Supply and Provisioning Achievements.

[Rognis]

Since the supply and provisioning missions were changed from having a set limit the community could contribute each week to daily missions you could only do once a day. The time it would take to get the earring or ring from completing 5,000 missions has increased dramatically. One would have to do the supply missions on ALL EIGHT classes, every single day for almost 2 years in order to get 5,000 trade ins, and in order to complete the provisioning achievement it would take over 4 and a half years of doing provisioning missions on miner, botanist and fisher, without missing a day.

I'm all in favor of having hard to get items but either the stats on the items have to be increased or the amount of required missions needs to be lowered.

[Raldo]

Plus, the items can be topped with crafted gear w/ melds so they're not even that great! Definitely needs to be changed.

[Rognis]

Without even considering that aspect of it, they changed the entire supply and provisioning system from 1.0 but kept the achievements the same, that gear is nearly unobtainable as it stands now.

[Grundy]

I raised this on another board, and the consensus was you had to do the advanced supply missions. So basically use your GC credits to buy items and then hand them back into the Quartermaster, you'll lose out on your GC credit return but it does could as one mission (someone even tested it as a result of my post and confirmed).

I really wanted the +Spiritbond rings, but in the end I just oiled up a Goldsmith at Camp Bronze Lake for the Meteor Survivor Ring and used that plus an Aetheryte ring for a total +4 Spiritbond.

I still wake up at night screaming from the memories .....

[Rognis]

I raised this on another board, and the consensus was you had to do the advanced supply missions. So basically use your GC credits to buy items and then hand them back into the Quartermaster, you'll lose out on your GC credit return but it does could as one mission (someone even tested it as a result of my post and confirmed).

I attempted this, with Private rank items, Second lieutenant Items and made an HQ Militia Scythe to try with that, Doing the Expert supply missions did nothing to progress my Provisioning or Supply numbers for the achievements.

[Toranja]

Rognis seems to have a fair point.

[Urthdigger]

I really wish they would change this. Maybe make the numbers 1/10th of what they are now.

[shoki]

jeah the achievements are very frustrating and demotivating as they are now.
You need over 10years to complete all leave quest achievements... wtf!

[Grundy]

I just went back and checked on my thread and one person says it did work, while another says it didn't, so with the confirmation here I'm guessing the "did work" guy was a dirty liar.

It'll take me approx 5 years turning in items every day from provision missions to get the +spiritbond ring, by which time I'm sure there shall me a lot more shiny collectibles available in Eorzea, so yeah, sounds a bit odd.

[Conradus]

I attempted this, with Private rank items, Second lieutenant Items and made an HQ Militia Scythe to try with that, Doing the Expert supply missions did nothing to progress my Provisioning or Supply numbers for the achievements.

That would be because they are "Expert Delivery" missions. They are neither Provisioning nor Supply and thus do not contribute to either achievement.