Utterly, utterly, baffled.
You know, considering the patch hasn’t been out even a full day, why not wait and see what happens to the price of the mats in ~24-48 hours?
As for achievements, personally starting to wish ANet would just remove achievements from the game entirely. Everyone is whining about them….
45g worth of corn cobs for a 20-slot box which would cost you about 10g.
400g worth of nougats for the RECIPE for a 250g staff.
First of all, unless someone was expecting the price of those materials to crash to nothingness, what were they thinking? If they do in fact crash to basically being worth nothing, then what did they expect people to do the events for? Fun running zerging around a bland and empty maze?
Second of all, why isn’t there achievements for the minigame or the clocktower?
They were there last year, I guess they didn’t want to repeat them for some reason. I can understand the clocktower, sooooo many people complained last year because they could not do that achievement….
Since when did this business of being a hero become being a business?
You know, considering the patch hasn’t been out even a full day, why not wait and see what happens to the price of the mats in ~24-48 hours?
As for achievements, personally starting to wish ANet would just remove achievements from the game entirely. Everyone is whining about them….
People complain about too many achievements because it feels like they need to do the activity as an AP grind… and then I guess people complain about not enough achievements.
You know, considering the patch hasn’t been out even a full day, why not wait and see what happens to the price of the mats in ~24-48 hours?
As for achievements, personally starting to wish ANet would just remove achievements from the game entirely. Everyone is whining about them….
People complain about too many achievements because it feels like they need to do the activity as an AP grind… and then I guess people complain about not enough achievements.
Well the achievement system is here to stay, that much is obvious. It’s kind of ridiculous to implement such a system and then limit achievements on things. I mean, obviously there’s a balance to be had, but come on.
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You know, considering the patch hasn’t been out even a full day, why not wait and see what happens to the price of the mats in ~24-48 hours?
As for achievements, personally starting to wish ANet would just remove achievements from the game entirely. Everyone is whining about them….
People complain about too many achievements because it feels like they need to do the activity as an AP grind… and then I guess people complain about not enough achievements.
Well the achievement system is here to stay, that much is obvious. It’s kind of ridiculous to implement such a system and then limiting achievements on things. I mean, obviously there’s a balance to be had, but come on.
Oh I completely agree, I was just saying. Anet doesn’t know how to balance. :P
Not quite, but you’re close.
Look around, find the parts that you enjoy and do those. IGNORE the big stuff, it’s a nonsense grind that makes me doubt that the Devs’ intention is to make a fun game instead of a game that feeds off of obsessive compulsions.
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They ruined Halloween. I didn’t think it was possible but they somehow did it. Can’t wait to see just how bad the Christmas grind will be. Do they seriously not care about what is happening to the game at all? It’s frustrating to watch all the potential Guild Wars 2 has be so utterly squandered.
45g worth of corn cobs for a 20-slot box which would cost you about 10g.
400g worth of nougats for the RECIPE for a 250g staff.
First of all, unless someone was expecting the price of those materials to crash to nothingness, what were they thinking? If they do in fact crash to basically being worth nothing, then what did they expect people to do the events for? Fun running zerging around a bland and empty maze?
Second of all, why isn’t there achievements for the minigame or the clocktower?
If you take a look at the charts you’ll find out that the price of halloween-related items was drove up significantly by speculators a few days before the Halloween event was live.
Once the initial rush is over and players increase the supply of those items, their price will go down. I dunno if they will reach the same value that they had last year, but most likely they’ll tank in price.
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Was looking forward to this patch so much, cant believe they decided to just ruin it and turn it into yet another grind fest/gold sink. 15000 candies for a bag? Seriously? Who on earth has time/will to grind that. With amount like this you might have aswell made it 15 million would be just as unreachable for me.
I guess only no lifes/botters deserve to get anything from this event.
45g worth of corn cobs for a 20-slot box which would cost you about 10g.
400g worth of nougats for the RECIPE for a 250g staff.
First of all, unless someone was expecting the price of those materials to crash to nothingness, what were they thinking? If they do in fact crash to basically being worth nothing, then what did they expect people to do the events for? Fun running zerging around a bland and empty maze?
Second of all, why isn’t there achievements for the minigame or the clocktower?
The price would have crashed to 3-7 copper. If Anet would of kept all the candy corn nodes in the open world.
So dont grind for the bag???? Is it that hard to understand?
This is my first Holiday Event I have been able to attended since GW2 came out, and for me I have enjoyed it so far. I haven’t really gone in depth with the Halloween Event, I only done Lunatic Inquisition [ Which is pretty fun! ], the Labyrinth [ I am assuming thats the grinding? which it did get boring after 20 mins ] and the start of the Bloody Prince Story.
I have enjoy everything I have done on the first day of the event. So I do look forward to doing much more before it ends.
World: Sanctum of Rall
Guild: [FKL]
Main Character: Amanda Lockheart/80/Thief
Guild: [FKL]
Main Character: Amanda Lockheart/80/Thief
I got the titles, the Mad Memories back, etc last year and I had fun. However this yr all I see is grind and buggy content. I have not completed the last two living story AP fests and I may not get this one either. In my opinion the grind is there for all the ppl that have 5+hours/day to play; not for casuals that only play a few hours. So that they stay in the game. I continue to lower my expectations for the content of this game and as the game continues I am sure I won’t care soon.
This is my first Holiday Event I have been able to attended since GW2 came out, and for me I have enjoyed it so far. I haven’t really gone in depth with the Halloween Event, I only done Lunatic Inquisition [ Which is pretty fun! ], the Labyrinth [ I am assuming thats the grinding? which it did get boring after 20 mins ] and the start of the Bloody Prince Story.
I have enjoy everything I have done on the first day of the event. So I do look forward to doing much more before it ends.
Sadly if you really look at whats left after what you have just listed isn’t very much. Mostly get on for 10 mins and do the halloween dailies and then probably some tiny little Bloody Prince instance.
Edit: the worst part about this, is that the story of the Bloody Prince is 10x better than any of the Living story content we have gotten so far.
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This is my first Holiday Event I have been able to attended since GW2 came out, and for me I have enjoyed it so far. I haven’t really gone in depth with the Halloween Event, I only done Lunatic Inquisition [ Which is pretty fun! ], the Labyrinth [ I am assuming thats the grinding? which it did get boring after 20 mins ] and the start of the Bloody Prince Story.
I have enjoy everything I have done on the first day of the event. So I do look forward to doing much more before it ends.
Sadly if you really look at whats left after what you have just listed isn’t very much. Mostly get on for 10 mins and do the halloween dailies and then probably some tiny little Bloody Prince instance.
Edit: the worst part about this, is that the story of the Bloody Prince is 10x better than any of the Living story content we have gotten so far.
Oh okay, well it seem’s like there is a few things left to do, I’d like to get the Mask of Night [ but I am unsure how ] and I haven’t been able to do the clocktower [ is that the jump puzzle? ] I just hope it easy to understand where everything is.. is my biggest concern :P
World: Sanctum of Rall
Guild: [FKL]
Main Character: Amanda Lockheart/80/Thief
Guild: [FKL]
Main Character: Amanda Lockheart/80/Thief
For people who didnt do anything last year, we got some new stuff but nothing like they had last year. This year seems to be more grindy and stale. From the removal of the main event in labyrinth to the book or title. Its just so sad. I am really sad that this happened and unfortunately I know that nothing is going to be done about peoples frustrations….
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45g worth of corn cobs for a 20-slot box which would cost you about 10g.
400g worth of nougats for the RECIPE for a 250g staff.
First of all, unless someone was expecting the price of those materials to crash to nothingness, what were they thinking? If they do in fact crash to basically being worth nothing, then what did they expect people to do the events for? Fun running zerging around a bland and empty maze?
Second of all, why isn’t there achievements for the minigame or the clocktower?
If you take a look at the charts you’ll find out that the price of halloween-related items was drove up significantly by speculators a few days before the Halloween event was live.
Once the initial rush is over and players increase the supply of those items, their price will go down. I dunno if they will reach the same value that they had last year, but most likely they’ll tank in price.
As I stated in my OP, the problem is that if they tank in price, whats the point of farming them in the maze?
Zerging around the maze is far from fun and the bosses are just complete nonsense.
Besides that. How in the world is anyone supposed to get 100,000 chattering skulls DIY?
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This would make sense…. If there are as yet undiscovered year 2 weapons. This way you can still get ur year 1 equips if you pay up the nose for them.
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Ya the candy corn items are super grindy but that has been something Anet seem to do with lots of their updates. Kinda disappointed with this update they seem to have less here than last year which imo doesn’t make sense when they stated they would be able to flesh these events out more each time they come around. Maybe it’s because this holiday has a story but no scavanger hunt(or something that would provide as much gameplay), The labyrinth doesn’t have anything cool about is just nothing but a zerg farm(champs have way to much hp as well spending 10+ minutes on each champ is dumb), less new skins than last year(not including last year’s armor skins and none of the old ones have returned to my knowledge.)
I’m just kinda disappointed with this update It feels like less than last year and that was one of my favorite updates. Hopefully the last dungeon is way better than the first but I guess this teaches me not to get excited for gw2 updates even the ones i had fun with the year before.
I would like to see one of the devs grind out all this stuff. I highly doubt they would spend their time doing it. Seriously the numbers are just way too high on a lot of this stuff. Devs… if you wouldn’t be willing to do it with your own creation… then why do you think we would want to? -.-
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I haven’t really complained about anything so far, but Halloween this year is just a huge disappointment for me. Let me start with that, I loved it last year, but now its just a lazy, simplified copy of that, which doesn’t give you anything new, in face it feels like, it’s giving us less.
Personally I prefer the harder but more rewarding events, like Tequatl or TA, where we have challenges, and it gives either a cool mini or a title, but I can get the totally opposite direction as well, lets make the holiday events fun. Now this year’s Halloween just lack both so far and I’m really unhappy because my main character is a necro, and I was saving up golds and gems for this one and so far only the bone pick was interesting.
Costumes and/or armor skins would have be nice. It would have been fun do dress up as one of the major NPCs of the game (like Queen Jennah) or just get a new armor desing. The weapon skins are okay, to be fair, but this event definately wasn’t a bang at all. It was like waiting for your favourite show’s return and you just get the last year repeats.
I can only hope now, that at least we get an awesome perma logging axe (the sickle was awful, over-the-top and a bit out-of-the-world) or a rewarding and fun minidungeon against the Blood Prince. All-in-all, Halloween is a huge flop for me so far, which neither fun (at least not in a new way) nor rewarding so far.
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they should have defenetaly brought back the old stuff with the new. it seemed like the kind of thought that kills two birds with one stone, its a real shame.
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wait 1 year for nothing. it’s really bad compared to last year. i had a blast! this year .. i want to cut my wrist out of frustration with all the devs bad decisions. this game is no longer about having fun, but about to grind everything. bravo anet, bravo. i salute my middle finger to you.
wait 1 year for nothing. it’s really bad compared to last year. i had a blast! this year .. i want to cut my wrist out of frustration with all the devs bad decisions. this game is no longer about having fun, but about to grind everything. bravo anet, bravo. i salute my middle finger to you.
The problem is that there’s nothing to actually grind for. Trying to get 100k of whatever mats isn’t a grind, its …. I can’t even describe what that is. Grinds are achievable, getting 100k of whats basically a t6 mat is just stupid.
The problem is that there’s nothing to actually grind for. Trying to get 100k of whatever mats isn’t a grind, its …. I can’t even describe what that is. Grinds are achievable, getting 100k of whats basically a t6 mat is just stupid.
Agreed. I honestly do not know what they were thinking when they set this up. It’s well past difficult or silly, and into the realm of pointlessness. Anyone that tries for this will either have to spend an arm and a leg to get it, or they’ll grind and grind only to get nothing at the end. And THAT kind of frustration is good for driving people away from a game.
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45g worth of corn cobs for a 20-slot box which would cost you about 10g.
400g worth of nougats for the RECIPE for a 250g staff.
First of all, unless someone was expecting the price of those materials to crash to nothingness, what were they thinking? If they do in fact crash to basically being worth nothing, then what did they expect people to do the events for? Fun running zerging around a bland and empty maze?
Second of all, why isn’t there achievements for the minigame or the clocktower?
The mats will go down and thats because since people do the event, they get candy corn, thats what make the candy go low. If nobody get candy corn the price dont drop.
Clocktower give you candy bags and a exotic glove with a stat of your choice.
Wait before complain and dont complain for complain.
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45g worth of corn cobs for a 20-slot box which would cost you about 10g.
400g worth of nougats for the RECIPE for a 250g staff.
First of all, unless someone was expecting the price of those materials to crash to nothingness, what were they thinking? If they do in fact crash to basically being worth nothing, then what did they expect people to do the events for? Fun running zerging around a bland and empty maze?
Second of all, why isn’t there achievements for the minigame or the clocktower?
The mats will go down and thats because since people do the event, they get candy corn, thats what make the candy go low. If nobody get candy corn the price dont drop.
Clocktower give you candy bags and a exotic glove with a stat of your choice.
Wait before complain and dont complain for complain.
Maybe reread your post before you hit enter. The grammar is just…..so kitten my eyes. Anyways it’s not just candy corn for a Halloween skin that you need, you also need like 700g worth of skulls/fangs/nougats. What makes it expensive is that the items sell to the vendor for about 35-36 copper which means the price on the tp will not dip significantly enough below that in order to get the skin for ‘cheap’.
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