Guild Wars 2

Dear Anet

It’s been mighty hard to get into Arah recently. The whole event system is fun and dynamic, but this also means that we are often left locked out of Arah. When the event bugs out (which happens often) – we cannot open the door, not until a server restart happens. Today I tried to form party with a couple of guys from another server. When we tried to walk in through them – we got the ‘Network error’ message after pressing ‘enter’.

I’ve been having great trouble getting into Arah ever since the Fractals dungeon was introduced. I understand that the attention of players has been drawn elsewhere, but I still manage to find enough people for a party, which makes no difference whatsoever. There are so many obstructions – why don’t you change it a little bit so that players have more freedom when it comes to deciding when and which dungeon to do? I don’t find any of the issues I’m having fun or entertaining, so what’s the point of all this?

totally agree, being able to enter arah is harder than the actual instance.
why not just let it open, or at least fix the kitten bug that has been in since release.

the thing is nobody cares right now… fractals fractals fractals.
nor devs either, totally neglected arah.

Well, we should say the same about CoE. Do you want a removal of the coe DE with boss too? Or Cof? Do i have to continue? Like you said, fractals fractals fractals

I agree, I wanted to get the Arah armor on my warrior, and finding a group seemed hard before fractals, because of the bugs, i also did CoF a couple times a night because i was getting the armor for another character, plus it was an easy way to get gold… now the only thing people want to do, is fractals. dont get me wrong, fractals are fun, but it shouldnt have made it my only option for dungeons…

CoE and CoF are WAY more annoying to open, as there are no people doing those events besides the ones who are up for doing that dungeon at that time. There are ALWAYS people farming Arah events. So you should be happy, you’ll get nice drops from the events, possible precursor from the chest and then enter the dungeon and get your tokens.
Bugs are always the problem, but they will be fixed eventually.

Considering the dungeon affected by main bugs making them not possible to be completed (coe path 1 for example) are the same needing the event, why bother

CoE Path 1 is bugged, but it’s not impossible. you just need a stubborn enough group.
and for these dungeons, i understand ANet wants us to work hard, and that’s fine and i actually appreciate that.

i haven’t done Arah yet, but i plan to. i also want CoE dungeons. i do CoF with my friend who needs them. and that’s fine. if i won’t have a good amount of time to set aside for these events and the dungeons themselves, i’ll go do any of the other dungeons.

BUT, having these bugs stop progress is pretty bad. i enjoy the fractals, but at this point, still rather work on the original dungeons. the one-time event was pretty fun too along with the new area and new rewards, etc.. but there are glaringly huge problems in other parts of the game, so ANet, hope you guys and the responsible teams are looking into this.

The only dungeon I haven’t done story mode so far is Arah, the other day me and a few of my friends tried doing the events to unlock it. First try was a bust cuz we didn’t even reach double digits, the second time around we had more like people, numbering an average of 20 maybe but we still failed. The dynamic events required to open the dungeon is fine with me and it does present a nice challenge, but why not scale the content more according to the number of people actually doing it. I’m not saying that it should be scaled that one person can solo it, but maybe enough that even one party can achieve it. Of course if only one party did the events to open Arah it should be a bit tricky but not impossible. Not everyone is a fan of every dungeon, I myself have no plans for Arah aside from the story and doing the different paths for my achievements, but let’s not make it impossible for the [currently] few people who actually want to do those dungeons.

A radical, yet clever change needs to happen. As particular areas become more desolate in terms of player population – these events become less dependable, often leaving a dungeon closed for long periods of time. This affects all of the Karma vendors – how often have you seen temple of Lyssa or Balthazar up? While overcoming these obstructions can be a lot of fun, having them stop you from entering a dungeon is not. These events should aid the flow of things, not hinder it.

I believe it would be much better to have a constantly secured entrance to explorable version of the dungeons, and have the story mode entrance require a dynamic event to open. This way players who don’t want to waste time can just do what they really want to do. Have the events as an option for XP mode and a requirement for story mode.

Or just fix these broken events so that the entrance is not closed most of the time…

I think we need better scaling for the events need to be better or at least doable by a party of 5.

add Baltazar temple to this and probably a number of other extremely difficult content or vendors to access.

ANet are full of bright people and they know this needs changing. The question is which side of Xmas will they change it