This Grind Might Take Years... - Getting Every Achievement in FFXIV #04

[@kevingriffith6011]

You can't hide from it forever. There are 85 achievement points waiting for you, all you need to do is put on that little blue mask. You've already leveled the other chromatic mages, what's the worst that could happen?

[@vegeta002]

Famous last words.

[@RalorPenwat]

I'd be willing to join him. I'm one of 10 unironic BLU enjoyers who didn't pick it up just to abuse it

[@kevingriffith6011]

@@RalorPenwat I enjoy BLU as well, admittedly I've only got it up to level 50, so maybe I haven't experienced the full suffering yet.

[@saltiestsiren]

"I'm afraid I blue myself."

[@eternalspitfire9064]

@@RalorPenwat I also unironically enjoy BLU. Cause it goes brrr and savage content is very fun with it.

[@alenonimo]

8:40 TIP FOR LEVELING WITH PVP: You can enter as one job and change the job in the spawn point in Frontlines and the exp will always go to the job you entered as. It's possible to level up a job all the way to 90 this way without ever trying to play it.

[@combustionwhisperer461]

This is the way. It makes leveling jobs you enjoy in PvE, but find miserable in PvP, so much easier.

[@ditzyhere3138]

Actually kinna surprised Cider didn't know this. 😅

[@razekal4255]

He says "I'm just gonna do this on dancer even though I dont know how to play dancer in PvP". He definitely knows about job changing, he just didn't care to switch.@@ditzyhere3138

[@notmousse]

True, but not as fun (for us) without seeing him try all the jobs.

[@MattwosRandomNonContent]

Wait, there's a way to get BLM to 90 without leveling BLM?! In all seriousness though can you also change roles? I don't really want to do queued content as healer and tank...

[@clintonwilcox4690]

I'm down for this achievement grind and I don't mind longer videos. Just FYI. Also, one member of my FC has done the 5,000 S rank achievement and I believe he said it took him a couple of years to get it.

[@Riftweaver1981]

i legit would watch a 10 hour long video of this guy reading a phone book, his voice is like sweet candy for the ears

[@NeoFulgur]

Please never stop this series, as a fellow achievement hunter this is so exciting to see and so motivating!!

[@vincentprice713]

Oh man you really picked one hell of a series that will give you years of content. And it's going to be interesting to watch this. I will be here to witness this mountain of a challenge.

[@KainYusanagi]

Cider Spider, Squidzure Dragoon is earned this way: "Earn the “Squid Squadron” bonus during an ocean fishing voyage on the Ruby route." Squid Squadron is gotten via: "As a party, catch 400 or more squid".

[@MattwosRandomNonContent]

Okay but what does that have to do with dragoons?

[@KainYusanagi]

@@MattwosRandomNonContent No clue. Maybe because to hunt squid it uses harpoons? Or they based it off of "What Did Seadragons Do to You?"'s title, Sea Dragoon? Or maybe there's some Japanese-language pun that they didn't really translate over well?

[@EternaltheGrey]

@@MattwosRandomNonContent Dried squid is Estinien's favorite munch.

[@FizzieWebb]

11:10 "Gimme that journal, Khloe... detestable little meerkat..." One of the best delivered insults I have ever had grace my ears. While not quite venomous, there was frustration in there.

[@KristinBowles]

That bit made me laugh out loud. Always a delight to hear the newest insult for our passive aggressive orphan story junky possibly voidsent cat kiddo.

[@gateauxq4604]

Meercats are adorable but the name sounds inherently insulting. Poor meercats.

[@CiderSpider]

It's been a loooooong week. I managed to get 85/5,000 S Ranks for the Ultimate Thrillseeker achievement... How many do you have?

[@shirazan6314]

I've been playing since HW and I have around 2.8k. I gotta looong way to go. I'm making it my goal to get the 1k S-rank mounts for ShB and EW zones before Dawntrail. Then maybe I can complete the 5k one by 8.0.

[@Tardisntimbits]

I only recently decided my Malboro char is my achievement *@ore, but I have 419 thus far.

[@boot-killer6852]

4/5,000 S ranks... but hey I finally got Big Fish this week! That counts for something, right?

[@Tardisntimbits]

​@@boot-killer6852Welcome to the fold! Legendary EW fish coming soon...the fear begins all over again, lol.

[@boot-killer6852]

@@TardisntimbitsYeah... the only fish I'm missing right now are 10 of the 11 blue-rarity ocean fish, and that's gonna be a pain in itself. I'm NOT looking forward to whatever horrors they unleash for 6.55 big fish...

[@Ultrapyre]

I love how it's a weekly tradition that the Mad Lalafell immolates Khloe for being stingy with stickers the the tune of Lahabread's theme. I hardly see that streak breaking anytime soon...

[@agdemonic]

Interestingly enough, watching these videos while also coming back to FFXIV made me exited about completing all of those achievements aswell. Btw I am 83/5000 S ranks!

[@KristinBowles]

Rather than comment throughout I just wrote them all together. Wee! 6:20 - Never do roulettes again?? Oh dear. Nobody tell him the requirements to get Astrope! (It's me, I'm Nobody: You gotta Mentor Roulette x 2000) 14:26 - Squidzure Dragoon is a title from an Ocean Fishing achievement, "What Did Squid Do To You?" (400+ squids caught as a party on a single voyage). 14:43 - The instant I saw the party still intact, I was like "Ah, minions spawned." The S+ is an RNG spawn on any S Rank kill in, first introduced in ShB and continued in EW. They function the same way: on an S Rank's death, there's a chance 4 "minions" spawn; if they do, and are successfully killed, the S+ spawns. Unlike the S Ranks themselves, which can spawn across multiple locations in their given map, the "minions" and the S+ have static spawn points for each map. In ShB, the minions are Forgiven Gossips (small white jester-like sineaters) and the S+ is Forgiven Rebellion (a large white angel-jester sineater). In EW the minions are Ker Shrouds (red wraith-type blasphemies) and the S+ is Ker (a large knight-wraith-centipede type blasphemy). 25:23 - "HOLMGAAAANG! ... Bro, it wouldn't even have killed me." It would've been REAL close without that Shake! The attempt to use Tank LB1 before the damage went out was admirable. But also, dang, how long did it take to kill those minions to get LB!?

[@sirbartonslady]

jfc that CRAP CRAP CRAP chocobomusic moment made me bust my sides laughing. Another stellar entry into the achievement grind catalog. Looking forward to the next one. Wish I could catch more streams, but I'm always working on Sundays and so i have to catch your rare weekday ones if possible.

[@ZedLRS]

The SS-Rank has like 10% to spawn after killing any S-Rank from ShB and EW! It's really cool to see you get into hunting, hope you will try to spawn some yourself, it's really fun :D

[@ViviCaligo]

Yes yes, more spawners! We'll kidnap all-I mean welcome all.

[@wiseazz07]

Additionally, the minions that the SS rank spawns count as B ranks if you haven't complete that achievement.

[@MattwosRandomNonContent]

13:17 Probably rolls in the sand right beneath its feelt? Is that sand? I forget if there's sand there and I can't tell from the footage.

[@natebroadus8474]

I don't know how I would function without Hunt Discord. So many great conductors across so many different servers and data centers put in work to scout targets and lead clean, organized hunts.

[@RyuSaarva]

I have never been in any discord, obviously that makes it slower to do these but it does not matter since you can do something else when none of your linkshells don´t announce any trains and I don´t bother to do most of them anyway.

[@Experiment.626]

You have become my most watched KZbin series cause I just got through ARR after 10 years of owning the game so it’s nice to see what I’ve missed and you’re hilarious

[@Spencichu]

Oh hey I didn't notice the first time I watched this. I'm the luckiest lord at 24:22. The tank you ran the dungeon with, Spagoodle McNoodle and I are friends. We got the luckiest title within a few days of each other :) Whenever you decide to go for that I can give you the information I have to help ya. I'll tell ya that you will want BLU leveled tho :P

[@SunChaoJun]

Squidzure Dragoon is an ocean fishing title from the ruby route where the party has to catch 400 squids total through the voyage. It's under Crafting and Gathering achievements as What Did Squid Do to You? Also if you look at Ker during Eternal Damnation, you get a short uncleansable Doom that lasts a few seconds. So you just die lmao

[@Fexghadi]

Even if you heal to full before it times out? Some dooms can be "cleansed" that way - like Ra La's in The Dead Ends.

[@SunChaoJun]

@@Fexghadi Nope, there are a few dooms that are just guaranteed death. The ARR S rank Chernobog also has one attached to a gaze, but it's only in a cone, rather than omni-directional

[@balladsfromthefloor]

I'm loving these videos and watching your journey. Keep them coming! I managed to get the ShB and EW hunt mounts and its true, after a while you see the same 20 people like always! the grind is real!

[@Lizard14]

These are the best videos to watch as I keep doing my own achievement hunt! And this week's reminds me why I love hunting. It's so cool recognizing the dedicated people and give them the opportunity to flex their rare titles and mounts. Sometimes I really wish XIV had more of that. I also like to open everyone's adventurer plates and be amazed whenever I find someone with the mahjong and fishing plates.

[@worm_intelligence_agency]

Please keep doing these, I live for your weekly updates

[@SoraShadowdancer]

I looked at your character profile on the Lodestone this week, just out of curiosity. So I could see what achievements you got each day. It's been fun following along on your journey!

[@JunglingFist]

his achievements are public There are multiple characters called Charity Nineheart The one you want is Diabolos (Crystal dc)

[@Zanador]

Finally get into hunt grinding in earnest I see! I honestly love A rank trains, the people on them are always really friendly and often will banter a bit as you go. And you're right about them being congregations of high-achievement chads - it's the only place I've ever seen a Luckiest of Ladies. My achievements for the week: - 150 unique battlecraft leves and 5/10/15 unique Twin Adder leves - 100 unique Carpenter recipes completed - Level 80 Monk and Machinist - Skybuilders' Pickaxe acquired (ShB Relic tool) - Vedrfolnir Devoteth and Dark Devices FATE achivements

[@brianbogholtz9485]

This has given me so much motivation to hit my achievement grind. I've been doing a lot of things passively for a long time, but now I open the "near completion" tab every day. 🏆

[@MetalOtter33]

This week I also pulled a perfect little crime as inspired by you (going to Dynamis for an A rank) to finish off the A ranks in ARR content achievement, finished off the SHARED fate grind in the last two SHB zones I needed to get The Invisible Hand title, turned in 60 things to Anden and while it doesn't count overall since its a holiday I did the 2023 Starlight achievement! I look forward to these videos now each week and it's inspired me to work on my hunt achievements more and stop neglecting hunt trains. Good luck on your grinds!

[@MattwosRandomNonContent]

24:55 That was clearly Hyperman.

[@araradeterno]

I am LOVING this series. Please keep it up!

[@Shiri1432]

Thank you for making my friend's Alexa play Tiny Dancer while we were watching this on his TV during a hangout.

[@qqu2182]

I very much enjoy these videos. Thanks for sharing your progress!

[@RetroMenace]

I love achievement hunting and I have a roughly 4 hour drive as part of my job 3 days a week, including a friday. Obviously, do what works best for you, but I certainly wouldn't mind longer videos!

[@irisheartt]

As someone with all hunt achievements, the 1,000 ShB S ranks and 1,000 EW S ranks are the most miserable achievements. Because whenever those spawn, the queue times for world hopping shoots up almost instantly. So I am stuck idling by the aetheryte for hours on end, and even then I still miss some because I was just a second too slow. By comparison the 2k and 5k general achievements are a cakewalk because queue times for ARR-SB S ranks are almost nonexistant. The A rank achievements aren't nearly as bad as either but pretty mind numbing with the sheer number of trains you have to attend.

[@EmerathLizanEndilix]

These videos are if Epic Movie Trailer voice was just my stream of consciousness when doing my own achievement hunting and I am here for it.

[@Cyrikyty]

5:14 YOU are a certified fake gamer. We never fired cannons at Koshchei, we fired the Berthas at Isgebind, while fighting Koshchei. The line "Isgebind descends from the skies" will forever be etched into my memory, even years and decades later.

[@mainstreamvoltage]

This past week, inspired by your video i cleaned up my missing hunt marks as well as finishing my missing boss fate. Ive also have started to do my ocean fishing achievements. Ive gotten 215 points since your last video reaching rank 127 on my server.

[@MattwosRandomNonContent]

19:49 The one with 0 kills, 5 deaths and 3 assists easily did the worst of that scoreboard.

[@Okicop]

I absolutely love this series! It's making me get back to the achievement grind! Also that blue pig is from my DC, they're a gigachad of achievements they're rank 6 on my world!

[@kittea1804]

for the SS ranks there is a random chance of spawning the adds (minions) after killing any S rank in shadowbringers or endwalker zones. however, you can fail spawning the SS rank if any of the minions lose aggro after they're pulled, so make sure there are at least a few people at each one when fighting in case the main tank dies. they can also despawn if no one pulls them after some amount of time (maybe 5 min, i'm not sure exactly on the time). also, the minions are considered B ranks, so they count towards the B rank achievements too!

[@freddykingofturtles]

"That there is a well scrubbed hippo" - The Socrates of our time.

[@InsanoRider777]

3:58 Not to mention that Stone Vigil has maybe a dozen groups between walls, meaning if you attempt - emphasis on ATTEMPT - to wall-to-wall here, you'll get eviscerated in 0.2 seconds.

[@EternaltheGrey]

I wasn't expecting to enjoy Margrat's quests, but everyone's super chill, honest, and likeable. Then they find out who you are and it gets even better.

[@MissPoplarLeaf]

Re: your comment at 16:38, I personally love some of the alliance raids so far - Wiping City, Dun Scaith, and all three Ivalice raids are my favorites as someone who hasn't cleared ShB yet. But idk if I'm an outlier lol. I know people who hate snoozefests hate CT and Void Ark, and people who want an easy time avoid Ivalice, but idk if most players dislike alliance raids in general

[@ricosanchez5155]

I believe in you Red mage angr-tato. I really enjoyed RDM, it feels fancy, and pretty to watch the spells. Good luck with the grinds, I believe in you. I am also a lala-felon but I main DRG :3

[@aaronnaves4968]

you can catch these hands.... in 4 seconds. IM DEAD xD 6:05

[@matthewhostetter8974]

The Achievements never end for the mad baby. Cider suffers for our amusement. God bless you man for everything you do.

[@kaltstrahl]

i love the ivalice/nier raid series just because there's the potential for so much carnage (and more fodder for my good samaritan achievement!) but i agree, they should make them more rewarding. personally, i'd love if they took a leaf out of bozja's book and made savage versions of the alliance raids!!

[@RalorPenwat]

3:20 Shadowbringers and Endwalker late stage bosses: Are we a joke to you? (Some of those QTE moments hit different bro) Stone Vigil is also just roughly designed for tank/healing relationship because it just has so many corners that are 270 degree turns which is annoying because line of sight

[@JintiGoat]

extremely chill videos, thank you for 'em

[@JenDeyan]

He just randomly got a nightmare. That's a pretty rare drop. Even for ARR. Congrats!

[@EnderJazi]

Omg I know that blue pig, she is an achievement hunter as well and I helped them a lot when they were doing their map ones. They are awesome!

[@ValantGramarye]

I'm not the one in the video, but I'm also an Ultimate Thrillseeker that still goes to S Ranks. I do it because I spawn stuff and at this point like 90% of my friends in game are other hunt people. Depending on where it is in the patch cycle it's also very good money!

[@KristinBowles]

The thrill of the hunt is its own reason to do it, the community is another, and the CURRENCIES CANNOT BE DENIED!! :D

[@DacianGradaMusic]

i'm with you on the rare drops idea... they already do it for minions which is fine, but imagine if they brought back the dungeon mount from Ala Mhigo or as you said more furnishing and just glam in general... great way to run old content!

[@MoonBearization]

Cider Im not sure if you know this but I figured id point it out. You've inspired me to also start achievement hunting and The Fall Guys collab event actually counts towards your achievement rank!

[@valusvexy8957]

17:41 - Ahh yes, rare furniture like the Archon Throne pieces in the arr alliance raids....

[@Reruro]

23:30 is that THE Spagoodle McNoodle?! (She's very nice and a good friend)

[@marisha8792]

love this episode. keep grinding up!

[@ScioTabula]

And the craziness continues! For leveling, it can also be good to do the battle quests from the previous expansion tribe (in this case the pixies in Lydha Lran), doing all three quests will give around 1 million xp.

[@NightofOrion]

11:35 Once you get all the ponies there’s a special pony you can unlock from the Wandering Minstrel that also nets you an achievement!

[@KiryuuYoshiya]

orbonne monastery is based. i look forward to every single upload of this series, its just so damned entertaining and makes me want to actually do hunts again

[@MissPoplarLeaf]

I feel your pain about Phlegethon lol. I always tell people "if he's at 10% HP when he starts casting the second flare, it's safe to greed" and usually more people will stay in and we'll get the greed.

[@Tyabann]

Ker's skeleton is Scylla from the ARR alliance raids, IIRC

[@Wastingsometimehere]

I don't want to even fathom the kind of grind hours in FF14 it takes to flex on Cider. Real Warriors Of Light.

[@norahsatelier]

The titel you never seen before is from ocean fishing of the eastern routes (i think it was the rubysea one). So you will get to it anyway when you start the fisher achievments since its tied to one

[@kazenon]

I cannot wait to see you start hitting up Mentor roulettes 😁 It's whiplash going from a 30 second guildhest to a 7-novice extreme trial

[@cj_skywalker]

Your videos spurred me to go back to FFXIV, Cider Spider. I just love seeing you make progress. :)

[@manesium]

the double S rank explained: the ShB and EW S ranks have an about 10% chance of spawning minions when they die. You get a message in your chat log ressembling "the minions of a powerful mark have appeared" and a bunch of people in shout chat starts shouting "minions!" or "adds!" depending on the DC. The 4 minions will always be on the same spots on the zones, so if you dont know where to go, ask in shout chat and experienced hunters will shout back the locations. you have 4 minutes to start engaging the minions (thats never an issue unless you are on Dynamis at late night / early morning hours). The minions themselves count as a B rank. Wait until you are at least 7-8 players nearby before engaging a minion. since they have insta-kill mechanics, if someone solo's a minion and dies and the minion resets, they ALL dissapear and it's over. When all 4 minions are dead, an SS (Forgiven rebellion for ShB marks, Ker for EW marks) will spawn, always at the same spot on each zone. for achievement purposes, the SS counts as a regular S rank, but the rewards are greater (400 nuts and a greater amount of tomes).

[@SpartanSharpshot]

This series is so hype ❤

[@marfur9]

Regarding the susanoo fight. The ruby weapon in shadowbringer had some nice cinematic moments like catching a meteorite and stuff. It felt so badass holding a meteorite off with my reaper scythe

[@argentpuck]

Stone Vigil is absolute hell and you nailed every part of why.

[@mistmonster]

The s rank and the a rank train community is pretty awesome and dedicated and it's so true you see the same people at them. I got all the mounts. Then took a break, still have the last s-rank and a-rank achievement to go.

[@mishratheforsaken]

Can't wait till we get to see the grind for the rare map clears. Nothing like bad RNG getting to decide how many times you have to run certain tiers of maps.

[@Great.Gospel]

Completing all the levequest types at the 5k total achievement of each category will take 7 years alone. GL :)

[@durvailgames]

What Did Squid Do to You? is an achievement. Squid Squadron bonus: "As a party, catch 400 or more squid." (Available on the Ruby Route) Squidzure Dragoon.

[@MirinkaiserVODs]

Since last week's video, I have crafted my 30th, and then 70th unique armorer recipes, synthesized my 1000th level 81-90 recipes with armorer, crafted my 3000th HQ item as armorer, killed my 100th A rank in Endwalker regions, finished paths 9 to 12 + map completion in Aloalo Island, finished my dragoon anima and completed part 3 of the Manderville dragoon weapon. Currently sitting at 17,540 points (Lalachievement scoring system), or 18,615 points (ingame score). Achievement hunting sure is a lot of work, isn't it?

[@mactassio21]

17:10 You've got a point , ff14 really does need more fun gearing options for some of its content

[@boarMcberry]

fyi, bozja's zadnor FATEs was my way to fast cap alt jobs even to 90, was even doing that while also working on capping those bozjan 3 stats thingie.

[@Euphamia]

as he talks about dropping rare things off raid bosses... This used to be a thing. The final loots would have a rare item that could be used by crafters to make epic furniture. Btu that practice went away because no one really cared about them.

[@TheGreenManThom]

frontline comebacks are real. Never give up. They happen more often than you think

[@LunaArgenteus]

"it's not something you want to do too many times ... unless it's Orbonne Monastery" Based take, huge W

[@simonmcglynn9332]

daily and weekly hunt marks are worth picking up when leveling

[@urustai]

I caught the Susano sword as dps once. It was epic. I thank the healers for keeping me alive during that..

[@ShinParisu]

13:17 Well isnt it obvious? its because its a dirty dirty Hippo

[@absollum]

I totally agree with the rare mounts or furniture in alliance raids. The hype of seeing one drop would be so cool. They should also do the same with dungeons. Still don't understand why Ala Migo is the only dungeon with a mount

[@doomguy676]

"it was pretty fun to play but i cant tell what the heck i was doing" that is how i approach most of my classes in this game.

[@Tyrnael]

LOL, bastard, you made my Alexa play "Tiny Dancer"

[@AnAverageGoblin]

playing DPS and watching the Tank and Healer f*ck up and die while trying to maintain the party structure is like watching your parents bicker and fight.

[@anarchicbean5888]

The Squidzure Dragoon is a title you get for some fishing achievement, actually!! I learned about from a vtuber, Ahrieffect, who went for it lol

[@Esponn]

Can't wait to see you start doing deep dungeons. Good luck getting 20000 accursed hoard!

[@clintonwilcox4690]

Or soloing all 200 floors of the first one.

[@LemmaEOF]

Squidzure Dragoon is a new ocean fishing bonus title for catching 400 or more squid as a party on Ruby Route

[@SkydreamPony]

Bertha in Stone Vigil...aaah, those were the days...

[@Firestar1992]

Yeah, even for an experienced healer, that last pull in Stone Vigil can be extremely tough because you just don’t have the abilities to keep up with the damage. You don’t have any of your big instant heals except maybe Benediction on WHM.

[@Arthas24Lord]

Lost it at Tiny Dancer, need to go chug a fanta and become smol.

[@firesoy]

I like your little treasure hoard room

[@PurpleAlzir]

I got Bring Your S Game II while you were streaming. But I didn't do any other than that so I am only at 21 total.

[@bunniibel]

this makes me wanna share my achievement hunting too

[@anfa2789]

Someone on crystal actually was hosting min ilv stormblood extremes this past week in pf. I'd only ever had done them unsynced so that was really fun! Byakko kicked our asses the most hehe Also yeah. Stone Vigil also made me quit ffxiv because i was a new sprout whm and i had a tank refusing to do anything but wall to wall. And i had forgotten to do my latest job quest, so no regen. It was a disaster and i thought i would never be good at this game. Glad my friend convinced me to come back though because its my life now lol

[@ICozmicI]

I like that he keeps Child labor quest there forever

[@leaffaerie]

as a note, red mages are always a good dance partner ! they can make full use of the buffs as their bursts line up well with dancer. otherwise whoever's got the highest hp usually means best gear, and as such, best partner o7

[@KristinBowles]

Part of the functionality of Dance Partner (for the Dancer's benefit) is Esprit generation, which in turn lets you use Sabre Dance (a high-potency GCD gauge-spending attack) more. This benefit is triggered exclusively by Weaponskills (not Spells, not Abilities). Red Mage's only Weaponskills are the 3-combo rapier attacks, the conal melee AOE Moulinet, and the melee Repise/ranged Enchanted Reprise actions. As such, any melee job (DPS and Tanks) will be the far superior choice for that particular aspect of the Dance Partner/Closed Position buffs, since the majority, and hardest-hitting, of Red Mage's kit are all Spells and Abilities. Samurai is an excellent choice for both reliable Esprit generation and overall raid dps bonus - even if the Samurai in question isn't especially skilled. Monks and NInjas can be absolutely amazing, but there's a much greater gamble in skill/performance for those jobs if you're just partying up with people you don't know in the Duty Finder. If you're not at all concerned with Esprit generation, choosing a high-performing Black Mage or Summoner can also send the overall damage way up. If all the other DPS are dead, or you're doing something like a deep dungeon, tanks are a more balanced option for both boosting damage and getting Esprit generation, but certain healers can have very big AOE damage and would be more worthwhile with the buff for big pulls.

[@leaffaerie]

@@KristinBowles oh i agree about melee and specifically samurai usually being a good/the best choice! but esprit generation typically isn't much of an issue in casual df content, and sometimes you're left in a situation where you've got all casters, or your original partner is dying a lot, in which case rdm can benefit a lot from the partner which contributes well to overall party dps, especially since blms can be pretty hit or miss lol. i play dancer a lot and im mostly speaking just from experience! in the end though who you partner is not a huge deal in df content :)

[@KristinBowles]

Very true, I was coming at this from an optimization/raid perspective, which definitely doesn't apply to plain old leveling and duty finder xD

[@Bongaboi151]

On the next Misadventures of Cider Spider...

[@Majima_Nowhere]

It's funny how everyone was excited for the ilevel requirement for alliance roulette making anything other than CT more common. Surprise! It's still only ever CT. I sat in queue for the last nier raid for hours yesterday as a healer and it didn't pop. I still havent finished that questline.