Guild Wars 2

a little while ago, JP stated that the team was “looking into” 1) DE bugs, 2) DE scaling, and 3) world bosses.

is there anything on the drawing board? DE’s are the heart and soul of GW2. Currently, most don’t scale to large groups, many don’t even scale well to small groups, and quite a few remain bugged. and world bosses resemble loot pinatas =(

i feel like there needs to be a once-over for all the DE’s in the game. im reporting bugs for as many as i can find, but i cant really report all the ones that dont scale because that’s most of them.

the foundation of DE’s is amazing. i still get excited to see orange circles on the map. unfortunately i get burned more often than not, leaving a DE disappointed. im not saying they all need to be epic, but they should be somewhat challenging to break the monotony of heart quests.

It’s a new system. You have to understand that a DE system is not easy to make. They have to start randomly, they have to scale, a lot of them are different, some require you to defend, some to attack, some to collect, some to escort. Then you have random stuff happening in the middle of events. Win states, fail states. There’s a lot of things that can go wrong (and is, as you can see in game). Scaling is the hardest imo. You have to consider a lot of things: number of other people, their levels, skills, other mobs that are in the area that are not a part of the DE but can still join the fight, etc.

Now compare it to a classic system.
You accept a quest.
Now it’s basicly just a counter: you kill an enemy:
Is the enemy on the checklist? Yes: killCount++;
killCount == killRequirement? Yes: endQuest;

Nothing much can go wrong.

Just give it some time.

I created a suggestion on this, if you’d like ta stop by and perhaps offer your support/critiques

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/Combat-Dynamic-Events-what-s-the-point-if-they-re-easy-mode/first#post243027