On the Offensive

Requirement for Breaking the Chains, they need to be completed during specific assaults.

All:
United Front

Kyrian Assault:
A Sly Fox
The Zovaal Shuffle

Night Fae Assault:
Krrprripripkraak's Heroes
Jailer's Personal Stash

Necrolord Assault:
This Army
Up For Grabs

Venthyr Assault:
Hoarder of Torghast
Tea for the Troubled

Easily the worst zone related meta-achievement ever implemented. While other achievements such as the Nazjatar or Mechagon ones had some timegated elements to them, this is literally taking it to the next level. Almost every achievement that you need is simply gated behind the specific covenant assault quest that's required, and many of these quests are "randomly" selected and will not appear most times that the associated assault is up, leading to infinite frustration for no reason. At the time of writing this, almost 2 months since patch came out, several of the achievements have still never appeared on live servers. So what happens if you are in vacation or away from a computer in the 3.5 days that the assault is active for? Potentially you might have to wait well over 2 months before seeing the quest you need again. This compounds to the latest trend that Blizzard seems to be implementing in their game, which is to timegate literally everything they do in an obviously desperate effort to make the 2 weeks of content they produced last 8+ months. See Renown, Legendaries, Domination Shards, Weekly Chests, Conduits, Sockets, Valor Points, Conquest Points and so on. None of these systems should take weeks or months of our time, and yet they do because partecipation metrics are more important to them than actually making the game enjoyable. People who want to play more, should be rewarded, not hindered in every possible way. Just my 2 cents anyway.

EDIT: As of 25/09/2021, blizzard made it so you only need 6 of the achievements in order to complete the meta. This means that you can now get this done in virtually a couple weeks at most. This happened after the meta was finally achievable in full only last week. In other words, we are basically idiots for playing the game and waiting for months, i guess. Since most stuff these devs push out is broken, more often than not the best course of action is not to waste your time until 1-2 patches later, when inevitably it gets nerfed into the ground. Literally adding insult to injury to people who dedicated their time and effort to get this (just like it happened with farming anima, which was hard earned in s1 and became a literal joke in s2, therefore invalidating all previous efforts from players). I am not expert, but people who put in dedication and effort should be rewarded, not made to feel like idiots by systematically easing requirements for every single reward the game has to offer as time goes by, in a desperate effort to retain subscriptions over time.

Wowhead staff - Please make a front page article about how stupid this achievement is. You could highlight how 0% of profiles have obtained a pretty simple achievement over 2 months into the patch.

The way things have been going so far, they'll see it, they'll read the outrage in the comments, and there will be changes to this achievement or Breaking the Chains in 9.1.5. Thank you...