Guild Wars 2

I’m working on map completion in Straits of Devastation and Cursed Shore and both have WP, Skill Challenge and POI in two temples that are eternally locked on the Meta Group events on my (lowly populated) server. They’re Temple of Balthazar, Straits of Devastation and Cathedral of Verdance, Cursed Shore. I can’t even get close to these areas while the meta is on and it’s ALWAYS on in my server. So I’m planing to guest to another server that actually runs these events so that I can get those two points. Are there any servers out there that routinely run these and what time of day are they usually getting run? I’m NA, CST time. Thanks for the help – if there’s another thread about this please let me know and i’ll look even harder (didn’t find anything with a cursory look).

Thanks!

You can always check out the state of the temples and guest when you see them open:
http://www.gw2state.com/temples.html

Awesome Tribio! This may be exactly what I’m looking for! Thanks!

So, I checked the site and am maybe now more depressed. Looks like nobody is doing Balthazar anymore. Rats.

I finished these two maps recently, and they were annoying. Balthazar’s wasn’t up for a while, so I just helped with an Attacking server. Keep at it, and you will one day make it.

Hmm I may be able to help, let me see what I can do

Edit: Ill try get friends and friends of friends so we can open it with you, open invitation to everyone of course ^ ^

Sarah

Great Sarah! Let me know when – I’ve got a few guildies (we have a tiny guild) who would be up to help.

The Ash Legion Spy Kit also works well for communing with the Balth and Grenth temple skill points if playing solo, and you aren’t a Thief.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Ash_Legion_Spy_Kit

With level 80 exotics, you can get near the temple of Balth and cap the skillpoint, but you’ll want to bring a friend, and may need a touch of luck since the raining fire can interrupt the cap. Capping the temple of Balth right now is a tricky proposition — see also: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LuckBasedMission
I made 6 pushes at Balth over the last weekend and got in once, failing 4 times on Veteran Subjugators (poor luck) and once at the ambush (Untrained zerg, not helped by poor luck). I’m waiting to see what future patches bring before making regular opening of Balth a thing again for me — I can assemble a decent zerg to try opening the place, but calling up a zerg doesn’t generate the luck we need. I know Sarahfull expects more from me, but there’s limits to what I can swing, even on my home server that does great with temples.

As for the Temple of Melandru: grab 9 friends and cap it. It’s not especially hard, you just need a minimum number of players with decent gear (Rare or better), and basic understanding of the final event, which is easy to get by trying it once.
//Portable Corpse

Thanks for the tips! Feral Mouse – I am trying to run a thief – does the Ash Legion Spy kit puke on Thieves stealth? I checked wiki and it doesn’t say one way or the other.

As a side question, has anyone ever asked if these kinds of perma-locked events will ever get nerfed to having at least a few hours window where they reset, at least on the lower populated servers?

Yamagawa.5941:

With level 80 exotics, you can get near the temple of Balth and cap the skillpoint, but you’ll want to bring a friend, and may need a touch of luck since the raining fire can interrupt the cap. Capping the temple of Balth right now is a tricky proposition — see also: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LuckBasedMission
I made 6 pushes at Balth over the last weekend and got in once, failing 4 times on Veteran Subjugators (poor luck) and once at the ambush (Untrained zerg, not helped by poor luck). I’m waiting to see what future patches bring before making regular opening of Balth a thing again for me — I can assemble a decent zerg to try opening the place, but calling up a zerg doesn’t generate the luck we need. I know Sarahfull expects more from me, but there’s limits to what I can swing, even on my home server that does great with temples.

As for the Temple of Melandru: grab 9 friends and cap it. It’s not especially hard, you just need a minimum number of players with decent gear (Rare or better), and basic understanding of the final event, which is easy to get by trying it once.
//Portable Corpse

Its fine yama lets just grab as much friends/people as we can and make a lovely event of it! weither we make it or fail atlest we can have fun trying!

The Thief skill Shadow Refuge makes these skill points very easy and lasts longer than the Spy Kits if I remember correctly.

Run up to the skill point, cast Shadow Refuge, start communing.

I am a terrible Thief but used this trick on quite a few of the communing skill points in Orr. It made map completion very easy.

Another option, that I’ve used before, is take a friend that can kite the mobs away from the skill point while you run in and grab it.

Of course if you can complete the temple events with Yamagawa and Sarahfull you wont have to worry about any of these tricks.

mjhungness.8059:

So, I checked the site and am maybe now more depressed. Looks like nobody is doing Balthazar anymore. Rats.

People still do Balthazar, and always will since it’s a common way to get obsidian shards. Just keep an eye on that site while you play, and it should come up at some point. Nearly every evening at least 1-3 servers open Balthazar.

You have to check several times a day for Balth, once completed the temple is only held for a few hours before it goes back to Risen hands, same with every other temple.

Just throwing a day out there: are you able in two-three days time?

Sarah

Thanks Sarah – how does this Saturday sound? I’m in CST but any time should be good. I can get a few from our guild and we’ll guest on whatever server you want. If anyone is up for two runs, I need to do the Cathederal of Glorious Victory in Straits, too (but I don’t want to sound greedy – help with one or the other is fantastic!) Thanks for the help and put me on the list of players you can call on to help out with future events! My in-game name is Kiturai on Devona’s Rest.

Thanks also, Feral Mouse – I haven’t used that in my build forever so I forgot I had that utility. I’ll equip it and use it for the rest of my map exploration. Good tip!

Timezones are soo annoying.. just to make sure our “saturdays” are linked. My sat is tomorrow and the time right now is 10:00am friday..

Edit: Im from new zealand if that helps.

You can do Balth with a 5 person party. You don’t have to open the whole temple to get the SP. Personally, I got that one day just by asking in map chat if anyone else needed the SP and ended up getting a party put together quick. We each took turns aggro’ing the bad guys so we all got it. We may have all been wiped by the end but it was worth it

Sarah, we’re in the CST in the US, 19 hours behind you. So if you can plan for anytime between 8AM and 10AM your time Sunday I think that puts me at 1PM-3PM Saturday. Is that too early for you? When is a good (early) time for you Sunday?

Ozmaniadevil, thanks for the tip. It wasn’t so much agro as the AoE that was constant that did it for me and a guildie who tried to run it with just the two of us. Maybe a slightly larger team would help with agro and then we can just focus on staying out of AoE.

Hmm. I can only get on after work which would be 17:00 on sat and 15:00 on sun. I will have more time on wednesday as thats my day off but youll most likely be busy then :/

Sarah

Thanks again, Sarah! Sunday night for you might work for us. 1500 Sunday night would be 8 PM Saturday for us and that may be do able. Wednesday night around the same time for you would also be good for us (which would be Tuesday).

Ok so Ill let everyone know for my sunday and your saturday?

That will work great, Sarah – we’ll plan to log in around 3PM Sunday (your time). I’ll look for you in-game and we can guest to whatever server you’re on. thanks again!

Sorry are we able to make it 15:30 or even 16:00 Ill try my best to make it at 15:30.

Btw this is a open invite, so anyone who reads this can join us

Sarah

Ugh… times and hours and all my nemisseessesesss…

If you see me in game when things are kicking off, send me a ping. Assuming I’m not AFK or otherwise indisposed, I’ll come along.

Remember open invite, invite everyone you can, lets make a big event out of this ^ ^
Not sure about server yet, so save a geust if you can!!

Sarah

ooooOOOOOoooo…..

Temple open…

Nice.

Wow! That was a lot fo fun! What a big turnout – thanks so much for the help, Sarah! Please keep me in mind whenever you need help with anything. I’ll be glad to lend a hand. One thing – it is kind of an eye opener to guest on a more populated server. I think I may have to do some thinking about putting in a transfer… Thanks again to all that helped out!

The more populated server gave us more experienced pugs, which are kind of necessary for Balthazar. I need to work at training up a proper Zerg for Balth that I can take to any server, but its as got a steeeeep learning curve (like a brick wall). Any server will do for the other temples.

//Portable Corpse