Guild Wars 2

One of the HoT mastery points requires all the Heart of Thorns Act 1 achievements. One of those achievements is Sylvari Solidarity. Here is what [urlhttp://dulfy.net/2015/10/24/gw2-heart-of-thorns-act-i-story-achievements-guide/]Dulfy[/url] says about it:

You must be a sylvari player and picked the option to help Explorer Metella to help the soldiers dug in. Right after you started salvaging equipment from the wreckage you will meet a Sylvari Pact Soldier who is having issue with Mordremoth in his head. If you are a sylvari, your character will automatically snap him out of it and grant you the achievement. Other races will not have this opportunity. Grouping with a sylvari player and have them open the instance may work as well.

If this achievement can only be done by Sylvari PCs then ANET has made Sylvari PCs superior to all other races because there is a mastery point that only they can acquire.

If this achievement can be done with assistance from another Sylvari PC then Sylvari are still superior because only they can do it solo. Though the number of guildies asking for help with it could become annoying. Making them mechanically superior leading to worse interactions with guild mates.

I lol’d. You forgot about all the achievements prior to this that required you to be a specific race and do their storylines and things like that. This is nothing new.

Snoring Sleepwalker.9073:

Though the number of guildies asking for help with it could become annoying. Making them mechanically superior leading to worse interactions with guild mates.

What a guildie you are if you get annoyed by favors asked by other guildies. The point of a guild is to play with and help each other.

RyuDragnier.9476:

I lol’d. You forgot about all the achievements prior to this that required you to be a specific race and do their storylines and things like that. This is nothing new.

Those did not provide any mechanical advantage to doing them. Mastery points do provide a mechanical advantage. That is one difference.

The other is that those achievements were early in the personal story. You can quickly get them through alts. The mastery point achievements require a level 80 character that has done enough of the personal story to get access to HoT.

Kazuto.2798:

Snoring Sleepwalker.9073:

Though the number of guildies asking for help with it could become annoying. Making them mechanically superior leading to worse interactions with guild mates.

What a guildie you are if you get annoyed by favors asked by other guildies. The point of a guild is to play with and help each other.

How many times do you want to replay the first HoT mission because of a new guild member who doesn’t have the achievement ?

RyuDragnier.9476:

I lol’d. You forgot about all the achievements prior to this that required you to be a specific race and do their storylines and things like that. This is nothing new.

Except for the fact that you cannot obtain the meta achievement for that story line, meaning you can’t get the Ascended trinket either.

That achievement is part of the meta. If you don’t play a Sylvari, you’re locked out of ever getting that meta achievement, and getting the reward.