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No point doing the effigy anyway. Its not counting towards the meta achievement, just like the Dragon Ball ones aren’t. Stop wasting your time.
Any proof of this? As far as I know the devs had said nothing about the Effigies not counting for the Meta-event.
Its not counting for me.
No point doing the effigy anyway. Its not counting towards the meta achievement, just like the Dragon Ball ones aren’t. Stop wasting your time.
Anet’s terms are CONSISTENTLY changing though. They say one thing, and then a day later they say another thing, and then a completely different thing later on.
You know what… I’m done with this event. I’m not grinding for another achievement only to see it not count for anything. I’ve finished ten achievements, slugged through all the grinds, put up with AFK players in Dragon Ball, and now I have nothing to show for it.
I have patience in this matter, but the sheer lack of competence on Anet’s side is severely testing it.
Yeah, this is ridiculous.
The core issue here is that there are two different groups of people who are complaining.
Group 1: The folks who didn’t want to do the achievements for the wings and who came onto the forums to complain and eventually got what they wanted regardless of the devs initial message regarding the achievements.
Group 2: The folks who, regardless of if they wanted to or not, did the achievements for the sole purpose of getting the achievements in order to earn the wings, and then when said achievements were declared pointless came onto the forums to complain about wasted time and bad messaging on the part of the devs.
The issue here is that it appears as though the dev team listened to group 1, changed the achievements, and then failed to recognize group 2 at all. Not only that but they changed the balance of rewards in the scale of achievements and then failed to re-balance it in any way. By doing this the devs are actively breeding contempt among the player base. This whole event seems to be doing just that, breeding contempt. The holograms that people had to compete over at the start, the “away-from-keyboard” players in the Dragon Ball, and now the removal of both the Moa racing and the Dragon Ball achievements completely from the roster of Dragon Bash achievements.
The annoying thing is, these issues could easily be fixed. At the outset of the event simply state clearly:
A: The reward that can be earned for participating in the event.
B: Exactly what the player needs to do in order to achieve said reward.
C: DON’T CHANGE THE REQUIREMENTS. No matter how many people complain.
Then:
D: Put a simple program in place that would kick any “away-from-keyboard” players from the Dragon Ball game.
E: Put an effort into testing the Holograms out and for general balance.
And I think most importantly, have a sort of “mission statement” at the beginning of these events that states, not necessarily to your player base, but rather to the dev team what the final goal of the event is. What do you want your player base to get out of this event? Are you properly rewarding the players for what they have accomplished?
In the end, that is one of the strongest draws of the MMO genre. A proper reward for the time spent doing the objectives. Guild Wars 2 may be able to hide it better than any other MMO on the market, but it still is one big grind just like all other MMOs out there. Sure it may have a nice story in place with voice acting, and dynamic events that help break up the repetition, but at the end of the day the game still boils down to actions done by the player in an attempt to get a reward for said actions. When you tip the scales, even in the slightest amount, it throws the balance of the reward system out of place and alienates portions of the player base.
The ironic thing is, no matter what the dev team does it will still alienate one of the groups I stated above. If they listen to group 1, then group 2 will be left out. And if they stay true to their initial word, then group 1 is of course going to feel alienated. This is why it is important to have balance in the achievements from the outset and then not change anything at all. If you want a happy player base you need to consider the fact that you can’t keep all groups happy at the same time. From this point forwards, you must ask yourself: Which group should we strive to please in the end?
Whereabouts are folks receiving these drops? Are they in a certain leveled area/place? Certain enemies more than others? Animals? Sapients? Etc.. ?
Can anyone upload a video of this? I hope whatever you are describing is just a bug. I’d hate to have gone through all those achievements if the wing animation isn’t up to par.
^ And because you keep getting put on teams with [Away From Keyboard] people. :-/
Well, aside from another 39 pinatas, I have nothing left to do on the Dragon Bash achievement list until Friday. I’d just rather see my progress at 80% rather than 60%.
:-/
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I’ve logged in a few times since I received both of the Dragon Ball achievements and nothing has changed.
The way that I see it, and I am sure this has probably been stated in this thread somewhere, is that the complete wings, the non-shattered version that you get from the 100,000 candies, are a prestige item for folks who have the gold or the time to spend on them. The other version, the shattered version that can be gotten through the Dragon Bash Experience achievement are for folks who play casually and don’t have the gold or the time to get the complete set. And to be honest, I think the shattered version looks far cooler than the complete version.
So for th TLDR crowd…
[Complete Dragon Wings] = Prestige Item
[Shattered Wings] = Casual Item
So stop complaining.
Maybe it has something to do with the bugged armor that can be gotten through overflow servers and occasionally from Dragon Ball? You know… the armor we get from watching the fireworks on Friday?
I have achieved both of the 20/20 Dragon Ball achievements and neither are counting towards the DBE. Is anyone else experiencing this issue?
Oooohh, Gotcha…
The map made it look as though their was a skill challenge inside the lab. Thanks for the clarification.
But their still appears to be a Chevron skill challenge inside the lab. That skill challenge, if I am not mistaken, is the last thing I need for 100% Metrica Province map completion.
I have been trying to get 100% map completion in the Metrica Province region and have hit a road block in the form of a crystal key that is needed to open up Oola’s old lab. I need that crystal in order to get to the skill challenge locked inside of the lab.
Apparently, according to the internet, the key is randomly dropped by mobs in the area. I’ve been slaughtering Jaguars and Mosquitoes for the past half hour with no luck what so ever.
How in Tyria am I supposed to get into that lab?