Guild Wars 2

From what the sticky suggests, completing World 2 zones in infantile mode should still trigger progress and completion of the Academic achievement so long as you abide by what’s needed (being near the chest, etc.) However, for whatever reason, it never seems to trigger for me despite doing everything the sticky says.

Is it actually that it only triggers in normal and tribulation modes, even though the sticky suggests otherwise?

Yeah I’m wondering about this. I also didn’t receive the achievement on infant. Just curious what the cause may be.

I collected all baubles in World 2-1 today in infantile mode and got the achievement.
If they did not change it with the easy-patch it should be possible.
Edit: Sorry I got confused with the achievement names. I do not know if Academic triggers in infant mode.

To my knowledge, this is normal. You’ll get the Academic achievement for successfully completing the three zones in normal mode, but not infantile. This was the case for the first world as well. Infantile mode didn’t count toward Scholar achievement in World 1, you had to complete it in normal mode to earn it.

EDIT: Most other achievements are able to be completed in infantile mode, such as the secrets and baubles achievements, as well as Professional Ice Skater, It Was An Ambush, Tiptoe and all the rest.

The Academic achievement is for completing the world in normal difficulty.

drunkenpilot.9837:

To my knowledge, this is normal. You’ll get the Academic achievement for successfully completing the three zones in normal mode, but not infantile. This was the case for the first world as well. Infantile mode didn’t count toward Scholar achievement in World 1, you had to complete it in normal mode to earn it.

EDIT: Most other achievements are able to be completed in infantile mode, such as the secrets and baubles achievements, as well as Professional Ice Skater, It Was An Ambush, Tiptoe and all the rest.

The Academic achievement is for completing the world in normal difficulty.

Alright, but that’s not what the sticky says. It says to just be in the mode you want completion for.

Just to add that it’s cryptic what they’ve explained.

It it has to be done in normal mode then it should be stated as such.

From what I’ve observed it doesn’t work in infantile mode so I’ll have to do it again in normal mode -.-

I think it is intended. While not mentioned in the description of the achievement I think they want you to complete it in normal mode. Otherwise you could complete all the achievements in infantile mode without every doing 1 full completion each zone in normal mode(cause all the other stuff that isn’t tribulation can be done in infantile mode).