This is a question for those competing on the achievement leaderboards, or those who have been trying to get on them as well. The point of this post is to start a discussion around dailies achievements. This is not an attempt to complain about the current game, but rather to discuss if we like where it is heading, or would like to see some changes.
If you are not someone on the achievement boards, please do not make posts about people having nolife, or being OCD and needing to complete “optional” content. Part of this discussion will be about whether or not this content feels optional for those that compete on the leaderboards.
The Question
What are your thoughts around the amount of daily achievement points available, and the time it takes to get them all?
Additional Questions to help the conversation
For reference, where do you place on the leaderboards? I image the desire to get all daily achievements increases the higher you are on the leaderboards.
How many hours do you have available to play each day?
Do you go for all achievement points from the dailies, or do you just get most and hope that is enough to position yourself of the leaderboards?
If more dailies keep being added, will you continue to compete on the leaderboards?
What do you think are the intentions of having so many daily achievements and the time it would take to get them all?
Are there better options you would like to see?
My Thoughts/Information
I will start off by saying that I am currently placed at #2 NA. I am the sort of gamer that likes to play all aspects of the game, and enjoy going for achievements. When the leaderboards were introduced, I found myself at #32 and my interest in climbing the boards was formed.
I will say that I do strive to get all daily achievements done as I am trying to acquire all achievement points that I can. I remember a time when dailies would take 20 minutes tops to complete and then I would move on to the other achievements i was working on. I don’t mind that more dailies have been added, and more options have been added, but I would rather not see this number keep increasing. It is already getting to the point where if I want to do dailies, that is all I’m focusing on for my playtime. This does not leave room for getting other achievements, or just enjoying other parts of the game. I understand that many will say we don;t “need” to do all the dailies, but honestly, the number of dailies that are completed is the reason why people are at the top of the achievement boards.
I’m curios of what the reasoning for the increasing number of achievements/time of dailies is. Do they want to have so many dailies that people stop trying to go for all of them? I believe its safe to say that if you are on the leaderboards, you are going to want to get all daily achievement points that you can.
For me, I think an hour for PvE dailies and the current 20-30min for PvP dailies would be a good spot to stop. I think this is manageable for the types of players that would want to compete on the achievement boards, and it would allow room for players to do other things with there time.
Other options to make dailies truely feel like we have “options” might be to give out achievement points when you ahve completed the 5/5 dailies and not for each individual daily. If this option was to be implemented, I would suggest the 5/5 be increase to 8/8 or 10/10.
Another option, which could allow those with “a life” more freedom could be to change some of this daily content to weekly. Let people play on the days they want to play, without making it feel like you are missing out daily.
In closing
This should be a discussion for those on the leaderboards about how they want to see the game develop. This should be similar to a PvP player discussing this they do, or do not, want to see in PvP. Please do not just post that dailies are “optional” without providing any opinion about it. If making changes would not affect you in anyway due to your lack of interest in the achievement boards, please do not come in here and post that the current daily trend is fine.
Lets be polite and discuss how we would like to see the game.