The Effect of Your Starting City

[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