Game Rant Interview - Evolving Public Events in Dragonflight

PTR Posted 2023/10/18 at 5:01 AM by Archimtiros

Constant Iteration

Game Rant

“We started, however, to see a shift that people were feeling the strain of needing a lot of players to complete both Researches Under Fire and the rare elites, so there wasn’t as much content for solo players to do.”Soloing Superbloom

Game Rant

“ gives you this buff called Lone Wolf’s Courage. You’re trying to do this alone? Good for you! Have this massive buff. You get really strong and really powerful so you’re actually able to solo the elite. It only happens if you have a couple of people, or if you’re completely alone–as soon as there’s more people around, the buff doesn’t happen. It’s just to help those smaller groups still have that epic moment, so we don’t take that huge battle away by spawning a weaker creature. Instead, you get to be even cooler.”

Gamer Rant

“This activity is always available,” she explained. “When you run out of everything else to do, instead of going to fight rare elites, this time you will hopefully want to do the Emerald Bounty, plant some seeds, and get some people together.”

Comment by SoeroahOh my god, thank you, Devs.

Sucks the past stuff won't get tweaked to be more solo/low pop friendly but if they're gonna remember this lesson into future patches/expansions the world content might end up the best it's been in a long time.Comment by AlexVoydThey copy the basics of Guild Wars 2 but not the true meaning of it,being the horizontal progression!Comment by MoppentoffIf they can make the buff retroactive for older public events, it'll solve many of the inevitable issues when the expansion is over and nobody is going to be around (or even just if you want to do them in quiet periods at night).Comment by HoploweIf they can make the buff retroactive for older public events, it'll solve many of the inevitable issues when the expansion is over and nobody is going to be around (or even just if you want to do them in quiet periods at night).Comment by dabone1337If they can make the buff retroactive for older public events, it'll solve many of the inevitable issues when the expansion is over and nobody is going to be around (or even just if you want to do them in quiet periods at night).Comment by Rainy89If they can make the buff retroactive for older public events, it'll solve many of the inevitable issues when the expansion is over and nobody is going to be around (or even just if you want to do them in quiet periods at night).Comment by Nulgar
Sucks the past stuff won't get tweaked to be more solo/low pop friendly I want to moonfire it once and ,lootComment by RavenoflogicMan, I feel like if WoW world events were actually fun. I wouldn't have to be told how fun they are all the time by the devs.Comment by NickaelThank you devs for trying this new system out. I hope it's a success and will be applied to previous community events!Comment by WillowwhispIf they can make the buff retroactive for older public events, it'll solve many of the inevitable issues when the expansion is over and nobody is going to be around (or even just if you want to do them in quiet periods at night).Comment by DraygonaNice to see something like this. Now go and make some changes to The Storm's Fury event so you can solo it.Comment by DrakknfyreIf they can make the buff retroactive for older public events, it'll solve many of the inevitable issues when the expansion is over and nobody is going to be around (or even just if you want to do them in quiet periods at night).Comment by BlightyThis is a good change, but it's also kinda sad that you have to anticipate people doing your "super cool new event" solo. Maybe if they didnt' suck so much, there wouldn't be a need for such contingency plans.Comment by DCCXVIIIWell it's about damn time Blizz recognised the complete death of all the open world events.Comment by offspinnerSomething needs to be done; I've given up on the researchers under fire event as I can never find anyone doing it (I'm still working on moleman rep). Fyrakk event still seems to be popular, or at least doable with a minimum number of people. New open world content is good, but not when it's rapidly obsoleted.Comment by ScaryfoxThis is a good change, but it's also kinda sad that you have to anticipate people doing your "super cool new event" solo. Maybe if they didnt' suck so much, there wouldn't be a need for such contingency plans.Comment by ScaryfoxI'm happy to hear this since I'm used to ArenaNet bringing back content that failed. A case in point is they introduced rifts, which failed because it was hard to find enough people to do them. And a whole expac based around them somehow seemed like a good idea.Comment by AthenamonicaThank you, devs! This sounds fantastic. Public events should be something you can just show up and do in your own server.

It would be great if events like Researchers Under Fire could be made soloable as well, even with something like a simple buff that increases damage and regenerates health.Comment by Tornado20If they can make the buff retroactive for older public events, it'll solve many of the inevitable issues when the expansion is over and nobody is going to be around (or even just if you want to do them in quiet periods at night).Comment by NurmatThey still haven't done anything with Zaralek Cavern rares. The fact that rares scale with your ilvl is just bad design.