Guild Wars 2

Are there any plans to improve the current achievement system? There are several things that I personally would love to see added to the achievement system. I have posted the things I would like to see improved on. If anyone else has suggestions lets post them!

1.) The ability to link achievements you have earned and/or allow you to inspect other peoples achievements to compare what you have done to what others have done. As of right now all you can do is see the ‘achievement score’ but that doesn’t necessarily mean they did more in the game. It could just mean they logged in and did the daily/monthly every time. I cant tell you how many times my wife and I are running through the world and I see a jumping puzzle or mini dungeon explorable area and thinking to myself “I wonder if my wife has this” or “I wonder if she got the achievement when we tried that” If she could link it to me in chat (or have it automatically pop in chat when they get these achievements I would know she got it) or I could inspect her achievements window and check for myself this would be VERY helpful!

2.) Tied to suggestion 1. Please remove the ‘points’ you get for doing your daily/monthly. This is just a strange way to show ‘progression’ in the achievement system. You don’t get rid of the rewards for the dailies just the arbitrary points for it. It isn’t an ‘achievement’ to log in and do a daily. Its just shows you have time. (Don’t get me wrong I’m not complaining because I don’t have time to do them because I’m one of those people who NEVER missed a monthly and I could count on my fingers the amount of times I missed a daily since the game released them so I HAVE all those points I just think they are worthless). your achievement point ranking should be tied to all the things you have done in game not just your daily score.

3.) If you haven’t already, place a cap on the repeatable achievements such as Agent of Atrophy for salvaging. Once you have done it 10 times lets say just let it be done.

4.) Make achievements have awards or more of them. You guys started this with the Living Story. When you finish a meta you got an item. This was satisfying in my eyes but you can go farther. In GW1, everything had titles and people like titles. You should have more of them. I personally would say there should be a title for the end of every achievement line. Finish the great sword kills (you might want to increase the caps for the easy to get titles if you implement this)? Earned title “Greatsword Master” etc. Even if people hate the title they don’t HAVE to show it but for those who want to they could and it would make people want to go after that since there are more titles.

5.) Add minis (and mounts if you ever add them to the game! I know people don’t need them but people like to collect. This is a “what I would like to see” list so I’m adding mounts)to the achievement rewards. Right now they are only in the gem store or as a very rare drop. (I am fine with the VERY rare drop. There should be more VERY rare drop minis added to the world and should be PERMANENT drops not just “for a limited time” If I go to Southsun Cove I should be able to farm for a reef rider anytime. I’m not saying remove the “for a limited time” drop chance items. Just add permanent ones too.) There should be these items as a reward for completing things. Finish all of Arah on explorable? Get a mini wraith as the “meta” award for it.

6.) Add skins for meta rewards. Now I know you guys are already doing this. So keep up this trend!

TL;DR – Make Achievements linkable/comparable to another players. Add both titles, item skins, minis as rewards for completing an achievement track (Completed the explorable achievement for Shiverpeaks? Grant us a title “Shiverpeaks Explorer” etc).

Yes! Achievement changes! Totally want this! For all the achievement wh*res out there, like myself, making it so you WANT to complete it will have more people running around and doing things. The biggest one I agree with would be the mini-pets and possible mounts, primarily for collecting. If they do add mounts at some point, only allow a 5% increased run speed, only on-land mounts, and only on roads. The GW2 world has tons of roads, bridges, and the like connecting houses and small towns together. It would feel very realistic, give us more to collect, and it would just be fun. With GW2 being in such a magical world it would be amazing to see people riding around on griffons, centaurs, moas, and dolyaks.

I, too, am an achievement wh*re lol! Almost every other game (even Steam) allows you to view others achievements so you can compare yourself to others.

I don’t mean to be rude, but, about the wondering about if your wife got an achievement when you both did a puzzle or something…
Can’t you just ask? o.O
I play this with my bother and even if we are in different rooms we just shout ^.^

Now on a more serious note, I know that would be “helpful” for friends for example, BUT, big but (no point intended) ANET said (if I’m not mistaken) things like inspect tools to see gear, or in this case achievements, and a duel mode are not in their plans because that would encourage elitism and unnecessary confrontation between people from the same server.

About the daily achievement points, I have to disagree, if for nothing else it’s been there, new players would be put in a disadvantage.

I do like the idea of more titles, I think every achievement should grand a title with their name.
For example, when completing Indiscriminate Slayer (kill 1000 ambient creatures) you should get a title, Indiscriminate Slayer.
I honestly thought it was like this when I started playing.

Lets be honest tho. People already “inspect” people anyway. High level fractals people are required to ‘ping’ their gear to show they have good gear witkittent ping, dont get invited. People always find ways around it

And there is nothing wrong with competition. Lets face it. ANet has always been about PvP. PvP is competitive. So saying they don’t want to foster competition seems counter productive to what they seem to want to foster. Heck even their company name Arena lol People don’t go into an arena to get free hugs and walk back out haha.

I like most ideas. Even though I am against inspection for already stated reasons.
I would very much welcome the remove of daily and monthly achievements, as they just do not give an appropriate score, nor are very fair. I like achievement hunting, but its impossible to get a good score if you just can’t play and everybody got a higher score for doing dailies… That just leaves titles and most titles are not very difficult or special, except PvP and WvWvW, but those are just time intense.

For titles. I would like to see them streamlined. like they were in GW1.
Full World completion is such a title together with Dungeon Master etc.
Other things like slayer (of a specific species) should be streamlined to give a title every time 5 achievemtns are completed. Meaning, when you have 5 slayer achievements full, you get first title. After having finished all achievements in this category, you get the “slayer of all” (random name).

Add an overall achievement title like in GW1!!!! I want this, as end game motivation, and I know a big bunch of the playerbase would want this too.
Getting 5 titles like dungeon master, world completion, max slayer etc. also gives you every 5 titles a special “tilte collector title”. In GW1 the title for having 25? was God under mortals and you just know, that person did it all! This is great endgame motivatoin, but needs to be bound to good content like HM and so on. But I guess this will come anyway, after the game is finally out of the Beta…

I am not sure about mounts though. Giving 5% sounds good enough even more would be okay as long as it breaks in fight like giving perma swiftness but its gone as soon as you enter a fight. Riding just for aesthetics is quite nice, but it’s a pandoras box.

For tile awards. They should be awarding in itself I think. But maybe binding some recepts to them for making special skins + the skin itsel as a one time item (so that in theory every player can get them with the mats crafted by some else).

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I, too, am an achievement wh*re lol! Almost every other game (even Steam) allows you to view others achievements so you can compare yourself to others.

They have leaderboards specifically for this… I don’t feel that people need to be rooting around any deeper in what achievements I do and don’t have beyond my total points. (though it’s not remotely impressive anyway hahahahaha)