Event Bosses Need to be Toned Down

[Shrandar]

I think that some events are not meant to be tackled by a single player. Dragons for example would be impossible by single players because they made scaling not to scale that low on purpose.

The ui indicates the level for an event and wether its a group or elite event. Ofcourse there should be those. The events I encountered were not classified as such though and still difficult to solo. I didnt encounter many of them as most events were bum rushed (succesfull or not) so its too early to tell.

[Alaris]

Ah, I didn't pay attention to the UI that much. I noticed the skill point challenges on the map, those tended to be hard for solo players. Otherwise if something was big or there were a lot of foes, I knew it was going to be difficult. Perhaps those you encountered were misclassified... or maybe they were solo-able but required better gameplay?

[Shrandar]

Ah, I didn't pay attention to the UI that much. I noticed the skill point challenges on the map, those tended to be hard for solo players. Otherwise if something was big or there were a lot of foes, I knew it was going to be difficult. Perhaps those you encountered were misclassified... or maybe they were solo-able but required better gameplay?

Lol yes the last is indeed a possibility, as said its still early in the game so skill might very well be an issue. I do wonder however how the scaling works in relation to respawns, at a point I cleared the road of balista's with another player with no one else being there, after we had cleared them out an group came escorting a trader through the same area, ballista's and sons of Svanir instantly repopped and killed us.

[Alaris]

Escort quests probably have their own spawns.

[Shrandar]

Might be but these were there before also.

[Sir Jack]

I just did a norn event with some big ice beastie boss and the thing was scaled up to the point where the fight took forever, and it would one-shot anyone with it's charge. The charge attack was okay as I saw it and knew to dodge, but was too slow and deserved to get clobbered. But the health on the thing was ridunkulous.

The one in Svanir's Dome?
That thing was as tough as a door in WvW...
Took ages to take it down.

Did that one twice. Second time, this happened:
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Charged into a wall and got stuck. Then all hell came down on him. Annoyingly enough though, if he charged too far from the group where he could no longer be hit, his regen triggers almost immediately, and it's incredibly fast. He went from 80% back to full HP in 2-3 seconds.

[Karuro]

Did that one twice. Second time, this happened:
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Charged into a wall and got stuck. Then all hell came down on him. Annoyingly enough though, if he charged too far from the group where he could no longer be hit, his regen triggers almost immediately, and it's incredibly fast. He went from 80% back to full HP in 2-3 seconds.

I did it thrice.
First two were pretty long battles, third we ran up there during the Beta Finale with our Zerg and the guy didn't last a minute.
Lolscaling.

[Khanisaurus]

Yes, but this issue is events aren't supposed to trigger unless there are enough players present. The problem I noticed is I would be passing through an area on my way somewhere else, and by entering an area I would trigger one of these boss events. Then I felt compelled to stay and help since I was the triggering effect, but how many people are going to realize that or even choose to stay and help when they do realize that. Also players leaving an area mid event was an issue that scaling didn't seem to handle well(also the reverse of that was true too.).

[Alaris]

Scaling is difficult to do well, but fortunately, easy to measure. I do hope ANet is collecting data and adjusting as required.

[teina]

But the health on the thing was ridunkulous.

Yeah, not a big fan of the scaled up HP on some of those bosses. Several event bosses pretty much degenerated to spam-skills-on-recharge-while-reading-forum. I'd rather they summon minions or something to increase difficulty, instead of just "hit me for another 2 minutes."

-T