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For context, RathGames has been taking over the MMORPG on his personal with out outdoors assist\u2014no market board, no buying and selling, no events, and no responsibility assist NPCs.<\/p>\n<p>It is a downside, given the principle storyline is suffering from necessary bosses and trials designed for 4, eight, or typically 24 gamers.<\/p>\n<aside data-block-type=\"embed\" data-render-type=\"fte\" data-skip=\"dealsy\" data-widget-type=\"seasonal\" class=\"hawk-root\"\/>\n<p id=\"dd1c159b-3e92-40e2-a4ef-ab6f18739315-2\">RathGames, who I&#8217;ve had the pleasure of chatting with earlier than, has overcome these obstacles with ingenuity earlier than\u2014for example, the 24-person Alliance raid Crystal Tower, which one could not even queue for with out different gamers, was achieved by way of different &#8220;solo solely&#8221; problem run gamers who saved their interactions to a minimal.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"article-continues-below block py-2 text-sm\">Article continues under <svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"inline-block w-2.5 h-2.5 ml-2\" fill=\"currentColor\" preserveaspectratio=\"xMidYMid meet\" viewbox=\"0 0 1000 1000\"><path d=\"M1000 100L500 900 0 100h1000z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/p>\n<aside data-component-name=\"Recirculation:ArticleRiver\" data-recirculation-type=\"inline\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"Trending Bar\" data-nosnippet=\"\" class=\"clear-both pb-0 pt-2 mb-4\">\n        <span class=\"&#10;            flex&#10;            after:content-[''] after:flex-1 after:ml-4 after:my-[0.7rem] after:border-t after:border-solid after:border-t-[#ccc]&#10;            before:content-[''] before:flex-1 before:mr-4 before:my-[0.7rem] before:border-t before:border-solid before:border-t-[#ccc]&#10;            font-article-heading pb-0 !text-base uppercase sm:text-sm font-bold&#10;        \"><br \/>\n            You could like<br \/>\n        <\/span><\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\">However the newest video, on the cusp of Shadowbringers, is <em>somethin&#8217; else.<\/em> I do not normally present spoiler warnings for movies like these, however <strong>I&#8217;m about to spoil the tip of the next video for you. <\/strong>I encourage you to observe it, however in case you do not have an hour to spare, learn on.<\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-video youtube-facade\" data-nosnippet=\"\" id=\"EhBzEWMai6g\">\n<div class=\"video-aspect-box\">\n<div class=\"watch-on-iframe-EhBzEWMai6g\" data-yt-video-token=\"EhBzEWMai6g\" title=\"Can You Solo FF14? 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Just like the Susano battle RathGames overcame with a over-levelled Pictomancer, Captivity locations a celebration member in a jail that must be damaged by way of injury by your teammates. Which is an issue if you haven&#8217;t any.<\/p>\n<p>Captivity can technically be skipped if one manages to get Hades&#8217; second part under 30-odd % of his well being earlier than he finishes casting it, however even after levelling a wholly separate job to degree 100 and gearing it out with one of the best equipment he might scavenge, RathGames was nonetheless simply over midway there. The sport&#8217;s injury scaling had lastly caught as much as him: It was an inconceivable DPS verify.<\/p>\n<p>Enter the time-honoured custom of multiboxing. Certain, RathGames might name for assist from different Solo Solely problem runners himself, however that&#8217;d be admitting defeat\u2014and whereas he wanted two gamers&#8217; price of harm, there wasn&#8217;t something within the (self-imposed) rulebook that mentioned he could not be each gamers on the similar time.<\/p>\n<div id=\"slice-container-newsletterForm-articleInbodyContent-t9TreuZgxxjBur7JLfVwNB\" class=\"slice-container newsletter-inbodyContent-slice newsletterForm-articleInbodyContent-t9TreuZgxxjBur7JLfVwNB slice-container-newsletterForm\">\n<div data-hydrate=\"true\" class=\"newsletter-form__wrapper newsletter-form__wrapper--inbodyContent\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form__container\">\n<section class=\"newsletter-form__top-bar\"\/>\n<section class=\"newsletter-form__main-section\">\n<p class=\"newsletter-form__strapline\">Preserve updated with an important tales and one of the best offers, as picked by the PC Gamer group.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>He then proceeds to disclose that, in <em>secret, <\/em>he&#8217;d spent over 193 hours (far shorter than the 1,008 from his first Solo Solely playthrough\u2014the wonders of optimisation) levelling up a wholly completely different character below the identical stringent ruleset, doing each single nail-biting, agonising problem <em>twice, <\/em>simply so he might say he&#8217;d accomplished all of it himself.<\/p>\n<p>I reached out to RathGames over Discord, and he revealed to me the deep cowl he needed to enter to realize this feat, explaining that Solo Saviour &#8220;was made final July and took 233 days to arrange&#8221;\u2014that journey itself shall be its personal video.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"cb3a4306-4172-4a54-a906-e5078aa99cfa\">\n<blockquote class=\"vanilla-quoteblock\">\n<p>I needed to make a spreadsheet that had every assault lined up with the opposite lessons&#8217; subsequent transfer after to attempt to wrap my head round it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<p id=\"6e1fb37d-77cf-42c4-8a98-873778e802c2\">&#8220;[It was] exhausting,&#8221; RathGames says. &#8220;I needed so badly to inform folks, I used to be so nervous about being noticed whereas strolling round. Actually made me really feel on edge any time I logged in.&#8221; Actually, he was in such deep cowl, he needed to invent a wholly new problem run simply to maintain his stream viewers occupied and unaware.<\/p>\n<aside data-component-name=\"Recirculation:ArticleRiver\" data-recirculation-type=\"inline\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"Trending Bar\" data-nosnippet=\"\" class=\"clear-both pb-0 pt-2 mb-4\">\n        <span class=\"&#10;            flex&#10;            after:content-[''] after:flex-1 after:ml-4 after:my-[0.7rem] after:border-t after:border-solid after:border-t-[#ccc]&#10;            before:content-[''] before:flex-1 before:mr-4 before:my-[0.7rem] before:border-t before:border-solid before:border-t-[#ccc]&#10;            font-article-heading pb-0 !text-base uppercase sm:text-sm font-bold&#10;        \"><br \/>\n            What to learn subsequent<br \/>\n        <\/span><\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>&#8220;I did want a hiatus to complete Savior. I used to be nowhere close to prepared once we hit the wall, I even went and did a whole new problem, chat instructions solely, to pad for time.&#8221; That problem, thoughts, was its personal particular type of purgatory.<\/p>\n<p>As for the time he shaved off the run as much as Hades\u2014round 815 hours price\u2014he credit &#8220;not simply my information however your complete solo neighborhood&#8217;s! People have accomplished an unbelievable job optimizing the run, and since I knew all of the fights already issues had been loads simpler.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Relating to adhering cleanly to FF14&#8217;s phrases of use (no third-party applications, in different phrases), RathGames needed to do it the quaint means\u2014with quick fingers and a single keyboard: &#8220;I alt-tabbed. I had each video games on the identical monitor, and alt-tabbed each couple seconds.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Motion was the simpler half. The rotations had been depressing to study. I needed to make a spreadsheet that had every assault lined up with the opposite lessons&#8217; subsequent transfer after to attempt to wrap my head round it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It is an absurd feat\u2014and made all of the extra cracked by the way in which during which it mirrors the themes of Shadowbringers itself. On the tail-end of the growth, the Warrior of Gentle melds with Ardbert, an alternate-universe model of themselves, to assist save each his and their very own planets from Hades.<\/p>\n<p>In a way, RathGames has needed to do exactly that\u2014weaponise the expertise of two completely completely different solo-only runs to meld collectively and overcome his foul foe. 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