So sometime ago I did the impossible (at least for me) and was able to get to wild legend, after all that stress and annoyance I decided to tell myself that I would never EVER play ranked outside of the usual 5 wins to get the fancy cardback that I’ll never use.
So come to this latest expansion and I decided to go and do some of the achievements for the reward track. And let me tell ya, its actually fun some of these gimmick decks, especially in CASUAL because people there are pulling out sweaty tryhard decks that set up lethal on turn 2.
Shame that you can’t actually accomplish any achievements outside of ranked, at first I thought this was some kinda bug. But after a quick look I saw a post on the forums that said that achievements can only be accomplished in ranked mode. You know, the mode were it would be impossible to do any of the achievements because people want to go for the throat and end things by turn one. So I decided to test it out by playing the Hero Power Mage deck I was doing in Wild Ranked just to see if it was true. And sure enough all those slaps I did with roided pings were being counted.
And idk, if feels so counter intuitive to have the achievements locked away like that. Not everyone wants to play ranked, trust me, I’ve played enough of it till I got to legend and said “okay, no more, I get to have fun now!” but now I am being told that I can’t mess around with the fun decks the game WANTS me to try unless I go up against the people who are meta decking.
Sorry if these feels a bit ranty, and I am just the odd one, but I just had to get it out of my system.
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Achievements by definition should be hard to get. Otherwise they have no point.
I never said they shouldn’t be hard to get, I am saying that they shouldn’t be locked behind ranked mode.
The idea is probably that you can always find a willing/afk opponent in casual (including warrior bots) to get all your achievements there. In ranked it’s a bit harder and you may have to stay at a rank floor for a while before doing anything specific. Same with friends.
While I do see why being able to do achievements in casual/friend matches would be good, I do see why it isn’t.
Its shame for me too. I hate playing ranked.Achievements shouldnt be obtainable only in friendly matches.It would make me play much much more of a hs cos i hate playing with some my created deck against tryhards on ladder.
Indeed, to add onto the “none of this makes any sense”, you can get achievements in the Duel mode. Not even the ranked Duels mode, casual, I know this cause I just got the second third part of the “mage ping” achievement done when messing around. So EVEN BY THEIR OWN “ESTABLISHED” RULES, they don’t even operate under their rules.
There were many games where I was trying to complete an achievement, but my opponent conceded before I could initiate it. So in the end, it’s probably not worth it to try to complete any achievement.
Hi, necropost ok, but no reason to open a new thread as the situation, today, doesn’t changed.
I think reason achievements can be done only in ranked is that casual game mode and private game by inviting are considered both the same mode. meaning that if it will be possible to do them in casual random, then also private match with secondary account will be possible. However i dont see whats wrong even by do it it alone… On xbox and ps (maybe even on steam) its a common practice from almost 20 years, organize so called boosting parties for unlock online/co-op cheevos. And in those cases u have your score visible on your account and on many specialized leaderboards.
While on blizzard games its completely useless. There are no prices for unlocking them as time needed for unlocked some of them getting exp, can be used better by simply playing normally. There are few exceptions where u get some diamond cards or avatars but it are maybe 0,001% of all avaliable achievements. Other than this its only a waste of time.
And, second, you cant even show your score to others. There is not a common score for all blizzard games u played. theres not even a game specific score. i just tried to check my friends on battle.net app, in-game, and on this forum and NOWHERE u can check that player’s score. For unknown reasons this is well hidden somewhere.
My final thoughts are that this is one of the worst achievements implementation ever (among with game center on ios).
this is not true, most achievements are generally just /timeplayed grinds
there is nothing ‘hard to get’ about them, they are just dopamine rewards for spending time on the game with a very few limited to skill based play
the SOLE reason they are attached to ranked is to increased ranked participation which most people avoid if possible