Because everyone has used Maygi's google docs guide for years to do the solo run. There are also tons of full vods where people are explaining what they are doing on all the jobs to clear it
Tried POTD today for the first time, wondered why I got oneshot at floor 15 after 3 slimes spawned on me - turns out they just exploded at the same time. Thanks for the informative video.
I've been grinding solo PoTD for over 6 months (floor 190 is my record) and I just wanted to leave a few tips for floors 1-50. 1. As mentioned in the video, it's good to spend time here to level up a bit. Floor 10 boss is level 20. Floor 20 boss is level 35. Floor 30 boss is level 49. Floor 40 boss is level 59 and finally floor 50 is level 60. So just make sure you are at or above those levels to make things much easier. 2. Something I do every run is use any alterations I get immediately on these floors. Mimics and Mandy's both give the most exp out of all mobs so it's really good to kill them as much as you can. 3. Aetherpool grinding will help tremendously, although getting max this early will result in your Aetherpool being "synced" so it is not necessary to have max yet. 4. The floor 10 boss is an easy cheese if you have a lust pomander. Just pop it immediately and destroy the boss within seconds 5. Get practice now on these early bosses, because floors 101-140 have essentially the same bosses with the same mechanics, they just hit alot harder.
Hey Namazu, Great video. I really enjoy the way you explain the floor mobs and bosses. Its like an easy to understand guide for newer PotD runners and id love to see floors 51-100 and so on up till 200 then maybe HoH and the new one when they get well explored. Hope to see a new vid soon
Thanks, I may possible do more in the future if I ever go for necro or lone. I mostly wanted to make this for the people who want to try the new one when in comes out, but haven't actually started palace
Great guide, but 1 thing. New people dont have +99 gear, and soloing is WAY harder without it. I have +29/+26 and my machinist just BARELY beat the stage 30 boss. I came out of the boss fight with 150 hp and 4 minutes left and lvl 50. I didnt mess up on any of his mechanics. I dont feel like I will survive going any higher for quite a while XD.
If you’re having trouble with just surviving I’d suggest moving over to Warrior, you do less damage overall but you get a lot more sustainability, basically to the point where every boss from 1-50 is just a matter of doing the mechanics right, even with low aetherpool. Killing regular mobs is still easy enough especially once you get Fell Cleave. You also don’t need to do any job quests to use abilities that would’ve been unlocked by them so it’s just a matter of unlocking the job.
Something to keep in mind for people who are just trying to rush to 50 either so they can use the 51-60 to grind levels, or are just trying to unlock the other deep dungeons... It's pretty much impossible for you to solo 1-50 on your first attempt, no matter how good you are. The fact of the matter is, your aetherpool weapon/armor level is going to fall behind quickly. For me, I only got 10 levels by time I was on floor 21, and just going from 21, to 23, took me 20 minutes. Enemies have A LOT more health starting after floor 20. You only have 60 minutes to do 10 floors. That's 6 minutes max per floor that you can spend... and that's really not a lot of time when you think about it. You are going to have to grind aetherpool levels by repeating the floors over and over again until you are high enough to get past the damage check. I would recommend, honestly, just doing 1-50 in random groups, to unlock the level 51 start, and then just grind 51-60 to get your aetherpool levels up. If you are so dead set on soloing it, solo it later, when you have the aetherpool levels to do it.
Good guide. This is one of my bigest gripes weith 14 is that they constantly force you to do old dead content to unlock the new. This makes life a lot easier than a 3 hour queue for POTD lower floors. My thanks!!!!
It's funny because it's one of the things I love about FF. I only started playing maybe 2 years ago, so I didn't get to do a lot of old content, but now since this has come out as a requirement, a LOT of people are going back and doing it, which means easier ques and my FC more willing to help /o/
Technically the only thing you’re forced to do with others is Alliance Raids. Everything else is soloable if you are at max level and it isn’t the freshest content, although you might need to be a tank for most soloing content.
Thanks. I went in blind and wiped twice to hydra - first time to fear and second time to lack of sustain. Hopefully if I avoid damage better and have higher aetherpool, I can clear it.
Not sure if anyone is still watching today but I have a question for whoever can answer. So if I clear floor 50 then do it again from the beginning with let's say Reaper job will I be able to proceed through the floors until I hit 10/10 aetherpool and would still be able to make the aether grips without needing to hit floor 50? Or would I have to do the same process for every job?
You can make Aetherpool Grips and exchange them for any weapon regardless of what Job you actually played in PoTD. Your Aetherpool levels persist throughout every playthrough and apply to all your jobs.
It give good exp and you can find hidden chest that give bag that can be open at a person outside for random loot. These bags get better the further you go and the gold bags from 150+ have a chance for a mount
Thank you so much for the guide, though i disagree that MCH is the best choice. The selfheal abilities of warrior level 26 onward make most the bosses up to 50 trivial.
@@MangyPL Will not deny it might be skill issue in my case but no chance i would have got 1-50 on mch with my 20 aetherpool XD Warrior somehow worked^^
Its not a bad idea. If you happen to get a potsherd its also a good idea to go to the trade near the entrance and buy some sustaining potions(strong potd regen potion). Also another strat that you can employ is using a sight to look for luring traps and aoe or witching to burn them down for bonus experience maybe getting a couple of extra levels.
I just cleared 1 to 50 solo with Scholar and only had +30 aetherpool by the end of it. Any tips on getting aetherpool to +99, should I spam 1-10 or 50-60?
50-60 is the best option especially if you have things you want to level that are under 50. Now you will eventually reach a point I think around 70+ where you'll have to start going to the later floor but you don't need high aetherpool until the late 100s so it's not that bad.
Man... Lust got me killed once because I had no clue how to deactivate it, in controller you have to spam SELECT a few times until the cursors targets the center of the screen where your buffs are and then you can use d-pad left or right to select the transformation icon and hit your interaction button (for me it is A on an XBOX controller I imagine its X on a playstation one)
I don't think so, if you are able to enter then you have a open slot. Keep in mind that if you delete a slot and try to enter and can't for some reason it will still make the save, so you would have to delete it again.
I genuinely think this is the worst content they've ever made, the amount of traps is just soo stupid, but man, I really want that scythe Ty for the guide
There is one helpful tip that you left out. While doing POD, you should listen to the rock group of the same name. I suggest POD's album "youth of the nation" but the song "I feel so alive" is pretty good too. I play that stuff on loop while doing my runs.
AE is pronounced EE if it is a Greek based word like Aether or Aegis, and EYE if it is a Norse based word like Aesir. There is NO AE that is pronounced AY, so it is not AY-jis for Aegis, it's EE-jis. It's not AYther for Aether, it's EEther. (And just for completeness, it's not AY-sir, or EE-sir for Aesir, it's EYE-sear)
Your aetherpool doesn't have that much of an impact early on, and the only potions you need are the ones that drop from chest and enemies. In truth the biggest factor for the early floors is your level. If you're speeding through the floors and not killing everything then you'll struggle. This is true with or without aetherpool.
@@a.andrei8597 Since I haven't done it as ninja before I decided to reset my aetherpool and do it to confirm. I was able to beat the floor 40 boss with 20 arm and 16 armor solo with only 2 x-potions.
@@TheNastyNamazu it gives 400 damage, you get 2 big circles and 2 stuns in a row that's a total of 1600damage, i have 2khp, you you fully heal maybe but im on my 5th attempt cant seem possible
The sound effects for the pop ups are quite annoying and distracting please consider removing them for new content especially for people who are just listening with headphones and not watching
Here is a stream of me doing the first 50 floor solo with low aetherpool if you want/need some extra help
ruclips.net/video/MQSBdXfpxWw/видео.html
For some reason, I couldn't find a proper POTD complete beginner guide and yours is just what I need. Good job! I'm gonna try it out with RDM soon.
Because everyone has used Maygi's google docs guide for years to do the solo run. There are also tons of full vods where people are explaining what they are doing on all the jobs to clear it
Tried POTD today for the first time, wondered why I got oneshot at floor 15 after 3 slimes spawned on me - turns out they just exploded at the same time.
Thanks for the informative video.
I've been grinding solo PoTD for over 6 months (floor 190 is my record) and I just wanted to leave a few tips for floors 1-50.
1. As mentioned in the video, it's good to spend time here to level up a bit. Floor 10 boss is level 20. Floor 20 boss is level 35. Floor 30 boss is level 49. Floor 40 boss is level 59 and finally floor 50 is level 60. So just make sure you are at or above those levels to make things much easier.
2. Something I do every run is use any alterations I get immediately on these floors. Mimics and Mandy's both give the most exp out of all mobs so it's really good to kill them as much as you can.
3. Aetherpool grinding will help tremendously, although getting max this early will result in your Aetherpool being "synced" so it is not necessary to have max yet.
4. The floor 10 boss is an easy cheese if you have a lust pomander. Just pop it immediately and destroy the boss within seconds
5. Get practice now on these early bosses, because floors 101-140 have essentially the same bosses with the same mechanics, they just hit alot harder.
A comment for the algorithm! You’re such a great channel, look forward to seeing your growth!
Thanks
Hey Namazu, Great video. I really enjoy the way you explain the floor mobs and bosses. Its like an easy to understand guide for newer PotD runners and id love to see floors 51-100 and so on up till 200 then maybe HoH and the new one when they get well explored.
Hope to see a new vid soon
Thanks, I may possible do more in the future if I ever go for necro or lone. I mostly wanted to make this for the people who want to try the new one when in comes out, but haven't actually started palace
@@TheNastyNamazu this is the exact situation I’m in - thank for you the great guide! ❤
Wow. Great guide! You show there is so much still to do in FF14 both as a player and content creator.
Thanks
Great guide, but 1 thing. New people dont have +99 gear, and soloing is WAY harder without it. I have +29/+26 and my machinist just BARELY beat the stage 30 boss. I came out of the boss fight with 150 hp and 4 minutes left and lvl 50. I didnt mess up on any of his mechanics. I dont feel like I will survive going any higher for quite a while XD.
If you’re having trouble with just surviving I’d suggest moving over to Warrior, you do less damage overall but you get a lot more sustainability, basically to the point where every boss from 1-50 is just a matter of doing the mechanics right, even with low aetherpool.
Killing regular mobs is still easy enough especially once you get Fell Cleave. You also don’t need to do any job quests to use abilities that would’ve been unlocked by them so it’s just a matter of unlocking the job.
Something to keep in mind for people who are just trying to rush to 50 either so they can use the 51-60 to grind levels, or are just trying to unlock the other deep dungeons...
It's pretty much impossible for you to solo 1-50 on your first attempt, no matter how good you are. The fact of the matter is, your aetherpool weapon/armor level is going to fall behind quickly. For me, I only got 10 levels by time I was on floor 21, and just going from 21, to 23, took me 20 minutes. Enemies have A LOT more health starting after floor 20.
You only have 60 minutes to do 10 floors. That's 6 minutes max per floor that you can spend... and that's really not a lot of time when you think about it.
You are going to have to grind aetherpool levels by repeating the floors over and over again until you are high enough to get past the damage check.
I would recommend, honestly, just doing 1-50 in random groups, to unlock the level 51 start, and then just grind 51-60 to get your aetherpool levels up. If you are so dead set on soloing it, solo it later, when you have the aetherpool levels to do it.
Thank you for this video! I started a solo run on sage and wanted to know what to look out for this was really helpful! 💖
Good guide. This is one of my bigest gripes weith 14 is that they constantly force you to do old dead content to unlock the new. This makes life a lot easier than a 3 hour queue for POTD lower floors. My thanks!!!!
It's funny because it's one of the things I love about FF. I only started playing maybe 2 years ago, so I didn't get to do a lot of old content, but now since this has come out as a requirement, a LOT of people are going back and doing it, which means easier ques and my FC more willing to help /o/
Nah doing old content is a great thing, allows for better queue times across the board. Also great for new player experience
Technically the only thing you’re forced to do with others is Alliance Raids. Everything else is soloable if you are at max level and it isn’t the freshest content, although you might need to be a tank for most soloing content.
Really appreciate this guide, going to actually give it a try solo I think, just for funsies.
Honestly, isn't that bad until you get to the last 50 floors.
Thanks. I went in blind and wiped twice to hydra - first time to fear and second time to lack of sustain. Hopefully if I avoid damage better and have higher aetherpool, I can clear it.
Great video so i decided to like and subscribe to you. Keep doing what you're doing.
Thanks
Not sure if anyone is still watching today but I have a question for whoever can answer.
So if I clear floor 50 then do it again from the beginning with let's say Reaper job will I be able to proceed through the floors until I hit 10/10 aetherpool and would still be able to make the aether grips without needing to hit floor 50?
Or would I have to do the same process for every job?
You can make Aetherpool Grips and exchange them for any weapon regardless of what Job you actually played in PoTD. Your Aetherpool levels persist throughout every playthrough and apply to all your jobs.
@@grottosstuff Thank you for the info, much appreciated.
i need my kinna weapon for reaper before dawntrail launches so here we go
What are the rewards for this place? Is it just for fun? I understand, gear here is a specific one and useless outside of the palace
It give good exp and you can find hidden chest that give bag that can be open at a person outside for random loot. These bags get better the further you go and the gold bags from 150+ have a chance for a mount
@@TheNastyNamazu I see, thank you!
Do you get weapons and armor for new jobs in this or is it only the beginner jobs
How do you cancel the lust transformation?
You can right click the buff
@@TheNastyNamazu thank you. I was left clicking and died to the floor 30 boss from being stuck in lust XD
Thank you so much for the guide, though i disagree that MCH is the best choice. The selfheal abilities of warrior level 26 onward make most the bosses up to 50 trivial.
Mch is much faster than warrior. Being able to kite enemies much better
@@MangyPL Will not deny it might be skill issue in my case but no chance i would have got 1-50 on mch with my 20 aetherpool XD Warrior somehow worked^^
Floor 30 is killing me because it does so much dmg, should I have to grind aetherpool?
Its not a bad idea. If you happen to get a potsherd its also a good idea to go to the trade near the entrance and buy some sustaining potions(strong potd regen potion). Also another strat that you can employ is using a sight to look for luring traps and aoe or witching to burn them down for bonus experience maybe getting a couple of extra levels.
I'm on the free trial and want to try this as a tank for the mount
I just cleared 1 to 50 solo with Scholar and only had +30 aetherpool by the end of it.
Any tips on getting aetherpool to +99, should I spam 1-10 or 50-60?
50-60 is the best option especially if you have things you want to level that are under 50. Now you will eventually reach a point I think around 70+ where you'll have to start going to the later floor but you don't need high aetherpool until the late 100s so it's not that bad.
I died a few times because I used a lust and couldn’t heal or take it off, am I doing something wrong?
You can right click the buff to end it early.
@@TheNastyNamazuYeaaa gotta figure out how to do it on PS5, haven’t figured it out yet
Man... Lust got me killed once because I had no clue how to deactivate it, in controller you have to spam SELECT a few times until the cursors targets the center of the screen where your buffs are and then you can use d-pad left or right to select the transformation icon and hit your interaction button (for me it is A on an XBOX controller I imagine its X on a playstation one)
Can you do more !!! Like 51 and onward
If I ever make a serious attempt at necromancer then I'll likely make a video to help others do the same
for some reason I can't delete saves anymore. Did they take that away?
I don't think so, if you are able to enter then you have a open slot. Keep in mind that if you delete a slot and try to enter and can't for some reason it will still make the save, so you would have to delete it again.
0:00 What words did you just say?? 😅
How did you get all your menus like this
Do you mean my Ui? If so I have a video on it.
If you talking about the editing I hand made and animated them.
I genuinely think this is the worst content they've ever made, the amount of traps is just soo stupid, but man, I really want that scythe
Ty for the guide
There is one helpful tip that you left out. While doing POD, you should listen to the rock group of the same name.
I suggest POD's album "youth of the nation" but the song "I feel so alive" is pretty good too. I play that stuff on loop while doing my runs.
Except it’s potd…
POD sucks lol
I want to do this. But lately I’ve seen way too many players with the title. Doesn’t help that there are actually cheats to help them get it too.
AE is pronounced EE if it is a Greek based word like Aether or Aegis, and EYE if it is a Norse based word like Aesir.
There is NO AE that is pronounced AY, so it is not AY-jis for Aegis, it's EE-jis. It's not AYther for Aether, it's EEther. (And just for completeness, it's not AY-sir, or EE-sir for Aesir, it's EYE-sear)
Chapters would have been helpful so that I could skip past the basics to get to the monster/boss abilities.
everyone doing tutorials have +99 gear .... and infinit potions ffs
Your aetherpool doesn't have that much of an impact early on, and the only potions you need are the ones that drop from chest and enemies. In truth the biggest factor for the early floors is your level. If you're speeding through the floors and not killing everything then you'll struggle. This is true with or without aetherpool.
@@TheNastyNamazu lvl 60 ninja 22+ aethetpool, cant do solo floor 40 boss its just impossible
@@a.andrei8597 Since I haven't done it as ninja before I decided to reset my aetherpool and do it to confirm. I was able to beat the floor 40 boss with 20 arm and 16 armor solo with only 2 x-potions.
@@TheNastyNamazu it gives 400 damage, you get 2 big circles and 2 stuns in a row that's a total of 1600damage, i have 2khp, you you fully heal maybe but im on my 5th attempt cant seem possible
@@a.andrei8597 I have to be sure. You are actually killing both adds because if you don't you will just die whether with a party or solo.
holy crap does this person talk too fast at times.
Thank God. So many people on RUclips talk tooo damn slow,making me HAVE to use the x2.0 speed.
o my fukning ogd write name of map
Great video, but just some constructive criticism you really need to speed up what your saying.
8 months necropost but you can just change the speed of RUclips videos in settings on screen if it’s an issue for you
Annoying sound effects, turned me right off to this guide
The sound effects for the pop ups are quite annoying and distracting please consider removing them for new content especially for people who are just listening with headphones and not watching