Originally Posted by
NorthWoodsKingdom
Let's talk trick-or-treating, shall we? lol
Who recalls those youthful, giddy solitary nights of each year when Mom made you put on too many warm clothes underneath your cheap (or homemade) costume? You would sometimes don a crappy mask that made it impossible to see & always got too sweaty on the inside or you wore makeup that somehow ended up getting on every piece of clothing you had on that night. You carried a plastic pumpkin with a handle or a pillowcase or sometimes, even a paper bag. Sometimes you wore the wrong shoes, somehow forgetting from the previous year how much walking was involved in this endeavor. No matter what, *something* you wore always ended up hurting or being extremely uncomfortable.
I know I remember those days, quite vividly!
I also remember the excitement once returning home and dumping my plastic pumpkin or bag of booty from the night --- to investigate, count, separate, categorize, and compare with my fellow trick-or-treaters before deciding what to eat first. Sometimes it'd be something fun like glittery stickers or a spooky spider ring. Mostly it was individually wrapped pieces of delicious CANDY - jawbreakers, bubble gum, suckers, and every chocolate candy bar known to exist. Rarely, it'd be an apple or something homemade, like Rice Krispy treats (which Mom always made me throw away because, well a razor blade could be in that apple or the homemade stuff could be POISONED! lol). Even more rarely, it'd be something dreadfully useful, like a pencil or other school supplies or even worse - a toothbrush or dental floss. *shove aside, lol*
This is what I *don't* remember ..... walking up to somebody's house in my (awesome! lol) costume, ringing the doorbell, yelling "trick or treat!" while shoving my bag in their faces....and being handed COAL (isn't that just a joke, for bad kids at CHRISTMAS!?) or TRUFFLES (had no clue what those were, as a kid -- are they chocolate bon-bons? lol) or JEWELS (my mama wishes! lol).
Granted, the coal can be turned into jewels for those with the 4th knowledge shard, which helps with making tiaras but then why doesn't the adventure also drop fur, silver or other ingredients required for the other costumes? That just seems randomly, nonsensically biased. lol
Truffles...really? Aren't most players always maxed on those and even if they're not, what are they good for, besides feeding the baron and more importantly - How do they help with this event???
In addition to the parchment bats & ghosts and candy corn (which, btw, is NOT like a jelly bean, lol, totally different consistency), I would think that we'd get other sweet stuff, too. I realize this event is for players as low as level 15, so of course that takes out any chance for candy bon bons or teacakes to drop...and jeez, I suppose that also takes out CHOCOLATE too (that menu item doesn't become available until level 20-something, right?), but there are at least a couple of other things that could (& should) be dropping that are relevant to trick-or-treating and available to level 15 players otherwise.... Apples, a GOLDEN apple!, glimmerdust, creepy teeth, bones and most importantly ---SUGAR!!!
You'd also think the adventure would give a better energy return than 0 or 3, too. Meh.
In the end (& my point, finally lol) ..All I know is if I was ever allowed to go out trick-or-treating for EIGHT WHOLE HOURS (good lord, can you imagine?? lol), you can bet that I would come home with *A LOTTTTTT* more than these 3 lil "goblins" are bringing back to my queendom! What a sad, sad haul. I woulda cried til Christmas if that's all I managed to get, as a kid.
Ivy's right; my "princess", "witch" and "fangbeast" need to be saying "TRICK OR TREAT!!!!" with just a little more enthusiasm! lol
Another thing - during the Pyre Festival, sunstones weren't gathered from a special sunstone-only adventure; they could be obtained from most of the regular adventures, which also made it possible to get them from the barracks. Whyyyyy isn't the trick-or-treat adventure available in the barracks???
Annnnd another thing, lol... my adventure #16 is currently out (3/day + 2 on event start date) and I've yet to get a single special crate with a hayride, spooky scarecrow or anything else...and some already 2+ of each! Wahhhh, lol
So, has anyone else gotten better (or different) adventure drops than truffles or coal with their bats, ghosts & candy corn???