Curse

crazybanshee · Jul 08, 2009, 02:51 AM // 02:51

Yes its annoying, but if you've made an attempt at doing quests and not getting run everywhere you should be fairly close to it anyway so minimal grind. They're not going to change it now.

Hyper Cutter · Jul 08, 2009, 08:16 AM // 08:16

Taking bounties and doing all the Kournan quests available pre-Venta Cemetary gets you to almost exactly 2500 points, iirc...

MithranArkanere · Jul 08, 2009, 01:39 PM // 13:39

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Originally Posted by Hyper Cutter

Taking bounties and doing all the Kournan quests available pre-Venta Cemetary gets you to almost exactly 2500 points, iirc...

And some gold and Kournan Coins.

Ebony Shadowheart · Jul 08, 2009, 07:20 PM // 19:20

I have *mentally counts* 6 or so Elonian characters, I've never had to go out of my way to grind a title to progress through the game on any of them. I'm not sure why people complain that this is grind? I picked up the bounties as I played through, and I enjoyed doing the side quests for the loot and easily achieved the required ranks (and then some) to progress onward all from normal game play.

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Unreal Havoc · Jul 08, 2009, 11:16 PM // 23:16

Lol, who said it was anything about how easy/hard it was to do?

Like I said before it's very easily surpassed.

The point here isn't about how easy it is or isn't but about whether you should be forced to do something which, in my belief, should be "optional" to do the main campaign.

And yes, if you "have" to do side quests and bounties to actually get to that point, it's not optional.

Maybe some peope don't want to do every little sidequest everytime they play through a main campaign. Maybe they just want to blitz through the main campaign and done, then perhaps come back and do some sidequests later. Do you not think a player should be allowed the right of choice?

And there's still the matter of fact that it is only Elonian characters who have to fulfill this requirement.

It might be easy to fulfill, it might be a minor thing, but it is still a pointless exercise.

I find it amusing peope want to waste time in their lives making sure they have the right amount of title points just to progress in a campaign when they shouldn't need to.

Darkstar The Legend · Jul 08, 2009, 11:25 PM // 23:25

There is a grind to reach general?

just by doing every side quest available and always picking up the bounties i have always been well past the sunspear general rank by the time of that quest.

Unreal Havoc · Jul 09, 2009, 12:08 AM // 00:08

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Originally Posted by Darkstar The Legend

There is a grind to reach general?

just by doing every side quest available and always picking up the bounties i have always been well past the sunspear general rank by the time of that quest.

Just by this alone I can tell you are not reading what I am saying and are missing the point entirely I am trying to make.

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The point here isn't about how easy it is or isn't but about whether you should be forced to do something which, in my belief, should be "optional" to do the main campaign.

And yes, if you "have" to do side quests and bounties to actually get to that point, it's not optional.

Also the fact remains that it is also bypassable anyway, making it totally pointless to even be there, and limited to only characters of one campaign now (when it used to be all).

Hyper Cutter · Jul 09, 2009, 01:44 AM // 01:44

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Originally Posted by MithranArkanere

And some gold and Kournan Coins.

Plus whatever drops you get (and two Hidden Treasures).

Really, the only grindy part of the Sunspear title is the requirement before this one, getting to R6 before you can leave Istan...

shadowfell · Aug 06, 2011, 05:46 PM // 17:46

Major necromancy here, but a forum search yielded this topic and was on-topic for my concern.

I finally decided to level up my first Nightfall character of three, a dervish, and after completing every--single Istani quest and taking bounties, completing the missions and doing the bonus of each before rescuing Koss, I found I didn't have enough rep to progress forward!

How is that even reasonable? For me, grinding out kills and rep is the lowest form of game-play and about as entertaining as killing boars.

I sincerely hope that the 'grind' formula that was seemingly introduced with Nightfall and then used at every possible turn in EoTN is not replicated in GW2. I'm getting too old for this crap.