Guild Wars 2

I am seeing the player base complain about the very real issue of hero points without actually coming up with a VERY simple solution.

Why has no one created a hero point train for each map? Surely a group of 5 can handle at least 8/11 of the HPs on each map?

Yes, I understand the desire to do Hero Points solo; however, these HPs in HoT provide an ENTIRE MAP’S worth of Hero Points for EACH one.

I feel like a train would be a simple, elegant, and community created solution to the problem.

Thoughts?

Because unlike say chest trains, you cant keep going around and getting hero points. As soon as someone caps the HPs on the map they will leave and the train will quickly die.

They just need to make the HPs scale down to soloable. Thats it.

Or let HP’s have a selectable difficulty so if you happen to turn up to one alone, at least that way you don’t have to stand around for ages waiting for someone else to arrive.

Most of the champion HPs can be soloed with a good build. I agree it’s not easy, though, and for most builds with enough DPS it’s one slip and you’re dead.

Been doing this daily with some friends for the XP from the fight hero challenges, lol. Easy and fast 300k XP.

I’ve seen a train yesterday in AB.

I think it is easier to find a guild and have a few people help you… Well I think it is actually even easier to wait for other players to get to that HP.

Atm I have been able to duo all HP’s (Havent done all maps yet).

Depending on your class and your experience level, most of them are duo able in AB- but if you make one mistake you can both wipe and the champ resets.

It doesn’t make for a fun experience to finally figure out how to reach the HP only to then spam map chat in the hope someone in the map feels like helping you.

Found a train last night and got most of AB done- small group of us. I wonder what it will be like in a few months though, or for new players starting the game and not being able to afford decent gears and buff foods, etc.

As for Tangled Depths, what a mess of a map that is- needs about 1000 more mushrooms.

AB gets tedious fast if the map is quiet and WP’s get contested- having to stop and fight raptors every 5 yards or veterans and not being able to press M to check where you are isn’t fun.

I’ll have to face TD sooner or later to unlock the mastery points there..and sooner or later face the dreaded ‘Talk Story’ oops I mean ‘Living Boredom’ oops LS to get the mastery points gated behind that content.

First of all, you hardly find people to help you on ONE HP – so where should the train come from? Second… I got flamed last weekend, because I DARED to turn on my commander tag while getting HPs to direct other players, because “this is irritating, we are doing meta, get ur kittenn tag of or go to another map mimimi” ANd finally, if it comes to VB, the more people you have on your ‘train’, the longer you’ll have to wait for HPs where you need a little jumping, gliding or some masteries if you don’t have a mesmer with you or whatever else. That makes people leave too. Not to mention that, the more players you have on you the longer a champion fight lasts, because the scaling is insane.
Do a HP with 3 people, it’s done within 1 minute, do it with 10 and it’s 5 minutes and above. Nah thanks… Who’d like that?