Guild Wars 2

Last year you could get most things if you really wanted them, while there was some grind it never felt like grind. This year is not the case. The maze where you need to kill bosses for achievements has become the new (old) Orr, only worse. I remember being able to get at least 20 feet in Orr before I gave up because of stuns, cripples, etc., but now you can only get about 10 feet before the mobs make me just want to quit playing .

Once the masses of players have gotten their rewards they are not returning, and so the maze is mostly empty now, with two more weeks of Halloween content. If this place had good rewards then players would still be filling it and taking down the mobs and there wouldn’t be an issue. It reminds me of the Super Adventure Box, where players were there all the time back in April, but for the next go around the rewards were nerfed so much hardly anyone returned more then once. (Did anyone do World 2 more then once?)

I hate to bring up GW 1 Halloween but I have to compare because they did so much right there, where everyone became like children and were so excited when Halloween came up. Just the bag drops all over the worlds made it feels like Halloween every day. I remember the Underworld Halloween content was really hard for me and it took many, many runs to get to the end and learn the paths and timing of them. The BIG difference was I got better each run as I learned the paths, and the rewards made it worth the trouble. GW 2 Halloween feels like things are beyond my control, no matter how hard I try I will not get beyond the maze mobs, and I cannot kill the bosses by myself. Since rewards are not that great no one wants to re-do Halloween content. Can you see the problem here? Everyday felt like Halloween in GW 1 and now in GW 2 I just want to get my achievements and be done with it and want to see the whole thing just disappear.

Xar.6185:

The labyrinth is a shambles…

All of the knockbacks, pulls, chills, & cripples on high hit point mobs that pop retaliation is just annoying. Its just not fun.
On top of that you can only get the champion chests 1 per day per account.

People got thier achievements and have now abandoned it.

I really am sorry that you were unable to get the item you were after but I don’t think anyone is going to go back in there. Maybe you could find some people here on the forums or on reddit/guildwars2 that are in the same boat and team up?

So, if you do not do the events in the first week, you can forget about it? Apparently, yes, that is the case. No Halloween final rewards for anyone who didn’t get the achievements within the first 10 days.

“The knockbacks, pulls, chills, & cripples on high hit point mobs that pop retaliation is just annoying. Its just not fun. "

Not only is it NOT FUN, the labyrinth just a miserable place. The problem is I need some of those achievements. Has anyone from from Anet tried to hop in there recently? Can you tell us how to get some of those achievements when NO ONE is in there and it DOES NOT SCALE. DO you have FUN now? Knockbacks, pulls, chills & cripples and armor repairs is all you’ll get from the labyrinth.

Halloween was great the first year and in GW 1. This is the most miserable experience I’ve had trying to get a holiday achievement in any game Making everything super difficult does not = more fun.