Guild Wars 2

Just a rough idea but to get people exploring Southsun Cove again is to introduce a meta event much like Temple of Balthazar (of course involving the Karka) to retake and control the Hive from the Champion Karka (or upgrade to Legendary for the event chain) would be a good idea. Rewards at end could be a chest and a Consortium Vendor and/or Karma Vendor. =) I just miss the Ancient Karka event so much this would bring back the fun of that event to those who missed it and fun challenge for players who hate those Karka so much!. Idea in my head so hey doesn’t hurt to post it here.

Pupgo and I have tried SSC to see if we could turn it into a profitable event chain like he has discovered with CS. Alas, we could not for various reason.

The Veteran Karka’s are just flat out killers
There are not many events
The events that are there are too far apart

To bring people back to SSC, there is gonna have to be a reason other than farming the island in the south-west for exotic drops. There needs to be more events, and small ones – quick ones. It needs to have as much potential as CS in order to be worth the time and effort.

I think we had a group of 10 and those veterans that the patrols decide they have to encounter are just too tough – especially when 2 of them jump you. If you dont have a very large event zerg going, its just going to be a repair nightmare.

Attached is the event chain map I was going to try but it just isnt feasible – which is rather sad.

i hate to say it but the lost shores is lost anet. i agree about the meta event like what the draons do they do come back to life why not the ancient kakra. infact i went to eht hiveto look at him agine and well i wasted my time there. the vetrin kakra are just absloute killers and to me there is no profit there the risk is way to hi for the rewards that are there. only thing worth rewards are kakra shells and passion flowers but those are rare chance. sorry my armor reapares are not worth it.

=) thanks for your input ya my armors would be destroyed as well xD. they would have to make the drops more attractive there as well and such to make it worth it.

I agree that the place needs something to do because all it has now is a few scattered events and two jumping puzzles, so going there to do anything besides farm karka is a waste of time.

My suggestions:
1)More dynamic events. Simple really and I do not think it would be that hard to come up with more.
2)A meta event chain that has some type of boss at the end as mentioned in this thread.
3) A dungeon with explorer paths. Two ideas for the content could be:
a)Clearing out the remaining Karka. Maybe have 1 path deal with pirates that have set up camp on the island or something like that.
b)The more interesting idea. Dealing with the Water dragon’s minions. Maybe have each path start off on a boat and you sail out to sea and fight the water dragon’s minions. At the end you reach some sort of island or have to swim down and fight a minion or something like that. Would be very cool to see.

SSC is so much wasted potential. I was hoping for an alternative to Cursed Shore but the island just can’t compete with all the AoE spamfests and Temples in CS.

agreed, why not have another ancient karka?
with their increasing invulnerability with age, I find it hard to imagine that there is only one, hell, they should be more common than young karka since the karka are meant to be sapient (if xenophobic and territorial)

the ancient karka event was fun, it felt more epic than killing zhaitan!

why not just say that it’s a slightly younger ancient karka stepping into the power vacuum left by the old one?