Today's Shining Blade Bounty

Chronos the Defiler

Chronos the Defiler

Desert Nomad

Join Date: May 2005

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

W/

anyone else think this is completely not worth it?

3 supplies and 1 extra for Hard Mode? serious?

First bounty was 7 + 3

Second was 10 + 5

Third was 7 + 3

Forth is 3 + 1? wtf

If they are going to add content, and EXPECT people to play it, make it worth while at minimum

-Makai-

-Makai-

Jungle Guide

Join Date: May 2007

WA

DH

Rt/

Not worth it at all, unless another boss in the area gets a quest.

Thalador Doomspeaker

Thalador Doomspeaker

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Dec 2008

The Ruins of Rin

Incarnation of the Reaper [GRIM]

W/

This was a ridiculous bounty. I would headbutt Salma if I could, lol. :P

Coverticus

Coverticus

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jan 2006

The Zodiac Elites [TZE]

Mo/

I admit I didn't even look at the reward until I was handed my mighty 4 supplies..... kinda odd, wonder if they ballsed up a little here, hopefully addressing for tomorrrows!

Dzjudz

Dzjudz

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Jun 2005

gwpvx.com/user:dzjudz

I did it, but you can get 3 times the war supplies in less time and in normal mode if you just escort the Courier...

Puddin Cheeks

Puddin Cheeks

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Aug 2006

On Welfare

Jelly of the Month [Club]

It seems this guy isn't so important on Salma's radar. Are they making it where it isn't even worthwhile to kill him for only 4 war supplies max. It is retarded that people are farming the courier like mad and get tons more for less work. Some of us get bored in repetition and killing bounties is more fun. Give us equal reward plx.

makosi

makosi

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: Mar 2006

"Pre-nerf" is incorrect. It's pre-buff.

Requirement Begins With R [notQ]

Me/

It's an easy one today. You're able to avoid most mobs leading to the boss.

trankle

trankle

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Oct 2005

BloodBath & Beyond

Rt/

Sounds like you were rewarded with fun.

Covah

Forge Runner

Join Date: Aug 2006

Ontario, Canada

Catching Jellyfish With [소N트T ]

Me/Rt

hmmmm get 12 war supplies for escorting a guy and killing like 8 mobs.....or get 3-10 for zoning and killing one guy in 1 min.........hmmmmm

Chronos the Defiler

Chronos the Defiler

Desert Nomad

Join Date: May 2005

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

W/

Quote:
Originally Posted by makosi View Post
It's an easy one today. You're able to avoid most mobs leading to the boss.
regardless, it is not worth the time. an 8-10 minute courier run yields 3 times the reward

Miss Bella Swan

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Aug 2009

Canada

Force Of Evil

A/R

Hell, I'm just happy to have some new stuff to do in the game.

IlikeGW

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Aug 2005

Well I hope they didn't make a lot of bounty quests because it was a waste of their time when everyone is just going to do the courier.

Rugar

Academy Page

Join Date: Jul 2009

Quote:
Originally Posted by IlikeGW View Post
Well I hope they didn't make a lot of bounty quests because it was a waste of their time when everyone is just going to do the courier.
If that was the case people wouldn't be QQ about the low value of today's bounty.

BrettM

BrettM

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Aug 2008

Fuzzy Physics Institute

E/

Something I find puzzling is that Zaishen HM bonuses are usually the same as or higher than NM payouts, so you double (or more) your zcoin reward for doing HM. Yet the Wanted bounties give a HM bonus that is less than half of the NM payout. It appears as if the Wanted bounties are exactly the reverse of Zaishen, making me wonder if somebody didn't feed the numbers in backwards when setting up the Wanted bounty table. 1+3 for today would make more sense than 3+1, for example.

Dzjudz

Dzjudz

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Jun 2005

gwpvx.com/user:dzjudz

Quote:
Originally Posted by Rugar View Post
If that was the case people wouldn't be QQ about the low value of today's bounty.
Because the bounties are more fun than doing the courier over and over again.

Cuilan

Cuilan

Forge Runner

Join Date: Mar 2008

Me/

Quote:
Originally Posted by trankle View Post
Sounds like you were rewarded with fun.
Whoa, people who enjoy the game. O.O;

The new quests are fun. I hope there's some odd ball ones to stir the mix or a mass number of quests.

Eragon Zarroc

Eragon Zarroc

Atra estern?? ono thelduin

Join Date: Jan 2008

Madness Incarnate

[Duo]

W/P

hmmm, is weird seeing as other bounties have had even shorter routes to the bosses than this one...

Mintha Syl

Mintha Syl

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Apr 2010

Yeah, I was astonished when I've seen the reward. There's so much difference between one quest reward and another, and itt looks like they're scaling down...and if not for the fun the +1 whouldn't even be worth hm.

And yes, I'm with the ones who think the courier is boring to do more than few times.

Fay Vert

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Apr 2006

R/

Someone at ANet brainfarts? never!

Septeric

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Mar 2010

TRS-80 land or Colorado... depends on the weather.

House of Septeric

Quote:
And yes, I'm with the ones who think the courier is boring to do more than few times.
no worries.. i see there is a bot for that already.

*rolls eyes @ the current state of the game

Dzjudz

Dzjudz

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Jun 2005

gwpvx.com/user:dzjudz

Well it seems the standard currently is a group of 5 DwG rits and a UA monk to do the courier between Beetletun and Divinity Coast in 5 minutes.

Mireles

Mireles

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jun 2009

W/Me

all bounty rewards can be consider insufficient when compared to the courier... as long as this guy is around and repeatable... War Supplies will continue to drop in price until it reaches a point to where people do not find it worth the time.... and 5-10 mins a run for 12... price is going to be really low as the days go by

Edit:
I hope this courier was a temporary economic ploy effectively lowering demand by flooding supply of these items because otherwise war supplies would be very limited and hard to get, there for high in price... which makes the benefits of having these unattainable for some. If this continues permanently...New content items will have almost no value by Friday...

Kaitoa

Kaitoa

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jul 2006

W/

Well I think they must have thought the rewards were a tad high. After all unlike Nick these gifts have no limit to the number one can purchase.
Add to that the courier and thats alot. So I think they just lowered the reward for that reason.

Necrodolly

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Aug 2009

Thinly... veiled... grind.

majoho

majoho

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jul 2006

Denmark

In my opinion they should nerf the courier award, I'd say nerf it to 3 instead of 12.

Carboplatin

Carboplatin

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jul 2005

[PIG]

W/A

Its not always the reward that some of use are after, its the process.

Cleavage

Cleavage

Worlds Hexiest Man

Join Date: Jun 2006

[TRDR]

REMOVE the Courier



Problem Fixed

vader

vader

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jul 2005

P/W

Quote:
Originally Posted by Dzjudz View Post
Well it seems the standard currently is a group of 5 DwG rits and a UA monk to do the courier between Beetletun and Divinity Coast in 5 minutes.
A group of 6 takes 5 minutes? I've been doing it with my Spirit Spammer, Talkora, Livia (MM) and Sousuke in about 8-9 minutes.

Mireles

Mireles

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jun 2009

W/Me

Quote:
Originally Posted by Cleavage View Post
REMOVE the Courier



Problem Fixed
Werd.... horde supplies while hes still here, who know this just might be a weekly chapter in the war....

cosyfiep

cosyfiep

are we there yet?

Join Date: Dec 2005

in a land far far away

guild? I am supposed to have a guild?

Rt/

unless they are planning to add a bunch more bosses, there arent very many right now, so even if they had bounties for them all it would only get us thru like a month or so tops.

I dont get good returns for mine so I think I will start hoarding.

aspi

aspi

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jan 2010

eeew

N/Rt

Quote:
Originally Posted by Cleavage View Post
REMOVE the Courier



Problem Fixed
Or make it longer, from Lion's arch to shining blade camp, dunno if cross area travel is possible but right now it is way too easy on a full real player team.

Riot Narita

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Apr 2007

Quote:
Originally Posted by aspi View Post
Or make it longer, from Lion's arch to shining blade camp, dunno if cross area travel is possible but right now it is way too easy on a full real player team.
It's also trivially easy H/H, if you have an Ele that can run an ER heal/prot build to keep Falken and the team alive. That's what I'm doing.

aspi

aspi

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jan 2010

eeew

N/Rt

Quote:
Originally Posted by Riot Narita View Post
It's also trivially easy H/H, if you have an Ele that can run an ER heal/prot build to keep Falken and the team alive. That's what I'm doing.
Hmm it is quite easy on my necro, ranger and sin build. But my warrior + sabway team keeps on f*cking things up. Could be I am a lousy warrior ofcourse

majoho

majoho

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jul 2006

Denmark

Quote:
Originally Posted by aspi View Post
Hmm it is quite easy on my necro, ranger and sin build. But my warrior + sabway team keeps on f*cking things up. Could be I am a lousy warrior ofcourse
It should work ok with a war+sabway, if you mess it up go with discord instead it provides more healing.

Razon

Razon

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Nov 2008

Mo/

I see their point.. the harder the bounty = the less loot you get! GG

Dzjudz

Dzjudz

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Jun 2005

gwpvx.com/user:dzjudz

Quote:
Originally Posted by vader View Post
A group of 6 takes 5 minutes? I've been doing it with my Spirit Spammer, Talkora, Livia (MM) and Sousuke in about 8-9 minutes.
Well, yeah, it can't really go any faster since you're tied to Falken's walk speed. Fall Back can only increase it so much. The DwG groups spike the spawns in 1-2 sec (spawns are at fixed positions) and move on.

Mintha Syl

Mintha Syl

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Apr 2010

Quote:
Originally Posted by Razon View Post
I see their point.. the harder the bounty = the less loot you get! GG
Yeah, did it today and it's the only one that gave me trouble...

Scary

Scary

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Sep 2007

Uhmmmm??

Limburgse Jagers [LJ]

N/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Mireles View Post
all bounty rewards can be consider insufficient when compared to the courier... as long as this guy is around and repeatable... War Supplies will continue to drop in price until it reaches a point to where people do not find it worth the time.... and 5-10 mins a run for 12... price is going to be really low as the days go by

Edit:
I hope this courier was a temporary economic ploy effectively lowering demand by flooding supply of these items because otherwise war supplies would be very limited and hard to get, there for high in price... which makes the benefits of having these unattainable for some. If this continues permanently...New content items will have almost no value by Friday...
Well I Hope he will stay around... Why must everything be valuable.
Like I had 30 gifts so far by running the courier and the bounty's
and the best thing I had was a BU...the biggest part where scrolls.

I my self even after 5 years don't give a **** about ingame mony. Its all
to have fun. And fun is given by itmes, stones etc. not by something that is worth a stack of ecto's....

But yea thats me...

Charlie Dayman

Charlie Dayman

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Apr 2009

Trifecta Luminati [TRI]

W/

Quote:
Originally Posted by aspi View Post
Or make it longer, from Lion's arch to shining blade camp, dunno if cross area travel is possible but right now it is way too easy on a full real player team.
Just bring some form of stance removal if you're playing on your War. That will make things a lot easier since they abuse blocking stances.

Clobimon

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jul 2006

better - today's, Cerris, is worth 10 + 5.

Yesterday's Chronicle mentions Destor in Kessex Peak. That one has got to be worth a lot doesn't it? Maybe that one will be tomorrow...