Why do anything else?
Loot
Challenge
Fun
People do those events because they’re already in Queensdale. Why? The main reason is that people are waiting for the Shadow Behemoth zone boss to spawn and killing Champion mobs is a good way to pass the time. Also a lot of players before GW2 released had indicated in multiple polls that they were going to play humans since that’s the race you had to play in GW1 and they somehow still felt a connection with the human nation. As a result, a lot of people know Queensdale like the back of their hand and it’s far easier for them to event farm that zone as opposed to another zone.
If your 30’ish zones actually had zone bosses that were player destinations, then you’d see people event farming there. Yet since they really aren’t desirable locations, people don’t farm those zones.
We are Test Group F. (Don’t ask about what happened to the previous Test Groups.)
Loot
Challenge
Fun
As I said, these events seem to give out decent enough loot. The other events aren’t challenging so much as they are impossible with just one level 30ish engineer trying to do it. So when you’ve died for the 3 time on an event that no one else is around for miles, there went the fun.
People do those events because they’re already in Queensdale. Why? The main reason is that people are waiting for the Shadow Behemoth zone boss to spawn and killing Champion mobs is a good way to pass the time. Also a lot of players before GW2 released had indicated in multiple polls that they were going to play humans since that’s the race you had to play in GW1 and they somehow still felt a connection with the human nation. As a result, a lot of people know Queensdale like the back of their hand and it’s far easier for them to event farm that zone as opposed to another zone.
Which makes me question why they made so many events for other places if everyone is sitting in Queensdale.
Hanging around in Queensdale for so long is like living in a mother’s basement.
Why stay there when there’s higher zones that has more “loot-challenge-fun” events such as the major meta events that holds a chest as well as other meta events in the zones?
Queensdale is just a better, less complicated starting area. I made a mistake of starting out as an asura in the beginning and ended up quitting this game for a while. Then when I picked it up again as a human, i was able to complete that map like 6 times now. Overall, that map is just a lot easier to complete and do events than other areas for me.
What will you do now that you’ve completed Queensdale 6 times?
If you’re having fun with what you’re doing, then by all means continue. Here’s some suggestions for other event chains you can try:
Kessex Hills (also lots of people): http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/The_Battle_of_Fort_Salma
Diessa Plateau: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/A_Celebration_of_Meat
A few levels later you can try Harathi Hinterlands: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Seraph_Assault_on_Centaur_Camps
The two Centaur chains have >5 people at all times on Jade Quarry because people farm them to level characters. Also the Centaurs drop bags of which the contents sell for more than anything the Queensdale events give you, unless you get exotics from the Shadow Behemoth chest or something. The Harathi one also gives a guaranteed rare chest, so I use that chain whenever I want to get my daily rare item.
If you’re having fun with what you’re doing, then by all means continue. Here’s some suggestions for other event chains you can try:
Kessex Hills (also lots of people): http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/The_Battle_of_Fort_Salma
Diessa Plateau: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/A_Celebration_of_MeatA few levels later you can try Harathi Hinterlands: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Seraph_Assault_on_Centaur_Camps
The two Centaur chains have >5 people at all times on Jade Quarry because people farm them to level characters. Also the Centaurs drop bags of which the contents sell for more than anything the Queensdale events give you, unless you get exotics from the Shadow Behemoth chest or something. The Harathi one also gives a guaranteed rare chest, so I use that chain whenever I want to get my daily rare item.
Problem is, I’m not having fun. I want to do other events, I want to see what else is out there. The problem is that I die when I try to do these events. Why? Because I’m not level 80 yet with the best gear in the game. Why do I need to be that decked out? Because no one else is trying to do these events. And the Blood Witch kills me. And liberating Ascalon Settlement takes forever alone. Or insert problem with event that could be solved by either max stats or actually having more than 1 – 5 people doing it.
I had a feeling that when I left the game for few months that players would be farming the most efficient events in the game. And I was right. So why leave Queensdale for any other event until you can solo them?
Problem is, I’m not having fun. I want to do other events, I want to see what else is out there. The problem is that I die when I try to do these events. Why? Because I’m not level 80 yet with the best gear in the game. Why do I need to be that decked out? Because no one else is trying to do these events. And the Blood Witch kills me. And liberating Ascalon Settlement takes forever alone.
Umm, I think I see your problem.
You do know that you just listed two events clearly marked as group events in the game. Why are you under the delusion that you are supposed to easily solo those. Especially the Blood Witch that is a boss event.
In fact, every kitten event you have mentioned in this thread so far are group events from what I can tell. It looks like you are suffering from the “ordinary events are beneath me” syndrome.
Umm, I think I see your problem.
You do know that you just listed two events clearly marked as group events in the game. Why are you under the delusion that you are supposed to easily solo those. Especially the Blood Witch that is a boss event.
In fact, every kitten event you have mentioned in this thread so far are group events from what I can tell. It looks like you are suffering from the “ordinary events are beneath me” syndrome.
Ordinary events like what? Escort the Merchant type quests? Well those take forever to do because the guy keeps dying with only one person guarding him. And I’d like to make sure we’re talking about events, not those heart mission areas. I’m not under the delusion that I should solo these events. I’m under the delusion that other people are moving over to do these events when they are probably sitting for SB to spawn again.
For an MMO, I rarely see the multiplayer part when walking around in other areas besides Lion’s Arch and Queensdale.
Try the Wayfarer Foothills. Usually quite a few people hanging out there. Couple of decent events in the area. Also has an awesome meta-event in the Frozen Maw. Other fairly decent meta events include, Giant Wurm in Caledon Forest and Fire Elemental in Metrica province. All low level chest events and in areas where there are more than a fair few people kicking around.
I’m not under the delusion that I should solo these events. I’m under the delusion that other people are moving over to do these events when they are probably sitting for SB to spawn again.
For an MMO, I rarely see the multiplayer part when walking around in other areas besides Lion’s Arch and Queensdale.
What server and guild are you in? All the Harathi Hinterlands and Kessex Hills events I linked in my prior post have a group 24/7 on Jade Quarry, which is my server. You’ll also find people doing events for their dailies in Wayfarers or Diessa Plateau during the peak times for the server.
Another option is to join a PvE guild that does open-world or casual content – my guild runs random group events for fun on Monday, Friday, and every second Wednesday.
Unfortunately, you’re not going to find people for every single group event because the rewards just aren’t there. The groups are there, but you’ll only see them if the daily targets that area or there’s an “event farm” there like Cursed Shore or the Centaur chains I mentioned. There’s also giant groups for dragons / Maw / SB as you mentioned, although I wouldn’t call that a group more than it is bunch of players in the same spot with their attack keys pressed down.
Ordinary events like what? Escort the Merchant type quests? Well those take forever to do because the guy keeps dying with only one person guarding him.
No they don’t. Well, not most of the time. At least for my alts.
Anyway, Kessex Hills for example has around 45 non-group events. These include capturing/defending camps, escorting people, blowing up an Ettin Cave, clearing an Ettin roadblock, rescuing people, kill a veteran mob, destroy bandit cannons, collapse a destroyer fissure and more. All soloable (although the bandit cannon one is a tough one if you are under the recommended level). Other zones have similar amounts of events.
Also, if there aren’t a lot of people in a zone, then there will tend to be quite a few events just waiting for someone to come along.
I’m under the delusion that other people are moving over to do these events when they are probably sitting for SB to spawn again.
Level 80s use timers to come in close to the spawn time and then kill only SB because its has a chest plus guaranteed rare on the first kill on that account per day. Just like they then do for Maw, Fire Elemental, Shatterer, Claw of Jormag, Dragon with annoying name and a few other events with guaranteed chest+rare.
If those chests didn’t exist, the same people would just do karma train farming in Orr instead, or farm CoF path 1.
Most of the ones you’ll find running around non-max level zones are those getting map completion for an alt, doing Living Story content or generally just doing relaxing content. And that is really no different than any other MMO. Well, it is slightly different actually. In any other MMO you wouldn’t find many people just doing relaxing content, because they would one shot anything in a lower level zone.
Right so; Cave Troll, Ancient Oakheart, Giant Boar, Wasp Queen, and Shadow Behemoth in Queensdale.
Why do any other event when these are easy, give decent enough rewards, and more importantly have a TON of players doing them at all times. I’ve never seen any where near the numbers gather for other events on other maps, not even the other races starting areas.
I’m a little frustrated yes, but something seems wrong here. Or am I at that really odd level of 30ish where no one does those events.
Its just a flaw in MMOs. There is not enough new players to keep all the zones filled, and no real purpose to bring vets back to the those zones. Once you’ve seen the movie once you don’t keep rewatching it every day.
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I agree with Merlin. Ive done the champions over and over again in Queensdale and Im know in Kessex Hills and would love to do new content. Most of the time I have to forego group events there as well because I can not find a group to do them with. I even tried finding a group with no luck. Feel Im missing out on lots of content because of this and it is spoiling the game.
This topic is five months old, so I wouldn’t expect Merlin or any of the others to reply to it, Shuzsie.
As for the topic, I love, love, LOVE, Queensdale as a zone, but the time or two I’ve tried riding the champ train, I found it agonizingly boring. I get that some people like it, but it’s definitely not for me.
If I feel like farming, the World Boss circuit is more relaxing (if probably less rewarding,) and if I’m going to be playing with the level of attention and motion the train requires (as opposed to drawing or something between World Bosses,) I’d rather be working on my world completion or one of my alts. I can’t always do group events, depending on if there are others nearby, but at least there are plenty of regular events and places to explore elsewhere to keep my attention.
~The Storyteller – Elementalist – Jade Quarry~