Defiance Free to Play

Defiance's Achievements come in 8 different types, Campaign, Pursuits, Ego, Co-op, Arkfalls, PvP, Reputation and misc

Campaign- 7/50 - 105g / 1000g
Campaign is the main missions, that are mainly press and hold 'x' on various items, with a boss fight thrown in every once and a while. I personally did only campaign missions, and beat the 5 acts in about 3 days, under 350 ego rating. Smgs/Assault rifles for quest rewards are often good against the A.I, and dying doesn't really have a huge penalty.
The hardest part for me was the final boss=

Completing the campaign will unlock:








Pursuits- 5/50 - 75g / 1000g
Pursuits are challenges, that have multiple little goals to complete, chances are you've completed a few pursuits by the end of the game, I found that the enemy type pursuits were the easiest (kill every type of mutant, complete a minor mutant arkfall etc.), followed by the racing ones, which by doing them all, will unlock a black dodge challenger!. After doing these, pick a handful from each of the exploration tabs (most locations will be discovered through the campaign) and a few which require silver medals or completing easy side missions, and you will have your 20!
This will unlock:






Ego- 7/50 - 190g / 1000g
Ego is the experience section of defiance, which goes up to (I believe) 4000, but thankfully, you only need 2500 to 100% this section. Every few level ups, you will get a ego unlock, which can be spent on, honestly, worthless perks, that do stuff like increase your damage output when higher than a enemy by 1% at midday on tuesdays. Anyway, level 2500 will require buttloads of XP to unlock. I've searched the darkest corners of the internet, and haven't found a decent method, but don't get down just yet, this is the worst achievement of the game - So Far, my advice would be to do this after everything else, then do side missions. If you don't get the achievements for unlocking 50 perks, or fully upgrading 25 by 2500, just respec.
Completing the 'EGO' section will unlock:








Arkfalls- 3/50 - 35g / 1000g
Arkfalls are displayed on the map as red pillar things (kind of like markers of dead space)
Minor Arkfalls are these single icons on the map, whereas Major Arkfalls are these icons in a huge red circle, completing all in a circle will uncover the boss enemy. My advice is to stay away from San Francisco Arkfalls as there aren't many players there thanks to the huge robot monolith guy. I just stand around occasionally shooting people in the butt, and it will it still count as completing. Minor arkfalls inside the major arkfalls do not count towards a minor arkfall. This will unlock:




Co-op- 7/50 - 90g / 1000g
There are 7 co-op missions that unlock at certain points on your journey to ego rating 2500. They are all just run n gun, hold 'x' on some stuff, and kill the boss. They each range from 30 minutes-1 hour. Note. 'Explosions 101' co-op map is currently buggy (1st boss not triggering, achievement not unlocking), I wouldn't waste my time with it until a patch.








PvP- 7/50 - 105g / 1000g
PvP is currently dominated by people wearing cloaks, with insta-kill sawn off shotguns (did someone say gears of war?). You should pick a sniper as your primary/secondary weapon and go for headshots straight away. Start on competitive maps (Waterfront, Observatory, Freight Yard - currently taken off for fixing unknown stuff) and work on wins. After winning on the matches you need to jump into a shadow war. Shadow wars will take a while to start as they require 100+ people, so do some side missions or pursuits while waiting. Once in you should run from 2 different points, back on forth, so you keep capturing them, for the 50 captures. Keep in mind you should stay in your vehicle for road kills. At the end of a shadow war, you can press 'y' to rematch which will put you back into matchmaking.








Reputation- 7/50 -
Reputation will probably be you last achievement, the only way to earn Rep is through contracts, which are unlocked at ego rating 175, and are displayed in the same area as pursuits. Faction Rep is also a currency, spent at that factions fast travel area, spending it will decrease your reputation with that faction. It is now confirmed the achievement unlocks at 600 rep.

-Daily contracts are worth 10 points

-Weekly contracts are worth 50 points

Rank 0 - Unknown - 0 Rep
Rank 1 - Familiar - 100 Rep
Rank 2 - Regular - 300 Rep
Rank 3 - Trusted - 600 Rep

http://www.etaew.net/defiance/current.php

This site contains all current contracts at this moment in time, with a location as well.




Note. Paradise rep is not needed for any achievements.








Misc- 7/50 - 210g / 1000g
Misc achievements don't fit anywhere else:

Swim a lot, swimming isn't need for anything in the game, so find a lake somewhere and swim around while everyone watches you like you're a idiot. For some reason you can't swim in ocean water for long, as your character will have a seizure and drown.

easily unlocked by driving around, San Francisco has some huge jumps so if you don't get it before, you'll definitely get it there.

Hold 'X' on a fellow ark hunter in doggy style position. If you haven't gotten this achievement after all of the above, in a mmo, you don't deserve it.

Legendary weapons are orange, similar to borderlands 2. Your best chance is in a lockbox. after getting all arkfall cheevos, you should have a lot of arkfall scrap to buy keycodes with. Cross your fingers.

The max weapon skill is 20, this is weapon type, not individual weapon, but remember, weapons will run out of juice after a while, and no longer contribute towards the weapon type skill, so remember to switch.

Kill stuff. easy.

Yippee!, you have 930'ed defiance! and unlocked the final 70g as well :DDDD


But don't get rid of it yet, when a mmo releases, dlc soon follows, cross your fingers for more reputation achievements!!!!



If you vote this solution negatively, please explain why, the game is only a week old, so the best methods are hard to write about. I have only written my experience, I will continue to update the guide with better methods and such as they become uncovered.

P.S Thank you for explaining why you voted negatively.

The key to this achievement is not to think that it will come quickly but to do everything that the game has to offer to make the most of grinding out the achievements without tiring you out too much. I did it this way and will break it down for you:

-Do the story and all the side missions

-Work on getting your weapon to level 20 by resetting the weapon mastery or using a weapin and maxing out its mastery bar. Also work on driving a certain distance and the same with swimming for the achievements early on.

-Try to get a legendary weapon out of the lockboxes using keycodes from arkfalls and other activities to net you an achievement or trade with someone for it.

-Work on getting your 20 pursuits done (there are way more than 20) and do arkfalls until you get all three achievements that are tied to arkfalls.

-Do co-op until you have them all unlocked with your ego being 500 and the quests pertaining to them being unlocked done so you can get through all the co-op. Have a buddy join you and do pursuits as well to gain levels at the same time.

-There are several achievements pertaining to do contracts for certain factions. Focus on the daily contracts that net you 10 rep points and the weekly that net you 50 rep. You will get an achievement for getting 100 rep for each faction and 600 rep for getting the trusted status in all the factions except Paradise.


-Play multiplayer and try to go for headshots with whatever weapon makes you comfortable. I sometimes just ran around with a quick repeator and for the heck of it and scored some fun headshots so make it entertaining and play with others to net you some of the multiplayer achievement and gradually you will win on the three maps and score other miscellaneous achievements as well.

-Play shadow war for your 50 points for captures, 25 vehicle slaughters and you headshots if need be and anything else pertaining to shadow war or multiplayer that doesn't involve competitive multiplayer.

When you are working on your 25 perks and 50 perks, you don't have to have to wait to have 25 perks fully leveled. You can gain enough points to level 14 perks to level three then respec again to do it a second time and the achievement will unlock. It remembers that you fully upgraded the previous time luckily. Otherwise, you can just gain over 80 points and do it the old fashion way until you get the achievement.

-Finish the game and if you have done everything above as well as pursuits and all the other things that the game has to offer like arkfalls, seiges, races, rampages, hotshots and such, you will be at least a high enough level to say you have experienced most that Defiance has to offer. I never used xp boosts and I got to 2500 using the above strategies. A lot of levels come out of playing multiplayer, arkfalls, story and pursuits. If you focus on those after doing the stuff above, the 2500 ego is yours and you will have mastered Defiance and net your 1000 GS. If I've missed anything, let me know. I have 1000 GS in this so I can help out to make any strategy a little clearer if need be.

EDIT: I've heard from several people that with the dlcs being added to the game, some people are unlocking this achievement only after finishing all the dlc in this game. If that is the case, know that it will be a grind but as long as you can get the original 1000 and it doesn't pop, this should fix it. I don't think Trion has any plans to patch this either so just wanted to give everyone that is going to attempt this a heads up.