Guild Wars 2

So its been around 2 weeks now since I’ve hit level 80 and I’m going around unlocking traits.

The trouble I’m into now, is that the final traits I need are bounded to Temples.

For 2 weeks now I’ve parked and waited, I’ve managed to get the Arah one, mainly because I can get it through the defense. But the other 5, I can’t. I park at the temple and pray that no one defends it, but for 2 weeks now someone always ends up defending it.

Should I just give up? Buy the trait? A bit of me wants to do the events. But this is darn near impossible to do.

I’ve already bought the traits bounded to Iron Marches Devourer Queen because its always bugged. And the trait bounded to EB’s Grub, because you can’t seem to get enough people to do it, and my server tends to always be Red or Green.

I’d say if you have the money and the skill points.. especially when you have a huge abundance of them, I would just pay for it to save you the headache of waiting to get something.

HykCraft.4610:

I’d say if you have the money and the skill points.. especially when you have a huge abundance of them, I would just pay for it to save you the headache of waiting to get something.

The thing is, this will be my 13th level 80 toon. I only created him to try out the trait system, since I didn’t try it when it first rolled out.

Buying the traits isn’t a big issue, its just… You know, defeats my whole purpose of making this toon.

I’ve almost completely mapped out the Orr zones, while waiting now. And managed to get Grenth. Once I’ve 100% all 3 zones of Orr, I’ll buy them.

It’s too bad really, was really enjoying the new trait system.

I visit Orr frequently and often get into maps with Temple assaults. Also seen people taxing for Lyssa, Balth and Dwayna in LFG tool.
Maybe it’s just the time you’re playing?
I know there was one guild that was clearing all temples right after the daily reset. Idk if they’re still doing it though, but time after daily reset would be when people do temples because they give chest once per day.
Temples on Cursed Shore are part of train and get assaulted on regular basis, people ask to not defend them because assault gives more loot. Melandru often gets bugged though and can’t progress
So my suggestion to try check on different time if you can and/or use LFG tool and type something like “Looking for any Orr Temple assault”.

Its all good, I’ve given up and decided to just buy the gosh darn traits.

Waited nearly 2 hours for Dwayna and Lyssa today. Didn’t get it.

Waited 1 hour for Melandru, but it seemed like it was bugged.

Arah was a joke. Defense came up but after champ and at 2 minutes left, everyone let it fail. I couldn’t get my trait. (I thought trait was for defeating the priest, either it bugged for me or they changed it so you need to kill it in the assault and not the defense)

Managed to do Balthazar though, surprised me. Waited nearly 1.5 hours and finally defense failed, then waited another 30 mins for one of the triggers to spawn. Escorted ‘center’ through. That was fun.

That’s what I’ll be doing, temples for fun. Temples for traits is just a chore and agonizing, not fun at all.

If the problem really is the times I’m playing, then what was the point in merging the servers?

Sorry, I don’t mean to put down the game, I’m just a bit disappointed. Game is still fun. Still want to make a 14th toon, but won’t be doing the trait system. I’ll devote it solely for PvP or something.

ChoChoBo.6503:

Its all good, I’ve given up and decided to just buy the gosh darn traits.

Waited nearly 2 hours for Dwayna and Lyssa today. Didn’t get it.

Waited 1 hour for Melandru, but it seemed like it was bugged.

Arah was a joke. Defense came up but after champ and at 2 minutes left, everyone let it fail. I couldn’t get my trait. (I thought trait was for defeating the priest, either it bugged for me or they changed it so you need to kill it in the assault and not the defense)

Managed to do Balthazar though, surprised me. Waited nearly 1.5 hours and finally defense failed, then waited another 30 mins for one of the triggers to spawn. Escorted ‘center’ through. That was fun.

That’s what I’ll be doing, temples for fun. Temples for traits is just a chore and agonizing, not fun at all.

If the problem really is the times I’m playing, then what was the point in merging the servers?

Sorry, I don’t mean to put down the game, I’m just a bit disappointed. Game is still fun. Still want to make a 14th toon, but won’t be doing the trait system. I’ll devote it solely for PvP or something.

There is a 70 page thread on the subject which seems to be mostly ignored by ANet.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Game-Updates-Traits