Luminary tools- a real achievement

[TheVedis]

im still wondering how long its gonna take to grind out 1000 nodes at thanlalan (never mind 4000) ; ;

8-10 hours and you WILL hit fatigue while doing it if its in 1 session(found that out the hard way, you hit fatigue around the 800 mark)

[Victor]

In order to get a gathering luminary tool, you need 21,960 gathers.
Assuming the maximum of 8 attempts per node, that's 2,745 nodes.
Assuming 3 minutes per node (including walk time), that's 20 nodes per hour.
Put all that together and you get 137.25 hours of straight gathering. (~5.7 days!)

Sadly after several days of botany, I am only at 147/2,745 nodes to the luminary hatchet.
(I count in nodes because it makes the numbers look slightly more reasonable)

My linkshell could not have disbanded at a more opportune time!

Here, here Raldo!

[ApplePie]

Nice whiteknights in this thread. Cool story all of you telling them to redo what they already did to get an achievement. What else is a 50 going to do? "OH I GUESS I WILL JUST GRIND RANK 1-10 CAUSE I FIND IT FUN ^-^" K

[Kinseykinz]

Nice whiteknights in this thread. Cool story all of you telling them to redo what they already did to get an achievement. What else is a 50 going to do? "OH I GUESS I WILL JUST GRIND RANK 1-10 CAUSE I FIND IT FUN ^-^" K

Look, as I've stated earlier, I think SE could have handled these achievements a lot differently. Or at least balanced it more with DOW/DOM achievements. However that being said, I have been working hard at getting the BTN axe. At the end of the day, only a handful of us will end up having these tools. Because frankly, only a handful of people are willing to put in to work to have them. I'll work on my golden fry pan in earnest once 1.21 hits and CUL gets new recipes. Because yes, I DO think I can actually have fun 're-grinding' CUL while learning the new recipes.

[HiirNoivl]

Nice whiteknights in this thread. Cool story all of you telling them to redo what they already did to get an achievement. What else is a 50 going to do? "OH I GUESS I WILL JUST GRIND RANK 1-10 CAUSE I FIND IT FUN ^-^" K

I'm sorry I wasn't aware of any other content for a 50 DoH/DoL other than grinding/farming what you've already done.

[Hayden]

Same thing I said in the other thread on this topic.

If they had some sort of system in place to remember how many nodes we have gathered and where...much like they can keep track of how many Mobs we've killed than we wouldn't be having this problem.

Regardless I can't forsee them doing anything about this. I think us Gathering and Crafting classes will just have to suck it up and deal. I think I'll start a new Gathering class to get a Golden item as I have NO desire to actively try to get my Golden Pick Axe now that I'm 50.

Because it is completely possible to had leveled Miner or Fisher (possible but unlikely) solely in Thanlan, or where ever. I can't see them giving us credit for node's mined. Would be nice, but unlikely.

[Starlord]

Gatherers get to mine/btn/fish over 7,000 times in EACH La noscea, Shroud, and Thanalan for their Luminary items.

Gathering jobs are ALOT worse than Crafting... I'm 4/5 in Gridania with 120 trees (840 chops out of 4,000) I'm on day#6 now. It will take a good 3 weeks to get the my Luminary Item. ( unless your extremely hardcore and never sleep and do it 24/7 then you could do it in a week :/ lol.

[Starlord]

When do you not stop defending Square for bad game design decisions?

I agree with captainpicard, players should've been grandfathered in based on their level. Meaning those who were level 40 should've had the 1-40 achievements already cleared, while those who were rank 50 should've had everything cleared from the get-go. This is poor game design decision on Square's part since there wasn't a system in the first place and it penalizes crafters who reached 50 before the achievement system came in.

Whatever, we got no choice now.

Oh God, will you stop whining damn man... If I got the achievements off the bat ( almost level 50 botanist) I would have had Nothing to do this patch honestly... I would much rather have something to do , than nothing. This isn't a Bad Design by SE. This is the laziness of our community that refuses to put in the effort to get achievement. Thats why like someone said " Only a handful of people will get the gold" because in the end only a hadful will be able to deal with hours and hours and hours of Gathering. Heck.. I'm doing it.. and it doesn't bother me much, just pop in some music and I'm ready to go for the day. Get off your stinking high Horse >.>.

[Veltaine]

and i realized, lol dont forget about the sheer amounts of money you can make from this! lol

[ApplePie]

I'm sorry I wasn't aware of any other content for a 50 DoH/DoL other than grinding/farming what you've already done.

Yeah, there aren't places to turn in your crafted items for exp, and there aren't places like GC that ask for provisions. Yeah, also guild leves don't exist anymore I guess. The ONLY thing to do for DoL/DoH is to grind these achievements, which most have already completed by ranking up.

SE doesn't know how to give content to crafters/gatherers. And your defense on their ridiculous achievements is duly noted. Nothing more here to see. Just whiteknights defending a horrible achievement system for DoH/DoL.