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To be honest, problem I have is that if you don’t have the right profession sufficiently leveled (though I’ve been playing since the BWEs and launch, my main is an Elementalist and I’ve been enjoying it so much I haven’t given much time to my other characters). So I don’t have things like Aegis. I feel like I’m being punished for liking my Elementalist.
I do think it’s highly unbalanced if you don’t have the right profession/build. I’ve tried to complete this dungeon more than two dozen times, with three completely different groups. (One with all guild members using voice chat, one that was completely a PUG, and one that was some guild members with some PUG members.) I have five different characters, but my main character and the one I play all the time is my Human Elementalist. Even though I’ve been playing since the betas weekend events, only my Elementalist is at level 80 with good gear.
EVERY SINGLE TIME, my groups have been decimated by the third set of energy walls in the the lab. No matter how I’ve retraited, reequipped, or re-skilled my Elementalist, I get flattened by the third set of walls. I don’t have the time to bring up another, more robust character (like my Norn Warrior), to a decent level or standard of gear before the dungeon vanishes. Even then, members of my party haven’t done much better. We simply can’t get past the walls, because it favors (unfairly) the Guardian.
Were this a permanent dungeon, and I could spend my time cultivating a character to deal with these walls, it wouldn’t be an issue. But I only have a week. I’ve had and will have midterms and labs and regular classes in this time. Not to mention family obligations.
If we were going to have to be required to have a certain high-level profession or two, just to see this temporary content, we should have been given sufficient time and warning to prepare.
I agree wholeheartedly that Cantha and Elona NEED to be added to Guild Wars 2 at some point or another. I don’t know when might be the best time, but it seems an extreme disservice to the fans, the real-world cultures they represent, and the lore of the game itself not to include those continents.
However, I do admit that finding people to do group events where there isn’t any new content is often extremely difficult. Just as Dynamic Events scale up to include more players, group events should scale down to be able to accommodate fewer players. Like the Temple of Lyssa group event couldn’t be done with two dozen people.
Just thought that I’d mention I have the same problem, but for me the last story entry is “Through the Looking Glass.”