Guild Wars 2

Heyyo Anet. c:

I really like Guild Wars 2. It’s pretty amazing.

I was somewhat disappointed in the Halloween Festival, as I was unable to participate in some of the most rewarding parts of the holiday festivities, mostly due to the fact that I work a lot, and also because I am only level 29.

I wanted to make some suggestions, that will most likely remain unheard, but that would probably be something worthy of consideration for future festival type events you hold.

1. Level Cap Requirements
I certainly understand the appeal of making it a true challenge for players to get their aesthetic gear from festival events. In fact, I think it’s preferable.

But to limit holiday content to only those players who are level capped is to disappoint many players.

Might I pose an example as to how this could be remedied, while still providing a challenge for players?

Instead of having an instanced area for only level 80s, why not make one for several level intervals?

A level 10, level 20, level 30, level 40, level 50, etc version of the same instance with weaker monsters depending on the cap there? Simply make it so players can only enter the challenge that is most suitable for their level (for example, a level 80 cannot attempt to participate in the level 10 version of the instance, only the level 80 one) but all can reap the reward and experience some challenge doing so.

ACT III of the Halloween event should not have been reserved for level 80s alone.

nor should you have advertised it on facebook as an ambiguous surprise without warning folks about the level requirement

ACT III should have been accessible to any player; level 10 and up.

2. One-Time Only Events

This should almost never happen in an MMO. If you want your playerbase to be happy, instead have this “one time event” occur every so often (once a day, twice a day, every 3 hours, whatever) but make it so a single player can do the event once, and only once.

This makes people who love your game, but also work a lot feel waaaay less excluded. If you’re worried about players reaping the reward on every character for some reason, then just make the loot account bound and restricted to one per, or something.

But those were really my only issues with the festivities!

You realize you are scaled up if you are too low a level to take on the Mad King, right? I did it on my level 33.

As for the scavenger hunt, it is kind of frustration to do on a low level character if you’re going for the pages in the higher level areas, but it’s still doable and not super hard.

1. All the instanced areas scale level to 80 so all levels can use the same zone…

2. I can understand the part about the one time event. It would have been nice to have been able to show the cutscene the first time a character enters the lion statue part of lion’s arch but really if you weren’t there you didn’t miss anything that you can’t take 30 seconds and watch on youtube.

I think the thing that I could see some complaints about is the book quest where it requires characters to go into level 50 zones.

Kaellok.8143:

You realize you are scaled up if you are too low a level to take on the Mad King, right? I did it on my level 33.

As for the scavenger hunt, it is kind of frustration to do on a low level character if you’re going for the pages in the higher level areas, but it’s still doable and not super hard.

Oh I see. I was busy enough to not really do much of the areas myself, but my roommate told me he could not do anything because he was too low of a level and the cap was 80.

I guess that goes to show how observant he is, and how misinformed I was.

Most things you can do as a low level. The book quests are the only trouble I’d see you having.

I played in both the Labyrinth and Ascent to Madness with a level 15.

Enemies are actually rather weak for an instanced dungeon.

The only annoying thing was the second book.

All i wish is DROP THE RNG , other than that , everything atm is fine.

The new MK dung , added the farm place we needed amd the JP is really fun.

You guys are so silly. You do realise that doing it as a lower level means you get less good loot only for being lower level right? due to not doing as much damage as a lvl 80?

Ok.

Maybe that also helps drive the frustration.

Just sayin’