Galdrien.1457

When I was on my former server outnumbered was about the only perk during the 2am to 8am EST stretch when there were barely a dozen players active trying to fend off full squads of Australian and SouthEastAsian timezone guilds. It was a slow retreat all night long with few bags earned, lots of repairing and siege building to slow the capture of territory. Now they take away the outnumbered so they don't even get a reward for hanging in there. Does Anet think its more fun for big zergs if those dozen players just log off for the off hours too and the maps are entirely uncontested? The big zerg won't get their bags. The territories will fall fast with even less contest. We can get this one sided fight from Drizzlewood coast if I just want to fight NPCs all night. Seems like a bad change to remove it entirely, and not offer some kind of carrot to the off hours groups who spend all night getting steamrolled.

These "Return to:" achievements are not exactly going away. If you don't do them while they are current, they just rotate down into the side story category to be completed whenever. It hardly seems worth quitting, or taking a large break from the game over. It is in your best interest to do it now if you struggle at JPs, while there are mesmers around to help rather than say in 3 months when the map will be fairly dead again and mesmer assistance will be much more fleeting. It took me hours to complete the first time. After that I have happily accepted mesmer assistance to skip a couple of the really obnoxious jumps. I'm mediocre at JPs at best. All told I think without mesmer assistance you need to do it four or five times to get the legendaries. First three of those without grabbing the chest because of mursaat coin locations which are required to start the Aurora collection, which are in unrecoverable locations without some kind of necro ghost walk or mesmer portal to get back on track. Then once again for the Aurora collection, and now for the Amulet. There are other ways to get a Legendary Amulet though if you really can't stand it. Whatever path you choose, its an optional achievement, if you don't like it, skip it! Don't let it ruin your game. Good luck.

Yeah, it seems like a huge oversight. If you throw something like Caladbolg away before realizing its useful, you can go rebuy it from an NPC for a fee. Why can't they implement something where if you already own Eternity you go talk to an NPC and it adds the component swords to your armory, or just gives you back the account bounds like the new forgers will have. They have other NPCs that change out the obsolete town clothes and town clothes tonics still, could just add a tab there.

That works for anyone with Exordium I guess, but people making Eternity in August will have 3 legendary greatswords, while people who made it today will only have Eternity. Seems like an oversight.