Guild Wars 2

Traveller.7496:

It’s really those commanders that are doing the community a disservice with their selfishness, they should know better.

This is true actually, in main map AG, anyone with a commander tag is asked to turn it off, ..most times they do and the event runs smoothly.

Problem here is overflows.
People still assume that overflow=event will fail. And so they don’t bother anything but farming. And many commanders don’t care either.

There is nothing we can do. That’s how anet designed it to be. There’s already DR, but I don’t know if that applies to dropped loot as well. We can however appeal to the devs to change this. However, is this change fair or not? Should they change this? I think this is what OP is trying to say, not the technicality of the event.

They could have solved this issue by implementing kill counters for rewards..
Would solve any zerg situation in any gamemode..
but RNG is RNG and zerg is zerg. and farm is farm and noon really cares anymore.

I noticed something new this past evening, and I am pretty sure this wasn’t the case a few days back, but the miasma events moved around.
Noticeably, the Atherblade one. This made for some fun when it dropped right in the middle of the escort to evacuate the children, Mass chaos.
People calling for help, and as more showed up, the worse it got. Both events failed.

The next time in, me and my other party member came across the event in Western Ward. Successful event with only 5 of us.
That whole time, I barely saw people because we avoided the big zerg in favor of small ones and got the Triple Play.

My observation: ANet has made zerg farming less appealing.
Now if they dealt with AKFers hiding in the JP and sewers. That would be nice.

Stone.6751:

Why wouldn’t you play for a chance at the Monocle, the Molten Jetpack, the Air Filtration Mask, or the other good loot?!? THAT’s why people get so frustrated.

“for a chance”, thats the point, at least for me. I’ve opened countless of those, be it from tequila, wurm, LS chest, world chests and whatnot and got final rest once from behe and maybe some exotics here and there….whats a precursor anyway?

Now in LA I did save citizens the first couple of days because I actually enjoy succeeding in an event…and then every time I opened the ultimate bag I got more and more frustrated and felt I just again wasted my time for chasing some orange bar counting up for some theoretical carrot….or to do what? save 1200 citizens who then disappear from the map to never been seen again (those refugee camps must be all undergound I guess).
The next (last?) LS story chapter will arrive anyway and it seems (yeah, hope) it wont chance a thing if a server did save 1 or 1 million citizens.
So, if Tyria doesn’t care about those citizens, why should I?

And I am not complaining about my “bad RNG” luck, I accepted that and now I adapted to it and started to farm in LA….and boy….apart from those ~250 bags I got from every evac-tour (did it around 15 times in the past two weeks) I got 8 endless tonics, one mysterious, ~20 airship passes, many boosters, bazillion children drawings and from the belongings all those nice obsi shards, tomes, zhaitaffy …..apart from those numerous rares and around 5 exotics looting en passant.
Thats just so much better…and I like quaggans!

But I find pure farming quite dull on the long run, so what I do now is a mixture.
Primarily farming, yes, but not ignoring civzs on the way and rez ppl who are I trouble beside the events end if its a close one, I go out and do my best to contribute and get it finished, not for the ulti-bag, its because my team-spirit is kicking in.

But this “for a chance” has become unexistant for me.