Guild Wars 2

Looking at the map. One realizes it’s actually relatively easy and fast with certain professions to complete the map even with low level characters.

It’s just 6 waypoints and 6 PoIs. No vistas, no Hero points.

Maybe there could be a bit more points there. Just 6. 3 vistas and 3 HP, to make the map a bit more interesting and in line with the rest of maps, and so its completion rewards don’t get reduced or removed if people gets the gist of revealing this map fast with lowbies, and starts overfarming that map’s completion or something. Just add a few extra points. The map gets a bit more pizazz, and it’s not easy to farm, so the rewards can stay nice.

Here’s some examples of what I think could be fitting Southsun points.

Hero points:

• Commune point at the Ancient Karka corpse. Often ‘guarded’ by a single normal rank young karka that seems to be sulking by the corpse, with the karka dance/stun animation. It’ll start non-aggressive (yellow name), but if players get too close or use the hero point, it’ll become aggressive.
• A ‘consume item’ point inside the sunken ship under the Champion Shark event, in a chest you use to get a bottle of “Aged Privateer’s Rum”. You’ll have to avoid the sharks to get there, be careful.
• A ‘fight enemies’ point in the water right between Lion and Pride Waypoints, having to fight one veteran Barracuda and a couple of angry barracudas.

Vistas:

• One near the top of the Karka hive in the wodden platform near where the fake diving goggles are. it’ll go down the hole and end with a view of the plains outside where Veteran Karka roam.
• One around Ember Passage on the rocks of the south of the tunnel there where there’s crabs and skelk, hinting the starting point and path of the Stepping Stones puzzle.
• One at Steampipe Steading, showing an overview of all 4 Camps.

I am 100% in favour of any enhancements to Southson, especially story related, new events or any of your suggestions.

Southsun is deserpately in need of an improvement – both to the meta merchant format and to event numbers in general. For map completion, I would actually suggest 6 hero points, so that the number of hero points obtainable without HoT is 220 (currently it is 214).

My ideas for hero challenges:

• Commune at Ancient Karka corpse.
• Commune at one of the still-in-the-game spores that Canach used.
• “Horde fight” (1 powerful + some weak) challenge in the northern Karka Nest (where the demolition event leads), with an elite karka adult and some young karkas.
• “Horde fight” (1 powerful + some weak) at the wurm area, to bring up an elite sand wurm queen and its hatchlings.
• “Challenger fight” (1 powerful foe) challenge at Steampipe Steading’s raised ‘houses’, fighting a Settler norn there who wants to keep in shape in fighting the karka (not available when settlement under attack)
• Consumable challenge anywhere on the map, from a special blooming passiflora (to eat a unique passion fruit).

As for Vista locations:

• One along the cliffs of the Skipping Stones jumping puzzle
• One on northern end of Driftglass Springs, where one of Canach’s spores is.
• On on the wrecked ships near Owain’s Refuge
• One in the upper Karka Hive, panning down and ending on the Ancient Karka.

Aw…

• Updated the map completion rewards for Southsun Cove to better reflect the effort required.

What I feared came to happen. I hate it when I’m right about bad prospects.

Still, I think it isn’t late to still make the change, give the map more points that would definitely put low level characters in mortal danger so it isn’t a walk in the park, and keep its decent rewards.

Aw, man. I have 100% Southsun completion on every single one of my characters, but I never got around to actually going there with them after the change to get my rewards. Only went there with 1 of my 6 characters.

RIP 10 free exotics ;.;

It wasn’t necessary to go to Southsun on each character for me. Just had to log in. On the other hand they were all affected by the 100% world completion bug that prevented them from getting the rewards on HoT’s release.