Guild Wars 2

I was wondering why there are no collections for specific weapons. E.g. collection of all the daggers in the game (excluding gemstore or black lion weapons). With a collection like that you could motivate people even more to explore all aspects of the game.
Of course it would be a very costly and time consuming collection but it would give you some kind of prestige to own all types of a single weapon class. As a reward you could maybe get weapon that does not require transmutation charges, a voucher for a gemstone weapon of some kind or another shiny weapon.
But that is just an idea, what do you guys think?

I like it. I would love to get a beautiful unique rifle skin after collecting all the rifle skins there are in the game. However I don’t think it could be a priority for Anet right now.

Not every goal needs to be specified as an in-game achievement.

Plus, the list of dagger skins constantly evolves (even excluding those that derive from the gem shop).

Collections are based around a theme such as all destroyer weapons. A collection for all dagger would be impractical because addtional daggers could be expanded at a later time. Would those not be included? If they’re included then it would impact those who have not completed the collection.

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Plus, the list of dagger skins constantly evolves (even excluding those that derive from the gem shop).

I suspect this is the main reason. Either they’d have to keep updating the collection (making it harder to complete as time goes on) or they’d have to limit it to only including certain daggers, which somewhat defeats the point.

But there’s nothing stopping you from setting your own goals. I’ve got 2 ongoing ones:
1) collect every mini pet in the game (this will probably be on-going forever).
2) play every single Personal Story instance – every outcome of every choice through the entire story. I’m actually close to completing that one.

I know for a fact I will receive absolutely nothing as a reward for either of those except the minis and the standard story rewards, but I’m doing it anyway because I want to.

Also the mini collection has pushed me to do a lot of things I wouldn’t normally do – it was the reason I started playing WvW, I once entered a PvP tournament (back when it was the only way to get the original mini llama), it’s the reason I’m going to start raiding at some point…it’s got me to play Dragon’s Stand a lot more than I would have. On the other hand I’ve also spend more than I care to think about on gems.

I believe Gaile collected every single bow in GW1. Which must have been tricky because there was no wardrobe in that game and limited bank space. And I know a few people are trying to unlock every skin in the wardrobe, or at least all the ones their character can use.

We already have an achievement base on the number of skins an account ha unlocked…. that’s good enough.

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Not every goal needs to be specified as an in-game achievement.

Plus, the list of dagger skins constantly evolves (even excluding those that derive from the gem shop).

Maybe they could make it as ever evolving tiers? Every 50 skin a new tier, or something like that.

Or they could maybe just do a collection for the vanilla ones. The coolest reward would be a weapon that everytime you draw it it would change the skin randomly so you have always a different skin in your fights and you could see all your unlocks you spend so much time on to collect.
But I guess it would be too complex to implement and they are focusing on the expansion rather than collections of older content right now.