Thank you as always for watching gamers I hope you enjoyed :^) Also let me know if you liked the little Palace sequence.

Women fear him. Fish fear him. Men turn their eyes away from him as he walks. No beast dare make a sound in his presence. He is alone on this barren Eorzea.

Aggro from lowered health is called blood aggro. It's normally a typical aggro from undead from ff11 but seldom used in ff14

I love how he just glossed over the fact that he got the 1/50 dodore wing on his 4th turn in lmao

i can't stress how impressive the time, effort and patience put into this is. not even just the challenge but the editing is always engaging. it's good to see your channel growing with this series.

Steve has infirmed me that I am legally obliged to give you a pat on the back and for you to make sure you're well hydrated.

This has the same cozy feel as Settled's Runescape videos, and that is extremely high praise- the way you go through all the little details and grinds to progress makes these really fun to watch, and your narration, both voice and writing-wise, is spot on and carries me right through, enough so that I can't even tell that 20 minutes has passed when a Solo Only video is over. You're a hidden gem!! Please keep it up!!

I forgot just how much crafting was going on in this period! Wonderful work as always!

I like how everyone's first instinct upon getting toaded in Palace of the Dead is to just stop and zoom the camera in on your frog face.

So I had an idea for how to work around the elephant in the room that is the Crystal Tower raid series while breaking as few rules as possible and compensating for those that are broken. (This is a bit of a wall of text, so bear with me.) Simply put, the crystal tower, from the perspective of ARR, used to be Optional content, so in that sense one could consider it fair game to ignore the rules for the sake of progress. *However.* That doesn’t mean it should be a free ride. Oh no. My idea is as follows: Rule(s) you may break: You may use the Duty or Party/Raid Finder to complete The Crystal Tower Raid Series. (Your choice of duty/party finder, as well as your choice of ilvl and/or silence echo restrictions). What you are Required to do as compensation: 1. You must queue as the *Healer* Role. (It is your least used role thus far and you just levelled scholar up in this video. It would also be the role that asks the most effort from your current character to achieve success as you have shown you can already complete content with dps and tank roles.) 2. You must complete the Entire Raid Series for the MSQ Requirements *From Start To Finish.* Failing any part of the raid series will mean starting from the very first raid again. (To treat it as one big endurance test similar to how the dungeons have been thus far.) 3. You may not stop to resupply or do anything other than change gear or progress the Raid Series Questline until you are done with the raid series. (Within reason of course, if you’re waiting for a queue you can do general side-stuff to kill time or work towards other long term goals, but priority 1 is the raid once you’ve started it.) These restrictions would serve to force you into a role with your least prepared job/role (healer) and would call for you to perform consistently with that role across multiple raids, with the justification of it being “technically optional” content (as it is technically only mandatory due to shadowbringers). In this way it allows the run to keep going past The Crystal Tower, while also staying as true to the spirit of the run as possible. After all, it would be kind of sad for the run to just arbitrarily end “Because The Crystal Tower Became Mandatory Content Due To Something 3 Expansions Later” as opposed to the run ending because you reached a legitimate hurdle that you cannot overcome solo. Of course this is just my random musings/ideas for this and you might have other ideas for it, but we’re slowly drawing closer to the time where this issue will rear its head, so probably time to start discussion on what is to be done about it.

New Solo Only and a new Tileman episode on the same day, great way to finish out the weekend. I love grinding out Sch to win the fight with Warrior, hopefully Sch has a later use

That's the only time you cant yell at the tank for spinning the boss around.

Well, I know for certain the later dungeons aren't solo-able synced, but I am curious to see how much of the game is clearable like this.

I'm working on creating every furniture item in-game with little to no market board cheats and boy, do I feel the gathering/crafting struggling you go through every time you need to craft more gear. (Love this series! So glad I have so much more of it to catch up on!)

Thinking about some of the stuff coming up. I really do think up to the ultima weapon is possible solo, even if very hard like dzaemel. What scares me for you is the post ARR trials. When you do inevitably hit an impassible wall (The chrysalis being the one that I know is impossibe solo synced.)... My point is. When you do hit a wall, I think it would be really cool to continue your journey. I just discovered it and have been going back through the old stuff. Its pretty amazing. Maybe see if you can get through your wall in a duo? And when you exhaust that, keep going till you find the minimum amount of people necessary to beat it. I know it's not entirely in the spirit of the challenge. But maybe the challenge can shift to "How much of the game can be beat solo," rather than "How far can I get solo."

I'm still loving this series, the voice, the quips, the run itself. I adore all of it. Please keep up the good work!!

The palace rage death is always a bummer. It's unfortunately a semi-common interaction between the rage knockback and enemies regenerating health. So what happened was that when you stepped on the landmine there enemies health dropped 80% of its current value but then started its out of combat regen as you smacked it. The server snapshotted the health being removed as what it was when you queued up the attack but the regen allowed it to have the single regen tic of health left =( same thing can happen with enemies like the midge flies 91+ the soulflayers 151+ and wolves 171+ if you get unlucky and rage them mid life steal. Been loving the series so far, thank you for sharing it and keep up the wonderful journey!

I'm surprised you didn't try unlocking scholar earlier for some of these, the shields can do fantastic mit and in early levels it's a lot easier to solo with them IMO

Hah! It's funny, i've been binging and as this has been going, as a SCH main I had been thinking about the viability of it, especially as you were hitting the Dzemael wall. Lo and behold you proved me right, i was thinking i would try ARC start if i try this

What an epic battle! It was very exciting to see you battle him for the final time.

Just epic, I love this series! Can't wait for the next one!

genuinely so happy i found your videos!!! i love challenge runs and hadn't seen many done for FFXIV, so seeing ur vids has been such joy

I'm always really happy to see a new video from you, and this one was another banger. Your perseverance is inspiring. Looking forward to the next one!

I really appreciate these! I’m fairly new to the game and have progressed pretty far and I enjoy watching this and seeing your tactics.

thank you for another one of these wonderful masterpieces

Summoner and scholar have been my favorite classes since I stared 14 and I loved how your using so many different classes in such unique ways. Great job so far!!

Love the sneaky dragon quest music in the background

Lovely content, i just startet playing ff14 again, and stumbled over this chalenge, and loving it. This is sparcing my love for just doing crafting and and chilling again, just doing stuff at it's oen pace. Instead of pressing throu the storry just to unlock stuff. But enjoy the ride to^^ Keep on with the good work mate, can't wait for the next one ❤

God this is just insane, the thing i like the most about this series is just seeing all the mechanics that aren't used as much see new light

HELL YES SCHOLAR MVP~ (not really thou, Rath is just that awesome) im sorry, Scholar opened my eyes to the majesty and joy that is Casters, and I'm a Sage Main now, defaulting to red mage when I wanna just deal tons of damage. so seeing Scholar here just....makes me so, so happy, since its the class that made me go from liking and having fun with FF14, to loving FF14 and actively trying to learn all I can to help other players and enjoy myself plus in-canon, my character had the same eye-opening experience thanks to it (she's half-garlean, and thought she COULDN'T use magic, and now adores it and studies every vocation of magic she can) There's also some funny echoes of my own journey here, since I played Ninja until the end of ARR, then got Scholar after playing Arcanist on a whim of curiousity. (it's even more funny since I started leveling arcanist in the background around this same point- thou I didn't unlock Scholar til a good bit into ARR patch stuff)

just found this series and it's so engaging! the undead in bozja also have blood aggro, and I suspect *some* of the overworld undead do also but I haven't tried to test it

Just binge watched your solo series so far and you’ve made me put ff14 back on download after nearly 2 years haha I also want to try something like this and find my love for the game again

This is some of the best XIV content I have ever seen. Keep up the great work!

Liked before even watching cuz I was hella excited to see a new ep lol. I love your dedication to this and your problem solving is crazy! def my fave ffxiv content on youtube 🤟 also Palace sequence was great having little interludes like that is a good idea

love these videos! very well done!

always looking forward to the next chapter of solo only 😊

so glad the algo gave me this series. it's so fun

Yooo, that clutch Holmgang on the final Batraal attempt!! A victory WELL earned!

the snowman friend popping up in the background though 😂

I stumbled upon your video and this reminded me what I did before but I did it with my monk. I didn't finished my solo dungeon. Only up to stone vigil. Very impressive that you are up to Dzemael Darkhold. Looking forward for Aurum Vale.

Such a great video and you are so good at PVP

Though I can't easily make your streams, watching your journey has inspires me so much! Thank you, and God speed!

And a new video has made its way into the world

Ooh, thank you for defuzzing the aetheryte background splash ^^ - it was really hurting my eyes when I watched

Congrats! Always enjoy your vids. One thing I would say though is it's probably worth having the warrior buff up at all times even if you have to do the aoe combo single target as it lasts so long. The buff is 10% iirc, so just use the aoe combo every 30 seconds or so at least until level 50 where you'll get the single target buff enabler. Keep it up! Cheering for you!

Really cool videos. Inspiring persistence.

Deserves significantly more views and attention. Great challenge so far.

Amazing videos, im insipired to try this for myself when im bored with the game. Happy new patch BTW! Best of luck on the adventures Solo

I forgettening to comment, have comment this is one of my favorite series on KZfaq

I dont have any suggestions or anything but i just gotta say, these are some of my favorite videos on youtube. Keep up the great work ❤

17:21 I'm not sure if someone pointed this out already, but if you use Legacy movement then it turns A, S and D into the same kind of movement a holding W, and will automatically turn your character to whatever directional input you press and let you walk in that direction at full speed instead of doing that "backing up" animation that slows you down a ton. Useful in general (and better than normal movement for the changes to the S keys movement alone so you don't have to turn your whole camera and character just to back up out of an AOE) it would make doing this strat 1000000 times better. Edit: The changes to A, S and D allow you to turn to any direction and move in that direction on the spot without having to position your camera to face that way, its basically controller movement with KB&M. If you've played a game like Warframe on PC then the way the movement works becomes similar to that.

inching ever closer... though good catch about scholar. its a barrier healer meaning you have mitigations slightly built in. if it werent for needing to have access to Ishgard, DRK would be a good contender for the new tank, but then again, ishgard.

yesss ive been waiting for the new episode

I just really adore your enthusiasm when you finally beat Batraal!

Love these way too much xD

Great video! Looking forward to the minecraft stream 😈

7:46 Hey, thanks for the cameo!

You mentioned fates, what's the rule on those? People like me would be a nightmare for people doing this, I regularly throw out heals and or shield on people I see doing fates out in the world as I'm gathering or what not.

Man i havent heard the music from dqmj in forever, guitar riff at 5:27 during the fight brought me back lol

I love that you keep running into more and more silly/obscure arr curiosities, seeing microwave strats nearly out of necessity makes me so amused

Can't wait for the part where you grind Zodiac weapons for the stat boost /jk Great video as always!

Keep it up friend!

amazing video *cheers and purrs*

After having been here for parts of the stream, I know this will be good >:3

Congratulations! What a long journey lol

Omg it's the PVP god in the flesh, he has graced us with content

Im really exited to see how far this solo run can get to. Obv crystal tower would requre an exeption to the solo rule for progress, especally the first duty where you'd have to have at least 13 ppl (Solo +12 gamers) total because of the 2nd path. Other then that I'd like to ask if there would be little side-quest episodes where solo would try to see if he can beat The Warring Triad bosse, ect.

just in case you would like to and dont already know, you can turn off the action error msgs and sound. i believe this is done thru Character Config > Log Window Settings > uncheck "Display error messages when actions fail" & "Display recast timer error messages". i luv ur videos and hope this comment helps you or others that see this comment, and we r rooting for u

I always thought "the boss can't attack if it's dizzy" was a joke this blew my mind

yooo ive been getting notified for your live streams but not for this oh well, surprise video time

I just started playing this game and honestly I might try this challenge. It seems fun, but since I just started I might make a couple changes to the rules

Congrats dude! Also are you going to allow yourself to use expansion jobs like Red mage or Dark Knight or not since they start at a higher level?

There is a reason the mob survived the mine in POTD. You see while exploding silver chests do damage near 80% of your max health, mines do relative damage and take 80% of your current health. Same goes for mobs

so good lets go gamer

This is what Ardbert would have been like if he wasn't a quitter

you deserve more subs

I was legitimately holding my breath at the end of that last attempt.

caught up with the latest vids n congrats on the dzemael clear + second flame lieutenant! im not sure if ventures would be allowed in your ruleset but if you ever consider it, ever, let me know cos retainers are a huuuuge time sink n i dont want you to repeat the same mistake i did ;.;

Oh look at that at 15:50 - Holmgang used, Holmgang on CD, Holmgang buff. Still dead X)

amazing PvP player BTW

legendary

the fact you only have 10k subs after this its nuts takes a lot of skill to do this

If you wanna explore the multi-control-scheme-drifting approach further, you could try a gaming keypad like the Razer Tartarus or an Azeron. It's more like using a mouse+keyboard than a controller, but you still get analog stick movement. I've been using the Azeron Cyborg for over a year and it's legitimately the best gaming peripheral I've ever owned.

amazing, insane, what are you thinking

Ya know what I just thought of? All this preparation for your big fights is like being a witcher

I will never not like and comment I want you to be immortalised

Wondering what he's gonna do about Susano, or the mandatory crystal tower alliance raids. One of these two will likely kill the run.

spin to win. Funny how I only play with a controller and couldn't fathom to play with mouse and keyboard.

a bit late but think the lock on feature could make you run perfect circles by just holding down one key. might be usefull in the future tho

Hello. I recently discovered these videos and they are really cool. I haven't watched all the videos yet as of writing this so apologies if this was already brought up before but has blue mage been considered for any part of this challenge?

Serendipity Appreciators unite

Best pvp gamer

i literally cant belive how based warrior is

Solo to an extent. This game forces you to group up for raids & you need to do that for the crystal tower series or you cant progress the entire story which I think is kind of messed up but thankfully the only tough one is labyrinth of the ancients, world of darkness may seem daunting but its actually easy as long as you can survive the first boss.

I really would like to try a solo myself. But not in the ultra hardcore mode you do it. I most likely will just use BLU to get in 50+ content and switch to WAR when he has R I.

If you somehow get to level 70 before beating ARR (which hopefully won't happen, maybe a crafter or gather could get there) Reaper has one of if not the highest damage output of any job at level 50, hopefully a day where this knowledge needs to be used doesn't come but it doesn't hurt to be prepared.

LETS FUCKING GOOO

out of curiosity, why the restriction on quest rewards and/or retainers? using the market board is an obvious violation of the spirit of the challenge of course (so would selling items with a retainer), but extra storage doesn't really have anything to do with other players. Nor does quest rewards like AF.

is that a dragonquest music playing in the backround?

Spot the snowman ❤