Echoes of the Past Achievement Glitches
I have the same issue for the Caithe’s Reconnaissance Squad instance. I have done the Recon Demolitionist and No Thanks to Canach on two different characters and did not get the achievement on either. I am wondering if this got bugged when the last update nerfed the chest farm in the new area.
Are you sure you did this on a character that had already completed the first run through of the story? If not, that could be why you didn’t get achievement credits.
Positive. If that were the case it would show up in the Achievement Journal as being completed. The journal is Account Bound, shared with all characters.
With the exception of the occasional bugged granted achievement, you have to do the full story on a character before you can get credit for achievements on those characters. So, if you have a main and do the story on that character, you technically can’t hop onto an alt and get credit for all the achievements on the alt. You’d have to Replay the storyline on your main to do the achievements.
So, are you saying that if I did this instance on one character and did not not do what was needed to get the achievements (which is the case) then I can not jump to another character and do the same instance and get the achievement?
Yes. You’d have to complete the whole LS chapter on that character first in order to Replay it for achievements. Or Replay and do the achievements on the first character you did it on.
Well thank you. I have been playing this game from its inception and never realized that. So, I can change my living story to something else (which abandons my progress on this one), reselect this one and do the achievement on that or any other character? When I get the achievement, can I abandon it again and the achievement I got will stay completed or will it go away? What happens with the rewards? Can I get those again just by abandoning the living story?
Yeah, the whole achievement eligibility for the LS2 is a colossal mess. I’ve lost track of the number of players and guildies I’ve seen who think it’s a bug or who are confused by it. Here’s how it all works:
1. The Living Story achievements are completely locked on your account until at least one character has completed the chapter. This will then unlock the achievements in the appropriate Living Story chapter. (You can see what they are, and how to achieve them.)
2. Only the character who has completed the Living Story chapter is ELIGIBLE to then complete the achievements. For example, say that I first complete the Living Story on my Mesmer, since she’s my main. She can now replay the chapter and attempt the achievements.
However, if I decide that the achievements would be easier on my Warrior, my Warrior is NOT eligible to complete the achievements. My Warrior would first need to complete the Living Story chapter as well before he’s eligible to complete the achievements.
3. You can see whether or not a character is eligible for the achievements by seeing whether or not yellow/black icons appear in your status bar when you’re replaying the instance.
4. Once the achievement is properly completed, you can abandon the current Living Story chapter or switch back to your Personal Story without losing the achievements or the rewards.
5. The instance completion rewards for the Living Story are given out once per character. The achievement rewards (such as Caithe’s Blossom) are given out once per account.
Yeah, the whole achievement eligibility for the LS2 is a colossal mess. I’ve lost track of the number of players and guildies I’ve seen who think it’s a bug or who are confused by it. Here’s how it all works:
1. The Living Story achievements are completely locked on your account until at least one character has completed the chapter. This will then unlock the achievements in the appropriate Living Story chapter. (You can see what they are, and how to achieve them.)
2. Only the character who has completed the Living Story chapter is ELIGIBLE to then complete the achievements. For example, say that I first complete the Living Story on my Mesmer, since she’s my main. She can now replay the chapter and attempt the achievements.
However, if I decide that the achievements would be easier on my Warrior, my Warrior is NOT eligible to complete the achievements. My Warrior would first need to complete the Living Story chapter as well before he’s eligible to complete the achievements.
3. You can see whether or not a character is eligible for the achievements by seeing whether or not yellow/black icons appear in your status bar when you’re replaying the instance.
4. Once the achievement is properly completed, you can abandon the current Living Story chapter or switch back to your Personal Story without losing the achievements or the rewards.
5. The instance completion rewards for the Living Story are given out once per character. The achievement rewards (such as Caithe’s Blossom) are given out once per account.
If what you say is true…-sighs-…kitten it…that’s gonna suck…but oh well…life is easy when you least expect it. thank you for the reply! Ill test the theory.
bug still in effect. Sure would be nice if Anet/GW2 people would fix things.
bug still in effect. Sure would be nice if Anet/GW2 people would fix things.
Umm there was no bug described here. It was user error. Seems you didn’t read the thread but if you have the OP’s problem make sure you are playing on the charater thr did the Living Story as the ability to do the achivements is charater bound. Maybe you didn’t do the living story the first time through as well. Not sure but either way your response is too vague.
So they suppose that we should to replay their rubbish missions thousands of times as we’re disallowed to do ahievements from first run!!!? Just destroyed all rewards from Caithe’s Reconnaissance Squad as protest against this, because they not allowed me to do ahievements at the same time! Even ahievement icons was inactive, i’ve tried to exit it several times to get them… After completed it and back to that location and i don’t see entry point to replay it. Further episodes still undone as i wish to finish everything with Caithe’s Reconnaissance Squad first! I probably will delete this game for such s*it…
- zero patience, rage only!
So they suppose that we should to replay their rubbish missions thousands of times as we’re disallowed to do ahievements from first run!!!? Just destroyed all rewards from Caithe’s Reconnaissance Squad as protest against this, because they not allowed me to do ahievements at the same time! Even ahievement icons was inactive, i’ve tried to exit it several times to get them… After completed it and back to that location and i don’t see entry point to replay it. Further episodes still undone as i wish to finish everything with Caithe’s Reconnaissance Squad first! I probably will delete this game for such s*it…
You have to complete an entire chapter before you can unlock the achievements. Sorry, but there’s no way around that as that’s how it’s set up; play through the chapter once to unlock the achievements, and then replay chapters as needed to do their respective achievements.
I hope you didn’t actually want your rewards for completing that one part because they’re gone now (unless you do the whole chapter again on a different character).