Guild Wars 2

I sadly agree with you on the amount of items needed to make anything these days. Especially since you can only hold so much in the inventory because after 250, it won’t deposit anymore. To clear inventory you’ll have to actually go to you bank take out the 250 u deposited, turn them all in for “condensed versions” and repeat. It reminds me of holographic wings from Dragon Bash and the requirement of 100,000 zhaitaffy… Really? I just bought mine off TP. As long as they create ridiculous numbers like these, the rewards are not going to be very compelling. Halloween! we have 3-4 people running around with Halloween themed weapons. Why? Make it festive! Just like last year with toy weapons. It really brought out the spirit of holidays then.

The last fight against the bloody prince isn’t even that hard. It can even be soloed. I remember last year, where you had to fight the Mad King, it was actually a hard fight, so it was a little anti climatic to fight the bloody prince. I hope that wasn’t all we are going too see about him, because then it is obvious why he got locked in the chest.

… but I did go in alone, was it supposed to be for a 5 man fight?

Edit: Sorry, I thought you meant the opening instance. Since I didn’t grind, I don’t have the mini to see the rest.

You know, it would be nice to just get an ArenaNet “I’ve read this”.
I wasn’t asking for more.

Korossive.7085:

… but I did go in alone, was it supposed to be for a 5 man fight?

Edit: Sorry, I thought you meant the opening instance. Since I didn’t grind, I don’t have the mini to see the rest.

I got the mini a few days ago but couldn’t be bothered to continue.

Finally went and continued that business today and the fight to put him down was nothing but autoattack. I literally did nothing else, my HP never fell bellow 75%.

Unless there’s another fight after the one to put him down that I’m missing, then how can anyone have the audacity to say this is a hard fight?

Although there might be something I’m missing, I haven’t payed too much attention as I got horribly bored by the first day.

Korossive.7085:

You know, it would be nice to just get an ArenaNet “I’ve read this”.
I wasn’t asking for more.

From what I’ve seen, they usually do not respond to complaint threads. Rarely they respond to them, but mostly they delete them.

I’ve done hardly any of the Halloween content, and quite frankly don’t care anymore. I guess I care just enough to make this post that will possibly be deleted (like several of my other disappearing posts lately). I think anet would be happy if the complainers just went silent. I don’t really think they care, honestly.

Anet did learn from the Dragon Bash/zhaitaffy experience: They learned that having the dragon wings as a possible drop allowed people to avoid the zhaitaffy → jorbreakers → wings grind.

So for Halloween: no good stuff drops. All must be grinded for!

Agree, very bored of all the content since the Queens Gauntlet.
And in a week we get krait, again. Had enough krait during teqatl2.0.
Time to put the game aside for a few month.
You know its time to take a break when content some devs have spent a while developing – and you find nothing positive in it.

Cefiro.9372:

Agree, very bored of all the content since the Queens Gauntlet.
And in a week we get krait, again. Had enough krait during teqatl2.0.
Time to put the game aside for a few month.
You know its time to take a break when content some devs have spent a while developing – and you find nothing positive in it.

You didn’t have enough of them when they received the buff a long time ago? I still hate them with a passion due to that patch.
But yeah, ever since Queens Gauntlet patch (possibly Skyrates patch) I’ve also started to dislike/become bored with the new ‘content’.

Korossive.7085:

Wait. I can’t. It’s town clothes.

+100… Same feelign here.

ANet, you already did the job of modelling the armor. Just let us fight using it! Give it to us as armor’s skins! Most of us never ever use the town clothes!

Presac.3860:

The last fight against the bloody prince isn’t even that hard. It can even be soloed. I remember last year, where you had to fight the Mad King

Let’s see what they will bring us with the last half of Halloween’s LS. :-s

Korossive.7085:

Sorry, I thought you meant the opening instance. Since I didn’t grind, I don’t have the mini to see the rest.

The closing instance is more or less the same thing, same length, same overall “difficulty”. Only that this time we do hit the Prince.

Korossive.7085:

I never use the mini’s that get auto-cleared into the bank and always need to manually be told to spawn.

Just an FYI, invisible bags and lockboxes will “hide” your minis from the “deposit all collectibles” function. I have one on every toon I use a mini on for that reason alone.

After Getting the candy mini and finishing the story instance I actually put this game down for about a week. Why? Because now things are a grindfest=( Last Halloween I had so much fun! I mean there was a cute little scavenger hunt that was split up into days and a compelling story from collecting the journals. Now…whats the story? Like some kid is throwing a tantrum cuz he got grounded and locked in his room…err…coffin. I have no interest in grinding a zillion candy corns to buy one 20 slot bag. I really really hope the Christmas event is better than this >.<

megakittytron.5971:

I really really hope the Christmas event is better than this >.<

I wouldn’t get my hopes up. I know I’m not now. And it seems they want to just add more and more grinding to the game, even though its against what they said in the manifesto.

Rainshine.5493:

Korossive.7085:

I never use the mini’s that get auto-cleared into the bank and always need to manually be told to spawn.

Just an FYI, invisible bags and lockboxes will “hide” your minis from the “deposit all collectibles” function. I have one on every toon I use a mini on for that reason alone.

Completely off topic, but when are we going to get a minis slot added to hero panel?
Once that happens, I imagine many people (myself included) would be much more interested in using minis.

I too fear for Christmas, or any new holidays seeing as this trend of WoW’ing gw2 to a numbing grind.

I think most of their efforts go to the China release, and thus they have nothing meaningful to add here. Rehashes and grinds.

I’m now understanding there is no chance in the world to get any response from the company to this – as this is not a complimentary thread. Its sad that the choice to reply to threads first comes from a PR decision, and never to relate to us players.

… This halloween is a shame.

After going through the story and getting the Candy Corn Node for my home instance, I thought I’d make the Crossing for my necromancer. And then I see the materials I need to make the recipe to let me make the Gift of Souls…. I’ve given up now. Even if I could farm up all the candy corn I need, there’s just no way to get the Nougat Centers fast enough without buying them off the Trading Post, and I don’t have enough gold for that, and don’t want to have to do that. I’ve given up on it now.

The “prestige” that people get from having these weapons that require so many materials is for the people with deep pockets or all the time in the world. Even the latter might have trouble making one of these weapons.

Up until recently I had the excess time to maybe work for one of these weapons of “prestige,” but now I do not. Admittedly, I have a legendary that I worked for, but can’t see putting the amount of effort/cost into a Halloween weapon. Most games have an abundance of holiday gear to make it more festive and not making it an exclusive type content. I could only imagine what it would be like for the person that still likes to game but doesn’t have the funds to buy gems due to having children/wives/responsibilities that won’t allow it.

No love for the average player when it comes to these weapons of “prestige.”

Hey at least I can log in and still see the complaining about the derailing of the champ train in queensdale every day.

Brindled.2179:

The “prestige” that people get from having these weapons that require so many materials is for the people with deep pockets or all the time in the world. Even the latter might have trouble making one of these weapons.

Up until recently I had the excess time to maybe work for one of these weapons of “prestige,” but now I do not. Admittedly, I have a legendary that I worked for, but can’t see putting the amount of effort/cost into a Halloween weapon. Most games have an abundance of holiday gear to make it more festive and not making it an exclusive type content. I could only imagine what it would be like for the person that still likes to game but doesn’t have the funds to buy gems due to having children/wives/responsibilities that won’t allow it.

No love for the average player when it comes to these weapons of “prestige.”

Hey at least I can log in and still see the complaining about the derailing of the champ train in queensdale every day.

Agreed, I’ve participated in the event fully, but nowhere near enough to get these items. Holiday items should represent participation in that year’s event, not in how much grind or how much money one is willing to spend.

I wasn’t here for last years Halloween and I was hoping to get The Crossing for my elementalist. But sadly the materials needed are just too much of a grind for a skin. Would have been nice if after completing the bloody prince story that you got to pick a weapon skin, with no stats for it, and you could only do it once per account (if they wanted to limit the amount of items in the world).

I’ve played other MMO’s and the holiday events in those were fun and everyone got every item from the event with ease if they wanted.

Doing champ runs now in hopes of getting enough money to buy one before they price jumps.