(edited by Kain Francois.4328)
Will Southsun ever be fixed?
It’s actually quite a good place to do dailies with gathering, krytan events/killer, an easy jumping puzzle, kill variety, underwater enemies. Some of the camps can be cleared solo to get a group event done. A guild probably wouldn’t need many people to clear the camps and get the queen up.
I went over there to buy the karma ori sickle in Captains Retreat. Not only contested with numerous mobs but also with a champion. Each time I go to Southsun to farm, I check the map and each time the towns are contested. It looks like the towns remain contested, which limits the amount of moving around you can do in that area. It also means you can’t easily use the bank or trading post on the ship by the (I think) Point Lion waypoint. I don’t know if that waypoint can be solo cleared but after doing the event back then and having large numbers suddenly spawn around me in the town, not sure it’s worth the trouble.
(edited by Astral Projections.7320)
LOL I ran through there yesterday for a quick gather and ran into one other person on the whole island also gathering, was quite a peaceful run I might add. But yeah something might could be done with all the contested areas, its a bit overwhelming.
I guess now that the events are over everyone’s doing the living world or going about their usual routine. The problem with Southsun, before and after the living story, is that there isn’t a lot of reason to get people there and keep them there for any period. I’m afraid to say but the best mechanism to do so is probably to add some grinding content.
One concern is if they add better farming events to Southsun, it will take away from Cursed Shore and Orr will become “redead” again.
To solve this problem, we need an Underflow server.
I really miss Southsun too. Found it a fun place to be, when other people were there too. Now people seem to have fled back to Orr. I prefer Southsun but can’t do anything there unless I like dying over and over due to being outnumbered by karka.
~Lady Amelia of the House of Rose~
This place is worse off now than before the recent update. The new events here have further killed this once desolate place. I used to like to come to Southsun for a peaceful retreat, now all the crazed creatures everywhere make this place a joke.
ANet should take a look at this, and reflect on where they went wrong. Analyze this and use that information moving forward.
Not only have they made this map worse off (arguable), but they have nearly broken the guild missions there. Try doing a guild rush through a settlement full of crazed karka! And there is no clearing in advance, it seems to reset in about 5 minutes.
This place is worse off now than before the recent update. The new events here have further killed this once desolate place. I used to like to come to Southsun for a peaceful retreat, now all the crazed creatures everywhere make this place a joke.
ANet should take a look at this, and reflect on where they went wrong. Analyze this and use that information moving forward.
Not only have they made this map worse off (arguable), but they have nearly broken the guild missions there. Try doing a guild rush through a settlement full of crazed karka! And there is no clearing in advance, it seems to reset in about 5 minutes.
The reason seems somewhat obvious there. The devs were too optimistic(hubris?) about how attractive the loot would be but 2 rares, 2 greens and a handful of karka shells? Not when the events reset every 5 minutes with crazed creatures and extremely fast respawn rates for some of the events. They have claimed to be trying make things appropriate for large groups but these groups do not appear to exist or these groups just keep saying they want content for large groups but never actually bother doing them.
Maybe the patch on the 25th will fix it?
The guys at Anet thought people would do the events because the queen gives 2 guaranteed gold items. The fact is that it’s such a hassle to get all camps at the same time that 2 rares aren’t even worth it.