Guild Wars 2

does anyone kill it anymore ? i log southsun for the ori and i don’t even see any camps captured.

Nope. It’s been over six days since it’s been done on my server according by gw2stuff.

Those camps require a group to take, at least the south eastern one does.

If I’m going to take the time to form a group, I am going to do a dungeon or fractal.

IDK OP i need to do it if you want to get a group together to do it PM me in game within the next hour.

Is been 11 days since anyone has done it on my server. I did it once back then. Having a bunch of Karkas suddenly appear around me in town and one-shotting me after the town had already been cleared out was sufficiently annoying that I got the achievement and that was it for me.

It’s either people are too busy doing the dragon bash or the rewards vs effort on that event are not right. I would guess the rewards vs effort.

It seems they wanted this event to be done by big groups that want a challenge. But those people aren’t stepping up to do it. They may need to make it something that a party of people can do. And maybe, scale it so one person can clear out a town, even if that person can’t do the queen.

PM me today to kill Karka Queen, I’m going to be online most of the day.
(Europe btw)

The issue with the Karka Queen is that it doesn’t have a set spawn time like other world bosses. Player most likely choice to spend their time on other bosses which they know will spawn at a particular time so they can maximise their play time instead of standing around waiting for something to happen.

southsun is back to what it was built to be, a ghost map with nothing else but AI

CureForLiving.5360:

The issue with the Karka Queen is that it doesn’t have a set spawn time like other world bosses. Player most likely choice to spend their time on other bosses which they know will spawn at a particular time so they can maximise their play time instead of standing around waiting for something to happen.

I thought she will spawn like uhm, once every hour or every two hours if all the settlements are under player control.

Yep, it has a spawn timer. If you do not see a “queen is hiding” line in the sidebar it will spawn once all 4 camps are held. But Unlike Shatterer (another world boss with pre-event requirements), the camps can’t be soloed.

And the middle camp, Steampipe, ends up blocking the northeren camps from reaching the queen in any practical time frame. This because all the camps go “contested” the second the queen spawns.

Never mind that the events scale simply based on people present in the general area, sending Steampipe into “no way, no how” levels of difficulty very quickly. The place can likely also be camped by parking toons outside the wall, around the upper left corner, as only the odd reef glider wanders up there. And those campers will be taken into account when scaling the Steampipe events.

Yeah has not been done on my server either. I wish at least the vendors would still work

digiowl.9620:

Yep, it has a spawn timer. If you do not see a “queen is hiding” line in the sidebar it will spawn once all 4 camps are held. But Unlike Shatterer (another world boss with pre-event requirements), the camps can’t be soloed.

And the middle camp, Steampipe, ends up blocking the northeren camps from reaching the queen in any practical time frame. This because all the camps go “contested” the second the queen spawns.

Never mind that the events scale simply based on people present in the general area, sending Steampipe into “no way, no how” levels of difficulty very quickly. The place can likely also be camped by parking toons outside the wall, around the upper left corner, as only the odd reef glider wanders up there. And those campers will be taken into account when scaling the Steampipe events.

yes i stopped doing it even with 200% mf if i was on the wrong side of the setlement or if i wasnt on one of my tanky classes. its no fun getting insta downed and its impossible to run through the setlement. i was curious if they where going to notice the event has problems and fix them or just abandon it.

jazzllanna.1278:

Yeah has not been done on my server either. I wish at least the vendors would still work

:(

Done at least three times on Tarnished Coast yesterday, although hasn’t been done in almost 24 hours now according to gw2stuff.

A three man group successfully snuck in and burned down all the karka nests from my guild, to end the event and secure Kiel as the last camp.

Doesn’t take a whole lot of people.

gidorah.4960:

yes i stopped doing it even with 200% mf if i was on the wrong side of the setlement or if i wasnt on one of my tanky classes. its no fun getting insta downed and its impossible to run through the setlement. i was curious if they where going to notice the event has problems and fix them or just abandon it.

There are ways around the settlements that are pretty quick, but it requires a bit of jumping.

But I agree that the insta-down attacks are unfair and unbalanced.

Halcyon.7352:

Done at least three times on Tarnished Coast yesterday, although hasn’t been done in almost 24 hours now according to gw2stuff.

A three man group successfully snuck in and burned down all the karka nests from my guild, to end the event and secure Kiel as the last camp.

Doesn’t take a whole lot of people.

so if it doesnt take many people and still no one does it whats wrong with it?

That is just one of the events needed to be held, and it comes back to full force once the queen spawns. That’s why. And all the sneaking around takes more effort than simply 100b-ing through mobs elsewhere…

Halcyon.7352:

Done at least three times on Tarnished Coast yesterday, although hasn’t been done in almost 24 hours now according to gw2stuff.

A three man group successfully snuck in and burned down all the karka nests from my guild, to end the event and secure Kiel as the last camp.

Doesn’t take a whole lot of people.

and how many people were at Pride Point and Camp Karka/Captain’s Retreat?