Guild Wars 2

So like everyone else I knew, I was excited to log in on monday for Halloween! I waited and waited, and it didn’t come, and eventually I had to go to bed as I had work the next day. “No big deal”, I thought “I’ll just do as much of it as I can tomorrow!”.

And sure enough, when I logged on tuesday there was this awesome spooky loading picture for Lions Arch. Right on, time to do some Halloween events! The first thing I saw with this big cauldron, and some people in costume hitting each other with comic “POWs”. I’m always searching for jumping puzzles, and noticed right away the platforms so I hopped right in that cauldron and joined in! I had some good fun for 10 minutes or so before I decided to see what else there was to do.

Then I notice this BIG event circle, right in LA! There’s a bunch of people running around doing the costume brawl there as well. I find out I have to carve pumpkins throughout the world. I figure I’ll do that later, I want to do more Halloween stuff! Then I notice another person, who tells me about searching for ghosts. RIGHT ON! She gives me some candy corn, and I use both of them by accident, but no worries I found the girl and got some book.

I read the book and discover there’s other locations to search. Awesome, a scavenger hunt! But wait a second… I have to use my candy corn powered device. Where do I get candy corn? The nice lady just gave me two. So I wait, and a friend tells me I have to mine it throughout the world. Wait, I have to do what?

“Yea, you find these candy corn nodes throughout the world”, he tells me. “You’re kidding right? Why would I have to search out these nodes just to participate in the Halloween quest?” I reply.

This hit me pretty hard. In other MMO’s if you need some kind of special token/currency for a holiday event, they give you fun mini-games or holiday quests to complete for them. I have NEVER been told “No, sorry you can’t participate until you go out and mine 100 iron ore”. While I understand its not iron ore, the statement stands.

My friend can not for the life of him understand why I was upset about this. “But it’s fun!” he tells me. “I had a blast searching for them!”. Yea ok, I can see why it might be neat for people just exploring anyway, not caring too much about the Halloween event coming across this candy corn node and going “Huh, this is kinda neat!”.

So I have to go find candy corn. Well I figure if I have to go exploring for this stuff I may as well be doing it in an unexplored area and do some hearts at the same time so I’m not just running around looking for ore. I don’t really WANT to explore right now, I’d rather be doing the Halloween stuff instead, but what ever.

So off I go to a snowy area a friend tells me a new mini dungeon has been added to. I find it, and some candy corn along the way and 2 hours or so later I have about 60 of them and some hearts done. After all said and done, I get the little scavenger hunt done and get a reward for it. I finish at 11:30 on the dot, when I typically head to bed.

And yea, it was a ton of fun doing a scavenger hunt with a friend, all across Tyria. But why did I have to spend a couple hours farming for ore before I could do it? I don’t know if anyone else felt this way or if I’m the only one who was annoyed by it

Of all the things to complain about you picked the silliest. It takes maybe 6-7 Candy Corn total to get all the pages for the books, and you’ll find that while running through the world to where the different pages are. And it is not just nodes that have them either, the haunted doors are there for a reason.

CrashB is right. You picked a really weird thing to complain about. You can also just buy them off the TP for really cheap.

Also from Trick or treat bags. And those are easy to get as well from Haunted doors and/or mob loot.

You asked a good question, which was:

But why did I have to spend a couple hours farming for ore before I could do it?

If only you knew you didn’t have to farm for a couple of hours.

And yea, it was a ton of fun doing a scavenger hunt with a friend, all across Tyria.

And isn’t that what it’s all about? Mission accomplished I would say. The only thing most people are annoyed about, is the endless ongoing complaining. If you don’t like it, don’t do it. It’s that simple. One more or less topic about these complaints won’t be making any difference. They would, only if it would be a valid complaint.

Might i suggest killing monsters… They drop a ton of trick or treat bags. Needless to say, Candy corn is very easy to come by. Also you have to remember, there are 3 more updates for Halloween. Lots more to come.

Shrapnel.7056:

Might i suggest killing monsters… They drop a ton of trick or treat bags. Needless to say, Candy corn is very easy to come by. Also you have to remember, there are 3 more updates for Halloween. Lots more to come.

Although this is true. I was not able to complete act 1, because I’m not a high level character. Aren’t these things supposed to be fun for everyone?

How am I going to complete the other acts if I can’t even complete act 1? And even if I could complete some of the acts to come, I’d still feel rather bummed out that I couldn’t complete all of the event.

Walram.1945:

Shrapnel.7056:

Might i suggest killing monsters… They drop a ton of trick or treat bags. Needless to say, Candy corn is very easy to come by. Also you have to remember, there are 3 more updates for Halloween. Lots more to come.

Although this is true. I was not able to complete act 1, because I’m not a high level character. Aren’t these things supposed to be fun for everyone?

How am I going to complete the other acts if I can’t even complete act 1? And even if I could complete some of the acts to come, I’d still feel rather bummed out that I couldn’t complete all of the event.

Run with a cluster of people, there’s usually a ton of people who are doing each part of the quest. Ask nicely, and people will escort you. Run with a guild if anything. I was doing this with my guild lastnight, there were 12 of us on, some of them running lower level characters below level 20. Usually, there were more than enough level 80’s around to take care of any mobs in the way.

Why not find a group? I think these events should be played with friends. Plus the first 3 books are in Lions Arch. and the other 3 are in level 30 areas. Shouldn’t be to hard to level to 30 in the time Halloween is active. My point is, “find a group because it makes things alot easier”

But wasn’t the whole point of the game to do whatever you want to? Especially with events like this. I shouldn’t have to rely on other players to “carry” me through content, honestly.

Thanks for the feedback anyways. I’m just really bummed out by all this at the moment. And I doubt I’m the only one, according to the many topics on the forums.

The last book you will need a group. Theres a champion spider waiting there. Plus you need to have more then one person using that relic to find ghost.

Champion spider can be avoided. Just get the door open and rush past.

Got a rare off of Champion so i wouldn’t avoid it lol.