Bring back temporary content.
Queen’s Gauntlet and SAB would be too confusing for new players.
What’s funny is that it’ll take a lot of resources and manpower to get them back in a format that’s replayable and doesn’t contradict the current living story.
What’s funny is that it’ll take a lot of resources and manpower to get them back in a format that’s replayable and doesn’t contradict the current living story.
You mean the LS1 right?, because SAB only means adding a ingame mail, same Queen Gauntlet. They also can just put the LS dungeons there and give us ascended mats for tokens. Theres a lot of simple forms to do so, and considering the quality of the last patch shipment, doing it that way would be up to the standar.
Edit: Whoops, this one kinda got away from me. Sorry for the length, folks.
SAB, I think would be a good choice to become permanent. If it’s coming and going on a semi regular schedule, perhaps like a festival, then that would be fine, but it’s been a full year since Super Adventure Box: Back to School, and we haven’t gotten any indication when it’ll be making a return. Building a rhythm of excitement is one thing, but if it’s going to be a year and a half or more until we see it again, I think it would be better just as permanent content.
Plus, infinite continue coins are a legitimate gripe if SAB isn’t on a schedule. That’s a problem.
I’d be all right with Queen’s Gauntlet being a permanent thing. It’s high-end, single-player boss battles, which is something no other part of the game offers, unless you’re soloing dungeons, which is hardly the same thing. You could make some comparison to individual face-offs in PvP or WvW, but Gauntlet bosses have unique strategies and moves, and are more predictable than players, which makes them a unique challenge.
Only problem with the Gauntlet, however, as I see it, is that it’s in the Crown Pavilion, which is something I /don’t/ want to be permanent. The CP is largely a big farm fest, which means it has to compete with other farming spots. If it’s a temporary event, the rewards can be high enough to ensure a critical mass of players is there to make it fun and make the events doable, but if it’s permanent, the rewards have to be lower, and there won’t be as many people there on a regular basis.
If I were just spitballing ideas, I’d like to see the Queen’s Gauntlet bosses moved to The Bane, which is a large, unused arena in the Black Citadel. You’d go there, talk to an NPC, and be taken to an instance of you fighting the boss on the arena floor.* Then, when/if the Crown Pavilion reopens, the Gauntlet bosses return to their cages above the CP, where everyone can see you. Something like that.
*Having said that, there’s a problem that The Bane is larger than the cages, which would be a problem with some bosses. It’s not a work-free solution, but it would enable the boss battles to continue while keeping the CP zone special when it does open. It would also give people a reason to go to an otherwise unused corner of a racial capital, something that’s tragically neglected, giving how much wonderful work has gone into the city.
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Only problem with the Gauntlet, however, as I see it, is that it’s in the Crown Pavilion, which is something I /don’t/ want to be permanent. The CP is largely a big farm fest, which means it has to compete with other farming spots.
What are you talking about? In the last festival, they made it to where you have to PAY money to fight the bosses, and their mobs don’t drop loot. It was only a farmfest in the first Queen’s Jubilee. Even the Queen’s Gauntlet rewards were nerfed.
The reason I want Queen’s Gauntlet is because it was fun, and it is legitimately different than any other content in the game. So is SAB, but that’s really just a big minigame. Queen’s Gauntlet is more like a series of really difficult Skill Challenge events.
What’s funny is that it’ll take a lot of resources and manpower to get them back in a format that’s replayable and doesn’t contradict the current living story.
You mean the LS1 right?, because SAB only means adding a ingame mail, same Queen Gauntlet. They also can just put the LS dungeons there and give us ascended mats for tokens. Theres a lot of simple forms to do so, and considering the quality of the last patch shipment, doing it that way would be up to the standar.
Yeah, I meant LS1. There was a lot of open world stuff that affected the map, Lion’s Arch is the obvious example.
As much as I’d like to think switching on SAB is simple, they’ve got a lot excuses to not turn it on.
With China now, I think ANet is trying to maintain parity, and it’s unlikely they’ve translated any of the temporary content, anyway.
The Crown Pavilion, even with it’s radically nerfed reward, was still basically a farm fest. It just wasn’t a very rewarding one, frankly, which is one reason I usually found groups struggling to get organized enough to complete it. Only a strong success was really rewarding for the time/effort, and even then it wasn’t super-amazing.
Fundamentally, though, it was still a farm. People were still rushing around in a mob, trying to get loot, even if the loot wasn’t great. People realized that the rewards weren’t very good this year, and, it seems to me, they wandered back off to their preferred farms, because it was a poor farm.
I guess, I’m just not sure what a permanent CP would be good for. Would guilds do it? Would it have to be put onto some kind of world boss-like schedule?
But, yeah, I agree about Gauntlet and SAB, that they should be brought back in some form, hopefully permanently. They’re unique content, unlike anything else in the game. Even without their exclusive rewards, people would play them for the challenge.
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But, yeah, I agree about Gauntlet and SAB, that they should be brought back in some form, hopefully permanently. They’re unique content, unlike anything else in the game. Even without their exclusive rewards, people would play them for the challenge.
Even without rewards, QG still had achievements. And, a mini Liadri or something if you completed the meta. So, it would still be worth playing for some people even without the old Deadeye Dunwell gambit farm.
I really want to know who had the idea of developing all this content and then throwing it out. I want to know so if I am ever in a position to make hiring positions they will not ever, ever, get the job.
That said, yes, letting players access old content in some form or other is a good idea. Seems like some of it would be good for guilds to tackle.
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I really want to know who had the idea of developing all this content and then throwing it out.
The only people who seemed to think it was a good idea was Arenanet. I think they wanted the game to focus on Living Story rather than traditional expansion content. Unfortunately for them, Living Story got off to an extremely rocky start, and it was widely criticized for various reasons.
That said, yes, letting players access old content in some form or other is a good idea. Seems like some of it would be good for guilds to tackle.
Tower Of Nightmares might be fun to run through with a group. It would give everyone a chance to use their 72 potions of slaying Scarlet’s armies that are sitting around in their bank.
I think you guys did a much different CP from this last July than I did… I gained well over 1500 champion bags from just a couple hours a day farming… It was very profitable…
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I really want to know who had the idea of developing all this content and then throwing it out. I want to know so if I am ever in a position to make hiring positions they will not ever, ever, get the job.
That said, yes, letting players access old content in some form or other is a good idea. Seems like some of it would be good for guilds to tackle.
just a waste of time/resources for a few weeks for new stuff
POLYMOCK from GW1! No wait, would be to confusing for new players
Kill stuff to unlock weapons skills, most confusing thing I ever heard of. (sarcasm)
POLYMOCK from GW1!
Keep dreaming. Because, your dreams will be the only place that you get to play Polymock.
AMAN! they spend so much time making it and just removed it