New to this game, what to do in this event?
Antiltiger that wasn’t particularly helpful for a new player.
Butter, head over to the Haunted Nolani waypoint in the black citadel to start. They complete the “A Sweet Friend” achievement in the living world subheading. You can get to the mad realm via doors in places like queensdale.
There are repeatable achievements under the daily tab that count towards “A Sweet Friend”
what exactly do you do though
This info may help out a bit:
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/a-guide-to-blood-and-madness/
There’s also a page on the Guild Wars 2 wiki:
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Blood_and_Madness
This has been my only issue with the game since it came out. Unless you have a very knowledgeable guild helping you out there is just no way to know where you are supposed to do. Hell, I have a great guild and usually figure these events out no problem. This one though has me scratching my head on what’s going on. I get the basis of the story, and have gone into the labyrinth but after that there is no direction. just run around and close doors or fight two bosses that take 100+ players to take down and then don’t really drop anything better than I could get doing world bosses or even a champ run.
Butter.. the best that I can tell you to do is keep asking in game. Either /map or /say and hope someone nice will be able to help you in game. I know I tried to help some guildmates that were having issues with it. Figured maybe 2 heads were better than one at figuring out what the heck was going on.
This has been my only issue with the game since it came out. Unless you have a very knowledgeable guild helping you out there is just no way to know where you are supposed to do. Hell, I have a great guild and usually figure these events out no problem. This one though has me scratching my head on what’s going on. I get the basis of the story, and have gone into the labyrinth but after that there is no direction. just run around and close doors or fight two bosses that take 100+ players to take down and then don’t really drop anything better than I could get doing world bosses or even a champ run.
Butter.. the best that I can tell you to do is keep asking in game. Either /map or /say and hope someone nice will be able to help you in game. I know I tried to help some guildmates that were having issues with it. Figured maybe 2 heads were better than one at figuring out what the heck was going on.
You have two guides to follow. The first is the in-game meta achievement and daily check list. The second is the features guide ArenaNet made. It’s not very complicated.
Get Mail
Check Mail
Go to location
Do instance
Follow directions and finish meta achievement
Get mail
Check mail
Go to location
Do instance
Finish the Blood Prince story and enjoy the remaining features of Halloween, which are listed on the website.
The Labyrinth doesn’t really have a purpose outside farming or the meta, unless you find it fun.
I don’t really understand people’s difficulties with things like this. I see questions like “How do I leave the Mad King’s Realm?” or “How do I get to the Labyrinth” and wonder how people can truly by that helpless and incapable of free thought. ArenaNet already does everything short of hand holding you through a step-by-step tutorial, and if you want that there’s plenty of resources available like Dulfy.
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This has been my only issue with the game since it came out. Unless you have a very knowledgeable guild helping you out there is just no way to know where you are supposed to do. Hell, I have a great guild and usually figure these events out no problem. This one though has me scratching my head on what’s going on. I get the basis of the story, and have gone into the labyrinth but after that there is no direction. just run around and close doors or fight two bosses that take 100+ players to take down and then don’t really drop anything better than I could get doing world bosses or even a champ run.
Butter.. the best that I can tell you to do is keep asking in game. Either /map or /say and hope someone nice will be able to help you in game. I know I tried to help some guildmates that were having issues with it. Figured maybe 2 heads were better than one at figuring out what the heck was going on.
You have two guides to follow. The first is the in-game meta achievement and daily check list. The second is the features guide ArenaNet made. It’s not very complicated.
Get Mail
Check Mail
Go to location
Do instance
Follow directions and finish meta achievement
Get mail
Check mail
Go to location
Do instance
Finish the Blood Prince story and enjoy the remaining features of Halloween, which are listed on the website.The Labyrinth doesn’t really have a purpose outside farming or the meta, unless you find it fun.
I don’t really understand people’s difficulties with things like this. I see questions like “How do I leave the Mad King’s Realm?” or “How do I get to the Labyrinth” and wonder how people can truly by that helpless and incapable of free thought. ArenaNet already does everything short of hand holding you through a step-by-step tutorial, and if you want that there’s plenty of resources available like Dulfy.
Yes, first part was easy.. showed me where to go. I never got a second email. All I got was some golem.. totally worthless. So the only thing I have to go off of is the Achievements.. and none of them tell you what zone to go to, or what to do. They are about as vague as you can get.
“complete a round of Mad King says” really? where? when? how? This is totally worthless unless I look it up online or ask someone. I shouldn’t have to do research on something like this. You click it and it shows the same thing.. that screen could have a detailed description of what you need to do. I don’t get why it’s so hard to explain something in this game.
I’m not an MMO noob by any means.. but this is the most difficult game i’ve played for figuring out what you need to do for somthing. I get it that Anet likes puzzles, but holy crap. If so many people are having issues like you said, then there is a problem.
This has been my only issue with the game since it came out. Unless you have a very knowledgeable guild helping you out there is just no way to know where you are supposed to do. Hell, I have a great guild and usually figure these events out no problem. This one though has me scratching my head on what’s going on. I get the basis of the story, and have gone into the labyrinth but after that there is no direction. just run around and close doors or fight two bosses that take 100+ players to take down and then don’t really drop anything better than I could get doing world bosses or even a champ run.
Butter.. the best that I can tell you to do is keep asking in game. Either /map or /say and hope someone nice will be able to help you in game. I know I tried to help some guildmates that were having issues with it. Figured maybe 2 heads were better than one at figuring out what the heck was going on.
You have two guides to follow. The first is the in-game meta achievement and daily check list. The second is the features guide ArenaNet made. It’s not very complicated.
Get Mail
Check Mail
Go to location
Do instance
Follow directions and finish meta achievement
Get mail
Check mail
Go to location
Do instance
Finish the Blood Prince story and enjoy the remaining features of Halloween, which are listed on the website.The Labyrinth doesn’t really have a purpose outside farming or the meta, unless you find it fun.
I don’t really understand people’s difficulties with things like this. I see questions like “How do I leave the Mad King’s Realm?” or “How do I get to the Labyrinth” and wonder how people can truly by that helpless and incapable of free thought. ArenaNet already does everything short of hand holding you through a step-by-step tutorial, and if you want that there’s plenty of resources available like Dulfy.
Yes, first part was easy.. showed me where to go. I never got a second email. All I got was some golem.. totally worthless. So the only thing I have to go off of is the Achievements.. and none of them tell you what zone to go to, or what to do. They are about as vague as you can get.
“complete a round of Mad King says” really? where? when? how? This is totally worthless unless I look it up online or ask someone. I shouldn’t have to do research on something like this. You click it and it shows the same thing.. that screen could have a detailed description of what you need to do. I don’t get why it’s so hard to explain something in this game.
I’m not an MMO noob by any means.. but this is the most difficult game i’ve played for figuring out what you need to do for somthing. I get it that Anet likes puzzles, but holy crap. If so many people are having issues like you said, then there is a problem.
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/a-guide-to-blood-and-madness/
“The Mad King himself will visit Lion’s Arch on Halloween (9AM October 30 to 9AM November 1 PDT). Successfully playing his Mad King Says game will give you the A Royal Tradition achievement, which counts toward A Sweet Friend as well. You’ll find him either in the Grand Piazza or the Mystic Plaza.”
Difficult puzzle, that one.
“It’s on the release page” is not a valid excuse. I can’t think of a single update in any MMO I have ever played that a cursory skim of the front page was not beneficial.
You can also just look at the map and use some simple deductive reasoning if you’re absolutely and vehemently against that. It is Halloween. There are doors on the map that were not there before Halloween. Therefore, the doors are related to Halloween. You walk up to the door. You get candy or an enemy spawns. You have the ability to enter the door. You now end up in a strange place called the Mad King’s Realm. So on. Through normal experiencing of the content you will easily do the meta achievement.
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ok.. but again, why can’t they put that into the game? Like I said, the achievement boxes are clickable.. yet they only show the same thing that the smaller box showed. They could easily add that information into those screens so people would be able to figure stuff out easier.
FYI.. not everyone cares about changelogs or updates. I’m super casual player. They could revamp my entire character and I wouldn’t care one bit.
Hope I have time to log on during those times.
But thanks for the information..
Nothing, there is nothing at all to gain from attending the events other that for kittens and giggles.