3/16/2013

Guild Wars 2: Bounties

Ok!
So I had my first taste of the Guild Bounty System in Guild Wars 2 on Tuesday night and i'm reporting in. I won't drone on about it and just say:

- basically, you find 1-6 npcs out of 15, all over Tyria that wanders the whole map (although in a set path). You'll be able to distinguish them as they'll have a unique name and have a sheriff's badge symbol over their head

- the best thing to do is have 15 guild members (preferably more), run in the opposite direction of the path to find the npc, THEN start the mission. This is the best course of action (at this point) b/c this mission only lasts 15 minutes and even with a full guild, it can take atleast 5 minutes to kill each bounty (champion lvl).


- if you're one of the unlucky (?) people to have found one of the bounties, no worry, by still tagging your bounty, you'll still get rewards. That was my case and I still got 2 commendations, 2 rares (both surprisingly for my class) and 50 silver.

- be aware, you can halt the npc from moving by interacting them ("F'ing them"), BUT when the guild leader/officer turns on the mission DO NOT interact with them, otherwise they will turn hostile on you!

All in all, I like the rewards, but it took far too long to setup this mission. We started looking for our npcs at 8EST, and started the actual mission at 9:20.. and finished in less than the 15 allowable minutes. I wouldn't exactly call it fun either.. reminding me of the Rifting (from, duh, Rift), where its a zerg of people smacking on one boss. 

- it obviously requires a TON of guild members to do: 1) to have enough guild influence (gained from active players) to purchase the mission and 2) to actually find the bounty in a timely manner.

I want to see in the future, some sort of king of the hill type of guild mission, where you defend a certain spot from unlimited (maybe limited) waves of enemies. Or one where you have to defend your camp, reach the enemy npc camp, escort some npcs back all the while fighting endless waves.

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