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Imperatia.4159

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  1. Too bad you missed the Lunar New Year. It was possible to get 300 geodes each week for 10 x 200 Luck. As for advice, I'd suggest you probably don't rely on Silverwastes as that route seems to me the slowest. But I could be wrong I guess. Other than that, whatever you enjoy the most(or hate the least). For me, the answer is obvious: I hate Dry Top and I'm not really into sPvP much, but I like WvW every so often and the reward track seems to progress relatively fast.
  2. I was one of those in close to ideal circumstance for getting this collection. I had a small supply of charged quartz crystals already in my material storage and got lucky in the home instance node/wintersday gift a few times, had lots of time to do it all, have completed prerequisites such as the dwarven ruin in Desert Highlands and had map completed on one character (so, all waypoints) and i had lots of LWS4 currencies already mined. Additionally, I only started the collection after guides for half of them were already on the wiki and I had some sources of easy gold in my storage. So, my time at it was easier than most. Despite this, I didn't really like this collection. In short, it was too much of everything. I think most of the could have been cut at least in half or to a third in size and still give the same effect. Newborn Skyscales was pure tedium. It's like it was designed to make me hate Dragonfall. I get it - we pick up scales, buy medicine, then feed medicine to skyscales and pick up the eggs. I GET IT. I understand the story. No need to do each of these things 21 times to make me remember it. Apart from the currency farming, the worst part of the collection. Saving Skyscales was the only collection I liked in its entirety. Was pretty interesting, varied, not too long and I actually enjoyed it. Additionally, some parts were things you can easily do while doing other things, namely: resurrecting players & killing a number of enemies. I'd recommend Sandswept Isles Specimen Chamber for both of these by the way - the pre-event spawns lots of enemies & from my experience everyone is too retarded to use the waypoint in the actual event when they die, so you should have a fun time resurrecting the 50+ idiots that were just laying around while you were struggling with the 2 bosses with the 5 remaining people. Raising Skyscales was fun. For ME! I wasn't in a hurry to complete the timegated parts, so that didn't personally annoy me and I had enough charged quartz crystals to only have to buy the food once. If that wasn't the case, i'd be severely annoyed with it. Though I didn't have enough to also buy the Grow Lamp, so I had to actually waste 30 gold for it. I had this gold in hand, but I know how annoying farming even a mere 30 gold can be if you want it in a hurry - for a newer sort of player especially. Or to wait 22 days for this. Troublesome Skyscales was okay, but too much. Having to find and catch the skyscale was the main problem. The jumping puzzles were fun and thankfully they only put 3 world bosses in it, but the number of collection items made the thing feel like a colossal waste of time. The mini games afterwards were good, but i doubt many people appreciated wasting more time on repeating them three times after they had already pointlessly chased the skyscale across the world for several hours. Catch was much, much quicker & more fun than Hide & Seek though. Riding Skyscales was the single worst part of this task. Not only did you have to get a shit ton of every map's currency, but even after you already did that, the game still sends you on YET ANOTHER pointless chase around the games world. To be fair, the Skyscale Flight is rather fast & easy and could have been pretty fun on its own, but ... after Skyscale Saddle don't expect anyone to be in a very forgiving mood. As for the currency grind - like I said, I already had lots of it gathered. I was missing around 7 Difluorite Crystals, I had more than enough Inscribed Shards (Which I WAS SAVING FOR THE BANNER, not for this crap, thanks very much.) and I had 250 Mistborn Motes. I learned of this requirement about two days before I was at this stage in the collection. Istan was no problem at all and if all the currency requirements were at this level, nobody would be pissed. I got enough after doing the hearts a few times and farming the meteor twice. Mistborn Motes are not too big of a deal as the meta event awards a lot (I walked away with around 100 yesterday), but requires some time anyway, but at least its fun. I had enough trade contracts already, which is good because there is no really fast way to get 500 of those (btw, best ways for me are abandoned dwarven chests, Tomb of Primeval Kings chests & treasure hunt in Desert Highlands, avoid bounties & events like the plague if farming contracts) I'm really, really glad I had already taken care of Kourna & Sandswept, because well - the remaining two were absolutely horrible. It started out okay - I was fresh, i liked most of the hearts on Jahai Bluffs & Thunderhead Peaks. I did the hearts, gathered the nearby map currency nodes & did some events that awarded the currency. I had farmed the two maps a bit the previous two days and was only missing a bit more than 100 on each map on the day Riding Skyscales collection opened for me. And things went well for a while, I got a lot of currency at first - it was really encouraging actually. And then the map currency nodes mysteriously vanished into thin air, because apparently there's a DAILY GATHERING LIMIT on them. Remember how I said I liked the hearts on Jahai Bluffs & Thunderhead Peaks? Not anymore. I doubt I'll visit those maps much in the next few weeks. I also feel a strange aversion to gathering map currency now - how mysterious. And I only needed less then half of the currency on these two maps. I can only imagine what a person that started from 0 in all maps thinks of them now. And Skyscale Flight was just the final middle finger - at least it felt like one. It wasn't too bad, but has a really bad place in the collection. But it was better than collecting eggs/scales. TL;DR version: collection too big. 1/2 or 1/3 of current size enough. FooOOOoo
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