Guild Wars 2

Tsyras.5274:

Anet needs to fundamentally change how guesting works (i.e. something along the lines of needing a direct invite from a friend for each time).

AT THE SAME TIME…fix these world bosses to scale down.

And people would create threads on other forums and reddit going: I need a friend on X server. Low and behold, someone chimes in that they’re on that server and are willing to friend them.

Guesting is NOT the problem and should not be changed just for these poorly designed world bosses that require tons of people.

The bosses should be changed and then maybe put a one week temporary ban on guesting to force people who want to do the events to do them on their own servers to see how things have changed.

And you do realize that most of the larger servers where there is constantly tons of overflows happening might be happening because they have a large active population on their own server? And the problem might not go away if the fraction of guesters go away? The guesters didn’t all band together and decide to make Blackgate or Desolation the go to server. They went there because those servers already HAD the population needed to do those events. And for Teq, that’s darn near a full map. I don’t know about the other world bosses.

Decrypter.1785:

How does the Overflow system work exactly ?

A frustrating example which i hope is not true is People guesting to the best servers to get new content done , and taking Non guests Spots ?

Care to elaborate on this please Anet ?

What is a non-guest spot? There are only spots, first come first serve.

I’m pretty sure it’s not people guesting that’s making it so hard to get into the main map for Desolation.

A big part of the reason they’re doing so well against the wurm is that there is a very large, devoted group of people who have been spending all the time they can, sometimes all day long, doing the fights over and over to develop and coordinate tactics. When they get in they stay there, so spots very rarely open up.

Personally I also think people are worrying too much about it. I’m on Desolation but I’ve actually been guesting to other servers to do these events. I’m not that bothered about winning and I enjoy doing it with different groups and seeing different tactics. Some of the most successful runs I’ve seen, especially for the Marrionette, have actually been on random overflows that just happened to have a good group of people willing to give it a try.

The worst runs I’ve seen have also been on overflows, usually ones where people have been adamant from before the event even started that they’re not going to succeed because they’re on an overflow.

It doesn’t matter what kind of map it is, it matters who is there.