Guild Wars 2

The game would be better served if the single Monthly achievement were broken into two achievements: Monthly PvE and Monthly PvP. And perhaps a meta achievement for doing both in the same month?

I think both PvE and PvP people would appreciate this change.

Nah.

The monthly achievements are not meant to give stuff to people that do what they want to do, but to people that do all sorts of stuff that ArenaNet wants them to focus on.

If you do what they want you to do, you get the reward. If not, you don’t.

If the rewards were something you can get only by doing those, it would not the same, though. But as they are just exp, gold and Mystic coins you can get from the Trading Post and from daily achievements, it’s not that much of a problem.

MithranArkanere.8957:

Nah.

The monthly achievements are not meant to give stuff to people that do what they want to do, but to people that do all sorts of stuff that ArenaNet wants them to focus on.

If you do what they want you to do, you get the reward. If not, you don’t.

If the rewards were something you can get only by doing those, it would not the same, though. But as they are just exp, gold and Mystic coins you can get from the Trading Post and from daily achievements, it’s not that much of a problem.

Except that goes against their stated philosophy of is it fun (which they’ve already gone against on multiple occasions). If it was two, people that do do both PvE and PvP will be able to complete them. Us that don’t play PvP will still be able to get something for doing monthly achievements. I’m one that would really like to have them separated. I should not be forced to do PvP so I can get Mystic coins (and not have to take forever by getting only one for the daily).

You are not forced to do anything to get Mystic Coins. Not only you can get them from the dailies (that do not involve PvP), but you can also buy them on the TP, quite cheaply in fact.

People really don’t seem to grasp the concept of “achievements”.

I’d say have four different types:

An All Encompassing Monthly Achievement

This Achievement would have 3 different tasks from all game styles (PvE, WvW, SPvP), making one task for each game style. So the PvE one might be Events Completed, the WvW one might be Invaders Of Your Borderland killed and SPvP one might be Matches Participated in.

This Achievement would award Karma, Badges of Honour and Glory.

Nothing too hardcore, but encourages players to try a bit of everything out.

PvE Monthly Achievement

One that focuses on the PvE, this would include things like Number of Dungeons Done, Number of Events Done, that sort of thing.

This Achievement would award Coin, Karma and some Skill Points.

WvW Monthly Achievement

One that focuses on WvW, this would include Keeps Taken, Keeps Defended, Siege Weapons Built, Supply Contributed ect.

This Achievement would award Coin, Karma and Badges of Honour.

SPvP Achievement

One that focuses on SPvP, this would include, Matches Won, Points Taken, Points Defended, Something to do with the mechanics of each map (Treb, spawns ect).

This Achievement would award Glory, one entire Rank Progression and some Tournament Tickets.

The last three are to reward the more hardcore groups who participate in them game types with rewards that can benefit them.