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That's why maybe going for a few ocassional gemstore items is a better idea. I play with a lot of newbies and every time they see the 5k AP reward they get really excited about it. it's nice to see them going for the jumping puzzles/mini-dungeons they missed or replaying old LS episodes for more AP. Same thing goes for when they need more mastery points, these achievements are making them try out different content and I think that is very healthy for the game.

I started playing GW2 7 years ago and at this point I’ve done pretty much everything I wanted to, the only things that kept me coming back were the Living Story releases and occasionally to play with friends that I convinced to try out the game. Last year while trying to find incentives to keep logging in, I decided to give myself the goal of completing every single achievement in the story journal category and this really changed how I played the game. It made me do content that I never would have done, do cool events that were too much work for what they were worth, I discovered a lot of nice little stories that these achievements tell and much more… but what did I gain from it? This whole thing made me realize that arenanet delivers a lot of its PvE content through achievements and there are barely any reasons to go for them. The milestone rewards are completely useless, I’m about to reach 30500 points and I’m going to receive the same crap rewards as someone at 5500, they are literally giving us the same gold you get from completing the dailies and ONE laurel which you can get from logging in for just two days!! I was never able to convince any of my friends to go for achievements, they just don’t care about AP or titles, and if they don’t like the mini or skin that the achievement gives, why should they bother? They always do the same thing I used to do which is log in for the story and log out until next patch. Even though I barely gain anything by doing this, by giving myself this goal I went from not logging in for months to having so much stuff to do that it’s a bit overwhelming, this is why I feel better milestone rewards are SO important. They could include more unique skins or even the ocassional gemstore stuff starting with black lion keys or wardrobe unlocks and at the higher levels stuff like one unlock voucher or one bank tab expansion. Yes, you could say they would be losing money doing this but I’m sure it would drive people to spend many more hours into the game which I feel it’s much more important. Do you go for achievements? If so what do you think about them? do you feel rewarded by doing them?

An issue I've had for YEARS. To be honest I don't know how I even put up with it anymore. Just dc'd from the Hearts and Minds story mission twice and always after being ported outside mordremoth's mind. Worst missions for me were Hidden Arcana from season 2 which I had to replay countless times and I always disconnect in the same exact moment (before the last cutscene) and same goes for the season 4 mission where you have to clear the spiders from the suns refuge. EVERY time there's a cutscene or the game takes control of the camera, I cross my fingers and hope that I don't dc. It's completely ruining my enjoyment of the game...Worst thing is when I'm playing with friends and we all have to restart entire missions because of my disconnects. It's incredibly annoying.