Guild Wars 2

So we get laurels only for dailies and monthlies and I guess Anet’s reasoning was “people didn’t know this was coming, so we don’t want some people to be ahead of others”, but the fact of the matter is that EVERYONE would have more than they would have right now if laurels were given for all previously earned achievement points, so such complaints would be completely ridiculous and easily dismissable. Putting a cap on infinite achievements isn’t very hard to do, and there’s no reason Anet couldn’t do that for this update and allow laurels for all achievement points. And I’m thinking about this and whether I have 1,000 or 10,000 at this point, I’d still be happy to have laurels for all achievement points, especially for the main gripe I have about this update. Obviously we can’t have 1-to-1 achievements points-to-laurels, so I’d suggest 10-to-1, 15-to-1, or …maybe 20-to-1.

With the current system, the best you can hope to achieve, laurel-wise, is extremely limited and only a finite number of laurels can be earned over a given period of time, regardless of how much or how well you play. What’s worse is that this finite number of laurels is extremely low. I’m going to have to do my dailies for a whole kitten month just to get one amulet. And another two months to get the rings. If I do my monthlies across those three months, I can get one more amulet for another character. This rate of acquisition is insanely slow and it’s just going to force myself and others to quickly lose interest in the laurel system, as it’ll take maybe an hour of gameplay per day, and it won’t really feel like we’re working towards anything ‘cause it takes so kitten long and there’s nothing we can do to expedite it. It’s not casual-play, it’s not even grinding, it’s just horrible design. Legendaries are a long-term goal, sure, that’s fine, but ascended amulets which provide a total of a relatively paltry +23 stats taking a month to acquire is insanity. It’ll take close to a full year to get ascended rings and amulets for my 3 main characters this way, and that’s only if I play nearly every day, which is asking FAR too much from players.

I was excited about the laurel system, but the extremely limited means to acquire them has completely put me off, and I just don’t even give a kitten about it anymore.