Guild Wars 2

Hey there,

I logged in today on my Guild Wars 2 character on which I like doing daily achievements with my brother – we read through the list of todays tasks… After a second I saw a daily challange “Kill 40 creatures in the location X”.

Wait… Isn’t it the type of tasks that you, Anet, told will be crossed out from Guild Wars 2 as “standard and boring”.

I remember as if it was yesterday – waiting for any new release on Guild Wars 2 a year ago, waiting for more info on the revolutionary “Dynamic Event System”… I was really looking forward to this. And first, it was great – the repeatable “kill 40 skrits” hidden under “Skrit morale” description – a really clever way to refresh or slightly rebuild the “kill 40 skrits” task.

But now, I can see a daily, saying literally – Kill 40 creatures in location X – what happened to the “morale” cover? What happened to ANY cover? When I see a description like that, I have no will to kill those 40 creatures. I just want them to go to your office, so that you have to kill them yourselves.

I think (after all I have seen you had done – World Events, Dynamic Events etc.) that it is no great problem to create a “Daily” Event – A Rise of the Dredge in location Z let’s say – where those dredge would simply pour out of their caves, unaccessible by players, and rush to the nearest outpost, defended by Friendly NPCs. All day long. A player can then enter such “constant NPC warfare” zone, help push those evil Dredge away from the outpost – doing the “Kill 40 monsters” by the way – and completing the daily for killing them, and the second daily for pushing them away far enough. After a short period the dredge morale would rise again or they would pour out from other location, Or maybe a boss will come and capture the outpost for a while – Options are endless.

But please, don’t give us just – Kill 40 monsters" tasks – this is not how the greatest MMO in the wide world should challenge their players.

If I didn’t see something obvious – please respond to this, I’d love to know what you guys think.

Cheers,
Vincu

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I logged in today on my Guild Wars 2 character on which I like doing daily achievements with my brother – we read through the list of todays tasks… After a second I saw a daily challange “Kill 40 creatures in the location X”.
Wait… Isn’t it the type of tasks that you, Anet, told will be crossed out from Guild Wars 2 as “standard and boring”.#

In my understanding daily isn’t realy supposed to be you goal, daily is supposed to be compleated by playing the game and doing the stuff you enjoy.

While you explore a map you finnish events and you kill more that 30 enemies.
While you do a meta you finnish atleast one event and kill enemies.
While you do a dungeon you do events and dungeons and kill more than 30 enemies.
While you are running from place to place you may kill some enemies and a poor innocent animal.
And so on.

Why there is so many Dailies to choose from isn’t supposed to be the reason to do them all in one day, it’s so that you will be able to compleate it by just doing the things you like in the game. Atm Daily isn’t all perfect but I realy like how it is and how it seems to evolve.

Ye i can see how people might not like something boring like ‘Kill 40 monsters in X’ but you know that’s why they give you a range of choices for your dailys, so you can just ignore that one.

Yes i know some Daily choices might force you to do that one because maybe you don’t enjoy WvW or Dungeons so those dailys are out of the question for you, but that’s the joy of dailys, sometimes they force you to experience different parts of the game, sometimes they force you to ‘mentor younger player events’ in order to create social interactions and mix you in with a different crowd. You never know, it’s a different story everyday.

That’s how you should look at dailys, sometimes ‘Kill 40 monsters in X’ is achieved through a dynamic event happening in the zone, i mean the area it gives you usually consists of multiple zones am i right, like Maguuma Jungle, Shiverpeak Mountains, Kryta, etc.

Though it wouldn’t be a bad thing to add more Dailys, and i think players could suggest some really good ones, it’s just do ArenaNet want more. As it is now, dailys are pretty dam working as intended, like Edgar explained you can get Dailys done just by playing the game, 1 dungeon or 1 hour in WvW, is enough to get 3/5 sometimes.

- Tobby