Oh I will more than survive, I will simply lose the will to even do it and move on. That’s the whole point. It’s so cumbersome it discourages you from even attempting it and that’s objectively bad design. And it’s not a matter of days but rather weeks and potentially even months (and had already completed more than half of it before I quit SL).
These achievements only make sense if you do them during the expansion but this achievement didn’t even exist until the last week, or rather it did but barely anyone cared enough to do it the last time so they brought it back this time with an actual reward attached to it.
Lastly, Shadowlands is a special case. It was a terrible expansion and this particular achievement highlights the worst parts of it. It was also an expansion that saw a mass exodus a little more than half way through and an inordinate amount of long time WoW players, like myself, never even saw the latter parts of it when it was current content.
This achievement could have been a way to redeem the situation somewhat but instead it only dredged up (pun fully intended because I had to do stupid dredger quests today for the Ember Court achievement) all the bad memories and frustrations players had the first time they attempted SL.
Every single zone I’ve been in today, and over the past week that I’ve been working on this achievement, has been filled with players expressing the same concerns I’ve laid out here and expressing relief after finishing an achievement, vowing to never set foot in that particular zone again. I myself purposely chose to finish all the Maw and Torghast achievements first because I hate both of those places with a passion and never wanted to see them again.
These are decidedly not the reactions a person should be having while playing a game that’s supposed to be a fun pastime. Yeah, sure, I can just choose not to do it but that’s not the point. And for the record I specifically chose to focus on this instead of the Plunderstorm nonsense because that’s an even worse experience for me than revisiting the Shadowlands, and that’s saying something!
Nothing about this is fun or enjoyable in any way… this thread was my attempt at trying to advocate for making it a little less of a slog and also an outlet for my frustration or catharsis if you will.
P.S. I am also simultaneously working on finishing up the DF meta achievement and it’s like night and day! I guess it’s a good thing that they seem to have learned from the mistakes of the past but it only makes it that much more frustrating that they didn’t extend that same treatment to the SL meta achievement as well.