Guild Wars 2

Honestly…a guy in chat summed it up pretty well a few minutes ago…..“all alone…….big spider”. I see maybe 3-4 people in the tower on my server, and when was this content released? A few days ago….and people are already sick of it. Being a solo player here means death, and since there are few people to group with you’re basically screwed.

Reason theres so few people? Because theres no point being in the tower, event farm is better elsewhere, champion farm is better elsewhere. Unless that kitten chest has a 10times drop rate for pre-cursors i dont see anyone even setting foot inside the tower within a week. And theres no way in hell the tower is going to be destroyed by then, not on my server at least.

Suggestions: None really….this content is just poorly designed. Reducing difficulty would bring solo players into it, but would also lead to massive zerg-fests. Which already happen anyways but only happen rarely.

And no my server is not low pop or wvw oriented server. Its high population and most of the players are pve. Meaning theres people in the game, they just hate this content.

Not sure what server you are on but I am on Crystal Desert and when I went in last night, late at night even, I was able to find a pretty large number of people in there (it just didn’t appear that way at first). I think the reason it seems so empty to many is that the tower is fairly big and people are very spread out. Talking in map chat to form a starting party we were mostly able to get together and get everyone to the top picking up numbers as we went. Most even said they had a lot of fun doing it.

It is your choice to solo but I may advise to use map chat and form a group, you may have more fun not soloing it than you expect. 5+ players to start is nice. Clear as much as you can going up, and here is the important part… stop at dead players and fight off everything around. After you clear as much as you can pick up the dead solo players on the way with that group. Do not pass over them! Your group will grow as it progresses as many will stick with you. We did it that way and by the time we were going through the third level we were an unstoppable force.

Blackout.5384:

Honestly…a guy in chat summed it up pretty well a few minutes ago…..“all alone…….big spider”. I see maybe 3-4 people in the tower on my server, and when was this content released? A few days ago….and people are already sick of it. Being a solo player here means death, and since there are few people to group with you’re basically screwed.

Reason theres so few people? Because theres no point being in the tower, event farm is better elsewhere, champion farm is better elsewhere. Unless that kitten chest has a 10times drop rate for pre-cursors i dont see anyone even setting foot inside the tower within a week. And theres no way in hell the tower is going to be destroyed by then, not on my server at least.

Suggestions: None really….this content is just poorly designed. Reducing difficulty would bring solo players into it, but would also lead to massive zerg-fests. Which already happen anyways but only happen rarely.

And no my server is not low pop or wvw oriented server. Its high population and most of the players are pve. Meaning theres people in the game, they just hate this content.

What server? Because TC is not only swarming with people, but so are the overflows. Even really late into the night (3AM EST sometimes). The only boss that cannot be soloed by most players is the queen spider, and even the queen can be soloed. Just because you don’t like a particular content doesn’t mean it is poorly designed. I hated the Super Adventure Box, but I’d never call it poorly designed. In contrast, this is one of my favorite releases so far, and it’s one of two that I’ve actually returned to multiple times to complete. Why? It’s group content that I can solo. It brings back running into the game that has basically been lost since GW1. It has multiple dungeons that change every time you do them. It has secrets all over the god kitten place.

If the only reason you play this game is to get a reward, you’re just torturing yourself. The point of new living story releases isn’t to give you new ways to farm every two weeks. It’s to continue the story and spice up the content for the sake of fun.

But by all means, go have fun doing the same dungeon over and over again.

I found it really enjoyable. Try guesting to TC, it’s normally full if you’re incapable of soloing.

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Blackout.5384:

Honestly…a guy in chat summed it up pretty well a few minutes ago…..“all alone…….big spider”. I see maybe 3-4 people in the tower on my server, and when was this content released? A few days ago….and people are already sick of it. Being a solo player here means death, and since there are few people to group with you’re basically screwed.

Reason theres so few people? Because theres no point being in the tower, event farm is better elsewhere, champion farm is better elsewhere. Unless that kitten chest has a 10times drop rate for pre-cursors i dont see anyone even setting foot inside the tower within a week. And theres no way in hell the tower is going to be destroyed by then, not on my server at least.

Suggestions: None really….this content is just poorly designed. Reducing difficulty would bring solo players into it, but would also lead to massive zerg-fests. Which already happen anyways but only happen rarely.

And no my server is not low pop or wvw oriented server. Its high population and most of the players are pve. Meaning theres people in the game, they just hate this content.

What server? Because TC is not only swarming with people, but so are the overflows. Even really late into the night (3AM EST sometimes). The only boss that cannot be soloed by most players is the queen spider, and even the queen can be soloed. Just because you don’t like a particular content doesn’t mean it is poorly designed. I hated the Super Adventure Box, but I’d never call it poorly designed. In contrast, this is one of my favorite releases so far, and it’s one of two that I’ve actually returned to multiple times to complete. Why? It’s group content that I can solo. It brings back running into the game that has basically been lost since GW1. It has multiple dungeons that change every time you do them. It has secrets all over the god kitten place.

If the only reason you play this game is to get a reward, you’re just torturing yourself. The point of new living story releases isn’t to give you new ways to farm every two weeks. It’s to continue the story and spice up the content for the sake of fun.

But by all means, go have fun doing the same dungeon over and over again.

Im on isle right now and its terrible, most i see normally is 2-3 people, and the most ive seen is about 8 and that was during peak time. I dont know about you but i definitely dont consider that to be “swarming”. As to the different mini dungeons ive been through 12 and havnt noticed a difference, run in, free the prisoners, get loot. If there are different ones then i must be really unlucky.

I play this game to have fun, nowhere in my post do i complain about rewards so im not sure where youre getting your bullkitten logic. This content is not fun, dieing 13 times trying to get to the top because theres only 4 other people in the tower is not fun. Getting 2 shot on a guardian who has almost 2k toughness by a vet mob is not fun. If thats what you find “fun” then all the power to you, happy dieing i guess.

And i can solo this content, i wasnt complaining about not being able to. I solo the hybrid boss daily, but i know ALOT of players who can not. If theyre going to cater gameplay to hard core types then say it in the update so the people who want to log on casually for an hour a day can find a different game to play that week.

Well, the content is at least named well. That tower is a kitten nightmare. I’ve made it to the top once, only to discover that the mail with the keys for whatever reason wasn’t cross-character. So I never even opened the chest, and I’m nowhere near the meta. I’m actually feeling so discouraged I don’t even want to log in anymore. I really wanted the gas mask, too.

Its like all their events anymore are just awful.

I made it through this stupid maze once, but since I made another key I tried to go back up again. Its not fun in the slightest. Its a huge waste of time, and the reward for it all is incredibly lame.

Its not fun to have to restart a maze that takes forever to do as it is, just because you died in an overly aggressive zone.

This event reminds me of the days of Everquest 1, where you had to literally wait half an hour for a boat ride that took another 20 minutes. Or an hour long corpse run.

It isn’t worth the time or effort in this case.

Got exactly 0 of any of the new content items for opening the chest at least once every day.

Sure love everything being gated by RNG. AGAIN.

I find this content to be completely frustrating. I am generally a solo player. I also have time constraints as to how much and when I can play so because of this a lot of the time there is nobody I know on when I am. The reason I liked this game was that I could log on and play for half an hour to an hour and get my fix while doing the daily achievements and maybe knocking out one or two living world achievements.

With that said I hate hate hate HATE this content. I spent the better part of 4 hours getting to the top of the tower a few days ago and it cost me several gold between repair fees and paying to get back to the level I died on. Nobody stops to rez, and they just run by even if you’re in their zerg, all they care about is getting to the top without dying(and who can blame them since 90% of the time whenever I stopped to try to rez someone I died as well).

After a few days I thought I’d try to go back and see if it was any better(and to do the daily for completing events). I couldn’t even get past the entrance on the first level since for some reason there was an elite two shotting me each time I went in. Tried paying to go to the 2nd level and there wasn’t anyone playing there. Payed to get to the 3rd level and it was the same as before, just die repeatedly as people just run past and not help or rez you hoping that you get aggro from the mobs they have in tow.

This content is horrible, not well thought out at all. It’s not fun for many and I wont even get the meta completed(first time so far). I liked this game because it scratched my MMO itch without making me be hardcore. I liked it because I didn’t have to scour forums for builds and keep up with gear progression like other MMOs. I could log on and have fun and not be frustrated by ridiculously hard content.

I don’t expect to be able to complete fractals or dungeons without practice and patience(which is why I don’t bother with them). But living story I expect to not spend more time dead or banging my head against a wall frustrated as hell just to see the kitten content. If this is the direction living story is going with frustratingly and unnecessarily unbalanced content then I may have to look elsewhere to spend my limited gaming time.