Guild Wars 2

There are a lot of people who are trying to complete their living story event so they can continue on and finish Dragons Reach Part 1. the problem is that to take down the totem you have to first complete the event by killing all 3 shamans. The Frostgorge Champ Train that helps with this event refuses to kill the third shaman because if it fails the event will spawn again 5 mins later and allow them to gather up more loot from all the champs they get to kill over and over again. i personally had to wait almost 2 weeks to complete this part of my storyline because of this problem. there needs to be a change in this event to make it fair to the people who want to finish their living story, and not have to deal with a bunch of greedy fools screwing them out of accomplishing something cause all they want to do is to kill 50 champs 4 times an hour. thanks for your time.

Not to mention what will happen if the champ train is deemed less rewarding than some other train elsewhere. And there will be next to nobody left to actually do the event with…

This is where I think ANet still has to learn from their mistakes, while putting this event (like it is) in the LS (first run) experience during the 2 week period of the LS-format is nice. This event should consequently be put into an instance, after the 2 week period, so that people can complete it and don’t have to rely on the players around them to continue their story…

This is actually how almost all LS-content should work, and is the key to having Large Scale Open World Events within the confines of the LS while it is active… Most should become instanced story steps there after; some may make more sense in a cinematic (f/e LS-opening-events); others might be able to be put into the open world, but with restricted (achievable) goals for a single player/small group experience.

I just completed this last night. Just let the group know you need the event to advance.

ArenaNet is aware of this situation, as shown by recent developer posts (earlier this week). I’m not sure if they already have a solution, or will be introducing one soon.

So fast to the “nerf this!” cry.

Why not focus on making the success of the chain more desirable instead?

The should just make the repeat timer for success and failure the same.

Popping in to add my voice. I’ve been trying to complete this event but I cannot find an empty map and every zerg I’ve run into has failed it, even when my friends and I asked to succeed so that we can leave and progress with our personal story. Would really like it if succeeding in this event was more rewarding than failing… or for the event to not be mandatory for us to continue our personal story.

Arghore.8340:

This is where I think ANet still has to learn from their mistakes, while putting this event (like it is) in the LS (first run) experience during the 2 week period of the LS-format is nice. This event should consequently be put into an instance, after the 2 week period, so that people can complete it and don’t have to rely on the players around them to continue their story…

No, I completely disagree.
The problem is not that the Living Story is tied to events, but that failing events is still more rewarding than completing events.
I myself have made often enough suggestions how events could be made more rewarding. That is the area where ANet has to improve, they don’t have to improve the Living Story content wise.

This has already been mentioned, much like the Blix exploit we can probably expect a fix to come in at some point.

HHR LostProphet.4801:

Arghore.8340:

This is where I think ANet still has to learn from their mistakes, while putting this event (like it is) in the LS (first run) experience during the 2 week period of the LS-format is nice. This event should consequently be put into an instance, after the 2 week period, so that people can complete it and don’t have to rely on the players around them to continue their story…

No, I completely disagree.
The problem is not that the Living Story is tied to events, but that failing events is still more rewarding than completing events.
I myself have made often enough suggestions how events could be made more rewarding. That is the area where ANet has to improve, they don’t have to improve the Living Story content wise.

I think this was an interesting experimentation on how to integrate LW content into world events and I think it has some potential if they can iron out some of the issues (not just technical, but things like how these events are a bit narrative anemic, and that the events didn’t feel epic enough etc.)

If the game could just let you progress by breaking the totem, regardless of whether the events succeeded or failed, then the players hijacking the meta-event for champ boxes wouldn’t be an issue.

Or scale the champs down to elites so they don’t draw the zerg and a good player can solo it again. It’s not as if Frostgorge was lacking in champions before.

“Adjusted the warmup times on the Coiled Watch event chain in Frostgorge Sound.”

They fixed it!