Curse

Zera Fang · Oct 31, 2008, 03:30 AM // 03:30

Some alarm went off in my head screaming, "PRE-BUILD! OMG NOT PREBUILDS!" Remember them? Healing Hands Wammo? Quickening Rodgort's Ele? Imagine a PvP environment where you HAD to play one of these if you were going to play in it at all. I think it's a cute idea in THEORY. But, let's look at the fact. Anet sucks at making decent builds. The Mesmer build out of the costume brawl sucks just because half the time you're running around capping, making Lysaa pointless. The Necro build sucks having no damage just a bunch of degen and condition control. Come on! Suffering... Jesus. Do we really want THEM in control of our builds? This event sucks. If you like it, great. I hate the hell out of it. Out of all the possible things Anet could have come up with to be FUN, they made a game with a bunch of pre-set builds and capping. Two things I hate. /not-signed.

HawkofStorms · Oct 31, 2008, 04:59 AM // 04:59

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Originally Posted by Kook~NBK~

/not signed. It's a special thing to celebrate Halloween. Plain, pure, and simple.

P.S. When Wintersday comes around and someone thinks that the Snowball fights should be a year-round thing, it's been suggested every year. And it'll get a big /NOT SIGNED from most people and A-Net will not change it.

The difference between Costume Brawl and all the other holiday mini games (rollerbettle, dragon ball, snowball fights) is that it ACTUALLY is designed like any other PvP game type, with a set of objectives and people using builds with actually skills from the game (ie, not "throw rock) as well as following the game's normal game mechanics (ie, killing stuff and capping shrines, as opposed to bizzare capture the flag and kd game play elements of snowball fight).
Take away the costumes and you HAVE sealed deck. It is purely cosmetic. Take away the premade builds and you have Hero Battles with other players.

The same can not be said of any other mini game. Take away the costmetic bettle outfit... and bettle racing is still a racing mini game.