Guild Wars 2

DoctorDing.5890:

Glad it’s not just me. Asked in chat and got sarcastic replies haha.

Yesterday I did get a drop that was basically a bag of snowballs so I wondered if you need to take one of them out into Tyria and use it on the skritt that pop out of the giant presents. I don’t especially need that daily so I’ve just “unticked” it. /shrug.

The skritt that spawn at a big gift are actually hostile. Even if you drop a snowball pack, the second you pick up a snowball they will attack and put you in combat mode. In combat you get an error message saying you can’t use the skill of throwing a snowball.

I tried several places to hit skritt with snowballs all over the place including:
- LA – Hooligan’s Route
- Lornar’s Pass – Bouldermouth Vale (big exploding gift)
- Harathi Hinterlands – Arca Lake
including dropped or bought snowballs packages, without success.

So it definitely does not work out in the open world as described

Maybe it depends on the class and level you play (having casters/rangers being knocked more easy), but the frequency and the speed the periscope turns can make it hard to dodge/evade Further you can even stand behind a huge rock and still get pushed over. If you have been pushed over once, there is nearly no way of a counter attack, as in the second one get back up on the feet it blast already once again. Also circling around is hard as the periscope nearly turns around instantly (or is it just the lag that make it look like?).

While I liked a lot of the other part of the living story I have to agree that this starts to get unfun…