I completed the new monthly achievement on April 2nd at 10:44 pm MST. Here’s a screenshot. I think the Monthlies should take longer to get. I wasn’t even tring to complete it, I was just playing.
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Last months monthly took me I think 3 days of casual PvE? This one is at least a bit harder than that since I have to decide to do 12 jp’s or holy fark how many audio logs?
Granted I think one of those days was a weekend day when I got like 10 or so hours of playtime. Still it’s not really that hard to kill 100 vets or do 100 events in 5-6 hours of just wandering around.
There’s a small hylek village in Caledon Forest not too far from the dungeon entrance. If you throw the boulders on the ground against a wall, a opens doors into an area chock full of Hylek veterans.
I completed the new monthly achievement on April 2nd at 10:44 pm MST. Here’s a screenshot. I think the Monthlies should take longer to get. I wasn’t even tring to complete it, I was just playing.
So what? You played a lot in 2 days, congratulations.
For casual players, doing 10 Fractals might span across 2 weeks, not 2 days.
For casual players, participating in 100 events might very well take the whole month.
For casual players, Veteran NPC’s are already hard enough to kill, let alone 100 of them.
All you’re saying is that they’re easy “for you” but not for the rest of the world. Was this thread even needed?
I completed the new monthly achievement on April 2nd at 10:44 pm MST. Here’s a screenshot. I think the Monthlies should take longer to get. I wasn’t even tring to complete it, I was just playing.
You can please some people some of the time, but you can’t please all the people all the time.
For casual players, doing 10 Fractals might span across 2 weeks, not 2 days.
Yeah, 10 Fractals? Between every person in my guild, we have completed a grand total of 3 Fractals, I believe. We’ll have to get a serious move on on the one day a week when we gather to play for 2-3 hours.
I finished the JP part of it last night, and am 3/4 done on the dailies. The rest will take a bit longer but I’ll finish it before the end of the month, probably in WvW.
I like WvW a lot but my support-heavy Guardian doesn’t qualify for a lot of kills. Might even be easier to make a level 1 DD ele and spam AoE in the zerg for the 50.
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For casual players, doing 10 Fractals might span across 2 weeks, not 2 days.
Yeah, 10 Fractals? Between every person in my guild, we have completed a grand total of 3 Fractals, I believe. We’ll have to get a serious move on on the one day a week when we gather to play for 2-3 hours.
A single fractal run gives you 3 fractals or 4 if you are on the boss one. It’s REALLY easy to get and very fast.
Easy if you grind dungeons/fractals. Or play wvw. Easy if you only play your 80’s. To me who just does open world, last month’s was much easier considering there was one achievement that never required you to leave Lion’s Arch— finished in a few days. Instead I’m greeted with the tedious sonic periscopes crap or jumping puzzles so I’m just going to follow a wvw zerg train around.
Well, they figured they’d throw wvw users a bone. It’s really not a bad idea as most would rather not go out to pve to do their things.
The annoying thing about the periscopes is that you have to actually turn them in. It should have just been kill 100 of them.
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I don’t do WvW or fractals, and I’m not getting credit for jumping puzzles, except the first one I did, so I have no choice but to do the audio logs if I want to complete the monthly.
There is nothing fun about running around all those maps getting audio logs, trust me. If your JP’s are bugged, April’s monthly is nothing but a long chore that will take all month.
Think of the monthly as a nice perk for those who enjoy WvW. You get to complete it in hours/days.
I don’t do WvW or fractals, and I’m not getting credit for jumping puzzles, except the first one I did, so I have no choice but to do the audio logs if I want to complete the monthly.
You just need 10 fractals. All it takes is level 1, level 2 and level 3. Even if you somehow fail those easy dungeons, the partial progression you did is still recorded!
Yeah, 10 Fractals? Between every person in my guild, we have completed a grand total of 3 Fractals, I believe. We’ll have to get a serious move on on the one day a week when we gather to play for 2-3 hours.
A single fractal run gives you 3 fractals or 4 if you are on the boss one. It’s REALLY easy to get and very fast.
The run I was on succeeded on its first one, and failed on the second, multiple team wipes on the boss till several people ran out of time to play and the party disbanded. I think my guildmate had better luck and got through two of them, which is why I give a total of three. Nobody else in the (small) guild has dared to try them yet, as myself and my friend are the only ones with any real enthusiasm for playing “dungeon” level difficulty content. Hopefully we will find a PUG that knows them better this month, and it will be easier.
I got like 90% of my veteran monthly from the Ascalonian Fractal, and I finished the jumping puzzle monthly last night (I never want to see some of those ever again, btw).
I suspect that ANet’s real April Fool is putting 150 audio logs in as a monthly…
I totally (somehow) misread that one in-game. YOU NEED 150 OF THOSE?! Okay, kitten that one, then! Pretty much any of the other ones are easier to achieve than that!
the fractal are very easy if you know what to do, if you have no idea on how to run it, how to do things even the swamp level can become a nightmare.
if you can do teachrun of fractals it is the best dungeon i played in this game, or at least for my taste.
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I got like 90% of my veteran monthly from the Ascalonian Fractal, and I finished the jumping puzzle monthly last night (I never want to see some of those ever again, btw).
I suspect that ANet’s real April Fool is putting 150 audio logs in as a monthly…
I totally (somehow) misread that one in-game. YOU NEED 150 OF THOSE?! Okay, kitten that one, then! Pretty much any of the other ones are easier to achieve than that!
A little trick is that the achievements screen only shows the requirement for the current tier, while the mission list shows the total for all tiers when moused over.
The audio log monthly have 4 tiers that total up to 150 logs recovered and returned.
I’m not doing WvW not FotM and yet, this month is easy even without those but just because is easy for some people don’t mean everyone else have to rush and finish them in one day.
I’m half way of everything but I’m playing the game. I’m not farming events, only doing those in my path. Obviously, I can’t finish 4 dailies in less than 4 days. I killed a lot of vets in a row but only because I was looking for the key in the reactor on Metrica. And while I know where to find several JP, I’m not rushing to those zones to complete them.
So yes, if you play the game as I do, it take just a few days but, I play a lot. And if the monthly was really easy for you is your fault, not mine, not anyone else.
So please, don’t ask for something harder because then you going to rush anyways and finish them in one day and still complaining about how easy was for you and everyone else is going to complain about how hard it is for them.
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Apparently wvw is a good place to farm veterans and events.
I suspect that ANet’s real April Fool is putting 150 audio logs in as a monthly…
Worm area in caledon forest has those living oaks. 3 typically spawn in that area fairly frequiently and you also get to work on the plant slayer achievement if you need it.
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I think the monthly is fine. Very happy Anet is allowing us to choose which ones to do. Maybe it took you a short time, but it will probably take me a while.
Apparently wvw is a good place to farm veterans and events.
I suspect that ANet’s real April Fool is putting 150 audio logs in as a monthly…
Worm area in caledon forest has those living oaks. 3 typically spawn in that area fairly frequiently and you also get to work on the plant slayer achievement if you need it.
Yea, the population of oakhearts will be decimated…
I have been spending a bit of time in WvW recently and gave it a shot again last night with the monthly in mind. It really is fun – can see why Anet want people to try it out. I completed over half the monthly in just a couple of hours.
Between that and the JP, it’s kind of a cool list of challenges for April. There’s a list of JPs sorted by difficulty over at Dulfy’s site – really helpful:
Kill veterans (You do this everywhere you go and will get it over a month)
Do events (You do these everywhere you go and will get it over a month)
Do jump puzzles (They have to be UNIQUE jump puzzles, so just do them as you explore zones or do whatever. A level 42 player with only one character in my guild got this one last night just playing the game and doing them when she could)
Do your Dailies (Seriously, they’re easy and after 4 of them you get credit for your monthly!)
Really, this is about as friendly as it gets to casual players.
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Easy if you grind dungeons/fractals. Or play wvw. Easy if you only play your 80’s. To me who just does open world, last month’s was much easier considering there was one achievement that never required you to leave Lion’s Arch— finished in a few days. Instead I’m greeted with the tedious sonic periscopes crap or jumping puzzles so I’m just going to follow a wvw zerg train around.
Well, they figured they’d throw wvw users a bone. It’s really not a bad idea as most would rather not go out to pve to do their things.
The annoying thing about the periscopes is that you have to actually turn them in. It should have just been kill 100 of them.
You can just do the 3 jump puzzles in LA every few days… no need to leave LA for that one
Yeah the periscopes one is a grind especially as you cant loot the same one when it respawns until reset…. vets is a doddle in PvE or WvW. only one I will likely struggle to do quickly id the Fracs one, simply because I don’t tend to run them all the often.
Then again I am in no hurry to get the monthly in and Waypointing to Diessa to hand periscope logs in takes all of what 30 seconds….
On a side note, I’ve not really been a big WvW player since launch mainly due to the culling and lag issues.. but gees I was surprised just how much better it was since the patch and I was all “I wont hold my breath with the improved system” on these forums.. so thumbs up from me ANET.. its certainly made it so much more fun and getting most of the monthly targets done is all part of the fun again… hope to see something done about PvE soon
I find it funny when people call me a hardcore player, because hardcore players call me a casual player. I dont have a legendary (not even close), I dont have any dungeon armor, I don’t look up information on my class to play it at its “peak” performance (as noted by the 4 signets I run). Yes I have free time to play right now and MMO’s are my main form of entertainment (I am currently playing 3 GW2, STO, SWTOR).
I wasn’t trying to rush through the achiement. I was just playing the game. I don’t care much for dungeons or fractals and only run them when a guild party is one short and can’t find someone to fill the spot. I played WvW a couple of hours over the three days trying a new class, but I am not in there all the time. I was surprised when I got the monthly done because I hadn’t even looked at it yet since it just started.
Ok, yes I do wish that games weren’t made to be so easy, but I am having a lot of fun in this game anyways. It just seemed to me that this months achievement was easier then the others and wanted to see if others felt the same way.
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems,
but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 – 1944)
Easy if you grind dungeons/fractals. Or play wvw. Easy if you only play your 80’s. To me who just does open world, last month’s was much easier considering there was one achievement that never required you to leave Lion’s Arch— finished in a few days. Instead I’m greeted with the tedious sonic periscopes crap or jumping puzzles so I’m just going to follow a wvw zerg train around.
Well, they figured they’d throw wvw users a bone. It’s really not a bad idea as most would rather not go out to pve to do their things.
The annoying thing about the periscopes is that you have to actually turn them in. It should have just been kill 100 of them.
You can just do the 3 jump puzzles in LA every few days… no need to leave LA for that one
Yeah the periscopes one is a grind especially as you cant loot the same one when it respawns until reset…. vets is a doddle in PvE or WvW. only one I will likely struggle to do quickly id the Fracs one, simply because I don’t tend to run them all the often.
Then again I am in no hurry to get the monthly in and Waypointing to Diessa to hand periscope logs in takes all of what 30 seconds….
On a side note, I’ve not really been a big WvW player since launch mainly due to the culling and lag issues.. but gees I was surprised just how much better it was since the patch and I was all “I wont hold my breath with the improved system” on these forums.. so thumbs up from me ANET.. its certainly made it so much more fun and getting most of the monthly targets done is all part of the fun again… hope to see something done about PvE soon
Nope, needs to be 12 unique puzzles, accountbound btw so cant get around moving elsewhere for those…
I would like to see a Super Duper Monthly that gave 1000 laurels and took so much time to complete that hardcores wouldn’t have time to spare to post complaints about easy content.
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I completed the new monthly achievement on April 2nd at 10:44 pm MST. Here’s a screenshot. I think the Monthlies should take longer to get. I wasn’t even tring to complete it, I was just playing.
Get the other 147 audio logs, the we’ll talk….
You assume everyone plays the same way you do, thats a silly assumption.
I would like to see a Super Duper Monthly that gave 1000 laurels and took so much time to complete that hardcores wouldn’t have time to spare to post complaints about easy content.
The content is easy regardless of whether you’re a casual or hardcore player. The only time the content is hard is if you’re a bad or new player, and has nothing to do with how frequently you play the game beyond that.
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1. Do fractals for the 7 fractals or whatever it is, get the veteran slayer as a bonus
2. Go to WvW for the 50 kills (Just AOE into the zerg) and get the events as a bonus…
I would like to see a Super Duper Monthly that gave 1000 laurels and took so much time to complete that hardcores wouldn’t have time to spare to post complaints about easy content.
Unless they make at least one of the options something that is time restricted(like Monthly Completionist) AND require enough of it so that you would need something like a week or two of it then someone is always going to find a way to finish the monthly in the first week if not the first day. Alternatively it could be like the October monthly and require content that gets added only a couple of days before the end of the month.
I don’t think artificial restrictions like that to stretch out the time requirement for the monthly serves any useful purpose.
I would like to see a Super Duper Monthly that gave 1000 laurels and took so much time to complete that hardcores wouldn’t have time to spare to post complaints about easy content.
