Guild Wars 2

I personally found that the living world achievements were one of the more enjoyable parts of the game. With the exception of them, there’s really no middle ground in terms of solo balance between mind numbingly “You literally can’t fail”, and “Bosses that take 10+ minutes to kill as a solo mesmer despite being in berserker gear and basically repeating the same actions over and over again”, with many dungeon paths and a few fractals being literally impossible to complete solo due to things like pressure plates.

While most of them weren’t particularly challenging, they did require you to at least put forth some modicum of thought into it to get you engaged, provide reasonable rewards, and were designed to be completed solo with every class so that you wouldn’t have to deal with the group content people that ruin the experience of figuring things out for yourself by telling you exactly how to approach each encounter and bursting the fights down before they have much of a chance to fight back.

I’m hoping that they’ll make a reappearance in Heart of Thorns to fill the solo player void that we’re currently missing between “Effortless” and “Health Sponge” content.

Yes. Early on they mentioned it as being the hard mode version. Unfortunately, groups will probably still be allowed to trivialize these achievements.