Guild Wars 2

I am looking at the Blood and Madness achievement requirements.

First of all, there are only 12 achievements listed.

I am seeing only 8 achievements that are actually attainable (A Royal Tradition, A Stomping Good Time, Bone Breaker, Candy Corn Crusher, Containment, Death to the Undying, Shut the Doors, and Something Good To Eat.) As I read it, the first one “A Sweet Friend” says you have to complete 13 achievements to complete it, and 3 others will come open and that leaves a total of 8, because 4 are inaccessible.

Can someone explain to me where the remaining 5 achievements are to be able to complete “A Sweet Friend” to then be able to access the final listed 3 of “An Upset Stomach”, “Beaten Bloody”, and “You, back in the box”.

Open your “Daily”

There are daily achievements which contribute to the Blood and Madness meta. Today I think it’s eating 50 candy and carving 5 pumpkins? Just look in the daily achievements and you’ll spot them.

Riversdale.4987:

There are daily achievements which contribute to the Blood and Madness meta. Today I think it’s eating 50 candy and carving 5 pumpkins? Just look in the daily achievements and you’ll spot them.

Thanks. I didn’t realize those counted since they aren’t listed under the Blood and Madness.

Locking the story progress behind achievements is a bit . . . mmmrrrrrrr. I know they’re not nearly as grindy as last year’s, but still. Unlocking the last bits of the story after time had passed would have been better. The whole point of these meta-achievements has been cosmetic rewards you could feasibly miss out on, and now the silly mini is required for the narrative. Not a great move IMO.

I understand where you’re coming from Faowri.

However you can still do the story without completing the meta I think – you just need to have someone in your party who has completed it.

And as you point out the achievements don’t seem that grindy. If they continue to include 2 meta achievements in the daily it should be fairly easy to get over the course of the next 4 weeks.