Guild Wars 2

Raiding GW2 style

- Raiding requires control, communication, and team work it is not something you do in the open world.
- in the open world you can never truly control or know who is doing what, where and the simple fact it is open world means there will always be someone present that is not willing to follow commands, or just wants to do his own thing regardless of the consequences to the group’s organizational purposes.

- GW2’s version of raiding looks like a lot of fun if:

- you could buy an in-game item that grants you the ability to create and password protect your own overflow in essence creating an instanced version of the map.
- this allows for all the intricate organizational needs of true raiding to be met.
- now that is a consumable I’d want.
- consumable description, for the next 24 hours you can choose a Raid Boss map and create a password protected version of it for you and your team of raiders.

They could add proper raiding to this game so easily using their existing instancing, overflow and scaling technology. But, they don’t want to.

So we continue to count down the days until the next few MMOs are released…

I’m not advocating for traditional raiding at all, as a matter of fact I hate traditional raiding ! but……whatever shape or form it does need to be instanced !
those games you waiting for I know them well, and they all suck big time !
well except for a goofy funny one with great humor and V.O

Having previously been one of the overflow scouts for the first couple of TKS kills I know how frustrating this is. It doesn’t even need to be private – organised overflows fill at an incredible rate. It is also why I have not re-applied to said guild because I don’t want any part of this overflow sillyness – the overflow situation means that I will be avoiding the content entirely until the rush is over; which is surely not how you intend people to react to this content.

How about an NPC in LA that sells a consumable item for 5 or so gold (it needs to be sufficiently expensive so that people don’t create masses of overflows in order to destabilize the overflow servers). No matter which map you are on and even if you are already in an overflow, when this item is consumed a fresh overflow will be created and you will be placed inside it. You could optionally have an, e.g. 1 minute, cooldown on the overflow that prevents players from being automatically allocated to it.

This is required functionality to be able to make the claim that content is designed for organised groups.