Curse

Omega_2005 · Jul 21, 2005, 09:53 AM // 09:53

Hmm, I know it sounds ridiculous, but my level 20 has some "leftover bonuses" in Ascalon, let alone a few other missions!

I want to make sure that EVERY party I go in must be honest, follow orders and has the ability of doing it. I mean, that day when I killed Glint, that was pure luck! As usually, people quit on the 6th Facet as they lure too many monsters towards them. I haven't added the team to my list yet, but I will contact them when they're interested to help me out.

And yes, I will start to help the low level characters, but the penalty is gold for quitting or a complete explanation. If they call me a (leet word) I will tell them to go to WoW or some other online game, due to wasting their time on this game not giving a %&$£ about fair play. (NOTE: has seen all cutscenes, but will watch again if anyone hasn't done it yet)

harry healblood · Jul 21, 2005, 10:03 AM // 10:03

[QUOTE=Omega_2005]Hmm, I know it sounds ridiculous, but my level 20 has some "leftover bonuses" in Ascalon, let alone a few other missions!

Would you mind helping me out on my 3 bonuses, because I'm beginning to feel that their are very few "honest players" in guild wars

Im usually online between 7 and 11pm uk time

DrSLUGFly · Jul 21, 2005, 11:43 AM // 11:43

I"m intent on finishing everything (every available quest, mission and bonus) with my main, but with my secondary and tertiary why bother? When doing bonuses with my main, I always state specifically LFG BONUS ONLY and when I get into a group that is doing the mission, fair is fair. They accommodate me by doing the bonus and I accommodate them by staying for the full mission. If I get into a group by asking for bonus, and tell them I'm only in for the bonus before leaving... then they say "no bonus" I will leave the group, but I'm not going to grief them or insult them... they just should have paid closer attention. Having someone leave mid-mission is punishment enough, no need to get childish with them...

but I know what you mean and I wish others thought the same way as I do.

Old Dood · Jul 21, 2005, 11:46 AM // 11:46

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Originally Posted by Thanas

I personally enjoy doing the bonuses. I like to fully explore a game. Its not just about getting from beginning to the end its about all the content in between.

Yes! The Journey is all..the End is Nothing.." That is my look on this game.

I like to go back and finish the bonuses. Doesn't matter to me if we do the mission too. I have kept going even when others quit. Makes it a challenge. I look at it as my own reputation is on the line. Most people do not care. But then I will get a whisper weeks later from people that remembered that I kept my word and helped them out. Now that I am playing my newer Monk/Ele character people will listen to me more. If someone threatens to quit..I say go ahead. We even had a healing monk pull that crap. I told the group..let him quit I have heals too and a rez. (I am a smitting monk at this time) This really puts a damper on these idiots. I have been playing "Double Duty" lately.
Firestorm..Heal...Banish...Heal..etc. It has been fun.

Epinephrine · Jul 21, 2005, 12:51 PM // 12:51

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Originally Posted by Omega_2005

(NOTE: has seen all cutscenes, but will watch again if anyone hasn't done it yet)

ROFL - like you have a choice

Aniewiel · Jul 21, 2005, 01:13 PM // 13:13

I don't mind the cutscenes. In fact, sometimes I'm secretly glad that someone opts not to skip them.

EverBlue · Jul 21, 2005, 02:11 PM // 14:11

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I don't mind the cutscenes. In fact, sometimes I'm secretly glad that someone opts not to skip them.

Same. I feel awkward when I see "7 out of 8 wish to skip this cutscene." and I'm the only one left, and I've never seen the cutscene before. Usually I figure there are some people who've never watched the cutscenes, because this is their first character. So I wait until it says I'm the only one that hasn't pressed it before I press it.

Like many others, I do the bonus because it's part of the game, part of the world. Same reason I do every quest, and try to explore everything. I don't do it for XP, infact, I hit level 18 after doing Villainy of Galrath. The XP is not the big thing here. Seeing everything, doing everything, becoming part of the world, is. This IS an RPG, after all.. Although, I still don't see the point of the Glint bonus. It's not like we were told to kill her, or want her eggs.. We just randomly grab them and shank her.

BurningPants · Jul 21, 2005, 02:11 PM // 14:11

The only reason I don't do the bonuses usually is because of the lack of fun. For example, in Frost Gate, getting that dwarf to the catapult is too much of a chore for the bonus xp, maybe if they offered some sort of additional reward like gold or something or even if they just made the bonus mission a more fun. Like for example in Aurora Glade (I think thats the one where you have to attune the henge portals). Not only do you have to hold the portals but kill the demagogue while at it...which to me adds so much to that mission, because now it requires more skill and can actually be a challenge (which is fun to me).

Take another mission like D'alessio where you have to take an item from point a to point b. You can't drop the item but if you are a caster you wouldn't need to anyway. But it barely adds to the fun of the mission because it requires no new skill and strategy, just more work for not that much fun.

Hopefully in the expansion missions, they spice up the actual objectives and the bonuses as well. I was hoping for a race-type mission where you have to try to get to the end of the map as fast as possible before the enemy team does while trying to overcome certain obstacles and such.

Aniewiel · Jul 21, 2005, 02:22 PM // 14:22

I would like to see items given for bonus quests rather than XP (like the non-game progressing quests). Now THAT would be cool. The item could be randomized but fitting for your character. Since most of the bonus missions are harder than the actual mission itself, it would be a fitting reward and it would encourage people who've 'beaten' the game an incentive to go back and finish them.

OR...*brain is exploding*

Make bonus quest rewards unlock new skills?

Hanok Odbrook · Jul 21, 2005, 03:23 PM // 15:23

Unfortunately, it's because of this idiocy that I do just about everything I can solo or with the henchies. I, too, am a completionist - hey, I paid $35 bucks for the game (sale + employee discount baby!!), and want to get my money's worth. That means exploring every single nook and cranny in Tyria and beyond, and bashing my way through n00b PvPers ;p.

But I rarely ever do anything with other players in this game who are not guildmates or known real world friends and relatives. There are less headaches that way, and less complaining in threads such as this.

Hanok Odbrook
Real Millennium Group Guild
http://www.realmillenniumgroup.com/guild.html
Truth * Knowledge * Peace

Omega_2005 · Jul 22, 2005, 08:32 AM // 08:32

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Originally Posted by Epinephrine

ROFL - like you have a choice...!

Like I do, unless it's a bunch of Henchies with me to spoil the mood!