Rare Achievement Opportunity - Thief's Maps

[Commander_Justitia]

This achievement is so insane.

The math of a guy who did it, took him 2,5 years. He needed 1600 of those. For around 7500 Gazelleskin maps to even get them. With them being at 40000 gil nowadays, the maps alone cost 300million. He made around 200 million himself with all the maps.
https://jp.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes.../blog/4347856/

Seeing how you are almost at 400, while only having 1 clear - when you should be at 5 by now...

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7th 324th sheet 2019/05/10 (after opening 18 sheets)
8th 710th sheet 2019/10/16 (After opening 386 sheets) ← Dark period. On the verge of developing a mental illness.

Dark period....

He needed almost 400 for one clear...

SE can you please stop adding these insane achievements that take several years to complete. Whats next? 100 clears?

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Thief Maps are mentally destroying! Trying to get this achievement is anything but fun and the only items of value for doing this huge grind, rare pets etc. SE has happily made these readily available in other ways so this is nothing but an absolutely boring grind with no bonus.

When the only rare items from it were given by moogle events... Maybe thief maps should be made tradeable to make it easier for the achievement hunters

[ServerCollaps]

This achievement is so insane.

The math of a guy who did it, took him 2,5 years. He needed 1600 of those. For around 7500 Gazelleskin maps to even get them. With them being at 40000 gil nowadays, the maps alone cost 300million. He made around 200 million himself with all the maps.
https://jp.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes.../blog/4347856/

Seeing how you are almost at 400, while only having 1 clear - when you should be at 5 by now...




Dark period....

He needed almost 400 for one clear...

SE can you please stop adding these insane achievements that take several years to complete. Whats next? 100 clears?

Its not that bad. 21 clears took me 1530 maps, 190 being farmed by myself, the others provided by 7 other people. It took about 2000 gazelle maps for me and I made much more money, than I spent during that process. It took me like 3 or 4 months to get the achievement done, while only playing in the evenings (maybe 3-4 hours of farm per day)

[ManaEthielday]

Its not that bad. 21 clears took me 1530 maps, 190 being farmed by myself, the others provided by 7 other people. It took about 2000 gazelle maps for me and I made much more money, than I spent during that process. It took me like 3 or 4 months to get the achievement done, while only playing in the evenings (maybe 3-4 hours of farm per day)

I'm curious as someone who hates myself and has way too much desire to see myself cry. Can you do the Gazelle Maps solo? Or is it better as a group?

[Commander_Justitia]

I'm curious as someone who hates myself and has way too much desire to see myself cry. Can you do the Gazelle Maps solo? Or is it better as a group?

You can solo lvl 80 8man maps with bluemage nowadays. You go as healer with basic instinct and mighty guard.

[StouterTaru]

I'm curious as someone who hates myself and has way too much desire to see myself cry. Can you do the Gazelle Maps solo? Or is it better as a group?

The last Blue Mage update made them much, much easier to solo. I cleaned up my guide and added some videos for the altars, working on videos for the canals
https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threads/485583-Blue-Mage-solo-Treasure-Maps

You can solo lvl 80 8man maps with bluemage nowadays. You go as healer with basic instinct and mighty guard.

They 80 altar bosses have so much HP and can't be stunned. Every fight is 2-3 minutes long, it gets painful. However, the loot is very nice

[Commander_Justitia]

I made much more money, than I spent during that process. It took me like 3 or 4 months to get the achievement done, while only playing in the evenings (maybe 3-4 hours of farm per day)

Yeah, was wondering for how much he bought those maps back then, JP servers were pretty cheap sometimes - makes sense to make more gil at least on average.

Well, you "only" contributed ~15% of the maps, so it only took you 15% of the time? xD While for him he did over 80% by himself. I get that grouping up and each doing their own part accelerates this achievement a lot though.

Got 503 pieces at N Uzune
Get 780 pieces at Uzune Altar
276 sheets brought in by G10PT participants

So if you don't join discords for this purpose you are in for a lot of pain and suffering. Sorry, but I still don't like it even if its "just" 3-4hrs for 120 days in your case. You could hunt like 2000-3000 S mobs that take 10min on average for that time-investment. Still think its too much, but I get collectors wont be afraid of trying it.

[StouterTaru]

With them being at 40000 gil nowadays, the maps alone cost 300million. He made around 200 million himself with all the maps.

Having 7 alts that can gather a map each day and mail it to my main helps a ton with that

I'd estimate I get about 60k-70k in gil/loot per Gazelleskin map currently. I should track that over a few hundred maps and see what it comes out to