Dragon Mask only exchangable at the END of the EVENT??!!!
Mavrik
Rather ironic that Anet messages you every hour and after 2 hours of play insists you take a break... then they proceed to have events that require you on for hours in order to participate...
samifly
ugg - I like to do, the other holiday stuff while I can - not grind for my mask. 250 is alot of orbs, even if they give them out like candy. and if its only on the last day (which is not a holiday)... sigh. Except for the tengu event, you didnt have to grind for the items, just show up. Honestly there should be a collector for items, or just give us the stuff - not both.
GAMBITTHOUGHT
I do not know what to expect. I beleive 250 orbs is a lot. I took my lunch break and for 30 minutes was able to get 11 orbs. If that is average I could grind out 250 orbs in about 12 hours I could have 250 ords. Wow imagine the message A.net will be sending. "Cease and disease game play" or "go to bed" another thing for most of America the envent does not start till 2 am tomorrow.
The only complant I have will have to wait till July 5 to see what A.Net is doing. As far as I know they still have not answered what has happen to Gwenn. Poor Gwenn I knew well. *cough*cough* as a friend, only. :P
The only complant I have will have to wait till July 5 to see what A.Net is doing. As far as I know they still have not answered what has happen to Gwenn. Poor Gwenn I knew well. *cough*cough* as a friend, only. :P
Konrow
why is evryone complaining about 250? you never complained at 250 naga fangs or at farming candy canes but 250 jade orbs!? oh no thats just different for some reason
Cherno
Assuming that the two new quests don't give you orbs as a reward, someone made a good point above about how people are going to be spending their time farming for the orbs instead of enjoying the events that lead up to the last day.
And for the person above who asked about the long weekend, for the States this is our Indepence Day weekend. Most people will be off Saturday through Tuesday night. Most people will be traveling and not have access to GW during this time (as I will not). I had planned to do some farming today and tomorrow before leaving and cash them in for the mask from a collector (a la Wintersday) and not deal with a potentially risky timetable on the last day of the event. They have introduced an element of inconvience for many when they had a good system set up in the past to accomodate anyone.
And for the person above who asked about the long weekend, for the States this is our Indepence Day weekend. Most people will be off Saturday through Tuesday night. Most people will be traveling and not have access to GW during this time (as I will not). I had planned to do some farming today and tomorrow before leaving and cash them in for the mask from a collector (a la Wintersday) and not deal with a potentially risky timetable on the last day of the event. They have introduced an element of inconvience for many when they had a good system set up in the past to accomodate anyone.
Cherno
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Originally Posted by Konrow
why is evryone complaining about 250? you never complained at 250 naga fangs or at farming candy canes but 250 jade orbs!? oh no thats just different for some reason
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From what we have seen so far, you must grind to get each and every orb from a drop, which means many more hours for something that will be useless after the event.
MMSDome
its already a waste in the first place imo, i mean its a waste of a storage slot and you rarely will wear the mask (at least i wouldnt).
SaucE
I thought I read somewhere that the trader will be available 2 or 3 days after the conclusion of the event? And who is saying that tomorrow we will not have the quests like we did for the Naga Fangs?
My Sweet Revenga
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Originally Posted by Jetdoc
Excellent description. Unfortunately, July 5th is NOT a holiday for 99.9% of the working world out there (and is in the middle of a workweek - yuck), so it looks like I'm gonna only be able to get 1-2 hats for my guys...
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Originally Posted by SaucE
I thought I read somewhere that the trader will be available 2 or 3 days after the conclusion of the event? And who is saying that tomorrow we will not have the quests like we did for the Naga Fangs?
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lyra_song
Everyone please remember.
THE EVENT HASNT STARTED YET It starts TOMMOROW. -_o
These drops are just a "preview". Im pretty sure there will be new quests that will allow you to get the majority of your jade orbs easily. Just like the Tengu event.
._. you all panic too quick.
THE EVENT HASNT STARTED YET It starts TOMMOROW. -_o
These drops are just a "preview". Im pretty sure there will be new quests that will allow you to get the majority of your jade orbs easily. Just like the Tengu event.
._. you all panic too quick.
Silent Kitty
I think you are all wrong. What point would there be to the party when you can only wear the mask when it's over?
Numa Pompilius
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Originally Posted by Thallandor
Sorry it is you who misunderstood the complaint.
In the last events,throughout the period of days in the event, 3 hourly the mask collector would come to present the mask doing so everyday throughout the event. But the proposed as is to be understood correctly means that this mask exchange will only take place at the end of the event on the last day only and not on other days within the event which is very inconsiderate and retarted to say the least which is the nature of the complaint. I hope i have made myself clear. regards. |
Other items - eggnog, snowman summoners, candy canes etc - were available throughout the event, from permanent collectors, but not the hats. Have I made myself clear?
And yes it was inconsiderate and retarded, and I said so, both after Halloween and after Wintersday. ANet has listened to complaints insofar they at least tell us there are hats coming this time, and that there will be surprises towards the end, neither of which they did the previous events. During the Wintersday event, for instance, it would have been real helpful to know that Grenth and Dwayna would appear every three hours on the last day and hand out hats, and that all you had to do to get them was to be logged in.
Gaile Gray
As you will read in The Scribe, which hits newscroll stands in a couple of hours, the collectors who will make it possible for you to acquire a dragon mask will be present in Cantha for one week after the event ends.
Do not despair! You have been given the opportunity to start acquiring the Jade Wind Orbs early (as of last night). They will be available through Midnight Pacific on July 4th (7:00 GMT July 5th). And you have a full week to redeem the orbs for the mask.
Have fun, now, and see you in Cantha!
Do not despair! You have been given the opportunity to start acquiring the Jade Wind Orbs early (as of last night). They will be available through Midnight Pacific on July 4th (7:00 GMT July 5th). And you have a full week to redeem the orbs for the mask.
Have fun, now, and see you in Cantha!
minimoose fan
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Originally Posted by Gaile Gray
As you will read in The Scribe, which hits newscroll stands in a couple of hours, the collectors who will make it possible for you to acquire a dragon mask will be present in Cantha for one week after the event ends.
Do not despair! You have been given the opportunity to start acquiring the Jade Wind Orbs early (as of last night). They will be available through Midnight Pacific on July 4th (7:00 GMT July 5th). And you have a full week to redeem the orbs for the mask. Have fun, now, and see you in Cantha! |
MadOnion
From what I'm reading, I won't be participating in orb/hat thing at all. I'm no farmer, nor am I rich enough to buy enough orbs (OK, maybe I have enough, but there's no way I'm going to waste that much money on a hat). Farming for orbs isn't fun and I'm not going to go many hours out of my way for a prize that's not nearly worth it. In fact, I'm not sure what Anet is trying to do by requiring 250 orbs and having them only availible on one day. They are adding in grind and excluding the casual players. No doubt I will do the free events (pvp arenas) but I'm not going to participate in any item based parts.
EDIT: Thanks Gaile, invalidates much of my post.
EDIT: Thanks Gaile, invalidates much of my post.
wsmcasey
w00t! Thank you Gaile! Now I don't have to worry about getting a mask, because I'm going on vacation to Florida next week. <3 <3 <3 
Sir Skullcrasher
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Originally Posted by Gaile Gray
As you will read in The Scribe, which hits newscroll stands in a couple of hours, the collectors who will make it possible for you to acquire a dragon mask will be present in Cantha for one week after the event ends.
Do not despair! You have been given the opportunity to start acquiring the Jade Wind Orbs early (as of last night). They will be available through Midnight Pacific on July 4th (7:00 GMT July 5th). And you have a full week to redeem the orbs for the mask. Have fun, now, and see you in Cantha! |
My Sweet Revenga
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Originally Posted by Gaile Gray
As you will read in The Scribe, which hits newscroll stands in a couple of hours, the collectors who will make it possible for you to acquire a dragon mask will be present in Cantha for one week after the event ends.
Do not despair! You have been given the opportunity to start acquiring the Jade Wind Orbs early (as of last night). They will be available through Midnight Pacific on July 4th (7:00 GMT July 5th). And you have a full week to redeem the orbs for the mask. Have fun, now, and see you in Cantha! |
Changing the mask distributor to a 24/7 collector instead is by far the best change for these events. For all the previous events, you had people scrambling to satisfy all the requirements to get a mask and then sit in a designated zone for a couple hours waiting for the distributor to show up. And then once they had the mask in their inventory, they immediately logged off, quickly logged back in with a different character, and followed the mad scramble jumping to district 300 hoping to catch a slightly lagged version of the event and gain a 2nd (or in some cases) a 3rd mask in one sitting. Doing it this way meant most people missed the end festivities (grenth showed his love by killing everyone ^^). So as far as event changes go, this is by far the best one as now people can actually relax and enjoy every aspect of the event. GG Anet.
I'm actually quite excited about the EVENT itself now that I don't have to worry about whether all my characters will get masks or not. Urm really the only thing that could possibly ruin this now is if they didn't give us orbs for special quest rewards and made us farm them all 1 at a time
...... crossin me fingers here...
Big Tony
/cheers at Gaile for her wisdom and insider-information!
lyra_song
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Originally Posted by Gaile Gray
As you will read in The Scribe, which hits newscroll stands in a couple of hours, the collectors who will make it possible for you to acquire a dragon mask will be present in Cantha for one week after the event ends.
Do not despair! You have been given the opportunity to start acquiring the Jade Wind Orbs early (as of last night). They will be available through Midnight Pacific on July 4th (7:00 GMT July 5th). And you have a full week to redeem the orbs for the mask. Have fun, now, and see you in Cantha! |
ducktape
Mask Trader FTW. Go Anet!!
I'm so glad I don't have to stand around and wait for emperors or spirits to give me my hats
I'm so glad I don't have to stand around and wait for emperors or spirits to give me my hats
Xenrath
Can you confirm there will be quests which give significant amounts of orbs Gaile? i.e. most/more than half of what you need to get a mask for a character?
Current rumour is 250 orbs for one mask, and if that's mostly coming from farming... that's rapidly becoming tiresome. Thanks!
Current rumour is 250 orbs for one mask, and if that's mostly coming from farming... that's rapidly becoming tiresome. Thanks!
Soccer55
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Originally Posted by Xenrath
Can you confirm there will be quests which give significant amounts of orbs Gaile? i.e. most/more than half of what you need to get a mask for a character?
Current rumour is 250 orbs for one mask, and if that's mostly coming from farming... that's rapidly becoming tiresome. Thanks! |
-Tom
death fuzzy
wow, whats up with you people.
I got 100 in a little under 2hours.
I got 100 in a little under 2hours.
Shadowfox1125
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Originally Posted by death fuzzy
wow, whats up with you people.
I got 100 in a little under 2hours. |
Now if you want 250 of them,
100 * 2.5 = 250
2 * 2.5 = 5 Hours.
5 Hours for 1 mask.
And if you want 1 mask per character.. I'm not even gonna go that far.
I hope that was sarcasm. You forgot to add a /sarcasm tag at the end.
Overnite
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Originally Posted by Shadowfox1125
Ok.. so that's 100 in 2 hours
Now if you want 250 of them, 100 * 2.5 = 250 2 * 2.5 = 5 Hours. 5 Hours for 1 mask. And if you want 1 mask per character.. I'm not even gonna go that far. I hope that was sarcasm. You forgot to add a /sarcasm tag at the end. |
During the Tengu event, the Naga (or whatever it was) were available as rewards for some rather trivial quests. It took me like half an hour to get my mask.
Juicey Shake
Well 5 days and an additional week to get my mask on all of my characters I'm not worried in the least.
TheMosesPHD
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Originally Posted by Soccer55
For Tengu Day there were 3 quests that, IIRC, netted you a total of 200 Naga Fangs. That means you only had to farm 50 more of them to get the mask.....and most of those 50 you could get by killing naga while doing the quests. I would think that the Dragon Festival would be set up in a similar fashion.
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Now as for the masks. If you can only get them at the end of the event, it will probably either be like the Candy Cane weapons or like the Yule Cap event. It's true it was only there for 1 day, but at the same time it came from an event that occurred every 3 hours just like every event that GW has ever had!
On a side note...ppl are trying to trade orbs for minipets...also you can find ppl in Shing Jea monastery going through a whole lot of hours of trouble just to make a profit of 5-7k off orbs...
Kook~NBK~
There sure are a TON of assumptions being made here. Keep in mind that the Tengu thing was a one-day event (AS ADVERTISED). This upcoming thing is going to last a few days, like Halloween & Wintersday. Also keep in mind that the collectors that gave out the goodies for stuff in those two events didn't show up on the first day of those events.
The bottom line is, only A-Net knows exactly how the thing is going to work, and there's no reason whatsoever to complain about what hasn't happened.
I say, sit back and enjoy the event! It should be lots of fun & if you're too lazy to go out and get 250 orbs, then maybe you're not worthy of the Dragon's Mask.
The bottom line is, only A-Net knows exactly how the thing is going to work, and there's no reason whatsoever to complain about what hasn't happened.
I say, sit back and enjoy the event! It should be lots of fun & if you're too lazy to go out and get 250 orbs, then maybe you're not worthy of the Dragon's Mask.
Studio Ghibli
Jeez.
Call the wahmbulance, someone.
Now that the events live, people can stop crying over the rumormongerers.
1) While the emperor will only be available on the last day and only at two hour intervauls, Anet has provided a special NPC to give masks out to those who would be unable to make it that day.
2) Not willing to farm for 250 orbs? Then do the friggin' quests. The first one rewards for 40. The second one rewards for 50.
Don't know if there are more after that, as I haven't taken the time to complete it.
Jeez. ;(
Call the wahmbulance, someone.
Now that the events live, people can stop crying over the rumormongerers.
1) While the emperor will only be available on the last day and only at two hour intervauls, Anet has provided a special NPC to give masks out to those who would be unable to make it that day.
2) Not willing to farm for 250 orbs? Then do the friggin' quests. The first one rewards for 40. The second one rewards for 50.
Don't know if there are more after that, as I haven't taken the time to complete it.
Jeez. ;(
Kijik Oni Hanryuu
also dragon arena rewards 4 orbs per win so PvP extraordainaires, GET TO IT! Vault oh yeah
fiery
Cause Gaile rocks . Sucks PVP characters can't go to Dragon Arena, wouldn't mean a thing seeing all same skills and attributes, but the thought that counts.
. Sucks PVP characters can't go to Dragon Arena, wouldn't mean a thing seeing all same skills and attributes, but the thought that counts.
silyrinth
First quest 40, second quest 50, third quest 60, fourth quest 90.
240 Jade Wind Orbs just from the quests, the other ten are easily gotten either through a bit of farming, or as rewards in the games. ^^
240 Jade Wind Orbs just from the quests, the other ten are easily gotten either through a bit of farming, or as rewards in the games. ^^
tuna-fish_sushi
their are four quests in a row first nets you 40orbs second is 50 third is 60 and last is 90
that is 240 orbs allowing you to get 1 mask
Sorry to all thsoe people that spent their time farming them and paying big bucks for orbs
aww he posted 1 min b4 me ><
that is 240 orbs allowing you to get 1 mask
Sorry to all thsoe people that spent their time farming them and paying big bucks for orbs
aww he posted 1 min b4 me ><
Kijik Oni Hanryuu
tuna-fish you were prolly only like 20-30 secs late, oh and how long does this chain of quests take for a full level sin with shiro's blades? Any ideas guys?
The Great Al
lmao...you get 240 out of 250 from quests...i am SO glad i sold 88 for 44k right before the first update
are the masks going to be customized?
are the masks going to be customized?
Cash
i soloed all 4 on my whammo but i wouldnt suggest soloing the last one. at the end of the first 3 quests you fight a minor grasp (i think thats what it was called) which is pretty much the same thing at the grasping darknesses from ToPK. they use the fingers of chaos skill which does different things to different classes. i actually got lucky and accidentily had a vermin farming build with glads set and didnt bother to change it aside from adding purge conditions after fighting the first one. at the end of the last quest, however, you have to fight quite a few of the lil suckers. with careful pulling they can be separated, but im sure its MUCH faster to just group up for that last quest.
Kijik Oni Hanryuu
okee cool, and about how long did it take you?
Greaty Al: lucky share the lub man!
Greaty Al: lucky share the lub man!
The Great Al
the quests were laughable, they each took 5 minutes max, and that included a lot of running...they should just give us the 240 jade orbs if they're going to make it that easy
kijik: not sure if the question was towards me, but it took maybe 2 hours to farm that.
kijik: not sure if the question was towards me, but it took maybe 2 hours to farm that.
Kijik Oni Hanryuu
sweet only five mins per quest, that means I can have enough saved up for my sins dragon mask in like 30 mins, THANKYOU ANET I LUUUURVE YOU!!! WOOOOOOOTSAAAAAAUUUUUCCCCEEE!
ehl oh ehl im sucha noob
ehl oh ehl im sucha noob