Guild Wars 2

Tonight we were doing our weekly guild missions and kicked off the Guild Rush and got Crab Scuttle in Southsun Shores.

Half the challenge was getting everyone onto the same overflow server. What we ended up doing was having our Guild Leader party with the commanders in the guild, then the commanders would repeatedly try to “Join in Southsun” onto our Guild Leader’s location.

After they were in they would drop party and invite other members into a new party and those members would do the “Join in Southsun” until they got in.

We did this over and over until we finally got all 65 of us on the same overflow server. It was rather frustrating as it took many attempts – it took about 15 minutes altogether to get us in. We also tried relogging without dropping party to see if we could get in.

Anyhow, we finally made it and even with all the extra mobs for the Southsun event we successfully completed the challenge with only one person not able to complete it.

Just wondering if you fine folk at ArenaNet have anything in the way of a more elegant solution for Guilds trying to get their missions done on overflow servers. We really like the missions, it’s great fun for our guild – keep up the good work

It’s true, the guild missions on servers that have meta events that reward chests will often end up over populated.

I’m a bit surprised they didn’t place the guild missions in less populated zones in the first place.

Well before the 14th, SSC was essentially a dead zone. You should expect a little inconvenience when you have the challenge, rush, or the bounty here. For other zones, check the timers before activating the event to make sure nothing is going on to push you into overflow.

From what I have seen only 2 challenges, 2 rushes, and 5 bounties are on maps that can likely go to overflow. One of each are on the SSC map. All of this is plannable and you have 5 hours to activate a rush or challenge.

You’re right, Ayrilana – I guess we were being a bit impatient. First world problems I guess, so many people in this game haha. We identified 5 separate overflows in Southsun alone!

We got a guild bounty on Southsun on Fri, thankfully there was no chance we were going to be able to complete it despite the fact that we ended up in Southsun. Pretty ridiculous.