Guild Wars 2

Tonight, I attempted to earn the last Grandmaster trait for my Engineer.

Little did I know that this would be a fruitless effort because Malchor’s Leap, a map that is not listed on the Megaserver update thread, has had the Megaserver system applied to it. I know because A) there was an abnormally high population, enough to have captured both the temple of Dwayna and the temple of Lyssa, and B ) when I checked the Looking For Group tool, it showed an ellipsis (…) instead of my current world (Stormbluff Isle).

So, I found myself unable to do the Temple of Lyssa event in order to defeat the Risen Priestess of Lyssa for my trait unlock.

Not only that, but it turns out that you can’t even get the trait from defending the temple, so the large number of people waiting around for the event, most of whom probably didn’t do the research, were ultimately waiting around for an event that they may or may not know they want to fail.

My alternative to sitting there and waiting for this horrible griefer-bait? Spending the majority of the current gold in my wallet on the trait because I am still working on crafting my ascended equipment.

With no way to trigger the event and no way of knowing when it will be available, the task becomes virtually impossible to complete. And now I’ve learned that many of the Adept level traits for new characters are practically impossible to obtain until many levels AFTER the point at which they would be available? This is in no way alt-friendly, and so incredibly unfriendly to new players that I am awe-struck at the lack of forethought that has gone into this system. Clearly, there needed to be more in-house stress testing before rolling out the Megaserver and this new Trait system in the same update. Neither of them seems yet ready for prime time.

So, apparently Malchor’s Leap is now under the Megaserver system (thanks for notifying us of that, Anet eyeroll) and this has created a very glaring issue, at least for me.

With the new trait unlock system, most people have to defeat the Risen Priestess of Lyssa in order to unlock their Line 5 trait XIII, but, since Malchor’s Leap is now under the Megaserver system, the temple is very difficult to see contested. I’m currently logged into the game and have been sitting in the middle of the temple for almost an hour and have yet to see even a defense event.

To make matters worse, the trait unlock doesn’t even come from the defense event; it comes from defeating the Risen Priestess of Lyssa, which does not spawn with the defense event. This means that a bunch of people are sitting here, waiting for an event that they hope everyone else is smart enough to fail.

I’m not usually an unreasonably grumpy person, but this has me rather upset as I fear it may take me weeks at this rate to ever be lucky enough to be in the right map instance at the right time to unlock this trait without having to spend an enormous amount of gold that I’m already saving for crafting materials.