Guild Wars 2

Seems a bit backwards that I could spend the whole month playing every day across alts. but then miss out on a single event weekend only to find that I missed my only opportunity to complete the monthly achievement.

It was similar across halloween, I felt pressured to be in the game every single day across the event just to complete the required so called ‘monthly’ objectives.

Monthly achievements should consist of objectives you can complete throughout the entire month and should not be specific to only level 80 characters.

What monthly are you talking about? Both the dungeon and the Lost Shores area are permanent.

For level 80 toons. Those without level 80s that are not on all weekened have the remainder of the month to max a character and then participate in the fractals/shores.

Halloween also had a similar achievement, I think it was consumed candy corn though I can’t remember for sure.

Anyone could get candy corn.
Anyone can enter the fractals, but those with lower level may have a hard time finding parties.
And unless the karka events in Caledon an Kessex stay and keep happening (as they should) killing 200 karka will be impossible for those under level 76 or so.

My point is that the monthly achievement should be something you can work on at any time during the monthly period, regardless of your character being level 80 and not something that you have to be on during a specific week or weekend for.

It seems like you should be able to get at least 1 character to 80 within the course of a month, if you play enough for the monthly achievements to matter to you. And karma jugs are account bound, so you really only need 1.

Not that I’d be against them keeping the low-level karka DEs or anything. Wouldn’t quite fit the story of Lost Shores though.

Level requirements are clearly ok for the monthly (by a.net’s logic), albeit in a less strict way; you cannot do the monthly unless you have a character over 30, for example. Big difference between 80 and 30, obviously, but at the same time there’s no rule that achievements have to be easy for anyone to get.