Guild Wars 2

So I’m curious: does anybody actually have all pieces of a Radiant or Hellfire armor set, requiring 39,000 AP in total? I still only have around 4,300 achievement points after three years so the odds of me getting a full set are looking pretty low, and I can’t recall ever seeing anyone who had more than around 12,000 AP. I’m wondering just how much work in this game it would take to get that many achievement points…

The highest achievement points anyone has is between 31k and 32k, so no, no one has the full sets yet.

Achievement Leaderboard

As to how much work to get to 39k, a heck of a lot.

I have 21k and took a number of breaks from the game, have seen people above 25k as well. You pretty much would have had to do most if not all living story/festival achievements to be that high, on top of the permanent achievements. Plus Dailies/Monthlies back when you could get more than 10 AP a day.

39k is impossible at the moment. You can get around 32k if you did every historic achievement since release and all other permanent ones + 15k daily/monthly.

I’m closing in on 13k and have taken several long breaks from the game. The bulk of achievement points came from temporary release achievements during season 1, as those were geneally short achievements that paid out very well in AP, but overall achievements are all about going out of your way to do them.

You’re not going to break in to 30k AP just by playing passively because achievements are designed to reward specific content and actively choosing and completing them. That means going out of your way to do every daily, every collection, every JP, etc. etc.

That said, the AP rewards since they added that system are usually updated way ahead of time (like the new backpacks) so that there are always new benchmarks for existing players who are heavy AP hunters.

AP isn’t really a system designed to be quickly farmed. It’s supposed to be a secondary reward for veteran players that have taken the time to pick up achievements slowly as they were added to the game. New players are going to be quite far behind for this reason, and that’s kind of intended.