Weekend Plans: 3-for-1 Fun 6 February 2007

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tortugan
tortugan
Krytan Explorer
#1
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Weekend Plans: 3-for-1 Fun 6 February 2007
This weekend, you have the opportunity to test Heroes' Ascent with an 8v8 party size configuration and share your comments throughout the coming week. In addition, PvE players will enjoy a weekend's offering of free access to Canthan Elite Mission and a doubling of the drop rate for rare items in those missions! Join us this weekend, starting at Noon PST on Friday, February 9.

www.guildwars.com


Awesome!
Ray
Ray
Wilds Pathfinder
#2
Shake it, shake-shake-shake, shake it - Ohh OH!
TheRaven
TheRaven
Desert Nomad
#3
WoooHoo, I finally get to see the Elite missions. I love that, but I'm worried that this will ruin the market value for those "rare" items in those missions.
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darktyco
Lion's Arch Merchant
#4
Bleh, I hate how they only ever have this stuff on the weekends. I have a life and never play weekends

I demand week-long events!
Xenex Xclame
Xenex Xclame
Desert Nomad
#5
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Originally Posted by TheRaven
but I'm worried that this will ruin the market value for those "rare" items in those missions.
That wont happen, they opened up the elite missions a while ago for a weekend.

The thing about the elite mission which makes it that the value wont drop is that it takes some tactics to complete the missions, you get the reward at the end so if you mess up at half and wipe no reward for you.

The big problem was that there were so many people that had no idea of what to do, they for example went with the builds they normally would use in other places and they found out the hard way they don''t always work.The time was short so they didn't quite enough time to test and see what works for them.

One thing i can tell you about urgozz , this happened when they opened it too, everyone was in American districts ( don't know about other countries) making groups, one thing i can tell you from experience, most groups not made in int district don't make it, no idea why, but for some reason its like that.
Vapor_Fighter
Vapor_Fighter
Krytan Explorer
#6
ehh screw the elite missions
8v8 is BACK BABY WOOHOO
Shmanka
Shmanka
Wilds Pathfinder
#7
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Originally Posted by Vapor_Fighter
8v8 is BACK BABY WOOHOO
Hell has just broken loose...

I really hope Anet has an ace up their sleeve.
I personally favor the 6v6 format, yet this is a break in the window Anet just put up. I really do not want to see all the ridiculous builds up again but since the environment has changed in HA we could possibly see different things come about. I am now truly questioning though... is Anet doing this to bring the old school players back, then get them hooked on 6v6? Or are they seeing how many more people will actually play if its 8v8 and move it back?
Vapor_Fighter
Vapor_Fighter
Krytan Explorer
#8
meh you make a good point...and oh crap now that i think about the builds, now its the returb of the bloodspikes and iway >.<

i think that there just trying to get a respons from the HA players to see what it was like and wether they like it 6v6 or 8v8 style now that they've played both
zwei2stein
zwei2stein
Grotto Attendant
#9
Hmm, elite mission access is nice but it does not solve the problem of them having terrible access outside events. sigh
moko
moko
??uo??o??
#10
rit spam will probably be even more common with 8/8 and i doubt bspike and iway will be back that much. still yay i guess..
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Randomway Ftw
Krytan Explorer
#11
8v8 is for nothing if these garbage changes stay.
TheRaven
TheRaven
Desert Nomad
#12
Quote:
Originally Posted by Xenex Xclame
That wont happen, they opened up the elite missions a while ago for a weekend.

The thing about the elite mission which makes it that the value wont drop is that it takes some tactics to complete the missions, you get the reward at the end so if you mess up at half and wipe no reward for you.

The big problem was that there were so many people that had no idea of what to do, they for example went with the builds they normally would use in other places and they found out the hard way they don''t always work.The time was short so they didn't quite enough time to test and see what works for them.

One thing i can tell you about urgozz , this happened when they opened it too, everyone was in American districts ( don't know about other countries) making groups, one thing i can tell you from experience, most groups not made in int district don't make it, no idea why, but for some reason its like that.
Thx for the advice. Obviously, I've never seen these missions so I'll be one of the folks with "no idea of what to do". I guess I'll just join a PUG and go in with my normal build the first time. Once I see what I'm up against, I'll adjust the build accordingly.

I have no delusions that I'll pwn the mission. I'll do a bit of research on Guildwiki and try to find a PUG that sounds halfway intelligent, but other than that I'm there to look around and have fun. It would be a nice bonus to pick up a Green or 2.

The first time I went into Fissure of Woe, I had no clue what to expect. I took my normal warrior build and joined an average PUG. We did pretty good. Just by using some common sense (don't aggro every dot on the map, and follow the leader's lead) I helped the group clear out the beach.
trobinson97
trobinson97
Wilds Pathfinder
#13
Greatnews, now maybe people will once again show up in the deep.
thedork01
thedork01
Academy Page
#14
*runs from the pugs in the deep and urgoz*

Nice on the 8v8 in HA though.
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flamegrilled cheese
Ascalonian Squire
#15
About time. Will finally be able to try the deep. Couldn't get a group last time where as ive got a character staying in urgoz to taxi players from my guild hall across.

As for the 8v8 new format that looks really good, I stopped playing after the 6v6 format put me off. Looks like I can return for a weekend.
Shuuda
Shuuda
Forge Runner
#16
It's nice to see a weekend that will make PvErs and PvPrs happy.
greenlantern
greenlantern
Wilds Pathfinder
#17
YEAH 8v8, put your hands in the air and wave them from here to there. Can't wait.

Elite mission double gold drops = yawn
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Phoenix Ex
Lion's Arch Merchant
#18
Woot Elite missions open! Everyone dance!

8v8..../yawn
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dpcash
Academy Page
#19
/Waits for free access to UW/FoW weekend..... sigh
Sir Skullcrasher
Sir Skullcrasher
Furnace Stoker
#20
Where is Canthan?