per relic as well, plus a few other random trials, so it'll still be about as bad as Heavensward I think. Can't wait. My achievements this week: - Level 80 Culinarian and Bard - 50 guildhests - 80 unique Fisher leves, 20 unique Miner leves, 100 total fieldcraft leves - Rank 6 with Pixie tribe - 60 deliveries to Charlemend and 1000 total collectables crafted - PvP rank 30 with the Immortal Flames

[@DonPedro921]

i made dragoon and machinist on content. this was a hell of a grind, but watching flamethrower on a deathlocke lux for the first time gave me so much satisfaction

[@HeyNaniNani]

I am not sure why, but the way you screamed "THOK AST THOK!" made me laugh so hard that I hurt myself. 🤣🤣🤣

[@specie8470]

Great Video

[@chelsthegameruiner8669]

Yeah I could never do all of these. Working on Paladin which will likely be my 3rd and final HW relic. I don't mind a grind considering that I'm a former Destiny veteran but damn, this grind takes it out of you. On the bright side, I had time to prepare items ahead of time so I'm blitzing through the Paladin relic at a fast pace, currently working on wrapping up the crystal sand step

[@TaurusVersant]

If you're looking for something chill to do next week, may I suggest ocean fishing? It's a good time! And open tournaments in the gold saucer are on the other hour, so you can alternate those to progress those achievements. And just do gold saucer fate stuff in general!

[@maromania7]

My new years resolution is to get to a point where "survive" isn't my goal every year. same as usual, but I'll get there eventually I'm sure...

[@acehealer4212]

I respect your commitment to the bit. Why lancer though? Is it something from an older video?

[@GMMisha]

the stat customization stage is the stage where I stopped grinding for my relic back in Heavensward. that shit was hell. and I was already beating the savage raids, so I didn't need a better weapon *that* urgently, especially considering that Zurvan Ex was so easy.

[@Bruno-rm4zq]

The density grind always gets me. I can't find anyone to do the savage run to do it fast, so I not that excited to do all.

[@datachange99]

I really enjoy all your content! But please, keep yourself sane! I honestly would not mind this kind of grind to be a two-part video.

[@aag_zeta]

You most definitely missed one. How do you even HAVE a Lvl 90 LANCER?!

[@vaane19993]

I'm mentally sending you more subscribers. Keep up the grind, mister grind man

[@themachoechidnaugandarandy7583]

Something about this lil gremlin with the voice always gives me a chuckle

[@SolarZero]

Well that was awesome. I really hope you don't regret tossing all those items when the next expansion hits since the new classes might get retro relics?

[@Uberwenis]

Absolute madlad