Guild Wars 2

…not with the event however- it was the most fun ive had in GW2 to date and the devs should be applauded for what they have achieved! I am most disappointed about those bemoaning the fact that other people got pre-legendaries and about some saying that it was a waste of their 2 hours!

Anyone who moans about getting a 20 slot box plus extras is clearly just jealous of others. I didnt get a pre-legendary and yet my drops exceeded 15g for a two hour once in a lifetime event that was smart, clever, at times funny but overall very, very fun to be a part of. For me id have been happy with a single rare at the end- I did the event for the experience (not exp, just for fun and lore). I know some people are only there for the loots and most I cant blame entirely. But to moan about the fact youve ONLY got 15g worth of stuff is an insult to the devs that created this event and I personally think you should be ashamed.

Also it doesnt make sense to moan about RNG. If you do not take into account MF then every player has the chance to get lucky. Some will seem luckier than others but if you do enough events, use the Forge enough times etc etc then you will get lucky eventually. If you do take into account MF then youre just saying ‘oh that player shouldnt get better drops than me just for putting in more time and effort than me to get a MF set’. Need I explain why this is stupid?

Its not often I say that im ashamed of anyone but seriously complaining about drops totalling 15g at the end of a unique and, in my opinion, amazing event is slapping the devs around the face for putting time and effort into creating this. I dont think any rational GW2…no, any rational MMO player can side with you guys.

Someone fighting right next to me and my guildie got the Hunter – and the Predator is the legendary my guildie really wants. He was dying.

But yeah, come on, who’s going to actually complain about this? The event was great.

Let’s add it up.

The quest — bugged and bugged.
The massive group battle featured “You were hit for 4017 damage by Unknown using Spit” — rendering problems, just like you see in WvW. Getting portal bombed by a bunch of stealthed baby karkas isn’t “great” imo.

The things ANet is good at, has been good at for almost a decade:
Small group instanced dungeons, and small group pvp.

Things everyone knows are weak:
Quests — any of us who’ve had characters stuck in the storyline for most of the time the game’s been live know quests are NOT ANet’s forte’.
Large group combat — let’s face it, the entire meta of wvw has been about exploiting how crummy the system is, whether it’s portal bombs, hacking the orb, or perma-stealthed thief antics.

They should stick to what they’re good at, especially for a big event where they were trying to lure trial players into putting GW2 on their Xmas lists.

The loot means almost nothing. I love my 20 slotter, don’t get me wrong. But no matter how you do an event, people expect phat lewts. Phat lewts isn’t why we play GW2, tho.

Egh RNG not something I’d design a game around but who am I.

What choices do you have if you remove RNG? Youd end up with even more of a grind.

Ive gone through countless MMOs always being the ‘unlucky one’ To date the only exotics ive got from GW2 have been from the Ascent to Madness Halloween dungeon and this event and yet I dont hate the fact RNG is in the game. In fact many a time have I played on this fact, selling rares instead of combining them in the forge for a guaranteed amount of money as opposed to gambling. On occasions I have gambled and ive never got anywhere. But I did it for the thrill of gambling!

My original point was to bring to light the fact that no one is entitled to anything in this game. By rights that chest didnt have to be included and the players shouldve completed the event for the fun of doing so. ANET saw that some people would moan so put a chest in there (thanks!) but still some are moaning.

My experience wasn’t so great. On day two, I logged in to an overflow server. Nothing happened. We all waited for over 30 minutes, and suddenly the quest changed. We all got on a boat and headed to the Lost Shores… where nothing happened. We all just ran across the map in a massive group discovering POIs until we got all the ones we could. Everyone scattered after that.

This experience, and a similar experience on the first day, led me to not even bother arranging my schedule for the third event. I’m glad to see some people had a good time.

15 gold. Well that’s a bummer. I skipped out because I was a bit exhausted after the other two steps, and wanted to do some other things today anyways. Guess they back loaded the rewards.

I do have a partial map and another map fragment and a soggy bag I was told to hang on to by a red poster, so maybe I’ll get something for that?