Guild Wars 2

So I was just in HotM lobby with map chat discussing the WvW achievements and how many of them are effectively impossible. It then occured to me that there is a precedent in place on achievements having been re-balanced!

Awhile back with one of the feature updates that streamlined SPvP and eased the grind, the rank point requirement for ranks 40+ was reduced to a reasonable 20k per rank. This also required rework of all the rank achievements, and there is the added layer that these achievements are chained together.

The WvW achievements could use a similar fix, and as a bonus they are NOT chained together like the SPvP rank achievements.

Just to reiterate how effectively impossible some of these achievements are, here’s an example with Stonemist Stands Firm:

Pure in-game time requirement, assuming you own Stonemist 24/7, and it’s attacked 24/7, with each defense event lasting 3 minutes and assuming you get credit for every single defense event.
500 000 (Defenses required) x 3 minutes (Defense event length) = 1 500 000 minutes
1 500 000 /1440 (minutes in a day) = ~1042 days

That’s nearly 3 years of game time solely dedicated to Stonemist defense and nothing else!

To provide a more realistic timeframe… let’s assume you play in Eternal Battlegrounds for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week. Of course, you’re not going to own Stonemist the entire time. Let’s be generous and say that on average, your server owns Stonemist for half that time, so 4 hours a day. But we also have to consider that Stonemist is NOT attacked 24/7, so let’s assume that it’s only contested for half the time you own it.

Being contested for 2 hours gives 40 possible defense events, but let’s say you only get credit for 75% of them, bringing that down to 30 events you get credit for.
30 events x 5 days = 150 per week
500 000/150 = ~3 333 weeks
Or roughly 64 years…
64 YEARS

And this is just one of the many WvW achievements considered to be effectively impossible.

But a lot of people I know do 16 hour sessions, sometimes… ….so divide that time by 4!

A mere 16 years!

They should add a legendary as a reward if you complete it. Then sit back and watch the fun.. >:)

Seriously though, They do need be realistic, but personally I don’t want something I can knock out in a month then never go back to either.. Hopefully they can come up with something in the middle.

Yeah these definitely need to be reworked. How anet thought these were obtainable in the first place, and why they were left like this for so long is beyond me.

I can acknowledge the fact that a harder to get title means more exclusivity, which is not a bad thing especially for this game, but the time required for some of these titles is unwarranted and in some cases offensive.

It makes you wonder what they were thinking when they picked the values to earn those achievements.

Blockhead Magee.3092:

It makes you wonder what they were thinking when they picked the values to earn those achievements.

“These gets divided by 1000 in the actual game right ?”

Well i guess, any chance of these getting achievements getting reworked is after the Xpac, if these achievements arent corrected by then?

Meh, i guess that would kitten people up much more.