Curse

Fried Tech · Jan 31, 2008, 01:02 PM // 13:02

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Originally Posted by erk

In sympathy for all the poor souls that get sucked in and die going for their next level survivor title this weekend, trying to vanquish for double XP, who otherwise wouldn't go near hard mode!

I have no sympathy for them.

Uber Mass · Jan 31, 2008, 01:28 PM // 13:28

weak event imo.... canthan newyears should be after this one... thats more like it

Ctb · Jan 31, 2008, 01:53 PM // 13:53

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nothing they can do to encourage Vanquishing short of dropping one of those dungeon-style treasure chests upon completion.

The could make the rewards scale appropriately to the amount of time required to do it. Hard Mode just irks me, for some reason. The latter parts aren't really that much harder than normal mode, and the only reason the early parts are that hard is because of the decreased party size. For those of us who don't particularly care to have combat for the sake of combat, Hard Mode provides a tiny reward increase, but a very substantial increase in the time required to obtain that reward.

Really, the gold reward at the end is utterly pointless. I can make more than that in 5 minutes farming most areas. Worse, the drop rate on tomes and golds, and the quality of the items when they drop, is only marginally better than normal mode.

In the end, unless you enjoy the Vanquishing itself, which some people do, the entire concept of hard mode is a ridiculous waste of time.

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if you are willing to risk them in a vanquish like this

Witman's Folly works well for this too. You can wipe Grawls all over the map with ease and get the full reward from level 26 enemies (if you don't aggro certain bosses depending on your build).

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Got to have HM to benefit.

Lots of bonus weekends require you to have certain things unlocked. It's not really that uncommon to have certain requirements like this.

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The weekend event you want is sure to come around soon enough.

Unlikely. I wish they'd quit trying to make the events "useful". To me, that's like saying "well, we have this game mechanic, but we think it sucks so here, we'll try and ease the pain for you a little".

I like the bonuses that are just more fun than anything. Bring back the double chance for golds from chests or something like that, IMHO. I'd rather have bonuses that are less "useful" and more about just having fun (with the understanding that individual notions of "fun" vary).

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instead of ruining their credibility a little more with a poorly thought out weekend promotion.

It's a BONUS. It's not like they broke the game, they're just making a minor addition on top of what's already there. If you don't like the BONUS just don't participate.

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Originally Posted by booooYA

If you don't like it, don't participate in it and STFU.

You know, smarty-pants, the exact same thing could be said about you and this thread.

/ignore

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Originally Posted by kratimas

the amount of QQ on these forums.

Yep, it's always just crying. Never anybody posting legitimate grievances or suggestions, it's all just crying you mighty, perfect, and oh-so-witty with the QQ emote genius you.

/ignore

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Hmmm week end... go catch up with friends and natural sunlight! ;-)

Considering some of the people on this forum, I think you might need to whip out a dictionary and explain some of those terms to a few of them....