So. 4 new Christmas feats. All 1 star. Costs 400 leaves to get them all. Crazy Event runs from Dec 3-30 so that's 27 days, here's how many Holly Leaves you get: - Vault: 1 - Open World Quest: 6 - Alert Quest: 6 - Alert Mission: 4 So, 17 per day every day gives 459. That's 59 extra Leaves if you need anything from past years. Likely to encourage the sale of Holly Leaves. 400 Leaves all for 4 1 star feats. Not even half a sp. Is that normal? Also note, you need to do the Open World Quest first to get the Alert Quest, so make sure to do them in order!
I've been complaining about this for over a year. Holiday events shouldn't ever be a grind. Its supposed to be a celebration of the holidays or season. Alot of mmo's give you the reward after do the event story once .allowing you to run alts easy but with these your gonna need to run alts just to get a crappy style no asked 4 for a low 10 point feat. The list off stuff a have come to hate about this game covers multiple forum topics and I barely play dc anymore and haven't renewed my year sub this year. Went from spending a couple hundred a month to not caring for anything this game has to offer.
Already sick of the inane repetition of the alert and the thrill of clicking on presents and being stunned repeatedly, having run it once each on 5 alts. Dreading the burnout from doing this day in day out to catch up on years I missed. I suppose I could just *not do it*, but hey, I’m a completionist - enjoyment be damned! Given that the new Tactical Mods have already put the greed in Seasons Greedings, can we PLEASE get the ridiculous vendor costs down to give us a fighting chance?
Personally I'd like to know why we need to buy 10 base items, when there are only 8 different pieces; usually the number is less than or equal to the number of new items.
Normally, I run at least some of my alts through the seasonals, But I hate the OW part of this one, what with the constant transformations and the constant CCing. This year, I'm only going to run it when I feel like I need some frustration. I don't care about any of the new style or base items, so whatever.
The big problem with selling stuff for cash is big chunk of players have to pay way more than other sometime 3 times more for the same stuff because country where they live so this is not a question of will but more a question of logic...My membership almost cost me 30 buck each month almost double what other players pay so no matter the deal they throw at me I already feel like I pay too much .
If you hold block immediately after opening each present you won't get any transformations or CC'd. I won't be running this event much tho cause the grind is too crazy, I'll just be saving all the leaves till next year when things should be discounted.
what you might want to do is have 10 toons run it for at least 10 days to get enough holly leaves for this year and next.... assuming you don't do this already - which has been a strategy using alts for events for years..... BlackGuns is correct - in open world - presents - hold block - though it is annoying when someone comes along and decides to help.... and you still get CC'd, stunned etc... also for spotting Larfleeze - it's a once a day thing .... so if you spot him multiple times in one day - it doesn't count. it would also be nice if everyone just ran alert as dps - and hold block to regen health.... not that you can tell most dps' anything....
Yeah, did the math last night. Luckilly I have some marks left over from last year, so I'll only NEED to run for about 10 days on 2 toons. I might run for a few less days and pepper in a 3rd toon to cover at least one of the 50 mark pieces, but yeah....you should not need to run EVERY day...or run multiple alts to get something done that's for 'fun'. The fact that they also make it so you can forget to cash the mission, which screws up your daily pay OR you have to re run, is bogus. It should just auto cash in, like so many other events or ep missions do. Not sure it's intentional to make us lose out on marks, but by now they should have been able to make it work so it's less screw up-able.
Personally I carry a shield when doing the OW. I pop it in when I start the mission, then just apply armory when I'm done. Generally it will last through 2-3 presents.
Yeah, I forgot you can block as soon as you finish the cogs to avoid being CC'ed. I don't remember it working for the transformation, though. Not that it matters, anyway. It's too grindy, doesn't feel satisfying, and I'm skipping that part because I've never liked it anyway. Wait... Are people actually losing that much HP in the alert? I've never had to pop my shield or a cola during this alert. Not even on my weakest alt that I ran today, who has no upgrades to augs, no head augs, and no artifacts above 80. My Atomic toon I still ran as a tank, though, because she doesn't have any DPS gear. You don't want to burn Larfleeze too quickly, anyway. If he gets down to around 25% of his HP, he just heals it all back. You don't want to do a heavy burn until you've shut off his shield 3 times -- but I know, gotta get that "top DPS" on the scorecard, even if it means you make the alert take longer, right?
