Guild Wars 2

Will it be done through RNG again? If so… sigh

new skins from official website its Achiv points. Im hope 10000 =))

Anhellbro.7213:

new skins from official website its Achiv points. Im hope 10000 =))

Requiring 10000 achievement points? Sure, new content for 5% at best of GW2 playerbase will sure make people happy.

/e-sarcasm

Vertical progression through cosmetic items? Hell yeah!

Compete in the Sanctum Sprint for a chance at one of these
three special back items, representing the Aspects of Wind , Sun,
and Lightning.

Directly from the release page. RNG for the “win”

Anhellbro.7213:

new skins from official website its Achiv points. Im hope 10000 =))

Wait. Will they be bought with achievements points or will they be unlocked with them, like HoM points?

Gabby.3205:

Anhellbro.7213:

new skins from official website its Achiv points. Im hope 10000 =))

Wait. Will they be bought with achievements points or will they be unlocked with them, like HoM points?

I highly doubt you will be spending AP. Most likely they’ll be translated into a number of tokens or rather give access to each piece ala HoM but you’d still have to use gold to buy them.

MokahTGS.7850:

Compete in the Sanctum Sprint for a chance at one of these
three special back items, representing the Aspects of Wind , Sun,
and Lightning.

Directly from the release page. RNG for the “win”

Also directly from the release page:

Put your account achievement points to good use! From now on, you’ll be able to unlock rewards like exclusive new armor skins, weapon skins, and permanent account bonuses as you earn achievement points on your account. You’ll also earn laurels, gems, gold, powerful items, and PvP and WvW rewards as your achievement score grows. These rewards will be retroactively awarded for any tiers of account achievement rewards you’ve already earned on your account.

By the sounds of it, the limited time gear is going to be RNG (perhaps some unannounced gemstore stuff too?) while the permanent new gear will not be RNG.

Gabby.3205:

Anhellbro.7213:

new skins from official website its Achiv points. Im hope 10000 =))

Wait. Will they be bought with achievements points or will they be unlocked with them, like HoM points?

Says unlocked, so I don’t think they’ll be bought.

You may only get 1 one-time item per “amount” of points reached, or it may be like the HoM (hoping), but they’re not bought.

Konig Des Todes.2086:

Says unlocked, so I don’t think they’ll be bought.

You may only get 1 one-time item per “amount” of points reached, or it may be like the HoM (hoping), but they’re not bought.

Everything else costs gold so I can easily see “unlocked” meaning the vendor will now sell them to you, similar to how PvP Glory Vendors require a certain rank before you can purchase their goods.

Brutal Arts.6307:

Everything else costs gold so I can easily see “unlocked” meaning the vendor will now sell them to you, similar to how PvP Glory Vendors require a certain rank before you can purchase their goods.

Not everything. The HoM stuff is free, and since this system sounds quite a bit like HoM it is possible it will be free as well.

Hermes.7014:

Anhellbro.7213:

new skins from official website its Achiv points. Im hope 10000 =))

Requiring 10000 achievement points? Sure, new content for 5% at best of GW2 playerbase will sure make people happy.

/e-sarcasm

5% is an overstatement. There are around 90 people with +10k achiv points.

frostyraziel.1854:

Hermes.7014:

Anhellbro.7213:

new skins from official website its Achiv points. Im hope 10000 =))

Requiring 10000 achievement points? Sure, new content for 5% at best of GW2 playerbase will sure make people happy.

/e-sarcasm

5% is an overstatement. There are around 90 people with +10k achiv points.

So probably even less.

Hermes.7014:

frostyraziel.1854:

Hermes.7014:

Anhellbro.7213:

new skins from official website its Achiv points. Im hope 10000 =))

Requiring 10000 achievement points? Sure, new content for 5% at best of GW2 playerbase will sure make people happy.

/e-sarcasm

5% is an overstatement. There are around 90 people with +10k achiv points.

So probably even less.

Yep, much less.

But point taken, anyway. I’m pretty sure they wouldn’t lock pretty much everybody from content like this.
I can’t wait to know how many achievement points will be needed for the top reward, though. I believe 5k would be good. I’m not really close to that amount, but I think it would be fair.
Oh, the hype…

I will have 9000+ achievement points when the new patch arrives. This is what’s probably gonna happen
http://www.twitch.tv/towelliee/b/416040343 (1:59:41 in)

is just me but that new staff skin looks like the metal properties in the metal forest in malchors leap

I dont think it will be 10k points because only very small number of people have that, i have like 6k. It will be around 3k and also its not a currency, you wont spend it you just progress and unlock things on way.

g e o.2589:

I dont think it will be 10k points because only very small number of people have that, i have like 6k. It will be around 3k and also its not a currency, you wont spend it you just progress and unlock things on way.

It’ll reinforce the current strategy of “Grind2Win” that the game has though.

JungleNin.8379:

g e o.2589:

I dont think it will be 10k points because only very small number of people have that, i have like 6k. It will be around 3k and also its not a currency, you wont spend it you just progress and unlock things on way.

It’ll reinforce the current strategy of “Grind2Win” that the game has though.

“Grind2Win” would imply you would be better than someone else through it. Not the case. All purely cosmetic stuff or small boosts and stuff.

IM definatly hoping for a HoM thing it was the best idea for getting skins so far

Lol. So what – “everyone” wants this new system to be maxed out first day?
C’mon guys – I have well over 9k poinkt, going for 10k if I’ll do few missing things (close to that) and You want me have nothing to achive only because you (imaginary you – no one in particular) have 1-3-6k and want everything “NOW!”?
Gimme a break – I want some goals too – make a carrot for me – put higher tier unlocks aroun 25k achi points, or 50k, even 100k. I don’t want to get everything in day one and forget week later, just because some players have demanding attitude. Not my problem – theirs.

Wizzlock.3492:

Lol. So what – “everyone” wants this new system to be maxed out first day?
C’mon guys – I have well over 9k poinkt, going for 10k if I’ll do few missing things (close to that) and You want me have nothing to achive only because you (imaginary you – no one in particular) have 1-3-6k and want everything “NOW!”?
Gimme a break – I want some goals too – make a carrot for me – put higher tier unlocks aroun 25k achi points, or 50k, even 100k. I don’t want to get everything in day one and forget week later, just because some players have demanding attitude. Not my problem – theirs.

We have to remember that Anet takes their casual players into very hard consideration. 10k achievement points is not very likely to be achieved by them even in a year.

Leo Paul.1659:

Wizzlock.3492:

Lol. So what – “everyone” wants this new system to be maxed out first day?
C’mon guys – I have well over 9k poinkt, going for 10k if I’ll do few missing things (close to that) and You want me have nothing to achive only because you (imaginary you – no one in particular) have 1-3-6k and want everything “NOW!”?
Gimme a break – I want some goals too – make a carrot for me – put higher tier unlocks aroun 25k achi points, or 50k, even 100k. I don’t want to get everything in day one and forget week later, just because some players have demanding attitude. Not my problem – theirs.

We have to remember that Anet takes their casual players into very hard consideration. 10k achievement points is not very likely to be achieved by them even in a year.

Yeah, I know – but frankly speaking, there is not much to look forward to, when You have 8 polished characters. There is no long range achievements to get. Do what? Another legendary weapon? Too much boring grind for something that anyone can buy from BL. Another set of armors from dungeons? I’ll get them anyway, so yeah. There is not tasty enough carrot, and stick exist only in matter of loosing place on ladder that I do not care about.
I know that my hopes are poky at least, but I really wish, that AP update will bring something for more hardcore playerbase. That, or I’m one step closer to looking forward to Wildstar

8 polished characters? -_- It took me 6 months to get my alt to 80. It’s just that I really am not fond of exploring and doing heart quests again. I agree that there isn’t much left to do after getting all the legendaries you want (i only have 3, gonna be 4 soon but that’s the last i plan on getting), and so achievement rewards would be a good motivator (seeing as I haven’t done most of my achievements even though I’ve played since beta).

I think they will give gold and boosts for achievement points for a reason.
What I THINK that will happen is that the limited rewards (skins and acc bonuses) will be topped at a number of achievement points that are not so high but also not so low (like 5k or so) and after that you only get currencies and utility items (since these rewards can be given more than once and in a growing quantity depending on how many achievement points you have). Maybe the highest title will be given for the 90 or so people that are over 10k.
This is just speculation with a bit of logic.

Leo Paul.1659:

8 polished characters? -_- It took me 6 months to get my alt to 80. It’s just that I really am not fond of exploring and doing heart quests again. I agree that there isn’t much left to do after getting all the legendaries you want (i only have 3, gonna be 4 soon but that’s the last i plan on getting), and so achievement rewards would be a good motivator (seeing as I haven’t done most of my achievements even though I’ve played since beta).

4 legendaries? And you’re complaining it took you so long to lvl your alt lol.
Each legendary can take about 4 months to craft (and that’s playing on a pretty regular basis). And time spent grinding for your legendary is time you don’t spend lvling up your alts, and vice versa. You chose to go for shiny skins, then you will obviously not have time for alts

Hahaha yea part of the reason why I couldn’t level an alt back then was because I wouldn’t be earning as much gold as I would if I used my main.

Most likely there will be goals for everyone.

Probably unlocks starting as low as 100 ap rising through 1000ap for the simpler things.
I’m thinking 5k ap for the bulk of the goods unlocked and zenith and the two armor skins as the cherry.
Maybe 10k ap for the last few cosmetics.
And even more ap tiers to continue progressing account bonuses like +%exp and magic find.
That would fall in line with hom scaling from my point of view.

In another year we may see even more physical rewards added to the ap system as more people continue growing and are seeking new goals.

No one will ever reach 10k achi. points except a very small portion of the player base. Where do you get these numbers lol ? These items need to be available for most of the players …

People are already at 10k ap…and many more on the way are past 5k ap.

These are rewards for people who play the game, not people who login once every 2 weeks (or less) for a couple hours.

Even saying that, there are rewards no doubt for people under 1k ap.

Yeah… I believe that about 10% of the players are above 3k to be honest since one of my friends that I can see on the leaderboards have just a little more than 3300 and his percentage shows as 90% (while another friend of mine that is just over 1000 aps have a percentage of 60%).
Anet usually panders to the casual players, I don’t think we can be sure of anything at this point. However, I really hope that they won’t put the top rewards at, say, 2k just because most players never got more than that. That would be a bummer.

Leo Paul.1659:

…getting all the legendaries you want (i only have 3, gonna be 4 soon but that’s the last i plan on getting)…

Now officialy envy You mister! I envy You!!

offence.4726:

No one will ever reach 10k achi. points except a very small portion of the player base. Where do you get these numbers lol ? These items need to be available for most of the players …

I’m in a guild made of people who will get there in this month. Come on – it’s not so small portion of people. Some get there sooner, other later but it’s only matter of time. On the other hand – I don’t think that every single reward in game should be forged and directed towards casual players. If one line of achivements&rewards is out of reach for casuals? Well, they still got 99% of content tailored for them.

Justine.6351:

These are rewards for people who play the game, not people who login once every 2 weeks (or less) for a couple hours.

Even saying that, there are rewards no doubt for people under 1k ap.

My thought exactly – thank You

I’m fine with items being extremly AP expensive, that finally gives experienced and committed players something to stand out with. That’s something I miss in Gw2, gear that you really have to fight for to get.

Everything is better than RNG, which I still consider to be NCSofts greedy, kittening moneysink invention.

Xzaander.4123:

I’m fine with items being extremly AP expensive, that finally gives experienced and committed players something to stand out with. That’s something I miss in Gw2, gear that you really have to fight for to get.

Totally agreed.
It’s cool that the game is casual players friendly but there has to be something out there reserved for those who deserved it by playing more. Basically we get Living Story every month that is made for casuals – kind of “unfair” that a person who logs in once a month can get everything that a person playing on a daily basis gets.
I have 6k achievement points (never really cared about getting them) and I really hope that the cap for some rewards will be over 20k or something. That’s the only way to bring some challenge to the game I can think of right now.

Let’s hope for the best

According to dulfy rewards will unlock for every 500 ach pts. The weapon skins unlock for every 1000 pts.