Guild Wars 2

Since I have encountered so many WTF events, I think we need a list for them. Many of them have been reported months ago but seems that none of them are being taken care of.

Zone: Blazeridge Steppes
Event: Defend engineers rebuilding Brokentooth Maw

I was soloing the event. You have to protect both North and South gates so the engineers can finish repairing the gates. Waves of 4-5 mobs assaults the engineers at zero wait time. You killed them and they simply respawn in front of the gate instantly. Even if you managed to revive the engineer, he will be instantly killed by the respawn. It is endless! BTW this is only about one gate, while leaving another gate untouched.
And there are a few NPCs in the camp just watching, doing nothing.

There is another similar event in Kinar Fort Waypoint in the same zone. Some waves even comes before you killed the previous one, leaving you alone to face like 10 mobs at the same time.

For both of these, there are also occasionally a huge environmental AoE falls to the whole place which can kill you in 3-4 seconds if you don’t get out of it.

Maybe the problem is the fact that they are not meant to be soloed?

Crusader Angaria in Cursed Shore. She is supposed to be lighting beacons. She ends up having an extreme case of ADD and breaks off to attack the Risen before they even spawn.

I have never seen this event succeed.

I actually soloed the OP’s first event a week or so back, but probably on a different server. Not all events can be soloed, for sure, but this one seems doable if you don’t have the bad luck the OP did.

Does event need luck? Like opening a chest from the BLTC?
I don’t think it is luck. It is simply event created, but never been properly tested.

You can find many of them around the world. If you are a warrior or guardian, some of them maybe soloable, but definitely not for most other professions.

Just pick up another one right near LA.

Destroy Psylithium Generator to free Quaggan prisoners
in Bloodtide Coast.

Maybe you can spend an hour simply hit and run to destroy the generators because there will be nearly 10 mobs aggroed the moment you hit them, swimming faster than you and also with some long range weapon that hit hard. I am guess killing the shark (which is a group event) can be easier, although I have never seen anyone completing these two after leveling in this zone after the first month (when there were a lot of players around).

That one(gates) is soloable, though it’s certainly easier on professions with solid aoe dps and some toughness. Though I’d agree the waves don’t give a lot of respite.

Also, only some of the mobs beeline for the engineer, assuming other NPCs are still up. The devourers seem to go more for the guards.

Zone: Timberline Falls
Event: Slay the Risen that have spread into Serpent Stones

Catapults hits you 0.5 second after the red ring on the ground appears, knock you down for 3 seconds or so. Multiple catapults, multiple risen mobs + other mobs, including veteran. I was wondering if I was playing a network game. How are you going to avoid something that hit you in 0.5 second? Even harder than high level FotM! Consecutive knockdown acts like chain CC in Orr that can kill you while you are unable to do anything at all.

Tons of these are still in the game after 4 months. That’s why there are so many maps are empty although the scenery and map design are fantastic. Do they have a team to look into all these imbalances?

And the “supposed-to-be-veteran” spider guarding skill point in Ural’s Delve still has a champion’s health and hit like champion, the entrance to the skill point in Candle Chimney still has extremely high density of mobs + quick respawn after 3 months when I first reported them in game.

All I do now is open a nearby present, kite the contents (toy golems are best) to the de, and watch the, hilariously wipe the de.

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And the “supposed-to-be-veteran” spider guarding skill point in Ural’s Delve still has a champion’s health and hit like champion,

Ah yes, I remember that spider. Only time I was crazy enough to down it solo was with my mesmer, right after getting the trait that generates illusions when you dodge. Probably took me half an hour of kiting. After that, I just used whatever means that were available to get the sp and gtfo.

temple of balthazar. yeah, i know.

problems:
- random mobs AND event mobs spawn continuously, npcs in combat constantly and can’t regen health
- balthazar’s firestorm (which wasn’t implemented a month ago?) is totally wiping the npcs out as we slowly inch up the stairs to the temple
- i’m not very sure of this myself, but the last run i did, some npcs fell behind and just vanished after the first fight, taking half of the morale bar with them before we even got to the steps. to clarify, they were just standing there after a fight, then disappeared. i mean, we’re good, but not that good

and let’s not even talk about the champ at the end. seeing that this is the only way to get obsidian shards outside of spending hours looking for a fractale group at the correct level, please either make this event achieveable or give us another way of getting obsidian shards with karma.

if people are posting on the forum asking which server to transfer to for an open temple, something’s wrong.