Guild Wars 2

Since all this Living Story content has been happening, I have observed an issue with PvE play; too many areas are human free. For example, in Orr it seems like Cathedral’s are ALWAYS contested, no one can get anywhere inside them due to stifling mob presence, and key map completion issues like the skill point at the Cathedral of Eternal Glory(Balthasar) are virtually un-cappable outside; maybe near-perma stealth to pull it off which maybe thief and possibly Mesmer can pull off. Some simply can’t be done without the area being cleared first by a zerg. Since these don’t seem to exist on most servers anymore, how about a chance for some players to get in there and get their temple caps/armor by setting up a commando run that randomly triggers after say 24 hours to allow at least once a day where each temple can be briefly “clear” in the form of a powerful Pact unit sweeping through and claiming the Cathedral/Temple for those poor souls who wouldn’t mind map completion/other things from temple’s without the agony of wondering which month it might actually see a group clear it? Any thoughts? Before anyone mentions guesting: no. We can’t just jump across all the servers on the off-chance its open on one. Not realistic.

I’ve heard many people use one of the Apps that indicate when and where Temples are clear. You might try that. Good luck. =)

The problems with the temples are a bit deeper than just a lack of people.

Dwayna and Melandru bug out constantly.
Lyssa and Balthazar can take 45-60 minutes depending on how high they scale up.
Grenth can fail because of one inexperienced player.

Indeed search gw2 – there are sites that show open, closed, attacking, and defending temples. Guest to the server that has the temple you need open ….

Liston.9708:

Indeed search gw2 – there are sites that show open, closed, attacking, and defending temples. Guest to the server that has the temple you need open ….

Balthazar is never open.

I just spent crap ton of karma for shards at one point last week – so it is at times. It may also depend when you play though…. I play NA prime time……

http://www.gw2state.com/temples.html

I’ve found the best time for temples is right after daily reset when guilds run the temples for the daily chests. That or join a guild that does temple runs.

Don’t forget that you can guest to other servers as well

Just run thief/engi/mesmer or ask an guldie with 1 of these classes to run to vista and stealth you there.

Possible solutions:
Solution 1: An Underflow Server.
Solution 2: Link or merge low population servers.

Pariah.8506:

Liston.9708:

Indeed search gw2 – there are sites that show open, closed, attacking, and defending temples. Guest to the server that has the temple you need open ….

Balthazar is never open.

Just because it’s not open right when you want it to be open doesn’t mean “is never open”.

@OP, just keep an eye on other servers (or even your own), other than Balthazar every temple is done regularly in several servers, even low pop ones, you could also do them with a party, you don’t need a zerg (except for Balthazar).

CoF is in a similar state even though it’s fairly easy to open. I’ve tried a couple runs recently when Dungeon Completer comes up in the daily and all the LFG groups now include the term “need an opener”.

I tried to use map chat to get the gate opened and there was only one other person on that map, at prime time on a Saturday night.

This is the reason why people are thinking this game is dying. It’s pretty sad really.