Guild Wars 2

So here’s my take on The Crown Pavillion, and why I don’t like it.

The bosses themselves are actually quite fun, they have some new updated mechanics and are reasonably challenging. As in, you can’t just run up and auto attack with a couple dodges. So that’s good!

Now here’s the part what I don’t like.
Organisation.

Simply that. At this point of the game you have to set up an organised server. Even though the event can be done easily (silver or gold) in every server I’ve been in.
Now why is that? Because organisation sucks when you’re on your own. I can’t hop on and enjoy or organise it. There’s too many people who go achievement hunting or simply don’t listen. And even if you get to organise it, you have to explain the fights to people. I don’t mind explaining it once or twice… but you have to do it every single time you want to do it… And we all know how well people listen, so often you’ll have to explain it multiple times in a single fight. Oh, and there’s likely people who don’t even speak English now. Or there’s simply people who don’t want to put in any effort. And again, you’re stuck to trying to find and organise a server who does want to put in at least some effort… This just leaves me extremely frustrated and makes me just simply not want to do it at all.

So in short:
The events are more of an organise and explain challenge, rather than a fun fight that it could’ve been.

What I would like:

After the donation phase, you need to stand in a circle (a lá Commander Siegerazer) and once every circle is filled with 10 people (arbitrary number), it kicks off the event.
This way you’re certain every boss is being done.

Trying to split people up with rewarding mechanics is good. But the game has too many aspects to let it simply rely on that. I don’t see it working in a megaserver where there’s people who want to kill it, people who afk, people who don’t care, people who go for achievements.

Arenanet decided to simultaneously throw at us things that require an extensive amount of organization and megaservers that make organization a huge pain in the kitten because we have to deal with tons of people who DO NOT WANT to and CANNOT listen.

There is a running gag going on in TTS, which is that now, the hardest thing in the game is to find a clean map and get those who are interested in doing things properly in that map. This isn’t even a joke, it’s just true. It’s the same thing with the Boss Blitz. The hardest part aren’t the fights, it’s finding an empty map so all the people who are in our TS can get in.

I have seen very few people content with the new megaserver system.

All of this would be made so much easier if there was something as simple as a queue system for overflows and a way to pop new overflows that is easier than capping 3 different maps in the hope of being able to fill ONE with people who are listening on TS.