Clock tower rewards - underwhelming?

[nosleepdemon.1368]

Clock tower is easy, I've done it first time each time for the last couple of years. It's not a thing to be farmed imo, not everything should pile loot boxes on top of you for every half hour of play. Some things you do for the actual fun or challenge of it, you know?

[nosleepdemon.1368]

I did the Roller Beetle race under 1 min without drifting too... Took an evening. I didn't realise you could drift until afterward ;P I love the Mad King events, they are all fun for the sake of it, although that racing scarf really is neat when you combine it with the Polysaturating Infusions.

[Paolino.8320]

If the clock tower is too hard to deserve better rewards, shouldn't the same be said of raids? I'd like to see the stats on how many people complete the clock tower vs how many people complete a raid.

[Leamas.5803]

> @"Paolino.8320" said:

> If the clock tower is too hard to deserve better rewards, shouldn't the same be said of raids? I'd like to see the stats on how many people complete the clock tower vs how many people complete a raid.

 

The difference is that a raid is largely team/meta and max gear dependent where the Clock Tower is solo and your gear is irrelevant. The Clock Tower can be memorized and after a lot of practice becomes pretty easy, especially on small characters like asura and smaller human/sylvari. With bigger races, like norn and charr, their size actually will obscure the puzzle. When I'm "in the zone" so to speak, I can complete it more often than I fail it. There's really only two "tricky" jumps in the Clock Tower. Skipping Stones is far more frustrating.

[NaramSin.2693]

The CT it's not really a great content, it's badly designed and they never fixed it in years, the wait timer it's a nonsense, there is no way to learn unless you want to stay hours on the same place waiting for another start, even the classic "jump on this pixel or you will fail" it's in. overall it's a content that most of the time people ignore during the festival, so i don't think they should give better rewards for it wasting time coding something for a dead content.

[Shaogin.2679]

Once you get the path down, it's actually really easy. I run it and complete it every single time unless I do something stupid. That being said, I really enjoy doing it and would love it if I could get more than 3-6 bags each run.

[Blocki.4931]

The only thing that needs to be changed in the tower is the 15 minute timer and large waiting periods as the map resets and you have to wait for the others to finish. Throw a few more chests along the way.