[dev1081] Questions regarding achievements

[Kio]

(Hope I used the correct tag)

I was hoping a community rep or other players could please clarify what constitutes as a credit towards the crafting and gathering achievements.

• Is the goal based on the tally of actual completed actions or how many items are procured? E.g., 20 logging actions vrs 20 logs.
• Do "dated" or old recipes count towards the tally, or only recipes currently listed on Lodestone?
• Are there any exceptions when something may not be tallied, such as an item created as part of a quest, or local and region leves?

Right now, for the synthesis based achievements, they can be easily obtained by someone running an automated crafting/gathering cheat program, but is extremely difficult for a player who already dedicated a copious amount of time leveling their class in full legitimately. This concerns me quite a bit, will there be any actions taken to balance the reward for true players?

May we also have some way of showing our progress added to the achievement UI? I.e., 10/3000 items completed for Going Against the Grain: Journeyman.

If I also may toss in an off-topic question, I've noticed that many of the local leves still are requiring sub crafts (or at least still warn that it does). I thought this was done away with this past patch. Or am I mistaken?

Thank you for reading.

[Raldo]

Achievement progress bars intended implementation target is 1.20a.

[WinterSkyblue]

Dated" or old recipes also counted. Just tested today.
Only success try will be counted. Fail attempts will not be counted.

[Alzelia]

Achievement progress bars intended implementation target is 1.20a.

I believe they said it would come AFTER 1.20a

[Kio]

Thanks for the responses! Hopefully the tally counter will come sooner than later.

I made a trek out to Skull Valley yesterday morning to earn the second logging achievement for La Noscea. It required 7 hours of nothing but straight logging (no breaks over 5 mins long). It was really excessive for a level 20 range achievement, I'm very perturbed by the prospect of attempting any others at all. Especially if you must do it three times for it to amount to anything.

[Raldo]

I made a trek out to Skull Valley yesterday morning to earn the second logging achievement for La Noscea. It required 7 hours of nothing but straight logging (no breaks over 5 mins long). It was really excessive for a level 20 range achievement, I'm very perturbed by the prospect of attempting any others at all. Especially if you must do it three times for it to amount to anything.

Oh man, I'm in the middle of doing this exact same thing. "300 swings? That doesn't sound too bad." I tell myself, "That's only 38 (37.5) trees. Bearded Rock was a breeze!" I haven't been keeping track of trees or time, but it feels like it's been hours, and I'm still not done

Edit: Woo, just finished! I... I don't think I want to start on Bloodshore.

[tymora]

It required 7 hours of nothing but straight logging

Maybe if you don't do it in one sitting (and they probably didn't intend it to), you won't feel as horrible.
I do admit that not being credited retroactively sucks.

[runriot]

Does anyone know if you have to start on the first achievement? like mining grade 1 before grade 2 and so on? I would really like to know if i am wasting my time leveling on grade 5 if they are not counting towards the achievements..

thank you,

[MeowyWowie]

Only success try will be counted. Fail attempts will not be counted.

That's false. Failed synth attempts count too. I tested this last night on lv 1-10 CUL recipes, bought 50 fish, synthed all and broke like 5, got the achievement. However, you have to cancel the synthesis "stance" to have the achievement show on your screen.

Also, for DoH, it's quite easy to keep track of how many synths you've done. Just keep track of the mats used.

Edit: Sorry, I was mistaken. Winter is correct, only successful synths count towards the achievements. I mistook the lv10 CUL achievement for the 50 lv1-10 synths achievement.