Guild Wars 2

Those who already got 100% world completion have gotten the rewards for it. The Explorer badges and whatnot. It has been mentioned that there will be new places to explore in the coming update (Oct 22).

Is this update going to affect world completion?
Will those who completed already have to do the new maps to recomplete?
Will it be a new achievement?
If it’s an expansion on the old achievement, does that mean that those who completed already get the rewards 2 times? While the rest of us only get them once?

I am curious because the answer to this question will decide whether I rush through the rest of the map to get completion before the update (I’m at 80%), or if I enjoy it and take my time. If you get rewards 2 times by completing prior, I will definitely want to complete it, even though I don’t want to rush.

Thank you for your answers. I’m really hoping a dev or someone from ANet answers this soon so I have time to decide!

If they do add entire new areas 1 or 2 things is likely:

1) The new areas won’t affect current map completion at all.

2) The new area(s) will have it’s own achievement for map completion.

It’s unlikely that they will make it affect current achievement progress, though.

Fellyn hit it right on the nail.

i hope it doesn’t affect current completion…it shouldn’t anyway, since this is only an event.

the way i see it working out for xpac is only the new areas give a new completion bonus similar to zone completion, without affecting the OG vanilla gw2

Well it’s not just an event update kiba. That’s why I’m concerned. It’s new content PLUS event. If it were just event, I wouldn’t be concerned…

guess i didn’t pay enough attention to their teaser notes.

hmm..

in that case i think/hope that current completion will stay the same. i’m at 83% myself as of this post.

i really can’t see the devs doing something like changing the base completion achievement. it would kitten off many players who are above 50% right now.

new zone completion rewards sound like the way to go…

Halloween advert page thing said new minidungeons, jumping puzzles and events not new maps so this content update is likely not to add new maps merely plonk small bits of new content onto existing maps with no effect on map completion (ie no new hearts/pois/vistas/waypoints).

When they do big map expansions they will likely come with their own achievements independant of the launch ones.