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4 years ago

Gnome Gnight Event Guide (Limited Time Event)!

Hi everyone,

This guide I have created is going to cover the Gnome Gnight event that appears in Giddy Park as an activity. It is a limited time event, and will only appear in March each year. It should appear every March, so if you miss it, you will be able to do it again next time March rolls around. If you want to refer to this guide of mine in future, save this link somewhere so you can refer to it whenever you want to.

In this guide, I will cover how to defeat the Gnome Boss that appears, how to trigger the event, what steps you need to take to actually start the fight and I will cover the rewards at the end. In addition to all of this, I will provide some tips on completing each step of the event and I will provide the footage of me completing the event. This event can be repeated, but can take some time to initiate, so you should take this into consideration.

Triggering The Event

To trigger the event, you simply need to be in Giddy Park. While you are in Giddy Park, whether you are in the park itself or any of the bases, you may see a message that states "A Gnome is stealing our luck in Giddy Park" or "Hunt The Invisible Gnome". If you see either of these messages, that means the event is happening and you should head straight down to Giddy Park as it is a limited time event. The issue is that it can take a while after entering Giddy Park for a message to appear, and it may be for a different activity. The activities in Giddy Park happen in a set rotation, with a Trolley Target activity happening before this event and a Treasure Chest Hunt activity happening after this event. You can reload your Giddy Park if you do not get the Gnome Event to happen, or complete the activities quickly if the Gnome Event will occur soon after. This could take a while, so you could be AFK but listen out for the familiar sound that plays when you get a message, although if you do this, be mindful to not be kicked for being inactive for too long. If you missed what event it was, go down to Giddy Park and it should tell you, or respawn and it should give you the message again. If not, head back down to Giddy Park again.

Finding The Invisible Gnome

When the event is happening and you get down to Giddy Park, you will be presented with a Gnome Finder. It will start out as the meter being completely empty, however when you get close to the invisible Gnome, the meter will begin to fill up at a rapid rate. At this point, it would be best for you to run around Giddy Park until the meter begins to build up. Once the meter begins to build, keep heading in that direction, or change direction if the meter begins to empty again. Once you get to the Gnome, you will see a green trail. Shoot it and you will reveal a Gnome, and once it is revealed, it will begin to attack you. Once you defeat it, the Gnome Gnight will appear in front of you and it is time for you to do the boss battle. I will not provide additional tips here as I will save it for the boss fight, however the first Gnome that appears will have quite a bit of health, although you can use any Al that appear in Giddy Park, or other players if you are playing on Public, on either faction to assist with the Gnome. If you look at Giddy Park from either base, you should be able to see a shining green light that actually highlights where the Gnome will be, so head to Giddy Park and go to the location of the green light to aid you in finding it, which you can do if you are having trouble finding the Gnome.

Fighting The Gnome Gnight

Once you defeat the first Gnome, the Gnome Gnight, which is a Champion, will appear. This Gnome Gnight has a huge amount of health and can deal a huge amount of damage, so you do need to be careful. The Gnome Gnight will attack characters on each faction and each faction will attack the Gnome Gnight, as well as their enemies. That means any Al allies and enemies should help you attack the Gnome. If you play on Public, hopefully the other players will help you battle the Gnome Gnight, although they may attack you instead if you are enemies, so keep this risk in mind. If you play on Private, you could do it with Al, although do consider that the enemy Al will sometimes attack you instead of the Gnome Gnight, although you should be able to quickly deal with them. If none of these options work for you, simply play on Private without any Al. If you do get vanquished, the Gnome Gnight will not despawn and you will be able to head straight to Giddy Park and continue the battle, however he will despawn on his own if he is not defeated after a certain time. This time may be around 5 minutes, so you need to be prepared for best results. 

My tips are as follows:

  • You should consider your use of character and your upgrades before you go to begin this event. You do not want to be switching characters and upgrades during this event, although you may be able to do this while you are waiting for the event to start.
  • Use natural cover around Giddy Park to protect yourself from many of the Gnome Gnight's attacks, and if your health gets low, it may be worth recharging your health and abilities quickly fully behind cover.
  • As the event has a time limit, being able to deal high damage is useful. You might not actually want attacks and abilities that can deal damage to groups of enemies as your enemies may be trying to attack the Gnome Gnight and you might vanquish them. Try only to focus the Gnome Gnight, unless enemies are actively attacking you!
  • Being vanquished during this event is affordable, although not great as it will waste time. A character that has good mobility may be useful so you can avoid more attacks, get to cover more easily and you can get back into the fight more quickly if you are vanquished.
  • If you can play with other players or friends, you should do that. You can all gain the rewards as getting a shared vanquish will actually give you all the main rewards, and all the other players or each of your friends can earn the rewards as well.

Shared vanquishes will still give you all rewards, so do not fret if you do not get the direct vanquish. Just deal as much damage as you can to the Gnome Gnight to secure your rewards!

FOOTAGE OF THE EVENT
I have created footage of me completing the entire event from start to finish. If you want more clarification of the event, or you need additional tips or information for this event, feel free to watch my provided video here: 

THE REWARDS
Going to the trouble of activating this event and managing to complete it successfully will earn you some rewards, which includes:

  • 3 Prize Bulbs, which you can actually exceed the regular maximum amount of Prize Bulbs with.
  • Plenty of coins, which will continue to rain out and you can keep collecting for a while before the pot disappears.

You could simply do it as a fun challenge to try. It is limited time and only available in the month of March, so I suggest you use this time to give it a go. You can actually exceed the regular amount of Prize Bulbs with the additional 3 Prize Bulbs, so you can use this event to save up for different Prize Maps. This is not particularly relevant in the Nintendo Switch edition, as you will already have a huge amount of Prize Bulbs and you will not need to go over the maximum amount, however the 3 Prize Bulbs are still useful. When the pot is giving you Coins, I find that you will normally receive about 1,000 Coins each time!

CONCLUSION

This is a fun and limited time event that not everyone would know about, although this would be most revelant to new players! The Giddy Park activities normally get a bit repetitive after a while, so this event gives a unique spin on Giddy Park. While it is only available in the month of March, you can make use of this month to perform this event multiple times for a different and challenging activity. Being able to exceed on maximum Prize Bulbs could be useful as you can get Prize Bulbs and will allow you to save up additional Prize Bulbs for future events. I now have 56/50 Prize Bulbs on the Xbox Edition due to this event. I suggest you give it a try and have fun! The last thing I will mention is that the activities in Giddy Park happen in a set rotation, with the Trolley Target Shooting occurring before this event and the Treasure Chest Hunting occurring after this event, although you can restart your game to change the event so you do not have to wait as long!

Have fun, stay safe from everything and enjoy life!

From

@TheSprinter85 

8 Replies

  • stukapooka's avatar
    stukapooka
    Legend
    4 years ago

    @TheSprinter85Pretty fun event but it really sucks that it's time limited and the bulbs are given to the player that finally finishes off the gnight so it leads to a lot of fragging rather than working together to fight off one main opponent.

    This event also really highlights how much I miss the backyard AI variety. The AI attacking everyone in a giant battle with bosses joining the fray is really limited or nonexistent in Bfn. Events like the bounties make me wonder why class AI isn't commonplace.

    The game really needed more pve interactions in the main hub.

  • TheSprinter85's avatar
    TheSprinter85
    Hero
    4 years ago
    @stukapooka Honestly, I would not have minded if this was an event that happened year round, even if the event occurred more rarely. Or if Giddy Park had a unique event every year, that would have been cool as well.

    Giddy Park really does not have much Al, only the Wildflowers and TV Heads, unless you play on Nintendo Switch in which case you will see a lot of heroes coming in to battle as well. Backyard Battleground was much more interesting, and it seemed like Giddy Park had a lot of potential.

    Are you sure shared vanquishes do not count? Recently, I fought it and an Al got the vanquish before me, although I still received the Prize Bulbs. Maybe it only affects players?
  • stukapooka's avatar
    stukapooka
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    4 years ago

    @TheSprinter85The pve budget of bfn in a nutshell: 90% pve regions, 8% ops, and 2% giddy park. Even ops phase 3 was mainly gonna just have golden reskineed pots with like a 10% ar.or bonus (not that it would've helped with how bad their aim amd hit detection is anyway). It's not like they were gonna reintroduce back all the AI from 2 like dancers or saucer imps.

    The idea of a multiplayer main hub isn't bad but it just simply does almost everything worse than the backyard with its spawncamping and the lack of options of enemies really doesnt satisfy pvp or pve players.

    Maybe i'm misremembering it but in pretty sure bulbs only go to the player/team that deals the deathblow which kinda sucks as a simply truce phase like in tf2 halloween event when someone like merasmus or monoculus appears and the teams can't burt each other for a moment or the headless horseless horseman having a "tag" your it system.

  • TheSprinter85's avatar
    TheSprinter85
    Hero
    4 years ago
    @stukapooka I absolutely would have enjoyed seeing more of the content that the first GW games had. The PvE content of BfN was fine and enjoyable but was basically the best part of the game, and even then, it lacked the variety of Al that the GW games had. I have been replaying Ops in GW2 lately and have come to realise just how much Al is lacking in BFN.

    Maybe I need to test doing the event with other players to see if everyone is eligible to the prizes. Perhaps each player needs to deal enough damage and the boss has to be vanquished a certain amount of time after that?
  • stukapooka's avatar
    stukapooka
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    4 years ago

    @TheSprinter85The fact that Bfn has less AI than gw1 and seems to handle them worse is baffling as the only two new ones we got snap the balancing of pots and spawn mounds in two given that they spam ranged attacks and grenades. It was really a let down and it's no wonder people abandoned ops pretty fast given that it might as well have been from the gw1 alpha build.

    Yeah testings probably required to know everything.

  • Iron_Guard8's avatar
    Iron_Guard8
    Legend
    4 years ago

    Don't have too much to add here, but like you both point out; this is a fun event but only being around for one month and the only other event like this, although much better as it has more going on, is the Acorn pie one which I had thought was going to be a precursor to a lot more similar events, but it never panned out unfortunately.

    Barring how this is only for one month, my main issue is that you very quickly do not need bulbs for all that long, since there are only 12 prize maps. Of course, you don't need coins for all that long either. In an open Giddy Park, assuming other players are present, you have to contend with that too. In a private one, it's pretty easy to get those bulbs if you need them from this event. 

    This is my main issue with BfN; so many ideas that could have been amazing, but they feel neglected or underdeveloped, and Giddy Park especially after how much more alive and interesting the GW2 Backyard Battleground is; Giddy Park lacks AI variety and is too easy to spawn camp, the events in the zone are mostly dull and give coins which you quickly don't need anyway, and so on. I do like the fishing buddy quest, the gnome puzzle, and that garlic Easter Egg, but so many things in BfN feel like the devs wanted to do so much more with the basic ideas but weren't able to for one reason or another. 

  • stukapooka's avatar
    stukapooka
    Legend
    4 years ago
    @Iron_Guard8 They probably couldn't

    With what we know about bfn its most likely they really couldn't do much with it. The pve regions are the most complete part of the game because that's what Bfn was meant to be before they turned it into overwatch from wish in under a year. A behind the scenes of this game is really needed because man it's a trainwreck.
  • TheSprinter85's avatar
    TheSprinter85
    Hero
    4 years ago
    @Iron_Guard8 I really enjoy events just like this and thought that we would have received more of this content, before the cancellation of the game anyway. I've stated this already, but this game had so much potential and there was plenty of leaked content that I was looking forward to. The replayability of the game is nowhere as prevelant when compared to Garden Warfare 2, I have come back to playing GW2 often on my main account and I still have slightly less than halfway to go before reaching max rank.

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