yesterday, i finally finished the last penances i needed for my vet and i can’t say enough how happy i am to finally be done with all of them, i had fun with plenty but some of them need just sucked to get. on overwatch, and smoke screen were the worst imo but they were still fine i guess. now, i’m doing the rest of the classes, i hope these don’t suck as much as the rest do.
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Morgan Freeman Narrator: They would come to find out the others did in fact, suck as much.
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Heck at least vet’s are straightforward. Zealot’s appear to have been designed by the nutter who made the OG impossible penances.
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Are you telling me that encouraging the loner aura playstyle of staying away from your team for as long as possible to grind a single penance is in some way…not good?
Next you’ll be saying the barrel penance is anything other than simple and easy to grind.
Absurd.
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Yeah uhhhh… good luck Lexxxie!
For reals, congrats on finishing Vet, I know how much of a pain some of those were.
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Umm… may I have some advice on this one? Because I’m still at 1600+ / 2500 and it’s going very slowly on Damnation or Auric Damnation…
@Lexxxielove Congrats, now you’re a full and propa Guardsman!
Don’t fail your morale check!
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Just don’t. The penance can’t hurt you after that.
Or drop down in difficulty more and actually be able to one shot stuff with barrels.
The one time Nancy Reagan was right.
Maelstrom mod with extra barrels.
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Wait 'til you do the old “redacted” Pysker ones.
Malleus Monstronum is my favourite least favourite. You’ll need at least one buddy (Ogryn with shield), kill off the bot(s) with some kind of jumping game, then hope a Daemonhost appears so your buddy can aggro it.
Not so much hard, but particularly contrived.
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It’s not that bad, any buddy will do.
The key to is that you just rush the map after the bots die. Director tends to drop a boss on you if it feels like you are going too fast. When boss appears just pop-pop until it dies and that’s it. Takes like 10 minutes, 20 if you are unlucky.
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I stand by my suggestion. Daemonhosts are by far the best way.
Having a monstrosity that keep switching target back to the Psyker is annoying as anything.
I rather get done with it more quickly, fight takes like 1 minute, but whatever 10-20 minutes or 30 minutes if you are unlucky, not much of a difference.
Congratulations, Guardsman! The other archetypes range between the frustrating and the laborious - Ogryn ones especially. Keep your head up, stay positive, focus on ones you can do alongside each other and have at them. Good luck!
That one is hanging around in the background for me, currently at 1995 of 2500. I got tired of trying to do it on Auric difficulties and instead dropped down into playing from Uprising into Heresy. I’ve been having fun levelling up my fifth Operative slot on repeat (I enjoy that and I don’t know why). It is not any quicker, but its far less stressful and I can play more missions without the fatigue that Auric imposes upon me.
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Anything that says “do X action X times” I just don’t grind for. That barrel penance is cooking in the background for me and I’m surprised every time I complete a tier of it.
Having completed all the penances for all the classes, I can say that the suffering is not done yet. Here’s a small list of the ones I had trouble with, and tips:
Zealot
- Behind Enemy Lines: It’s best to run a knife for this one and play a finale with a big open arena to run around and do your thing in. I recommend the trainyard, but this is still going to take a while regardless.
- Buying Time: Announce to your team that you want to try and hit a Sniper with a stun grenade so they hopefully don’t kill it before you can land it. Mark the Sniper so you can see how far away you are from it before chucking it.
- Shocking Stuff: Also tell your team in advance that you want to try this penance. You’ll have to play on Damnation to get the enemy count required. Bring a Flamer, bunch up as many trash mobs as you can, and let 'er rip. Throw a second stun grenade if you need to.
- Just A Flesh Wound: Not difficult if you don’t run any Wound curios. Just remember not to get hit lmao after you lose the first bit of health.
- Up Close and Personal: Throwing knives don’t count.
Psyker
- Cliffhanger: See here.
- Keep Your Distance: Made much easier if you use a Trauma staff. Remember that it only cares about health damage from Elites.
- Going Out With a Bang: Honestly you’ll probably get this one on accident, but if you want to cheese it, run into a bunch of Shotgunners after hitting them with a single Trauma Staff attack, then explode.
- Malleus Monstornum: If this achievement wasn’t private, it would still be relatively easy to do with a combination of Kinetic Resonance and a Blue stimm or two.
- Not Even Close/Pick n’ Mix/Shoot Fast: You’ll get these naturally. They are much easier to do with Kinetic Resonance.
- Warp Battery: Time required is not consecutive, but it does require you to play sort of antithetical to how Warp Siphon wants you to play.
Ogryn
- Friends Will be Friends: Only requires you to be in coherency with at least one ally for 90% of the time.
- Be Your Best: This one is gonna suck. If you get four hits, don’t try to complete the penance again for the rest of the mission. You keep progress inbetween missions. Just keep trying, you’ll get it eventually.
- Don’t Stop Me Now!: Trivial with a Yellow stimm.
- Gone Bowling: I got this one on accident, but you’ll have to play on Damnation. Maybe try the same strat that you did for Shocking Stuff.
- Munitorum’s Favour: If you’re sick of playing shootgryn in regular missions, you can try queueing for the Twins on Uprising or something and just shoot all your ammo away there. Nobody really queues for it anymore, so it’s stress-free. I recommend using an Achlys stubber. You do not need to hit an enemy for progress to count.
- Something In Your Eye: Nobody ever says this anywhere in game, but a Corruptor is that big gross eyeball thing that you gotta kill to complete the objective in some missions. Just bean that idiot with a box. It used to be bugged such that the achievement would ONLY count if you hit it with the unupgraded box, but I don’t know if they’ve fixed that.
Good luck and emprahspeed!
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The others suck more. Zealot and Ogryn have a couple that are pure torture.
Thankfully, you don’t actually need to finish everything if your goal is just to finish the penance reward list.
Not even going to talk about the ones that require a private match…
i HATE private penances. every single second i think of those is pure fury and almost no other emotion at all, i HATE those more than kendrik hates the canadian man, whoever decided to make them private instead of just tweaking them so they didn’t suck only decided to make them private because THEY were tweaking and decided that since they’re tweaking, the penances couldn’t be tweaked.
Congratulations!
Lol yeah the only penances left for me to get are:
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the barrel one (killing enemies with barrels on higher difficulty is HARD because enemies HP is simply too insane…then lower difficulties don’t have any enemies in. It’s infuriating but only about 150 kills left to get it).
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pox gas - urgh. About 25 more missions to play.
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whatchamacallit Gloria (or whatever the new level is called). Doesn’t have pox gas so got to wait until I’ve finished that.
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skulls frame. Even with over 400 hours played, I still don’t have this and even as an Ogryn that dissolves enemies with pickaxe. Just taking ridiculously long. I’m sure this, when used to be 1m, was introduced when enemies hadn’t been buffed into an army of chuck norris and guns hadn’t been nerfed into Mattel water pistols. It’s loooooong.
Then that’s it, aside from private penances and the Awful Offensive which are literally impossible for me to get.
I think I have 4810 penance points now. So annoying I’m gated from those privates and the offensive ones.
And congrats on the vet penances OP! Have fun with the rest. They are mostly fun. Unlocking the cosmetics feels good. I wish the trinkets had been cooler though . They all look the same… Flat gold tokens. They saved all the cool ones for the aquilla shop…but who buys trinkets for aquillas?? Trinkets are a perfect way to showcase your penance progression…shame the penance ones suck.
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they do suck, i agree. but at least they’re free.
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