Sooooo, I really hope the death of the Heart of the Tower is timed to last two weeks, knowing how people zerg things to death this process better take a while, I don’t wanna have the Heart be destroyed a few days in and then the content is lost to us?
I would imagine they planned for this, it’s most likely a very very slow process, as in each contribution contributes only a fraction of completion. I, for one am thrilled at this! This is the kind of meaningful changes to the world we’ve been looking for. I still think the bounds can be pushed even further, but this is a good start.
I’m sure if players start spam zerging it down too fast they can hot patch an adjustment to it so I wouldn’t worry too much about it.
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If it was designed to be a flat two weeks then there would be no need to say in the patch notes that it is only available till the heart is destroyed, I believe that it is entirely possible for it to end prior to the two week mark. Otherwise don’t mention it.
Read patch notes again. Time restriction is reffered to Tower of Nightmares not Nightmares Within update.
Nope. The section of the patch notes that Indicate the “Tower of Nightmares” is not referring to the update 2 weeks ago. It’s describing the Tower in general..
The Tower of Nightmares
The interior of the Tower of Nightmares has been revealed, and it is as deadly as its name suggests. The Tower of Nightmares is an open-world map designed to challenge even the hardiest of groups. Fighting side by side, players will need to rely on each other to survive.
Players will participate in a number of new open-world events throughout the structure and encounter the deadly hallucinations and lethal champions of the Toxic Alliance.
Within the Tower of Nightmares, a mysterious chest was found at the top of the tower. The chest’s lock is an intricate mechanism that seems to require a three-pronged key. The pieces of the key for this Tri-key Chest can be found on creatures within the Tower of Nightmares, or they can be acquired through trade with Marjory’s Helper Dee back at the Thunder Ridge Camp in Kessex Hills. Players will also receive one complete set of keys in the initial mail from Kasmeer. Combine the keys to create a Tricolor Key. The Tower of Nightmares content will be available until the tower’s heart is destroyed. Watch the progress as more antitoxin is injected!
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This is the kind of meaningful changes to the world we’ve been looking for.
…uh….how? This is the same temporary issue as usual… It’s just a different form of temporary. Instead of lasting 2 weeks, it lasts until it’s burned down. Same thing…
Read patch notes again. Time restriction is reffered to Tower of Nightmares not Nightmares Within update.
Except its under the “The Tower Of Nightmare” heading, which I take as the tower thing itself (ie. “…interior of the Tower of Nightmares has been revealed, and it is as deadly as its name suggests. The Tower of Nightmares is an open-world map…”)
I really hope this doesn’t get completed too fast. As other have pointed out, at the rate these things get zerged, I’d say itd probably last a week, unless Anet did something to counter it. People who start late might not ever get a chance to do any of it, depending on how fast the people who get to play it right off the bat (ie. at patch release) complete the stuff.
This is the kind of meaningful changes to the world we’ve been looking for.
…uh….how? This is the same temporary issue as usual… It’s just a different form of temporary. Instead of lasting 2 weeks, it lasts until it’s burned down. Same thing…
Which is actually worse, since late starters might not even have a chance to complete the meta/content.
I think its great that it goes away based on player actions. Its much more imersive that way. Its way better than it disappearing arbitraily after two weeks. Also anybody can knock the achievements out in about 6 hours anyway. Thats like 3 or 4 play sessions for a casual. Not to mention the fact you can finish meta achievements by simply doing the daily anyway. Thats how I did the toxic achievment. Barley did any of the actual achievements.
Also the rewards from the dungeon arnt that great. Underwater breather skins that can be used on land are meh. Then theres a mini. Who cares. All I care about is the cool gas mask and you get that for finishing the meta which is easy as I already proved. And we get permanent fractals in the next patch so…. Epic Win.
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There’s no reason to do the final instance beyond the couple of times required for the achievement. As long as people keep that in mind, there’s no reason why we can’t keep this content around for a while. Unless, it’s really a countdown timer and we’re only given the illusion of choice in the matter.
I highly doubt the bar is programmed to react with each personal injections
It’s probably programmed to fill a certain amount per day, over 2 weeks. They don’t need to make complex coding when visually then can just do this and get away with it.
I highly doubt the bar is programmed to react with each personal injections
It’s probably programmed to fill a certain amount per day, over 2 weeks. They don’t need to make complex coding when visually then can just do this and get away with it.
Well it’s been almost a week and the bar isn’t nearly as full as it should be for a preset fill.
As I see the place slowly get emptied out, I’m more worried about having the annoying bar on my screen for longer than the two weeks. Why they stopped letting them disappear when you finished the “meta” is beyond me. Better yet, let us have a UI toggle for it.
From what I read (and how I understood it), this update is around until we inject enough anti-toxin into the heart for it to be destroyed, whether it’s two weeks or two years. I like the idea that they’re leaving it up to the people, but I definitely worry at the repeatability of it all. I finished the meta achieves and don’t really have any reason to go back in – plus the fewer people inside the worse it’s gonna be.
It never even occurred to me that the timer could be real.
I just assumed it was set to fill gradually over the 2 week period (I assume it goes up the same amount each day, probably updating on the daily reset) to give us an explanation for why the tower isn’t destroyed after the first time we run the dungeon.
Kind of like how they said there were loads of Molten Facilities and we had to destroy as many as we could find to weaken the Molten Alliance so much they’d have to give up.
If it was a real timer I would have expected it to fill rapidly at first when there were many people in the tower then slow down gradually over time as people finished the instance and/or got all their achievements and stopped doing it. But that doesn’t seem to be happening.
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