Guild Wars 2

What is that for?

How can the tarnished chest there be opened?
and seriously 2 g? for alittle small place with green instead of red npcs?

If you don’t like it, don’t pay ._.’

I guess this is actually a nice touch and if you want to push the tiers then you need it. Paying bandits to help protect you is in my opinion just a nice touch.

Again, don’t like it? don’t pay… ._.’ it’s that easy.

I didn’t pay, and only occasionally did I get just randomly downed. It even let me revive myself. At some point that npc that offers the protection runs back into the camp and becomes an attackable Champ. Kill her to get the key to open the chest up on the scaffolding.

If you pay you can access the trap controller on the far end of the area. Once you click on it the girl you pay will run at you and tell you to knock it off and become hostile. She can be killed (very hard champ) presumably for the key to the chest. I was unable to get anyone to help me kill her so I don’t know if she drops the key, but i’m 99% sure she does.

ZudetGambeous.9573:

If you pay you can access the trap controller on the far end of the area. Once you click on it the girl you pay will run at you and tell you to knock it off and become hostile. She can be killed (very hard champ) presumably for the key to the chest. I was unable to get anyone to help me kill her so I don’t know if she drops the key, but i’m 99% sure she does.

Well three of us killed her and all three of us got a key (I know two did anyways), so I think its a guaranteed drop, but either it or the chest is probably once per day thing. Might have to try tonight/this weekend and see if two of my toons can open it.

“and seriously 2 g? for alittle small place with green instead of red npcs?”

Yeah well, they are green because you payed. If you don’t pay, you get spammed with traps and die after a few steps usually.

And i can confirm: if you pay the gold, you can use the trap switch, which will make the Bandit Spokesperson champ come at you. If you kill her, you get the key for the tarnished chest. It doesn’t give any huge rewards – i got like 2 or 3 embroidered coin purses and some greens and mats). Strange thing is, i had that “bandit buff” or whatever on me which made the bandits green mobs, but other players could attack and kill me. When i died and wanted to wp i simply revived there on the spot instantly. It was really weird. After i left that area the buff came off though.

Wow, interesting feature!

It’s pretty easy to get to the trap switch. I went counterclockwise. Roll in, hit a trap, stand there and wait to heal. Then roll again towards the trap switch. Kill a bandit if necessary, but DON’T MOVE or DODGE. As a necro this was pretty easy because every time I rolled in to a trap I just transferred the condis to the nearest red bandit.

Three of us killed the champ. She wasn’t that hard between blinds and blocks. We got a tarnished key, which had a decent amount of loot. Nothing mindblowing, but it was fun.

Also, something weird happened as we were making our way to the trap switch. A player, believably a player, became red, and we killed the player… even with a finisher. I am not sure how the player became red? Perhaps they paid the 2g…. man that would suck to pay 2g and then get murdered by the “good” players not paying the bandits.

EthanLightheart.9168:

What is that for?

How can the tarnished chest there be opened?
and seriously 2 g? for alittle small place with green instead of red npcs?

No, it’s 2g for the ability to be killed by other players, without a chance of retaliating.

It should really have a warning that other players can kill you and that you can’t ress at the WP if you accept her offer…

Let me get this straight: There was a Pavilion Event where if I give them money, the event starts faster and LA gets rebuilt. Well, that was supposedly a reputable person to give money to and LA isn’t rebuilt and they made off with my gold! Now you think I am going to give money to a bandit? Yeah? No.

shinreigari.7318:

“Strange thing is, i had that “bandit buff” or whatever on me which made the bandits green mobs, but other players could attack and kill me. When i died and wanted to wp i simply revived there on the spot instantly. It was really weird. After i left that area the buff came off though.

Wait. WAIT WAIT WAIT. Anet has finally introduced dueling?! Thank heavens!

I don’t get it, you can be killed but you can’t damage other players?

I got scammed by that bandit, too. I had no idea it was a serious choice, it seemed like a normal dialogue option. I had no idea I was seriously about to hand 2g’s to that bandit!

Marcus Greythorne.6843:

I don’t get it, you can be killed but you can’t damage other players?

Yes.

Why do you pay 2 gold to an NPC? :p

To open the Tarnished chest, you have to kill the two veterans there and disable the traps. The guy who wanted to get your 2 gold will the appear next to the machine to disable the traps, if you kill him, you get the Tarnished key. (projectile reflection is very useful, since the boss is a thief with dual pistols, and Unloads a lot)

I tried disabling the traps without killing the veterans but it didn’t trigger the boss this way.

The reward form the chest is a rare weapon with a Bandit skin.

There’s also a badge up there if you want the achievement. While you can attempt it without paying, it’s no where near as safe.

The badge is easy to get without getting hit by any of the traps. At least it was for me, by sticking to the outskirts of the zone. Or it could have been dumb luck for all I know…

Also, the latest patch is supposed to have fixed the attackable by other players thing.

I find it quite dumb that you cannot even retaliate. They really should have at least put that yellow confirmation icon on payment option instead of a simple dialogue that looks like ‘Yes-go-ahead-and-finish-up-your-blabbering’ option. 2g isn’t a small amount for such dumb option.

Brow.9425:

shinreigari.7318:

“Strange thing is, i had that “bandit buff” or whatever on me which made the bandits green mobs, but other players could attack and kill me. When i died and wanted to wp i simply revived there on the spot instantly. It was really weird. After i left that area the buff came off though.

Wait. WAIT WAIT WAIT. Anet has finally introduced dueling?! Thank heavens!

Except if you have that buff on, you can’t attack back, just stand there and beg them not to kill you cuz you’re not a mob :P

But i agree this mechanic could actually be used to introduce duels, after a bit of polishing ofc….

shinreigari.7318:

Brow.9425:

shinreigari.7318:

“Strange thing is, i had that “bandit buff” or whatever on me which made the bandits green mobs, but other players could attack and kill me. When i died and wanted to wp i simply revived there on the spot instantly. It was really weird. After i left that area the buff came off though.

Wait. WAIT WAIT WAIT. Anet has finally introduced dueling?! Thank heavens!

Except if you have that buff on, you can’t attack back, just stand there and beg them not to kill you cuz you’re not a mob :P

But i agree this mechanic could actually be used to introduce duels, after a bit of polishing ofc….

it was patched out.