Guild Wars 2

I am a lvl 58 Warrior playing on Maguuma just questing through the game. I’m kinda new.

I have reached Sparkfly Fen and the events are just ridiculous. They’re littered all over the map and I am finding many of them are just brick walls that I can’t complete. Towns over run with Risen, Giant sharks in the water that 1 shoot me, veteran boss mobs on opposite sides of towns that summon 5-7 full power condition doling mobs a piece.

Occasionally I can use map chat to get 2 or so people to help me kill a champion or something.

But this is far from ideal. I shouldn’t have to do this for every event that isn’t overwhelmingly simple. Why am I being punished for being the only player at a content point? Is it by design that I should just ignore content that is clearly not for one person?

The event stuff is fun when I’ve got people but it’s just frustrating when in my level range players are far and few between. It’s not that progressing is impossible, I just hate having to bob and weave away from “dangerous” content that I might want to experience for the sake of saving myself a headache.

I never see people on the boards complain about this feature so I must be doing something horridly wrong. For now I just do tasks and events that don’t have me dealing with as many mobs at once, or escort things. But the towns under siege, the need to explode ships pouring risen onto the shore, the actual fun stuff — is just lost on me for no reason.

It sounds a little exaggerated as these walls are lets say, 15% of my encounters, but the things I’m getting hung up on are worth the same as everything else and they’re not like world bosses with huge rewards so I don’t understand why it has to be so hard.

Hmm, when I levelled my main, there was more going on on the maps, plus I usually run with my companion, and between us we manage well enough even when nobody else is around.

But I think nowadays players spend most of their time on either low-level maps (where you can get easy dailies) or the maps that have lucrative boss chests (dragon and such). What’s confusing to me right now is that Sparkfly Fen is one of them (Tequatl), so it should be busier than many other maps in the same level range.

What server do you play on? My best advice is to get some people on your friends list that will tag along once in a while.

As for your other question (are you doing it wrong?) I wouldn’t know, I don’t play a warrior, but it doesn’t strike me as weird that you as a single player would struggle with group events and champions your own level. Group events are designed to be done by groups of people after all. I can’t solo most of them either. So no, I don’t think it’s you specifically.

(That being said, there are probably builds out there that allow you to tank really well and solo all the content, but if you’re not a min-maxing power gamer sort of personality, you might not find any pleasure in designing your build around this.)

PS: Good username.