Guild Wars 2

Lets make a structured post , contaiting “some” problems players from the leading servers are going through.
Desolation player here, been running arond since the very first start on Deso , both pve , wvw and alot of structured.
It aways kitten s my mind how some decisions contradict each other as in world action withtin the game.
Overflow on paper was a good idea , keep zones saturated , but not clusterkitteny, while giving the chanse to the people on overflows to have fun and interact with each other.
ON PAPER, then reality hits you in the face. World bosses who drop loot , precursors , achives , whatever they are considered importat parts of the gameplay ,are allso events , wich happen of a cooldown and trigger ,EVEN on overflows.
For what ever reason, there are still no raid-like-multy-party dungeons in the game , where you can actually have a scedule about. It’s not my job to question why is the monthly content has been extremely open world oriented.
Allmost a perma overflow for the boss zones on Deso , the events are cool and hard, thus making them UNPLAYABLE on Overflow, THUS making it impossible to do them with your own server. For a game that states that you can play with little free time weekly , you rly pulled the rug underneath everyone this time. Outside the bosses those zones are absolutely dull , i have several maxedout toons most of wich in the 100-90% world completion, and i have no initiative to camp for hours so i can stay outside the overflow.
Either stop making world bosses in zones with small people capacity, or make the world bosses scalable and playable on the overflow, or make multypartyraids , where u can actually go on demand.

FYI overflows aren’t the problem. It’s really getting annoying, the people who say they do more harm than good. The deal isn’t: “overflows instead of crowding everyone into main” it’s “overflows instead of waiting in a queue” So your option is to do the event in overflow, with a chance at success (it can be done believe it or not), or stare at a queue and do nothing. If you don’t feel like this is actually an option since the game just puts you in an overflow anyway, you can simulate it by going and standing in a safe corner of the map and stare at your screen while doing nothing.

once i though the world events were insane hard to do, since there was 50 players killing the caledon worm and 100 players killing jormag’s claw the first time i saw those enemies.

Some months later i had the chance to kill the caledon worm with only 5 players. We were literally 5 of us killing it, and 2 of us were hunting down the husks to remove the heal factor from the fight. We won, the timer was almost on 0 but we won. That same month, i went to jormag in a time when nobody else was interested. We were 15 players there and they didn’t wanted to try because it was “of course” impossible. We tried, i told them that it’ll be great if we could at least do 50% damage as someone needed the achievement. Then, eventually, we noticed that we had 12 minutes left when we had 50% done. At that moment we decided that we would gonna kill it. We focused into the fight, we had a hard time protecting golems, the enemies were hitting hard, champions around… but you know what? at the 0:20 seconds timer… Jormag’s Claw died… against only 15 players.

The overflows can suceed some content, the problem is the people not willing to try because they can’t faceroll some content. The smasherbuttons that ignore mechanics (such as the healing enemies in caledon worm). Some fights might be hard, Tequatl and even the marionette requires a lot of people, however it can be done in an overflow, as long as there is people interested, willing to give the enemies a hard time and push theirselves to the limit.

Yup – most world bosses can be done with a smaller team with skilled players.
The difference is you have to learn the mechanics quickly if you only have a few players.

Have seen shatterer killed with 12 people !!
It’s a lot tougher (you don’t DPS on the foot like a Zerg does) and have to do something very different. The fight is much more fun (for sure). People can understand how the mechanics of this boss could be buffed to make it more interesting when a Zerg arrives.

Right now when a world boss is Zerged (>60+) it’s a button smash effort with very little skill involved (excluding Teq, 3-headed Wurm, marionette).

Looking forward to seeing how existing world bosses will get buffed so they can still be done by smaller groups whilst providing a difficult challenge for larger Zerg based groups.

Yes the overflows are a problem. They are a purely technical limitation that is ruining game play for some players and continually eating into the play time of others. Players and guilds have to invest a lot of time and effort to work around these problems. If that technical limitation cannot be solved then content should be designed in a way that avoids the issues and delivers enjoyable gaming to everyone.

Being able to do 15man claw , or a 5 man champion, wich some classes you can do a 1man chapion with no effort, this doesn’t change nothing. It only shows that jormag is a boss with good mechanics. It’s absolutely normal for a small but progressive party do achive more than a big blob of random people, the thing is every time you are on the overflow u get paired with different people ,different playstyles, different goals. I doubt the worm and marionette bosses will fall on some servers ever , let alone the overflow.
Absolutely impossible to get in for the after 9pm boss runs, and when u finally get out of the overflow , most oriented people call it a day and logg off.

Sometimes Amber wurm won’t eat you unless you have 20 peoples with abomination buff, the 2 minute phase 2 is insanely hard also.
Overflow should be buffed a bit in size when an organized group of people want to do a boss or something, not much, but still a bit would be nice.