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Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
Ehh, let's just kill Faolain and get it over with. Sylvari stuff is boring.
Nemesis121
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I was bored after my first 30mins, right now I am completely burnt out...
I suggest reading this reddit post on the new event, and why people are feeling meh about it:
Empty Pockets: Why This Mordrem Event Feels Empty
Hedge: it's a gap filler. Has S1 rewards in it if you missed them (the halo potion being the one I missed).
Epic Battle of Kyhlo Highlight: http://www.twitch.tv/ashodin/v/15465045
Escorting Mikedip to Diessa Plateau: http://www.twitch.tv/ashodin/v/15465575
Empty Pockets: Why This Mordrem Event Feels Empty
Hedge: it's a gap filler. Has S1 rewards in it if you missed them (the halo potion being the one I missed).
Epic Battle of Kyhlo Highlight: http://www.twitch.tv/ashodin/v/15465045
Escorting Mikedip to Diessa Plateau: http://www.twitch.tv/ashodin/v/15465575
Anyone able to throw me an invite to the GAF guild? :] My character's name is Bombit Diehm.
This seems like a fantastic community though and I'm hoping to give this game another shot. Couldn't run on my laptop when I picked it up at launch but now I should be good to go. Expansion looks sweet!
This seems like a fantastic community though and I'm hoping to give this game another shot. Couldn't run on my laptop when I picked it up at launch but now I should be good to go. Expansion looks sweet!
Invited you, bring up the guild panel and click our guild then click the Represent button.
I'm catching up on the 'fixed' reward-rates since I woke up this morning, and ..... maybe they should have left this event broken after all xD
After doing two full runs yesterday, the event itself is a big mess, it emcompasses everything that has always been wrong with their event and scaling system since launch when there is many people in one place in a map.
All you can reasonably do is playing Tag-Wars 2 in hope of getting credit for the events, it's not fun, it's borderline stressfull because you never know if you'll reach the next event before it finishes, and then with no XP/Loot/Karma as basic rewards it's not even remotely rewarding.
Then with the 'fixed' rewards there comes the issue of needing 20 stacks to get the full reward, it basically encourages people to jump from event to event without completing them to tag as much of them as possible ....
Now look at the possible bloom rewards, every map starts at xx:30 in a rotation with a one hour gap until it starts again, that is one full event loop in 4 hours (half of it being waiting for the next event to start on top of that)
Best case scenario, you get 15 blooms per map per rotation + 20 bonus blooms per day for every map.
That's a maximum 330 Blooms per 24 hours without interruption, getting max reward everytime, and provided you don't DC in the middle of an event.
The event is 4 days long, with two of those days being workdays .... and one of those days already gone for EU players because they had to 'fix' the event.
( event started at 5-7 pm depending on where you are, and the fix came early the day after)
The only good news in all this is that daily rewards (should you be able to get them all...) will allow you to buy at least one of the 250 bloom skins granted you got at least minimum reward twice.
And I sincerely think that's as far as I'll go.
After doing two full runs yesterday, the event itself is a big mess, it emcompasses everything that has always been wrong with their event and scaling system since launch when there is many people in one place in a map.
All you can reasonably do is playing Tag-Wars 2 in hope of getting credit for the events, it's not fun, it's borderline stressfull because you never know if you'll reach the next event before it finishes, and then with no XP/Loot/Karma as basic rewards it's not even remotely rewarding.
Then with the 'fixed' rewards there comes the issue of needing 20 stacks to get the full reward, it basically encourages people to jump from event to event without completing them to tag as much of them as possible ....
Now look at the possible bloom rewards, every map starts at xx:30 in a rotation with a one hour gap until it starts again, that is one full event loop in 4 hours (half of it being waiting for the next event to start on top of that)
Best case scenario, you get 15 blooms per map per rotation + 20 bonus blooms per day for every map.
That's a maximum 330 Blooms per 24 hours without interruption, getting max reward everytime, and provided you don't DC in the middle of an event.
The event is 4 days long, with two of those days being workdays .... and one of those days already gone for EU players because they had to 'fix' the event.
( event started at 5-7 pm depending on where you are, and the fix came early the day after)
The only good news in all this is that daily rewards (should you be able to get them all...) will allow you to buy at least one of the 250 bloom skins granted you got at least minimum reward twice.
And I sincerely think that's as far as I'll go.
Beside the whole tagging problem with this event, it just seems also quite unrewarding since it only going to be 4 days and that doesn't look to be much when it comes to the stack system and gated blooms. Gotta grind hard and be selfish if you want one of those potions heh.
As I had said elsewhere, it feels like it was cobbled together by 5-10 people in a hurry and didn't go through very much iteration design wise. Honestly it may have been better to not have done it and just kept those people on HoT which is more important at the moment. I'd rather have the manpower on something I've paid for than a 4 day event that has serious reward issues in terms of pacing.
Yeah each invasion just ends on well, a empty note lol. A filler can be exciting, but this doesn't do that. There like no soul nor immersion in this event really, just these invasions are just "there" with a bleh reward system that encourages tagging and such pretty much. It makes it even more sad that they kind of were hyping this to the F2P folks, and now just seeing how the event turned out, it not giving a good impression.
A lot of the design decisions don't make sense, especially for the F2P players. As far as they're concerned, they're getting one shot, no loot, no xp, spending money on waypoints, and then getting a currency they don't have the secondary costs to be able to afford the items.
Kos Luftar
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Arm-chair developers all over reddit because of this event.
Fixed that for ya, that's been a constant since before launch.
It's doable but it depends on how much you value your time.
Kos Luftar
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Perfect event to make all the new players hate the event systems. GG.
shysaursoft
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They advertise bosses. I think they'll start spawning on the weekend. Either that, or I misunderstood a part of the news post.
Also: wow. More people talking about the rewards, than the enjoyment of playing some new (if simplistic, but I still think it's only the first phase) content. I think I'm with the wrong crowd here. I already live on a farm, I don't need to play games to farm.
Kos Luftar
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They advertise bosses. I think they'll start spawning on the weekend.
Also: wow. More people talking about the rewards, than the enjoyment of playing some new (if simplistic, but I still think it's only the first phase) content. I think I'm with the wrong crowd here. I already live on a farm, I don't need to play games to farm.
Game Update (September 11th 2015):
- To enjoy events better without farming, please move to a farm in real life and then play the game.
They advertise bosses. I think they'll start spawning on the weekend.
Also: wow. More people talking about the rewards, than the enjoyment of playing some new (if simplistic, but I still think it's only the first phase) content. I think I'm with the wrong crowd here. I already live on a farm, I don't need to play games to farm.
I know it's different, but when I read posts about the rewards it reminds me of mercenaries in movies. Like the world is crumbling, but they demand payment up front for their services, and the hero of the film finally caves to their request to help all of humanity (or their specific gang, ala Gangs of New York). Always hate those guys..
But in the end they usually turn out to be good, so maybe there is hope for the mercenaries of Tyria.
Kos Luftar
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Didn't know you role played.
you have to farm on a farm
Kos Luftar
Member
Exactly, then you won't want to farm in game.
shysaursoft
Member
I enjoyed this, thank you. ^..^
R1 + Up for me! Couldn't live without it.
It's just human nature (and charr and asura...). In this world of uncertainty where dragons warp the elements, reshaping the world the to fulfill their unknowable desires society as we know it has ceased to function. When today's allies could be tomorrow's enemies, the only true measure of a man's worth is his fabulousness.
In this harsh world it isn't food, weapons, or armor that have value, but skins and dyes. I watched good men and women die yesterday so a stranger could wear a chia pet on their shoulders and I can't say what they did was wrong. I've seen the clashes between the factions as people align themselves with ruthless commanders. Battlefields littered with the followers of cool ranch and nacho cheese. But before you blame the desperate souls fighting tooth and nail over the ownership of a floating, glowing donut ask yourself this: "Do I want to wait a year for another chance like a pleb or do I want to look fly?"
Astral/H3X
Member
What is R by default, for me it's just sheathe weapon. You guys can't be talking about sheathe weapon.
Nemesis121
Member
For those who want to know the schedule
i converted all times to EST..
Brisban Wildlands
4:30
8:30
12:30
16:30
20:30
00:30
Kessex Hills
5:30
9:30
13:30
17:30
21:30
1:30
Diessa Plateau
6:30
10:30
14:30
18:30
22:30
02:30
i converted all times to EST..
Brisban Wildlands
4:30
8:30
12:30
16:30
20:30
00:30
Kessex Hills
5:30
9:30
13:30
17:30
21:30
1:30
Diessa Plateau
6:30
10:30
14:30
18:30
22:30
02:30
Astral/H3X
Member
Oh, I have that on X. Kept all of my skills on my numbers, since I have a G600 8 )
Nemesis121
Member
They need to that or just extend this until a few day before HoT is release this way i can slowly get what i want with out a grind..
Kos Luftar
Member
7:30 to 8:30 no event?
Looks like the same with 11:30, 15:30, 19:30. I believe there is a break after each map has an event.
Nemesis121
Member
90min break between every map rotation..starts in Brisban ends at Diessa, from Diessa's end back to Brisban it's a 90min kool down..
appletoasty
Member
Aw, I'll miss this one and that's a fun one too! Especially if there is a race from the waypoint through it.. oh man..
Good luck everyone!
appletoasty
Member
EDIT: JUST KIDDING biweekly in this context means twice a week, not every other week. Next event is NEXT WEDNESDAY September 16.
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