Guild Wars 2

Hey All.

I like so many others love it when Anet add things for us to do while we wait for the next portion of the story. And if you get it done in the first week or two your good.

BUT…

If you don’t then your likely never to get it done because of difficulty or condition’s that need to be met, and then the event that lots of people have done gets left alone and no one wants to do it anymore which then makes it impossible to get done for those who don’t do it immediately.

So Anet Dev’s what plan do you have to balance these events so solo or small groups of people can do when there is no zerg to do them? I was doing my Legendary SB last week and I struggled to get the last steps done as I couldn’t solo some of the Auric Basin events needed to finish it. I eventually lucked out and got on at the exact right time and found a small group doing them.

It’s going to get worse for new players as you add more expansions to the game. I believe you need to start planning for it NOW.

This is a problem that has plagued just about every MMO in existence.
How do you keep old events playable when game veterans have already moved on to newer content? What about the newer players that have not had a chance to play that older content? When the next expansion comes out, will there be enough people in Dragon Stand to even do the meta-event against the Mouth of Mordremoth? What about the Chak Gerants in Tangled Depths? Or even the Matriarch in Verdant Brink (to say nothing of the map-wide meta-event there)?

I certainly agree that this is something that /should/ be discussed, but I have to say this…
I have yet to hear a real viable solution to this problem.

ShinjoNaomi.1896:

When the next expansion comes out, will there be enough people in Dragon Stand to even do the meta-event against the Mouth of Mordremoth? What about the Chak Gerants in Tangled Depths? Or even the Matriarch in Verdant Brink (to say nothing of the map-wide meta-event there)?

With the next expansion, HoT will be bundled for free. HoT will also likely be added to the free client, either then or with the 3rd expansion. At that point, HoT will be more active than it was at launch, considering HoT didn’t sell very well at the time. After that however, then yes, HoT will die out, but you don’t need massive zergs, you only need 3-5 people per objective, so like ~20 people for a successful meta. The catch however is that with less people, you have to actually try, compared to a half AFK zerg casually winning.

I think they may also nerf old content. I went out to the Silverwastes a few days ago (I haven’t done it since months prior to HoT) and the lanes were up, so I figured I’d do it. Boss 2 had just failed, and most siege carriers were lost, so I went to lane 3 to find myself solo. I had no problem both defending the lane and doing the boss solo. Unfortunately, the next lane failed their boss, which if I was only there earlier, I would have easily solo’d it too. I’ve done the breaches solo in the past back when it first released, but now they’re just trivial, which makes it even more hilarious when groups fail.