Guild Wars 2

Seeing that The Emperor’s New Wardrobe gives a mastery point, I decided to get it the cheap way by buying the tier 1 armors. So I took my charr elementalist and bought all the tier 1 charr cultural armors. Only the light armors counted towards the achievement.

Achievement description is inaccurate. The achievement text says Soulbind 90 unique pieces of cultural armor.
The text on the description of all the armors says Soulbound on Acquire
Since soulbinding is what the achievement says should progress it, and it happens automatically, everything in-game says that buying armor you can’t wear should progress the achievement.

If that was the case buying all the tier 1 pieces should have counted as 18 pieces of armor for the achievement. Instead it only counted as 6. It seems that the achievement tracks armor slot, race and tier while ignoring armor weight. Just like the Specialty Armors achievements, but they include subobjectives that make it clear

I see two possible fixes:
– Update the text of the achievement to describe how it actually works. I’d suggest something like Complete the Specialty Armors achievements for each race. Maybe rework the achievement so that it counts the number of those other achievements that have been completed.
– Add subobjectives to the achievement like those that are present in the Specialty Armors achievements.