The Effect of Your Starting City

[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