Curse

The Little Viking · Jul 12, 2007, 12:44 AM // 00:44

I for 1 enjoy all the festivals. What i did not enjoy about this years dragon festival was the 5 second delay on all my skills. (Yes I timed it). This went on all weekend long. But i was able to up my lucky title 50,000, so all is good.

TheUndying · Jul 12, 2007, 03:12 AM // 03:12

The Festival was ok, just frustrating, though during the festival, I happened to stumble across a district where the grasps had 1,000 or so points. I made some money here and there, manage to get 250 presents, which was my goal. I had about 7 stacks of Victory Tokens and sold 6 of it for a really cheap price -_-. I always go to a district where it had less people, but also one that was slightly winning so I can help out.

Enix · Jul 12, 2007, 06:37 AM // 06:37

Lucky title ftw. Thats all it was for me.

Qual · Jul 12, 2007, 07:46 AM // 07:46

I loved it, the whole actor thing was so funny.

tmakinen · Jul 12, 2007, 09:37 AM // 09:37

20 stacks of tokens, converted into 2 stacks of Creme Brulee made me a happy camper

Gli · Jul 12, 2007, 10:13 AM // 10:13

Can we have another festival soon, when our pings are back down to a tolerable level over here in Europe instead of averaging around 8,000?

I Will Heal You Ally · Jul 12, 2007, 10:32 AM // 10:32

1. Loved that Anet put Boardwalk this week (r3 lucky title

)
2. Masks aren't that bad, I kinda like it
3. The Celestial Charges part were great I really enjoyed that part
4. Didn't like how the present dropped - in Wintersday you got your present with your name on it so none could steal it.
5. The missions were harder but not impossible. All you had to do is have a tank and healer and 2 damage dealers and you'd win - oh and have a guildies help you since most pugs dunno hwo it works.
6. I don't get why are Dragon Arena and the Rollerbeetle so interesting. I find it too boring and consuming time and you get worthless prize o_0

As for the festival only I'd give 9/10 because the dropping gifts weren't organized.

freekedoutfish · Jul 12, 2007, 11:00 AM // 11:00

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Originally Posted by Gli

Can we have another festival soon, when our pings are back down to a tolerable level over here in Europe instead of averaging around 8,000?

The lag was so bad, because it only lasted 2 days and people were rushing in to take part. If it had been over a week, then people could have had more time to take part and it would have been less busy over those 2 days.

Or you could have taken part on a quieter day.

Gli · Jul 12, 2007, 11:19 AM // 11:19

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Originally Posted by freekedoutfish

The lag was so bad, because it only lasted 2 days and people were rushing in to take part. If it had been over a week, then people could have had more time to take part and it would have been less busy over those 2 days.

Or you could have taken part on a quieter day.

I've had that kind of lag for almost two weeks now. Sure, it peaked at the festival because of greater player attandence, but that only served to bump it from 'practically unplayable' up to 'completely ridiculous'.

Prowlinger · Jul 12, 2007, 01:16 PM // 13:16

I am VERY UPSET that I missed the original dragon festival and this one did NOT even give out Dragon Masks... VERY VERY MAD! I have waited almost a whole year to get a missed Dragon Mask and now all we got was this Demon Mask (which in my opinion is horrible). Why didn't they give us an option for an old mask or a demon mask?

The one !@#$@$#% mask I want in the WHOLE game.... (I have every hat except that!) and we get a Demon Mask...

WTF?!?!? >

>

Mournblade · Jul 12, 2007, 01:19 PM // 13:19

They never give out the same mask twice Prowlinger.

freekedoutfish · Jul 12, 2007, 01:24 PM // 13:24

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Originally Posted by Mournblade

They never give out the same mask twice Prowlinger.

True, but they should still be related to the event in some way. How is a demon mask related to Dragons?

I get that somehow they tried to make this event involved NightFall and the defeat of Abaddon, but that never made sense to me.

Why was it still called the Dargon festival then?
Why not have an event specifically to celebrate Abaddons defeat?
Why not have an event specifically to celebrate the new Godess?

They completely screwed up a perfectly working event and it seemed rushed to me. It was good last year and it just didnt feel the same.

Prowlinger · Jul 12, 2007, 01:36 PM // 13:36

Well they could have created a 2nd type of dragon mask... oh well...
(Similar to how they did the Xmas deer horns with 2 variations)

Yeah this festival seemed like it was more aimed toward promoting Abaddon instead of the Dragon Festival itself...

I know ANET is crunching on GWEN as we speak before release ... I dunno... Wish there was a way for a person to make a duplicate of a prior mask from a friend for ... I dunno.... 25k ?

Steep yes... worth the effort for some of us wanting old masks... yeah...

Oh well... shelving the mask along with all other ones for now... Time to work on finishing Factions and Nightfall on the heels of GWEN ...

Chieftain Heavyhand · Jul 12, 2007, 04:30 PM // 16:30

Quote:

Originally Posted by TheUndying

The Festival was ok, just frustrating, though during the festival, I happened to stumble across a district where the grasps had 1,000 or so points.

I was in that district the lag was so bad I wasn't able to move all I could do was type /dance and watch as the points racked up i think it ended with grasp at almost 2000 and our side had under 100.

This event was lagtastic.

I enjoyed it as I enjoy every holiday event A-net provides for us. I wouldn't mind exact copies of events if they keep them coming every year, with the exception of coming up with a new mask each year.

I was kind of disappointed with the demon thing during the dragon festival, but like I said I enjoy all of the holiday and celebration events. Collected over 1000 tokens, my LvL 3 mules and henchmen just couldn’t kill off the grasp and the lag was so bad with the missions when I eventually zoned in my group was wiped or I’d had more. I didn't care for the new mask was thinking it was going to look like one of those Chinese or Japanese demon mask, but I wasted 250 tokens on it anyway.

dargon · Jul 12, 2007, 05:55 PM // 17:55

Quote:

Originally Posted by freekedoutfish

True, but they should still be related to the event in some way. How is a demon mask related to Dragons?

I get that somehow they tried to make this event involved NightFall and the defeat of Abaddon, but that never made sense to me.

Why was it still called the Dargon festival then?
Why not have an event specifically to celebrate Abaddons defeat?
Why not have an event specifically to celebrate the new Godess?

They completely screwed up a perfectly working event and it seemed rushed to me. It was good last year and it just didnt feel the same.

Gee, a festival named after me, how nice

now to answer your questions:

why was it called the DRAGON festival? Because it is put on by the Dragon of Cantha aka The Emperor

why not have an event to celebrate abaddons defeat? Abaddons minions invaded the festival last year, what better way to celebrate then have the same festival again and give the finger to Abbadons minions at the same time

why not have a festival to the new goddess? Word of the new goddess is still spreading, hence why there is still only ONE statue to her, wouldn't be a very successful festival when nobody knows who it's in celebration of.

Cricket · Jul 12, 2007, 09:43 PM // 21:43

I adored the event. The Re-Enactment aspect was wonderfully meta and the mask looks absolutely awesome on my Paragon. Yes, she's still wearing it and I see it every time I log in.

We don't really need to talk about Rollerbeetle, Dragon Arena, or the Boardwalk, because those are apparently fixtures in any event held in Cantha these days, which is certainly enjoyable. I wouldn't mind another Boardwalk weekend either

If someone chose to be AFK for two days, they had that chance.

While I did have a problem with lag, much of it went away in the international districts I went to. Figuring out the spawn patterns of the presents was rather easy - yes, they *did* spawn at every player and NPCs feet in random intervals. I heard about the bugged districts where Grasps would run rampant, but there were many more districts where they didn't. I took part in about ten finale events all through Sunday and - after a short night's sleep - into Monday, and all of my districts won, with people using their chocolate bunnies to outrun Grasps and generally having a good time.

The only truly appalling thing were some players who would insult others for fun. And *that* is not something I would want to blame ANet for. The event was definitely fresh - if you consider that the whole concept of an annual festival includes some repetition.

I twould have been nice to see Glint and Kuuvanang though.