Guild Wars 2

I don’t believe that this is intended. Normally, you get the Magus Falls map currencies when doing events tied to the meta event. However, in VB, this is not the case. The only Airship Parts I’m getting are from opening Airship Cargo and replaying Champion Hero Points, along with Nuhoch Hunting Stashes.

Doing pylon events in Auric Basin and lane events in Tangled Depths return Lumps of Aurillium and Leyline Crystals respectively, so why is Verdant Brink excluded from this formula?

I’m pretty sure you don’t get Airship parts from events?

You get them from cracking open the cargo’s and Nuhoch hunting stashes as you said.

Colly.4073:

I’m pretty sure you don’t get Airship parts from events?

You get them from cracking open the cargo’s and Nuhoch hunting stashes as you said.

But why not? You get map currency from AB and TD events. Why is it that VB is the odd-one-out? It makes no sense.

Very mind numbingly boring to farm airship parts from crates, makes me scream with rage.

Bump. Any others have any insight on this?

Agreed that VB seems like the odd one out. To make matters worse, going by averages, you end up with less Airship Parts per event completed when compared to AB or TD. You get 1 – 3 Crowbars per meta-event progression, but considering that you typically only get 3 Airship Parts per Cargo, that works out to just 9 Airship Parts for maybe 10 – 15 mins of work.

What’s more, because the Cargos don’t spawn until the meta-event progresses, you’re often forced to sidetrack away from doing the events in order to do Cargo hunts, meaning that you’re hurting the map by not participating, AND you also potentially lose participation credit in whatever event you’re doing. (The requirements for some of them are REALLY finicky. I’ve had one event where I was escorting a Pact Soldier, then got knocked off a cliff. By the time I glided back up, I’d already lost participation credit and the event finished. I got NOTHING despite the fact that I’d done 95% of the work getting the Soldier to the camp. >.<)

Basically, the way that Airship Parts are obtained encourages players to adopt a selfish and greedy playstyle, either running around the map ignoring events while hunting for Cargos (a big contributer to the fact that a lot of rally points at night go undefended, because people are off looking for Cargos as nighttime is when the majority of Cargos spawn), or stubbornly sticking to your own event for fear of losing your participation even when other events are begging for help.

TarkaTarquol.4856:

Colly.4073:

I’m pretty sure you don’t get Airship parts from events?

You get them from cracking open the cargo’s and Nuhoch hunting stashes as you said.

But why not? You get map currency from AB and TD events. Why is it that VB is the odd-one-out? It makes no sense.

Well the other maps requires you to buy the “keys” while VB hands them to you like candy on Halloween.

Zaxares.5419:

Basically, the way that Airship Parts are obtained encourages players to adopt a selfish and greedy playstyle

It’s somewhat similar to Silverwastes where you can do an event map to earn shovels/crowbars or go in at night and do a chest/crate run. I just wish the airship crates were up all of the time.

Selfish players can find a way to hurt the meta event to their benefit in any of the Maguuma Wastes/HoT zones and it’s going to happen. I see a lot of players doing quick hit and run type attacks on many of the divided effort events and there’s nothing that can be done about it. It’s just human nature for some people to stay just within the game rules to optimize personal gains.