They should have kept "map completion" character-specific - delves, dolmens, world bosses.

I mean, they could do it for public dungeons, they could do it for museum pieces (though more recent museum pieces, such as the Blackwood Tapestry, High Isle Druidic Provisioning Station and Galen Forest Spirit skin, are account-wide and once-only): an addon manages to do it perfectly well for delves, dolmens and world bosses (and even works when new zones are added, despite the fact that nobody is maintaining said addon). So why couldn't the main game track what the addon does.

The long term "Do X thing Y number of times", I am profoundly *glad* has gone account-wide. 30 Deadlands Dailies on every character, rather than across all characters - and so on - would have been a right royal pain in the posterior. And don't get me started on "Murkmire Prepper" and its absurd 150 mini-quests, which is already six times worse than any similar repetitive thing account-wide, and was even worse when it was character-specific (especially after they changed it to make only one quest, rather than all six in succession, doable per day.)

Most "monster trophies" are rare enough that I'm glad they too went account-wide.

I believe that Dungeon and Trial completion, both veteran and normal, should have been logged character-specific. (The dungeon skill points were: so why not the achievements?) To be frank, some characters on a given account may be up to completing a veteran DLC dungeon or trial, and some are NOT, because they simply lack the skills and gear.

Also, there completely ought to be a skill point for completing every Trial, and every Arena. At the moment only Maelstrom Arena has one.

I hate AwA.

I have a pecking order as far as Achievements are concerned & tying to maintain that, is time consuming and a nightmare. The result is, that I can no longer send the best char to do the job, whereas before, it did not matter.

Yes and no, but more no than yes.

Basically, before zos ripped the soul out of character progression I was plugging along doing content and getting achievements in my slow turtle like way as I did my trading and farming with several characters on several accounts.

Now, I am slowly plugging along doing content and getting achievements in my slow turtle like way on usually 1 character per account. I just have significantly more accounts these days.

It certainly has changed a lot the way I play, and for the better.

I enjoy so much choosing the character I prefer or the most adapted for this or that achievement, rather than feeling constrained to my good ol' main.

I don't care about alts a single time anymore. I won't bring any new ones through mandatory "flawless conqueror" ritual I did before after hitting lvl50, nor I would gear them up as usual if that's not some rp build for some specific vfx. They're writ makers basically now, or coffers that I can dress up occasionally based on their theme. Generally game became less replayable and it shows on time played.

Glad there are games around with deep customisation, actual progression and ones that are respecting people's time investment right.

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Yes, I actually play alts now as I achievement progressions on alts don't fee like a waste of time anymore.
This is kind of a bad poll, as "changed how I play" can be both positive and negative.

Ha ha.. yeah, I was thinking the same thing, actually... should have had 1) no, 2) yes, bad 3) yes good options...

Play less. Pay less. Buy less from crown store. Far less incentive to try content again. It's now 1 and done, rather than trying on alts.

Yes it changed it for me, I no longer feel the same sense of progress and achievement I did. I have stopped playing on all other characters than my main, and I therefore play less, and I miss the way it worked, where my characters could be different. But I would have thought the WoW way was an improvement for all those who wanted AwA, without ruining it for the rest of us who didn't

Little point in playing alts. I'll drag them out for the crafting dailies in the Anniversary event, then they will go back into storage.

On one side AwA partially killed my little roleplay. I had some characters lawful (no TG, DB and ledgerdemain), some not. Today I can keep it the same, but watching TG achievement on such kind of character spoils it a bit.

On the other side the day I got AwA merged, I found that I can buy the rest of houses for my house collection. I hadn't been able to buy some of them due to lack of in-zone quests done. Sure I could do it later, but AwA have made it faster for me.

Anyway I think it is tiny thing. The most of my play style and routines weren't changed.
I'm still using some titles that I'm proud of for characters who got it only.

Pros: it's easier and faster to get some rewards based on achievements.

Cons: the labels attached to who got what are meaningless, and my alts are getting congratulated for doing something they didn't do. They're also seeing people they shouldn't see - looking at you, lady from Cloudrest sitting outside Shimmerene with your dog, talking to my level 5 like he should know who you are...

I am somewhat happy they've installed ghostly Verandis permanently overlooking Arkthzandt. It always makes me happy, going to see him and being addressed as a friend.

AwA completely killed replayability for me. Before, I wanted to level up tons of characters, had tons of ideas for them, had plans to get them all competent in their chosen role, testing them through things like vet dungeon achievements and trifectas. I did vMA on all my characters, even after stickerbook.

Now, I log on my main for events or new stories (haven't even bothered to order Necrom), and then disappear for months on end. I think I've played maybe a month total in the past 15 months. Add in the hybrid changes and other combat changes and I just can't get excited enough to bother relearning to play again. Honestly questioning why I even bother doing events when I don't enjoy the game anymore so who cares if I miss out of cosmetics? It's an unpleasant way to feel for a game that I used to love.