Guild Wars 2

So as has been discussed in the past, the current WvW achievement points outside of the season are in many cases unattainable or very difficult to reach, especially depending on your playstyle (kudos to those who have got there). Surely there is a better way.

I think that better way is to make WvW APs more like the Agent of Entropy points. For those who don’t know, you receive 2 achievement points whenever you use a salvage kit on 200 items, and this repeats indefinitely as far as I know. Why can’t WvW APs be like this? Surely killing 200 players is worthy of 2 achievement points? Surely 50 camps is too, and 25 towers and 10 keeps?

(Disclaimer: the numbers can be argued, and aren’t the point of the thread. They could be lower or per more kills/captures; it isn’t that important)

This, in my opinion, would be a great system because:
1.) it allows WvW to generate achievement points indefinitely.
2.) since these stats have already been tracked, these achievement points could be rewarded retroactively, more properly awarding APs to WvW heavy players.

What does the community think?

Although the achievement pops up every 200th salvage, I think the amount of times you get APs from it is limited.

but yes I agree a repeatable WvW achievement would be the better way to do things for WvW players who also want AP. But trying to suggest improvements to the game to the devs is like picking your nose with a lit flamethrower.

This would be a huge improvement!

What is stopping you from doing the salvage achievement in WvW though?
I get way more salvageable stuff in WvW than I usually get in PvE.

It’s not about doing the salvage achievement in wvw, its about making wvw achievements work like the salvage one.

GreenAlien.5623:

It’s not about doing the salvage achievement in wvw, its about making wvw achievements work like the salvage one.

I know that, but why should we have access to easy repeatable APs when the PvE:ers don’t?

Sure they have the dungeon and activity ones, but that requires them to do specific stuff. Everything that could be used for repeatable WvW achievements is something that would be done more or less automatically from just doing WvW.

lordkrall.7241:

GreenAlien.5623:

It’s not about doing the salvage achievement in wvw, its about making wvw achievements work like the salvage one.

I know that, but why should we have access to easy repeatable APs when the PvE:ers don’t?

Sure they have the dungeon and activity ones, but that requires them to do specific stuff. Everything that could be used for repeatable WvW achievements is something that would be done more or less automatically from just doing WvW.

While I certainly wouldn’t want the message of this thread to be that PVE players don’t deserve something, the opposite would be: Why do PVE players get new content every few weeks? And you can always tell who PVEs from their APs, as opposed to a WvW only player.

With Living Story like updates in mind, a PVE player gets consistent APs just by playing their preferred game mode, while WvW players don’t, outside of seasons. This could address that.

This is an amazing suggestion.

#PedroVotesYes.

Awsome idea! This way we, wvw players, can get some AP to reach the chests etc just by playing the game mode we so adore. Like PvE players love to grind the living story crap.

This idea and the one with tomes of knowledge for badges are incredible good!

Agent of entropy does not last indefinitely, nor does hobby dungeon explorer. You keep getting the achievement notifications, but you stop getting actual achievement points after 250 and 200 AP respectively.

Blix.8021:

Agent of entropy does not last indefinitely, nor does hobby dungeon explorer. You keep getting the achievement notifications, but you stop getting actual achievement points after 250 and 200 AP respectively.

Thank you for the response, and I didn’t know that. But, while an achievement hunter may choose to do that for the APs specifically, you would actually have to play WvW and contribute in some fashion to earn these APs – if it worked that way – so I’m not sure a cap is in order.