Guild Wars 2

Poor game design for certain events leaves them susceptible to trolling.

For example, Mark II Golem pre “Disable the containers before they release their toxins” in Mount Maelstrom, people can get there early and run around and activate every container at once so several of them fail, leaving them unable to be reactivated until the timer ticks to zero and the kelp event is completed again.

During the “Defeat the fire shaman and his minions” meta in Iron Marches someone can run up and attack the fire elemental over and over causing it to regenerate its health.

A group of people can camp the mortars/turrets during the Tequatl and Shatterer metas and not actually do anything with them.

No place for such mechanics on the world map, at least in dungeons you can kick someone that’s not working with the team.

I’m sure there are several other events scattered around the world map that can be trolled in some way, but the first two are particularly annoying, and I’ve encountered people doing this often enough to warrant a post about it here.

And I don’t even know how many times I’ve seen one person finish the pre-event to a meta boss that’s on a 3+ hour timer/window when the zone is a ghost town devoid of players. If you play mostly at night like I do and you’re on a lower population server like Kaineng this can be a real pain. I’ll ask politely, “please save the last crystal until we have more people” during the Jormag pre, or “please don’t turn in siege until we have more people” for the Shatterer pre, and still see people time and time again just carry on soloing it when there are 2-3 players in the zone and then just leave.

Some metas can be solo’d, but for the ones that are impossible to finish alone or with only a few people like Shatterer and Jormag, there should be a ring that a certain number of players have to stand in to start the event, kind of like the NPC commanders in WvW. That would reduce the frequency of failed events that are on very long timers just because a few people are too inconsiderate to wait, or just feel like being doo doo butts.