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!