I have plenty of coin, legendaries, precursors, ascended weapons, rare skins, everything. Yet I am bothered by the following.
Halloween used to be for everyone.
Last year, everything could be obtained by everyone:
- new cool weapons, which dropped in the mad king’s instance.
- candy corn: everyone could stuff themselves with it.
- mad king’s armor pieces and runes dropped like rain
- free candy corn bag for everyone
- rare Halloween materials such as fangs/skulls/nougats dropped like rain.
- You could enter the mad king’s realm (how cool was that!) and solo it on a low level character.
This made Halloween into the “treat” that makes this game shine.
When I compare it to this year, the story changes dramatically. You can enter the maze, but don’t try to solo anything on a low level character. You’ll be slowed, frozen and bled to death before you can see “trick or treat!”. The bosses have so much health that it takes a full zone or about 40 players about 10 minutes or more to take a boss down. And they won’t go away either. Some of them will follow you through the maze (legendary skeleton) until you die. If you manage to kill a legendary mob, you’ll be awarded once per day. The next time you kill it that day, there will be no reward for you buddy. His chest will be empty.
- You can get a mini, but you’ll need to grind out 20 thousand candy corns.
- You can get a bag, but you’ll need to grind out 15 thousand candy corns.
- You can get a recipe to an old skin, but you’ll need to grind out 10 thousand rare Halloween materials (fangs/skulls/nougats), 10 thousand candy corn, and more.
- You can get a black lion weapon, but from experience I know this will cost you roughly 4000 gems. I will not consider these skins in the ultimate equation, even though I should.
All of the above would not have been so much of a problem this year had candy corn and Halloween materials dropped like rain. But it didn’t. Personal example: I’ve spent roughly 70 hours in the maze with 130 percent magic find, and only received once received an exotic version of a Halloween material (1000x nougats) – on the first day.
I can go on, but the more I write, the more it will become apparent that – this year – Halloween is not for everyone. And that makes me sad. Don’t get me wrong, there’s many good things that I love in this game, and I always take the opportunity to express that on the forum as well. But the above is something that goes to the spirit of Halloween. Namely, that Halloween is – and should be – a feast for everyone.
