Nope, I myself still lack the precursor, but it would be the worst implementation of such scavenger hunt, and also a lie because they’ve already stated they’re not working on it right now. It would be fail to turn something already on the road the scavenger hunt.
Nope, I myself still lack the precursor, but it would be the worst implementation of such scavenger hunt, and also a lie because they’ve already stated they’re not working on it right now. It would be fail to turn something already on the road the scavenger hunt.
How would this system be worse than the current “be a gold farmer your way!” system currently in place for precursors?
they said they can’t announce whens the scavenger hunt cause they’re afraid the market is gonna tank. They also mention they’re currently not working on it, which could implement they’re trying to mask the scavenger hunt.
How would this system be worse than the current “be a gold farmer your way!” system currently in place for precursors?
I didn’t say that, I said it would be the worst implementation of a scanvenger hunt. I too don’t agree with the huge gold requirement as it’s a horrible grind.
they said they can’t announce whens the scavenger hunt cause they’re afraid the market is gonna tank. They also mention they’re currently not working on it, which could implement they’re trying to mask the scavenger hunt.
I don’t remember where or in what context but Colin mentionned Scavenger Hunt as a “priority” for them.
I’m really crossing fingers for it to come for March, or at least some good news about it.
they said they can’t announce whens the scavenger hunt cause they’re afraid the market is gonna tank. They also mention they’re currently not working on it, which could implement they’re trying to mask the scavenger hunt.
I don’t remember where or in what context but Colin mentionned Scavenger Hunt as a “priority” for them.
I’m really crossing fingers for it to come for March, or at least some good news about it.
I know he mentioned somewhere in this forum that they were not going to release any more Legendary’s till they had a solid system in place for getting precursors. Don’t think that will be anytime soon, i personally doubt it will be this year so till then enjoy your never ending gold grind.
What if at the end of the living story there is an event similar to the Karka one, with a chest that gives exotics/rares ? I can see it happening to be honest.
What if at the end of the living story there is an event similar to the Karka one, with a chest that gives exotics/rares ? I can see it happening to be honest.
Makes sense, but the whole process isn’t a “scavenger hunt”.
Oh well, let’s see what they come up with.
I like how people are quick to forget the epic fail of Lost Shores.
Some of the population got precursors at the end, and this caused a riot on the forums. People were on here complaining about how unfair it was and about how they did not get one, and so on.
I wonder how many of you I will see on here moaning about the same thing if they do decide to do this.
I like how people are quick to forget the epic fail of Lost Shores.
Some of the population got precursors at the end, and this caused a riot on the forums. People were on here complaining about how unfair it was and about how they did not get one, and so on.
I wonder how many of you I will see on here moaning about the same thing if they do decide to do this.
The Lost Shores (lovingly dubbed the Lost Cause) was released on a weekend that was arguably Anet’s greatest failure to date. So much stuff was released and it was all half-baked because they had to get it out by a deadline. That deadline was the thanksgiving holiday.
On this weekend, they had to release:
Lost Shores Parts 1/2/3 (many quest steps bugged) and also designed by Anet (in their words) “to have the highest server concurrency”. This was clearly designed to take those who were on American time zones over anyone else which made it grossly unfair for the rest of the world who missed out on the “epic” final phase. The concurrency issue was made moot when eventually no one could log in (no matter which part of the world you were from) and people were getting booted. The culling issues were also most prolific at this point.
Fractals was introduced. Whoever thought it was a good idea to place a brand spanking new dungeon portal inside the busiest trading area and gateway to the world? As it turned out, no one on even a medium population server could get to their home server without being re-routed through the overflow first. Then there was the issue of being booted involuntarily whilst being inside a fractal instance, most of the time towards the end of a 3-fractal run where one would gain a level. Why this didn’t get the same ability for people to rejoin the instance the every other dungeon instnace offers I’m guessing comes down to lack of QA and time constraints, but I don’t want to make excuses for them.
Trial accounts were introduced for that weekend. From a lot of hearsay these trial accounts were some of the luckier ones at the final karka boss, some walking away with precursors. A completely useless way to obtain them on a trial account that was bound for deletion at the end of the weekend anyway unless they knew someone who could use them. For the rest of the trial accounts that couldn’t make it to the final event and were playing from the beginning of that weekend, I can only imagine the disappointment when they were trying to undertake the steps in the phases of the lost shores event quests, only for those quests to be bugged.
The ensuing uproar that lastest for weeks on these forums made Anet cave in to pressure and eventually give everyone who attended the weekend of fail an ancient karka chest with 2 rares and 2 exotics and a few other goodies like a 20-slot karka box inside. I don’t know if anyone actually received a precursor that way either, but if they ever decided to make another event like that again I do hope they’re more prepared, or at least not announce that they’re buffing the precursor drops if only temporarily. It would be nice to see the prices of these highly-sough-after items plummet again.
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I like how people are quick to forget the epic fail of Lost Shores.
Some of the population got precursors at the end, and this caused a riot on the forums. People were on here complaining about how unfair it was and about how they did not get one, and so on.
I wonder how many of you I will see on here moaning about the same thing if they do decide to do this.
The Lost Shores precursor uproar wasn’t because folks were bitter that they did not get precursor. It was because 1) the chance at a precursor drop was linked to a one-time event that was only available for a couple hours, 2) folks who had other obligations (like work) or lived in other time zones (like our Oceanic players, who couldn’t attend the event because it was mid-morning Monday in their time zone) had zero opportunity at even the chance of a precursor, 3) folks who disconnected during the fiasco of an event finale and were unable to get back in before the end of the event lost the opportunity at getting a precursor (until ArenaNet later made those people whole).
As a vocal opponent to how ArenaNet handled the Lost Shores finale, I’d actually be quite happy if ArenaNet included the chance for a precursor drop with the Flame & Frost event so long as they make it flexible enough that all time zones can participate and players are better able to work it around their real life schedules.
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Please don’t start thinking that there will be a chance for a precursor at the end of this event :[ You don’t have anything to gain by building yourself up for something that might not happen and that we’ve not been told will happen.
If the Karka event got a chest with precursors, why not the living story? The way is being implemented makes it more fair for everybody. Just add a final event with an account bound chest that can only be opened once, but make this event repeat during a week or a month, so everybody has a chance to get it.
I couldn’t play during the karka event, so I missed the best chest in the game so far. I’d to love to have a chance to a chest like that.
On the other side, I would also like to play the Karka event just to see how it was, even if there are no chest now.
I really don’t think you would. Going by reports on the forums from the time of that event, people were locked in that mind-numbingly frustrating battle for hours before it finally ended. Those that were fortunate enough to hold onto their connection for long enough without getting kicked and not getting insta-killed by barrel-rolls were eventually rewarded for a long hard effort.
Having said that, there were reports of exploits going on as well. Say one person finished one event, they’d jump servers and ‘help finish’ the event in that server. Back the guesting wasn’t implemented yet either. Double-dipping much? This exploit caused a huge amount of rage on the forums and those who were around for that event and wished they could do it won’t easily forget how badly they were left out.
It seems Anet may have learned from those mistakes, apparently they’re not having anymore one-time-only events (ie. US timezone / highest concurrency till the server breaks timezone) and are making the events more far-reaching and global. Go figure.
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Not luck and credit cards.”
IMO It wouldn’t make sense, precursors should have their own scavenger hunt and not be mixed with living story.
I disagree – GW2 is supposed to be play how you want to play. In that sense, precursors should be available at the end of many different possible paths.
I would love to see the precursors drop off white mobs in random locations specified by a special map drawn in crayon given to me by a child as a reward for my dutiful services… but that’s just me. Some people might prefer to eat these drawings…
Anyways, Precursors being available after events like these would be nice. Not saying that they shouldn’t also implement a way to get the precursors that is repeatable (i.e. scavenger hunts) but this might be something nice to do while we wait for that to be implemented.
Also, not doing this shouldn’t be because “it might affect the precursor market”, to be honest I don’t think there should be a precursor market, I’d prefer the precursors and legendaries be account bound… How legendary do you have to be to buy your gear?
I don’t see why precursors dropping from the Living Story and the precursors from the scavenger hunt would have to be mutually exclusive.
I’m not expecting precursors to drop. However, it would be nice to have them drop at the end of each story arc.
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I’m confused…many of you are talking about this in a way that makes it sound like there will be an actual single scavenger hunt event with a chance at a precursor at the end…But the post from the dev doesn’t say something like that at all. It says: “We also have plans to add more fun ways to acquire Legendary precursor items with a more “scavenger hunt” feel than they are acquired currently.”
That doesn’t say anything like what the people in this thread seem to be getting at. As in there will be some big scavenger hunt event for a chance at a precursor. It sounds like they are just going to implement other ways in game at obtaining precursor items that make it more exciting like a scavenger hunt instead of how it is now where you basically just have to farm gold or win the lottery in the mystic toilet.
Did I miss a dev post somewhere that they stated there is going to be some singular scavenger hunt event? Because to me it just sounds like they simply said they would add a scavenger hunt like feel to obtaining a precursor so we don’t just have to grind grind grind.
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Also, not doing this shouldn’t be because “it might affect the precursor market”, to be honest I don’t think there should be a precursor market, I’d prefer the precursors and legendaries be account bound… How legendary do you have to be to buy your gear?
I have the very same opinion, there shouldn’t be such a thing; and then people will quote me to death “blabla they can do whatever they want with their l00tz blabla earn monies!”. /sigh
