Guild Wars 2

TTS decided to get together and try to push for tier 4 to see what would spawn during the sandstorm. It took a lot of coordination around the map and completing almost every event on the map, but we got it (10:39 AM EST)!

At the 5:00 mark during Sandstorm, the Dust Monster spawned. Basic mechanic of the fight is to kill the adds it spawns to make it vulnerable, then burn it down. We managed to kill it…and got 10 geodes. Worth it? Well, I would say so from a team work stand point. Loot wise, not so much aside from discounts!

Had a lot of fun doing this!

It’s a shame the loot isn’t that good, because the coordination to get the event done gave me flashbacks to “Escape from LA” with tons of groups attempting to cover each of their zones. It was a lot of fun. However without a loot incentive, I don’t see something like this happening again unless we’re bored.

I think the incentive is the recipes that are only available in Tier 4?

displacedTitan.6897:

I think the incentive is the recipes that are only available in Tier 4?

I don’t believe there are any recipes exclusive to T4; they all unlock in T3. What T4 does is massively reduce the price of all the items available.

I definitely agree for more incentive for Tier 4. Maybe an achievement (if this is permanent content) or even more geodes would be nice. Right now as it stands, it is lackluster for the amount of effort put towards getting it.

New shiny content!

As dirty as it feels to suggest this… I think the tier 4 merchant needs to offer something like crafting material bags, tomes of knowledge or scrolls of knowledge (for geodes of course, so players would have to contribute) – something the bulk of players would want access to. This zone has so much potential and I really love every aspect of it, but I can see it being pretty empty after we move on a bit.

Give us a reason to strive for tier 4!

Chameleon Dude.1564:

As dirty as it feels to suggest this… I think the tier 4 merchant needs to offer something like crafting material bags, tomes of knowledge or scrolls of knowledge (for geodes of course, so players would have to contribute) – something the bulk of players would want access to. This zone has so much potential and I really love every aspect of it, but I can see it being pretty empty after we move on a bit.

Give us a reason to strive for tier 4!

agreed

Chameleon Dude.1564:

As dirty as it feels to suggest this… I think the tier 4 merchant needs to offer something like crafting material bags, tomes of knowledge or scrolls of knowledge (for geodes of course, so players would have to contribute) – something the bulk of players would want access to. This zone has so much potential and I really love every aspect of it, but I can see it being pretty empty after we move on a bit.

Give us a reason to strive for tier 4!

I agree except tomes and scrolls of knowledge. Crafting mats would be nice.

Agree. T4 needs a little something extra. Geodes>t6 crafting mats at a good rate would do the trick. Unique skins would also do the trick.

I can kinda see what Anet was doing in the fact that you can earn unique stat combos and recipes from the zone by doing the content in the zone but other then maybe some of the cooking recipes I don’t think anyone is really going to pay attention to these rewards.

And again you can just get them at T3.

Can make more gold per hour farming certain personal story missions than this open world content. Sad.

Chameleon Dude.1564:

As dirty as it feels to suggest this… I think the tier 4 merchant needs to offer something like crafting material bags, tomes of knowledge or scrolls of knowledge (for geodes of course, so players would have to contribute) – something the bulk of players would want access to. This zone has so much potential and I really love every aspect of it, but I can see it being pretty empty after we move on a bit.

Give us a reason to strive for tier 4!

nothing “dirty” about it. access to better items/loot only achievable through map coordination/effort. agree it should happen….and it will help keep some people playing the map after the next parts of the zone open up.