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The upcoming Masquerade of Liars on the calendar is shorter than last year's by two days.
Last year's ran from Tuesday, October 29th to Monday, November 4th, 2013.
This year's will run from Thursday, October 30th to Monday, November 3rd, 2014.
Notably, the Lore of Liars dailies are a five-day sequence. To complete the sequence, players will need to play Thursday night and Monday morning (or however it works out in their timezone).
There will also be less time to earn the event goodies.
Of course, the quest and reward structures may have changed. We won't know until it goes live.
Last year's ran from Tuesday, October 29th to Monday, November 4th, 2013.
This year's will run from Thursday, October 30th to Monday, November 3rd, 2014.
Notably, the Lore of Liars dailies are a five-day sequence. To complete the sequence, players will need to play Thursday night and Monday morning (or however it works out in their timezone).
There will also be less time to earn the event goodies.
Of course, the quest and reward structures may have changed. We won't know until it goes live.
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Repeat events do tend to have substantial changes to their implementation. While I understand the anti-botting measures of how they handled the first Masq, dang was it ever a painful grind to get just one companion. I sincerely hope they've made some tweaks.
Interesting point about the lore though.
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The Wandering Scarecrow is effectively twice as much grinding as the Skeleton and there's less time to grind.
Don't forget to play Thursday night and Monday morning if you want all five Lore of Liars.
Don't give a **** about the event but a Night Time Protector's Enclave is always welcome in my book.
event? last year it was joy and excitement.
now i didn't even check the prizes.
i don't know, man..sometimes i just don't want to move, it move it
Ew seriously? so still no world drops from mobs like trick or treat bags or anything else? just boring dailies in Protectors enclave *sigh*
This is a good point. Most of my characters got them all last year, but I might be looking at getting up early Monday for the ones that are new.
The scarecrow in the event preview image looked really cool and creepy, but I can't see it being all that useful as a summoned pet and the bonus is nothing special.
But you can *buy* bags of charms. I still have dreadfully mixed feelings about the Zen store tie-ins for grind events. I think it's great to have the bypass option, but not when the top rewards would require putting in so many repetitious hours that getting the thing without just buying it with Zen is an exercise in despair and joint strain. (I got permanent cat masks for a large number of characters already last year, but the single skeleton on top of it almost killed me.)
Edit: Atmospherically, this event was outstanding and I will enjoy seeing it and being around it again, but I'm not sure how much I'll engage with it beyond chasing down the lore entries.
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because you can use zen to buy them, so boe = more zen
i'll give this event a full 1/10
imagine dropping a liar's charm every minute, you need 1200 for the pet, 20 hours of pure, awesome, exciting farm. GG WP
PS. I've been waiting to get my mask of sharess for like 8 months, that's why i'm even more disappointed
Well I might be completely wrong but judging by the couple of hours I have played since the server came back up the Charm drops seem to have some ICD and it seems to be significantly longer than a minute , I'm just glad the companion is pretty worthless active bonus wise.
I'm not sure why they went this route - just make it 1200 tokens and call it a day.
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The mask route would be cool if we had a chance to get the blue masks from something else. But after running this all day, I don't think that is the case.
1,200 drops in time, with the fewer days. Was possible last time. Plus I kinda wanted
to keep a mask or two, but now I'd have to trade them in.
Will prolly try til I get sick on the grind. No way my fingers will last long enough tho.
Maybe they could've started the event on Tuesday.
The festival itself has nice atmospherics, I must say.
OH! How did people put Scarecrows on the AH already?
I want to know the technique!!!
Since the 6 masks are BoE, you can split the work across characters, instead of having to grind 1200 BoP tokens on a single character. It's still a huge grind, but the mask route is a slight QoL improvement.
The only thing that changed is now we have less time to do it and a prize that cost even more tokens. I actually fell asleep at the keyboard running around PE doing this. I think I'm going to go back to running my dailies.
Yea, you get about 20 to 30 marks if you do all the dailies. Over 4 days, you are halfway to a permanent mask just by dailies alone. Its still a rough grind, but it is actually slightly better if you have several alts.
got maybe 40-45 in an hour. Way too slow. Running insane circles in the city I guess
makes more sense (if anything about this makes any sense).
I prefer to earn prizes rather than buy them. Dunno what I'll end up doing this year.
This year has not really changed anything and it's disappointing.
Is there a particular reason that this event, or most events, do not follow the Summer event's formula? (The winter one did redeemed my desire to participate in an event last year.) I know not every event can appeal to casual, hardcore, and farmer type of players, but is there a reason they couldn't have done something different or improved this year's Halloween event.
A halloween version of Respen's event would have been 10 times a better improvement then what was and is the current Liar's event.
Thank you for reading my rant of disappointment.
Disclaimer: I am well aware no changes will be made due to posts expressing disappointment and desires for change. I think that the game is for the most part good and will continue to play. Just helps to write down things sometimes.
The technique is called "Zen-Store".
The only thing I can really think of is that the masks are BoE, which means you can get them across several characters and pool them for a single scarecrow. The daily rewards on each would get you halfway to a mask, more than that if your schedule allows squeezing in all five days.
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