Guild Wars 2

“Fixed an issue in which Story Journal achievement completion needed all achievements to complete. Lowered the amount required from 26 to 23.”

stares judgmentally

I kinda understand this one, because some of those achievements ARE hell to get. Skip Up the Volcano being the biggest offender.

How did it need at all achievements to complete? I got it done before buying the patronage or finishing the mursaat tokens.
The achievement is called “Rising Flames Mastery”. To be honest an achievement called mastery should include every last achievement to finish.

It never needed all achievements to complete, as there are more than 26. I think there are 31, all told.

But, now one need only complete 23 out of the 31.

Yay!

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

It never needed all achievements to complete, as there are more than 26. I think there are 31, all told.

But, now one need only complete 23 out of the 31.

Yay!

Its not much of a “Rising Flames mastery” if you can leave out all the hard ones.
Maybe Anet should at least find a more appropriate name for these achievements if they make it casual like this.

Malediktus.3740:

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

It never needed all achievements to complete, as there are more than 26. I think there are 31, all told.

But, now one need only complete 23 out of the 31.

Yay!

Its not much of a “Rising Flames mastery” if you can leave out all the hard ones.
Maybe Anet should at least find a more appropriate name for these achievements if they make it casual like this.

Or they could just omit some of the stupid grindy achievements entirely. Like killing 40 destroyers with pustule bombs. considering how many I managed to kill my first time through, I’d have to do that instance 8 more times to get the achievement.

that pustule bomb achievement was probably balanced around an earlier version of the instance with more enemies. I assume it was dumbed down (such as the shield cant drop to 0) to appease casual players more.

I’ve run that instance twice, using pustule bombs, and am still at 0/40. I think the bombs have to do the killing blow. Or, given that the second time through I was in a party of five, perhaps you have to be the one to toss the bomb? Either way, I wasn’t planning on going for that one to finish.

Malediktus.3740:

How did it need at all achievements to complete? I got it done before buying the patronage or finishing the mursaat tokens.
The achievement is called “Rising Flames Mastery”. To be honest an achievement called mastery should include every last achievement to finish.

Don’t get too focused on the word, “mastery” — it doesn’t always mean doing everything possible.

Beside that, I don’t think any ‘umbrella achievement’ should require completing 100% of the achievements — a fun game allows for some player choice, rather than forcing everyone through the same funnel to the same result.

That said, I agree that the umbrella achievement was already doable at 26/31, even without patronage or the ones gated by the JP. Still, if the original requirement had been 23/31, I don’t think many of us would be asking ANet to increase it to 26/31.

RyuDragnier.9476:

I kinda understand this one, because some of those achievements ARE hell to get. Skip Up the Volcano being the biggest offender.

Yeah…that puzzle…what a nightmare!

This change doesn’t bother me in the least. Now I only need 1 more to finish.

I’m only salty because I finished 100% of everything… minutes before this went live.

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