A quick TL;DR on what to do for these achievements based on my own personal experience :
Pursuing Loyalty : The starting questline for this is kind of annoying because it literally takes across all 4 Shadowlands zones multiple times to even start grinding the achievement itself, after that, it's literally just about getting familiar with boss encounters and mechanics, fights will almost always seem hard at first but a little bit of patience goes a long way, if you spend the whole day on this and dedicate yourself to it, you can actually grind this from start to finish in a single day (assuming you have Path Of Ascension at the appropriate rank, which is either 4 or 5, not sure exactly).
Things To Do When You're Dead : This one is very similar to the Mechagon tinkering/crafting system, you go out and gather materials for crafting all sorts of items, with [item=178061] being the main crafting material for everything, so save as many as you can whenever you happen to loot any Shadowlands mob in the game, while most other items required for crafting are a one-time crafting materials obtained from specific rares/treasures...etc.
(Tip #1 : Make sure you craft the abominable constructs first, as those give weekly quests that rewards more [item=178061] and also part of the achievement itself).
(Tip #2 : I highly recommend waiting for the World Quest Chosen Champions to be up, as the mobs in the House Of The Chosen have a relatively good chance of dropping [item=178061] and you can infinitely sign up to groups that are doing the world quest to farm more mobs over and over again, you could of course farm those mobs without having to wait for the world quest to be up, but it doesn't seem that worth the time investment as the mobs there hit pretty hard and have relatively high amount of HP so it's best farmed in groups)Mush Appreciated : This one is probably the easiest one on this list, as it requires you to get Exalted with the [faction=2463] and you get 3 daily quests each day (assuming you have the transport network at Rank 3), and you get exactly 1500 rep from those 3 dailies, and any reputation bonuses will of course provide extra rep, like the human race's passive [spell=20599] or the Darkmoon Faire's [spell=46668], but other than that, the grind is fairly straight forward and nowhere near as complicated as other achievements on this list.
At Rank 3 of the transportation Network, It would take you a maximum of 28 days worth of daily quests to get from 0 to Exalted, without factoring in any reputation bonuses.Be Our Guest : This one might be the most complicated one of them all, and it can easily feel like the most overwhelming on this list, but if you know exactly what to do, it will then require little or no thinking at all. You simply invite guests by doing their quest that says ''RSVP'' at the start to be able to invite them, the RSVP quest for a specific guest appears on the map according to the guest's main zone, (Night Fae guest quest in Ardenweald...etc). You can checkmark up to 4 guests per week, and each guest goes into a specific slot when deciding who to invite, so you might not be getting the right guest if you reroll the RSVP list, @Mattsta 's comment on the achievement comment section can tell you exactly which slot each guest belongs to (click here >>> Be Our Guest and scroll down to the comment section), you can literally go afk during the ember court scenario until the time runs out and you'll still get credit for the invited guests.
(Ember Court is a scenario doable only once per week, so pick your guests accordingly). Some guests like [npc=157199] might not even appear on the guest list as you need to do a quest to unlock him, he's also the same big guy that grabs players and throws them far away when they approach him.
(Tip : If you have all guests in slot #4 checkmarked and don't know who to fill that spot with, I recommend (but not necessarily) inviting [npc=159694] and try to make her as happy as possible during the scenario, as getting Best Friend status with her is a must if you're also planning on getting [item=182209] as a mount in your collection).Some very helpful side tips :
1) Having covenant sanctum features at max rank isn't exactly required, but it speeds up the grind by a decent margin, and since Anima is all over the place and so easy to grind with Korthia and Zereth Mortis, it doesn't really make much sense to start grinding without covenant features being maxed out.2) I highly recommend doing this on a single character to keep track of things around, since switching covenants requires only a single visit to Oribos and isn't as restrictive as it was back in 9.0 , but if you have a decent progress on 2-3 alts, I recommend you go with that as these achievements are account-wide.
3) I recommend you grind this achievement passively so you wouldn't get overwhelmed, maybe focus on a single achievement until its done then you move on to the next.
And in terms of speed, I recommend you start with Pursuing Loyalty since it's the fastest and can even be done in a single day, assuming you put in the work during that day, then switching between Things To Do When You're Dead and Mush Appreciated as the Night Fae achievement will take several days to complete but only 5-10 mins during each day, and finally Be Our Guest as it might require several weeks to complete from start to finish.4) Because Be Our Guest is the most time gated achievement on this list, I H I G H L Y recommend switching to the Venthyr covenant only once a week to get a scenario done and couple of checkmarks on the guests list, then switching back to whatever covenant achievement you were doing.
EDIT : Because blizzard turned the Venthyr Party event into a daily lockout rather than a weekly lockout, it's much faster to do it now.Mind you that this entire comment is just super short version of the achievement process with a lot of key details left out, so if you think this is a long read, you ain't seen nothing son.
If you have a friend who has some or all of these acheivements done, I recommend you ask them on what to do, as getting help from a friend in voice chat is insanely more helpful than a Wowhead comment or a Youtube Guide.Best of luck to you all and please let me know if you found this comment somewhat helpful!
Achievement
Shadowlands Dilettante
Complete each of the Covenant Special Feature achievements below.
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Bad achievement design imho. While "Pursuing Loyalty" is easy doable on one day, Necrolord is the only one with a meta achievement here and needs lot of work and time compared to the other covenants.
Can be done on multiple toons. Progress in under achievements > expansion features > covenant sanctums.
Details
- Category
- Expansion Features › Covenant Sanctums
- Points
- 10
- Faction
- Both factions
- Requirements
- 4 criteria lines
Criteria
What this achievement requires, from the current game data.
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Other achievements in Covenant Sanctums.
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