Please no gear for Achievements

I may be alone on this but I hope they find other ways to reward the players.

Why? Because say I get a nice new hat for an achievement award. I then quickly run across a better hat... suddenly my "reward" is worthless. Sure I can wear it for the sake of wearing it and showing off. But I would prefer more permanent rewards for achievements.

My thought was (later on) new Emotes, hair styles, maybe trophies for your house, etc. The reason being is that such things are not connected to your stats, and therefor can NOT become outdated and worthless. I mean, what better way to brag than do a dance your friend can't do yet?

Actually my full idea was that each achievement give you points depending on difficulty and then you can spend those points on new emotes or hair styles or whatever you want.

But for now I understand the reasoning behind this decision... as achievement armors obtained here can likely be displayed in the home after 2.0 and therefore once they become impossible to obtain, become a bragging right, a collectable.

But I hope they change this in the future.

I'm with you!

Well, we know that the crown will be an achievement reward, at the very least. Don't know if they have other similar rewards planned. Or even what type of achievements they want us to complete.

But, I do like the idea of getting points that we can spend on rewards.

Yeah rewards like that sound more fun then getting gear items in my opinion.)

I want mounts, titles and light sabers

Oh yes, status-wise, please don't make them joke item. something like room decoration is better.

Gimmea a pet marmot as a rewaard then i will support the achievment system.

I'd prefer emotes and titles over gear. Though I don't need any 'reward' for using the system. I like collecting stuff regardless.

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Originally Posted by Dreamer

I'd prefer emotes and titles over gear. Though I don't need any 'reward' for using the system. I like collecting stuff regardless.

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Yes, I quite agree. Those 300+ achievements are going to keep me busy for quite a little while... hopefully.

i agree with op, mostly cause i don't want to have to do achievements ...they are a over rated trophy system to me,an to be rewarded for running to every crystal or killing a little nm that drops nothing you need equals a reward then i want the reward to be something useless as the useless act it took to get it, it should not be something that is part of real progression and the game. emotes sound cool cause i won't race to do it for this type of stuff but it is cool to have something others don't.

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Originally Posted by neizero

I want mounts, titles and light sabers

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I totally read "titles" as something else. @_@

Gear for achivment, why not?

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Originally Posted by Yazoo

Gear for achivment, why not?

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Sounds fine with me.

*puts on Shades of Glory*

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Making 300 pieces of unique items isn't feasible. If you want something that cool you'd have to ask for like, a reward every 10, 50, 100 achivements.

If they're going to make aesthetic gear rewards and/or other items for achievements, all I ask for is an NPC that will store them when I don't want to use them, much like the event item NPC in FFXI.

What is wrong with cosmetic gear? I see nothing wrong with gear that "looks" cool, that you can wear around town and what not. It's pretty much just like completing one of the special events. You will also get a title.

I only hope that any rewards tied to achievements are based on individual or at least grouped achievements and not cumulative "completion".

I do not want to spend days doing every stupid, pointless level 10 quest I have no interest or need to do in order to get some piece of gear. Or stacking leves for an evaluation to max my gil reward, or engaging in any number of inane activities just so I an unlock that "achievement".

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Originally Posted by Murugan

I do not want to spend days doing every stupid, pointless level 10 quest I have no interest or need to do in order to get some piece of gear. Or stacking leves for an evaluation to max my gil reward, or engaging in any number of inane activities just so I an unlock that "achievement".

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Is it too "casual player" to suggest that perhaps you don't need to collect every piece of gear?

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Originally Posted by AmyRae

Is it too "casual player" to suggest that perhaps you don't need to collect every piece of gear?

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Yes, because if it is a relevant piece of gear (@ endgame) I will be forced to collect it because I care about playing my role right and my obligations to my teammates.

I don't collect things though... I'm not a virtual hoarder.

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Originally Posted by Murugan

Yes, because if it is a relevant piece of gear (@ endgame) I will be forced to collect it because I care about playing my role right and my obligations to my teammates.

I don't collect things though... I'm not a virtual hoarder.

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If you're playing your role right, you don't need gear. See: people beating Ifrit in Santa suits. That's arguably the hardest fight in the game, and it doesn't require any gear at all. You may think you need a piece of gear to do your job efficiently, but you really don't.

I don't care what I get for the achievments as long as some of them are related to filling up my BESTIARY!

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Originally Posted by quantumsaint

If you're playing your role right, you don't need gear. See: people beating Ifrit in Santa suits. That's arguably the hardest fight in the game, and it doesn't require any gear at all. You may think you need a piece of gear to do your job efficiently, but you really don't.

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Ifrit isn't a hard fight because you can do it in Santa Suits or naked, and contrary to what you said knowledge of your role has nothing to do with beating Ifrit. The only thing that matters on Ifrit is avoiding his specials. Some people kill Ifrit as a DD without even using their basic attacks.... so yeah "player skill" is not a factor.

You need ~12 DPS per DD to down Ifrit. I can easily put out 20+ with subpar/NQ unmateria'd gear, so yes obviously gear doesn't matter for Ifrit. It does however play a role in low manning things like Strongholds (stuff where mitigation and damage actually play a large factor in ease/success).

Edit: it also does matter on Ifrit at times, like for example some fights we have a few mistakes (or lag, or DC's) and have to recover from a near wipes in order to "Tim Tebow" out a victory sometimes in the last minute. In that case gear played an impact because it helped us put out the damage to pull out a last minute victory.

I kind of doubt they would put "MUST HAVE" gear in achievements anyways. i bet most gear will just be there for fun, or for showing off. If they did, i bet it would be like "Complete both Moogle and Ifirt on hyper" or something of that matter, rather then complete them 50 times each

By that logic, we should not get gear from, say, primal battles because we'll eventually run into something better in the future. We should not be awarded for those kind of achievements either, right? I say we deserve to obtain gear from hard to earn achievements.

I'm fine with some gear as rewards, but I like your ideas. :)

I thought I was gonna see Q.Q thread about people having better gear because of achievements....I actually agree with the OP, surprised to see a decent idea on the threads. A cool emote or something cosmetic and cool exlclusive mounts. No more crap weapons that will get outdated within a month and -1 inventory for yet another item.

I'm pretty sure they would reward you with something besides gear. However, realize at the moment we don't have player housing. The only way we can actually show off in game is via gear.

Emotes are also nice, but from experience in other games, they just didn't feel right. The emote most of the time has nothing really related to the accomplishment at all.

I disgree. I want items to equip from getting them.

That being said, they should be ENTIRELY cosmetic. Level 1, no stats, etc.

Give me an Aetheryte shaped wand for getting all of the camps unlocked, or a pair of shoes that look like Slippery Sykes!

If gear doesn't have significant stats and mostly just to show you are an achiever, then I see no issue with it. I am willing to bet the crown will have no significance in battle. Maybe something like a free teleport or something.

Should the Rewards Points NPC be named "Peggy"?

http://youtu.be/Md43_fjlY-M