Boss Fight Disappointment
What you find valuable: Black Lion Chests, ToKs, Writs of Experience, etc., others find to be less than useful. I’d rather have the guaranteed Rare, than one of those items.
Thus, the old adage: One man’s trash is another’s treasure.
There is a chance to get something good.
If you always got what you think is good now, it would feel worthless.
There are some crazy rare items in Black Lion Chests, but keys are relatively rare (unless you buy them,) and the really valuable items are also rare (even if you buy keys.)
Champion chests, or even World Boss chests, on the other hand, are super easy to come by if you’re looking for them. There are some very valuable rare drops, but, on the whole, I think the rewards feel about right for them. (Rares for world bosses, champ bags for champions.) It can be a little disappointing if you don’t get an item for your class/level, but that’s not entirely a bad thing. Mithril is worth a lot less than Silk or Thick Leather, for instance, so heavy classes aren’t stuck getting heavy armor drops, for example. If you get equipment that’s lower than your level (which happens less often than equipment at your level, in my experience,) you might be able to salvage it for valuable mid-tier materials.
I think they are fine, its always a nice and pleasant surprise when I get one of the exclusive skins from a champion bag. But if it was guaranteed then it would be just as boring as 99.9% of all champion bags currently are
Keep in mind some meta bosses also have exclusives in their chests’ drop tables. Teq has Sunless weapon chests and some unique exotics, triple trouble has piles of regurgitated armor (unique ascended armor skins, which are coincidentally the only reason people really do TT, cause the loot’s total kitten for such a difficult fight) and unique exotics. Most other meta bosses have unique exotics as well.
Hello,
I am very new to Guild Wars 2, and actually this is my very first MMORPG. So far I do like the game mostly. I’ll stay to this topic and point out what I EXTREMELY DISLIKE about boss fights. Before I start, YES I do agree that sometimes items u get r just HOPELESS but since I am very new here that is not bothering me that much.
MY MAIN ISSUE is that the boss fight lasts for a while WHICH IS GOOD, however most of that time the boss is walking around (Legendary Banding Executioner) and then once in a while he will cast a spell or spin and pretty much instant kill you.
It is a FIGHT why is he walking around ?
Should the boss focus on characters/units closer to him rather than chasing ME (healer) thats waaaaaay in the distance? COME ON
Well those r my complaints so far, once again I am new to the game, Im still learning how all this goes and WHY it goes that way, but overall I like it.
Thank you and do say hi to ppl who help u, dont be weird lol
About the only boss I ever really bother to do any more is Teq and that is because of the off chance of an ascended weapon. What few rares I get are tossed on trader and the rest of the drops are either salvaged or thrown away. The rest of the bosses I don’t even bother with unless they happen to be a daily.
Crystal Desert: 1/13/2017