Has anyone done the math on Skyward points?

[zeopower6]

You can tell that it's a long term thing though from this. I don't think they would ever reward anything other than mounts/minions/titles/glamour from achievements anyway.

It's never meant to be done quickly and they probably want to keep people in Diadem so that it doesn't die, hence these kinds of things. Though I would not be surprised at all if they had to revamp it AGAIN for whatever reason.

[Alleo]

You can tell that it's a long term thing though from this. I don't think they would ever reward anything other than mounts/minions/titles/glamour from achievements anyway.

It's never meant to be done quickly and they probably want to keep people in Diadem so that it doesn't die, hence these kinds of things. Though I would not be surprised at all if they had to revamp it AGAIN for whatever reason.

There is a difference between a long term goal and this mindless grind. Honestly this reminds me of the horrible F2P Asia MMO grinds..getting a total of 500k for gatherers and 500k for crafters would still be quite the grind for anyone, even the hardcore crowd but much more reasonable. I am a bit shocked that they went that far here..all for one mount.

The 500k achievements are cumulative, they're not time sensitive either, so you have forever to do them. Unless they remove Ishgard stuff entirely in the next expansion, you'll also be able to go back and easily grind them with new gear (e.g. macroable expert recipes for max collectability).

There's no need to go hardcore and rush them, it's just something to work towards for months.

Someone that is doing this quite a bit might be done in some months but this is imo not doable for everyone else. Just the hours needed to grind for the mats and then the time needed to craft then (including the huge amount of crystals going into them). If you buy mats then you will need huge amount of gil too.

The problem is also that the older items got nerfed. Heck you cant even gather the old mats anymore. I hope that they keep the points as they are now and give us higher ones for the next steps but seeing how they nerfed the other ones? I really fear that each new step will nerf the old one into the ground. Which means that at the end only high end ones may be left and thus people will have to wait again until they are able to craft them.