The Mechanic's Workshop: Daily Achievements and Why they Matter

 
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We've had about two weeks of the new daily achievement system and I think it’s time to stop and reflect on how they are going, and if ArenaNet achieved (pun) what they could have with the changes. To do that I’ll dive into my own experience with the current system, as well as look ahead to the changes they've already confirmed for February patch.

The Past
It’s important to not forget where you came from. With that in mind, we should start this discussion was a reflection on the previous system. The old system (in case any of you are blocking the memories) was the same each day. Kill 15 different enemies, Kill 100 enemies, Gather 25 items, Complete 5 events. Very generic and after about a two days of doing them I was bored of them. I appreciate the fact that they have to be generic so that certain players aren't excluded, but they grew thin quickly.

I think what most players ended up doing was parking alts at hotspots around Tyria. Especially for events and kill variety goals. Since the achievements are account wide, parking an alt near the Gendarren Fields Arena was a quick way to get kill variety (and events). And there are a few event hotspots on the map you could park characters at for easy credit. I think the community was in unison (for once) that the old system was rather flat. guild wars 2 gold
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The Present
As of the last monthly patch, we all have gotten to (mostly) enjoy the new system. I've spent some previous workshops beating up ArenaNet, but quite frankly the new system is well done, if a bit unfinished. And unlike some of their other unfinished updates, this one isn't detrimental to the game in its current state, and still provides a huge improvement over the previous system. In programming terms the current daily system seems to be the MVP (minimally viable product), and nothing near fully featured.

The new system includes a rotating list of achievement categories, of which a player must complete all of them in order to get credit for the total daily achievement. The list isn't very long (and has already been trimmed because one of the categories wasn't working).


Kills (combo finisher) - Already cut from game
I think of the list, it’s clear a few are easier than others. Certain ones like “Daily Healer” require players to purposefully suck at events just so the NPC's will die (Daily Healer also happens to be the worst named achievement ever. At first I thought I had to, I dunno, heal other players. That would have been really cool. But no, I have to res stupid NPC’s after I watch them die. Silly). As cool as it is to teach players they can res other players and npc's the practical nature of completing this achievement ruins any potential good it could have done for the community. acheter des kamas sur dofus

Some of the current ones really get me excited though. Aquatic kills gives players a reason to dive into the depths of Tyria. Dodges are dragging players kicking and screaming into the way Guild Wars 2 does combat. Even Daily Crafter is nice because it rewards what is normally a pretty easy to forget about part of the game.

It’s also clear from the two weeks this system has been in place that it’s not near big enough to keep me interested for more than a few more weeks. I have friends who are already parking characters underwater for the days it matters. I think we may see a few more before the next patch, but it’s probably safe to assume they won’t be groundbreaking. ArenaNet already confirmed that until players can chose the achievements they want we won’t see anything that they feel certain players won't like.

The Future
That brings me to why I'm so excited for the February patch. The ability for ArenaNet to give us a list of 6 categories and allow players to complete any 4 means they can start being incredibly creative. Some things they've hinted at include jumping puzzle achievements. They already did this with the monthly achievement and I think it caused a stir. ArenaNet knows the jumping puzzles are some of the more unique content in the game, and getting to highlight it is something they have wanted to do for a long time.

What the future of dailies should look like is ArenaNet getting to highlight areas of the game that are being under appreciated. They can make achievements for killing a dragon. Imagine the rush on Spark fly fen, Frost gorge, and Blazeridge. What about a daily achievement for killing Centaurs. Imagine the rush on Kryta. ArenaNet is already using living story to get players into the same zones, the daily system will ensure they can do this every day for the life of the game.

The biggest thing I've missed since launch is that feeling that other players are always around me in PvE. After leveling a few alts through some of the sparser populated zones and just not enjoying myself as much as I did when other players were around to spontaneously help with events. Even with the limited daily system current in place i've seen an increase in player mobility in the world. There is quite simply more reasons to be more places. Part of this ties into the rescaled loot tables and living story, but I think the dailies play a part in that as well.

I think it’s clear that ArenaNet is actively trying to find ways to bring players in PvE together. The future of the daily system will be crucial to ensuring that players are brought together naturally around content in the world. It will also create a platform that ArenaNet can use to shepherd players towards areas of the game that are being neglected. Creating a smart and dynamic daily system is one huge step in the right direction, and one I can’t wait to see more of.

What are some future daily achievements you would like to see ArenaNet try out?
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Wings Over Atreia: Laying the smackdown on RMT in Aion

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    Sports don't have a monopoly on pregame rituals. I know for a fact some folks have their own sets of customary actions that are performed before logging into Aion. These routines are as varied as the players themselves; some may grab a drink or snacks before settling in, while others may put on their lucky PvP socks. I'm acquainted with at least a few people who lock the door to keep pesky interruptions (i.e., roomies) from dog piling on them. Me? Well, I'd like to say I have a cool routine, but I don't... yet! However, regardless of what you do before you log in, there is one ritual most of us share once we get in: block the RMT spam.  Buy Aion Gold

    As much as I can understand and even encourage a wide array of gaming rituals, this particular one really needs to go. But it's out of our hands; in order for it to happen, kinah-selling must be seriously curtailed in Aion. Some players have questioned whether NCsoft even cares about the kinah-selling problem. I think the answer to that came in the studio's announcement this past week. In a bold new move in the fight against illicit RMT, NCsoft is poised to piledrive the kinah-selling population.
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Guild Wars 2: Throw Your Hands in the Air

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Plenty of beaming smiles can be seen in Tyria today as ArenaNet confirmed that guesting will be available in Guild Wars 2 on January 28.buy gw2 gold

Martin Kerstein unveiled the happy news in a blog post today which outlines how guesting will work while confirming the end of free transfers.(2)

The community had been wondering how ArenaNet would avoid the exploitation of guesting due to being able to hop across servers and vacuum up Orichalcum nodes or run strings of world boss events to farm exotics.

To counter this, guesting can only occur on two worlds at a time with a 24 hour cooldown. It was also confirmed that there will not be guesting across different regions, so no trips from the EU to US on a daily basis. This has raised disappointment among a number of players leading Kerstein to quickly respond with an explanation of why it isn't viable. buy guild wars 2 gold

Transfers will require payment from the 28th, with the gem cost varying depending on the server population. Transfers will retain a one week lock-in to avoid WvW cherry picking.

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The Dragon nest Desert Dragon Lair, sum up the career positioning.

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    The desert dragon copy is now officially open, contending saying a wasteland configuration, some people said their thoughts directly is the standard, the standard word I personally think that it is ridiculous, Dragon nest reason why so many career, more choices in order for everyone to the Raiders copy when various career orientation different from the role of the main players according to their own team, we can learn from each other to select the team configuration following reason war correspondent "Analysis of inflammation cold" to Sharon Lair inside the positioning of the occupation, and the so-called "back seat" Occupation avenge.
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      With the opening up of Sharon den, you die in road brush votes "left discrimination was also with a brush votes, Congratulations look first. I believe many Crusaders to the Association or to friends and relatives have been transferred to become a Paladin, first of all, there is a bad news and good news to say that the Paladin, the bad news is that like good operating point cross T T than St. good knight, and T is only a limited role in the desert dragon lair inside Sharon a copy of which the BOSS roughly divided into two categories, the first category, the snake woman, of death knight, scorpions, lion scorpion, worm. Second class, flame flower, stone, desert dragon. The first class even if picked up or need to escape the size range of skills, the role of T is only a rough guide BOSS toward, and DPS still need to take precautions BOSS "Parthian shot" all kinds of mop-up skills, while the second type of pick and pick almost a look.

      And the good news is that the transfer become Paladin also does not mean that white transfer, Guardian gesture well is the most important salon lair inhalation summon lizard, snake woman died riding red line, blown before the typhoon hit lions Charge avoidable role floating, firmly standing on the ground, in order to guard against the skills to avoid the next group iron, so Paladin team contribution Crusaders incomparable.
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    Emphasis roar, It is no exaggeration to say that the role roar in the salon lair T large roar can predict the high injury skills before three roar plus avoid team less frequent blood to milk less here pressure, and the difference between destruction and mad war almost confined in the maelstrom roar with the bones and the impact of these two skills, one is to increase their own survival, an increase in output is to the team, to ensure survival of the premise, of course, is the output maximization is better, do not underestimate the additional damage with the bones, increased skills with the bones of the lower injury 2000, and to count players hurt summons injury, in a copy of the eight people in the high frequency of attacks, especially engineers under the premise of this is a bunch of small figures, as to the specific choice of which everyone eyes of the beholder wise see wisdom. The main output Juggernaut occupations month did significantly better than the sword Wong this point is beyond reproach, but in the case of the same equipment, the output much greater than the monthly main indisputable fact that the imperial sword,Especially in the BOSS less blood, the amount of punitive damage increase up to 3-4 times more speed up to tear down the speed of the BOSS, after all, less skill damage BOSS blood gradually increased the risk of an unguarded moment there is attrition.
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Elements ice blasting, the Magic accelerated mirror, not much to say. Archer: Arrow of God the cuttlefish, targeting, (5)

Below is the focus of this article focuses:
    When the team can only take an accelerated, size acceleration how to choose?
    First literacy Size accelerate contrast, persistent accelerated after blasting large accelerated and large accelerated 120sCD, sustained 15s, less 80% CD small acceleration 44sCD, sustained 16s, to reduce the 40% CD large acceleration effect in a short period of time than the small acceleration is better, but to count on long-term gains, large accelerated 120s can be reduced by 80% within 15s cooling small acceleration 88s can achieve this effect in the 16s, a decrease of 80 cooling and which team dare say a large acceleration is good to use? both are blood emergency or centralized output when it is to the acceleration, there is no worry about small acceleration, and in the process of a large acceleration, due to the skills CD is too short, we may use are also several CD short high injury skills, so to accelerate the effect of utilization is very low, while the small acceleration in the same effects, the acceleration is divided into two, so that we can effectively take advantage of the effect of accelerated, and of small acceleration as well as action to accelerate the effect, more large accelerated unmatched, this is not to negate large accelerated and large accelerated emergency response capabilities after all that we know very well , but also the new rise of the mirror EX, personal recommendations, when must be accelerated in size in a second election, when the team Arrow of God and Lolita career, with large acceleration, if not on the small acceleration, such to the effective utilization of vocational skills, Arrow of God, and Ranger Hawkeye and Eagle anger, small acceleration of action to accelerate temporarily Lolita waxed.
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      First, engineers, there is no pressure three skills will be full, Qian Kun Da Nuo plus survival, biochemical missiles attribute anti 15% reduction 33% reduction in damage blockbuster serac ice attribute anti reduced by 30%, whether plus full to see the team configuration, the mechanical guru priority among the engineers, mechanical master duck more durable, longer duration, more effective interface between Qian Kun Da Nuo CD neutral when blockbuster, coupled with increased biochemical bomb some of the attribute attack forces the output, engineers place.
Following alchemists in the desert dragon then? Lot of people see the The desert dragon lair properties against 50% of the total negation of the alchemical, because only see alchemists as the output side, did not see the alchemical auxiliary,Cocktail nirvana, strength, agility, intelligence increase of 21%, 21% increase in the amount of medical skills therapy! Skills CD reduce 16%! 35sCD one minute sustained, can be valid for the entire on CD reduction equivalent to 64% reduction in cooling the equivalent of one per minute a large acceleration, please note, per minute! not large acceleration 120s, 2 minutes.
Snow groaning, a decrease of 30% water resistance, depending on the configuration determines whether the point of full and ice tower, love virus, 19sCD, 10s, sustained magic damage increased by 21%,
C2H5OH, 19sCD, 15s continued, the whole property anti reduced by 12%,
Team configuration if the attribute attack vocational multi consider refining Jinsheng Shi, pharmacist auxiliary capacity more significantly superior to Lian Jinsheng Shi, the pharmacist a disease EX, 10sCD, 5s sustained, all damage increased by 50% (hammer 2 number), and Pharmacy more cure flow emergency fill milk, so the the Desert Dragon copy of the open is a pharmacist coming era.

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The 70 fake purple out, I believe 70pink weapons soon out PK level paragraph 6, in fact, I just want to equipment to cobble together a winning experience. But freedom PKC could not get every day the same smooth, more than 800 wins and more than 800 negative. Cobble together the equipment always play with the ring there always find some people beat the fight before this, deliberately upgrade slowly liter, go with someone else's woman roaming above PKC looked to see 2-2 ring. I'm mad war, ammunition, male poison king. Male poison king CC no good jewelry, male Duwang the PKC and human PK technology is able to bypass the protection point a good job can be caught dead. In fact, the law drive this career, just with sickle magic attack set seconds more than 3500,20 seconds after basically if connected, then off others about 100,000 blood. I observed, the career magic defense almost always about 10,000 4-1 10,005, more than 10,007 are local tyrants.

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