IF you can tolerate the lag (I was absolutely dejected at this aspect spoiling my experience);
IF you can avoid death or get a resurrection when the inevitable one shot by karka arrives;
and IF you can tolerate the style of the event (I hear some players were lag free but otherwise upset with the format);
This final Lost Shore event is great.
My only quibble (as stated) was the massive, overwhelming lag. It's epic and the final chest contains many, many goodies (precursors galore for some) and guaranteed exotics.
This means the supply (and price) for these will drop quite steeply and people will panic to sell but it got me thinking - aside from a tweak to a drop rate (slight Anet reports) from the mystic forge and chests and mobs - is this the single greatest precursor give away planned?
If so there's a chance that prices will drop then rise again. Let's be honest - nearly every player wants a legendary. Therefore nearly every player will buy a precursor. Few players right now will keep theirs (believing the price will plummet or because they didn't get the precursor for the legendary they want).
This means demand will stay high. This injection (though of course it's impossible to predict numbers - we'll wait on the trading post and market updating) may be temporary. We may see a fall overall in precursor price but you may be better off waiting if you got lucky enough to get one.
Finally, was the end so buggy (complaints galore on reddit) that it will be elevated above '1 time' to '1 time for the next few days'? Will alts be running it and therefore will even more exotics and precursors enter the market?
I wish I knew right now but that was one long exhausting event :) Worth it in the end!
What do you guys think? Better yet, what did you GET (if you did the final event)?
IF you can avoid death or get a resurrection when the inevitable one shot by karka arrives;
and IF you can tolerate the style of the event (I hear some players were lag free but otherwise upset with the format);
This final Lost Shore event is great.
My only quibble (as stated) was the massive, overwhelming lag. It's epic and the final chest contains many, many goodies (precursors galore for some) and guaranteed exotics.
This means the supply (and price) for these will drop quite steeply and people will panic to sell but it got me thinking - aside from a tweak to a drop rate (slight Anet reports) from the mystic forge and chests and mobs - is this the single greatest precursor give away planned?
If so there's a chance that prices will drop then rise again. Let's be honest - nearly every player wants a legendary. Therefore nearly every player will buy a precursor. Few players right now will keep theirs (believing the price will plummet or because they didn't get the precursor for the legendary they want).
This means demand will stay high. This injection (though of course it's impossible to predict numbers - we'll wait on the trading post and market updating) may be temporary. We may see a fall overall in precursor price but you may be better off waiting if you got lucky enough to get one.
Finally, was the end so buggy (complaints galore on reddit) that it will be elevated above '1 time' to '1 time for the next few days'? Will alts be running it and therefore will even more exotics and precursors enter the market?
I wish I knew right now but that was one long exhausting event :) Worth it in the end!
What do you guys think? Better yet, what did you GET (if you did the final event)?
I got frustrated by the half hour slaughter of karka that occured twice. i mean seriously, who came up with that "kill a billion reinforcements idea"
ReplyDeleteBut... i got Dusk. Lol. so there goes my motivation to get any more money in gw2 :P
I got no precursors myself but 20 slot chest, the snazzy accessory and a charzooka (along with a rare and another useless exotic) was pretty good compensation for the lag :)
DeleteI tried to sneakily get onto the chain again on a 2nd 80 but each login I'm greeted with 'The ancient karka has been defeated'
ReplyDeleteI assume they wouldn't leave that loophole!
Coming to think of it, the chest alone is worth 20 gold if you buy it. So you get that and 2 exotics plus that acessoire thingie which isnt too bad. So i guess for around 2 hours with maybe an hour of just being bored to death, thats not bad actually.
DeleteChaos Guns were dropping out of the chest as well...
ReplyDeleteGood time to buy cheap, but the tradingpost is broken on my server since the event, great...
http://www.gw2db.com/items/72531-ancient-karka-shell-s#related:contained-in
ReplyDeleteSold here http://i.imgur.com/H0pTQ.jpg?1
For 1000 Karka Shells, i think the price is low and supply is less than 10.000.
I don't think many people noticed the vendor because he spawned after that one time event.
Good spot - shells no doubt going to climb
DeleteCant Believe i missed it damnnnn i overslept :(
ReplyDeletei feel ur pain as well as i also overslept sigh.............
Deletei spent about 2 hours of this event having my friends tell me where to stand and aim my staff attacks, so as not to get killed and MAYBE hit something i didnt see.
ReplyDeleteover the course of that time i had about 250fps in total.
i finally gave up on this sharade - no drops, no exp from kills, no idea what the hell im doing- at about the spot, where the ancient karka was at the steam wall. As i tried waypointing to another zone to do something fun, my game connection was lost, and i was unable to login for about an hour, during which my friends completed the event and happily announced their ridiculous drops over voip.
obviously there was no chest for me, when i got back into the game.
cant bring myself to play today, because i get angry thinking about the game.
IF you had enough time you could do the event on different overflows with each of your characters and each one would get the chest. I did not crash at the end but I was about to loot my 5th cheast as Anet patched it out.
DeleteI'm happy about my 4 bags but I got no valuable exotics.
Estimated chance for precursors: 2%-10%
Let's wait and see how Anet is going to help those who got dc'ed (https://forum-en.guildwars2.com/forum/info/news/Disconnect-at-the-end-of-Lost-Shores-Event-Read-this)
i'm not sure i qualify as one of those, because i left the event about 30 minutes before it was even over. oh well, its just a game at the end of the day. i will get over it
DeleteJust bought a few cheap precursors, is there any chance they will increase again or am i just holding onto duds
ReplyDeleteI bought a single precursor, as it was all I could afford, even at these prices. Definitely hoping they bounce back... and I think they will, unless they continue events like this on a regular basis.
Deletedidnt they say that theyll add a something like a scavenger hunt for precursors?..may they ecen drop more O_o
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