DigiAngel wrote: »

Full disclosure: I don't care a whit for cosmetics, furnishings, mounts, or non-combat pets. With that out of the way...how's this event look so far? Worth the effort? Historically, for me at least, I might get an item that's guild trader worthy for 6 digits but eh....really...more gold? I mean that's nice but....is there ANYTHING of interest? Something unique perhaps? Thank you.

You write off five main reward options here, and I bet there are more you would write off but didn’t list. What do you even consider worthwhile?

I myself find the stuff you listed as rewarding, even if I don’t *need* it.

DigiAngel wrote: »

Full disclosure: I don't care a whit for cosmetics, furnishings, mounts, or non-combat pets. With that out of the way...how's this event look so far? Worth the effort? Historically, for me at least, I might get an item that's guild trader worthy for 6 digits but eh....really...more gold? I mean that's nice but....is there ANYTHING of interest? Something unique perhaps? Thank you.

Those four things are basically what events are about?

the usual junk. Blue level 19 recipes, fabricant tree blueprints.

I run 2 account on 2 servers, got on 3 the golden stylepage doing intro-quest, daily quest, first writ on 2-3 characters, and one instant research scroll.
On the 4th I did not even bother after getting the tickets to continue on another character to get the stylepage, as they are sold for 40k already after just a few hours. I'm better off doing my normal dailies.

Besides: I grouped up with a guildmember, while he did master writs, I did a vent and a worldboss. No box dropped for me, so grouping up is actually not sufficient, seems you actually have to fight together on the same boss. This requires too much coordination if you play more than 1 toon - skipping.

K9002 wrote: »

Grains for jewelry materials can drop in batches of 10, so effectively whole one plating. I got a green and blue plating so far. Alchemy mats drop in batches of 20 too. There's a currency satchel that can contain Tel Vars, I pulled 900 from one of these.

OK but you can do better collecting surveys for mats and 900 telvars take 5 minutes in the sewers anytime... OK you can lose them if you don't ltp but that's half the fun isn't it?

Junk, but what the heck I'm playing anyway.

ncallstar88 wrote: »

Well no rewards are actually “good” during events since everyone getting the same stuff prices drop

Depends on how they get them. If players are spamming master writs that's not going to be the same roi as getting a few random mats.

Not worth the time energy or mats esp for the master writs. I used a kuta worth 6k to get a bounty of 500 gold. Net loss of 5 .5k

Got one motif but I don't care about those. If it's a crafting event, it sucks.

Can't say I'm too impressed so far, but it's still early. For some reason, drop rates seem to improve for me late in these festivals.

I don't like the cool down on the style pages. It makes it way harder to get a full set since it's not set up in a curator model, and the character bound stuff was a bad idea.

Based on other events on a scale of 1 (awesome) to 10 (horrible) I give this one a 7 overall thus far. the rewards would be better if there were a higher drop rate of mats and if surveys dropped. The incentive and quest used to go get event tickets is only tangential to earing the rest of the boxes. You don't get tickets for killing bosses, arenas, masterwrits, or crafting dailies, or world events. Instead you get them from a quest that is essentially a run to the nearest bank or trader..

it feels like this event Is lacking incentive and a reason to farm ot do much of anything beyond the single daily quest and maybe a few more. The npc discounts are not as good as they should be, or we should've had an experience boost. Maybe an exp boost while grouped with guild members that scales during the event up per guild members.. idnk but it needs something.

dmnqwk wrote: »

There are only 2 kinds of reward available:

1) Money. Whether it's crowns or gold, if you can buy it then it's a subset of money (chromium grains, for example, or a recipe that's not bound).
2) Fame. If you have to personally obtain it, it's prestige. This could be unique (untradable/not for sale) costumes/mounts or it could be a title, or simply a super awesome house nobody else is able to obtain.

There's some crossover, like Mageslayer being purchased, but ultimately if you say you dont want gold since you could purchase any recipe dropped from the rewards, then I don't think this event has a Prestige reward does it? Not like some events with Jester title available for putting in the effort.

That title doesn't exactly have lots of prestige considering how easy it is to get.

I have yet to log in and play (work)
From the sounds of things, the event is not as good as jesters or jubilee….. I’ll still do it, I’m just not going to go out of my way to farm it like I did for jubilee. The only thing that seems even slightly decent (from a PVE point of view as I don’t do pvp) is the tel var…… I’ll still knock out my master writs, as any extra is still extra, I’m just not going to go buying up any.

Im buying all luminous shards parts i have 1 already from 10 tickets saved from a past event.
And all ghost shards later on, thats 80 tickets total, but only 30 more this event.

Than once i have everything ill buy the normal mounts feathers.

I want ghost indrik for necro, and luminous for my isobel