Guild Wars 2

Hi everyone,

so I just got the Legendary Collector achievement yesterday and while it feels great that I’ve achieved my personal goal in-game, it really feels underwhelming to see that 25AP reward. I mean, it took me more than a year to complete but you can easily get 25 AP in 1-2 days just by doing dailies. Do you think it deserves more reward for completing it? Like, making the achievement into a title “Legendary Collector” or add more achievement points?

Cheers ^^

Agree – totally backwards to be rewarding in this way. Legendary AP’s should be in the 100’s range at least.

pft! you should of gone for Yakslapper. total, you get 56 AP from it. over twice what you got for 5 legendaries

The one achievement line I’m not shooting for because it seems so far out of reach. But 25 AP’s is really not a lot for the sheer stupid amount of work and effort needed to get even one of them. To my mind it should be 25 AP’s for each legendary (125 total).

It deserves a title and at least 25 points PER legendary… So 5 tiers worth 25 points each.

I’m sorry but you guys are complaining about something kind of obnoxious… You have a legendary, you have 100% map completion, you’ve likely ran at least 1 dungeon a hundred times, and I repeat you have a legendary. (Now if you purchased said legendary then you don’t really deserve the achievement do you? Maybe something for learning how to flip the market or having that much gold)
If you want the achievement points then farm your dailies, don’t try to get the legendary, but you should have known what the achievement itself gave long before you decided that you wanted extra points for it.

I wasn’t even aware there was an achievement for that. Huh.

I feel like it would be better integrated into the Fashion category, although whether or not it should count toward the title of “The Emperor” is another matter.

MHAINFX.8369:

Do you think it deserves more reward for completing it? Like, making the achievement into a title “Legendary Collector” or add more achievement points?

Well, for the first one, you fill in the Legendary Treasures medal on the character select screen, which is a pretty significant achievement marker, at least to me, even if it doesn’t rewards AP. And, of course, you’re rewarded with five Legendary weapons, which are the main reason for doing it in the first place. And you’ve probably hit Map Completion a few times, which earns rewards, as well as all the rewards you’ve earned along the way, or at least whatever ones didn’t go into the weapons themselves.

I guess I feel that it’s an achievement that handles its own rewards pretty well, apart from AP. Although, like The Emperor, it’s an achievement that has such insane costs that I’m not sure I like it being on the achievement list at all, at least not at its current numbers.

the legendaries you have themselevs IS the achievement.
adn the fact that you have them filled out. the points? they’re trivial in this case.
i don’t feel the legendaries themselves should be detracted from “LOOK AT THE awesome AP’s i got for equipping 5 unique legendaries!”

Few of the titles in GW1 require tons of gold to get it and those achievements have like 100s of AP. Legendaries in GW2 require tons of gold too and the AP doesn’t even come close to GW1 AP. SO yea we need more achievements for Legendaries Collector and a title for GW2 <3

Dasenthal.6520:

I’m sorry but you guys are complaining about something kind of obnoxious… You have a legendary, you have 100% map completion, you’ve likely ran at least 1 dungeon a hundred times, and I repeat you have a legendary. (Now if you purchased said legendary then you don’t really deserve the achievement do you? Maybe something for learning how to flip the market or having that much gold)
If you want the achievement points then farm your dailies, don’t try to get the legendary, but you should have known what the achievement itself gave long before you decided that you wanted extra points for it.

For the amount of work put into crafting 5 of them, yes it deserves a title. Yes, everybody knows the AP before making them. Some people are completionists, and that’s how they have fun. It’s not being obnoxious, it’s making a suggestion and forming opinions. The mini title required nothing more than gem store purchases and gold, and for most real money to get, yet it has a title. So why doesn’t this weapon, which can take months to make, deserve a title and a better achievement reward?

Btw, you run a dungeon 8 times for the legendary gift, not 100.

I have 5 ridiculously big shiny weapons everybody is forced to see even if they don’t want and that cost me a bazillion of gold , yet I don’t have a small title under my name that nobody is going to pay attention! Oh god, I hate my life Q_Q

It’d be nice but totally unnecessary.

There are more unrewarding aspects of the game(AP & Title-wise), more specifically the WvW ones, that needs attention before this.

Izaya.2906:

It’d be nice but totally unnecessary.

There are more unrewarding aspects of the game(AP & Title-wise), more specifically the WvW ones, that needs attention before this.

Yes, they need some attention too. The new title for seasons is Veteran of the Mists, but that is easily achieved and people who mainly wvw need something special. They could cut the requirements in half for the wvw cheevs and it would still take some time.

rhapsody.3615:

Dasenthal.6520:

I’m sorry but you guys are complaining about something kind of obnoxious… You have a legendary, you have 100% map completion, you’ve likely ran at least 1 dungeon a hundred times, and I repeat you have a legendary. (Now if you purchased said legendary then you don’t really deserve the achievement do you? Maybe something for learning how to flip the market or having that much gold)
If you want the achievement points then farm your dailies, don’t try to get the legendary, but you should have known what the achievement itself gave long before you decided that you wanted extra points for it.

For the amount of work put into crafting 5 of them, yes it deserves a title. Yes, everybody knows the AP before making them. Some people are completionists, and that’s how they have fun. It’s not being obnoxious, it’s making a suggestion and forming opinions. The mini title required nothing more than gem store purchases and gold, and for most real money to get, yet it has a title. So why doesn’t this weapon, which can take months to make, deserve a title and a better achievement reward?

Btw, you run a dungeon 8 times for the legendary gift, not 100.

Why would it need a title? You have a flaming dagger, or a unicorn shortbow, maybe some flying rainbows, and you can’t even argue about having a low lvl alt that might need attention because you have 5 legendaries!
Titles aren’t all something to be excited about, yea you can get titles cheap the easiest being “combat healer”, but that doesn’t mean everyone reads them when you have them.
Btw, sorry I quoted you again and then didn’t really reply… I just wanted to clarify on running a dungeon 100 times. If you couldn’t get your precursor I understand that people had to farm massive amounts of gold, and for the longest time that really seemed to be in dungeons.

Congrats, and welcome to the club. A title would be nice, though I’m sure most of us didn’t do it for a title. I kinda dig rhapsody’s idea of 25AP per, (although even GW1 cheevos were 50AP per, if i’m not mistaken).

How’s about a custom aura or halo instead or a title? One can dream, right? ;D

Erm, I posted the same idea before rhapsody did.

Legendary’s weren’t in GW1 so there’s no precedent to set, even through the use of titles gained… or should I clarify, grinded… which was 50AP’s per. However I do see where you’re coming from.

Be thankful that you have one I have been playing this game since its release and I have not even got a single precursor yet! and i was doing the god temples and dragon fight’s everyday (Until they screwed up the Tequatl fight) which no one even wants to do anymore. Trying to get one from the Black Lion TP is just crazy because of the extortionate prices of them.

The prices for precursors is completely justified. They are VERY rare and difficult to acquire. You are basically paying someone to hand over something they either got from a really lucky drop or they spent many hours and hundreds of gold fishing out of the mystic toilet.

Grats!
No way in heck I’m going for that title, but I wouldn’t mind if it awarded at least a title for the people that do have it. Seems fair, 5 legendaries is no easy feat. Whether you’re grinding for gold, or flip the market, it takes time and skill to achieve it. Not everyone can get that amount of gold even if their life depended on it.

For some sense of perspective, I think it’s worth noting that the Fashion category is basically 130 achievement points and a title (“The Emperor”) for spending 773g88s on cultural armor.

That seems obnoxious and insane, except Dusk costs 799g by itself. Other precursors go down as far as…

Okay, apparently Rage costs 41g. Sorry, Frenzy, you are under-loved.

Most of the popular precursors are at least 300g. While five legendary weapons is a remarkable feat, I’m not sure how high we want to set the bar for rewarding people for going above-and-beyond the typical playing experience. I almost feel like that cheapens the experience of getting a single legendary, being greeted by a title track that implicitly says “Well, that was nice, but five would be really legendary.”

I think an AP point boost for the single-legendary achievement would probably be nice, however.

I suppose rewarding players more for equipping multiple weapons would drive up demand in the low-end weapons, but I kinda think that would be for the wrong reasons. ;P

Edit: Sorry, it’s been a few days since I read the OP, and I forgot the achievement is already for having five legendary weapons. I think that’s stupid and obnoxious, for the reason I said above: Legendary weapons are a massive accomplishment, and casually saying “Yeah, go get five of them” cheapens the apparent value of a single one.

One question. Are you making legendaries because of their looks and added benefits or just to fill up one achievement?

I mean you already get the most flashy weapons in the game that everyone can and will witness so I can’t see any real reason to get yet another title amongst the dozens so far.

Gratz bro! I feel that each legendary should be worth 100AP so that completing the 5 tiers is equivalent to GW1 HOM achivements worth 500AP.