Guild Wars 2

Sorel.4870:

Ruinaes.9571:

The requirement to cross division thresholds (and more importantly crossing enough of them to reach and complete Part IV) depends not on you. It depends on 20% you and 80% others (your party). This seems like an inconsistency to me that mkaes this much more difficult to attain.

That is also true of every dungeon or fractal achievement, and I don’t see why that is a problem. Conquest is considered group content, so if you are not pleased with the pugs you are getting, get some friends to play with you. Or hope for good pugs, or carry. Exactly the same three possibilities you have when you do a dungeon or a fractal.

Yes, you are correct, but Dungeons do not have a time requirement. The Wings require completion of these achievements in 2016.

foogison.5067:

PVP rewards have ALWAYS been super exclusive to top tier PVPers, and The Ascension is already imo way too easy to get.

Before there was the Ascension there was Legendary mist walker armor, and i don’t think anyone ever even found out how to make it before they removed it from the game!
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/archive/crafting/Legendary-Mist-Walker-Armor

The llama mini used to be exclusive to top tier ladder players before it was handed out to anyone via the new tickets.

But nobody ever complained about those things, and do you know why? PVEers didn’t care, and just because some shiny new set of wings come around that are only available in PVP all of a sudden, the PVE kids are mad.

If you want the ascension, play pvp, and earn it. Because that’s what we’re all trying to do, we don’t necessarily want it for just the skin, we want to feel the prestige of showing it off. And that little bit goes away pretty quickly when all the PVE kids are running around wearing the 1 valuable reward that’s exclusive to PVP.

I agree entirely. However, lets take 10 matches lost by player X. He could be a top player with excellent KDR and objectives, but because the other 4 people are match made by lower MMR scores, you lose. There is nothing player X could possibly be doing better but he cannot carry 4 people so no pips. That’s inherently flawed.

Darknicrofia.2604:

why do you think everyone deserves to have the wings?

tbh, the fact that people can get the “legendary” wings reward without ever sniffing legendary division is already pretty counter intuitive.

To be clear, I did not say everyone deserves the wings. It takes a lot of time and dedication to reach the wings. What I said, was that I think it’s wrong that a portion of the wings relies more on other people than yourself.

Wings = Perseverence, dedication, skill and RNG matchmaking luck.

I don’t know about that though. Enemy teams are matched by pips while your own team is matched by MMR. So if you get in a losing streak it is possible to continually get worse team mates but not worse enemy teams in matchmaking.

I’ll start off by saying that I’ve played GW2 since day one as well as GW1. I think the game is great and while mostly a PvE player, I’ve really gotten into PvP and enjoyed it with the addition of the PvP Season and Ascension.

With that said, the achievements for crossing division tiers is horrible. I say this only because it works unlike any other Year of Ascension achievement. All others work on mechanics that can be achieved by anyone. Even lesser skilled players can attain them if they play enough. Even without being a top-tier player, you can make progress by dedicating your time in the mists.

The requirement to cross division thresholds (and more importantly crossing enough of them to reach and complete Part IV) depends not on you. It depends on 20% you and 80% others (your party). This seems like an inconsistency to me that mkaes this much more difficult to attain.

Thoughts anyone?

Do we know what the % for better crafting materials is with this? Does this have the % chance of a crude or maybe even a master salvage kit?