What is the purpose of Achievement Points???

dominic.iraceb14_ESO · November 2016

I get the purpose of completing an achievement just to have that feeling of accomplishment, but what is the purpose of the points associated with them?? I can't seem to find what they do??

I originally thought they can be converted to "Crowns" for use at the Crown Store or converted to a % difference (1500 points = 15% discount) for purchases at the Crown Store. All great thoughts, but unfortunilty they're not putting them to good use

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Katahdin · November 2016

Feel good mechanic for completionists

Skayaq · November 2016

The points do absolutely nothing. They can sorta be used to judge how difficult an achievement is, but that's about it.

bellanca6561n · November 2016

Faux character progression.

AntMan100673 · November 2016

So we can see who's winning

dominic.iraceb14_ESO · November 2016

?? Winning...not my personal life! I've spend more time completing this stupid things.. i do see that some reward colors for style.. was there any other discussions about maybe rewarding armors, equipment..etc?

Stopnaggin · November 2016

It is to makes us OCD players keep playing. Like pokemon gotta have em all.

ValkynSketha · November 2016

They are for bragging.

JahneeO · November 2016

The points themselves? Not much at all. But some achievements do hand out new titles and dyes. I like new dyes to try on for size.

DaveMoeDee · November 2016

It is a measure of how many achievements you have and how involved the achievements were. If you don't care about achievements, don't worry about it.

Acrolas · November 2016

Achievements are a road map for most of the relevant actions any given character can do. They provide a reference for what you've done, and when you did it. Point values give a sense of importance or rarity. The achievements themselves unlock titles or dyes.

As of 2.6.5 there were 24,015 total points, so you can also calculate the percentage of relevant actions you've done in the game on any character.

I'm not sure what to think of your crown store speculation. There's just no evidence to support that line of thinking.

Nestor · November 2016

Its kind of like this: (skip to 24 seconds)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KAGwNtI26w

WalksonGraves · November 2016

It's so you can see who the best players are.
(It's the Master Anglers)

Hortator Indoril Nerevar · November 2016

I have 93% of all PVE achievements done. To be honest they do nothing.

Worse yet ZOS put in achievements that take 70 days to complete at 2-4 hours work EACH day to complete that give the same points as a achievement that might only take 10 minutes. They implement the points bad and the achievements even worse..

They dont think about it at all and being a completionist on ESO is the equivalent of the James Bond scene where he is getting his balls beat with a knotted rope...

summitxho · November 2016

each point adds a 1% buff to the manhood

Oakmontowls_ESO · November 2016

Epeen bragging.

Recremen · November 2016

It's fun to fill the bars up to the top, and once you're done with one set you can start on a new one! I hope they keep coming out with new bars to fill, it gives me life.

Karius_Imalthar · November 2016

Achievement points aren't some system that enhances your character in any way. It's purely a way for players to track and gauge their accomplishments and are their own kind of fun.

Galwylin · November 2016

Stopnaggin wrote: »

It is to makes us OCD players keep playing. Like pokemon gotta have em all.

Yep, that's me. Also help knowing that you missed a sky shard some where which is helpful. But god, I'm terrible with those clues.

Loralai_907 · November 2016

I decided early on that I could not be bothered to try to get ALL the achievements on ALL the characters. So, I would try periodically to complete ONE character. The rest, whatever they get they get and I don't care to fluff them out, unless having one of the titles would benefit that particular character.

For my main, I like knowing what all she has done. Sometimes I will just look through and see if there is anything that she needs that I feel like working on, and go finish it if I find something that sounds interesting. After playing for so long I sometimes feel like I have run out of interesting things to do.

Rev Rielle · November 2016

Achievement points themselves are - as others have said- meaningless.
Achievements themselves however can be used (and are useful I've found) as a guide for experiencing all of the game's content in that area/alliance/etc etc.

Browiseth · November 2016

what's the purpose of life

Qyrk · November 2016

summitxho wrote: »

each point adds a 1% buff to the manhood

Is this affected by Champion Points?

TheShadowScout · November 2016

dominic.iraceb14_ESO wrote: »

What is the purpose of Achievement Points???

Bragging rights.
Feelgood reinforcement.
Nothing more.

Browiseth wrote: »

what's the purpose of life

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BlanketFort · November 2016

I've got a question, where does one find the total achieved achievement points? On the PS4, not all achievements are worth trophies.
Now I'm curious if my total achiev points are shown anywhere. Because yes, what the hell is the point in them.

Zaldan · November 2016

Good indication of how adictided you are?

Beardimus · November 2016

It was one of the biggest disappointments I had when learning the game. I went wild for them, then realised they did nothing

runagate · November 2016

A couple of them give points to the skill trees for Dark Brotherhood and Undaunted skill lines. For instance "This One's On Me"... I wonder if A Crown of Your Own Trousers gives Undaunted points? I've have to check on my next character that gets it.

Asmael · November 2016

Some achievements actually give a big flat bonus XP (slayer achievements in dungeons for instance), others are linked to quests that give a skill point after completion, others offer skins, titles or dyes.

But yeah, most are just here to say "I did it!"

dominic.iraceb14_ESO · November 2016

That sucks though! Why can't ZOS change the points to convert to a discount bonus on your Crown Store purchases? Or to be redeemed for gold..

That's another thing that pissed me off.. In the beginning I spent so much gold on Bank Space for my mats, they when they finally come out with craft bags, i was expecting a "gold refund" from ZOS as a "sorry we didn't plan for this sooner and made you spend all your hard earned gold on stupid bank space"...

Even in digital play games people are trying to screw me out of money!!!

nimander99 · November 2016

Obviously so I can say my achievement bar is longer than yours ofc