This may be tangential but… I like this kind of scavenger hunt achievement and enjoyed this one…. except that, once again, anet have released another event where there’s just some little niggly annoying thing about it, like a fly in an otherwise excellent soup. It’s as if nobody’s really testing every aspect of these events, maybe doing a few spot checks and calling it a day.
In this one, at some of the posters, the npcs are clustered so closely to the poster that you really have to strive to find a spot where the poster’s Interact action appears instead of a npc Talk action. Usually this is jumping up on a ledge or something on the wall on which the poster is pasted. It’s not a difficult workaround but.. come on, does there have to be a workaround?! The Interact action should override the Talk actions. Or the NPCs should be further away from the poster. I would really love to have one event where I can just say, “Yes. This was a perfect event. I love you, anet.”
Sorry for the interruption. Back to your regular programme.
You can click on the poster to target it and get the Interact option even if the game things you’re facing an NPC or they’re closer. Unless the NPCs are so crowded around it that you can’t even see the actual poster (which I haven’t seen and I’ve done almost all of them) that will solve the problem.
I will note that I have been enjoying my character’s exclamations when arriving at an Executioner fight (which I did many times today due to needing to wp and run back, ahem). The one I recall as it happened most often was “What the— !” And once there was another one, wish I could remember it now but my brain only retains the “oooh there is more than one!” feeling. Playing on human male.
Has anyone else noticed their characters being amazed by the Legendary bandit?
I haven’t. I suppose this is the downside of using the option to disable player chatter, although I’ve also had sound turned off most of the time in the last few days. I might have to try doing one with it turned on if I get a chance over the weekend.
That pretty much mirrors my reactions however. Getting death threats and assassins coming after you isn’t unusual in RPGs, the gameplay tends to involve making yourself a problem for a lot of dangerous, powerful people.
But at this point in the story, when our characters have been directly involved in killing two Elder Dragons and literally thousands of other beasts and people, including numerous champions and legendary creatures getting a death threat from the local bandits was laughable. My initial reaction was to literally laugh out loud and think “They’re welcome to try”.
When I saw that the Bandit Executioner was a legendary rank enemy I quickly re-evaluated the situation, and then again when I realised it could appear more than once per person. Suddenly it seems like a much more serious threat.
Still doesn’t put me off hunting down their leaders however. I’ll just have to kill their executioners too.
Danielle Aurorel, Dear Dragon We Got Your Cookies [Nom], Desolation (EU).
“Life’s a journey, not a destination.”
