So, E is the 5th letter of the alphabet, and Mr. E means Mystery, and the sum of the letter is 125 (13+25+19+20+5+18+25), so 125/5=25, 25 is the age of a firstborn sylvari, there are 12 firstborn sylvari and 3 have to be revealed, 12×3=36 -> 3+6=9, Harbinger has 9 letters, Malyck is the Harbinger, Malyck is Mr. E.
You can congratulate me later.
It’s later.
Congratulations. On creating the longest, most convoluted string of kittenpull I have ever seen
+1
It is a little too fire and forget for me. You turn tickets in and then hope that maybe you’ll get some mail. But if you forget about it and get nothing it’s pretty anti climactic.
The alternative:
“Dear Brent.1580,
“Today, we doled out the wonderful and weird Hallowe’en skins from our in-game lottery. Approximately 960 lucky Tyrians are now reading their mail from us describing their great fortunes and methods for collecting their prizes.
“The rest of the in-game populace is also receiving a mail. This mail.
Congratulations!
“Thank you for playing!
“Sincerely,
“ArenaNet Contest Division
“P.S. If you have any questions, please refer to the following link:
" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5QGkOGZubQ "
‘Would disappear without notification’
That’s a very american way of thinking.
‘I wonder if santa clause is gonna go away when christmas ends’
‘Will the easter bunny stay after easter?’get it?
No, evidently you don’t get it.
We’re not talking about the Great Pumpkin.
We’re talking about the vendor to turn in the cobs, nougats, fangs and skulls. We’re tangentially talking about the greedy skritt wanting shiny foil for ridiculously cool weapons. King Thorn and his sneering waif can go home
I always figured the NPCs were already staying over a bit, since they don’t depart until November 4th. That’s a +4 to Halloween, giving us a bit of extra time to complete our transactions. As much as I love Halloween, I think part of its appeal is the limited time that the whole event, including the NPC crew, is around.
Basically, having a bunch of NPCs with jack-o-lanterns and candy corns over their heads in April or July might be a little odd.
Aight let’s go there. ;D
While the holiday is actually days past, the festivities and the associated farm ended officially this morning, for you Seattle people, and unofficially for several players whenever they put their weary heads to rest after a long session of treating ghoulies like piñatas and knocking candy out of them. Some people stay up waaay past their bedtimes and forget that wrapping up after the festivities (checking the merchants, the tradepost, last minute crafting, opening bags, turning in skritt shinies, trying to knockout the last few daily achievements, jumping over to that last world boss because your guildie friend is more insane or in a different time zone, etc.) is going to take more time than their bodies are going to allow. So they decide to put it off until they get back in the next day, hoping that the vendors will still be around.
This could happen the night before the update. This could happen 5 days before the update, if player just doesn’t get time to come back. Either way, if they return even 3 minutes after the update, and the vendor has packed up for the year, the accumulated goodies that they spent so long trying to earn might now be just so much worthless trash, possibly without a use or even a lowball vendor value so you can claim a regretful handful of coppers (hello, Scarlet key fragments). But players will retain these items because they have the expectation that something will be done to make this inventory clutter worth something. This make playing difficult, since a full pack requires a ridiculous amount of salvaging to keep gold/materials flowing. In short, this blows.
You can argue that players should be more mindful of history and the time limit. This is true. More often than not, the vendors DO disappear after the festivities are done. But this wasn’t always the case. In GW1, many of the associated vendors would remain for 4-5 days after the event to provide a last-chance opportunity to offload your gains for something worth your while.
I don’t think players would demand that the Mad King’s personal merch outlet remain available through Christmas; the following Thursday after the update should be good enough for everyone to get their cobs traded in. In any case, make sure that there is an EXPLICIT note in one of the patch notes announcing exactly when the merchants would be closing up shop for good.
It’s a kid’s game.
No, seriously.
When I was young, we played a game called Ghosts in the Graveyard, a variation on the basic Tag. Essentially, home base was the back yard. The ghost (It) ranged around the front and sides. The players would count out loud from 1 o’clock to midnight, then shout “Ghosts in the Graveyard, here we come!” Then they would attempt to make a full circle around the house while the ghost attempted to tag the runners. Anyone tagged joined the ghost’s team. They’d continue to do this until only one runner was left. The objective was to be the last person untagged.
Yes, it’s weighted towards the Inquisition’s side. It’s SUPPOSED to be
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Nice vid
Every few years I do a listing of scary music. Yours could about qualify.
Sure, but we can’t know that without knowing what the intended distribution is meant to be.
The thing is, it’s not really fair to expect ANet to release drop rate info. Firstly, we don’t even know how a single subset, such as exotic daggers, is organized in the tables. Secondly, in the event that they released such a list and it was of a readable size, you would instantly have people raising hell about drop rates of their preferred items being too low. And that would drown out any valid discussion by sheer volume, which is an extremely undesirable result.
This is not entirely true. Except the conclusion to your secondly. People will take any excuse to raise hell
There is a master list, and it is largely released to players. However, it has multiple nodes of organization, based on the source of items, who was updating it for what, and when, and drop rates aren’t listed. Some connections between items on it are obvious, while some things that seem like they should be near each other… aren’t. But because it is fairly well organized, it wouldn’t be too much to expect that drop tables based on it have some kind of structure within it.
We can’t give feedback as to what’s “right” because we don’t know what “right” is meant to be. All we can do is give feedback on how things FEEL to us, and ANet can decide what, if anything, they wish to do about that. If we note that it “feels” wrong to receive zero of a desired item when other players seem to be getting several of them
And here you’re showing the same problem again: “Bad” drop rates mean different things to different people. Some people think “bad drop rates” is all about precursors. Others want more exotic drops. Others focus on the quantity of items they are getting.
There’s also the subset of people who take into account the time used to get those items. That’s one thing the drop tables cannot reflect accurately. These people don’t necessarily care about the absolute quantity of items they are getting, they only have eyes for the quantity/time aspect. And if you ask me, these people should be ignored, at least as long as we have a full RNG system. Unless you’re literally documenting every single drop you’re getting over thousands of drops, it’s all meaningless, anecdotal “evidence”. You can’t just take a deck of cards and pull out 5 card hands for 8 hours straight and think you have a good sample of all 5 card hands.
These are good points. I’d counter the last one, that if you spent a week in one spot killing monsters and cataloguing the drops, you’d have a fair idea of the pattern of things available there. You don’t need the full picture to be able to make good generalizations.
There’s actually 4-5 different versions of this item, all appearing the same. I was hoping they all would work in the forge, since there’s no way to tell them apart, but apparently not
Edit: API lists 6 as of 9/20/14
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Sometime my characters sneak into NPCs houses and pretend not to be a homeless wondering monster murderer.
:(
This is shortly before you rob them blind, turning over their homes with a fine-toothed comb, and they don’t bat an eyelid, I assume.
We’ve all been there
ah, sorry /15