Now before I begin love the revamp on most dungeons that are permanent in game but the holidays after Halloween have been a bit of a letdown.
The weapons are the best improvement so far since the skins are very reasonable. The price markings for the basic design ones in the gem store sadly though I feel should be 250 gems max or less. The ones in game blow them away with the unique new animations and layout from the sling shot to the candy cane.
1) MINIPOCALYPSE
……..The Mini pack from halloween being 350 or 500 gems I forget was a genius idea…. Buying a stack of the 3 minis and knowing what they are to buy another stack just to build the exotic made perfect sense and was reasonably priced. Last event it was a disaster not even selling anything in the store but in chests….The chest idea with drops totally was unreasonable I feel…..not all players live this, I may have 80s but lots of players play maybe once every other week like my brother and some other friends. The rp community which I am one of the roleplayers in the Tarnished coast one is well….let’s admit it we are addicts…great beta testers and great gamers because we grind like heck just to get our items to roleplay a unique and different character and yes no matter who says it roleplayers love to flaunt ic with clothes….we want to be like an npc and be known so customization and unique skins help that tons.
Solution: I feel the minis sold should be either 100 to 150 gems each not 350….that is half of what a costume is which comes out to around 10 dollars. Most people would not spend 10 dollars on one in game item but really like 5 and yes I am comparing it to various mmo games….even old GW1 where costumes were five to 7 dollars. The expensive town clothes do not bother me much it is the fact that a mini costs almost half of that making it seem overpriced. I would love to see mini packs again but selling them individually should be lower in price…….
Second for the exotic, making it a decent drop rate from personal gifts is still okay but I feel not worth it. Why not make it so people can use any 4 holiday minis to make the exotic instead of the 3 required personal gift drop minis.
2) Mystic Cogs and the funny early April Fools prank.
So do not know if it is a prank or not but the fact that Toxx gives us 200 cogs out of the holiday chest. The other gifts were great but if you did every path you got 500 cogs which are used to make 2 holiday minis…..so far no one has found a mystic cog recipe for under a 250 stack. What do I do with this….not enough to make a mini….can’t sell them can’t trade them….I believe the cogs are his joke of saying at least I didn’t give you coal or a defected toy. Out of character I believe it is more of some kind of anet joke at us saying now don’t you keep thinking of that third mini you want come spend some.
A way to improve this I feel is make cogs still available through gifts at a decent drop rate and a small stack of 5 to 10. Also could give 25 cogs a day at each path of the mini dungeon meaning you get 125 cogs for doing each path one day.
3) Hard Boring Dungeons…..
So the holiday dungeon with the 5 paths first time fun second time still fun third time alright fourth time we got it fifth time seriously someone scrap Tox the Golem. So we all experience it get the great rewards open the chest feel like we did a good deed for the holiday and got gifts for our trouble. Now after all five paths are done and 24 hours have gone it is time to try again….feels like some kind of tedious job as a helper elf. Bam all set and ….no cog…no material…just gifts which we will get mats for more minis that can’t be made or skins for weapons. Because of how it went I felt like okay picking the path would give some mats to make another mini and even the frame but it was just the path….felt like a total let down to the excitement of the dungeon. We hold off the annoying skrit rats and do the job that was needed to be done. Then all were thanking each other but no one showed hyper emotion. It seemed like all of the players even me in the group felt like we just wasted 10 minutes on the game which yes it is a game so we are wasting time but if we did something enjoyable or even got good things at the end for wasting the time then it would be no big issue.
On the later planned events I feel we should be able to get items again or mats from the dungeon and not a bunch of gifts that are the same amount each run.
The reason achievements are not listed are because unlike the previous ones I feel the achievements were perfect….if you want them all like I do yes it is a grind but if you are aiming for the title it is just doable enough that you can spend maybe once or twice a week during the holiday season working on that title to get it. It should take most about 6 to 8 hours total for it if they are not skilled or at 80.