Guild Wars 2

Now I’m sure at least one person is going to comment here raging about how the temples are fine as they are, I’m just bad, etc.

The fact of the matter is that the temples are an unnecessarily frustrating experience that just doesn’t feel rewarding enough to warrant opening them. This creates a two-fold problem, as I’ll show below.

Problem #1: The events are hardly ever run. This is just a mark of poor design. The events are too time consuming, and for many, too difficult for the rewards they give.

Problem #2: There are many extremely important Karma gear pieces that can ONLY be found at these temples when they’re open. For a player who needs to get one of these pieces, it’s nearly impossible to find an unlocked temple to buy from.

Potential solutions:

Solution #1: Add Karma Vendors who sell the temple karma pieces in either Lion’s Arch or an uncontested zone of Orr. The fact of the matter is that the current state of the temples punishes players for wanting certain types of gear. It’s not fair that some players can just waltz up to one of the dungeon vendors in LA and buy all their armor when others have to trek out to Orr with a party of 10 and waste half an hour to get a single piece of exotic gear.

Solution #2: Increase the reward. Players will actually complete the events if the reward felt worthwhile.

If two chests isn’t enough to get people to do them, nothing is. What I’ve found, is that once the pre-events are done, people will flood in for the main boss.

Im not saying your bad, but ye the temples are fine.

I have had the problem that I needed gear from balthasar and it was contested on my server. Now I’m used that every few hours, the event is being done on my server, but i didn’t want to wait. So I guested to another server to find out to my astonishment that the people in mapchat didn’t even know what a temple was. I guested to another server wich had the event running on the moment I arrived. I helped them out (a massive zerg of people) and it was done in no-time.

It turned out the first server I guested to was a high ranking WvW-server.
Bottom line, your not bad, but your world prolly is.
Try guesting to other servers and do them on there.