Guild Wars 2

I want to open pods.

But have to spend an hour completing the meta to do it.

Noxious Pods are suppose to be the reward system after completing the meta isn’kitten Like the chest room in AB and TD after the meta right? It’s meant to feel like a reward for you after accomplishing something, right?

Then why is it that they spawn around a ton of enemies?

Why is it that they spawn so far apart?

Why is it that there is not enough time to kill the enemies and run from pod to pod?

Why do I feel punished after completing the meta?

Why is the most rewarding thing to the meta, being able to access the merchant?

Why are Noxious Pods so kittening noxious???

Why can’t I just kittening farm pods on empty maps? My god, they’re already surrounded by enemies, spaced apart, and somewhat hidden. And on empty maps, that makes things that much harder. C’mon, it’s not like they’re rewarding to get after finishing the meta.

I agree. The concept of noxious pods is just obnoxious. Please change this. Double or triple the crystalline ore quantity, triple the amount of spawned pods along the meta (no random spawning!!!) and actually award at least 5 ore on every map progress, 20 for killing Mordremoth with 100% participation.

ChoChoBo.6503:

Why can’t I just kittening farm pods on empty maps? My god, they’re already surrounded by enemies, spaced apart, and somewhat hidden. And on empty maps, that makes things that much harder. C’mon, it’s not like they’re rewarding to get after finishing the meta.

You sorta can and it might be the best way to farm these. You do need multiple characters to do it well though.

ChoChoBo.6503:

Why can’t I just kittening farm pods on empty maps? My god, they’re already surrounded by enemies, spaced apart, and somewhat hidden. And on empty maps, that makes things that much harder. C’mon, it’s not like they’re rewarding to get after finishing the meta.

You can farm them on empty maps. The areas where there are high concentrations of them are locked off, but there will be several on each lane for you to find on a map that isn’t even doing the meta.

Crystalline ore from Noxious pods are the easiest currency to obtain from maguuma maps.
Crystalline Ores>Auric dusts>airship oil>ley line sparks. If you want to gather 250 each for legendary weapon.

ChoChoBo.6503:

Noxious Pods are suppose to be the reward system after completing the meta isn’kitten

No. The reward for meta is to see the pods, not to open them.

Pretty pods! How do I open? Wait, what? I had to farm VB, AB and TD to buy machetes! Ok, I have 5 WHOLE machetes now what? Wait, is that a champ spider? NO! Don’t lead him to me…there’s only 30 secs on the map timer. Hey, come back here, I..I…I have machetes.

HazyDaisy.4107:

Pretty pods! How do I open? Wait, what? I had to farm VB, AB and TD to buy machetes! Ok, I have 5 WHOLE machetes now what? Wait, is that a champ spider? NO! Don’t lead him to me…there’s only 30 secs on the map timer. Hey, come back here, I..I…I have machetes.

Eh? The spider area is the second easiest. The easiest being the tigers and beetles.

#allsarcasticcommentsmust containfifteencharacters

Yeah I am against the design of this. Not only is it hard but I just spent the last up to 2 hours doing the meta. I want to get my rewards and get out. Not spend 15 mins attempting to get loot that I already earned. While I have not problem surviving as I main core guard and a reaper, this would be a serious issue for some classes.
Hopefully they see this poor design and patch it.

Mortifer.2946:

I agree. The concept of noxious pods is just obnoxious. Please change this. Double or triple the crystalline ore quantity, triple the amount of spawned pods along the meta (no random spawning!!!) and actually award at least 5 ore on every map progress, 20 for killing Mordremoth with 100% participation.

The whole map closing timer business is unnecessarily strict, too.

Also, they need to remove crystalline ore from the costs of guild weapons/armor/minipets, because it doesn’t make any sense. They already cost guild commendations and gold (and hefty amounts of both, especially for the minipets), there’s no need for another currency in there.

The ones that are comparing Airship Oil/ Ley sparks / Auric dust with Crystalline Ore are totally off. Crystalline ore is also a currency, and while it is not that hard to obtain first 250 for a legendary, it is very hard to obtain thousands of them for the vedor items. While I am overflowing with more than 2500 airship parts, and hundreds of tokes from AB and TD, I am always below 200 with crystalline ore. And getting 15 of them after playing DS for more than one hour is just a complete nonsense.

Mortifer.2946:

And getting 15 of them after playing DS for more than one hour is just a complete nonsense.

15? Then you are not opening all pods. I normally get about 50.

Good for you I do what I can and I get between 15-20

Good for you I do what I can and I get between 15-20

Mortifer.2946:

Good for you I do what I can and I get between 15-20

Next time try this:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/hot/Deadly-Cuddles-DS-Efficient-Noxious-POD-MAP/first#post5693960

Every Pod gives at least 1 Crystalline Ore.

Also, Harpy Feathers are something that helps a lot

HazyDaisy.4107:

Pretty pods! How do I open? Wait, what? I had to farm VB, AB and TD to buy machetes! Ok, I have 5 WHOLE machetes now what? Wait, is that a champ spider? NO! Don’t lead him to me…there’s only 30 secs on the map timer. Hey, come back here, I..I…I have machetes.

You pretty much passively gain an excess amount of machetes after awhile lol. I have over 100 from about two weeks worth of metas. Also, 30 seconds left? I hope you were able to open at least 10 pods in this rest of the 14 minutes lol

You get a bit more of a reward from DS than pods so let’s not act like DS is entirely pointless.

That ackward moment when a joke goes over someones head, not once, but twice.

HazyDaisy.4107:

That ackward moment when a joke goes over someones head, not once, but twice.

That awkward moment when the person who laid out a sarcastic joke realizes there was nothing in his post that indicated he was being sarcastic.

I never said the quoted post was sarcasm, I said it was simply a joke. In fact I only mentioned sarcastic in my subsequent post to the first person that quoted me thinking I was complaining specifically about the champ spider. The subsequent post had nothing to do with the first, it only served to combine every sarcastic response I could think of at the time that was sadly less than 15 characters.

Kudos to you for getting that my first post was in fact complaining primarily about machete acquisition. The rest of that post however was mostly joking, as the scenario doesn’t always apply to me personally, but does apply to someone in a DS map somewher.

As you mentioned, yes, you do passively amass machetes, however, 100 in 2 weeks of metas when you can go through 40 in a GOOD single pod run? Do you hear yourself? My average is about 10 per escort run. That’s way too low for anyone expecting this big pod payout at the end unless they supplement with paid machetes.

Referring to pods as an end “reward” is the real joke. On a timer, surrounded by enemies, oftentimes only 1 or 2 of you in that particular area, with a limited supply of sources to open said pods if you haven’t a)Run the DS meta many times prior or b) run VB, AB and TD metas many times and gained currencies to purchase enough machetes for a semi good pod run.

Don’t get me wrong, I like the DS meta, when I need it. But the grind in order to grind some more after the meta is over is not fun at all!

Suggestions to decrease dead maps and frustrations:
1)Pre finale Pod spawns on escort routes and dead maps should be increased.
2)Crystalline ore output from pods should be atleast guaranteed 2 minimum per pod.
3)Passive machete drops from events needs to be increased OR purchasable machete bundle quantity (currently 5) needs to be upped to 10 if they’re going to require 3 different types of of 25 stack currecies for purchase.
4)Champs and overwhelming mobs should not be in collection areas or explorable areas when there is a timer is involved and people often find themselves alone. Not saying no enemies, but come on!
5)That timer needs to be increased atleast 5 more minutes if none of the above suggestions can be made.

We need more machetes for sure.
You get around 10 for each successful meta completion.
The current amount is too low,and then, after you spent 2 hours in DS for the events,you’ll go spend another 2 hours in each of the other 3 maps in order to gain
currency,so you can buy more machetes and open the loot bags in DS.
That’s a full time job,not gaming.

+1.
This is absolutely too difficult to get

HazyDaisy.4107:

I never said the quoted post was sarcasm, I said it was simply a joke. In fact I only mentioned sarcastic in my subsequent post to the first person that quoted me thinking I was complaining specifically about the champ spider. The subsequent post had nothing to do with the first, it only served to combine every sarcastic response I could think of at the time that was sadly less than 15 characters.

Kudos to you for getting that my first post was in fact complaining primarily about machete acquisition. The rest of that post however was mostly joking, as the scenario doesn’t always apply to me personally, but does apply to someone in a DS map somewher.

As you mentioned, yes, you do passively amass machetes, however, 100 in 2 weeks of metas when you can go through 40 in a GOOD single pod run? Do you hear yourself? My average is about 10 per escort run. That’s way too low for anyone expecting this big pod payout at the end unless they supplement with paid machetes.

Referring to pods as an end “reward” is the real joke. On a timer, surrounded by enemies, oftentimes only 1 or 2 of you in that particular area, with a limited supply of sources to open said pods if you haven’t a)Run the DS meta many times prior or b) run VB, AB and TD metas many times and gained currencies to purchase enough machetes for a semi good pod run.

Don’t get me wrong, I like the DS meta, when I need it. But the grind in order to grind some more after the meta is over is not fun at all!

Suggestions to decrease dead maps and frustrations:
1)Pre finale Pod spawns on escort routes and dead maps should be increased.
2)Crystalline ore output from pods should be atleast guaranteed 2 minimum per pod.
3)Passive machete drops from events needs to be increased OR purchasable machete bundle quantity (currently 5) needs to be upped to 10 if they’re going to require 3 different types of of 25 stack currecies for purchase.
4)Champs and overwhelming mobs should not be in collection areas or explorable areas when there is a timer is involved and people often find themselves alone. Not saying no enemies, but come on!
5)That timer needs to be increased atleast 5 more minutes if none of the above suggestions can be made.

I agree with pretty much everything you’re saying, but perhaps Anet did not want you to get 40+ noxious pods per meta event. Perhaps they intentionally made it like this. Otherwise perhaps they will change it. All speculation. Also, I myself have been slain while going for that noxious pod/Orichalcum vain right next to the champ drake lmao. Good times.