Guild Wars 2

[Icepaw]

So I completed the Bava Nisos meta tonight and map completed the area hunting down all the mastery points in the area, the meta is a waste of time. Normally at the end of the meta event there's a bunch of treasure and you can loot chests to get loot...after the bava nisos meta there was no boxes, so either it doesn't fully complete or it's as worthless as the zone is stupid. Once my mechanist finishes the story I'm never touching that place again as what's the point if it literally awards you nothing. The last chapter for sure was rushed as even the mastery achievement for the chapter gives you nothing...the chapter as a whole is a huge waste of time for zero reward.

 

[Extra Floof Taur]

Yeah Bava Nisos is on par with Dragon Stand : you need to complete the meta to fully explore the map, and it's just crap. Gyala Delve (End of Dragon) is the same, you cannot explore safely until after a successful meta, but Gyala Delve has a heck ton of loot, only limited by how many keys you have with you in the run.

Bava Nisos is worse as you mentioned before, the enemies are packed together and their respawn rate is nuts, meaning if you don't have good DPS to take them out quick enough (and hope you can survive them in the process), you might as well just run, don't even bother with NOT-group events. Even the veteran ones can give you headache.

Only my Ranger has finished th Janthir Wild story. Next would be my Necromancer, then Warrior (Almorra). The rest of my cast just gonna chill at Lowland Shore and Janthir Syntri if I feel like it.

I still can't get over how anticlimatic thee final chapters are... I've said this for how many times and I still feel disappointed at how unimpactful it was. There was so much they could've done, yet I only had to fight 3 "tormented souls" to seal the Mists gate and call it a day.

I don't exactly look forward to next expansion. After my break and I get back, I'm getting back to my objectives listed earlier, then grind for other mastery points in Icebrood Saga to get it done as well, and that's it.

 

[Icepaw]

Gyala Delve at least was interesting but Bava Nisos is a huge waste of time if you're trying to get achievements as the legendary boss requires a ton of people to kill him but even then is aw groups of twenty instantly die as he doesn't televise his moves so he'll suddenly drop a curse or a huge insta kill AoE that the achievements demand you avoid all of. Not sure if I honestly began to lag but I never saw highlighted areas of where the move is going to be he just slaughtered like forty people in an instant and we somehow managed to kill him. What is insufferable about meta events these days though is people refuse to release and run back, I'd find people just laying there as if they went AFK the second they died but you can't just revive them as the boss hones in on anyone trying to revive someone. It's worse with that issue in the meta for the demon realm of Secrets of the Obscure as you'll have dozens of people just laying there and I've never beaten that boss fight as people keep doing that. I'm praying at this rate for the developers to never make a meta feel so worthless again though... we beat the organs and the heart and the objective tells us to just talk to the people in the middle of the field but the meta was over and nobody, not even the groups doing the meta got anything. It's like your reward is getting to finish exploring the map for the last 3 minutes before it throws everyone out and restarts the zone

 

[Extra Floof Taur]

It's worse with that issue in the meta for the demon realm of Secrets of the Obscure as you'll have dozens of people just laying there and I've never beaten that boss fight as people keep doing that.

Oh my fucking goodness YES. THAT. I hate that shit.

There's the emergency waypoint in the map, not that far away, and its icon is THE BIGGEST of the map too. Also doesn't cost money. And if you teleport there, you can use the ley-line ride move with the skyscale to quickly get you back to the area to get back in the fight.

But no, people just lay there like deadweight, despite numerous times of me and others telling them, DON'T WAIT FOR REVIVE, TELEPORT BACK.

I've managed to beat that boss fight several times, but it's always infuriating whenever the meta fails, because some people decide to just be lazy fucks.

I'm praying at this rate for the developers to never make a meta feel so worthless again though... we beat the organs and the heart and the objective tells us to just talk to the people in the middle of the field but the meta was over and nobody, not even the groups doing the meta got anything. It's like your reward is getting to finish exploring the map for the last 3 minutes before it throws everyone out and restarts the zone

As we all agree together, this map in particular and the near-end chapters of Janthir Wilds feel awfully disappointing and underwhelming...

 

[Icepaw]

The demon meta one especially as I've never had a run of that where people didn't just run back as if you stop doing DMG or moving in general the boss or his adds will slaughter you, then all the buffs come with down sides... I fear I'll never get the achievement for kicking his butt before finishing that area's story. Here's to hoping they'll realize Basa Nisos one is beyond stupid and fix it to at least award loot as defeats the purpose of doing the meta if you get nothing for it, so it's especially BS when the map is so beyond complicated and stupid. Does seem like you can just skip that whole chapter though as finishing the last chapter of Janthir awards you barely any achievement points and nothing else...maybe a title but after getting that once you get basically nothing. I managed to not get knocked down by the three white mantle folk on my mechanist by using a pistol and shield and having the mech do most the close range fighting...so I've basically full cleared the achievements for the last three chapters