Guild Wars 2

Defense Seige crusher/razor is alive and well in EBG. But yes, home defense spawn bl razor should come back, not enemy spawn razor though, that guy was annoying.

Disregard, I guess I’ve been tuning the messages out, but they are in fact still there.

They reset it at some point during one of the patches a while back. Maybe you got caught in that reset? When it started happening again, I just went in and unchecked everything again 1 by 1 until I found the right one that disabled it. The capture messages still appear in chat, but not in the middle of the screen, the claim messages still show in the middle but not nearly as obstructive as the capture messages were.

Chat options – game messages – one of those check boxes, I forget which one. It’s been there all along

Do you have poison lore mastery unlocked? The wiki says this mastery is optional, but they may have changed that.

While you can’t flat out buy these utility effects (since they are account bound) you can speed up the process of crafting them by buying some of the components. Unfortunately, sellers know these components are needed for these items and several other craftable items and collections, and price will always go up when demand goes up. That’s just how it goes.

For your case though, I’d suggest, as I would for all those with high value, low time foods and boosters, Invest in some primers!

They aren’t cheap, but neither is this Utility. Granted, the recipe produces 5, but the time is 30 minutes a pop. 1 primer adds 12 hours time to a food or utility you’re running, and in my opinion is well worth it.

:) all right, good luck with your issue then

When they introduced the first portal scroll people were all for it. After the crafting stations were removed from wvw, people complained about being “forced” to buy these scrolls or teleport out of an instance to LA, people complained there weren’t crafting areas close to the HOT maps…Anet introduced Noble Folley, then it was “enough with the gem bought scrolls”. With BSF a player was able to purchase a scroll with unbound magic, the response was “my bank is full of scrolls, WHY so many Anet?”.

Note that all of the new maps were accessible without scrolls, no one was forced to buy them, but did anyway because they didn’t want to repeat the story on a different character or perhaps didnt have a friend to teleport to.

Anyway, with this new map, and this quote unquote scroll…the area you get sent to with this scroll only really allows you to bypass the story to access the area. It’s no different than a permanent teleport to friend, except there is no friend waiting there unless the tree is a friend (I call him Spence, but I digress). One is not forced to gamble for its acquisition, and there really isn’t any unfair areas you can reach if you possess this item, there are no repair/bank/vendor/WPs/Nodes/or otherwise perks to possessing this item, it’s just a cool way to get your alts to the new map and STILL people found a way to complain about it…

SBI/SOS/CD/HOD/DB – Players that started off on SF…

In a time where the youngsters are making up words for every other actual word and where some of these made up words are being added to the OED forcing the adults to learn this new language…are we really questioning a Y on the end of a word that we all know the definition of?

Ovalkvadratcylinder.9365:

Guys it’s only been one day so far. Give it a few weeks to get something to base your feedback on. Make it constructive, not a rant.

Negative! I gave it all of 1 minute to decide (for myself of course) it was grotesque. No rant needed.

As to the other poster that suggested this solution is the result of those that whinned for server identity?
First, this solution is NOT what we asked for, and in essence seperates us (the refugees) further from our original server and our host depending on who or how the other side of the screen is viewing us.

Furthermore, depending on who is viewing us, it has the ability to take away that salty, revenge seeking angst we’ve come to love about this game mode. Afterall, how can you hunt down the Mithral X server Invader that just seige buried you, if you don’t know, or cant figure out how to find out that you’re looking for a Mitral X server Invader.

So how would you suggest 1 defender get in a friendly tower where the gate is guarded and being attacked by 40 offense?

Your solution, may work for your playstyle, but it kills other people’s playstyle.

Some adventures require you have some mid to high level mastery to be able to do in the first place. These adventures should never be locked on top of this requirement!

Think about this, Drone race (requires poison lore), Haywire (requires Exalted Assistance), Fallen Masks (requires Exalted something), Wings of Gold and Bugs in the Branches (Both require some form of gliding), and Lava (Speed Mushrooms Help, but aren’t required for Bronze)

To the best of my recollection, Shooting Gallery requires nothing, but Sanctum Scramble used to require partial story completion to even gain access to the area.

Anyway, the ones that have a mastery stipulation shouldn’t be locked during events imo.

Yeah, male really only works for Charr imo. But, that’s just my opinion.

I have 20-30 toons, all are female except, 1 male Charr, 1 male sylvari, 1 male Human thats modeled after Louis from Interview with a Vampire, because..well, he’s beautiful, and 2 male Norn. The norn are storage characters, because male norn just look strange on any class, the others I play from time to time.

Even if you are actually female no one believes it when you say so, not even other females.

Personally, I believe there are way more females playing GW2 than the 3% figure listed by the OP, but I also believe that male players account for atleast 70% of the population.

As for why so many men play female toons, well, I too asked my Fiance this, and the answer was the same as Evga got.

RoseofGilead.8907:

Crafting the pieces doesn’t unlock them. You have to bind them (equip them or right click and choose “unlock in wardrobe”) to unlock the skin. If you’ve not done that, then that’s why they’re showing up as locked.

Now, if you’re absolutely sure you’ve equipped/unlocked the skin that way since the Wardrobe went in, then yeah, you might want to contact support.

I’ve know how to unlock a skin.

Over the years, I’ve equipped them, I’ve salvaged them and each time it says Ive unlocked the skins.

The Helm is the very first item under wardrobe, so it’s easily noticed when you look at your skins.

Prior to account unlock I was wearing the skins on my mesmer, so obviously I had “unlocked” them at one point.

Yet, I know for a fact I’ve crafted this set atleast twice thus far.

My concern, is knowing this bug bug exists, and if the helm wasn’t the first item, how do we know that this isn’t happening with other pieces.

During the 4 years I’ve played the game, I have unlocked the skins for atleast 1 set multiple times. Today marks atleast the 4th time I’ve done this.

Roughly a year ago, I went through my unlocked skins and noticed I didn’t have the light Acolyte mask unlocked. Which was odd, because I remember wearing this skin on 1 of my mesmers before account wardrobe. So, a year ago, I got on my tailor, noted that I had the recipes unlocked and crafted all 6 armor pieces AGAIN.

When the BL chest change came recently, I unlocked some skin that I thought I should’ve had, so I checked my unlocks again and noticed all 6 pieces of light acolyte was locked again.

Today, I recrafted these pieces again, still the recipes are unlocked on my level 500 tailor, yet the skins were not. I KNOW I’ve unlocked this set Multiple times, WHAT is going on with this bug?

Main: SF→Ebay (2?yrs ago for a month)→SF
ALT 1: SF →Ebay→SF→NSP (During 1st link with SF)
ALT 2: BG→FC (during 2nd? Link When we all faced “quad”)→SF (about 3 weeks ago)

**I hardly play Alt 1 anymore except for dailies. Both Alt 1 and alt 2 started off as storage. I only really started playing alt 2 when FC and SF were linked then stopped for 2 months…, None of my accounts are in a wvw guild, if merging doesn’t happen soon, I’ll probably spend 1 more transfer on alt 1 to SF as well…except maybe the first time by accident, I’ve never touched a tactivator that I know of

Yeah, I too fail to see how giving a linked pair what would basically equate to a unified server name every 2 months would destroy host server pride any more so than linking has destroyed or impaired guest server pride.

Having been on both sides of this coin now, I can say I feel more comfortable in the guest position, but that in no way means that as a guest, I wish to continue having my contributions or those of my server mates go soley to whatever host we’re working for that month. We guests, have been asking for recognition in some way shape or form for months now. Hosts always felt confident that their names were secure and basically blew our concerns off and ridiculed us for even suggesting we had server pride. But a few months back, some rightful T3-T4 hosts were guests for 2 months, so, that should tell you, you can’t count on assumption that your server name will always be represented under the current system regardless of your server rank.

And speaking of the host server pride, and it’s slightly off topic, but, the current poll, should theorically be the biggest way of showing ones server pride, ya know through unity, determination, pulling together and being accountable and such..Yet the results don’t reflect much in the way of any of that.

This is the problem with presenting options, we will always come up with more and will probably complain when the one we liked or suggested didn’t get picked.

PLEASE don’t put this to a final vote, just give us the option that works best under the constraits of the system and if at all possible somehow represents hosts as well as their guests. Who cares if names change every 2 months, colors and guilds tend to change week to week.

Sure, heck, it could even be an 8 hour track. BUT during the reward track there should be quality gates. For instance, halfway through the track, the “candidate” should be given a trainee tag whereby they are required to invite and lead no less than 5 squad members to their squad, and after a 30 minute run the squad members have to vote yes or no on the candidates compentincy. Perhaps a quiz at the end on seige placement or encouraging things to say vs not so encourging things to say that makes people want to follow the commander into battle, and maybe for grins a title after successful completion of the track.

Of course, failure on any quality gates resets progress to zip, so, potions are lost.

Did you guys know the new Legendaries require you to salvage an ascended piece of gear for one of the components? As in, that’s literally the only way to get this 1 piece. Hours spent farming mats, hours spent leveling the required craft discipline, all that just to spend a measly second purposefully destroying something beautiful you created…Unless you got an ascended drop in wvw, then it doesn’t hurt as bad I suppose.

While I can appreciate that Mad King nearly killing a player AFKing at the crafting station in LA is a problem, I also question why people are AFKing in LA and then complaining when they know this is going to happen during this time of year?

The festival has been running for 2 weeks, Mad King Says is on a schedule. Anet probably isn’t going to change the radius of this event 4 days before the end of the festival.

But, assuming a player is new and they’re strolling through LA one October day and suddenly fall violent ill, unbeknownst of the Mad Kings presence, I’d imagine that new person would question WT…in this case, the questionable radius is actually a good thing, as it lets newbies know about this event.

The amount of Hero Points needed to fully unlock all traits within the elite spec line totaled over 200 points (250 total I believe).

You can certainly do hero challenges in core Tyria to get those HP points, BUT please note that HPs in core Tyria grant 1 HP point/Per, while HPs in HOT maps grant 10 HP pts /per.

If it’s a plain question of whether you can do it in core Tyria, then yes you can, but in HOT, you can do it quicker.

Right there with you OP. Last year, I upgraded an alt account that had 1 level 80 character on it without map completion. The account is 3 years old bought during a $10 sale.

In the last few months, I’ve completed world exploration, done 3/4 SW legendaries, decapitated and killed 3 TT wurms, completed 1 original personal story, completed LS2 and done a few fractal achieves.

All that and this account is still lacking T4 on Fractal masteries and T4 Legendary crafting. But, both are still open for experience gain till I can gather more mastery points.

Pace yourself! I wanted auto loot first, so I worked on that, then I wanted to work on Bifrost and realized I didn’t need T4 Legendary Crafting for first generation weapons, so I applied points to T3 Fractals so I could gain experice on another line whIle working on gathering the mastery points for those last two lines.

It takes time to get the experience and the mastery points, it’s not quick when you’re first starting out, but it’s doable. GL.

Dragons Stand! Stop laughing and hear me out. 3 closed off areas, you have to work with your team/server to open your area, once open a giant 3 way arial fight to the death. No walls, no cannons, no LB Rangers or meteor shower eles, and you can only stealth if you’ve PVEd enough.

I’d say it’s not an issue. Personally, with everything maxed except raids (which I havent spent 1 pt on yet) I have atleast 20 extra green mastery points and don’t have gold on 3 of the adventures (Shooting, Fungus and Lava).

But, it really depends on what you’re working on or how you’ve spread your points up to this point.

Those 2 Mag masteries, Ley line and the other 1 that requires 12 pts can be daunting at first. And I can’t recall at what point you can start putting points on raids, but if you did, you may find yourself further in the hole than most players focusing solely on Mag masteries.

Overall though, there are enough extra pts that obtaining gold in all adventures is not a requirement for getting everything unlocked, it just seems like it is.

The pack was originally released on January 29th or something like that towards the end of the month, a friend bought it the first day and got Januarys Brew, I bought it January 30th maybe 31st, but definately a few hours before reset yet I didn’t get January’s Brew. Even though it had only been released a day or 2 before I bought it and it was still January.

This was bugged from the start for some of us. Luckily, January isn’t too far away now, it’s just been kind of a pain when I think about this.

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Owl's_Abattoir

Check out the events section. If you click on each one, it says Upon success / Upon failure this event happens.

I forget if it was friend of the owls or the other achievement for Nevermore in this area, but there was one event that never started because all the others succeeded and something had to fail to get what I was hunting for.

Anyway, of the 2 achievements gained in that area, 1 took me over 4 hours to get, but the one I had to wait the longest for was the one that never happened because all the others succeeded. I ended up luring Jormags Minion close to the WP (Into the owl circle) and got the achievement. Jormags Minion always happened, but wasn’t the event stated for that particular Nevermore Achievement.

If you do it this way, ask whoever is around to not kill the minion quickly, let them get close to the WP, they’ll die really quickly after that, but if they get close enough to endanger the owls, you should get credit for the achievement.

It should be noted that any races cultural armor can be purchased in wvw as well.

T3 is the most expensive of any cultural tier, but in wvw is half the price of that when purchased in the races home city.

HOWEVER, when purchased in wvw you also need alot badges of honor along with the gold.

Badges of honor are gained by capping camps, towers, keeps etc, but can be hard to gather in the beginning, and will take time to gather all the ones necessary for the wvw purchase of cultural armor. Then again, gathering 120 gold for a Diventitys Reach purchase takes time too.

Just keep in mind that that are a few ways to skin a cat so to say, and if you find an alternate way more suiting, go with it.

Until you find your prefered suit though, there are many areas of the game to explore and cultural armor isn’t necessarily end game.

For Cultural armor, the prices are fine, and they certainly don’t need to be raised for T3. T1 cultural armor is meant to be purchased by a level 35 player and is appropriately priced if we’re under the assumption that a genuine level 35 player is purchasing it, because new level 35’s are broke!

With the addition of mastery points, some veteren players may have gone back and purchased these armor sets for the MP. If you can salvage it, then it’s all good, because the past has taught the ANET folks that we don’t like soulbound things we can no longer wear and can’t salvage or forge. Of course sometimes, we just have to put up with the lost coin, karma ect for the greater good.

Otherwise, this armor is rare right? Ok, so you MAY get ecto if you’re able to salvage the cultural armor, but you’re more likely to get ecto or higher tier mats salvaging stuff from a ML run, so why bother trying with something like this?

The tiers of cultural armor give new players something to work towards, a goal! The mastery point gives older players a reason to create another toon they may not have before, and just because those vets may be richer now, they shouldnt have to pay more for that MP.

Commander tags: Used to be 100g PER CHARACTER! The tags were converted to account tags and new purchases were raised to 300g. With the introduction of mentor tags, raising the price of commander tags again would make absolutely zero sense as no one would buy one if they could just get a mentor tag and be done with it.

Unless there’s a loophole, like something you can buy from an NPC relatively cheap, salvage to gain higher tier mats that can then be sold on the TP for 3x or more your initial investment, I don’t believe NPC prices really affect the economy or need to be modified which would only punish those that probably aren’t even aware of the loophole in question.

Now, there are or atleast have been loopholes in the past, but the overall knowledge of these loopholes didn’t make a big difference, and ANET has probably since shut those loopholes down for the most part.

If it were to become a problem, rather than raising prices of these NPC items, perhaps making then non salvageable would be a better suggestion.

I don’t know about most GOEs, but personally, I’ve done 100% 4 times on my main account, once on 1 alt and once on another alt.

Of the “6 total” world completions, the first 3 on my main required wvw exploration as well. The very first time I did Been there Done That, it took a year…with other characters getting about 50-70% in between. The most recent completion took a week.

I don’t have the dreamer, but I’ve had wvw players and meta zerglings fire this weapon at me or right in my ear. People like me are over the annoyance.

If you made the weapon you should be proud, you should NOT feel guilty about a sound you have no control over. If people are whispering you, suggest to them they make it.

There are people with legendaries they are proud of, whether they bought them or made them they will obnoxiously flaunt them. There will be people that obtain the legendary armor that flaunt it in everyone else’s faces, it will most likely be annoying. The Dreamer will soon be far less annoying, unless one day in the future you find yourself next to a glowy, purposely transforming theif firing The Dreamer…

BlaqueFyre.5678:

Cynova.7406:

Why only raids? If we can get legendary weps in a variety of regular pve content why not the legendary armor? Not everyone likes raids and a top tier of equipment shouldn’t be exclusive only to those who want to raid.

Will there be other options and ways to acquire legendary armor is this the only way?

Why do all Legendary weapons have to be tied to open world Pve content? And exclusive to people that play Pve?

Why will legendary armor get rewarded to those that are quite possibly newer but have more money to pay for a raid win rather than those that have quite possibly been playing open world longer and either don’t want to raid or pay for a win?

Legendary anything should encompass all areas of the game, not just 1 area.

Rognik.2579:

like the rock dog.

I always wondered why this game doesn’t provide country dogs or perhaps a classical dog. Rock dogs should have those fuzzy paw bands and long, grungy fur

Anyway, the closest you’ll get to a rock dog pet is

wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Superior_Rune_of_the_Ogre

As for raptors, they should be for Necros, not rangers. A summoned swarm of Pocket Raptor minions would be fun for a bleed necro.

A long time ago there were NPCs that sold books called trait retainers or something along that line, that you purchased to reset your traits. Now, you can reset your unlocked traits anytime you wish for free, but the HPs you spend on the individual trait and skill lines cannot be reset. So, as you’re leveling, just be mindful of which lines you spend points on.

Last time I checked people were still attempting to sell those books on the TP, don’t buy them if they are still there as they are useless.

If you ever wander into wvw, the ability lines in there are set too, meaning once you spend your points, they cannot be reset. Though Anet has manually reset them for you atleast twice in the past, it not a guarantee.

To the best of my knowledge, short of when HOT was released, Anet has never fully reset a players chosen character trait points.

Ayrilana.1396:

HazyDaisy.4107:

I was with a group of about 15-20 last night and lich died pretty quick. Then later a group of 10 and his retaliation killed all but 2 of us. Luckily he was low enough we were able to get him, but on the last break bar both of us went down, he died having rocks thrown at him

The horror on the other hand definately seems easier than last year with fewer people, but will still mess you up of you get stuck in his chainsaw.

But for lich, I remember needing atleast a group of 20 last year, even then the fight was longer than the first run I encountered last night. So something is different in that fight.

Viscount seemed about the same, but I’ve yet to enounter him with less than 10 people.

We didn’t have elite specs last year, so it’s not unreasonable for Anet to have modified some things in these fights to compensate for our increased OPness.

We did have elite specs last year.

Lol even still not everyone did and of those that did have then not many knew how to use them. So in essence, we didn’t have them.

I was with a group of about 15-20 last night and lich died pretty quick. Then later a group of 10 and his retaliation killed all but 2 of us. Luckily he was low enough we were able to get him, but on the last break bar both of us went down, he died having rocks thrown at him

The horror on the other hand definately seems easier than last year with fewer people, but will still mess you up of you get stuck in his chainsaw.

But for lich, I remember needing atleast a group of 20 last year, even then the fight was longer than the first run I encountered last night. So something is different in that fight.

Viscount seemed about the same, but I’ve yet to enounter him with less than 10 people.

We didn’t have elite specs last year, so it’s not unreasonable for Anet to have modified some things in these fights to compensate for our increased OPness.

In the battle of pvers vs wvwers aquiring a legendary regardless of the generation, the real losers are those that detest crafting. It’s always been there, and it’s not for everyone. So let’s all call a brief truce and honor Bob, the non level 400 artificer that desperately NEEDS Nevermore, but hates being “forced” to level Artificing in order to get it. Bob is the real victim here. /end sarcasm

Selling spots in a dungeon where there’s a party of 5 people or even a raid of 10 people is one thing, but selling spots to be able to open chests in a map or maps that many other people besides the seller helped provide to the purchaser is another thing entirely.

For some reason I thought of the well JP the other day. Man, I haven’t run that JP in ages I thought, I should do it…wait, where is the well now?

Then I remembered why I haven’t run that JP in ages.

Yeah…I’ve explored TD 10 times on 1 account and 3 times on another, it’s safe to say I have it covered.

My response was not a plea for help or a strike at the map itself, it was aimed at the OP that says he hates this map. It doesn’t matter if there’s an easy way to navigate or complete the map, if some players don’t like the map, they will most likely never like the map, and that’s ok.

In Frost Gorge Sound there’s an area along the east side of the map. Years ago, when I first navigated it, I dubbed this area the Crevasse of Death, because once you were in, there seemed to be no exit out of the crevasse, a series of dead ends and Ice Elementals chasing you and throwing stuff at you til you died in a corner, cold and alone. Ever since then, when I’ve explore that area, I’ve climbed along the top of the glacier to reach the NE corner of FGS, NEVER venturing into the Crevasse of Death itself, because after all only death and dead ends reside there.

Tangled Deaths, forgive me, Depths…is a giant Crevasse of Death, only there is no way to quietly skip along the top to reach the other side. Because the map utilizes all 4 levels, it makes it very difficult to determine exactly where you’ve come from or where you’re headed to. This can be confusing and perhaps enraging for first time explorers, or even explorers that have successfully made their way through TD to DS.

Luckily, Anet provided (through masteries) a rather quick way from the beginning of this map to the entrance to DS. With Updrafts and Wallows, you can get there in about 5-7 mins. BUT, even the possibility of a shortcut will not appease those explorers that are forever trumatized by this map.

The only game mode where what server you are on vs your ability to party and play with your friends is wvw. Now other specific instances (such as fractals) may show a server beside your friends name, but that does not necessarily mean that’s the server they are on, just the specific instance they are in.

Wvw Relinkings (guest servers switching hosts) happen every 2 months on the last Friday of the month. The last relinking was Aug 26th, the next is Oct 28th. But of you dont wvw, you don’t have to worry about you or your friends server.

1 thing I have noticed though since wvw linkings have started, the instance most maps you port into, will most likely be filled predominatly with people from your wvw server, their host/guest as well as the servers they are fighting that week. But, in standard pve, because of mega server, there are no restrictions or a need to transfer servers in order to play with your friends.

You party with that friend and click join in instance.

All the tools available to quickly clean your bags on any character, anywhere, anytime are in place now. You just may have to work or spend a few gems or gold on the most effecienct process.

First, you’re provided with 1 free shared inventory slot, second, buy 5 more slots and fill it with the following.
1-2) An X-Fed salvage o matic for blues and greens and a BL or higher qulaity Salvage kit for the rares you wish to salvage.
3) A stack of vendors, or if you’re willing to gamble Tarrktun Personal Delivery Portal.
4) A stack of BL vendors
5) A stack of Bank Access Vendors
6) A portal scroll.

Whether you choose to clean on the run or clean by sticking all boxes, bags and gear in your bank, you’re covered. But even changing the type of loot that drops woud still cause a player to clean occasionally.

The runes are annoying, but the overall process of cleaning is much better than it was a year ago. You have salvage all, you have deposit all collectibles, and you now have the ability to know exactly where that stack of 250 vendors are and are able to pop 1 without having to log off your current character and on to the character that’s holding them.

Salvage all, deposit all, pop a vendor and sell the runes, excess undepositables or stick them in your bank, done!

You could try using ASCII characters? At this point it’s hard to tell if some names are unavailable because they are taken or because they are blacklisted because it was offensive.

Unless you search every name you come up with to see if it appears on UD as meaning something else that you may not even be aware of…and let’s be honest, not all of us are hip enough to know that some word we use everyday could mean something else to a different generation. I mean, yes, protecting younger pepole is a good thing, but banning names because someone somewhere said it meant BAD…please.

Besides, I’ve recently seen a whole crop of character names that I’m not sure how they possibly got past the censors, yet there they are in game.

They took away the cost of armor repairs for all portions of the game, mainly because wvwers were having to spend loads of coins throughout a nightlt run repairing their armor after being run over by a zerg of 25+ everytime they set foot outside of citadel.

This change happened quite some time ago, way before HOT. But comparable to HOT bosses, imagine having to pay everytime you died, because broken armor decreases your effectiveness, and non broken is better. That money added up in wvw, where loot was bad and death was often and those players never complained about the change.

And sometimes…eh most times, the enemy shows up to “help”.

GL OP

The last event in scar (escort the cannon) is tricky to do even with 3 people. Solo, OP is right, it’s near impossible to do alone, even without a scaling factor, keeping the canon alive and fighting even a normal mob by yourself is tough, but most times, it’s not like what the OP encountered.

What the OP was asking though, that the flags be immune to mobs surrounding them is unreasonable for those genuinely trying to do the camp event chain because of the scaling factor associated with these maps and the fact that most players would simply wait by the flag for someone else to do the chain to kick off the adventure rather than lending a hand with the chain to make sure the adventure actually started.

The instance the OP was in is unfortunate, because there was a group that scaled and deserted this event (for whatever reason) which made the mobs not only impossible for even an experienced player, but extremely frustrating for a newer player not familiar with map events or their timers or why a large group would bypass and abandon a player that was only hunting mastery points.

In TD, the camp events don’t need to be completed in order for the Gerent meta to start, but they do need to be done for the adventures to be open. It’s a catch 22, because if the main meta starts before the camps are done, people will flee the camp to go to the Gerent, and anyone still working on the camp is stuck by themselves, quietly cussing those that abandoned the camp, while those that went to the Gerent are quietly cussing those not doing the Gerent.

In short OP, if you need an adventure, ask in map chat for assistance completing the camp chain, the size of the volunteer group may shrink or perhaps grow the further it goes on, but if you get it done before people go off to do other things, you’ll have better luck making sure you get a few attempts at that adventure before something else diverts the maps attention.