Guild Wars 2

AnthonyOrdon.3926:

They will continue to change throughout the week as Tixx produces the different toys. There’s also a random chance to see a toy (or skritt) from an earlier day. I’m sorry that these are currently too difficult, have you tried tackling them with an extra person or two?

Those toy venari are powerful enough to take down a champion of the same level. By your logic, you’ll need a zerg rush to take them down.

atomicblue.1306:

AnthonyOrdon.3926:

They will continue to change throughout the week as Tixx produces the different toys. There’s also a random chance to see a toy (or skritt) from an earlier day. I’m sorry that these are currently too difficult, have you tried tackling them with an extra person or two?

Those toy venari are powerful enough to take down a champion of the same level. By your logic, you’ll need a zerg rush to take them down.

The Ventari aren’t too difficult (just be ready to roll), the Toy Soldiers aren’t too bad either. It’s those dolls… Never trust dolls!

Nothing more funny than seeing an enemy in WvW opening a present just to root him in place and watch the dolls shred him to pieces…

I want the Dolls for my Henchies … even Zhaitan would think twice before opening another box.

I miss Henchies.

AnthonyOrdon.3926:

They will continue to change throughout the week as Tixx produces the different toys. There’s also a random chance to see a toy (or skritt) from an earlier day. I’m sorry that these are currently too difficult, have you tried tackling them with an extra person or two?

Many players do not have the time OR the inclination to group. I think research amongst Western players actually showed MOST prefer to be able to run solo.

Also, the reward from the mystery presents is such that most people will NOT be willing to cross half the map to tackle presents. Which means that even if you DO want to group, this will be problematic for players in off peak times and/or on impopular maps.

And I’m fairly convinced most players don’t LIKE ultra hard mode PVE events in what should be a festive holiday thing, that invites the casuals in and is enjoyable for all player levels and all levels of gear. You might want to keep that in mind for future events. At the moment, these presents are just big repair bills waiting to happen, coupled with massive frustration.

Tried a small experiment last night, i was runing round the norn starter area and the champion wolf master and his pets spawned. Thier path was heading over a present so i popped the package and ran, 5 princesses.

The “Champion” managed to kill one of the 5 before the little dollies whiped the floor with him and his ice wolves.

I agree the dolls are RIDICULOUS. They have constant retaliation and fury up and as soon as they enter combat get 9+ stacks of might, regeneration and protection. NOT to mention they’re ranged attacks home in on you so are very hard to avoid AND they give huge stacks of confusion. Even as a condition/boonstripping necro they are insanely difficult

Am I the only one that sticks around the low level areas (starting zones) for the Mysterious Presents? I find plenty of people to help out with the toys. Though the dolls are cray cray.

AnthonyOrdon.3926:

The presents inside the box work the same way that resource nodes do. Everyone can loot them. The major difference is that they disappear shortly after they appear. This may lend to the perception that someone else has taken the present, but I can assure that this has not actually happened.

The trick or treat bags that came out of the haunted doors worked the same way, but no one complained because those doors were prone to zerging.

You also didn’t have your entire player base tied up in Fractals at the time of the Halloween event, either.

I think you’re assuming too much here Anet. Few people are going to be willing to pay the inevitable repair bill for the reward on offer.

Yeah, sometimes I just wonder what some ppl think about difficult content because being chain stunlocked or confused all the time and not being able to do anything is fun… NOT.
Made a new char, she is a level 12 elementalist. Well level 6 dolls and toy golems killing me nearly all the time. I have a chance against golems if some NPC’s are around but if not then its gg. I hated this chain locking mechanic even in SWTOR, its just pure bad design (have fun against 2 or 3 sith sorcerer at the same time lols) and has nothing to do with difficulty. Dodge? Well, won’t work if you can’t control your character. And dolls are just pure lol.
If you developers put some insane stuff at low level areas just to compensate your bad downscaling mechanism and avoid abuse of your system, then what about spawning mobs that are equal to the persons level who opens that frigging box?
Those who playing low level chars are just screwed right now most of the times bc now it’s not worth for the trouble and repair costs and of course the frustration to open those boxes. 80% of the time they are spawning toy golems now.