Guild Wars 2

Here is why…

Today was the first day that there wasn’t a giant zerg of people farming in southsun with the 200% magic buff. Needless to say, this events major flaws really showed.

One thing to realize. The community in this game is lazy. They don’t want to do pre events. All they watn to do is jump in with the boss, tag it, and grab their free rares. They see no point in doing pre events because it isn’t rewarding. They’d rather do all the other world bosses.

So I have access to 5 guild chats and have 2 ambassadors in other guilds that cand send messages. So in short counting both online and offline people, i have access to comms with about 2,000 people. Now I go to do karka queen. I send out a message saying “Doing karka queen world boss pre events. We need some help to do them, can’t do it alone”. I get about…10 people. So now I have to keep control of 4 camps, each get attacked every 10 mins or so. Needless to say, it was very frustrating. We were able to do most camps fine, then came captains retreat. There were 2 champions and a Verne. We had to pull everyone who were defending camps to come help with this one. This fight took us about 20 mins to do. Of course all the camps we just capped were now retaken. So our small group went and retake them. Finally we were able to have all 4 at the same time and took us about 30-40mins to accomplish this. Guess what? Out of no where a bajillion people appear and start killing the queen. Free loaders. While our small group did these hard and tough pre events, a ton of freeloaders port in and dont even thank us.

What I’m saying is this. This event needs some adjust

-Scaling needs to be adjust so now to spawn champs.
-There should be rewards for doing pre events. Not just dynamic rewards. So people actually do it and a small group of people don’t have to get overly frustrated trying to hold them.
-The boss itself needs to be more scale friendly. We fought queen for about 1min-2mins without the zerg and it was clear we were going to fail. We almost wiped, no eggs were spawning, and she was taking very little damage.

My biggest gripe is that no one came to help us with the pre events. Very few did. Us players weren’t rewarded in any way for our hard work, instead you rewarded the players who are just staring at a timer on their internet browsing and porting to different bosses the same way you rewarded this dedicated players who actually run the pre events and spawn the bosses. You think eye of zhaitian just randomly appears? What about ogre wars, or perhaps seraph assault on centaur camps? It takes dedicated players to do these tedious task without ever being thanked, It takes people with connections whom have to act like they’re pulling teeth just to get players out there to help and participate.

seriously. we barely made it and that was only because there happened to be some extras that joined at the end. doing all the pre-events requires a bit too many people doing too much under normal map population circumstances.

Same as all the others then, I do the shatterer quite often and always run the pre’s. Last time there were roughly 100 people waiting for it, and about 5 people doing the pre.

Its disgusting, especially as people just sat and waited when they could have got a (small) reward for just doing the pre, and you have to wait for a slow caravan to get to the WP before it even starts so you can’t actually miss it if you do it.

The big difference is that you need a huge zerg to even get the pre’s done at all with karka queen.

Mathematically impossible to complete these events now without a massive group effort. Southsun is overrun now!

The events are not scaling to population as other dynamic events and that’s an issue.

i think maybe they should scale back the pre events i dont see the people changing so they got to change the pre events make them do able with at least 4 to 8 people. they have scaled other events back so why not it

Jam.4521:

Same as all the others then, I do the shatterer quite often and always run the pre’s. Last time there were roughly 100 people waiting for it, and about 5 people doing the pre.

Its disgusting, especially as people just sat and waited when they could have got a (small) reward for just doing the pre, and you have to wait for a slow caravan to get to the WP before it even starts so you can’t actually miss it if you do it.

Shatterer is broken in its own way. NOT doing the weapon collecting pre-event is very much justified since the fastest way to complete is to have only one person doing it. Adding more people to that event just makes it take longer to do.

Tried doing karka queen the other day(before patch) with a small group. That didn’t work out all. It was not for a lack of trying, I didn’t keep track of the time but it felt like hours. As soon as you as you finished one you would find that one of the others are now contested so it always remained at 3/4.