Guild Wars 2

The ‘Legendary Collector’ achievement only specifies ‘legendary items’ are needed. Legendary Armor doesn’t count for this achievment, but I suppose that it should and it’s just an oversight?

only weapons count backpacks have had the same treatment as armor since their implemenation.

No, that’s not true. Backpacks count. The achievement panel for me shows 4/5 complete. I own Quip, HOPE, Incinerator, The Ascension, and Perfected Envoy Breastplate. And just to add, on another account I have The Ascension and Juggernaut and the achievement shows 2/5 complete.

That the armor doesn’t count has to be an oversight. It takes a lot of work and materials to make the armor just like any other legendary weapon or backpiece. There’s no reason it shouldn’t count.

I also reported this with /bug.

“Legendary Collector” was introduced to the game before there were legendary back items or armor. As a result, it requires legendary weapons only — the fact that it says “legendary items” instead is an artifact of the achievement’s age.

Like most achievements, it has little to do with the “amount of work” — it’s about giving people a set of tasks related to a common goal. There are all sorts of cheaper/easier ways to go about getting 25 AP and cheaper/easier ways to get a ‘title’ that you can display.

If The Ascension is counting, then that appears to be a bug, rather than that L-armor does not count.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

“Legendary Collector” was introduced to the game before there were legendary back items or armor. As a result, it requires legendary weapons only — the fact that it says “legendary items” instead is an artifact of the achievement’s age.

If The Ascension is counting, then that appears to be a bug, rather than that L-armor does not count.

Nope. They are intended to count, it was bug fixed here.
“Fixed a bug that prevented Ad Infinitum from being added to the Legendary Collector achievement.
Fixed a bug that prevented the Ascension from being added to the Legendary Collector achievement.” A little reasearch goes a long way.

So, one can assume the armor not counting is either a bug, an oversight or does not count for reasons Anet has not disclosed.

Ah, totally missed that. Thanks for clarifying.
(And probably, I liked it being just weapons — plenty of other chieves for earning the backpacks.)

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

Ah, totally missed that. Thanks for clarifying.
(And probably, I liked it being just weapons — plenty of other chieves for earning the backpacks.)

Plenty of other achievements for the weapons too, if you care to craft them.

Haleydawn.3764:

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

Ah, totally missed that. Thanks for clarifying.
(And probably, I liked it being just weapons — plenty of other chieves for earning the backpacks.)

Plenty of other achievements for the weapons too, if you care to craft them.

Achievements for the precursors, not the legendary weapons themselves. Regardless, it’s a personal preference, which probably influenced whether I noticed the patch notes about the back items.