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Posted by: Sola.7250

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It was nice for once to have a Monthly that didn’t include Fractals or Dungeons.

Thank you Anet!!!

Might we see Monthly change to be like the dailies, where we get to picks which items we want to complete?

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Posted by: Flamenco.3894

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I wish it included something like slay 50 dragons

Prince Rurik and Lady Althea. Anyone else see the incompatibilty here?

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Posted by: Ardenwolfe.8590

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Agreed. I really liked this month’s one. And I hope they keep it this casual for next month.

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Posted by: FLFW.3105

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I’ve done my monthly in like 3 days and i play 2hours a day max. UMAD monthly?

GuildWars 2 is good game with bad management.

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Posted by: Fiontar.4695

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I agree.

In the future, I really hope they allow us to chose from a list for monthlies, just as they do now for dailies. This would allow them to add things like Fractals/Dungeons/Dragons etc… with out excluding people who don’t like certain areas of the game.

This month’s was good though, since, for the most part, a typical player can expect to finish most of them just playing the game “normally”. I like dailies, but they tend to make people focus on the check list and lose a natural immersion in the game. I’m glad the monthlies are more “organic”.

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Posted by: marnick.4305

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This one was really easy, but that’s okay it’s just a bonus for focused play, but a single fractal run still gives more than the entire monthly reward.

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Posted by: ricky markham.8173

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i wouldnt mind if they changed the monthly to be more like the daily where you choose what you want to do with more options to do. im glad there isnt any fractals or dungeon requirements but wouldnt mind if they added those if we can pick and choose

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Posted by: SandraSolace.7682

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I would love to be able to choose too.
This was the first monthly I actually finished!
I have to admit, it felt good.

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Posted by: Riss.1536

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I admit this monthly was decent because there was no group dependant tasks (dungeons) or server dependant tasks (kills in WvW when your server is dead).

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Posted by: ley.8973

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I’d also like to have optional monthly tasks. I don’t run dungeons, so I always feel like being left out when it comes to monthlies.

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Posted by: ToT.7018

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I’ve done my monthly in like 3 days and i play 2hours a day max. UMAD monthly?

How did you do it in 3 days when part of the monthly was to finish the daily achievement?
I had to wait for day 4 to finish my monthly so how did you get around this?

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Posted by: Ardenwolfe.8590

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I’ve done my monthly in like 3 days and i play 2hours a day max. UMAD monthly?

How did you do it in 3 days when part of the monthly was to finish the daily achievement?
I had to wait for day 4 to finish my monthly so how did you get around this?

Server restarts. If you’ve done a daily, and they restart, you can sometimes get a ‘new’ daily. Some people have benefited from this with an extra laurel.

I know this occurred at least once this month.

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Posted by: Fishbait.6723

Fishbait.6723

I hope they keep it easy so I just don`t have that ui crap on my screen

“We want you to play the game, not the UI” Arenanet.
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Posted by: ToT.7018

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Server restarts. If you’ve done a daily, and they restart, you can sometimes get a ‘new’ daily. Some people have benefited from this with an extra laurel.

I know this occurred at least once this month.
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Yes i have had an extra laurel as the new content update usually happens a few hours before the daily reset. However the monthly one is different that starts 00.00am on the 1st of the month regardless of how many resets happen the day before.

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Posted by: Zogyark.4597

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your gain is my loss, I’d rather have dungeons than the events. I pretty much only run Arah and eventually I’ll have to do some mindly event zerging.

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Posted by: Ruprect.7260

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The monthly was too easy! It should really be run 20 fracs/run 20 dung/kill 500 invaders etc.,etc.

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Posted by: nastyjman.8207

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I love the Monthly, and it is easy and soloable. I think ANet designed it like that since the Dailies are getting a mixture of Fractals, Dungeons and WvW. It would be aggravating to some players if the Monthly included some dungeons and wvw in it when the dailies would have them some days.

Overall, I’m satisfied with this Monthly set up, and I hope they don’t change it.

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Posted by: Halanna.3927

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The monthly was too easy! It should really be run 20 fracs/run 20 dung/kill 500 invaders etc.,etc.

Haha, what? That is completely unreasonable. I don’t even know any players who do fractals, they just don’t care for the content.

I know a few who do dungeons, but again, most players I know don’t care for the content and don’t want to do it, unless it’s CoF and gogo quickquick.

Trying to force players into content they don’t like won’t make them go do it. It will make them quit and go find a game to play that they have fun in and enjoy, that doesn’t include forced content.

This month’s monthly, and February’s too, were great! They were something to work on slowly through the month. If you killed 100 vets and did 100 events and did the monthly in 3 days, that is not the actions of a “typical” player. Most players won’t do 33 events a day, or kill 33 vets a day. It’s just not typical behavior.

The monthlies are fine as they are, leave WvW, fractals and dungeons out of them, or make it muti-choice so those who don’t enjoy that content won’t be subjected to it and can still complete their monthly.

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Posted by: Chuo.4238

Chuo.4238

Yea, thanks! More monthlies like March, and I might even get my alt geared up by the end of the year. You guys totally conquer gear treadmills and grind!

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Posted by: Infernia.9847

Infernia.9847

I loved this month’s ‘Monthly Achievement’. I know dungeons will come back which is fine by me; like the other months I just won’t achieve it. For dungeon runners they love the dungeon monthly, WvW’ers love the WvW monthly, etc.
I just hope they have choices available in the future like they do for dailies. That way every play style is supported.

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Posted by: Ruprect.7260

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The monthly was too easy! It should really be run 20 fracs/run 20 dung/kill 500 invaders etc.,etc.

Haha, what? That is completely unreasonable. I don’t even know any players who do fractals, they just don’t care for the content.

I know a few who do dungeons, but again, most players I know don’t care for the content and don’t want to do it, unless it’s CoF and gogo quickquick.

Trying to force players into content they don’t like won’t make them go do it. It will make them quit and go find a game to play that they have fun in and enjoy, that doesn’t include forced content.

This month’s monthly, and February’s too, were great! They were something to work on slowly through the month. If you killed 100 vets and did 100 events and did the monthly in 3 days, that is not the actions of a “typical” player. Most players won’t do 33 events a day, or kill 33 vets a day. It’s just not typical behavior.

The monthlies are fine as they are, leave WvW, fractals and dungeons out of them, or make it muti-choice so those who don’t enjoy that content won’t be subjected to it and can still complete their monthly.

Im sorry I was trolling a little bit. I would agree with choose your own as long as it takes longer than 3 days to complete it.

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Posted by: Salacious.7358

Salacious.7358

I will never get my monthly, I dont have time to do 80 events.

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Posted by: Ruprect.7260

Ruprect.7260

I will never get my monthly, I dont have time to do 80 events.

I got mine done in one night in WvW. A normal player could do it in WvW in maybe 2 nights.

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Posted by: Infernia.9847

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There are maps, outside of WvW, where people are running event chains endlessly. I forget which but got into one( with centaurs and protecting the workers fixing the bridge), for the hour I played, and finished a ton of events. I had fun to boot. Also the flame & frost invaders run on pretty quick timers too.

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Posted by: Salacious.7358

Salacious.7358

I will never get my monthly, I dont have time to do 80 events.

I got mine done in one night in WvW. A normal player could do it in WvW in maybe 2 nights.

I hate WvW Im so bad at PVP I was actually kicked from my guild….

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Posted by: Ruprect.7260

Ruprect.7260

I will never get my monthly, I dont have time to do 80 events.

I got mine done in one night in WvW. A normal player could do it in WvW in maybe 2 nights.

I hate WvW Im so bad at PVP I was actually kicked from my guild….

Your probably better off then, that must have been a terrible guild to kick you for that reason. If you get on your servers BL and follow the zerg around and just try to support a little or run in a camp flipping group it goes really quick. It really depends on your server though I guess too.

What infernia said too, on our server cursed shore is full of groups running DE’s.

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Posted by: IndigoSundown.5419

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I’ve done my monthly in like 3 days and i play 2hours a day max. UMAD monthly?

How did you do it in 3 days when part of the monthly was to finish the daily achievement?
I had to wait for day 4 to finish my monthly so how did you get around this?

Server restarts. If you’ve done a daily, and they restart, you can sometimes get a ‘new’ daily. Some people have benefited from this with an extra laurel.

I know this occurred at least once this month.

Also, since the server resets at 12:00 GMT, someone in the states could do the March 1 daily during the evening of February 28. Thus, it was possible to have done 4 dailies by the evening of March 3rd. In this case, though, it took 4 days, but one of them was not in the player’s March.

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Posted by: Raine.1394

Raine.1394

I’m glad someone properly thanked Anet in a dedicated thread. I always played a lot and rarely missed a daily achievement, but never got a monthly because of the dungeon/WvW requirement. I hope this represents a trend so that players of various playstyles will be able to complete at least the dailies/monthlies. At any rate I offer a sincere thanks to Anet for the “play your way” monthly this month.

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Posted by: Gelltor.3015

Gelltor.3015

I was kinda disappointed with this monthly tbh,all very bland stuff,I preferred the wvw killer and fractal runner as I only got into that stuff from doing the monthly in the first place!
It doesn’t even have to things like that,just stuff that I have to change my play style a small bit to complete.

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Posted by: Nabrok.9023

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The monthly was too easy! It should really be run 20 fracs/run 20 dung/kill 500 invaders etc.,etc.

Haha, what? That is completely unreasonable. I don’t even know any players who do fractals, they just don’t care for the content.

I know a few who do dungeons, but again, most players I know don’t care for the content and don’t want to do it, unless it’s CoF and gogo quickquick.

Trying to force players into content they don’t like won’t make them go do it. It will make them quit and go find a game to play that they have fun in and enjoy, that doesn’t include forced content.

This month’s monthly, and February’s too, were great! They were something to work on slowly through the month. If you killed 100 vets and did 100 events and did the monthly in 3 days, that is not the actions of a “typical” player. Most players won’t do 33 events a day, or kill 33 vets a day. It’s just not typical behavior.

The monthlies are fine as they are, leave WvW, fractals and dungeons out of them, or make it muti-choice so those who don’t enjoy that content won’t be subjected to it and can still complete their monthly.

It was way too easy this month. Done in 4 days, and that’s only because we had to do 4 dailies. This is just through regular play as well, I did not go out of my way to kill vets or do events, those things come very quickly with even moderate WvW play.

I know they want them to be casual friendly, but this is just too casual friendly.

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Posted by: IndigoSundown.5419

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The monthlies are fine as they are, leave WvW, fractals and dungeons out of them, or make it muti-choice so those who don’t enjoy that content won’t be subjected to it and can still complete their monthly.

It was way too easy this month. Done in 4 days, and that’s only because we had to do 4 dailies. This is just through regular play as well, I did not go out of my way to kill vets or do events, those things come very quickly with even moderate WvW play.

I know they want them to be casual friendly, but this is just too casual friendly.

Dailies and monthlies were put in to give everyone a reachable objective, even players who cannot play often or for very long per session. Why do you care how little or how much time it takes?

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Posted by: Leo G.4501

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This monthly was too easy. I finished it last week and it’s not even half way through the month.

Basically, what I’m seeing here is, people want monthlies that can be done in 2 days tops.

It’s not like last month’s was hardcore and required a long time to accomplish although I was pretty behind on the salvaging and I refused to just buy stuff to salvage…

The crafting might have been a long one for this month…but just transmogrifying some mid-grade jewels to higher grade jewels with my Jeweler crafting finished this in 1-shot.

My only hope is this was a freebie month and that there will require some effort for some months as well.

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Posted by: LFk.1408

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Most players won’t do 33 events a day, or kill 33 vets a day. It’s just not typical behavior.

I don’t know if I agree with that statement.

33 events is about an hour’s worth of WvW play. Even running along with a random zerg, and loosely following a commander’s orders will have you randomly crashing into events. The vet count is even faster.

Dungeons are also flooded with veterans. Running a single meta even chain is 30 minutes, and is 5-7 events. The people who bounce around from world boss to world boss hunting the current chests almost accidentally trip over their monthly.

What i’m trying to say is that at this point, the “typical” player will basically trip over 100 events and veterans in 10 days, playing less than an hour a day. Many play more than this, and will essentially have this month’s achievements done in a single day. This isn’t even hardcore. Events and Veterans are just that common.

If you ask “what if player X doesn’t like WvW, and also doesn’t like dungeons, doesn’t like world bosses, doesn’t have the cursed shore, and also doesn’t (etc. etc.)”, that would incidentally start becoming a very specific type of player, not a typical player.

The reason I don’t like this is because I feel as if the monthly should gently nudge people into doing a few more unique tasks, not a “thanks for playing, come back tomorrow!” bonus. That’s what the daily is for. Again, this is my opinion.

I’d love to see monthlies that promote certain revamped dungeons, or really highlight an area (i.e. X events completed in Iron Marches), and at the same time have a number of unique, new events occurring in Iron Marches for that month only.

If the monthly is just going to be another bonus chest for doing what you do in the dailies, why not just scrap it and make the dailies more rewarding? It’s just clutter.

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Posted by: Greydawg.6278

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Basically, what I’m seeing here is, people want monthlies that can be done in 2 days tops.

I don’t think that’s the case. I think people want monthlies that they can actually finish while playing the game the way they like.
I have 4 level 80 characters and another close to it and I’ve never stepped foot in a dungeon or that fractal thing, and I’d rather stick my junk in a blender than PvP or WvW. It was quite a pleasant surprise when the new monthly popped up and I realized I’d actually be able to finish it.

That said, it was too easy. Maybe if they added stuff like “View 30 Vistas” or something map-sensitive it would make it more interesting, as well as what many others have said and give people a choice of monthly targets.

I’d like to add my official “thank you” to the Anet team as well.

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Posted by: Ardenwolfe.8590

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I have to agree. While I feel the monthly was easy for me, I know it’s a good deal for those with little downtime to spare.

Just because you can do it in four days doesn’t mean everyone else can too.

It’s a good choice for all involved because it gives the chance for everyone to complete them.

Hardcore and casual alike.

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