About achievement points.

Dragan event is drawing closer. From last year's event, me and a friend noticed we had different progress bars despite both being level 100, and we got the answer that it was because of our difference in achievement points, specifically my friend had way more, so his progress bar required almost double the amount of mine, but also had better rewards. Is that still a thing? From the latest events, there seems to be no influence on the progress bars depending on AP. Is that true for Dragan as well or should I grind achievement points if I want the larger progress bar?

Also, I've heard many times from people that AP affect the games difficulty but I've managed to find no sources to backup that claim. I've gained a considerable amount of AP since last year and I've personally noticed no difference either. If anyone could provide some insight on that it'd help a lot, anything is fine.

Cheers!

 

As far as game difficulty goes, the achievement points do not necessarily have any bearing on that The game experience will be, in general, just dependent on how well one can build up one's character and play that certain class/those particular skills. ^^

 

I would guess so, it was a thing even before the previous iteration. However in the last one, it was not documented for some reason, although the guides are largely copy-paste of last one, part about achievement points being related to progress bars was left out, although we are pretty certain it was a feature there.
Since there are not too many changes usually being done on the events, it is likely it will be a thing again. Of course that's just my guess, there is no information about that.

I did not notice anything, afaik it just takes more effort to finish dragan's event.