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Okay really?
Are people that bad at understanding the point of video games now that they can’t comprehend something being for gasp fun?!
Why do you need to complain about everything? Have you ever tried having fun in a game without it having an achievement? Do you even HAVE fun when the games have achievements?
Transmutation stones are not hard to come by.
I’ve not bought any in the Black Lion Trading company and I’ve used about 20 on my Necromancer, 20 on my Mesmer, 12 on my Engineer, 5 on my Warrior and 5 on my Thief.
I still have about 30 of them spare.
Would be fun. I don’t see any reason they couldn’t revise the design so you don’t have to wait for a second spin :d.
This achievement is bugged. I only have credit for 3/5 of the achievements. Even though I have completed all of them except “Attend the Party”.
Thread about it here – https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/halloween/Emissary-of-the-Mad-King-3-5
You can get into it and participate in the events.
The only thing which would be difficult is collecting the Mad Memories pages, but i’m sure that with a group you can at least find the first 6 and get the back item (it’s a book that appears on your back)
“Before you rant on…. I do not belong to a guild, I did not “group” with other players as they always seem to think that it’s not necessary as this is a no kill steal game. So I was alone and it was up to me to “follow” a crowd and hope for the best. This is not always fun, and only works some of the time. (one caveat: I LOVE that players take the time (well most players anyway) to revive fallen players, or at least give it a good effort. Kudos on that!!)
I really thought that there would be events that every level could participate in (NO not PVP or WvW — I don’t do those and many don’t either — I’m a PvE kinda guy) So besides running around in Lions Arch wasting time playing boxing match, or food fights, there was nothing obtainable for new or lower level players. So a lot of people will be left high and dry after the dust from this event clears, while all the higher level players will be running around with the trophies and rubbing it in our low level faces.”
Well… for the first point, the game is called “Guild Wars”. Guilds are kind of a big feature in this game (and most other MMOs) as it is a group based game.
For the second point, there is a lot of things for low levels to do. There’s the Mad King’s Realm which contains the jumping puzzle (not level based), Lunatic Inquisition (not level based, and is essentially hide and seek), Reaper Rumble (not level based, Moba style minigame) as well as the actual Mad King’s Labyrinth, which scales you up to level 80.
Please… Never play “I Wanna Be The Guy” or “Super Meat Boy”.
This puzzle took my an hour and one video. It really isn’t that difficult after you learn the beginning jumps and learn how to manage your time effectively.
If you want some tips..
It’s okay to be slightly slow for the first part, I purposely slowed myself by taking the longer jump routes in order to be behind the crowd. All I had to do to compensate was do the jump across the single rock a lot faster.
Purposely fail a couple of times, I don’t mean just jump off the edge, but sacrifice a couple of runs so you can get your jumps right and learn what to do and what not to do.
When you come to a dead end and you think that you went too slow, don’t jump on the platform with the chest. Jump to the platforms next to it. This will probably save the mist from grabbing you.
Take the last section slowly. You don’t need to rush it. The mist doesn’t raise that fast near the end and you need to wait for the clock tower to spin twice anyway, so just take your time so that you don’t mess up the last couple of jumps.
You can skip the first thin bar by simply jumping straight to the next rock.
When you come to the following thin bars, take a second to angle your jump. You don’t need to do them straight away.
Why is there a title for running around carving pumpkins, but none for the clocktower?
Posted by: Angry Juju.1624
Because there probably is already a title for doing all of the jumping puzzles, why would they add another one for a single jumping puzzle?
@Nayru: That was an inappropriate response which has no contribution to my topic. Thanks for replying anyway.
The ignore function is there for a reason. It’s attached to your friends list. Games implement this so that you can block out what people are saying, stopping you from being subjected to what you deem as ‘cyberbullying’.
Some loud people badmouth. It’s not just in the jumping puzzle either, It happens in map chat, real life, general chat, other games and sports as well.
Its completely up to you whether you spend money anymore. I dont know why this post warrants a whole thread to itself?
He wants his post to be seen. His point doesn’t warrant an entire thread to itself, he just wants it to.
And the only thing that I think ANet should have improved upon for this event is say that there would be “A small chance” for a skin rather than “A chance”
Speed boosts are NOT needed in this jumping puzzle. I didn’t use any.
Hell I even took the long routes on the jumps so the Norn/Charr would go ahead of me and I’ve done it twice now.
I dunno, I remember when I used to play Dungeon Fighter a full Avatar Set (stuff to change the look of your character) was often times 25+ dollars. Thinking back on it that’s a ridiculous rip off, but after playing a game long enough you start buying into the weird way they price things and think it’s a deal.
There’s real world logic and game logic, I think you’re expressing the schism you feel when comparing the two.
$25 is a steal compared to this, I spilled triple digits to get a skin. Pissed is an understatement.
You chose to put all that investment into it.
There’s a difference between ANet stealing your money and you throwing it at them out of pure arrogance.
You get nothing if you fail the Mad King’s Clock Tower.
That took me way over an hour to succeed first time.
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Your first point is incredibly subjective. I thought it was really fun and I see no reason for them to make it easier. I completed it on my human after about an hour, I then completed it on my human for a second time on my second attempt after that, just because I wanted to keep doing it.
And in the words of Josh Foreman, who designed the level. “I only expected about 5% of players to complete this jumping puzzle, I didn’t think there’d be a success video on the first day”.
For your second point, a lot of MMOs are hated because they’re catered to casuals with no difficulty to them whatsoever, see World of Warcraft, which lost about half a million subs after cata, with some people, such as Totalbiscuit, stating that they quit because it was becoming extremely casual and unfun.
Also, no special events do not need to be lighthearted. You don’t have to do all of the Halloween events, and i’m pretty sure they’re intended so that the core players get all of the achievements. If you don’t want to put time into a jumping puzzle then don’t do it. You don’t even lose anything important by not doing it.
Finally, there’s only two pause points in the entire jumping puzzle, and one of them is quite hard to get to if you don’t jump quickly.
The only argument of yours that I agree with is the grouping in the instances. It would be a lot nicer to have groups of 5 or less for the jumping puzzle. The current grouping size makes it quite difficult near the start (people generally fall off at the start, no one succeeds on the first try.
Do not like it.13 mins and you get nothing if you lose. Highly detrimental.
You don’t get anything in most games when you lose though…
“You can transmute them with existing weapons.”
You can’t transmute the temporary weapons.
So….. Adorable… Must… Resist….
Squee!
It needs to be a plush. I’d totally buy it, in fact, I’d buy 2 just so my friend can have one!
Should be the same results for the greatsaw skin as you get when transmuting a soulbound item onto a none soulbound item.
Test with the latter first. Hate to see you waste that 26g.
Generally when a company only says “A chance for a weapon skin during halloween” and the item is obtained with real money, you don’t expect the chance for the skin to be 1 in 100.
Honestly I wouldn’t care if the weapon skins were such a low drop chance if they at least said “1% chance” or put them on something that wasn’t involved with gems.
Unidentified Dyes are probably the riskyist way to make money.
I started with 2 gold, I bought 50 silver worth of unidentified dyes. I ended up getting 1 midnight red dye which I sold for 1 gold, 50 silver, and a couple other dyes which I sold for about 10-20 silvers each.
I then took the investment I had (4 gold) and bought a bunch more dye. I didn’t receive many rares aside from a few grey shades (silver, mithril etc).
You can make a lot of money, but you can also lose a lot of money.