Guild Wars 2

Shattered Achievement

Currently in order to get the achievement related to the Shatterer, you’re suppose to free 5 people from the crystal prisons; well, there’s a problem with how this achievement works: Shatterer dies too quickly to get the crystals all in one trip and the destruction of crystal prisons is not cumulative. What I am saying is that it is near impossible to get all 5 crystal prisons broken in one round with the dragon since he dies far too fast. And with this, I propose three suggestions:

1. Increase the amount of HP of Shatterer so that he lives longer, thus creating more prisons.
2. Make the prison destruction cumulative so that it is possible to attain this achievement in more than one trip.
3. Increase the frequency in which he summons the crystal prisons.

Hall of Monuments Achievements

To begin, I must ask: are there any plans to implement the Hall of Monuments in Guild Wars 2? I ask because I do not think that it fair to incorporate a category of achievements related to an entirely different game; one of which, not every one in Guild Wars 2 has. The way that I view this is simple, Guild Wars 1 players were already rewarded with exclusive pets and other various prizes for the Hall of Monuments points; those rewards are unattainable by strictly Guild Wars 2 players, and I do not have a problem with that. I do however, have an issue with not being able to attain a whole category of achievements unless I go out and spend $60 dollars on a game that I don’t even want, simply to appease my OCD. So my request is that the Hall of Monuments achievement category be removed from the game if there are no plans to implement it in Guild Wars 2.

Agree with the Shatterer issue, and I think solution #3 is best.
He only uses the crystal prison skill once it seems.

HoM I disagree.
Since some achievements can be done an infinite number of times, those 50(?) points are basically worthless. The GW2 achievement score is pretty dumb overall because of those infinite ones.

I also agree about shaterer but instead would go for option 2, and about HoM i must also agree, it’s pure cosmetic stuff, just like halloween, krakas event and so on skins, so couldn’t care less (despite having it and having to admit the edium armor for humans is amazingly great looking)

If you want HoM achievements play GW1 like we had to. Who knows it’s a pretty good game you may enjoy yourself and learn some of the story.

I disagree with the HoM point, but I am biased as I am a gw1 player.

The amount of time and effort spent getting the achivements listed there is phenominal. In order to have 50 points in the Hall of monuments (which would unlock all items and titles) Players had to:
- Have played through all 3 campaigns + the expansion pack in order to unlock all heroes on their account, as well as charm 3 rare pets (which were more difficult to get to than regular pets)

- Have 7 sets of rare armor, the equivilent of having 7 sets of exotic armor. One of these armor sets (obsidian armor) required a lengthy quest to get to the maker of it, you also needed a substantial amount of money + 105 – 120 ectos and obsidian shards (which could only be farmed in one place and you got them only as drops. The drop rate was extremely low)

- Have a total of 15 rare weapons

- Have 50 minipets in your hall fo monumments (to be honest this is probably the easiest, as mini pets became really cheap and easy to get hold of towards the release of gw2)

- Have 40 maxed out titles. An example title would be the vanquisher title, which involved the player going to each area of the map and killing every single enemy in that area. To get the full title each area on a map would have to be cleared, and there were 3 maps. To get 40 titles, each requiring a similar effort to that is an enormous amount of time.

Given the amount of time and effort spent playing the game in order to obtain the rewards in the hall of monuments, I would say a few titles and some unique items are a really nice reward for loyal guild wars 1 players to be able to take with them into guild wars 2.

What shocked me about gw2 is that gw1 was indirectly centred around obtaining titles for you character,. You’d have your character name and just underneith it would say things like “legendary skill hunter”, “Legendary cartographer”, “Life and soul of the party”, “Drunkard” or “Source of Wisdom.”
You would feel so cool having a title for yourself like that, and then this was all gone in gw2. The titles are still there, but they don’t have the same emphasis that they did in gw1. For that reason I felt a bit sad that all the loyalty gw1 players had had for the game was not barely noticable. But I can completely understand how you’d feel if you came to a game where everyone had earned all these cool items and titles and you had no chance to be able to do so.

I hope in the long run though they do open up the hall of monuments to gw2 players and make a new set achievement titles and items.

shatterer achievement is cumulative.

I can tell you for a fact it took me 3 trips to do it.

All I would like to know is. Is there anyway you can get to HOM without an item that is given to you.. I am a GW1 Player who has at least finished Mostly everything.. but Can’t seem to get to HOM in GW2

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All I would like to know is. Is there anyway you can get to HOM without an item that is given to you.. I am a GW1 Player who has at least finished Mostly everything.. but Can’t seem to get to HOM in GW2

The most basic requirement for the Hall of Monuments is that you have the GW1 “Eye of the North” expansion. That is where the HoM was introduced. You could finish all the other expansions completely and still not be able to get to your Hall of Monuments because there IS no Hall of Monuments until Eye of the North.

Then you must link your GW1 account with your GW2 account. (You’ll have to dig into that question elsewhere – not sure what the step-by-step procedure is for that if you already have a GW2 account and it is not linked.)

If you have all of that, they give newly created characters a “Hall of Monuments Portal Stone” to teleport there ands claim your rewards. If you lost your stone, there is a Karma Merchant in LA who will give you one for free. (The pirate cave in the NW corner).

I do not know if people can get a stone if they do not have a linked account. It would be cool if ANYONE could go there, even if there were no rewards to be had. The Portal Stone is a great way to pop to a “safe” location if you need to answer the phone or take a quick break, and then pop back to the game where you left off.