No.

You can definitely do dragons in a small group. People just need to know what to do and how to survive on their own and kite if there's no tank. From the amount of people that do Sunspire it baffles me how many "Sunspire Saint" and "Emperor/Former Emperor" get pushed in.

I just wish Undead shout scale with the amount people because it random its difficulty from just simple skelly boys to "Here have 3 bone goliaths have fun + skeletons, hope your 3 man group can handle it"

Thor199389 wrote: »

Well... Boys next time read carefully...
I was talking about scaling. Same thing with harrowstorms.

What is a small group to you @Dragonredux?
To kill Dragons in a sane amount of time, you need ~6 ppl.

Emp means nothing. You get that for pure grinding AP.
Sunspire Saint is only veteran Sunspire clear, not much either.

@idk older zones are low pop - yes. Thats part of the problem. But somehow I dont see any suggestion how to compensate that. Do Harrowstorm Dailies in a year on an empty map... that will be fun!

I'm up for scaling.
Scaling in the sense damaged received is reduced in 'PVE' and 'PVE' only for new players and only for a limited time then the training wheels come off and you leave the nest!

Would also fit in with their new transmute crysal use and their idea to improve PvE Options to gain them.

idk wrote: »

World bosses are supposed to be a challenge and none are impossible to do. They are world bosses. Form a group and go at it. That is what is intended.

PS. The older zones are low population because most of us have played them to death. We found them interesting but like the population of any MMORPG we have moved on to the newer content.

I used to be in love with the Gold Coast region. It was one of my absolute favourites to play, and I even loved farming the motifs there. Now I just don't have any reason to go there. Antiquities helped a bit and the celebration events help as well. Other than that... yeah. Most zones just hold nothing worth going back to.

The issue is the inherent themepark design to the game. Once the majority of players have completed a zone, there is little to no reason to return. A redesign to include dynamic world events like GW2 has would make a zone ever replayable, but it's almost completely unlikely at this point.

I do agree open world bosses and overland events should be dinamically scalable to the amount of players around. It's the best win-win scenario:

- Currently on highly popular zones, overland content is a joke because the sheer amount of players just faceroll everything.
- On the other hand low pop zones is completely the other way around.

How could ZOS handle this? Add an "HP" buff to bosses and overland event NPCs and basically this buff should add as a multiplier of HP based on the amount of players around its location.

ZOS could also add some more incentives, for example an increased XP reward to incentivize grouping and/or compensate the XP/min gains in hightly populated zones like Alik'r Desert.

I use the world bosses in the base game zones to give all of my builds a real world test as opposed to beating up on the raid dummy. It’s a real test of skill that way using actual raid food and bringing rss management into the equation. It’s fantastic practice for learning to kite and deal damage at the same time. If you can perform your rotation on the move without the benefit of group buffs/debuffs than imagine how strong you will be in a group setting.

DLC WB’s are a bit tougher and come with mechanics that appear in those same raids that you can also practice. Many of them have adds so you will learn to use things like snares or ultimates at the appropriate time or if you are duoing you can learn how to separate bosses or adds and deal with them in the appropriate order.

Dragons are their own thing entirely. Even in medium size groups sometimes mechs can trip people up. Especially when it comes to passing aggro around. It can make for excellent practice for healers or DDs with support skills to place their buffs and heals properly. Like when I play my magplar I place my spears on the people holding aggro if I’m not holding it myself. Or when I’m on my Stamden and the dragon casts his life drain ability I grab a group of people and aim my burst heal at them to support them through it.

Harrowstorms I’ve not done yet, still waiting for the initial rush to go through so I can learn actual mechs on those.