Achievements Comparison

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Hodari wrote:

Even just looking at the challenges, most of them aren't really RNG based at all or at least not unreasonably so. From the example you gave:

Not RNG-based at all:
Full Clear in any difficulty
Reach level 60 in Onslaught
Minimal RNG*:
Slay Rogue Exiles
Use Currency Items
Items from Vendor Recipes
Some RNG
Use each map

* = Yes, you needed to find all the exiles which is somewhat random, but if you played normally at a high enough level, you were almost certain to find all of them eventually within the 4 months you had. Only 1 or two were even that rare. Using currency items and vendor recipes required you to have the needed items, but again you were very likely to get all but one or two of them very easily and a little trading would take care of the rest.

Maps required a lot more luck to sustain a high level pool, but again if you played enough, it wouldn't be too hard to get them all either on your own or by trading for the few you were missing. You didn't even need to CLEAR the maps, just use them, so if you really wanted, you could have done City of Sarn runs for 3 months and bought them all.

The only one that was really RNG based was owning all uniques. This also would have required a huge amount of trading and you could make a good case for this one being badly designed. On the other hand, it was probably intentionally designed this way just to limit how many people were able to complete all of them and win the t-shirt. And even here, you COULD argue that RNG wasn't the main factor since if you played enough, you're certain to find SOMETHING worth trading for all the needed items. If I remember correctly, you would have needed to average 1-2 exalteds worth of drops per day to buy all of them which would take a lot of time spent playing and/or trading, but is certainly doable without relying on getting overly lucky with one big drop.