Guild Wars 2

So they have clarified that the fireworks “timer” starts to count down every 2 hours, however the fireworks don’t start until “Dawn”.

You can turn on your in-game clock, but it is “real” time, not game time.

I found elsewhere on these forums that the day cycle runs: 70 minute day, 40 minute night and 10 minutes of transition between them, which means it is a 2 hour “day cycle”. The start time SHOULD stay the same on any given server.

We should really create a list of the servers and what time their “Dawn” is (ie, what time does the event start so it can be recorded), to keep folks from standing around asking “what time does it start”.

If folks Basically post the following i can update this thread:

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Henge of Denravi: Fireworks started with a delay of 50/52 minutes.
Kaining: Delay of ~28 mins. Started at around 9:28 PDT

I updated the info for HoD. The fireworks started the first cycle at “52 mins after”, while the second round started at 50 mins after. The event lasted 5 mins.

Why are we even needing to do this? A simple countdown timer would be easy for Arenanet to add and it would avoid the confusion. Imagine the Moa Races without the information… that’s what this fireworks show is like. No one knows when it starts. You can’t even look in the sky to get an idea of what time of day or time it is because of all the cloud cover…

I vote they patch in a giant sun/moon dial or better still ask Mad King to sponsor another clocktower with a huge digital countdown on display…. just more shoddy implementation imo.

Agreed, it would be nice to have something to tell us… it shouldn’t be necessary. But, since it’s NOT in the game, i wanted to offer this.

Either way, folks know when you can goto HoD and see them

Kaining was around 9:28 PDT (instead of 9:00).

Lauranda.1342:

Kaining was around 9:28 PDT (instead of 9:00).

Great! Thanks. I added it to the list!

As if you could tell the difference between day and night in this game… Good luck with that!

Johnson.3874:

As if you could tell the difference between day and night in this game… Good luck with that!

Right, but…dawn is the start of the fireworks on your server. That is easy to record for others?

You could also just adventure anywhere in Tyria and then waypoint into LA upon nightfall.

and what if you wait too long and hit an overflow server, where the time is completely different than the regular server?

p.s. this happened to me.

well tbh the fireworks was nothing more than a damp squib.. lasted like a minute or 2, nothing overly spectacular if you can actually see anything, with the shocking camera system in game anyway. Anyhow maybe the finale will be better… there is a finale in overflow right!

There needs to be a Event timer for fireworks!

whaT happens if you get put into overflow oh wait thats another timer. poor design and stupid thinking all around. worst part is the dev come in to answer and act like we are morons for not knowing.

It appears that the fireworks on Isle of Janthir are 15 minutes early…. or 1 hour and 45 minutes late… same same.