Guild Wars 2

So, I really like that achievement points finally get a better reward than just the points. I really like seeing chests pop up for all my work in this past year. I would like to see achievements have their own rewards more in the future, more achievements with a reward chest that’s appopriate. But I think that is coming.

I have more comments about the interface still though. Here are a few points I’d like to see changed as an achievement hunter:

1. Sorting achievements. I like that I can now sort my achievements, but when I sort it on completion, I want the completed ones on the bottom. Specially for slayer and weapon master, since I still have to scroll a lot.

2. Watch list (1). I like to have a watch list. I also like to have the dailies in my screen. But as it is, I’d have to create my watch list every day anew, to be able to put the dailies in it. Why not make a watch list in the Hero window, and have the player select, out of this list, what he wants in the UI. Or an option where you can have the dailies watch list overwrite the personal watch list until done.

3. Watch list (2). Sorting again. Right now it sorts automatically to most completed one. But why not let the player sort this list, so that he or she can put the achievements he wants to track most on top?

4. Categorisation. Ok, I like that it is more organised, but now I’m clicking a lot when I want to see my achievements. The Hero panel already starts on the first tab (Equipment) on opening. And now I have to open the achievement category I need too, before I can choose the list I want to see. Why not put achievements that are less viewed bunch up in a category, like old living world categories, events, and activities, while keeping slayer, hero, explorer achievements have their own category? Also, when there’s only one achievement tab in a category, just make the category open the list, instead of making us click a rather pointless second time.

5. Hero panel. As I said above, every time I open the hero panel, I have to go to the achievement tab again. Even if I just wanted to get the window out of my screen to finish a fight, and then go back again to check my achievements. Maybe you can save where I left off during a session, and only reset this on logout? Or maybe even make a totally seperate achievement window.

6. Total score. Me and my friends like to compare scores. But not just the total scores you see behind someones name, but also per category, or specific categories. Sometimes we want to know scores from other people without the dailies or temporary content added. This used to be easy, just add the total score per category, and you were done. But now this total score has disappeared! So me and my friends, and a lot more people I know of, would like to see this being brought back. Maybe even a progress bar per category where you can see how many achievement points out of a total you have for that category.

I hope that other people can join in and express their opinion about the achievement system, as I think it is a big thing in the game. It keeps a lot of people trying for things, trying to get it all. I also think that a good UI that is easy to navigate is important in making a game feel good, so I hope some of these suggestions will be implemented.

I quite like the new ui for achievements, from what you mentioned I would like to see the option of sorting completed ones to the bottom or top and also being able to manually order the ones we put in watchlist.

All of the above +:

Can we please get a longer list of nearly completed achievements? 3 just doesn’t cut it when they require things like 100 wvw kills to get the last 10%.

I’d like a big long (20 at least) list of nearly completed achievements so I can pick out the easy ones and max them.

I’m not certain if this is what you mean in point #6 or not…

I would like to see the TOTAL number of objectives needed to COMPLETE the title track, not just how many we need to get to the next tier. Right now to get that information I have to select it for viewing on the desktop and then hover over it to see my ultimate goal.

I guess having tiers is important in that we get Achievement Points along the way, and not just at the very end. But please let us know at a glance how far we are from the very end.

Hamfast, I like your idea as well, but with point #6 I actually meant a total number for the full tab, like a total score for your jumping puzzle achievements. So it would say 200/460 (I believe 460 is the highest possible atm), if you have 200 points.
Also, like the idea of Relativity, a longer list of nearly completed, as the big achievements tend to stick on top for ages now. The displays here are too big anyway, I am not playing on a tablet pc, so I don’t need an ipad like interface (My windows 8 gives me way too much of that already:))

I really like the new UI as well but I was hoping there would be a little more detail in some of the achievements…

example.. in the diving achieve all you can see is that it needs 38 dives, i have 37/38 and no idea which one screwed up so that i have to do them all over again to find the one i missed. If we could have a check list of what we did that would be a big help, even if it was somewhat vague and just told us which zone or general area to look in like kryta.
In another area like the dungeons it could use a checklist as well to let you know which paths you have taken.

I think we should have a “custom” option in which we can drag and drop achievement blocks to where we want. So we could place the Slayers we will most likely complete at top and the completed ones at bottom for example.

Also, each tab in the Hero panel should have its own shortcut. Right now hitting H for skills, achievements, etc. is painful. I’d like to hit “J” (for example) to open my achievements straight up!

And I think a “detailed view” of Achievements break-down of friends/guildies could be nice (maybe like Slayers : 90, Jumping Puzzles: 100, Dailies: 456, etc.). This could be a good way to encourage people to see what they missed and what they can do to increase their AP. This would increases competition to have more AP than others.