Guild Wars 2

Since the achievements started rewarding stuff, I’ve been an achievement kitten. I did them all (except for Liandri, but that’s because I couldn’t win that fight, as sad as it is). It was time-consuming and couldn’t get out of my head: I had to do them. Getting five dailies weren’t enough: I had to do them all!

Since last update I gave up and wow, I’m enjoying the game again. I play more of what I like and well, I get rewarded for it. Slower than other people, but I don’t care anymore.

I haven’t set a foot in SAB and it feels good. I really enjoyed the first one when it first came out, but I don’t want to play this now. Bummer, it will be gone when I’ll probably want to test it out, but I don’t mind. This permanent grind with such an intense pace (new content every two weeks) is just not working for me. I prefer to run dungeons or WvW with my usual groups and get my stress in there rather than a permanent one for getting all achievements from Scarlet or SAB.

The only thing I’m sad with when I think about this is that I will not enjoy all the content made available when I want it. But that’s another topic.

I now feel relaxed and I just wanted to share it.

I was like you except it didn’t took me long before i asked myself why i even bother. stopped bothering after completing all halloween achievements and not going back.

I don’t even remember the last time I focused on getting a daily. Or a monthly for that matter. The only time I’ll even put achievements in my peripheral is when I scan over them and realize I finished like 75% of them already just from playing normally, if I don’t get them from just playing I don’t even bother, unless I know I’ll enjoy the content that comes with those achievements, which means the points are just an added bonus.

And yeah, I think I know what you mean in that last paragraph. It is pretty saddening…

Good on you OP. I think since the AP chest rewards came out people have been putting too much pressure on themselves to do as many as possible for those shinies and have forgotten how to have fun in this game.

Really if you don’t have a lot of hours to play; all anyone has to do is complete your daily each daily (some people don’t even have to do that) and then set aside another goal to also complete with the rest of your hours for that day.

It could be achievements, I am not saying doing them is a bad thing at all. It could be working on those WVW or sPvP titles etc. Or it could simply be just running around in any random zone looking for adventure (trouble I like to call it when hunting events to do) or helping out random strangers.

People just need to remember how to play for fun again. :P

One last thing I would like to say about SAB. Don’t worry about not getting the achievements for the second world this time around OP as I am 100% sure it will be back with yet world 3 and 4. An indication of this is that there are 2 more houses in the lobby there with numbers 3 and 4 on the doors which would indicate this. Also with the new unlimited continue coin and the future cash they can continue to generate off that once in a while with each new release I would not be surprised if this is so.

I haven’t stopped going for achievements, but I’ll let them go a lot more easily now. I just do the ones I’m interested in.

I still work on achievements, but like dailies and monthlies, I don’t let them drive my play. They are a set of goals that I can work on when I feel like, and ignore the rest of the time. It makes everything much less stressful, and the overall play more enjoyable.

Been this way since basically beta for achievements. Dailies, I never had any issue doing before their “update” because I simply got them by playing like normal. After the “update” I started simply ignoring them for the most part, because I knew if I didn’t, I would feel like I was doing chores, and that would ruin my fun.

I still do the dailies and monthly but I find them easy to complete while playing. I just look at what is available and select the ones that will naturally occur with what I want to do. Then if that isn’t five I fill in with the quick ones such as craft, daily activity, etc. Most of the time the daily completes and then I end up with other categories of the daily completing without even trying.

However, I’m burnt out on living story. I really wanted to work on world 1 of sab as I was halfway through the achievements for it from last time it was available but the last living story produced a huge desire for a vacation from short term content. I hope that SAB will be back again at a time when I am ready to play it. I’m glad it is reoccurring content.

I have like the OP decided to purposely ignore parts of the game in the future. Temporary rushed buggy content stresses me. From now on I will only participate if it looks like relaxed fun. If it looks like “you must do it now! cause it will be gone soon, mwhahahahaha!” then I will turn my back on it. Sadly I actually enjoyed the last living story. I found it fun. But I could not complete it all and it irritates me that part of what I could not complete is gone forever.

Living story to me is like a great big chocolate cake with your favorite ice cream to go with it…and strawberries on top. Sure is tasty but after eating the entire cake you feel kind of ill.

@Fror, I could have written that post you made. I was the same way. Cept I started chasing them a month after release and they were my only focus. This was unill about 3 months ago. When I realized what it was doing to me. Since I had stopped chasing them I am enjoying the game more. I no longer feel like I MUST log in to finish this or that, or I have 2 more of the daily list to complet.

I see this post as basically like an alcoholic saying they haven’t had a drink in X days, so good for you. Achievements can be fun, but people who try and get every single point are feeding an addiction.

That is because, OP, you started playing the game again.
Sure, the checklist mentality makes you waste more time on the game because you have the feeling of chasing a goal – pretty much like at work when you get caught up into it and work hard to complete your job.

Thing is, this is a game; one that allows you to STILL get to the same point of others while enjoying a different variety of activities.
The only exception would be fractals for ring, since fractals is the only real way (unless you get them by laurels/guild but that will take too long).

Active combat and the fact we’re given several choices on how to get X is why GW2 is so successful.
I was tired of being locked away into a dungeon by devs every X months and forced to do just that only to be on par with others.
I like how I can get Ascended weapons by killing bosses, or doing WvW, or crafting, or a combination of them all – though I didn’t like a lot the whole ascended ring galore for instance.

Do what you enjoy. You’ll have to work 8h/day when you get to my age. For 30 years.
When gaming, have fun.

I stopped chasing achievement points last chest when I got it thinking I was a long way off but I was really not. It felt a lot more rewarding then grinding for it.

I started out this patch chasing ascended. Got upset that I did not get the mats on my non level 80s. So I decided I would get it when I do. I wanted to rush and get it because I did not want to be stuck with doing it alone. I don’t think people will stop doing the world events. Or the jumping puzzles. (Hopefully they will not stop doing orr). I wanted to level my alts more. So I started doing that and only working on ascended stuff if I am with my guildies doing Dungeons or other stuff.

The game feels a lot more rewarding when you just let the rewards come naturally instead of grinding for them. Now the only time I grind is when I am really close so might as well finish it off.

I just play, if I get close to finish the daily I will put a bit effort to get it done. Last night, I only did one daily so I am not going to finish that. Sometime, when I play a lot I get to finish over 5 dailies without noticing.

I had been getting every LS achievement up until SAB… spending 200+ hours in a month trying to get the most time consuming and grindy achievements in the game just wasn’t worth it, plus i’d have to multiple that by x10 if I didn’t buy their stupid P2W coin.

I’m having much more fun now just playing the actual game and ignoring the poorly implemented LS crap.

ZudetGambeous.9573:

I had been getting every LS achievement up until SAB… spending 200+ hours in a month trying to get the most time consuming and grindy achievements in the game just wasn’t worth it, plus i’d have to multiple that by x10 if I didn’t buy their stupid P2W coin.

I’m having much more fun now just playing the actual game and ignoring the poorly implemented LS crap.

Buddy the LS has been a downer. The only good things came out of it are qualities of living improvement additions. The actual LS stories and contents? hahahhha, kindergarten story and “Press F 200 times! or ZERGFEST”

Yeah, feeling forced to do something like a chore isn’t fun. I barely played for almost a month with the last couple updates simply because I didnt like the content they were adding (zerg, zerg, zerg). I’m told it was great coin and mat farming, but I don’t care. I did try it, but was unbelievably bored very quickly.
I’m playing again some now because I do enjoy SAB – but just to have fun in it, I’m not farming the achievements.
The LS could be a good concept, but its execution is severely flawed IMO. Not only is the story uninteresting with shallow characters, but its too much grind goals in too short a time. Farm xx amount of achievement points in 2 weeks is basically what the LS is, alot of times from killing xx amount of whatever. It’s burned me out on AP’s and the LS, as I’m sure it has alot of other people.

I’m not farming cheeves or ascended weapons and I don’t feel relaxed at all. It’s more like feeling like a marked man. I realize I won’t be keeping up with the power curve and I know this strategy will only work in the short-term. How do I know this? I know the nature of a curve—even a ‘low’ one. Simply having power on the ‘Y’ axis and time on the ‘X’ axis should give you all the information you need on the subject.

anzenketh.3759:

The game feels a lot more rewarding when you just let the rewards come naturally instead of grinding for them. Now the only time I grind is when I am really close so might as well finish it off.

This.

I haven’t been trying to do anything, and I’m pretty sure I’m actually close to having the mats for an ascended weapon, just from doing fractals, WVW, and other dungeons (just not the 500 weaponsmith).

I only ever care if I get 3/5 or 4/5 dailies or I notice im a hair away from like killing x enemies with x weapon. Otherwise, I just have fun

Welcome to the how to enjoy a game club. Your complimentary hat is in the mail.

@OP IMO you are not missing much with SAB unless you enjoy feeling like smashing your computer to pieces with a hammer, shoving the pieces in a garbage disposal and then breaking your fingers with the same hammer so you have no chance of trying it again. Also it almost game me a seizure.

I’ve been achievement hunting for a long while now. There were some I just didn’t bother with, but for the most part I have gotten the meta for just about every content release. Typically, if an achievement: was only worth 10 points or so, involved something I didn’t enjoy, would take longer than a few minutes to finish, and I already had the meta, then I skipped it.

Otherwise, I was point chasing for the majority of events.

Until recently.

Missed SAB the first go round, so I went in this time and got every achievement for world 1 (except 100 digs) in an evening. It was mostly enjoyable. I started world 2 and something broke. It was just too long, there were too many lame deaths, and too many bugs. I played through it to see what there was to see, but for the first time since release I had no desire whatsoever to repeat a piece of content for AP.

In fact, the brief consideration to attempting all of the Tribulation mode achievements was enough of a turn off for me to get around to trying a certain ftp super-hero arpg for some simple, relaxing fun. A few days of that and I was ready to come back to some meta events, alt leveling and guild activities. So I guess thanks SAB for exorcising achievement compulsion right out of me?