Guild Wars 2

Portable Corpse is alive(?!) and kicking, and aiming to crawl some temples.

Server: Anvil Rock (NA)

When: Aiming for 12:30 PM Sever time Today (Sat), but time may be juggled some depending on local server event timing.

Where: Any and all temples, including: Grenth (A touch tricky), Balthazar (Tricky-Squared, but the locals may cut down on this), and the Karka Queen (Not a temple, but Mostly Easy & worth it)

What to bring: A character with access to all parts of Orr, level 78 or better, with decent gear (gold or better of appropriate level). Empty Bags & Salvage Kits- There will be drops, and merchants are at times sparse. Access to AoE Damage and AoE heals is key. Blast finishers a plus.

If it becomes necessary, we’ll make up to 3 pushes at Balthazar. The nature of the event currently makes it difficult to guarantee a first-time success at Balthazar. I figure 3 pushes gives us roughly 50/50 odds of opening it. A larger zerg can both help and hinder this.

Temples by and large are not hard to open. Even Grenth can be opened with fewer than 20 players, and Balthazar…. 15 players could probably manage it as the event is today, but they’d be quite dependent on luck. If you’ve never opened a temple before, you may need to learn how to do it, but you won’t learn to open Balthazar by chasing Modnir bosses and fire eles. Even if you fail, there are still gobs of drops and opportunities to learn.

//Portable Corpses
The best things in life are those you seize hold of with your own two hands.

We used to call assassins in GW1 Portable Corpses, hahaha. Great name for a group. But seriously, we need more of these initiatives. This is a great idea.

Hey, I was just following PC in a temple run yesterday. I’d love to do another one with you. Thanks so much for organizing this.

Mad Queen Malafide.7512:

… But seriously, we need more of these initiatives. This is a great idea.

@Mad Queen: You’ve hit it on the nose. Temples by and large are easy (ok, Balth might currently be an exception) but not all servers are doing them. It doesn’t take hypermassive zergs. A meager group of 20 players can take any temple (with a healthy bit of skill and luck at Balth, to be sure), and in fact 10 players can get you most of the temples. There’s no reason for players to have to flock to server X or server Y to do temples. Players LIKE doing them, I suspect they just need for a figure-head out front to lead the way at the start, to show the farmers on the server that the events are easy, giving gobs of xp and loot. The bigger the zerg, the more the drops, but to get your dragonite ore you only need a meager handful of players. Heck, most of my Balth efforts start with only 2-3 players. It’s great when a guild helps out yes, but you can kick off the main Balth escort with less than a full party. Even Melandru needs only about 10 players to finish, and I’m not sure how I’d test it (always scales up big at the end) but I’d wager Grenth can also finish on fewer than 10 players. Players shouldn’t need anyone to come along and show them how its done, but eh, sometimes it takes introducing them to the content.

//Portable Corpse

(For the record, the top screenshot is from a guild zerg that ran over my smaller zerg at Lyssa – hence all the commander pins – not all my work, but that’s kind of the point. You players take the temples. I’m just giving you guys a focus and come along for the ride).

Oooh — intel from the server I’m aiming at….
Assuming adequate local support (2 organized 4-man teams), I put odds near 9:1 for opening the Balth Temple in 3 pushes, which is about what I give my home server.

Time for me to start baking some feasts/trays for this…

//Portable Corpse
Note to self, get a replacement mouse before doing this, I’ll want my push-to-talk button back.

Oh, please share the TS (or other voip) info with me. I’d love to be able to chat with everyone.

Also I’d like to help if I can do anything.

Is this for NA or EU?

NA, sorry, supse I should mention that earlier.

Avatar of Belle.9623:

Oh, please share the TS (or other voip) info with me. I’d love to be able to chat with everyone.

Also I’d like to help if I can do anything.

Ah, voice comms — the assumption I’m working from is that the server has their own. If not, I may bring some folks onto my guild’s server, but that sets a tone for the event I don’t like — This is a thing everyone does as a group. I mainly provide initiative. If it’s a community server, the view presented is it’s more a community event.

//Portable Corpse
(Yay, I has a new mouse. It appears to work, but I’ve not tried all the buttons yet — You’d be astonished what a decent trackball costs these days.)

So, aiming for about 12:30 server time on Sat. Server will be announced at go time, watch GW2LFG for a current status.
//Portable Corpse

Server: Anvil Rock. Starting at Lyssa. Updates to GW2LFG as I can manage.

Ty all for coming – We got 4 of the 5 temples open. Were able to summon the karka queen, but our zerg was perhaps 10 players short of what we needed for a kill :/

2 of the 3 pushes at Balth got close. I expect that Anvil Rock could do temples regularly, if someone there made a point of trying them each weekend, win, lose or draw. Doesn’t even need a commander pin for it, just a tenacity of not quitting when things get hard. Balthazar temple defines hard.

Crawling tonight at Kaening.