Guild Wars 2

Frostgorge hasn’t been turned into an overflow yet, right?

Okay, so we, solo/duo players are screwed, I guess it’s something I have to accept. So maybe anet will actually make event champs difficult for large amounts of people? I’m thinking aoe one-shot kills and such. No other way to keep the open world interesting after this kittening update.

I’m clinging to Cursed Shore as the last high level refuge of my original server (high pop one, Piken). A while ago I killed the champ risen giant together with other two other people. Was fun, we got downed a few times, one of us had to run from wp, my brain actually had to work during the event.
It will never be fun again when the zone gets filled with a swarm of overflow (yes, the fabled megaservers work exactly as overflows, the word is pure marketing) players.

Windu The Forbidden One.6045:

Before Megaservers:
-“This game is death!”
-“Zones are all empty.”
-“No one to play with!”

After Megaservers:
This thread.

I’m glad I finally see a lot of people running around again. If I want to do everything alone I will play a Singleplayer game.

I see that my days of soloing/duoing stuff are dead and gone and I accept it. Therefore, I ask for proper scaling. One that could actually result in a zerg getting defeated, if not careful.

RoRo.8270:

Asmodeus.5782:

Like the title said. Hope we can expect some heavy changes in scaling in pretty much EVERYTHING, because the ever-present crowds of players removed every last bit of challenge from the open world.
The Fire Elemental always has a room full of people, who melt it in 40 seconds. I used to do it solo or with 2 more players, actually having fun. The ‘fun’ part is not there anymore, so I’m hoping somebody will care enough to restore it.

That boss was never challenging it just had massive amounts of health like every other legendary/champ

Well, after the teq/world boss changes, doing it solo, one missed dodge could cost you the fight. Still better that this 40 secs parody of a fight. Nobody even has to dodge now, ele has no chance to kill them all before it dies.

DavidH.7380:

Too easy for who? A new player on their first character with no idea how the game works, a new level 80 downscaled to a starter zone, a veteran player on a fresh alt, or a veteran player fully optimized and decked out in ascended gear or higher downscaled? There is a huge difference between those scenarios.

The beginner content is moderately difficult for a single new player. Unless he charges a vet right away, there’ll should be no problem, if he has any idea how computer games work. If he charges into a vet, he’ll learn.
Right now, with the amounts of players everywhere, the possiblity of learning is gone.
And even if we take into consideration areas like Malchor’s Leap – a single player or two of them have to put some skill and work into killing an Eye of Zhaitan. The zerg does not have to do squat except pressing 1. So what’s your point, exactly?

So for you embarassingly easy and demanding absolutely no activity except pressing 1 equals fun. Whatever floats your boat. Only a total scaling rework can save this game now.

Yeah, I heard that Claw is the only one they actually did right.

Fire ele is a 40 seconds job for a bunch of autoattackers. People don’t even have to dodge anymore, those few dead will get raised anyway. What are you talking about?

Taygus.4571:

I’m not reading all the posts, can anyone say what anet considers a comfortably full map? noticed that post, but they gave no approximate numbers >.>

Looks like comfortably = completely.

I’m also talking about the normal, non-meta events. They are also quite pointless now, as their only purpose is to watch your digital numbers grow. I’m not playing for loot, I’m playing to enjoy the process of getting it.

Like the title said. Hope we can expect some heavy changes in scaling in pretty much EVERYTHING, because the ever-present crowds of players removed every last bit of challenge from the open world.
The Fire Elemental always has a room full of people, who melt it in 40 seconds. I used to do it solo or with 2 more players, actually having fun. The ‘fun’ part is not there anymore, so I’m hoping somebody will care enough to restore it.

jelmew, what is the joy of killing the Fire Elemental in 40 seconds every time?

It’s active in very many zones, including even Malchor’s Leap and Straits of Desolation. Most of the world is unplayable due to these changes.

Aye, Evilek, there’s no point to go out into the open world right now. You’ll be one of the hundred trying to kill a trash mob before the others do. This game has not been balanced for these player loads. It’s ruined.

How can I believe that they will fix all the fukkups, if they could not even test Fire Elemental for large amounts of people? The zerg kills the poor thing in 30-60 seconds. And there will ALWAYS be zerg there, so one of the few remaning fun world bosses just ceased to exist.

They did not care to test this at all. They won’t care to fix it. Maybe NC needs more people at Wildstar, dunno. GW2 is being slaughtered, that’s for sure.

The zerg just killed the fire elemental in 1 (one) minute. Thank you, that is all.

I unwind in Smite these days.

Viral, now there’ll always be at least a dozen other players trying to beat you to that mob. gl, hf

Definitely less, I see no point in struggling to kill a single trash mob among the 100 people zerg. Now I’m basically waiting for another game to replace this one. Makes me sad, after a year of playing and paying, but it’s not the first game that got screwed up by the publisher’s greed. Because that’s the only conceivable reason to go through with all those megabullcrap changes which broke a perfectly fine world.

Themis.7239:

Here is a solution. When someone goes to a new map a window pops up giving them a choice to go to their server map or the megaserver map. Next to each choice will indicate the current population of each map to help them in their decision.

Won’t happen, doesn’t save the dev any money on servers.

Every crafting station in every major city, basically. Also the Vigil Keep in Gendarran Fields.

xsquared.1926:

Cloudwalkernz.1328:

Hopefully with this patch will end all the zerker only lfg.

While Zerker still do the most damage, it is no longer significantly better than other builds. In fact, for some classes that based its damage on conditions or power using non zerker gears is now much better.

Even with warrior I notice with zerker gears I have lost more than 10% damage. I find using Knight now offer better Survivability without losing much damage.

Quite the opposite.

Before the nerf i was able to carry people in level 80 dungeons with my own damage, but now i just enforce a gear check to see if everyone is wearing zerkers. That way i know pretty sure the run will go smoothly.

“carry”

Maybe ‘speed up’ a bit, but I assure you they would do just fine on their own without you. And the speeding up bit is only true if you are good at dodging. Gawds, I hate full zerker warriors in my parties, on the ground all the time…

Asmodeus.3940:

A large number never did them at all? Not on my server…and it doesn’t take a large number to do world bosses with exception of teq and 3-headed wurm because the events scale up and down. I soloed Grenth priest phase several times because of the scaling so its not that they COULDNT do it or the events…Its probably that they were too lazy or didn’t have anyone holding their frickin hand telling them where to go next. Big picture is much less loot and much longer wait times for world boss events. Big picture is they put a lot of time and effort into BS that didn’t need to be fixed when they should’ve worked on buggy events and a new expansion instead of the BS living story nonsense….-Metle

Hi there, 3940. :P

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

DonQuack.9025:

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

DonQuack.9025:

Anyone notice with the maps that pretty much everything is contested when outside of zone? so you have to go to some random place first then go to where you intended to go.

Pay double… Great gold sink

They told us about this drawback. They did not hide it. It’s right there in the kitten blog about the megaserver.

Hopefully they will determine a way to check map state for your preferred instance or wave the initial wp fee to a new map or reduce wp costs overall.

Being told about it doesnt make it any better or acceptable.

But neither did they lie about it, or hide it, in any way. They made sure to blatantly point it out, so no one would be ‘surprised’ or ‘mislead’ by what was going to happen.

That does actually make it better. Does it make it perfect? No, we hope there is a solution to the issue. But at least they were transparent about the drawback.

After telling us about this, they ignored absolutely every single cry of protest we responded with.

Non-grinders gain a lot, actually. Their assets become worthless slower.

Blockhead Magee.3092:

More Anet support and promotion of getting players to zerg.

Yeah. I was so relieved when the living story ended, hoping that the next one won’t include an invading army and will provide some non-zergish challenges. Suddenly, the whole world becomes a zergfest.
Come on, the least they can do is lower the map capacities by 33% or so. The best they can do is apologize, take back all this game destroying crap, do some simple mergers and >>>actually make the middle maps interesting for end-game players instead of compressing them into one<<< by reworking the events and rewards.

I also miss Ultima Online, but no… Not with this economy, this zerging and this netcode. :>

Mergers would be a really good idea in comparison to this aberration.

Open world pve is mostly dead, confirmed. 90% of the events have been turned into mindless facerolls due to bazillions of players zerging around.

One of the fixes is fairly obvious. They have to make the map cap much lower. Currently the crowds are making the world simply unpleasant, stuffy and weird.

Pibriamal, you’re my hero.

Zerker is currently THE godly build for Catacombs, Manor, Arbor, what have you. The scaling is fudged up, as a zerker you deal much more dmg there than before the update. Yet another fail of implementation. It’s amazing that instead of cutting the mobs damage in half and doubling their attack speed, for example, they muck around wasting people’s builds.

They used words like ‘comforable’, phrases like ‘breathing space’. Harr harr.

Everything’s crowded! Everything’s laggy! You can’t do a single event without a bunch of people making it absolutely pointless and mind-numbingly boring! And a bunch of people predicted this as soon as news of this kittenty megaserver idea hit the website!

The events WERE NOT CREATED for large amounts of people, ffs! The netcode is not suited for large amounts of people! There is absolutely no fun in being a part of a huge herd all the time!

Anet has effectively ruined the open world in the best mmorpg I’ve ever played. Kudos. Leaving as soon as something good enough pops up. Feeling kind of silly, having put heavy hundreds of dollars into gems, but who could’ve known. One is certain, they won’t see a single dime from me anymore.

Aidan Savage.2078:

Fenrina.2954:

Aidan Savage.2078:

Now, the Caledon wurm? THAT was a fun fight. Got the wurm down to about 50% at 8 minutes with 15 people fighting him, guess what, we didnt kill the first husk fast enough. Know what happened? Wurm said “kitten you guys, I’m healing back to 100%.”

Wait a minute. ~50% hp recovery from one husk? What!? I could understand strengthening the healing some, but that’s insane.

Yep. Now the only reason I will ever show up to that area of the world is to complete the events that spawn the wurm, get my experience, then wander off. Not sure if I’ll bother with the blight avatars as those are now champions, despite the fact they do drop champ bags.

The husks are not a problem at all, if 95% of the zerg does not ignore them, as they’re used to. Unless killing vets is somehow beneath you. o_O The wurm has much less hp now. I’m agaist the schedule, which is just a rigid, repeatable, restrictive chore, but the scaling seems fine in many cases. The Svanir Shaman, however, is still a puny punching bag.

Megaservered areas are much too crowded… Everybody started to lag on bosses. :/

Lord Kuru.3685:

“Sorry, I gotta go. I have the 4:15 Fire Shaman I gotta catch.”

If you want to make Tyria feel more like people’s dreary real lives, you’ve succeeded.

Exactly what I’ve been thinking for the last few feeks.

Ohoni.6057:

2. The schedule DEFINITELY needs to be available in-game. No option otherwise. People need to be able to track which events are coming up, as well as while events are active in other parts of the world. It’s nonsense that I have to keep the scheduling page open when playing the game.

Oh gods, yes. Yesterday, at hour:45 I’ve jumped to behe, wurm and maw only to find out absolutely nothing is going on there. ;D

A slightly more difficult open world content? Outrageous. ;D

So, how am I supposed to know which boss exactly is currently getting activated on 0:15 or 0:45? :P

The new boss schedule bugs me a lot. Also worried about the ever-present zergs after the full megaserver release. Other than that, meh. Not a revolution.

And is that the only thing? Larger hp pool? If this is the new scaling, I’m out.

What’s the source on all this? Or is it panicking just in case , because somebody mentioned it?

No, sir, I don’t like it. I laughed long enough at WoW for introducing this. :P

Lunacy Solacio.6514:

Manasa Devi.7958:

One thing I do wonder about is, will I ever be able to do events like the shaman at the Frozen Maw with just a tiny handful of people (fun!), which sometimes happens when I’m playing at off-peak hours? Or will every run of such events always have a huge zerg going on in the future, because I’ll be in the same instance as everyone all over the continent that’s still online at those ungodly hours, instead of just the guys on my server? If the latter, I might as well quit the game. I can’t stand zerg play.

It will be guaranteed zerg play, as there won’t be any other major event going on at that moment.

Exactly. Only the massively upscaled hp button mashing extravaganzas. Brainless farming all the way, everywhere.

What pdavis said. Besides, nowadays, using the ‘entitled’ argument in an Internet discussion is tantamount to invoking the Godwin’s Law.

Mojo Gris Gris.5941:

Color me confused about one thing for sure. Why is this being implemented in cities at all?

No idea, but it is the single upside I see to the whole thing – somewhat populated racial cities.

“Stability, income”. What has the gaming devolved to.

Diogo: Currently, the boss schedule differs from day to day, depends on the moment people defeated the monster last time. You have to actually check out what’s available, bosses overlap in a millyun different ways. You decide what you want to kill now, and the next day, at the same hour, the choice will be different.
After the changes? If I can only play 3 hours a day, roughly at the same time, I will always face the same set of bosses, at the very same hour. Like a clockwork. Exciting.