A Final One-character Achievement High Score Memorial Thread

spacefracking

With the coming account-wide achievement feature, now is the last time the heroes out there can flex their single character achievement high scores!

I've talked to many people proud of their single character achievement scores. So, whether you have 25,000 points, 35,000 points, or the max 48,885 points, now's the time to post em!!!!

Let's see your high score!

I'll start with my 40,520 point magicka nightblade

Jim_Pipp

The upcoming account-wide achievement forced me to complete a project I've been "tinkering with" for 4.5 years. 18 Precursors, I plan to use them as faux-shopkeepers in a clockwork market. That's my weird achievement flex!

honglatongla

47250, pretty poggers

jaws343

37,580 currently on my main. Most of my achievements I am missing are the trifects and vet minutia stuff for the DLC dungeons. Got vet clears across the board, multiples on many, but have never really felt the urge to grind out the DLC dungeon achievements. It was tiring enough grinding the base game vet achievements.

I actually don't think account wide achievements will make that go up at all. I have been working at clearing out achievements on my main over the last two years and the only thing my alts previously had more of than my main was alliance rank. But now, my main has more rank as well. And while I did dungeons/trials on my tank and healer, my main as a DPS has done either the same or more achievements as them.

AlnilamE

I just want to memorialize that she got these on her own. Even if I had to rack up bounties on purpose to get the last achievement.

spacefracking

AlnilamE wrote: »

I just want to memorialize that she got these on her own. Even if I had to rack up bounties on purpose to get the last achievement.

Yeah, the thieving achievements are really difficult and take a lot of time. I've been grinding out the black market mogul (1,000,000g fenced) for ages. Soooo much thieving, and can only sell 140 a day

jaws343

spacefracking wrote: »

AlnilamE wrote: »

I just want to memorialize that she got these on her own. Even if I had to rack up bounties on purpose to get the last achievement.

Yeah, the thieving achievements are really difficult and take a lot of time. I've been grinding out the black market mogul (1,000,000g fenced) for ages. Soooo much thieving, and can only sell 140 a day

I grinded out the last 300K or so of Black Market since the last patch. Just farmed that one building in Fargrave every day until I hit on a purple item. Make a lot of gold off plans, and around 25K or so a day fencing items. For around 30 minutes of farming a day. Wasn't too bad.

The 100K bounty was the easiest, outside of having to pay for it. Just big murder tear in a big city, like Wayrest.

Honestly, Escape Artist for me has been the most annoying achievement in the game.

tmbrinks

Three weeks to get the last 4-man Trifecta I need on her (Unchained, had a 23/24 run last week)

Already didn't renew my ESO+ when it ran out on the 15th, first time w/o the sub ever, had been playing since 4/4/14.

Treeshka

Full on my only character. I mean in terms of achievable ones since one motif is not yet released.

spacefracking

tmbrinks wrote: »

Three weeks to get the last 4-man Trifecta I need on her (Unchained, had a 23/24 run last week)

Already didn't renew my ESO+ when it ran out on the 15th, first time w/o the sub ever, had been playing since 4/4/14.

0_0 does that say 48,340? Why not renewing? Because you won't be able to get achievements anymore?

kargen27

I'm not going to look. I find myself not caring any longer. Shame really I liked chasing achievements.

Jusey1

Jim_Pipp wrote: »

The upcoming account-wide achievement forced me to complete a project I've been "tinkering with" for 4.5 years. 18 Precursors, I plan to use them as faux-shopkeepers in a clockwork market. That's my weird achievement flex!

Wouldn't account-wide achievement just makes this much easier to do? You still get the quests for the Precursor, and still get him as the quest reward... You just skip the part of collecting all of his pieces.

wenchmore420b14_ESO

Jusey1 wrote: »

Jim_Pipp wrote: »

The upcoming account-wide achievement forced me to complete a project I've been "tinkering with" for 4.5 years. 18 Precursors, I plan to use them as faux-shopkeepers in a clockwork market. That's my weird achievement flex!

Wouldn't account-wide achievement just makes this much easier to do? You still get the quests for the Precursor, and still get him as the quest reward... You just skip the part of collecting all of his pieces.

But for some of us, doing the quests, putting in the work, is what makes it an achievement.
It's not the destination that matters, it's the journey that counts.....

WiseSky

tmbrinks wrote: »

Three weeks to get the last 4-man Trifecta I need on her (Unchained, had a 23/24 run last week)

Already didn't renew my ESO+ when it ran out on the 15th, first time w/o the sub ever, had been playing since 4/4/14.

Is ESO gonna lose its Master Writs God?

If so Today is a sad day

Arunei

Jusey1 wrote: »

Jim_Pipp wrote: »

The upcoming account-wide achievement forced me to complete a project I've been "tinkering with" for 4.5 years. 18 Precursors, I plan to use them as faux-shopkeepers in a clockwork market. That's my weird achievement flex!

Wouldn't account-wide achievement just makes this much easier to do? You still get the quests for the Precursor, and still get him as the quest reward... You just skip the part of collecting all of his pieces.

Nope, Museum and other Collection quests are remaining character-bound so people can run the quest on multiple characters and get the reward. It'll remain the same it is now, so there won't be any change in difficulty or anything, as each character will still need to get all the pieces his or herself.

Mesite

I think I've been doing this wrong. I just created loads of toons, did the same starter quests on most of them, then did lots of dolmens and a few dungeons. A bit of exploring, but that's about it.

tmbrinks

spacefracking wrote: »

tmbrinks wrote: »

Three weeks to get the last 4-man Trifecta I need on her (Unchained, had a 23/24 run last week)

Already didn't renew my ESO+ when it ran out on the 15th, first time w/o the sub ever, had been playing since 4/4/14.

0_0 does that say 48,340? Why not renewing? Because you won't be able to get achievements anymore?

Because each of my characters is an individual, and this butchery of "account wide achievements" takes away each character and their individual progress. I liked going for achievements on other characters, different classes, different roles (I have multiple trifrectas as both a tank, healer and as dps on different classes) That will no longer be trackable. My writ characters will all have the Godslayer title.

This change is a complete butchery of everything that makes an Elder Scrolls game an Elder Scrolls game, which is the individuality of each character on different playthroughs in this world. There's a reason that Skyrim has 37 million releases on every device out there, it's because Elder Scrolls players like playing characters in this world.

I'm not going to quit my raid groups, I have fun with friends, but I cannot financially support a game that is going to fundamentally alter core gameplay 8 years after launching.

WiseSky wrote: »

tmbrinks wrote: »

Three weeks to get the last 4-man Trifecta I need on her (Unchained, had a 23/24 run last week)

Already didn't renew my ESO+ when it ran out on the 15th, first time w/o the sub ever, had been playing since 4/4/14.

Is ESO gonna lose its Master Writs God?

If so Today is a sad day

Not bothering with doing writs w/o plus, too much of an inventory nightmare. I have enough gold and resources to last me for years. I enjoy looking at and analyzing data, figuring out trends, and knowing what was happening within that system. I'd like to think I gave something to the ESO family we are all a part of.

All the devs have to do is add an "account-wide" tracker (that unlocks the collectibles, titles, etc...) while keeping the individual character tracking intact, and I'll re-sub immediately. I've used the add-on to track my "overall" progress for years and have no qualms with that. But the decimation of all my individual characters and their history is a step too far.

GrumpyKlam

tmbrinks wrote: »

Because each of my characters is an individual, and this butchery of "account wide achievements" takes away each character and their individual progress. I liked going for achievements on other characters, different classes, different roles (I have multiple trifrectas as both a tank, healer and as dps on different classes) That will no longer be trackable. My writ characters will all have the Godslayer title.

This change is a complete butchery of everything that makes an Elder Scrolls game an Elder Scrolls game, which is the individuality of each character on different playthroughs in this world. There's a reason that Skyrim has 37 million releases on every device out there, it's because Elder Scrolls players like playing characters in this world.

I'm not going to quit my raid groups, I have fun with friends, but I cannot financially support a game that is going to fundamentally alter core gameplay 8 years after launching.

You guys take RP way too seriously, it's only a game. I play to have fun with other people or help them get their trifectas in dungeons / arenas and don't really bother which character I bring along for the deed.

I 100 % agree with you that if you're not happy with how the game is moving forward, you should stop financing it tho.

Kidgangster101

wenchmore420b14_ESO wrote: »

Jusey1 wrote: »

Jim_Pipp wrote: »

The upcoming account-wide achievement forced me to complete a project I've been "tinkering with" for 4.5 years. 18 Precursors, I plan to use them as faux-shopkeepers in a clockwork market. That's my weird achievement flex!

Wouldn't account-wide achievement just makes this much easier to do? You still get the quests for the Precursor, and still get him as the quest reward... You just skip the part of collecting all of his pieces.

But for some of us, doing the quests, putting in the work, is what makes it an achievement.
It's not the destination that matters, it's the journey that counts.....

But getting the achievement no matter on what toon is the same.....

2 players do the same achievements. Both spend 30 hours getting it on one toon While the other does it amongst 2 toons.......

Literally mathamatically both players earned the achievement at the same pace and both put in equal investment into the game to earn it. I literally don't understand how one is better than the other?

The same with titles...... If I was good enough to become an emporer in pvp on one toon..... That means I can do it on all my toons as well. Or clearing vma without dying once means I am good enough of a water to earn it again.

All this does is save people who can't complete these on multiple toons due to maybe real life commitments or not wanting to spend every waking second on this game? I'm not sure why people are against stuff like this and I don't get why people think the toons are different...... Literally I'm the one playing it sitting on my chair telling them what to do lol.

tmbrinks

Kidgangster101 wrote: »

wenchmore420b14_ESO wrote: »

Jusey1 wrote: »

Jim_Pipp wrote: »

The upcoming account-wide achievement forced me to complete a project I've been "tinkering with" for 4.5 years. 18 Precursors, I plan to use them as faux-shopkeepers in a clockwork market. That's my weird achievement flex!

Wouldn't account-wide achievement just makes this much easier to do? You still get the quests for the Precursor, and still get him as the quest reward... You just skip the part of collecting all of his pieces.

But for some of us, doing the quests, putting in the work, is what makes it an achievement.
It's not the destination that matters, it's the journey that counts.....

But getting the achievement no matter on what toon is the same.....

2 players do the same achievements. Both spend 30 hours getting it on one toon While the other does it amongst 2 toons.......

Literally mathamatically both players earned the achievement at the same pace and both put in equal investment into the game to earn it. I literally don't understand how one is better than the other?

The same with titles...... If I was good enough to become an emporer in pvp on one toon..... That means I can do it on all my toons as well. Or clearing vma without dying once means I am good enough of a water to earn it again.

All this does is save people who can't complete these on multiple toons due to maybe real life commitments or not wanting to spend every waking second on this game? I'm not sure why people are against stuff like this and I don't get why people think the toons are different...... Literally I'm the one playing it sitting on my chair telling them what to do lol.

Very few people are against the addition of an account wide overview that unlocks the titles/collectibles/achievement furnishings across the account.

What sucks to lose is the tracking on individual characters.

Both are possible. Treating this all as an either/or only serves to create strife and derision amongst the players.

Jusey1

wenchmore420b14_ESO wrote: »

But for some of us, doing the quests, putting in the work, is what makes it an achievement.
It's not the destination that matters, it's the journey that counts.....

I only agree with this if the journey is actually fun, enjoyable, and challenging... In this case, it is not at all and just very boring to grind out which no longer makes it a true achievement and just more of wasted time, if anything, cause anyone can do this without challenge or difficulty, it just takes time.

Think of like beating a game 50 times vs speedrunning the game only once but in one-life mode and on the hardest difficulty... The former is super easy and can be done by anyone thus it loses that feeling of being an achievement while the latter is an actual achievement of skill and knowledge of the game.

peacenote

Well I'm guessing this thread is going to get closed soon. Got derailed rather quickly.

In an attempt to save it... if anyone doesn't understand the many nuances to the different opinions on AwA, there is a very long topic you can read in the PTS section of the forums. I'm on mobile but maybe someone else could link it for everyone?

This topic is for folks who want to nostalgically share with others dates, accomplishments, memories, etc. that will be erased after U33 if nothing changes with what's on PTS. Whether you're for, against, or somewhere in between when it comes to AwA there's no denying it will change the face of the game forever. I was looking forward to see what some folks had to share as memories, so maybe we can try to get back on track?

Vevvev

tmbrinks wrote: »

Kidgangster101 wrote: »

wenchmore420b14_ESO wrote: »

Jusey1 wrote: »

Jim_Pipp wrote: »

The upcoming account-wide achievement forced me to complete a project I've been "tinkering with" for 4.5 years. 18 Precursors, I plan to use them as faux-shopkeepers in a clockwork market. That's my weird achievement flex!

Wouldn't account-wide achievement just makes this much easier to do? You still get the quests for the Precursor, and still get him as the quest reward... You just skip the part of collecting all of his pieces.

But for some of us, doing the quests, putting in the work, is what makes it an achievement.
It's not the destination that matters, it's the journey that counts.....

But getting the achievement no matter on what toon is the same.....

2 players do the same achievements. Both spend 30 hours getting it on one toon While the other does it amongst 2 toons.......

Literally mathamatically both players earned the achievement at the same pace and both put in equal investment into the game to earn it. I literally don't understand how one is better than the other?

The same with titles...... If I was good enough to become an emporer in pvp on one toon..... That means I can do it on all my toons as well. Or clearing vma without dying once means I am good enough of a water to earn it again.

All this does is save people who can't complete these on multiple toons due to maybe real life commitments or not wanting to spend every waking second on this game? I'm not sure why people are against stuff like this and I don't get why people think the toons are different...... Literally I'm the one playing it sitting on my chair telling them what to do lol.

Very few people are against the addition of an account wide overview that unlocks the titles/collectibles/achievement furnishings across the account.

What sucks to lose is the tracking on individual characters.

Both are possible. Treating this all as an either/or only serves to create strife and derision amongst the players.

^ This

There are addons that did this account wide achievement thing better by displaying every single character that has accomplished the achievement while viewing the achievement panel. Current PTS version only shows the character that got it first, and then completely ignores all the others.


Not only to add the PTS implementation breaks quests, storylines, overland progress, makes it impossible to see whether you completed a quest in a spot or not without going there, breaks dialogue like the Adoring Fan and Melissa Cassel to name a couple, causes all NPCs to praise you for your deeds on things you did on your level 1 character who is still on the starting quest in the zone, and so much more like breaking museum quests so badly ZOS actually had to make them exempt from the system!

It's just too broken to release in this state. ZOS should hit pause and work through this Account Wide Achievements thing like they did with multi-rider mounts. It's not ready to release.

Also here's my main's progress so far.


Achievement I use to keep track of her age compared to my first character.


Day she became a vampire



I'm going to lose all this because.... she never accomplished this stuff first.

kargen27

Jusey1 wrote: »

wenchmore420b14_ESO wrote: »

But for some of us, doing the quests, putting in the work, is what makes it an achievement.
It's not the destination that matters, it's the journey that counts.....

I only agree with this if the journey is actually fun, enjoyable, and challenging... In this case, it is not at all and just very boring to grind out which no longer makes it a true achievement and just more of wasted time, if anything, cause anyone can do this without challenge or difficulty, it just takes time.

Think of like beating a game 50 times vs speedrunning the game only once but in one-life mode and on the hardest difficulty... The former is super easy and can be done by anyone thus it loses that feeling of being an achievement while the latter is an actual achievement of skill and knowledge of the game.

You need to remember people find different things fun. A friend thinks leveling characters doing the main and guild quests is fun. He has multiple accounts has been playing since day one and creates new characters all the time. Others I know have more than ten master angler characters. They are working (or were soon it won't matter) on more because they like chasing that achievement.
I want to get all the trophy achievements on one character. I don't want a trophy another character gets to count towards the achievements on other characters. From time to time I jump on a character and go trophy hunting for a while. It is something fun to do when other things get a bit stale. I like PvP, trials and all that but sometimes just running a loop killing Ogres hoping for a toe ring is a nice diversion. Soon that part of the game will be gone. We all have fun different ways. I see no reason we can't be given the option to keep achievements as is or toggle account wide participation in achievements.

Search for master angler and read some of the threads through the years and you will see what this change is taking away from the game. People are really joyous when they finally get the achievement. Spreading it across all characters makes it kind of blah.

colossalvoids

Will get some more points before next patch but that's kinda it as for now, missing quite a lot pvp ones and a bunch in more recent trials:


Strange situation about progress tracking but i'd hope something like this (screen below) will be implemented somehow in the future (despite being tied to achievements currently) that's PAT addon as is for current patch, was a handy one for checks:

nightstrike

Jusey1 wrote: »

Jim_Pipp wrote: »

The upcoming account-wide achievement forced me to complete a project I've been "tinkering with" for 4.5 years. 18 Precursors, I plan to use them as faux-shopkeepers in a clockwork market. That's my weird achievement flex!

Wouldn't account-wide achievement just makes this much easier to do? You still get the quests for the Precursor, and still get him as the quest reward... You just skip the part of collecting all of his pieces.

It's not a matter of being easier. I personally don't want a participation trophy. I want to work for what I have and earn my rewards. I don't want to play Progress Quest (it's an old idle game). I don't want my characters to get achievements just for logging in.

So yes, it will be easier, but that's exactly what I don't want.

JKorr

Kidgangster101 wrote: »

wenchmore420b14_ESO wrote: »

Jusey1 wrote: »

Jim_Pipp wrote: »

The upcoming account-wide achievement forced me to complete a project I've been "tinkering with" for 4.5 years. 18 Precursors, I plan to use them as faux-shopkeepers in a clockwork market. That's my weird achievement flex!

Wouldn't account-wide achievement just makes this much easier to do? You still get the quests for the Precursor, and still get him as the quest reward... You just skip the part of collecting all of his pieces.

But for some of us, doing the quests, putting in the work, is what makes it an achievement.
It's not the destination that matters, it's the journey that counts.....

But getting the achievement no matter on what toon is the same.....

2 players do the same achievements. Both spend 30 hours getting it on one toon While the other does it amongst 2 toons.......

Literally mathamatically both players earned the achievement at the same pace and both put in equal investment into the game to earn it. I literally don't understand how one is better than the other?

The same with titles...... If I was good enough to become an emporer in pvp on one toon..... That means I can do it on all my toons as well. Or clearing vma without dying once means I am good enough of a water to earn it again.

All this does is save people who can't complete these on multiple toons due to maybe real life commitments or not wanting to spend every waking second on this game? I'm not sure why people are against stuff like this and I don't get why people think the toons are different...... Literally I'm the one playing it sitting on my chair telling them what to do lol.

You aren't actually creating a character. You are creating a toon that you use for playing the game. There is no difference between them for you, besides their skills and gear because you are simply using them to play the game.

Some players create a character. That character has a background, motivations, morals, ethics, and boundaries they won't cross. My first character made at early release, is a Nod DK that is so light-side paragon she should glow in the dark. She doesn't steal, will never do the thieves' guild quests, and won't join the DB. The second character I made at early release is and imperial nightblade who is very disgruntled at the mess the war is creating in Cyrodiil, turning to mercenary type work; if she'll get paid for it, she'll do the job. Even if that means assassinating a target. I have a breton templar who should be a lawful stupid paladin crusader, a Nord NB who has a personal mission to steal everything that isn't actually part of the building, but who won't kill anyone while doing that. All the achievements appearing for all the characters I have is going to suck big time and actually might kill some of my interest in playing. No point if its all going to be one homogeneous blob where every character has done everything even if the achievement was one the player would never earn for that character ON PURPOSE.

whitecrow

30,200

The_Boggart

I will be extremely busy for the next few weeks before my ESO + expires loading my surveys onto the bag, then no more monies will be spent.

kargen27

JKorr wrote: »

Kidgangster101 wrote: »

wenchmore420b14_ESO wrote: »

Jusey1 wrote: »

Jim_Pipp wrote: »

The upcoming account-wide achievement forced me to complete a project I've been "tinkering with" for 4.5 years. 18 Precursors, I plan to use them as faux-shopkeepers in a clockwork market. That's my weird achievement flex!

Wouldn't account-wide achievement just makes this much easier to do? You still get the quests for the Precursor, and still get him as the quest reward... You just skip the part of collecting all of his pieces.

But for some of us, doing the quests, putting in the work, is what makes it an achievement.
It's not the destination that matters, it's the journey that counts.....

But getting the achievement no matter on what toon is the same.....

2 players do the same achievements. Both spend 30 hours getting it on one toon While the other does it amongst 2 toons.......

Literally mathamatically both players earned the achievement at the same pace and both put in equal investment into the game to earn it. I literally don't understand how one is better than the other?

The same with titles...... If I was good enough to become an emporer in pvp on one toon..... That means I can do it on all my toons as well. Or clearing vma without dying once means I am good enough of a water to earn it again.

All this does is save people who can't complete these on multiple toons due to maybe real life commitments or not wanting to spend every waking second on this game? I'm not sure why people are against stuff like this and I don't get why people think the toons are different...... Literally I'm the one playing it sitting on my chair telling them what to do lol.

You aren't actually creating a character. You are creating a toon that you use for playing the game. There is no difference between them for you, besides their skills and gear because you are simply using them to play the game.

Some players create a character. That character has a background, motivations, morals, ethics, and boundaries they won't cross. My first character made at early release, is a Nod DK that is so light-side paragon she should glow in the dark. She doesn't steal, will never do the thieves' guild quests, and won't join the DB. The second character I made at early release is and imperial nightblade who is very disgruntled at the mess the war is creating in Cyrodiil, turning to mercenary type work; if she'll get paid for it, she'll do the job. Even if that means assassinating a target. I have a breton templar who should be a lawful stupid paladin crusader, a Nord NB who has a personal mission to steal everything that isn't actually part of the building, but who won't kill anyone while doing that. All the achievements appearing for all the characters I have is going to suck big time and actually might kill some of my interest in playing. No point if its all going to be one homogeneous blob where every character has done everything even if the achievement was one the player would never earn for that character ON PURPOSE.

Going off on a tangent but I like giving my characters odd little quirks. I have a Khajiit that will only wear Khajiit armor and his house other than basic furnishings is Khajiit only. He wants a boat for his pond but hasn't finished the Master Angler quest yet (two other characters have). He was planning on getting the boat eventually. Now he may never be able.

My main character doing the quests when given the option never lied. Didn't matter consequences she always takes the option of telling the truth. She will steal and assassinate though. For a long time she would dye her gear a different color after every dungeon or trial run. She kind of got away from that but does change outfits quite often.

None of my characters are allowed achievement furnishings they don't earn themselves. Was something that allowed me a variety of things to choose to do as I play the game. Some activity gets a little stale I could hop on an alternate character and do some things with them. That incentive is going away.

wenchmore420b14_ESO

Well, the 68 pg PTS thread has been closed. Guess they have all they need to know from us.
Looks like it is going live as is.