Guild Wars 2

I had no idea where to post this as it’s not a bug, it’s just.. strange and unfortunate.

I recently made a new human character, which means I got snaggled up in the NPE, so to try to avoid it I dumped a level 20 birthday scroll on him and ten tomes of knowledge. I like the norn areas a lot, so I headed over to Wayfarer Foothills to do some hearts and events for fun.

I walked north from Horncall Waypoint and after a bit, I ran into Bjarni and his heart quest to give him rabbit food and avoid the hungry rabbits. I stopped and turned in a circle just to be 100% sure I hadn’t somehow magically ended up on the cliff where this quest was supposed to be. Flat ground all around me. Bjarni had apparently relocated. I went to gather food, which was all now conveniently stacked up in one place, and took it to the norn. I didn’t notice or hear any rabbits chasing me. The next bag, I stood and waited. A hungry rabbit ran across the clearing and into a hole, ignoring me. I moved a bit closer to Bjarni, stood, and waited again. Finally, a hungry rabbit came after me. With all of these changes, I almost expected it not to kick me over, but it did. That, at least, was relieving. But there were barely any hungry rabbits at all.

Here’s a video of a couple of people doing the original quest:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nd10NxVRfR4

I can’t for the life of me figure out why this event was changed. When I first discovered in in GW2 two years ago, it was the most hilarious, fun quest I had done yet, and I always make sure to do it on new characters. Were people complaining about it? Were they having trouble, and there were masses of people somewhere yelling about getting kicked off cliffs by rabbits? Does someone genuinely think this heart was too difficult for new players to do or understand?

I really want to understand but I can’t figure out any logical explanation for this change. Especially when there are so many dynamic events actually in need of work due to bugs and/or poor design, or updating due to “living world” updating the story and lore.

Hehe….that quest was annoying as heck first few times I did it. Then it became one of my characters rights of passages so to speak as I always do the Norn areas first no matter what race Im on. That quest seems easier now. Some of the others such as Help Paenula Train Troops in POA have been unnecessarily complicated..

It was too hard to find for new players (serious), and so they moved it down to the lower level so more people would more easily encounter it. The other adjustments were done in a similar vein; ANet wanted the low-level experience to be easier to help with player retention.

I did it not long after the NPE update in September and at the time the only thing that had changed was the location. The food was scattered around a very large area and the bunnies were chasing and knocking me down as before.

If anything it made the heart harder because a lot of the food had to be carried from further away and the bunnies could come from all directions, whereas before it was a pretty small area and you could see all the bunnies coming.

The new location doesn’t make sence. Its out of place and to scattered. Furtheron, the dynamic events (Linea and the hare) are still in the old place. I find the replacement of this and others (like the removal of the dredge heart in the begin area) making no sence. It was perfectly logically, now its not. The stripping of the beginning areas makes them a lot more boring and anti learning curve.

I also miss being able to kill the nearby minotaurs for this heart. That’s typically how I did it.

The rabbits still chase and knock down…..and Linea’s event isn’t at this heart anymore and her event used to count for this heart which was another way to get this heart done. But no longer.