Guild Wars 2

Once one character on your account has completed an episode in their story journal, every character on your account will have access to a set of challenging achievements. At any time once unlocked, you can return and attempt to replay that episode in order to complete the achievements. The achievements will be much more difficult to complete than those traditionally found in Season 1, and are intended to be challenging achievements for skilled players to overcome.

I really hope this means “harder” and not “grindier”.
I really hope we’re not going to have to kill 1000 mobs or gather 500 items each time.

My guess is that we’ll probably see them on the level of the Aetherpath or Gauntlet achievements.

Zaxares.5419:

My guess is that we’ll probably see them on the level of the Aetherpath or Gauntlet achievements.

would be nice……hope that’s the route they take.

Let me preface this with: I’m not especially skilled, I tend to mash whatever button is not on cooldown as my method of fighting. Sometimes I can get more complex and not press the knockback button when I’m fighting with folks.

I just hope they don’t tie any major rewards to the hard achievments and they are there more for personal satisfaction as I liked working towards the meta as it was the source of the reward each release. But I don’t have the skill to do something like the liadri 8ball achievement and would be quite disappointed if I was unable to get a skin or something because of not being able to complete that achievement.

Again, this is just my personal opinion and I know there are folks out there that would prefer that super hard achievements granted exclusive skins or titles.

I just hope they are mostly solo achievements. Finding 4 other people who aren’t idiots is not the type of “hard” I want to deal with.

FrostyBou.5491:

Let me preface this with: I’m not especially skilled, I tend to mash whatever button is not on cooldown as my method of fighting. Sometimes I can get more complex and not press the knockback button when I’m fighting with folks.

I just hope they don’t tie any major rewards to the hard achievments and they are there more for personal satisfaction as I liked working towards the meta as it was the source of the reward each release. But I don’t have the skill to do something like the liadri 8ball achievement and would be quite disappointed if I was unable to get a skin or something because of not being able to complete that achievement.

Again, this is just my personal opinion and I know there are folks out there that would prefer that super hard achievements granted exclusive skins or titles.

Im worried what they have in mind is just the same amount of story as before but no decent reward but for achievements that you need to either grind away at to try and pass a very difficult test or complete a long drawn out one. Even worse would be to need the hard achievements to complete the story. That’s not acceptable in my case even if I have respectively endless time to repeat them. I want new not repeats.

On the twitch earlier today, they stated the achievements would be player skill based so i don’t think you’ll see the kill X amount of centaurs.

ZudetGambeous.9573:

I just hope they are mostly solo achievements. Finding 4 other people who aren’t idiots is not the type of “hard” I want to deal with.

This is one of the few times I agree with you….

ZudetGambeous.9573:

I just hope they are mostly solo achievements. Finding 4 other people who aren’t idiots is not the type of “hard” I want to deal with.

My guess is it will be done like the PS where you can do the story with up to 4 others or on your own. I hope they’re not all solo only though – this is an MMO after all

Jimmy JimBob.2801:

ZudetGambeous.9573:

I just hope they are mostly solo achievements. Finding 4 other people who aren’t idiots is not the type of “hard” I want to deal with.

My guess is it will be done like the PS where you can do the story with up to 4 others or on your own. I hope they’re not all solo only though – this is an MMO after all

The Devs announced that Journal instances would be exactly like PS, whereas you can experience them solo, or with up to 4 other party members.

You can hear them explain it on the latest Twitch Livestream.

I suggest getting your alts ready. Different achievements will probably require different builds

FrostyBou.5491:

Let me preface this with: I’m not especially skilled, I tend to mash whatever button is not on cooldown as my method of fighting. Sometimes I can get more complex and not press the knockback button when I’m fighting with folks.

I just hope they don’t tie any major rewards to the hard achievments and they are there more for personal satisfaction as I liked working towards the meta as it was the source of the reward each release. But I don’t have the skill to do something like the liadri 8ball achievement and would be quite disappointed if I was unable to get a skin or something because of not being able to complete that achievement.

Again, this is just my personal opinion and I know there are folks out there that would prefer that super hard achievements granted exclusive skins or titles.

I respect your opinion, but I believe there should be exclusive rewards in video games. There’s nothing wrong with giving people something tangible for overcoming a specific challenge. Call it “kitten” if you want, but people aren’t entitled to every single trophy in the universe just because they were born. Some things have to be worked for.

In your case specifically, what’s stopping you from learning to use your skills properly instead of smashing keys? If you keep up this attitude that “I’m just not skillful” then of course you will never improve. You should change that attitude to something more positive.

Inb4 “play to relax.” If you are playing to relax, then why are you worrying about rewards? In fact, if you are trying to relax, why aren’t you simply watching a movie, reading a book, getting a massage, or sleeping?

FrostyBou.5491:

Let me preface this with: I’m not especially skilled, I tend to mash whatever button is not on cooldown as my method of fighting. Sometimes I can get more complex and not press the knockback button when I’m fighting with folks.

I just hope they don’t tie any major rewards to the hard achievments and they are there more for personal satisfaction as I liked working towards the meta as it was the source of the reward each release. But I don’t have the skill to do something like the liadri 8ball achievement and would be quite disappointed if I was unable to get a skin or something because of not being able to complete that achievement.

Again, this is just my personal opinion and I know there are folks out there that would prefer that super hard achievements granted exclusive skins or titles.

I totally agree, I’m a little of the direction they seem to have planned. I love GW2 for multiple ways to get something, and that most everything is casual. If it ends up too challenging…I’ll be playing alot more sims.