Guild Wars 2

just to receive an item for a scavenger hunt for my legendary pistol that provides almost no benefit to the entire player community?

Try going on at a very late hour and bribe people.

Mez Koo.9510:

Try going on at a very late hour and bribe people.

Oh :o sounds like a farm opportunity.. will farm those bribes xD …—jokes

As a general approach, be polite and ask players to let it fail. Try a few times during different hours to gauge when you will have to deal with the least impatient farmers/trolls. Offering some alternative activity, ideally via commander tag and map chat, should also help. Maybe look up all champ spawn points on the map and offer to do a train?

If you give details on which event you’re referring to we might be able to come up with a more concrete tactic for “producing the desired results”. Some events can be upscaled or mismanaged by less than a dozen likeminded people.

Silence might also work for certain events during certain hours: the Lyssa and Grenth temples for example have a tendency to fail due to certain key mechanics, and simply staying quiet and waiting for a sufficiently dumb/unattentive zerg will do the trick.

So, essentially, 3 people who kindly bothered to respond is asking me to become Department of State official or a CIA agent, virtually.

Event is at Lyssa and at Frostgorge. Lyssa requires union waypoint remain contested by failing the main event purposefully and so does Frostgorge. Legendary weapon skin is a personal personal item/quest. Why am I asked to manipulate the player community in order to succeed?

You seem to have missed the “ask nicely” part of my post…

I don’t bother with precursor crafting hence I don’t know which Frostgorge event you’re referring to, but the Lyssa temple works reasonably well during weekdays. Note the whole thing used to have a 5 HOUR reset timer upon completion, so don’t waste your time waiting within one instance of the map (LFG tool+note down ips of maps you’ve already tried).
Use the LFG tool to taxi in as many likeminded people as possible, have everyone afk in the event circle to scale up the boss. Lyssa is extremely easy with 3-10 people, but if you get enough people together to spawn a champ gorilla that should buy you enough time for the seal to fall. If by some chance anyone actually knows what they’re doing and tries to defend the seal before your target champ spawns (usually unlikely as the event circles don’t display properly for seal defense) have everyone afk there instead and hope the waves of upscaled Risen drive them away.

Use whisper chat to contact individual players and stay friendly, this won’t attract trolls or other unwanted attention. Try going for the event while most players are busy elsewhere, like the Dwayna temple, Claw of Jormag or Frostgorge champ train.

And yes, most of these are roundabout, borderline exploit solutions, but everyone except Anet’s nonexistant QA department is already aware of the matter. Seeing as you can’t buy collection progress with gems (and buying existing precursors off the tp is actually cheaper than the “journey”…) this will be addressed eventually, perhaps even before the end of next year if people find a way to “farm” these events for ingame profit.