Guild Wars 2

Ok, now I know that the developers hate having something overly farmed because it can hurt the economy and I truly understand that. But what the heck are they thinking about letting you only get one mad king chest from the clock tower jumping puzzle? a) it’s account bound items so you can’t sell them, and b) there are 3 skins in there that maybe someone would want all 3. Why so chintzy Anet? Then there is the 1000 candy corn to 1 candy corn cob for a few things that really aren’t that awesome. 15,000 candy corn for a 20 slot bag? That’s like 90g for something that has several alternative equivalent items that are closer to 9-12g to make. That’s crazy. I’m all for having fun and part of that fun is being able to get the limit time rewards. The mad king chest should be lootable at least once per day per account. And just remove the Halloween pail as a ‘choice’ because it’s just plain stupid. Either that, or make the exchange rate reasonable. More importantly, stop being so cheap and give us reasonable goals that we can work towards without ridiculous limitations. If I want 30 mad king gloves all account bound, why is it so hard to let me do that? Actually, I just want one of each armor type. I still have to earn it, and that means more of my time playing and time is money. I’m sure I’m not the only one frustrated with this. I really love this game, and I hate that Anet made me feel compelled to rant about this. Halloween should be fun, and while I have enjoyed most of this year’s content so far, the reward system has put a damper on repeating much of that content. If Anet’s goal is to not have players replaying content, I think they are getting much closer to achieving that goal, and that’s not a good thing.

They want everyone farming champions for some reason.

Have nothing against a certain degree of farming. Farming is to be expected. But ‘artificially’ inflating the value of something like a 20 slot bag to be nearly 10 times that of any other 20 slot bag is unnecessary. And for account bound items, I simply don’t see why they would care whether or not I got 1 or 100 of them since I can’t really affect anyone else’s play with it. Heck, since there are 3 mad king chest rewards then at least let players have the opportunity to loot the chest 3 times so they can get all of them. Heck, I have 8 mini Queen Jenna’s for crying out loud for just having a birthday on each character. They are contradictory when it comes to some account bound items where you’re allowed to get unlimited quantities and yet I’m limited on how many account bound items I can loot which require any actual effort or achievement on my part. Very silly and very unnecessary.

Have you tried doing the jumping puzzle on other characters? I got the exotic 3 times last year =)

Wolfheart.1938:

Have you tried doing the jumping puzzle on other characters? I got the exotic 3 times last year =)

Yep. Just did it with my Asura. Zero rewards, let alone a mad king chest. Wiki confirms this to be once per account. Translation is the developers are being chintzy. I’d be happy with at least once per character or just one chest that gives all 3 gloves at once if they are wanting players to not spend any more time in the JP than it takes to get the chest once. Very disappointed in the developers, and that’s usually not how I feel about what content they do give us.