Guild Wars 2

wiki: “Reducing ‘The Dragon Bash Experience’ meta-achievement required total number from 10 down to 8. The Dragon Ball Achievements do not count towards its completion.”

This is ….

I played it for the achievement. It wasn’t so bad but I wouldn’t have played it otherwise.

With my limited playtime I chose achievements that I could do to get the meta-achievements.

I can’t see any reason why it would not count. Other “meta-achievments” (e.g. daily) let you chose a subset so why can’t we have this here?

Besides that. Why is it so hard to give clear information about such things!!!! Why can’t the UI show which achievements count and which not?

Forcing PvP onto PvE is why it doesn’t count.

That said I agree that making it ‘any 8 of the 10’ would be better.
AND I agree that this doesn’t belong on the wiki, but on the in-game tooltip.

They had a bug where these two achievements didn’t count for meta-achieve. They didn’t manage to fix it, so they “solved” it by saying “yes, it doesn’t count, but you need only 8 achievements for wings”. Unfortunately this introduced another bug, where apparently the number of achievements needed didn’t change.

So, the moral is this: when you run into bugs, fix them. Do not try to make runarounds – you are only risking more bugs.

Actually I am rather sure that they have said more or less from the start that DB would not count.

Because dragon bash is only part of the dragon bash festival, unlike moa race, which is going to be perm but needed for the dragon bash achievement… Hang on…

Kichwas.7152:

Forcing PvP onto PvE is why it doesn’t count.

That said I agree that making it ‘any 8 of the 10’ would be better.
AND I agree that this doesn’t belong on the wiki, but on the in-game tooltip.

It should be marked in-game, I agree, put a star on the ones that count or something. Full communication on what counts for the achievments is best. It should be on the wiki also, since it documents the game.

However, I don’t agree that it shouldn’t be part of the meta. The whole idea of only requiring a subset of the total achievements for the meta was in line with their idea that players should be able to do the content they want and get rewarded (you can avoid PvP and moa racing and still get it, just like you didn’t have to get the Sample from Southsun at the end of the jumping puzzle). These really should have been included, but obviously not required to get the meta (similarly to how Crab Toss counted for that meta).

As far as why they don’t, we don’t know other than they don’t. Speculation ranges from “they hate PvPers” to “something prevented it from counting, so they just left it out”.