Luminary tools- a real achievement

[HiirNoivl]

hmm... I understood people's frustration because when I saw that in the beginning, I was shocked too. However, I agree with Jennestia's points. I treated it as a hmm "lifestyle" achievement.

First of all, maybe you don't care, I'm a person not really care about fame, gear and HNM stuffs. So, this achievement is just giving more excuses to do stuffs in my own pace here and there. So, it's a challenge, and challenge accepted. I started worked on some of the stuffs after.

These tools and titles are good. However, in the end, what did you really get out of it (in real life)?
Who will remember who beat the Moogle King first?
Why you play this game (stressed, botted, not enough sleep)?
I'm not really judging anything. Just hope you guys find your own direction, and don't over stress yourselves.

For these hard-working crafters/gatherers, here is my respect. /hatoff + /bow

I like doing it!

A long time ago I would gather lots of mats and sell them. Or cook them on culinarian. It's Fun!

[Deli]

I like doing it!

A long time ago I would gather lots of mats and sell them. Or cook them on culinarian. It's Fun!

me too
That's the spirit of "A Life of Cooking"!
/respect

[Zezlar]

As a person who really loves Trophy's (Just got my 34th Platinum today). I must say that I really wish developers would start using them in a better fashion. Mining X, Killing X, and Crafting X amounts of enemies/gear/items is not something that deserves a reward. A lot of these will require you to be max and then put much more effort in that is required. The real achievement is hitting max. Just because you craft/mine/kill more than another player doesn't make you any better.

Obviously i'm not saying that I don't want achievements that take forever to accomplish (because I definitely do). However spamming buttons mindlessly for hundreds of hours is not the way to do it. I would rather see achievements like this (and I do believe some are already implemented):

Complete every Quest in each area/ALL Areas.
Complete the Main Scenario.
Down Ifrit/Moogle King/Batraal/ or Kill them within a specified time
Craft every item related to your class/All Classes.
Gather every item related to your class/All Classes.
Pull off a certain amount of damage (Ex. 666, or 3000)
Complete a certain amount of Crafting/Battling/Gathering leves.
Down every possible mob type in the game
Down every NM
Visit every area
All jobs max

That's how I would do it at least. Crafters/Gathers who have 50 already are screwed in this situation. The spam X achievements are the ones I will never do because they simply aren't worth the time/effort. I would rather enjoy the game than despise it.

[VenusDoom]

Decided to file it under "Do not care anymore." When you have powered through 5,000 synths or 7,000 gathers and earn your golden tool, how pissed are you gonna be when you check someone and see they have a two/three-materia craftable tool with just about the same stats (since STR/VIT/DEX etc. make a negligable difference anyway) that probably took them under a week to meld and allowed them to accomplish other stuff while you were hasty handing lvl 20 synths.

[HiirNoivl]

Decided to file it under "Do not care anymore." When you have powered through 5,000 synths or 7,000 gathers and earn your golden tool, how pissed are you gonna be when you check someone and see they have a two/three-materia craftable tool with just about the same stats (since STR/VIT/DEX etc. make a negligable difference anyway) that probably took them under a week to meld and allowed them to accomplish other stuff while you were hasty handing lvl 20 synths.

It won't be gold...

It only took about 1.5 hours to get my level 20 achievement for carpenter. I doubt I'll get too far behind. ^^

[HiirNoivl]

I hope after the recipe adjustments I can make a cafe for the LS. ^^ Hiir has piping hot food for everyone!

[VenusDoom]

So is reading 13 pages of a thread you disagree with just to add a post that's been said already. If its not an issue for you, go play in another thread.

[HiirNoivl]

oh, well, thank you for that amazing post!

congrats? I'll make a note that you don't care.

Ridicule is the sport of the lazy.

Put up. Or hate me when I get my Luminary items.

[Jinko]

I find it annoying that anyone who has ranked a class up has to do this even tho they have probably met "most" of the requirments already.

I've been working towards the mining achievement today and to say its sapping my will to play is an understatment, its completely different when you are working towards leveling a class, but having to achieve what you have already achieved is just ridiculous.

[Vequi]

Well I have a question, probably a dumb one too.

Do you have to do the achievements in order form the ground up (i.e. do 1-10 recipes, then 11-20 recipes, 21-30, 31-40, and finally 41-50) or could you do them in any order? (i.e. get 31-40, then snag 1-10, next grab 41-50, then finish off with 11-20 and 21-30.)

would be frustrating to complete 750 21-30 items to find out it was for nada because you have to do 1-10 and 11-20 first.