A World Awoken is not a fun achievement to complete

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I would like to provide my feedback to blizzard that many of the requirements for A World Awoken are not fun or enjoyable to complete.

This meta achievement is mainly just grinding something 1000+ times.

compare this to the shadowlands meta:

sure there are a couple grindy things but the veilstrider achievement was mainly fun to complete:

  1. all the covenant special activities = kyrian mini game, venthyr party guests, abom stitching = all fun and interesting to do.

  2. covenant questlines = fun and interesting

  3. all the activities in the maw = those were really fun, doing all the maw achievements were so fun that i actually did them all before veilstrider was ever announced.

  4. torghast achievements = these were fun to do, they were unique and enjoyable.

i could go on and on about how great the veilstrider achievement was but you get the picture.

Storm Chaser = 200 mobs per storm x 4 storms per zone x 4 zones

This requires a player to kill 3200 mobs.

50 Scrolls from forbidden reach mobs = just grinding mobs over and over

25 lunkers fished = 5 conches per lunker x 25 lunkers = 125 conches

WoWhead lists conches as a 9% drop rate from Tuskar Tackleboxes = Roughly 1200 tuskar tackleboxes.

sure you can get conches from actually fishing the lunkers and looting them but wowhead lists the conches as a 10% drop rate from Massive Threshers, so you’re looking at 1200 Massive Threshers instead of 1200 tuskar tackle boxes.

Soridomi rep exalted = 42,000 rep = anyone who has done a time rift knows how little soridormi rep you get per time rift and time rifts are nothing but grinding mobs.

and there are many more similar examples but i’m not going to spend all day listing out every grindy achievement in this meta.

It is safe to say that the only enjoyable activity from this achievement was the dragon riding races. i will admit those were really fun. i had such a good time that i got all golds for those… then i had such a good time pushing for golds on advanced races that i decided to push for golds on the challenge and reverse challenge courses as well.

other than the dragon riding races, this achievement is very un-fun and involves nothing more than grinding mobs. It’s not enjoyable to do: it is simply a time sink.

I am providing this feedback so that blizzard creates meta achievements in the future that are fun to complete.

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And now it’s not a fun mount to ride.

UNSHRINK TAIVAN

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Can’t see anything but the title because I have OP on ignore for countless trolling tirades, but I vehemently disagree. Back from Beyond was a lot of fun and this one is too, I love huge comprehensive meta achievements. I hope they do one for every expansion going forward, it’s great to see all these outdoor zones full of people trying to get stuff done.

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the reward is less important than the achievement itself. the achievement should be fun.

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They didn’t just create the requirements for this achievement. They were added in every dragonflight patch and the people who have already completed the Meta did them when they were new and they probably had fun doing it.

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Pfft says you!

Also the achievement is broke since friday with the cascading of bugs due to them trying to fix the storms. whatever they did, when reset hit, everything asploded!

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there was nothing fun about grinding 1200 tuskar tackleboxes to fish up 25 lunkers.

nor was there anything fun about grinding hundreds upon hundreds of mobs for the 50 scrolls in forbidden reach.

nor was there anything fun about opening hundreds of doors in the zskera vaults for the librarian achieve.

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Also the lunker one is easy, just join a decently sized fishing group and it’ll be done in half an hour.

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This achievement is filled with achievements from content released throughout the expansion.

The idea with this achievements was that you could be working on it throughout the entire expansion, it’s not meant to be completed within a week.

There’s a lot of collectors/completionists that have been working towards this achievement since the expansion launched, myself included. When the patch went live I was missing 3 things, Scroll Hunter, Cobalt Assembly, and the new Fringe Benefits achievement.

Take this as a learning experience and be mindful of new content as its released and the achievements surrounding them. Pick and choose which ones you want to work on while the content is current and by the time the meta for TWW comes out, you too can be close to completing it.

Poor planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on Blizzard’s.

This can be completed in a couple hours if you look in Custom LFG for the Frostborne Vault farms. You just buy the item that increases the droprate of the scrolls (reapplying every time you loot a scroll) and it can be done quickly. I had 20 left when 10.2.6 dropped and was able to farm them in less than an hour with the LFG Group.

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this doesnt change the fact that this achievement involves nothing more than killing hundreds upon hundreds of mobs = unfun activity.

i never said i expected it to be completed within a week - nor did i say i didn’t do any of it before.

i was already exalted with soridormi because i wanted the mounts from the paracausal flakes = doesn’t change the fact that it was an unfun grind that involved nothing more than killing hundreds upon hundreds of mobs.

i’m already done with a world awoken… i had much of it completed before it was announced.

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Welcome to video games, where you are often required to kill hundreds upon hundreds of mobs to complete objectives.

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so your entire argument is “oh we have been required to grind mobs before also means that achievements in the future should also require nothing but grinding thousands upon thousands of mobs”.

why do you think im providing this feedback?

because it can and should be different so that it is fun and enjoyable.

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The Meta is just a collection of world expansion content, so I feel like your real complaint here is that Dragonflight had boring world content.

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basically, yes.

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Its just a shame they added mounts for the achievements that make up the meta just now.

Like, i would have participated in the storm mob grind if it had a mount back when it was relevant content.
I just didnt see a reason to chance achievement points

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I do think shadowlands had some good stuff going with the covenant events, people remember it as bad because of unrelated issues but the world content in SL was not bad

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I mean I get it, it’s suppose to be a comprehensive meta for the entire expansion. Personally, I think they released it too late. It should be released with either the .0 or .1 patch so you’ll have all or most of the expansion to complete it. Edit - yes I know it’s not going away but it would be fun to work on something like this for the entire expansion.

This is what pathfinder SHOULD have been.

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i think the shadowlands veilstrider was TONS OF FUN to do.

i genuinely enjoyed most of it.

the only sour taste i had related to veilstrider was that i waited i think like 6-8 weeks for that one frog world quest in zereth mortis to be active for that one treasure…

but that wasnt that bad, i just used my engi port once a day to go to ZM and check real quick.

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There seems to be a disconnect in understanding what happens in video games. You kill creatures to earn rewards. This has been the case in most, if not all, RPG video games since their inception. It shouldnt be news to you that an mmo has a grind in it.

Fun is subjective. I had a lot of fun throughout Dragonflight working on all these achievements whether it be solo or in a group. My guildies are having a blast working on it together.

I agree, the incentives should have been there from the start and was an odd choice to add during the final stretch of the expansion.

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Since fun is a purely subjective word, in my opinion nothing associated with Veilstrider was fun. None of it. The Shadowlands expansion itself wasn’t fun. Meanwhile I had almost all of the Dragonflight meta finished before it got released. The hardest part for me is the last storm I need not spawning and the WQ so I can snap a photo of Nat Pagel.

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