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Lost Shores Content Discussion
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1. Lost Shores area: What was the actual point and relevance of it? I mean; ’Lion’s Arch is under attack’ – I missed the first event, so I was a bit in the dark, so to speak, as to what LA had been attacked by – I thought "Cool, some awesome new enemy that poses a great threat to Tyria’. So, I get the the island and see mutant crab-beasts derping around and flinging their spit at me, and I just don’t get it..
If I’m missing any back-story or lore about this stuff, please feel free to let me know and correct me.
I was considering starting a similar thread to this, but considering that one exists I will simply reply here.
My views on the Lost Shores weekend:
Lost Shore zone – Quality seemed to be pretty good in terms of artwork and mechanics, but it was also lacking in some very important areas. I found the enemy variety available for combat to be very lacking. There were drakes, karka, wind riders, skales, burrowing worms, and a couple random other things. The events seemed to be a little lacking as well, they didn’t have anything out of the ordinary. Collect items and bring them to person X. Kill the mod, kill the boss, guard person Y. It was all pretty standard, which wasn’t what I was looking for. I started off extremely interested in playing the content for the first couple of hours; but it was a small zone and easily explored. At that point there wasn’t much to keep me interested in sticking around. The two jump puzzles were interesting while they lasted, but one of them (the house) was extremely short.
FoTM – This dungeon was actually very interesting. The art was great in it. The quality of play was cool, and the replay-ability was high. Now, I am not a big dungeon person. In fact this was the second dungeon I had done (the first one being the Mad King); I also am not a large fan of playing with random people, and my guild didn’t participate in the weekend event. That left me with 1 friend online. I played through the FoTM with her once and we got to the final boss (but couldn’t manage to kill it between just the two of us). The first time I saw the colossus was quite an interesting experience, but I was soloing the dungeon that round and wasn’t able to pose much of a threat to the boss alone (I play a mesmer).
Ascended Gear – I personally don’t like it, but wasn’t asked. I personally don’t feel the need for it, but then again I am only a casual player. I have been level 80 since before the Halloween event started. I only have a single piece of exotic gear, and that was collected from the personal story line. As long as they don’t make it a necessary thing across the board (unless they make it about as rare to get as exotics) I don’t see a problem with it, I just won’t likely ever get a set.
Now, the other part of the discussion I wanted to have is this:
1. Did you invite any player to the weekend?
1.a. If so, how did they like it?
2. In comparison to the Halloween event, how would you rate this weekend event?
I did invite a person to the weekend, but never heard if they played or not. Personally I am hoping that they didn’t play this weekend so I have a chance in actually getting them to play at a later date and get the game. This weekend I would count as a complete mess. The events were buggy as all get out. I wasn’t able to finish any of the scavenger hunt (unless you count the first part in LA where you just open the container for the small vial of karma).
Overall, in comparison to the Halloween event, this was a complete waste of time. I wasn’t able to participate in the one-time events because of real life, and didn’t even worry about trying to make it to the finale – instead I spent that time hanging out with friends.
Hopefully the next event series goes significantly better.