Guild Wars 2

Holiday JPs (specifically the halloween and wintersday ones) used to exist as PvE areas as opposed to PvP. It was much better the old way.

Too late for Halloween. But perhaps we can revert to PvE JP for Wintersday?

the hallowen event jp can be accessed from lions arch what the hell are you smoking?

I think maybe the OP means the Clocktower jp? It looks like that’s pvp although in my brief time there I couldn’t see how to attack anyone, or that anyone was interested in attacking. I may be mistaken on those.

The holiday JPs (Mad King’s Clock Tower and Winter Wonderland) are currently implemented as Activities, which use a PvP structure (including match timers and scoreboards) rather than just being a PvE map. The main disadvantage to the Activity implementation is that it prevents people from reliably joining an instance with their friends. I believe last Wintersday they said they were looking at a fix for that issue. It also allows them to do things like have other players in the Clock Tower appear as ghosts.

I’m curious as to the OP’s reasons for wanting this changed, though. “It was better” isn’t very informative.

It’s PvP so that people can’t cheat.

I remember during the first halloween when it was PvE, half the time you entered it some jerk was using the biggest transform they could find to obscure the entire puzzle and make completing it impossible for everyone in the instance. People had different speeds because there was always some buff, or trait, or food that the developers had forgotten about. And don’t even mention back when everyone had their standard models instead of the wisp forms, and it was impossible to complete on anything but a norn or charr.

Meanwhile, all that is prevented, with no detractions whatsoever, simply by making it a PvP instance with no PvP abilities available. It should remain a PvP instance.

I wanted to join my friend