Guild Wars 2

Thelgar.7214:

Name: Dye collector
Prerequisites: None
Goal: Collect all 403 dyes available from unidentified dyes
Reward: 25 AP, Title “I like it colorful”

I already have all of the dyes. The reward is being disappointed by the celebratory dye packs I get on my characters’ third birthdays.

What do you mean? I mean you could add the gemstore dyes to the achievement, but it would probably make more sense to have seperate achievevements for those similar to the black lion weapon collections.

Since Anet has trouble putting out content that keeps people busy for a long time I thought about a list of achievements that could keep more people playing and motivated during content draughts.
A lot of these achievements are deliberately chosen to be hard or very time consuming to have a lot of tasks to choose from during content draughts, so keep that in mind before criticizing. But on many you can make progress while playing as normal.
I will post more suggestions over time as I can think of it; also feel free to make your own suggestions.

Collections:

Name: Forsaken Thicket Master
Prerequisites: None
Goal: Collect all skins, miniatures and other unlockables (such as account binding an ghostly infusion) of the 3 Forsaken Thicket raid wings.
Reward: Title “Master of the Forsaken Thicket”, 100 AP, red recolor of ghostly infusion

Name: Advanced Exotic Hunter
Prerequisites: “Exotic Hunter” completed
Goal: Collect all the random exotic skins you can find in Heart of Thorns (http://dulfy.net/2015/11/08/gw2-hot-weapons-armor-and-backpieces-guide/#Miscellaneous_Weapons)
Reward: Title “Advanced Exotic Hunter”, 20 AP, 2nd buy on karmic converter per day

Name: Gold Fractal Master
Prerequisites: None
Goal: Collect all Golden fractal weapon skins
Reward: 25 AP, tyria mastery point, Gift of Gold Knowledge (name can be changed ofc)
Gift of Gold Knowledge to turn Ad Infinitum golden, name of upgraded Ad Infinitum changes into “Per Aspera ad Astra”, fitting the theme of fractals and the backpack perfectly
Suggested recipe: Ad Infinitum + Gift of gold knowledge + 250 Essences of Time + 5 Dark Energy
Acquiring the upgraded legendary backpack should auto unlock a golden fractactal capacitor skin

Name: Enthusiasts of Legends
Prerequisites: Finished the 60 vanilla precursor weapon collections
Goal: Unlock all 21 legendary weapon skins of the vanilla game
Reward: 500 AP, Title: “Seeker of Legends”

In addition each legendary skin should have its own achievement worth 10 AP each with a title:

Examples:

Astralaria —> Title: The Cosmologist
Sunrise --> Title: Bringer of Sunshine
Twilight —> Title: Bringer of Darkness
Eternity --> Title: Master of Time and Space
Ad Infinitum —> Title: Doctor of fractal sciences
Proposed “Per aspera ad astra” --> Title: Professor of fractal sciences
The Juggernaut —> Shiny Warrior
For the upcoming envoy armor (25 AP per set):
1 set --> The Envoy
2 sets —> Renowned Envoy
2 sets --> Legendary Envoy

Name: Ascended Weapon Enthusiast
Prerequisites: None
Goal: Collect all 133 regular ascended weapon skins.
Reward: 100 AP, Title: “Exalted Artisan”, Ascended Weapon Chest, Tyria Mastery Point

Name: Multicultural proficiency
Prerequisites: None
Goal: Collect all cultural weapons skins (Charr (t1,2,3), Norn(t1,2,3), Sylvari(t1,2,3), Human(t1,2,3), Norn(t1,2,3), Pirate, Ebon Vanguard, Lion guard, Modniir) and all cultural armor skins (all 3 armor weights and all tiers)
Reward: 100 AP, Title “Globetrotter”, Tyria Mastery Point

Name: Zenith Reacher
Prerequisites: 28k AP
Goal: Collect all 19 Zenith weapon skins
Reward: 100 AP, Title “I reached my Zenith”, Tyria Mastery Point

Name: Mystic collector
Prerequisites: None
Goal: Collect all 19 Mystic weapon skins
Reward: 20 AP, Title “Friend of Zommoros”

Name: Primordus weapon collector
Prerequisites: None
Goal: Collect all 19 Primordus weapon skins.
Reward: 20 AP, Title “Seeker of Primordus’ power”

Name: Pact Hero
Prerequisites: None
Goal: Collect all 19 Pact weapon skins
Reward: 10 AP, Title “Hero of the Pact”

Name: Regional Weapon skin collector
Prerequisites: None
Goal: Collect all Tribal, Legionnaire, Etched, Ceremonial and Orrian weapon skins.
Reward: 10 AP

Name: Quaggan Lover
Prerequisites: Speak to a specific quaggan in Lion Arch
Goal: Collect all 19 pearl weapon skins
Reward: 10 AP

Name: Guild Outfitter
Prerequisites: None
Goal: Collect a Guild Defender, all 3 guild backpacks, all 18 pieces of ornate guild armor, all 19 guild weapon skins, all 16 tenebrous weapon skins and all 16 shimmering weapon skins.
Reward: 75 AP, Title “Guild Outfitter”

Name: Glorious Armor beautifier
Prerequisites: rank 80 in pvp and reached legendary division in at least one season
Goal: Collect all 18 pieces of glorious armor
Reward: 10 AP, Unlock Glorious Hero armor track

Name: Glorious Hero Armor collector
Prerequisites: collected at least 1 part of glorious hero armor
Goal: Collect all 18 pieces of glorious hero armor
Reward: 25AP, Title “Glorious Hero”

Name: Hero weapon beautifier
Prerequisites: Rank 1500 in WvW
Goal: Collect all 19 Hero weapon skins
Reward: 10 AP, unlock Mistforged Hero weapon reward track

Name: Mistforged Hero weapon skin collector
Prerequisites: Completed “Hero weapon beautifier” achievement, collected at least 1 mistforged hero weapon skin
Goal: Collect all 19 mistforged hero weapon skins
Reward: 25 AP, Title “Mistforged Hero”

Name: Triumphant Armor beautifier
Prerequisites: Rank 2000 in WvW, completed Mistforged Hero weapon collection
Goal: Collect all 18 pieces of Triumphant armor
Reward: 10 AP, unlock Triumphant Hero Armor reward track

Name: Triumphant Hero’s armor collector
Prerequisites: collected at least 1 part of Triumphant Hero’s Armor
Goal: Collect all 18 pieces of Triumphant Hero’s armor
Reward: 25 AP, Title “Triumphant Hero”

Name: Legacy Armor Hunter
Prerequisites: None
Goal: Collect all 18 legacy armor skins (tribal, apostle, stalwart)
Reward: 10 AP

Name: Mini Llama Upgrade Frenzy
Prerequisites: Unlock Mini Llama in your wardrobe
Goal: Unlock all 4 mini llamas in your wardrobe
Reward: 50 AP, Mini Lavish Llama in gold, Title “Llama Worshipper”

Name: Dye collector
Prerequisites: None
Goal: Collect all 403 dyes available from unidentified dyes
Reward: 25 AP, Title “I like it colorful”

General achievements:

Name: Fashion icon
Prerequisites: finished “Fashion Forward” achievement
Goal: Have 2000 skins unlocked in your wardrobe
Reward: 25 AP, Title “Fashion Icon”

Name: Fashion enthusiast
Prerequisites: finished “Fashion icon” achievement
Goal: Have 3000 skins unlocked in your wardrobe
Reward: 50 AP, Title “Fashion enthusiast”

Name: Fashion star
Prerequisites: finished “Fashion enthusiast” achievement
Goal: Have 4000 skins unlocked in your wardrobe
Reward: 100 AP, Title “Fashion Star”

Name: Fashion God
Prerequisites: finished “Fashion star” achievement
Goal: Have 5000 skins unlocked in your wardrobe (this achievement is for future proofing, 4168 is complete wardrobe as of time of writing this)
Reward: 200 AP, Title “Fashion God”

Name: Respected Miniature collector
Prerequisites: None
Goal: Unlock 100 miniatures in your wardrobe
Reward: 25 AP, Title “Respected Miniature collector”

Name: Acclaimed Miniature Collector
Prerequisites: finished “Respected Miniature collector”
Goal: Unlock 200 miniatures in your wardrobe
Reward: 50 AP, Title “Acclaimed Miniature Collector”

Name: Heralded Miniature Collector
Prerequisites: finished “Acclaimed Miniature collector”
Goal: Unlock 300 miniatures in your wardrobe
Reward: 50 AP, Title “Heralded Miniature Collector”

Name: Masterful Miniature Collector
Goal: Unlock 400 miniatures in your wardrobe (this achievement is for future proofing, 372 is complete wardrobe as of time of writing this)
Reward: 100 AP, Title “Masterful Miniature Collector”

Name: Tequatl tried to hit me, but failed
Prerequisites: None
Goal: Spend at least 90% of a Tequatl event in his melee range without taking any damage.
Reward: 50 AP, Title “Masterful Dodger”, Tyria Mastery Point

Name: Master of [insert Jumping puzzle]
Prerequisites: Finished the JP achievement
Goal: Finish the JP [insert Jumping puzzle] in less than x time. Use of any teleport, blink or leap skills disqualifies you and you have to start over for another try. [The time limit should be short, maximum 30s more than you need for a perfect run]
Reward: 10 AP, Title “Master of [insert JP name]”

Name: Master of Giganticus Lupicus
Prerequisites: None
Goal: Solo Giganticus Lupicus in any Arah path. If someone else enters the instance you are disqualified and have to start over.
Reward: 25 AP, Title “Master of Giganticus Lupicus”, Tyria mastery point

Name: Master of Mai Trin
Prerequisites: None
Goal: Solo Mai Trin on fractal difficulty level 100. If someone else enters the instance you are disqualified and have to start over.
Reward: 25 AP, Title “Master of Mai Trin”

Name: Addicted Explorator
Prerequisites: None
Goal: Explore the map to 100% completion on all 9 classes.
Reward: 100 AP, Title “Grandmaster Explorer”

Raids:

Name: Skilled Vale Guardian Annihilator
Prerequisites: None
Goal: Defeat the Value Guardian in the Spirit Vale with a maximum of 7 people in your squad.
Reward: 50 AP, Title “Vale Guardian Annihilator”, 100 Magnetite Shards

Name: Skilled Gorseval Annihilator
Prerequisites: None
Goal: Defeat Gorseval in the Spirit Vale with a maximum of 7 people in your squad.
Reward: 50 AP, Title “Gorseval Annihilator”, 100 Magnetite Shards

Name: Skilled Sabetha Annihilator
Prerequisites: None
Goal: Defeat Sabetha in the Spirit Vale with a maximum of 7 people in your squad.
Reward: 50 AP, Title “Sabetha Annihilator”, 100 Magnetite Shards

Name: Skilled Slothasor Annihilator
Prerequisites: None
Goal: Defeat Slothasor in the Salvation Pass with a maximum of 7 people in your squad.
Reward: 50 AP, Title “Slothasor Annihilator”, 100 Magnetite Shards

Name: Skilled Prison Camp Annihilator
Prerequisites: None
Goal: Defeat the Prison Camp in the Salvation Pass with a maximum of 7 people in your squad.
Reward: 50 AP, Title “Prison Camp Annihilator”, 100 Magnetite Shards

Name: Skilled Matthias Annihilator
Prerequisites: None
Goal: Defeat Matthias in the Salvation Pass with a maximum of 7 people in your squad.
Reward: 50 AP, Title “Matthias Annihilator”, 100 Magnetite Shards

Name: Skilled McLeod Annihilator
Prerequisites: None
Goal: Defeat McLeod in the Stronghold of the Faithful with a maximum of 7 people in your squad.
Reward: 50 AP, Title “McLeod Annihilator”, 100 Magnetite Shards

Name: Skilled Keep Konstruct Annihilator
Prerequisites: None
Goal: Defeat the Keep Konstruct in the Stronghold of the Faithful with a maximum of 7 people in your squad.
Reward: 50 AP, Title “Vale Guardian Annihilator”, 100 Magnetite Shards

Name: Skilled Xera Annihilator
Prerequisites: None
Goal: Defeat Xera in the Stronghold of the Faithful with a maximum of 7 people in your squad.
Reward: 50 AP, Title “Vale Guardian Annihilator”, 100 Magnetite Shards

Name: Masochistic Vale Guardian Annihilator
Prerequisites: None
Goal: Defeat the Value Guardian in the Spirit Vale after surviving the enrage timer for at least 3 minutes.
Reward: 25 AP, Title “Vale Guardian Masochist”, 100 Magnetite Shards

Name: Masochistic Sabetha Annihilator
Prerequisites: None
Goal: Defeat Sabetha in the Spirit Vale after surviving the enrage timer for at least 1 minute.
Reward: 25 AP, Title “Vale Guardian Masochist”, 100 Magnetite Shards

Name: Masochistic Matthias Annihilator
Prerequisites: None
Goal: Defeat Matthias in the Salvation Pass after surviving the enrage timer for at least 1 minute.
Reward: 50 AP, Title “Masochistic Matthias Slayer”, 100 Magnetite Shards

WvW:

Name: Siege Destroyer
Prerequisites: None
Goal: Destroy at least 10000 siege weapons.
Reward: 25 AP, Title “I hate siege weaponry”

Name: Nemesis of the cows
Prerequisites: None
Goal: Destroy at least 10000 supplies using the supply cow skill of trebuchets.
Reward: 25 AP, “Stop wasting your supplies”

Name: Siege weaponry master
Goal: Kill at least 10,000 enemies while using siege weaponry
Reward: 25 AP, Title “They hate me for being smart”

Achievements for WvW Ranks (2100 AP and 105 titles in total):

Invader to Legend: 5 AP per rank = 75 AP
Bronze Invader to Legend: 10 AP per rank = 150 AP
Silver Invader to Legend: 15 AP per rank = 225 AP
Gold Invader to Legend: 20 AP per rank = 300 AP
Platinum Invader to Legend: 25 AP per rank = 375 AP
Mithril Invader to Legend: 30 AP per rank = 450 AP
Diamond Invader to Legend: 35 AP per rank = 525 AP

Currently the guild anthems are not very useful for PVE guilds, could you make it so that they play after defeating a raidboss if at least 6 of 10 people are representing your guild? Maybe also if there are 4 out of 5 members of your guild in your party after defeating a fractal or dungeon.

I wish Anet would invest into some servers with Intel Xeon-8890 v3 CPUs for tier 1 WvW bracket instead of wasting 200k on their pvp esport dream for price money. It feels like WvW is running on an Intel Atom CPU at the moment ;(

Mitch.4781:

I think it is a bit overtuned. Personally, the balance seems a bit off. They made Mossman totally redundant, yet made Bloom insane. A little bit of moderation would have been better. Apart from anything else, it has now gone from by far the shortest fractal to the longest. I felt it went on forever.

Its only long if you fail over and over. As soon as people know what to do it will be a sub 10 minute fractal again.

All content is releveant in GW2 and the worst thing to do would be “toning” down “old” content.
All I read here is i want the best rewards specific zones have to offer on a silver plattern. For example noone forces to to have all the ambrite weapons. Your suggestions just make people burn through content even faster which is exactly a problem GW2 already has. You get everything way too fast hurting the replayability and longevity of the game.
Everything is already super casuals compared to basically any other online RPG I tried before. Never before I had to spend so little effort to get the desired stuff.

EDIT: Your claim that easier is better is also wrong. There are a lot of casuals who are not bad players and enjoy a challenge.

Anet spends a lot of dev time on things I consider useless, so they might as well spend dev time on this.

MoarChaos.8320:

This serves no purpose.

This inconveniences them if it messes thing up when they add more masteries.

We finally got spririt shards back! So you don’t see huge amount of XP do absolutely nothing. Why would you want this in a game that’s not about this kind of thing?

I dont care about spirit shards, most veterans literally have thousands of them which they cannot spend without clicking around in the mystic forge thousands upon thousands of times.
So spirit shards are even less useful to us than a higher number to brag with.

Story is like the least important part of the game, it does not provide any longevity or replayability to a MMO at all. So I do not understand why some people are obsessed with story.

Just a flesh wound.3589:

How would empty mastery rank points benefit someone at all?

Why not just wait to see if these points are useable later on future added mastery lines instead of asking to waste them on pointless, empty ranks?

I like the idea, my 31 HoT points and 17 tyria points finally could be used to show that I did more than the average person

fritanga.1623:

I think there just needs to be more sinks for them. Maybe make it so we could craft Mystic Coins or Amalgamated Gemstones with them?

More sinks yes, but not for existing items.

Anet also needs to take a look at Essence of Time, it is a pretty rare drop from silver waste chests, but barely has any uses so it is only worth 3s

And the rarity is why they are 30g each. The demand for them is low, yet the price is high. So the droprate must be abysmal. I would estimate only around 50 of them drop per day for the whole playerbase.

Linken.6345:

I want a higher chance to get the Amber Quantic Dipole and higher tier ones that would make me run lower ones alot more to get the minis

The low droprate on that one is good, as soon as you raise it by any noticeable amount, the dipole will become worthless.
Dont fool yourself, if the price would be cheap, you would buy it because then your excuse is “it is cheap, so why should i farm it myself”

Supreme.3164:

Malediktus.9250:

Supreme.3164:

Malediktus.9250:

Yes druids need a nerf, but not healing nerf. Their CC, stealth and damage needs to be nerfed

Lol, are you sure you don’t want to nerf the healing too? …may as well xd..gw2 community finest example of “player”

We cannot nerf druid healing because their healing power is essential for raids in pve and basically the only reason to take druid in pve

LMAO so the only reason you want to leave healing out of your nerfing spree is because you need a healbot for your raids and we can nerf the rest as you don’t care?..that genuine logic ^^, basically people should play for your own enjoyment sure thing buddy

It is the sole reason druids to exist, to be a healbot in pve
Anet made druid a strong healer on purpose to let people have a soft trinity for raids
You probably havent played raids yet, at least it seems like that from your response. There is a lot of unavoidable damage in raids, like damage auras on some bosses

Supreme.3164:

Malediktus.9250:

Yes druids need a nerf, but not healing nerf. Their CC, stealth and damage needs to be nerfed

Lol, are you sure you don’t want to nerf the healing too? …may as well xd..gw2 community finest example of “player”

We cannot nerf druid healing because their healing power is essential for raids in pve and basically the only reason to take druid in pve

Yes druids need a nerf, but not healing nerf. Their CC, stealth and damage needs to be nerfed

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

SteepledHat.1345:

Malediktus.9250:

Now there is basically zero motivation to replay any of the levels…

Except the actually fun content.

Which is the same as it was before the patch. If you like the lower tiers, then last month, they were just as worth repeating as this month, which might have been “very worth it” or “not at all” depending on your personal preferences.

Well there is zero reason to help people get into higher fractal levels, if Anet would have reset them a lot of people would have played 1-75 again

Why did the Fractal master achievements (Fractal Initiate, Fractal Adept, Fractal Expert and Fractal Master) for getting from 1-100 not replaced with new ones this update? Quite a lot of things changed, more than when you replaced 2 of the achievements last time. Now there is basically zero motivation to replay any of the levels except continuing to do t4 dailies.

all reports in pvp seem to cause crash, even if I use the “botting” one like before

looks like there was put zero effort into testing this :/

Deepcuts.9740:

Try https://gw2efficiency.com
You can create an account with them and share your build with whoever you want.

Its no excuse for not letting us link items with infusions ingame

I would not buy any of the old black lion skins. Anet basically owes us bringing them back one day because they added the collections achievements for them long after selling them the last time.
And as far as I can tell there are only 2 out of the 35 sets missing a rerelease. Sclerite and Fused weapons. So hopefully its their turn soon.

I think the new swamp is perfect, even the “timegated” phases. If they were shorter they would be too easy

BrotherBelial.3094:

Malediktus.9250:

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Malediktus.9250:

ZudetGambeous.9573:

Can we downgrade these form “mastery” points to “casual” points? I thought the whole point was to have to work towards them and learn to master aspects of the game. Now they throw so many at you that you just get plopped in front of it is just not fun to get them anymore.

At least the raid mastery point additions took a few hours work to learn the fights.

I agree with this suggestion. Might as well delete mastery points from the game because it is so easy to get enough for everything, especially HoT masteries. And the exp is even easier to get. I think the whole mastery system is a failure at the current implementation.
Not the things you unlock with masteries, but masteries do not feel like you accomplished everything since Anet basically throws everything at you for barely any effort. Being masterly lvl 170 is just as meaningless as being lvl 80 pre HoT.

The same problem exist with legendaries. They are so common and easy to make that the name legendary is missleading.

I’m not sure most of the playerbase plays 6, 8, 10 hours a day. Not playing for extended amounts of time, they may not be so adept, and it may actually be more challenging and time-consuming to ‘accomplish everything’.

Thus, I hope (and am pretty sure) ArenaNet designs content with more than the outliers in mind.

I spend only a small fraction of my time on stuff like legendaries. So even if you only play 10h a week you can make several legendaries per year, which iis why you see so many people with multiple legendaries.
And getting the essential masteries is just a matter of a month (starting with a fresh account), too, even for the really casual players.
It is really a problem with GW2, there are hardly any long term goals/tasks other than time gated stuff like legendary armor which we cannot even finish yet.
Anet released a new map and there were people after 2 days who already unlocked all the achievements and rewards the map has to offer. That does not sound like sustainable MMO content at all.
Maybe that is why a lot of people do not log in for much other than patch days, I can see it in my friendlist where the activity sharply declines again after every patch because they already finished everything. The game needs more grind.

Cool story, I’ve been playing HoT since launch and I’ve yet to max my masteries. So yeah if you want to pour all your game time on one thing, yes you can max things get X item in no time, but if you like to do a little of this and that, it will take you a lot longer, just because you can do things in X amount of time will not mean everyone can.

Adding more points to make things easier for new and people who are bad at some content will not devalue your work. It seems to me they are adding new tracks, and sone will be needed for the LW3, so ANet is making sure not to lock people out of the story, it was a point of contention with HoT’s launch, they probably don’t want to do that again. But then the so called “Elite” or “Hard Core” players don’t want people to be able to just play the game. Ho no, everyone must play the way they do because anything else makes them less elite for some bizarre reason only they truly understand. If you feel the game needs more grind, and ANet are very against grind, maybe this is not the game for you, or you could just accept the game for what it is, not what you want it to be.

So what have you been doing since launch? The first people had all masteries maxed after less than a week. It has been like 9 months now. Are you telling me these hardcore people played in less than a week than you in 9 months? I doubt it.

mXz.4512:

BrotherBelial.3094:

Malediktus.9250:

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Malediktus.9250:

ZudetGambeous.9573:

Can we downgrade these form “mastery” points to “casual” points? I thought the whole point was to have to work towards them and learn to master aspects of the game. Now they throw so many at you that you just get plopped in front of it is just not fun to get them anymore.

At least the raid mastery point additions took a few hours work to learn the fights.

I agree with this suggestion. Might as well delete mastery points from the game because it is so easy to get enough for everything, especially HoT masteries. And the exp is even easier to get. I think the whole mastery system is a failure at the current implementation.
Not the things you unlock with masteries, but masteries do not feel like you accomplished everything since Anet basically throws everything at you for barely any effort. Being masterly lvl 170 is just as meaningless as being lvl 80 pre HoT.

The same problem exist with legendaries. They are so common and easy to make that the name legendary is missleading.

I’m not sure most of the playerbase plays 6, 8, 10 hours a day. Not playing for extended amounts of time, they may not be so adept, and it may actually be more challenging and time-consuming to ‘accomplish everything’.

Thus, I hope (and am pretty sure) ArenaNet designs content with more than the outliers in mind.

I spend only a small fraction of my time on stuff like legendaries. So even if you only play 10h a week you can make several legendaries per year, which iis why you see so many people with multiple legendaries.
And getting the essential masteries is just a matter of a month (starting with a fresh account), too, even for the really casual players.
It is really a problem with GW2, there are hardly any long term goals/tasks other than time gated stuff like legendary armor which we cannot even finish yet.
Anet released a new map and there were people after 2 days who already unlocked all the achievements and rewards the map has to offer. That does not sound like sustainable MMO content at all.
Maybe that is why a lot of people do not log in for much other than patch days, I can see it in my friendlist where the activity sharply declines again after every patch because they already finished everything. The game needs more grind.

Cool story, I’ve been playing HoT since launch and I’ve yet to max my masteries. So yeah if you want to pour all your game time on one thing, yes you can max things get X item in no time, but if you like to do a little of this and that, it will take you a lot longer, just because you can do things in X amount of time will not mean everyone can.

Adding more points to make things easier for new and people who are bad at some content will not devalue your work. It seems to me they are adding new tracks, and sone will be needed for the LW3, so ANet is making sure not to lock people out of the story, it was a point of contention with HoT’s launch, they probably don’t want to do that again. But then the so called “Elite” or “Hard Core” players don’t want people to be able to just play the game. Ho no, everyone must play the way they do because anything else makes them less elite for some bizarre reason only they truly understand. If you feel the game needs more grind, and ANet are very against grind, maybe this is not the game for you, or you could just accept the game for what it is, not what you want it to be.

Well said. My thoughts exactly.

More options only adds more possibilities, which leads to longer playability. Anyone who would rather see the opposite (elitists), might want to find a more competitive game if they hate seeing people catch up to them.

There are not many games like that, the MMORPGs I played before GW2 are dead (either shutdown or wasteland because 10y+ old) or casualized to the point that they are nothing special anymore.
And if you havent noticed less and less MMORPGs get released nowadays, because they are simply a high risk low reward investment to the gaming industry, so it is unlikely GW2 will see true competition in the upcoming years.

I had this problem before, just write a ticket and a GM will fix your account

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Malediktus.9250:

ZudetGambeous.9573:

Can we downgrade these form “mastery” points to “casual” points? I thought the whole point was to have to work towards them and learn to master aspects of the game. Now they throw so many at you that you just get plopped in front of it is just not fun to get them anymore.

At least the raid mastery point additions took a few hours work to learn the fights.

I agree with this suggestion. Might as well delete mastery points from the game because it is so easy to get enough for everything, especially HoT masteries. And the exp is even easier to get. I think the whole mastery system is a failure at the current implementation.
Not the things you unlock with masteries, but masteries do not feel like you accomplished everything since Anet basically throws everything at you for barely any effort. Being masterly lvl 170 is just as meaningless as being lvl 80 pre HoT.

The same problem exist with legendaries. They are so common and easy to make that the name legendary is missleading.

I’m not sure most of the playerbase plays 6, 8, 10 hours a day. Not playing for extended amounts of time, they may not be so adept, and it may actually be more challenging and time-consuming to ‘accomplish everything’.

Thus, I hope (and am pretty sure) ArenaNet designs content with more than the outliers in mind.

I spend only a small fraction of my time on stuff like legendaries. So even if you only play 10h a week you can make several legendaries per year, which iis why you see so many people with multiple legendaries.
And getting the essential masteries is just a matter of a month (starting with a fresh account), too, even for the really casual players.
It is really a problem with GW2, there are hardly any long term goals/tasks other than time gated stuff like legendary armor which we cannot even finish yet.
Anet released a new map and there were people after 2 days who already unlocked all the achievements and rewards the map has to offer. That does not sound like sustainable MMO content at all.
Maybe that is why a lot of people do not log in for much other than patch days, I can see it in my friendlist where the activity sharply declines again after every patch because they already finished everything. The game needs more grind.

xeonage.1253:

THIS IS FUNNY. This is a one and right step going to E-sport. NOW you can’t do many many many Many MANY MANY MANY MANY MANY MANY kittenING Mistakes and still not die.

Most people who play pvp do not care about eSports at all, so balancing for esports will drive people away from pvp.

I will always transfer to the server with the best coverage and the highest chance of large blob fights.
I cant imagine anything more boring in WvW than empty small servers, so I agree with deleting all bronze league servers.

ZudetGambeous.9573:

Can we downgrade these form “mastery” points to “casual” points? I thought the whole point was to have to work towards them and learn to master aspects of the game. Now they throw so many at you that you just get plopped in front of it is just not fun to get them anymore.

At least the raid mastery point additions took a few hours work to learn the fights.

I agree with this suggestion. Might as well delete mastery points from the game because it is so easy to get enough for everything, especially HoT masteries. And the exp is even easier to get. I think the whole mastery system is a failure at the current implementation.
Not the things you unlock with masteries, but masteries do not feel like you accomplished everything since Anet basically throws everything at you for barely any effort. Being masterly lvl 170 is just as meaningless as being lvl 80 pre HoT.

The same problem exist with legendaries. They are so common and easy to make that the name legendary is missleading.

Reveille.8397:

I wish anything could one shot…Anyone tell me which class and ability I am apparently missing out on so I can one shot everyone?

Noone said anything about one shots, but classes like thiefs, mesmers and revs can get pretty close to one shotting you with 1 burst combo.
Anet should also bring back Rune of Durability to combat condition spam. Now that tempest auramancer is ruined condi spam is getting worse.

Chaith.8256:

Malediktus.9250:

Season 4 will be horrible with the current max burst meta. Season 1 > Season 2 > Season 3 > Season 4

You’re one of those people who has very little perspective on how good you have it now

Season 1 was the darkest period in GW2 history, in competitive there were just 2 optimal professions, and there were averaging 15 minutes of smashing people before a downed state managed to somehow fully die instead of being insta-revived.

What do you mean? I was legendary in all 3 seasons, so I played a lot of matches in each of them. 522 matches in season 3 alone.

SlimChance.6593:

Malediktus.9250:

TheNickPrice.8457:

Sorry but its a total l2p issue. This post is nothing but a whine, its not productive in producing discussion or any reasoning to it, the only reason op gave is he doesn’t like it.

Not being able to face tank burst specs is healthy for a game.

Not being able to provide any reasoning besides personal taste when calling for nerfs (ie: I feel it’s to strong because X) to create a discussion whether it is a shared opinion or perhaps to have some light shed on why it is this way and how to counter to it, is unhealthy for a forum

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Season 4 will be horrible with the current max burst meta. Season 1 > Season 2 > Season 3 > Season 4

Really. Season 1 was the best. The season where you LITERALLY had opposing players standing on mid point chatting with each other. Because they knew neither one could scratch the other. So they just sat there and chatted to keep the point uncontested.

Thats your PvP model. That’s what you want to go back to.

Really? I barely noticed that, maybe 1 out of 25 games was like that.

TheNickPrice.8457:

Sorry but its a total l2p issue. This post is nothing but a whine, its not productive in producing discussion or any reasoning to it, the only reason op gave is he doesn’t like it.

Not being able to face tank burst specs is healthy for a game.

Not being able to provide any reasoning besides personal taste when calling for nerfs (ie: I feel it’s to strong because X) to create a discussion whether it is a shared opinion or perhaps to have some light shed on why it is this way and how to counter to it, is unhealthy for a forum

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Season 4 will be horrible with the current max burst meta. Season 1 > Season 2 > Season 3 > Season 4

Krysard.1364:

Malediktus.9250:

It seems quite easy to do 10k dps, thats way too much

Well, proper bursts have always hit for that much

And I never liked it, but Anet is nerfing defensive amulets/traits/skills more and more which makes the problem worse and worse.
If Anet doesnt want to nerf damage or double everyones base health they should gives us celestial, soldier and cleric amulets back.

It seems quite easy to do 10k dps, thats way too much

they are called mastery points, obviously you have to mastery some stuff to be worthy of having unlocked all masteries
I am glad not all mastery points are useless 5-15min tasks

I dont enjoy fights that are over in a few seconds, nerf damage of everything

It looks like a single blood stone contains at least as much energy as a nuclear bomb in real life, so you might be right that Lazarur is godlike now.

I agree, I already have 31 HoT mastery points and 17 vanilla mastery points with nothing to spend them on. It should be possible to spend every last mastery point you add to the game.

Evellynn Capone.6584:

Xera Kill 2 Mins ago !!!

Xera is still possible, but I would say twice as hard as normal

Xera is unplayable at the moment

Statistically over 30000 people who played GW2 at one point have died already, so this is cool to have

To be fair crystalline ore is alot easier to get after the April patch. I usually buy like 60 extra keys for the map currencies and then open 60+ pods per run for over 100 ores.

Lawton Campbell.8517:

Blergh, I thought the changelist that did this automatically went out with this release. In any case, just whitelisted the following item ids:

79146, 79243, 79117, 79083, 79051, 79241, 79183, 79250, 79211, 79185, 79102, 79075,
79232, 79128, 79299, 79057, 79081, 79127, 79126, 79244, 79170, 79223, 79202, 79228,
79256, 79147, 79267, 79226, 79198, 79205, 79176, 79178, 79303, 79268, 79200, 79070,
79165, 79148, 79262, 79191, 79273, 79064, 79093

Thanks for your efforts, but they havent appeared in the API yet, usually they appear quickly after you whitelist something

I deleted my local.dat and it seems to be saving the setting now. So maybe that file was bugged somehow

I feel like this is unacceptable. Something must go horribly wrong with Anets release politics. Maybe Anet should hire 100 new artists and devs if they really working as hard as possible already.
The current update politics definitely do not do an AAA MMO any justice.

I tested this a few more times, it is definitely still bugged.

Same problem, out of 3 victories only 1 added to the achievement.

The quality is good, but the quantity is low. I prefer more quantity over quality. 3 hours of content every few month is not enough to me as someone who plays GW2 as their only game.

The items from the achievements
Apprentice Kasandra’s Notebook
Grand Savant Valis the Learned’s Research Journal
The Memoirs of Justiciar Bauer

need manual unlock

Didnt notice any change, we killed Gorseval (with no updrafts) faster than ever. Already thought he got nerfed