[Discussion] - Will The Boss Hunts Return?

@DeathBuggI think yours is better 

@DeathBugg appreciate you breaking this one down!

If the Boss Hunts do come back during Christmas I won’t be popular with the family, as I will be isolating myself in my room - lost to the world - trying to beat them, particularly Spooky Squash, on Crazy

I can't believe how long I have been able to wait for a potential Mystery Portal change, and how patient the community has been as well. Has it actually been 4 years since the last Boss Hunt? It feels like such a long time, but honestly it doesn't feel quite like 4 years so I'm surprised by that.

@TheSprinter85Yes it is really that long ago, and it just goes to show how popular the game is when despite the "nerfed" version of GW2 the Community has remained active throughout those four years.
I am just surprised, that with that commitment and enthusiasm shown by the Community, EA Games hasn't reacted sooner....hoping of course that they actually will.

@ForeverKnightsI did the same initially, but found that the concentration and the suspense when playing really takes it out on you, and I could only manage a couple of them when playing......which is the reason why one gets this incredible high together with the team when one manages to beat one of the Bosses. I found them extremely tough to get through.

@EA_Shepard @DeathBugg Dunno why write down "Community Challenge" as January and September. Community Challenge isn't a gamemode, it isn't something you enter through the mystery portal.
I think those modes could instead be filled some other modes that no longer appear such as Snack Attack.

Also I feel like having most of the year be filled with Boss Hunts would be kinda jarring. Ideally the Mystery Portal should be restored to being weekly and possibly with a randomized rotation if possible, if not then let it have a variety of modes in the preset selection.

Another thing I would really like to suggest is if Tale of the Taco could be brought back as a yearly summer event. This event ran back in July 2019 and has never been brought back since but I think it would be a perfect fit for a yearly event. The event contained a decorated Backyard Battleground with a giant ice cream taco on the Town Hall and a special selection of Mystery Portal gamemodes that only appeared during this event. I think having this alongside the seasonal NPCs (for some reason all of them stopped appearing except the Halloween bat) would make the game so much more lively.

@JosephPopper1The idea I believe is just that the mode is just an old event that includes a community challenge meter as well this way achievements can still be earned. Many challenges coincided with the game modes so it shouldn't be hard to pull an old one for a month on the rotation.

They have the monthly rotation already on a set schedule so going back to a weekly one would probably be too much. The hunts also have achievements and cosmetics tied to them so I feel they need to be included even if they would take up 4 months of the year.

Tale of the taco being a summer event to change the backyard like lawn of doom or Feastivus would have been cool. Shame that only lawn of doom still gets the reward giver and actually spawns unique enemies in the backyard like the jack o coats.

I've got to agree that the Mystery Portal would likely still open once per month for the schedule change, although I like the idea of potentially being able to do a hunt for 2 weeks instead of 1. 🕒

@TheSprinter85For purely selfish reasons I think I would prefer the Boss Hunts to be open for two weeks as you suggest, as seeing that all my gamer friends from four years ago no longer play the game, I will be playing with randoms and most likely newbies, who might not have prepared themselves by finding out how the Boss Hunts are won. 

With the portal only being open for a week, I will most likely be having a hard time completing the Hunts within that timeframe. With an extra week, I will hopefully run into a team that knows exactly what they are doing, and I can finally get the one hat I am missing.