Southsun Cove
yeah southsun is a total joke and a waste of space as it is, something needs to be done. turning the champion karka into a world event with a chest could be a start.
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yeah southsun is a total joke and a waste of space as it is, something needs to be done. turning the champion karka into a world event with a chest could be a start.
i think the best start would be giving area completion rewards; two exos (lvl 80 area?) would be enough to entice players back
Desolation: 80 ranger [Nightwither], 80 necro [Dusk Grimsoul]
80 warr [Blaze Steelsoul], 80 ele [Blaze Nightstrike], 80 mesmer [Grim Shatterwhirl]
80 guard [Dusk Grimlight], 80 engi [Flintgear]
80 warr [Blaze Steelsoul], 80 ele [Blaze Nightstrike], 80 mesmer [Grim Shatterwhirl]
80 guard [Dusk Grimlight], 80 engi [Flintgear]
If you guys had been paying attention to the living story you would know that it definitely appears more stuff will be added to southsun cove very soon. The dialogue among the refugees in lions arch suggests that they will be moved to southsun and I don’t think it would be out of the question that they would make more content changes to the area as well.
Most wanted in game additions: Beastiary, readable books
They would not be able to add map completion rewards to Southsun until it gets a lot more things added to it. So far it only has 11 points while the other maps have about 60.
But as Goat said, they will be adding some stuff to Southsun either after the living story or in the end of it, so the area should get a bit more populated for a little while soon
I love Southson, it’s a stunning looking zone. I go there evry now and again just to enjoy it and Karka are a decent challenge to go up against. I know more will come to it, but I personally would welcome quests on the zone.
A meta event there with a boss chest would be cool too
Maybe Karka return metaevent?
Maybe Karka return metaevent?
or that champion karka up top in the hive that just about NO ONE confronts could start a zone wide event that starts rallying the morale of the karka which try to take over the island. Fail to succeed and the karka population increases and branches further out to places they normally wouldn’t spawn. Succeed however and get rewarded with a regular world event chest like the dragon lietenants offer.
In general, this map needs more events and event chains. It simply doesn’t compare to anything like orr or the Centuar regions with constant events and rewarding ones too. Pirates could try taking over the lionguard posts through trickery and disguise for an event and you gata stop their plot to control the island. Anything can happen, its got enough room and mysteries to spark any sort of event that involves greed or discovery.
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break. I feel like they should be back by now..”
break. I feel like they should be back by now..”
Judging by the current FaF arc, I wouldn’t put too much hope on it revitilising the zone. Maybe the first 3 days…
I still go there to harvest, though I might stop with that. After removing the rich Orichalcum vein the zone became truly deserted.
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Someone feel like telling me how to get there? I like a lot of people could not experience the Lost Shores event due to work/sleep schedule conflicts.
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Virtually everyone I’ve talked to hates the karka, especially the vet/champs due to 2 reasons…the rolling attack of the adult karka is undodgable/blockable (when you are in a dodge roll you are supposed to be totally invulnerable, ergo if you roll AT the rolling karka you should end up with no damage and on your feet as it rolls away from you, as is consistent with every other attack in the game) and the fact they actually have twice the HP…making fighting a vet like fighting a champ and a champ like fighting a hero (well, a hero that isn’t an ally as hero allys go down faster than a prostitute).
If this is the ‘hard’ open world content that GW1 fanatics have been clamorign for…why is it so barren here? Why do they not constantly fill it to test and challenge themselves? Oh, that’s right…they are in the dungeouns and spvp and ignorign it completely. Open world cannot have a map that essentially forces there to be large numbers upon it. You put someone by themselves on any other openw orld map and there will not be manny places they cannot go…do that around the karka and there are entire locations that if they stop and fight solo they will be slaughtered. Half the map of southsun may as well not even be there as no one ever fights there.
Anet tried and it has been proven how large a failure southsun really is. There is nothing there, no chest events, no rare/new looking equipment. The vets (which are far too anoying to fight) are spread too thickly/roam too far, people have no wish to deal with them as they get not nearly enough profit for such an unfun fight each and every vet/champ karka is. The salamander aren’t much better with the number of confusion/daze/stun skills they have.
If the map is dead, the problem is that it is not profitable enough, nor fun enough. If you expect people to do this living story there at the heart of karka-land, better re-designt he karka as people won’t hang there long. The large group for the story will be there for all of a day or two and then the map will be empty as usual if the enemies aren’t changed. That is my prediction.