Toxic event Gendaran fields
That’s a very informative, clear and well explained bug report you have there.
So clear I don’t seem to understand what your problem is.
The toxic events were designed as group events that actually require groups. They are, therefore, working as intended. (Unless the OP is seeing something in the attached screenshot that I missed.)
It’s probably too late to discuss (again) whether ANet should have intended the events to work this way and it’s not too late to discuss whether it’s worth taking Dev time out to change them substantially.
John Smith: “you should kill monsters, because killing monsters is awesome.”
Some of them are still solo-able, but others are not. You can safely ignore them, if you so choose, until you are of a higher level.
Good luck.
The only bug I notice is that the event doesn’t show up as an event on the mini map, but that could also just be that the shot was taken after the event failed (which results in the area remaining with all the mobs).
I think the OP feels that Elites should not have spawned at the event, or that being of an appropriate level and still dying many times (see damaged armor in screenshot) is a ‘bug’.
This forum is designed so bad that it is impossible to know who is Anet staff, dev and who is pretending to be one. Also even if someone is a dev or staff, you still won’t know if they have the authority/ability to fix the bug or they just love to comment or player posts here.
@Styxx, I didn’t provide enough information, did I? I’m sure it is more than what Anet provides for the content of the game.
@Illconceived, I have seen this event so many times in the past and completed it with 3 to 10 people and never seen Elites spawn. That is the problem, I thought I took a clear screenshot, but it seems I could only capture 3 out of 6 elites and only 1 veteran out of 5. This is caused by adding the new Legendary ley-line creature to the zone. in past 3 days I have seen Toxic events 3 times
Once completed with 3 people. Once Toxic event was in progress that Legendary walked past the area followed by hundreds of players which caused all the new spawns of toxic events become Elites and Veterans. 4 people who were trying to complete including me died instantly and event failed. Another time, I was in the area mining. Toxic event started. 2 other players joined me and we started killing the mobs. out of sudden all the new spawns came as Elites.
Normally in these kind of situations if you kill the Elite, no more elites will spawn but this wasn’t the case, like hydra, killing one spawned two more elites.
That is not the only problem. It seems their range is twice range of my staff. they could hit me while I couldn’t hit them.
One more thing is the OBSTRUCTED issue! you are hitting the mob and walking around and sand grains on the ground is obstructing the target, however mob can hit me from any angle and direction. Note the hill on right side of the picture, I couldn’t hit them from there, however they could hit me right from inside the ground.
@RoseofGilead, yes event is failed, I opened my armor to show how many times me and other 2 died in there before give up. hitting one Elite would pull the other 2~3 elites and a few other mobs. sometimes for no reason Moas behind me would run to me and attack me too.
@Inculpatus cedo, Yes there wasn’t any reason for elites to spawn there. I’m sure if there were may be over 10 players in an event, new spawns might become Champion too, but in this case there were only 3 players in that area.
FYI: You will (almost always) find that only those with a ‘red splash’ behind their Display Names are ArenaNet staff. No one, to my knowledge, pretends to be staff and posts (that would be against Forum Rules and likely result in a Forum [if not account] ban). Their titles may, or may not, indicate whether they would be responsible for ‘fixing’ the issue. (For bugs, it’s usually the QA staff.)
Good luck.