Guild Wars 2

combo field was removed when you could still get it. it just wasn’t always counting. This is totally broken and they made it EVERY day.

has this worked for anyone yet? 2.5 hours until remain.

Just one and did not get credit… yet again. Please remove this from the dailies already. It’s so boring and it breaks more than it works.

I believe this was in the last update, as I have not seen this before, but guardians are now getting their block (Aegis) while in keg brawl.

Jabberwock.9014:

My personal opinion: you should stop trying to keep your rank. It’s only going to make you more and more crazy as time goes on and it’s really not healthy setting aside hours every single day that you MUST play a video game just to keep up. Unless you plan on playing this game forever you will eventually get knocked off at some point anyways, so just quit while you’re ahead. Take a screenshot of your current rank and move on.

If this can be said about everyone on the list, does this not seem like poor design?

Tobias Trueflight.8350:

So, you’re not having fun because you can’t stay on top of the leaderboards? For achievements which don’t matter, except for said boards? And because of this, you’re going to go?

Sorry it wouldn’t work out, have fun at your next game.

This is about achievements, why did you come to this thread?

Achievement points are MY fun in a game. They are ow being handled in a way I no longer find fun. That is why I would be leaving. I already did the rest of the stuff i was interested in doing.

I’m just having a hard time letting go right now. I was already starting to struggle with balancing work, having a life, gw2, actually playing other games, and trying to keep up with graphic design trends. My work take up a lot of extra time as I have been doing 60-70 hours some weeks. I just didn’t think when I came home today that the decision would be made for me.

As I do have the day off tomorrow, I think I will try to finish off as much as I can. I have 140+ points I was saving to spike up the list. After that, I’ll just see what spot I managed to grab and that will have to be good enough. I might continue to try without killing myself with every single point, or I might just decide to move on from this game completely. We shall see, but I think my fun is over.

Thank you all for you thoughts.

GoddessHrist.8472:

I’m happy with the current design. Staying on top of the leaderboard should be a matter of dedication, not simply logging on for an hour a day. On a related topic, monthly achievements should be much more difficult for the huge number of points they give.

Should that dedication be focused on dailies, or actually working towards the achievements in the game?

danielrjones.8759:

I like the new additions. But it seems. and I could be wrong, that there are those that don’t want a cap on past achievement points from dailies but they do now on the new additions.

The new additions as more option is great. The increased amount of achievement points to get, is a major time killer.

As for the past dailies, i do find it completely unfair that someone starting today has no chance at all of catching up to me. I’m an achievement guy, so if I picked up this game today, i would quickly stop.

That being said, i knew I was going o be an achievement guy in whichever game I went with, so starting in beta was a must.

Malediktus.9250:

I am myself an achievement point “hunter” , around rank 250-300 in europe and I find it really annoying. 10 different pve and 6 different pvp dailies to do for achievement points. I think the best solution would be to not give further achievement points for additional daily tasks after getting your daily chests. This would also mean merging pvp and pve dailies.
That would in return mean 5 achievement point per day from dailies.

I really really wish this sort of thing would be done.

Sadly I highly doubt this sort of thing will actually change. Makes me sad as i will most likely slowly stop playing the game. Achievement points was what I set my sights on once I finished the other stuff i wanted to do in the game. I wanted to continue anet, sorry that I can no longer bring myself to put in the daily effort.

Beast.9516:

I for one enjoy the amount of dailies and wouldn’t be upset if they increased them yet again. They give me something to look forward to at reset, and I do look forward to them. I consider myself to be on the low end of being a hardcore player, I am not in the top 10 but try to do as much as possible, and I still have my dailies done easily within one hour. So I don’t see time as being a huge factor, perhaps it does take away from something else in game you could be doing, but keep in mind the more stuff that is there the better, you can choose which content you play.

Are you completing all dailies, including optionals all in 1 hour? (pvE/PvP)

Mkalafut.1273:

Any time anyone brings up a concern it’s always people flaming, trolling, and saying “stop complaining”. The forums are for discussion if you have nothing constructive to add to a certain discussion don’t even post.

This should be posted at the top of every forum.

As for the OPs thoughts, you already know I agree.

Sorry, never mind.

If you are going for a position on the achievement board you need to go for the achievement points that are available. I’m saying the daily requirement to get all daily achievement points is increasing. What is your opinion on THAT. Not that I’m playing the game wrong, I’m OCD, I don;t need all the points, i should stop playing, or just get them and shut up.

I’m looking for opinions on the daily requirement of time to get all achievement points, regardless of if you want them or not. I’m looking for a discussion here. If you do not ahve an interest in achievement points, why even come here?

tolunart.2095:

Ewon.5903:

I’m currently in the top ten without having to nolife the game. It isn’t until the game demands a large amount of daily play to keep up that there is an issue.

It’s not the game, it’s the other players. If you put 10 hours a day into the game but someone else puts 15 hrs per day, then they are going to eventually pull ahead in points.

I’m talking about the daily points available. The ones that are gone the next day. We are talking about two different things here. One is the daily demand to get points as they will become unavailable, the other being the amount people play.

I don’t think your’re getting the point. Also, have I wronged you in some way? You seem a little aggressive here.

Fate.5961:

Not everyone plays the same way, which is great about this game. PvP isn’t the only thing I like to play. Also, I understand that some people enjoy the extra achievement points.

So yes, please create more options to do the dailies, but without increasing the time commitment so I can enjoy playing the game the way I want it.

Is that an unreasonable viewpoint?

Exactly. Add the option to do which ones you want, but don;t give extra points for each after that. I highly doubt anyone at Anet will even read this, but I really wish they would make the change quick.

I’m currently in the top ten without having to nolife the game. It isn’t until the game demands a large amount of daily play to keep up that there is an issue.

The amount of daily achievement points, and the amount of time it takes to get them, seems to be increasing. Is anyone else finding this to be too much? I’m trying to keep up on the achievement boards, I’m in the top ten, but I’m finding these added achievements to not be casual/work/school friendly. Daily tournaments won alone adds a lot of time if you don’t happen to win 2 games quick.

Yes, i know I don’t “need” to get the to get ALL of them, but competing at the top 10 spot I do need to get every point I can. I’m finding I might not be able to keep up soon, which will kinda destroy some of the point to why I log in now.

What are you’re thoughts on this? I don’t mean to wine about it, i like that there are more options to get for dailies, I just don’t like the push get get all the achievement points available.

I won a tournament match and didn’t get any credit, so it would seem this is bugged. Is anyone else having any luck with this?

IndigoSundown.5419:

all communications I send are worded as politely as possible. If the group struggles, I might say, “We could try doing x, then y.” If I think the struggle is in vain, I’ll say, “Sorry, this has taken more time than I have, gtg. Sorry and good luck.”.

I think i will need to take this sort of approach from now on. Although my intent is to help a group get through the dungeon, I know I can be more aggressive about it than some people would like. On top of that, I need to just stop and realize I’m not going to be a fit for some groups. In this case I should have just parted ways. I don’t like to give up, and I often see things through no matter what.

Thank you for the comments. ultimately this thread wasn’t to whine about the kick, and I really wasn’t looking to get anything for it. (though i was originally a little ticked). I’m looking to grow as a player, teammate, and even a person, so thank you for your thoughts in this regard.

EDIT: I would like to note one thing. I am not claiming innocents with my actions in this group. Do I feel it was enough for a kick? No, but towards they end I did get a bit more pushy than some may have liked. I noted that and am looking to improve upon it. I just wanted to make that park clear so people don’t only look at the others I talked about being in the wrong.

Seveleniumus.5973:

Well this sounds stupid, if I was in your situation I would probably have left myself as they clearly had no idea what they were doing. 3 or at least 2 people need to alternate the hammer, otherwise you won’t be able to complete it.

To be honest that was what kept me from getting to angry about my wasted time. Soon as we loaded that fractal I feared for the worst. I was thinking leaving would be the best bet, but I didn’t want to be that jerk who leaves when the going gets tough. I really should have just been that jerk…

I’m curious about peoples thoughts on a situation, and if this is something that Arena Net does anything about.

So here is the situation, I’m doing fractals with a group and we make it to our third fractal. This happens to be the one where we need to break the seal. While we are there, I’m noticing that no one in my group is picking up the hammer other than myself. I tell people not to be scared of the hammer, which results in people telling me they don’t do the hammer part and that we are a team, so I have to do all the hammer parts.

Now, there were a few other times before this that I pointed out how to do a few parts, but after pointing out that expecting one person to do all the hammer parts isn’t really working as a team. Even before a fight, i noticed someone actually picked up the hammer, but they then just dropped it at my feet. I point out again about this not being a team and then I get kicked. This was like 1 hour in, as the group was rather slow.

Two of these people where in the same guild, and they might have been friends with another guy.

So I have 3 questions:

1) Is this something Arena Net will do something about? This wasn’t as simple as a kick by a guild, it was some back and forth talk which resulted in the kick. Though that talk was trying to get help from these guys.

2) What is your take on grouping and giving advice/telling people what to do? If I see people struggling, or we are not completing a part, i will often tell people how it is done. lately I’m finding people are getting defensive, or like the example above, they will kick you.

I will admit at times i will get angry and ask people what they are doing, or if they know what they are doing, but in general, I’m actually trying to legitimately help the team through (and have had several people than k me for doing so).

My thought atm, due to my resent kick, is that I should pretty much say nothing, and let people do as they wish, even if that is expecting me to do all the work (and without telling me they are expecting this).

So question 2 really is: Should I just sit back and not say anything in groups, or should I have seen early on that this was not a group I should have been in?

3) Am I just a jerk and need calm down?

I take it there is nothing new on this achievement? i have worked my way up to 14 NA and could really really use the 10 points.

Edit: I see the broken achievements are already being talk about. Sorry for making a new post on the matter. If you are going to release a leader board, please make sure you also focus on fixing the broken achievements.

I know this has been bugged for a while, and I believe there have been several posts about it, but with the new leader board I could really use those 10 points that are currently bugged. I at #27 for NA atm, and this would bump me up a spot.

Has there been any word on this getting fixed any time soon, or has anyone found a fix for it? Clicking a hint bubble again doesn’t seem like an option for me as I have never gotten another one.

I was doing a dungeon with a group a few minutees ago and people started compaining about the lag. One person then pointed out that we were playing on the Boris Pass server so that is why people are lagging. One person even quit the run saying “I’m not going to try to do this on a laggy server”, blaming Boris Pass.

I did ask them if there was any info on this, and they said they were further away from the BP server. I pointed out that it was located in the spot which just resulted in them thinking I was being defensive about my server.

As far as I am aware, all of the NA servers all located in the same area in the states. Is there any truth to this lag theory people had or was it just something they made up as they had nothing else they could blame. Please let me know, as this info may affect what server I play on. I could use a little less lag, but I think this was just one of those random pug moments.

Just had this happen in WvW today. Its been 4 months and still no word on a fix for this…

This achievement is going to drive me insane….

I want to build a team for this! I’ll be pugging it anyway, but I’d like to know my team is actually trying for this achievement.

Stampeed.7194:

Still not a solution, Ive played 2h30… gotta do it again ? no thank you !

100% agree, and who is to say i wont get dc’d again

Darkwolf.2463:

Have done event twice now with no reward. First got DC’d at the end and the second I died on ramp and got res’d after the chest had disappeared. Totally p’d as I put effort and time into both to get nothing. Totally gutted but will try once again I guess (3rd time lucky) most likely to get a right kitteny thing :/

How are you going about doing the event multiple times? I can see maybe an extra time in the beginning due to overflows going at different times, but how are you planning to do it a third time?

wow, a lot of these threads are coming up. Although its terrible, Im gald it wasn’t just a few of us….

Your move Anet, what are you going to do?

I sent a ticket to support just in case they can do something, but knowing how things go, I’m sure we are all kitten out of luck.

It was a huge disappointment finding out the rewards that I did miss out on too. I really hope there is a survay/feedback for this event, as some things seriously need to be improved. This could have been awesome. It could have been epic, but although I was present the entire time, i saw none of it.

wait, so not only did I not get to see the end, I missed out on the giant chest with exotics….

Thanks for the DC right at the end… fml

Dc’d over 2 hours in, just to get back and and see the event complete.

Over 2 hours of work to get NOTHIGN! Such a waste of my night…

I was just coming to the forums to suggest this very same thing. Grouping in the more populated servers might be little easier, but on the lower population ones, its pretty tough.

I really thought there would be a lobby system in place just based off how the dungeons are setup. For example, AC is a level 30-35 dungeon in a 1-15 zone. In order to get people for the group, you will need several people 30+ hanging out in a zone they really don’t need to be in.

I was also thinking this could go beyond the server you are on, as some of the dungeons may just not have a following on your server.