Guild Wars 2

Hi, I just got home from a double shift at work today. Skimmed Halloween forums and Main page announcement etc. Anyways, can I get a concise list of whats new today? Mainpage is vague, and forum is drowning me with tears. I’m likely to hit the wiki soon, but in case its incomplete, or too vague or whatever….can I see a short list of new fun stuffs? BTW I’m loving the event, despite no craftable goodies at low lvls. Anyways, list please? I’d search, but ….you know…..tears…..drowning…..etc :/

One of the main things is that you missed out on the many exotics that (finally) dropped from chests in the Mad King’s Labyrinth, including precursors and halloween items.

Technically, exotics still have a remote chance of dropping from the chests. They just made it so you can only get anything out of the chests every 10 hours, to stop the market from dropping. So hop on in, beat the champion down if you can find enough people, but if you want the gear, make with the speedy gold farming elsewhere and hit the TP.

Those tips were nonsensical to someone who Just Got Home. No real relevant info related, and only barely masked ire (read: QQ). You guys are killing me. Seriously, killing me.

XelTorias.1364:

One of the main things is that you missed out on the many exotics that (finally) dropped from chests in the Mad King’s Labyrinth, including precursors and halloween items.

What is the Mad King’s Labyrinth? Did you even read my post? Why are you doing this? There’s a page full of topics to cry on….why can u no read?

Correcting the comment about drop rates and recommending how to get the items if you’re interested isn’t helpful? Okay, try this… Google. Wiki.

Have fun!

Taurethion.7302:

Correcting the comment about drop rates and recommending how to get the items if you’re interested isn’t helpful? Okay, try this… Google. Wiki.

Have fun!

Drop rates for what? getting what items? Ya I’ll wiki, you guys are swell.

6 new memories that will give you a stronger back item. I have no idea how someone is suposed to begin to find 7-12, I just followed a guide and rushed it.
13 power, 18 precision, 13 cond dmg, requiring level 0. It also lights a little bit around you. It’s basicly the first book, but on fire.

Mad King’s Clock Tower and 2 mini games are released.
(You can access all 3 via Labyrinth)
To enter MK’s Lab, you must find the same doors as Act 1 that you would knock to for a ToT or one halloween mob. Sometimes, pumpkins will be marked all over your map, indicating doors locations that will transfer you to MK’s Lab.

Clock Tower video (spoiler, so you might want to give it a few tries first)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZ9KpVtP80A&feature=plcp

The 2 mini games are Lunatic Inquisition and Reaper’s Rumble.
In Lunatic Inquisition, you begin as a villager and your goal is to survive and get a high score. You will get scores by surviving for x seconds, giving items asked by NPCs or by escaping ghost players. Now, I’m not sure how someone becomes a ghost at first(join the game late?), but if you die to a ghost, you become a ghost and your new goal is to kill them all. Damages seems extremely random and based on your profession. By example, my leap hits for 6k, while other people would leap to me for 15k+(wtf?).

Reaper’s Rumble is my least favorite thing about Act 2. It’s Red Team vs Blue Team, first team to destroy opposite’s team skeleton producer thingy(forgot name) wins. You get 5 PToTs on a win. You can also grab pumpkin and get them to your producer thingy, though I have no idea how that works.

New available Achievements:
Halloween Events: Participate to 10 DEs inside Mad King’s Labyrinth.

It’s a Mad King World: 3/4
Mad King’s Labyrinth, Mad King’s Clock Tower and Reaper’s Rumble.
Lunatic Inquisition does not count because it uses the same map as Labyrinth.

Mad King’s Clock Tower: Obvious.

Taurethion.7302:

Technically, exotics still have a remote chance of dropping from the chests. They just made it so you can only get anything out of the chests every 10 hours, to stop the market from dropping. So hop on in, beat the champion down if you can find enough people, but if you want the gear, make with the speedy gold farming elsewhere and hit the TP.

What “chests”? The BLT chests, or the ones made from BLT chest trash? Or some new other chest? Who is the “champion”? There’s lots of champions in this game. What “gear”? There’s lots of gear in this game. “speedy gold farming”? I’m not Chinese.

See what I’m saying? No help at all.

Qelris.6901:

6 new memories that will give you a stronger back item. I have no idea how someone is suposed to begin to find 7-12, I just followed a guide and rushed it.
13 power, 18 precision, 13 cond dmg, requiring level 0. It also lights a little bit around you. It’s basicly the first book, but on fire.

Mad King’s Clock Tower and 2 mini games are released.
(You can access all 3 via Labyrinth)
To enter MK’s Lab, you must find the same doors as Act 1 that you would knock to for a ToT or one halloween mob. Sometimes, pumpkins will be marked all over your map, indicating doors locations that will transfer you to MK’s Lab.

Clock Tower video (spoiler, so you might want to give it a few tries first)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZ9KpVtP80A&feature=plcp

The 2 mini games are Lunatic Inquisition and Reaper’s Rumble.
In Lunatic Inquisition, you begin as a villager and your goal is to survive and get a high score. You will get scores by surviving for x seconds, giving items asked by NPCs or by escaping ghost players. Now, I’m not sure how someone becomes a ghost at first(join the game late?), but if you die to a ghost, you become a ghost and your new goal is to kill them all. Damages seems extremely random and based on your profession. By example, my leap hits for 6k, while other people would leap to me for 15k+(wtf?).

Reaper’s Rumble is my least favorite thing about Act 2. It’s Red Team vs Blue Team, first team to destroy opposite’s team skeleton producer thingy(forgot name) wins. You get 5 PToTs on a win. You can also grab pumpkin and get them to your producer thingy, though I have no idea how that works.

New available Achievements:
Halloween Events: Participate to 10 DEs inside Mad King’s Labyrinth.

It’s a Mad King World: 3/4
Mad King’s Labyrinth, Mad King’s Clock Tower and Reaper’s Rumble.
Lunatic Inquisition does not count because it uses the same map as Labyrinth.

Mad King’s Clock Tower: Obvious.

Thanks

If you’re still wondering about the chests, they’re in the Mad King’s Labyrinth. There are a number of veteran bosses that spawn throughout the lab, and 2 champion mob bosses. When you kill the champions, they spawn a chest that you can loot.

Previously, before the emergency patch, normal trash mobs dropped pretty good rewards (lots of ancient bones), and the champion chests would give 3-4 items per looting. The items could be literally anything, from green to exotic to the crafting-exclusive halloween skins. And since there were 2 champions, and thus 2 chests, that respawned about every half hour, you could loot the chests fairly often.

Now, after the patch, both the rewards of the chests have been significantly nerfed (2-3 items rewarded now, with exotic being much, much rarer.) and the rate at which you can loot them nerfed (once per day vs once per ~30 mins).

Sadly, this also makes the unique Mad King’s armor set nearly impossible to get if you don’t have the pieces already. So while precursors definitely shouldn’t have dropped, and exotics not been as common, it has been a huge overnerf that players are pissed about 1. existing in the first place for some players to “exploit” and 2. makes the Lab a largely useless dungeon, unless you need massive amounts of the candy corn + teeth + ToT items.