Guild Wars 2

- Create a large pool of tasks for both Daily and Monthly achievements.
- Each day, four random tasks are selected out of the Daily pool. Completing these tasks will earn the Daily Achievement.
- Same situation each month. Four monthly tasks are randomly selected for earning the Monthly Achievement.

I think this would add a bit of variety to play and possibly address the frequently cited desire for division between PvP and PvE tasks. Some days you might have PvP tasks, other days you might not, and sometimes you’d have a mix.

This could also be leveraged to get puzzle chests more attention, give people more of a reason to seek them out, even if they’ve uncovered them before. One of the achievement tasks could be “open X number of Splendid Chests” or something like that.

Other examples:

- Make X amount of profit on the market.
- Craft X number of items.
- Make X number of Mystic Forge deals
- Drink X number of tonics.

…etc.

I think this goes somewhat against the purpose of daily acievements. It was to reward people more for that first period of play each day to try to close the gap slightly between people who wete time limited and those with more time to invest. While perhaps variety is a good idea I am not sure daily achievements should be the place for that.

Erin.7521:

I think this goes somewhat against the purpose of daily acievements. It was to reward people more for that first period of play each day to try to close the gap slightly between people who wete time limited and those with more time to invest.

All of the daily tasks would have to require roughly the same time investment. Same for monthlies. This would be the reason for the two separate pools.

I don’t see how time requirements would change? I certainly wouldn’t want that.

I am not sure the time requirements would necessarily change but from your examples those are not really playing the game. They are niche activities that people are much more likely to do after playing for a while rather than as soon as they log in. If variety was added I can’t think of anything new that really fits in with just playing as normal.

I am not sure the time requirements would necessarily change but from your examples those are not really playing the game.

Yes, they are.

Not everyone plays the game the same way. Not everyone is drawn to the same things. Which is exactly what adding the variety would highlight and leverage.

What is the matter of daily achievements? They are there so almost anyone can get them while playing without focusing on what they need to do. Mystic Forge? Trading Post profit? Do you see that only a few will do them? Personally I have never did anything with the Forge till now and I am not even interested. What I dislike the most from all games are “work professions”. They should be just mini games but as far as it is now, all developers are putting so much interest into it.
I prefer the daily achievements as they are now and not force me to look all the time in the Hero window when i log in the game what I need to do.

Ronah.2869:

What is the matter of daily achievements? They are there so almost anyone can get them while playing without focusing on what they need to do.

I don’t have any problem with that being a criteria for all daily options.

Mystic Forge? Trading Post profit? Do you see that only a few will do them?

Nope. I see a whole lot of people doing them now.

Personally I have never did anything with the Forge till now and I am not even interested.

That’s fine. That’s you. Other people are different.

I prefer the daily achievements as they are now and not force me to look all the time in the Hero window when i log in the game what I need to do.

So, don’t expand anything to highlight different preferences and play styles. Got it. I’d rather go the other way.