Guild Wars 2

Compared to the rest of the temples’ defend events, the Risen mobs taking back Temple of Lyssa is pretty weak. You have other champions taking back the temples and lethal Risen mobs that take back Temple of Balthazar, but the small amount of Risen taking back Temple of Lyssa is very disappointing.

Defending Temple of Lyssa is too easy it only takes one person to kill the incoming Risen and have no regards for the chest rewards the assault events provide. Providing a trait reward for defending Temple of Lyssa is stupid as well, and goes against the large groups that wanted the temple to be contested so they can assault it for the chest rewards.

I suggest increasing incoming Risen mobs and increase the amount of Risen morale gauge in the event UI to be inline with the difficulty of other temple defend events.

You have a point there. I remember a couple of occasions where I’ve had to remonstrate with players at the temple to let it fall so that the event chain can go forward.

What should happen with all the defend events is that after each success event resets faster and faster with increasing difficulty till eventually the risen will overrun the temple.

I think anet need to rework all the temples def event. at least , need to make the wp contest when def event starts. 2 players can protect lyssa and mel def event and no chest event will be up at the following 2 hrs.

After megaserver, normally there are only 1 cs and ml server in non peak hrs.

So, i hope that anet can increase the non-dropping vet/champ in temple def event and make the wp contested

My general issue is that since the megaserves I can’t do any of those events anymore. Only by luck I get the chance for such an event. I still wait for Grenth to appear to unlock my last trait for my ranger. My only source for this is if a guild mate is there and tells us about it. It shouldn’t work like this…

This has been a common complaint since megaserver went live, the gates of arah is another event where 1 or 2 people can cause the event to be defended, by dragging the Risen priest away from the zoned area, its been posted about and posted again, and still nothing has changed, I wouldn’t get my hopes up for a change now,

Sadly megaserver pretty much gave free reign for the trolls who want to ruin events for everyone else.

Agree

Arah chest is the best chest in GW2. But many players camp it, it is because many lootings at that def event.

whatever i say many times pls let the chest events up. The temples and arah def event still success and beg no player def them up at the following 2 hrs

Keep an eye on open world content in the lfg window. People regularly stumble on contested temples in underpopulated maps and put up a listing. That’s more for dwayna/lyssa than grenth though. I do at least one temple most days, and usually find the events in lfg.

While I agree it’s annoying, why should someone who needs the trait unlock be forced to let it fail, then wait for the assault event chain to begin? If there’s only a couple of people there as it is, it’s probably not prime time, so those later events might even fail; leaving them with nothing.

As others have said, a rework is needed.

I’m bringing this post back up because of something I’ve been seeing the past few days in Cursed Shore, that bothers me to no end and is a good example of why megaservers and temple defenses need to be looked at.

This is something that has been happening in the morning hours (about 7AM to 10AM PST, from what I’ve seen).
People will do the Arah defense event, and whenever they do there’s a small group that purposely does the Grenth defense afterwards to in retaliation. quite ridiculous. One person (who I’d like to name, but know it’s against the rules) even blatantly said, “If you do the Arah defense, we’ll do the Grenth defense” because they’re trying to teach those Arah defenders a lesson. (the Grenth defenders wanted to do the arah chain)

Now, I agree that I’d rather let Arah fail and do the chain, like these people who defend Grenth want to, but I cannot agree with then purposely doing a defense event just to spite others.
If they were people doing the defense because they don’t know the mechanics of temple events, or because they really wanted the trait, I wouldn’t be nearly as upset. That’s understandable, and I can just sit around another hour or two and wait for the chain to hopefully begin again, assuming it doesn’t get defended again (…ugh…)

This is just one of many problems I never had to deal with when I could chose which server I wanted to play on, which community I liked best to play with, and what kind of atmosphere I wanted to experience. I don’t understand why the choice has been stripped from us.
Don’t even get me started on the current state of affairs for World Bosses, or the 52 page forum (as well as a few other forums with many pages) about megaserver problems which have had no communication from ArenaNet, or have even been addressed in updates. ….though I guess that’s a discussion for another time.

I’ve tried to like megaservers for the past nine months it’s been implemented, but things like this just keep pushing me away from Guild Wars as a hole. It makes me sad, because I love the game and still remember how things were before the that fateful April 15th patch.

{In before, "It’s implemented, get over it. I love megaserver, so your point is invalid.}

Geekfox.4267:

Providing a trait reward for defending Temple of Lyssa is stupid as well, and goes against the large groups that wanted the temple to be contested so they can assault it for the chest rewards.

Trait reward was added to the defence event because players specifically asked Anet to do so. And they have asked, because a single person could have prevented anyone from getting that trait for hours.

So, having a better-rewarding defence event is a good suggestion. In general i think that defence events should be more rewarding than capture ones – players should never have any reason to want an event to fail. For the same reason, removing trait capture from defence event is a bad idea. Again, we don’t want to encourage people to fail.

For the Arah even they need to make the defense event harder, as it stands 3 people can pretty much make sure that defense event holds, they just pull the Priest out of the hit zone and the risen will never recap it, the loot for defense sucks in comparison to Attacking Arah event,

Sadly CS is a zone they don’t want people in, if people go to CS they will leave the other new zones, megaserver pretty much nailed the final nail in the coffin for CS, I have ran events in there recently and there are so many people you don’t get loot, because of this me and my friends haven’t been in CS for weeks now, the zone has taken to many nerfs from events to loot to make it worth while now.

Hopefully at some point they will rework the Orrian maps to work more like Silverwastes, so things will reset eventually anyway.

Here’s what I have observed today at Temple of Lyssa’s defend event:

A necromancer was afking by the temple merchant, leaving his minions to attack the Risen. Couple minutes of that plus the surrounding NPC allies, the Risen morale was at 50% before the afker woke up to finish the rest of the Risen.

There was only me and the afker. Neither of us were attacking, yet it takes just the necro’s minions to fend off the Risen. As you can see it just takes one afker to deny anyone from getting the trait on the defend event.

This is why Temple of Lyssa has a terrible defend event and needs to be reworked. In any other temples, if you afk, you just get overwhelm by the Risen attacks.