What is the fastest and easiest way to obtain the Arsenal of War achievement?

Question

 Arsenal of War 

With the addition of the Weapon Proficiency system, a number of advantages that were previously incorporated into weapons have been transferred to perks that are accessible when you level up your weapons. There are high-level weapons with the possibility of being upgraded to level 7 (and whose mastery would correspond to the theoretical level 9). These weapons are wonderful for hunts, but terrible for those who want to focus only on the grand achievement. For this, we know that we must focus on weapons whose maximum level upgrade capacity is as low as possible (and whose mastery is 2 levels above this).
 

Also taking into account that experience can be obtained in two ways: according to the type of boss (bane, archfoe, nemesis), also taking into account their cooldowns, and according to the difficulty of the creature in the bestiary (harmless, trivial, easy, medium, hard, challenging), the following questions arise:

• What would be the fastest way to achieve the Arsenal of War achievement, obtained by completing 50 Masteries in different weapons?
• In a daily routine, should I focus on which bosses and what kind of hunts? 
• Which 50 weapons should I focus on? Are there differences between vocations?

Answer 1

The fastest and easiest way (not the cheapest, it's expensive, but is the fastest and easiest) of obtaining this achievement is by using Proficiency Catalysts on weapons, there are two proficiency catalysts which you can use:

Proficiency Catalysts - which are dropped by the bosses of Between the Lines Quest: 
Sir Leonard (2h cooldown - Bane boss) - Guaranteed drop in the first time, then you have a small chance of dropping after killing him.
Blight Mariner (20h cooldown - Archfoe boss) - Guaranteed drop in the first time, then you have a small chance of dropping.
Tropical Desolator (20h cooldown - Archfoe boss) - Guaranteed drop in the first time, then you have a small chance of dropping.
Wrathful Archivist (20h cooldown - Archfoe boss) - Guaranteed drop in the first time, then you have a small chance of dropping.
Sir Leopold (raid boss - Nemesis boss) - Guaranteed drop in the first time, may be guaranteed all the times he is killed, but since he appeared only one time on all worlds, this is yet unknown, but probably is a always-drop case.

Greater Proficiency Catalysts - which are dropped by the boss of Bloody Tusks Quest:
Vladrukh (20h cooldown - Archfoe boss) - Guaranteed drop in the first time, then you have a small chance of dropping.

Each Proficiency Catalyst gives 25.000 experience while Greater Proficiency Catalysts gives 100.000 experience on your weapons.

Since the content is new, both of them are expensive right now.

On my World, a Green Open PVP server, the costs varies:
Proficiency Catalysts -> Buy Offer: 100k-200k+ / Sell Offer: 300k-600k+ each
Greater Proficiency Catalysts -> Buy Offer: 1kk-2kk / Sell Offer: 3kk-6kk each

Just like Soul Cores, which were a lot expensive on release (like 1kk+ each) and then became cheaper (like 300k+ each), you can wait until they become more acessible and try to do those daily bosses and try to drop them. You get the experience for killing the bosses plus the experience when dropping them. You can also drop Addon 1 and Addon 2 of Illuminator outfit while doing Tropical Desolator and Wrathful Archivist. Since Sir Leonard is a Bane boss, he doesn't give too much experience, but he also drops all new energy protection trinkets for all vocations.

So, TLDR, the fastest way of getting experience on a total of 50 weapons, particularly on those which you probably can't get experience hunting (for being too weak) is by using those Catalysts.

Of course this is the fastest way, not the cheapest. If you don't have problem with money, you can buy them all from the market and level up weapons faster than everyone.

But I would leave the stronger and main ones to get experience hunting, and use the items on the weaker (which need 2kk experience to Mastery).

Doing those daily bosses with your weapon also gives you good experience. Let's do the math:

Bane bosses -> 500 experience each (this is not a good experience, but if you also like to complete bosstiary and have a chance of dropping one catalyst and the energy protection trinkets, you can also do Sir Leonard)
Archfoe bosses -> 5.000 experience each
Nemesis bosses -> 15.000 experience each

So, by doing all 4 Archfoe bosses daily, you have guaranteed 20.000 experience per day.
There's a chance of getting a catalyst on any of them, but you will probably not loot one for days.
Possible, but unlikely, you can drop catalysts on all of them at the same day.

Then you have 20.000 guaranteed experience + 3 proficiency catalysts + 1 greater proficiency catalyst
20.000 + 3 * 25.000 + 100.000 = 195.000 experience

If you drop one from Sir Leonard (which gives 500 experience) is more 25.000 experience, so in "theory", you can get 220.500 experience per day only by doing all those bosses. Of course you can also do your daily rotation bosses like Gold Token, Grave Danger, Dream Courts (since it have Nemesis bosses, you can get 15.000 experience instead of 5.000), Timira, Drume, Oberon, Scarlett, Library etc and increasing this experience even further only by doing bosses. You can also try to get the shortcut to Raxias since he is a Nemesis boss and get an additional 15.000 experience per day.

And of course, if the Sir Leopold raid happens, you can just go there, kill him with your team (everyone gets one guaranteed catalyst) and also get 15.000 experience, so it's also a guaranteed 40.000 experience on your weapon.

However, if you don't like doing bosses, you can simply focus on hunting.

Here is an example of experience per hour you can get by hunting on spots which have a lot of creatures. Remember the experience they give are classified by their bestiary difficulty:

Weapon Proficiency	Creatures per hour	Harmless	Easy	Medium	Hard	Challenging	Estimated Exp per Hour
Brain Grounds	1.434	0	0	0	1.434	0	236.558
Oskayaat Undercity -2	1.058	0	0	0	1.058	0	174.527
Cobra Bastion	800	0	0	0	800	0	132.000
Grim Reaper Yalahar	522	0	0	0	522	0	86.054
Misguided Hideout	920	0	0	920	0	0	92.000

Source: https://www.tibiawiki.com.br/wiki/Weapon_Proficiency

The best thing you can do is focus on those respawns which you can kill more creatures per hour, so maybe there are some spawns which you can kill more than those described in the example, and even if they are a difficulty lower, may be better in getting experience than a harder difficulty which you take more time to kill each creature.

The weaker weapons you can simply equip it in your weapon slot and hunt easy creatures with avalanches and gfbs, but the experience will not be optimal, but is still a way of getting experience on breakable weapons (Ice Rapier for example) without actually breaking them.

There are differences between each vocation. As a Knight myself, I need less experience overall, but if I ever try to level these breakable weapons, using them is not the best way, it will also be expensive since they break in 1 or 2 hits, so I will use catalysts on them and hunt easy creatures using runes, without hitting them with physical attacks and spells (since it activates the weapon charges and break them).

Paladins needs 30kk experience to fully master a crossbow.
Knights needs 60kk experience to fully master a weapon.
Other vocations needs 90kk experience to fully master a weapon (including Bows). 

So focus first on leveling your best weapons either by hunting, doing bosses daily or both of them, and you will eventually get the achievement done. Remember that this achievement is not easy to get, you will probably need hours of bosses, hunting and also a lot of proficiency catalysts to even get full mastery on a single weapon, so it will take months or even years (depending on your commitment) to complete it. Of course depending the amount of money you have, you can shortcut it by buying lots of catalysts and using them on your weapons, but you need to also check if they are available in the market.

As I'm also an Achievement hunter, I wish you good luck!

Comments

I would like to add to this answer by making a correction, the Proficiency Catalyst gives 15.000 xp not 25.000 I was also misleaded when look at the wiki, but when I used those I received 15.000

Also if you are a mage you can try the Iks Last Stand hunt (the place you go through the spikes in the floor) I hunted there with an ms lvl 800 and got around 360k of weapon xp in an hour

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Are you sure? I used a lot of catalysts and I think I got the exactly 25.000, I will test it later, if it's indeed 15.000 I will fix my answer. Thanks for pointing out.

Answer 2

As an introduction, when looking at the weapon proficiency system, it can be viewed from two different perspectives by different types of players: those who want to maximize their efficiency in a hunt, with a high-level weapon and seeking attractive bonuses, and those who seek to maximize the number of weapons they can reach mastery level with and thus achieve all possible achievements, including the highest level one called Arsenal of War.

Talking about the strategy used by players in the first point of view (with weapons and hunts focused on exp, meta game, and hard/challenging creatures) and applying it to the second group makes this achievement even more difficult, so we must take a different approach.

This will be a complete guide focused on maximizing the experience gained from extremely weak weapons when compared to those used regularly, and enabling you to obtain the Arsenal of War achievement with the least amount of experience possible.

First, we will divide the achievement into three stages with different difficulties:

• Stage 1: Weapons with 650,000 experience.
• Stage 2: Weapons with 1,500,000 experience.
• Stage 3: Weapons with 2,000,000 experience.

These strategies apply to all 5 vocations, with slight modifications suggested in the final stage.

Additionally, you can include bosses in your strategy to increase your experience. I will focus on suggestions from archfoe for this endeavor (5,000 experience points for each boss killed). But in advance, I recommend not focusing on bosses for this (if you don't mind the bosstiary), but rather following the guide created here (with the hunts tested) to quickly increase your experience.

But if you want to advance in the bosstiary, here is a suggested route, remembering that you can (and should, in some cases) use your main weapon until the boss reaches low HP, and then switch to the other weapon. If you are with other people, in lever bosses, remember to be in a party to gain experience. If you are a knight or monk, remember to use runes to finish off the boss if necessary. And of course, the list is a suggestion; more bosses can be added or removed according to limitations or needs.

Route to who focus on Bosstiary:

• [Starts in Edron] → Bloodback → Darkfang → Sharpclaw → Black Vixen → Shadowpelt
• [boat from cormaya to edron] + [carpet to darashia] + [run to Lion’s Sanctum] → Katex Blood Tongue → Srezz Yellow Eyes → Yirkas Blue Scales → Utua Stone Sting
• [run to cobra bastion] → Scarlett Etzel
• [run to Ankrahmun and boat to Liberty Bay] → Tropical Desolator
• [boat to Port Hope, run to Iksupan] → Ahau → Mitmah Vanguard
• [boat to Mountain Pass (1), go to Asura Palace] → The Flaming Orchid → The Moonlight Aster → The Winter Bloom
• [enter to Asura Mirror and true asuras] → The Blazing Rose → The Diamond Blossom → The Lily of Night
• [go to Netherworld - flimsy of port hope] → Ingix the Flimsy → Unaz The Mean → Vok The Freakish
• [use the portal to Edron Prospectors and thus to Vengoth - Zarganash, leave to Vengoth and boat to Yalahar] → Wrathful Archivist
• [boat to Venore] → Blight Mariner
• [Shortcut to Rascacoon] → Tentugly
• [run to Gloom cave - Ekatrix Cave] → Ekatrix
• [run to Kazordoon, and carpet to Issavi] → Neferi the Spy → Sister Hetai → Amenef the Burning
• [carpet from Issavi to Marapur] → Kusuma → Timira The Many-Headed
• [carpet from Marapur to Zao] + [Shortcut to Zaoan Steppe North, and run to Falcon Bastion small boat] → Grand Master Oberon
• [run through Falcon bastion to Edron - Teleport] + [Small boat to Bounac] → Drume → Megasylvan Yselda
• [back to Edron, boat to Gray Island] → Brokul

Total Exp (35 x 5.000) 175.000 Exp

 

Special Bosses (not all the days) 

• Ayana The Crimson Curse
• Bibby Bloodbath
• Gelidrazah The Frozen
• Kalyassa
• Owin
• Tamru The Black
• Tazhadur
• Zorvorax
• Raxias (Shortcut to Boat npc of Porthope) →  15,000 experience points.

Based on data collected, it’s not efficient to focus on killing bosses. But you can use it to boost your weak weapons by switching to them just before killing the boss. If you are going to kill bosses anyway, it’s a good way to fuse two objectives at the same moment.

The best way to achieve this is to focus on easy (70 exp points) and medium (100 exp points) creatures, which can be killed quickly and are found in large numbers in some locations. Here are some suggestions I found and tested, and the experience you can gain per minute.

Knight: crossbow/arbalest/crude umbral crossbow | Monk: any weapon besides fist weapons
Location + Desc	Exp/Min
Ramoa – isle + underground -1 and -2, no Lich hell	2.7k
Horestis Tomb (weak) – down and up killing everything	3.7k
Oramond West – north-south, with quara scouts raid	3.86k
Peninsula Tomb (after scarab coin)	4.2k
Foreign Quarter (Orcs, Minotaurs, Elven, Pirates)	3.3k
Orc Fortress (inside, outside north/south)	3.82k
Chor	2.53k
Knight: ek weapons | Monk: only monk weapons | Mages and Paladins: any weapon
Location + Desc	Exp/Min
Oramond West - North/South with quara scouts	4.78k

Finally, considering the weapons you should focus on for the Arsenal of War achievement, here is a complete table for each stage. In stage 3, I leave a suggestion for the Paladin and Monk vocations, with respective weapons that can be used to make it a little easier to gain experience. They replace the weapons of the respective number/order.

In the third stage, I also included 3 weapons for each order (from 33 to 50), including swords, axes, and clubs, to facilitate the choices of knights. For other vocations, these decisions will change little.

There are also items called Proficiency Catalysts (the normal one and the Greater), both of which can facilitate/accelerate progress (gaining 25,000 and 100,000 experience points respectively), but at a very high cost, for the few. There would be no need for such a long answer if I could just say: use catalysts. If money is no object, this is indeed the fastest way, following the weapon order guide proposed in this answer. But for 99% of the audience seeking this achievement, the most viable, easy, and fast method is the one I explained. I hope it is useful.