Guild Wars 2

Please update the Candidate Trials “tier” system to allow characters to play lower level tiers and get the achievement credit for those tiers. Your current set up is confusing. For example: if I complete the “Gnashblade” tiers 1 and 2 and then proceed to complete the “Kiel” tiers, the obvious (and probably most often chosen) selection is to continue with the current tier (which in this case is tier 2 since that is the most recent tier completed). Starting “Kiel” at tier 2 prevents me from completing “Kiel” tier 1 for the achievement. I must now complete “Kiel” tier 3 for the achievement. This design decision penalizes players who mistakenly select the wrong starting tier for a candidate trial.

Completely agree. I’ve done Gnashblade Tiers 1/2 and Kiel Tier 1 and for some reason can’t complete Kiel Tier 2 (Tier 1 keeps repeating). sigh

The decisions to choose the tiers are really confusing.
When you’re on rang 2 you can:

go 1 tier up (rang 3)
keep (rang 2)
go 1 tier down (rang 1)

When you’re rang 3 or higher you can:

go 1 tier up (rang 4)
keep (rang 3)
go 1 tier down (rang 2)
go 2 tiers down (rang 1)

The big problem is you can’t get the achievement points for tiers 1/2 if you don’t choose correctly.

Let me elaborate…

I started with Gnashblade and completed tier 1. I re-ran the trial and was prompted to either: (a) “bring it up a notch”, or (b) “stay where I am” (not the exact wording). Two options with the somewhat obvious option for tier 2 being “bring it up a notch”. So, knowing I had to complete tier 2 to get the achievement points, I chose “bring it up a notch”. With tiers 1 and 2 completed for Gnashblade, I was able to get the achievement points for those 2 tiers.

I then moved on to try to complete tiers 1 and 2 for Kiel. When entering the instance, I was prompted with three options. Not knowing exactly which option was tier 1, I chose the middle option figuring it would be the starting tier. Unfortunately, it was tier 2. The real problem is this; by starting the candidate trials at tier 2, I am now permanently unable to complete tier 1 and will not be able to get the achievement points for tiers 1 and 2.

This is a horrible design decision in my opinion. This prevents players from completing tiers 1 and 2 just because they selected an incorrect option in a rather confusing interface. Why prevent someone from completing the tiers out of order? This makes zero sense.

-Annoyed

Update: I went back in and restarted the Kiel instance at tier 1, completed tier 1 and proceeded to tier 2. I completed tier 2 and got the achievement. So that’s the trick folks, in case anyone is following this thread.

If you beat Tier 2 first, you get the first half of the achievement, but must do Tier 2 again to complete Direct Support.

There’s no trick involved…

If you’re talking about what option you started with, you can re-pick after each completion or fail, regardless of what tier you’re on.