Guild Wars 2

I’ve just lead two not-all-80’s groups into the Ascalonian Catacombs. They were attentive. They focused fire. They learned rapidly from the first 3-6 tries on each boss. They done good. They were even good sports about getting pulped over and over in the name of learnignthe strats first hand.

They also didn’t have a prayer in Tyria of doing the graveling mound-based boss fights. The DPS expectation on those is just far, far higher than a pack of 40s and 50s can generate.

I get it these fights have been keyed so even 80s in all exotic have to pay some attention, but letting 35s in there is just setting them up to fail without a major armed escort to carry them.

Can we change the entry requirment for Explorable modes from Story + 5 to maybe Story +20 or so just to give people working their way up less of a sense of utter futility when they start probing the explorable content?

I love going in with groups that have first timers and getting knowledge out there, but some of those fights are just not reasonable for the people that are being told they’re of the requisite level.

Yeah AC ex felt ridiculous at lvl 35 and ridiculous once again at lvl 80, but for totally different reasons.