"Nobody pays attention to the jumping baby" Nobody can SEE the jumping baby.

Your comments about Crystal are so true. The biggest mystery is the "Adventurer In Need" is about 80% listed as "Tank" yet Healer always pops the fastest if not instant.

REMINDER NOT TO MISS HUNTING MADNESS AFTER MAINTENANCE NEXT WEEK S Rank Timers reset after maintenance so theyll all be rdy to spawn at once, 24h after servers open is ARR, 24h after that is every expansion, dont miss theseeeee

"Stu, it's 4am, why are you running Pandemonium for the first time?" "Because I've lost control of my life."

15:35 as a PLD main: Voke battles are usually started when some insecure tank feels the desperate need to main tank at all times regardless of how well the current MT is doing(this is usually WARs in my experience on Primal), the best procedure is to either A) let them have it, its not worth it B) stack on top of them and voke it back to assert dominance or C) let them have it and laugh as you rip the enmity back due to better gear/a more optimized rotation.

Eden's Promise is interesting because it's a stylized design at the end of a daisy chain of references. The theme of the Eden raids is they're loosely based off FF8, and the final boss is a monster lady named Ultimecia, and parts of Eden's Promise' design resemble it, but the other thing is that Ultimecia is a mistranslation of Artemisia, AKA the classical goddess Artemis, and if you look up statues of Artemis she's often depicted with a lot of boobs, hence why Eden's Promise looks...like that.

"He doesn't even drop dice here!!" 🎊Eureka mentioned 🎊

The skill of a tank is inversely related to the amount of times they voke.

I like the fact that I'm not the only one who finds the English VA's "tremble!" to sound so weird. The use of it here was [chef's kiss] magnificent. Especially that last one. Excellent work, Doomvoice Popoto.

Mad Because Tanking, Happy because Mounts. I honestly wish they would do something like the Tank Mounts again for other classes. I mean I know there is the mount forever getting everything to 80.

Athena's "TREMBLE" throughout the video was hilarious 😂😂😂

Fun fact, in the Omega fight the LB is actually for killing the level checker before it wipes everyone with "Force Quit". You don't actually need a tank LB to survive the big attack afterwards, just a fully charged shield (via duty action), and some regular mit.

The sound effects you add really bring this to life. I haven't even touched FFXIV in years, but you make very entertaining videos.

Honestly, your uploads are what I look forward the most on youtube nowadays. Thank you for being such a good source of entertainment.

Achievement farming is not about fun! Is about grinding until you hate yourself, Yoshi-p, the game and everyone playing.

Spirit of the achievements. You've touched me, Cider Spider.

Would like to confirm your tank theory, yes it's true that back in 2013 people didnt want to play tank. It got to the point that we couldn't even do basic content because of it. Yes alot of people were playing dps, yes alot chose healers but tanks were in high demand bc Qs were horrendous. Tanks had a bad reputation with God complexes bc they weren't easy to play and the only who had a Aoe skill was WAR and no PLD only had flash and required mp. So to answer you in earnest yes we had tanks but they were horrible and would insta quit if something went wrong or they died etc. All in all it's much better today then 2.0 era, the achievements were there to help curb ppl into the job and it mostly worked along with reworking and buffs along the way.

in Duty Finder, Provoke is basically only ever used to assert your dominance over your cotanks

Little protip I learned recently: Instead of clicking "Ok" in the commendations menu, you can doubleclick someone and that does it. Also love the little caster tank aesthetic, I'm rocking the same thing.

I've officially reached the point when a new Cider Spider video pops up I instantly perk up. Your voice is like aural coffee.

This is my new favorite youtube series. It made me realize that I was at 12.4K points just from playing since ARR launch and now I want to chase more things myself. I'm almost done with the Castle in the Sky achievement anyway. 🙃 (And by "almost done", I mean a few weeks of Diadem)

making p12 say "TREMBLE" for everything gives me joy she thinks she sounds threatening 😁

I stared watching this series and it has inspired me to get back into ffxiv and maybe even get as many achievements I can, cant wait for future episodes.

For anyone oblivious to the "Tank You" achievements, you basically need to run duties that are either Stormblood content and later, or complete your roulettes once per day. 700 times. For each tanking class. I wished you luck for mentor roulettes, big fishing and the Hunt grind, but I didn't even _think_ of the 2800 duty tank grind... Good luck with that too! :D >:D

You can just unsync old trials for the tank achievements? Oh man, those tanks mounts are mine for sure, now. Cider Spider videos are so educational, you learn all about things nobody talks about, like scumming achievements. In my experience from the few times I tanked, tryhards that don't bother to have half-decent gear will have voke as part of their rotation so everyone thinks they're the biggest person around.

Glad you took it easy this week. I appreciate giving yourself a goal to aim for each week, but having slow weeks to mitigate burnout is important if you wanna keep this series on track.

Me, an unhinged dragoon after watching last weeks Anime relic video: "YOU SIT ON A THRONE OF LIES"

I finally broke into the top 100 on my server, inspired by your streams last year.

A warning for those doing Island sanctuary achievements : the one for collecting regular material require you to gather them by hand, those gained with granary doesn't count toward the achivement

I love how Athena has "tremble!" added to every attack.

"do want to be in front of the not car" I need this engraved on my heart

You don't actually need to tank lb3 the flashbang in alphascape 3, you just need to get the shield activated with the omega jammer. Otherwise BLU players would have a terrible time getting mustard bomb and peripheral synthesis, lol. I appreciate that you played the chocobo theme over the phoinix fight.

"No one pays attention to the jumping baby" I need this on a t-shirt!!! 😂 😂

Hey Cider, just wanted to drop by to say thank you. Really enjoying these, and as someone who has always had leveling tunnel vision on dungeons, you're really inspiring me to go out and look around, as it were : )

Since the last video, I have completed the post-Shadowbringers astrologian job quest, completed my Skybuilders' Needle and cleared floor 50 of Eureka Orthos. This was my most meager week since the beginning of Cider Spider's achievement hunting video series (with only 25 points), but I still stand at #82 for achievement points on Adamantoise. Grind on, achievement hunters!

Hope you got your Bozja relics started during this grind, because that quest chain has one-time stage that requires 180 normal raids. It can be substituted with FATEs in Bozja, ofc, but the raids' drop is more consistent.

I've always wondered what exactly counts as a "high level duty" anyway. I guess raids count but like what else does? I wish it was more explicit like it is on the other tank achievements. My achievements this week: - Level 90 Miner - 5 unique Botanist leves, 40 unique Miner leves - Rank 6 with Qitaris , Rank 7 with Pixies, Rank 4 with Dwarves - 120 Deliveries to Ehll Tou - A Horse Outside FATE - Immortal Flames: 500,000 seals earned

fun fact for E12 normal, the opening bit always has the same rotation. ramuh, leviathan, ramuh, leviathan, tankbusters (they dont cleave), ifrit, garuda, ifrit, gaurda. if youre a caster or phys ranged, you dont need to move an inch until the ifrit cast, which is like 80 seconds into the fight or something. the spawn point for the party dodges the first 4 mechanics. if youre ever playing black mage here, stand and cast and watch her health drop, youll just skip the ifrit casts entirely!

Your videos have really become my little breakfast pleasure on Saturday mornings. Keep going with the good work 😁

3:45 Just now realized that this is the thing Estinien stabs in the Dawntrailer, totally forgot those were already in the game

People have mapped the least likely to fail spots for any way the wind blows if you want to look it up.

"Now it's the present day and I'm still bad at the game" I feel called out!! Up to 14880 points over here, lets go!

I look forward to these each week. I've only been able to catch the stream a couple of times. Fun stuff. Truly enjoy it...and have been inspired to work on my own achievements. But until I do, I am living my lala life vicariously through you. You need to macro (and Trademark) "Always pay attention to the jumping baby" with you jump button.

Welcome to the tank club Bruh! I’ve just got tanks for everything V to work for for Gunbreaker, and IV and V for the others.

there are a couple of spots to stand in for any way the wind blows that supposedly have a better chance of surviving to the end!

4:23 reminder that World of Darkness has a 10 minute cutscene or so right before Cloud of Darkness

Yayy was looking forward to the weekly achieve hunting ^^ also sidenote I showed my stoned brother (who doesn't play xiv) the mad bc small vids and he loved them even without context xD 💜

These videos inspired me to go a little harder at some of my goals. I did 73 Garuda EXs in a row to get my flippin Pally lion. For my birthday haha. Ty for motivating me!

Something I've noticed on Primal, most of the time Tank is the role in need (adventurer in need bonus) in roulettes. Tank queues seem to pop the fastest for me.

Remember that people can't see a small baby tank.

9:00 - When I am doing something and someone is a first-timer, I always Comm them. Next is if I get Dance Partner (as a Monk). After that is the other Monk for playing a class that is normally forgotten.

This series has single-handedly rekindled my love for the game thank you for making it

For the Voke wars, if you have better gear and your co-tank is voking, just do damage. You'll passively take it off of them. People that do that have some kind of ego about being the main tank. That's when you just shrug and let them be dumb. Let them cook.

ive been doing the paladin and warrior achievements very casually but lost motivation once i got warrior to 200 and paladin 175….. i think this video is a good kick in the ass for me to pick them up again!

I legitimately forget that the glaring baby in the bottom right is covering chat, and not just a feature.

Never in a million years would I have thought I'd be looking forward to some crazy person posting a video like this every week.. be here we are..

Cider... Is there a specific reason you have "Child Labor" eternally attached to your quest log? ;)

As someone who plays tank: Yes. Other tanks will provoke for no reason even if you're doing everything right.

No idea if someone said this already, but in the omega fight, when you have to split omega F and M you can only hit one of them, depending on what debuff you got. Keep up the good work!

I did the 500 levequests Twin Adder achievement too... what a miserable grind

Finding out you are a ShB baby makes me feel better about starting in EW and wanting to get all the achievements.

My choice in this achievement series was doing the 2.000 Mentor roulettes while tanking. it also have a high chance to drop Shadowbringers and HW relic materials Not the best for my sanity, but it worked.

i started playing ffxiv recently after watching all of your videos and i was very surprised to find out that my character does not yell CRUMBLE after every skill

love that content, for my timezone i can watch it when waking up and start the day with a smile :D

TREMBAL!!!!!1!!!!!

I think that's the first time I've actually seen someone Tank LB during Omega

Really starting to get invested on these grinds you do.

I main tank jobs so I have spent the last half year slowly working towards those achievs. I main GNB so I got the 700 duties ones just by farming EW extremes since its the top content I do. Got WAR and DRK mounts so I'm going full PLD now. It's been pretty fun. Also it's not a O12N roulette without killing everyone with the knockback. Happens every time.

Going in and seeing what happens is the exact right way to tank in normal raid roulette imo.

“I could be doing a s rank rn” That reminded me of the reddit guy that wanted to have the rarest mount at the time the garlean dog and he was so burned out that he started living his life thinking abt how everything made him miss an s rank and he almost went insane

"Is it normal to just voke?" Yes. Holy shit, yes. I don't even know why its like that but some tanks fight to snatch aggro and keep it and I'm like "Go right ahead lol." I'm a career tank, DRK saved the game for me and is my main. But random tanks will just voke out of the blue. It's intended to help save raids when a tank dies, snatch an enemy's aggro at range before it kills your DPS again, and to help when trading aggro with another tank. It's not meant to be part of any opener. In fact, I've even seen main tanks just throw out voke when they already have the aggro (and aren't at any risk of losing it). I mean, it's good practice in case the healer keeps overhealing or you notice emnity getting too high for other people, but its still so weirdto see some tanks use it every time it comes off CD.

*"Why is there a pile of Dead people here?"* *"Must be a MENTOR meetup."* 🤣

Love journeying with you for these achievements Cider, thoroughly enjoying the series. Also I too believe it should be Row-ga-Din and Gif with a hard G! I'll fight anyone who disagrees!

I noticed this after it went away but... Cider, did you win Blunderville 100 times before the event went away? Lol

Just figured out why you put your face there during gameplay & that is amazingly smart!

My world has been hopping with people achievement hunting lately. So thank you ;)

I was in the same boat regarding island sanctuary. My main issue was it was annoying to even get over there.

Weekly progress report: Doing more hunts, I picked up Mark of the Dragon: S, Mark of the Fringes: S, Mark of the Sea: S, and On Your Mark: S, finally completing all unique hunt mark achievements. The Garlok kept spawning while I was asleep, so I was worried I wouldn't get them all before the next video, but I managed to be home when two were at 100% chance to spawn with the weather window coming up, so I just camped one of them out. I also got many tomestones along the way, and picked up Hamm(er)ing It Up: Manderville Knuckles (I now have every first-step EW relic), It's Alive: The Blood Emperor, It's Smart: The Blood Emperor, and Well-oiled: Amazing Manderville Cane. I just need between 2,500 and 4,000 more Poetics to reach the tipping point where I have everything to wrap up all the HW relics I have left, and just have to do the light farm and final trial rush for each of them, but that'll have to be next week. Picking away at EW relic tools again. Mostly spent this getting all the tools past the first step, but did pick up Splendid: Crystalline Cross-pein Hammer. Will have to wait until custom deliveries next week to buy more scrip mats to continue. In the course of normal play, I picked up Tank You, Paladin IV. Was kind of a boring week for normal play. I've been grabbing the large regional battlecraft leves from HW because, despite having the final unique regional battlecraft achievement, I *do* want to do all of them (or as near to all of them as possible), and so this week's leve allowances haven't been very productive. But I've finished all of them now, so next week it's back to actually making progress on regional battlecraft leves.

Did the world just .... TREMBLEEEEE?!!! :D :D

The first "No One pays attention to the jumping baby." fucking sent me

I'm still in arr, gathering and crafting. I gave up on the msq. Ocean fishing is my favorite raid.

So today I learned that you should always pay attention to the jumping baby.

Always looking forward to this series. Thank you cider!!

15:45 I think what the other tank is trying to do is allow access to rear positionals, but going a bit fsr in doing so.

I once placed the boss like we can see at 15:42, because I was worried about giving good positionals to the melee dps. Then, I saw the circles start to telegraph the mechanic, and I said "oops" 😶

i’m so glad it’s video day

I'm intrigued by your "little witch" tank glam, definitely unorthodox as 99% of tanks I see are in full plate armor, the other 1% is a frog or elephant

It's very reassuring to know that "Oh crap I really don't remember this fight." Is a universal experience no matter how long you've been playing.

Love these videos! Every week I come in here and I question why you leave the one quest 'Child Labor' incomplete hanging on your screen. I don't remember seeing any other quest really on that list.

i always do my normal raid roulette, once a day, on tanks, every day. this caps out my weekly tomestones every week, and progresses towards tank achievements at a good rate. the alexander raids dont count towards the achievements, but omega, eden and pandamonium raids do. you know some achievements take 7 years to complete, so i dont see a reason in grinding out some achievements in a week when i can take my time and get them eventually over the course of the 7 year grinds.

Hah, I do have the Typhon achievements. I know it's a nothing achievement set, but there's something really entertaining about being able to to see there's a few things I have over someone who goes after them for real x)

Next, we need to see you doing some Deep Dungeon achievements :)

I'm a tank main and I will say that in trials there are a LOT of idiots who will Provoke off the Main Tank. The other ridiculous thing is I've seen tanks come in, not set stance (while the other tank DOES have it on - so they're clearing off-tank) and then the OT insta-pulls while there's a ready check or countdown going ... only to immediately lose threat to a DPS or healer because MT was managing the setup and OT didn't have stance on.

This boss run thing is way more fun, brings back a lot of memories.

Regarding the boss of Eden Promise, I was also kind of wondering what that was about. Considering the name of our opponent is Artemis, the look is a reference to Artemis of Epheseus.

Got the warrior tank mounts just playing the game normally. Working on the dark knight one by mount farming and triple triad collecting. My card collection is almost complete but it has driven me crazy to get those srubborn cards.

21:00 Me casually sitting on over a million cowries rocking my rank 20 motorcycle and Countess of Monte Cowrie title. Island Sanctuary was my endgame content in Endwalker.

The jumping baby thing is so real... I have to put my controller down to type in party chat so I do a lot of PLEASE STAND HERE TO BE SAFE jumping &... it doesn't seem to convey a lot LMAO

that jumping baby looks important.

I heard the Zurvan audio clip you tried so hard to acquire! Success!