Guild Wars 2

With the ever-growing amount of collections in the game, the Basic and Rare Collection achievement categories are becoming more and more unwieldy, difficult to traverse and, between the two, difficult to differentiate.

Basic Collections are flooded with order backpacks and Machined Weapons, and what’s the real difference between Basic and Rare Collections anyway? Why are Leystone and Bladed Armor, Auric Weapons and Hivemaster considered Basic, while the Ambrite Weapons or something as simple as Toy Tonic Tippler are considered Rare?

I suggest a reorganization of these two achievement categories in order to make them easier to browse through and find what you’re looking for. Ideally I’d like to have Weapon Collection and Armor Collection categories, but the dungeon and order achievements combine the two, and I can’t think of a feasible solution for these in that case.

So, instead of Basic and Rare Collections as they are in the game right now, I’d organize them like this:

• Equipment Sets (used for collections of whole sets of equipment; generally takes the form of “unlock these skins in the wardrobe”)
  • Acolyte of Dwayna
  • Alpha Crafter
  • Ambrite Weapon Collection
  • Ascalonian Catacombs Collector, Caudecus’s Manor Collector… (8 in total)
  • Ascended Accoutrement
  • Auric Weapons
  • Bandit Weapons Specialist
  • Bioluminescence
  • Bladed Armor
  • Dungeoneer
  • Exotic Attire
  • Exotic Hunter
  • Fractal Master
  • Grawl Archaeological Study
  • Hivemaster
  • Hylek Historian
  • Jormag Defense Guide
  • Krait Antiquarianism Study
  • Leystone Armor
  • Machined Weapons
  • Ogre Expert
  • Pact Reformer
  • Priory’s History
  • Rare Regalia
  • Spirit Crafter
  • Vigil’s Honor
  • Whisper’s Secret

• Unique Equipment (used for collections for a single equipment piece; generally takes the form of “do these tasks to receive an item”)
  • Agent’s, Crusader’s, Lightbringer’s, Magister’s, Scholar’s, Warmaster’s Pack (6 in total)
  • Luminate’s Backplate
  • Luminescent Coat, Footwear, Gloves… (6 in total)
  • Machined Axe, Dagger, Focus… (16 in total)
  • Winter’s Presence

• Miscellaneous Collections (generally takes the form of “collect or use these various items to finish the collection”)
  • Ascended Recycling
  • Brewmaster
  • Eldvin Monastery Brew of the Month Club
  • Fine Dining
  • Fine Wining
  • For the Children!
  • Koutalophile
  • Miniature Collections (3 in total)
  • Old Tom
  • Seeker of Lost Homework
  • Style Guide
  • Toy Tonic Tippler
  • Trash Collector
  • Treasure Hunter
  • Tricks and Treats
  • Uncanny Canner
  • Utility Utilizer
  • Uzolan’s Mechanical Orchestra
  • Wintersday Toy Weapons Collection
  • Zinn’s Prize Student

That looks like a useful reorganization. But one thing that makes it handy is that it is alphabetical. I may be missing a sorting option (and shall facepalm if so), but when I’m looking to see how I’m doing on various machined weapons as I work towards profession elite weapons, I would vastly prefer scrolling to the “M” area over the current scanning a random jumble that re-sorts as the amount of completion changes in each collection.

Just let me sort Achievements in such a way that already completed ones are at the bottom and I’ll be happy. This seems like something that should already be there. Did I just miss it?

I wholeheartedly support what you are aiming for. The collections are a mess and as you say, the difference between what is considered common and rare has long since lost any definition. This would be a really useful QoL change

Zomaarwat, I went in to check the options. Looks like I was just missing the Alphabetical that is in fact there, but the only completion sorts are by tier or by total, with the less-done ones at the bottom. I agree that having either a top-down sort or a “hide completed” toggle would help tremendously.

Donari.5237:

That looks like a useful reorganization. But one thing that makes it handy is that it is alphabetical. I may be missing a sorting option (and shall facepalm if so), but when I’m looking to see how I’m doing on various machined weapons as I work towards profession elite weapons, I would vastly prefer scrolling to the “M” area over the current scanning a random jumble that re-sorts as the amount of completion changes in each collection.

There is an alphabetical sort option but either it doesn’t do what I think it does or ANet has a very different idea about the ordering of the English alphabet than I do.

Machined weapon collections doesn’t seem to show up if you try to filter the achievement list either. Unless it is completed. I have the greatsword completed and the staff unlocked but typing in Machined only shows the gs and back before I finished the gs typing in gs showed no results.

Zomaarwat.3912:

Just let me sort Achievements in such a way that already completed ones are at the bottom and I’ll be happy.

This, a thousand times.