Guild Wars 2

I have to say before anything else that the new Hero Achievements panel has improved considerably. Seeing which achievements I am close to finishing is great; having a “Watch List” tab to itself; as well as having categorised and subcategorised achievements is also a much cleaner layout.

However I still believe that there are several improvements that could be introduced to improve it further. I have attached an image showing a potential layout for my ideas.

1. I like how the achievements can be organised in order of completion & alphabetical, however we the order can’t be reversed (Z -> A instead of A -> Z). This would allow people to see which achievements they are furthest away from, which I personally want to help keep track of the “Weapon Master” and “Slayer” achievements.
2. An alternative (though not necessarily a mutually exclusive idea) could be to give a check box option to hide completed achievements. This way we don’t need to scroll to where ever the first incomplete achievement is, or can have an alphabetical list of just incomplete achievements.
3. My personal pet peeve: Whenever the dailies reset I generally have to kill my watch list in order to have my dailies show up. If something’s on my watch list it will probably have completion, whereas the new dailies will not. With a similar style to the last point, there could be a check box to hide/show the watch list. This would also allow users to hide a PvE watch list whilst fighting in WvW.
4. Whilst there is a overall total achievement point count in the achievement tab, there is no achievement count per category (which may not be manually countable due to many multi-tier achievements). I reckon it would be a nice idea (though not so important) to have it introduced on the categories top bar.

Finally, I would like to suggest a couple of ideas about the User Interface.

• Firstly, I don’t want to have keep seeing the Living Story in the User Interface when I have completed it. I don’t mind it being there every now and again, but with a seemingly permanent Living Story chain I would like to be able hide it once I have completed the corresponding Living Story achievements. I reckon a check box similar to my suggestion for the watch-list check box.
• Secondly, I find that if I have an enemy targeted try to use an AoE skill too close to the Enemy description window; the AoE target area will vanish. It’s understandable when I’m clicking on the icon, but in my second attached file I could be aiming in the red box area, which is seemingly not part of the UI, and have the same effect. Though I’m not sure how to resolve this, a customisable UI may help minimise it as I can change it’s location.

Thanks for the hard work.

White Ninja Rabbit.1584:

1. I like how the achievements can be organised in order of completion & alphabetical, however we the order can’t be reversed (Z -> A instead of A -> Z). This would allow people to see which achievements they are furthest away from, which I personally want to help keep track of the “Weapon Master” and “Slayer” achievements.
2. An alternative (though not necessarily a mutually exclusive idea) could be to give a check box option to hide completed achievements. This way we don’t need to scroll to where ever the first incomplete achievement is, or can have an alphabetical list of just incomplete achievements.
3. My personal pet peeve: Whenever the dailies reset I generally have to kill my watch list in order to have my dailies show up. If something’s on my watch list it will probably have completion, whereas the new dailies will not. With a similar style to the last point, there could be a check box to hide/show the watch list. This would also allow users to hide a PvE watch list whilst fighting in WvW.

I’ve written similar suggestions before (here and here.)

I also find it especially annoying that I still have to decide whether to have the dailies/montlies functionality OR the watchlist.

Pixelpumpkin.4608:

Bad: You can use either the watchlist or the dailies/monthlies display, not both. That means I can either deselect and reselect everything on my watchlist before/after doing dailies, or deselecting and reselecting all daily/monthly tasks for the watchlist (and they won’t even show up on top of the list in the game UI that still only displays 5). Clicking the “more” option in the game UI element in the top right corner does not take you to the watchlist, just the achievements panel itself.

Change it so you can use your watchlist AND automatic daily achievements at the same time.

Add one “eye” symbol that is valid for all dailies and monthlies.
1. If checked, the dailies should be displayed at the top of the list, regardless of the completion level of my other watched achievements, until they’re “out of the way”.
2. Upon completion of one daily achievement, it should remove itself from the list.
3. Upon completion of 5 daily achievements, all remaining daily achievements should remove themselves from the list.
Now, the monthlies should be displayed at the top of the list, then the rest of the watchlist.
4. Upon completion of enough monthlies, the remaining monthlies should remove themselves from the list.