Guild Wars 2

Draknar.5748:

Ballistic.2570:

I don’t see the appeal of Eternity. It’s never going to be the perfect fit for a build with such contrasting visuals at night and day. And the only time ppl will even know it’s not Sunrise or Twilight is when you link it in chat. I don’t really get it. So $$$

Eternity’s pommel glows as well as having glowy orbs in the footfalls, whereas Sunrise and Twilight do not. It’s actually quite easy to tell when someone has Eternity and when they do not.

They’re both highly annoying and I’ll go another way if there’s somebody near me swinging that sword into my face. I prefer to see what I’m doing.

To OP: I had completed my world map long before I reached WvW lvl14. Luckily, when I crafted my legendary (simply because I wanted at least one, so I picked the cheapest), that lvl14 in WvW wasn’t required yet… The worst for me was doing that dungeon over and over and over and over and over….

I can understand some items, like Elder Wood, Mithril and even Thick Leather. But everything above T1 and below T5 is generally rather scarce, especially the leather and cloth parts.

I’ll take some rare material any day from salvaging some green lvl80 item over wood or mithril… But I hardly get T4 stuff and as you cannot harvest the cloth and leather, you’re dependent on getting a low enough drop that doesn’t salvage into wood or metal… That’s pretty rare in the first place…

Vayne.8563:

LadyRhonwyn.2501:

Vayne.8563:

The daily takes me about ten minutes. The rewards for that 10 minutes are pretty good. It’s hardly an imposition.

You must have way more luck than I have then…

Take today:
Maw: 2 hours wait
Kessex events: with luck, I might get 4 in 30 minutes
Activity: it’s been ages since I"ve done that, but I do know it was never done within 10 minutes.
Maguuma Wastes miner: costs me money, but can be done fast

WwW guards: will take a lot of time, as my borderland is mostly our colour
WvW camps: see above
WvW tower: forget those unless you’re very lucky
WvW land claimer: see above

PvP Capture: 5 minutes wait, then 10 to 15 minutes in a game
PvP Reward earner: done in the same time as above
PvP winners: about 3 or 4 hours unless very lucky

So, that’s at least 20 minutes, if I’m lucky. I usually end up in a deathmatch map if we’ve a capture daily…

Let’s just say, I completely ignore dailies on days like these

PvP cooperative daily room. Ten minutes. Even if you only do the easiest ones and avoid the wins, you’d usually have to do something like gathering, which is nothing, and maybe a vista. You don’t PvP, you cooperatively get a daily in a PvP room. Nothing to do with luck.

Don’t even know what that pvp cooperative daily room is…

And usually, I’ll do my daily, but on days like today, I’ll just skip it. Too much trouble for not enough reward.

Vayne.8563:

The daily takes me about ten minutes. The rewards for that 10 minutes are pretty good. It’s hardly an imposition.

You must have way more luck than I have then…

Take today:
Maw: 2 hours wait
Kessex events: with luck, I might get 4 in 30 minutes
Activity: it’s been ages since I"ve done that, but I do know it was never done within 10 minutes.
Maguuma Wastes miner: costs me money, but can be done fast

WwW guards: will take a lot of time, as my borderland is mostly our colour
WvW camps: see above
WvW tower: forget those unless you’re very lucky
WvW land claimer: see above

PvP Capture: 5 minutes wait, then 10 to 15 minutes in a game
PvP Reward earner: done in the same time as above
PvP winners: about 3 or 4 hours unless very lucky

So, that’s at least 20 minutes, if I’m lucky. I usually end up in a deathmatch map if we’ve a capture daily…

Let’s just say, I completely ignore dailies on days like these

Shirlias.8104:

Just a thought.

As you can see now, new dyes will be 2xRares, 1xUncommon and 3xCommon.

It’s a change from 6xRare dyes on new shop dye packs, a simple try or just a new rule for this halloween?

Where should I be able to see that?

Azure.8670:

im sorry ascended gear drops in many different places. its been out for years. If you dont have a set of ascended gear you have less than 500 hours of play time and arent ready for raids anyway. if you have more than 500 hours and dont have 1-5 sets of ascended armor stop sitting in lions arch mulling around map chat. I have a f2p in my guild thats already working on ascended gear and he just hit level 80.

I’ve only had an ascended armor box from PvP and from WvW (bonus chest after leveling). I’ve not seen it drop anywhere else. On my second account, after almost 1000 hours, I’ve not seen one ascended item you didn’t get from achievements.

(and map chat on AG is stupid in LA, I prefer to leave there asap or turn off map chat…)

And good for that guildy of yours that managed to get his crafting to 500 (requiring loads of money or time to gather the required materials) and even still have enough linnen left to craft those armour pieces and the insignias!

(according to gw2crafts.net, you’ll need at least between 70 and 80 gold to get an armour crafting profession to 500, add to that the laurels you’ll need for the final crafting, which are a lot harder to get as a F2P as you don’t get dailies…)

Ashen.2907:

Fox.3469:

All you need: 500 crafting discipline
the recipe for the piece: 5 laurels and some gold.
Combination of the ascended materials refinement, 500 of each material for the chest, 300 for all the other pieces.
The rest you can buy of the TP. So yes basicly you can buy ascended gear of the tp. Since the 2 other ingredients you get by playing the game.

Getting the crafting to 500 is the most expensive part, but can of course be done in stages. It will cost about 100 gold for most proffesions. Crafting the ascended materials refinements costs basicly nothing.
From there on, you can literly buy the ingredients needed for the recipe, costing you about 60-80 gold per armor piece if you don’t want to use the time gated cheaper ways to craft these ingredients

Gold is not a concern. Crafting is the concern.

Ask yourself, what is the average wealth of the average player. I doubt it will run over the 800g range. But more in the 50g range. Yoyo won’t even be able to craft one item with that.

I get by with 500 perfectly…

Jayden Ennok.3687:

This is something I just don’t get. The dailies are tied to activities in the game, you get the daily just by playing. So are you trying to say that once you won’t get the AP for this, you just won’t enjoy the content?
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I used to get the daily by just playing. Now I have to go out of my way. If I don’t happen to be an the map (leveling, PS, mapping) where the daily events is, I won’t get that. If I don’t happen to be at the right time and right spot for a world boss, I won’t get it. I don’t like those Activities, so I don’t do those. So why would I do that if I won’t even get that AP anymore? It’s the only reason I do the dailies….

Yes, please!

Actually, make something that works consistently, like what we now have isn’t… I have the characters I don’t play with ATM parked at JP’s, and I hit them one after the other. And often I go to the same character twice, because the game doesn’t put it in front, like it should.

I’ve had it happen. Not always, not even reproduceable… And most times highly annoying…

SHM.7628:

This type of thing is going on and you’re about to release the expansion? Between bugs, lag and an already almost nonexistent FPS the new release is going to be a nightmare. What were you thinking?

I doubt release is only those patches they’ve added to the patch note, I presume they’re also loading HoT content with this (and presumably, they’ll also sneakload more the coming weeks). So, unless everybody will delete their .dat file before launch, I doubt this will happen on release day.

If you have more than 4 (or was it 5?) characters, you will get the reward from the chest if you want it or not. It won’t stack chests perpetually… I opened my daily I should have gotten and accidentally one of the others, but I won’t let such a silly mistake on ANet’s side disrupt my daily JP routine…

zerocool.9842:

they’re probably under a DDoS atm…

Yes, by users trying to patch the game…

Not fair, you can actually log in!

Garambola.2461:

There must be something broken. Or we have simply so many players. But I have been downloading ever since the patch hit and I still have 27000 files left after more than 45 minutes. The speed is in the single digits kB/s most of the time.

This is the prime playing time for Europe, so waiting this long for a patch really hits hard.

You mean: no playing for Europeans tonight.

Maybe my tablet will be finished by the time it’s bed time. My PC simply won’t connect (connection errors) while my tablet is slowly downloading away… (even with speeds over 100KB/s at times)

Menadena.7482:

I always sigh when people are shocked at 40+ year-olds using actual gasp computers. Especially playing games, we are supposed to be using MS office and getting our kids to tell us why our email broke right? I bought my first computer and learned how to program it before high school. Ok, not so uncommon now, but try before the mac even existed.

Is it all too hard to believe that I might actually be playing games now? Get off my lawn.

Ewwwww, kids! Listening to colleges, they are the reason most 40+ people don’t play games anymore… they simply don’t have the time.

I might not be able to pull several all-nighters anymore, but being 40+ never stopped me from playing computer games (actually, it’s a perfect age for playing games, if you have a decent job and thankfully no children: you’ll have the money to buy them!)

Copestetic.5174:

Vayne.8563:

I would never join a guild that requires 100% rep any more than I would join a club that didn’t let me join any other clubs.

I’m the complete opposite. I’m much more interested in a 100% rep Guild to find solid players who I know will be around when I need to ask a question, or want to start a party for something.

Not hop scotch around my Friends List and other Guilds.

And also no personal bank guild. I once asked a player who had added that 100% rep to his guild spam about that and never received an answer….

I usually rep my main guild, except when I’m cleaning storage…

Linken.6345:

Rauderi.8706:

Grats!
At least you didn’t bind to account, like I did with my precursor.
;n;
I don’t even want Meteorologicus.

then craft it and sell the legendary =)

that’s what I did with my Hunter, because I wanted that one and not the Predator. It felt like having the cake and eating it too!

I personally can do without a shirtless option for males. I find it vulgar, I think the English term is.
I do agree that there need to be less trench coats and shirts that leave (part of the) arms bare, for all three armor classes.

Faereilos.5106:

I’m down for characters running around in their underwear. More options are always great. And yes we do need more skimpy male armor, because right now the only options are buttcape, butt tent, or trenchcoat. Please don’t tell me there are skimpy options for males…there are none…at least not comparable to the female ones. I find it sad that it’s ok for females to show off their body, but if a guy tries to do the same it’s either the end of the world or something to laugh at.

There absolutely is a skimpy option for males (at least I know and use one for my male necromancer…) And I really love that one…. No buttcape, just a sleeveless shirt, some trousers and short boots.

I got the DR version and never regretted it. Only one of my character uses it. The rest of my characters dump their stuff in my bank (via WvW or PvP), after which the one in DR cleans up everything (personal guild vault, champ bags, MF, Ascended material eaters, etc.)

DeWolfe.2174:

So many that I can’t accurately answer this right now….. I create characters with themes in mind. Heck, I have a Warrior just for running during Wintersday! He wait’s and holds all the Wintersday themed items and stuff.

I’ve an Asuran warrior (level 3, due to some stupidity of me), who is my SAB jumper… She’s not been outside Rata Sum in almost 3 years :p

Beside her, I have 27 more and if character slots ever go on sale again, I’ll get at least 2 more for a nice round 30.

As with OP, I haven’t played the beta (much). Previous beta, I created a revenant, and a necro. Just to see what those extra trait lines were about. Wasn’t impressed by them, so I went to see that new map. After dieing in 5 minutes, I decided to give up and returned to my normal gameplay. I’ll see about HoT somewhere in November… (won’t be there when it comes out)

Nabrok.9023:

Lawton Campbell.8517:

I’m not sure what bye/desertion mean TBH.

“Bye” is when somebody on opposing team disconnects and you win. “Desertion” is when somebody on your team disconnects and you lose.

So, when you lose even though there’s a disconnect on the other team (or vice versa), it’s not logged? (yes, it has happened to me…)

Paulytnz.7619:

I have always just sold any extra minis that I got on the TP. I’m pretty sure they can all be sold there. If you can sell for cash why would you bother to waste on a booster? O.O

Some cannot be sold nor forged, such as Jennah and most of the minis from the BL chests.

yama.2489:

Doing LS S2 and I’m getting this as well. It seems that somehow alternating characters talking makes the first VO clip not play back for some of them. I don’t mind so much at the moment since I’m reading the text and will be replaying the episodes, but I won’t be finishing my PS until this is fixed.

Just had this bug at the very beginning of Hidden Arcana and it went like this:
Walked up to Marjory who started talking as I approached.
We overheard Magister Ela Makkay was talking in the room behind her.
We entered the room and the conversation with Ela started but she had no voice until her second set of sentences.

There’s no rhyme or reason to it… the story I just finished (Seeking the Zalisco) had all voice lines, except the very last one…

BIGHARSHNESS.3510:

This started up about 2-3 patches ago. It always seems to be the first line the NPC speaks in cut scenes. I can confirm this for most Human and Norn story steps. This also occurred in the HoT story demo when Laranthir speaks…. the first speach bubble appears with no audible dialog and then she can be heard upon her second speech bubble. It’s pretty aggravating, especially when you’ve talk your friend up into buying the game and playing the story with them is embarrassing with all the bugs.

It’s not only the first… I just had a cutscene with Caithe and Trahearne. They were talking one after the other and then back again with the first. I missed the first line of Trahearne, then the first line on Caithe, then the first line of Trahearne again, but not the first line of Caithe when she finished the dialog…

And yes, it’s highly annoying!

Sealreth.1425:

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

A new player would not get ‘Mine in Orr’, as it is set to your highest level character (range).

Ah I did not know about that, sorry though I still get fractiles, and never other dungeons. I do not like fractiles, as getting a party for it is just meh and people expect to much from you, and they take too long in row. It helps that I am a wvw player. but I like pve appart from dungeons quite a bit would like to see more type of dailies in all area’s

On my new account I don’t get fractals. It’s usually a vista, some gathering and 4 events at a starter area (max character is lvl26).

So, I decided to try out that new map. And after 10 minutes I decided I will probably never set foot in it again, even after release.

I don’t care for a map where I’m dead before I even know what hit me.

Just a flesh wound.3589:

LadyRhonwyn.2501:

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Behellagh.1468:

Easiest way to get that daily I found is to go to the borderlands map where your server starts in the lower left. Take the right path around the hill and while sticking close to that wall is position yourself along the hill and wait for the Vet Warg to spawn. This is west of Hero’s Lodge, the southern most supply camp. The Vet Warg has a normal warg as a companion (useful to kill if down). It’s a easier than the other two choices which I think is only on Eternal Battlegrounds.

For a not level 80 sporting rare or higher gear, the fight might get … interesting but there’s usually one or two other players from your server with the same idea. And you usually don’t run into players from the other two servers.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Hero%27s_Lodge

That’s good to know. I usually only do the ruins one as I’m not very familiar with WvW and the only vet I’ve ever heard of was some vet grub somewhere and I wasn’t going to track that thing down for a daily. Lol.

You’ve the warg in one corner, the other corner has a harpy (highly annoying as he has more friends with him and they do their flying stuff ) and then there’s the wurm somewhere on the left side halfway the map.

I’m not going deeper in there. Every time I venture in there someone tries to kill me and that’s hazardous to my health. O.o

I’m generally very good in avoiding people (but I don’t go for vets anymore, too much trouble)

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Behellagh.1468:

Easiest way to get that daily I found is to go to the borderlands map where your server starts in the lower left. Take the right path around the hill and while sticking close to that wall is position yourself along the hill and wait for the Vet Warg to spawn. This is west of Hero’s Lodge, the southern most supply camp. The Vet Warg has a normal warg as a companion (useful to kill if down). It’s a easier than the other two choices which I think is only on Eternal Battlegrounds.

For a not level 80 sporting rare or higher gear, the fight might get … interesting but there’s usually one or two other players from your server with the same idea. And you usually don’t run into players from the other two servers.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Hero%27s_Lodge

That’s good to know. I usually only do the ruins one as I’m not very familiar with WvW and the only vet I’ve ever heard of was some vet grub somewhere and I wasn’t going to track that thing down for a daily. Lol.

You’ve the warg in one corner, the other corner has a harpy (highly annoying as he has more friends with him and they do their flying stuff ) and then there’s the wurm somewhere on the left side halfway the map.

Ravion Hawk.4736:

Furthermore, you do not need the Asura gates in Lion’s Arch, press F11 and check your key bind for the “Score Board” (my key binds are not the default and have been that way for going on 3 years) and all you have to do is press that hot key to get the WvW interface and choose between the Borderlands, Eternal Battlegrounds, Obsidian Sanctum, or Edge of the Mists.

My scoreboard is bound to B, and I did press it as soon as I saw that I had to do WvW ( which was a ruins so even doable with a lvl2) but the scoreboard won’t even pop up.

But the gates do work… I had completely forgotten about those… And once you’ve been in WvW, the key and the button on top work as well…

azyume.6321:

They changed the daily limitation to the first day only?

I was like OP, wondering why I had a choice of 1 PvE, 1 PvP and 1 WvW. And the next day, I had the forums open to spew my wrath, when I opened my client to make a screenshot. And found out I had 3 of each then :p

I love leveling, so I don’t really use those tomes (that’s why I have a few in my bags waiting to be used :p). But if I do use them it’s usually between lvl70 and 80. For me, those last few levels somehow always take longer… (probably because you’re closer to the end, and want those last few levels done and over with)

Rebooting My Dream.7394:

As a new player (joined GW2 less than 24h ago) I would like to recieve reward for completing all 3 daily tasks. But one of them is “Daily WvW veteran creature slayer.” WvW opens for me at level 31 only. But I don’t want to speed level my first character to level 31 today just for the sake of being able to do dailies. “The journey is the destination” after all.
Dear ANet, please reconsider offering a bit more appropriate daily tasks for new players.

Only today (if this is your first daily) will you have 3 dailies. From tomorrow on, you’ll have your pick of three PvE ones and 3 PvP ones (as you said, you won’t be able to do the three WvW ones until you’re lvl31, I wonder why they even put them in there…)

To those that say you can do WvW on any level, you’re partly right. As long as you have it unlocked on at least one character. You must have (had?) at least one character at lvl31 before WvW unlocks. After that you can enter WvW with a lvl2 character if you so wish.

BrotherBelial.3094:

You don’t seem to get where people are coming from. If you play alot of PvP, a few months worth, you’ll notice that you lose more games than you win. Sure when you are on a wining streak the tracks fill up fast, but when you are losing game after game after game, you can spend 45 mins and get nothing but the 90 silver you get for playing the 3 matches.

I know you lose more matches than you win. But even if you lose, you will get progress. If you “lose” at the dungeon (the group you finally get, is horrible [which is my general impression from groups from when I still joined pugs]) and simply cannot continue, you’ll get zip. Maybe a few blues and a piece of bread for your trouble (that’s my average drop in a dungeon, I still wonder where people get that 5G from, I’ve done Honor of the Waves a few times for my legendary, and most I got from that dungeon was a lot of blues and a few greens)

Sunshine.5014:

Halan.7931:

BrotherBelial.3094:

Halan.7931:

choovanski.5462:

Malediktus.9250:

So why can PvP earn most of the PvE skins for less work?

you mean dungeons? you think pvp is easier than dungeons? you joker

You auto-join games (instead of looking for group), you can’t be kicked, you don’t have to deal with metajerks, just capture points and fight other players.
Completing reward track twice gives you enough tokens for a Gift, a few weapons and two armor skins.

I’m not talking about actual PvP vs dungeons, but about convenience for solo player.

And do you have any idea how long that can take? I lost 6 games in a row the other day, and got 3 rewards from it. Also have to deal with whispers from people calling you this and that because you are better than them with your class. People calling the team names and going afk because the first 10 seconds of the match don’t go well. People leaving mid game or before match starts because they don’t like the map.

Quite fast, actually. I discovered PvP just a week ago, now I have 1 fully completed AC reward track + 14/40 AC (then it got disabled) + 19/40 Glorious.
After 59 played games.

Only got trash talk when our group fought against a premade in Courtyard, otherwise it was pretty nice. I’m in Europe, if it matters.

60 games? With 15m per game including queue time.. Actually, let’s say it takes you 10m per game (for your benefit), that means 10 hours right there. I can do a round of AC in less than an hour (sometimes less than 30m for 3 paths). That rewards at least 5g and enough tokens for you to buy exotics. You spent 10 hours to get what, one AC reward track that rewards less than 1h of PvE?

Also, the people complaining about exclusive PvP rewards should realize how much exclusive PvE reward they have. PvP people can’t even have a legendary unless they do a full map completion.

Forgive my language but you guys should shut up and go back to your corner.

For me, doing dungeons is not worth it.

A. I’m a ranger.
B. I don’t know any of that beserker thing everybody raves about
C. One AC reward track gives you 240 tokens, 3 weapons and one armor piece. So, that’s 240 tokes free to spend, 3 × 390 tokens (two-handed weapons) and 1x 330 tokens (body part of the armour set). To get that, you’d need to do 15 full runs of the dungeons (and full is all three paths). If you’re lucky (30 minutes for 3 paths, not having to wait at all for groups, nor being kicked for groups because you’ve an unwanted profession), that’s still 3 full paths extra.

Now, if you’re not as well versed in dungeons, or are on an unwanted profession (adding up for the majority of players), add an extra 2 hours for a full run and you’ll see that the PvP track is much better for a large group of players. I personally don’t know anybody in my group of friends who can do 3 full paths within 30 minutes of any dungeon. The fastest they go are 30 minutes for one path. If they’re lucky and can find a group fast.

Paul Ella.2037:

If you don’t have a phone number you can still use the Google Authenticator option to secure your account with 2 Factor Authentication.

Or the Microsoft authenticator. Or the Ios authenticator (or whoever makes it for apple products :p). There’s even a desktop authenticator (apparently!)

I have had the authenticator back when it was still in beta. I didn’t reinstate it when it went live (I was put back to email authentication), but I still got the dragon :p

(it did push me to reinstate my authenticator again, though…)

I do have a question though… Is it possible to add two authenticators with one account? I don’t always have my phone with me (which is why I don’t care for SMS authentication), but I do always have my tablet with me…

Lawton Campbell.8517:

Yep, looking into this now. Not really sure where the problem is yet, we didn’t make any changes to the API key stuff.

Super happy fun times commence.

Don’t you love bugs that popup out of nowhere… (or seem to, only to be some very silly mistake that triggers that bug once every blue moon…)

Nekres.1038:

Lawton Campbell.8517:

I posted a note in our internal chat about it being broken, but yeah, it’s the weekend so it’s probably not gonna be fixed before Monday.

Really sorry about that

Is a fix in sight?

I’d say give them a few hours, it’s barely 10 in the morning for them! And that on monday too…

Pandeh.5248:

You must be leveling really fast to find such a thing annoying. Do you mind making a guide?

I found it annoying. And I don’t level fast. In fact, I got a level by harvesting in my home instance… (he got 7 levels now by harvesting in home instances…)

And if I do create a new character, the first 20 levels are done by a scroll (what else to do with those dozens of scrolls I get?). I am not looking forward to that experience now…

sorudo.9054:

i would like just one thing, no screens at all.
i know i leveled up, i don’t care one single bit about the “info” they give, i don’t care about the rewards.
all i care about is leveling the kitten character, the screens are doing nothing more then getting on my nerves.
it is bad enough we have it with renown hearts, something that can easily be auto-accepted since it gives you nothing more then points, now we also have it with levels.

it’s as if Anet loves to go against the stream, the worst thing you can do to a player during gameplay is to spam them with messages…….and that’s exactly what they do.

Why not give it once, for the first character you level. No need to keep repeating the information for people who already got multiple characters past that point.

I still need to catch up on her, but I have encountered more of those fun interactions. Such as the Asura prodigy and his skrit helper, who are out to steal an apple, or the two NPC’s discussing Zommoros.

I should spend some more time there, I bet there are more such jewels to find.

Tumult.2578:

Umm, doesn’t this kinda scream “hey hackers, my account is a real good target”?
Just saying I hope you change your passwords often.

As if my account is only protected by a password. Besides, you’d still have to connect a forum name to a login name as well. And lastly, just because people have that many characters doesn’t mean they also have a lot of gold….

Aiming for 30, got 26 now.
One for each race, gender and armor class combination. I am missing 3 Norns (male heavy, male medium and female light) and one Sylvari (male light).

I got at one ranger per race, the other classes are evenly distributed.

Bumping this thead as they still are not working correctly. Some are, most aren’t.

isingrel.2350:

I noticed a few more missing:
30703
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6543

Is this the best way to report missing items?

I wondered the same… The ones I’m missing are mostly the karma items. The entire Settler line (from Southsun, light) is not there, The Sylvari Heavy T2 is not shown… parts of the aurora line (light, I do have the shoes, and helm visible, but not the shoulders, gloves and body), etc.

I heard about this one:
http://orikaru.net/bank

My non-level 80’s all had heto points left after the change. What I think happened is that you had a great mix of skills on your bar and traits activated so that the game had to unlock a great variety of lines to keep the same skills and traits.

I’d like to revive this thread by saying a very heartfelt Thank You!

That was an awesome hunt and an even greater reward. I’ll be busy for the next month or two to clear some bags.

I have the same problem, but with the diving achievement… At least you can stay in one map!