Guild Wars 2

I would like this thread to be a nice way for community and Anet to discuss over the schedule for WB.
Now I know that the schedule you have given us in blog post is not set in stone and that it can be changed, and in matter of fact it should be changed for number of reasons.
People with limited amount of time are not going to experience most of the WB because of the schedule. This is limiting the freedom of player and I know that is the last thing you wished for when you designed this system.
I think I read somewhere in other thread what Konig Des Todes said/asked.

Why aren’t some WB overlapping?

Now that we’re going to have megaservers there is no reason to concentrate big amount of people in one map. This is really odd to say at least. We should split the “zerg” sort of speak
Solution is quite obvious, decrease the spawn rate for WB all of them including Teq/Wurm.
I would even go to say, it’s better to have 3-4 WB active at the same time, because of the MegaServer we dont have to worry about spliting the community, because there will always be enough players to do them. This will also help players with limited time to choose which WB they would like to fight.

Now few rules I would like to set for this thread, since I think that schedule is the biggest issue with this new system:

• Please do not post negative comments just so you can vent your disatisfaction/anger about this changes!
• Try to provide solution that is meaningful to this new MegaServer system!

My personal opinion, this patch is full of good stuff, only negative side that I can see is this schedule.

It’s subject to change.

I will assume it’s based on the ebb and flow of players throughout the day around the world. Sort of sucks if you play during off peak hours.

Hell on a biscuit – another ‘blah blah megaserver’ topic!
I understand that everyone wants to have their say…but could you have seriously not posted this in the feedback/questions thread that’s currently running?
All we’ve seen over the past few days are ‘megaserver this’, ‘megaserver that’ & ‘megaserver ate my homework’ threads – i wouldn’t mind so much…but it hasn’t even dropped yet!
/sheesh!

In before thread merge.

I think the tricky part of re-organizing the schedule to have overlapping bosses would be trying to avoid dominant strategy.

For example, if Jormag and Shatterer were up at the same time, everyone would just go to Shatterer because it’s “easier.”

It might work alright to have the low-level bosses overlap, as they are all basically AA/AFK-fests, but they already spawn enough in the current draft of the schedule. Even so, a dominant strategy would likely form anyway. (I can see Fire Elemental being left out in favor of any of the other low level events, due to the need to actually move around just a bit.)

I suppose if all the bosses rotated fast enough that they were all up within 3-4 hours, overlapping events might be attended by people who already fought one of the bosses in that time slot that day.

ZDBioHazard.8246:

I suppose if all the bosses rotated fast enough that they were all up within 3-4 hours, overlapping events might be attended by people who already fought one of the bosses in that time slot that day.

this….they absolutely will be.
having multiple bosses up at the same time is the only way people will have a chance to do every/most of the world boss events in a reasonable time-frame (4 hours).

the current projected schedule is unreasonably spread out

Vitus Dance.4509:

Hell on a biscuit – another ‘blah blah megaserver’ topic!
I understand that everyone wants to have their say…but could you have seriously not posted this in the feedback/questions thread that’s currently running?
All we’ve seen over the past few days are ‘megaserver this’, ‘megaserver that’ & ‘megaserver ate my homework’ threads – i wouldn’t mind so much…but it hasn’t even dropped yet!
/sheesh!

You missunderstood my topic. This thread focuses only on one thing and that is the schedule for WB, not about what megaservers are, how are they going to work, how will guild work, etc… I would love to post in one of those treads, but most of them have been derailed and have become a thread, share you feelings.
That is not what I want from this thread. Communication is the key here, and isn’t it easier to have one topic dedicated to only one thing, then to have topic where everyone is talking about 5 different things. MegaServer is such a huge topic that itdeserves to be examined right down the last detail, becuase this is the biggest change that is going to happen to the game.