...what? Essence hardly does anything even when it's giving 5 power. So why do we have with OMGHUGE quest for it now?

I mean, that doesn't even make sense.

Step 1: Get sand. From somewhere.
Step 2. Give it to one of the guys on the planes.
Step 3: OMG POWER FOR UR NEXUS.

Huh?

*Explodes*

Wait, I just read it again. These 'guys' actually drop the sand. You then give it to one of these elemental lords i've never heard of before.

What?

And then your essence is worth more? But only in Vestian?

*Explodes again*

I think this is just an overcomplicated ploy to make us non-herbalists actually pay attention to the calander they made for the game.

Well, forgive us for listening to players. The reasons are:

1) There was a desire for more conflict on the outer planes.

2) 5 essence was always too high to begin with but I always had a quest to get it to 5 in the back of my mind. (Once Vestian passes, whichever elemental lords or nature aspects are empowered will stay that way throughout the year until the next Vestian.)

3) Several had requested "big monsters" to bash that weren't as buff as the supernal/demon lord variety.

This quest was meant to address all of these concerns and merged nicely with the dreamweaving event. Now, you guys are complaining???

Say thats what they do best.

I think we would have far less complaints if it wasn't such a hard to understand post.

Basically: We kill your mobs, give their sand to ours. You do the same to us. Just like landmarking, more or less.

Oh, I was just really confused.

Imagine going thirty hours without sleep, with malaria, and trying to read HELP KARMA. Then imagine making any sense of it.

That was the level of my confusion.

mmm... Gin and Tonic.

You're right, it could have probably been explained better. I'm frankly exhausted from running the event and am not thinking clearly but that's really no excuse. It's really simple though: Every Vestian, there are 9 sands from the Mannifesttions and 12 entities to give it to. Like landmarking, it is once a year, though I think the parallel ends there.

*sings Estarra to sleep*

I understood the post well enough, it looks good to me.

Cheers.

*sets timer to wake Her up or She may never*..

Estarra needs a hug.

Now, thank you for running the event.

Hurty thingie.

Give the gods some lovin', people!

Ta for the new stuff!

I'll give hugs I was so amused the entire time. Even when I died five times to various magnagorans.

*hugs* I think it's a solid idea, all the way around.

"It's not the critic who counts, not the one who points out how strong man stumbled or how the do-er of deeds might have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena..."

Thank you all for this great event. What I liked most was that there was no need for us Hartstoners to get involved into pk. I am not saying that pk is bad but it was very nice to see that there were other options.

Oh, and by the way, trying to catch dreams when you cannot really sleep anymore because you are level 80+ was quite annoying but that was fine.

Thanks again.

Heh, us Aquas were being harrassed by Magnagorans every time we set foot on Spectre Isle (where we needed to go for our quest). We ended up managing to sneak/suicide in past Silvanus' demesne a couple times to get the song lines.

something to bash besides these boring and easy Astral mobs? I LOVE YOU ESTARRA

Kudos for dreamweaving, this is an attractive skillset. I can only imagine the time you all took making things like... custom messages for each guild in daydream.