Guild Wars 2

I love helping ppl and feel extra good when I pop a portal to help ppl on puzzles or even just getting past unnecessary mobs, traps etc. dungeons can be super smooth as well :P

Like how everyone is jealous of trahearnes sword xD and actually a lot of Mesmers in game transforms u into a disguise xD and apparently queen Jennah herself is one of the most powerful Mesmers tho I havent seen her fight and allows herself to be captured in situations oO the sylvari group I fought with for the stories in Orr were also op and I could literally just sit and watch and they have such crazy dps

Im looking forward to the big update! I really hope for new permanent content like … new maps I’d personally support that update more than this halloween event lol if Anet need the time then i won’t complain

K, the storm is reaching us in toronto right now xD it sounds like its going to be bad and has gained more strength along land…. :S

Not sure if people have been saying this already, but I believe many of us have also experienced the same thing but I have no doubts that the dungeon is actually scaling up in difficulty!!!

The first run, I did with a party as soon as the portals opened. Our server didn’t have any issues. Some people solo’d this dungeon. There were only adds pretty much on the first level with the doors. After that once u got to face MK, it was like a single target and the easiest thing ever. He also only ported once. None of the party members were downed.

A few runs at night, I noticed the mobs had increased while you were facing MK, as well he ported up and down three times or so. during this time as a level 45, some party members was downed once or twice.

Today however, everyone kept going down non stop (like you would in a real dungeon). While facing MK, there were a bazillion adds (mainly spiders) swarming you. It was difficult to survive the fall/drop downs because you’d get swarmed as soon as you land. As well Thorn ported over and over again, up and down the levels. And it was tough. Had some damaged armor. Probably went down about five times.

So as we near Act 4, I believe this dungeon is actually increasing in difficulty. From your experience beginning of act 3 til now, do you also notice this? Now it is most likely impossible to solo!!

I think this is amazing, ANet. I didn’t think that it would be like this! It’s even more exciting than ever!

super fun. been super exciting anticipating things and having new things to do and explore even the “frustrating” clock tower somehow Anet has made so fun, u can just keep doing it and doing it and its still addicting xD

wait like came in as in “physically” manifested as a character? LOL cuz that would be pretty cool if theres like dev characters XDDD zap! or like the matrix defying game rules XDD

I second it,your explanation makes sense. But I also question the 10 slot? Why not more slots? haha Like its certainly an upgrade for beginner players but not for most other players. Why not make it an upgrade for all players, like a 15 slot or 18 slot? Since it is given only once anyway

I didn’t see the mad king either. my comp isn’t on high graphics so maybe thats why. BUT. dont fret, bc the Mad King appears every once in a while RIGHT IN LIONS ARCH IN THAT HOLE. I saw it happen two times. So you still get ur chance of seeing his big pumpkin head :P

I think there was nothing to complain about missing the “one time” event anyway… its being repeated xD

I wish I had my mesmer to 80 already > < I can handle swarms generally and single targets for mesmers are a joke XD It would be so fun. Can’t do it at level 45 with lack of traits and gear tho xD

^ lol its easy but the swarms at the beginning were still alot, got caught off guard

LOL. WAIT THERE WAS A CHEST?????!!!!!!! i gotta run this again

It was an easy dungeon run tho! you can probably solo it as a level 80. the mobs were tough at times but if u are a player that can solo your swarms, after that, mad king thorn actually does like next to no damage. itll take a long time tho but u can solo it.

IT was fun but u dont actually kill him so im looking forward to a finale fight

It was so much fun! but this isn’t the finale guys. we didn’t actually kill him yet :P

Ours worked fine. We finished the entire dungeon sequence. but it was a fun run, we dont actually kill the boss tho. Eveyrone boosted to level 80 and it was so easy. Hope the finale fight will be much harder

Guys, this was already cleared up if you have been paying attention. A tweet was posted that said they moved the finale to the 28th however a dev posted on the forum thread that was talking about how its not fair if its the finale correcting that the tweet was a mistake, it IS NOT the finale but a special one time event.

I’ve always thought the same, my human female char doesn’t seem to physically make jumps when i jump from the same spot and same direction as someone else (this isn’t just for clock tower). And I end up being extremely jumping puzzle challenged. However, I think i’m just bad at it… because after many many tries, when I finally jump off the exact spot and face the exact right direction i made it… to my surprise. While others can just get it first try.

Is there anything that makes it harder on the human female model? Not sure… but, if my skills were better i could probably make certain jumps xD And i’m certain human female characters have finished the clock tower. it’s not really an absolute issue that makes us incapable of doing it xD

The book says completed edition i don’t think there are any more book page related quests. And i believe right now the Mad King Labryinth is quite pointless but Act 3 will probably take place in there? so everyone would be boosted and scaled to level 80 to participate. That would only make sense or else the boost to 80 is kind of unnecessary. So keep your hopes up.

There are players who don’t explore maps at all and only focus on levelling/farming etc. I think Anet is right to force people to explore certain maps they haven’t been to. hopefully other holidays in the future will feature non-human zones or something. I don’t think the game should only about levelling and stuff like that. This is asking players to explore these zones.

Low levels is tough, but do you think they can just leave everything in starting zones? There wouldn’t be even enough space to hide things. That would be immensely boring for everyone. I think it makes it even more fun for low levels bc its the risk of being one shotted like life and death and it was mad fun when i had to use everything i’ve got and carefully take a long time to make my way to Orr without getting ANY aggro at all. I think that makes the game interesting.

I can’t see why everyone wants everything handed on a platter or spoon fed. People also complain about not knowing where to go, even though there are guides and info online from ppl nice enough to provide it, or try to think of what clues mean.

The tougher it is, the more fun it is. like the clock tower, its like 99% fail rate, which is FUN. because its challenging but also u see everyone fall with you XD and its funny. when you do make it bc u fluke it its just like the most amazing funniest thing ever.

Can’t we be optimistic and enjoy some of these things? Not everything should be spoon fed. Esp not a halloween event. esp because halloween should be scary and dangerous.

You have a great guide i will be coming back to for extra info. Have you been able to find out anything on the clues in the mail about things happening in different maps all across the world? I haven’t gotten a chance to check out other maps but the human areas right now.

If possible, it’d be nice to document what new dynamic events are happening around, because i think i’ve spotted a few weird ones that probably isn’t the default non-halloween things.

There has been many low levels that made it :P avoiding and stuff and stripping naked xD i went to Orr on my level 30 like that XD didnt die too much. there’s also lots of players and zergs in those areas getting pages. Of course best if you have a guild and join other higher level players. After all this game is about collaboration, with all our DE and group stuff. It’s not REQUIRED though, bc u can make the run naked like others have done :P

Thanks for the detailed information but just want to give heads up that for specific scavenger hunt locations, there is a lot of repeated information so perhaps you can link in http://dulfy.net or one of the other posters had a thread where he had a link to his website with pictures and screenshots. As well in the beginning half an hour of act 2 we had gathered all the information from players submissions and had a makeshift guide for all the pages til better ones were made. other than specifically scavenger hunt, thanks for the info!

none of my exotics were mad king items, i was hoping for a mad king item lol. I only got other exotics. one went for 2 gold on tp which i sold immediately :P but i got a nice staff as well which had power/ precision/condition that would work well for my character so im keeping one.

Denial Of Service.5732:

so, let me see, you farmed a lot of exotics for yourself and now you want Anet to shutdown event so you can get richer? pretty legit…

let people enjoy event and stop whining.

why do people always think people say things out of selfishness? LOL i only got three exotics cuz i only did three boss events. i’m thinking for the overall consideration of all players bc exotics will no longer be worth much at all, nor be so “exotic” if there is too much.

EVERYONE suffers bc those who can’t use the items they found can’t sell it or salvage for some good income. those with exotics won’t feel special anymore if there is too much. but it hasn’t gotten to that point yet. i’m thinking forward. but i dont think two days of this will be bad.

oh disregard my post, i didn’t realize you were referencing your site. so now we can reference your site every time we need guide info

I’m on my level 45. received level 70 exotic gear every time i killed the boss

you realize we already did a makeshift guide in the first half an hour here: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/halloween/Halloween-Act-2-Info-Compilation

but you have clear and elaborated description so thanks. but we had been trying to keep it condensed and collected bc we’ll see repeating threads over and over. as well we can direct people to http://dulfy.net for the scavenger hunt which has pictures and all the details.

uhhh you guys realize that Anet responded to player complains?? didnt u see how many people were complaining about not being able to get anything? the drop rates of BLC so rare and they were spending hundreds of dollars into it? how bout all the extremely harsh things calling anet malicious and onwards? and not getting rewarded for being part of the halloween event… saying Anet is trying to make people spend their resources and onwards. there is so much complaining.

Yes the drop rates are a bit too much right now and people will be farming the heck out of this but Anet is trying to be really nice and give u guys things for free….. now you’re complaining you’re being given too much??? omg. that is just unreasonable.

also i dont think this will last forever. itll probably change by act 3

Velocity.4950:

what champ at the tower?? o.o

how come i never heard about it…

how long have u been in the maze? if u stick around long enough u see ppl rushing up to the tower in the middle of the maze. it spawns every now and then. i think it was about half an hour or something between the two times i killed it. have u explored the whole thing yet? try to find ppl theres usually a lot of ppl running around… the champion is a giant candy elemental lol family -sized. u might have missed it.

I got exotics each time i did it. Some reason, i’ve always had better luck without any mf boost or gear for finds. so i was surprised when mf decked out people didn’t have any exotics lol

as great as this is, i do agree that it might be economy breaking. cuz ull have people farming and farming and there will be a huge abundance of exotics and ectos and stuff. i would hope that this phase would not continue for too long. like with next act u can’t get the same drop rates from normal mobs like that but ud have to strive for the bigger goals for Act 3

Not sure but i dont think you can finish it yet. I’m guessing something will happen there in Act 3 and on wards. Right now all i’ve seen are events and the champ at the tower that gives u chest with loot :P every time i got exotic hahaaha im happy bout that. but i think its just a place to farm right now XD

actually for me personally, without the timer it wouldnt b fun. it would be like trying so hard not to make mistakes and saving my spot with portals and u know really hating it when i screw up. with the timer, i have a high chance of screwing up and that way i dont feel bad when i do screw up cuz i knowi have to rush and trust instincts. the timer made it fun for me. otherwise id get frustrated

I personally think it should be challenging, it is the mad king after all xD and halloween means creepy, scary, epic, probably dangerous stuff. if it was easy it would just be boring no? And it would just be a boring grind fest, you’re only doing easy things to get stuff… where as this makes it interesting

Big characters do block the way, but im liking the group stuff, u see ppl falling all the time and while u dont fall u feel good and if u fall u know that ur not alone. and rushing together with a group of ppl feels like ur all running for ur lives its kinda interesting feeling like you’re all in the same boat together.

Don’t you feel that way??

LOL Yeah i cant get past the first few jumps. I naturally am jumping puzzle challenged, even simple ones are impossibly fail for me XD I get upset at other puzzles but… Clock tower actually is fun. despite me falling im having a blast, XD its just so funny haha I dont mind falling a billion times haha Just hopefully one day i can get to the top….

Act 2 is soooo awesome! People had issues with Act 1, but Act 2 is definitely is even better! so much fun xD and it feels like Anet has taken feedback into consideration. having boosted to 80 map, new instances and dungeons, people wanting more drops, so theres tons of exotics in the mad king realms as well as tons of halloween related things? its great! great work! and thanks for listening to player feedback even though i didnt have much to complain about xD

In case people still have questions, we had gathered a lot of info. But http://dulfy.net has a guide up for the pages now.

Contribute any new info should you find any here!

Silent Polaris.9301:

I’m a little sad about Act 2 and the locations. I thought ANet said that the Halloween events would be open to all players, but the last few locations require your character to be around level 55 if you don’t want to get helplessly murdered. Luckily for me I have guildmates who are at or above that level that can help me (my highest character is 35 at the moment), but I feel like I need to grind through those areas in order to complete Act 2. I understand they want to tell a story, but I wish they would have something in place that would mark your character as doing the quest so it would temporarily level you to the level of the area you need to be in. I just feel bad for anyone who has to solo the second act and doesn’t have a character high enough level yet. :/

While that’s true there’s limited starting areas. So… it would be crammed together if everything is in starting zones. and I guess they’re hoping that you’re going all over the place and levelling at the same time. XD

But this thread isn’t for comments and stuff, please keep it to information for the new act!

Lmnotz.2057:

you gain access to clocktower and rumblus by talking to the guy in the beginning, and selecting i would like to participate

guy in the beginning where? after entering a haunted door?

Okay first post updated

Thanks for the pics, pics of the map would be nice as well. keep info coming! this is a great source of info. direct any players with questions to this thread for now until we get more organized website pages up. once u find a website with clear info and pics, plz do post the link

I’ll be updating as soon as i can, sometimes i can edit sometimes i can’t. not sure why, but yep! keep it coming, thanks guys for the info! Let’s keep it organized this time XP

I hear there’s Clock tower, Ramble and Mad King’s Labryinth. Anyone clarify how to access these? and location?

I’m still in the labryinth, i entered through haunted doors.

Check my first post im editing with info. Ascalon Settlement is in Gendarran fields

Everyone else whatever u find, Please provide Location, WP if possible and Description of event/thing/etc so i can put it in first post

Can we condense a little. where is the reaper looking dude? Let’s only give the facts we found instead of comments/questions.

Everyone give Location and Description of what you see/ get

ENTERED INTO MAD KINGS LABRYINTH through a haunted door ! in Ascalon Settlement tower!

SEVENTH PAGE: Ascalon Settlement Tower in Gendarran fields. I will be editing first post as we collect info

We got the notice, ACt 2 has started. Said theres more activity including Lunatic Courtiers in Kryta. Increased activity in Queensdale/Kessex/Gendarran.

Set up camps in Metrica Province, Plains of Ashford, Caledon, Wayfarer, in other words theres activity all over the place.

There’s new pages to look for so we follow the clues on the book.

Let’s gather information here. NO discussion or commentary or arguing or anything, but POST ANY INFORMATION OR LEADS YOU FIND. (Actually find, not guesses) Let’s condense and organize our information.

BOOK PAGES:

SEVENTH PAGE – Ascalon Settlement Tower in Gendarran Fields. Monsters appearing there too.

EIGHTH PAGE – Martyr’s Tomb at Dwayna’s Statue in Harathi

NINTH PAGE – Half sunken ship North West of Laughing Gull Island WP – Bloodtide Coast

TENTH PAGE – Seraph Landing Waypoint – Harathi Hinterlands – Storeroom south of Repair guy

ELEVENTH PAGE – Northwest of Bridgewatch Camp Waypoint – Harathi Hinterlands

TWELTH PAGE – Bottom floor of Fort Cadence – Sparkfly Fen

Reward for all 12 pages – is an updated glowy book?

EVENTS:

ENTERED INTO MAD KINGS LABRYINTH through a haunted door !Everyone boosted to Level 80.

Also there is access to Clock Tower, and Ramble on that same map. We are still looking for clarification on how to gain access to these.

three book pages are in human zones. but well thats okay, this is only act 1 and its also only halloween :P maybe other races will have their time for other holidays who knows

lol its actually fun, you CAN win with the random costumes.. It takes some dodging and moving about, just like you were in combat for real… XP Also u can use ur slot skills for extra mobility :P

This is only the first holiday, perhaps other holidays may have more prominence in other zones. I get what other races are saying because its all Queensdale, Kessex, Gendarran mainly, though there are some decorations elsewhere. but I think there will be things in other maps as well in the future. Perhaps even Act 2 or Act 3 who knows. Ascalon? I don’t know. But future holidays as well. who knows

I run guided tours on my server and have escorted level 5, level 9, level 15s and even level 20s had issues. I really encourage and suggest everyone to extend a hand when u have extra time to help others. Not only does it help others but it’s a rewarding experience as well for urself

My server has been fine, been farming doors constantly. Some doors are bugged yes, some I’ve run up disappeared but that’s cuz it was rly far away and I’m assuming it’s been there for a while and I didn’t get to it on time. But most of the doors on my server has been working fine. Get tons of bags and mobs

Would never put a spider on my rangers back. Staff is too creepy for my Mesmer. I don’t rly like any of the skins and won’t try to get it. Why do ppl think their opinion / tastes is the same for everyone and that everythin isn’t fair?