Guild Wars 2

I really like the bounty hunt guild mission… but a few things about it make it less enjoyable.

1) You can find the bounties beforehand which takes away the feeling of a “hunt”, you’re basically guaranteed a win with enough people and enough time.
2) If you don’t find the bounties beforehand you have a significant chance of failure.
3) Guilds getting the same bounty (does this still mess things up? I thought I heard someone complaining about this).

What I propose is to make it so the bounties don’t spawn until the mission is activated and those bounties are tied to the guild that activated the event (unless this isn’t actually a problem). Also, to make it so you can actually do this in the time frame allotted (without just adding more time onto it, that’d be boring) NPCs should give hints or clues as to where the bounty is / which direction they’re heading. NPCs that recently saw them would know more, NPCs that didn’t would know less… If an NPC hadn’t seen them at all they’d only know about rumors on certain parts of the map (something like this).

With that sort of a setup, you might even be able to decrease the amount of time given… I dunno, just a thought. I’d love to see it implemented like this.

After watching mulitple guilds going after the same target and feeling territorial about it, perhaps a system where you have half an hour to get your targets would work a bit better. This would also relieve prescouting stress.

I like the concept of the target not spawning until the bounty is activated and actually having a massive scouring of the zone, but more time would be needed.

Yea, just did a bounty a few days ago and got the same bounty as another guild… Both guilds got the kill on one guy but we were also killing the other guy they needed at the same time and as soon as he went down, they showed up. I’m going to guess they didn’t finish their bounty :-/