Guild Wars 2

I recently acquired the Spirit Smith & I was pretty disappointed with how little work went into it for such a time-consuming achievement. At the very least I expected the backpiece to match the weapons.

Reused skin
It’s got the wrong colors (not blue)
No swirled wood texture on the chest or anywhere else
No flames.

The flames & the color are the ridiculously bare minimum that could have been done with it. It’s frustrating to see how little care goes into some of these skins & yet the full-time effort done with the gambling-based lockbox skins. Heck, the 2 bow skins are exactly the same, so they obviously just added it to pad-out the achievement. Could we at least get a nice reward?

It’s not like we get a Legendary or even Ascended backpiece or even a unique mesh. but can we at least get the right textures & fx? Anet you have been constantly criticized for poor rewards. Doing things like this just adds to the problem, & for what? Why make the reward so lame? Adding flames & making it the right color doesn’t’ take a significant length of time. Making it actually unique & cool obviously doesn’t either (you’ve pumped out tons of gamble-to-win skins with tons of effects & detailed meshes.) & gives something cool for ppl to work towards.

Agreed, +1

Such time consuming and also expensive achievements with poor quality reward(s)… Even the gambling ecto achievement doesn’t even grant a title. They need to up their game a bit with these things.

Why didn’t you just preview the skin before starting on the whole thing? You can even do that from the achievement window.

Khisanth.2948:

Why didn’t you just preview the skin before starting on the whole thing? You can even do that from the achievement window.

I started long before the reward existed. Also, not sure how previewing it makes the reward any less lame. It’s lame & lazy. Full stop. I had hoped they would have at least fixed the color & fx before I finished, but they kept with tradition & made a weak reward.

You make those items because …

1) you like the back pack
2) you like the individual items
3) all of the above

In the case of 2) and 3) the backpack doesn’t matter. It’s just an extra thing.

When i previewed it i just had to laugh. i’d probably have tried for those skins for their own sake but the ‘reward’ for the collection makes me not want even the base items anymore.

Khisanth.2948:

You make those items because …

1) you like the back pack
2) you like the individual items
3) all of the above

In the case of 2) and 3) the backpack doesn’t matter. It’s just an extra thing.

Of offense, but you can’t tell me why I wanted something or how I value it. Also, your conclusion is completely flawed. If I like both the items & a reward, that doesn’t somehow make the reward less important.

Why I got the items & what I think of the reward don’t effect one another & they still both exist. So, yes, the reward is lazy & weak. & that I have it doesn’t change the fact that they should improve the quality of it. Anything lazy & weak in the game should be improved. Skins not less than skills. (especially in a game that publicly says it’s a skins-based rewards game)

Eh I’m just making them so I can unlock them in the wardrobe . ..

Enko.6123:

Eh I’m just making them so I can unlock them in the wardrobe . ..

Well, I think all of us that got them are. That’s why I started so long ago. But, again, it doesn’t make the reward not lame. It’s not easy to get those items. They aren’t Lgendary, they aren’t even Ascended (even though they are much harder to make than Asc weapons) making the single, rare-quality, recycled skin back-piece reward significantly better shouldn’t be a massive game-breaking request like people are making it out to be.

For a game that runs on fashion this is quite a shameful thing, and i don’t think it’s too much to ask for since this particular achievement requires a buttload of gold and/or farming :x