This thing is easily among the top 10 most boring things i have ever seen added to the game. I will rather run through elwynn forest killing critters for five hours, than to ever play this garbage again.
Who thought that it would be fun afkin’ at four bases for like 10 minutes, just to then fight a target dummy for 10 more minutes?
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I’ve done the portals 2 times now. When i get to attack the raid boss i get phased into another phase where all the portals are still up. Blizzard please
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Also. The trial chest seems to be interfering with the event. When the chest spawned all the portals disppeared. Also when we killed the final mob for the chest,the chest despawned.
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This will a pain to complete in a few weeks when everyone will ignore it
But yeah right now you do it and you get nothing so whats the point
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yea this happened to me just now. We were halfway through the boss encountered then the trial thing spawned and the boss despawned.
What’s worse is I went over to the chest, killed mobs and then the chest disappeared. So I didn’t get anything from either event.
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gotta laugh that this is seen by blizzard as a patch worthy event…go look at gw2 zone events for inspiration…
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I agree. Worthless event tbh. Gonna stick to it until I get my mount, then never gonna set foot in it again.
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there is a mount?
Yep. You can buy one right close to portal where u enter to zone.
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Just happened to me as well (about 30 minutes ago - Boss spawned and then despawn and it reset) The event itself… can’t say I was very impressed but will do it for the 385 rings/neck on alts and I think there is a mount
its just killing our time and in the end you get bunch of garbage as reward
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So I just tried it.
There’s like 50 people just idling at the platform. Some elite mob spawns once in a blue moon.
Lost my patience after 20 minutes of pointless nothing.
Super lame event…or whatever it was. I suppose there’s some climax if you spend a godforsaken amount of time idling around doing nothing. Never saw it.
So that was crap.
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its like the chest in the plains? doin nothin for 5 assaults? (focused on elders so ill try later)
Everyone stands at the bronze platform and waits. Sometimes an elite mob spawns on the map. Everyone flies to kill it. Takes 5 seconds. Everyone goes back to the bronze platform. And waits.
I repeated that like 4 times and then I lost my patience and left.
I think some big bad boss is supposed to spawn if you hang around long enough, which is the objective for the quest, but I didn’t get that far.
wow. that’s lame.
This event was a big disappointment for me. I was quite looking forward to it but it isn’t fun for me at all.
Rares seemed to spawn same time and have really low amount of health, so i couldn’t tag any before they were dead. Portal event just went on and on and mobs attacking portals didn’t seem to drop any loot. End boss seems to be huge health sponge taking ages to kill. But worst part of the event is the frost debuff stack mechanism that actually requiress you to afk on bonfires or big platform, to get the heat stacks to protect you. I get it, trinkets and rings you can buy help against the stacks but people don’t have them yet and since everything is so tedious, everyone just “warms up” somewhere by the fire hoping others to kill the mobs, making event take even longer.
How would it be better, from my point of view?
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remove the frost debuff, it just doesn’t bring anything positive to the table and promotes afk
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time rares to spawn different times and give them more health so everyone can participate on killing and looting them
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give mobs that attack portals proper loot tables, having them drop gold, elemental dust thingy, grays (new mogs there!), candies (one can ask?)
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lower hitpoints on the end boss
If you don’t want to remove frost debuff then change the mechanism work in the way that instead of afking on bonfires stacks are removed purely by hitting mobs. Last end bosses i did on alts people had already learned the ropes and 1/3 of players where fighting the end boss while 2/3 was “warming up” at the bronze platform. And i can’t blame them, it was warm and cosy under that dome.
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The event sounded kind of boring from the announcement description already, like a micro-BG, capture and hold some flags, then wait for a big baddie to spawn, but with a debuff to manage as well, to add annoyance to ennui.
I understand that the original elemental storms are too easy to farm with lots of players (Although sweeping over the area like a bunch of heavily-armed locusts has its charm), but i don’t think annoying players into AFK-ing in a safe spot until something worthwhile crops up is the way to fix it.
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Not only is the event absolute garbage tier of filler content that just wastes your time with the boss HP ballooing to 300M and takes forever to kill, but it bugs out 24/7.
Over the last 2 days I’ve done the event maybe 5 times and in those 5 times I have had it phase me out and reset 6 times…
Who tested this content because he must’ve been busy doing anything else but his effin job.
Is this the quality of content to come? Because China won’t be the only playerbase you lose if you keep this crap up.
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They seem to have fixed both of those things in todays patch notes… not looked myself but the boss had more HP than Raz when it first appeared.
I got phased when I’d done the whole event and a couple of seconds after the boss died. No loot and nothing in my mail box. I saw the sparkles on the boss, moved towards him and was suddenly on the platform
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