Guild Wars 2

What do you guys think of a Triple Touble Wurm tonic?

The way I think alot of communities are successful in the Tri-wurm is in alot of pre-event preparation. Explaining whats going to happen, what to expect what do do in certain situations etc. We call these ‘Dryruns’. Its basically a simulated run of the event.

Wouldn’t it be cool if we could have a reference of what we are actually explaining? We already have the husk tonic and this is cool as players can demonstrate where the husks are spawning and what they will do.

However, you could argue that Phase 2 of the Tri-Wurm event it is even more important for players to understand whats going to happen. Its important players know what the attack animations ‘look’ like and understand the singe-target nature of its AI in which it will target a random player and charge towards them. Of course there are videos and stuff of this online but i think an ingame representation of it is more fun and engaging. It could also lead to more successful pug-led Tri-Wurm kills.

I suggest a decapitated Wurm head transform that has the 3 basic abilities/attacks the Decapped wurm can do. ‘Flop’, ‘Charge’ and ‘Thrash’. I have no idea if these are what the actual abilities are called but this is a good description of their animation.
The tonic could come in the usual semi-commonly dropped single use variety from the Tri-Wurm event and an extraordinarily rare Infinite variety as this tonic would be quite unique in that it can demonstrate attacks and animations.

I am obviously not suggesting this tonic be the same size as the actual ingame Wurm heads but a scaled-down version would still be useful for players explaining and demonstrating the event.

Reasonable and well tought out suggestion that could make the triple trouble more lucrative to do because of unique rewards.

10/10 Anet will ignore.

I asked the question in the last POI twitch stream about how the devs can “Teach players about how the metaevent works”. They answered it in the context of dry-top but I meant it in a more broader sense. They said that “if you watch mapchat, veteran players will teach newbies” and that the community does this kind of thing organically through guides and
That is great and all, but the devs could assist us alot more in helping each other. Mapchat is just one way to explain and demonstrate the events. Im all for more ways to do it and essentially roleplaying the events are a really cool way to do it.

Nope, have to disagree, this is an old event and unless there is a bug, doesn’t warrant any further attention from anet. We need new content, not new rewards for old content the vast majority of players care nothing about.

It is a bit different and almost impossible to get, but the endless fractal tonic has a tranformation into a tentacle of the jade Maw you could use this too :P

For phase 2 you could use the mini wurm, but maybe a bit too small