Having played both events multiple times, I have to say that the Puppet is by far the better more entertaining and challenging content. Why, you say?
1. The puppet is a rip-roaring fight followed by a skilled and extremely hard inner core boss fight in a 5 ring circus that every ring has to win with the random players the ring was dealt. Too bad there isn’t a transport system to take you to loosing rings when you win yours.
The Wurm is an easy guard quest followed by a gizmo fest of barrels and jumping, running around with gas hearts over your head and getting eaten by a wurm to kill it inside out. While I applaud some of the originality I still find it kind of dumb. I enjoy the fight not the gizmo fest. And here you die by the gizmos if you can’t or won’t run around with a barrel on your head you fail.
2. The puppet is cool and looks great. I cannot think of anything like it anywhere else. It falls into Scarlet’s Storyline and makes sense.
The Wurm tries to work into the story line but does so very badly. It’s a Wurm they are all over the place. Nothing new here.
3. The Wurm is for exceptional players. It’s trying to be hard. It’s a timed event that takes extreme vocal co-operation between players. The vocal is not supported you GW2 by the way you have to go else where to support it. If you need it to do the game it should be part of the game. It’s hard for a reason to weed out the bad players. Well the bad players got every right to sample the game as the good ones. It’s boring and not worth the effort. I can’t say as I’m motivated to go back and sit through it again. I might try and do it to win it once but like the new Tequatl that would be my one and only time.
The Puppet takes a modicum of player co-ordination. You have to distribute players evenly in both but the Puppet always wins on the Fun scale. Inside you have to figure out he boss and how to dispatch him. And he’s not easy. If you didn’t have enough players in your lane you might end up trying to down the boss with only 1 or 2 players in your ring. And that’s a Fail. But you got other lanes and if your can kill all 5 before the cannon goes off, You Win.
4. Rewards vs time. The Puppet gives you a field of play with many Champs that drop key parts that can assembled into cyphers to open chests. So you can do the Puppet and you get drops and then a bonus for every chain that gets cut. It all adds up to opening a lot of chests and Fun.
The Wurm takes just as much time. Is very hard and takes co-ordination and If you loose you get 73 copper and some EX.
5. Somehow the Overflows are not working. I did the Puppet on overflow about 10 times and came close to winning but not quite. I cannot answer why this is true but it seems to have some modicum of truth in it. I didn’t win until I did it in my home instance about 3 times. And to get there I had to stay there for 8 hours.
6. Why did I even give the Wurm 5 points? For the tribute to Dune. Wurms and thumpers calling them. Perhaps one of the gizmos should have been to put baby wurms on our armor as a buff.
Why does the Puppet get 95 points? Fun, a good swashbuckling fight, originality, and all round good time. Well, worth spending a day in the snow in order to try her 4 or 5 times. The Puppet might have gotten the whole 100 points but the load in times between the 2 parts of the fight are slow and can cause players to wipe on load in.
So for my money I say Keep the Puppet and Loose the Wurm.