Guild Wars 2

I’d like to update my initial thoughts and my post about this. Since the season started, I, as well as everyone in my guild and my server have all gotten a lot more active in WvW. I’ve gained 29 WXP ranks since the start of the season. Although this required a significant time investment, and I probably would not have played this much WvW before, this achievement is not any longer than the other ones. By the time I cap 250 camps and sentries I will probably get 50 WXP ranks, so it’s not any harder than the other ones. At first I was worried about finishing all the achievements without getting this one done, however I don’t think this will be an issue.

Also, to make a more general point, the pacing for these achievements is not so bad. in 1.5 weeks I already have 11/15 for the meta and 50% for all the other ones, it’s not absurdly high like I thought.

i play wvw regularly, and for me it’s a bit grindy even in wvw achievements ….. they are not hard to do , but if I’m in a zerg that moves and kills lightning fast and my mesmer is moving like molasses sliding uphill on a cold icy mountain – i wont get that achievement ….my server kills that fast. when I go solo to cap camps the enemy zergs beam down and zap me that fast too lol – so i need traveler runes to make him run faster ….and thats about 55 gold – doylaks – forgetaboutit – they melt when my server just looks at them lol.

life is different down here – our zergs travel like they are having an everlasting sugar rush with intravenous red bulls. bang yer dead ..what just happened ? heh.

add to that ….fc started some new strategies that make them look like world war z rofl – really enjoying the leagues actually – everyone is pulling out their best stunts down here! heh.

50 ranks isn’t too bad.

Killing supply dolyaks is grindy as well as the one for merc camp killer. The third annoying achievement is the demolishist one. Typically only traited people do that.

even that’s hard because everyone beelines for the flameram – and most commanders insist on being the one that lays the rams – i’m level 3 now – can easily bump it to 5 – but holding off because i never get to go on lol – luckily i do a ton of damage to the door with weapons so I still get the credit for that -

I’m on JQ and ranks aren’t an issue. Dolyack kills, Guard kills, and sentry takes are another issue. Nothing lives long in T1 world. I have no clue how i’m going to complete these.

50 rank is not that bad if you play WvW every day….

capping 50 mercenary camp, now that’s grindy. you have to be in EB to do that, and have to cap the neutral hylek,dredge,orgath. you may or may not be there when it is neutral….

last time there were quaggans, now the quaggans are gone in the BL, the only place to do this is in EB

The only one that is a pain is the one for destroying gates/walls. If you are not on the rams and using a condi build fuggedaboutit.

Chopps.5047:

Haralin.1473:

T1 never get it cause of queues of 3 hours :/

Anet is great in not see the consequenses.

And no i do not want transfer to another server cause i am on SFR since 1 year and wont give up all friend or miss some player.

Lol! Dude! The lead dev, Devon, warned everybody that stacking in T1 will create queues and issues. This post made it onto reddit even. I would link to it but I’m on cell and that’s way too much work.

But on the forums you see “no queues in T1 on every map bla blah blah”. Were the people saying that trolling or just foolish???

When I was on JQ (prior to the frontrunning onto T1 servers), it was basically just a handful of mainstay guilds (a few guilds had just left for SoR even) and there were at least 15 minute queues almost every night. 15 min doesn’t sound like a lot until you realize this is JQ when it’s dead. Now JQ (and other T1) are alive.

You sleep in the bed you make, young hero.

So old Hero and why didnt anet stop the transfer to the high ranked server?

They are greedy and want the money!

You cannot expect that someone who is 1 one year on a server to switch to an other, only because anet decides to award the winning server and attract the WTJ.

If they had allow the transfer only to low pop server it would be ok but the most players take the easy way and go on a winning server. And i was on such a server and not transfered to it.

So old boy this is why i can give anet the blame.

With the new wxp bottles you can get 10+ ranks per day, if you run with a zerg.

styx.7294:

Omne.4603:

If you can’t finish these achievements, possibly with the exception of the SM cap depending on your server, then it’s not a game or metric issue its a" You clearly do not have time to play this game issue." I am finished with these achievements and it was about 20 hours of gameplay, much of that was not with huge groups just 10 of us messing around having a good time. 20/7= 3 hours per week.

You probably need to command on defence more =P

I can’t say I’m havin trouble with the achievements either but I don’t have them done yet.

Don’t even talk about defense. You have 7 weeks.

XacTactX.6709:

WvW Season 1 is going to run for 7 weeks, or 49 days. This means we have to get one world rank every day for 7 weeks. The only people who will be able to attain this are regular WvWers, the same ones who are in dedicated WvW guilds. Please be a bit more reasonable with how much gameplay is required, 10 or 20 WXP ranks would be fine, 50 is overboard.

This is from the perspective of a casual WvW player, I have rank 30 on my Guardian and probably rank 50 or so across all my characters. I enjoy WvW a lot and it’s fun to strategize on voice chat (especially in small havoc teams) but I don’t know if I’m hardcore enough for this. ):

The self-centeredness… somebody please build a monument to it!

The achievements for the WvW season are catered to WvW players. If you are a “casual WvW player” who cannot gain a rank per day (or several ranks every few days) then this content is not designed for you.

Personally, I feel that the WvW achievements were not difficult enough to attain. I am all for people getting into WvW, but if you can spend hours farming the Clockwork madness (or other PvE) events and not feel you can dedicate that same amount of time to WvW, I’m guessing that you’re also not the kind of player who cares enough to learn where to aim your trebuchet to hit several walls, or the order for upgrades on towers and keeps, or to escort a yak so your objectives have supply. In short, I’d rather that you didn’t try for the achievements at all, and let someone who was more dedicated to WvW have your spot. Come back in 6 weeks.

Not all content is for you.

Theftwind.8976:

The only one that is a pain is the one for destroying gates/walls. If you are not on the rams and using a condi build fuggedaboutit.

Ask the ele’s to kindly drop a fiery Greatsword. Turn off auto targeting, face the door, & spam skills 3&4. But make sure your group doesn’t mind if you PVD _

Provost.6210:

The achievements for the WvW season are catered to WvW players. If you are a “casual WvW player” who cannot gain a rank per day (or several ranks every few days) then this content is not designed for you.

I agree with much of what you said, but not this.

The achievements are aimed at getting more PvE players into WvW and mostly run counter to the game itself.

How many times you do ‘X’ or kill this mob or farm that event is mostly destructive for the server position. How many people have you seen trebbing SM endlessly for no good reason. Or repairing the (trebbed) wall in SM?
People crying out in chat that they want to go capture the Ogre camp or the Dredge?
The mad scramble to kill Dolyaks in a camp first – who cares about the enemy players making their escape?

This really isn’t the achievement you should be complaining about. If you like to WvW and you do it regularly (because, hell, this is what the WvW season should be designed for – people who LIKE to WvW), you’ll get those 50 ranks. And when I say regularly, I don’t even mean you need to play 5 hours a day.

I’ve done, at max, 2 hours a night this week – mostly around an hour to 90 minutes per day – and I’ve earned 20 World Ranks already. With the more common WvW consumable drops it’s even easier than it was before, too.