No longer diadem achievements obtainable

[xavird]

How is it possible that they have not notified this before? 1 year ago that every time I see that there is a party in pf i join to try to get the achievements especially the notorious monster slayer and 4 days before to launching the patch come out with this? it\\'s an injustice ... they should have notified just like they did with garo.

[Nalien]

I assume they'll be obtainable again once Diadem is re-released (for a second time) as part of the Ishgard Restoration content.

[BristolRuss]

I assume they'll be obtainable again once Diadem is re-released (for a second time) as part of the Ishgard Restoration content.

I think they've said that when it comes back it will just be for gatherers.

[Espritduo]

This is a cruelly low blow by SE if they don't bring the achievements back somehow (which it is looking like they won't). When they revamped Diadem the first time they made a point to make the old achievements still obtainable in the new Diadem format. This time they are just removing the achievements with 3 days before the patch? (Monday is maintenance day) They have NEVER removed post-1.0 achievements before. EVER. Only Garo achievements were ever slated to be removed, and precisely because the ending of the Garo event was so unique in its removal of achievements and titles did they give us a huge amount of time to still gain them. I HAVE to believe they are bringing the Diadem achievements back in a different format (but same achievements/titles) because otherwise someone needs a slap in the face for this. Hard.

- Disgruntled 78/100 Notorious Monster Slayer-to-be

And if they are intending to somehow keep the achievements obtainable in the new content, we need to know about it. NOW. Otherwise I need to sacrifice my life to hopeless Diadem farm groups for NM's for the next 72 hours non-stop to have even the smallest chance of getting this achievement done in time. And people who aren't some what close to completion like me? Forget it, you lose.

And for those people that always say "shoulda got it earlier". I tried. I tried so freaking hard for so long, but the interest in the content petered out and finally died before I could get to 100 NM kills. The groups just did NOT want to kill NM's and it was pointless trying to convince them to do it. Then the content just died altogether and there was no way in there at all under normal circumstances.

[SerLuke]

I think they've said that when it comes back it will just be for gatherers.

I don’t think they said that, they said DOW/M would be able to participate in Ishgard Restoration and my guess is that revamped Diadem will be how.

[Espritduo]

Just to make sure they didn't fake us out with apparent achievement removal the last time they shut down and revamped Diadem, I took a look at the patch notes for that time (3.5). They made it VERY clear that it was only temporary and that the achievements would still be obtainable in the new Diadem when it came back. They did no such thing this time, which is not looking good.

[Kyonika]

Yeah, this is going to be a really unfortunate change. Looks like this weekend, I will be farming Trials of the Matron for diadem exclusive mats, and to try and get the Pegasus mount before they all go poof. On the plus side, those mats can probably be sold for insane gil following patch 5.1

[DenzelVilliers]

I think they are going to rework Diadem not only for Ishgard restoration, but for the new Relic as well.

[SerLuke]

I take back what I said earlier I didn’t realize that was explicitly what the patch notes said

[Espritduo]

Yeah, this is going to be a really unfortunate change. Looks like this weekend, I will be farming Trials of the Matron for diadem exclusive mats, and to try and get the Pegasus mount before they all go poof. On the plus side, those mats can probably be sold for insane gil following patch 5.1

Not sure what you mean, since all diadem mats can be purchased pretty cheaply with yellow scrips. The Pegasus mount and minion will presumably still be gotten somehow or other since it wasn't tied strictly to the old Diadem gameplay anyways. It will either be gotten through gathering instead of battle Spoils or dumped into some other content like treasure maps/dungeons or scrip purchase or ventures or whatnot. It's only the battle content and achievements tied to said content that we know is definitely being removed. Gathering content will still exist in whatever new form Restoration Diadem takes, and any gathering-related rewards or items that you could get will most likely still be available in the new Diadem, or elsewhere.

EDIT: Just noticed that the highest-tier mats aren't available for purchase. Stuff like the peteinosaur skin and such. But again, they will almost definitely add those to the scrip purchase list like they did all the older mats, or include them in the new diadem gathering content. There's no way they would simply remove all those mats AND all the gearsets in the crafting list that use them. Of course I would never have believed they'd flat out remove the achievements either....but here we are.