Guild Wars 2

So apparently the Drone Race mini adventure cannot be done unless the entire area is cleared. With respawn rates, this cannot be done by a solo player, so is this one just a useless item that anet tossed in to tease people? Just standing next to the flag I died enough times to waste all my revive orbs. A group of 30 people ran past and even revived me but since they didn’t kill anything, i was dead a moment later.

These mini adventures should be immune to mobs near the flag. The mastery points are required to do anything in HoT, legendary crafting etc. Yet when things like this are created to require a group of 30+ people just to allow one person to do something simply makes me want to play other games.

I love the game and am happy to support anet with market purchases but when they in turn simply kill me and not let me progress, I just don’t know what they want from me.

….Err… wat?

Revive orb ? Drone race..? 30+?

I don’t understand your issue.

When SCAR meta done. You go start the adventure . This one is super easy if you have itzel poison mastery. After the meta is done only mob there is smokescale that you can avoid the aggro and pocket raptors.

If the adventure flags were immune to mobs near them, then you’d just have a group of people standing around near them waiting for someone else to do the outpost events that would make the adventures available for them.

Most events in the SCAR camp chain can be done with 5 or less people, the last event in the chain does produce quite a mob, and Drone Race is not available until that last chain is done. If 30 people were there and ran past you, perhaps starting Drone race wasn’t the priority for the group, perhaps they left because the TD Meta started?

It’s a sad reality that the adventures are not available until certain things are done, but, it’s sadder when NO ONE is there to help you start it and you have to kick it off for yourself and those waiting by the flag for someone else to do the events that would start it.

HazyDaisy.4107:

If the adventure flags were immune to mobs near them, then you’d just have a group of people standing around near them waiting for someone else to do the outpost events that would make the adventures available for them.

Most events in the SCAR camp chain can be done with 5 or less people, the last event in the chain does produce quite a mob, and Drone Race is not available until that last chain is done. If 30 people were there and ran past you, perhaps starting Drone race wasn’t the priority for the group, perhaps they left because the TD Meta started?

It’s a sad reality that the adventures are not available until certain things are done, but, it’s sadder when NO ONE is there to help you start it and you have to kick it off for yourself and those waiting by the flag for someone else to do the events that would start it.

The last event only produce a lot of mobs if you also have a lot of people there. HoT has scaling issues but I don’t think that is one of them.

The only tricky part of the SCAR chain is the one with two elite but you just have to avoid aggroing both at the same time.

It doesn’t require 30 people to do scar lol.

Use this timer, http://dulfy.net/2015/11/09/gw2-hot-maps-timer-famme/ . and schedule a time so it’s in the middle of “Help the outposts” There’s a good chance people will be doing or done with it already.

Looking over it … OP’s description sounds a lot more like Beetle Feast than Drone Race.

The last event in scar (escort the cannon) is tricky to do even with 3 people. Solo, OP is right, it’s near impossible to do alone, even without a scaling factor, keeping the canon alive and fighting even a normal mob by yourself is tough, but most times, it’s not like what the OP encountered.

What the OP was asking though, that the flags be immune to mobs surrounding them is unreasonable for those genuinely trying to do the camp event chain because of the scaling factor associated with these maps and the fact that most players would simply wait by the flag for someone else to do the chain to kick off the adventure rather than lending a hand with the chain to make sure the adventure actually started.

The instance the OP was in is unfortunate, because there was a group that scaled and deserted this event (for whatever reason) which made the mobs not only impossible for even an experienced player, but extremely frustrating for a newer player not familiar with map events or their timers or why a large group would bypass and abandon a player that was only hunting mastery points.

In TD, the camp events don’t need to be completed in order for the Gerent meta to start, but they do need to be done for the adventures to be open. It’s a catch 22, because if the main meta starts before the camps are done, people will flee the camp to go to the Gerent, and anyone still working on the camp is stuck by themselves, quietly cussing those that abandoned the camp, while those that went to the Gerent are quietly cussing those not doing the Gerent.

In short OP, if you need an adventure, ask in map chat for assistance completing the camp chain, the size of the volunteer group may shrink or perhaps grow the further it goes on, but if you get it done before people go off to do other things, you’ll have better luck making sure you get a few attempts at that adventure before something else diverts the maps attention.

HazyDaisy.4107:

In TD, the camp events don’t need to be completed in order for the Gerent meta to start, but they do need to be done for the adventures to be open. It’s a catch 22, because if the main meta starts before the camps are done, people will flee the camp to go to the Gerent, and anyone still working on the camp is stuck by themselves, quietly cussing those that abandoned the camp, while those that went to the Gerent are quietly cussing those not doing the Gerent.

That is only true for Drone Race, all the other adventures are available unless the gerent is up or about to spawn. This is probably because there is a line of mordrems walking around on the race track before the event chain completes.