Guild Wars 2

Piken Square is a high-pop server yet it is impossible to do any of the recent major PvE events here, let alone the associated meta-achievements.

The design of events around specific targets requiring all people in the instance to intelligently approach their elimination is not working with our populace. As a result, our few able players guest to other servers to have a shot at it. As a further result, people just stop attending events. Somehow everyone is suddenly on Desolation, where they stand around for hours just not to get in overflow. As another result, Deso gets enormous overflow queues while Piken’s LA just stands abandoned aside from the couple of loners looking for Peter.

This is true for the last few big LW updates, even more true for Tequatl and Jungle Wurms. Despite all possible efforts I could not get certain LW achievements in the end.

What I ask: please do not bring more fights and achievements like that into PvE. The population is already suffering, and with new games coming up it can well become 6 min. to Pikenfall. Thanks.

AFAIK piken square is a pretty good WvW server so I doubt your server will suffer that much. What you’re describing is true for most english speaking EU servers, except desolation ofc. In ROF they’re actually guesting to german servers now because deso is too full. Everything to not try it yourself! Leeching is the way to go.

I agree completely with no more zergfests though, even if it is for a completely different reason.

I heard Peter also went to Deso.

If people are spending hours waiting to get into the main Deso map before trying the Assult Knights then they’re wasting a lot of time.

I’ve finished the fight multiple times and even gotten the 6 minutes achievement in overflows. In some ways it can be better because you’re less likely to encounter afk people, whereas once someone gets into the main map they’re likely to try and stay there even if they have no intention of doing the fight for a while.

Wanze.8410:

I heard Peter also went to Deso.

He was trying to, but kept getting lost in the way and popping up in other servers…

Yesterday I guested to Aurora Glade and got in pretty quick to main server and they did a very good job. While I was there they even had Vent server and commanders to do 6-min achievement… Though they did fail the achivement becouse of to many players went to (Help) the remaining knight making them harder. And players like me who didnt join on vent :P

But it was a realy good server IMO… I am on a high pop server and it is not dieing, we all just guest if we cant make it… make use of the mechanics the game provide you.

What many of you are saying is that it’s normal to constantly guest for your PvE needs. That should not be the case by any measure. Servers should be designed in a way that allows for acceptable playing experience. It is far from it at present. That is my main point.

What I’m saying is servers need balance for all server-specific activities – i.e. PvE and WvW. There are Pikens that need PvE. There are Desos that want quality WvW (not just giant blobs dying from 10 ppl guilds from my server). It is time to increase server capacity and do merges, and do it with sense and thorough calculation. It is also time to pump up quality of life in all aspects – story, PvE, PvP, WvW.

iFruit.6190:

This is true for the last few big LW updates, even more true for Tequatl and Jungle Wurms. Despite all possible efforts I could not get certain LW achievements in the end.

Thats simply a problem of how these specific events are designed. I simply ignore them and hope they never really do the same to Jormag and Shatterer than what they did with Tequatl.

Ugh, half the population of Piken can’t dodge or stand on the circles to boost damage. It’s depressing.

@ OP. There is nothing wrong about the fingts (I do agree there could be less Zergfests though), but there is something REALLY wrong with the guesting system IMO. I can hardly (4 times despite playing a lot) get to my own server (Desolation) during tese events. I feel I’m getting forced to make room for all the guesters.

Its like being forced out of u’r home by foreigners so that they can take turns to live there – leaving u out!

Frostfang.5109:

@ OP. There is nothing wrong about the fingts (I do agree there could be less Zergfests though), but there is something REALLY wrong with the guesting system IMO. I can hardly (4 times despite playing a lot) get to my own server (Desolation) during tese events. I feel I’m getting forced to make room for all the guesters.

Its like being forced out of u’r home by foreigners so that they can take turns to live there – leaving u out!

Is it guesting or the missing scaling of these event ? Whenever people complained about these events that they can’t do them on there Servers there mostly came some people from TTS or also from Desolation and tell them how great and easy that all is because they do it on Desolation all day long.

So, who wonders if all come to Deso now when they always read that that seems to be the only place where they can do these events ?