Guild Wars 2

The current achievement system can be separted into two parts: Normal achievements and daily/monthly achievements. Normal achievements award achievement points upon completion, and sometimes even a title. Daily/monthly achievements award all kinds of goodies (money, karma, chance for rares like BLSK, laurels, etc), along with the achievement points.

So you can ask, what’s wrong with the current system?
First of all, achievement points should reflect how much of the content you explored and did, what have you achieved. Currently a high achievement point doesn’t necessarily mean this. Also if Anet wants to reward us for doing achievements
apart from the current rewards (like with laurels) they need to do some changes, so people with 10k or higher achievement points won’t have a huge advantage.

So how I envision this?

1) Remove daily/monthly tasks from achievement point system. I don’t think there’s anyone who does these for achievement points. They shouldn’t give any achievement point reward, the normal rewards are good enough.

2) Remove infinite achievements. Honestly what’s the point giving a guy achievement points for salvaging thousands of stuff (the salvaged item is a good reward already) or doing dungeons over and over and over and over again. If you want to reward people for these why not give us a portal used or meters ran endless achievement? Just remove these, they serve no purpose at all (unless you want to drive the economy by making some players buy thousands of salvage items for achievement points)

3) Remove all achievement points that were gained by doing the above two. This will ensure that the achievement point score will reflect real achievements, and more importantly you can start rewarding people according to it. New and old players alike will be on equal standing. Old time players are already have the advantage of having more gold/laurels/whatever.

And with this 3 easy steps, we cleaned up the mess that the achievement system has. You can now give laurels (1 after every 100 points?), however this is not part of my suggestions, nor should it be part of this discussion. I’m looking forward for you responses:)

Regards
Soeki

As a side note I’m not a new player, been around since closed beta