Guild Wars 2

Thanks that it worked out anyhow, bunch of people who did have a DC or problems with extreme lags got their stuff too and are happy now.
But well most people I know have gotten another chest even thogh they finished the event with several of their characters… Something got terribly wrong here with the data, since the rich were made even more richer.
However, i can’t change this, all i can offer is that you drop me a line if you need a Data Mining Specialist, I can send you my resume ;-D

An official statement of ANet if it’s ok for them during future events would be all that is needed to end the crying…

Until the Scavanger Hunt is up, prices will be back to where they were before “The Lost Shores”, so I guess there will be some Precursors still be popping up in the TP during the next few days and then it will be all about a rise again.

Has anyone noticed the increased drop chance in PvE? I’m doing Temple Events and Jormag on a daily basis and haven’t had more than the one per week popping up in the local channel after the event, which is basically the same rate it was before.
Those chest need a severe chance increase. Considered you did partake in “The Lost Shores” you had a 15% chance (guessed) for 3 hours of hard work through lags.

I ran 2-3 Grenth Temple Events and Jormags per day, have freed the entrace to Arah whenever possible, 5-6 days a week which is basically much more than a 100 hours event runs alone. And I had an overall chance of 0,00001% for getting one. This is not the balance I had expected.

Looking back, I really would have prefered some story or gathering or whatsoever task which had taken up 100 hours (or more) of playing time.

I just hope for one thing: ANET, don’t replace RNG with even more RNG, like “The Lost Shores” did. It’s not kind of a creative solution.

All your observations have a far too small sample size to be statistically significant ;-)

As an educated guess from what I have seen and heard, the chance should have been between 10 and 20% to receive a precursor

I guess it is not possible to punish those who looted the chest twice it was kind of a flaw in the system and people abuse those, it happened, now we ANet should learn of this.

For the next one time event they should implement a reward system once per account, so people sho just farm overflows for 5 mins will have no chance to loot multiple times. These restrictions should be announced well up front and this would be fair.

I guess all those who blame people who lost huge amounts of money to be whiners don’t get the point:

Gambling is not legendary. (That’s the message we want to deliver)

However, getting the legendary is risky business in any case:

1.) Throwing anything you have into the Mystic Forge and win some or lose all.

2.) Saving up everything you farmed and buy from the TP

3.) Get a less popular precursor when you can afford it

I opted for 2.) and because of that 3.) is already an option for me, but it involves the risk, that i will hate myself oneday for not going for the Longswords and getting something else instead.
And the risk involved in 2.) is, that when I got 400 gold sometime in 2013 (yeah, I have got a job and so on, so it won’t happen earlier) the price for a Dusk or Dawn will be 1200 gold.

So I have decided to take it easier on this on, although I want it bad, because as a businessman I am pretty sure the system won’t change, because all those who are desparately going after the legendary and want it ASAP will continue to throw their hard earned $$$/€€€ at ArenaNet.
And I could afford that too, but I made it kind of a principle for me not to spend more than 20€ per month on a game :-)

I have monitored my own droprate for exotics and the rate of my fellow guildies.
My educated guess is you have an exotic drop per 200-400 skillpoints/levels.
My main character has made about 500 skillpoints and I got 2, a random drop in WvW from some french player (was a named rifle) and a trident out of a chest in the Honor of the Waves Dungeon Explorable Mode.

I think this puzzle is doable, if you spend quite a vast amount of time with it.
Since jumping puzzles is the part in this game I am really bad at, it will take me siginficantly more time than others.
However; overall I want to have fun I have a family and other stuff to do, so I can’t spend 8 hours in a row with that puzzle, however I do care abount achievements.
You could keep this version as a hardcore version with special rewards and the title for those who are good at it and love this challenge.
And make a slightly nerved version maybe in a solo instance which counts for the mad king title, because it is really annoying to do all of the other halloween stuff and then not being award the title, because you are not good at jumping puzzles (and because Zelda and Super Mario was never my cup of tea).

@conifur: Sounds a bit like Nicholas the Traveller from GW1. Which is some kind of nice idea.
Even if you don’t want to associate heart quest with him, it could work like this: Every week he pops up in a different lesser travelled territory and asks for some specific trophies dropping there during his visit or some specific tasks which reward a trophy. Those should not be easily obtainable but require some amount of work, maybe even teamwork.
The trophies can be traded in for gifts, which are then again limited to a certain amount per week per account to prevent “overgrinding” of the content.
Doing this content together would also be a very good possibility for guild events in PvE!

I know it is quite hard to satisfy us customers, I work in a similar industry. And I also know it takes some time to make the changes in fixes in a manner which is up to the quality standards that are needed to release it. So some of my suggestions are just quick Workarounds which could be implemented.

So you at Anet have chosen to base a large proportion of the endgame on getting your legendary. So people farming and grinding for the components in Orr, especially the Cursed Shore the whole day, the zone is quite overcrowded at the moment.

So here are some suggestions on this matter:

- The non-vet “trash” mobs in bigger sized events like Temple of Grenth and similar should get increased HP, so basically the HP of your mobs should be a function of the players in the area (like base HP + 2000HP*number of players+2000extra per each 10 players). During peak hours you have over a 100 of players doing such events in rotation and guess what, you don’t even get to see the mobs before they are down. This has no epic feel to it.

- Other Level 80 zones are definitely needed to get people out of the Cursed Shore. You can easily get to Level 80 without doing 100% of the world, in fact, even if you never have been in WvW 50-60% of map completition does the job fairly easy. So why not convert Frostgorge sound into a Level 80 territory?

- Since most of the population is grinding for their legendaries they have no incentive to visit lower level zones, because they simply don’t have the chance to get anything useful from the mobs there. So maybe put in some Level 80 lootbags with a certain drop chance (25% or 33%) from normal mobs, so they do get at least something in the process. Since you are scaled down this is still some kind of challenge and will not be overfarmed.

- While you need your time to fix dynamic events which are broken: An event tracking monitor: If an event is stuck for about 30 minutes in a single event step without progress, reset it automatically.

- More triggers which can be activated by players (like talking to an NPC) might prevent event chains from not getting started at all.

- Many people would go to another zone, if they knew the Meta event there is up and running and the have chance for an epic boss battle and a chest. So put level based loot into that meta event chests like with the dragons and put herolds in every other zone in Tyria, which inform the players, that there is something big going on in other parts of the world. Most players never experienced all the big battles in the starting zones or Mt. Maelstrom (epic volcano battle) because they simple don’t know when to port there! There are some player based websites to compensate this, but they are very inaccurate at the moment.

I’ll check back later as soon as I get more ideas and I look forward to seeing suggestions of other members of the community.