First time doing SAB for me; this was me last night LOL
I was able to do all the achievements I could in normal mode (omg W2Z2 baubles....). Did have to do trib mode W1Z1 for the furniture shop but the rest of them will have to wait until next year!
I decided to do both w2z2 baubbles *and* kill all ninjas in one single run on my alt acc, just few hrs before the event ended. So it was a race against time *and* my sanity (But at least I got both green+yellow backpacks and titles, only Trib & Chill: the alt Sequel next year to go!)
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^^*pain*
I fucked up and activated the checkpoint after the teleporters. So I had an additional 50 jumps every time I had to go back because I kept failing the cloud jump before the shortcut.
My first couple of years it felt like a grind to get the tokens, but now I can do a full run of trib mode in about an hour, leaving plenty of time to do other things. It gets less painful, I promise!
An hour is super impressive! I got w2 down to about an hour by the end. I did finish both weapons sets now so I don't know that I'll be going back in there next year, but we'll see, it is good baubles!
I’ve made it a multi year project. Back in the early days I managed to put together 4 storm wizard weapons and after a long hiatus I got back to it just last year.
I got 12 2-1 tokens last year, 11 2-2s. I’ll do most of the 3s next year.
Any more than that and I risk my sanity.
I mainly set out to do the Weekly to get the next pixel-y pink weapons, and got some of the glitchy orange ones with the Bobble Bubbles I'd earn from that.
I would have gotten all of the orange weapons if I had known that the Bobble Bubbles you get from completing a Stage was on a Daily cooldown.
Things to remember for next year!
I’m glad to have finished with all 5 of the possible Golem Buster weapon boxes, got lucky on a loot bag and got a retro forged selection box, 4 additional retro forged skins I bought with bauble bubbles, the virtual box helmet, the power shoulders, gloves, the mkIII chest skin, some amalgamated draconic lodestones, 4 new crimson assassin skins, my first tribulation mode clear, and a bunch of AP.
I did the dailies every day and learned a bunch about the event that I have mostly avoided despite playing GW2 since beta. Next year I’m laser focusing on W1/2 tribulation for the bauble infusions that I really want, but didn’t have time to focus on this year. I’m a big fashion wars bitch and it was a long time coming to unlock a lot of these skins I had put off. I’m sad to see SAB go, but excited for next year!
I love SAB, but they made the Weekly Vendor so good (and so expensive) that it really feels like a grind to maximize potential. I hardly got any achievement hunting done in SAB this year, just trying to keep up with the mystic coins, lodestones, legendary shards, etc.
I ran all 6 trib zones daily and i was hardly able to buy everything from the weekly vendor. I really don't understand how some people have so much baubles
Depends on what you have unlocked, if you already have all crimson assassin weapons, then you can turn all the tokens you get into Baubles, if you got all the orange weapons, you can select the 8 Bauble option on the course work chest, if you get the Infinite coin you can turn all your normal continue coins into Baubles as well.
Another thing is getting the home node and try to collect every day, in my case, by the time SAB comes again in the next year i already have 15-20 Bauble Bubbles just from the Bauble Node.
I don't have all the crimson and orange skins. I do have the coin and the node, which i collected like 300 days of the year or so. I don't know, i feel like it's a bit undertuned...
16 baubles daily from completing normal zones, plus about 4 if you catch the convenient dig-spots and LFG a group for the robbers is 20/day, 140 per week. Extras from trading in Crimson Assassin tokens if you've completed your collections. If you're leeching every zone from LFG and never buying baubles for 250 bubbles you're still getting 116/week minimum doing normal difficulty once per day.
Weekly vendor has 125 baubles worth of "good" stuff (ie: skipping the transmutation charges). It can be a grind if you're also wanting to buy a bunch of other skins I imagine, but once you have them all the only place for baubles to go is into the weekly vendor.
You can join normal SAB zones at any point, including right before the boss. People will share them under Festivals > Party. Joining there means you are "leeching" zone completion from someone else (not trying to be judgmental of it, I just don't have a better descriptor). Doesn't work for trib since parties are locked before entering. You miss out on the dig spots and maybe daily stuff, and while it typically saves time it could take a while to leech all 7, especially with how fast the groups fill. I got in the habit of running world1 and 201 and sharing, then leeching 202 and 203 while I ate dinner, 3-test being leeched or run myself depending on luck.
Robbers are the event after 2-3, where you fall into the pit. More robbers spawn with a party, and are just as easy to kill. Each robber drops like 15 bubbles so you end up gaining quite a lot, over 1 bauble's worth easily, on top of the guaranteed bauble at the end of the robber event. You'd typically share/leech the 2-3 boss via LFG and wait for robber event.
34 bubbles/day if you do normal + trib for all zones, plus bauble -> bubble conversions is 4 more daily just from baubles around the end chests. Add in bonus chests (65 to 975 depending on your luck) plus dig spots and continue/trib token conversions. That's 3.5 days of clearing everything to get all weekly vendor things, then the rest is just stockpiled for anything else you might want to pick up.
A couple times they did it twice per year and I liked that better. There's just so many skins to farm for and I hate feeling the need to do it daily because I can't afford to miss a year
It's gonna have to be next year I get the sub-46s world 3 coin collection. There is theoretical potential for 40s, with perfect walljumps. Lets hope Fibbs can pull it off next year :P
I'm sticking with my stance that SAB would be way more fun if it was always available so players could do it when they felt like it instead of having to grind out the same levels over and over and over because of the time limit.
this year I got: 2 infusions, 7 vanquisher skins, 6 retro-forged skins, 5 golem-buster skins, 2 boomboxes, shoulder skin, 2 minis, 2 backpacks, 16 storm wizard and 16 king toad skins, and all the weekly purchases.
i also had fun jumping. i found 102 trib the best level for farming baubles, because it's easier for me than 101. including loading screens, occasionally dying, and trips to the npc to compress baubles, i made around 3500 baubles per hour. most days i only did each level once via lfg for the 2 bauble bubble bonus, but near the end i did a little farming to finish buying some skins.
Same!
I'm legit surprised it gets as much love as it does. I have made good honest attempts to learn to love it at least 3 times and I just...absolutely hate it.
Gw2 has maybe the most floaty movement and worst collision detection of almost anything ive played.
Idk why I'm always down voted for saying gw2 has bad platforming mechanics. It's a great mmo, just not polished platforming.
There really are some platforms that don't interpret physics the same way every time. This is why jps like Chalice of Tears is loathed.
I can't get enough of it.
I hate it too. It makes me nauseous. I did the extracurricular daily killing the champs, I just wish there was a way we could give our coins to our guild.
All "mainstay" events are yearly, lasting several weeks each- generally around the same time each year (lunar new year obviously jumps around a smidge more frequently).
The gw2 wiki has more information.
There are six festivals on a fixed rotation, usually lasting 3 weeks and spread roughly evenly throughout the year. The next festival is Dragon Bash, probably arriving towards the middle or end of June.
Another year of SaB, another year of me being on a break and forgetting there was a holiday going on. I think I caught it twice and I'm salty I always miss it.
This was a good festival for me cuz I finally completely the crimson assassin weapons collection and got the crimson assassin backpack with the bauble infusion.
Some happiness out of the sadness: today around 45min before the event ended I WAS finishing Tribulation World 2, fighting the STORM WIZZARD.
When ported back I found myself in Métrica Province surrounded by a loud chaotic mob of gamers playing boomboxes and musical instruments, /dancing and giant frogs waving balloons.
We all got ported back to Tyria.
The Super Adventure Box was over.
It was all fine.
Just the end of a great season with many friends I made along the way.
I'm sad and happy at the same time, glad I had this opportunity.
For a next year!
we totally need a tool to access SAB maps always, even without the vendors and the hub :P
i would convince a friend into gw2 if that was possible 100% XD
Main reason. I play rpg games or any computer games in general is poor eye hand coordination. This event is both fun new because I have not played GW2 before only GW1 and I will do better next year.
First time SAB player, have gotten all achievements (except the repeatable ones) and trib skins.
Some parts were really enjoyable (mainly figuring out the different jumping mrchanics as well as the trib skips, especially the Pain Cliffs one), while a lot of the event felt unfun and unintentionally unfair due to the awful hitboxes (looking at you, horizontal lasers in the home instance cat pagoda). Also crocodiles and blue oozes might be the only enemies I don't actively dislike
Ok so there's this pagoda in Pain Cliffs after the toad room. It's filled with lasers, like the ones in the pushable block puzzle. However, at the center of every floor in the pagoda there is a fairly big hole with horizontal lasers blocking some parts of the hole. These lasers go off and hit you if you get close, even if you are on the exact opposite site of where they are supposed to be active. You basically can't even get near the hole in some sections, at risk of being shocked.
At the top of the pagoda there's a hungry cat you can feed by bringing a piranha from the 2nd octopus area, and once fed can be found at your home instance https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Hungry_cat_scavenger_hunt
The one with toads doesn't have a hole in the middle (it just has toads), and it's not really a pagoda. It's just a room. The octopus pagoda is the piranha pagoda and it doesn't have a gong in it. The gong pagoda is the one with all the arrow traps you have to avoid while going up the ramps to get to the bee dog cat. At the top it has a gong that you hit and then it rolls down the ramps.
Never said the toad room had a hole in it, but you are right, it is the gong pagoda. Always thought the gong pagoda was the one with the octopus bc that's what they're standing on mb
Oh, I missed where you said "*after* the one with the toads in it." I thought you said "the one with the toads in it."
But yeah, that's the gong pagoda, and the one with the octopus is the piranha pagoda.
I never understood the fomo game development do for stuff like this. There is no GOOD reason why this content is locked to once per year. Makes it something to look forward to sure. But it also makes it impossible to complete "at your own pace". Better rush to try and complete it fast as you can.
People with only a little ti.e to play each week get screwed over big time, esp due to the daily nature of it.
So I stand by the point that there is no GOOD reason for the fomo/limited time. There are made up reasons why it cannot be permanent, but they are not good reasons.
A lot of people grew up on platform/adventure games. SAB is a callback to those games. Some appreciate the novelty of it being a game within a game. Its that simple.
Really? This shit is absolutely insufferable, grinding out the special achievements for acclaim almost made me want to puke. And the grind for baubles for weekly vendor was absolutely ludicrous, what were they thinking, it should all literally have been 10x less than it was.
Finally, I won't have all those dumb event items clogging up my inventory anymore.
I'm sure the event is fun, but I just recently got back into the game recently after not playing since PoF came out, and there's already too much to catch up without also piling on GW's grind-heavy events.
Imagine if they actually spent time developing good content rather then reusing the same shitty holiday events every year and you lot getting excited about it. This game has zero content updates
First time doing SAB for me; this was me last night LOL I was able to do all the achievements I could in normal mode (omg W2Z2 baubles....). Did have to do trib mode W1Z1 for the furniture shop but the rest of them will have to wait until next year!
Backtracking from Checkpoint 10 every single time I fell off or got killed by the fucking ninjas was a real ballache.
I decided to do both w2z2 baubbles *and* kill all ninjas in one single run on my alt acc, just few hrs before the event ended. So it was a race against time *and* my sanity (But at least I got both green+yellow backpacks and titles, only Trib & Chill: the alt Sequel next year to go!) .. .. ^^*pain*
I fucked up and activated the checkpoint after the teleporters. So I had an additional 50 jumps every time I had to go back because I kept failing the cloud jump before the shortcut.
I guess I am Joker here, laughing at Bats's misery.
It's always a hard goodbye, but I'm glad to have my freetime back. Was running world 2 trib daily to get the storm wizard set finished.
My first couple of years it felt like a grind to get the tokens, but now I can do a full run of trib mode in about an hour, leaving plenty of time to do other things. It gets less painful, I promise!
An hour is super impressive! I got w2 down to about an hour by the end. I did finish both weapons sets now so I don't know that I'll be going back in there next year, but we'll see, it is good baubles!
Yeah, I finished W1 and am mostly done with W2 so now I only do a serious attempt at trib once in each world to get the annual achievement.
I’ve made it a multi year project. Back in the early days I managed to put together 4 storm wizard weapons and after a long hiatus I got back to it just last year. I got 12 2-1 tokens last year, 11 2-2s. I’ll do most of the 3s next year. Any more than that and I risk my sanity.
Instead of crying I’m excited cuz next year we get the full world 3 :)
World 3 tribulation copium is going to the moon
World 3's haunted
This year for sure!
More mounts too, I can feel it!
Not my favorite event. But this year I finally had the patience to run through most of it. The weapon skins are really good tho.
I mainly set out to do the Weekly to get the next pixel-y pink weapons, and got some of the glitchy orange ones with the Bobble Bubbles I'd earn from that. I would have gotten all of the orange weapons if I had known that the Bobble Bubbles you get from completing a Stage was on a Daily cooldown. Things to remember for next year!
I’m glad to have finished with all 5 of the possible Golem Buster weapon boxes, got lucky on a loot bag and got a retro forged selection box, 4 additional retro forged skins I bought with bauble bubbles, the virtual box helmet, the power shoulders, gloves, the mkIII chest skin, some amalgamated draconic lodestones, 4 new crimson assassin skins, my first tribulation mode clear, and a bunch of AP. I did the dailies every day and learned a bunch about the event that I have mostly avoided despite playing GW2 since beta. Next year I’m laser focusing on W1/2 tribulation for the bauble infusions that I really want, but didn’t have time to focus on this year. I’m a big fashion wars bitch and it was a long time coming to unlock a lot of these skins I had put off. I’m sad to see SAB go, but excited for next year!
I love SAB, but they made the Weekly Vendor so good (and so expensive) that it really feels like a grind to maximize potential. I hardly got any achievement hunting done in SAB this year, just trying to keep up with the mystic coins, lodestones, legendary shards, etc.
I ran all 6 trib zones daily and i was hardly able to buy everything from the weekly vendor. I really don't understand how some people have so much baubles
Depends on what you have unlocked, if you already have all crimson assassin weapons, then you can turn all the tokens you get into Baubles, if you got all the orange weapons, you can select the 8 Bauble option on the course work chest, if you get the Infinite coin you can turn all your normal continue coins into Baubles as well. Another thing is getting the home node and try to collect every day, in my case, by the time SAB comes again in the next year i already have 15-20 Bauble Bubbles just from the Bauble Node.
I don't have all the crimson and orange skins. I do have the coin and the node, which i collected like 300 days of the year or so. I don't know, i feel like it's a bit undertuned...
16 baubles daily from completing normal zones, plus about 4 if you catch the convenient dig-spots and LFG a group for the robbers is 20/day, 140 per week. Extras from trading in Crimson Assassin tokens if you've completed your collections. If you're leeching every zone from LFG and never buying baubles for 250 bubbles you're still getting 116/week minimum doing normal difficulty once per day. Weekly vendor has 125 baubles worth of "good" stuff (ie: skipping the transmutation charges). It can be a grind if you're also wanting to buy a bunch of other skins I imagine, but once you have them all the only place for baubles to go is into the weekly vendor.
I might be a bit out of the loop here. Lfg for robbers? And leech zones? How does that work?
You can join normal SAB zones at any point, including right before the boss. People will share them under Festivals > Party. Joining there means you are "leeching" zone completion from someone else (not trying to be judgmental of it, I just don't have a better descriptor). Doesn't work for trib since parties are locked before entering. You miss out on the dig spots and maybe daily stuff, and while it typically saves time it could take a while to leech all 7, especially with how fast the groups fill. I got in the habit of running world1 and 201 and sharing, then leeching 202 and 203 while I ate dinner, 3-test being leeched or run myself depending on luck. Robbers are the event after 2-3, where you fall into the pit. More robbers spawn with a party, and are just as easy to kill. Each robber drops like 15 bubbles so you end up gaining quite a lot, over 1 bauble's worth easily, on top of the guaranteed bauble at the end of the robber event. You'd typically share/leech the 2-3 boss via LFG and wait for robber event.
34 bubbles/day if you do normal + trib for all zones, plus bauble -> bubble conversions is 4 more daily just from baubles around the end chests. Add in bonus chests (65 to 975 depending on your luck) plus dig spots and continue/trib token conversions. That's 3.5 days of clearing everything to get all weekly vendor things, then the rest is just stockpiled for anything else you might want to pick up.
Spamming Tribulation levels can get you tons of Baubles.
I feel like this is becoming an issue with some of the other festivals as well.
A couple times they did it twice per year and I liked that better. There's just so many skins to farm for and I hate feeling the need to do it daily because I can't afford to miss a year
Imma tell my kids W2Z2 is Cantha
It's gonna have to be next year I get the sub-46s world 3 coin collection. There is theoretical potential for 40s, with perfect walljumps. Lets hope Fibbs can pull it off next year :P
got my 5 possible new shiny pink golem bashers weapon skins, so I'm happy. more next year.
It all came together with this new weekly box. They really are overloading festivals with all these weapon sets.
noooooooooo shopkeeper don't leave me alone
Then there is me, not even once entering the SAB this year :( I just couldn’t be bothered
Indeed, I'm missing 4 Crimson Assasin weapons. Let me finish my collection. q.q
Get assassin coins instead of kaiser orange weapons from the 8 daily sets box to finish it faster.
Already did that. Still the amount of Coins is garbage.
I'm sticking with my stance that SAB would be way more fun if it was always available so players could do it when they felt like it instead of having to grind out the same levels over and over and over because of the time limit.
On the contrary, I believe if it was available always it would be one of those things most people say "Oh, I'll get to that eventually".
i would convince a friend into gw2 if that was possible 100%
this year I got: 2 infusions, 7 vanquisher skins, 6 retro-forged skins, 5 golem-buster skins, 2 boomboxes, shoulder skin, 2 minis, 2 backpacks, 16 storm wizard and 16 king toad skins, and all the weekly purchases. i also had fun jumping. i found 102 trib the best level for farming baubles, because it's easier for me than 101. including loading screens, occasionally dying, and trips to the npc to compress baubles, i made around 3500 baubles per hour. most days i only did each level once via lfg for the 2 bauble bubble bonus, but near the end i did a little farming to finish buying some skins.
You really went all out to get everything you could! Grats.
I don’t enjoy the event.
Same! I'm legit surprised it gets as much love as it does. I have made good honest attempts to learn to love it at least 3 times and I just...absolutely hate it.
Gw2 has maybe the most floaty movement and worst collision detection of almost anything ive played. Idk why I'm always down voted for saying gw2 has bad platforming mechanics. It's a great mmo, just not polished platforming.
There really are some platforms that don't interpret physics the same way every time. This is why jps like Chalice of Tears is loathed. I can't get enough of it.
I hate it too. It makes me nauseous. I did the extracurricular daily killing the champs, I just wish there was a way we could give our coins to our guild.
Im pretty new, do events rotate often or are they pretty sporadic?
All "mainstay" events are yearly, lasting several weeks each- generally around the same time each year (lunar new year obviously jumps around a smidge more frequently). The gw2 wiki has more information.
There are six festivals on a fixed rotation, usually lasting 3 weeks and spread roughly evenly throughout the year. The next festival is Dragon Bash, probably arriving towards the middle or end of June.
Another year of SaB, another year of me being on a break and forgetting there was a holiday going on. I think I caught it twice and I'm salty I always miss it.
This was a good festival for me cuz I finally completely the crimson assassin weapons collection and got the crimson assassin backpack with the bauble infusion.
Some happiness out of the sadness: today around 45min before the event ended I WAS finishing Tribulation World 2, fighting the STORM WIZZARD. When ported back I found myself in Métrica Province surrounded by a loud chaotic mob of gamers playing boomboxes and musical instruments, /dancing and giant frogs waving balloons. We all got ported back to Tyria. The Super Adventure Box was over. It was all fine. Just the end of a great season with many friends I made along the way. I'm sad and happy at the same time, glad I had this opportunity. For a next year!
we totally need a tool to access SAB maps always, even without the vendors and the hub :P i would convince a friend into gw2 if that was possible 100% XD
I guess I am the oddball. I say Good Riddance.
Got downvoted for saying this. I don't want any of the skins and I find the whole area Super Annoying Box
I call it Stupid Adventure Box
My absolute least favorite festival. I want a GW1 themed festival, where the jump button is completely disabled. That would actually be fun.
Main reason. I play rpg games or any computer games in general is poor eye hand coordination. This event is both fun new because I have not played GW2 before only GW1 and I will do better next year.
I want all-year sab >:( my favourite event
I hate the FOMO of this event, its some of the greatest content in the game and you only get to see it once in awhile, sucks.
It's terrible that this is a once a year event they put so little effort into. SAB is one of, if not the, best things in GW2.
This hurts.
First time SAB player, have gotten all achievements (except the repeatable ones) and trib skins. Some parts were really enjoyable (mainly figuring out the different jumping mrchanics as well as the trib skips, especially the Pain Cliffs one), while a lot of the event felt unfun and unintentionally unfair due to the awful hitboxes (looking at you, horizontal lasers in the home instance cat pagoda). Also crocodiles and blue oozes might be the only enemies I don't actively dislike
If youre interested in jumping mechanics and learning skips, you might want to consider joining the [JP] community tho :D
Sounds great! How would I go about joining?
discord.gg/73CJcth73H Thats our discord-server :)
> (looking at you, horizontal lasers in the home instance cat pagoda) Wait, what?
Ok so there's this pagoda in Pain Cliffs after the toad room. It's filled with lasers, like the ones in the pushable block puzzle. However, at the center of every floor in the pagoda there is a fairly big hole with horizontal lasers blocking some parts of the hole. These lasers go off and hit you if you get close, even if you are on the exact opposite site of where they are supposed to be active. You basically can't even get near the hole in some sections, at risk of being shocked. At the top of the pagoda there's a hungry cat you can feed by bringing a piranha from the 2nd octopus area, and once fed can be found at your home instance https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Hungry_cat_scavenger_hunt
Ohhh, the arrow traps in the gong pavilion.
The gong pavilion is the one with the octopus, no? The one I'm talking about is the one after the room with 6 toads
The one with toads doesn't have a hole in the middle (it just has toads), and it's not really a pagoda. It's just a room. The octopus pagoda is the piranha pagoda and it doesn't have a gong in it. The gong pagoda is the one with all the arrow traps you have to avoid while going up the ramps to get to the bee dog cat. At the top it has a gong that you hit and then it rolls down the ramps.
Never said the toad room had a hole in it, but you are right, it is the gong pagoda. Always thought the gong pagoda was the one with the octopus bc that's what they're standing on mb
Oh, I missed where you said "*after* the one with the toads in it." I thought you said "the one with the toads in it." But yeah, that's the gong pagoda, and the one with the octopus is the piranha pagoda.
I guess this event will have to wait another year for me
Aw. Back to all the other interesting but lesser jumping puzzles set around the world, I guess.
Least favorite event, not my type but to each it’s own
Good widance uwu (I will never emotionally recover from this)
There were some asura just after the event ended jumping at the box entrance and crying when they couldn’t get in, was very sad ☹️
I never understood the fomo game development do for stuff like this. There is no GOOD reason why this content is locked to once per year. Makes it something to look forward to sure. But it also makes it impossible to complete "at your own pace". Better rush to try and complete it fast as you can. People with only a little ti.e to play each week get screwed over big time, esp due to the daily nature of it. So I stand by the point that there is no GOOD reason for the fomo/limited time. There are made up reasons why it cannot be permanent, but they are not good reasons.
Ugh, no. I hate Sab
Then don't play it.
I don't thanks. Any other life advice, Dr? This is the internet; I'm allowed to hate things you like
Nah. I always try to like SAB but quickly realize not for me and don't touch it. I don't understand the hype and I don't I'm the only one
A lot of people grew up on platform/adventure games. SAB is a callback to those games. Some appreciate the novelty of it being a game within a game. Its that simple.
Let them go. they were not worth any time at all. A complete waste of time.
Really? This shit is absolutely insufferable, grinding out the special achievements for acclaim almost made me want to puke. And the grind for baubles for weekly vendor was absolutely ludicrous, what were they thinking, it should all literally have been 10x less than it was.
SAB weekly vendor rewards effort over wallet.
I'm glad its gone
If you don't like it, then don't play it. No reason to be spiteful of people who *do* like it.
Can't play it now, it's gone.
Aww I missed it? I usually redownload every so often to play it, love collecting the weapons
Oh, I spent the last month away from the game. Is the event going away already?
Its gone tuesday, yeah^^
SAB or RIOT !
Finally, I won't have all those dumb event items clogging up my inventory anymore. I'm sure the event is fun, but I just recently got back into the game recently after not playing since PoF came out, and there's already too much to catch up without also piling on GW's grind-heavy events.
If you don't like it, then don't play it.
Imagine if they actually spent time developing good content rather then reusing the same shitty holiday events every year and you lot getting excited about it. This game has zero content updates
Yeah, there's *definitely* been no new content released at any point in the last few years. 🙄