Hey there,
I logged in today on my Guild Wars 2 character on which I like doing daily achievements with my brother – we read through the list of todays tasks… After a second I saw a daily challange “Kill 40 creatures in the location X”.
Wait… Isn’t it the type of tasks that you, Anet, told will be crossed out from Guild Wars 2 as “standard and boring”.
I remember as if it was yesterday – waiting for any new release on Guild Wars 2 a year ago, waiting for more info on the revolutionary “Dynamic Event System”… I was really looking forward to this. And first, it was great – the repeatable “kill 40 skrits” hidden under “Skrit morale” description – a really clever way to refresh or slightly rebuild the “kill 40 skrits” task.
But now, I can see a daily, saying literally – Kill 40 creatures in location X – what happened to the “morale” cover? What happened to ANY cover? When I see a description like that, I have no will to kill those 40 creatures. I just want them to go to your office, so that you have to kill them yourselves
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I think (after all I have seen you had done – World Events, Dynamic Events etc.) that it is no great problem to create a “Daily” Event – A Rise of the Dredge in location Z let’s say – where those dredge would simply pour out of their caves, unaccessible by players, and rush to the nearest outpost, defended by Friendly NPCs. All day long. A player can then enter such “constant NPC warfare” zone, help push those evil Dredge away from the outpost – doing the “Kill 40 monsters” by the way – and completing the daily for killing them, and the second daily for pushing them away far enough. After a short period the dredge morale would rise again or they would pour out from other location, Or maybe a boss will come and capture the outpost for a while – Options are endless.
But please, don’t give us just – Kill 40 monsters" tasks – this is not how the greatest MMO in the wide world should challenge their players.
If I didn’t see something obvious – please respond to this, I’d love to know what you guys think.
Cheers,
Vincu