(edited by vove.2768)
Noone does Orrian temples' events
The rewards are not worth the risk, time, or even the travel costs.
I could spend X amount of time at one of the temples and get, in all likelyhood, 2 blues and one guaranteed 1 yellow. The yellow I would dismantle for a chance to get 0 to 3 ectos, or 0 to 57 silver (ecots = 19s each), plus a few silver for the blues.
Or I could farm Southsun with 300% magic find and get a guaranteed 15 t6 per hour (low estimate, usually it’s around 20) + good chance at rares/exotics (FAR FAR higher chance than in Orr) + loads of t5, greens, and a few Southsun crates. And all this with zero chance of dying.
Even dragon events are not worth doing. I was in Frostgorge the other day doing my daily (4 Shiverpeak events) and I noticed Jormag was up. Why would I waste 20 minutes to get 1 yellow when I could finish my daily instead and then head to Southsun?
You could always come join the northern shiver peaks server for the daily temple zerg. Starts around the same time that dailies reset.
Though part of the reason that no one does them now is the way they buffed the mobs in the fight. Ex: Grenth now spawns a champion wraith during an event where you have to guard an npc at the cannon if more than a certain number of people are at the event(haven’t actually tested to see how many). This champion can then use a massive aoe with a 1200 range radius around him to steal health from each person hit as well as do over 1k damage (on my tanky guardian) per tick until the champion finishes channeling.
The changes to the mobs to add in champions was fine, but the fact that champs can 1-shot you, do a massive aoe, or both at the same time has made several of the temples feel like they aren’t worth doing even if you can get a guaranteed rare.
They do get done, there are a ton of websites using the new APIs which show which servers, what state the events are in (inactive, warmup, success, fail, etc). Just use one of these, find a server doing it, and guest to it:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/community/api/List-of-apps-websites-using-the-API/first
They do get done, there are a ton of websites using the new APIs which show which servers, what state the events are in (inactive, warmup, success, fail, etc). Just use one of these, find a server doing it, and guest to it:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/community/api/List-of-apps-websites-using-the-API/first
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I’m so happy I don’t have to go back there never again, seriously Orrian areas should be reworked, but reworked to provide some level of enjoynment, not to make them easy farm mode zones like it was done with the southsun.
There’s less people doing them right now because many people are on Southsun Cove taking advantage of the instigator chests, increased magic find, and general unique rewards.
Once Last Stand at Southsun ends, I imagine Orr will become more populated again, since I assume the instigators and buffs will be gone, and the only thing that will really remain permanent will be the new meta-event.