Guild Wars 2

So, this is more directed to the WvW Anet Devs – but It’d be nice to hear responses from everyone. I’m looking at some of these Grand WvW achievements, specifically it seems the Dolyak’s Best Friend would take several years to actually complete in its current setting of a million.

Point 1. Dolyak walking outside of giving supply to your locations has no personal incentive. It is the only thing I could find that gave no WXP.

Point 2. Getting one Dolyak to complete a circuit can take for ever. For example. I could be on the my borderlands walking a yak from North Camp, using swiftness. I could finely get it down to the tower at NW or NE. Keep on going and maybe 5 more minutes to the Keep. So we’ll say about ten minutes to walk that yak. That’d be 10 million minutes. Which brings us to 166666 hours. Which is 6944 days. Which is assuming no one kills that little yak your walking.
(Granted I could be wrong about the time there, but I don’t think i’m far off, even at 5 minutes per yak walk that’s still like 10 years.)

Point 3. I feel like each tower should be counted as its own successful yak walk.

I know this probably seems like a none issue but I kinda wish some of these WvW achieves were just a little more … achieveable. Some of them – like the WvW player kills I can see feasible eventually. A million yaks though.

From what I remember, Yak walking used to be a proper event that actually gave Experience, Karma, and Gold (this was before WXP was implemented). The problem was that people would find an off-peak/empty borderland and just walk yaks around the map for easy exp/karma/gold for no effort (just a time sink)—that is why there is no individual incentive for Yak walking. I think that the achievement was built around getting credit for that event 1 million times, which you would only need to fight off some enemies to do (and not necessarily walk entirely from A to B ).

Also, the event does reset every time the Yak reaches an objective, I think.

no thank you otherwise we have yak walkers/pve players all day long clogging up the queues while doing nothing but walking yaks. they used to give wxp and karma before and that is what happened.