Guild Wars 2

I’ve noticed a rash of bugs with candidate survival, from mobs spawning in the non spawn region, to mobs sitting in the middle of the island instead of near the treasure piles, incorrect event scaling for group events AND solo events, “Veterans” in Tier 4, which are not properly labeled as grenadiers.

But what really gets to me is the prize payout, how many broken lockpicks do you really want me to have Anet?… If I could pick black lion chests with those lockpicks I might understand it, but no, I can’t, there’s no chance to get a black lion key, and this is the only alternatively method to get the Aetherized skins, short of paying upwards of $50 for keys to open boxes (or farming level 10’s every 20 minutes or so to get a single key). This is arguably a more difficult event than Southshore Survival, and most definitely than Aspect Arena, and yet the prize payout is SO much worse.

I began running Tier 4 today “on farm” in an attempt to get an Aetherized skin on my thief, specifically the pistol, in around 35 runs I got one skin (which you can’t choose, so I ended up with a torch, which may or may not sell on the TP in the next few day to help me fund buying a pistol), other notable loot was a charged lodestone from one of the 8 or so aetherized scraps I got, and a handful (10 or so) T6 matts. All in all I spent upwards of 4 hours on it, this payout isn’t anywhere near comparable to the either minigames with a SIGNIFICANTLY less fun/more challenging play environment.

It just seems ludicrous to pull 7 lockpicks and a support reminder from a 7 minute event where 10-20+ veterans are trying to kill you, and it seems generally terribly polished…. I feel like I’ve truly wasted my time, and it’s kind of burned me out on the new content, which is rough because I’d really like to try the rest that came out/grind the achievements out… but jeez… I feel almost taken advantage of for trying to get one of these skins.

I had a lot of discussion with individuals about it and isolated my primary concern, someone has to be running this event for the skins to be available and the event itself seems to have a lot of issues, not just the prize structure, beyond that the prize structure seems to be completely randomized, I recognize that Anet doesn’t have a history of transparency that a lot of MMO companies have with their back end, and I respect that.

But on a whole as someone who was running the event with the exciting prospect of working towards a prize/something cool/a goal…. I was sorely let down, almost to the point where I can’t believe that the construction of the reward pool for this event isn’t part of the other bugs associated with it.

Running a tier 4 and getting 10 lock picks as your only prize (consistently) is just sad.

Getting voting tickets as your prize when the voting tickets don’t actually benefit you in any capacity is equally sad, and frustrating.

I guess what I’m hoping as that an Anet dev will pop in a be like “Yeah! We know about a lot of the issues involved with this event and the prize pool is one of them!” but given that we’re 2 days past event launch and still have yet to see anything, I’m starting to doubt it, and I’m genuinely disappointed at the lack of polish that this living story release has in general, especially when the fortune scraps and dragon coffers seemed like such an improvement on previous issues.