My “stand” on Keg’s End…

After coming off an event like Heavy Metal, I had high expectations for Keg’s End. I thought most of the community voiced unanimously that we enjoyed it over Witching Night. Not to say Witching Night was horrible, but it could have been better. I’m not much of a drinker, and when I do drink its not beer. I think beer tastes like dirt, and i’ve tried enough brands to know its just not my thing. So, with that said, the event doesn’t really appeal to me personnaly but I DO love the Dwarven lore that goes along with it. I have only done a little bit of the event, so until its over I can’t say if it gets the Slurm stamp of approval. So take this review as a preliminary review with another to follow after the end of the event.

Pros:

-I like the ease of most of the event thus far. The mobs to kill spawn quick enough and are not too far away from the beaten path.

-It gets people in Open RvR. Anything to get people to do this is a good thing.

-The fireworks are great! Suck it WoW, You and your crappy fireworks!

-Beer! (for those who like that sort of thing) Makes it kinda feel like a big party.

-New emotes. I love how they incorporated the new emotes into a quest for the event. I think I still need a couple Destruction classes and I’ll have it completed.

Cons:

-Is it moving? The bar moves sooooo sloooow. I ran through 4 camps of PvE mobs and the kegs within solo last night. You only get like 10 INF per kill and 5-6 INF per keg….solo!!! I miss how fast the bar moved for Heavy Metal where everything you did gave you a quarter of a bubble.

-It gets people in ORvR. Yea its also a pro, but the con side of it is that the performance issues just get worse with more people. (although I will say the improvments they made on one of the last patched did actually help, just not enough).

-Drop rate of the items. As I stated above, I ran thought 4 PvE camps solo last night, during this time I only got 5 dropped kegs, and 3 fireworks. The keg part of the quest requires that you get 100 of them. ONE HUNDRED. And it took about a half hour to get 5 solo. I don’t forsee this one being completed.

-The emote part of the quest should have a checklist showing you which classes you have boasted and toasted. I ran around like a madman /toasting people and had 10 of the 11 classes on our side done. It took a while to figure out which one I left out. A simple checklist (since I know its checking them off a list already) should have been an easy inclusion.

So far not bad. As I said, I’ll post another (final) review when the event is done. But overall, so far its been mediocre. I just wish there was more incentive like there was in Heavy Metal. At least there we got a nice item out of the deal.

Happy Hunting!