Guild Wars 2

I’m trying to 100% the Straits of Devastation before moving onto the other zones in Orr (lvl 76 Mesmer), and I find the respawn timers to be prohibitive to soloing the content. These timers seem to be much faster than other zones I’ve worked in – not sure if the other zones in Orr have similarly aggressive respawn timers or not.

For example: I tried to solo the Balthazar skill point. I killed off the 2-3 “Risen” enemies in the area and then activated the skill point (it spawns a veteran and 2 lesser enemies). Before I could kill off one of the lesser enemies, one of the “Risen” enemies respawned and wiped me out from behind. Subsequent attempts allowed me to kill everything but the veteran – attempting to kill the veteran would put me in a fight long enough for all the “Risen” enemies in the area to respawn (the fight drags on because I have to keep switching targets to the new adds). Eventually the veteran and respawning “Risen” overwhelm and kill me.

I had issues elsewhere as well – I just thought that was the best example. Is this by design? Is it supposed to require a group to get 100% map completion?

Note: Not sure if this is the correct forum for this post, please move if appropriate.

Yeah, that’s pretty much the story of Orr. Everything seems to respawn so quickly that it’s almost impossible to get to your objective before the respawn closes in behind you. It happens in other parts of the world too though, but those are usually exceptions to the rule. In Orr, it is the rule.