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Artfull Fisherman · Jun 26, 2010, 02:39 AM // 02:39

I do WiK wanted quests with my warrior also Nicholas but Zaishen with character best for the challenge.

How you divide time between all of them?

Witch one you like best?

Mustache Mayhem · Jun 26, 2010, 02:47 AM // 02:47

I like to use

Savanah heat and sometimes..
Trappers speed if I'm trapping.. but then I also like to use
Frenzy on the warrior.. it owns but on ranger I always bring troll
Ugent

the zanshien quests are fun though!

Black Metal · Jun 26, 2010, 02:54 AM // 02:54

like best........well, the nicholas ones are mellow because you have a week to get what you need, so no rush. Zaishen bounty/mission I only do if they are interesting, easy, or I have a char that actually needs to do it, so those are pretty spotty. And WiK depends on the reward: the 3+1 are generally not worth it, while the 10+5 generally are, however I need to do as many of them as I can in a small amount of time so they are more like a chore than anything else, especially considering we don't know if they are going away or not.

So they are all a bit different, but in general I'd say I like the Nicholas ones the most because they are mellow, much more variety in what the gifts can be, and every week has been different (unlike the other 2 which cycle).

This is an interesting question though, because they all have things in common, and all have things which make them different from the other 2.

PuppyEater · Jun 26, 2010, 04:24 AM // 04:24

I would say nick's since the myst tonics rock but he loses points when they ask for things like sand worm scales or some other nonsense that takes forever to just get one of. You could buy it but If I wanted to drop 5k for a useless item from the rng id snag myself some 5k firewater via zkeys...

Essence Snow · Jun 26, 2010, 04:27 AM // 04:27

Zaishen by far.....even more so b4 maxing titles and getting all heavies on chars.

WiK slowed down after getting minis...I don't need any exp scrolls or ID kits

Nick is too spread out (meaning a week between) and once titles (party and sweet) are done interest in him slows as well.

**cosyfiep** · Jun 26, 2010, 06:31 AM // 06:31

the zaishen have been out for a whole year now---so I only do the 'easy' ones (or ones that help with titles I am working on etc)... wik I have only gotten to on 6 characters and after the first round--I dont do them all, only the easy ones or ones that give enough bang for my time.
Nic I usually do since I have lots of [email protected] on my account and am still working on sweet and drunk title---and since you can only do it once a week with only one character on your account it doesnt eat into any time for the other stuff.

FengShuiDove · Jun 26, 2010, 07:10 AM // 07:10

Did all of the WiK quests, now that it's looping and we haven't got MoH info I'm sort of slowing down. Nick is often fun but once I max consumables titles and maybe get the minis, I won't be interested anymore. ZQ I'll probably return to on my alternate account to finish titles, but that's about all.

Basically, I'm getting close to being done with GW. WiK offers the newest stuff, Nick offers stuff I need but is only once a week, and ZQ just doesn't cater to me as often.

Vulturion · Jun 26, 2010, 09:17 AM // 09:17

Nicholas the Traveller for me.
Frustrating lack of any miniatures at all despite a flawless track record and a 2nd account, but it's still a leisurely diversion and the surprisingly easy weeks balance out the rottenly difficult ones.
Miniature Yakkington will be mine!

Zaishen rewards just don't interest me (well the items themselves do just not for the scale of effort involved), so after the initial novelty fun of them I haven't revisited.

WiK bounties I have enjoyed, but with farming so intensively (without hitting the jackpot) I'm simply fed up of fighting the same mobs over & over now.
Assuming they are a permanent addition and the medals are worth having, I can see myself keeping up with the 15-22 reward quests - if not, probably only check-in sporadically when other activities run dry.

aspi · Jun 26, 2010, 09:20 AM // 09:20

I really liked the WiK quests except maybe the last one, that one was just lame. I don't like farming in general but it's fun to see how fast you can get the items Nick is looking for.

In the beginning I did all the zaishen quests but I hardly touch them anymore now.
Maybe if they added some more bosses to the bounty? I never paid much attention to the bounty part but it does not seem like all bosses are bounties here.

Mintha Syl · Jun 26, 2010, 09:56 AM // 09:56

WiK I was doing them all every day (or 3 in a row) with my main, but soon got bored, repetitive and no gain at all.
Nicholas I was doing him often at the beginning (and I got my Yakkington the second time) but now I only do him once in a while,cause I don't like farming, when I'm particularly disposed and it's an area I'm interested in, like ether claws when I was looking for sapphires/rubies anyway and modnir manes with a char who's particularly intersted in norn points. Sometimes I only do part of the gifts, not even all of them if I get bored too much. And anyway, I'm doing sweet/party titles but not so hardcore and the alchol is needing a mule all for that because I'm too lazy both for doing the title and selling.
Zaishens are my favourites, they give decent gold, wonderful rep points, and I really need the heavy packs (got my first one yesterday) for all my chars. I try to do the more I can depending on the reward and fun, but basically I always have fun in redoing missions, and also fast bounties (not the dungeon ones unless it's very short and easy dungeons, but I completed the dungeon list with my main following zaishens). I'm only now getting aware of how I did EotN rep titles, especially norn one, from rank 3 to 7 was all done with Zaishens seen you only reach rank 3 with storyline+quests.

wilebill · Jun 26, 2010, 11:36 AM // 11:36

Nicholas the Traveler.

WiK was fun for a while.

Zaishen, rarely even bother to look. Think the devs went a bit overboard on upping the challenge. Now they usually just seem too tedious to bother with.

Vilaptca · Jun 26, 2010, 05:42 PM // 17:42

I think all three were fun for a while.

There were a few weeks in a row where I didn't have time to farm the items for Nick or they just weren't dropping, after that I forgot about him.

Zaishen I'll only do if its easier. Don't really like repeating the same missions I've already done before.

WiK was the most exciting of the three for me, brand new bosses, new encounters. It was new and fun to go discover all these new bosses. It was also challenging, though the reward wasn't always worth it. I've stopped doing these now that they are repeating and we see no end to it.

Lord Dagon · Jun 26, 2010, 06:00 PM // 18:00

nick is essentially my money bringer so thats my more "get this done now" kind of deal.

zaishen i dont even bother w/. if the rewards were uped so i got a decent reward for killing the enemies/running the missions etc id do it but its just simplely too much scale and not enough will to climb it.

wik is just.. frustrating. im sure ima going to get flamed but for me those WiK enemies jsut own me. seems no matter what i bring they are 2 steps ahead of me. Bring SoS? got gaze fury or something. got Searing flame? got condition removal. Bring discord? we cna kill these minions in 2 hits.

so out of the 3 i deffinatley like nick the most ^_^.

snaek · Jun 26, 2010, 07:18 PM // 19:18

zqs for the pugging experience with random strangers. nick for weekly gatherings with guild/friends. wik for.....ummmm... i guess cool drops and a storyline? i guess? wik probably has the coolest content of the three, but i prefer the multiplayer experiences the other two brought.

Imaginos · Jun 26, 2010, 08:44 PM // 20:44

Quote:

Originally Posted by Black Metal

like best........well, the nicholas ones are mellow because you have a week to get what you need, so no rush. Zaishen bounty/mission I only do if they are interesting, easy, or I have a char that actually needs to do it, so those are pretty spotty. And WiK depends on the reward: the 3+1 are generally not worth it, while the 10+5 generally are, however I need to do as many of them as I can in a small amount of time so they are more like a chore than anything else, especially considering we don't know if they are going away or not.

So they are all a bit different, but in general I'd say I like the Nicholas ones the most because they are mellow, much more variety in what the gifts can be, and every week has been different (unlike the other 2 which cycle).

This is an interesting question though, because they all have things in common, and all have things which make them different from the other 2.

pretty much this.....and i like sorceresses better then witches.

EDIT:

I also agree with most of the sentiments above about challenge vs time. I only do the zaishen now if it's not time consuming and I didn't hold out for 20 slot bags as the prices on most of the zaishen stuff is just stupidly high. Anet typical behavior there.

WiK stuff same. I won't do a 3+1 bounty and may do a 7+3 if it's easy enough to get to. The 10+5's I'll usually do but I've tapered off on doing these due to again, stupidly rare drop rates by Anet on greens/minis from the mobs/gifts. Just not worth the time investment. This is what makes me reconsider buying gw2....stupidly rare drop rates ala farmwars.

If the stuff to get for nick is too rare a drop I just skip that week.

Metatail · Jun 26, 2010, 10:42 PM // 22:42

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mustache Mayhem

I like to use

Savanah heat and sometimes..
Trappers speed if I'm trapping.. but then I also like to use
Frenzy on the warrior.. it owns but on ranger I always bring troll
Ugent

the zanshien quests are fun though!

I C Wut U Did Tharr !

WiK fun, me want more, faster, deeper.

pterodactyl · Jun 27, 2010, 02:17 AM // 02:17

war in kryta quests ~*bore*~ me even though they shouldn't.
and nowadays it seems like zquests are only stuff like duncan.

so my dear friend nicholas, i would have to say.

jazilla · Jun 27, 2010, 03:04 AM // 03:04

I like the WiK stuff but I don't like how sporadic it is. SOme weeks we have content and web page updates and now for a month we haven't had the web updates. I am happy they gave us some new stuff though when they didn't have to. I just wish they were more consistent with the release schedule. I got all excited this week and then...nothing.

Cheevy · Jun 27, 2010, 11:24 AM // 11:24

i like wik so far. used to do zaishen for w while, but got bored of it. nicolas? when i have time =]

Quaker · Jun 27, 2010, 03:17 PM // 15:17

I like the WiK wanteds and quests the best at this time. I did enough Zaishen missions/bounties to get 20-slot bags for all 12 of my characters, and that's enough.

Plus, the ZM/ZBs are just the same old stuff, whereas the WiK stuff is at least partially "new".
I usually do the Traveller thing each week (for no particular reason.)