Guild Wars 2

Although I’m not a champ farmer anymore, I did routinely do Boss Blitzes once a day or so when the CP was around. Was even in a guild that organized gold blitzes and offered free taxis. It was an area filled with champs, designed for people to kill champs, and allowed for tight organization for even greater rewards.

I’ve watched us, the community, go through the Blix fiasco. I’ve watched us go through the Coiled Watch fiasco. Before that, I watched the Queensdale fiascothon, and the relentless complaints about its removal. I’ve watched them all. I’ve seen all the toxicity. It’s terrible. There are 2 key components going on here with all of the above and more:

a) There are a lot of people who want to farm champs. Who just want to kill champs for loot.
b) There are a lot of people who don’t. All of the champ farms above interfered with people who were just playing the game at a normal pace and did not favor organized fails to create more opportunities to fight champs, did not care about killing a champ they happened to come across in Queensdale or Frostgorge just playing the game normally, therefore disrupting and angering people they likely had no idea even existed.

So, when the festival came back with a new-and-improved Boss Blitz, it was the ultimate champ farm. It was a place champ farmers could go just to farm champs, and they weren’t interrupting anyone’s normal play style because there was almost literally nothing else to do in there except kill champs (the gauntlet being an exception, but it was a completely separate area about 200 feet above, and shouldn’t have been located in the CP in the first place IMO).

A small, contained zone. All you did was kill champs. You got better loot for being better at coordinating and timing of killing said champs. It was a fantastic place to go to get away from it all and earn some loot for an hour or two at a time by only killing champs, the one thing it was designed entirely for.

Dear Anet, please bring back the Crown Pavilion. Please bring back the Boss Blitz. People want to farm champs, give them a zone where that’s all they do. There’s nothing that needs to be done in the form of creating a new map or event, the map and content are already there, just let people back in. Hey, I might even go out for an hour or so here and there and blitz because it was just plain fun (and profitable, too).

You have a solution to future-proof against things like Blix and Coiled Watch happening again. It’s sitting right in your lap.

Flip the switch. Turn it back on.