Guild Wars 2

Why I have to use materials for achievement? I have collecting materials for when I really needed them. I feel it’s waste.

People complain about anything now…you can craft 250 bronze ingots -.-

Say I’m still stuck at work, can someone share?

Levistis.8356:

People complain about anything now…you can craft 250 bronze ingots -.-

You can’t,it needs to be Masterwork quality or higher.

Levistis.8356:

People complain about anything now…you can craft 250 bronze ingots -.-

You can’t refine to get the monthly, I tried.

I’m happy with this monthly tbh.
Don’t have to do dungeons

1) Buy Silver.
2) Buy Nuggets
3) Make 40 Intricate Jewels (filigree + nugget)
4) Move on.

Total Cost = ~40 silver

Sorry but wrong.

1) Level 3 crafter
2) I don’t craft
3) I only WvW, monthly/daily are supposed to be able to be done while I play, this cannot be
4) I don’t craft

For those that love to craft good for you. For those that do it because you don’t care, great you get your credit. But there is a very large PvP (sPvP and WvW) player base that has not lvled crafting at all nor do we want to. That isn’t why we play and we should not be forced to do something we get no enjoyment out of.

I spend 99% of my time in WvW. I was a level 20-something Jeweler before tonight as my highest crafting skill (only refined copper for daily crafting).

It took me a total of 20 minutes to figure how to craft a masterwork + buy stuff off TP + craft it all in order to finish the monthly. 20 minutes on the first day.

If that is worth complaining about then I don’t want to live on this planet anymore. First world problem, seriously.

Unspecified.9142:

1) Buy Silver.
2) Buy Nuggets
3) Make 40 Intricate Jewels (filigree + nugget)
4) Move on.

Total Cost = ~40 silver

- Is it only 40 items?
Edit: LOL it really is! I thought I’d have to make those ridiculously expensive 8x rare material crafts on huntsman. Easiest monthly ever.

Zenith.6403:

Unspecified.9142:

1) Buy Silver.
2) Buy Nuggets
3) Make 40 Intricate Jewels (filigree + nugget)
4) Move on.

Total Cost = ~40 silver

- Is it only 40 items?

Yes, 40 crafted Masterworks.

Xirin.8593:

Zenith.6403:

Unspecified.9142:

1) Buy Silver.
2) Buy Nuggets
3) Make 40 Intricate Jewels (filigree + nugget)
4) Move on.

Total Cost = ~40 silver

- Is it only 40 items?

Yes, 40 crafted Masterworks.

And they don’t have to be completed rings/earrings/necklaces. Just the intricate jewels is enough for credit.

Unspecified.9142:

Xirin.8593:

Zenith.6403:

Unspecified.9142:

1) Buy Silver.
2) Buy Nuggets
3) Make 40 Intricate Jewels (filigree + nugget)
4) Move on.

Total Cost = ~40 silver

- Is it only 40 items?

Yes, 40 crafted Masterworks.

And they don’t have to be completed rings/earrings/necklaces. Just the intricate jewels is enough for credit.

Yep, that’s exactly what I did.

You can even craft Bronze Plated Dowels (that’s what? Level 50 crafting?) and it counts.

This is possibly the easiest and ‘play-friendly’ monthly we’ve had so far:

• Veterans – Events and Guards in WvW.
• Events – Done anyway, everywhere.
• Crafting – 40 Plated Dowels and pow.
• Dailies – Possibly the most difficult part, given all the complaints about the new dailies.

Can you do it with cooking? level 80 food?

Zorac.1723:

Sorry but wrong.

1) Level 3 crafter
2) I don’t craft
3) I only WvW, monthly/daily are supposed to be able to be done while I play, this cannot be
4) I don’t craft

For those that love to craft good for you. For those that do it because you don’t care, great you get your credit. But there is a very large PvP (sPvP and WvW) player base that has not lvled crafting at all nor do we want to. That isn’t why we play and we should not be forced to do something we get no enjoyment out of.

This is the same lame arguement, people use to use when the monthly included 50 WvW kills. Sometimes, you have to do stuff you don’t want to do to obtain the rewards you want, it’s that simple. It’s impossible to cater to everyone’s exact gameplay style, WvW upsets some, dungeons upsets others, and apparently crafting upsets you. I don’t however remember ever reading that dailies and monthlies are suppose to be obtained by everyone no matter what they choose to do in game. They changed up the monthly achievements so some people who may not normally complete them because it is so against the playstyle may have a chance this month, and then next month they will change again to give other types of players something more to their liking.

VidGhost.3215:

Can you do it with cooking? level 80 food?

Not aware of any cooking recipes being green or higher apart from the Gifts.

Zorac.1723:

Sorry but wrong.

1) Level 3 crafter
2) I don’t craft
3) I only WvW, monthly/daily are supposed to be able to be done while I play, this cannot be
4) I don’t craft

For those that love to craft good for you. For those that do it because you don’t care, great you get your credit. But there is a very large PvP (sPvP and WvW) player base that has not lvled crafting at all nor do we want to. That isn’t why we play and we should not be forced to do something we get no enjoyment out of.

So you do fractals and dungeons then? because anyone who doesn’t has not been able to complete the monthly since September or October…and anyone who doesn’t WvW on top of that has never been able to complete it.

We need choices just like the daily.

copper ones work too!

This isn’t bad, 5 iron ingots, nothing special.

Edit: Retracted, it’s a horrible idea. It was a karma recipe so you can’t sell, disassemble or do anything useful with it. Unless you happen to be level 25 with 40 fingers.

Unspecified.9142:

1) Buy Silver.
2) Buy Nuggets
3) Make 40 Intricate Jewels (filigree + nugget)
4) Move on.

Total Cost = ~40 silver

I doing it and done. I didn’t lose a lot of pain.

Great personal attacks guys, way to be mature.

Just so you know I did what Unspecified.9142 suggested, its done.

Took me a bit and I am still waiting to get back into WvW because I had to leave to do it. (Our BL was full so no I could not move there to do it)

What you all don’t understand is that BECAUSE people complained about having to do WvW to get their monthly Anet changed it and because of other similar complaints made it so that people could do various things from a list, yet for monthly we don’t have that option. It may come later, but its not here either by design or by omission it doesn’t matter, it simply isn’t here.

It isn’t a matter of how fast you can do something or how simple or complicated it is. Anet has said they want daily/monthly to be something you accomplish during your normal gameplay. When people that hate PvP couldn’t get monthlies done because of the WvW requirement they looked at it and made a change. Now they have made a change in the opposite direction, there are a lot of people, so far 90% of my guild (the other 10% either did it or haven’t logged today) that do not do anything other than PvP and will not do anything other than PvP because that is why they play. So what if you don’t like that, that’s what they like. And now once again Anet is stopping them from getting their monthly because no they haven’t gotten monthly if it meant anything other than WvW.

All we want is to be able to play the way that we have fun all the time. Isn’t that why you play a game? It doesn’t matter if its an hour or 10 minutes that is taken away from our game experience, because it has still been taken away.

As for “not being required” well, how else am I or others going to keep up with everyone else getting ascended items if we can’t do the monthly everyone that doesn’t mind wasting a little time and crafting can do?

Zorac.1723:

Sorry but wrong.

1) Level 3 crafter
2) I don’t craft
3) I only WvW, monthly/daily are supposed to be able to be done while I play, this cannot be
4) I don’t craft

For those that love to craft good for you. For those that do it because you don’t care, great you get your credit. But there is a very large PvP (sPvP and WvW) player base that has not lvled crafting at all nor do we want to. That isn’t why we play and we should not be forced to do something we get no enjoyment out of.

A monthly is supposed to include everything that is in PVE. It’s also not a thing you have to complete, it’s optional. If you don’t complete the monthly because you don’t craft it’s your own problem and your own choice.

To all the people that say suck it up its only 40 crafting items. I hope next month daily has 500 WvW kills and 100 spvp kills to complete it and watch who cries…..

blanketfreak.8913:

To all the people that say suck it up its only 40 crafting items. I hope next month daily has 500 WvW kills and 100 spvp kills to complete it and watch who cries…..

hahaha, that’s how I feel :P

Unspecified.9142:

1) Buy Silver.
2) Buy Nuggets
3) Make 40 Intricate Jewels (filigree + nugget)
4) Move on.

Total Cost = ~40 silver

Exactly what i did heh

blanketfreak.8913:

To all the people that say suck it up its only 40 crafting items. I hope next month daily has 500 WvW kills and 100 spvp kills to complete it and watch who cries…..

yes because crafting 35 seconds worth of items is totally the same as spending 100+ hours in WvW….

It takes me longer to LOAD into WvW then it did to finish the crafting part of the monthly

Troll harder

@ blanketfreak in the early days of GW2 monthly achievements W3 kills was there quite a few times from what I recall. People complained and were told to suck it up/don’t have to do it/no ones forcing you rhetoric.

Zappix.7928:

@ blanketfreak in the early days of GW2 monthly achievements W3 kills was there quite a few times from what I recall. People complained and were told to suck it up/don’t have to do it/no ones forcing you rhetoric.

Ya i was there when wvw kills were in the monthly. Been hear since head start and read the forums everyday and because people cried back then we havent seen wvw kills since. So if enough of us wvw complain we might win too or the should add wvw kills back in then because that the only fair way.

You know there IS a Monthly that is PvP specifice .. yes?

I haven’t seen anyone PvE inclined thrashing on the floor boohooin’ that they can’t do the PvP Monthly because it’s got PvP stuff in it. That’d just be …….. silly. ahaha

I couldn’t understand why they stuck a PvP type requirement into what is the PvE Monthly .. but didn’t include a PvE requirement with the PvP Monthly. The screams would have been deafening I am sure.

I actually didn’t get a monthly in again until this February because of Fractals being included .. dungeons are NOT my thing .. but .. I sucked it up like a good li’l buttercup and ventured in with friends who are doing them …. it wasn’t so bad and I got it done! Had there been a WvW req it would have been another missed month as I haven’t really enjoyed my trips into WvW territory … people screaming obscenities over my nearly dead avvie while going in for the ‘finish them’ move … um .. no more .. thanks. O_O

This month looks even better!! It’s definately PvE friendly in the best sense and I’m going to actually enjoy finishing this one up!

I disagreed with WvW kills being required too. Even though it didn’t affect me cause that 50 kill ( I think that is what you needed if I remember right) I would get in an hour or so. Its the idea of having to do something outside of what you regularly do. My motto is always been, no matter the game, the only wrong way to play is the way you don’t have fun. Crafting isn’t fun for me, so I don’t like to do it. It doesn’t matter if it takes 5 minutes or 5 seconds I don’t like it plain and simple.

When people had the same complaint about the WvW requirement from past monthlies I told them “Sorry, nothing I can do, but maybe if you raise the issue on the forum Anet will change it” and they did. So now here I am raising the issue. I am thinking and crossing my fingers that they plain on adding a choice to monthly like they have done to dailys. Like your choice of 4 out of 7 or 8 things. Which would be fine, but they did it in the wrong order by putting a requirement not everyone would want to do in before giving us that ability to chose (assuming they do).

To Cierdwyn, the reward for PvP monthly is tourny tickets. So there is no point to doing those unless you are into sPvP. The reward for normal daily/monthly is Laurels which you need in order to get Ascended gear. Big difference there.

You stated above that you ‘only WvW’ …

“Zorac.1723: Sorry but wrong.

3) I only WvW, monthly/daily are supposed to be able to be done while I play, this cannot be"

IF you dislike PvE so much there ARE other ways of getting Ascended gear .. like actually running Fractals dungeons. Jumping daily/monthly PvE hoops for Laurels to get Ascended anything seems counter to doing what you enjoy. It is not as if this requirement (crafting this time) was added to the PvP monthly.

Don’t fall back on the ol’ I only WvW/PvP and then complain about not being able to get something that is attainable via effort in the PvE world. I never complained about the WvW requirement .. I just said ‘nope .. not gonna happen’ and stuck with my dailies. I did kvetch a lot about dungeons though .. I just kept it to this side of my keyboard. hehe

I never thought I’d see the day that I would say this .. but .. seriously .. I kinda like running a Fractals set .. you might too AND you build up the tokens pretty quickly. And I am offering this suggestion in the nicest way I can.

Zorac.1723:

Great personal attacks guys, way to be mature.

Just so you know I did what Unspecified.9142 suggested, its done.

Took me a bit and I am still waiting to get back into WvW because I had to leave to do it. (Our BL was full so no I could not move there to do it)

What you all don’t understand is that BECAUSE people complained about having to do WvW to get their monthly Anet changed it and because of other similar complaints made it so that people could do various things from a list, yet for monthly we don’t have that option. It may come later, but its not here either by design or by omission it doesn’t matter, it simply isn’t here.

It isn’t a matter of how fast you can do something or how simple or complicated it is. Anet has said they want daily/monthly to be something you accomplish during your normal gameplay. When people that hate PvP couldn’t get monthlies done because of the WvW requirement they looked at it and made a change. Now they have made a change in the opposite direction, there are a lot of people, so far 90% of my guild (the other 10% either did it or haven’t logged today) that do not do anything other than PvP and will not do anything other than PvP because that is why they play. So what if you don’t like that, that’s what they like. And now once again Anet is stopping them from getting their monthly because no they haven’t gotten monthly if it meant anything other than WvW.

All we want is to be able to play the way that we have fun all the time. Isn’t that why you play a game? It doesn’t matter if its an hour or 10 minutes that is taken away from our game experience, because it has still been taken away.

As for “not being required” well, how else am I or others going to keep up with everyone else getting ascended items if we can’t do the monthly everyone that doesn’t mind wasting a little time and crafting can do?

I have never once completed the Monthly in this game, due to the WvW kills element. It wasn’t “something I could accomplish during my normal gameplay.” Did you hear me complaining? No. If I wanted to do it, I would have done it, but it wasn’t how I wanted to spend my time in the game, so I didn’t. Get over it.

How high do tiers go? Is it 100 dynamic events?

mrauls.6519:

How high do tiers go? Is it 100 dynamic events?

100 events, 100 veterans, craft 40 masterwork (green) or higher items, 5 dailies.

Once you’ve finished your daily and can see the Monthly list in the UI, you can mouse-over each element there to see the real totals, without anything hidden by the whole tiers thing.

People really will find anything to complain about.

I made bronze Masterwork jewels, total cost? 0g. Buy the copper setting/chain and jewel from TP, sell the crafted jewel back to merchant. Easiest monthly ever.

While I do feel your pain (I’m more into WvW and I don’t do dungeons or fractals….that’s just not my thing), the crafting one is super easy. I actually don’t mind it at all.

However, Anet could solve all these problems by implementing what they were supposed to implement….an ability to choose which monthlies you want to do just like the dailies. And it WAS supposed to be in game. When the patch launched there was even a message stating that you “only need to do a subset of the dailies or MONTHLIES”. It specifically said monthlies….yet here we are at reset without the ability to choose. Very disappointing.

I mean I am happy with this monthly. It means I’ll actually get to do it for once. But next month I expect the same old dungeon and/or fractal requirement which means no monthlies once again. Now before laurels I didn’t care about it. But with the implementation of laurels it’s kind of a big deal now. That’s why we need choice. Please put it in Anet. Please. I’ll send you cookies!

The monthly rotates. I have missed some because of the fractal/dungeon requirements. Not everyone likes WvW, but we’ve had that in the monthly too. If you want to get every single monthly, then you have to suck it up and maybe do things you don’t like doing. I’m sure it will rotate back around to stuff you like.

Cierdwyn.4675:

You stated above that you ‘only WvW’ …

“Zorac.1723: Sorry but wrong.

3) I only WvW, monthly/daily are supposed to be able to be done while I play, this cannot be"

IF you dislike PvE so much there ARE other ways of getting Ascended gear .. like actually running Fractals dungeons. Jumping daily/monthly PvE hoops for Laurels to get Ascended anything seems counter to doing what you enjoy. It is not as if this requirement (crafting this time) was added to the PvP monthly.

Don’t fall back on the ol’ I only WvW/PvP and then complain about not being able to get something that is attainable via effort in the PvE world. I never complained about the WvW requirement .. I just said ‘nope .. not gonna happen’ and stuck with my dailies. I did kvetch a lot about dungeons though .. I just kept it to this side of my keyboard. hehe

I never thought I’d see the day that I would say this .. but .. seriously .. I kinda like running a Fractals set .. you might too AND you build up the tokens pretty quickly. And I am offering this suggestion in the nicest way I can.

fractals= another form of PvE. dumb argument cierdwyn. if something is PvE obviously, why do you suggest it when our friend Zorac specifically said he/she ONLY DOES WVW/PVP. anything that is not pvp is pve.

Here’s a idea for you guys. Why not see if Anet could make it so that the pvp monthly gives laurels to. Would save everyone from these threads to begin with. Just saying.

It literally takes more time to post on these forums than it does to do that part of the monthly.

This is the first monthly I will have an opportunity to get.

For months I have not had one that was something I could do.

So, I have been “sucking it up” for a while now.

How about I throw out the second most used response in these forums:

“Dude, its a challenge!”

For me? I say a big THANK YOU to Arenanet for giving ME my FIRST monthly.

You have a month to do it. Good lord.

Im hoping they stop these ones to be honest. I dont really see how it could be an achievement for me to craft X amount of masterworks or higher if I have already maxed out crafting. I mean, if I hadn’t already maxed crafting it would be an achievement, but this is just a sink.

But this is the problem with this particular task in the monthly. Had it just required making fine (blue) items or better, players would probably be thinking “hey, this is a good time to work on my blahblah crafting a little”.

Instead, because the requirement is masterwork, we’re all trying to game the system by making pointless, cheap items.

blanketfreak.8913:

Zappix.7928:

@ blanketfreak in the early days of GW2 monthly achievements W3 kills was there quite a few times from what I recall. People complained and were told to suck it up/don’t have to do it/no ones forcing you rhetoric.

Ya i was there when wvw kills were in the monthly. Been hear since head start and read the forums everyday and because people cried back then we havent seen wvw kills since. So if enough of us wvw complain we might win too or the should add wvw kills back in then because that the only fair way.

Maybe. Try it? But I’m confident that more people will come out and complain when there is a w3 monthly requirement. I think further along the lines we may be able to pick and choose our monthlies…

Dingle.2743:

mrauls.6519:

How high do tiers go? Is it 100 dynamic events?

100 events, 100 veterans, craft 40 masterwork (green) or higher items, 5 dailies.

Once you’ve finished your daily and can see the Monthly list in the UI, you can mouse-over each element there to see the real totals, without anything hidden by the whole tiers thing.

For me, i think the hardest to achieve is 100 vets… Playing causally will probably take me about 20 days.

Orion the Cursed.1206:

Dingle.2743:

mrauls.6519:

How high do tiers go? Is it 100 dynamic events?

100 events, 100 veterans, craft 40 masterwork (green) or higher items, 5 dailies.

Once you’ve finished your daily and can see the Monthly list in the UI, you can mouse-over each element there to see the real totals, without anything hidden by the whole tiers thing.

For me, i think the hardest to achieve is 100 vets… Playing causally will probably take me about 20 days.

If killing enough vets is a problem you could try farming this mini dungeon:

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Tears_of_Itlaocol

Also gets the maguuma veterans for the daily done really fast.

I think we’re going to be able to choose what to do for the monthly in the future too, like we do for dailies now.