I loved it. It was epic. It felt like that should be what Orr should always feel like - a warzone. It truly felt awesome when we finally downed that Ancient Karka and she fell into the lava - almost thought she was gonna come back up lol. Kudos to ArenaNet.
The only issue here I saw was the FPS lag, I had no skill lag throughout the entire event.
I enjoyed the event overall, too. I did have quite a bit of lag throughout the 3-hour event, which was frustrating at times, and my game crashed once. When I relogged, I found that I'd been moved to a different overflow server and this group wasn't nearly as close to finishing as my last one, so for a while it felt like I was repeating the exact same thing over again just with less lag. lol
The cutscene at the end was definitely cool, and I got some great rewards from the chest - 3 exotics, 2 rares, a 20-slot bag, and a trinket. I also got a cool shark tooth weapon skin, so that was neat. My main was a 76 when the weekend began and now she's nearly 80. Oh, and I also got my karka kills achievement done for November.
Meh, it was alright. Wayyy too long. When you say an event will take hours, I usually expect it to be quality content with unique mechanics. Instead of killing waves of mobs for 80% of it. Anytime a cool mechanic was introduced, like the geysers or the landslide they only lasted a few minutes compared to 15-30 minutes for each "kill all the adds!" phase.
It also made me lol how people were abusing the overflows to get more than one loot chest filled with exotics and shinnies. Figured ANet would have learned from that by now. Seems they're a little slow.
Last edited by Fey; 11-19-2012 at 01:51 AM.
Enjoyed the Event Completely. There was a little lag but overall I enjoyed it. 2.5 hours in my overflow and I think that was the basic length as we had guildies in other overflows as well.
@fey: As far as I understood from folks in Map chat that came to our overflow they didn't get the option to loot the extra chests. Not sure who you talked to about it but They lied.
I hope ArenaNet has more of these planned for the future as I am looking forward to them.
Kergon Darkmoon
Emerald Knights (Maguuma Server)
Word.Originally Posted by Kergon Darkmoon
I was out of town from Friday until a couple hours ago. I missed EVERYTHING. Yeah... lovely. The one time events are going to get old very fast as I miss them all. Starting to get really frustrated with that.
Sorry to say Stacey, you'd probably have hated it. Your machine would have lagged so bad it would have been completely unplayable for you anyway. Many people had problems staying connected anyway, including me and dana. The rewards were good, but you'd have only gotten rewards at level anyway, so if you didn't have an 80 it would have affected the drops quite a bit. So I wouldn't be too distraught.
Not all things are for all people. I don't think you missed as much as you think you did. In fact, I think you'd have been more frustrated had you been there.
I got bored and went to bed. Probably would have stayed up if I'd known there'd be rewards at the end because I'm a greedy ***** like that but I hate that map and all the smelly animals on it. I miss Orr but the drops there have been annihilated.
For those who had connnection issues, here's what Anet said on their forums.
Hopefully it won't be too long in coming.We have a team looking into disconnection problems that prevented some people from receiving their event rewards.
We will implement a solution so that people who participated will get their rewards, but this takes work on our end, so it will not happen today.
Keep an eye on our forums and social media channels, we will let you know once we have the solution in place.
Thank you, and we apologize that you were unable to claim your rewards.
Wondering if it would be morally wrong to say I was disconnected, when in reality I just got bored and went to bed, so I can get me some loot. Is there any way they can tell the difference between a DC and a shutdown? I was there in the event for at least an hour and a half.
WWJD
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