Guild Wars 2

Well, other than suggested by the title some of the points are actually valid for other festivals or year round. But these occured to me during this year’s halloween event.

In no particular order:

Bag preview function should be extended to personalized ToT bags. Yes, it’s a new feature which only arrived during halloween. I still wonder, though, why only non-personalized ToT bags got a preview.

Both types of ToT bags: right click -> open all. This also applies to other bags, of course, especially to the Winter’s Day gifts. But while you’re at it, why not slap it on any type of bag? Mass salvage already stops upon inventory overflow, so that shouldn’t be a problem.

Limited finishers: right click -> use all.

Also, using limited finishers should not open the hero panel. And I HATE that I have to switch back to my preferred finisher afterwards. Stop messing with that!

Nerf that annoying pay-to-win scythe. Since costume brawl is only a very minor part of the game, especially outside of festivals when there is no daily costume brawl achievement, it is not that much of a problem. But when there is such a daily it is really frustrating to see others press one button hitting me half a dozen times while I have trouble getting enough hits with the free / in-game currency provided transforms.

There’s a bug in the Ascend to Madness instance. Sometimes the mad king teleports back from the lowest to the middle platform. The fight can take annoyingly long if only one or two players can fight him while the rest has to stand around waiting on the lowest platform. Either stop him from teleporting back up or provide a way to return to the fight.

I reported this already in-game. I think it happens when someone walks on the higher part of the middle platform. AFAIK the farm groups triggered this on purpose. If this is not considered bug using but clever use of gameplay mechanic the teleport block could be limited to conditions such as a player being on the lowest platform.

A big wish for the LFG tool: hide or remove squads when their map is already full. Who didn’t have to go through several groups to find one whose map they could actually join?

A small improvement idea for the LFG tool, depending on how easy it is to implement: temporarily add festival categories. Not really important and if it isn’t done by adding a few lines of config it is not worth doing. Just thought I’d mention it anyway.

Also I’d like the rewards of the festival activities to be more equally spread. If you want ToT bags there’s really only the labyrinth. JP and AoM aren’t even close when comparing bags per time – an that’s not even considering the actual drops of the mobs in the lab. I think the rewards for these two could be raised. The don’t need to be above lab, but currently they are way too far behind.

Talking about the clock tower, could you please stop putting me into instances where I cannot participate? I often get thrown into instances with a bit over 2 minutes left and after the current run there is no next start. So I have to wait for the instance to close standing around doing nothing. Bell choir is another candidate for this improvement. And I think bell choir even threw me out back to DR instead into a fresh instance. At least the clock tower didn’t do that to me this year…

>> Add the Mad Memories complete edition to Sonder the Seller (past event/ LS purchases) already, so those people who had theirs transmuted will get a chance to unlock the skin after the Wardrobe updated “erased” it.

>> Bring back Lunatic Inquisition as an activity

>> Reduce the event radius of Mad King Says in LA to just include the plaza only

Killerassel.2197:

Bag preview function should be extended to personalized ToT bags. Yes, it’s a new feature which only arrived during halloween. I still wonder, though, why only non-personalized ToT bags got a preview.

Both types of ToT bags: right click -> open all. This also applies to other bags, of course, especially to the Winter’s Day gifts. But while you’re at it, why not slap it on any type of bag? Mass salvage already stops upon inventory overflow, so that shouldn’t be a problem.

Limited finishers: right click -> use all.

Also, using limited finishers should not open the hero panel. And I HATE that I have to switch back to my preferred finisher afterwards. Stop messing with that!

These, definitely, please!

Plus, Hellfire Skeleton as an Outfit, and make the Risen Disguise ( from https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Help_the_Order_of_Whispers_instigate_a_fight_between_krait_and_Risen ) an Outfit. Please and thank you

My Wishlist for Halloween 2017

Bring back the Mad Memoires Event Chain, so that people can earn that Skin rightfully like all others, who were able to complete it 2012, while many thousands of other players simply couldn’t because of GW2 wering after its release still very fractile for hacker attacks and by far not as safe as a game, like it is today, which costed thousands of thousands of hacked players their accounts at the time when Halloween 2012 was active, so that they had no chance to do the event chain to earn Mad Memoires because of having not enough tiem to complete evenrythign, berfore they received back their accounts, before halloween was already over … and that was at a game state, where everyone was still not max level and had to level up to be able to get everythign done in time, because certain aspects of that event chain required of you to be already like lvl 50+ to be able to survive the enemies and don’t get instant killed by their attacks, if you hadn’t friends to protect you from them and get rushed through the places by their help… like this happened to me, and many other other people which Anet denies until today to get another chance, that we thankfully never had due to some antisocial peeps

Make Lunatic Inquisition a constant part of Halloween and never remove it again!!
This little game is in my opinion by far one of the most entertaining ones of the whole event, compared to the rest, and if it won’t return, then change it into an adventure or a minigame you can play from L.A maybe together with some minigame related achievements to it, like survive in a match so and so much minutes, or kill as human in a match so and so much lunatic spirits that haunt you ..theres surely alot of nice and simple made achievements for this possible

Make a Return of The Underworld that includes a underworld themed special Dungeon and a themed exlusive Underworld Raid Map as a kind of halloween special explorable PvE Map, together with an new Underworld themed WvW Map and Underworld themed PvP Map

Nothing more to wish.
That would be the kind of impressive things with that Anet would make for me the next halloween super interesting and awesome, by providing some new content. instead of bringing back again just warmed up old stuff the xth time just with some added new rewards, which mostly come from grinding your butt off for ToT bags for a 1 in a trillion chance to get a new mini or doign the same with BL chests for some new glider skin there …

Thats not what I would ever call an interesting and good holiday event, when you get to see somethign thats the repeat of the repeat from a repeat of last year, just with added new cosmetic grind par exellence that it is not funny anymore …

Every now and then must deliver such holiday events also meaty new content that didnt exist before. Next year hopefully is again such a year, because 3 years of pure repetition is ENOUGH Anet …

Orpheal.8263:

My Wishlist for Halloween 2017

Bring back the Mad Memoires Event Chain, so that people can earn that Skin rightfully like all others, who were able to complete it 2012, while many thousands of other players simply couldn’t …

no.

that skin should remain unique to players who completed the event at that year’s Halloween festival. It’s a proof that you were there at that time.

having completed my second halloween this year, I have to say that I’m a tad disappointed with how the event played out. What really stood out to me, was the lack of decent middle tier rewards. There were no new skins or outfits to unlock and the minis that were readily available are just repeats of the year prior save for a new insanely expensive raven.

Last year, in my giddy excitement I worked very hard to earn everything the vendor had to offer only for them to come back this year and see very little had changed. I’ve seen people say they would rather not see development labor “wasted” on an event that only lasts a few weeks when they could be working on other things, but I wonder what those devs that go peeled off of Legendary weapons and then started doing the current events could do with it. A simple current event chain would have gone a long way to making the event more compelling.

I very much enjoyed the pumpkin hacker achievement last year, and liked that I was able to earn a title that seemed like it would go the way of other halloween titles and only apply to a particular year. This is a cool and very simple way to letting you show your “back in my day” moment. I fully expected this year to have another title and was surprisingly bothered by the fact they just recycled the achievement and title. I would even be fine with completing the same thing, but earning a title twice seems a bit weird.

My wishlist for next years event would be some sort of end goal, perhaps accomplished in a similar fashion to how other map/event achievements are handled. So when you earn your overall achievement you unlock that years title, with one achievement that perhaps takes a bit more effort or at least concentrated effort that would unlock a cool seasonal skin item (in a similar vein to the bloodstone visage)

One idea that comes to mind could be a journey across all of tyria to investigate hauntings of some sort. Events could crop up all across the map with a “fight off the waves of enemies” activity followed by a boss fight. The enemies could drop ToT bags like all the other events with some unique drops unique to this particular activity and completing each encounter over the course of Halloween could unlock a themed cosmetic item like the ghost hunter’s satchel or something similar. This is an event where the locations could change from year to year without requiring any major overhauls (at least with my very limited knowledge of game development) with a new cosmetic item added each year.

I would also like to see all the older content return of course but don’t mind if the end reward is changed as I feel that having yearly rewards gives player a badge of pride to show off when they were in the game.

I don’t want Anet to not develop other aspects of the game so they can devote serious resources to festivals, but it doesn’t seem that it would be that costly to have a few people work on these things in advance when they had downtime in other projects and it feels like there would really only need to be one person to manage the project. Here’s hoping for a more engaging festival next year.

A Halloween worth logging in for.

- > New content.

Done.

vicious.5683:

Orpheal.8263:

My Wishlist for Halloween 2017

Bring back the Mad Memoires Event Chain, so that people can earn that Skin rightfully like all others, who were able to complete it 2012, while many thousands of other players simply couldn’t …

no.

that skin should remain unique to players who completed the event at that year’s Halloween festival. It’s a proof that you were there at that time.

I so don’t peep care on this bullcrap excuse, sorry I can’t read this egoistical mindset anymore…

If you need to be such a freaking special snoflake over a kittening single skin that is just a freaking COSMETICAL thing, that barely any butt in this game uses anymore by now, then I can just pity you.

This game and all of its content, that it provides, is for EVERYBODY who bought the game, and not only for those egoistical people which were able to play it on the right day at the right time.

All skins of this game should be sooner or later somehow accessible for everybody.
You didn’t bought with this game any permanent rights on exclusivity for digital content that you don’t own – owner is still Anet and anet decides when and how that skin may eventually return, just because you were in the game on a specific date, while others weren’t, or in many cases at this time date simply couldn’t out of various reasons that were more or less not influenceable for these persons.

Get this finally into your egoistical pigheads! Seriously … this egomany here in this forum knows in certain topics absolutely no borders >.>
(and its sadly every year the same)