Guild Wars 2

this seems totally imbalanced. Why do you need 5000 kills with torch warhorn shield and focus to complete them? It takes forever to get kills with these “weapons”. It should be more something like 100 or something if you wanna be sensible :/

I’m sure everyone that hunts achievements would agree with me here. these shouldn’t be treated the same as the other weapon master achievements.

I agree, I thought it was odd that the number was so high. In it’s current system you’d have to play multiple classes because not every offhand that you mentioned even has the capacity to kill with some classes. I.E. warhorn for warrior deals no damage.

I believe that this achievements are a long time goal and they’re not intended to be “hunted”. You’ll get them without even trying to just by following a certain playstyle.
They’re more like a way to acknowledge the time you’ve been playing with a certain weapon than something you should try to hard to get… In my opinion.

Azaziel.3608:

I believe that this achievements are a long time goal and they’re not intended to be “hunted”. You’ll get them without even trying to just by following a certain playstyle.
They’re more like a way to acknowledge the time you’ve been playing with a certain weapon than something you should try to hard to get… In my opinion.

Untrue. Most of these “weapons” will hardly even get you kills at all. they honestly shouldn’t have been in the achievements at all. Like for example take the torch on ranger also inflicts burning. if the enemy dies from burning it doesnt count as a torch kill. Also all of these off hand items have long cooldowns so its really annoying. You COULD hunt critters with them and get it like that but like I said.. long cooldowns still make that annoying. You need to make the actual killing blow with the off hand skill (specific weapon) and it can’t be condition damage..

5,000 kills with some of these is a bit excessive, maybe even inane, but that’s not really a problem. There are some achievements that aren’t meant to be grinded away, just kept as a running total or passive long-term goal. As a fellow completionist, seeing that progess bar so low makes a part of me a little bit sad… but that doesn’t mean that it should be nerfed down or even actively grinded in the first place!

If there were any rewards for these achievements, it would be different – but completing them gives you no advantage, no title, no status, no cosmetics – nothing. That’s not to say that it’s not important, but there’s really no need to conciously try and complete the achievement.

Chameleon Dude.1564:

5,000 kills with some of these is a bit excessive, maybe even inane, but that’s not really a problem. There are some achievements that aren’t meant to be grinded away, just kept as a running total or passive long-term goal. As a fellow completionist, seeing that progess bar so low makes a part of me a little bit sad… but that doesn’t mean that it should be nerfed down or even actively grinded in the first place!

If there were any rewards for these achievements, it would be different – but completing them gives you no advantage, no title, no status, no cosmetics – nothing. That’s not to say that it’s not important, but there’s really no need to conciously try and complete the achievement.

Hey you get achievement points. And people who are completionists (there’s plenty) like to get it. But this one requires you to go out of your way to even have ONE kill added to it. I don’t think anyone is gonna max it in a lifetime if they aren’t trying to hunt it.

With all due respect I think arenanet just slapped these achievements on there without much thought. Just 5k for every weapon. And I think it deserves slightly more attention.