Guild Wars 2

As it is, it feels very empty and unfinished. There are almost no events or waypoints and absolutely no renown hearts, points of interest, or vistas in Southsun Cove. There is also very little enemy variety, with the vast majority being karka. Furthermore, the karka are too over-powered…I find it really hard to survive there on my own, because I’m lucky if I survive a battle with two karka at once and heaven forbid I encounter a veteran karka (even if it’s all alone; death is assured if I do). Almost nobody goes there, unless they need karka shells or passion fruit/flowers and not many people try for karka shells cause they’re so hard to get (mostly because the karka are so tough).

Either destroy it, improve it, or redo it. Maybe a catastrophic in-game event could reshape the island into a new area. Or maybe an in-game event where the Lionguard establish a more pronounced presence there (maybe a base or outpost to hold back the risen and/or the underwater dragon and its minions).

Also, having passion fruit/flowers in more areas (rather than just Southsun Cove) would be nice. I could easily see it being harvested in Southsun Cove and shipped to other areas as a commodity. Then it might take root in the soil of similar climates when people throw away the seeds and rinds and the pollen of the passion flowers could be carried there on the wind (like to Orr or the Maguuma Jungle) or on the clothes of the sailors transporting them. Yes, even Orr might get a commodity like passion fruit (it is from an island nearby and there are pact soldiers there that need to eat; especially at Fort Trinity).

As for karka shells, they aren’t used for much right now, but I don’t know how people would feel about them no longer being available, but can’t karka swim? (they came out of the water at Lion’s Arch when they attacked during the Lost Shores event) Maybe they could be moved to the surrounding waters as well.

A-net never improves on stuff, they just stack new stuff and hope you’ll ignore the old, decaying remains of what used to be part of the game.

Improve it, definately. Hell no to removing it.

When it was first introduced they said they were going to add stuff to it, flesh it out more. I haven’t been back there since the intro weekend event (haven’t yet hit 80 on any of my characters, though they’re all around 70-75 now so it won’t be long) but it sounds like they haven’t done anything much with it yet. They should do as they said they were going to.

Also, I’ve read a few threads about the insane rarity of Passiflowers. That should be fixed as well.

I don’t see the point of removing it, I’m sure some people enjoy having another alternative to orr but I’m all for adding more stuff.

Guildmissions !

I like the look of the zone. It just needs more Islands, events, types of enemies, waypoints, one or two towns, hot spring recreation area free of enemies, more kinds of drops. paths with less enemies. NPC’s.

I am only online 2-3 times per week. And each time I make the futile run thru Southsun to try and harvest for Passion Flowers. The last one dropped about three weeks ago. What gives?

Nels the Cornwhisperer.8025:

A-net never improves on stuff, they just stack new stuff and hope you’ll ignore the old, decaying remains of what used to be part of the game.

I don’t think you’ve been around too long…

Anyways, yeah, Southsun could use some more content.

Nels the Cornwhisperer.8025:

A-net never improves on stuff, they just stack new stuff and hope you’ll ignore the old, decaying remains of what used to be part of the game.

Very biased opinion, they are actually gana be using SSC for part of the new guild missions so, no they actually do work on the old, and add the new.

I. Hate. Crabs. Southsun is a very beautiful place, yes, but it’s also a godawful place to be. The only reason people went there before was because of the ori node. With its removal, it’s now a wasteland.