Guild Wars 2

Has the new chest loot rules effected the Splendid Chest at the end of the Harathi DE chain?

That’s the only reason I can think to begin fail farming the DE. Last night I popped onto my engineer for a quick run after running all the Bosses I could and completed the events as I usually do… and as Jade Quarry server has for weeks. It’s been standard practice to complete all the way through the Boss. As soon as we completed the Harathi Force Strength event I notice zone chat whining about “Let it fail!!” “Now we have to wait you idiots.” etc.

I don’t understand this mentality. Even if the splendid chest is only dropping loot once per day, I still can’t quite grasp the ‘race to 80’ mind set of some people and then the audacity of someone to kitten, kitten and moan because a group of players are choosing to play the game as designed. At least that’s how I see completing all the events if you can.

Am I off base here? There is no ‘end game’ content that people are missing out on if they don’t get to 80 ASAP. What am I missing?

And worse yet, it seems from what little substance was available in zone chat that these failers had been doing this for two+ hours straight without a break. I think I did them a favor.

Thanks for any and all discussion of this topic.

P.S. When did “Korean” become a slur to be used against players that don’t purposely fail events?

Well, failing the event starts the chain again faster. The defend the camps is where the xp and loot is IMO.
Personally, I don’t care too much if the event fails or not. It’s nice to get a couple of fails consecutively so fill up the bags and get some extra xp. However, I believe events are meant to be completed… I always looked at the loot box as extra bonus, never the reason I was out there. I also felt it was inappropriately awarded – as soon as you step in not after the boss was defeated (unless it was the very first time we’d come in say after a new build or server reset).

As long as the centaurs don’t control the camps, that chest is always there and has nothing to do with event chains. It’s on its own 20 minute timer unless no one else is in the area and then it seems to respawn within a few minutes. (I discovered that during one of the many times the event chain has broken on my server.)