Guild Wars 2

This is my first post, as I’m really a big fan of about everything ANET does. The game is a blast, and I give them huge props for that, and the amount of interaction they have with the community. Hell, my 70yr old father even plays religiously, and loves it. ANET take a lot of heat and usually only folks that have negative things to say post stuff, so I’m glad they have thick skins. But, I felt compelled to post on the new content, after giving it a bit of time to soak in… After countless losses on our server, I guested for the first time on a server that has higher population than ours, just because I wanted to see what the fight was like after Teq gets below 75%. I usually play on my home world DR, and the best I’ve seen our server do was about 80% and that was within a day or two of launch. As you can imagine, our server basically gave up. Today, I had a great time fighting Teq., but it wasn’t on our server unfortunately… I guested on a server that was full, and they were well organized, sorting into different groups of zergs well before the fight. Wes till lost the two times I tried (getting Teq to almost 25%), but at least I got to see what the fight was like. I’ve seen a lot of posts where people complain about the overflows, the AFK’s etc… well, guess where a lot of the population comes from? Low pop servers like ours, where people just want to compete in the content and succeed, but don’t have the population levels and/or community on their home worlds to even come close, especially during off hours.

Before this update, I ran with a “morning crew” and we would jump from boss to boss, having a lot of fun, because we would take these bosses down with our lower numbers, but during those off times nowadays, it’s impossible to beat most bosses in DR, except during peak times. So I’m begging ANET to please allow the bosses to scale for lower numbers too… it would alleviate a lot of guesting and overflow issues on other servers as well, I’d imagine. The content is GREAT, but unfortunately not enjoyed by the lower pop servers at this time. Bosses have become a frustration, rather than a great experience. That’s just my 2 cents…

That would take some kind of…dynamic scaling system never seen before in a video game. Keep dreaming!

That makes too much sense. You need an incentive to get gems and do a server transfer.

Darkhaven is probably one of the lowest population servers. Here is a link for your motivation…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B80aE_q37eU

Are you simply a follower or a leader who can rally your server?

That’s awesome scootshoot, grats to you and your server, but I did notice that was 11:34pm still within “primetime.” You had way more folks on your screen than I’ve seen on ours… Servers need to have good followers as well as leaders. We have lots of both, but just not enough…

DH is not my server….they shared their accomplishments in a recent thread.

While I understand your pain, if Anet were to scale down this world boss due to circumstances you share, what do you think will happen? That’s right, you will get a slew of players from others servers guesting on yours for EZ mode.

Cool, we need more people… ;-) Spreading population to lower population areas, less overflows… what’s the disadvantage?

If you can’t see the issue of players guesting on servers with toned down world bosses, sorry can’t help ya there…

So instead, folks from lower population servers guesting on higher population servers is better? Causing higher population areas to increase their overflows and folks that live on that server can’t even get into their own main areas without overflow? I’m not saying there’s a perfect solution, but we see what happens the way it is now. I’m one of those folks that HAD to guest to get to even see tequatl past 75%. That’s all I’m saying… I would have loved to see it on my own server, especially during the times I can play, which is mostly off-peak hours.

This will be my last response in this topic….

If you haven’t noticed by the vibe of the Tequatl Rising forums thus far is regardless of whether or not you on a high populace server, you are doomed to fail less you pre organize a raid and most are on voip. Just having sheer numbers with no organization means nada, I should know, am on a high populace server and most of our random raids (although we have the numbers) have fail miserably vs this world boss but again it’s expected given the fact I and many others have not been fortunate enough to latch onto a pre organized raid party yet.

Read the thread of servers/raids that have accomplished this achievement and you will find the only similarity they share is the raids are pre-organized, everyone has a set role, proper buffs, traits, etc. and are all on VOIP. Just joining a random without this list of requirements will end up in fail regardless of the numbers that are participating.

Have a nice day and good luck…

scootshoot.6583:

If you can’t see the issue of players guesting on servers with toned down world bosses, sorry can’t help ya there…

Surely if the boss is scaled, and more people arrive, then the boss would increase in difficulty, thus removing any advantage to guesting like that? I assume the devs wouldn’t put a scaled boss on one server and not on the others.

Alternately, maybe it’s time to give us an overflow list for the player’s current zone, like in GW1.

scootshoot.6583:

If you can’t see the issue of players guesting on servers with toned down world bosses, sorry can’t help ya there…

Wow dynamic scaling, once heralded as a revolutionary system by ANet, has seen so little use that this player doesn’t know what it is.

scootshoot.6583:

Darkhaven is probably one of the lowest population servers. Here is a link for your motivation…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B80aE_q37eU

Are you simply a follower or a leader who can rally your server?

Darkhaven is 15th/16th in terms of population (roughly). There are servers in significantly worse shape than Darkhaven. After rallying people on ET we had about 50 people lol