Guild Wars 2

Any plans to ever scale these events somehow? I would like to do some of them when they pop up, but people tend to not be around and they can’t be done solo.

(p.s. i’m sure they can be done solo by really great players, but for a majority they can’t)

They are meant to be group events, thus the group tag. The idea is to have a few of them around the map so solo leveler are encouraged to hit up map chat and group with people. I just recently did world completion so I can say with certainty there are only 2 spots that a champ is actually blocking, but you only need one other person to kite the boss while the other runs in. So, theres no real need to do these events. There are plenty of vets around the map if your looking for a solo challenge, (which is what a scaled back version of these events would be) and many are hiding a little loot chest.

I sympathize with you on the fact that there aren’t many people outside of lions arch if there’s no world boss around. I’ve had good luck guesting on to TC or other heavy pop severs when a want a stroll around on a low level alt.

I’m not a great player, I’m a clicker, and I don’t do any form of PvP.
I’m soloing broodmother, abomination, eye, knight, and many more.

These champions can be very hard, I’d say you need a build rather specific to stand a real chance, and the learning curve will cost you many deaths.

I agree that some of these events are way too hard.
And also way too long because champions have too much health.
And I’ve been told that if you bring a zerg, they will scale up and become more powerful.

Since there is a scaling up mechanism the base event should be easier.
This way solo players could attempt them more often.
Nowadays players roaming maps just don’t do them.

Some champions like Rottbeard or Ooze are easy and killed more often.
But knight and broodmother are overpowered atm.

However, if you really want to kill them it’s doable.
Just takes a lot of time to learn.
If you need any advice on any I can try to explain.

most group events in low lvl areas are easily soloed in lowlvl areas if you have a lvl 80 character. practice on those. for example:

• giant in nageling (diessa plateau)
• champion wolfmaster near twinspur (wayfarer foothills)
• mechataur-eye near pinnacle enclave (lornar pass)
• the whole ogre-pre-event-chain (fields of ruin, also gives a sidechest with a yellow)
• dredge commisar (dredge haunt cliffs, sidechest as well)

they all have very clear animations for their big hits (especially giant, he’s a rather prominent figure and doesn’t get blocked so easily by particle effects), making them good practice dummies for dodgeing etc.

I really like those events to try new builds out, because you can fight for a few minutes and see how your cooldowns work together, if you have enough sustain or mitigation etc. bursting down a vet usually doesn’t say much about your build.

the ones in orr are a lot harder imho, because you often get constantly respawning adds interfering. also, in a dps build I find some of them near impossible (or dependent on luck) and while tanky builds work better, it just takes forever.

also, your class has a huge impact. I found my ranger to be exceptionally good at kiting around champs with the pet, or my mesmer with the clones to draw fire. my engi doesn’t really like champs though, he only stays in queensdale and feeds grenades to the everhungry behemoth.

Some of us already took the next step. The player who offered to help with soloing the champs might be a good start despite the fact that he do not yet rank ALL of them in the easy category.

Yseron.

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