Guild Wars 2

This nerf wasn’t needed. Now it’s not appealing to do the event more than for Achievement and story.

The problem is that Anet assumed people would split up to fight the Knights (which tells me they do not even play the game at all), and thus had the hologram spawn on a timer based around the first Knights death.

Thus, instead of fixing the mechanics, and allowing us to Zerg as we want, they limited the bosses to be fought in the way specific to their initial expectation (Not mechanic, which is a fine line distinction and needed), which of course would limit loot naturally.

Then, instead of giving loot to all based around how many Knights were killed (6 boxes for 1, 12 for 2, 18 for 3 and 1/2/3 chances at cores) which would require more coding, they just took the easier way out and slapped the loot from a single boss into a chest for everyone who downs a boss (Which Should, as per patch notes, be everyone who participates, but this is currently bugged.) GG overall imo…way to kitten off the entire community minus the diehard fanboys.

What’s the reward now? 5boxes?

You get one chest at the end of the event which rewards some greens…

kittenty patch. Go back to how it were at first day. 6 chests for each Knight.

I’m still enjoying it. And I’m not the only one. Had a great time this morning in Desolate.
Aurora Glade was good too.
How about enjoying stuff for what they are, you’re getting your loot and you have a chance of 0-3 cores when you get your chest, so it’s still RNG with the same amount of chance of cores.

@Tara, it’s 5 or 6 chests/containers(whatever they are) and a chance at cores.

Considering I got no loot at all from 6 defeated knights yesterday, I’d say it is a buff.

Naevius.3185:

Considering I got no loot at all from 6 defeated knights yesterday, I’d say it is a buff.

The patch is from today.

Taras.4578:

What’s the reward now? 5boxes?

Yup and one chance at power core. At least before when we could zerg all three individually we could get 3 chances at power cores (before patch that caused loot ‘bug’).
They love to nerf/break things that aren’t broken and leave stuff that actually needs fixing unfixed.

Zoid.2568:

You get one chest at the end of the event which rewards some greens…

kittenty patch. Go back to how it were at first day. 6 chests for each Knight.

I really hope they do go back. Keep it the way it is now, but add more chests based on the number of knights everyone kills. 3 chests if all three are. If they don’t want us to zerg them, they need to give us equal compensation for what we were able to do (well at least some of us before the loot ‘bug’).

6 bags and a core chance for the Knights is a very fair reward. 18 on the first day was far too overpowered.

It’s really simple content, it’s almost punishing for anything BUT auto attack, it shouldn’t be as rewarding as more difficult things.

Zoid.2568:

This nerf wasn’t needed. Now it’s not appealing to do the event more than for Achievement and story.

Which should be the primary reason for doing Living Story content. It’s completely inconsiderate of anyone to complain about this. The Knights were wholesale failing from players demanding to loot farm them. Even though it was plain and obvious they design was to do them all at once. Players have been complaining because they couldn’t even get to Scarlet’s Holograms.

Champ farming is primarily in Queensdale and Frostgorge. Think about it, except for the cores, it’s the same champ loot for the 10 minute investment. It’s fine….

Now maybe all of us looking to get under 6 minutes can have a chance without loot chasers demanding we do it one at a time. Maybe if players would have worked together and alternated Loot runs from Story/Achievement runs, the Dev’s wouldn’t have to play Mommy Daddy so much.

Flissy.4093:

6 bags and a core chance for the Knights is a very fair reward. 18 on the first day was far too overpowered.

It’s really simple content, it’s almost punishing for anything BUT auto attack, it shouldn’t be as rewarding as more difficult things.

Except that the reward seems bugged.

It was supposed to be for downing any knight.

Now, regardless of whether or not you kill a knight… You may not get any loot.

Kyvia.5961:

The problem is that Anet assumed people would split up to fight the Knights (which tells me they do not even play the game at all), and thus had the hologram spawn on a timer based around the first Knights death.

Thus, instead of fixing the mechanics, and allowing us to Zerg as we want, they limited the bosses to be fought in the way specific to their initial expectation (Not mechanic, which is a fine line distinction and needed), which of course would limit loot naturally.

Then, instead of giving loot to all based around how many Knights were killed (6 boxes for 1, 12 for 2, 18 for 3 and 1/2/3 chances at cores) which would require more coding, they just took the easier way out and slapped the loot from a single boss into a chest for everyone who downs a boss (Which Should, as per patch notes, be everyone who participates, but this is currently bugged.) GG overall imo…way to kitten off the entire community minus the diehard fanboys.

Even worse, they increased the toughness on the bosses, which in essence made an already difficult task even harder, and only encourages us to want to zerg.

It is actually a buff and a nerf at the same time.

You have a chance now to get 0-3 cores for the event regardless if you were only at one knight the entire time.

It is also a nerf though because you can only get 6 Champ boxes per event now instead of 5 per boss, but champ boxes suck anyway so yea.

Fat loot from Scarlet, chances at Ascended equipment. People are upset about Champion bags.

Boneheart.3561:

Fat loot from Scarlet, chances at Ascended equipment. People are upset about Champion bags.

? All I’ve ever gotten from Scarlet that is actually anything worthwhile is the Obsidian Shards, all other things have been kitten greens (even out of the ultimate rescue bag). I used to be able to get better loot out of the knights. Now I get jack kitten out of both.