Guild Wars 2

Look, I GRASP the notion of a shared world and all that needing monsters to respawn, but when you’re the ONLY person in an area — and I mean “AREA” as in “a place where people can fight TOGETHER”, not "people in the same named region while one is standing in a town area and you’re out fighting monsters — then the monsters should not RESPAWN every TWO MINUTES.

I cannot describe the number of times I’ve had some monster down to a fraction of their health MULTIPLE times and then STILL died because something I killed — SOLO — respawned while I was still fighting the bigger bad SOLO.

This respawn crap makes it literally impossible to do many aspects of this game SOLO.

Given that you’ve got NO provision, really, to assist strangers to party up, playing SOLO is often all you have, if friends aren’t on at the time, this is a bit RIDICULOUS.
>:-/

If it weren’t for the insane respawn crap, you COULD play the game solo. But no, it’s instead aggravating as HELL because I have to kill everything THREE FREAKING TIMES Just to get the bigger monster down sufficient to beat it.

And sometimes — if it’s an “add-on” to an area (the monsters that spawn around a sonic periscope, for the key example) -- there’s NO BALANCE at all because of that respawn rate. You just CANNOT beat everything that’s there on your own no matter HOW long you try, because you simply can’t do that much damage in that short a time while ALSO beating off the respawns. Two people can do it. But not one.

And, did I mention you appear to have given NO THOUGHT to helping people find others looking to do tasks?