Gears POP!

Gears POP!

3,661
1,000
45
Lists Game
Gears POP!
tracking their Gears POP! achievements.
Click here to track your progress.

Major achievement in Gears POP!

Major

Reach Max Player Level 20

Major0
Hide ads

How to unlock the Major achievement

  • BLOWFISH666BLOWFISH666
    29 Nov 2019 05 Oct 2019 03 Mar 2020
    *Updated as of the 4th December 2019*

    The Major achievement in Gears Pop! is quite possibly one of the hardest achievements of all time & currently as it stands only a handful of people have unlocked it. It requires you to reach the maximum player level of 20 & to do so you have to upgrade every single Pin in the game to a very high level which will take a SERIOUS amount of time or money.

    Below are the xp requirements to upgrade each player level:
    2 - 20
    3 - 30
    4 - 50
    5 - 80
    6 - 120
    7 - 180
    8 - 300
    9 - 450
    10 - 700
    11 - 1,100
    12 - 1,700
    13 - 2,600
    14 - 4,100
    15 - 6,400
    16 - 10,000
    17 - 16,000
    18 - 25,000
    19 - 38,000
    20 - 60,000

    And here is the full list of pin upgrade costs in the game, the first column is level, the second is duplicate pin total, the third is coin cost & the final column is xp gained per level:

    Common Pins:
    2 - 10 / 50 / 4
    3 - 15 / 120 / 5
    4 - 23 / 220 / 7
    5 - 36 / 350 / 9
    6 - 57 / 500 / 12
    7 - 90 / 850 / 16
    8 - 140 / 1,400 / 22
    9 - 230 / 2,400 / 30
    10 - 360 / 4,000 / 42
    11 - 560 / 7,000 / 58
    12 - 890 / 12,000 / 81
    13 - 1400 / 20,000 / 110
    14 - 2200 / 34,000 / 150
    15 - 3600 / 58,000 / 220
    16 - 5600 / 99,000 / 300
    17 - 8900 / 170,000 / 430
    18 - 14100 / 290,000 / 600
    19 - 22400 / 490,000 / 840
    20 - 35500 / 830,000 / 1180

    Rare Pins:
    2 - 6 / 500 / 6
    3 - 10 / 850 / 8
    4 - 18 / 1,400 / 11
    5 - 30 / 2,400 / 16
    6 - 51 / 4,000 / 23
    7 - 87 / 7,000 / 34
    8 - 150 / 12,000 / 50
    9 - 250 / 20,000 / 74
    10 - 430 / 34,000 / 110
    11 - 740 / 58,000 / 160
    12 - 1300 / 99,000 / 240
    13 - 2200 / 170,000 / 360
    14 - 3700 / 290,000 / 550
    15 - 6300 / 490,000 / 820
    16 - 10800 / 830,000 / 1230

    Epic Pins:
    2 - 4 / 4,000 / 25
    3 - 7 / 7,000 / 37
    4 - 13 / 12,000 / 54
    5 - 24 / 20,000 / 80
    6 - 44 / 34,000 / 110
    7 - 81 / 58,000 / 170
    8 - 150 / 99,000 / 250
    9 - 280 / 170,000 / 380
    10 - 520 / 290,000 / 560
    11 - 960 / 490,000 / 830
    12 - 1800 / 830,000 / 1230

    Legendary Pins:
    2 - 2 / 50,000 / 250
    3 - 4 / 80,000 / 300
    4 - 10 / 130,000 / 360
    5 - 20 / 210,000 / 430
    6 - 40 / 330,000 / 510
    7 - 90 / 520,000 / 620
    8 - 190 / 830,000 / 740

    (The max level for Common Pins is 20, Rare is 16, Epic is 12 & Legendary is 8).

    The total amount of xp it takes to reach player level 20 is 166,830 xp, if you were to upgrade every pin in the game then you would gain 197,178 xp so there is some wiggle room on things you don’t have to upgrade. The most efficient way to do this is as a free to play player is to upgrade the following:

    17 x common pins upgraded to level 20 = 1,633,887 pins, 34,338,130 coins, 70,822 xp
    8 x rare pins upgraded to level 16 = 208,576 pins, 16,153,200 coins, 29,536 xp
    5 x rare pins upgraded to level 15 = 76,360 pins, 5,945,750 coins, 12,310 xp
    15 x epic pins upgraded to level 11 = 31,245 pins, 17,760,000 coins, 37,440 xp
    7 x legendary pins upgraded to level 6 = 532 pins, 5,600,000 coins, 17,290 xp

    total = 1,950,600 pins, 79,797,080 coins, 167,398 xp

    The best way to level up is to get to Arena 7. It’s the earliest level you can get the best chests from winning & it will also be the easiest place for most people to get 5 game win streaks at the same time. Once you have your win streak just lose a couple of games on purpose so that you stay at the same COG level otherwise you’ll rank up too high making it harder to get win streaks & most importantly you’ll also run out of people to play because the higher you go the less people there are (last season i beat everybody & got to over 4300 COG’s & then couldn’t find a game for over 2 weeks!).

    Although you'll get 15 wins per day you won't have enough room to store all your win chests so you'll probably end up getting about 12. That'll give you roughly 7,485 coins, 620 common pins, 76 rare pins, 5 epic pins & 0.2165 legendary pins.

    You should also get 150 coins from completing your daily rewards & 300 coins from your weekly crew bounties. All crystals that you win should be saved & used to buy coins, as a free to play player coins will be your biggest bottleneck & using them to buy the Coin Fortune bundle in the store is best way to use them.

    Getting win streak chests is also important because they contain horde tokens which allow you to gain more pins, coins & crystals. Being in an active clan is very helpful for playing horde games because it significantly increases the chances of finding somebody to play with & they will also be using their own horde tokens to start games as well, i’d recommend trying to play about 6 games of horde everyday.

    At the end of every season which lasts roughly a month you get a reward depending on what league you finish in, with a few days to go it’s best to win all your games & get to the gold league where you’ll get a free mini Legendary Box.

    The last thing to mention is once you’ve maxed out a Pin any time you get more of the same Pin you will be given coins instead, here are the coin totals you will get when this happens:
    1 x duplicate legendary pin = 20,000 coins
    1 x duplicate maxed Epic Pin = 1000 coins
    1 x duplicate maxed Rare Pin = 1 coin
    1 x duplicate maxed Common Pin = 0.1 coins

    Taking everything above into account if you did all of that every day for a year you would roughly earn:
    5,882,055 coins
    432,555 common pins
    63,526 rare pins
    7,880 epic pins
    103.0225 legendary pins

    Once you factor in the maxed out Pins being turned into to coins, as a free to play player it would take you roughly 7 YEARS AND 7 MONTHS of playing every day before you unlocked this achievement. Hahaha excuse me while i hold my sides laughing at how ridiculous this is.

    The only other option is to spend real world money to get the achievement. A Legendary Box (which costs 2250 crystals) contains on average = 78,657 Coins, 5014 Common Pins, 1038 Rare Pins, 173 Epic Pins, 4.6148 Legendary Pins.

    Due to an increase in the amount of Legendary pins you get in a Legendary Box the most efficient way to reach level 20 is to upgrade the following:

    9 x common pins upgraded to level 20 = 864,999 pins, 18,179,010 coins, 37,494 xp
    8 x common pins upgraded to level 19 = 484,888 pins, 9,519,120 coins, 23,888 xp
    7 x rare pins upgraded to level 16 = 182,504 pins, 14,134,050 coins, 25,844 xp
    6 x rare pins upgraded to level 16 = 91,632 pins, 7,134,900 coins, 14,772 xp
    9 x epic pins upgraded to level 12 = 34,947 pins, 18,126,000 coins, 33,534 xp
    7 x epic pin upgraded to level 11 = 12,498 pins, 7,104,000 coins, 14,976 xp
    7 x legendary pins upgraded to level 7 = 1162 pins, 9,240,000 coins, 12,950 xp


    total = 1,672,630 pins, 83,437,080 coins, 167,798 xp

    It would take roughly 275 Legendary Boxes, 49 Coin Fortune bundles, 1 Coin Stack & 2 coin Piles from the store to achieve this for a total of 841,750 Crystals which means buying 56 Crystal Mountains, 1 Crystal Cluster & 1 Crystal Nugget for a total of £5614.42/$5614.42.

    So yeah it’s either play the game every day for two & a half hours for over seven years or spend just under six thousand dollars instead. I know it’s not good news but i would ask people not to down vote this solution & to voice your displeasure to the developers of this game instead. As new pins & chests come out i will be updating this guide. If anybody finds any typos in this solution then please let me know, thanks.

    Guide not helping? View 2 more guides for this achievement.

    Showing most recent comments. View all comments.
    Ex6Looks like as the game is closed soon, the prices and XP given is adjusted...

    I was just upgrading my Legendary Level 3 Myrrah to level 4 and it cost 32500 and gave 1440 XP... so looks like it is 4x cheaper now and gives 4x more XP points.
    Posted by Ex6 on 20 Mar 21 at 08:54
    New ParalyzerJust did it with the latest update. Easy peasy. Pin-nacle is the one I'm not getting now
    Posted by New Paralyzer on 11 Apr 21 at 05:14
    noose01Pin-nacle is also really easy after this current update. You just need active crew to get some hordes done.
    Posted by noose01 on 11 Apr 21 at 06:10
  • Have you got any tips or tricks to unlock this achievement?
    Add a guide to share them with the community.

    Add a guide
  • SavenalSavenal
    05 Feb 2021 02 Mar 2020 15 Dec 2020
    Update 1: 03.04 Scion added
    Update 2: 01.05 Gabe Diaz added
    Update 3: 01.06 Tai Kaliso added
    Update 4: 06.07 Sid Redburn added
    Update 5: 04.08 Shock Sentry added
    Update 6: 02.09 Alex Brand added
    Update 7: 07.10 Bruce added
    Update 8: "Pins/day" added
    Update 9: "Money/day" added

    I have made a spreadsheet, so you can fill in your current pins and estimate how much progress you have done till lvl 20 (you must save the file if you want to edit it).
    In the spreadsheet you could see (don't be upset, it's just a math...):
    1)your max available lvl for each pin
    2)how much money you need to invest to upgrade it to your current max lvl
    3)how much experience you will gain, when you upgrade it
    4)pins till max lvl
    5)your max lvl and it's percent till 20 lvl

    https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1c3oXpuDUI_mY-94Bh69x...

    All credits for the info goes to BLOWFISH666 and his brilliant solution.

    Any feedback appreciated.

    The most efficient way to farm pins is to speedrun Thunderland horde 8/12lvl:
    Or Brumak 8 lvl:
    Showing most recent comments. View all comments.
    Zohan2099Drone Division doesn't get updated for some reason, no biggie though. Thanks for this tool man, has really helped me personally for awhile. Who would have thought we would have to grind out this much for 2 measly achievements ?
    Posted by Zohan2099 on 09 Nov 20 at 13:48
    SavenalI know this problem, already solved it.
    Posted by Savenal on 09 Nov 20 at 17:17
    DrMmmPieJust an FYI if you are using this document you will need to. Change the cell B25 on info tab from a 2 to a 4 to reflect the recent update.

    Change it to 8 for the April 1st update.
    Posted by DrMmmPie on 11 Mar 21 at 19:37
  • MCSS AerocoupeMCSS Aerocoupe
    26 Feb 2021 13 Feb 2021 13 Feb 2021
    Here's a spreadsheet I made to help calculate various stuff like how many pins to get one maxed, how much XP is still needed, how many coins are still needed, etc. I added some calculations for coins and pins needed per day on average.

    https://drive.google.com/file/d/1c27YRuPXV0tPorKmbzXz6ie6hHD...

    Feel free to save a copy and enter your stats to get calculations on what your Pop Endgame goals are. All of the cells you should need to edit are highlighted in Light Blue. Start by going to the Player Stats tab and entering your player level, XP towards next level, and how many coins you currently have. Then go through the Common, Rare, Epic, and Legendary tabs and enter the current level and how many duplicates you have of each pin.

    Go back to the Player Stats tab and compare the XP to Max to the XP from Upgrades cells. The goal is to get at least as much from upgrades as you need to reach Max. Change the values for the Plan to Upgrade to cells for each pin rarity to. Follow the Cheapest Coin Upgrade Path chart on the right. The more upgrades you did before the update, the farther down the chart you'll need to go.

    I did add calculations for how many pins per day you need to earn to reach player level 20. However, it is based on what you enter in the Plan to Upgrade to cells, and if goes by whatever pin is farthest away. Coins per Day Needed is based only on reaching player level 20. Additional coins will be needed if you still need to get an individual pin to max as well.

    Hope this helps. If you have questions, I'll be happy to help.
    Showing most recent comments. View all comments.
    MCSS AerocoupeActually, I already updated it. If you want the values of today (Feb 5 update), go to the Red cells on Player Stats tab and change from 2.5, 4, 4 to 1, 2, 2.

    I’ll verify the numbers and calculations once the update gets re-applied.
    Posted by MCSS Aerocoupe on 03 Mar 21 at 03:55
    Thank you Man! I was making muy spreadsheet... but yours work perfect, aré u going to updated It with the march update? I change some parameters but would be nice to "confirm" it's Ok.
    Posted on 06 Mar 21 at 15:20
    MCSS AerocoupeLooks like the red cell for pins will be staying at 1 now. No clue what this Monday’s update will change, if anything on the coin and XP multiplers. But I’ll see what the update does and adjust accordingly
    Posted by MCSS Aerocoupe on 07 Mar 21 at 01:38
Do you have a question about this achievement? Please post it in the Gears POP! Forum