new tournament achievements are awful

#1 - Sept. 12, 2014, 2:30 p.m.

I just completed the first week tournament achievement after about 10 minutes playing Edge of the Mists and I am really disappointed. The last time you have to actually put a lot of time and effort to complete the meta achievement and it felt somewhat like an accomplishment. I was proud that I did it and glad to have somethings (like the title and the golden doyak finisher) only dedicated wvw players had. Now it means nothing. Everybody with couple of minutes to spare could and probably would do it.

Jessica Boettiger

#25 - Sept. 12, 2014, 6:55 p.m.

Basically removing the achievement requirement during a tournament is an experimental step we took to reduce the incentive for achievement grinding. We want people to play WvW, and not focus too heavily on satisfying achievement requirements.

If we find that players prefer having numerous things to check off a list, then we would certainly take that feedback into account and consider it for future tournaments.