Guild Wars 2

Just a brainstorming thread for more additional Collection Achievement Ideas
First some easy ones that should be obvious, that they would be great additions

Acolyte of Balthazar Collection
Required Items:

• Fires of Balthazar
• Miniature Risen Priest of Balthazar
• Balthazar’s Band
• Seal of Balthazar (Collection Only Item – use a Superior Rune of Balthazar at his Temple SP)
• Wrath of Balthazar (New Exotic Weapon with a new unique Skin, Sword)
• Flames of Balthazar (New Exotic Weapon with a new uniqe Skin, Shield)

Acolyte of Grenth Collection
Required Items:

• Shadows of Grenth
• Tear of Grenth
• Seal of Grenth (Collection Only Item – use a Superior Rune of Grenth at his Temple SP)
• Corruption of Grenth (New Exotic Weapon with a new unique Skin and Exorcist Stats, Staff)
• Grenth’s Darkness (New Exotic Ring with New Stat Combo Condition Damage, Toughness, Vitality – Term: Exorcist’s)
• Void of Grenth (New Exotic Amulet with New Exorcist Stats)

Acolyte of Lyssa Collection
Required Items:

• Chaos of Lyssa
• Seal of Lyssa (Collection Only Item – Use a Superior Rune of Lyssa at her Temple SP)
• Lyss (Exotic already existing Pistol)
• Ilya (Exotic already existing Pistol)
• Illusion of Lyssa (New Exotic Amulet with New Psionic Stats)
• Lyssa’s Beauty (New Exotic Earrings with New Stat Combo (Condition Damage, Power, Boon Duration – Term: Psionic)

Acolyte of Melandru Collection
Required Items:

• Nature of Melandru (New Melandru themed Back Item)
• Seal of Melandru (Collection Only Item – Use Superior Rune of Melandru at Melandru’s Temple SP)
• Melandru’s Bloom
• Melandru’s Gaze
• Fruit of Melandru (New Ascended Buff Food from Chef 500)
• Melandru’s Eye (New Ascended Gemstone from Jeweler 500)

Acolyte of Kormir Collection
Required Items:

• Truth of Kormir (New Kormir themed Back Item)
• Seal of Kormir (Combine the 5 Seals of the other God Seals in the Sunken Temple of Abaddon)
• The Eyes of Abaddon
• Kormir’s Wisdom (New Exotic Ring with Celestial Stats)
• Insight of Kormir (New Exotic Weapon with a new unique Skin, Spear)
• Legacy of Kormir (New Exotic Weapon with a new unique Skin, Greatsword)

Heh, i just came on here to make a collection suggestion so i guess i’ll just piggy back on this one.

I was thinking it’d be cool if they had a dye collection for the non gem store dyes and the gem store dyes. For rewards i was thinking that for the non gem-store dyes once you collect them all you get a special exotic dye that cycles through all the dyes you have. Then for the gem store once you collect a set (a set being taimi’s dyes, glint’s dyes etc.) you get an exotic version of all the dyes but they have a special effect on the armor you apply it to, so like a tequatl weapon effect for all the enameled dyes and glow effect for all taimi’s dyes and so on and so forth.

Some more detailed Collection Ideas:

Bagpack Collection
Required Items:

• Ascended Quiver of any Sort
• Fractal Capacitor
• Tempered Spinal Blades
• Sclerite Karka Shell
• Lightning Catcher
• Wind Catcher
• Sun Catcher
• Guild Bagpack
• Toxic Spore
• Slickpack
  Reward: A new skinned Ascended Back Item with chooseable Stats.

Tonic Collection
Required Items:

• Exotic Charged Tonic
• Exotic Hard Tonic
• Exotic Cold Tonic
• Exotic Warm Tonic
• Potion of Hylek Transformation
• Matlal Enchanted Pig Truffle
• Phantasmal Tonic
• Ruminant Tonic
• Endless Cat Tonic
• Infinite Watchknight Tonic
• Infinite Toxic Krait Tonic
• Legendary Skritt Thief Tonic
  Reward: Title: “Transform Artist”, Endless Shape ShifterTonic, a Tonic which changes your Race, Hair Style and Face Style each time by random which works like the Infinite Watchknight Tonic, beign able to fight also while usign this Tonic when being in PvE

Card Collection (Monsters will start dropping Cards of themself now) (Introduces also new Card Collection Minigame Activity)
Required Items:

• Cave Troll Card
• Harpy Warrior Card
• Gryphon Card
• Vampire Bat Card
• Ooze Card
• Spider Queen Card
• Destroyer Crab Card
• Mordrem Husk Card
• Branded Ogre Card
• Corrupted Quaggan Card
• Inquest Golemancer Card
• Svanir Dragon Shaman Card
• Harathi Commander Card
• Nightmare Hound Card
• Priest of Balthazar Card
• Priest of Melandru Card
• Priest of Dwayna Card
• Priest of Grenth Card
• Priest of Lyssa Card
• Eye of Zhaitan Card
• Tequatl Card
• Shatterer Card
• Claw of Jormag Card
• Triple Wurm Card
• Shadow Behemoth Card
• Mega Destroyer Card
• Karka Queen Card
• Golem Mark II Card
• Sand Giant Card
• Risen High Wizard Card
  Reward: Title: “Card Collector”, Chest for an Exotic Weapon of your Choice except of Precursors, Chest of Ascended Armor of your Choice, Chest of Infused Ascended Accessoires of your Choice of either being a Ring, Earring or Amulet

A tonic collection is a great idea.

A SOVEREIGN Weapons collection seems assured.

A Wintersday toy collection is probably coming in a few days, or should.

There is no achievement for Destroyer/Primordus weapons, that’s probably coming.

A Lyssa collection should include all of the “phantasm” weapons (basically all of the maroon glowy weapons like Illusion or Vision of the mists). If “Chaos of Lyssa” is reintroduced as a drop, then the collection should include this. If it is not, then it should be the reward for finishing the collection.

There are enough “scary” weapons to fill out a Halloween themed set.

I’ve long suggested they add a BESTIARY in-game, and now I realize collections are perfect for this! Have a master bestiary collection and small sub-grouped ones, much like Bioluminescence. For instance:
Insect Book (rewards T6 mats commonly dropped by insects)
“Slay all those critters!”

• Poison Spider
• Giant Beetle
• Wasp
  …

Feline Book (rewards T6 mats commonly dropped by felines)
“Did I hear meowth? Or RAWR!?”

• Snow Leopard
• Tiger
  …

Master Bestiary (rewards title and some new stuff)
“My knowledge grows”

• Feline Book
• Insect Book
  …

Master Achievement Unlocked by: Tome of Arah (dunno, any lore-related name will do!)
Acquisition: Anything related to a scavenger hunt + some real fights involving all aspects of the game, including fractals.
Additional Items Upon Unlocking:

• Superior Sigil of Knowledge: Use Tome of Arah to identify creatures
• Will summon a book animation upon slaying a creature not yet unlocked in a respective collection.
• Will add a buff (much like Gourd Vibrations) called something like “Beast Hunter” with a cool description.

I know that collections should be item-driven, so maybe slaying monsters would have a chance to drop a certain item that unlocks their “identification” for that collection. Drop rate would be about 40% and only rolled while under “Beast Hunter” buff, so folks don’t unecessarily drop those when they’re simply gaming. And yes, it would require equiping that sigil!

Nah, I don’t see so many Weapon collections like that for Illusion weapons coming. A few of them could be put rather into the Acolyte of Lyssa Colelction, the rest of them could easily put into Follow Up Collection of Exotic Hunter, cause it are weapons, that have no full weapon set, but are only an incomplete set and I could think of additional Exotic Hunter Collections to improve with them the value of either the Home Instance Enchanted Chest either, or to add somethign new for the Home Instance.

The Bestiary Collections would be awesome, especially if the rewards would give the player a significant push towards the for legendary required T6 Mats, nit just only 5 of them, more like 50 of T6 Mats would be a significant push, if you reconsider that you need 250 of them to get somethign done… and for those that dont need the mats, it would be a nice rewarding gold income then for the efforts of completing those Bestiary Books which shpould include also alot of creatures, we haven’t found and battled yet marked as ??? entries then, so that players actually have to search and kill everythign they find to see, if it might unlock an entry in the books
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Some new Ideas of mine:

Runologist Collection
Required Items.

• Collect every Superior Rune (this might help surely to increase also a bit the value of all runes, most of them are worthless currently)
  Reward: Ascended Rune Stone

Ascended Rune Stone = Accountbound, Useable, when used, does it unlock a chosen Superior Rune for your Account. Such unlocked Superior Runes can be then equipped and unequipped as you like as you can turn these unlocked Superior Runes then also into Accountbound Versions, so that the Player has the convenience with such unlocked Superior Runes to play around with them without having to use Salvage Kits or Extractors to get the Runes back.
A by a Rune Stone unlocked Superior Rune will function then in PvE & WvW exactly like in PvP, where you can quickly change all your Rune Effects on the fly without having to use anything.

Typograph Collection
Required Items:

• Collect every Superior Sigil
  Reward: Ascended Sigil Plate

Ascended Sigil Plate = Accountbound and works exactly like the Ascended Rune Stone, but just for Sigils

After the initial rewards from these Achievements, more of those Rune Stones and Sigil plates can be exchanged in WvW for Badges of Honor, Karma and Gold.
In PvE they can be crafted from Jeweler 500 or find in World Boss Chests, Fractal Chest, Champ Chests or simply be bought for Karma, Dark Matter and Bloodstone Bricks.
However, to unlock those Sigils and Runes for your Account, the Superior Sigil or Rune must be in your Inventory and once you use the Rune Stone/ Sigil Plate, the Superior Rune/Sigil gets destroyed in your Inventory.

Exotic Relic Researcher (Tier 2 of Exotic Hunter)
Required Items:

• Anura
• Vision of the Mists
• Al’ir’aska
• Claws of Desert
• Firebringer
• Flux Matrix
• Heart of Mellagan
• Ebonblade
• Windstorm
• Moonshine
• Serpentstone
• Faithful
• Labrys
• Vera
• Delusion
• Tsunami
• Shield of the Moon
• Ganadriva
  Reward: Title: Relic Researcher, plus improves significantly the Rewards from the Enchanted Chest by a Chest Upgrade, turning the Enchanted Chest into a “Magical Chest”, or something new as saif for the Home Instance. Anets Choice

@Orpheal, loved your idea! It’s simple but adds a fresh air to collections. Collections got to be the best thing they’ve ever added to the game, I really love all concepts we can come up with them.

PS.: Edited my suggestion with a few immersive stuff to give a scavenger hunt feeling. I’d love to hear your thoughts, as well as devs’.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Dredge_weapons
We have Hylek, Grawl, Krait and Ogre collections… Dredge are still mia.

I think there should be more titles to be earned from collection achievements.

Example:

For the brewmaster collection, something like Brewmaster, Drunkard, etc.
For the meat-eating one, something like Carnivore, Gourmand, Connoisseur, Glutton, etc.
For the wine collection, something like Wine Taster, High-Class, ect.

…and so fourth.

And some more ideas:

Jewelist Collection
Required Items:
* Collect all Exotic Jewels (like Exquisite Azurite Jewel, Ex. Ruby Jewel and so on)
Reward: Ascended Jewel Bag (to make this complete with Runes, Sigils to unlock gemstones for the Account for free on the fly exchange of upgrades without losing the upgrade)

Scenery Collection
Required Items:

• Make Photos of Tyria from all the Vistas with a new Photo Cam thats craftable from 500 Artificer)
  Reward: "Title: Master Photographer, 1 Ascended Armor Chests with Eqipment of your Choice

Mystical Collection
Required Items:

• Collect all Mystic Weapons
  Reward: A Node for your Home Instance, which gives you daily Mystic Coins, Title"Master of Mystic Forces"

Pact Collection
Required Items:

• Collect all the Personal Story Pact Weapons
  Reward: Miniature Zhaitan (or if this is not possible, Eye of Zhaitan)

Herbalist Collection
Required Items:

• Collect all Herbs in Tyria (Chili Pepper, Thyme Leaf, Vanilla Bean ect.)
  Reward: Herbalist Backpack Skin, Title “Druid”

Miner Collection
Required Items:

• Collect all Mining Ores in Tyria (Azurite Ore, Mithril Ore, Iron Ore ect.)
  Reward: Miner Backpack Skin, Title “Digger”

Lumberjack Collection
Required Items:

• Collect all Woods of Tyria
  Reward: Lumberjack Backpack Skin, Title “Forester”

Wooo! Love them! Man, I’m going to save a list of cool ideas!

I’d like to see more hidden collections which I can find in the wild

Like Risen collector
obtain all Orr weapon skins

Destroyer collector
obtain all Destroyer weapon skins

stuff like that

heres a idea:

Epic Precursor collection

-Stays hidden until you acquired gift of mastery

things to fully complete :
-gift of mastery
-gift of fortune
-all dungeon gifts
-maybe something else as well

Reward : Box of precursor

Open the Box of Precursors to pick 1 precursor you wish.

Pros: a way to get a single precursor with a actual progression track rather than relying on a low rng,or grinding dungeons and what not for thousands of gold needed to buy it from tp

Cons: people might always go for the most expensive precursor,sell it on tp ,buy the one they actually need and still have a bunch of gold left in their pockets.
This will most likely reduce the price of the most expense precursor ,and raise up the prices of some others

Interesting. Collections are an awesome framework for “all things rewards”.