Guild Wars 2

Because there is no other good reason to return to Draconis Mons after doing all the achievements.
The first 3 areas from LS3 had good reasons to return to on a daily basis. What was it? Simple, they gave us the first non-raid trinckets for which you can select any stats possible.
Bloodstone Fen gave us a back item, amulet and ring. Ember Bay gave the 1st trincket (and a 2nd ring if you did the scavanger hunt). Bitterfrost Frontier gave us the 2nd trincket, 2nd/(3rd) ring and even an aquabreather.
So after that we didn’t need any more new trinckets as a whole set can be acquired with just these 3 areas, unless someone needed more than 1 set and thus farming the nodes in more areas made it faster, but even then you could farm same area with multiple characters.
So then came Lake Doric and it’s Jade Shard’s, which many players found no reason to farm as much as the previous, except for the new mini’s perhaps, but a lot of people never bothered with those either. The only thing it really kept people coming back for is the leather farm, which now became an AFK festival.
As a result ANET knew that the 5th area will suffer from the same lack of interest as Lake Doric, so they invented a time gated achievement chain to keep people occupied for at least half a month.

So yes thats the secret of the Druid Runestone frustration, it’s all to keep players returning to Draconis Mons for as much as they did to the first 3 areas when they came out.

How about..
Draconis Mons has some of the easiest token farms, to turn into magic. You can buy amulets and accessories there as well. so if you need Unbound Magic, Amulets, or Accessories, or Warped Bundles, this map is actually the easiest/best to get them now

I thought the easiest was bitterfrost still?

Lalainnia.3598:

I thought the easiest was bitterfrost still?

mwua.. The’re both abundant in the resource, but in D.Mons you won’t get spammed with 500 stacks of chill everytime you take a step in any direction, so D.Mons might be faster/easier to get the same result

All nodes are timegated. The more maps available to farm, the better. There’s plenty of reason to come to the recent two maps if you need ascended gear. Bloodstone Fen is also the slowest of the five maps by a fairly large margin.

I honestly have no reason to believe that this map will be more or less dead than any of the others. There’s fun stuff to do, resources to gather, etc. I think none of the LS3 maps will ever be dead as long as rewards can still be gotten. They may become less active over time, but there will always be players with an alt, or players who need an ascended trinket, etc

Bittefrost remains the fastest but the new maps is also really fun to traverse. I asked for more replayability but i didnt expect a baackpiece locked behind 16 days worth of dailies. Ill keep my mouth shut next time.

Did the Devs have a crystal ball to see the upcoming AFK leather farm? Or is it being said they created the map in a week or two?

I think this map may appeal longer than other maps, and not because of the back item, and its method of acquisition.

zealex.9410:

Bittefrost remains the fastest but the new maps is also really fun to traverse. I asked for more replayability but i didnt expect a baackpiece locked behind 16 days worth of dailies. Ill keep my mouth shut next time.

Although one can argue whether or not the time-gating of a component is right or wrong, I think we can all agree that a collection is WAY more fun that gathering 500 winterberries. At least now I feel like I earned the runestone, rather than just farming the same node on a hillside a few days in a row until I could buy it.
Now that I’ve tasted the sweet nectar of the collection I feel like the other backpacks just have way too little value

Amaimon.7823:

zealex.9410:

Bittefrost remains the fastest but the new maps is also really fun to traverse. I asked for more replayability but i didnt expect a baackpiece locked behind 16 days worth of dailies. Ill keep my mouth shut next time.

Although one can argue whether or not the time-gating of a component is right or wrong, I think we can all agree that a collection is WAY more fun that gathering 500 winterberries. At least now I feel like I earned the runestone, rather than just farming the same node on a hillside a few days in a row until I could buy it.
Now that I’ve tasted the sweet nectar of the collection I feel like the other backpacks just have way too little value

i supose the extra thing with the trail this backpiece has makes it abit better also reming me of mawdrey which i really enjoyed.

Which is funny because they just disabled it due to a bug. (33 minutes ago at the time I’m posting this)

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/news/The-Wayfarer-s-Henge-Backpack-Disabled-May-10-2017

Charrbeque.8729:

Which is funny because they just disabled it due to a bug. (33 minutes ago at the time I’m posting this)

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/news/The-Wayfarer-s-Henge-Backpack-Disabled-May-10-2017

hm???
what was wrong with it?
what issue? I did it today, everything worked as intended…
I was just about to get the last runestone tomorrow…
why anet? what was wrong?

Amaimon.7823:

Charrbeque.8729:

Which is funny because they just disabled it due to a bug. (33 minutes ago at the time I’m posting this)

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/news/The-Wayfarer-s-Henge-Backpack-Disabled-May-10-2017

hm???
what was wrong with it?
what issue? I did it today, everything worked as intended…
I was just about to get the last runestone tomorrow…
why anet? what was wrong?

Per some other posts on the forums linking to some Reddit stuff, something about planting seeds in fertile soil (in phase 4 of the backpack) was triggering server crashes that included rollbacks for everyone in the zone. So they really HAD to disable it, fast.

I have one last runestone to get tonight to finish phase 3. I’m hoping the fix will be in relatively soon so I can work on phase 4. If nothing else, I want to open the collection so I know which bosses to kill and how many more runestones I’ll need, regardless of whether I can do seed plantings to finish or not

Donari.5237:

Amaimon.7823:

Charrbeque.8729:

Which is funny because they just disabled it due to a bug. (33 minutes ago at the time I’m posting this)

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/news/The-Wayfarer-s-Henge-Backpack-Disabled-May-10-2017

hm???
what was wrong with it?
what issue? I did it today, everything worked as intended…
I was just about to get the last runestone tomorrow…
why anet? what was wrong?

Per some other posts on the forums linking to some Reddit stuff, something about planting seeds in fertile soil (in phase 4 of the backpack) was triggering server crashes that included rollbacks for everyone in the zone. So they really HAD to disable it, fast.

I have one last runestone to get tonight to finish phase 3. I’m hoping the fix will be in relatively soon so I can work on phase 4. If nothing else, I want to open the collection so I know which bosses to kill and how many more runestones I’ll need, regardless of whether I can do seed plantings to finish or not

Seven runestones.

Desecrator, Ignis, Aestus,

Random drop from ice elementals, fire elementals, earth elementals, air elementals.

Edit: Just saw someone updated the wiki.

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/A_Henge_Away_from_Home

Thanks, I did finish phase 3 and thought I would get a thing or two for phase 4. I test-slew a small number of elementals and did not get the drop. I understand RNG — my question is whether the collection is completely disabled right now, or just the seed planting part.

If completely, will I still be able to get seeds? I currently only have 3 and would like to gather up the other 12 while waiting for the collection to be reinstated.

If you are complaining with this… I could Imagine your mega post with “An apple a day” with hungry hal…

I meant… if you are worried about achievements or the backpack deal with it… I think the map is not going away… else… you can skip it…

Donari.5237:

Thanks, I did finish phase 3 and thought I would get a thing or two for phase 4. I test-slew a small number of elementals and did not get the drop. I understand RNG — my question is whether the collection is completely disabled right now, or just the seed planting part.

If completely, will I still be able to get seeds? I currently only have 3 and would like to gather up the other 12 while waiting for the collection to be reinstated.

About an hour ago, I was able to get seeds from plants, get the drops from elementals, and plant seeds in the two fertile soils that aren’t disabled (the one in Mount Maelstrom and the one in Dry Top). The items from the elementals aren’t a guaranteed drop; 3 out of 4 took at least 10 kills, and then the last one I got on the first kill. So, just make sure you’re killing the right mobs (embers, sparks, air elementals, earth elementals, etc.), and be prepared for RNG.

Daniel.9240:

If you are complaining with this… I could Imagine your mega post with “An apple a day” with hungry hal…

I meant… if you are worried about achievements or the backpack deal with it… I think the map is not going away… else… you can skip it…

nah the achievement was bugged on release i did in 10 mins xD

but to what extend is it disabled, can I still do everything else except the planting of the seeds?

Donari.5237:

Thanks, I did finish phase 3 and thought I would get a thing or two for phase 4. I test-slew a small number of elementals and did not get the drop. I understand RNG — my question is whether the collection is completely disabled right now, or just the seed planting part.

If completely, will I still be able to get seeds? I currently only have 3 and would like to gather up the other 12 while waiting for the collection to be reinstated.

Actually that achievement can be completed in 1 day using different instances, 4 are enough to reach 50. Also you obviously didn’t read what I said, I said Ember Bey had a good reason to return to i.e. the new trinckets.

Rikimaru.7890:

Donari.5237:

Thanks, I did finish phase 3 and thought I would get a thing or two for phase 4. I test-slew a small number of elementals and did not get the drop. I understand RNG — my question is whether the collection is completely disabled right now, or just the seed planting part.

If completely, will I still be able to get seeds? I currently only have 3 and would like to gather up the other 12 while waiting for the collection to be reinstated.

Actually that achievement can be completed in 1 day using different instances, 4 are enough to reach 50. Also you obviously didn’t read what I said, I said Ember Bey had a good reason to return to i.e. the new trinckets.

I’m …. not sure you meant to quote me. I’m off on sort of a tangent about the disabling of the collection due to related server crashes and what daily things can still be done to meet the time gates you deplore while waiting for the bugs to be fixed. I was responding to other commenters in the thread about that. I haven’t said a thing about Hungry Hal or overall returnable nature of the maps or in any way disagreed with your points.