Guild Wars 2

I’m not talking nonsense, I’m completing it as is, unless you suggest certain servers are bugged, didnt have a problem doing it yesterday, not having a problem today either

I did this 3 times just now and its fine, once I even screwed the timing and the clock face was over 80% gone to the right side and i still got in, I think the problem is most likely people needing to jump farther ahead from the ledge than where they actually do currently, some puzzles have places where this is a issue and i wouldn’t be surprised if it was so here aswell..

I understand problems may arise but I just need to point out that its hard to believe when I never failed that jump, I have fallen everywhere possible in the tower but never there

But the skins arent unique from what I understood in reading these forums

Unless theres been another patch since the emergency hotfix for the mad king lab exploit, I’ve always jumped straight ahead after the lightning strikes with all 8 of my characters plus a few repeats and its been fine…will test again in a bit but I really don’t see the problem

even yesterday when I was doing this repeatedly there was one person who always arrived with me at tower, but he always jumped 1 sec ahead of me and never got in, while I who jumped after never had a problem to get to chest room, and ofc this was always the same instance…so I strongly believe this is a problem with peoples timing and not the tower itself

I was just wondering how much this event has cost you so far in terms of in-game gold and real money for gems?
40g for the blc skins in TP, 5k gems for keys but gave nothing in either blc or mkc, 30g+ for the recipes of permanent weapons, 1k gem for the 2 box set of minis

Has it been (or will it be) worth it to you?
Cost-wise? Hopefully next holidays wont be so gem/gold intensive, part of the fun for me in gw2 is having items after all

What is the one item you really wanted from this event? Did you get it?
Greatsaw skin and yes, but theres still 2 more acts so we will see

What was your favorite part of the event?
Hands down Clock Tower Jumping Puzzle, too bad it wont be here after halloween or id keep doing it on occasion, the spvp was fun but the JP was much more so

How has this holiday event impacted your willingness to invest in future events/expansions?
Skeptical on BLC’s if the system remains as is, unwilling to buy costumes that only serve as townclothes, and just for the fun the clock tower provided? Hopeful in getting expansions if they will be this fun

Are you having fun with the event and game in general?
On a scale of 1-10. it was 4 before the clock tower and spvp maps, now its 7

What are you dressing up as for Halloween!?
Same armor, I want to buy the costumes but they take up 6+ slots of space each and i find town clothes simply useless, wish they had vanity slots like gw1

Lokheit.7943:

Just quriosity, where is that chest in the labirynth were the armor pieces can drop?

the chest appears at the “small temple” structure at the top of the hill in the middle of the map…but only after the champion boss is killed

Glad I found this thread! The prices skyrocketed after the hotfix and I was pondering getting the armor set or not…if its not unique…dont want it :p

I’m glad you didnt quit and finally got it! it was fun exactly as you described with other people who were still there hours in with me xD there was one group full of people who were grieving on purpose but once I landed in a nice group like the one you described, it was alot of fun and the tower experience itself was amazing!

And difficult doesnt mean impossible, people quitting and getting frustrated just because they cant do it is no reason to nerf something as amazing as this! I hope they add in a option of difficulty at penalty of reward…that way as long as the complainers get to complete it “somehow” they shouldnt flame these events so much

took me 2 hours and after the first success the rest of the runs was much easier, I have friends still trying it after 5+ hours but they arent quitting even if its frustrating, just because its difficult it doesnt mean that its impossible, its fun as it is and I hope they have more in the future

It was amazing, but the cutscene for returner needs to be removed :p quite frustrating in my 2 hours to succeed having to watch that again and again and again xinfinite times xD And judging by the complainers, maybe add a option of difficulty if the new ones have a “timer” like the tower…as long as the complainers get to “complete” it at some level they should be ok with things

Agreed, best puzzle so far and I hope anet has more of these in store!

If they made 2 different difficulties with the easier one giving away lesser reward then yeah I would agree, but you are basically asking for a nerf to “simplify” it for everyone?
Well those of us who did it wont find it fun either, the puzzle is far from impossible and I surely hope that anet doesn’t simplify things just because of reasons like yours, the fact you couldnt do it doesnt mean others cant, not giving up and trying until success is part of the fun, the game should be about skill and improving upon it and not to nerf at the first sign of “difficulty”

The fact it was challenging and finally completing it is a priceless feeling that topped anything I have done in the game so far, so I hope in the future anet has more of these puzzles and maybe a separate difficulty for people who cant do it, they can always try the harder version later

2 hours, it was frustratingly fun xD even after I could do it in a single run I still went back…cant…quit…playing…

Completed it 8 times once with every character, twice of each race except once with a charr, took me 2 hours to do it the first time, after that I could mostly do it in a single run with each following char <3 tower puzzle

While I think the jp is fine and tons of fun, I agree that if possible maybe implement a alternative method for players at the penalty of rewards, just so they dont miss out on the achievement for extraneous circumstances

The clock tower is amazing, but the players using speed buffs, summoning pets and banners is not >_< players arent even supposed to be able to use skills in there

I would like if they removed the scene for returners if possible…must’ve seen it hundreds of times already xD

while we are at title issue, the hunting or the carving doesnt count for the title either? I have them all but am only at 2…:3

The difficulty is fine there are times i couldnt get the fast enough but its more because I cant see my character and have to jump carefully therefore losing time Otherwise the puzzle itself is a-okay

once you are inside I only know that the end of events will teleport you to LA

The puzzle itself is alot of fun, while the overly big characters sometimes result in others falling the experience itself is great and I hope Anet has more of these puzzles in store! Naturally next time please remember the group/character sizes

1. Will you or will you not be buying black lion trading company or random number generation materials again?
No.

2. Did you buy them in the past?
Yes

3. If you would not buy trading post material/gamble, would you support direct to buy weapon skins and what general price do you find acceptable from a business standpoint both as a customer and realizing that they must make money as a business?
Yes I would make direct purchases or if the rng was higher than what is is, currently it feels like expecting a exotic level drop but instead of mobs its chests and thats too expensive.

4. Do you believe that future events will also be handled with random number generation to make profit based on limited time item acquisition?
Yes

5. If you believe that the future events will be handled in the same manner, does this realization negatively effect your trust of Arena Net in regard to handling micro transactions for permanent content?
Absolutely yes, If I have to farm hundreds of gold inbetween holidays just so the next one I have enough to buy some vanity items, this game would lose most of its appeal.

6. Did you obtain a skin or whatever it is you were looking to get from the black lion trading chests? From the Mad King Chests?
Nothing from both, counting the Mad King chests it was about 50+ chests with no skin at all

szthesquid.9576:

When you open chests, you don’t get “nothing”. Many of the chest items are VERY useful – karma boosters, magic find boosters, armour repair canisters, etc – but for some reason the fact that they’re consumable somehow means they’re worthless?

I have to disagree, the odds on something actually useful coming out is like 1/3 or less, aside from the karma and magic find booster I personally find the rest to be mostly useless, most chests give exactly that and mystery tonics which I consider junk aswell, I know its a matter of opinion as you clearly find the drops useful, but for some of us it isn’t so and I can see why some people who opened many many chests and got nothing to show for halloween and yet few of the actually useful blc drops can be disappointed at the system

@OP very eloquent post, explains very well the point for those of us who disagree with the system as it is now

In a game where vanity is the only marker for progression there isn’t much of a option is there? GW1 had a set of standards in term of quality/rarity that I personally had no problems with, and now comes GW2…

IF the company keeps their MO as they did with this holiday event, they don’t leave players with much choice but to either pay the exorbitant price (most of the time for a chance only!) to actually have things, otherwise its practically a boycott to the game where we (farm which is the endgame) but can’t buy anything or barely anything.

I’m waiting for the other acts but I’m not having much fun tbh because the game for me ends up with having things i like and gw2 is making it extremely difficult currently, hopefully this will change…I surely don’t hope to see at every holiday near legendary-item intensive vanity goodies

The fact they gave a second chance doesn’t necessarily mean that the chances will be higher…at least we got the chance to get rid of the useless boosters and tonics, I’m ok with this

on the first day of halloween there was a door in gendarran fields that never closed and kept spitting out bags, mobs etc and nobody was banned for it, this will probably be patched up soon enough anyway

Ah thanks, sorry that I missed your other post explaining it I assumed the earlier one explaining the sites and “how to” was the only one that mattered :x once again, thanks for sharing this info <3

I just wished that this kind of thing was better hinted at(?) information on halloween is so scattered that was also why your thread is a godsend :x but others who dont browse this forums will probably miss this kind of thing and its not right in my opinion..but I digress, thats on anet’s end I’ll wait for your next thread in the event that you do continue making them and hopefully help somewhat in putting out the info

Galandil.9641:
As I stated earlier, the same mystery tonics as the ones found in the BLCs are crafted using 1 Crystalline dust + 1 Water + 1 Vicious Fang + 1 Vicious Claw.
Are you saying that 1 Ancient Wood Plank + 1 Steel Ingot are cheaper than 1 Vicious Fang + 1 Vicious Claw?
I don’t think so.

Did I say that that was the only recipe? So I missed your post, cry me a river? And I happen to prefer the one I mentioned as I have a abundance on planks and not the others, whilst the total price is slightly different with the TP fees I dont bother with your recipe, there is a reason why theres more than one method to make them, doesnt mean yours has to be it

Thank you very much for the information, could you please just explain the part about the diving board? I did the diving but didnt get any bags for it, although I did find the rest of the locations to be accurate

Fury Blightfire.4081:

What would make that dagger cool is if the hand/arm writhed and wiggled.

or any sort of effect would be good, the idea itself is halloween-ish and I like it, but without effects im not interested in getting it

Total cost of crafting The Mad Moon:

Recipe to Gift of the Moon gotten at the Mystic forge:
250 Candy Corn
100 Chattering Skulls
10 Crystalline Dust
40 Elonian Wine

Recipe itself including:
538 Orichalcum Ore
100 Corrupted Lodestones
30 Ancient Wood Logs
25 Globs of Ecto
5 Fine Crafting
1 Gift of Thorns (500 TA Tokens)

source: http://www.guildwarsinsider.com/gw2-halloween-crafting-guide/

Just to note that mystery tonics can be crafted as cheap as 1xancient wood plank, 1xjug of water, 1xsteel ingot and 1xcrystalline dust for 5 tonics per batch, im just not sure if the tonic can be used in the forge as it has a different icon and cant be stacked to the tonic from chest

Otherwise it’s a decent option to the lousy drop rate for the chest, I also have too many tonics and boosters that I have no use for and am glad for the opportunity to get rid of them, all in all if the drop rate from the blc chest must remain this ghastly, then at least this second chance to use up the junk material is a way out of that, regardless if people do get it or not

And really, I was in the same boat as most that I wanted the skins and was considering dishing out the gold for them, its no excuse that you took the course to buy them without considering that due to the complains something would be done about it…and now complain that the unplanned event is messing up with your plannings, I was hoping that anet would take the issue into consideration and therefore provide a alternative method therefore I hadnt bought a skin yet, now I will try this and if the drop chance is still bad i’ll just buy them at the TP,

edit: nvm thanks for the post anyway, i was doing searches under the wrong name as it was “endless halloween tonic” that yielded the info and reselling the mats do help alot to get more candys and more tot bags, fingers crossed for everyone

well thank you for your inputs it’s a huge shame that this is another example of favoritism to greatswords, I love them and use them but would definitely like to see other weapon types have some flair to them, what is currently out are definitely not it.

Hopefully more interesting skins for the other weapons will come out in the future, I will post here again myself if I find info for the scythe

Aside from the Greatsaw and Ghastly grinning shield, could anyone provide info on the other weapon’s special effects if they do have any? I could find videos from the two mentioned but nothing on the others

Preferably I’d love to know if the severed daggers and scythe have any effect to them thanks for reading o/

I’m okay with this because I intend to get the recipe and craft the shield at a later time when I have the time and materials, as only the crafting of the recipe itself need halloween items

Absolutely -.- The costumes could also use vanity slots something akin to gw1 perhaps…I can’t bother to toggle between costume and fight armor all the time ;_; and a storage space like the one for pvp skin would be amazing too, the halloween costumes alone take up 12 spaces+ what about future events?! what about random added/new costumes!? I fear there wont be enough space for everything soon…

I agree, gw2 like gw1, is all about cosmetics. Limiting us with fighting armor and costumes was a horrible decision on their end x_x so many great costumes that i wont get no matter how much i like them because i spend 90% of my time fighting, why would I toggle to casual clothing somewhere in the middle of that? Very inconvenient!

I know of 2 active new JP which is in Fireheart and the other in dredgehaunt…if those werent it then its probably added in the future acts.

I believe the superior mad king rune is only available from ToT drop, I’m sorry to hear that you went through all that and couldnt get what you wanted, next time you definitely need to look up as much info as you can to be sure that the item you want is indeed gotten that way :p

Situations like these occur all to frequently for people and it was all only a matter of looking info until you were absolutely sure that thats how it is done s_s

As you have said, I agree that if something is nice for you, regardless how many have it or dont have it shouldnt influence that fact.

this matter of people not liking the chest drop rate was completely blown out of proportion, everyone anti or pro that drop rate all recognize that it is so lousy they themselves wont do it, so isnt that the real problem? There was no need to look into every aspect of the fact with a microscope such as whether people need skins or not etc.

Now I’m in now way pro of items being given freely, it should be that people need to work in some measure to have them, just that it shouldnt be completely luck based and with a lousy chance at it to top it off. What Op mentioned about too many people with the same skin, there are some issues involved such as the CoF exploit where it was easy to do the first boss or so and many many people started running around with that easy to get armor regardless they liked it or not, now I personally dont like that armor but I can understand why some who do like it would feel it was cheapened because of the unfortunate exploit situation…all in all rarity is good but it shouldnt be impossibly ridiculous to get as these chests seem to be, opening 50+ chests that cost more then a gold each and getting barely 1-2 and quite possibly not even the one you wanted is a crappy situation to be in.

Yes getting the recipe isnt the problem but the candys will stop dropping afterward—-and except for the 3 item intensive recipes, the rest all need halloween items to craft

LordByron.8369:

:D so people noticed….
really hilarious…….it should’ve been a mini. u.u

isnt the plastic spider mini from the gem shop the same as the costume?

I didn’t find any jeweler recipes from vendors, only artificer for tonics and chef food recipes, there is also 3 item-intensive recipes for huntsman, artificer and armorsmith from the mystic forge which will let you craft permanent versions of the bow, staff and shield sold temporarily by the vendor and a sigil of the night/mad king recipe from mf aswell…thats about it for recipes that I know of

OPs point is that we shouldn’t have to scatter to third party sites and google every nook and cranny for the info that should be in the game, and I agree. This is something that has been a “issue”, since beta everytime theres needed information its all scattered in many different places, reddit, tweet, facebook, podcasts and whatnot

Bear in mind that this isnt a request to be told inside info for the game, but for information that should be available for players, such as what you can do in said event, in gw1 there was always npcs to tell you that theres this and that to do, in gw2 basic info is very lacking indeed

Basic information shouldnt be scattered in so many places, when i want to know something gw2’s official page isnt the first place i would look…the official page being the least informative about its own game is simply weird.

Agree with OP, it was so cool to have a vanity slot where you can put any costume in it and look that way, we spend most of our time fighting, we would have to idle to actually be worth toggling town clothing and I for one no matter how much i like the costumes think that its not worth the trouble :x

What animation is it? I absolutely disliked it so I didn’t really spent anymore time aside from the initial “look”…the ghost on the other hand is my favorite :p

I don’t think Anet should cave in and outright “give” the skins, but at the same time I don’t agree with the very lousy drop rate of said skins, this isn’t about wanting things easy or simply given but wanting a reasonable opportunity to get them, many who disagree with this like to say “dont like it dont buy it” and yet recognize that the drop chance by itself is not worth the purchase, isnt that in itself the issue?

Also, I notice many posts calling people who express their opinions “self entitled kids” and thats rude and immature, people who have a problem with the BLC may not all be expressing themselves properly but at least they are simply trying to point out something they think is wrong, a opposite opinion of yours doesn’t automatically translate to others being kids or to take what people say to the extreme to prove your own misguided point, I don’t agree that saying “the drop chance is too low” as the same as “I want free stuff without doing anything” for example.

Precisely, all this white knighting saying that you do get items from chests and therefore should be happy with them are completely missing the point, the default items from chests are junk, the only reason people actually bought keys to open the chests was for this event only and the drop rate is not acceptable at all.

People spend months worth of subscription fee on a very lousy chance to get some items, fair? Hardly and if no one disagrees with anet’s policies, it’ll probably be like this every other event and where are we at? either mass grind or barely get anything

I don’t think the ToT drop rate is very bad, also consider that you can trade candy corn for them in LA and the candy is very abundant