I was excited for Halloween. I waited for it, and found it an isle from the endless bore of another Scarlet this Scarlet that (I mentally skipped the whole aether-Scarlet shallow plot thing). Halloween arrives! It’s a special occasion, theme, fun – real stuff coming our way.
Here’s what I found:
- The festive LA is nice, and no complaints here. While I much less than like Zomorros, the cooking pot is a good touch. But then again its nothing for my character or account, just an atmosphere thing that’ll go away…
- The maze is nice. I joined and enjoyed the atmosphere, the mobs and bosses. That was the first 10 minutes I joined the train. Did Corn boss, did Skeleton boss, did Corn boss, did Skeleton boss, did Corn boss, did Skeleton boss again. Ok. Nice. I get it.
- Mad inquisition is nice. To win you have to have played when it just came out and nobody knew of the south west corner to hide in. It’s gone now and the game of running isn’t fun. I didn’t return to it after the first day (Oct-15) though.
- The short story instance was nice, it gave a 10 minute opening. I liked it and wanted more. But there is no more, its just those 10 minutes. For more you’d need to ride the train until corn-mini pet. The mini is just a key, as I never use the mini’s that get auto-cleared into the bank and always need to manually be told to spawn.
- Achievements were added I see. Hmm, anything substantial I can have fun with or close-50-doors-train-ride is what’s in store? Nope, it is just to further the achiv counter by closing 50 doors. Ok. What else is here?
- The costumes are great! This is what I’m talking about! Permanent stuff! I am SO definitely utterly unarguably buying them and taking the witch hat for my female mesmer! I love Halloween!
Wait. I can’t. It’s town clothes.
…o_O
-Purchase cancelled-
I felt empty and a bit let down. LA makeover and opening instance dialog were nice atmosphere, but not much more.
And then it came!
-DRUMROLL-
The Spider’s Shortbow of Awesomeness!
Yes! I wants it! It’s permanent! Its original! – Let’s do this one!
Since the new longbow is a cheap reduced copy of yesteryear’s epic Spider’s Shortbow of Awesomeness, the staff is meh, the shield is nice … but its a … shield, the long sword is 2nd best, I thought I’d go for it and enjoy my gametime towards this very nice invested shortbow.
Then I read what’s needed. And this is how it felt like:
1 Corn mining node = A few corns
250 Corns = 1 Corn Stack
4 Corn Stacks = 1 Corn Cob
100 Corn Cobs = 1 Corn Plantation
100 Corn Plantations = 1 Corn Countrypart
100 Corn Countryparts = 1 Corn Country
100 Corn Countries = 1 Corn Hemesphere
100 Corn Hemespheres = 1 Corn Globe
Now for teeth or fangs or w/e they call it part:
1 Lucky drop = 1 Plastic Fangs
250 Plastic Fangs = 1 Plastic Fangs Stack
4 Plastic Fangs Stacks = 1 High Quality Plastic Fangs
100 High Quality Plastic Fangs = 1 Exotic Fangs
100 Exotic Fangs = 1 Ascended Fangs
100 Ascended Fangs = 1 Legendary Fangs
100 Legendary Fangs = 1 Best Krytan Fangs
I imagined the devs debating the Spider’s Shortbow of Awesomeness:
- “Let’s get players to grind. -AHEM- Play. Why don’t we require them to get for us … I don’t know … what’s a fun number here?”
- “Say: 10 Corn Globes + 10 Best Krytan Fangs ok? Trains will run forever!”
- “Yes. Seems balanced. But still something is missing.”
- “Missing?”
- “Listen, I got it! We’ll make this reward the mere recipe! Not even the item itself!”
- “Dude. Deal. But for the item itself, can we please do something with lots of Orichalcum?”
My personal reaction to this: If I mined the corn nodes or did CoF until I could buy the bow outright (less fun) then I should be done by late April. If the price doesn’t rise.
F the bow.
Seen LA decor. Been on maze-train-repeats. Didn’t “close 50 doors”. Gave up shortbow. Don’t use minis. Won’t buy town clothes. Don’t wana grind.
Is Halloween over for me? now back to Scarlet did this, Scarlet did that? Where did fun and greatness go to? :-(
May I please have an ArenaNet reply that my post was read?
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