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My first forum post as well. After reading the numerous posts here, I note that most of my concerns have already been noted. But I’ll add my experiences anyway – in a nutshell I thought the idea was good in principle, but the experience has left a very bad taste in my mouth.
I was initially bummed about this event, since my Thanksgiving plans had me traveling. My plans changed, though, and I was excited about being able to participate.
Unfortunately, my excitement dropped quite quickly. I started with the scavenger hunt, but a bugged Noll prevented me from completing it during phase I. I checked back in every hour to see if he would work but no luck.
I finally finished phase I when phase II came out. I then went down to explore the new area, which I thought was neat, but didn’t see any evidence of any big events. (I didn’t discover that I completely missed the LA attack until today). Logged off and figured I’d hop in again for phase III.
Phase III went off to a good start in that the map was clearly labeled as to the demolition team action. Promptly went bad in that nearly all the waypoints I found had vanished. So I walked, and got there in time. The demolition event was challenging and fun, the lag wasn’t too bad though we did get wiped once by some monsters appearing out of nowhere. No chest at the end but rich ori node provided some reward.
At this point it wasn’t immediately clear to me what to do next. I did notice an event with something about reinforcements, but it was quite a distance away, and without the big orange arrows that the demolition event had. So I thought it might just be another side event at the time (stupid of me in retrospect). I wandered around a bit looking for something else, but eventually heading that direction. My client crashed before I got to it, so I figured that it would be a good time to take a break for food and such, figuring it would be going on later (also stupid of me in retrospect).
Long story short, I missed the finale for not recognizing it as a finale. Had I been more diligent in relogging in perhaps I could have avoided further crashing (unclear based on the experiences of others).
I had thought that it would be on a 3 hour timer or something in GW1 tradition, but when I had gotten back it dawned on me that this was not the case. I had enjoyed the demolition run, but I was quite angry at missing the the final event and accompanying loot bag (which with a 20 slot bag is worth at least 10g, plus the mother lode for those fortunate enough to get precursors).
This is effectively the second time this has happened to me in under a month. I also missed out on the halloween book because of not being able to turn the quest items in. Again, in GW1 tradition, I expected quest givers to loiter for a few days after the main event was done. I also actually expected the halloween event to last through all of Nov 1 so when the new build wiped out the npc to turn in the books to I was a bit peeved.
Well, that was my experience. In terms of recommendations and observations, I found Northlander.4619 ’s post above to resonate with me (and I copied the key points to me below). Thank you, Northlander, for putting to paper (well e-paper) my frustrations with this event in a more constructive fashion than I could have.
Rationally, I shouldn’t be as ticked off as I am (A net put a lot of work into a free event for our enjoyment after all). But I was so excited on Friday, and now I am just ticked at missing the finale and the accompanying goodies.