Rare Achievement Opportunity - Thief's Maps

[StouterTaru]

The free door/rainbow path rate was close to 2% for the first four doors (it doesn't happen for the last two)

1. 2.1% 34/1630
2. 1.6% 16/1010
3. 2.0% 10/491
4. 2.4% 6/250

That's not enough to skew the success rate for the doors, my personal success rate excluding the free doors was:

1. 61% 976/1596
2. 48% 475/994
3. 50% 240/481
4. 41% 100/244
5. 46% 49/106
6. 41% 20/49

Someone else that recently finished took over 3,400 portals to make it to 20, a clear for every 100 portals seems to be the average

Average farming rate for thief's maps is around 1 for every 5½ Gazelleskin Maps - about 30 minutes for a solo Blue Mage

So ~125 hours to farm up 250 maps. If you run parties where 8 people all bring maps, that gets you to 2,000

~150 hours to run those 2,000 thief's maps with a group of 8

So this achievement can be all yours for less than 300 hours of game time

Gil from just the thief's map chests was north of 62 million, toss in the adds and it was probably around 80 million. Gil + drops (mainly crystals/clusters) from Gazelleskins was around 75k per map. Buying Gazelleskins for 40k each, that's about 50 million profit off them, so you'd make ~130 million Gil getting the achievement

[Moomba33]

Congratulations! That's some patience and dedication.

[Mulch]

Awesome Congratulations! Also thanks for the maps and the videos helped solo some gazzeles as well <3

[RoodeeOokami]

Just learned of Thief maps! How do I start?