Bloodstone Harvest - Why

Bloodstone Harvest - Why

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Posted by: Deified.7520

Deified.7520

So after a long break from the game, I mainly just come back for the story here and there.

I decided to try to see if I can get back into the swing of things. Looking at some of the previous events, I wanted to get the bloodstone harvest helm.

It has been a horrible first taste for trying to get back into the game. It really surprises me, disappoints me, and worries me that something like this still made it into the game and hasn’t changed.

1. The set up is atrocious. You require someone to go and kill one particular enemy type over and over again? Who wants to do that? Each I’ve done it I’ve been the only one doing this. It is so boring and time consuming for nothing.

2. Wyvern needs a serious difficulty rework. The AoE, the flying around wasting time, the difficult getting up there, the difficulty finding a group because if is a HoT zone, the fact a second event spawns on it, etc. Tried it two times. First time, big zerg, couldn’t kill it in time despite no wipes. Second time, couldn’t get anyone to come help. Had to spam chat, by the time we started it was down to 9.5 minutes. Entire zerg wiped and gave up when the second event spawned ontop of us.

I have limited time to play and it really is annoying to spend an hour trying to do this and not get anything out of it. I had really hoped a solution to “old group events” has been thought out by now. Because I really don’t want to sit here spamming chat trying to form a group before hand only to fail again. I guess I’ll wait till the weekend to give it an another attempt. But it disappoints me that the event is at a point where the “best bet” is to not do it till the weekend.

So if you have any tips on how to successfully do this, please let me know. If this is another event where its successful completion is like throwing a dart in the dark, its gonna be a bit sad.

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Posted by: Illconceived Was Na.9781

Illconceived Was Na.9781

I am no fan of these events, but it’s not as dire as you make it out to be. I see these things spawn all the time and usually get killed if someone organizes (usually, no one does, or someone tries to do so while people are already gathered on some other event). Plus, no question that this was easier when it first launched.

So the tips are:

  • Start organizing before it spawns.
  • Check the wiki’s event timer (in-game: /wiki ET) to make sure nothing else is scheduled to overlap.
  • Make sure there are people who can break defiance & do lots of DPS. Buffs help.

One way of making that happen (besides using LFG, which might or might not be successful) is to post here or in Reddit a specific time/map that you plan on targeting. Or better yet: find a guild interested in helping. Lots & lots of guilds have plenty of members who haven’t completed this; they just need an excuse to organize.

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Posted by: SlippyCheeze.5483

SlippyCheeze.5483

I got it done by not trying to race through it, but instead, just playing the game, and jumping in to kill the legendary critters when they popped up. I think it was about a month ago I finally got the bear, and the achievement.

Was happy about it, but much happier than if I’d been frustrating myself trying to solo grind the thing to completion.

Oh, and you asked for tips: watch out for when the daily event zone is in an area that the critter you want is in. That brings piles of players, enough that they will spawn much more frequently than through normal zone populations.

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Posted by: Ticky.5831

Ticky.5831

My problem with it was just that they had respawn timers on them.

I had a lot of fun with the event. Some of my favorite content in the game.