Dragon Festival Mission One

Did anyone actually finish it?

Or were we supposed to feel suitably owned, several times with our miniscule party size.

I got owned twice. Too lazy to try for a third time.

closed 5 rifts with dunkoro zhed sf and minion master. got owned in the middle laguun rift cuz i lost many minions and didnt want to wander around looking for isolated foes to kill to rebuild my army.
seems doable

I was wondering when someone started a post about this.

It does seem to be a hard mission. For a moment I was wondering if I had HM turned on. I got no further then the second portal and don't feel like trying again, unless I know the reward is really good. But even then, I doubt I'll finish it. It's quite a bit above my league.

Oh well, back to token farming I guess.

It was hard last year with henchies only and PUGs.

Now I got into a decent alliance and heroes make things easier, too.

Hard, but doable - and this is how GW should be!

Everyone now has to carry his own weight, you have to do something, a cookie cutter alone is not going to win the mission, you have to do something yourself, too.

Where u get the mission?

The missions only stay open for 30 minutes. By now they've been closed for about 30 minutes.

Also, if I remember correctly, the reward is awful for the difficulty of the mission. Last year you got 50 or 75 Jade Wind Orbs (depending on where it was).

OK I've closed all the rifts and it still says 7 of 8 rifts destroyed. I've even been around them twice but it still won't tick off.

Anyone else had that problem

Yeah, when I closed my second or third rift, the counter wouldn't change. We got wiped shortly after though, so I don't know if it got fixed later...

it showed 0 of 8 closed after closing the first one for me. I didn't finish the whole thing though.

Yeah... these missions are not very fun. For just being "actors" in a "reenactment", those "mobs" can sure hit hard. Certainly too hard for an 'average' group of four to take on unprepared.

i got to 7/8 but all 8 rifts were closed

The first portal changed for me before I finished taking out the actors...but after that first one my hero group got silly and trained a bunch of stuff to me and wouldn't all attack the same thing at once.

all you get is 50 tokens :/

Tried once, and failed. If you could take even six people with you, instead of four, then I'm pretty sure I could have done it, but that is a little too difficult for my tastes. The bad reward makes doing it a little pointless. But I'm still enjoying the festival.

I guess it's possible it'll be like the New Year event though, where you get a mini-pet or something for completing all the missions. Who knows.

saaaaad only 50tokens. /skip

Ohh yeah - the mission is completely easy!

All you need to do is talk to some guy at Shing Jea - he then teleports you, then you buy some tickets - and go stand in a circle. Then you keep falling on your ass and getting up - and you do this for the whole weekend!

Ohh wait - you mean there is MORE to the event?
Watch me not care!

That's all I wanted to know...

...NOT worth the trouble.

Basically it's like clearing the place out in Hard Mode. Spending 1-2 hours on that is NOT worth 50 tokens by any stretch of the imagination.

It is potentially doable, but in terms of time and reward it's just not worth it...it's probably quicker to keep re-rolling a new character in Factions to do the quests and earn 240(?) tokens.

It's not so much the fact that the foes are lvl 24 and we're allowed a 4-person party that bothers me, it's the fact that:

• if you all die...it's game over due to no res shrines
• the monsters take for EVER to lose aggro
• monsters pop up all over the place, so it takes try after try after try to remember where all the spawns are you need to avoid.
• their Cry of Frustration seems to recharge in 5 seconds the amount of times they seem to get it off

All in all: Hoping for better things from mission 2.

It may be doable but remember: Hard is fun, frustratingly time consumingly hard is NOT fun.

these missions are the same as dragon festival 2006 missions (only with different foes). http://gw.gamewikis.org/wiki/Dragon_Festival_2006 (scroll to Quests/Missions).

2nd mission Jaya Bluffs brings more of the same http://gw.gamewikis.org/wiki/Jaya_Bluffs_%28Mission%29

the last misson (shing jea) is particulary nasty (close 4 rifts at the same time). i doubt anyone managed to complete it last year.

I finished it but it was quite buggy.

It's not that hard if you've played Tombs before and you know the enemies. I had a hero group consisting of a Splinter-Barrage-Interrupter (myself), Talkora, Koss, and Olias (MM).

Problem was that some Rifts wouldn't close, I was left with 7/8 at the end of the mission and all blue flags. I had to drag a Scythe of Chaos back with me so he would open the Rift, so I could close it again.

As mentioned above, the prize was Victory Tokens, which can be exchanged for the mask at the end.

I have to say I was quite amused at the beginning seeing all these 'actors' wearing masks. I laughed a bit but then realized they could totally own me if I wasn't more serious haha.

I hope we can pick which 'demon' mask we want...