Guild Wars 2

….Are very interesting.

The end.

…What? What do you want me to say? I mean we have:

- Bounties that have a base foundation for mechanics based upon the bounty in question. Man-Eater is always going to be a sand shark, it burrows and goes nom on Mr ‘Stands Still’. This ain’t Tremors!
- Said Bounties also have another gimmick where they get additional RANDOM mechanics per encounter courtesy of Unstable Magic which can change up the encounter each time you face it.
- The rewards include currency that has multiple uses from salvaging to identification, or if you did the Legendary “Watermelon” on the island you get a Treasure Map which gets you further rewards by finding it.

I mean, I’m not sure whether I want to create a whole other thread going on the benefits of how this is such a stronger Beta than the original HoT one, but from what I’ve observed, everything has a merged purpose and reward with another component in the desert that is so well crafted I had to take a step back.

But let’s be real here, if my assumption is true that while we have what, 6 Bounties in this first major hub in this Portion of the Oasis where the encounters are similar but are capable to keep you and your allies on your toes, I’m extremely excited to see what else PoF brings. The potential to have Bounties become a thing people do alongside map metas is invigorating.

My only concern is that while having the randomization mechanic is nice, not all mechanics tend to create good encounters but frustrating ones. For instance, during a fight with the Legendary “Watermelon”, aside from the baseline trademark Roll it does that it picked up from Mordrem Rollers (Why?!), it also had a ‘Petrifying gaze’ and ‘Ranged gets blocked’ (High uptimes, not permanent on both) in which we found out hilariously that it was capable of rolling with Petrifying Gaze….

…Arenanet please be cautious with said random Mechanics.

Thank you. I actually do mean it, this is all good overall.

How can someone write the end then write a book after?!?

never say the end in the beginning!

Cloud Windfoot Omega.7485:

How can someone write the end then write a book after?!?

never say the end in the beginning!

But I break all the rules!

….Or something like that.

I somehow suspect that this is only a small sample of the bounties we’ll see. So far I like them, they have good potential.

I don’t know… I want the bounties to just be great bosses that show up suddenly and have people jump in and everyone gets credit. That’s fundamental GW2. Go fetch is not.