I've been an MMO player from as far back as MUDs being all their was to be found on the web and this is, by far, the most poorly implemented event I've seen. Even the infectious ghoul events in WoW were better than this, if only just - at least with those you just had to stay out of a few places and it was game as normal otherwise. I'd love to be working on getting my dragon right now but that's on hold for the duration of this event because I'm absolutely hosed without mana as a paladin. I have to either get rid of the event debuff or take a week away from the game, and I'm absolutely never spending another dollar on reals. If this proves to be a recurrent event concept, I'll be finding another game, it's not like there's a shortage of them

DE how many players telling you this is a horrible event is it going to take for you to get it? You need the end this "event" IMMEDIATELY this was a poor idea and the execution of it was even worse.For the sake of the game end it now and get rid of the debuffs please.

i am not participating in the next one that cost way too much and 1 set of buffs (which i didn't even get since i was level 15 when it started) barely even covered the first level of it. It either needs to decrease in the amount of quintars or give everyone a no armor damage time frame to complete it. I myself didn't even get 1 hero piece out of over 20 chests so i spent a ton to get jack didly squat in return

it is not easier for lower levels at all we have to spend a ton of gold i pvp'd almost 24 hours to get this done and the debuff messes with pvp also makes it so you have no mana which lessens damage a ton for all non real life money players

Ihittonythemonster,

Simply do the arenas and battlegrounds instead of doing portals as you can 20-70 quintars from one fight.

i only got 6-20 and the 20 was very rarely and i did middle damage almost every fight sometimes even when i did more damage then usual it would only give me 6 and that's all winning, losing i got 3-6 if i was lucky

I find it amazing that you all haven't listened to your players and this stupid $%^&*() event is still going on. I mean seriously are you trying to lose players?

Hey guys yeah not loving this event. I simply can not stand a chance against those elementals due to the fact that I can't earn money and no potions available Even with my level 16 character who had over 1 gold for potions I still was not able to survive an onslaught of 3 elementals at once. Not being able to work on my dragon was a major bummer as well as I want to be able to do battle in caves. Only on the water dragon quest with Perseus who by the way is seriously hurt bad. Definitely in bad shape that one. Lots of repairs to do. I will say this, It was nice that I can log into game without any trouble, that was one good thing anyway. ~Dominic Hester

I have to chip in to agree with everyone else on this thread (and hey, notice how it's everyone who's complaining - I haven't seen a single player come on and say how much they are enjoying this). It is just stupid to force everyone to participate in this event or not bother logging in. And don't give me that rubbish about how it's much easier to get quintars in PvP. I did an hour's PvP yesterday and got about 20 in total, including 10 from one 7b fight. Yeah, if you're geared up for PvP then maybe it's easier, but for those of us who don't do it often, it's just a tedious way of ruining your equipment. Either way, getting through all the stages of the quest will involve a heck of a lot of boring grinding. Personally, I haven't had to use much more than my usual to do the fights but I sympathise with those who have had to spend through the nose. I think I was just lucky that I was able to spend my cash earlier on permanent stuff rather than having to waste it on temp things for this quest. So it's probably going to hold up a lot of people's development in the game.

As I said, the whole thing is boring - just fighting the same monsters over and over again. Normally it's possible to vary things around this game and for those people, like me, who don't spend all day on the game, it's possible to avoid boring grind (or at least minimise it). And don't give me that rubbish about 'life would be boring if everything was easy'. Maybe you have no other form of stimulation in your life, but I actually like things to be easy. Hard stuff I do at work, and they pay me for it. OK, I don't want a win button, but I play games as a way of relaxing, not out of a Stakhanovite desire to punish myself.

yeah I agree with mot of the players here but to those who don't like to pvp then you might aswell go play farmville coz this game is ALL about pvp'ing, but on a serious note this is only realy beneficial for real players like myself, heck I was kinda glad this event popped up because it meant there where actuall people doing aoh in my bracket whereas normally I have to ask 30 people and just barely manage to get 4 of them to join, for me it IS easy to do this quest in a few hours and the quintars aren't that hard to get coz the highest amount I got in one round was 58 quintars so it can't be that hard. Also this quest does is really only beneficial for cash players coz its easy to get the pots and rank up when you have 30 odd people in a fight and it only costs a few reals to pay for 20 fights in a row.

Just giving my view on this event, it ain't a total bust coz for the real palayers it means its easier to valor rank and the hero rep from completing the quest is a good bonus, but the hero chests need a better ratio of getting collection pieces, as surts said out of 26 chest he got 0 collection which is a terrible ratio of acctually getting any decent items from the chests.

I would say I am frequent participant in pvp fights, I tend to do several a day. And I am sure lot of players in my bracket would confirm that.

My problem with this quest is, that it was announced without warning and it was after a day full of crashes and DoT, so I just could not have money to participate and did not want to take huge loan just to get money to finish it, like some people I know had to do. I just rather gave up, as it would save me tuns of money. So I was forced out of the game until this was over, as I could not afford to go pvping for hours without any option to earn the money to do so. And other non spenders or occassional spenders can be in the same position.

I know that cash spenders may enjoy it, although I asked my ingame husband, who is cash spender and he hated it and another friend, who spends money, hated this quest as well.

The number of quintars is pretty random. Personally I can say I got the most from sea battle, about 70, but that was one off, otherwise my max was about 25. I did try it on my other character, which is level 13, and I have to say that the maximum I got was 7, usually it was round 5... Even from won battle, one of the highest damage and killing 3 people I think plus surviving the battle I got 5, which is a bit of joke. I gave up as I had no chance of even finishing the first one without running out of money.

Personally think that repeat of this event will mean loosing some players, even some rare spenders, as you basically forced us out of the game for 6 days total.

I'm not a cash spender at all I make my gold through sales of professions like farming and such and through essence and hours of prosperity. I can still make some money on the farming but even that gets eaten up by the constant pvping needed to do this event. I die constantly when doing ess and hours due to these event monsters which has rocketed my repair costs and potion costs dramatically. While I prefer to pvp with the major inclux of pvpers and new cash spenders because of this event again my repair and potion costs have gone up drmatically. This event is not a very good one and I pray for the sake of this game that if you don't end it now you seriously never do it again. This is a complete failure and if you haven't taken the hint from all these posts already forcing people to spend cash on a free to play game just to survive an enforced pvp based event is just plain wrong. You will lose alot of players if this happens again. Just my honest opinion.

[QNAMEF kind="s" gender="m"]Natsu Dragneel 112:[/QNAMEF]it IS easy to do this quest in a few hours and the quintars aren't that hard to get coz the highest amount I got in one round was 58 quintars so it can't be that hard

maybe for you at your lvl but for most you are lucky to get 10 in a arena win, so it varies on the players

Wyrda,

Even as a low level 9-15 / 16-21 / 22-28 groups you can still get as much as 40 quintars per fight so Natsu is right on this one.

In my level I got 55 as my most, other fights I got 30-40, averaged at 10 but getting the bigger amounts boosted it quite nicely.

I guess its just luck then. If you are lucky, you get large numbers, if you are not, then you get low numbers.
Plus another problem is that few hours of constant pvping cost lot of money, which not everyone has readily available. I think you managed to upset lot of people, not everyone posted here. So next time you may really face loosing people over this.

I have to say that if people ask me for a game to try, I will not recommend this one from now on.

Ihit stop talking about pvp making it better. I did 3 battle grounds to tempt to help me I got 7-2-2 after the second time in a row of getting the same ammount I'd get from the portal I decided it wasn't worth it.

Aside from the fact that this "event" was forced on everybody and poorly executed, the distribution of those quintars doesn't make sense. Sometimes, I win an arena round, with a victory, did around 1500 damage and get 15, then I do another victorious round, did 1100 damage and got 3 quintars.

Then I do a losing round with 1500 damage and I get 5. Then a losing round with only 950 damage and I got NONE. Not a single one.

So everyone here saying "Yeah, I usually get 20-40 per fight" we low levels aren't quite so lucky. The absolut top amount I got was 18 after a victorious 7 bridges fight...

5 days for this event is simply too much. Way too costly in money and time to gather the quiltars. This is the 59th post and about 45 of them are from players not happy with this event. The rest are replies from Ihit and Natsu (the only player seeming to like this event). I guess the majority wins in regards to finding this event to be poorly devised and implemented. Anyway, we have seen in the past that the players are NEVER right in regards to playability and implementation of updates and such. That probably will never change. We play and pay to play but WE are in the wrong about our opinions. Whatever...I've been here since the beginnings of the game and its simply like that.

I chose to NOT do this event because it was becoming way too costly in consumables, even if I produce a lot of them for myself. I can't do protector quests and such easily either so...I've been away from the game. Next time this event comes back, I will not play again. I hope more players boycott this event and MAYBE we will have some changes...

...but I doubt it.

My 2 cents.

"We play and PAY to play..."

Little correction needed there.

[QNAMEF kind="s" gender="m"]Ihit:[/QNAMEF]Wyrda,

i said the what u get must vary from player to player, natsu got 58 my best from several wins was 10, did say it was not possible just said most are not that lucky