Rujiyo! (Mini-Missions)

Yuo Can Do It!

Academy Page

Join Date: Apr 2006

Rt/Me

The missions have stopped for me...no more green exclemation above his head.....no more confirmation...just a single dialogue box.

Mr_T_bot

Mr_T_bot

Banned

Join Date: Apr 2006

It has begun - the Chaos monsters have started invading towns.

Zinger314

Zinger314

Debbie Downer

Join Date: May 2006

N/Me

Quote:
Originally Posted by Yuo Can Do It!
The missions have stopped for me...no more green exclemation above his head.....no more confirmation...just a single dialogue box.
Did you sleep with his wife?

Guildmaster Cain

Guildmaster Cain

Desert Nomad

Join Date: May 2006

Guildmistress Eve [Me], Guildmistress Azura [N], Guildmistress Azumi [A], Guildmistress Jaina [D]

Guildmaster Aeron [Rt], Arthas Ironfist [W], Guild: The Tyrian Templars [TTT]

Back to Tsumei Village...

Edit: Yay... this time I was first!

oljomo

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Mar 2006

Quote:
Originally Posted by Yuo Can Do It!
The missions have stopped for me...no more green exclemation above his head.....no more confirmation...just a single dialogue box.
Hi

this happenes for a short period jsut before the missions change over.

Were back to tsumei village now, wonder what will happen tomorrow ^_^

oljomo

mqstout

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: May 2005

Pittsburgh

Gr. That these missions are only short-timefrime that you can actually play them sucks. I'm stuck at work today, so no attempts to save Tsumei Village for me

Yesterday we almost managed to defeat Haiju Lagoon...

Shyft the Pyro

Shyft the Pyro

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Sep 2005

NYC, USA

E/Mo

Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir Mad
I have, and that's why I'm saying this lol I'm talking about the maps of the 2 latest missions, not Laggon or Jaya Bluffs. And there is no icon on those maps.
My bad. Bit of miscommunication there. Carry on

Lets Get to Healing

Banned

Join Date: Dec 2005

You want see?

True Gods of War [True]

Mo/W

Quote:
Originally Posted by Kijik Oni Hanryuu
yep yep, and song I love the guild name DW is an awesome game. have they released DW6 yet? or are they planning to make DW6?
***Off Topic**


Ok, this is making me repeatedly angry. im not trying to complain, i know IM off topic as well, but just keep it within the topic. This is better left to PMs.

Mr_T_bot

Mr_T_bot

Banned

Join Date: Apr 2006

Quote:
Originally Posted by mqstout
Gr. That these missions are only short-timefrime that you can actually play them sucks. I'm stuck at work today, so no attempts to save Tsumei Village for me

Yesterday we almost managed to defeat Haiju Lagoon...
If you don't have guild group, it is pointless to even try. Maybe 5% playing it even know what the monsters are and how to fight them. And they have already beat it and arn't doing it again. The rest have no idea what the mission is and not enoguh time to learn how to play them.

xBakox

xBakox

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Oct 2005

[JF] Just Friends, [NOT] Nomads of Turmoil

Whats the reward for beating Tsumei? Same as Seitung?

Guildmaster Cain

Guildmaster Cain

Desert Nomad

Join Date: May 2006

Guildmistress Eve [Me], Guildmistress Azura [N], Guildmistress Azumi [A], Guildmistress Jaina [D]

Guildmaster Aeron [Rt], Arthas Ironfist [W], Guild: The Tyrian Templars [TTT]

It might differ a bit because we forgot to synchronize our watches 2 days ago... but here's the following observations:

3-6-7 11:00 Tsumei Village invaded
3-6-7 14:00 Seitung Harbor invaded
3-6-7 17:00 Tsumei Village invaded

The time between invasion and a new mission is about 5 minutes. For instance first time Tsumei is invaded, it is 11:00. From this time on Captain Rujiyo does not offer any mission anymore. At 11:05 starts the mission to save Tsumei Village. And so on... and so on...

RTSFirebat

RTSFirebat

The Humanoid Typhoon

Join Date: May 2005

UK

Servants of Fortuna [SoF]

R/

Tsumei Village map:

Reward: 75 Orbs, Takes only 10 mins to do

Mr_T_bot

Mr_T_bot

Banned

Join Date: Apr 2006

Quote:
Originally Posted by RTSFirebat
Tsumei Village map:

Reward: 75 Orbs, Takes only 10 mins to do

You forgot to factor in the hour and a half it takes to find a group.

Lets Get to Healing

Banned

Join Date: Dec 2005

You want see?

True Gods of War [True]

Mo/W

Quote:
Originally Posted by Guildmaster Cain
It might differ a bit because we forgot to synchronize our watches 2 days ago... but here's the following observations:

3-6-6 11:00 Tsumei Village invaded
3-6-6 14:00 Seitung Harbor invaded
3-6-6 17:00 Tsumei Village invaded

The time between invasion and a new mission is about 5 minutes. For instance first time Tsumei is invaded, it is 11:00. From this time on Captain Rujiyo does not offer any mission anymore. At 11:05 starts the mission to save Tsumei Village. And so on... and so on...
You mean 3-7-6 lol

Doomlord_Slayermann

Doomlord_Slayermann

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jul 2005

Chicago IL

Dark Phoenix Risin [DPR]

W/P

Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr_T_bot
You forgot to factor in the hour and a half it takes to find a group.
I think you forgot to find a low-number district to look for a party in. I got one in two minutes, tops, and we beat the thing with only one death.

Mr_T_bot

Mr_T_bot

Banned

Join Date: Apr 2006

Quote:
Originally Posted by Doomlord_Slayermann
I think you forgot to find a low-number district to look for a party in. I got one in two minutes, tops, and we beat the thing with only one death.
Outside of the festival area where at least 150 people are afk on the rings on every district, the Monastary is dead.
I have been getting in groups. They all had a Warrior who thought mending was a good idea, or a half-afk monk, or an elementalist with DPS AoEs. Or a melee assassin with non-helpful skillset.

mqstout

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: May 2005

Pittsburgh

Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr_T_bot
If you don't have guild group, it is pointless to even try. Maybe 5% playing it even know what the monsters are and how to fight them. And they have already beat it and arn't doing it again. The rest have no idea what the mission is and not enoguh time to learn how to play them.
We got damned close to finishing the lagoon, my friend and two pickups. My friend and I have henched ourselfs through the end of the second level of the Tombs. It's slow and arduously fun.

Kaziks

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Jul 2005

Saucy Sand Sailors

N/

Myself (MM) and a friend (SS) found a random monk and warrior and beat lagoon with only minor issues. I think our only death was from not noticing a nuker patrol that killed my friend. Havent tried the other ones yet though

The Great Al

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jun 2005

ALOA

E/Me

Quote:
Originally Posted by Hypernecrofear
um guys... i heard that if u beat them both, supposedly you get a title "Protector of the Emperor" Im not even sure if this exists. Its jsut what i heard
lol hey man..after that other person in our alliance said that, i was going to come here and post about it, looks like you beat me to it

Da Cebuano

Da Cebuano

Desert Nomad

Join Date: May 2005

Virginia born in Cebu

Jelly Toast[jT]

W/

What pisses me off is that WHY DOES IT HAVE TO KEEP ON POPPING ON MY SCREEN THAT THE IFFER NEEDS HELP?! I really could care much about the mission.

Malchior Devenholm

Malchior Devenholm

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Nov 2005

The Dragon Arena!!!

Pshycho Ninjas [oGod] | Vent Rage [vR] | Zealots of Shiverpeak [ZoS]

Eh...still no discovered reward besides the orb...Im just waiting for Tuesday,

Tuesday they will take the Vale

And guarantee that on Wednesday the final day, they penetrate into the Monastery and we get to watch the Emperor kick some ass

Theus

Jungle Guide

Join Date: May 2005

W/Mo

Quote:
Originally Posted by Malchior Devenholm
Eh...still no discovered reward besides the orb...Im just waiting for Tuesday,

Tuesday they will take the Vale

And guarantee that on Wednesday the final day, they penetrate into the Monastery and we get to watch the Emperor kick some ass
Nope.They'll enter the area outside of the Shing Jea Monastary where they will being to converge on the Monastery then the Emperor will call the Celestial Dragon who in turn will give us Celestial Skills to take on the monsters in that area.I do believe this will be the last mission that may actually give a larger reward than the current jade orbs,especially considering its on the last day.

The Great Al

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jun 2005

ALOA

E/Me

I'm still confused...I know that the east coast is GMT - 4 during daylight savings (at least i think so) but is this happening on tuesday or wednesday?

Ken Dei

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jan 2006

W/Mo

I just hope that if A.net decides to make this a hidden decent prize, they give it out for TRYING to do the missions. People shouldn't be penalized for having to work with morons.

That is, assuming there's some secret reward to be earned here.

Silent Kitty

Silent Kitty

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Mar 2006

Netherlands

[TYW] "The Young World"

A/Me

Quote:
Originally Posted by Ken Dei
I just hope that if A.net decides to make this a hidden decent prize, they give it out for TRYING to do the missions. People shouldn't be penalized for having to work with morons.

That is, assuming there's some secret reward to be earned here.
Don't worry. When this is all over all participants get a mini Rujiyo

Mr_T_bot

Mr_T_bot

Banned

Join Date: Apr 2006

Quote:
Originally Posted by The Great Al
I'm still confused...I know that the east coast is GMT - 4 during daylight savings (at least i think so) but is this happening on tuesday or wednesday?
Tuesday. It ends 7GMT July 5th which is around midnight July 5th PST - Arena Net time.

The Great Al

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jun 2005

ALOA

E/Me

Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr_T_bot
Tuesday. It ends 7GMT July 5th which is around midnight July 5th PST - Arena Net time.
just what i feared...have to stay up til 3 AM, thanks

Sir Mad

Sir Mad

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Apr 2006

Moe's Pub

Pigs Can Fly [Pigs]

R/

Err ANET said the emperor will appear every 2 hours the last day. If "last day" means: "last 24 hours", then the emperor will show up for you from 3am tonight to 3 am tomorrow night...

I guess you can get some sleep then

The Great Al

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jun 2005

ALOA

E/Me

well I know that, but supposedly something cool is happening at the end of the event, and by end i dont know if they mean "the last day", or "the last 20 seconds"

Ira Blinks

Banned

Join Date: Feb 2006

duh... i missed out on tsumei village assault... Did the harbor with three man again tho

natuxatu

natuxatu

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Apr 2006

Wisconsin

Rt/Mo

Quote:
Originally Posted by Da Cebuano
What pisses me off is that WHY DOES IT HAVE TO KEEP ON POPPING ON MY SCREEN THAT THE IFFER NEEDS HELP?! I really could care much about the mission.
Because it's something fun and different. Don't like it? Well it'll go away when the event ends so no worries.

edit: Happened to me while I was out farming greens. I just read the message and thought "Meh hope he gets the help he needs" and went back to what I was doing. Hardly any reason for concern.

Eargasm

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Jul 2006

Sanitary Toiler Disorder

Me/W

Eargasm here, first time poster long time reader. Just figured I'd join in on the discussion as I gotta take a break from the actual playing. I still haven't managed to beat these quests but ive come damn close. I know the orbs reward is hella dumb but Im still clinging to the possibility of a cool prize for doing the missions(or in my case attempting them). But if there isnt a cool prize i still sorta understand why they did it this way. I think its an extra 230 orbs for people who found the first 4 quests so easy and boring that they weren't even worth doing again. That way people got a good challenge and can still buy the mask. To be honest even though I know there might not be a special prize for beating the mission and I might only get 75 orbs I still wanna beat the mission cause its challenging. I would however say getting a group is a giant pain in the ass for someone who isn't in a big active guild and that sorta ruins the fun but thats kinda out of Anets control.

Ira Blinks

Banned

Join Date: Feb 2006

Eargasm
wisper me ingame. If you can find monk i'll get ya thru

noob4sure

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Feb 2006

Middle of nowhere, U.S.A.

[LGBT]

A/

Now the mission is to take back Tsumei Village. You have to kill 40 monsters apparently.

abacusnx

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Aug 2005

@ first I thought the rewards weren't great, but I found out I enjoyed the missions since they were challenging. I haven't had the chance to play in FoW or UW, only tombs once. I was playing the Tsumei Village mini-mission and the PUG I was in almost completed it with 7 more enemies to go, but we could survive since we got rushed.

Erasculio

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Nov 2005

Quote:
Originally Posted by Eargasm
But if there isnt a cool prize i still sorta understand why they did it this way.
We have to keep in mind that it's a temporary thing. If those missions dropped, say, a new cool looking green item, we would see two things:

"OMG Arena Net released a new item and didn't tell me, and now I can't get it anymore unless I pay 100000k + xxxx Ectos for it!" people, complaining that it was a surprise for a limited time, something they missed because they weren't aware of it. This time, Arena Net appears to be avoiding this kind of thing - the masks have been announced long before the event itself, and those who cannot attend the event have a longer time to get the mask than on the previous ones.

"WTS UBER RARE GREEN - 1000000000k + xxxxx Ectos" people, who would manage the time they have (and some people don't) to farm something that would become a limited item, and therefore would eventually reach a high price even if only thanks to novelty. The masks don't have this problem since they're customized, but you can't customize a random green item (imagine if you had a limited edition, cool looking sword...Customized to your Ele/Mesmer). Likewise, the event items don't even work in the game areas themselves, unlike candy canes, so they won't bother the economy in such way.

I think that the best way to deal with this would be to do 2 things:

a) Add staves to Divine Path, now ("WTF!?", I know, but keep reading). Not only it would make the end game better for casters (how many people use wands and focus instead of staves), but it would be a chance to make it easier to get one rare skin. At the same time, people would complain that they have already used their Amulet of the Mists on other things, and now they can't take the staves.

b) Make the last of those mini missions drop one Amulet of the Mists the first time a character finishes it. With this and the above, you would have both a new asset to end game, and a considerable reward for the mini missions (not to mention people would still have to beat the game to trade the amulet for something else anyway).

Ideally, I would like to see staves with the Dragon Staff skin (fits the festival : D), +5 energy head, 20/20 on casting time and recharge with +1 (20%) for all attributes (just like we have 20/20 foci right now for each attribute).

Erasculio

Malchior Devenholm

Malchior Devenholm

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Nov 2005

The Dragon Arena!!!

Pshycho Ninjas [oGod] | Vent Rage [vR] | Zealots of Shiverpeak [ZoS]

ROFL-Staves are only good if u cant get the perfect wand+focus...

Ur above has nothing to do with Rujiyo...20 pct on wand+20 pct on focus=40 pct=fast in the recharge and cast=enemy dead FTW

Eargasm

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Jul 2006

Sanitary Toiler Disorder

Me/W

Quote:
Originally Posted by Ira Blinks
Eargasm
wisper me ingame. If you can find monk i'll get ya thru
First of all thank you very much I think ill take you up on that offer.

And secondly to Erasculio I completely agree with everything you said about the dropping of greens and such. I'm not saying I'd like to see a new green in there cause frankly that would suck ass for someone who did the quest and some random person in their party got the green instead of them and they might never be able to get it unless they spend a bunch of money on it. What I sorta would like to see is for all of you guys who've put the effort into beating any or all of the mini missions is maybe like a free dragon helm or maybe full out free dragon armor or something. Not an Item thats really uber powerful l33t or sellable but something that would be cool to have and would say for you ya thats right I beat those hard as shit missions.

PS: I would like a dragon stave for my nuker instead of a wayward wand

LoKi Foxfire

LoKi Foxfire

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Apr 2005

Florida

One Corgi Army {OCA}

R/Rt

I would probably enjoy these mini-missions more if I could use henchmen instead. The henchmen are probably 100% better than most of the players you will get in PUGs....

(It seems everyone who is decent is AFK at the rings ;])

Kidney Licker

Kidney Licker

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Aug 2005

Europe Server

I think the Grasps have just come to celebrate the Dragon Festival. On the last day they will be inside the monastery with party hats, and whenever the emperor appears they will break out in a chorus, "Wishing you a happy Dragon's Day!".