Guild Wars 2

• I like this category, some achievements are fairly grindy, but it’s like PvP and should encourage people to get involved in them even if they may not be completely interested. The only complaint I have here is that I wish there were more activities (Polymock, Capital Cities).

• Change Hall of Monuments to Hall of Monuments (Past) This also has the added effect of opening up Hall of Monuments (Present) as a possible achievement category.
  Place Hall of Monuments (Past) achievements in the Historical achievements tab to more accurately reflect how you obtain them.
• Remove Achievement Points from Hall of Monuments (Past) achievements. The rewards via Hall of Monuments are the only rewards that should be received. This sets the hard cap on APs to exclusively GW2 content.
• Remove Achievement Points from Historical achievements (The Lost Shores, Flame and Frost, Sky Pirates, Cutthroat Politics, etc…) and add alternate rewards for doing these. A few examples are Miniatures, Titles, Laurels, Unique Items (skins, tonics, etc…) This allows any player to eventually have a chance to get all achievement points. In my experience, this is a huge incentive for chasing achievements, and increases the longevity of the achievement system.

• Remove Achievement Points from achievements that will not be returning (The Lost Shores, Flame and Frost, Sky Pirates, Cutthroat Politics, etc…) and add alternate rewards for doing these. A few examples are Miniatures, Titles, Laurels, Unique Items (skins, tonics, etc…) This allows players the chance to eventually earn every achievements point. In my experience, this is a huge incentive for chasing achievements, and increases the longevity of the achievement system. (Achievements from SAB and such would stay, as they are returning content)

Additions

• I feel there should be more Meta achievements all around, a great place for that would be in the Hero tab (or well, every tab). Ex: Complete the personal story (one variation up to the orders) with every race. Hero of Tyria – Complete Savior of Tyria, Emergency Response Hero, and Local Hero.
• Add a Meta Achievement with a title for completing all zone exploration (Tyrian Explorer) and for the remaining Explorer achievements that have you exploring mini dungeons and out-of-the-way places.
• Jumping Puzzles are such a huge hit, I feel like they deserve their own section within the achievements tab, I would recommend moving these to a separate tab and adding a meta achievement with a title for completing all of the puzzles the game shipped with.
• Possibly add a time tracker to these achievements so players can see their high scores.

Changes

• Slayer Achievements are very boring. To me, they feel like a number that should be displayed on a statistic page, not an achievement. Change or Remove.
• Weapon Master achievements are over the top grindy achievements, this entire tab is another example of something that I feel belongs on a statistics page. Change or Remove.
• Bosses – Was going to make a suggestion here, but after seeing the Tequatl rework, I think ArenaNet hit this right on the mark (I will still reserve judgement until I fight him/see changes).

• Overall, I would say PvP Achievements are quite good, I would however remove the non-tournament win achievements, or give them titles and separate them into two categories.
  While the achievements are in a fair place, besides wins, there are exactly two other achievements – Rank Points obtained, and Kills. I would suggest adding some challenge achievements such as “Win the Battle of Kyhlo with a lead of 250 points or more”, etc…

• Every achievement in this tab is utterly ridiculous, the one year Infographic showed us just how much. In the entirety of this game, Yakslapper could have only been earned 23 and a half times. That 23.5 times is between all players in the lifetime of the game. This entire section of achievements needs a rework, badly, I guess we’ll see what the new WvW season brings to the table.

• Add challenge achievements to Dungeons like we have seen in Fractals or Scarlets Playhouse. These would be a great thing to add as dungeon reworks roll around. (Ex: Clear Arah while wearing Fine quality armor).
• Possibly create Meta Achievements for each dungeon, whereby doing all the achievements will earn you a reward (Ex: AC Catacombs could reward an Endless Ghostly Tonic). These Achievements should be difficult enough to where a well communicating pug group could potentially achieve them. Rewards for the 8 default dungeons should mirror each other (one dungeon gives an Endless Tonic, they all should) while later dungeons can reward differently.

Additions

• Add a tab for Tier and Total tracking under Recently and Nearly Completed.
• All achievement rewards, with the exception of consumables should be added to your Unlocked Rewards within the Achievements tab once obtained. Any rewards with stats, such as the Fervid Censer, should have their skin added to your Unlocked Rewards once obtained.
• Announce to Chat – Announce achievements to Party/Guild on completion, this aids the social aspect of achievements, and I love seeing what my guildmates are achieving. Only announces achievement at 33%, 66%, and 100% milestones if applicable (Agent of Entropy – 100, 200, 250).
• Option to disable broadcasting/viewing.
• Option to remove achievements from showing in Nearly Completed.

Changes

• Placement of a hard cap on achievements, currently the cap keeps growing daily, not allowing new players the chance to ever catch up.
• I would like to give mention to THIS reddit post. I believe the visual update we were given with the reworked achievement window was a misstep by ArenaNet.
• Create a new tab for permanent, annual releases, or in the case of Super Adventure Box – biannual.
• More difficult achievements need to reward more points. Crafting a Legendary should not be worth 5 achievement points, the same amount I currently make from my daily.
• Normalize achievement points. Many achievements give an even amount of points, however there are many others that give an odd amount of point (Slayer – 16, Dive Master – 18, etc…). Keeping it even looks more pleasing, besides, if something gives you a single achievement point (or 3), was it really an achievement? To add onto this, not every tier of an achievement needs to award points!
• Reduce, remove, or find a better implementation of the current “statistic” achievements.
• Slayer(PvE) along with Weapon Master and to some degree, WvW achievements are poorly implemented. What do these achievements really do? They show how long one has grinded and/or played for; they are a statistic. When (well if, if the day ever comes) I reach 5000 shield kills, you know what I’ll say? ”Glad that grind is over.” I understand, in the spirit of Guild Wars 1, why these grindy achievements exist. Thirst slayer, for example, is fine. Killing an enormous amount of enemies with, in the case of a warrior, a single target skill is not engaging, and most importantly, not fun.

• Ideally, the Daily and Monthly achievements shouldn’t award players any points, do you really consider these daily chores to be “achievements”? However, the way the system works currently forces players to log on and finish their dailies if they don’t want to fall behind. My proposed solution would be to put a hard cap on achievement points awarded through dailies and monthlies, somewhere between 1000 and 2500, and leave it at that. This gives players incentive to log on and complete their dailies and monthlies (because laurels apparently don’t do that?), but puts a hard cap on achievement points so that everyone (even knew players) have the ability to earn all achievement points.