Guild Wars 2

So, you expect me to waddle all the way to a Level 50 area on an underlevelled alt to get the items required for the Halloween centric gift just because my main cannot give it to my alt? And then run a hit and miss because i cant fight the mobs, and keep dying, and respawning at the way point until i can hit the next waypoint.

Who the hell designs these situations anyway? He should be sacked straight away because he really doesn’t think things through like a mature adult employee should.

Reize.2176:

doesn’t think things through like a mature adult

Couldn’t help but laugh at the irony.

Reize.2176:

So, you expect me to waddle all the way to a Level 50 area on an underlevelled alt to get the items required for the Halloween centric gift just because my main cannot give it to my alt?

Yes, yes they do. Deal with it.

I did both mad memories books on my level 11. Took me about 2 hours to get both books.

While it is a little frustrating, it definitely encourages group play if you are a lower level. Just ask around for an escort, or get a guild mate to help you. I’m going to need to, and I’m okay with that.

I liked the skin for the book back piece but didn’t have a character I liked it on, so i made a necromancer which felt for carrying around a hefty grimoire and went to town collecting the books, i finally got the last book at about 2/3s the way through level 3, yes 3… I had one friend helping me and he barely had to at that, we then went on to do the mad king as me and him, I now have a level 4 necromancer with the orange grimoire which looks pretty cool, the hardest part was book 6(VI) as the spiders weren’t to easy to run from, but completely possible.

- Have 1 friend to hang out with you and res you. /thread

Plus, you do realize that if you just show up AFTER the fighting happens you can get the page without going through the fights, right? I didn’t even know there WERE fights until the third time I did the quests, as there were so many people there and the ghosts were already up.

Not all the Halloween events are meant to be completed by everyone, some are reserved for higher level characters.

Hunter Theron.6428:

Not all the Halloween events are meant to be completed by everyone, some are reserved for higher level characters.

Basically this. Lower level (15-25) characters still have access to the book from the first Act while the one from Act 2 was aimed at mid-high level characters.

So if you’d like to get a back item with high level stats as a low level, you should seek the help of some high level friends to help you get it. Or go out on your own and think of it as trying to survive in a hostile environment.

Lvl 40, I got all of them with a lot of running and avoiding fights. :P Though on the last page after my 4th attempt to sneak past the guards. A group of people came in, so I ran with them. Worked out great for all of us. As I had looked up the location “the torch” and they did not know where it was.

I got the second book, solo, on three under-leveled characters (between levels 19 and 22). On two of those characters I did not die even once. On one character I died a three times (I was learning the best path to take).

If people are dying over and over trying to complete this, you must face the truth. You’re just not as good as you think you are.

On part two on the last page all of the guards can pretty much one shot you, at low levels. Unless they have already been cleared out by other groups.

Kodama, actually mobs near the last 5 pages can one-shot you if you’re below level 23. That’s what made this fun for me, it was a challenge to see if I could get to each page without getting hit. If everything had just been handed to me, it would have been soooooo boring.

It’s a bit challenging, but you can do it. My friend and I did it together despite being way underlevel. Hang with a crowd if you can—there’s almost certainly going to be 3-5 people looking for the clue at any given time, and travel with them. Ask in /Map if anyone’s going after the clues, and that you’re a low level and would really appreciate tailing them.

Counterintuitively, being vastly outleveled isn’t as dangerous as you might think. It’s going to be hard for you to kill something, and you’re likely to take a lot more damage, but the nature of the game and the manageable aggro distance means that if you focus on surviving and letting your nearby allies pick up stray enemies, you’ll do just fine. Furthermore, traveling with people around you makes Downed or Death a nonissue.

I’m in Tarnished Coast, and we have a high population. Understandably, some servers don’t, and finding company may be hard. If this is your situation, I suggest waiting until prime time. Having even ~2 people backing you up or near you as you search for the clues will help tremendously.

Good luck!