Guild Wars 2

Will partial progress on Year Of Ascension achievements be maintained? Or will they be reset if not completed?

For instance, if you completed 3 ranked pvp matches in each of 10 days, when the achievement max level is for 15 days, will you only have to do the remaining 5 more in the next league season, or the full 15?

On another note, when are the next league seasons expected to take place?

This is getting to be very bad for me. On all three of the most recent updates, it has taken over two hours to download/install the updates before being able to play the game. 3 hours on the 13th, 2 hours on the 14th, and 2 hours and counting (been sitting at 23 files remaining, downloaded size crawling upward for about 45 minutes) on the 15th. Each time, I’ve had to monitor the progress, checking every few minutes until it finally got past the Initialization phase of the updates, and got to the Log In inputs and the red progress bar, at which point it seems I am no longer at risk of getting that error. I lost count how many times (over 20) I had to force close the gw2.exe application with my Windows task manager when it arrived at the red message “Connection Error(s) detected. Retrying…” from these three update downloads. There have been zero actual problems with my internet connection throughout. I tend to play almost every day, but watching a download fail or sit still does not count as fun gameplay to me. With 2 to 4 hours available to play games with in a day, a 2 hour frustratingly fail-ridden download is a horrible way to spend that time. Please address this issue.

I use Windows 7 Home Professional with 16GB RAM. I have started my downloads around 8:30pm-9:30pm EST each of the past three nights, and I live in Columbus, OH.