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One of the primary reasons for participating in the 4 HoT map meta events is to earn currency and ascended materials required to craft the Gen 2 legendaries. They’re a lot of fun, but after finishing Nevermore I’ve had little desire to go to them apart from the occasional alt getting hero points.
What’s going to keep these maps populated and active 6 months down the line when everyone who wanted a legendary has earned it? Because it sure won’t be the 3 blues, 2 greens, 1 rare, and 30 bags of barbed thorns we get for completing them.
(couldn’t dodge roll, to do JPs it’s one hand on the mouse and one on the space bar)
… What?
Why not use your fingers for WASD and your thumb for spacebar? Unless you’ve got really small hands or a really large keyboard, I can’t even fathom how someone could be unable to dodge roll.
Difficult to get isnt the same as mindless grinding, sorry. Ive grinded my way through that achievement. For me there was absolutely nothing difficult about doing that JP around 1k times. If anet had added other increasingly difficult things which reward more gifts according to rate of difficulty, and THOSE things had been botted, then yeah… Id absolutely agree with you.
But lets face it… wintersday JP is challenging for the first few successful tries, but after around the 100 mark, it just gets boring, and the REAL challenge is staying awake.
Forcing people to do it even though its no challenge at all anymore, just to get an achievement, sorry, but thats the definition of “grind”.Difficult achievements for bragging? Now thats all what Im for. God, Id love to get some of those anytime again. But no, 10k drinks is NOT difficult. It is a grindfest.
I specified that this achievement (10k drinks) is time consuming rather than difficult. You’re right, after the first few tries, the JP is more muscle memory than challenge. I did the grind as well.
It would’ve been nice if the thing that kept Winter’s Presence difficult to get was an achievement that was challenging rather than grindy, maybe some sort of Migraine-ish Wintersday boss. Maybe Tixx’s instance hard mode.
I think with that 10k drinks achievement and the huge amount of flipping that has been going on with said drinks and wintersday gifts on the TP, a lot of formerly not so tempted players got tempted to use a wintersday JP botting script.
Im not saying it is Anets fault… but maybe, in the future, this could be kept in mind when adding such achievements? Thanks.
So Anet should avoid adding difficult (or in this case time consuming) achievements because people might cheat to get them? What about the much larger part of the playerbase who do such achievements legitimately for the challenge or bragging rights?
People who cheat are going to cheat. People who are on the fence about cheating but are tempted to bot by a shiny skin/achievement/title might deserve a bit of a break to figure out their priorities.
I am also having the “Card approval failed” issue. I’ve checked multiple times that I inputted the information properly, and have checked my credit card balance, but it still will not allow me to purchase gems.
My ticket reference number is #121219-000584