Guild Wars 2

It makes WvW on the borderlands completely unplayable. Since WvW patches are so rare and run on an extremely slow cycle, could you just disable the event all together?

Hopefully you are aware of the issue by now after the persistent complaints by the community since HoT launched nearly a full quarter ago.

I doubt anything will be done for any of the current bugs, glitches, etc. in WvW. No, not just not anytime soon; most likely that nothing will be done at all. Why spend time and resources (labor hours, productivity) on something that is nearing it’s end? The time and resources are being spent on what will replace WvW, if anything at all.

Allow me to use a forrest fire as an example. You don’t put out a forrest fire; you contain it to limit the damages, and then you let it burn itself out.

Give up, they don’t care.

+1
Remove it.

But surely the Oasis event is functioning as the designers intend?

It provides a reason for everyone to rush to the middle and fight things (and sometimes other players)
It provides a regular opportunity to take a break from trying to find your way to the next objective.
It provides a way for small and determined groups of people to bring ALL the enemy gates on the map to 25% health or so, thus giving them a chance of taking a whole borderlands more easily while no one is looking (or was that previously called “nightcapping” ? Don’t know, I might be getting confused there).
And finally it provides a comforting PvE event suitable for both casual players who drop into the Deserted Borderlands and yet also suited to more experienced and dedicated WvW players who, we’re reliably told, all secretly enjoy PvE stuff really (go on, admit it, you know you do, Colin said so).

Ok, so there is tiny a bit of lag, BUT at least it’s fairly applied to all servers…

Sadly, although intended to be what I would call “tongue in cheek”, I suspect this may be closer to the embarrassing truth than I intended.

Revenge of the Quaggans Design Team…?

Yuffi.2430:

It provides a way for small and determined groups of people to bring ALL the enemy gates on the map to 25% health or so, thus giving them a chance of taking a whole borderlands more easily while no one is looking

Except that the event is mapwide and seen by scouts, so when your small and determined group has gathered some cores over 10 minutes and got maybe 40% done, a 70 man zoneblob port in and finish it in 2 minutes.

Well, assuming a zoneblob is on any border that is. If there isnt one, I doubt there is any small group either.

I have seen oasis events expire… when there is a 100 man queue to EB.