Hello all! I just wanted to discuss something I see as a major flaw in this game… All the waiting that is required just to even play.
If you wish to do a boss you need to wait for their timers. One of the worst offenders is Tequatl. It is not uncommon for it to be a two hour wait to fight & down Tequatl. Overflows that have Tequatl killing guilds on them fill up so quickly that you need to secure a spot an hour before hand. Now you could say this is not Arenanet’s fault and you would be right but there is an hour window to Tequatl and that window isn’t even up until at least 40 minutes after his event.
A few dungeons are locked behind events that must be cleared in order to enter. You can complete the event but it is still a time waster you are forced through. There is the guesting option thankfully but at the time of this writing there is two whole servers that has CoF open. There are times where certain dungeons are in fact closed on all servers.
WvW… who has never hit a que for this that actually WvW? This is self explanatory but understandable to an extent but then there is more waiting times within WvW. Took back that tower from the enemy that just ninja’d it? Theres a timer on it. Dozens of players now sit there waiting for the timer. Yes you could leave but then you lose out on the rewards. I do understand it is so you can’t intentionally flip keeps, towers, etc for easy rewards but there should be another method to this.
There are many artificial waiting times in this game that makes it so… you can’t play or at least do what you wish to do if I were to be more specific. Anet while there are quite of few hiccups that could be fixed I enjoy playing this game I really do but I only have a couple of hours to play a day and well… I just want to be allowed to play. Please?