Guild Wars 2

I was soloing with my Ranger (Shortbow and Axe/Warhorn) in Harathi Hinterlands when I wandered into War King’s Great Camp. I saw the Skill Challenge on the map and made my way up to it. Getting there was not an issue, but soon after I started the challenge I was knocked off the platform, back to the start of the area… and everything I had killed down here had respawned. I retreated to relative safety, and began to make my way back again. This time, I started attacking the challenge creature when suddenly six or seven Centaurs spawned on the platform, mid-challenge. Now, this is a pretty small area, so there was nowhere to kite. Between the challenge creature and all these Centaurs, I was tossed about like a ragdoll until I died.

I have not before had a Skill Challenge I could not solo. The ability of the creature to knock you off the platform, and therefore have to restart the entire area, is just plain annoying, but I have no idea why all those Centaurs should suddenly spawn (they had not been there before I started the challenge, so they did not seem to be standard spawns). That just seems massively over-the-top!