Guild Wars 2

I totally agree with you Marcus, it is a very nice idea and combined all the others idea into one. I hope someone one from Anet will read it. It will take some time to do it (if they want to do it) and could be a very nice addon in a futur extension by giving news reasons to explore again all the world.

For the more difficults level it could be nice to get old armor/weapon skin as the final result . They will more be “legendary” by the way to get them than the current legendary since they will have a story but they should be considered as exotic or maybe the new level or rarity ( do not know the translation for “élevé”).

As you said with the example of the queen Karka it could be also possible for easy level quest to find information about the former living story to get the background for people who have miss it (or maybe directly add the summary in the codex, easier to do, if they add a codex). They will not be as difficult and long as the “normal” since they will be a lot of living story and should not take too much time to the developer to add them to the game. But maybe it will no more considered as archeaology since not very old event.

I love the idea of adding an archaeology system in gw2 i have already some months ago posted my idea in the French forum so i will add to your topic some of my idea which can be complementary, feel free to add some of them to your project.

In my view it will be very nice to get a new panel option in the character panel, like for personal story but for story of Tyria like a kind of “codex, encyclopedia of Tyria”. By going to specific places or finding objects, for example the Temple of Age (and other place of gw1 for example) you will unlock a entry in your encyclopedia which will give you some background about this place. This can be done also for interest point (not sure about the english translation) on the map. This will add an interest to the exploration.

Or instead of getting a new panel option to get a book (from an historien for example) where we will unlock entry. For example in Gw1 it was possible to get book and to complete them by finishing the main story.

It can be interesting to get entry by doing somes quest related to historian pnj, we escorte a lot of them in their research, it could be interested to keep trace of the information they give to us.

By collecting the information (or your puzzle) it could be nice to get some thing like a tresor hunt with skin item to get a the end. In gw1 something similar to this was the way to get the mini pet black moa (you have to get a book from a pnj then thanks to the hints inside find some specific objets around the world, go to a specific place and do something specific to unlock the mini pet). It will be very nice to have something like this with archaeology.

I love the idea of gathering object we could put in our personal instance (housing?), by collecting your “puzzle piece” we could recreate original objet, or treasure map?

When they were speaking about a way to give us access to precursor i was expecting something like archaeology to gather lot of hint with a very long quest and to find at the end the precursor, the weapon will them be really legendary, but they decide to make them craftable. Maybe instead we could have access to specific skin (“old armor” …)

One possibility is to find someone in the opposite team (with the map channel) who also want to complete the achievement and to make a pact with him. You stay together and take one cristal you wait to be kill by your “friend” then it will do it for you, since the crystal will reappear at the same place it will be quick (i just recommand you to not choose a crystal in the middle of the field, too much people)

Or you can still do it after the score appear since killing someone after this will valid the kill for the achievement and will not pertubate the game.

I know people will say that it is not the normal way to do it but with this you will get quickly your achievement and you will not bother anymore the normal game by letting the other players play normally .

Maybe your inventory was full and the mini pet was directly send to your bank. I will recommand you to check if the minipet is not here, section collectable special minipet.