Guild Wars 2

While this is generally a goal, it can be difficult to achieve.

1. People are crafty. If they are determined to ruin your day, they will find away.

2. You cannot programmatically determine intent. ‘Trolling’ is not a term that applies to people that don’t fully understand the mechanics of the encounter. Thus it is difficult to punish only pranksters without bringing in a live observer to monitor the event, which cannot be done every time due to the cost.

3. As noted in another thread, once you start throwing insults around, you become part of the problem and ANet takes longer to do anything about it.

It stinks. The designers have come up with a brilliant map and mechanics. The map is dependent on playing it as intended though and that’s the issue. It’s like WvW. When they designed it, they designed thinking players would have loyalty to their server and feel a sense of camaraderie. Competitive players don’t have that though. They just want to win or they want to affect the outcome by thwarting the intentions of the designers or goals of the players. The same issue with Silverwastes affects WvW. SoR used to be a top server. People got tired of coming in 2nd or 3rd most weeks though and left. Now SoR is in dead last. It’s awful on all fronts, and doubly so because ArenaNet really did an amazing job with Silverwastes.

OP is being over dramatic.

He’s wrong.

There is a sort of ‘meta’ for players to sit on the ledge and single target range the boss down & this strategy doesn’t work If players AoE the critters who heal the boss.

HOWEVER

If OP cared to do something other than whine, he could take aggro of all the critter himself, allowing the boss to be melee’d/cleaved/AoE’d down in no time.

The boss would die very quick and he wouldn’t be complaining about other players.

I wish Ford would stop making crashable cars, too.

I do not believe Copper is being trolled at all. I believe it’s simply failing due to poor player performance and scaling. When I see Mesmer’s using GS or Thieves using short bow, I’m fairly certain Copper is going to fail. Players need to check which skills are AoE and piercing. Check to make certain popular sigils like Fire are not being used.