(edited by drwookie.6391)
Massive rewards from one-time events
Only time will tell, halloween had terrible rewards, but for some reason Anet thought they’d give out 2 exotics and 2 rares to every player who did the third karka event (even dropping precursors for a large number of plays (I myself managed to get dawn)). This isn’t including the 20slot bag and the ring either, but tbf i think it’s fair to give us such big rewards after such a terribly laggy phase 1 and 2 and such a boring 2hour + kill karka kill karka kill karka final event. Seriously though, I hope they learn from the karka event and don’t give out such rare rewards from simple easy to do events (half of the karka event i was afk as killing about 1 million karka over the weekend got very boring very fast)
I agree that as time goes on the game slowly drifts more and more away from what i expected and wanted. I stopped playing after the karka event, been waiting for news on wintersday to reinterest me, but it seems anet can’t even give out information about it 5 days before it goes live.
I have completely missed both the halloween event and lost shores events due to my work schedule. Its very dissapointing that because i am an adult with a rotating work schedule that i will miss out on these one time events. I dont begrudge the people who did get to play them their rewards, however i would simply like to see these events extended in some fashion, or repeated at off hours so that people like me dont miss out on all the fun.
Balzaimon (Gaurdian)
Tarnished Coast
To me it isn’t the “boringness” of the event….it’s the fact that the event occured at what point in time, and was only available to people who can fit that single point in time on their schedule.
The halloween events were at least a little better since for the most part they were more spread out.
The karka event though was a single weekend. I was gone the entire weekend. To be honest I haven’t even entered the new map because after missing the big “hoopla” it just didn’t excite me. I felt completely left out because they decided to make this big “One time only” thing happen that I couldn’t be there for.
The other thing that is just starting to grind my gears more is when I talk to my friends who have ultimately gravitated more towards the PvE side of things. I do about 95% of my time WvW. My friends who have devoted their time 95% to PvE count their gold in the hundreds. My friend in Fractal level ~ 12 or above (i forget what number, I havne’t even done a single fractal) routinely gets like 8 rares, plus a bunch of random vendor trash PER “45-minute” run. I might get a single rare in like 4 or 5 days of WvW.
The disparity between how Arenanet wants to reward certain types of play (attending one time PvE events, or repeating the same dungeon) vs other types of play (WvW) is just astounding. It is not at all what I expected, and it is making me realize their priorities and the fact that the type of player I am (I’m here for the WvW) is not the population they really seem to care much about or want to reward.
The other big issue is that even if you can be there, the events time or lag out on you.
I tried the lost shores event and it was impossible to get into LA without being booted out. If you did get in, folks could not even move due to the lag.
So if they are going to have it, they need to lower the population cap, pick a better zone and fire up a ton more overflows to handle it. If it splits up group/guild, oh well. The system they are using now, clearly does not work.
Yeah i agree, I didnt get to complete phase1, i did the starting attack but thats all i had time for, phase 2 was luckily short and just had enough time to do phase 3 (No idea it would take over 2 hours). Not only are these 1 time events only bad because so many people miss out on them because they’re busy, but they are extremely laggy (during phase 1 i died several times by invisable mobs, TP went down and the lag was terrible. I much prefer how they did it for halloween, it’s more fun, more rewarding and ALOT less laggy.
FoTM is one of the best places to get money, i brought all the T3 the day FoTM was released and had about 2g. I got upto lvl 7 (i think) on FoTM and left with about 13gish after selling everything. Like i said i have not been on since so not sure if it’s changed.
FoTM is one of the best places to get money, i brought all the T3 the day FoTM was released and had about 2g. I got upto lvl 7 (i think) on FoTM and left with about 13gish after selling everything. Like i said i have not been on since so not sure if it’s changed.
Once you are in the teens the monetary gain is even larger. It keeps on going up.
If I spent weeks training in WvW, the rewards I get from killing an enemy at the end of those weeks is the same as when i started. I might kill a few more enemies, but overall my rewards won’t change drastically. Fractals keep on scaling up. it is completely ridiculous.
I know there is a lot of text here and I am lazy so not going to read to much it has only been 1 one time event out of like 4 so far and really that event that did give loot was not one time it happened a few times that day. I really just wish it was something more cosmetic or like a title or achivement that we where there. Or even just the 20 slot box we got would of been fine
FoTM is one of the best places to get money, i brought all the T3 the day FoTM was released and had about 2g. I got upto lvl 7 (i think) on FoTM and left with about 13gish after selling everything. Like i said i have not been on since so not sure if it’s changed.
Once you are in the teens the monetary gain is even larger. It keeps on going up.
If I spent weeks training in WvW, the rewards I get from killing an enemy at the end of those weeks is the same as when i started. I might kill a few more enemies, but overall my rewards won’t change drastically. Fractals keep on scaling up. it is completely ridiculous.
It does seem that all Anet care about anymore is FoTM. They said they was suppose to release ascended gear with different ways to obtain it, but atm only FoTM can get you ascended rings, so if it wasn’t finished yet surely they shouldn’t have released them yet, It’s the best and prob only way to farm gold, and it’s the only thing any PVE’r does anymore becasue it’s such a grind to get the ascended items.
How about us aussies for whom the event was scheduled in the early hours after midnight? It’s not like we pay any less for the game than our NA friends, so I presume we’re entitled to the same expectations for content, right?