It looks like it happens every 45 mins or so in the Grand Plaza in Lion’s Arch.
Giaddon
5963
Any Emery Bay players should drop into WvWvW from time to time. Shiverbluff isles is spanking us badly this round, but a new matchup starts tomorrow evening.
So;
Mad King spawns at the plaza, walks around telling jokes, people /Laugh, then he disappear saying something about tricks.
… That it?
fdsaion
5965
Yep. Not exactly the most entertaining ten minutes of your life. Although the no holds costume brawl at the end is hilarious. You do get a mask out of it for your trouble at least.
Halloween content is pretty lame this year compared to last.
fdsaion
5967
It’s the same thing as last year minus the dota/moba/lpg mini-game and the short dungeon though.
Same door opening events, the same labyrinth (slightly different events in description only), the clocktower in all its glory (still have my muscle memory!), the simon says event. Though there definitely isn’t the same excitement level as last year.
Uhm, that’s why it’s lame. It’s last year’s, with LESS content. Plus, there were other things cut. The scavenger hunt is gone, the Mad King buildup/breakout in LA is gone, the landscape doors are less rewarding, I think last year’s skins are gone, there’s less landscape candy corn, etc.
Giaddon
5969
The tower of nightmares is pretty cool, if you haven’t checkout kessex hills yet.
Nope thats not it. That’s one of the things he does, but its not Mad King Says. The event is where he’ll say a /emote that everyone needs to do. Get it wrong or not in time and you get whacked down to near death. It goes on for maybe 10 or 15 emotes.
Oh and yes, please get out there and dig into some WvW! I’ve been joining in on the Zerg of Zerg events that [ZOMG] puts on every Tuesday and Saturday night. I’ve enjoyed it so much that I joined their guild too. I’ve never been into PvP much, but its just such a fun experience, I really love what Anet has done with WvW. And don’t forget that there is a whole new achievement category for the new WvW season, and there is still plenty of time to get in and grab some cheevo points.
JFrazer
5972
Started a couple of different characters. Turns out it’s just the necromancer that I find boring :) The engineer and guardian are both a lot of fun to play. Right now I’m in love with the guardian; leveled him up to 22 over the last week, with a lot of time spent in the maze or trying to jump to the top of that damn clock tower. Being new to the game, the Halloween event is amazing (since it’s, you know, all new to me). Honestly much better than most of the holiday events I’ve played in other MMOs.
The crafting system is surprisingly well implemented too.
Any future MMO needs to take some lessons from GW2. Auto-mentoring to the zone you’re in, dynamic events, credit for event/quests based on participation not based on just being grouped, etc…
My only complaint at the moment is the implementation of WvWvW. The design is great with the capture points, siege engines and guards/NPCs running around. Little too zerg-focused for my taste though. I’m on a server with a small PvP community, so when we get paired up with someone like HoD as a competitor, we spend most of our time getting thrashed by a zerg 3 times our size.
WvW has a lot of potential, but it needs some more iteration. Fortunately, they’ve been slowly keeping at it, so it’s getting better.
My biggest gripe with WvW is they need to find a way to keep all three servers “in it” instead of just feeding control and points to the week’s obvious winner. Some sort of incentive to get the two losing servers playing nice would probably help.
And yeah, the zerging is a bit over the top. It would be nice if sieging required the group to split to handle multiple tasks more often.
Clay
5974
I just picked this up… what world should I join?
Wolff
5975
Emry bay is where most of qt3 is. I ended up transferring to northern shiver peaks to play with gwj - who at the time had a more consistent presence. Idk what current qt3 presence is like.
WvW or PvP for that matter needs more meaning. Who cares about switching some static point that is going to get switched right back in 10 minutes?
Daagar
5978
Remember that you can ‘guest’ to any server, and the only impact your “home” server has is on the wvwvw matchup. Handy for joining a lower tier WvW server (for shorter/no queue), but then guesting over to a high pop realm for RP/PvE/whatever. Unless WvW is your main focus, of course.
Clay
5979
Cool, thanks for the tip. I have a buddy who plays from time to time, so I’ll check with him about which server he recommends, too.
Razgon
5980
Okay, I could use some guidance. I’ve been reading up a lot on this recently, since I kinda find the game hard. What I read is that Guardians and Warriors are totally OP and easy to play with and impossible to die with. Now, I have a guardian, lvl 37 that I use a bit, and he dies…a LOT! Last night I took him to the new Event, the tower thing, and I died 6 billion times getting to the top. At the top there is a story instance for solo players. I died about once every minute during it. And I even had to npc’s helping me out.
I’ve tried my warrior as well, which is lvl 35 and she died the moment she attacked some fire bat veteran thingie event, and generally I don’t do that well with it, it seems
Now, either I’m very unlucky, or I suck VERY much at this game, or I am missing something somewhere along the way. My gear is updated, I’ve added all the points I need spend but I actually find the game HARD!
Any tips?
