Guild Wars 2

I’m sure this has come up before (didn’t see any recent threads).

I’m working on Astralia, and there are a few temple event requirements that didn’t get added to the recent defense events in Orr (Ancient Charting Device, and Ancient Planetarium Slide), and every time I see a defense mission pop up a small handful of players is able to easily succeed at defending the temples. Specifically when doing Dwayna’s defense mission 3 people were able to kill the champion…

This is making it near impossible for me to actually move forward since I don’t always have 3-4 hours of time to sit around waiting just to have the capture events never come around because of this.

Is there anything being done to require a similar number of people to defend the temples as capture them, or to change the requirements here?

In general I think it’s sad that not many people will be able to experience the capture events due to the temples almost always being captured to begin with.

I, myself, have spent an entire day waiting for 2 events to appear in the Plains of Ashford.
The Battle of the Vaults and the Battle for Ascalon City.

The Battle of the Vaults event can be solo’d in less than a minute by a single player.

Now this comment will likely sound whiney to you, as if I’m here to say: “My case was worse so stop making forum posts!”

I assure you that’s not the reason for my reply.

I just mean to say that eventhough these events are terribly rare (The Battle of the Vaults having at least a 7 hour respawn count!) These are achievements for a legendary weapon. You may not always have “3 – 4 hours” to sit around waiting for temple events. But simply because you, or in fact a fraction of the community working towards this specific legendary, can’t find the opportunity to do something does not mean A-net is inclined to adjust their content.

I have seen plenty of players with the Astralaria, ask them how they overcame this challenge. Perhaps they had to ask their friends to help? Perhaps they struggled just as much as you did. But in the end they made it, they achieved their purpose and got the Astralaria. It’s an achievement worth a lot more than: “I paid a large sum of real world cash and bought a legendary.” Which you can’t even do with the Astralaria!

Finally, yes I know how awful it is to see a small amount of players ruin your progress.
Yet again, this adds to the challenge though.
As you said yourelf, it’s near-impossible not impossible.

Good luck and I truly hope you’ll find the event exactly as you want it, A-net has adjusted many legendary requirements for them not to require failing events anymore. Although this does not seem to apply to you entirely.

A personal suggestion:
Try heading to the temple immediately after a patch.
Hopefully the temple will be contested by default.

Good luck and tonnes of respect for having achieved your future Astralaria, as I’m sure it’ll be yours one day.