Guild Wars 2 Reduces Champions Stretch Goals Meta-Achievement Requirements
ArenaNet has recently made changes to Guild Wars 2’s current The Icebrood Saga: Champions Stretch Goals meta-achievement to make them less of a grind. According to the devs, the previous iteration of the meta-achievement required players to complete all the associated collections which is both tedious and costly and doesn’t reflect the level of difficulty that the developers originally intended.
“We wanted the final meta-achievement tier to be an optional bonus challenge round, but we miscalculated the full scope of the requirements,” said ArenaNet. “We've been reading and discussing your comments, and we don't intend for future meta-achievements of this type to include requirements that are very expensive or that are intended to be long-term goals.”
In light of this, the team decided to reduce the required materials to craft collection thereby reducing the overall cost. Here’s a rundown of the changes:
- “Prismatium Ingot requirements for crafting the weapons will be reduced from 10 to 5.
- The Prismatium Ingot recipe will require 5 Prismaticite instead of 10.
- An alternative Prismatium Ingot recipe which uses more Prismaticite and less Orichalcum will be available from the Olmakhan vendor in Eye of the North.
- Daily Dragon Responder will reward 10 Prismaticite instead of 6.”
The team also plans to lower the requirements to complete the actual meta-achievement in a future build. This includes rewarding players with the “/Stretch" emote and 25 achievement points after only completing 26 specific achievements in Champions. The full weapon collections will be moved to the Rare Collections achievement category and will no longer be required to complete the meta-achievement.
More information can be found on the ArenaNet official forums.
