Luminary tools- a real achievement

[normalforce]

can we say platinum tools!

No... I've got a stutter.

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[Rubicon]

BUT BUT BUT... It's content!

[TheVedis]

Hey. Remember that fishing line in XI where you had to collect like a billion of one type of fish to get and only the people truly committed to getting it would have it?

Well there you go.

and thats why its an "achievment" and not a "gimme gimme gimme"

[Charismatic]

Hey. Remember that fishing line in XI where you had to collect like a billion of one type of fish to get and only the people truly committed to getting it would have it?

Well there you go.

Or the people that bought it..?

[HiirNoivl]

This thread is going to get a bump everytime some discovers the Luminary Gather tool achievement reqs.

[Zdenka]

264 hours mining before you can get the gold pickaxe....

the first 48 a complete time sink for an already level 50 player.... 48 hours of mining is 12 4 hours a day sessions. a week and a half of your life for copper ore. The next 216 hours a time sink designed for douchebags in the forums to have an out when you say there is no content in the game. NO CONTENT?!?! you dont even have all the gold tools yet?

4 hours to do 300 gathers... you are doing something totally wrong.

You can do 15 gathers in leves in 6-7 minutes and leves are slower than grinding (gather for gather). Even taking the low end estimate of 7 minutes, you should be able to gather 530 times in 4 hours.

You should be able to do closer to 700-750 gathers in 4 hours, not 300... this takes the hour investment down from 264 to closer to 100-110 hours. As Thevedis said, the larger issue is hitting fatigue around the 700-900 range. You also get an extreme amount of mats doing these achievements which in turn let you get the crafting tools.

If you are unsure how to gather (item on 1 hit, every hit) then check out the gathering forums, but you have to be doing something wrong or AFK for a large portion of that 4 hours to only get 300.

[Magnesium02]

Well with the patch 1.20a with the counters has illuminated things quite interestingly. I had ARM at r40 before 1.20 came on with accomplishments. Since then I have been grinding it using about 80% Local Leves (r40 and 45 recipies) and 20% grinding Iron Greaves (without using GC buff). I am now about 50K into r45. Since the patch I have done only 400 out of the 3000 sucessful synthesis neede for the accomplishment out of 5.5 COMPLETE LEVELS. If I extrapolate the amount of SP needed to get to 50 only grinding on Iron Greaves and not using any more leves it would require (not taking into account quality gains and failed synths)

Rank - Base SP - SP to Level - No of synths
r45 500 35000 70
r46 450 92000 204
r47 400 96000 240
r48 350 100000 285
r49 300 100000 333

Totalling in only 1132 more synths to reach max level, bringi my total synths in the 41-50 bracket to about 1,500 which is only HALF of what is required. Granted I relied heavily on Local leves for my sp for the first 5 ranks, but it is easy to see that it is VERY possible not to have done 3000+ synths for the 41-50 brackets and thus not be 'automatically' eligable for the accomplishment.

[TheVedis]

Well with the patch 1.20a with the counters has illuminated things quite interestingly. I had ARM at r40 before 1.20 came on with accomplishments. Since then I have been grinding it using about 80% Local Leves (r40 and 45 recipies) and 20% grinding Iron Greaves (without using GC buff). I am now about 50K into r45. Since the patch I have done only 400 out of the 3000 sucessful synthesis neede for the accomplishment out of 5.5 COMPLETE LEVELS. If I extrapolate the amount of SP needed to get to 50 only grinding on Iron Greaves and not using any more leves it would require (not taking into account quality gains and failed synths)

Rank - Base SP - SP to Level - No of synths
r45 500 35000 70
r46 450 92000 204
r47 400 96000 240
r48 350 100000 285
r49 300 100000 333

Totalling in only 1132 more synths to reach max level, bringi my total synths in the 41-50 bracket to about 1,500 which is only HALF of what is required. Granted I relied heavily on Local leves for my sp for the first 5 ranks, but it is easy to see that it is VERY possible not to have done 3000+ synths for the 41-50 brackets and thus not be 'automatically' eligable for the accomplishment.

you pretty much summed up what ive been looking at all this time
though your numbers are lower then i expected them to be(i figured youd be in the 2000 range)

of course, those who did their 50s BEFORE the original exp hike that happened back last december or so, then yeah you may have it, but after that, not a chance

[Magnesium02]

Well granted that in the 35-40 range you would probably be doing some r41+ recipies, but that would only add a few hundred to the total. So unless you are a crafter who would have made a thousand or so items outside of grinding for gearing up LS or selling, i would say that it is unlikely that you would have met the reqirements for some of the synthesis accomplishments.

[TheVedis]

Well granted that in the 35-40 range you would probably be doing some r41+ recipies, but that would only add a few hundred to the total. So unless you are a crafter who would have made a thousand or so items outside of grinding for gearing up LS or selling, i would say that it is unlikely that you would have met the reqirements for some of the synthesis accomplishments.

with that same line of thinking
in the 45-50 range youll be doing 51+ recipes so those would also alter the number(for the worst compared to the other)