Grindy Holiday
This Halloween was just over all disappointing. Last year was so fun. Seems like they just overlooked it between wvw season 1 and the tower update and just threw something in there. Really hope this is not a trend.
Grind is here to stay.
“We just don’t want players to grind in Guild Wars 2.” -Colin Johanson
Don’t support the Gem Shop, it’s that easy.
Don’t support the Gem Shop, it’s that easy.
None of the achievements for the Halloween meta were grindy except for maybe the doors but you don’t need to do them. The daily achievements for the meta take no time at all to do.
10 Candy Corn Cobs (10,000 Pieces of Candy Corn) and 10 Tyria’s Best Nougat Centers (10,000 Nougat Centers) along with 10 Piles of Crystalline Dust and 40 Bottles of Elonian Wine….for the recipe that will let me make the Gift of Souls for the Crossing.
To any developers who are reading this, but probably aren’t:
Making the recipe the hardest part to obtain in the entire process of making a rare weapon skin is utterly wrong. It’s like you people don’t even play your own game and try the get the skins the same way. Especially when I have to get this all in the next 2 weeks before I can’t anymore.
10,000 Pieces of Candy Corn? Possible…maybe. But it isn’t fun.
10,000 Nougat Centers? Without an insane amount of luck, or a lot of gold to burn in buying them off the Trade Post (ironically, buying the upgraded Nougats themselves in the long run is cheaper), there is no way to get enough by the time this event ends.
By the time I had even started playing, it was already past the first Halloween event. I’ve been punished for not being there the first time, just because I want to make The Crossing.
Guess it’s better to not have goals in the game, eh?
None of the achievements for the Halloween meta were grindy except for maybe the doors but you don’t need to do them. The daily achievements for the meta take no time at all to do.
Most of them were grinding.
8 games of Inquisition, opening 50 T or T bags, getting CC, using the stomps in WvW 24 times. It was all grinding. I know your position is that anything under 60 repetitions isn’t grinding, but for me, if I have to repeat content multiple times to get a reward then every repetition after the 1st is grinding. I’ve already proved that I can do it, why make me do it over and over again?
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10 Candy Corn Cobs (10,000 Pieces of Candy Corn) and 10 Tyria’s Best Nougat Centers (10,000 Nougat Centers) along with 10 Piles of Crystalline Dust and 40 Bottles of Elonian Wine….for the recipe that will let me make the Gift of Souls for the Crossing.
To any developers who are reading this, but probably aren’t:
Making the recipe the hardest part to obtain in the entire process of making a rare weapon skin is utterly wrong. It’s like you people don’t even play your own game and try the get the skins the same way. Especially when I have to get this all in the next 2 weeks before I can’t anymore.
10,000 Pieces of Candy Corn? Possible…maybe. But it isn’t fun.
10,000 Nougat Centers? Without an insane amount of luck, or a lot of gold to burn in buying them off the Trade Post (ironically, buying the upgraded Nougats themselves in the long run is cheaper), there is no way to get enough by the time this event ends.
By the time I had even started playing, it was already past the first Halloween event. I’ve been punished for not being there the first time, just because I want to make The Crossing.
Guess it’s better to not have goals in the game, eh?
Unlocking the recipe is unprofitable and downright impossible, yes. UNLESS you had the recipe last year. Since there are lots of people who do, the price of the staff is high, but totally doable even for someone who isn’t a hardcore farmer. If its your goal to get the staff, just farm a bit of gold and buy it on the trading post. If you want to craft it yourself, buy the gift of souls and farm the other mats as you normally would.
Its completely stupid and asinine that unlocking the recipe is as hard as it is, but whatever, its just poor playtesting. It doesn’t mean you should throw your hands up in the air and give up on the crossing and on Anet. Just let them know you think its stupid and get the staff in whatever ways are avaliable. Done and done.
Also there’s still the possible that come tuesday, the second part of the halloween event will make candy corn and rare mats much more plentiful, and should that be the case you can carry on with what you wanted to do all along.
None of the achievements for the Halloween meta were grindy except for maybe the doors but you don’t need to do them. The daily achievements for the meta take no time at all to do.
Most of them were grinding.
8 games of Inquisition, opening 50 T or T bags, getting CC, using the stomps in WvW 24 times. It was all grinding. I know your position is that anything under 60 repetitions isn’t grinding, but for me, if I have to repeat content multiple times to get a reward then every repetition after the 1st is grinding. I’ve already proved that I can do it, why make me do it over and over again?
Well you can petition for them to add a button that you click to reward all achievements. This way you don’t have to repeat anything.
This Halloween was just over all disappointing. Last year was so fun. Seems like they just overlooked it between wvw season 1 and the tower update and just threw something in there. Really hope this is not a trend.
Just wait till Wintersday, I’m sure the grinding will be increased even more.
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Please give us a keyring…
Please give us a keyring…