Please reform the achievement system

[Sjol]

Achievement for every Relic weapon (Instead of just 1 like in ARR)

I have a very, very strong suspicion that they use the achievement system as flags for other things. The reason ARR relic recreations require you have the actual weapon on hand to recreate earlier versions. But with one achievement per weapon, they have much more fine-grained control over what to offer you.

I'm 99% sure that most achievements are there just for their own record-keeping.

[Toutatis]

I'm 99% sure that most achievements are there just for their own record-keeping.

they can keep track of what they want without public achievements. Besides, stuff like 20k horde serves is not much of an indication of anything except perhaps obsession. I know someone who spent entire days just entering floor 11 of HoH, popping an intuition and leaving to get the achievement.

[Sjol]

they can keep track of what they want without public achievements. Besides, stuff like 20k horde serves is not much of an indication of anything except perhaps obsession. I know someone who spent entire days just entering floor 11 of HoH, popping an intuition and leaving to get the achievement.

But why would they? They could add an additional field in the database OR they could use the existing achievement data and have to store half as much stuff. I imagine a ton of code now is driven off their achievement system to determine what you see.

[Canadane]

I'm 99% sure that most achievements are there just for their own record-keeping.

Gotta agree.
Considering that the mentor system requires you to get specific achievements, and like you mentioned weapon replicas, among other things I think the achievement system is indeed simply the public side of your tracked character stats that SE has on everyone. Slap some points and rewards on a few and suddenly that excel table looks a lot more appealing to the average gamer.