Yesterday was Day 3 of the Beyond the Sands Live Event. Day 3 marked the end of the event but it brought with it several new activities. Chapter 3 opened up which took the story a tad bit further into the “magical Eqypt-like stuff happening” so that players could understand why all of this was happening. A PQ opened up in the RvR areas to bring artifacts to a sarcophagus which summoned a difficult mob. As usual, the PQ sparked a lot of RvR which is always good.
I was just about to finish the chapter 3 quest, thus completing all of the event’s objectives when I hit level 12. The problem with hitting level 12 is that I was immediately kicked out of the RvR area (Where the quest was going on at). Okay, so I’ll just go to T2 and do it. Wrong. When you level out of a tier while doing the event quests you’re unable to pickup where you left off so you have to go start the entire quest line over again at chapter 1. It wasn’t entirely bad, because I was able to get more exp and such, but it would have been nice not to have to do it all again.
A couple objectives during the live event stood out to me. In particular, the objective to find the screaming scroll was great. In the Lyceum there is a scroll on the ground and as you approach it you start to hear voices and noises and you eventually see this scroll on the ground. It’s fluff, but it added to the immersion and I appreciated it. There are more little things in this event as well. Maybe that’s what makes this event such a hit with me: The details. Then again, maybe it goes beyond that. Maybe it’s the fact that this is all leading up to something bigger. I can feel it building up leading to something highly anticipated.
Reading you write this, really makes me want to play WAR again.. 🙁 After quitting a month past release.
I have the same feeling Insomnium but I know I’m going to be decieved after a week or two 🙁
Was tempted to resub too but I won’t be doing so until they address some of the deficiencies that have been discussed since launch. Death spin+black box+zoom resetting, giving us a slot for vanity cloaks so we can actually use ToK cloaks for their looks, casting lag and guild vault improvements like, oh idk, maybe a LOG.
I’ll be resubbing only when 3 of those are addressed (as that would be an indication they’re fixing the old, annoying issues) regardless of what new content they add or how good the live events are.
If you didn’t like WAR before, you won’t like WAR now. There really isn’t much difference. I would wait to resub until Land of the Dead comes out (or close to it) so that when you do come back you have some entirely different content to explore.
I was disappointed with the elite reward. I was hoping it would so more than help you find one or two scarabs. And they aren’t easy to find so the reward is worth even less to me. As a person who only spends 1 or 2 hours a day if that playing warhammer, it doesn’t help too much.
— I was just about to finish the chapter 3 quest, thus completing all of the event’s objectives when I hit level 12. The problem with hitting level 12 is that I was immediately kicked out of the RvR area (Where the quest was going on at). —
I am reminded why I quit. These are the kinds of things that completely destroy what fun they add.