Guild Wars 2

Spartacus.3192:

cyclop.5934:

Little off topic. No special title this season or it is just me?

Probably cos ANET realized no one has respected the “legend” title since S1 since it cannot represent skill in a grind based league full of loopholes and tricks to gain pips. (semi joking here of course)

I think they just forgot to add it like they forgot to disable s3 one. A lot of new season titles got datamined a while ago.

He doesnt need a nerf, people need to use their brain and cc him

If only they would also have installed the -3 to +3 pips system from season 1, then it would be worth it to try hard even if you see no chance to win, currently 8 losses in a row

24 matches, only 7 wins
all soloQ
saphire division

are you sure you patched in the season 1 matchmaking after you already forgot to add the new season title?

Kaatora.3186:

Malediktus.9250:

I hope you are doing a rollback on people who illegitimately gained progress on this achievement.

I am sure it would be even easier to rollback the progress on that title than it was for the GWAMM title rollback. Heck, it is a single digit on the achievement page which can be compared to the progress last season which is still shown in the PvP panel. So much simpler than all the pieces that make up the GWAMM title. At least on paper.

I agree, but will Anet invest that effort?

Mark Katzbach.9084:

A message from the PvP team:

The Illustrious Legend achievement from season 3 was unintentionally left active with the launch of season 4. We have disabled this achievement’s progress, preventing players from completing the achievement outside of season 3.

We’ll see you in the Mists!

I hope you are doing a rollback on people who illegitimately gained progress on this achievement. Everyone who had diamond last season got it completed after playing their first match this season. Maybe some ruby players from last season also grinded through emerald to saphire this season?

There are so many things anet only thinks half way through, I am not suprised by anyhting anymore.
Most if not all of Anets employes only play this game casually, so I am not suprised many things go wrong. They need to hire some hardcore players for the game design.

First impressions: Impossible to progress without premades.
Win loss win loss win win loss loss etc.
I didnt think they could make a worse season than season 3, but they managed to do it.
How they make this matchmaking without season 1 pip system (-3 to +3 pips) is beyond me. Simply terrible.

It makes sense that it still progresses because Anet simply programmed it to advance on division changes.
It makes no sense that Anet did not replace it. That is what I meant

Aparently people can still progress it, too

nice mess <.<

Pinkunicorn of Dethecus.3217:

People are also saying that their Illustrious got progressed if they didn’t achieve it last season, guessing they screwed up pretty nicely, and forgot to add it back in, so division crossing now gives you last season’s.

Makes sense that it progresses, it works the same way as the year of ascension achievements. So progressing divisions this season will progress the achievement unless anet deactivates it and puts it to historical

With the start of the new season the illustrious legend title did not get moved to historical achievements

I cannot find any title in the achievement tab for this season. Oversight or intended?

And Illustrious Legend did not get moved to historical achievements.

No. I feel you get plenty of badges. Just your discipline with spending them is bad

I liked the -3 to +3 system from season 1

Orpheal.8263:

I say mostly no to all of these suggestions, because i only see in most of these suggestions one thing, namely

“I want more AP and that fast, so that I can easily stay longer in the top x ranking, because i’ve done like already 50% of what Ive listed up here and want to get AP for these things and more tittles for my collection so that I can boast more about how many titles I have earned already in the game”

No, just no…

More achievements yes, but there are alot of better things that should get achievements or the existign achievements shoudl get expanded, so that they provide over a logner time more AP, but nothign of these extra ordinaire things, that are partwise just pure grind shoudl get added.. just so that only a hand full of people gets instantly a huge AP boost, while 99,9% of all players gets nothing at all from this addition ….

Best example of better expand existing achievent.

Monster Kill Achievement.. maxed out already at lousy 1000 kills..
Add there more tiers, like 2500 Kills and 5000 Kills, woudl add already alot of new AP for somethign easy to do that you get automatically over tiem by just playing the game

I fail to see how your suggestions are any more engaging than my suggestions. After all they are called achievement points and not “I play the way I want” points.
But I would not be opposed to have more kill x of y achievements to go along with it.
Also the only reason some people get an instant boost from these suggestions is because Anet only added super casual achievements for a long time now you can finish on release day and then be bored again for next 2 weeks. Anet basically overslept almost every opportunity to make achievement points more meaningful.

So you worked for 4 years on it and 30k AP for a full set was not possible to get? Talk about focused play. A friend has 6600 hours and over 32k AP (I dont even have 1k AP more than him but almost twice his hours).

Lithril Ashwalker.6230:

can someone sum this up? will it be easier to climb in divisions starting tomorrow?

Prepare to spend 500+ games to get to legendary division unless you find a loophole in the system or have a very skilled premade team. In season 1 you could actually get -3 to 3 pips per game (3 was possible even for a loss), but anet is only taking s1 matchmaking with s2 pip system. So it will be hell to progress.

morrolan.9608:

Hallelujah at this change. Thank you anet.

Malediktus.9250:

How does enforced 50/50 winrate work together with loss and win streak bonus? Seems like progressing boils down to luck at that point.

But we repeatedly get told that if a player is any good that they can carry a team.

But if 1 team gets a player that can carry and the other team doesnt it isnt a fair 50/50 matchup anymore

How does enforced 50/50 winrate work together with loss and win streak bonus? Seems like progressing boils down to luck at that point.
at least also bring back -3 to +3 pip system from season 1 to reward trying hard against clearly better teams

I am glad you cannot do them in hotjoin, or people would start trading wins.

Swagger.1459:

Malediktus.9250:

I think people are more likely to donate some blueprints to their commanders if they get them from the reward tracks instead of having to go out of their way to buy them.
It is like “hey I just got 3 blue prints from this reward track and the commander is doing a good job so I might as well send them to him”.

If you are a good commander then ask kindly for seige donations to help you and the team out… Don’t insult any players behind the keyboard or assume that they owe you something.

Some people are just a drag and you need to call them out.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

Malediktus.9250:

I think people are more likely to donate some blueprints to their commanders if they get them from the reward tracks instead of having to go out of their way to buy them.
It is like “hey I just got 3 blue prints from this reward track and the commander is doing a good job so I might as well send them to him”.

I agree with this and I think it’s a decent reason to offer blueprints as rewards in the GoB track, especially if they are superior or guild BP (which currently have similar TP prices to most cores and lodes, so the potential value wouldn’t change, much).

Currently the triumphant armor reward path gives 1x 3 superior blueprints and the hero weapon path gives 3x 3 superior blueprints. The superior blueprints even have a chance for omega golems. It seems odd to me that no other WvW reward track gives you any WvW supplies-

Anet should just buff the rewards for the event. They are lackluster compared to tequatl which basically takes no effort at all in comparison.

For some reason I am even getting gold seller messages on my ~100 AP secondary accounts from heart of the mists people with 17 AP. No idea how they even get my account names.

I think people are more likely to donate some blueprints to their commanders if they get them from the reward tracks instead of having to go out of their way to buy them.
It is like “hey I just got 3 blue prints from this reward track and the commander is doing a good job so I might as well send them to him”.

That sounds like a good suggestion to me, it is pretty sad that gold medals for adventures only give 1 AP each, although some of them need quite a few hours of practice to get gold.

I cannot believe that you thought you will win in a long run. The skritt was clearly designed to be a gold and ecto sink where people can challenge their luck.
You must have a serious gambling addiction if you had to loose 41k gold before stopping.

Spirit Shards are useless anyway, you get so many of them and if you would want to convert them to gold you would have to click yourself to a broken mouse and carpal tunnel syndrome.

OriOri.8724:

WvW commanders don’t “deserve” anything for having PvE players in their squad. If you as a commander don’t want someone that you think is a PvE player in there then just kick them. Its simple. But you don’t deserve anything from them. Period. Don’t be so entitled.

People like you are why less and less people want to command. Ungrateful rallybots everywhere who dont know that you can easily burn through 50-100g of siege and buff food tables per commanding session.
Plus you can still sell the blueprints on trading post if you think your commander was bad and deserves nothing.

I think the gift of battle reward track should give 3x 3 random superior blue prints (instead of the molten lodestone splinters) like the hero reward track. Then the pve heroes could at least donate something to their commander for carrying them.

Danikat.8537:

It wasn’t a week, it was about a month. But you had to buy gems with real money, not gold, and it had to be over a certain amount to get the mini Mr. Sparkles (I think it was 4000 gems but I can’t remember now).

I’m surprised it hasn’t come back since it seemed to go over well at the time and I agree they should make the mini available again – either the same way or through something else – because a lot of people will have gotten the game since then, or may not have had the money at the time, and never had another opportunity.

You had to spend 10€ for green quaggan backpack and 50€ for mini mr sparkles. But for some reason Anet stopped doing bonusses for buying gems with real money

Astralporing.1957:

Malediktus.9250:

Raids are the best pve content the game has to offer.

That’s a really pessimistic look on the game.

Sorry that I do not find the “spam 1 on guard staff to win” content entertaining.

Gotejjeken.1267:

Reward track for everyone I say. Play how you want. Leave the exclusive thing to specific titles.

So if I’m an awesome raider I get an exclusive title. LIke GWAMM for hardcore super awesome GW1 players.

Too bad raids do not have any hard or cool titles, so nothing to brag about there. 4 years after release and the GW1 titles are still the best titles in GW2.

The only way to keep people sticking to their servers is rewarding server loyality.
Like getting twice the loot from each kill if you are at least 1 year on the server. Or each kill counts double towards Ultimate Dominator etc.

If it is just 1 bad pug your 9 people from your static group should be able to carry him. If a raid kill fails because of 1 person that can only happen during specific mechanics like green circles at vg.

I would contact the customer support and ask if they can give it to you. Your account is either bugged or you have the most terrible RNG ever. these spoons drop at least once per evening for me

The reward for hero challenges in HoT is not for doing them daily, but so you have an incentive to help other people doing them. No nerf needed

Raids are the best pve content the game has to offer. I want more of it

I like this idea, would save some bank space

OnizukaBR.8537:

No, stop putting everything in reward track. You can’t have some skins from the exclusive PvP and WvW tracks from playing PvE. So why PvP and WvWvW should get the exclusive reward from raids?

Exactly, reward tracks make everything pathetically easy. Want dungeoneer title/collection? Do pvp for reward tracks because its way faster than doing dungeons.
It takes a minimum of 4 weeks to get 600 magnetite shards (+20 gold and the kill proof achievement for the respective boss) for 1 weapon in the raids or 1 very lucky drop (they are rare drops from xera, matthias and keep construct).
So even a 1 time reward track for everyone would be way too rewarding

I dont like this idea, finding 10 players is not too much to ask for.

There is nothing wrong with bandwaggoning. Noone enjoys playing on empty servers. I think even desolation (T1 EU) is not full enough compared to servers 3 years ago.

No they should stay raid exclusive

Mez Koo.9510:

I’d say a Forsaken Thicket Reward Track would be better, and have it like a dungeon track:
- Small boxes give magnetite shards and bags of gear.
- A few any choice weapon skins or minipets.
- A few boss chest rolls.
- Final reward is any choice of 1 piece of envoy armor.

A fractal reward track would be cool too:
- Small chests give pristine fractal relics and infusions.
- A few select fractal weapon skins. or ascended materials.
- Loads of tier 4 fractal boxes, and encryption keys.
- Final reward is any choice gold fractal weapon.

I hope this suggestion is sarcasm

I went to WvW with a new character and the waypoints on the map I joined did not get auto unlocked like they did in the past

Zelulose.8695:

nerf sustain then we can look at these traits

sustain is already at an all time low, I see so many people going downed in 3 seconds already, its not even fun if fights are short

The +5 simple agony infusions are still available in the Fractal Reliquary. Probably should be removed from there since the fractal merchants do not sell them anymore

JPIMP.5236:

GoldenTruth.2853:

JPIMP.5236:

You realise how long that would take? That is arguably harder to achieve than a legendary atm due to it being purely RNG not to mention you can get repeat drops of the same item. And if you try hunting gold fractal relics to get the ones you want, good luck.

So…because the collection takes a while to get means that it shouldn’t exist?

Even of they didn’t add a new gold skin as a reward (which they should), it should still exist as as a collection.

Not saying it shouldn’t exist. My point was that people complained daily about how hard it was to get legendaries especially for casual players. Imagine the complaints around this, which is even harder. Sure it be a fun and great thing to do for long term active players and the reward would make you look great in fashion wars 2 but I can guarantee there will be a lot of crying which will eventually get Anet to make it easier to get golden fractal weapons thus diminishing their prestigious value.

Its a devious circle.
People complain that something is too hard/takes too long —> Anet acts —> People finish it in lightning speed and complain there is nothing to do
Maybe Anet should for once stick with their plan and not adjust everything while killing their game’s longevity while doing that

JPIMP.5236:

You realise how long that would take? That is arguably harder to achieve than a legendary atm due to it being purely RNG not to mention you can get repeat drops of the same item. And if you try hunting gold fractal relics to get the ones you want, good luck.

It is a good thing if there are things you cannot finish right now on demand. Game desperately needs long term goals.
I only have 1 out of 19 gold fractal skins (and a chest to choose a skin), but this finally would give a reason to play as much fractals as I used before HoT again.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

It must be gratifying to have accomplished so much is so little time.

You can put your sarcasm somewhere else. Time spend is gone no matter how you spent it.
I am doubtful I would be a happier person if I would spent the time on for example on a better career instead of gaming for example, so for me it is time well spent.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

How many have you already completed, I wonder. =)

I havent counted, but less than half of it, for instance I am only lvl 2944 in WvW, so not even 30% there to diamond legend.
I also never managed to solo lupicus or mai trin. And I also never beat any of the raid bosses with less than 10 people since our guild only raids with full groups.
I think the suggested list would keep me busy for another 3000 hours at least.