Boss Turf Takeover; A Little Bit Broken

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@ToastedSarnie wrote:
@ippigAww, thanks - I think?! 🤔😉
I'll try hanging on but @dwooten77 may have to start funding my growing chocolate addiction!! 😂

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Yes, fund the chocolate and provide us all our very own hairy feline friend to live with ❤️😃

I haven't even touched this one to be honest but after the previous one, I don't doubt it's a mess. It's compounding the issues 8v8 already has and that's not a good thing. I've skipped some of the less exciting events in GW2 too (Corns vs. Imps with infinite ammo was awful as just one example), so I'll do it here too but I'd rather have events that are actually enjoyable and preferably, balanced as much as possible. I still think bosses in TT could spice them up, but not in the current form. Get rid of the chests, have the bosses either spawn somewhat randomly or help the losing team, and that could be fun I would think. It sounds better than the current iteration at least.

@ToastedSarnie @asabaida 😂You guys are ridiculous.  I don’t know if I can afford that kind of addiction.  Some holes you just can’t fill.  Let’s meet in the middle and just get chocolate kitties.

@Iron_Guard8  Unless you're really wanting those rainbow stars, it's probably a very wise decision not to do this event it you don't need to, only because it's a mode where many people are distracted very easily and leave the objective.😛

But, it's not like you couldn't give it a try! 🙂

I wouldn't mind playing with you guys more often in general @ippig and @asabaida . The time difference causes issues though. The time we played so much I was off work at the time, for example as I type this, still have 5 hours of work left. 

I'm not too worried about the stars from the weeklies to be honest. I bought 2 of the biggest star packages and still have a bunch left as we've happily been getting a lot of repeats in Rux's store.

Yep, would be great fun to play with you two again, hopefully we will all be online at the same time again soon  😃🤞

I was thinking last night " wow, I really hate this mode." But then I realized I really don't. It's fun when I'm not being steamrolled or steamrolling the other team. More players would help it out and it could be reworked a bit as mentioned in other areas of the thread but it isn't an awful concept.

Turns out I HATE the challenges and that's bleeding out into frustration at the mode. I am so frustrated at spending so much time, energy, and focus on them when they (at least the first two) aren't important to winning the game and rely so much on some teamwork to do a side goal that often has no effect on how the game goes or doesn't even come up if the steamrolling is really going strong. I finally got the first one done with absurd luck. I played 10 more games and never had a chance at finishing a boss because it all moved too fast to get a boss or to keep a boss long enough to vanquish. All the problems with 8v8 are amplified drastically trying to complete this week's map.

So I have changed my general thoughts about this. Mode = could be great with tweeks. Challenges = that brown emoji people are so fond of in game.

@TLEsquire 
hahahaha "the brown emoji"... laughed at it last time you said it and I'm laughing again 😃

Added: and yes I agree about the mode.

So wraps up the first week I simply could not do the challenges. Could not get passed vanquishing a boss. Bosses rarely spawned and if they did they were only available for seconds. Never saw my team or the other team vanquish one. Total fail on challenges this week. I honestly think 8v8 broke this completely. Bummed to miss rainbow stars for the first time after putting in all that frustration. Time for a BfN break.

@realitysquaredGreat analysis of why those challenges weren't working and possible ways to make it much better. It took forever (and luck) to get that first challenge and I also imagine many didn't get passed it. After that frustration, I only had a few days for the second & third challenge and just could not manage the luck to get the second one. Since I saw literally no bosses vanquished in the games I played after getting the first goal (I wasn't paying attention to them before the goal so I'm not sure if some where done then), a lot of people must have ended up stuck on that one too. Your suggestion for the first challenge was actually what I was thinking of as a good solution for the second one (having your team vanquish a boss, instead of having to do whatever percentage is needed individually) but it still doesn't get around the fact that bosses spend almost no time in the game with how fast it moves in 8v8.

Edit - funnily enough, I just kept wishing I was on the "hard" star challenge. Just playing the game trying to get the other goals I won many many more games than needed. Maybe the goals could run simultaneously (like character challenges) so we have a better shot of finishing them.

@realitysquaredAgreed. Here's hoping they at least look at the completion numbers and make adjustments even if they don't consider our thoughts here.

Edit - if we are lucky, people on Reddit and Twitter are also expressing concerns. Those avenues appear to be persuasive at the moment to devs.

@ToastedSarnie  @TLEsquire 
Oh lawdy.... sorry to hear that rainbow stars being a rare thing ☹️
I managed to get mine with some help from the gods or some other miracle....
but might make you both feel better to know... this weeks mode... I don't think I got them last time this was here.
Jeez this sux 😞