Guild Wars 2

So unless i am mistaken its basically almost impossible to get this many blooms at the current rates, we have two days left in the event, that’s 120 blooms. That leaves us with 320 I need to get. 320/15 is 22. I need to do an hourly event 22 times..

ANet said: “Might makes Right” – the ability to design an event so players can’t get the reward is sufficient justification to do it.

You can see the full math here, but if you get the map bonuses on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, and get MAXIMUM rewards from tagging events (15blooms/invasion,) it can’t be done in less than 18 invasions.

That’s 9 hours just for doing events, not counting the half hour gaps or the hour-long cycle break.

That’s assuming you get all three bonus maps on all three days. If you missed Friday, that’s 60 bonus blooms missed, which means four more invasions. (With their included half-hour breaks, and hour-long cycle break.)

I don’t know how Anet came to these numbers, but, yikes. I’m not saying it should be easy to get multiple high-end rewards, or even one of the potions, but considering you’re losing something like 17-20 gold for one potion (waypoints + gold cost) and not getting any loot or karma in return, it goes beyond “difficult.”

sigh..and if i am not mistaken, at reset we will have around 320 or so, and this will be the last reset before the event finishes on monday, unless we grind out some blooms…bah this is stupid.

And of course i missed the first day, it was bugged.

From 9:00 a.m. Pacific Time (UTC-7) on September 10 through 9:00 a.m. Pacific Time (UTC-7) on September 14

So it ends on Monday morning in the US, or 16:00 UTC Monday. It’s a 4 day event.

Behellagh.1468:

From 9:00 a.m. Pacific Time (UTC-7) on September 10 through 9:00 a.m. Pacific Time (UTC-7) on September 14

So it ends on Monday morning in the US, or 16:00 UTC Monday. It’s a 4 day event.

Assuming we receive daily awards earned prior to the reset on Thursday, you could earn daily awards for 5 days. With 10 stacks for each event plus map bonuses, that’s 450 total for doing each zone once per day without any extra runs. Still a fair bit of work for a couple of skins or a potion, but not crazy impossible if you hit all 5 days (and “Monday” could be Sunday evening after reset).

Omega Zoa.3859:

sigh..and if i am not mistaken, at reset we will have around 320 or so, and this will be the last reset before the event finishes on monday

There will be a reset in just over 4 hours from this post, and one more 24 hours after that.

Yeah but it was kind of broken for many before the reset on Thursday in the US.

Behellagh.1468:

Yeah but it was kind of broken for many before the reset on Thursday in the US.

Yeah, I think I did 4-5 runs but got no rewards (didn’t know yet about the daily rewards). That was before they announced anything and I was just crossing my fingers they would award stuff retroactively.

I’m sure but what will happen is players will forget about this, spend all or most of the blooms they have and when ANet makes good will cry about how if they knew they were going to get X more they wouldn’t have bought all those Cases of Sand.

Behellagh.1468:

I’m sure but what will happen is players will forget about this, spend all or most of the blooms they have and when ANet makes good will cry about how if they knew they were going to get X more they wouldn’t have bought all those Cases of Sand.

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Something tells me we will be seeing those armor skins back in the gem store soon. Set up the hype, make it near impossible to get the best (highest cost) reward, then put them up for sale when interest is high.

At 225 each, individually it’s relatively easy to get with just the extra 60 per day. Even both of within a set at 450 isn’t all that bad.

The thing that makes it REALLY annoying is the instability of the event. I’ve lost several runs because of game crashes/disconnects which I don’t get in normal content. Add in the fact that the design of the event is so kittened that it’s all or nothing. Leave the map for any reason and you don’t get any credit for your progress.

You may think you have a chance at 450, but the disconnects make the idea of taking that road very discouraging.

When are they going to refund blooms for 1 day of event? They should give all players atleast 60 from dailies + 3 chests to choose.. If they don’t refund me first day I can’t be sure how many events still have to do and I don’t want to brainless tag more than I need >.>