Guild Wars 2

Does anyone else think that the pinnacle weapon skins are too unattainable? I get that theyre supposed to be based on your achievements, but the highest amount out of all of the players who play gw2 is 26k, shouldn’t that tell anet something about their standards for rewards?

They are long term rewards.
Why should rewards only focus on people that play for a year or two when the plan for the game is to survive for many more years than that?

They start at 29k AP, sounds perfectly fine for a game supposed to last 10+ years. We are only at the start of the 3rd year.

While the “this is supposed to take years” argument makes some sense, there are still better ways to implement it. Currently, the first Zenith skin takes barely any time, whereas the first Pinnacle skin takes several years. This is a pretty steep curve. If they maybe halved the achievements needed for each unlock between the first Zenith and first Pinnacle then it would have been a much smoother climb. They could then have added a third set at the current position of Pinnacle unlocks. Pinnacle weapons would still be meaningful, as even half the required AP is quite a lot, and there’d still be an extra long term reward for the hardcore to get in a year or so.

The current achievement weapon sets divide rewards into “extremely easy” and “impossible after two years”, even for the most obsessive achievement hunters in the game. Surely a middle ground is desirable here?

Hrm……I must be way to casual a gamer to not be plunging head on into earning skin unlocks that require grind.

I let the skins come to me, I am not chasing them.

The artwork for the Radiant Legs is awesome, but they are seriously out of reach – especially since we seem to be quite a few months of the year without living story to boost achieve gain. Either increase speed of getting achievement points or no one will ever see things someone has obviously put a lot of time into making.

Also forcing you to pick Hellfire for each piece of armour before you are allowed to get the next Radiant set is stupid (obviously thought up BEFORE ANet considered adding another tier of stuff) it could do with revision.

It seems rather absurd. 3 years of playing and only ~500 players have more than 20k AP… will anyone ever reach these rewards? It seems unlikely to me. Once daily and monthly caps are reached the only way to get AP’s is through LS, which is on average one patch every 2 months. Based on the last few LS chapters there are ~100 AP per patch. This means that you will need to play for:

10k from daily
5k from monthly
~10k from general achievements
= 25k that can be had at any time

+
100 AP every 2 months

= 40 patches = 80 months = 7 years before someone will get the first weapon…

yep that’s totally reasonable…

Edit: That’s 7 years from now, not since launch