Guild Wars 2

Would like to know who thought making the Powerful Potions of Slaying Scarlet’s Armies restricted to level 80 was a good idea when many of the players participating, or trying to participate, have been scaled up to play the event and can therefore NOT utilize an item that they of all players need the most?

Please take that “feedback” into consideration for the next LS, thanks.

Gated items are a pain, especially when you are “level 80” and still can’t use level 80 stuff. I think they should stop leveling everyone up to 80 for so many of these, cause it’s never a true level up, a level 10 player leveled to 80 may have the HP and such… but they still die pretty kitten quick because they lack traits, armor buffs, weapons, etc. Ideally have content in a variety of locations across a variety of level ranges. If ArenaNet does better jobs of balancing and removing zerging from the LS updates it may go very well.

Heck, I kinda wish that being leveled down in lower end areas actually leveled down a little more because when I’m trying to help newer players (and yes, I am one of those players who tries to help everyone, guild member or not) I have to intentionally hang back and let them get their kills in because even leveled down a true 80 character kills so many things too easily. Feels like I’m being condescending to them like “oh, here, I’ll let you kill these guys”

I thought about this a while ago when I put some on an alt to level for the event and shrugged it off as another oversight on the dev team’s part.

Oh well.

scaling is a joke, you’re ether scaled to be to weak or to powerful, they should not even think about making an event with lvl 80 upscale till they equalize the normal scaling system.
around lvl 1-25 everything is a joke, lvl 26-40 it’s a pain, lvl 41-53 is quite well done, lvl 54-65 is a pain, lvl 66-73 is easy mode, lvl 74-77 is a bit to low and everything above lvl 78 is rolfstamp mode.

first fix a system before using it in a LS.

I agree Loin’s Arch was a nice leveling ground for one of my alts and I had really liked the extra HP and Damage (nice way to compesate the upscalling) from the potion.

I decided to level up my alt (level 18)

I get 8 xp per kill, compared to 24 xp per kill for normal mobs. :/

I dislike the reliance of consumables to make a build work. They should make it easier, faster and funner not be a requirement. As far as the LS potions I took from that, that the content was designed for level 80 properly geared characters. I think that was their subtle hint not use the content for leveling or leeching.

I don’t think these will make or break you doing the events but they might make it a bit easier. However, I too wondered why they did not work on my lower level toon I took in to do dailies for the points. I get that when your leveled up for an event you cannot expect to wear level 80 armor or use weapons or even potions but this was a special potion for this event and maybe should have been no level restrictions.