FFXIV:ARR A Journey's End (Complete Zeta, Lucis DoH and DoL,)

All Lucis tools DoH and DoL, All Zeta weapons.

http://imgur.com/a/8x3vT Album

http://xivpads.com/?profile/33300/ka...kaeng/tonberry Gear sets and other achievements.

Long story short, i enjoy the game by playing as much of the content as possible.

I tend to lean more towards DoH/L and participate in combat oriented features where i can and as i please. You can say i'm enjoying about 95% of what the game has to offer, 5% being mostly Golden Saucer features, i only plan on avidly going in there when i'm legitimately bored with the game.

Little bit about me, i have too much free time on my hands. Some people enjoy watching sports, gardening, movie going and what not to pass the time, i play video games as my pass time. I especially enjoy mmorpg's for the social interaction and the story lines mmorpg's have to offer. It's like reading a book, only player actions, decisions and interactions shape it.


Some data i logged while


DoL Lucis Specific Data:

Antumbral Rocks HQ 99 (/) NQ 359 (+) 44 misses (=) 24% HQ yield rate. (needed 99 NQ before hand to obtain Supra tool)

Redolent Logs HQ 99 (/) NQ 360 (+) 69 misses (=) 23% HQ yield rate. (needed 99 NQ before hand to obtain Supra tool)

Gigant Clam HQ 30 (/) NQ 153 (+) 125 misses (=) 11% HQ yield rate. (needed 3 Olgoi-Khorkhoi (or 2 HQ) before hand to obtain supra tool)

Olgoi-Khorkhoi NQ 3 (/) 571 lines cast. Less than 1% catch rate.

180 Levequests to obtain related items for Lucis turn-ins. 30 Days worth of levequests, not like i'm using the allowances for anything else. I decided to save Allied Seals and GC Seals for other things.

30x Fieldcraft Demimateria III (Supra Tool)

9x Mastercraft Materia (Supra Tool)

Max Melds, BiS slots, offhand-incomplete at 4x melds, no benefits to completing it, gain nothing for adding any materia at this point.



DoH Lucis Specific Data. (excludes learning curve failures)

97% chance to HQ: fail rate 7%.

23% chance to HQ: success rate 19%

These 2 numbers were most common if less than 100% chance to HQ.

189 attempts, made out of 160 synthesized turn-in items needed to obtain all 8 DoH Lucis tools. 15% fail rate. 85% success rate.

Very bland data compared to DoL i know. Reading the combat log when it comes to DoH progress is painstakingly bloated, so i kept my logging simple. (excludes learning curve failures: 64%)


Over the course of 5 weeks i obtained mats necessary to synthing related items, through levequests, GC seals, Allied seals, DoL farming, Market Board scouring ("soo cheeep") and some pickups from daily dungeon runs. I obtained enough mats for up to 99 attempts each tool, because RNG. I did 3 Tools separately from each other over those weeks, on the last day i did 5 tools, in 1 day, took a lot of breaks.

Max possible melds, bis slots, put +25 Craftsmanship on all offhands.



Zodiac Specific Data:

This epic greatly contributed to obtaining over 3000 commendations for Parade Chocobo mount.

146100 Tomes of Soldiery TOTAL from Zenith to Zeta

1600000 GC Seals (bomb core)

750 Alexandrite = 150,000 Allied seals

112 Savage Might Materia IV (All weapons have max det) 29% failure rate

66 Savage Aim Materia IV (All DPS weapons have max crit minus blm) 17% failure rate.

24 Piety Materia IV (All healer weapons have max piety) 25% failure rate

16 Quicktongue Materia IV (blm onry) 31% failure rate.

29 Battledance Materia IV (preference because i'm logging real world data with a 650+ parry setup between both WAR and PLD, plus its my weapon, my choice) 24% failure rate

Some low tier Accuracy materia on healer weapons.

BLM weapon was the most brutal to meld for both Det and SS.

Wayward Chocobo hatchling is my goodluck assistant for the Novus Melding process.

Parry on tank weapons, Parry stats suits my purposes for playing tank. As for added damage output as a tank. I'm running i110 crafted accessories with max melded str and parry combination so that alone gives me +90 str over majority (not all) of tanks, without sacrificing vit, furthermore i went with +30 str on bonus attributes for both War and Pld.

Trial runs for Zeta Arc 682 (inconclusive data, a combination of doing fates, dailies, maps, raids and working on a relic while working on a relic, reliception also contributed to zeta Arc)

Dungeons Runs 718, 1 in 5 dungeons dropped a key item (Zodiac transformation) + 270 (animus books)

938 trial runs for nexus light. (inconclusive data, a combination of doing fates, dailies, maps, and reliception also contributed to nexus Arc)

Other gear slots Mostly WoD while some classes are leaning more heavily on poetics, which is enough to get the job done. All combat classes are sitting at at least i124, except for tank stuff because of underrated crafted accessories, gotta swap in those blm poetic accessories to get into coil.


Epilogue

During the zodiac epic i reconnected with close to a dozen players from both 1.0 and XI, by merely running into them in Duty Finder dungeons, trials and raids. Had a ton of fun, I wish the interaction would be more permanent like allowing communication between servers ingame, whether its mail or real-time chat. This wasn't a grind, it is one of the most enjoyable epic's i've experienced in an online virtual world.

I've played many MMORPGs to the same depth if not deeper in playstyle. FFXIV is probably the best game of the genre to come out (PvP needs a lot of work though, with announced improvements and a seasonal ranking in the works, this game continues to pursuit perfection).

Keep up the good work Devs and Staff. Yoshi-P, the right man for the job. I loved 1.0 and i fell even more in love with 2.0. I rejoined the game Feb 2014, because of Jan 2014's f2p weekend.

If i forgot something or simple typing errors among the data, let me know. Oh and 9029 Grade 5 Dark Matter consumed for repairs. That's 722,320 gil in repairs!

I have no words....

Congratulations on your colossal achievement! Next challenge, may I suggest ilvl129 across all your battle classes?

Well and i was feeling it's hard finishing my 2nd zodiac.... ok.... none of my relics had full det either.. lost for words xD

When you think of the amount of preparation you have to do to make this a possibility, it becomes even more impressive. Good job :D

OKAY GO OUTSIDE

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Originally Posted by Mahri

OKAY GO OUTSIDE

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The sun! It burns! *HISSSSSSS*

Seriously, though, congrats on your achievement!

You didn't beat the game if you haven't killed Bahamut in T13.

Naked. With no Echo.

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Originally Posted by Mahri

OKAY GO OUTSIDE

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I live 15min walking distance from a farmer's market, i stroll over there 5 times a week for fresh ingredients, and most of all home made beef, chicken and turkey jerky spiced with habanero, teriyaki or BBQ Sauce, $20 for 1 kilo of it. Living the life. 15mins there empty handed 15mins back with a load of 1 - 3 kilo of fresh food stuff. I do have a cardio routine as well >:E

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Originally Posted by Seoki

You didn't beat the game if you haven't killed Bahamut in T13.

Naked. With no Echo.

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Back in the day (1.0) when armor didn't have any stats, did ifrit wearing santa suit. Fun times.

Tgis is jaw-dropping and, dare I say, motivational? If you can do ALL the mainhand quests, i surely can do at least a few! Congradulations.

Wow just omg. Congrats on this behemoth achievement. I envy you for having so much time to invest into getting all those made....all i could do 90% of the time is wish i could be doing all that while i am at work.

Currently working on getting my other 8 Relics to Atma by collecting all 12 atmas 8 times and trying to get my 2nd Zodiac weapon. This is very impressive and shocking and I congrat you for achieving it. I don't think I'll get the Zodiacs for my other 8 classes in time, but I'm still going to get the Zeta for them when the time comes.

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I live 15min walking distance from a farmer's market, i stroll over there 5 times a week for fresh ingredients, and most of all home made beef, chicken and turkey jerky spiced with habanero, teriyaki or BBQ Sauce, $20 for 1 kilo of it. Living the life. 15mins there empty handed 15mins back with a load of 1 - 3 kilo of fresh food stuff. I do have a cardio routine as well >:E

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I am glad to hear it! But...still...still...

How long did it take you to do all of this?

That's quite some gil you've spent there. Did you spend more on the EX Primals and T5/T9/T13 clears as a package all in one day or were the relics + Lucis still more expensive? Grats on the time investment either way.

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Originally Posted by KaedrianLiang

Dungeons Runs 718, 1 in 5 dungeons dropped a key item (Zodiac transformation) + 270 (animus books)

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200 hours worth of dungeons, im glad I never continued the relic quests after the first phase. :o

And there are people who complain there's nothing to do in this game.... geez

I am sooooo glad there are no achievement points to be had from doing more than one Zeta or Lucius or I might have been dragged into this as well. Very nicely done!

Getting lucis + master 2 isn't difficult or time consuming its just costy.

Getting zodiacs is not hard at all if you do one step at the time for each class it shouldn't take you long at all (depending on the grind, Alex usually takes 2/3 solid days nexus a week matahama a week ) so in theory is all about what you decide to do in this game. If you are a raid focus and primal focus or farming other stuff you will have other priorities.

People shouldn't get shocked at this at all is just what people decide to spend their time on this game.

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Originally Posted by Mature

Getting lucis + master 2 isn't difficult or time consuming its just costy.

Getting zodiacs is not hard at all if you do one step at the time for each class it shouldn't take you long at all (depending on the grind, Alex usually takes 2/3 solid days nexus a week matahama a week ) so in theory is all about what you decide to do in this game. If you are a raid focus and primal focus or farming other stuff you will have other priorities.

People shouldn't get shocked at this at all is just what people decide to spend their time on this game.

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Noone actually said it's hard or difficult. It's just time consuming and probably very very tedious. It just takes some damn good dedication and will to do that.

Whats difficult: waiting this long for the expansion without quitting the game for a bit. :P

Congrats man!!! Yoshi-P himself should fly you out to Japan for input on the third expansion.

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Originally Posted by Mature

Getting lucis + master 2 isn't difficult or time consuming its just costy.

Getting zodiacs is not hard at all if you do one step at the time for each class it shouldn't take you long at all (depending on the grind, Alex usually takes 2/3 solid days nexus a week matahama a week ) so in theory is all about what you decide to do in this game. If you are a raid focus and primal focus or farming other stuff you will have other priorities.

People shouldn't get shocked at this at all is just what people decide to spend their time on this game.

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Oh man, you're really cool and edgy.

Thank you all for the kind and supportive replies.

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Originally Posted by Luciano_Bozzelli

Congrats man!!! Yoshi-P himself should fly you out to Japan for input on the third expansion.

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I approve all of Mr.Y-P's major decisions from the beginning of his reign to present, he needs no input from me.

I am not sure how to respond to this. Kudos to you for walking and eating healthy. MMOs have a way of taxing an individual's body (not in a good way). I have no idea how you had the patience to do all of this. Doing one Zodiac was enough for me. Congrats!

What I will say, is... BLAST your signature and it's moving bug! I MUST SQUISH IT! lol
Seriously, I have had those on my monitor at work before so I was all trying to kill the darn thing.

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Originally Posted by Mahri

OKAY GO OUTSIDE

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Played on his laptop in his backyard next to his pool while wearing sunglasses and sippin gon mimosas. <- like to assume this player is just living large

There's still plenty to do in the game. Up until 1 week ago i didn't have a single Primal pony.

http://i.imgur.com/ZK5jQoR.png

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How long did it take you to do all of this?

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Getting all 10 Zetas wasn't a part of the plan until 3 months ago. I had Atma weapons that i was content with, but i was looking for things to do so i set my plans into motion.

The Lucis tools is more or less a year in the making just made a typical goal for myself to keep tools up to date.

Good god man!. This, this is quite the achievement my friend, good job :D. I gave up halfway through nexus light farming...it was soooooo bad i couldn't stand it. I did however get some of my crafts to 4 star which i enjoyed doing.

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Originally Posted by KaedrianLiang

asdf!

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Now heed into my word young un.. Proceed to catch all of the big fish in game, tell us how many lure and baits you use, how many cast has been casted, and how many hours has passed... And thou shall triumph my dear..

I'm near the end of my second Zodiac, one of my FC mate is at his fourth and I already think he is crazy !!
But you, my good sir (Lady ?), you're the craziest crazy badass I've seen ! ^^
Congratulation to you !

Amazing! Congratulation!!