Guild Wars 2

The achievement and collection items seem to be whitelisted now.

But “Mini Mushroom Stomper” is still missing, it is an unlock from Guaranteed Wardrobe Unlocker, so it probably skips the whitelisting queue.

Also taken from the topic https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/community/api/Achievements-don-t-match-the-in-game-value

https://api.guildwars2.com/v2/achievements/1257 needs whitelisting
and https://api.guildwars2.com/v2/achievements/561 probably should be blacklisted because it gets converted to https://api.guildwars2.com/v2/achievements/863 upon logging in. It seems only people who did not log in between the first release of the super adventure box in April 2013 can have this achievement. (this is most likely because the achievement got an additional reward at the 2nd SAB release in 2013.

the following stuff seems to be whitelisted now:
all Items from Cultural Attaché collection
1 item from Gift of Aurene collection (Aurenic Essence)
Koda’s Blessing collection achievement and its items

the rest appears to be still missing

If he just picked up the crab and run around in circles the whole game it might not be enough, it is not based on personal score as far as I can tell, since you can get those by just holding the crab in your hands

The minigames have anti afk farm mechanics, maybe you triggered it with a too low activity level

LS3E3 was the worst one so far. That elixir is a terrible mechanic and instances felt very boring, too.

Then Anet should reduce the timed challenge to 10 or 15 minutes to make up for this change.
Personally I think it should be fixed because now you can ignore the 3 elites and just burst down Mai Trin. When she respawned at 100% it was worth killing the elites.

Mai Trin on lvl 98 does not seem to full heal anymore after the 3rd cannon phase like it did on fractals 100.
This makes the timed challenge of 25 minutes for the Ad Infinitum 4 collection even easier than it was, so this is hopefully a bug?

Hyper Cutter.9376:

Hardcore world bosses were a terrible idea. Tequatl was abandoned on most servers before the megaserver made killing it regularly possible, and literally everyone except for the specialized guild dedicated to killing the triple wurm abandoned that dumpster fire of a fight within a week.

Malediktus.9250:

Tequatl is not even hardcore, it was stealth nerfed multiple times

Tequatl has never been nerfed, players were buffed (removing condition stacks in particular hit world bosses hard and most of them got HP buffs to compensate).

You are kidding yourself if you think Tequatl was never nerfed. I remember when he was new and the whole map was on teamspeak. There were no afk leechers. The double damage spots were already known and people used consumeables like the fire elemental. There was a melee zerg back then.
Yet there were only 2-3 minutes left on the clock despite having a highly organised group of players who were briefed what to do.

Then one day random unorganized pug maps which barely filled 5min before spawn finished with 8-10min time remaining, 10+ afk slackers and no consumeables. And most people just pewpew with ranged attacks from far away not making use of double damage spots.
This was before HoT and crit damage mind you. So at the minimum Anet halfed Tequatls total health to explain this.
At the same time Anet reduced the drop rates of Tequatls hoard. I used to see several hoards posted per kill, now I feel lucky if one person reports a drop.

OriOri.8724:

Malediktus.9250:

Good idea, delete all daily/monthly AP and double all permanent AP in return.

Look at @Rauderi’s suggestion instead. LWS1 achievements already gave out way too many AP for the low effort required. If anything is doubled it should only be the achievements that are permanently obtainable (aka all of the non historical ones).

On a related note I do think that the list of new achievements you put together a while ago should be implemented. It was a pretty good list of stuff that should be included

It is the opposite, a lot of the new achievements give too few AP. It is insulting if something like the nightmare fractal challenge only gives 5 AP. Same with collections that need a lot of resources such as the Koda one (5 AP) or the Destroyer weapon collection (3 AP).
The AP reward chests were obviously balanced around the LS1 AP rewards and not the current releases which give maybe 2k AP per year including expansions.
If Anet does not want to increase the amount of achievements included in each release, then they need to go back to LS1 AP amounts (and rebalance existing achievements while they are at it)

Nurgle.6597:

baylock.1703:

Remove it all and make dailys not give ap and I do have 4k ap comeing from monthlys and 7k from dailys it does not show your real achivments it just shows you logged in for 10 minutes every day also lower cost of achivment rewards and add bonuses to titles and minis ty for listening.

“real achievements "

99% of the achievements have nothing to do with skill, only time spent in the game, getting a legendary takes no skill, getting 1000 kills in pvp takes no skill, collecting an item that drops randomly takes no skill…

GW2 is a MMO with a casual skill cap. So most achievements will be about time and resource investment over skill.
But honestly this is no different to real life achievements, most of them are just a result of dedication. Getting a doctor grade in physics? 80% dedication, 20% skill and luck.
It is hard to say where dedication ends and skill starts, most of the time skill only lets you do things faster or more realiable.

It definitely gives unfair advantages, so Anet should ban this overlay (and similar overlays)

Good idea, delete all daily/monthly AP and double all permanent AP in return.

I can only hope it comes back next year now that 2016 is almost over and all chances to reopen the Crown Pavillon got skipped for over 2 years now.
If Anet does not intend to ever bringing it back it would be great if they would say so, so I do not have to get my hopes up for it at every remotely fitting opportunity.

The tax payers of Divinity Reach should start a riot that so much gold was wasted on building this large structure taking up 1/7 of the whole city and only has been used twice in several years.
#RiotInDR #MakeJennahAbdicate

There is some stuff that needs manual whitelisting again:

all Items from Cultural Attaché collection
1 item from Gift of Aurene collection (Aurenic Essence)
Koda’s Blessing collection achievement and its items
Mini Mushroom Stomper (automatic unlock from Guaranteed Wardrobe Unlocker)

also some ids mentioned by Elfo Bianco.3786 in https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/community/api/Achievements-don-t-match-the-in-game-value is still missing

I think costs less than crafting it because people crafted tons of the charged ambrite back when quartz was cheap and the supplies are still not used up

30 seconds is a lie. I came like 10min after the map reset and it was still tier 1. Maybe you got unlucky and entered a organised and populated map

Well it would be too easy if you did not get punished by having to start over the instance. It is not exactly hard. I even heared you can hide at the room before the boss and let the NPCs do the job until you have to pick up the scroll. Maybe try that if you have issues with the achievement.

It is good that the reset motes are gone, so it feels more punishing to fail the achievement

I do not like / support any of your suggestions. Would reduce the replayability of the game.

The elixir crap is a horrible mechanic. Good thing it is just another map with 0 replay value, so I doubt I will visit it again after finishing the achievements (and buying the unlocks)

Same issue, cannot get the suet or the firestone anymore after playing through the story once. Blocks my progress on several achievements

Tequatl is not even hardcore, it was stealth nerfed multiple times
None of the HoT metas qualify as hardcore anymore. Chak Gerent before its nerf might have qualified

I think having easy mode encounters in raids are terrible. They are a time waste for people who enjoy high difficulty encounters and offer too good rewards for people who just want rewards. Easy encounters should give no ascended items or legendary insights for example.

I disagree with removing the “Shadow Assassin Short Bow” even though it shares the same skin other another item.
Unless the item gets deleted from the wardrobe at the same time, because it would give an impossible to correct advantage when comparing unlocked skins with other people.

Cynz.9437:

MissCee.1295:

Cynz.9437:

MissCee.1295:

I think Anet need to be a little more transparent about what is being done with reports. We can wish I suppose.

Nothing happens. Some guy on reddit got an alt account and have been trying to get himself banned by all means. It took him half year of griefing to even get a warning.

Seriously? Or is it just an urban legend?

Anet really do need to step up their efforts. How much time and money do you have to throw at this game before Anet takes their customers seriously?

Yeah he made long post and all and even got reply from Anet claiming they get 10 reports per day.

Sounds legit with the 10 reports a day. On some days just me reports 10+ people.

Simba.6732:

Malediktus.9250:

If you are dead you should not get achievements. I hope this is intended and not a bug

Oh, if I die at 5% while doing an achievement, I should not be awarded? What stupid logic is this?

Yes, because you failed. If everyone dies at 5% the kill would not have been successful.

If you are dead you should not get achievements. I hope this is intended and not a bug

kiimi.2853:

Malediktus.9250:

Well it stopped crashing for me and I still have my language set to German. So they must have changed something, because earlier today (like 1 hour before I said it stopped crashing) it was still crashing the game.

Yes, working here too now.

Im kinda angry though since i didnt get a single chance to buy brahams shield skin because of the bug and its not listed anymore…

I would explain the situation to the customer support. It is unlikely that they cannot help you with it

slamfunction.7462:

Ok, so let me get this straight, you can only ever obtain 15000 AP from doing dailes, before the dailies AP is capped?

So this means that if i never did any other achievements, got to my 15000 AP mark, i could then do the regular achievements like slayer, story achievements, and etc to go beyond 15000 AP? Is this right?

Yes the 15k cap only exists for daily+monthly. Permanent and historic achievements are not affected

Well it stopped crashing for me and I still have my language set to German. So they must have changed something, because earlier today (like 1 hour before I said it stopped crashing) it was still crashing the game.

They should delete AP from dailies and monthlies and double AP from all permanent achievements. It was a stupid idea to give dailies/monhtlies AP to begin with.
So its good there is a cap for daily AP very least, preserves a tiny bit of prestige for the highest AP rewards.

Looks like you fixed the bug, it is no longer crashing

Ragnarox.9601:

Malediktus.3740:

Ragnarox.9601:

Make Guardian/dh , learn their weaknesses, beat them easily, and stop complaining. Do something.

did you read my post? I have over 8000 hours on my guardian.
the whole concept of dragon hunter ruined the class

If guardian/dh is so op, what is druid called then? A God maybe?:)

I prefer playing against teams with 3 druids instead of 3 dhs, at least druids will never be able to one shot you or make rezzing/stomping impossible

I think stronghold should be disabled for seasons until you fixed it to be more popular. Currently there are people who cheese their way to legend in ~60 games per season with almost guaranteed wins. They rather have their 45min+ queue times and farm unsuspecting newbies than earn their season badges in proper pvp.

Enrif.7359:

Malediktus.9250:

The problem does not get bigger. You can buy most things that require charged quartz

You can not buy Celestial, Wanderers or Commanders Insignias

Yes but all the items that is not part of armor/weapons.
So buy the items you can and save your quartz for the untradeable stuff

I think the matchmaking quality of seasons would go up a lot if it only allowed solo queuing with no class stacking, Rerolling mid match would also have to result in instant dishonour instead of only if you need more than 2minutes to reroll.

Example: A single trap guardian or rev is not much of a problem, but if you have 2 of each in a premade there is little chance to beat it with pugs.

The problem does not get bigger. You can buy most things that require charged quartz

Mr Godlike.6098:

So many people here don’t like to dodge moa…why…why people don’t like dodge moa!? Why people come here to complain because they don’t like to dodge moa!?

Dodging it is almost impossible, try playing mesmer. 90%+ of your moas will land

Or give moa invulnerability. So you can make someone useless for some time, can use it to decap but not for easy kill.

Kuya.6495:

I’m guessing you don’t know what fragment of faith is nor the trait that procs it.

its too situational and as I said guard is only 1 of 9 classes

Kuya.6495:

hunter’s fortification works during moa form.

oh great, grandmaster trait of 1 class is working. and still not very useful since moa has no block skills.

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Polymorph_Moa

Yes. but the dodge skills do not help if you have condies on you. You simply cannot get rid of them during moa form.

Donari.5237:

My current concern with the charged quartz is the guild hall mine upgrading. That takes a lot of ley-infused tools, and each one of those needs a charged quartz. I had a small stock of charged quartz and was able to donate it to Mining Rate 2, but that means I no longer have enough for Mining Rate 3. Perhaps not a problem for a guild of 500, but in a guild with five currently active members, three of us doing most of the mats donating, it means a serious slowdown in hall growth beyond our already glacial rate (we’re bearing down on all of level 22, after claiming the hall in the first week possible).

I think this is by design. Buy ley line tools on the trading post if it is not going fast enough for you.

Trigr.6481:

Malediktus.9250:

Trigr.6481:

Prince Vingador.8067:

Trigr.6481:

Malediktus.9250:

Got condis on you —> get moad --> cant cleanse condis —> dead

when will this stupid skill finally be removed from the game. In some games I get moad 3+ times, its impossible to see in all the effect clutter

The two aren’t mutually exclusive, what you’re asking for based off your terrible logic is rubbish.

That’s like saying you want to nerf all crowd control effects because of the possibility of dying while you don’t have control over your character. When you come back with a better argument than effect clutter as a reason for a nerf, then we can continue this discussion. Until then…….

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Countless

Mesmer can spike very hard with condies and if u get cc like 1- 3 secs u might have time to react but when u get moa 7 seconds u cant use any skills and then u might even get moa again.
Moa is super strong in a 1v1 situation , and having loads of condies on u its almost for sure u will die, i think thats what he ment.

And? If you get hit with a large power attack while you’re in moa you’re still gonna drop, based off that logic, nerf moa…yeah ok good discussion.

Countless

Are you playing mesmer as main in pvp?

Do you have anything to bring to the table in this discussion other than effect clutter burning your retinas as justification to nerfing a skill?

There dont need to be more reasons. The skill is simply OP in all aspects. PERIOD.
No skill should replace your whole skill bar, especially not for so long and without any long and clearly visible tell.

Trigr.6481:

Prince Vingador.8067:

Trigr.6481:

Malediktus.9250:

Got condis on you —> get moad --> cant cleanse condis —> dead

when will this stupid skill finally be removed from the game. In some games I get moad 3+ times, its impossible to see in all the effect clutter

The two aren’t mutually exclusive, what you’re asking for based off your terrible logic is rubbish.

That’s like saying you want to nerf all crowd control effects because of the possibility of dying while you don’t have control over your character. When you come back with a better argument than effect clutter as a reason for a nerf, then we can continue this discussion. Until then…….

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Countless

Mesmer can spike very hard with condies and if u get cc like 1- 3 secs u might have time to react but when u get moa 7 seconds u cant use any skills and then u might even get moa again.
Moa is super strong in a 1v1 situation , and having loads of condies on u its almost for sure u will die, i think thats what he ment.

And? If you get hit with a large power attack while you’re in moa you’re still gonna drop, based off that logic, nerf moa…yeah ok good discussion.

Countless

Are you playing mesmer as main in pvp?

Got condis on you —> get moad --> cant cleanse condis —> dead

when will this stupid skill finally be removed from the game. In some games I get moad 3+ times, its impossible to see in all the effect clutter

Cynz.9437:

Malediktus.9250:

Instead of adding more unblockables, lower the amount of block in the game

You think we didn’t ask for it since HoT realease?

I read the forums daily, but the chance for Anet listening is like 1% in my experience. So repeating something often helps

Oh please no increase to daily AP cap. They should delete daily/monthly AP and double all permanent AP to make up for it. Adding AP to dailies was in my opinion in the top 5 of mistakes Anet did.

Instead of adding more unblockables, lower the amount of block in the game

Yes and it makes me unamused if people upload things without my consent, especially if it contains voice com.

I think dishonor stacks stay for 72 hours after the penalty run out. So if you get dishonor too often the penalty gets longer and longer