Any old timers still do random events?

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Posted by: ShiningSquirrel.3751

ShiningSquirrel.3751

While wondering around the world recently, I came upon an NPC who needed help.
As I was passing by, I thought to myself, “should I lend a hand”?

Would it be “fun”? not really but maybe mildly amusing and a time waster.
Could I use the EXP? nope. EXP is pretty much worthless.
Could I use the karma? nope, not really any use for it.
Any good drops? again, nope.
Gold? nope.

So I continued on my way and let the monsters eat him. (I know, I’m a terrible person) ;-)

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Posted by: Rauderi.8706

Rauderi.8706

It occurs to me that I don’t cruise for events. Not even for the PvE daily. I’ll do a jumping puzzle before I commit to that clusterbomb.

And with a legion of regional dailies for Season 3 zones and fractals and chasing two legendary weapons, I really just don’t have time to wibble about drunkenly finishing random escort quests.

(lol but no, ded game, nothing to do, amirite?)

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Posted by: Ashen.2907

Ashen.2907

I do, but mostly in my favorite zones where doing an event immersed in my favorite surroundings gives a more visceral than material reward.

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Posted by: Khisanth.2948

Khisanth.2948

I do them all the time assuming it isn’t some horrible “stand around here for 5 minutes” thing.

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Posted by: DeanBB.4268

DeanBB.4268

A precursor can drop from anything for anyone. At least drop from anything that drops stuff. So to say there’s no value in doing a random event is not true.

To say there’s likely not a lot of benefit from doing some random event is true.

I’ll still stop and do them anyway, more often than not. Squirrel!

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Posted by: Illconceived Was Na.9781

Illconceived Was Na.9781

Sometimes I feel bad about passing by an NPC trawling for heroes to help. Sometimes, I feel that the NPC earned their ‘right’ to go it alone.

For example, in Southsun Cove, up on arrival, I’m greeted by Bradain whining, " Excuse me! Do you have a moment?" over and over and over again. My response: give it a rest, pal. If it were a real problem, they’d send a real NPC over to make an actual request for actual help.

In contrast, just down the road, Glomm has an emergency: “You seem competent enough. I could use your help dealing with a troubling…issue that has arisen”

John Smith: “you should kill monsters, because killing monsters is awesome.”

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Posted by: Daddicus.6128

Daddicus.6128

I do (PvE) events all the time, especially when the zone is today’s daily. The map rewards give me incentive, but, I’m also interested in the story.

I’m working my way through all of the storyline missions. Frankly, I am amazed at how many of the “random” events are actually directly tied to the main storyline (in the core game). I keep telling myself (after finishing a mission), “Oh THAT’S why that event exists.” I don’t think a day goes by where I don’t have that kind of eureka moment.

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Posted by: Danikat.8537

Danikat.8537

It depends on what I’m doing and what mood I’m in.

I never think about it in the same terms as the OP, I don’t think about what the reward will be (unless I do need XP or karma and I’m actively working on getting it). It’s literally just – do I want to do this event?

Sometimes I’m too focused on what I’m already doing, or I’ve been zig-zagging across the area and seen that event 5 times this evening, or I know it’s going to take forever and drag me 1/2 way across the map and I don’t want that. Other times I decide I do want to do it.

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Posted by: Just a flesh wound.3589

Just a flesh wound.3589

Usually not so much on the vanilla maps, unless it’s a high level map and the daily events are there. If I’m going to do random events I’ll go to a new map where the events aren’t ones I’ve seen too many times before.

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ANet may give it to you.

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Posted by: Kelly.7019

Kelly.7019

While wondering around the world recently, I came upon an NPC who needed help.
As I was passing by, I thought to myself, “should I lend a hand”?

Would it be “fun”? not really but maybe mildly amusing and a time waster.
Could I use the EXP? nope. EXP is pretty much worthless.
Could I use the karma? nope, not really any use for it.
Any good drops? again, nope.
Gold? nope.

So I continued on my way and let the monsters eat him. (I know, I’m a terrible person) ;-)

“wandering” not wondering.

These things are for noobs to level up and gain xp.
So yes, XP is helpful
and yes Karma is helpful too, obviously. (i blew 600k karma in a 1-2weeks, i need some more.)
good drop, of course not. It should be obvious from super hard JP end chest.

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Posted by: mauried.5608

mauried.5608

Must be something really wrong with me , but I play MMOs to actually have fun, and NOT for rewards.
Seems for everyone else its if theres no reward I dont do anything.

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Posted by: ShiningSquirrel.3751

ShiningSquirrel.3751

While wondering around the world recently, I came upon an NPC who needed help.
As I was passing by, I thought to myself, “should I lend a hand”?

Would it be “fun”? not really but maybe mildly amusing and a time waster.
Could I use the EXP? nope. EXP is pretty much worthless.
Could I use the karma? nope, not really any use for it.
Any good drops? again, nope.
Gold? nope.

So I continued on my way and let the monsters eat him. (I know, I’m a terrible person) ;-)

“wandering” not wondering.

These things are for noobs to level up and gain xp.
So yes, XP is helpful
and yes Karma is helpful too, obviously. (i blew 600k karma in a 1-2weeks, i need some more.)
good drop, of course not. It should be obvious from super hard JP end chest.

“universal blood donor”
“Old timers” should be a hint I was not talking about noobs. Once you can no longer earn XP, then it is in fact useless.

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Posted by: ShiningSquirrel.3751

ShiningSquirrel.3751

Must be something really wrong with me , but I play MMOs to actually have fun, and NOT for rewards.
Seems for everyone else its if theres no reward I dont do anything.

Guess you missed the first part “Would it be “fun”? not really but maybe mildly amusing and a time waster.”
If it was fun, I would do it. If it was not fun I would need some other reason to do the content and currently there is none.

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Posted by: IndigoSundown.5419

IndigoSundown.5419

The likelihood of my doing such events in core is usually in inverse proportion to the number of players involved. The more players, the less likely I am to want to bother. Event scaling does not keep up, and mobs dying so rapidly the only challenge is making sure to get some credit towards event completion is not my idea of fun. As to the daily events task, yeah … no.

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Posted by: Djinn.9245

Djinn.9245

While wondering around the world recently, I came upon an NPC who needed help.
As I was passing by, I thought to myself, “should I lend a hand”?

Would it be “fun”? not really but maybe mildly amusing and a time waster.
Could I use the EXP? nope. EXP is pretty much worthless.
Could I use the karma? nope, not really any use for it.
Any good drops? again, nope.
Gold? nope.

So I continued on my way and let the monsters eat him. (I know, I’m a terrible person) ;-)

I like to do the main Dailies so I get my 10AP & 2G, so I generally do the Map Events. I try to take a character to the Daily map that has not yet completed it so I get some progress. Every now and then I get a pleasant surprise of an event I haven’t seen before. Today I was in Brisbane Wildlands and saw an event dot where I hadn’t seen one before. I assumed it was a Rift dot and ignored it for a while. Then I got curious and moused-over it. It said something about “Less Longbow”. I had never heard of this event so I went to check it out. The event was in Aurora’s Remains, an area I had only recently found because I was doing Chuka & Champawat.

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Posted by: PyrateSilly.4710

PyrateSilly.4710

A precursor can drop from anything for anyone. At least drop from anything that drops stuff. So to say there’s no value in doing a random event is not true.
To say there’s likely not a lot of benefit from doing some random event is true.
I’ll still stop and do them anyway, more often than not. Squirrel!

I had the precursor Zap drop from a random monster in a map. I kill and do everything just in case another drops. I get Ascended Accessory’s as drops also at times from random monsters. Again I kill and do as much as I can going thru all maps.

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Posted by: nottsgman.8206

nottsgman.8206

I usually do random events, because I actually enjoy them and the chatter that happens before/during/after them.

some of the npcs who announce them are annoying though. Scholar Geneeve, who hangs around Pagga’s Post is extremely annoying with her constant “You look like you can handle some drakes.” for example.

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Posted by: Vayne.8563

Vayne.8563

I do events all the time. I’m still not sure how anyone has no use for karma, even if you’re just getting pact mapping supplies every day with them. That’s assuming you own HOT of course.

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Posted by: Astralporing.1957

Astralporing.1957

Sometimes i do, sometimes i don’t. It’s just that with all the daily grind things cropping around there’s less and less time for an actual play.

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Posted by: killermanjaro.5670

killermanjaro.5670

I still do them because I enjoy doing them, don’t really care about the rewards, XP etc. I find it relaxing to go back and wander around all of the different maps to just see what I come across. I find it a good way to unwind and just chillout.

If I’m passing through a town and it comes under attack I’ll help out, or if an NPC is under attack and no one else is defending it, then I’ll jump in and provide an escort to safety. If find doing things like that help me escape into the world a little more, my reward is simply that I’ve helped protect some NPCs and make their world a slightly better place

Other times I tend to go back to starter/lower maps to see if any new players need any help or advice, sometimes that means I just end up shadowing events as an observer ready to jump in and help if they request it or get downed (mainly on champs, HPs etc).

Just depends on why people play the game and preference in playstyles, people who have fun by always needing the content to be challenging or offering worthwhile rewards/progression probably won’t find it enjoyable still doing them. But I’d imagine there are still a lot of other players who, like me, still enjoy doing them for a whole list of various other reasons too.

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Posted by: Faaris.8013

Faaris.8013

I admit that I basically stopped resurrecting random NPCs after I got the Combat Healer title. I know they will get killed by the next mob within 2 minutes anyway, it’s fighting wind mills, and death is not the end.

I also believe nobody would really care if the settlements in Southsun Cove were permanently infested by Karka without the Karka Queen requiring this to spawn. I’m also sorry about the loss of every Exalted that has to volunteer every time we don’t free Tarir.

I only help out in low level maps when doing the event also helps with the heart quest I don’t have done yet. Maybe if these events were only happening once per week, they would have more meaning.

Truth is, you can’t be everywhere at all times, the suffering of NPCs is inevtiable. We might be heroes, but the inhabitats of Tyria have to stand on their own feet and not always trust that there is one of us around.

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Posted by: Sarie.1630

Sarie.1630

Must be something really wrong with me , but I play MMOs to actually have fun, and NOT for rewards.
Seems for everyone else its if theres no reward I dont do anything.

Same here. I don’t wander around looking for events but I will almost always stop do participate.

There are some things in the game that I don’t have yet and, if someone were to hand them to me, I wouldn’t say no to. I have everything I actively want, however. Once you have been playing for long enough to reach this epiphany then you either quit, or you play for fun and not rewards. I like how most of my characters look at this point, I like how I’ve geared them, so money is just a “nice thing to have”. This means I can play for the sake of play and not because I need to farm something in the most optimal way possible.

So yea, I still do events if I come across them. I hope that ArenaNet find a way to make DEs more interesting in the next expansion, however. I find the most interesting ones in the core game end up “pulling you through a map”, and by the time it’s all over youe realise you’ve been playing for 1.5 hours and had a great time doing so. Examples of this are the big metas at the top of Harathi Hinterlands and across the sea in Straits of Devastation

I’d like to see some of the DEs in Core areas receive a bit of love. You never really see the Ascalon Settlement or Earthworks Bluff being occupied by Centaurs these days for example. Those DEs that are more of a push-pull I’d like to see more powerful foes coming along to try to take these places over, on a random basis. I mean truly random, not on-a-timer kind of random. I’d like these random “events-on-steroids” to be incredibly hard to for players to win. Perhaps if they do then you receive greatly increased rewards, but 95% of the time it’s a fail. No world-wide notification, no associated achievements, just a truly random event of vastly increased difficulty to “mix things up” and force metas back into an interesting direction so that new and old players get to experience them from start to finish more often.

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Posted by: Thorfinnr Sleggja.1209

Thorfinnr Sleggja.1209

Some of the most fun I have is finding a map with a decent amount of people(not a really empty one), and just roam around and help others with the DEs.

Some of the best in-game player interactions for me have been helping players complete these events. Often a nice “Thanks for the help” and many times a few good Q&As from newer players.

I do because I can
I can because I want to
I want to because you said I couldn’t

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Posted by: Danikat.8537

Danikat.8537

Has anyone seen the new Wonder Woman movie yet? (Don’t worry, no spoilers in my post.)

There’s a scene in it where I found myself thinking there was no way for her to know it but what she really wanted was to be in an RPG instead of a movie. The way she was reacting to WWI was pretty much how I play RPGs, including this one. Fortunately in a game it’s not a problem if you spend 100 hours, or 500 hours or 1000 hours saving the world.

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“Life’s a journey, not a destination.”

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Posted by: Kalendraf.9521

Kalendraf.9521

I often do nearby events if I see them on my map and have time to do them. For example, while gathering iron in the Gallowfields area of Brisban Wildlands, I’ve often participated in bandit events that spawn nearby. If I come across a dead NPC, I’ll often stop to rez them. From an altruistic view, I like to think that I’m helping others succeed by doing this. From a practical view, I’m earning a bit of extra karma, exp, gold or other drops along the way.

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Posted by: Tom.6478

Tom.6478

I also do them from time to time. As OP, not for loot, just something different.

Some can even be challenging doing solo. I have to say though, more often than not, someone will join in before its done.

Maybe they thought I needed help, or maybe they didn’t think they could do it alone. Either way, I enjoy the comradery.

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Posted by: Carighan.6758

Carighan.6758

I think one big but easily solved problem in this regard is that the order of relative income is wrong.

Money-wise, it should be:

  • Specifically designed money-farm (basically I’d envision something like Darkness Falls from DAoC here, which makes WvW relevant to PvE in an indirect manner, temporarily opening up a superior PvE farming spot).
  • Full meta chain runs.
  • Random events.
  • Good farms for money. (this importantly needs to be lower than random events, the upside being that it’s dependable)
  • Everything else.
The strength of heart to face oneself has been made manifest. The persona Carighan has appeared.