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A long while back, accursed hordes used to be detectable client side. Changes were made, and now that information is stored on the server instead. I don’t know of any automated way to do these achievements.
That said, there are some tips to do it for yourself that work very well. Start at floor 1, solo. Go through the floors until you have a set of 3 intuitions, and a set floor clears, flights, strength, whatever to help you go fast. Kill everything so you’re as high a level as possible and have all the skills you need to clear a floor set quickly. Just stock up, but the sooner you can get the set built the better. Complete the floor set once you’ve gained your pomander set.
Then, load your save, go into the dungeon, pop your pomanders. Go nuts. Make sure to have intuition up and running the whole time. Use floor wipes, flights, sights, whatever, to help you go faster. Get your 3 accursed hordes, then die. You will lose your hordes, but you will -keep- your achievement progress. Since you’re below floor 100, you can reload your save you lost on, with all the pomanders returned to you. You can repeat this process as long as you like, getting you the fastest possible hordes.
This same process can be repeated for of the 6th sense. Just don’t use intuitions. Instead, you can go to the 3D Radar and turn on Palace of the Dead mode. This will show you the location of traps. Run around, stand on these circles for about 3 seconds each. The locations of hordes share these trap locations, and this can reveal them. Find the horde, move on to the next floor, clear it ASAP, and start searching the next floor. The reason for this is that Hordes seem to tend not to spawn on adjacent floors as likely as not, and you’re going for speed and not finding every single possible one. If you find 3 hordes, die and reset. If you finish floor 49 for some reason, just die to the boss. Then repeat as per above. (there is also a Dalamud plugin for this that I actually prefer as it has all known treasure locations, not just trap locations (there are sometimes differences) and includes data for all 3 deep dungeons.)
There is not.
Summoner doesn’t work because the people working on the bot are, unfortunately, in a country under siege by Russia. They work, live, and have to experience the horrors of what Ukraine is going through first hand. So they keep the bot running, but progress on advancements is slow. There’s been very little advancement on the bot this entire expansion. Summer received its rework, and it simply doesn’t work and there’s no workaround.
Currently the bot is broken because of the update. It might take a considerable amount of time before it’s fixed. It’s hard to say. We’ve been lucky and had fairly fast fixes over all, but it’s kind of out of anyone’s hands.
Some premade routes look very weird, for sure. You can always go in and edit the route to make it smoother. That said, if you’re at your computer paying attention to it, the chances of encountering a problem are pretty slim. If any GM pokes at you, you just turn the bot off and respond then continue on your day.
I used the bot pretty much exclusively to get the pteranodon, never had a single issue.
If you want to play the game, one of the fastest, endlessly farmable ways is to go Save the Queen content with combat assist. Both Bozja and Zadnor CEs are worth a good amount of experience, are extremely fast, and practically always present.
If you want the game to do it all for you, Qitana Ravel is the highest XP you should be able to get. I say should because normally level X0 content is not very profitable for XP but I haven’t actually tested Heroes’ Gauntlet to make sure.
There isn’t a way to make the bot use the skill directly.
You could make a scenario that does a small bit of fishing activity, then activates a macro that attempts to use up all your angler’s arts, then takes a break for about 10 seconds (to accomodate the skill being spammed), then goes back to fishing and yada yada. But you’d have to set this up manually. I’m not sure how complicated that would be because I’ve never done a fishing scenario.
If you’re at the PC and just letting Miqo fish for you, you can manually spam the skill every now and then and it won’t cause any issues for the bot.
You can absolutely bot all day, multiple days in a row, and not have any problems. People do it all the time. These automated systems people talk about, I feel like that’s not even accurate. There are people who visibly hack playing the game in weird ways that only rarely ever get banned. There’s one guy in Balmung who flies through the air and has a suit that constantly cycles colours through the rainbow. He plays the game, talks to people, does whatever he wants. Sometimes, he gets banned. But it’s definitely not automation catching him because he’ll go long, long periods of time without a problem doing things regular people cannot possibly do.
That being said, players reporting you are the main source of getting banned. Your friends list is your biggest enemy for getting banned, actually. Random players are likely to report you if they suspect you, often without remorse, but your friends can see where you are and what you’re doing at any point they are logged in. And while they might not notice anything weird going on right away, when they walk up to you and you’re crafting and not responding to them, that’s a little iffy. They might not even send tells. Just jump around you or spin circles or anything. Or they just notice you’re crafting absolutely nonstop, and you’re not even using macros to do it. They notice things are just kind of off… and they’re off a lot of the time. So they toss in a report eventually.
Why not, after all. Because if you’re not botting you won’t get banned. And there won’t be any retaliation since there’s no way to see where a report came from and the GMs say practically nothing that isn’t a copy and pasted script. Your ban reasoning is a mystery, how you got caught doing it is a mystery, and how long you were observed doing things is a mystery. But no one’s going to report you if they can’t see you. And unfortunately, your friends are always able to watch you in some way off the friend’s list.
So just be careful. Think about it from an outsider’s perspective. Fishing doesn’t look suspicious. Fishing in the same spot for 8 hours? Maybe, but eh, who cares. You know what’s kind of weird though? That same person goes fishing for 8 hours in the morning every day, and after that they do whatever else. It’s kind of weird that they talk in FC chat, except while they’re fishing. Sure, it’s annoying to talk while fishing, but to literally never do it? Huh. Kinda weird when I run past them that they never mention seeing me either when they always emote otherwise…
Are you unable to manually click the skills with your mouse or is it just the keybinds not functioning properly?
Literally just noticed there was a second page of posts now and the problem seems to be resolved anyway 🙂
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Pandareverb.
Once Miqobot is back up, there won’t be nearly as many people discussing alternatives. And even if you think it’s wrong, it has now been allowed by the owners. It’s pretty clear what the subject of these threads are. Just don’t read them if they bother you. Thankfully, Miqobot will be returning within the day.
With something so customizable by users, it’s good and almost necessary to keep all the information in one easily accessible place. Having a Discord would split the community up into forum users and Discord users, with maybe even up to a majority using both. But with both places set up, the information would be split up, and it would be an extra hassle to find something you’re looking for.
Not to mention Discord is a place where people are usually active. Which completely goes against what the purpose of this program even is.
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