Guild Wars 2

One of the main draws, for me, to Guild Wars 2, was that if you didn’t feel like grouping, you weren’t punished. I don’t always play alone. In fact, most of the time, I like to play with friends. However, they are not always available, and there are some times that I just want to play on my own. Have no responsibilities to a group. So here comes GW2… promising that there are pseudo groups; that you don’t have to “group” to accomplish things… that everyone can get credit for events and kills. That is what we were told; that is what I expected.

So, I am playing the game, by myself, and I encounter a set of events. You might know them as Pent/Shelt. There is a large group of people here farming these events. I decide, what the heck, I want to try and farm them for a bit too.

The event starts. I dash into a group and start swinging wildly. I hit all of the enemies for a total nearing 3000 before they all die. These groups are massively outnumbered. I noticed that I only get one loot. Oh well, guess I have crappy luck. On to the next group. Same thing, only this time, no loot. This series of events proceeds to happen over and over.

Why are these people farming this event, I ask myself. The drop rate is crappy. At least I thought so, until a friend and guild mate informs me otherwise. It seems, you HAVE to group with other people for these events because alone your damage isn’t enough to give you credit.

Fan-fricking-tastic.

So, why is this? Why are my efforts not enough? Why is there a minimum damage requirement before being considered for loot?

Are we afraid that someone might just run around hitting everything once? Is that it?

I am thoroughly disappointed with how this works. I hope that it eventually gets looked at. It is upsetting that I am once again, punished for my choice of play style (even if indirectly).

TL;DR – Play the game how you want, as long as it meets the requirements of how we want.

I…actually did not know that. Can I get a source on it? I run a damage-heavy build, so I’ve never had problems, but that may—really, really may—go a long way toward explaining loot complaints cropping up all over the forums.

Is there really something against partying? You can leave if you wish. Are you afraid people will look at your portrait and call your character ugly?

It’s part of running shelt/pen and due to the popularity, you need to party up to get loot.

You are not forced to run it. Arenanet is not forcing you to do content. But you choose to do it and unfortunately for you, there are requisites that need to be met to take advantage of it fully.

It’s like trying to do a dungeon and then you’re complaining that you’re forced to do it in a group. No one is forcing you.

Vol.5241:

you need to party up to get loot.

If that’s true then Anet forgets to mention it when they say GW2 does not require party.

“You don’t need to team up – as long as you don’t mind getting no loot” doesn’t sound quite right for a game that revolves around loot.

Yeah, these events are zerg fests most of the time…. if you rock up to one people will just invite you to group – just group up for the event then say goodbye and leave the group.

Half the time it’s impossible to hit the mobs. Playing in Australia and dealing with laaaag, some of the mobs are dead before they have even rendered. I have to set up attacks prior to the mobs spawning and hope i hit them.

Btw, don’t know what A-net did in the last patch, but the rendering bug is so much worse… it now drastically affects PvE (mobs & NPCs) whereas before it was just in WvW.

When you kill the risen chickens in CS and then the risen maggots spawn i’m nearly dead before i even see the maggots and the fields of AE poison i’m standing in.

In the say channel simply type “LFG”. You will get a group very quickly. There is no responsibility tied to that group Leave when you want, do what you want. Is that so hard?

I’m not truly convinced of the need for a group to get drops, but since its so easy you might as well join a group when farming.