Guild Wars 2

Having tried to get some achievements in Tangled Depths the past few days, I noticed how much stuff there is either time or event gated to reach (e.g. only a certain event spawns a boss, some events are on cool downs with events resetting them etc.)

While I don’t have a general problem with that design, I have an issue with how it works in GW2: You need better guidance to find clues when or where you can reach those “achievement triggers”. This could be done by including a bit more text in the actual description of the achievement or NPCs / “junk items” that lead you to the location.

e.g. Potoni in the Nuoch village tells you: “What are you talking to me for? The beetle trainers below need help!” So you know that you have to help the beetle event chain.
That’s good.

Lore Seeker Zolin next to the WP says something random about the chak, which leaves me with no clue what to do. I personally have no idea how to trigger him, wiki does not help either (with the exception it tells me it can go on a cool down of 15 min)

The air ship wreck in the Ogre village has a secret achievement, but can’t I at least get a hint that I need to get up there? (an NPC on top of the ship? a chest?)

“Destroy all of the chak eggs in the scrap cannon adventure in one attempt.” This sounds like you need to follow the SCAR area meta, right? Except….there are no eggs there. So, you really need very good intuition to imagine you need to do the scrap rifle adventure and shoot at all the eggs on all platforms.

Long things short: We need better guidance in game by descriptions to find our way to events and achievements. You should not have to run around randomly or consult the hive mind of the wiki to make up for bad guidance in game.

Do you agree? Did I run around too blindly?

PS: and what the hell does trigger the Lore Seeker Zolin for the “Regurgicidal” achievement.