Guild Wars 2

It occurred to me…i think the two main issues were poor implementation of rewards and the fact that the finale had disconnect issues and for me at least, was frustrating just to get the finale.

I trust arenanet has learned from their mistakes and future events will be better.

Also I think its unreasonable that some people expect no more one time events and/or for them to get rid of ascended.

The ascended gear is meant to bridge the gap between exotics and legendary.. Some people may not want to put in the time it takes to get a legendary so this is for them. Also its not really needed to enjoy the game…even the new dungeon! Right now it is only needed for one area of the game and for later levels of the new dungeon.

Also it is unreasonable to expect them to stop one time events. I like the one time events and think they should still do them but they could use tweaking. If they are going to have rewards like the chest at the end of the lost shores finale. they should give people at least 24 hours to partipate and get the reward or make it like the mad kings dungeon where people will just miss an environmental change.

Now that the finale frustration has passed…i would like to give my feedback again…because my initial feedback may have not been entirely accurate cause i was peeved.

Thanks for the lost shores event anet! i enjoyed the new dungeon,karka invasion and trailblazing dynamic events greatly!

However i dont feel this was as well planned as the halloween event.
-The commendations rewards werent that great. The rewards dont have to be rare or unique items but give us rewards that are worth it. Rather then gathering tools which can more easily be bought at merchants i would have rather seen crafting
mats,accessaries,weapon skins or consumables.
-I wasnt happy with the poor drop rate on southsun. I wasnt like getting any loot at all from enemies,usually enemies will drop something after killing a few.
-Last and most frusrating of all, the map had reset to the start of phase 2 state because phase 2 and 3 were happening simulatenously. I shouldnt have had to die five times getting to the finale because waypoints arent even on the map and the bridge is out.

I enjoyed some of the lost shores stuff like the trailblazing DE’s and new dungeon.

Heres what i didnt enjoy:
-the lackluster commendations rewards. the gathering tools rewards weren’t worth it being we can more easily buy from vendors and i dont want to save up for a lion key.

-the bugged npcs for the scavenger hunts. Next time, try to at Least account for the possibility of bugs like this so we dont have to wait until the next phase to finish. But preferabbly no bugs at all.

-how frustratingly difficult it was to just get to the finale.

Somewhat satisfied.

Phase 1 and 2 were fun despite the bugs and lackluster commendation rewards.

Phase 3 was so frustrating….it made the previous things i tolerated not so tolerable. What made it so frustrating is the ridiculous difficulty just getting to the finale ontop of the normal frustrations to be expected with hard fights.

I think you did a good job with the rewards for the shadow of the mad king!…however,.for this event, the commendations rewards aren’t so great.

The black lion key is nice but for those people who dont want to save up a lot of commendations theres nothing worthwhile and TBH im not sure if even that is worth it. The Gathering Tools arent that great because its better to simply buy them from the merchants. I would rather have consumables for cheap commendations rewards or crafting mats.

The rewards for the scavenger hunts are good solid rewards through! I dont know if there will be other commendations rewards offered later once we have access to the new map,but so far the commendatiosn rewards arent that great.

Bahamadude.4925:

I understand that the left guild halls out on purpose so they can add it later. i’m hoping for several things when they finally release the halls.
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I understand they left out guild halls and player housing to be added later. And i also understand that through they originally promised more minigames at launch then we ended up getting,they had to table it to work on other things.

What miffs me,as stated in my Original Post, is that we have to wait 7 days to transfer servers because of dishonest WvW players and that they said they arent event actively working on guild halls, i think they should be actively working on this even if its not their main focus right now. Through i think this and player housing should be their main focus right now.

Plus can’t they just make it so we can transfer freely but have to wait 7 days to join in WvW or something for now?…or something like that.

Risky.4132:

You missed the point completely,
no one in this game really talks in /say, I know there are social people in guild/map chats but there is a difference when you are talking to a character that you can see right in front of you

i see your point…but you seem to be missing the point that this game is plenty social. Sure…there might not be an specific area where people hang and actively talk in say. But people are active in map and guild chats. I think people prefer to use map chat as opposed to say because its a more convenient way to socialize with people in the area.

However, if you feel thats not enough socialness for you and want to see activeness in say…then you should try to change that. This is something thats really up to the guild wars players to make happen…arenanet cant force players to use say chat.

I would advise start using say chat to talk to people in LA somewhere you think would be a good place to establish an area to use say chat if you want to see this.

Tarn.1374:

I agree.
Additionally it would be great if we could customise the emotes.

e.g.
a) for </wave @>
we could type
</wave waves goodbye to @>
Which would do the character animation of the wave along with our emote text. So, for Sue waving to Bill
‘’Sue waves goodbye to Bill’’

b) Would be great if ‘@’ worked for anything that we targeted and would work in emote/text speech in general.
For instance so if I typed <Hello @> it would output my target character’s name.
Also, if I pointed at an object and typed </point @> it would point with the animation and use the objects name. ‘’Sue points at boulder’’ for example.

Custom Emotes are already in the game…..if my memory serves correct you type /me followed by the action you want to emote.

You can find people being plenty social in guild chats and map chats….

Im not going to lie, im a bit miffed you guys havent released guesting and last we heard you guys aren’t even actively working on guild halls.

Through i think its fine if you guys put minigames on hold to work on other things(as much as i want to see them),i feel like your alienating the PVE players and people who want to see new guild features.

Why should PVE players have to wait 7 days to transfer because people are cheating in WvW? The 24 hour limit was fine but the 7 days limit just feels like your penalizing PVE players for WvW players.

Lastly, im not happy at all that you guys arent even actively working on guild halls. Last we heard,you guys arent even actively working on this. I understand you guys want go give level 80 players stuff to do…well guild halls has the potential give level 80’s something to do. If gw1 is any indication, players can use influence to get the guild hall and various npcs and upgrades to add to it.

I have been thinking and i think the Black lion/mad king chest drop rates are perfectly fine. I think the main issue is arenanet should have made those rates clearer…..

Ideally it would have been good if arenanet had made the drop rates a bit better for skins from mad king chests. But they should have at least made it clear what to expect rewardwise. If people had known the drop rate would be the same for skins and the common good reward would be rare crafting mats…i dont think people would be as upset about this.

First of all, i would like to say thank you for the hallowen content arenanet! and im enjoying the event so far!…. However,i feel that a few mistakes were made that should be improved on for future events..

1)Make it clearer where to go-i feel it wasnt clear enough where to go to start the scavenger hunt. For future events, you should have in-game mails telling them where to go or lead them there the same fashion you lead them to personl story instances.

2)Skins Improvement- For future events, i think the best way to go is to make any BL skins either A)easier to obtain from BL chests/second chance chests oralso purchasable for gems from the gem shop

3)Also i feel the second chance mad king chests werent handled very well. you should have made the odds of getting a skin better or at least have made it clear the odds for getting a skin would be the same. Also you should have given us a better idea of what to expect from the rewards, if people had known the common reward would be rare crafting mats…i dont think as many people would be upset.

thekemp.5967:

riddleguy.9738:

Vanguardian.4921:

So Anet is all this and all that just because each and every one of you doesn’t get exactly what you want? They took an extra step to give you another chance, it’s called gambling for a reason.

The above sums up my opinion. I think some of you guys are judging a bit harshly….this is only act 1. We have no idea what rewards/content the other 3 acts have to offer.

This problem is completely separate from the halloween event.

It’s the principle of implementing real money gambling on a limited duration item.

I’m looking forward to the halloween event, But they won’t be getting any of my money anymore, Not with antics like these.

In that case, if you guys think the drop rates are so bad…i would just not buy keys with gems. I personally dont buy keys because it is a gamble. There are stuff in the store definately worth spending money on….like the mad king thorn costume….which is pretty cool.

Vanguardian.4921:

So Anet is all this and all that just because each and every one of you doesn’t get exactly what you want? They took an extra step to give you another chance, it’s called gambling for a reason.

The above sums up my opinion. I think some of you guys are judging a bit harshly….this is only act 1. We have no idea what rewards/content the other 3 acts have to offer.

10/1 update? in the other thread …you said the 9/24 update. which is it? i hope its the 9/24 update…cause i dont want to wait until october to continue my ele’s story.