Guild Wars 2

Wallace MacBix.2089:

I do hope there are a decent number of “easy” to obtain rewards. But I do want some gated content, it gives something for people to work for (at whatever pace they want to).

I’m expecting there to be both, actually. They won’t want to make it too easy, because they do want you to keep playing. I’m sure some things will be gated at pretty high levels.

I just don’t think everything is going to be. I think that anyone who has some points on their account is going to get some sort of reward, even if it’s small. I just can’t see them gating it so that the majority of their playerbase gets nothing at all, is all I’m saying.

They have to find a balance between providing a challenge but making sure people who play more casually don’t just give up on it entirely.

After seeing the preview for how the achievement reward system works, I’m pretty happy with the implementation. If you really had your heart set on getting one of the Zenith weapons, 1000 achievement points isn’t that difficult to get. It’s also a great way to help out players with a boost of gold/laurels to purchase things like trait books as they level.

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<applies burn cream>

<smiles>

<Holds 1% magic find between left hand index finger, and thumb>

What am I going to do with this?

Thought it would be something like 2% every 1k points, with a cap.

I guess we might get more % at higher achievement point rewards that haven’t been shown yet.

You continue to get 1% magic find/gold/karma boost every 500 points. So it slowly accumulates the more achievement points you have, but you don’t get such a HUGE boost that the veteran players have a massive advantage over new players. I think it’s a fair arrangement.

Ah, that makes sense, I thought you got 1%, and that was it.

tovadaun.6304:

Did you seriously earn a Legendary for the Achv Points?
Really?
I know if I earned a Legendary I couldn’t care less if it came with 5AP or 500AP. I just earned an awesome kick-kitten weapon- not to mention all the Slayer, Weapon Master, Dungeoning etc AP completion deeds I did while getting said Legendary…

No, I actually don’t have a legendary because engineer kits don’t show them, I’d rather just keep accumulating gold until this is remedied. I was simply pointing out the immense disparity in real achievements versus Super Adventure Box’s Baby Mode achievements (You went up a hill! GOOD JERB – and fyi those were worth 0 points, but they were still completely hilarious when you get an achievement for every 5 steps you take).

Kamahl.3621:

I’ve got a somewhat depressing individual in my guild who does every pvp and pve daily every day, and has taken to farming giants for giant slayer, just to try and get his score up, and he’s not even #1, but lord is he trying.

Oh really? Is it so bad for you that people want their achievements page completed? How is he a “depressing individual”? Please explain further. I want to know how it is that you found out that he’s so -desperate- for points. Sounds interesting!