The Effect of Your Starting City

[RiyahArp]

You won't be prevented, but I wouldn't recommend getting too achievement fixated in this game. Many are insane grinds.

Like you can switch GC as you need to start over. But for example, the top tier guild levequest achievement asks you to do something like 500 of them, when they only give exp from 25ih to 50, and poor exp at that. The "jewelry" achievements would require you to do a lot of work if you wanted all three GC gear. SOmething like the pvp wins too would require 100 wins per GC, but thats easily 600 or more matches played with 10-30 min pops.

Some of the achievments are just nuts. To get the master crafter/gatherer titles, you need to craft or gather something like 10,000/20000 HQ items, at a proc rate of maybe 20% overall average And there are multiple crafts/gathering jobs. A lot of them you won't even get close to just by ordinary play or even levelin all jobs to 70.

I mean, have fun, but keep in mind in-game achievements aren't something that's going to be anywhereeasy to max.

[Canadane]

You won't be prevented, but I wouldn't recommend getting too achievement fixated in this game. Many are insane grinds.


Some of the achievments are just nuts. To get the master crafter/gatherer titles, you need to craft or gather something like 10,000/20000 HQ items, at a proc rate of maybe 20% overall average And there are multiple crafts/gathering jobs. A lot of them you won't even get close to just by ordinary play or even levelin all jobs to 70.

I mean, have fun, but keep in mind in-game achievements aren't something that's going to be anywhereeasy to max.

I haven't had many issues getting some of those more grindy ones.
Why play am MMO if you're not prepared to grind?

[mduncan50]

I haven't had many issues getting some of those more grindy ones.
Why play am MMO if you're not prepared to grind?

Agree completely, that's why I'm creating this Checklist. Because I want to make, kill, find, and quest everything there is for me to do.

[Canadane]

Agree completely, that's why I'm creating this Checklist. Because I want to make, kill, find, and quest everything there is for me to do.

I like this mindset.
Thankfully the journal helps track completed quests and the achievement list ingame is great for most others.
The game us full of almost endless content to enjoy. Hope you have a blast!

[mduncan50]

I like this mindset.
Thankfully the journal helps track completed quests and the achievement list ingame is great for most others.
The game us full of almost endless content to enjoy. Hope you have a blast!

Well, They help you track the ones that you have found. But beyond just the quests, achievements and the like, it's also including all mounts/bardings, minions, TTriad cards and players, Orchestrion rolls, etc. I mean, I am doing it for my own OCD reasons, but I hope others will find it a useful resource as well.

[DelSolstice]

There are achievements that literally no one in the world has globally. There are some in the single digits.


This is coming from someone who has done literally every single sidequest in the game except for one (the final level 50 FSH quest which would take weeks). I also have every class at 70, I have every single vista, I have every single Anemos Weapon, and I would not be surprised in the slightest if I've crafted over 10,000 HQ items. When you're a high-end omnicrafter with all your gatherers, once you truly know what you're doing, anything that is HQ-able you should be able to HQ successfully unless you're entering a new tier of difficulty or press the wrong button. So that's not the best example. But then again crafting is my specialty. The best raider I know, someone with Ultimate wins and no job and no life, cannot craft for sh*t. You need to be a long-time specialist in just one or a few things to get some of these.


Killing 2000 S-Ranks? This will take you a full year. I founded a Hunt LS with over 100 people in it, only one person in it has gotten that achievement. And they just added a much harder one. I'm not even going to touch it, because I value my sanity, because I have everything else to do.

Beating Ultimate-level fights? You not only need to be an elite raider yourself, you need to be in an elite static with seven other elite raiders, and these are level-synced and probably will be right up until the game goes into maintenance mode.

Wanna solo Palace of the Dead? Last I checked, there were two(?) people who had that achievement globally.

Want every Zodiac and Anima weapon? I severely pity you.

Wanna get all the PvP achievements? Better be on one of the best Feast Teams on the Data Center. I'm not sure if SE pays your way to Las Vegas but that's where the NA regional finals are held now. Also, better join the Rival Wings Discord, since other than a brief few hours every Saturday, Astralagos is dead content (it does drop one of the game's best mounts after 100 wins though).


Wanna get every Diadem achievement? See what I said about Astralagos: it's dead content but there's a Discord channel dedicated to it and they run Diadem stuff about once a week, only with a bunch more achievements linked to it.


Doing every sidequest is child's play compared to what you're looking to do here, and also not something you need to ask other people about. Just do every quest icon and they'll be yours (some might unlock a bunch more all at once btw, just an advance warning). Literally no one has 100%'d this game in its current form, so in all seriousness:

I'd recommend not getting too hung up specifically on getting every Achievement. I do wish you the best of luck though.

[RiyahArp]

I haven't had many issues getting some of those more grindy ones.

...every single craft has its own achievement for creating 3,000 items from 41-50, and 1,500 ones from 31-40. That's 36,000 items. Every craft also has the "10,000 HQ" item achievement, for 80,000 HQ items total. For Botanist and Miner, its 20,000 HQ items. Lifer 3 involves doing 10,000 instanced trials or dungeons. For the Hoard IV is finding 5,000 pieces of treasure from the Accursed Hoard, which at best you can get 4-5 a run, and may get 1 or even zero if people speed run it.

The max pvp frontlines achievement for each GC requires 1,000 pvp wins. For each GC. I don't really think getting the truly grindy ones is as easy as you think. The achievements ramp up exponentially towards the end.

[Elamys]

...every single craft has its own achievement for creating 3,000 items from 41-50, and 1,500 ones from 31-40. That's 36,000 items. Every craft also has the "10,000 HQ" item achievement, for 80,000 HQ items total. For Botanist and Miner, its 20,000 HQ items. Lifer 3 involves doing 10,000 instanced trials or dungeons. For the Hoard IV is finding 5,000 pieces of treasure from the Accursed Hoard, which at best you can get 4-5 a run, and may get 1 or even zero if people speed run it.

The max pvp frontlines achievement for each GC requires 1,000 pvp wins. For each GC. I don't really think getting the truly grindy ones is as easy as you think. The achievements ramp up exponentially towards the end.

Yes a lot of the achievements are ridiculously grindy but to be fair in terms of the crafting ones, even quick synths count, and when you sit down and quick synth 400 mortar just to finish one crafting log, that adds up really really really fast. They're marathons, not sprints. If you sit down and craft even 10 HQ items a day (and it can be ANYTHING, like a copper ingot) you'll have your 10,000 HQ items achievement in less than 4 months. i'm incredibly stupid

[RiyahArp]

Yes a lot of the achievements are ridiculously grindy but to be fair in terms of the crafting ones, even quick synths count, and when you sit down and quick synth 400 mortar just to finish one crafting log, that adds up really really really fast. They're marathons, not sprints. If you sit down and craft even 10 HQ items a day (and it can be ANYTHING, like a copper ingot) you'll have your 10,000 HQ items achievement in less than 4 months.

um... if you craft 10 HQ per day, in 4 months you only have 1200 HQ items. You'd need to craft something like 85 per day to make it in 4 months. Quick synth can automate this, but you're are looking at crafting that 400 mortar to get the 85 HQ every single day. You can level 1 item cheese it, but even assuming you manage to do it...you now have 7 other crafts for their achievements.

Gathering is worse. It's 20k HQ, and while i feel you have a much higher HQ chance than quick synthing, you have no real way to shorten it. You have to grind those 20k items. And you can only get the higher HQ chance if you specifically use abilities for HQ over yield.

I'm kind of working on my cul achievements now (the 1500 and 3000 ones) and for me to do the 1500 one is going to require a grand total of 6000 noble grapes (since dark vinegar is the easiest one to spam at that tier, with one ingredient but 4 required.) Virtually all have to be retainered or gathered, since no one really gathers many lower tier stuff. Crystals also become a gil sink then too, since you cannot gather shards quickly. It's a pretty long grind, and i just wanted to warn the OP not to get too deeply in them.

[Elamys]

um... if you craft 10 HQ per day, in 4 months you only have 1200 HQ items. You'd need to craft something like 85 per day to make it in 4 months. Quick synth can automate this, but you're are looking at crafting that 400 mortar to get the 85 HQ every single day. You can level 1 item cheese it, but even assuming you manage to do it...you now have 7 other crafts for their achievements.

Gathering is worse. It's 20k HQ, and while i feel you have a much higher HQ chance than quick synthing, you have no real way to shorten it. You have to grind those 20k items. And you can only get the higher HQ chance if you specifically use abilities for HQ over yield.

I'm kind of working on my cul achievements now (the 1500 and 3000 ones) and for me to do the 1500 one is going to require a grand total of 6000 noble grapes (since dark vinegar is the easiest one to spam at that tier, with one ingredient but 4 required.) Virtually all have to be retainered or gathered, since no one really gathers many lower tier stuff. Crystals also become a gil sink then too, since you cannot gather shards quickly. It's a pretty long grind, and i just wanted to warn the OP not to get too deeply in them.

Hey I'm really dumb and put in an extra zero in my head for some reason so can we forget that awful math please, thanks