Guild Wars 2

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/The-Ascension-Project/first

A while ago I made this thread to materialise some crazy fantasies that my friends and I had to entertain the community with engaging challenges. The idea was to promote creativity while displaying skills and to have fun. It went well for a while, but then the mods graciously un-stickied the post and it slowly died down.

We want to bring it back!

But not like this, better. So I would like you to tell me what you liked and did not like about this concept, what we could improve, etc, burst it out. We want to create diversity in the PvE life of gw2 players. How can we do this? I have a many ideas but I would like to hear the opinion of the community.

Too few participants, not enough interest, sadly. The gw2 community, bar a few dungeon forum elitists, does not like challenges or engagement. They just want to (semi)AFK farm champs or trash mobs in farming events.

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Though you know i support stuff like this and i’ll do any kind of reta/rded challenge.

One problem is that it’s pretty hard to figure out good challenges. They easily become really tedious.

But I would like to see if other professions can do man mode Spider Queen.

Wethospu.6437:

One problem is that it’s pretty hard to figure out good challenges. They easily become really tedious.

But I would like to see if other professions can do man mode Spider Queen.

It’ll mostly depend on where the Queen decides to spit her aoe poison fields to. WA = too strong.
It might be possible on engi/mesmer/thief/ele(fgs…) if you bring a specific loadout, though it might be hard without using any ranged skill.

Talking about tedium, remember this ascension challenge? : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tEC6u4CgDs

It was supposed to be a group challenge! Not my fault if Rezardi is overly manly!

Brainstorming:
- Finish Jade Maw without dodge
- Kill both Horrik and Mai
- Kill Molten Firestorm before or at the same time with Molten Berserker
- Do the second harpy skip without killing any of them. No consumables allowed.
- Do Bloomie without reflection/projectile absorption.

etc…

^ I think Iris came up with a few good suggestions. Still, it’d be an interesting project put to action.

I think having a huge list of challenges would be more successful. With one option there is always a risk of stalling and with more options more people would find an interesting option for them.

Challenges should give different amount of internet points depending on the difficulty so people could also make easier challenges.

hendo.1940:

Wethospu.6437:

One problem is that it’s pretty hard to figure out good challenges. They easily become really tedious.

But I would like to see if other professions can do man mode Spider Queen.

It’ll mostly depend on where the Queen decides to spit her aoe poison fields to. WA = too strong.
It might be possible on engi/mesmer/thief/ele(fgs…) if you bring a specific loadout, though it might be hard without using any ranged skill.

Poison is where you put it . I probably would have been able to do it even without WA (walked out of them a couple of times). Just less risk and makes a faster kill. And I also had to bring a specific loadout.

I was thinking this morning that I’d like to see a group pull all (or at least most) of the risen mob from before Lupi into his arena and fight them and Lupi at the same time. It’d be hilarious

dlonie.6547:

I was thinking this morning that I’d like to see a group pull all (or at least most) of the risen mob from before Lupi into his arena and fight them and Lupi at the same time. It’d be hilarious

We had that once with an elementalist. He must have died in phase 2 (noone has seen him dying).

It’d be really cool if they started fighting each other ala Troll/Kholer.

My guess is that by the time they whittled Lupi down to 75% with ~14 grubs, the first phase 2 AoE would wipe them out xD.

I hated the fact that the reward was given out to the first person that did it, which means the person with the most free time will get the price. I think its better if anyone who submits a completed challenge gets something as well.

dlonie.6547:

It’d be really cool if they started fighting each other ala Troll/Kholer.

My guess is that by the time they whittled Lupi down to 75% with ~14 grubs, the first phase 2 AoE would wipe them out xD.

Actually we didn’t let him eat grubs And my guess is that he killed himself on the p2 feedback