Guild Wars 2

1. Karka are annoying. Not the babies, they are actually quite easy and with the right skills you can make them kill themselves. Veteran karka are just downright horrible. 3 layers of health? Evading roll (apparnently you can miss that giant thing when it moves 5 ft to the left), throws a tantrum and has 5 consecutive AoE knockdowns, and the double bounce, and converts conditions on basic attack (so cond builds are near useless or take way longer to kill them). Being annoying enough, they should only have 1 of each specialty along with the layers of health. Such as:
=Special attack- either the double bounce kd, the 5 aoe knockdown, or the roll =Movement- Either evade while it moves(from roll or sidestep) or knocks back when it moves (if you are in the way of the direction it is moving, your are knocked back 400 units for .5 seconds until you are out of its way.
===Basic attack- Either immobilize on basic attack or convert conditions on basic attack

They shouldn’t be given the best of both worlds, unless its a champion karka which then give it all since they should be challenging.

2. No events that are rewarding enough. This zone is great for framing nodes, get a little kill variety and done. Nothing to keep you there. The few and proud who farm karka for blood/shells are getting more scarce from what I’ve seen. Point being, they need more events here, and better rewards for them depending on how long they last. Could introduce a world event chain centered around a plot by pirates to take over the island for a hidden treasure they heard about. Or introduce a small chain event where the champion karka in the hive is spawning multiple karka and you must lead a team to enter the hive and take it out (could make the asuran lazers availible momentarily while you work your way in, make them do a considerable amount with a long cd like 1 minute). Simply put, this island has soo much room for more events and no corner should go untouched by them.

A new permanent zone was released, and it feels like its impact on pve players was so small the blurr that used to cover that area on the world map still seems visible. Please make this place worth the effort, especially since it is a lvl 80 zone.

Seen this effect in several places in the world now. Content is balanced towards several players being involved, which is not a problem when the content is new. After a while though, folks gravitate away from it, making soloing it the only option most of the time. And in this case (vet karka), soloing is just right off the table. There are champions who are easier to handle.

They need to think about the design of these encounters after the initial shine has warn off and it’s mostly individual players who will be dealing with them. As it stands now, I haven’t seen anyone even go near those vet karkas, let alone take a stab at completing events where they are involved. I tried it once. Now I avoid them completely.

Blacklight.2871:

Seen this effect in several places in the world now. Content is balanced towards several players being involved, which is not a problem when the content is new. After a while though, folks gravitate away from it, making soloing it the only option most of the time. And in this case (vet karka), soloing is just right off the table. There are champions who are easier to handle.

They need to think about the design of these encounters after the initial shine has warn off and it’s mostly individual players who will be dealing with them. As it stands now, I haven’t seen anyone even go near those vet karkas, let alone take a stab at completing events where they are involved. I tried it once. Now I avoid them completely.

It’s the only place for Passion Flowers but it would be more efficient somewhere else and let someone else deal with them.
I don’t remember any unique skins from Southsun drops either. At least in the other areas you have racially themed drops.

The vets are not worth the effort. The last two times I’ve bothered, one dropped either a junk or blue and the other dropped nothing. In the time it took to deal with it I could have killed 3 vets somewhere else or a bunch of other normal mobs.

AFAIK none of them drop any unique skins either.

Thats another point I forgot to add to karka vets. They drop trash. For being the hardest (not that they are impossible to 1v1, but they are difficult) veteran enemy type, they offer no reward. Neither do champions for that matter but still. All in all, this zone could use some polishing and for being level 80, could offer some real challenging, yet rewarding, content so it becomes a minor predecessor to Orr. I dont have to guess when I say this, many people are sick of orr. A large number of players are begging for something similar to the event style of orr but without dealing with risen. Southsun Cove could be that canidate and I’m sure it would succeed if the time/effort invested was worth it.