Guild Wars 2

…aren’t solo events at all. The mechanics specifically prohibit completing them without a group. For example, the event at Vrassburn landing requires you to ‘control’ the beach. However, even at maximum Risen clearing capacity, you will be unable to capture this point, event with all the npcs at your side. At the same time, the submarines take steady damage until they’re destroyed.

The events for the the other parts are the same. They claim to be soloable (because they don’t have the [Group] indication, but on many occasions the lone player will be unable to deal enough damage to the objective and keep whatever we’re supposed to protect (submarines, pack dolyak, etc.) alive at the same time.

My favorite event was the one where the galleon has to be protected against sharks. When they notice you, the sharks all charge you at the same time, dealing massive damage while stunning you for 10 seconds. And that too, is listed as a solo event…yeah right.

Straits of Devastation really needs some attention, and it would be nice to give more karma for events. It would attract more players. Instead of that, everyone is running Malchor’s Leap and Cursed Shore not only for karma, but for T6 nodes, too.

On my warrior I can normally solo the chains until they get to the mainland and you have to capture a beach. Those events are hard even with a couple other people.

Awesome.6120:

On my warrior I can normally solo the chains until they get to the mainland and you have to capture a beach. Those events are hard even with a couple other people.

Those are exactly the events I’m talking about. It’s not so much that the fighting is hard, it’s that even if you kill all Risen in sight, you still fail the event because you cannot actually capture the beach quickly enough before you run out of submarines.

It’s been my experience that only exploration in Orr can be soloed, yet I would say, for anything in Orr, get a group.