Posted By Surana
Given the rates these are supposed to occur, this would maybe frustrate completionists, but I sort of feel like this probably isn't the right game for that sort of gameplay anyways.
Especially since they list some achievements as "Those that can only ever be claimed once per server" means it's going to be virtually impossible to get all achievements in the game. (Maybe they should rename achievements to something else due to the connotations that lead to the competitionist attitude?)
I don't see any benefit to making talents easier to achieve because of having got them before. If it's an insignificant increase to the probability then it will be meaningless, if it's not insignificant then eventually talents will cease to have rarity.
True, it was just an idea I tacked on as I was writing it to serve as a potential example of a benefit born of rampant speculation with little to no details to back it up.
Posted By Surana
I like the idea of a record of having discovered a talent in the past, just an a neat thing to look at.
Posted By Dekul
... but if its a talent you got by random chance, that's not really achievement worthy
Yes that idea was initially the thought that it would be nice to have some form of record for talents and potentially other noteworthy things that might not necessarily be considered an achievement.
The next part of the thought that I had left out of the initial post due to its unlikeliness to happen. I had the idea of talents being worked into the achievement system. Because in the description it is said that achievements have bonuses which can include new abilities I figured that unlocking a talent could rather be expressed as unlocking the achievement for that talent and in turn that achievement is actually what provides the talent to the character. Then in future lives it would no longer provide the talent itself but rather just the partial or secondary buffs of a past life achievement. Since I thought the mixing of the two systems was unlikely I decided to just gauge the idea of getting an achievement as a result of unlocking a talent, but now having the post sit awhile I've decided to throw into the ring my full thoughts on the matter and to see what everyone's thoughts/reactions/creative ideas are.