Guild Wars 2's annual Dragon Bash event is in full swing!
Being a WvW player, events usually happen without me even knowing about them. This one really was no different. The 'big' thing for me in this case is the Dragon Bash Reward Track I can follow while playing WvW, so I can collect some goodies from this event through opening the Dragon Coffers the reward track offers. Mostly, they just contain some food, booze and candy.
The candy and food can be consumed for a few event achievements, which is always nice. Achievements give achievement points, which give other goodies. Sometimes, with big interfalls, even gems, which is the stuff you buy with real-life money to use in the ingame store (you can also buy them with ingame gold, but I have a hard time parting with my gold).
The downside to all of these items is, as usual, the amount of bagspace it takes.
I still haven't been able to clear out all of the Halloween event items!
Oh well, my bags still look way better than hubby's...
The event takes place mainly in the snowy areas of Guild Wars 2 (as far as I've seen so far). In the Norn's capital Hoelbrak, you can shoot fireworks in the sky, bash in paper dragon pinatas and set effigies on fire. There's also a moa race throughout the capital and you can play Dragon Bash there, which, to my surprise, isn't a PvP thing. You get teamed up with a group of random players and have to kill holograms. There's a few rounds of trash mobs and a few champions to kill. Everything, ofcourse, is rewarded with candy!
The thing I'm doing today is Hologram Stampede, which takes you all over the snowy PvE maps to kill many holograms and collect a lot of candy and achievements. And wait for new events. A lot. This brings a whole lot of players to these maps.
There's not as much loot to gather here as there is during the Halloween events. It's mainly all about the candy. Aside from eating loads for a few achievements, you also use the candy as currency for various event items. For anything interesting, you'll need thousands of candy though, so I can understand why these PvE maps are now filled with people, waiting for the Hologram Stamped events.
The Dragon Coffers you get for a few events and for the WvW reward track also have a small chance of dropping the interesting event items. There's a few weapon skins, but also some mini pets, which I love to collect ofcourse. So far, I've had a staff weapon skin drop from one of the coffers, so it hasn't been a complete waste to open them! Hubby just sells the coffers on the trading post to earn gold.
Hubby says I need to do the Hologram stamped ten times to finish one of the annual achievements. So I'm doing this ten times and then returning to WvW. Although... if I want the event's backpack skin, I'll probably have to do more of these Dragon Bash events... I'll need 7 of annual achievements I think... Yuck!
No, it's fun for PvE, really. There's a nice variety of things, but I just enjoy WvW more. We'll see if I'm able to get myself to farm for the backpack!
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i've been looking for a new MMORPG for a while.. GW2 seems pretty awesome. i never tried WOW aswell, thinking about join the classic to...
i love games with events like this. thanks for sharing.
Thanks for reading and replying!
I've enjoyed both GW2 and WoW. WoW is massive by now, but for me the major upside of GW2 is that you buy it once and that's it. WoW has subscriptions after buying the base game aswell. I do like that they have classic servers now!
yeah i was looking into their montly fee.
but it looks like you can easly buy it with ingame money. So you kinda pay for it only once, and then you will farm your next month in game.
if it was in blockchain i would be in already =D game seems awesome. really.
True, that was a nice change they made! You do need to farm a lot to get that together each month though, but at the very least you'll be able to do this a few of the months.
I haven't played GW2 in quite some time because it was too all-encompassing of my time in general. I had gotten to the point where i was simply grinding for legendaries and my goodness does that take entirely too long.
I do remember the Halloween stuff though and like most people I would just join a group and do that maze over and over and over again. After 3 hours of that or so I kind of look at my life and think WTF are you doing?
I did have a good time in there for a while though but I doubt I will ever return. I never really took to the lack of their being defined Healer/Tank/DPS classes and I know that GW was trying to avoid that but I still think it was a mistake.
Back when I was playing most of the map was completely devoid of other players unless they were following a map event trail and that was also boring after doing the circuit a couple of times.
Oh gosh, yes. I still don't have a legendary, although I've been working towards one.
I love the Halloween event with its brainless farming! It's so relaxing when you've been doing too much thinking ;-)
There's still plenty of players, but they are spread out across a LOT of maps I guess. Mostly, I find players in cities or when there's events going on, or in WvW.
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I've seen some gameplay of the game but I haven't played it yet, it looks very interesting.
I've spent a lot of time on this game and can certainly recommend it!