Your opinions on the 2007 Dragon Festival? I wasnt impressed.

Two major complaints I have:

1) Lag - agreed with everyone else, but this is nothing new for any special weekend event. Blah. Starting to get used to it anyway.

2) 2 days long!? So far every special event with quests, prizes, and masks during the finale have been at least a week long. What's up with this crap? The development was not only rushed (most of it was a copy of last years, except for a handful of scenery, NPCs and dialog), but I feel rushed to try and get everything done in two days, on top of work and school. Ridiculous. I've been able to play a whole 2-3 hours tops.

On the positive ends, the dialog changes that make it feel like a big play are pretty amusing. I'm making lots of money, and I made it to first tier of Sweet Tooth on my warrior, finally, thanks to the prize drops and tokens. I'm also just thankful we're getting what we got, considering I was beginning to question if we were even going to see any kind of Dragon Festival again. So I guess since I had no expectations, anything is better than nothing.

Oh yeah, the spawned Boardwalk Prizes during each finale really should've been assigned ala the Wintersday gift spawns. Would stop a lot of the bickering that occurs during the victory ceremony. It's disheartening to see everyone having so much fun, then suddenly turning into greedy bastards and cursing at each other over whose spot is whose.

I don't understand everybody that complains about lag. The only time I have problems is when multiple users are logged onto my PC, with all kinds crap running in the background.

Before you play, log off the other users, and "End Process" for iTunes, anything HP related, and anything else hogging up your memory. You'll be much happier.

3/10

TERRIBLE lag (I got up to a 77000 ms ping during the dragon fest, the WORST lag I've ever had playing GW (I've played on the same computer and set up for 2 years, surely there was more people playing during Halloween 2006, why was lag so much worse this time around?). It caused my computer to crash.

The quests were just reskins of the previously made ones. New textures and models for the monsters and a few new lines looped into the quest dialogues... kinda happhazardly thrown together.

And my BIG complaint. MANY districts during the finale were completely bugged (demons winning 900 points to 3) making it impossible to win. For crying out load, the code existed already from last year. Granted you fixed the dozens of Emperor Kizu bug, but don't they test their stuff at all?

If you figure the entire weekend as merely a reskinned copy of last year alot of the problems make sense. The things that hadn't changed (Arenas, boardwalk stuff, missions, unassigned gifts [I mean they learnt from the Dragon festival about the loot stealing; and fixed it for wintersday], bugs/glitches) I don't know if we should feel jipped or excited.

I mean all there efforts has to be going elsewhere, normally there all out for there weekends, progressive improving on the formats. So maybe there focused on GWEN and couldn't do much more then a resikn festival?!

I'd really like the next celebration to have all of the edible and other types of gifts available. If I had known how useful the clovers were going to be when partying with hench, I would have gone mental trying to get as many as I could.

Please please anet let us have an event with all edible and other gifts!!!!

I can dream

I forgot about that - OMFG the bugs were numerous and annoying. Some districts had the insane score for the enemy like you say, others had the timer and grasps, but no orbs and no score. I think those districts still have grasps running around right now, and a LOT of them, too. They don't appear to be getting stuck on anything like last year, but they are seriously bugged and pretty much make those districts useless for finales. It's not just high districts, either, just random ones.

I don't think any other holiday is ever this bugged. I mean I know there are bugs, but not this bad. Dragon Festival is just poorly slapped together.

The only reason it was "pot luck" was due to the amount of lag this weekend. It's a vastly more interesting game when you can actually time the dodging of orbs.

when i ended up with this:

i gave up on the rest of the event. pathetic presentation on anets part. no debugging software or what???

Dragon Festival without dragons: 2.5 out of 10
- Same 9 ring games etc
- Same dragon arena
- More rollerbeetle racing (.5 comes from this simple addition to event)
- For failure to add anything truly new.
- Added replacement npcs for the same demons, some textured towers and a windmill portal (i did seriously laugh when i saw that one)
- A lame mask out of better demon choices (which can be found on the npc replacement demons). could have gave us a choice, and maybe dying it(dying isnt that important though)
- And the neglecting to test the changes before sending it live is just unacceptable.

When you say we get an event, I don't see notes about "sorry if you encounter major flaws or glitches during the event, we might fix it next time when we recycle the content next year. no, we don't *cough* hate Cantha."
I mean its ridiculous now, next time just don't bother, stay with the simple weekend events, at least those generally don't have problems when it comes to a short spanning event.

I wan't to know what lag everyone is talking about unless your all euros complaining.... I have a 6 year old computer running off an agp card and I had no lag....

US here, and I had some pretty pitiful lag, myself, so I don't know where it's coming from.

Had Fun on this one!! Sure it was pretty much the same thing as last year but It was a great way to earn some extra gold and have some fun. The Missions were pretty much insane but I like the challenge. Our PUG finished the first mission but i could not get into a pug that could finish the other missions. But had fun none the less. I can't get enough of events so anything that comes our way is much appreciated. I was able to get my hands on 241 Boardwalk Prizes. It was not the best looking mask ANET has come up with but it will add to my collection none the less. Thanks for the fest ANET! Look forward to the next one you guys come up with.

It would be Really cool to have a Festival that sort of takes us into the GW:EN story line!

presents should be assigned. greed fest, ppl not getting there fair share etc... i traded a couple of times, because i yoinked a pressie, then thought id give it back . plus u miss the fireworks, as your looking at the ground.

quests where ok, guild farmed them, need more experience tho!

missiony things where annoying, 30min window, spawns, monster skills etc, pants reward too.

liked alot of the stuff tho, like the actors, the jokes in the quests, the spinny wheels, made some friends too

hats off to all those who where kind, and helped others, thats what made the festival really special, and maybe the best yet for me :O

I had a good time with it. Like others have said tho, gifts should be assigned.

QFMFT

No tactics in Dragon Arena? WTF?

That place is BUILT upon strategic based combat. L2Kite and when to attack maybe? It takes some thinking.

Back on topic...

EDITED FOR SANITY. Forget any opinions I posted in the deleted text, because I know not where they came from. O.o

The last Emperor event was the best. Everybody was getting slaughtered in the Monastery! And at the end, all the devils were chasing around 1 poor girl. It was more fun anything else I've done on the game.

gg anet

I had fun as I did last year. Was the same thing as last years event with minor modifications. I managed to finish the Haijun Lagoon mission; however, the reward as last years was not enough for a though mission. The mask, blah, is ok I guess. No lag for me what so ever and I have enough sweets and booze til haloween. Overall for me was a 7/10.

spamming wts in the chat channel is more against the rules

I liked the event. Why? Because unlike most people, I made money off of it. I gained something like 150k by the end.

Thing is, I never sold anything to others, I simply used the Merchants. I had 250 Bottles of Rice Wine and 250 red Bean Cakes, each stack was worth 50k. It's nice having ten level 20 PvE characters to do quests with.

Missed it. Doesn't bother me that much aside from getting a few rounds in the dragon arena. Don't mind not getting a butt-ugly mask either.

These events are often at the wrong time for me because for some reason I'm usually less able to play on a weekend than during the week. When I saw there was a time schedule for the events I pretty much wrote the whole thing off.