Guild Wars 2

Noone cares about the titles you get from AP. God walking amongst mere mortals is still the best one after 2 years of GW2. And almost everyone with high AP has it because you get 500 AP from playing GW1. Its all about the exclusive skins you get from the achievement points.

I am 333 AP away from earning the title Illustious Achiever. I doubt I will ever use that one since it doesnt sound any good at all.

I need 3 more skins to finish the dragonjade set, I will let you know as soon as my buy orders are filled

The new WvW Season achievements are a joke. 20 events in total over 4 weeks and 9 AP in total, while the real WvW achievements have not been rebalanced yet.

How am I supposed to get from 24.6k AP to 36k AP if you are so tight on awarding achievement points on almost any new update.

wow those Karka weapons got expensive. I put one into the mystic toilet not long ago because it was only worth about 16g

Already tried to get mine refunded. They dont want to refund it because there were no offical information that it wont come back. Looks like 1 year of waiting and the interview was not enough. Pathetic.

Pixelpumpkin.4608:

anzenketh.3759:

I think that default sell to highest buyer should actually be default to lowest seller. People will complain yes. But they don’t understand that doing that will actually net them the least coin. The game should not encourage play that is the least beneficial to the player.

Now default buy to highest buyer. That is a problem. Some orders will get fulfilled instantly others may take a while. This can lead to confusion with some players on why they did not get their item.

Y’all do realize that buy orders and sell orders can only exist because other players sell instantly/buy instantly? If all players placed orders, nobody would ever buy/sell ANYTHING.

Some players want to maximize on net profit, others want to maximize on time. Both are valid.

Hence ANet should not make the decision for or against either of those – like I said – just remember the mode I used in my last transaction and I’ll happily always sell instantly/buy instantly/sell order/buy order most of the time.

and then these instant sell people go on and complain how poor and broke they are all the time.

I hate this change. I never sell to highest offer unless its like a copper below sell highest offer

try login in with a different character first, I only have this bug if I am playing with my ele at reset or log in with it after reset

I have this bug also, wrote a ticket about it as soon as I noticed it (#886494)

“5. Give the collectors the opportunity to collect previous account bound miniatures from events. I’m talking about 1st Wintersday miniatures, the only ones you didn’t repeat on BLTP for no reason (you repeated 1st Halloween, 2nd wintersday(3 times), etc.).”
No thanks, I spent something like 7000-8000 gems on the Wintersday 2012 minis, dont want to see them available again. Same with other discontinued minis. You missed them? Tough luck.

“7. You totally failed with the Minimonkey King drops. First the drop was almost 0, making the mini worth 2000g, after the update, the drop is so high that the miniature is now worth 40g. Can you put a coherent drop rate on the next miniature who drops from world mobs?(this one is already destroyed like reef rider and magnus). Example: what about people who submitted offers on monkey before update? They lost 200-1000g ( a lot of 800g) for a miniature that is owned by everyone now.”
Yes I was really angry by this change. My 2000 gold miniature went to almost nothing for no real reason. I didnt see anyone complain about the bad droprate. Thank anet once again for devaluing my efforts.

Lol thats hilarious, thanks for pointing it out.
Look like anet hates miniatures

Stephane Lo Presti.7258:

Hey everyone,

While this is currently working as intended, it’s definitely something that we’ll be working on and tweaking in the future. We want you to be able to enjoy your minis so hang in there!

So all the Euros and thousands of gold wasted for something I cant use. Thanks! This company never fails to amaze me.

DanteZero.9736:

Asacledhae.2650:

Corpus Christi.2057:

This game is indeed meant for 10-year-olds.

Even a 10 year old would’ve found the game in it’s original state very easy to understand. The brand new and downgraded Guild Wars 2 is re-designed for a much dumber audience.

Now it’s meant for people who seek the “Any” key on their keyboard on a “Press Any Key to continue” message.

A 10 year old, yes, but certainly not a 6 year old, as one particular poster has revealed on the forums.

but this game is rated PEGI and USK 12, so 6 or 10 year olds should not even be playing it yet

Same problem here. Did a lot of things for nothing including tequatl and fractals 29+38 + twilight arbor aetherpath. Daily rewards did not pop up

Already wrote a ticket (#888345 )and hoping for a fix + compensation for the lost loot.

Probably until a new set of weapons is released. Next content patch is 4. nov.

Join a squad….

/squadjoin nameofcommander

biofrog.1568:

Yep, I am also wondering how we unlock this collection?

also wondering how to unlock this collection. Just opening the chests did not do the trick

Its an insult the way it is now. I only see my beloved minis if I stand around in an empty city. I demand a fix.

Wanze.8410:

They will add more collection achievements over time.

Hopefully I was very upset when I saw the achievements today. Achievements for every set of BLC weapons, but no achievements for countless of “free” item sets such as fractal weapon skins, cultural weapon sets, crafted weapons such as pearl, primordus or corrupted. No achievements for pact or order skins.

Its kinda disappointing. Only noticed it after account binding my whole collection of thousands of gold worth of minis (only missing lama and monkey king)

The old ones are impossible now since you can no longer store them in the bank.

Celestina.2894:

Essence Snow.3194:

For any of those player competing for rank on the leader boards I’d sure as heck say it’s p2w.

So imo. NO They should not.

Honestly, do people actually pay attention to the leader boards for AP? I thought it was agreed a while ago they were joke.

Anyways from what I saw it looks like what, 1 AP per tier and some scraps for the black lion weapons? It’s not like it’s 50 AP like it is for a amberite set.

So eh, doesn’t bother me.

I think there are people who care. People congratulate me for my leaderboard ranking all the time (without me specifically pointing them out to my rank).

Sizer.5632:

So buying gems to convert to gold in order to buy a legendary (which gives ap) is not p2w, but using gold to convert to gems in order to buy something in the gemstore is p2w?

No wonder the devs dont respond to the forums if these are the type of arguments people come up with.

So far gold had very limited affect on your achievement points. You definately made enough gold for all the achievements based on gold by the time you reach 20k+ AP. But explain me how I will make enough Gold to get about 2000 black lion tickets by playing the game. Only a trading post mogul might be able to do that. Anet adds a new set of black lion weapons almost every month so its almost impossible to catch up, too. It takes about 50 black lion keys per ticket on average I got told. Thats quite a lot.

GW1 achievements were entirely different and not pay to win. You had to spend about 1000 hours if you focused on getting all 500 AP without doing RMT or getting huge gifts from friends.

Solomon Darkfury.3729:

Shadowmoon.7986:

Not shown in WP preview but it was mentioned there were collection for Black Lion weapons sets. I am personally ok with this as long as no AP is rewarded for these collections. Also I would also not support collections that reward AP from the gemstore armor skins (for example aetherblade armor skin set) because it would just lead to the highest people on the leaderboard being only those who has the largest credit cards. In a game where there is no challenges, and no challenges being developed, this would definately turn into a p2w situation. Want to be top in the leader board, forget about maxing all 8 champion titles, forget about maxing out all wvw title tracks, just slide your credit card in and buy all the ap you want.

P2W what exactly? a meaningless position on an even MORE meaningless leaderboard? Most of the top players on there share their account info with family to maximize their play time… they also do EVERY daily and monthly and spend COUNTLESS hours in PVP… unless you have been doing it from day one you will NEVER catch them unless they quit the game sorry…

Sorry but I am ranked #19 EU (the more competive of the 2 AP leaderboards) and I never shared accounts. Your whole post is an insult just because YOU do not care about something.

tl;dr: AP for gemstore sets is stupid, this might ruin one of the last things I still enjoy about GW2 after over 6000 hours: collecting achievements

aww so the new weapons are new gemshop weapons

Offer others to build legendaries for them. You can charge 400-500g each.

There is a whole new set on the next build. It could be one of those weapons.
(german vid but you can see the skins)

RedStar.4218:

Who even cares about AP ?

As long as owning BL weapons does not reward you with a precursor, some players are over dramatizing this.

I do care since I am competing in the top 25 of the achievement points. So far I never had to buy any gems (only did for cosmetic stuff which did not help with achievements at all until this point, never traded gems for gold) to compete there. Now I might have to spend thousands of € to keep being able to compete in the top 25, depending on if the competitors boycot these pay to win achievements or not.

nekretaal.6485:

So, AP for Dragons Jade, Wintersday, Zodiac, and Sclerite.

3 of these sets are gone from the Gemstore, and Zodiac weapons are 5 tickets. These sets are not in order, I believe the fused weapons would be on the list if anet was concerned about the order.

This leads me to believe that this achievement is a stunt to prop up prices for under demanded skins and not a sign to come that we will get free AP for our Fused/Tormented/Ley Line/Halloween/Phoenix/Chaos skins that we bought because, you know, they look good.

there are tracks for all sets, but you need at least one skin of the set for the track to become visible.

Thanks for making the achievement pay to win. The miniature collector achievements we had were borderline already, but you were able to pass them around to friends at least.
There are 16 sets of black lion weapon sets if I counted correctly. I can see that costing 100k gold to get soon with the key farming nerf and the terrible droprates of tickets.

Its not a glitch. Its smart use of the aoe radius.

Just like skills like guardian staff 1 can hit through walls and doors.

Needs more builds to become a viable site for people who are looking for builds.

Wanze.8410:

If you just want the skin, exchange your gems to gold and buy it off the tp.

The skins are only that cheap on TP thanks to key farmers. With the key farming nerf I expect to see significantly higher prices.

Septemptus.7164:

Shpongle.6025:

So…anyone else here with the set 3 miniatures that now, after prices going up by 400% doens’t have the money to finish their Miniature Collector Set 3 achievement ?

Does anyone know how it’s gonna work after the patch update ? Will it trigger when you have the minis in your inventory or when you add them to the wardrobe ?

The bank tabs will be gone, right ? So how are we gonna get this achievement then ?

Arena didn’t say this was temporary, if they did, I would’ve shifted priorities. Quite frankly, if they ’’disable’’ this achievement, as someone with 19,4K AP and an unfinished Miniature Collector Set 3 achievement, I will be very displeased and disappointed, that is, IF the speculations are true that they will lock the ’’old’’ achievements.

Read the article again.
They described how it will work, and that minis in the bank will be only for taking out.

as for prices – they will drop. If not soon then after ANet regulates market with another Mystic Forgable minis released – maybe on Halloween/Christmas?

anyway.
Don’t panic, just wait few months.
If you don’t you will loose a lot of gold in a stupid way.

PS. I think they will not lock old achievement just transparent the new system on the old one. So if you had collection one done you wont need to make it bind for achievement. If I’m wrong I will loose collection 3 just like you, but oh well…

I dont think Anet will regulate the market again. Its in their best interest if things are expensive so more people trade gems —> gold.

As someone with 24,383 AP I like it the way it is. Gives me something to look forward to and gives the armor sets more prestige.

Charged Lodestones were always a problem. I doubt anet will change it for this

They should just take the current achievements and remove 1-2 zeroes depending on the achievement.
Stuff like 50k dolyaks would still be way too insane. I got 3200ish after 2 years.
Same with camps where I have 3500ish.

I believe the WvW achievements should be achieveable in 2-3 years of casual playtime, your values are still too high in total.

GreenAlien.5623:

Just make all Minis tradeable and forgeable. fixed.

The millions of Jennahs would crash the market.

Polorapknight.5869:

But isn’t that the case regardless? Gem payers can exchange for gold too. Easier to buy gold than it is to get gold.

People are most likely gonna go for those spirit weapons, that are insanely expensive. Can’t we all just consider those like 800 gem armors a 100+ gold effort? I mean payers will pay regardless and ruin the fun for themselves. Me personally I would rather earn those things, including the gem store items because thats actually possible.

Currently the impact of being a gemshop whale is very limited on the AP leaderboards. Sure you will have stuff like 5 legendaries and one duplicate legendary faster, but by the time you are anywhere close to top 25 you have enough gold anyway to make those. At least that was the case for me (rank 19 EU). Never ever traded gems to gold so far.
Some of the old gemshop sets already cost a fortune because anet increased their cost from 1 to upto 3-7 tickets. I am not a key farmer and found 9 scraps so far from random key drops / doing personal story the normal way. Thats not enough to buy even one of the triple digit amount of Black lion key weapons.

I hope there wont be any gem shop set achievements or at least give no AP. I am fine with it giving titles or something though.
Equally bad would be the aether path skins from twilight arbor, tequatl skins and fractal skins because those are a pain to get / much RNG.

Because it makes the achievement leaderboards pay to win. Its much faster to buy stuff from gem shop directly than farming the gold for it. Especially now that key farming will be nerfed it will likely cost 5x as much gold per skin as before.
The miniature achievements in the past were bearable for AP hunters because you could just lend them from a friend for a minute to get the AP or buying the whole set for like 300-500g was possible. Now add 16+ sets of gemshop weapons to it and you get an idea.

Mini Mystical Dragon is unknown at the moment

I hope this doesnt mean achievement hunting will turn into something for gemshop whales.

I can already see all the new achievements for stuff like full black lion weapon chest skins.

good idea, I love collecting all sorts of items

Zaxares.5419:

khani.4786:

The Mini Karka, Karka Hatchlings and Reef Drake need to be rare drops from the karka Queen.

Pretty please.

Agreed! Would love to see this included.

No please not. It will destroy their exclusivity completly. Just like Mini Tequatl and Mini wurm head are almost worthless nowadays (to me items below 100g are worthless).
And Karka event is the easiest of the bunch.

I would prefer some minis stay prestige objects just like some minis in GW1

I cant wait to destroy my 1700g Karka to make it account bound

Good thing I have an almost complete collection of minis (Llama and mystical dragon I am looking at you)

Does not work for EU Servers. We Germans want to play with other Germans. I bet its the same for spanish and french people.

Kurr.4179:

Malediktus.9250:

Does this still work? I was never able to get it the legit way simply because it did not trigger for me despise dodging perfectly.

AFAIK “evading” counts as if you touched it. You need to jump over them (don’t jump dodge either).

That might be it, too bad jumping is suffering from latency issues while dodging is safer

I built 2 legendary torches recently just for the title. 3000 gold for 25 AP is totally worth it

Does this still work? I was never able to get it the legit way simply because it did not trigger for me despise dodging perfectly.