One of FF14’s most prolific raid guide creators is a science teacher, whose first ‘Hector lectures’ were made with an app from his time ‘teaching online during the pandemic’ [Video]

If you’ve been raiding via party finder for any amount of time in Final Fantasy 14, chances are you’ve seen the phrase “Hector strats” more than a few times. Hector Hectorson—also known as Hector Lectures—has a YouTube channel with guides that bring in hundreds of thousands of views a pop, often releasing mere days (if that) after the raids themselves drop.

Turns out, as per a recent interview with FF14’s official community team, he’s always enjoyed making guides—just, for real-life students wanting to learn the mechanics of the universe, rather than how to do a Limit Cut for the nth time:

“I’m a science teacher working in an inner-city school in the UK. I started playing FF14 alongside a good friend of mine at the start of Shadowbringers and fell in love with the game pretty quickly.”

In fact, the first guides he made—private ones for his raiding static—were devised “using a chalkboard app I had used when teaching online during …