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Who thought it was a good idea to move Kuma and Tank battleground achievements?
This is honestly one of the dumbest things I've seen. I assume (and hope) it is still possible to get Champion without doing any of them, but it honestly feels like they are just shoving these low quality, gimmicky battlegrounds down our throats in the place of actual pvp. Why should I have to do Iron Battelground 300 times to make laurel progress? I don't even want to do it 3 times. If you want to kill pvp then kill it properly, and if people like those battlegrounds then fine, but please don't shove this crap that nobody asked for onto us or add insult to injury to the dedicated pvpers/achievement hunters.
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do the anothers category(Progression, Encounter and exploration, Tours of dust and Extracurricular activities) and a few DGs and u will earn it
Achievements in the special category were in there for a reason. This is jsut a shallow attempt at getting people to do their boring battlegrounds in place of actual pvp.
Also, most achievements in the other categories were doable on your own or at least in your control. Even when world bosses were 100 kills each and longer spawn timers I didn't mind it, even if it was a bit absurd. And aside from the hardest dungeon achievements of 77 or 100 runs, you only needed to run most things 10 times (30 minimum in Sky Garden, one of the only exceptions)(([filtered] sky garden)), but you have to do the tank battleground 300 times, and get 100 wins. The wins aren't in your control a lot of the time, and while in most cases you will get all 100 wins in the 300 games, 300 is still a ridiculous amount of times to do something you don't enjoy at all. And taking into account the round length, that means sitting and playing their awful tank battleground for anywhere between 60 to 90 hours to get it.
Was made for achievements that are no longer achievable (such as old dungeons), not to spare you from doing some of them.
Champion is easy as it is; each patch since the introduction of laurels has been a step to lower their value, last but not least this stupid 3hrs World Bosses. So worry not little lazy-I-want-all-the-shine-without-putting-the-effort-other-did-to-get-theirs, that won't prevent you to get this (now) cheap Champion and you can pretend to be badasses too
Well in the notes it specifically stated it was going into the same category as CS, not the special category, which would be completely fine. And I wouldn't say the CS achievements being in there are any better, but that is mostly because they CS achievements suck anyway like using the bomb.
To be honest I wouldn' even mind it if they were giving the same treatment to all of the battleground achievements, but since they aren't and instead only give it to their gimmicky non-pvp battlegrounds (aside from CS which is pvp but very casual and more objective based), they are making it pretty clear that this is nothing more than another shallow attempt to kill of pvp once and for all in the game.
Actually, that would be the legacy and partially the prestige category which contains unobtainable ones, almost every other one in special is obtainable.
And I presonally don't agree with the world boss changes either, I think they should have either decreased the number or decreased their rarity, but not both, espacially when the number is as low as 1 kill each.
But as I have stated in previous posts, to me it is less about the laurel and more about the precedent set, and the blatant attempt to kill of pvp.
How would you explain other CS achievements? The 5,000 BAM killing achievements, etc etc?
I especially don't like having lame fake pvp batlegrounds forced upon me. We're not being cheap, many of us just don't regard tanks/kumas as real pvp or worth a second of our time lmao I'd rather them have moved FWC/dueling etc into the section instead. Special category is usually optional or complete within our own time and that's back where this [filtered] belongs.
This is my exact problem with it. Although I have less of a problem if the requirement for laurels wasn't increased with their addition, it still kinda irks me that they won't do it to the rest of the battlegrounds, only their fake "pvp" ones.